Their Loyalty Beyond Question Often a writer will put. something into print which is perfectly clear to himself but happens not to be obvious to every person who reads it. Such a misinterpretation appears to have got abroad with regard to the arming of the Settlement's Chinese police, Our previous paragraph was not meant to infer that arbi were taken away from the Chinese police because temporarily their loyalty was doubted and that subse. quently they armed again on proving their worth, Not for a moment since the beginning of the strike hag the men's Joyalty been doubted to the extent of disarming them—whieh, of course, obviously means that they have been thoroughly trusted—and there have been no regrets on that account. ach station, however, has only a lime ited number of carbines "¥ the Chin-ere police, and x0 it 1 ug that occasions Tike the peu" when necessity some go out nan.<d, whic all patrols are strengthened,. of necessity some go. unarmed, which is the more to their credit, Shanghai can afford to be proud of her Chinese police.
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