Shanghai, Apr. 23. Miss Dju Vu-Dao of the Industrial and Social Division of the Shanghai Municipal Council gave a talk on Ro-Habilitation of Street Children" at the meeting held at the American 'Woman's Club yesterday' afternoon, sponsored by the Civics department, There were added remarks by Mr, Kenneth B, Lee of the Society of Friends, on the same subject, Miss Dao spoke of the different groups of children which they helped, the juvenile delinquents who are given advice and help upon leaving a detention house or the reformatory, those from Shanghai's Beggar Camp, and those found by the police usually children lost or abandoned by their parents, Miss Dao slreesed the point that the wage system in China needs to be corrected, for It parents have enough money' for living, their children are less likely to be' beggars 'oF to be abandoned and child-labour could be abolished. Miss Dao said that the mininium subsistence cost for a family of four was $134 in Shanghai, Mr, Lee described the work done: for the children. when they are brought to the home on Vu Yuen Road, by social workers, 'The first problem' was getting them really clean, He said it was a little difficult: housing thirty children in a nine-roomed house but that they managed with the assistance of a {foreign member of the society, cook, a warden and an assistant, teacher, Mr. Lee explained child brought to them has its own! set of problems and has to be treated individually. "Some are finally restored to their own homes, others are iven schooling or apprenticed" to Second Attack on Wealthy Merchant Shanghai, Apr. 24.
Another attempt to intimidate Mr. }Pel Shul-chia, owner of the Sai Kyi Flour Shop at 122 North Chekiang Road, was made carly yesterday morning, when, a terrorist threw a bomb Into the "shop. The missile, however, failed to explode, The thrower was apprehended by Chinese policemen a few minutes later as he was trying to escape, This is the second attempt on the wealthy Chiese merchant, the first having been made exactly a month ago, when two [gangsters tried to carry the flour shop Jowner away.
The case is in the hands of Detective Sub-Insp, D. M, McLennan of the West Hongkew police station and Jaccording to investigations made, the terrorist appeared at the entrance to the shop at 7.38 am, and tossed a parcel inside, 'C.P.C, 2709, detailed to /guard the shop since'the first attempt, unwrapped the packet and, seeing its contents, ran out and went after the terrorist, whistling for help, Two other Chinese constables, on Jéuty Inthe vicinity, joined in' the Jchase and managed to arrest the thrower, 'Taken to the station, the latter confessed to have thrown the missile, of Mills type, and stated that fie had been paid by' another man to 4o 0, Who the man was, the arrested man could not say, He could not say, either, why the man wanted to bomb the flour shop.
The first attempt on the Chinese merchant was made on the morning of March 24, when Mr. Pel narrowly Jescaped from the clutches of kidnapers, who held him up just outside the "flour shop, One of them was armed with a mauser, When the would-be victim arrived Jat his shop in his private car, he was approached by the two men and ws ordered to get back into the vehicle, When he refused to do so, the armed man fired a shot, wounding him. in the right thigh, He was taken to the Lester Chinese Hospital, where he re= mained for a few days, recuperating from the wound, Mr, Pei is not known to belong to jarly political organization and it is believed that both attacks have been made by gangsters with mercenary views. It is also thought that the two affairs are closely connected, Hoarder Gets All Goods Confiscated Shanghai, Apr. 28, A Chinese sauce shop manager in the western district who has. been hoarding more than 600 cases of petrol and about 200 enses of candles, waiting for prices to. go up, wa punished by the Japanese military of, Saturday when a raid was conducted by the military on a shop building adjoining the sauce shop In Slecawel near Avenue Haig. According to the Jeading Chinese dailies, the Japanese took away all the goods hoarded by the shop manager, Shi Wen-yao, who had ded before the Japanese arrived.
There was a panic among the poptilace in the district, but soon ' they learned that the Japanese were after a hoarder, Tt was said that hoarding also contrary to Japanese regula tions and that in Shi's case confiseation was in order, The raid was said to have been carried out shortly after 2 pan, by Japanese gendarmes who took away the goods in trucks." Tt ought to serve asa lesson to all hoarders, it was said.
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