Feb, 22, The two protests registered by S.H.P. in our correspondence column on Thursday, under the heading of "The Municipal Elec tions," are not entirely ill-founded. He says As a British ratepayer, resident in Shanghai for the past 15 years, who endeavours to take an intelligent interest in the civie life of this city I would register a protest, firstly against the secrecy with which all municipal affairs are conducted, ant secondly against your continued attitude regarding the community's "lack of interest."
Dealing with the second first, we have repeatedly insisted on the community's lack of interest in municipal matters, and we have not failed, on occasion, to show that it has, in a large measure, been due to the state of affairs against which S. 11.'P. registers
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