The Archive · 1940

Shanghai Streets

And Malevolent Characters

To the Editor of the "Nonmn-Cutxa Dany News"

Sin—Lost evening at about 7, whilst riding home in a No, 14 Bus, 1 espied a malevolent-looking man surveying me to see what sort of a prize he could get in a hold-up. My mind jumped back to a recent case when a compatriot was robbed of a fold ring inside a bus. Luckily for ne, police patrols were plentiful on Avenue Foch, 80 1 chose the nice crowded corner of Courbet—not my Gestination—to alight amongst the tin hats. Ladies unaccompanied should keep away from the bus in the eve-hiiings, and men should equip themselves for self-defence, at least with 8 Dlack-jack or a_Kknuekle-duster.

Conditions in Shanghai are deserate as will be seen from the berors that assemble at every bus-stop from St, George's to the Bund.

The new order has come, oF B.

Shanghai, Aug.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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