Oct. 8.
No-one desires unnecessarily to add to the plethora of committees and commissions, engaged currently or prospectively in the task of discovering in the mass that which the individ: has already discerned in_ his private capacity. Nor should the Shanghai Municipal, Couneil be burdened with superfluous obligations. Yet there seems to be a case for investigation of Shanghai's trafic difficulties in more authoritative form than by casual inquiries, fugitive press correspondence and occasional! official comments. There is "a standing Trafic Committee of the Council, set_up on the recommendation of the Cooper, Committee which, in 1926, presented a most exhaustive report
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