It is to be hoped that while the future of the oper of ground just beside the Special District Court off North Chekiang Road is being Aiscussed the need for considerable road improvements in that area will not be forgotten. At present the {railless trams which make the turn ing from Kaifeng Road into Kans Road completely bloc traffic in every direction, Tels not their fault. They have to operate in streets s0 narrow and congested that in any other part the city they would be described 5 by-ays. That such a reste for trams is needed is amply" attested by. the crowds which can be seen! daily using the railless cars already there. Tt would not be amiss, there-ore, in endeavouring fo arrange for the disposal of the burying ground, for it to be borne in mind that the brea around the open space sadly need "improvements in means communication. The whole. district would be benefited by the creation of tome wider and better roads, and it ay be that the Council will Sind itself in a position to put in hand this much needed measure if it can acquire the lot in ques Hunuility in Distress:
A graphic account of an episode the Peking Road will be re in the correspondence columns, to-with mixed feelings. Things are not always what they seem. be an explanation of brutality of the who, with the help of his Jchanffeur, took from a ricsha coolie the license plate and prevented that humble worker from carrying: on his lawful occupation for several valuable hours if not longer. On the face of it the narrative by the correspondent, who is a man of good repute and standing, indicates most unjustifiable the authority of the comparatively © triting due more to the con the weather than to the ricsha Jecolie's "delinquencies, "was made an occasion for a display of unpardonable exploitation of the helplessness of a humble servant of the public. It would be resented [ty most fair-minded men and women for. in itself, it was just an exhibition of "petty tyranny which must cast as a stigma on the community as a whole.
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