The report of the Economy Commission appointed in 1928 investigate the, cost of the Shanghai Muniefpal Council's service was published. on February 15 and made several striking recommendations, including the appointment of an economy. expert, Mr, A. C, Clear; on: leay= ing the Shanghai-Nanking Railway, Was appointed in May to carry out the Committee's recommendations. It should fairly be recognized that the Financial Report & Budget published early in April showed that the deficit of Tls. 569,517 from 1927 had been wiped out and a surplus of Ts, 601,604 carried forward to the current year. At the Rate-being appointed to a professorship at Johns Hopkins Univer: sity: Mr, Nelson Johnson is to succeed him. On November 20 the appointment of Sir Cecil Clementi to be Governor of the Straits Settlements in succession to Sir Hugh Clifford was. announced: ho follows him at Hongkonj is not yet known. On December 10 M. Wilden, French Gonsul-General in Shanghai rom 1917 to 1924, was appointed Minister in place of the Comte de Martel.
General sadness had been caused on November 29 by the suicide at Miyanoshita of Mr, Saburi, the Japanese Minister to China: on December 10 Obata was appointed to succeed him, An agitation has been worked~up against him owing to his supposed connection with the famous Twenty-one D: mands, but Japan does not appear disposed to give way to it.
The Suffolk Regiment left Shanghai on. December 30, 1923: The 2nd Batt. Wiltshires arrived fon February 24.
Major-General Wardrop left on April the command of the British Defence Force passing to Brigadier Bor-reft.
On November 14 the Norfolks, Ist Batt., left Shanghai and on November 9 the Worce: ters hire Regiment, 1st Batt. a ved to take their place.
This regiment and the Wiltshires make up the British Defence Force in Shanghai. There are n also the United States Marines payers' Meeting on April 17 the ce nent Tyman and a proposal to sell the Electricity Department to an American-British syndicate for Tls. 81,000.- 000 was approved: the special purpose was to secure the Council's debentures in view of the uncertain future of Shanghai. On December 2 the appointment of Judge Feetham was announs-ed by the Council, to examine the history of Shanghai and draw up a scheme for its future constitution. Judge Feetham comes from South Africa and has a high reputation as a judge and as an expert in problems similar to that he will have to investigate in Shanghai.
On July 1 an agreement between Great Britain and China was announced for the training of a number of Chinese naval cadets at Greenwich. On Sep:- ember 7 Mr. Kao Ying, Chinese vice-consul to San Francisco, and his wife, accused of smug-fling half a million dollars worth of opium into America, were brought back to China to be tried. They have been convic!~ ed, sentenced, have appealed andi there the matter rests. Traffic in opium along the Yangtze is now quite open and almost regularized, At the beginning of October there was a severe shortage of rice at Shanghai: best quality rose to $20-21 a picul. It was relieved by imports from Indo-China, On October 28 the Kiangsu Provincial Government forbade the regatta at Henli, in spite of private representations from Nanking. The regatta was held on the Whangpoo near the Point.
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