OF MAY 30
Dec. 24.
THE Christmas spirit was a suredly at work in the, Municipal Council and, as all must agree, in Mr, McEuen and Inspector Everson no less, when they decided on the line of action described in the letter to Cav. de' Rossi as regards the findings of the Judicial Inquiry Commission on the affair of May 30. It is much to be regretted that the present state of communications with Peking makes it, atthe time of writing, unlikely' that those findings can be printed in Shanghai side by side with the Council's letter. But if either had to come first, it was in every ws preferable that it should be the letter. For it proves as convineingly as could be done that the Council desire sincerely in this as in all things, to "take action likely to promote a settlement" and good feeling. In this they have been materially assisted by the spontaneous resignation of Mr. McEuen and Inspec-for Everson. Since the "majority of the judges exonerate the Police from blame"—and of thia more presently—there was no necessity for them to resign: But what they appear to have felt was that, if there could remain any shadow of a thought in the mind of anyone that they were open to criticism, they would rather resign at once than that there should be the slightest impediment, so far as they were concerned, to the full restora of good f fellow-countrymen and the Chinese. For this gracious thought the British community.' thank them and will not forget it.
Although the findings of: the Judicial Inquiry Commission are
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