Sept. 22.
Tue Good Roads Movement must indeed be fallen upon evil times if its members can think of no more urgent piece of work than the devising of a thorough-fave to encircle the Settlement, so preventing any further road-making by the Municipal Counci] and. thereby safeguarding China's sovereign rights. That is the sum and substance of what the meeting of Chinese members of the Good Roads Movement resolved upon at their. meeting this week in the Chinese Y. M.
Cc. To the foreign resident of Shanghai who appreciates the benefits conferred by the administration of the Municipal Council, it appears curious in the first place that the promoters of this scheme should have felt. it} advisable to hold their meeting within the boundaries of the Settlement, and secondly, that they should have selected an in-_stitution such as the ¥.M.C.A. as the venue of their gathering. It might have been thought that the ¥.M.C.A could not possibly have anything to do with such matters, but they appear to have decided otherwise. Nor is this the} highway first occasion on which matters having no concern with what are
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