Gloom To the Editor of the "Norru-Cuixa Daly News"
St—In view of Mutual Admiration Blue Pencil and Soft Pedal which stand guard over Vested Interests. Shanghai, it is more than doubtful whether any useful purpose at all is served by discussing questions of public interest in the Press. How-fever, as the remarks contained in your leader re. the Trams a few days ago were, at least in part, a rely to a letter of mine on the same subject permit me to point out to you that Your correspondence columns since 1907, the year when the Trams were Introduced to an expectant "public, will bear pathetic witness to. the complaints (and the futility of these complaints) about the service which the Tram Company saw ft to provide under the benevolent tol ance of the Municipal Council It is to be assumed that the agrument now brought forward to the effect, that the franchise has only till 1940 fo run and improvements cannot therefore be expected, has been the sliding principle ever since 1907, con-Uinuing to serve its purpose to-day, and will continue to serve until the next deluge which, as things look, will be the only power capable of these Trammonstrosities off our] streets.
PK Shanghai Nov. 14
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.