Council's Advisor's Request for Help from Public According to the Municipal Gazette the following correspondence has passed between the Honourable "Mr. Justice Richard Feetham, cate, and Mr. H. E. Arnhold, Chairman of the Municipal Couneil:—
Dear Siry—Now that I have arrived in Shanghai in response to tion, which the Goyern-Union of South Africa gave me permission to accept, for tthe purpose of undertaking the task which the Council has entrusted to me, there are certain points which I Wish to bring before the Council at the outset in order that there may be no ambiguity as to my position, Your cabled invitation to me was necessarily brief, I have now seen fan announcement in more extended form with regard to that invitation which appeared in the Shanghai Municipal Gazette of December 13, and I understand that I may regard my terms of reference as embodied in substance in that announcement.
The position, therefore, is that T am asked to advise the Council with 4 view to assisting them in form-scheme which, while gi sideration to the aspirations of the Chinese people, will at the same time afford reasonably adequate protection to the great commercial and business interests which have eon developed in Shanghai.
Before I can be qualified to give advice of the character indicated is, I feel, essential that I should inform myself as fully as possible, by an unfettered inquiry, of the facts bearing on the present position and future prospects of the International Settlement. In order to enable me to, obtain all relevant information which is available 1
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