A survey of the transportation companies in Shanghai yesterday revealed [the interesting fact that the rickshaw strike has had very little effect upon the number of passengers carried. It might have been expected that many people who normally go to and from their homes by rickshaw would use the buses and trams when there were Ino rickshaws to be had. But this, Japparently, has not so far been the case. One of the companies reports slight increase in passengers but Jattributes this to the fact that Shang-thai's residents have not yet had time dissipate the contents of their pay envelopes and the shroffs who prey upon the righteous and the unright-Jeous alike have not had the opportunity to complete their rounds of calls. This company states that there is always a rise in the number of patrons of their service at the beginning of a month, when circumstances are less. straitened. As the month progresses, however, their figures show a steady decline, coppers gain-jing in importance in' proportion to the diminution of their numbers.
Undoubtedly motorists have enjoyed the absence of rickshaws from the streets and have found the flow of trafic marvellously expedited. And it would seem from the figures of the {transportation companies that the general public has not been seriously inconvenienced as yet. These two ci Jeumstanees raise the question when {ther rickshaws are really so necessary Shanghai as had been previously imagined. -I¢ Shanghai can get along very well without them, why have them back at all? It would be an Ironic outcome of the present strike Jof the rickshaw owners if it does nothing more than prove to the community' that rickshaws are no longer a necessity.
Responsibility "for the incident attributed to the Outer Mongols, and, 'BS a consequence, Manchoukuo sending a strongly-worded protest (o Ulan Bator.
The communique says:—"At 130 pam. yesterday a joint! Japanese-Manchoukuo detachment noticed twelve Outer Mongol planes flying over Manchoukuo territory twelve miles north of Taulan, a border southwest of Lake Bur Nor.
Firing took place for 40 minutes, after Mongo the planes flew back to
"The detachment, at 3 pin, encoun tered a powerfully armed unit of Outer Mongols. A battle ensued in which heavy losses were inflicted on the Outer Mongols. On cur side, there were many casualties, at pres: ent unestimated,"—Reuter,
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