The Archive · 1933

A NICE PROBLEM Amah Silenced

To the Editor of the "NonTH-Ciuwa Datty News!

Sin,—This morning into a crowd-bus entered a Japanese amah with a small but lively baby slung jon her back. Up promptly sprang fa foreign lady and insisted on her taking he Two polite Chinese opposite at once rose and th foreign lady sank into their places and looked round with an air of firm and tremendous virtue. Part jof the passengers blushed under her eye, the rest looked bewil"ered. Meanwhile the Japanese baby put its feet on the nice white frock of the lady next to it and pawed her Jarm and then veered round and sat jon the shoulder of the patient Chi nese, student on the other side of it. "The amah had taken. the opportunity to bow her head and go Into the' Silence.

Question: Who would faden Powell have given full marks to of the five people concerned in this Rood deed?

[Shanghai, Sept. 6, eouniey which i demanding, cognition by the. world. and. gettin fendy to sweep away-extrality. Ae. Hsieh Chieh-shih's warning Manchoukuo to ex-caution in future a that they should and a belt full of rhone feels deeply grateful to the 'Japanese for obtaining the ease of the Nanchang captives, but the Manchoukuo Government's' admiration ang gratitude ought to be coloured with shame that they must depend on Japan to do their Jwork for them, Shanghai, Sept. 9.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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