The Archive · 1939

Price of Coal Mere Bagatelle Now

To the Editor of the "Nowrn-Cinxa Dany News"

St—The crows of Jubilee Court have migrated. Winter is nigh.

'A month ago we were "worried about the local price of coal, but this Now a mere bagatelle when weighed against the hardships of the Linen in the trenches fighting a three= cornered battle: the Crusaders, the forees of a demi-god, and the legions of anti-christ. If those of us who an afford the price of coal could be Spartan enough to endure a coalless Shanghai winter—not a very terrible, feat—and donate. the equivalent the soldiers' fund we would be merely sacrificing a tittle of our comfort for the ueneft of those who are fighting for our cause, the Eaulse of all free propless, P. B. Puutico.

Shanghai, Sept, 30.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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