All clocks in newspaper offices. amusement and other nocturnal resorts were advanced an hour at midnight following similar action of business concerns, factories and other enterprises during the day with the coming into force of the daylight saving scheme adopted by the a thorities of the three areas in Shanghai.
Public support of the scheme which the authorities announced was for the best interests of the community decision of official, business and other circles to adopt daylight saving. Banks and other institutions were among the first to respond to the appeal of the authorities for public ce-operation.
Reinstitution of daylight saving this year did not counter the opposition of last year among the various foreign communities here as daylight saving in 1941, entails saving in fuel, a problem which is sorely taxing the city fathers owing to the acute coal shortage.
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