The Chapei Volunteers The news of the disappearance of the notorious Chapei Protectionary Force and Volunteers will be received with general pleasure and considerable relief. The work was carried out in a thoroughly busines: like way and absolute secrecy had been preserved, All due précau~ tions had been adopted as such rabble would not have hesitated to resist if they could have done' #9; but even the military and police officers were at loss to know why they had so suddenly been called on to stand by ut Lunghua, The so-called "Volunte some 600 strong, wore formerly members of the armies which were defeated the wars around Shanghai durin, the past two or three years, They were, at different times, under Marshal Chi Hsieh-yuan, Ho Feng-lin and Chen Yao-son, whom they deserted and had become a perfect nuisance to the good order of the port and the community as a'whole When the Shanghai "Arsenal was taken over by the Chinese General Chamber of Commerce early last year, these men were collected and transformed into a merchant Protec. tionary Force and Volunteers, They did not in any way volunteer," because they were paid for their services at a scale higher than the member of the Shanghai and Wo1- sung Police. In fact, they did not know what "volunteering" meant, They were @ pest, cent ly trying to make trouble with the Municipal Police and the foreign a: Chinese community generally. They usurped the powers of the police and not only did they not "protect" the people, but they encouraged bad characters, and were actually about to impose another 20 per cent. tax on all householders when thes were disbanded on Saturday. Shangh; will certainly lore little by th absence. Now we suggest to M: shal Sun Chuan-fang that he should apply the same remedy t> the plague of professional tabour agitators,
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