Dec. 23.
Tuere is nothing like kicking a man when he is down, especi laily when there are plenty of people on one's side to prevent getting up too quickly. So we have no hesitation in joining, jin the chorus that has been raised in our correspondence columns over the evil state of the roads in the French Concession, The present writer, too, has his own private grievance over an extension westwards through a once private road, where roadbreakers appeared last July, tore down the fence, converted the private road into the.
titude of a Somme battlefield land have so left it to this day.
But let that pass. Mere person-interests must have no place:
column. Also it is only fair to make allowance for the. difficulties which every municipal councillor knows of bringing all ithe demands of ratepayers with. in a budget that will "buckle' by any ordinary means.
But, without exaggeration, it must be said that roads in the French Concession are in a very; bad state. And it must be added
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