In Sian itself some reforms are overdue. A very necessary one. is to prevent cyclists riding on the sidewalks Another should prohibit the mitt. tary fixing their field telephone wires along the public thoroughfare Those are already crowded with post and wires but every group of sold-Jers think themselves. free to. run wires as they please just about head high to the inconvenience and danger "of the public. Our city police force too, though much more @Meient than it was years ego, has still much to learn, A foreigner returned home one! evening with a party of guests for dinner. He found that his cook had been taken to the police station an hour or two before and was being detained, It seemed that the cook's daughter aged eight, had been playing with a neighbour's child in the park' and this other git had fallen down and cut her face. The cook's Gaughter helped her up and—took' her home and then the neighbour went fo the police and had the father arrested asthe responsible person Who had to make good "any loss or damage. Finally he was released on.
foreigner's guarantee but the inident did not make any of the party feel that the time had come for the abolition of extraterritoriality, 'The wheat harvest has just' begun fo be reaped. We have had a number of welcome showers of late Which have been good for the newly-planted cotton but have not made much difference to the wheat, 'This fs pretty good in watered land but for' the rest. will "only yield about two tou to the Chinese acre, Mass weddings are still a novelty in Peiping, unlike Shanghai, which sometimes has more than 100 couples before the Mayor to be joined in matrimony. For the mass wedding to be held in Peiping on June 16, so far only three couples have signed, says the *Lih Pao:
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