'A Very Sad Case To the Editor of the "Noren-Cumwa Date News"?
Stn—At the outbreak of last year's hostilities there lived a couple (about 40 years old) in Hongkew who had to run south of the Soochow Creek In order to save their lives, All their: belongings—were destroyed and burned by the following bombard ment, Since then they have been living in a small room on money: heartily contributed by myself and some of my friends. 'The rent! originally amounted to $15 per month but was gradually increased to $20. 'Today the couple was told to leave te room on' November 15 as a foreign soldier rented the same for his gist friend at $50 a month, The id people are very desperate and do not know. what to do, Could some of your readers enlighten me as to whether there exists an organization in Shanghai protect the interests of the couple without doubt, this is not a ease for the police. Such unfair profiteer-ug should be stopped, Discus wir SuaNcnar Shanghai, Nov. 4.
A Chinese Protest To the Editor of the "Norrit-Ciuwa Dany News'
Sin—t beg through your esteemed Journal to raise my objection to the Fecent criminal wave, as T ike to say of profiteering by raising house Fentals during the hard times, Tt is tot my condemnation only, I sup~ Pose, but of the majority of Shanghai People, that the most callous behaviour of human indecency is to make money when people are almost. foing naked, and this is yet another striking example of landlords' ai
LUT ye been ving tu Gordon to make suckers out of us Road Terrace at the same place for years in a ited modern, forelgn-'Styled hous very way modern in deals except when" m comes The caves, roots and drainage, will then serve! me ike a ip in. storm.
rent payer I believe I have fame ight to demand a few vepalt Dut £ finally decided not to make any owing to the fact that my request Might after all be filed in the waste Dasket, {To my great surprise the landlords recently sent to me as well neighbour a short "notice, that the {ents of the premises are to be tn-Seared by gl2. T can do nothing ther than {0 voice my complaint ulnst such injustice. through Your ber and leave it open to the eritiesin of the pubic, (Out oF rue Viernas, Shanghai, Nov. 6, haughty silence is certainly not in keeping with their advertising—all concern for baby's comfort, milady's eyestrain and the stenographer's sweet temper. A reply in the correspondence columns would gain them much needed goodwill.
Our one and only Bus Ca. have also braved the storm without flinching and without any resultant signs of improvement in their peculiar service, But the Bus Ca. are past masters in riding the wrath of all and sundry. Years ago, when the first letter appeared in the press concerning the obnoxious fumes from the exhausts, the Company came forward with the statement that experiments were being carried out with the Purpose of finding a remedy. At that time such similes as "black og the bus exhausts" were common. Now, after years of presumably arduous experiments, those smiles stil bold The Bus Co's method of solving the rush-hour problem by massing the buses is incomprehensible. It their delight is the sight of their buses travelling like a cavalcade, why not go one step further and string them along with steel cables and have them towed by the leading bus?
How much longer will these two ducks swim in the duck-pond of public dissatisfaction and remain impervious to the continued shower? Let us hope their answer will" not be: Quack-quack from the Power Ca. Quack-quack from the Bus Ca.
Shang i, Nov. 4.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.