To the Biltor of the "Nonmt-Cuma Dany News"
Siz,—You may recall that about four months ago I called your attention to the growing nuisance of motor-Ihorns here and the complete failure Jof the police to take any action toward the enforcement of the ordin-Jance that I am told exists, You were good enough to comment editorially Jon what said and to comment my Jattempt to bring public' attention 0 this outrage.
"You were, however, sceptical as to the probable results, and with the Hbest of reason. What happened wat this, The Department sent its man round to talk with me and he suggested, no doubt under instructions, {that if 1 would note a few numbers. lof particularly offensive motorists Jand hand them to the police, it would possible to take some action.
'Being in the habit of roaming far Jand wide in the town and environs; I was able to take down many' numbers, more than nine-tenths of which were of Chinese-owned cars, I sent these to the police, as suggested, 'About that time' T left Shanighat land returned this week. Marking no Improvement whatever in the posltion I wrote mildly and courteously to the police, inquiring if anything Iliad been done, This morning I re-Jceived the usual conventionalized printed form, stating that "the matter [was receiving attention,"
The matter was receiving atten tion! And this four months after 1 had: done the very thing the police requested in order to enable them to {take some action, Now I think the people of Shang-King nual should resent this sort of indifferlence as much as I do, Lately T have been in Hongkong, Singapore and Bangkok, In each the horn nuisance has been almost entirely abated, yet. some of the streets of Singapore and Ts Hongkong are just exactly as throng-Jed as any street here. No one sug gests that horns should be done away Hat] with entirely, but the type of horn in common ise here should be and can be. Is the Shanghai Police [Department prepared to admit that ding Tokyo and other Japanese cities are finest better policed than Shanghai?
1s, then T say let the Japanese have a ry at it alt, For does anybody doubt that they would stop this outrage immediately? There i only Jone way to do it, though, the offend fers being who and what they are, and that is by direct compulsive action, Jand not by "Tess-noise" crusades at which every fat complacent Chinese {will Faugh as uch as he would laugh Jat an attempt to deprive him of his mahjongg and his concubines, Shanghai, Apr. 6, Mane 'T, Geen.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.