"In. Peking in those days there wore almost no roads at all, except the stone roads leading from the city to the Summer Palace, The city ronds were unsafe and in rainy weather cne might almost have wun in them. The rieshas were along the walls, for four hey should be thrown into the wide and full ditches into which the roads drained, There wore just_a few motor cars in Shanghai 26 years go and in Peking there were only two stored in the Palace, which an enterprising agent had presented to the Dowager Empress. But even in Shanghai they wore inefficiently run, mostly by owner-drivers. Poking, only the hotels. and a fow such places had electric lights. The streets wore dark at night and in the houses lamps and candles swore used.
"When I came 12 years ago, the atreota wore not only lit, but the yond had boon paved and were well kept up and there were traffic police on all the principal corners, And now, I understand, there azo roads all directions, lending far out into the country,
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