supplementary: joke, after the i chair Hongs' mani. Massey Report, came in the" shape of an alleged petition rom am association of rickshaw pullers. on the same subject. 'The pullers were obliging-inclined to adopt the Hongs' views, Thes went further; they. paid the Hongs the compliment of adopting arguments and. literary style which the Hongs had not, dis dal All thet is very grateful comforting to the dispensers of wusement during a dull week. It does not help the Shanghai Municipal Council in its deliberations on the issue. All along it had been! expected that the would find ready it, would be. voluntarily probably, without the formality of. previews consultation, In other words the rickshaw pullers' names have been taken in vain, for reasons Which are obvious, The Council has means for making its decisions known to the literate but that, possibly, will not ensure com munication of the Massey recom. mendations to the majority, of the rickshaw pullers.
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story-tellers of whose activities the vole publicity by sending ut Gazette is eloquent ct, stated intervale. "Perhaps the Council, might enlist these story-tellers for the Purpose of spreading knowledge of the assay Heports actual findings.
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