'To the Editor of the "NortH-CHiNa DaiLy News'
Sin,—I remember as_a child being told @ fable which pointed out the absurdity of supposing that. there were no cattle in a field because the wit 4 fr
46 what extent the Executive Com= mittee of the B, W.A. represent the Thoughts of "over "1,000 British Women" on the Hadley Case, not unfortunate that women who not to long ago could regard with fortitude and equanimity. the slaughter of more than one million men—the cream of the Empire—should now be so squeamish about Jnfiction of justice upon a woman, found guilty of murder by a British Jory?
Justin. to live. Even more drastic courses have been forced on many.
For years. the International ranch of the ¥.W.C-A. has organi: ed a class for non-English-speaking foreign women in Shanghai, aware acutely of the bearing of facility in the use of this language upon the question of employment. 1 believe I am right in saying that recently the American Women's Club has finance ed this activity of the International Branch, as being a constructive aproach to the question, The Commission of the League of Nations to enquire into the internatraffe in women in the Far which was in China in 1931, its report lays stress on the be Ing of the absence of occupational opportunity for women of on-Asiatic origin to the existence of
[community is not more responsible the trafic. "Though In & sense. the for this absence than for the cidence of -general phases of unemployment or under employment, yet in its tolerance of the traffic there is a responsibility. It would bbe hard indeed if one of the victims of the situation paid the supreme Penalty for the results of actions iemseives'the results of an ecano-
Shanghai Oct.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.