A teetotaller, for the first time in his life and in a fainting condi-on, drank a bottle of beer on concluding four hours not in the shade, confessed to it belting an unparalleled thrill. The uncomfortable sense, when alone, that you lit have to act swiftly, was almost cectuin to be felt by those with no knowledge of the Chinese—although it is a credit to the Speeials that many are fluent speakers of the language, the understanding of which is w ame que non to being a good policeman in Shanghai, If you did not speak you felt shame-
Brarr Asst, CosaiIssioneR 01 fully bewildered if called upon to, do anything but assert the physical force of the Law On Dragon Boat Festival day quasi-military duties performed by the Specials at various points. fon the Chapei border in West Honz-Kew district, offered innumerable opportunity for enduring th sation Each man was det st, on which most stayed for at least four hours enduring appalling smells in a vertical sun. Every Vehicle and person entering the Settlement had to be stopped for examination, while with regard to cars the Special had an opportunity of being doubly useful to the community by attaching certain cars ranted as being connected with the activities of armed robbers.
On that day a Special at a certain spot was not aware that half of the road in front of him was Chinese—in fact it might have included all of the road save the pavement, for municipal boundaries require some understanding. As part of the road was Chinese territory Fengtien military ears were entitled to paso unsearched. One of them in which was a much-decorated officer with a armed tothe teeth on the fe have. in sight. Undaunted the S.C. dashed up to the vehicle which was "travelling"
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