The Archive · 1935

ALLEGED TIMIDITY

That lively monthly the "People's "Tribune" discusses the recent Municipal Elections in its current issue with some playful criticisms of this Journal whose honesty and ood faith it genially doubts, while, at the same'time, paying a fattering'tribute to.an ingenuity which, it Is to be fear ca, must be modestly disclaimed. In drawing a moral, the "People's "Tribune" is depressed' by the thought that the International Settlement—as istinet, of course, from other more enlightened parts of Shanghal—is "no place for the little fellow unless he knows his place and keeps i" It refers to the failure of a private sdvertser to obtain more than eight Supporters of a scheme for forming snghal Rentpayers Association and it adds But that does not mean that Shang-hal people (I refer. of course, to tie foreign comirunity) are apathetic. Simply means that Uhey are afraid Mr. Browa-Jones, who' has. to. pay about one-fifth of Ths salary for 2

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