Why, not call for some further determined action? For instance, the Chinese authorities outside the settlement and the Chinese within its confines could be notified that unless kidnapping and intimidation cease ed within a given period say two @ays) all licences for vehicles held by Chinese in the settlement would be cancelled. This would material. ly curtail the mobility of the kiduappers and intimidators and render their capture by the police more) feasible.
Curfew might also be ordered in Shanghai as regards Chinese and the Chinese warned that anybody going in the streets after dark would do so at his own peril. This would make it very dangerous for the intimidators, ete., to work during their favourite hours, as it would render them an easy and conspicucus mark for the police.
If necessary all Chinese entering the settlement from Chinese territory could be required to have a permit, as was partially done in the Tocal troubles during last autumn.
Chinese owned steamers could be forbidden to discharge passengers and cargoes along the s: ttlement waterfront as long as the shipping and wharf coolies strike which fects foreign shipping firms, continues.
All Chinese printing concerns could be closed down till such time as the printers employed by foreign firms should be allowed to return to work. Water and light could be cut off from the Chinese outside the settlement till the workfers returned to the waterworks and electric power station.
Not one of these actions could be called unfair or unjust in view of the inactivity of the Chinese authorities to put a stop to the whole-sal> and devilish activities of the agitators against foreigners, and the donation of funds by influential Chinese residing in the settlement to the strikers' unions. Indeed some have actually been suggest fed by the Chinese (1}) who anxious for a cessation of hostilities as the foreign community.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.