The Archive · 1939

Avenue Haig A Badly Flooded Brook

To the Editor of the ""Nonru-Cixa Date News"

Sin—Immediately opposite to the Brookside Apartments on Avenue. Haig and in fine with the back of the tennis courts of the German Garden Club, there is a brook from which the apartment house gets its ame. This brook has for a long time been more or less filled with ith from the numerous squatter's huts and. small faglories that have sping into existence in the course Of the last eighteen months. The brook cannot now cope with the water that runs into it, with consequent flooding, and inky black dition one that requires. immediate Altention. 'The brook is somehow or another connected with the playing elds of the Cathedral Girls' School, and when there are heavy rains, the water from the filthy brook floods the school fields. I need not say any more. enough is indicated here to demand immediate attention Shanghai, Nov.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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