To the Editor of the "Normn-Cmxa Dany News" f Sin,—This afternoon I happened to go for a walk along Keswick Road. north to south. Some way before the wire barrier across the road I was passed by a lady (I am tempted use inverted commas) riding a grey pony. Time about 415 p.m. At the barrier I was stopped by the British sentry and warned to keep to the read since the Japanese "entries along the railway apparently objected to pedestrians or riders using the strip of cultivated land lying between the road and the railway. A clear enough warning and one which I assume-though it does not of course follow—was given to the lady on the grey pon yards down the road I again lady, this time at a canter and on the cultivated piece. As she approached, the sentry stepped forward, though not quite into her path, @nd waved to her to get on to the road. For this he was promptly told or rather shouted at. "You jolly well go and boil your head! It isn't your land anyway." Presumably both ihe language and the suggestion were quite unintelligible to the sentry, but the tone of voice could only have suggested to him that was being sworn at.
ing under instructions. Regardless Now that sentry was obviously act-of whether these instructions are justified or not, common sense sugests that they be obeyed and manners suggest that it be done with good grace. As it was, the whole incident was a case of the gravest ill-breeding Nevreat Shanghai. Dec. 26
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