To the Editor of the "Nonru-Cuma Day News"
'Sin—May I bring to the notice of those who are in power the condltions of the unemployed Britisher in Shanghai. Some have large families home' and to help them to keep off the dole come out here to seek employment only to find that there is no employment to be had. Ships fying the Red Ensign employ foreign labour, other nations employ no one else but their own, with the result we Britishers are' unable to find work and unable to get out of the country.
A foreigner if unemployed is helped out of the country by the Consul. This help is not given to us, with the result we fal back on charity, this does not help one to keep his family off the dole at home. And i's in the interest of the Government to help us out, so that we can be in on us.
I lost my employment through no fault of mine, under the changed conditions, came under the Relrenchment Act, after 30 years good service, a clean record, not a day's leave, or an hour absent from duty. Having 'a large family at homo I came to Shanghai for employment, T now find T cannot get employment nor can I get a ship to take me out of it, I do not want charity but work' and if this T can't get for reasons stated, then let the Consul send me home, or elsewhere, so that I can help myself. Other ' Consuls are doing it, why not the British?
Raven Masten, Shanghai, Aug. 4, Tur European population in Tien-{sin is little over 9,200, according to alest. statistics. "This includes "1,058 Americans;, 1,502, French; 1,581 Bue Ush; 612 Germans; 206 Italians, 137 Swiss, 196 Austrians, 105 Russians, 02 Finns, and other nationalities, Mus. Lawrence, mother of Lawrence of Arabia, has decided to-erect 2 memorial to her son at his grave in the little graveyard at Moreton, near Dorchester. The village cemetery is near the place where Lawrence was killed last year. The memorial is being designed by Mr. Erle Kennington, the artist, who was 8 friend of Lawrence. It is being cut out of Portland stone by a Dorchester mason, Mr, B, Grasby,
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