To the Ewitor of the "Nontn-Cunwa Dany News." rem many of the points and inferences in the Editorial of your paper of December 29, 1930 under the caption of "Defective Memory:
'1. The reference to the expendture of the Metropolitan Police District c£ London will not convince the Chinese that Tis, 4.70 per capita, for police "general" expenditure in Shanghai is hardly an astonishing. figure for the standard and cost of The Silver Question ver capita in the Settlement is not astonishing in comparison with that in London, we should like to know whether eases of armed kidnapping emphatically dissent have occurred in London at all, oF ]as frequently as in Shanghai.
2 The present inefficacy of the Municipal Police in crime suppress ien can hardly be whitewashed by the quotation of passages from complimentary letters written many. years ago on bygone incidents. Al-{though the total expenditure of the Police Department has been marked with steady increase for the past six years, the statistics of the [Department shows but a poor check Answer. Because they are protected for political reasons, 3. Gna.
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