Wo have already enlarged at some length upon this community's duty to the police who, with the increase in the number of desperate and efficient armed outlaws and the jeonsequent increase in armed encounters resulting in serious casual are exposed needlessly to great. risk while we can at any time revert to the barbed wire barriers and the curfew and bring Jappalling monthly record of crime Jdown to trifling figures. We shall let this rest for the moment and take up another phase of our duties to the police. It ig not likely that many of our readers know. what [provision is made by the Municipality for the families and dependents of men killed in the defence of the peace of residents and the security jot their property. In an ordinary Jcommunity, in normal times, it is Met a matter to which young men with a zest for work and adventure would be likely to give much. thought, for no hopeful youth joins any police force with the idea in mind that he is going to be shot to death by a ruthless outlaw. But Shanghai is not an ordinary city, the times are not normal, and after 'a record of shooting affairs such as we had last week, with two men Killed and one seriously wounded, the police constable who does not feel that there is a chance that he may be the next target for a Chinese gunman is not human. Nor is the man human, who does not reflect when he rushes into a fray with desperados, who invariably shoot to Kill, upon what is likely to become of those dependent upon him if luck fs against him. The man who knows that his wife and children, or his parents, will be adequately eared for and guarded from want if he is the loser in a pistol duel with armed robbers who have the advantage of position and number, is much more confident in himself and therefore a more efficient antagonist than the policeman who is thinking that if his wife and youngsters do get the maximum Brant from the Council it will not a long way—after which, what Our readers will remember that after Constable N. A. Klukin and
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