Some days ago we remarked at! length upon the splendid character of our Chinese police in the Settlement. The shooting affair in Carter Road between police patrol and a party of armed desperadoes, reported last week in which two men were killed and all but one wounded, is a striking illustration of the points we attempted to make. The sang fraid with which Chinese police constables and detectives risk their lives and sometimes lose them, forces upon us every few days a reappraisement of the remarkable people among whom we live, We have to admit every time such an inci dent is brought to our attention that they are capable of anything under right conditions and decent treatment. Most of the men who figure in such episodes aa the Carter Road affray ate Northern ex-soldiers, We are always saying hard things about the Chinese soldiery Jand very few days pass when they are not giving us reason to criticize them bitterly; but when they wear our police uniforms and go out at night into the by-ways of our and challenge outlawry in our de-nee, while we sleep, with a cool indifference to the likely consequences which would elicit the admiration of any soldier, we must all feel inclined to take our hats off to China's possibilities. Those who! speak the language and therefore find reason from time to time to appeal for help or guidance to these same men'on their day-time rounds, Know that they are as courteous, friendly and willing in their exciting routine work as they are reckless in their night fights with bandits. It seems to us therefore:
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