Paris streets are so-called only by courtesy; they should be called canyons; and the traffic can only be designated by the name of rapist Our last Prefect wore himself to death devising means for quelling the individualistic passions of the Paris driver; our new Prefect la entering on the same hopeless teak, Not only did he recently promise that mounted police should be used in the task; the intrepid fellow has actually tried it. In two narrow streets, where there is no room for refuges. a mounted Municipal Guard has_ been experimentally stationed. Such a crowd gathered to watch that his functions were much hampered. He was accompanied by a foot policeman, whose lot was not a happy one. We all know that the function of a refuge is to be chipped. Why a living horse with a living foot-policeman should be put there to replace a strong iron pedestal it 's difficult to understand. But we wi know that in this city of light and logic there is no limit to experiments—land a very wide one to their uselessness.
One of the strangest was the "red bands.'' Traffic was hampered for a week while two strips of red cement were laid across boulevards at three or four pointes, the idea being that the bright colour would warn drivers to slow down and thus protect people who had the legitimate desire to cross the road without being run over. In less than a week, weather and mud hail reduced the red bands to a pale pink, undistinguishable and therefore unnoticed. Now we are threatened with semaphores in the Place de Opera. and a new set of regulations, which will be a3 little respected in practice as their pre-
Mr. Wong Yung-Pao in Hongkong Hongkong, Oct: 23.
Wang Yung-pao, former in Switzerland and Minister designate to Tokio, called ea the Acting Governor yesterday morning. The Minister and his wife were the guests of Sir. Robert end Lady Ho Tung during their stay here. They motored round "he island and were entertained at a luncheon at the Repulse Bay Notel. Later they attended a tea party given by the Chinese Cham ter of Commerce and dined with Robert Ho Tung. They s:
Shanghai this morning.—Reuter.
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