Rickshaw licenses had been greatly curtailed during recent, years, the puller being too much in the way of modern traffic regulations. Today there were only about seven thousand rickshaws on the streets whereas formerly there had been twelve thousand, Singaporians, went on Rotarian Schuab, seemed to lead a more out door life than Shanghai residents, which could partly be explained by the fact that there was summer all the year round in Singapore, Speaking of the Singapore temperature, Mx. Schuab stated that in offices and houses the thermometer would reach about 80-85 during daytime with an occasional jump to about 90 during May. At night, however, there was always a pleasant decline. In Shang. hai the temperature might run to over 90 or even 100, but that was not the average of the local summer, 'The great trouble with Shanghai stid Mr. Schuab was the great. accumulation of cement and bricks, and the fact that the city had a cold winter after a Singapore-like sum= mer, with the result that residences had' to be made suitable for both temperatures, made things rather uncomfortable during the warm sea-on, but he did not think the Shanghai' summer was as murderous as he had been led to believe, British and Japanese Sentries Disagree Shanghai, Sept. 4. strange situation arose yesterday fatternoon on the Garden Bridge where the Seaforth and the Japanese sentries fatled to agree as to which part of the bridge they were entitled to patrol respectively. It was report-Jed that a Japanese sentry placed him-sett on. the portion of the bridge which is patrolled by the British troops and refused to move when he was requested to do so by the Seaforth sentry.
Language difficulties arose and both were equally determined to assert their right to. that particular spot. [The timely arrival ofa Seaforth and Japanese officer eased the tension fand the' matter was settled when the British sentry was reinstated in the disputed portion of the bridge which fie continued to patrol, while" the [Japanese sentry moved' to. the em: placement which was occupied by his predecessors.
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