The Archive · 1899

Si,—The Municipal Council North of the Yangkingpang, Shangh

Nowr-Catsa Datty News

regulation against fusions driving and would thank you for a few lines' space in your paper te show how it is being carried Well Ronds, any day may move. Any king the line and passing another is at once pounced upon by the police, arrested, charged with furious driving, taken before the Mixed Court, and fined. In all common sense it is difficult. to conceive how driving past one of those Fonchow Road native livery stable coaches holding four fares and two mafoos drawn by a bult-starved, consumptive, asthmatic, undersized pony, crawling alan; at a snail's pace, could) be properly termed furious driving: No police in the world except the Shanghai Municipal police would be idiotic enough, unless under special instractions. of the Council, to consider uch driving past as furious driving, On the other hand, carriages ridden by foreigners, whether driven by themselves or by native johns, are permitted to break the line at their sweet will and to career past curring after carriage ata tremendous pace, without interference of the police who often stand back to give them room to exhibit their circus-ring feats. Any Municipal Councillor or private individual doubting my statement will please take a stroll along the Nanking and Bubbling

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