An Interesting Anniversary: Mr. a Century: Development of J. McEuen's Quarter of a Police Work Shanghai An anniversary deserving of worth the robbing.
The civil wars attention in Shanghai fell last) lave left innumerable disbanded week, this being the completion Soldiers infesting such districts, and Df a' quarter of a century's work severe ha their depredations in the Municipal Police by Mr. K. been that all who possess anything 3. McEuen, the Commissioner. The worth looting have come into the approdich of this event has not been Not only has there widely known, and probably only been this influx from adjacent dis-few intimate friends of the Comtricts, but during recent years rich missioner of Police have had any refugees from the farther parts of inkling of it, but considering the China have made their way here for work the Police Force has to carry the protection of life and property. fon to-day compared with 25 years Political Factors ago, it is an occasion not to be Here we see factor of compassed unnoticed. Twenty-five years paratively recent growth with which the position which Shanghai held today the police are called upon even as the leading port in China te deal, and side by side with it was altogether different from its present status, for not only has there been its great commercial expansion but it has assumed an importance politically which could not avoided no matter how much the residents desired to. Because of this Intter feature, as well as other developments in the country, the amount of work which is to-day Imposed upon such an organization as the Municipal Police is stupend-us, and no period of the past can offer a comparison to it. Accord ingly the 26th anniversary of the officer administering the organization which carries it out, cannot fail to be of great interest to the community at large.
Mr, McEuen's Career The present Commissioner of Police is a son of a distinguished naval officer who formerly held the same position, although under a different title, the holder of the ort then being known as Captai Superintendent, Captain J.P.
M. the present Com-
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