To the Editor of the "Nonru-Ciaxa Dany News"
'Sm—From time to time there have' appeared in your columns articles on the old cemeteries of Shanghai, but practically no interest has been taken by the public in preserving these memorials. Recently 'a number of the Members of the Shanghai Branch of Toc H_ visited with Mr. Starling of' the Council's Health Department the old cemetery fes, whose care is a trust of the Shanghai Municipal "Council, The old Soldiers and Sailors Cemetery-on the Pootung Point opposite the Garden Bridge, about 100 yards in from the river comprises 81 mow of land and was opened in 1859. was not closed until 1904 and during this time 1783 Interments took place, he old chapel, which was used by was pulled down hotletable that the majority of those Durled there died between the ages of 21 and 24, the Whangpoo River hav-largely taken its toll. Examination of the stones showed that many came. from. HM, Navy and the names ofthe following ships were sous" and "Juno.
Our American friends will be interested to know thet there are many of their nationals there also; among pear the following names: J.
USS, "Ashuelot"; Win. Nord Brabant, shall 1/7/63.
One stone marks the Interment of 90 N.C. OMlcers and men of the 3ist, Regiment, now the Ist. Battalion of the East Surrey Regiment, killed in action, or who died of wounds or disease In 1862, Those were hard years" in Shanghai. The toll from Tholera and fighting against the Tale pings was largely responsible.
The inscription on a stone for a young man of 1® brought @ warning Yo Shanghailaniers, it reads Kind friends look down upon me and read that far from home I died young.
Take warning and be prepared, for you know mot how soon your turn will come.
This cemetery was a few years 289 largely a swamp and when the Coun-li disposed of the filled-in foreshore, became an inland plot surrounded by factories and a Chinese village and demanding attention. The Health Department, although with little available funds, have filled up and beautified the spot to some extent, Dut at the present time only a bam-Boo fence surrounds it and there the opportunity for preservation of the stones and the planting of some-
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.