To the Editor of the "Nonru-Cutxa Darcy News"
Sin—I am a peaceable law abiding Shanghailander, and I object. to, having things thrown at me, either Mills or "Ruby Queen's it puts me in mind of "Things that are past" even to the knee bend, needless to, say, by the time the second "Ruby Queen* was on its way, T was as lat as a pancake, T wonder what my friends of the S.MP. would have aid if they had picked me up in small lumps, T wish to put on record my appreciation of the quick work of the Chinese "Bobbies" on duty at the time at Foochow Road, and the way they handled the situation.
Saqruy A Manmen, Shanghai, Apr. 30, Exchange Allocation:
A Local Readers Enquiry To the Editor of the Norrit-Cutva, Dau News Silt is generally known. that local Banks receive certain exchange allotments from the Central Bane of China, which they distribute amongst their hents. atthe oMclal rate of U2/es. Every week, before Wednesday, "hents" apply' to the banke through which their nearest payment foreign currency is to be effected, for the necessary exchange. The sum of all such applications plus require ments of the bank-is being applied for by the respective bank On Fridays the allotment is received by the tonic in full or in part and is to be distributed by. the bank among' the hents in proportion to. the amount tecelved. 'The latest practice 19 that the equivalent, in local currency at the rate of 1/2/% 1s to be deposited with' the bank, when the appileation handed in. Thus' every client entitled on Friday to receive a cere {ain percentage of the amount applied the beginning of the "week. The balance needed he Is. free purchase wherever he. likes and terms and rate he finds most cone Venient." Now we have before us a circular letter of H. & 8. Banking Corporation dated the April 22. ti, Inst Friday, in which the Banke informs their clients that the Banke has ree ceived an allotment of £25,000 for the special purpose of retiring acceptances outstanding © in thelt ook, which they" wit dlateibute among their clients on the following to be yo Tail extent "of the sould, be, prepared Svefage Ware of exchate, whatever it"tmay be, based "as follenis atletment at 1 (a) 2" Bropurtion of Cential Ban Coy Balance ak"1/1 OpeeBolance st" (oral rate Questions of great importance arise to "beneficiaries" of the new regula tions of the H. & S, Bank and T should much obliged to. those" who would be in a position and also will Ing to answer them:— pete ogee, a ao? engl! ko Hak cations 'oF their "clients. hand the April 22, against ipeduring" the, previous week, amon who applied atter April legitimate that" the at the. rate of {/3ie to buy needed my irom the the fair 10. tet ant have such a proportion oft they amount "applied "fdr ay hay Seen auiotted by, the Contra. Bank' at Chia Heaving to Bim the, option, st week apply dor the ow the eh into buy" even the: amount ing Genteal Bank of China 8), For amounts payable throu the it.'a s."Banke one cannot apply {hoath any otter bank. "What la the eust"torm? for taking' advantage the!hepetaness oF the client in such I hope some learned lawyer or financial expert will take trouble to clarity above questions, 'A Heuourss Comox, Shanghai, Apr, 29, After Curfew Bedlam Scenes on Vu Yuen Road To the Bditor of the "Nonticuina Dai News"
'Sm—Avenue Haig is not the only noisy' spot in a residential area, The welter lives in a portion of Vu Yuen Road where a factory has just sprung up" amidst private houses, anda cabaret functions. by ts side.
One resigns oneself to the invite able: but T contend that it Is SAO hhusiness to enforce a curfew it has imposed: andthe numerous vehicles (GS, Marines trucks, private cars; and public garage taxis) which manocuvee holsily.and gaily under our windows through all "of the forbidden hours, the drunken carousals which go fon of inebriates attempt to. cross he oad, have to be seen (and heard! 16 be believed. li this dur~ ing the sacred hours of 1 am, to 5
How is it all these cars (including taxis phoned for on the spot) are enabled to. function and race. their engines and collide, and nally drive off, {9 curfew hours, on a Afunieipal oad? Nary a constable in view.
Yet we pay what, in Chinese, called the "Police Protection Tax Way?
Shanghai. Apr. 90,
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