This Season Shanghai woke up on March 9 to ud Itself looking like the proverbblal picture ona Christmas card. Not only wore roof-tops, trees, streets, hn fact everything visible carpetted witha thie covering of snow, but 1 was still showing, and, in' fact, went on sno all day, "The city, Which has never been "particularly Yenowned for its beauty, for once became quite. scenic, For the most part, Shanghailanders took the snowy uslaught quite calmly "The. Public Works. Department, SEC, did not oven find it necessary to put extra colles on the streets, and the gangs of workers who tolled throughout the morning clearing. the roads of the slush Into which the clean white anantle had quickly subsided, suc ceeded in reducing it into neal piles the roadside before noon, 'The bus and tram services were only very little affected by the heavy snowfall, and reported that their' schedules' had not' been dis-Tooated as a result. 'The buses were able to function normally, while it Was not found necessary' to. take rote than the ordinary steps to clear the tramway' tracks of obstructions. 'A. special vehicle runs over the tracks early every morning to clear them ready for the day's traffic, and this effectively removed all snow, enabling the tramways to. function smoothly as usual.
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