The Archive · 1938

Those Pigs Ago

Interference with Sleep

To the Raitor of the "Nonti-Cua Datty News"

'Sm—Horrible, horrible, horribler these inhuman,' unearthly' squeals of Pigs dinning in one's eats the whole hight throught Just as if there isn't enough discomfort in Shanghai already with the heat and usual Bund noises, they have to load pigs all nigh, and what they do to them I can't' imagine—they must torturing them' somehow—no. animal would scream like that without a reason, copie pay high rents for. apartments on the Bund, and in the sum: mer, when a person needs rest, if it isn't bombs bursting, it's slaughter. house activities offending one's eats, This noise is in the vicinity of the Skanghal Club, but I have often heard guests at the Cathay Hotel complain, Couldn't the S.M.C, or somebody cither have them Toaded elsewhere or have it done during the day?—or, if it must be done at night, before midnight?—so the unfortunate re~ sidents nearby could get a tittle sleep between 12 and 7 am, Exuausten, Shanghai, July 28,

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