Request to Dr. C, T. Wang to Take the Matter Up The question of Chinese representa tion on the Shanghai Municipal Council was the subject of a further lengthy letter addressed by the Chinese Ratepayers Association to Dr. C. 7. Wang, Minister of Foreign Affairs, The letter says that, according to.
communication which they had received from Messrs. Pei, Zau and Yuan, the present Chinese members of the Council, the foreign members of the Council insist that the time is not ripe for an increase in the Chinese membership on the Council and they do not intend to submit '4 proposition to this effect to the forthcoming annual meeting of foreign ratepayers. letters. lation says, be-Despite mimerous exchanges of tween the Council the matter of increased representation, despite an oral agreement formally. centered into. between the Chinese Ratepayers Association and Messrs.
Fessenden, chairman of the council, and Marfor A. Hiltons Johnson, the Council's former Commissioner-General, and despite the acceptance of the proposition by Sir Sideny Barton, the British Consul-General, and Sir Miles Lampson, the British Minister, the Council declined to discuss the proposition when it was brought forward by the Chinese Councillors and has no in= tention of placing it before the for-ign ratepayers annual meeting.
"As a result, the latter continues, the Chinese residents of the Settle: ment are extremely dissatisfied and indignant over the Council's attitude they are demanding every day that the number of Chinese Councillors should be increased. Dr. Wang, therefore. is asked to bring: this matter up through the proper diplomatic channels at early date fonder that possible friction may be avoided,
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