The municipal elections are to take place to-morrow. Only Chinese residents are allowed to participate in the elections and their number is but 6,800, say six per cent. of the Chinese population without counting the native town of Fuchiatien.
According to. the local Russian Papers the members of the New Council to be elected are a foregone! conclusion, the present heads. of department who were chosen by the Temporary Committee remaining at their posts. After the elections have taken place, the Society of House owners mittee will jelect among themselves three Russian representatives Municipality. A. similar offer will be made to the Consular Body who have the right, in accordance with the new "regulations" to send raven foreign representatives to the Municipal, Administration, Candidates who receive not more then 160 votes—one-fortieth of the number of electors, will have the right to forward their candidature for the post of delegate on the Municipality, und the 40 delegates are elected subject to the sanction of the Civil Administrator. As will be seer the running of town affairs is now in Chinese hands, the protest which the Consular Body made when the regulations were submitted to then being ignored. It must be admitted the foreign colony never had many] vested interests in the Harbin Municipal Council and that in the past the Russians had their own way in all matters. Too much criticism jis not now necessary, suffice to say this is one way of carrying out an election and it will probably serve fust og well as any other for the Present times and needs.
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