The new mayor began his regime about two weeks ago with a great flourish of trumpets, intimating that he was going to float a loan of $500, 000 for the purpose of buying out the water and electric light companies and running them as municipal cone: rnz. But since the companies indicated that they valued their plant at about four times that amount nothing more has been heard of the project. He also published an instruction forbidding peddlers and hawkers to block the new wide streets with their stalls and wares— a very greatly needed reform—but things are to-day just exactly aa they were before. He also issued an order that all dogs must be rogistered, and provided with metal tabs hung round their necks bearing their registration number; but I have not yet observed any of our canine friends so adorned.
Another order recently issued from his office is to the effect that, all teachers in middle schools must register themstives as members of the Kuomintang. I have not heard whether this has been carried out, any more effectively than the others, Tt is to be hoped that it has not,
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