Many Residents Now Living.
Outside the Settlement Shanghai's British residents may lose their voting majority as rate~ avers in the International Settle: ment within the next year or 80, if the present decline continues, Such is the startling result of the finer ease in British residents on out side roads and in the French Concession, while at tie same time the vote of other nationalities in the {International Settlement is. inereasing.
On the other hand quite a large number of "British Subjects "are residing in apartments, and of these very few have taken the opportunity. to acquire a vote to which they are entitled by the Land Regulations. acquiring: possible, the voting power may. object which iti attain,
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