(2) It is within the Council's Knowledge that agents in the service of revolutionary interests, are actively engaged in spreading sub-ver sive doctrines among the less responsible elements of the Chine: community of Shanghai with tt object of fomenting class hatred and general disaffection. If these nefarious schemes successful h they will inevitably I commotion and mob violence, and rippling all forms of industrial enterprise and destroying the trade of the Port. The Council realizes the gravity of this aspect of the local situation and its possible repercussion throughout the ized world, and will use all the resources at its disposal to rets control of the situation, Concur rently with these sinister activities, 'a national spirit is gradually tal ing form throughout China many aspects of which the Council finds itself in sympathy. Unfortunately an influential section of this, movement is at present dominated by persons holding extreme and evolutionary views who are seeking to cloud and distract the legitimate aims of the Chinese in order to serve an evil purpose of their own.
Proposed Chinese Councillors stitution desirable, so ai to allow for of Chinese Councillors having the duties and res-possibilities as Foreign Councillors, At the Ratepayers' Meeting of April, 1926, a resolution was proposed by the Council and Guly "approved by ratepayers to the effect that the participation of Chinese residents in the government of the Settlement was desirable, and that the approval of the Powers con-jeered should be obtained #0 a8 to fallow for the addition of three Chinese members on the Council. This proposal has duly received the approval of the Powers concerned, {the Central Government at Peking, and the Provincial Government of Kiangsu; and the Council is only awaiting the appointment by the Chinese Community of three Chinese members in order to proceed with the consideration of certain outstanding problems, the solution of which requires the advice _and opinion of representative Chinese. Assuming the three Chinese Councillors take their seats this year, the Council will comprise the following:—Fivo British, three Chinese, two Americans, and two Japanese.
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