"The Municipal Council was headed! by Bland, who was an authority on Chinese, and Leveson. He was a charming man and quite eccentric—would go about all winter in his! summer white clothes. One day he feame to me to talk about land.taxes. For forty years they had been taxing [people on the same assessments, and he wanted to start out on a higher sale, 'I'm going to begin on you,' he told me. 'f objected: I said, Why not begin with the English?"
"Noy he said, 'T know you better, and if' you have any complaint, you can take i: to court afterwards"
"well, the next day I asked him to let me see the land.tax ledger, and he refused, so I decided to take!
court. T went to a firm of English lawyers, Drummond, White Cooper, and Morgan Phillips. I told them about it and asked how much would the fee be. against the Munici 1 Council?" they said. "Not a cent!"
Oh, yes, won the case Mr.' Komor spent twelve years in Europe after 1919, and Shanghai had changed amazingly when he came back. But he is still insistent, that something should be done about the team and bus service. "Every other city in the world," he says, "follows its transportation, but here the transportation follows' the development, 80] everyone is held back. That is why there is such a parking problem. Everyone must have a car and a place to put it, Otherwise, 1 think Pimay safely say that Shanghai has become a real city!
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