Dairen, Nov. 20.
More and more greatly of late has Dairen been turning to the observance of certain days set apart for the fur-therence of come scheme or other, This city takes gratefully to its heart the announcement of a specific "day" or "days" for anything such as cleanliness, health or a method of propelling' motor vehicles along Streets less reminiscent of speed demons of the track than at present. 'The sponsor of any "day" in' Dairen can always be certain of a generous response.
At the present time not only Dairen but the whole of Manchoukuo is en-Joying a ten-day period decreed 10 efforts for producing a saner mode of driving. It is known as a trafic safety observance period, officially, end though it Is no new thing in thi city it is something entirely new for the ellies of Manchoukuo, That it necessary can be adjudged from the fact that in a recent examination in Harbin, where accidents were ereating a record for that town, out of G4 drivers tested only nine were believed competent to be at the wheel ofa car, This is all the more surpris-ling when it was discovered at the examination that the majority of these chauffeurs had been driving from between five {0 ten years, During this ten days the police will observe in the strictest manner the trafic behaviour of motorists, droshky drivers, cartman, rickshaws and above all cyclists in all parts of the country though particularly inthe crowded streets of the city, They will also Instruct all those who either know (mone of the rules of trame or else note them. Calling upon Harbin again as an example there was some short while ago a move to restrict the clan of the city cyclists whose abandon while tearing along the footpaths had become a threat to human The authorities in various parts believe that movements for inculeating the correct procedure in raffle fare vitally necessary as the town: Ships are, increasing in population almost,
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