Oct. 23, One of Ian Hay's characters, as readers may remember, suffers "occasionally from ''a rush of brains to the head.' A virulent attack of this malady must have broken out in the Traffic Department of the Council, judging by the new regulations ''for the governance, control, direction and facilitation of traffic'? which were published in yesterday's Municipal Gazette. There are sixty-two of them, not counting numerous subsections, and they cover very nearly three pages of the Gazette. After reading them one wonders whether it was by coincidence or thoughtfulness that almost the very next notification announces that, commencing on November 26, ''evening classes for foreign students will be held in the Public School for Boys.'"
The Traffic Department's aira Was evidently to draw up such a list of regulations that no police magistrate in China should ever be able to say that they did not cover whatever offence might be prosecuted under them. This ambition has been for the wealth of lawyers and confounding of litigants since the world began. We hardly think that the new regulations solve the problem. For instance, a horse is defined og "'any animal. used as a
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