With this in mind, a visit was} paid to the Municipal'Council, where it was ascertained that the Tramway Company do such work under an understanding and that there are no penalties. Already the company] has been five years relaying its few miles of track and it has not finished Eventually one arrived at the scene of action. The latter is just 4 figure of speech—one of those phrases simply meaning that one has for where one wanted to be. Act-ally, it was a scene of complete inaction. TI was a stretch of some 50 yd. a little beyond Range Road. A later appeal to official—records! made it out to be much longer, but that only shows the ease in a' worse Tight. New rails had been laid, tar. macadam, or whatever it is," had been pounded into the centre space and a nice trench had been left open on one side, sufficient to harass traffic, apart from any guard rails. The only living beings within the aren of devastation and reconstruction Wwere a bored Sih policeman 4 Bolshevist, He must have yet nor, as judged by what was seen Guring this visit, is there any intention to hurry. It must have been three years ago, or maybe more, that! this paper had about the way work was doing done in Broadway, and one of the excuses then given was that weather had been so wet. Shanghai for many weeks now thas been erying for rain, Tt was asked why, in the middle of the day, all work should be abandoned and the answer was that the Chinese knock off at certain fixed! periods, and 11 or 11.30 a.m. was the beginning of one such interval. Somewhere about 5 p.m. is the beginning of another, which lasts Until some two or three hours loter than decent citizens get up in the!
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