[To the Editor of the *Nowm-Cuixa Dany News'
Sm—This is a protest against changing the name of one of the old-lest and best known streets in Shang-bai—Peking Road—which is suggested jin your paper today asa memorial to Mr, Hsu Sing-loh, Our main streets are named on a logical and commonsense plan, Run-Ming north and south they bear the Inames of Chinese provinces—Szechuen, Kiangsi, Honan, etc,, to Tibet Roads (the latter now unfortunately under another name). East and west late the names of China's notable cities Peking, Nanking, Kiukiang, ete, to Canton Roads. This plan is an aid Hoed to a knowledge of the topography of the Settlement and the names are: easily remembered and spelt, which is not usually the case when they are changed.
Changing a street name is one of the cheapest forms of commemoration that could be proposed. It costs the 'Municipal Council and' most of the ratepayers nothing. It is, however, a leastly business to the firms and resid-fents living on such a road: their stationery, ete, has to be reprinted, {their addresses' in directories changed, land for a period of years there is confusion between the old and new names.
Mr. Hsu himself would, in the writer's opinion, have been one of the to approve of such a "memorand his probable wishes should Jat least be given consideration. A suitable memorial to perpetuate his niemory is now being considered by a [group of his friends, and one in which fall who mourn his loss can participate, Let -us remember him by that and not by the cheap device of destroying lone noble name and substituting another.
Shanghai, Aug. 31, Unhappy Precedent the Editor of the "Nowru-Cutna Dany News"
Sm—While friends and admirers may, if they so wish, raise a fund in memory of the Chinese gentleman who was done to death in a recent execrable incident, the suggestion that eternal tribute should be levied fon an unwilling but inarticulate public by renaming Peking Road as Hsu Sing Loh Road, should not be entertained.
We have the cumbersome but not uneuphemistic renaming of Thibet Road as an ever-present reminder four rash but facile creators of such public monuments, butes one of your correspondents pointed out at the time, even they boggled at the mouthful of North Vu Ya Ching Road, and 50 we still have, among those present, meaningless North Thibet Road.
If this sort of mania is not stopped we shall be having Nanking Road [renamed Matsui Avenue, and Bubbling, Well Road renamed after the air [combat hero who flew home rejoicing, on only half a wing.
Shanghai, Aug. 31, Lime wie,
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