'The remedies suggested by the resolutions am going to ask to adopt presently re perfectly reasonable and should be acceptable to the British Government and also) to the Chinese authorities if they' veally have the desire to cor efficiently a municipal admi tion, thus paving the way to eventual amalgamation—of various districts.
It is proposed to embody these resolutions in a written despatch to the British Secretary for Foreign Affaire in which instances will be given of the hardships imposed upon Yeridents and of the impotence of the Agreement og it appears in actual practice.
For example I would instance the! Hankow Light & Power Con, Ltd. which supplies the area" with electric current, Military officers and soldiers of all sorts have occupied premises of every deser tion in the ex-British Concession.
In promises of good repair connected with the mains they have proceeded to use the current, have! refused to pay for it and" have resisted by force any attempt. to disconnect the supply. In other. eases soldiers have made their own connections where none previously existed. The estimated total pilferage to date amounts to Tls. 4,303, fand as things ard at present thers ig literally no one who has an; control over these predatory activities, Newspaper Victimized munistic leaders and in consequence they have had one strike of 3b months' duration and another is in Progress now. It is beyond alli question that 80 per cent. of their] employees have no wish to, strike! [but-are intimidated by Communist] Union officials: their building also fs picketed by Union pickets who {forcibly prevent any employee tering. Over these pickets the Municipal Police have no control, nor in fact would they dare to interfere with them. If protection were available, even in the shape] lof being able to stop open intimidation by pickets many of the employees would returf and the paper be enabled to. carry _on. 0 This firm estimate their losses at $24,550 directly resulting from the [changed conditions in this area.
"Lot 111-B is a property beneficially owned by a Chinese company and was constructed largely money advanced on a contributory jriortgage by Messrs. Bailey and [Perry. On some pretext or another when the Concession was] overrun the Communists declared the property confiscated and forced the tenants to vacate, (At a subsequent date the man to whom it }was given also lost favour and it commandeered by the Military. The original, owner having tributed sufficiently largely to Party funds, obtained an order from the Nationalist Government that tho} seizure of the property was illegal and he was entitled to it. The Military however still continue in possession,
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