In spring young mars f&ney—snd young woman's also—lightly turns to love... ahd letemotion. Shanghai apparently is in no way different from other places in the world, but for hypothetical purposes love will be nicely left alone. Locomotion. in this port, however, is of vital import to both sexes, either Chinese or foréigt. That this is the case in Shanghai may be shown by the fact that the registration of private motor cars in the International Settlement and the French Concession shows a net increase of 300 vehicles, as from January 1, compared with April 1. Further evidence is adduced that mari firms, having received shipments from abroad, have had to announce in the advertising columns of the "North-China Daily News," that the supply was exhausted and that prospective buyers would have to await further shipitients.
The merits of the new cars may be attested to by the latest release of the S.M.P. Traffic Department. These statistics show that the number of accidents—it will-be recalled that 1940 cars have increased safety-devices—decreased from January 1, 1940 to April 1, from 1,154 to 1,066. All in all, despite exchange adversities, it would seem that now is the time to satisfy that desire to possess a new motor car, every dealer giving a handsome allowance on the old "bus."
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.