Question (0 Be Discussed in Early Autumn Another of those references to roads outside the Settlement, which may mean everything or nothing, made its appearance in the Chinese Press on August 19. It says:—
"In a: communication to the Bureau of Foreign Aff the Mu ipality of Greater Shanghai reports that work on the uncompleted Columbia and Kaihsiang Roads, in the western part of the Municipal Council of the International Settlement. The roads being an extension into Chinese territory, an immediate protest to the Settlement authorities is urged."
We learned yestentay that the question. of the extension of Muni cipal roads in the western district of Shanghai, outside the International Settlement, will be taken up for discussion by the Consular Body, the Chinese authorities and the Municipal Council, during the early weeks of the coming autumn.
Periodic protests have been lodged by the Chinese with the Municipal Council regenting work on the municipal roads, the latest being the one quoted above.
The Roads in Question The communication referred to in this news item was concerned with the roads lying in the Great West-ict, culled respective-Fahwuh, Brenan and Robinson, all of which were acquired by the Council under the powers conferred on the Council by Land Regulation number Vi. This regulation states that the Council has Power to acquire land outside the Settlement limits for the purpose of building public roads. The protest in question, however, addressed by the Bureau of Foreign Affairs to the Senior Consul hinged, not upon the extending of the roads, but upon the laying of water: along these ronds by the Shanghai Waterworks Company, a procedure which has not been seriously questioned hitherto, The Council main that it has a right to permit the Waterworks Company to lay wat under the existing land Tt may be remembered that we dealt fully with this question of laying water mains a few weeks ago, showing that nothing was being dono without the full knowledge and authority of the Chinese officials.
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