To the Editor of the "Noxra-Caisa Darty News."
Sin,—I notice in your columns of today a Municipal Notification prohibiting the use of "special alarms" on ricshas. May I ask how this is to be enforced, and what right the Council have to inter-fore with the freedom of the individual in this manner If I like to carry a bell, horn, or syren on my riesha to notify my approach, in the same way as I do on my bicycle or motor car, what legal right have the Council to prevent me? Logically, then, mast not use my voice either, if Tfind that my ricsha is about to run over somebody.
The point which so many persons ovorlook is that it is the abuse of these alarms that causes the nuisance, mot uso of them. Yon can plified every day by comparing the respective behaviour of the foreigner and the Chinese on a bicycle. Both carry bells, but you hardly ever hear the former ring them.
What is the tendency of this: regulation Is it anti-Chinese? And will the Council later on prohibit the use of horns on Chinese-owned motor cars, when the latter are found to use them inconsiderately, as will surely be the case when the foreigner returns to gentlehood again, and so marks the difference between himself and a Chinese ai Tam, ete,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.