Swatow is one of the la of the treaty ports t" open its clu: to invdera improvement; but nw move its progress bids ful The police one every corner, our 35,000 inhabitants supporting about 300 of these worthies. The proportion is nob ence-sive if it always takes, as it did yesterday, five of them to arrest one min With ao fight in him. 4 trazulunt rowdy woul! a; that rate require a general call" before he could be lodged im bavracks, Surely this will Lea model police force if, unrestrained by European pervicion, it rests'sthe, temptation to speed the thief and squ cze the merchant, The Japanese are much in evidence. The banner of the sun indicates the Covsulate, and on Double Island sundry other banners proclaim the washerman. We are soon to have Japanese carpenters as well, and no doubt other trades will fullow the flag.
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