If the sandbag redoubts and S.V.C. were removed from the Bund, it would again have a fairly normal appearance, for traffic has daily increased despite the audible nearness of war. The mid-street parking spaces are again covered with cars through much of the day while men, women end children have put a stop io the bleak appearance of late August. Buses and trams are again clanging along where the streets were deserted.
Tiring of sitting around in their houses, a large number of people who for some time after the Settlement bombings feared to stir abroad, are now walking about in disregard of the dangers which not long ago kept them on the lower floors of their houses and well away from windows and outer walls, A dispute with an Indian cost the life of Channing Arnold, fourth son of the late Sir Edwin Arnold, the
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