Of course, one can understand the quandary in which a Chinese Judge finds himself when asked to expel someone from the Settlement, He is required to admit that the Settlement is something outside of ind that Chapei {s China and that a Chinese can be thrown out of the Settlement into Chapel.. He cannot easily do that and face Chinese public opinion. On the other hand, if he does not follow some such procedure, the Settlement will become full of crooks who operate in the richer foreign aren and then take refuge in Chapel, just across Boundary Road. This is an extraordinary situation which requires extraordinary measures handled with some intelligence. During May, June and July, the Provisional Court apparently realiz~ ed the need for some action in this respect and 25 Chinese were expelled during that period by the device of marking the charge sheets, "Expulsion order to stand." Returning, however, is still not an' Gffence, which, of course, takes the sting out of the previous court's decisions.
The Provisional Court is headed by a judge of exceptional qualities, Judge Loo Hsing-yuan, and an effort is undoubtedly being made to live up to the Rendition Agreement and to the Taw. There have, how-ver, been three changes of administration since the Court came into existence, one of them being s0 complete as to result in the resignation of some of the judges. The Court, then, has not altogether been free from political "influences. There has also een a tendency on the part of one or two.judges to forget that they are in a court room and not on a propagandistic forum, with the result that the Court has come in for an unusual degree of criticism among foreigners,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.