To the Editor of the "Nomr-Emma DALY. News"
Sm—Yu Yuen' Road residents certainly. deserve closer attention, op the part of the Municipal " authorities while the maintenance of the road-work is still in their. competent charge. The complaint is that water collects too easily on the road and once collected forms the most stubborn bit of floods that is seen nowhere ele in the city. It is a rule now that when the city is in for an inundation on account of insistent rain, Vu Yuen Road precedes any other area in seeing the onset of floods which do not recede half as fast as the water elsewhere. Once Vu Yuen Road assumes the appear- mat ance of an unbroken canal the vehicles of transport are put off the street and in their place caravans of rickshaws bear the weight of the trafüc. Nearly all normal activities of life are hindered, The students stay away from their classes; the shopkeepers miss their customers; and the sick have to forsake visits to or by the doctor. Social life is almost brought to a standstill. The office-workers who are' obliged to make daily tri downtown have to put up with the exorbitant charges demanded by the rickshaw-pullers to negotiate the part of journey up to St. Georges. And I hesitate to call the rickshaw-pullers' inordinate demands racketeering, for the laborious effort required in muddling through the journey seems to justify them. Easily above the knee-deep level. the water around the Tifeng Road section demands the mast conscientious care on Formerly we used to hear that only a combination of high tides, persistent rain, and typhoon would bring the floods on the streets beyond manageable proportions, but now any resident on Vu Yuen Road can tell that a few hours' rain in earnest is swfficient to precipitate matters. Are we to get rid of these distressing ces? If financial difficulties in the way of mending situation, is the Council in a ition to collect an appropriate. pecial assessment for the purpose?
Shanghai, Aug. 20, Invasion of Russia: neq ran mone To the Balter of the What an Her Once "Norta-Emma Dany News"
Sm—Under the heading "Ten Eventful Days" the "Ostasiatischer Lloyd" (Noon Edition) of April 16. last paragraph. writes:
....Mt simply means that Russia has utiequivocally stated its intention of keeping out of England's war, and that the Soviets want. and' are determined on having peace. Russia will mot fight Germany: and she will not -fight Japan. The Axis is assured of Russian neutrality: and it does not require nufside sistance to beat the British Empire.
I dare say the editor of the "Ostasiatischer Lloyd," the Goebbelian Far Eastern Truthbringer, was supremely honest, when writing "the Axis is assured of Russian neutral ity and that Adolf the double-Awister's double-crossing of Russia ust have shocked him badly. It inst also have come as a great shock the Javanese. I well remember low anti-German the feeling was in lent sin in the summer of '39, when Hitler signed the non-aggression pact with Russia. The Japanese thought and said "We have been double. crossed." What must they say now? divorce proceedings but simply by a generous, non-advertised kick in the pants.
That the Japanese are reported to bewildered I can too readily understand. What can Matsuoka think of a man like Hitler, who orders him to Berlin in order to impress upon him the need of Japanese active cooperation. approves of a Russo-Japan-ion. dignified provides that the Japanese must help the Nazis only if Germany is attack-other Russia. al 5
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