The whiskered joke of the chicken crossing the road is always funny at minstrel show because there are many variations, but no chicken could jcross the road at the Nanking Road and Bund corner, or thereabouts. The result would not be a joke: it would be a tragedy with suitable funeral Jadornments referring to the demise fof the deceased. Why there are £0 few accidents to pedestrians at that corner is one of the baffling mysteries Jot the Shanghai trate system. True, there is the specially-marked passage for pedestrians which ought' to be observed but rarely is. On the other hand, with two lines of ears parked jon the road and trams and" other {trafic proceeding up and down regulated by the Sikh policeman in his little tower on the tram pole crossing the road is really a daring Jadventure, even worse than. Market Street, San Francisco, where four lines of trams help in'menacing the pedestrian. Wha? should really oppon at this corner is the introduction of a requir timetable whereby the pedestrians are equally considered with other traffic $0. that their various directions could be accomplished with a minimum of delay. At present, from long observance, the pedestrian is ignored and the heavy street trate gets the right of way, leaving the pedestrian to dash emulate the query of the chicken crossing the road. This is a point the trafic authorities should take up for there was one Incident of a motorist who had to drop a parcel in a shop jon one side the road but could only Possible injuries on the two coun: tries involved. It is a tragic. fact that the youth of both nations is being wiped out owing to wounded soldiers infecting whole districts with malaria, and that the war represent 1 veritable ca to the advance of civilization in that part of America, and there is a moral duty devolving upon nations exporting /arms and munitions to the contestants to put a stop to such a practice, Indeed it would be an excellent thing if the world at large were to adopt the provisions of the bill recently introduced before the United States Congress providing for that country's neutrality in every aspect in the event of another big war breaking out. stop on the other side with the result it took him so long to get back {fat he nearly incurred police censure for parking his ear contrary to the act
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