Meantime it is with satisfaction that the Council can inform Landrenters that three of the four acts of definite encroachment on Estate land, detailed in the Council's Circular of Oct. 11, 1929, sent to the! Legations, to' the press, and elscwhere, have now been either abandoned of repudiated. (1) The areas! adjoining the foreign cemetery have been yielded back by the Kiangsi Forestry Bureau, and are now closed within the Estate by new] boundary walls. (2) Local officials deny having issued "Land Papers for the land on which the Fairy] Glen laundry stands. The facts of the case, however, remain as stated in the Circular of October 11, but it is a gain to have a written repudiation of the transaction, (3) The attempted sale by the local] Land Office official of ground belonging partly to the Estate and partly to a private individual—which transaction the Estate Secretary quickly brought to an end—was practically the last act of that official, who has been replaced, and has retired into private life.
One or two other problems of encroachment, and several important} matters in addition, remain unset-tod; but there are hopes of a personal visit from Mayor Wood of julciang who has promised to visit Koling in order to consult on such matters with the Local Committee fof the Council.
All this is encouraging, but the Council is not resting in the thought, that its difficulties are over, and has no intention of relaxing either in vigilance or in taking whatever action may be deemed—necessary, The Kuling Estate case rests not on special "Extraterritorial privileges," which in time will, of course, pass away, but on the established, " recognized, internationally - accepted rights of private property, in this instance purchased and guaranteed under nothing less than govern ment sanction and title deeds (Signed Avuser H, Stoxs, Acting Chairm Special Committee
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