Tue Municipal Gazette to-day contains a long set of traffic regulations, designed for "'the govern ance, control, direction and facilitation of traffic within the limits of the foreign Settlement and on Municipal roads or alleyways outside such limits," all to come into force next New Year's day. To the historian's eye it says much for Shanghai's growth that these voluminous instructions as to how to proceed, to stop, to set down passengers and luggage and take them up, where to stand and (the irreverent might add) when to run, have all grown out of By-law 36—at least they are authorized under the powers which that by-} law confers on the Council— which merely says that a vehicle not carrying a light between sunset and sunrise will be fined five dollars. The same historian will also doubtless remark that only six regulations out of sixty-one refer specifically to horses and horse-drawn vehicles. As the sixty-first regulation deals) entirely with access to jetties and pontoons, the obvious and natural inference would be that motor-cars are capable of just nine times as many crimes as carriages. But as some of the regulations distinctly refer pedestrians and most of them might apply to any kind of vehicle, the inference would be wrong.
The allusion to pedestrians comes in No.. 4: ''No person
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