As is often the ease when an emergency duty becomes a routine matter, the exelent. Work which being done by the Shanghai Volunteer Corps in "B" Sector is not now receiving. the Sitention which it deserves. Employers "who, when the British troops were withdrawn, quite the. importance of allowing members of tale stams to il the vacancy, are. now ques: toning whether itis worth while. And even mem= borsof the Corp, it is lexened from one fouree, are athing what they have to dor since nothing Darlicular hes happened since. they. went of uly. That nothing particular has huypened may put down principally to the fact that they Rave done their duly ea wells Had they not been there to do it, serious differences th the Defence Force at Shanghai might have arisen. As it is, the work being pu} in by the Volune feers, though net apeetneuior, has earned them the thanks othe whole. community. Itty not tosy work, and hiss not Been enlivened by mich excitement hitherto, The men needed to do the Work have been veddced othe very minimum Compatible with the works. being garned out ficiently. It should not be forgotten, that Solution of the differences over the contre. "B" Sector. does not Hie with the 'Shanghai Municipal Council. 1 ta matter to be sellled between the Japanese. and' ihe American, thorities. Conversations are stil proceeding to each settlement, but It would be foolish to Suggest at the present moment that a settlement Took very much nearer than it did when ihe Brit troops, were withdraw, The: Volunteers ate doing excellent and much needed work in bridging ver the interval until agreement can Be, reached and the are end fo the eral mixed community, '4 cee Easy Riddle first fs in slumber, and also in sleet My second's in laughter, but not in weep, My third ts im ussly, but not in nice, ly fourth is in gangster, though not in vice My whole is a crawler with slime in its woke That st spatters on anyone who refuses to take advice on how, when and where to shop, And balks.at "scandal while i's hot."
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