To the Editor of the "Norru-Cumea Dani News"
Sm—May 1 through the courtesy of your columns call the attention of the proper authorities to the fantastic hoarding just completed opposite the Race Course on Bubbling Well Road, near the Longe! Gate?
Ts it really necessary to show the Chinese "Dracula" in all its hideous ness in a main thoroughfare in this Slready over-congested city of ours? Under" present conditions there. 19 little enough open space in town, and Shanghai's younger population—{Hose that cannot afford. gardens—ust make the most of the roads to have a breath of alr, and 1 am core {ain that no parent would relish the dea of his child "suddenly being faced "with a lifeless figure with green glassy" eyes and claw-like fingers dangling out "of over-large sleeves, swaying with the wind, A more repulsive sight I have not scent If the writer remembers correctly, it was only a year ago that a young child confronting spot, suddenly took sick and died within three days. To the ordinary Shanghai resident life is unpleasant enough these days, and I send in this letter with the hope that residents using that thoroughfare may be spared the sight of the advertisement, which certainly does not give the writer any pleasure, Shanghai, Mar, 24,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.