The agreement between the Shanghai Power Company and the Chinese authorities regarding the supply of electrical energy to the Western extra-Settlement area is a nippy omen for the eventual success of other discussions for the solution of inter-municipal problems in the ea. Incidentally it relieves residents and _property-owners in the district of some of their anxieties and disabilities and shows that the resources of laz! diplomacy are equal to the task of solving even the Tost delicate local. problems. Until the actual details of the agreement fre fully known it were premature {fo attempt to form 9 final. judgment fon its exact signifies ce. The Power Company ebvious: y deserve to share with the City Goverament of Shanghat the credit. for removing an important uncertainty from the opera-Rion of wilty services in, Shanghai. Tels sufleient to note this achieve eat and. to express the hope that the principle of ce-operation thus endorsed will be extended speedily other services. In the handling of the, Rickshaw problem, for example, tative proposals for the Joint action of the three municipal Lge authorities is the have been contemplated. They really essential to the sat solution of that traffe diMeulty. if the basic principle of abolition is to bbe restored to its proper place in the policy of the Municipal Council the ce-operation of the French Council and of the City Government will be 2 most valuable reinforcement,
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