To the Editor of the "Nonmit-Cuika Dairy News"
Sm—The floods are on us once more' and resulting from' them several thousand dollars worth of} loss and damage. If the floods' are not preventable, much of the loss can be prevented, A little guidance ind initiative from the police could at least save the stranding of numerous motor ears, The city is not entirely flooded; it is only flooded in patches.
Diagrams. showing the flooded patches. should be published in all the morning and evening papers, and. should be prominently displayed in central points of the city. When! radio stations are themselves put out of action by the floods, the present attempt of the police to broadcast the names of flooded streets obviously reaches very few persons; besides people would far rather see a di before them than have to remember froma list read out to them.
Barrleades from certain dry streets should be removed while the floods last. For example, there are two bad patches in Tifeng Road and Avenue. Haig. but these cane avoided by going along Rue Magy which is at present blocked by a Barricades for inspection should be removed from the dry central parts of roads, so that traMe does not, have to go'into the coded sides of the road.
The police are the guardians and Girectors of trae, The. public expects them, in flood time asin normal times, to direct traffe along safe routes, If they are overwork~ ed. why not call out the Boy Scouts to help? any Shanghai, June 27,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.