Need for Cleaning Up the Editor of the "Nowni-Cumma Dany News'
Su.—Apparently there is now free deceas to the country beyond the perimeter—anyway, many ers Seem to visit" those districts, and among them, not unnaturally, are young people who are eager to-sec whatever there is to be seen.
Apart from the very real danger of stumbling over unexploded shells or booby-traps, there are, I gather, hot a few corpses still I¥ing about—corpses which have been there for months, and which cannot be either a pleasant or even a healthy sight for young people to see. I" plead that parents should be "absolutely firm in refusing to allow their boys and girls to see such sights, the effect of which, on any sentitive young person "must "be very definitely detrimental.
incidentally, one wonders why on earth these corpses are left une buried. Some are being eaten by works; surely this will make these Unpleasant creatures more fierce than ever—sufficiently 30, to make them very real menace in the future; and, soon as ever hot weather comes, what is left of these poor mangled Bodies may well prove the cause of pestilence. For these reasons alone, would seem. well worth while for concerted effort to be made at once, by Settlement, Japanese and Chinese authorities,' to clear up the Jwhole Hungjao area. But, apparently, Ino one is interested. Too late, may= be, Shanghai, and not Shanghai alone, will suffer for this callous neglect.
Shanghai, Feb, 15, The Desire to Return the Eaitor of the journ-Cuiwa Day News!
'Sim—The suggestions offered to the Seltlement authorities by Weston in your issue of February 16 are really bright. He suggests the area should be policed and that' Hungjao }Road he cleared as conditions are particularly dangerous'to riders, Per-anally T have encountered no danger that [know of from hanging wires while riding, but must own up to a chilly feeling in the pit of my stomach when loosely-held rifles are pointed {in that direction, While 1 can sym= pathize with Weston 1 cannot help wondering whether he Is a property Jowner, and if so, does not the trafic Jquestion and the tidiness of the roads fall into" insignificance,—compared with the fact that the area is stil losed to the public and that it is not possible to reoccupy one's home excepting under unbearable' condltions.
The policy of the Municipal and Consular authorities "seems tone of turning the other cheek, and fs this is entirely acceptable 10 the Japanese authorities. WESTERN may, Yeo! assured that nothing will be done to make his early morning ride more enjoyable and that residents of that area will not be permitted tree access in order to" reoccupy their homes, The Japanese spokesman told the world at large a short while ago that' the area was open, he evidently failed to tell the" same story to all the sentries on Hungjao Road as passes are still necessary and some sentries emphasize this point at the end of a bayonet.
served as a combatant in the Great War, but have found it much more disagreeable in the present war Shanghai, Feb, 16,
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