Theeting yesterday of the Consular Body and the Committes of the Chamber of Commerce it was decided to ask the Shanghai Taotai to appoint Mr. Koen Chan to the vacant post, Me. Ka it will be remembered, was Magistr of the Mixed Court doring the riots here in 1906, when the Louzs Station was partly bornt by the mob, We understand that Mr. Kaan has decided temporarily to undertake the daties of the Mixed Court in order that ite machinery may not be disorganized through lack of @ qualified official to fill that post, From our knowledge of Mr. Koan's official record we trast that his Honoor shoald fulfil the one rot da tice of his post in a manner accept al
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