To the Editor of the "Nom-Cuna Dany News"
Stn-—Although 1 realize that Toco events are keeping our police forces quite busy enough nowadays, 1 stil believe that it might be of some interest to recount the following happening which contradicts both the spirit and the Teller of instructions given to the police of the French Concession, The city authorities, presumably, fake into account the possibility of residents urgently needing help or medicine from a pharmacy at any ime of the day and night, and we are fold" make "arrangements accordingly. And in any city through= fut the world one has only 10.40 fo the nearest pharmacy. and. ring the night bell. Tt is different. in Shanghai, Here people can't count on anything at night except a drink at fa late hour. At least that was the conviction T was given oh the night of September 26 when it was most Important that T get medicine prescribed by a doctor. and still more important that T get it quick, J started out from my home on Avenue Haig, and walked slong Avenue Joffre up to Rue Massenet, There were many pharmacies along. my way.. 1 rang their bells, I shouted, T knocked on the doors, but there wax nothing but silence. I had. read a. municipal notification in the papers that the pharmacy on night duty was the one T had passed first, but there a ttle boy whom T had awakened told me that his father (the pharmacist's proprietor) had gone to Tsingtao leaving ho one in his place and apparently making no report of his departure {0 the police who would probably have appointed some other pharmacy. for night duty, As a last hope, 1 turned to Route Cardinal Mereler and finally succeeded in rousing the proprietor the Pharmacie Européenne. He lied my prescription ju 20 minutes—consisted of morphine and cocaine. T must thank the fates and my own Inck that T finally did get the medicine and reached home at 3 am., but from my experience T would gather that many other persons whose need for the medicine are no less urgent, and conceivably more so, must be' for by pain until the pharmacies ope the morning. oer Shanghai, Oct. 3
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.