will the interesting to wath developments arising out of the attack upon the International Savings Society by the chairman of the Economic Affairs Committee of the Legislative Yuan, and the passage of resolution forbidding it to accept new members and requiring the Ministry of Finance to. investigate the society's affairs and accounts. Mr. Ma Yin-chu in what is described asa scathing attack on the Society sought to give a telling picture of the size of the Society's business by stating that during its existence it had collected a total of $60,000,000 from "its Chinese constituents. Whether that large sum is correct or not, the fact does remain that whatever the Society has received from its clients it has received trust for them and is under very definite obligations to return the same under conditions clearly sti-scurrying for tem~ and in the vicinity lice travelling bird-cages well packed with those who have been unable to get away in time. Ther something to be said for the hawk for, nuisance though they are, they do attempt to make more or less honest living, but for the beggars in general there is no excise, 'The ttle blind man who, with a long bamboo, taps his way' along his favourite beat of The Bund and Soochow Road, does arouse tome sympathy and he does not make himself a nuisance, the husky fellow without a thing wrong with him physically who Rood should be made to work. Then coters all and sundry" in. Soochow
there is the old Indy who, day after fig." keels inthe middle of 'The Sued pavement near" the. Shanghai Glu, andthe man who has a. pitt feat' het who displays ghastly in-Iirmity. hey seem' to" bees. perfruneni asthe Municipal Orchestra fud-can make none of its pleas for iefuiness. The Police say they can Gov no. more than transport these pests fo a distant border and leave them there, but. that they" always come back," Possibly, but it they (rare whipped up. a soon as they take, root and before their cadging fas" brought them any coppers, and If'that was repeated every day for Several days, surely even their stub-bomness would be broken. Tt seems fropetess to suggest that the same be done. with the pirate rickshaw men find the small boy trick cyclists.
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