in spite of the large quantity of shrapnel, anti-aircraft shells, etc, which have landed in Shanghai Waterworks plant in Yangtszepoo, the 300 Chinese employees living there scorn the use of a tin hat. As a matter of fact, there is only one tin hat to go round. Since the hostilities began, there have been none who have volunteered to don the single tin hat. The plant has, at times, been right in the thick of the fighting, but the Chinese staff prefer to forego the doubtful privilege of wearing that tin hat, Rather than be thought "soft" by their colleagues, they go bare headed, and hope for the best,
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