Good Year Shanghai, Feb. 12.
'The various increases in the tariffs of the public ulllity companies Shanghai are given' prominence in the annual reports of these organiza~ tions, which have been submitted to the Shanghai Municipal Council, In June, 1998; the China General Omnibus Ca, approached the S. M. C. for approval of revised tariffs on Hines 2 and. 9, in view of a new agreement entered into by the C.G.0. and the Compagnie Francaise de Tramway et delairage Electriques. de Shanghai, in connection with the operation of omnibuses on' thoroughfares bordering the Settlement and the Concession. These revisions were approved and enforced as from July, 3, 1938. A comparison of the figures of passengers transported in 1937 and. 1998, reveals that an additional 20,- (000,000 passengers have used the C.G.0's buses in 1938 as compared, to the previous year.
'The following trolley lines have been approved by the S. MI C.: Jessfield Road, between Vu 'Yuen Road' and Avenue Road; Avenue Road, between Jessiield Road and Hart' Road; "Hart Road, between Avenue Road and Sinza Road; Sinza Road, between Hart Road and Ferry Road: "Weiheiwei Road," between Seymour Road and Rice Course Road; Race Course Road between Weiheiwei Road and Vu Ya Ching Road.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.