REGULATIONS, March 24.
Tr will be remembered that "The China and Korea (Amendment) Order in Council, 1909," which appeared in our columns on Januar} 24 and came into force a mon\ Inter, provided for the promulgation of separate regulations " for the creation, maintenance, discipline and control of a police force for any foreign concession of Settlement in China." Such regulations, as will be seen from an official notification by the Judge of His Majesty's Supreme Court in this issue, have now-been drawn up and will take effect from the first day of April. The subject carries us back to the autumn of 1906, when trouble among the Sikh police brought home to the Muaicipal authorities the inadequacy of the existing machinery for the purpose of maintaining proper discipline in the Police Force. To cope with the situation thus created "The Shanghai Mani Police Regulation, 1906," hurriedly promulgated on October 12 of that year, and was amplified in the following -Idine by "The Police Discipline Regulations, 1907." The first of these enactments merely declared that disobedience or desertion was an indictable offence, while the second fixed the penalties for such an offence on conviction. Neither attempted to make suitable provision for the permanent maintenance of discipline in a large police force, which in the circamstances was obviously required. The matter, however, subsequently
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