Not a few paragraphs have appeared latterly suggesting that Canton is very much alive with progressive ideas. It would seem as if, with the laying low of her old walls, a new spirit had entered iz. The latest sign of activity is the projection of a motor-bus service. We read in the "Canton Times": "According to Mr. Henry A. Pan-hoe, acting engineer in charge of the Kuangtung Tramways, the company will soon inaugurate a system of autobuses in Canton. The machinery for the buses has already arrived in Hongkong, and the company is making arrangements to build the bodies of the vehicles. The first one may be finished in two weeks time." Now will Shanghai lag behind? There is unquestionably a great opening here for motor-buses, and, as recalled the other day, there are, or were recently, people who wanted to start them. It is whispered that the terme of charter to such innovators are made too severe by the Councils. If so, why?
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