Is not a very great number of people who are obliged to travel each day 10 and from. town in the Number 21 Bus of the French Concession, Not many witness the Manilold sufferings of the refugee lass of our native community, and very apparent that not' many care. "Ils quite true, perhaps, that We, as foreigners, should feel no responsibility for' these conditions brought about by the China war, but there "is no reason" at all. why we should not feel sympathy for these miserable wretches and do what we can ty alleviate their misfortunes, When the recent spell of cold weather hit Shanghai, we read with regret of the rapid deaths of many in the streets, of how these dead were robbed of their threadbare clothes so that the living could enjoy a few more days of existence. Many of lus have seen how these victims of war have been driven to crime; how they pilfer anything of commercial value from motor transports, how they are delected by unusually wary policemen and truck hands, enifed. fund kicked and finally sot at liberty fly to repeat the performance when the occasion presents itself, the other day on my way to the office, forviled by a satisfying break.
ist, 1 caught sight of one poor soul sprawled motionless across a doorway on Rue Amiral Bayle, His chest was extent which indicated lad died from starvaind T was appalled 10 think that the man should have been ignored for hours before being finally removed. Tt was, not surprising that T should have felt my breakfast wive way and drop to my bools.
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