June 16.
SEEING that the scheme for cutting a strip of sixty feet off the Public Gardens was set out with illustration in the annual report and has thus been before the public for some three months without any objection being 1 ed until now, the Council were justified in thinking that it had public approval. So much must be admitted at the outset. The answer is that there is so much to read in the annual report, and ground plans are not easily grasped by the general reader, that the significance of the alteration was not realized. We frankly confess that we did not fully perceive what was intended, and other journalists in Shanghai appear to have equally been caught
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