Even in respect of @ Telephone Company there are always. two points of view and with the many complaints that have lately been made, it is only fair to put the Company's position. Tt is not con-toned that' the service is perfect, far from that; but it is suggested in he most delicate manner in the work." as Mr, Chucks would say, that "some troubles are due' to Impationee; and it is asserted very emphatically that the Company are tways ready to inquire into com plaints when brought to. their notice But these complaints mast accompanied with the requisite information. For example, if A, when telephoning to B, is' cut off in the middle of the talk, he is asked to send to the Company th: number of the telephone and time fof the occurrence." Without these details the culprit cannot be identified. Incidentally, when a cutoff occurs, the person who is being telephoned to should at once put) back the receiver and wait for the) person who called him to get the) connection again. For both to try, only makes matters worse. As for the' automatic, while the "whole being changed over Rice are almost inevitable.
The Company are about to issue new directions in the simplest possible form, to clear up points] {in the use of the automatic which not seem to be understood, Beggars on the Bund know well that the police a 8 much preoccupied with robbers and kidnappers that some Joss urgent duties must go by the board, And the community owes them so much for their splendid work against the outlaws, that one would not add to their labours une necessarily. But if it be possible, ome attention to the Bund 510,366, against £98,848,374 in February, and £113,500,021 March, 1927, It is satisfactory to see from the summary given by the "China Express and Telegrapl that the fall in imports occurred mainly under the head of manufactured articles. Import of iron and steel goods were £1,10,000 lower, manufactured oils were £528,000 lower, largely on account of lower prices, and imports of vehicles, locomotives and ships were reduced' by £530,000. Cotton was dearer, rubber was cheaper: the actual' quantities imported showed small change. Meanwhile the nature of exports speaks for better than the figures suggest, fgr revival this direction. While the total British exports rose by £204,000, the rise in exports of manufactured articles was no less than £4,350,009. OF the export trades which showed greatest expansion, machinery accounted for an increase of £678,000. Vehicles, which include locomotives, ships, and aircraft, rose by no leas than $1,180,000, due to substantiate ly larger sales of new ships for foreign bayers—an indication of revival in the shipbuilding indus Alli the textile trades showed improvement, cotton goods rising by £709,000." The value of re-exports rose by nearly $500,000. Re-exports of rubber went up by no less than £532,000, this movement being particularly' interesting, as the details indicate x large move~ ment of rubber from this country to the United States. Prance, Italy and Germany also took substantially larger quantities of rubber, Major Hilton-Johnson would be impossible to let Major Hilton-Johnsun eave way of farewell than the conven tional: acount of his carver. welcome, The hawkers of have failed to feet a nef sweets do not do much harm, provided a strict limit is set to the numbers: a regular auction of socks and stockings such as was soon a day or two ago seems gain rather far, But one docs feel that professional beggars should be turned off. All Friday and Sator-day one of th people was drag aging himself up and down the Bund, exhibiting repulsive deformities. For chikiren, especially if at. all nervous, such sights are really bad and they ave not pleasant for anyone. And the Bund is our "show"
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