After a ten-day boom, a boatie motor bus line, operating three vehicles between Yangtszepoo and the Garden Bridge. recently was put out of business by the Japanese military police, the "Tairiku Shimpo" reported yesterday.
A bus. mounted on a 1930 Ford assis. was first noticed operating along Broadway and Yanetszepoo Road on April 7. The Japanese uthorjties, believing that it was a private vehicle operated by a foreign factory for the transportation of its employees paid no attention to it Soon, two more vehicles of the same type began making their appearance One day, the Japanese paper said a plain, clothes Japanese military policeman, accompanied by a Chinese, boarded one of the busses. They were charged six cents per person for the run. Busses operated by the Central China Urban Motor Transit Go., a Japanese firm, charge 10 cents for the same distance.
The owner as well as the drivers were foreigners according to the "Tairiku Shimpo." Japanese military and naval authorities, the paper said, were taking a serious view of the case as sentries along the route had permitted the busses to pass without questioning believing that they were being operated. privately by a bona-fide foreign firm for the benefit of its employees, inasmuch as the drivers were Occidentals. Public busses are subject to search if carrying Chinese passengers
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