What Is The Use 'Smithfield, Billingsgate and Covent Garden The serseleseness of the present terrorist must come up for consideration. "If it is campaign in Shanghai cannot' be too strongly decided that these markets are in the right condemned. The shooting of one or we Japan places they will remain; if not, more con~ Jose. simply because they are Japanese, "does Yenient sites "must be found for them. hot advance the Chinese cause "a. single "bit, White It creates endiese inconveniences to many Seems. all rather shattering to. those who loved the old city as it stood, who have spent!
Jgmpathisers. with "that cause Fesding hours wandering idly through the fascinating Shanghai. Pensants bringing" vegetables 10 market in the ety are held up, and the prices ways of London, but the time is long past of foodsbufly are automatically sent sky high. Yor a general overhaul. The Hun, by his Residents north of the creek, and. possibly "in ruthlessness, has made possible what might the western areas outside the International otherwise not have been accomplished by Seluement, have "their movements hampered, Centuries. of slow civic development. Mr. advantage 10 China to keep the Japanese. in-what' purpose? it, may, of some Ansell paints a delightful picture of what Yaders in a constant state of alarm, buy if this might be done in the city itself: Bolecive. an only be acleved by, causing hardships fo something ike four million per~ of "ihe Mansion House, "Guildhall. and "Consider." he says. "the. relative position Sons. the majority of whom: would gloily Wel Paul's: Cheapside should, be. widened. and Festored to something of the "Chepe's old objective Is likely to do the cause more harm spine the retwen or the Chinese authontes, the than good. It would be unwise to generalize Width and' glory. should remain a. shop-about these assassinations. "No doubt there anew and gay street wih, wide fave. been instances when the motives of the aments on which etizens of the rain, do ibis shop Assassins have been purely personal—cases of ping tz comfort fu all weathers and watch Squeezing the squeezer. Cases such as, these Fevenge, of, wiping out some one Who has been Survoundises pose from' his' Masion "ito use age" gt Sours, simply, criminal, and polities of Guildhall: tome of, the colonnades migh the' Sing-japanese howtllties are not mixed. up with" "them. Bur it Is. regrettably true the ist foe There should Giiiandi"im place St, Bee"
Cheapside that in game, cases it has been Proved That the "and, Paul's Jpotive Rag'een to Ik seme! Yapaneee any Fiver linking up wit an extended embank ent, so that the' view of London's. earliest Eranseptal ste Paul Jory. her Fiver. will be obtainable from the ff ps Whether all that can ever be done may be open to doubt. That it would be a good thing if it could be is not, and the heart of} the City restored to the dignity that Wren would have given it is-a pleasing prospect.
But there are other schemes in preparation for the new London. The recommendation of the Advisory Board to the Royal Commission on London Traffic for two great avenues 10 to be driven through London, 140f. wide,—tone to run east to west from Whitechape) Road to Bayswater and one north to south from Holloway to the Elephant—has been revived. It has been modified to the extent) of widening two great but disappointing Yoads, that which runs from Shepherds Bust to the Mansion House, of which Tottenham Court Road forms part, and the route Cheapside, Newgate Street,' Holborn and Oxford Street, all of which have been damaged and) present opportunities for broadening. What) is to happen to the churches, of which 20) many have been destroyed or badly damaged ig still a matter for argument. Some insist, that they should be rebuilt on their old sites others that they should be moved out to the suburbs and the sites used for, commercial purposes, but those who love London's sky-nana itis indeed beaut, Zavour at ect the retention of the many spires, even if they have to be rebuilt. But. whatever the) ultimate decision on this and the multitude of other points which will inevitably be raised they must be solved in the realization that London has become the visible symbol of the indomitable spirit of its citizens. It has acquired the significance of an article of faith, for which men are prepared to die, and is, not for England alone, but for the whole! Commonwealth of Nations, the focal point of civic pride and affection.
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