Foreign News: Yu Pien Chou!

Chinese traffic is a cacophonous confusion. Rickshas, passenger wheelbarrows, pedestrians with bound feet, pigs, dogs, chickens, ducks, sedan chairs, porters shouldering loads on swaying bamboo poles, buffalo and pony carts, busses, trucks, automobiles, jeeps move, when they succeed in moving at all, to the left in China's streets. Last week the Chinese press undertook to get all this confusion moving to the right.

Tradition was invoked. Said Hsin Ming Wan Pao: In the old days when sedan chairs met on a path, the coolies shouted: "Yu pien chou!—Keep to the right!" In Manchu days, Shih Chieh Jih Pao noted, all officials entered...

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