Precedent Set as S.M.C.
Refuses Permit Owing to Political Situation For the first time within the memory of old Shanghai residents, he famous Basket Fair in the Western area will not be held this spring—because of the prevailing political situation.
The Shanghai Municipal- Council has addressed the Chief Priest of the Bubbling Well Temple informing him that careful" any sympathetic consideration has been given to the question of permitting the holding this year of the Fair, in the vicinity of the Bubbling Well Temple. having regard particularly to the Council's wish to provide every opportunity at his time for the revival of trade] and commerce in the interest of the public welfare.
Notwithstan this factor in favour of the Fair, Chief Priest s been informed that the Council regrets that exigencies: lated to the adequate control by the military of their defence sectors, involving especially the prohibition of street assemblies, and the interes present 1 cone reece gen
clude the grant of permis year for the holding of the Fair.
The Basket Fair was not affected by the previous Shanghai "troubles his century, and was held regularly every spring. In recent years, owing to the building-up of the district about St. Georges, the Fair was limited in extent. Even so the it stitution created a congestion necessitated the detailing of a large number of traffic and other police to keep order.
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