Other principal issues involved were those of Chinese Representation on the Council and what is called the Rendition of the Mixed Court.
You will remember the resolution passed last summer by the British Chamber of Commerce in favour of both of these measures. You wilh also no doubt have read recently in the newspapers of a move in Jconnexion with Chinese representa. tion to be made by the ratepayers of the Britich Concession in Han-
It gives me great pleasure to inform you now that so far as Shang-_ hai is concerned, the Council favour and would welcome Chinese representation; and that at the forth. com ual meeting of rate pay ers to be beld next month, we intend to bring forward a special resolution to that effect. We shall emphasize the desirability of the Chinese participating in the government of the Settlement; and we intend, moreover, if the resolution:. is passed by the ratepayers, to do what we can to make such' repre sentation effective at the earliest possible date.
I would also like to tell you that' intend, in my: speech as Chairman of the Council at the ratepayers' meeting, to state that the Council is definitely favour of the restoration of the Mixed Court on terms that are mutually agreeable to the Chinese Government and to the foreign Powers concerned.
But Tam sure y agree with' me that the Council cannot be indifferent to what happens to the Mixed Court; because it is very] largely upon' the efficient administration of that Court that the inferests of all of us—Chinese and foreign. alike—must depend.
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