would seem to be a curiosity' lof the western sense of personal liberty, that at a time when the foreign communities are strain-
Shanghai and it must be fought [run in addition to perils of the jes the Council would fight the sea; the short notice that was logue. given regarding the reduction; The bui jing at No. 1 Whang-the statements made regarding }poo Road is the centre of the the Company's laid-up ships; the mischief.
From its offices issue effect on the Company of ° the the orders for the disturbance of enforced laying-up of the whol of the China Merchants' fie ithe peace.
Its agents form the faison between the C. P. Gov—-|the special standard of physical Jernment in Hankow and the C. fitness required by the Company; agents here.
Communist and the comparisons of the pay headers, Chinese, when they are of ships' officers with that of] uncertain as to their status take some Municipal employees. All refuge in that bull ing. where of these, however, are dealt with extraterritorial privileges are ex—|fully by the Guilds. But three tended to them as they are not|other points call for coulment. extended even to Russians under They are (a) the charge that the ithe treaties. The Counci has as Company has made it most. much right to "defend itself Jdificul: for officers to keep dis-against the intrigue and ma -|cipline among Chinese crews; (b) ichinations of these Soviet ornis. -|the statement that "it would not saries as it has to erect barbed politically expedient to com-Iwire entanglements To allow] pel the Chinese ratings to bear these people to operate thin [share of the burden which hi the Settlement, to permit them reflected on the Company to fly their red flag of perfidy' solely natural sequence to the ist the very entrance to. the malpractices of their own com-[Settlement is to vitiate much of f|Fatriots and unions;" and (c) the good work of the Defence he further statement regarding Forces.
They should be driven the "pampering policy of the jour into Chapel, where they can Company towards its Chinese] be defended by the Armed Pi "employees vis-a-vis the officers, kets; they should be placed in|Which has placed the latter in the danger zones which thei most humiliating and ignor intrigue has created.
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