The Council for the International Settlement of Shanghai will be the results achieved the alteration in its constitution re. ferred to in the preceding clause and by political developments, when Considering how far a policy of devolution can be applied to a city of the size and importance of Shang-the Coun-thatthe present is not a suitable time for the Powers concerned to consider any drastic "change in the Shanghai administration, Influences have been released in China with. the express fand avowed purpose of stirring up liacontent, class hatred and. racial prejudice, and until these influences iminated i would be a attempt to reconcile not wish it to be inferred that it is in_any sense opposed to increasing Chinese representation in the fairs of the Municipality but rather that any further changes in its constitution that future experience may suggest shall be effected by evolutionary as opposed to revolutionary methods, and that they shall bbe considered in an atmosphere Jereated by mutual good-will, respect, The Council is fully alive to the fact thet the rapid growth of the Peniing the outcome of. the London Papers' Comment on Local Developments:
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