To the Editor of the "Nomni Cuma Dary News!
'Sin—Oflen we hear of the work by the Society for the Prevention of 'Cruelty to Animals. A work which T find admirable in' many ways: bul fyet a human being with body and Soul can be left on the pavement to Gig under conditions that we would "Yesterday o'clock I saw a crippled sick old man lying at the corner of Ferry and Sinza Road; "a busy intersection Suppose:" I endeavoured to find a policeman to report the matter, but Rove was Ww be found, Hours later returned and found the man in the same place. No responsible authori~ {fy seemed to care and the man was Tent to dic like a beast on the pavement. 'This morning he was "dead and the body' still les there.
Am I to believe that not a single member of any responsible community happened to be on duty on that part of the road on that particular day, or any member of such community who could have patrolled along without noticing such thing?
Shanghai, Nov, 24, The Beggar Problem To the Ealitor of the "Nomni-Cuma Dany News"?
Sm—1 have carefully read the letter appearing in this morning's Paper about the unfortunate man who ied at the corner of Ferry and Sinzn Roaas.
Some two months ago 1 was walking along Bubbling "Well Road and saw a man lying in the utter. "He was in front of a Chinese tailor's shop and. by means of pressure, amounting almost to abuse, T got the tailor to send the sick man a drink fof water. A. foreign woman' whose place of business was on' the other side of the rond told me that she had sent for a policeman who came Dut said that'as the man was not dead could not do anything, 1 then myself telephoned "the police "and waited nearly half-an-hour before a Chinese policeman came—in the meantime "Thad. telephoned twice more. The Chinese policeman then telephoned to some police station and n "ambulance arrived within (we minutes afterwards It fs evident that the cheapest thing in this town is human rife particularly for a poor person with no induence, Mr, Goouty's case and the one shove mentioned are perhaps very bad, but what are we doing about the hundreds of beggars who line our streets, blind, lame or sick, and who, by being neglected, are. rapidly be: coming candidates for death in the utter? The time to deal with them before they are in extremis, In the French Concession the Salvation Army is doing very good work in taking these unfortunate people oft the streets, ziving them shelter, Neale ing, them and repatriating them, but in the Settlement nothing appears to be done. The Salvation Army fady fully occupied and may not be fable to take onan additional area, but there is scope for some. othe Jorganization to start work along the lines of the Salvation "Army.
Shanghai, Nov, 25, felt irritable and nervous; most of the anticipated pleasure from the game disappeared, In fact, It was a miracle that no one was seriously injured in the crowd.
In my opinion the present arrangements of admittance at Special Charity, Interport or other big matched are absolutely inadequate, Whether additional booths would have to be provided—with heavy barriers to prevent the crowd from surging on all sides as Is the ense with the present booth—together with special police supervision incidentally T did not see a single policemen around. the ticket-selling booth during the last match), is for the proper authorities to decide, 1 only urge, and I think everyone who had the misfortune to be in the crowd will agree with me, that something should be done in future to prevent the repetition of this unpleasant and injurious experience, Shanghai, BAY,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.