should be possible at this ns—Chineso and jer the appoint. ment of a Commission to inquire, into the need for drastic reforms in such reforms would inevitably tend towards the ideal of a "Greater Shanghai" comprised of Woosung, Nantao, Chapel, Pootung, Lunghua, the ' forei Settlement and French Concession which in its Length would extend from Woosung to Lunghua and in its breadth from Pootung to the mn, bordered by the Soochow Creek, placed under one Municipal Administration directed by a Legis lative Council elected by the rate-Payers of all nationalities. There is, nothing Utopian in the conrmonthe police, fire utilities, public health and sanitation and other such functions be centrally controlled by one Administration to the material benefit of the Ratepayers in cost and efficiency. "My conception of a Greater Shanghai also embraces the abolition of Consular jurisdiction as well as of the Mixed Court, and to replace same by proper Chinese Government Lower and Higher Courts, whose integrity could—be entirely relied upon: and by the fact that there would no longer exist that conflict of Police authority as the enforcement of the. decisions of these Courts would like. wise ibe assured. The fusion of, interests of the many separate Municipal ities now existing would, in a sure, be beneficial to the ties from the standpoint of 'a heavy blow at smuggling of opium, narcotics and crime at large, also in respect of sanitation, as it would ensure avoidance of epidemics, and Inst but not least, from the standpoint of economy.
Whether extraterritoriality be abolished or whether it remains, in my opinion, there can never' be harmony among the various communities and municipalities now isting until all interests are fused into' "Greater Shanghai." What
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