To the Editor of the Nowru-Cwixa DEWY News"
Sim.—With reference to your very timely leaderette of this morning dealing with the insufferable me science of the French Tramway Company's employees, the following incident which occurred. just half an hour before this writing seems much fo the point.
At 325 pin. today, Saturday, 9 foreign lady alighted from an cast-bound tram, a No. 1 or, more pro-ably, a No. 2, at Route Cardinal Mercier. As she left the tram there arrived to. board. it an old, thin, Chinese gentleman, about seventy years of age, but, ts so often hap-Dens,' the gale was slammed in his hand on the tram. stil struggled to get the gate open, whereupon. the conductor struck him a violent blow Inthe face, knocking off his glasses, Which obviously made him helpless. With "the blood streaming down his {hee he continued to cling to. the closed gate, the tram meanwhile starting.
"The Indy pulled the old Chinese elf the tram to save him. from further injury. She noted the number the tramear on a piece of paper, Added the time of the incident (3.0, but her watch was five fast) and gave. the ta to the violin trying to explain that he should x0. at once to the Company's offices and lodge a complain the old gentleman jeany dazed andi Chinese forbade. Of all the Chinese who messed ihe incident not one showed. the slightest interest, except the usual curiosity, a lack of public spirit unhappily but too typical of this country.
"The tramear in question was the second car of the tandem, No. 125F, and the brutal conductor wax on the front, Arsi-class, platform. 1 have permission 10 disclose the identity of the witness to any person concerned if a good purpose would be served by 30 doing, One wonders indeed, with your leaderettenwriter, sir, what is behind all this abominable conduct. "Quite definitely it arose in its present acute form immediately following the Ake of last autumn, Tt seems im= possible to believe that the Tramway Company' will not take appropriate fellen but, if i cannot, what is the contra 2
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