The most important event in the history of Shanghai during the year was the arrival of Mr, Justice Feetham to make at the request the Municipal -Couneil of the international Settlement an invesgation of the actual legal and constitutional position of the Settlement, Mr. Justice Feetham arrived on January 13 and at the end of the year was understood to have made considerable progress toward the preparation of his report. His presence added piquancy to various controversial issues which lost little of their complexity for the Council in its relations "with Chinese politcians, The outside roads question, and the cognate problems policing, telephone services, elec-trio supply developments, ripa-jan rights on the Whangpoo much engaged attention, The Council endeavoured with some success to keep the controversies within bounds in order not to pre-Judice, its position in the light of the forthcoming: authoritative report, but at times the pressure excised by the Chinese in certain Airections proved irksome. the whole the good relations existing between the Council and the Municipality of Greater shanghai under General Chang Chung did much to reduce acerbity and, toward the end of the year, the nation wat modertey'<asy,
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