To the Baltor of the '*Nonzit-Cnana Dany News"
Sm—Doubtiess, it was with the highest_and cloopest emotion that a correspondent penned his teter to you under the above caption yester= aay.
Last evening, I chanced to be on [the fringe of the "badlands—at St, George's, to be exact—slanding at the corner of the new road that once had been a ditch (recently filled in by Kindness of the S.C, T might da), and on which a sumptuous new "temple of chance" has been opened. 'And as I stood snd watched, an endless stream of cars drove up' atid into its compound. Fine modern cars they were too and elegant and wealthy were the gentlemen In them—and all from the "good (?). Jands," the very "island" of China's patriots.
By the side of this same road, huddled ina corner crouched a wretch—his glazed eyes and gaping mouth on a skinacovered skull, a sight 1 shall over remember. Per haps a time there was when he too had been a decent human, Though the night was cold his rags were the thinnest. Some loose straw was about him, That was some pro= tection from the clements anyway. Through hunger and cold he may be dead by now, one more to the dally hundred. But what of 1t? Was he not but just another farmer-refugee, one of China's millions?
As I tarried there, gazing at the strange spectacle before me, the strains of a National Anthem came sadly, bitterly, to my mind, 'AN Inconessen, Shanghai, Feb, 21, A Playgoer Objects To the Baitor of the "Nonni-Cinwa Day News"
Sin—1 was not_u tittle surprised to hear what is supposed to be Brilish national anthem, and that, to the full length, quite unusual even In British territory asa formal tribute to the King after theatrical or cinema. pet formances, was sung In chorus, when the performance was over, by the players of A.D.C''s play "Lilac Timo at the Lyceum Theatre the day before yesterday. T'know ADE, is. A.D, but the performance is, to my mind, at least open to the publi, and there may have been German people among the audiences and It is quite natural they may not have Hiked it However, what it really amounts to foreigners are sometimes. forgetting that they are in China, a foreign country, and Shanghai surely ts not British territory. "Moreover, China is supposed to be neutral to the present European War, and the thing will Prove to be quite serious from the standpoint of neutrality. T would ike to point out that at least advertisement in the name of A.D' should "be made In this column somewhat similar but more serious line as the one which was made by the chairman of Det Norske Samfund T Kina in thig column February 18, Aw Asiante, hong Fe. 2 scat ST Demat ihe, Brith "hatienat anthem "at "the
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