to the Editor of the "Nou-Cinwa Darcy News"
To the Bditor of the "Nonnt-Cuwa Dany News"
'Sin—I would like to enquire when ther all the young Chinese students who frequent the subscribers' reading room at the Shanghai Library are entitled to do their home work at] the tables supposed to be used by' magazine readers. and also if all these very young people are subseribers, which T doubt. One would not] object to the work' they do, if they' fused the large table where there are no magazines; but, I have frequently noticed that magazines are smothered low whisperings often between friends. 'Those who have done with their studies spend the rest of their time simply fipping over! the pages. of magazines, which they do not even read and probably' cannot.
As [am not the only subscriber who has been annoyed by these daily invasions of scholars and their! friends, T certainly think that some-_ thing should be done to keep the reading room apart as a place for quiet reading for those who pay for 'A Twenty-Five Years Susscmme Shanghai. Apr. 4.
Sin-—With the high cost of living mounting daily) and now seven to eight times more than that of pre= neldent: cost, can any Shanghai British employer supply the formula whereby respectable Britons can Keep their families today on Chinese dollar salaries which do not amount to one-half of the Sterling value of their dollars in 1937
Under what code are certain Shanghai British executives authorized to invent their own interpretation of the ethics of Democracy, and do they really believe that the' brand being Shanghai is what we are
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