In the Chinese press of recent date appears a manifesto purport ing to have come from the First District Branch of the Shanghai Special Kuomintang, urging that control of the Shanghai - police should be handed over to Chinese officers, since, say they, if this were done, fewer Chinese Would be shot accidentally. No mention is made, however, of the efficiency of the Municipal police, that it is confronted with problems the like of which no other police force fnces, and that it solves these selfsame problems with exceptional skill, although hampered by officials of the Provisional Court, and by the Nanking Appeal Court. The per tinent portion of the manifesto is steering. It is true that none of the rest of us wants to travel in motor ear at the rate which Major Segrave has just done: in fact we should be seared out of our lives if we did. But his motor car combines all the experience which engineers can gather about stresses and strains, and thanks to enterprises such as his we shall in time get the ear we want—something that will resist the effects of the greater part of our bad usage.
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