I is not to be supposed that all the unsung heroes of the noise nuisance reside in the "Central. District thereabouts: there are plenty in the Western District who have 10. lie awake listening to the first stirrings of industrial Shanghai while the sun feddans the east and the early twit tering of the birds combine to conditions which have made the poet Irical, but which make the hard-worked business man bite the bullet when he would moh rather loose fromthe further end of a gu. There are areas where factories have managed to get themselves. inserted Fight inthe midst of a number residential streets, 10 the torment the residents and the decrease in the rent value of the residences When these factories, as they sometimes do, work all night, the chances of anyone in. the neighbourhood gelling a proper' vest are almost. negligible. Complaints to the police have brought temporary relief, but xo. temporary that the sufferers have hardly had to recover from their experience before they have to xo through it all
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