damage to assessed property the Settlement was estimated at 44,864 (Foreign Tls. 40,4655 Chinese Tis, 3,809) and in the Special Rated Area at Tls. 967 (Borelgn Tis, 22; Chinese Tls. 35).
The value of property at risk in the Settlement was estimated—at Tis, 1,146,167 (Foreign Ts. 793,850 Chinese Ts, 852,317) and in th Special Rated Area at Tls. 45,825 (Foreign Tis, 18,000; Chinese Tis, the course of a comment on Major-General Wardrop's report upon the Shanghai Volunteer Corps, the "Hongkong Telegraph" say "One might imagine that the Genera's sole impression, after a long series of inspections under different circumstances and conditions, was numerical poverty of the 5 for while he does not, say so in $0 many" words, the thderlying suggestion of his' comments is that, in the event of a veal emergency, it would be futile to mobilize the Corps. The eficiency of the various units as at present constituted is beyond question, but this is but a small sop to the Shang~ hai mind, "Hitherto, and justifiably, Shanghai has prided itself inthe possession of a Volunterr Corps second to none in the Far East 1 every point of views, and the point of our comment is that if General Wardrop can run a couch and four through Shanghai's conception "of its civie responsibilities, other com= munities will do well to Fevise their estimates before the General goes on tom, Apparently, nothing less than the enrolment ut every: able= bodied man of reasonable aye will satisfy his theory of the neces sities, th though we may be to admit. it, Hongkong is deine quent to a far greater extent than Shanghai, There are many young. men here who can und should join the H.K.V.D.t
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