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whether MI Hore Belisha will adopt the recom- mentations of the Committee, but if he does it would be profit- ablę for local traffic authorities to watch the experiment careful- y for there is no doubt that more noise is one of the bigger Inuisances of city life. It is not only the ancient, overloaded vehicle that creates the nuisance. Many few motor cycles still roar tunecessarily, and all sports cars are not yet civilised. Moreover, some of the bigger motor cars, which are perfectly quiet in or- dinary running, are equipped All communications intended for with horns of a potency and dis-

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cord_unsurpassed by any fish horn in the Peninsula. “All this of noise is unnecessary, it is more rese, than that, it is a wantón inva- but sion of the rights of the ordinary citizen, Who is as much entitled to expect protection from un- necessary noise as he is to expect Protection from unpleasant smells or unseemly sights. Hitherto th

to set 'a difficulty has been fair standard by which to judge the noise, the British report sug-2 gests that we are on the way to finding such a standard.

Hong Kong, Saturday, May 15, 1937 To The Pessimist

Some people are still in despair fon account of the failure of the NOISÉ ON THE ROAD League of Nations to check Japanese aggression against In view of local experience Chma, and even more notably to during the Coronation, when prevent Italy's iniquitous an- of Abyssinia. A few motorists, with taxi-drivers the nexation chief culprits, ventured to drive indeed seem disposed to accept through the crowds on the horn, these defeats as final. rather than driving with pa tience and at greatly reduced

Many others, however, while

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...Columbia Band. According to “The Times," an remember that for centuries interim report of a Departmental past, international relationships Committee set up to

study have been of an anarchic charac- vehicle noise, has been able to ter, and that the new arrange- of the Covenant of the make. definite recommendations ments to limit the noise emitted by League of Nations creating an motor vehicles. This report is embryo system of law and estab- the result of long tests on all lishing international responsi- types of motor vehicles, ranging bility for maintaining that law in age from 1923 to 1936 models are of very recent and tender The noisiest of all (as was to be growth. It is possible, therefore, expected) are motor cycles, with to be surprised that in these sports cars running them a close circumstances the League has second. The noise from the en- won as much succèss as it has, gines of ordinary cars and com- mercial vehicles is louder than Growth of the League's con- their exhaust noise, but in motor fidence in itself was witnessed in cycles and sports cars the ex-the Abyssinian affair, for, for haust drowns engine noises. the first time in the World's his- Since the committee first drew tory, 50 nations combined in Fattention to the unsatisfactory action in the interests of world silencing on motor cycles and law and order. That action was sports cars there has been some not taken to prevent the Italian improvement in sports cars, but attack before it was launched, both types of vehicle still need a and that the economic sanctions great deal of silencing. Nor will applied proved insufficient, were really satisfactory improvement results largely scribable once come about until the standard of more to an unfortunate special noise allowed is definitely laid circumstance; I the unwillingness down by regulation. Drivers of of France under the Laval Goy- sports cars and of motor cyclés ernment to jeopardise her friend- (or at any rate a good number ship with Italy. of them) dote on that "healthy

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exhaust that, The recording of these bright sends everybody else frantic; spots is not intended to minimise Land, while the demand for noise the effect of the League's is there, and it is not illegal, the failures on these two occasions. manufacturers will supply it. Indeed the world unrest of the

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Committee recommends present moment is patent evid- that no

motor vehicle shall be ence of the damage done. But in sold which emits a noise greater their light it is surely wrong to than 90 phons in volume; and abandon hope, altogether. that no vehicle shall be allowed The League way is still the to remain on the road if it emits only way to ensure justice and " "more" thân" 95 phons, measured permanent peace in the world.

in a standard test. To avoid Conscious of that fact, support-- hardship to owners they recom-ers of the League will continue mend that the regulation should to - advocate its claims in the come into force only after long reasonable hope that ultimately notice has been given. It is not lit Will triumph.