"Since the first of July we have been flooded five times," was the remark of a local hostess at the beginning of this week. And there are*hundreds if not thousands of persons who are in a position truthfully to make the same remark. The next day, throughout large areas of Shánghai, conditions worsened, and. extensive tracts were representative rather of Venice than of a well-drained city. The reasons for this flooding have been clearly explained to the residents of Shanghai by the municipal authorities at intervals during the past four years. It is largely due to the Sino-Japanese hostilities and the development of the western areas in a manner which it was hoped would have been avoided. The transfer there of a large number of industries which would normally have been considered in the proper quarters, it ihata tom LID DAAA MADE reticence the reached upon them. casual survey must be clear that, each f Shanghai cannot help but get decidedly 20 stapes ble to Mit would about equal the capital scheme for the prevention of plan, The putting of one into may not at present be opportune, but these floods make out a case in support of the argument that, looking forward to the future, investigations should already be put afoot, in order that the residents of Shanghai should know what can be done and what it will cost. To adopt a sort of municipally fatalistic attitude in this matter is the inconveniences with greater they knew that action was ultimately to bring about an improvement.
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