Good Work In a statement coven B.W.A. war workers, during the per Septem= ber 23 to October 31, some id ven of the excellent work done by British women in Shanahai and China, Lady. Mossop chairman of the BAW.A. War Work Fund, st that the amounts collected during that period were £70 and $31,014.23, and that on October 31 there was in hand £711. and $2759041, In the Hospital Aid section. no han 549 different articles were made ranging {rom 3.641 roller bandages. down to. 10" theatre towels, while five crates of supplies had been forward ed {0 London. The Knitting Section have al-ady sent (Wo crates of Knitted -arUcles in eluding 357 muMlers, 224 pairs of socks, helmets, steel helmet caps, mittens, pull-overs, gloves and operation stockings, while knitters. in Peiping, Hankow, Amoy and even one in Nanking are enthusiastically doing their bit to swell the com= Torts destined for the men at the front, Bue not only these are looked after. The Committee in chatye of Work for. prisoners of war are responsible for preparing" socks, scarves, pullovers, cardigans, body belts, Balaclava helmets, and gloves for' those who' may fall into. the enemy's hands. Thus in a period of slightly over six weeks no fewer than 6,700 separate articles were prepared ready to be sent home, a standing tribute to the energy and devotion which the British women "of China are puting into the work, The statement' docs not make any reference as to how much the B.A, may uullimately need, though the amount of money spent, as compared with the quantity of goods Prepared, undoubtedly shows that excellent value for money is being' obtained, With over $27,000 in hand a the end of the period and some $4,467 coming in monthly the BW.A, War Work Fund would appear to be in a healthy position, though it, needs to be emphasized that fas hostilities progress the demands which Will be made upon it will doubtless require more money than is in the Fund at present.
Re-Opening of Nantao It.Js (0 be hoped that the request of Mayor Fu Slooven, of the: Shanghai Special Suniel ity, for the te-opening of Nantao, will not fal uneegpiive ears, Mayor Fu ha communist ed With the Jepanese oficial oryanirations" con cerned for ihe lifting of restrictions so. that many thousands of people now living in the foreign areas may return to. their - original Homes, At present, Nantao is very. definitely. a military-contraltod' district with the exception of that part immediately adjacent to the French Concession which formed the limit of the Jacqui not refugee zone. Beyond this,—and representing @ problem for former residents even the district is re-opened—exists an area of desolation far worse than other districts Involved in the more destructive phases of the Sino-Japanese hostilities. What the war, with bombing, shelfing and fives, failed to secomplish in the' way of levelling' a prosperous city unit, house-Wreekers and. gangsters "have completed since by the wholesale demolition of buildings and the removal of anything in way of salvable- building materials, A city has simply: been war and theft, Mayo Japanese would permit normal residence probe ably 000,000 people may ret sanguine estimate 49 of the complete-but in any' ease It would ation pressure on the foreign many of the housing. problems Concession and the Interna tional Settlement' besides restoring. to Vighteul owners property abandoned in Nanto owing {o the war, The Nantao problem, together with Monakew, forms a part of the major tassie of rehabilitation which the Shanghai aren needs restore it to its former prosperity, and. con: tinued hindrance. through" Japanese military reatrietions will benefit nobody. It cannot. be logically maintained that after more than two years of war rigid military control of these ise lets is still necessary. On the other hand, It san be definitely maintained—as Mayor tempting so to do—that it is inthe interests of everybody that Nantao be re-opened and free and unrestricted movements of Chinese bbe permitted in order to expedite rehabilitation.
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