To the Editor of the "Nomri-Cumwa Daty News"
Sm—I_ have been informed good authority that once the pigs are landed on the Bund and in trucks, they are under the juris diction of 'a certain Department of the Shanghai Municipal Council. All right, then why is cruelty allowed to go on whilst these unfortunate animals are in these trucks?" Almost daily from my window in Peking Road I see ples being subject to the utmost cruelty by having their bristles pulled out in handfuls by the coolies on the trucks, After careful watching, have come to this conclusion: the pigs are quiet in the trucks when Tet alone, being probably too exhausted by this time to be anything else. However, in nine out of ten trucks they are crying helplessly, almost moaning, because thei' bristles are being pulled out, most of their backs are already raw. earnestly suggest that a policeman be placed on each truck in order to stop this vile practice. Nothing else will do it. If we have not enough policemen in these days of excessive crime, disband the utterly superfluous Municipal Orchestra and with the money saved in that direction, Bet extra policemen, If Americans. British, ete, will not join the Police Force these days (and 1 don't blame them considering the way they're treated) get Japanese—got anybody who will stop this horrible practice. As things are, the eries of these helpless pigs condemn. the whole SMC. and foreign residents of this, to-day, Althy "Model Settlement."
I repeat, get a policeman on each pig truck immediately.
Shanghai, Mar, 9.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.