The Archive · 1940

BY SAPAJOU

Jeame from the Bund. the aforementioned method is adopted, 1 think When once or twice the conductors fare caught red-handed and threatened with suspension or dismissal, they will in time be tess enthusiastic about collecting money from the squeeze and pay more attention to their Job and the salary therefrom. Thus ihe old controversy of passenycers against conductors will be elimingted, because most arguments fause from the wrong issuance of the tickets. Also, the skip-stop" game, such a favourite with the conductors and the door-men, will soon lose its fascination, because the conductor or the door man could not be telling whether the bloke that is ext to him the bus company, [Shanghai, June 15, Nalian Firms:

Names of Bar Owners Wanted To the Editor of the 2

"Nomm-Citwa Dairy News"

Sm—In a recent issue of your paper there appears a list of Italian ing firms with whom all Britons are prohibited from trading, May 1 suggest that a list of the Naim owned and partly Italian owned bars and restaurants be published for the guidance of alt patriofic Britons, Frenchmen, Belgians, Netherlandets and. Norwegians.

In this connection, am 1 right in assuming that all servicemen of the Allies. will be prohibited from visit ing such bars and restaurants, since the majority of the latter depend on these servicemen for their trade, A Dicom, Tue first telegram from Holland, Jas far as is known, arrived on Mon-Jday from The Hague, bringing the Jnews thay the relatives of a Dutch resident of Shanghai are safe, "The telegram was forwarded to by the JAmerican Legation at The Hague to the American Embassy ay Berlin, and thence to the American Con: ssvlate at Shanghai,

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