the Automobile Clue "of" China There will be some sympathy with
thole combat spain st" the manner In" which the" Shanghai Stunfepal Couneit cat with their letter Dressing willingness to ce-operate with the Council in measures. to diminish the traflle congestion in the Central District and their thanks for, the Councils decision to postpone the enforcement of the new parking. ulations while they "considered the objections the club had raised thereto. {Cis just a question, however who: ther the Aulomobile Club are "not standing a little too mtich upon their dignity. The Council has never, #0 far as is known by this Journal, regarded the parking problem matter of dispute between. the and the Commissioner of Police has looked upon it from the wider point of view as a matter forthe bennet of the public. The precedent for publishing correspond: fence between the club and the Coun-li was not established by the Couns cil, and the euriness of the Council's Feply to the club may be accounted for by the fact that oMfcials of the Couneit "are authorized. to. make known the decisions of the Council and not to embroider them. In other Countries the same problem would not arise, since the press are admitted to Couneit meetings, but in the peculiar conditions prevailing in: Shanghat thi Is considered Impossible, "As a sult, therefore, the Council endeavour to inform the press and the public of their decisions as soon as possible, or politic, afler they have been Teached, and if in this case there has. been any discourtesy to. the Auto mobile Club, it may be presumed that It was unintentional.
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