The eternal war waged between Projectiles and concrete is being even here in Shanghai. Concrete is getting worsted, and a complete surrender is ex] The scene of the local activities is at the corner of the Maloo and Sze chuen Road, where the Municipal Council are supplying the concrete in the form of posts about as high asa yardstick is long, and the motorists are furnishing the projectiles,—their own cars.
Many months ago the Council put up two sets of two concrete poste in the middle of Szechuen Road, one in front of the Toilet Club and the other pair at Watson's corner. No one, but the Public Works man who has the job of replacing them, knows how many poste have since been placed hors de combat, and even he does not know the number of casualties in the ranks of the cars, as the motorists are not allowing any facts to be published. The idea in placing poste in the midst of traffic at one of Shanghai's most congested corners is not to obstruct traffic, as the motorists seem to think. They are there to guard the little concrete "Gslands", which, in turn, are intended to be places of refuge for mere pedestrians when dodging the petrol-driven projectiles. The motorista took " dislike to the posts from the beginning, and either from wilful intention or pure mischievousness, they have been bombarding them with more or less regularity. The posts had not been long set when one night the pair near the Toilet Club were charged by @ car and one post was broken off. It was promptly replaced by bigger and heavier post, and no sooner was this discovered by the alert motorists than it, too, was Knocked out. The posts at Watson's corner suffered likewise. This warfare started months ago and it is still waged intermittently and mostly in the dead of night.
Ricsha coolies, newspaper workers, mafoos, and others whose businees it is to be out in the early morning hours, frequently notice a dead and broken post lying help-lees at full length, " silent witness to the fact that when a swiftly moving object meet a stationary pillar of concrete the result is
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