'A Sufferer's Experience attention, especially now when Chinese servants ask—and I think, fully justifled—for a considerable rice allowance on top of their salary, which expenses cannot be met, owing to the low wages paid to most of the refugees, even by two or three families, As things are now, the average refugee who has a position cannot meet the H. C. L. with his salary only but is forced to use, additionally what little capital he hás managed to bring from Europe Or to accumulate from. the sale of his belongings. One U.S. dollar is a fortune for a refugee, but does not mean very much to those who still in these hard times manage to spend their money lavishly, Ten dollars spent for drinks—or donated for the benefit of poor children, is there any comment necessary?
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Shanghai, May 17.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.