Apropos of our reference to cyclists, correspondent of motorcyclists been making themselves nuisance on Settlement roads mitted and it is rumoured that as a result of his investigations, Major Gerrard will recommend a substantial increase. To come to the point. The Traffic Department is in the same fix. We suggest the \ddition of six motorcycle "cops" to kinds. deal with Shanghai speedsters of all The Circus King Many readers will hear with a sense almost of personal loss of the death of Lord John Sanger. For the visit of Sanger's Circus was always jone of the important events of the year. Its procession on entering the town was a thing of splendour and Jdelight beyond imagination, and if performances in the tent were not Jquite up to the reckless character of the posters which had been decorat-the town for the previous fortnight, there was always an. abundance of satisfying fare. Lord John Sanger (he was christened j "Lora" we believe) began active work fu the circus ring at an early age, and when he retired from actual performing before the war he had mastered the intricacies of practically every circus trick. He was the father of eleven children, only one of whom took up the circus as a career. His wife is still alive. Mr, James Sanger, a brother, told a re porter that Lord John Sanger had spent all his life in performing and and a positive dane to pedest and to motorists recently and urges that, something should be done. to check their reckless attitude and seeming disregard for others. He gives a recital of several flagrant. instances, Some days ago during the early evening, no fewer than five cycles, ridden by foreigners, raced eastward on Bubbling Well Rond and east of Yates Road. Without any regard for the new "passing" lay, and several with no muters, did net hesitate to speed Past motor-cars which were traveling about 25 miles an hour. the Mohawk Road i: tersection, they were suddenly pulled up, when the traffic policeman, changed the green ight to red. During the early morning office ruch Inst Tuesday, between Honan Road, and Szechuen Road, another " oreycle pasted five motor-cars, "weaving" in and out among them in the area between the pavement and the ears, His speed must have been 20 miles an} hour. At noon on Friday, two Chinese were severely injured on Broadway, when a machine of this type struck a pedestrian, That the Dolice ave understaffee has been ad: that Nanking can claim corta definite achievements, the reinstitution of the Salt Gabelle, customs autonomy and the new treaties, and other real if less conspicuous gains, But in its enthusiasm it has promised too much, reforms to be accomplished in three months which could scarcely be realized in three Years, and it is by the inevitable failure that discontented people are judging it, not by its real accomplishments. It is an old saying that Rome was not built in a day, and of no country that ever was, was this truer than of China, which is indeed not a country but a continent. Secondly, in their search for an instrument of government, one cannot but feel that the vision of China's rulers is still too sed by foreign models. Inability to grasp what is native and congenial to Chinese in-stiners has been the bane of all tions written is still a stumbling-block, It is worth recalling that one of the reasons why Dr. Sua Yat-sen was for making Nanking the capital was that he wished to get back into the atmosphere of the last purely Chinese dynasty and this, mutatis mutandis, contains no bad moral for the constitution builders of to-day. Not by fighting and abuse, but by co-opera tion through all classes and sober patient work is China's salvation to be won.
'S[managing the circus, when wa: established 108 years ago. "He was) full of life, and took a great interest in his work," he added, "He has visited nearly every town in the Jcountry, and before the war he was, 1 star' performer. He was a master 101 circas tricks, from tight-rope walking to conjuring. He was a horseman and an expert Lord John had a smile for everyone, And was the company's The circus will be earribrothers." Lord John n ill while on tour in Devonshire and died at the ripe age of ely a well spent life.
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