Sepl. 9.
Hap the Chinese agitators who engineered the mob episode of Monday evening wished to do their cause a disservice, they could have chosen no better way. The evidence is overwhelming that it was a deliberately staged attempt to create disorder, and residents of the Settlement may thank the intelligence department of the police for the fact that once more a state of emergency is not in being. The movement of the mob, which was in many respects scientifically led, was towards Nanking Road, and had it reached there it might possibly have set the whole place ablaze again.—Realizing such potentialities of danger, it is seen' how an equally serious disservice, and one probably much more so, have these agitators done to the Chinese authorities of Shanghai, for they have succeeded in placing the latter in a most equivocal position, The intelligence departments of the Settlement and French Con-
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