The hat-snatching season is in full swing!
Tet all and sundry in Shanghai be warned that there are in this city a umber of diminutive lads who have developed this art to perfection and who, when they see a new hat on a gentleman's head, simply can't. sup-ress the impulse' to make off with it, With the cold weather many new hats are bought, but some of them never. grace their owner's pate long enough for him to get home, such are the insidious activities of the hat-snatchers. 'Their methods? 'They are quite simple and so framed as to make their apprehension by the Police almost impossible, This 1s how it Is done:—'The operator, a boy with prehensile Angers and light feet, stations himself at the mouth of' an alley connecting with a crowded street, during the afternoon rush hour. His base of, operations "is always near a tramear or bus stop and he does not The problem of traffic control has} figured largely, in the SMC. Trame} Committee's recent deliberations, reports upon difficulties experienced in the Settlement and suggestions in re. gard thereto being discussed al At its last meeting the Committe: considered a memorandum by Mr. G. Robinson summarizing his views, a letter from a member of the Com: mittee urging the appointment of a trae engineer or director of trams and_a report by the Commissioner of Police on trate casualties, Mr.
Robinson attended the meeting upon the Committee's invitation,
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