This is not an article on traffic: problems, but merely a suggestion that we' might without inconveni lence inaugurate a practice here: which was quite general in England during the war. There, as a matter of course, all traffic made way for ambulances. In Southampton, where there were large hospitals on the Common (the northern end of the town) the Tramway Ca. gave special permission for ambulances, when conveying exceptionally bad cases, to travel on the tram lines, so as to avoid jarring on inequalities of the ordinary road surface, and it was quite usual for a tram to find itself "crawling" for very considerable distances behind an ambulance. Even when not on tho-tram lines, an ambulance was always as far as possible given right of way, so as to avoid shaking due to change of speed and gear. Now we have several ambulances in Shanghai, easily distinguishable by their white paint and general appearance, and though they do not a rule contain wounded patients, there must be many cases in them of bad fractures and contusions, for: which steady travelling is desirable, It would be easy for other drivers: to make way for them and we feel sure that this little suggestion will be enough to bring in a practice: which is only not general, as it wis in England. because the occasion' for it has been less apparent.
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