Oct, 22.
For the benefit of any new comers to Shanghai who may be taking part in the agitation centred in the correspondence columns of the "North-China ally News" against overerowding on the buses, it may be state ed that the present is no new outcry. Possibly some of them may think they have discovered new sin against the public: but it is not 80, for the agitation ig as old as the buses, and as old as the trams." This journal has deen constant and unrelenting in similar protests for many years, recognising that. there is 'a very real grievance, amounting to a terrible danger, but it has to be admitted that its jeeess_has been small. The North-China Daily News" succeeded in putting gates on the, trams, but, having done-so, there was not, a great - deal about which to boast, for, whereas the intention had been
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