The Municipal authorities having have intensified the difficulties of years and the growing solidarity of has made long and valuable con-|salisfactorily registered their the Russian community there. the new regime in Russia, is it' tributions to civilization. Its.
Pleasure at the smoke-emiling ten-Return to Soviet Russia is possible certain that these disabilities hold people "kingly and proud' and Eencies of public wily transport for a number of the younger people good in respect of the younger "hereafter unconquerable"" writes {may be Spubred to give their atten: Ton to another form of the same and for those who can claim generation of Russian emigrants? upon ils flag "King, Law and!
Shilsocial activity. The peculiar citizenship of that country under Among the emigres there are, of Liberty.'
Queen Astrid knew well perversity of chimneys. in. Shanghai the present regime.
Emigration course, the irreconcilable loyalists of how to minister to that sentiment.
E™Qecoring. a positive menace. to southward, desperate remedy though Tsarism. They deserve respect and Born in the royal estate, she had no public. comfort, Of not To health it may be, is the obvious course for sympathetic consideration.
Yet need to justify herself.
Yet she took pressrbi stoking, for come Whether "remedial ion esta fa large number of these unhappy even their children must feel that] special pains to comply with the the chief offenders or in insisting people denationalized, as it were, the soil of Russia has for them a! most exacting standards prescribed by the tragedy of their country's stronger call. than impalpable by ancestral lore and by the of [lat "the chimney. owners provide fame ecent. means "of consuming revolution. So, in a Shanghai loyalties which the lapse of time tions accepted on her marriage with Serr foun fumes, experts alone car sorely perplexed by the economic cannot but im. There is also the the heir to the Belgian Throne less depression and embarrassed by the practical question of citizenship. than ten years ago. In contemplat~ Sides bitter complaints a By. The fact rena thet on all already large numbers of indigent 'The Russian of the future can more ing the now lonely figure on that, Russians, further additions are be-satisfactorily acquire a national Throne, the world will be deeply' ing made to its social problems. status in the country of his family moved in genuine sympathy and subordinate private suffering to Fortunately.the Russian com= origin than in a strange cos- respectful condolence.
King Leo-public interest. Both he and the munity, courageously as it has|mopolitan congeries of ationali- pold can count on the loyal support nation over which he rules can rest taken up the threa of its new|ties in which he has no natural of hi sorrowing people in the grief {assured that their affliction brings life in this international city, has part. While, therefore, Tocat of this tragic moment. Thence he! to them the comradely compassion acquired resources which, sup-organizations are doing heir may derive the sustenance neces-[of the whole world.
May. they plemented by outside assistance, best to tackle this problem, it is sary to give the fortitude and! therein find strength to endure the have been able to mitigate some of pertinent to ask whether some- courage which is required of any ordeal so suddenly confronting the acute distress befalling ils less thing could not be done to enlist the man in his resent condition and,, \them with the loss of a noble and fortunate members.
There are active support of the Soviet Gov= especially, of a King charged to brave lady-this account, whether from the lordly vicinity of Nanking Road or the Bund of from the less sophisticated areas in Hongkew and Yangtzepoo. Let a Municipal Father berake himself on a fine morning to the top of convenient skyscraper. He will obtain a clear view of as appalling display of unneighbourly smokiness as anyone can imagine. Even the admittedly disgraceful performances of the tugs and steamers on the Whangpoo" cannot outstrip the horrors of some of these smoke-belching monsters. In any other city severe penalties would have taken this grievance in hand long before had" aflamed to ite present dimensions. There is mo reason why the Council should permit these chimney-owning fiends to create work for laundryman and deane at the expense of the private ellizen,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.