To the Editor of the "Norru-Cuina Dany News"
'Siz,—Present traffic regulations provide numerous ways to the motorist of making the acquaintance of the Shanghai Magistrates. Ricshas find it more and more difficult' to. perform their stunts without running the risk of losing! their licences, But pedestrians can Imake-a nuisance of themselves with-lout any other risk than that of being run over, I have been the owner of a cat only for a few months and I have already had quite a number of narrow shaves, although I can say that I drive very carefully. My lest experience was in Avenue Edward 'VIL I was going slowly fortunately, when a pedestrian dashed in front of my in order to avoid him I bad'to swerve and nearly ran into a wheelbarrow. My four wheel brakes prevented the collision, but I rather badly damaged a tyre. When I recovered I saw my would-been. victim grinning quite happily on the side-walk, I felt like getting down to give him the hiding he deserved, when I reflected that it was useless, aa it would probably only bring out a few banknotes Gut of my pocket, under form of a fine imposed on me. Therefore I. swallowed my ire and drove off.
'Sm,—Why will not business firms, and missionary agencies, use -up-to-date directories? In the course of this last summer it has. been my' fate to. have passed through my. hands the mails of @ fairly large. mission centre; and U'have. been file ling my waste-paper basket from maib to mail with advertisement matter (chiefly medical), catalogues, book notices, ete., addressed to mis: sionaries who have been dead or off the field five, 10, and even over 20 years, The medical advertisers are by far the greatest sinners. If, these good people have no regard for the money that they are wi ing, let them have some considera tion for-the value of the time and temper of the people who heve to sort out and throw away the stuff they send, and'buy new directories, Tam, ete, GT Swatow, Sept, 14, 1926, Gen. Yen Chun-yang returns to Shanghai after a: very gratifying' chief praised him, highly for. his handling of the September 7 student troubles and for his general success in curbing the forces of disorder and anarchy in Shanghai, He urged Gen, Yen to continue hig efforts and to do all in his power to annihilate the Bolshevik elements, He wddod however, that the Kuomintang was not to be treated on quite the same. Hines -as the radical Reds, Tue price of mutton in Peking has risen, according to the Cainese Press, because most of the sheep along the railway line beyond Nan. kow pass were taken by the military forces as a reward to me dividual soldiers for their work in taking the Kuominchun defence Mutton is selling at Motorists and rieshas are fined very often for minor breaches of the traffic regulations. Why are not pedestrians who make themselves a nuisance to traffic, through sheer imbeecility, like the one I am referring.
like others who deliberately, the road very slowly as if to]
lenge you? Why are these pedestriang not fined? I heard the othe day of a recent case in which the driver vf a car ran into a pole to avoid a "dashing" pedestrian: the driver of the ear was killed, but the man who cotised the accident by his stupidity vanished into a neighbouring alleyway.
Tam, ete, Moronisr.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.