Shanghai Dear Sir, I acknowledge having received through the Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation the sum of £3,500 which, I presume. is a further contribution from your Fund towards f my National Air Raid Distress Fund.
Official receipt No. 04190 is attached herewith.
Tt is most inspiring to receive this further handsome gift from your War Fund, and I accept it with deep gratitude ' realizing the wealth of sympathy and devotion which accompany this gift.
We are, as a nation, greatly blessed by the friendship which is being extended to us from all over the world but, nevertheless, we rejoice in the proved, loyal and steadfast friends we have in Shanghai.
On behalf of our air victims, will you kindly convey to all contributors my renewed thanks for this further proof of their sustained interest and support.
I think you for your continued personal interest in the cause.
Yours truly, (signed) Gro. H. Wnxrwsow. "Lord Mayor F, S. Crawrorp, "Hon. Secretary.
Shánghai, July 16.
Sm—Now that we have started the ball rolling in protesting against "he recent increase of fares by the C.G.O.C. may I take up a few inches of your valuable columns in support of Trmorny, Fep-up and ANTI-SQUEZZE I am a season ticket holder and have been one for the past three-and-a-half years. For three-and-a-half long years I have been paying monthly in advance for my buggy rides. but do I get the service I am entitled? No. It seems afer this long while I have been paying for the comfort of the bus staff, first end foremost.
It is not a rare sight nowadays to see the humble passengers playing the role of strap-hangers while conductors, drivers and doorman are sprawled all over the seats. I have been made to stand on several occasions whereas our most-exalted-worthies occupy the "best seats in the house" And hints by word or deed would only draw forth snarls and growls from these gentlemen. There is nothing the higher-ups could do to rebuke them for fear of strikes and the like. I am writing this with the hope that the person or persons who are directly r ible for the lack of supervision inf this respect would come out in the open to refute and deny this statement.
Coming to the point of the raise in fares. TrwormY in his letter to you two days ago pointed out the one and greatest leakage" in the revenues which has to be "taken up by us honest-johns." Do you realize sir, that out of the recent 66 per cent increase forced upon us, 33 per cent will be going to the unauthorized rice allowance of the conductors? The other 33 per cent would only logically be offset by the loss of passengers who are now taking to the street-cars, or are preferring to walk rather than aid and abet in this grand game, encouraged and approved in every case by our City Fathers.
Judging from the last paragraph. I have already visioned the state of affairs two months hence. Another raise, due to high cost of maintenance with no increase in the number of suckers,
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