Oct. 6.
Last Wednesday we referred to the attempts made by Chinese Jandowners in the Nantao and Chapei regions to register in foreign consulates in Shanghai in hhaziness as to the work of the Red Cross. At Soochow the!
Blectric Lighting Company en-"rolled all its employees as: members of the Red Cross, pay~ ing their subscriptions and providing them with Red Cross uniforms; "it went further and affixed "Red Cross flags to its standards. Flags have been sold by representatives of the Red Cross for $25 each, apparently to-anyone who desired to buy them, At Huchow more than a hundred men are busy organizing small branch societies for self-protection. This tender and overwhelming solicitude for the welfare of others recalls the order to evade payment of military imposts in the guise of loans. According to popular report applications of this kind have been made literally in hundreds. No} doubt rumour exaggerates but that many landowners have attempted to register there-can be! no question. whatever. We can only hope that they have been refused. It is unfortunately the case that in some ports distinctly unneutral acts are theing committed, partly because the dominating influence of one party or' the other is too strong to be resisted, partly because the Diplo-_ matic Body continues to remain' silent on its definition of neutral-
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