Fears for British Concessions)
Future: Ruin the Result of Surrender British residents have received with sinkings of heart the intimations of coming changes, in dive sarus of the Concessions writes; the Ties on Jani made known officially to the general foreign Concession is a haven of! safety for all, foreign and Chinese, when in jeopardy, and it always, even in normal times, holds more jose than foreigners.
The British Concession at Tientain is the product of 60 years of patient, laborious building. began ' (somewhat like Shanghai and Hankow) as a mud flat, cover. ed with swamps, marshes, and reads, the home of the teal and wild duck, where crops could not grow, and who inhabitants were poverty= stricken villagers, bhuts perched on mud banks, and paddling about in flat-bottomed boats, maintaining life by fishing the pools or catching wild birds. ing future stability.and_ protection fof British interests." This is the tone end and aim of the establishment of the Concessions—stablity "protection—and it is always, recognized that British interests are} of only not antagonistic to;. but! are inseparable from Chinese and other interests.
But the universal feeling is that stability is.not secured by lowering the status of the British Concession here ta that of the adjacent Chinese! Special. Avezs (former foreiga Concessions: now in Chinese. hands) fpruch less to the squalor and- filth)
jiinese native cities, to which evel the Special Areas steadily gravitate, Tie clause in the British Government's proposals upon which attention is chiefly concentrated is this:— ig Majesty's Government are pared to dlgcuss sd eater into aTranze-Brent, according to the particular Eucutstances at each ore for the modifeation of the muni Siministrations of Beitish, Concent Chinese control, or for the transfer of lies control of Concession areas to
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