To the Editor of the "Norru-Cumya Darcy News"
Sm—Your views on squeeze on public conveyances have been long overdue, But, I beg to differ from the remedy suggested by you.
public by "acquainting the manage-Xon ge for ce-operation from the ment "with every case of coming to their notice." If this were possible. the practice is so wide spread the companies concerned would have to dismiss practically entire staff of their conductors and quite a bij number of inspectors, But it is noi possible that every case can be reported because the squeeze is being practiced on the Chinese only; and they would be loathe to bother themselves. Their way of thinking is quite different from that of the foreigners. Most of the passengers are ignorant of all this rigmarole of tickets, What are concerned with is trans-near Honan Road: gentlemen boarded the same vehicle and one of them asked for tickets up to Tai Sun Kungsi, tendering a S-dollar bill. He was, given back $420, but the conductor did not take out the tickets, He simply nodded to the gentleman and p on to the other passengers, The gentleman in question. as his friends, was well dressed in foreign style. and was speaking English, He was content with the conductors nod, When the; büs was passing: opposite Sincere Ca; the-area around was found to Be flooded, So. one of the friends shouted to the one who had paid the lore in English. not to get off at Tai Sun Kungsi because of water. The conductor shouted "from the other end. in Chinese, that there was imo water there. T also had to get off ==there and was relieved by the news. T noted down the conductor's number, I did not care to see the of the bus I was travelling by.
cán give thet number cerned; but what good it serve I fall to see.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.