Request Made to Municipal Council to Make the Road: The Result of a Misunderstanding.
We are indebted to Mr. Chuo Bing-him, compradore of Messrs. A. W. Burkill & Sons, for copies of the following correspondence exchanged between himself and others and the Shanghai Municipal Council in connexion with the proposed construction of Fusan Road as a municipal road.
It appears that some time ago, Cantonese gentleman named Pan, approached the Municipal Council, through his agents, with a view to having the road constructed as a municipal road.
When this became known to the Chin public a general protest was registered through the Chinese press, with the result that Mr Chun and his associates, feeling that the friendship which has ai-ways existed between the Council and the Chinese residents would be endangered, have taken the step they did.
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