over his command after 33 years of service in the Fac Eust the official in charge of the detention house. He received us quite cordially and we again explained our mission. He regretted that release was not possible." His author= ity did not permit him to release a prisoner. We pointed out that the foreman "had done no wrong. That he had only been earning his ving and working in accordance with his employer's instructions. The official agreed but said that the only thing he could do would be to send the man to Nantao to the Jeentral police headquarters and there explain the position. This hho offered to do at once. It was then G p.m.
We wert down to the cells again and the man was taken out. A policeman reached for a pair of handcuffs from an imposing but soiled array hung on the wall and was in the act of putting them on the foreman, when we all protested. The man was very quiet and had not spoken one word throughout the proceedings. More protestations on our part—Mr. Mac-
Jean being particularly prominent in this vegard—and the head official agreed that handcuffing was un necessary. The foreman accordingly left on foot with a policeman for about an hour's walk to a police station in Nantao, He was the proud possessor of a packet of cigarettes (with a dollar slipped inside) and a box of matches. At the time of writing the man is detained. The detention house is a dark and dreary godown like building; evil smelling, horrible, and very badly lighted. The detention cells consist of various parts of the ground floor barred off by wooden poles about the size of a scaffold pole, It is #0 badly lighted that it was necessary for Mr. Maclean to go close to the bars to enable him to recognize his man, Further Incidents Instead of trying to come to some amicable settlement of the problem the Chapei Police on March 17 attempted to enter the buildings from the Municipal Road to demand fees from the contract tors who were at work in the buildings.
'A large party of men from the Chinese Bureau of Public Safety to which the Chapei Police now belong, under an inspector, at about 11.15 am, walked on to North Szechuen Road, near Darroch Road. They tried to enter a new house under erection, which fronts a Municipal Road, is situated in Chapei, but has its side on Cathay, Terrace, a road policed by both Chapei and Settlement Police. This house pays rates to the S.M.C,, and various sums of money ave been paid to the Chapei authorities.
Police from Dixwell Road Station naturally prevented the Chapel Police from entering from North Szechuen Road, and they had to find a way around through the back, which they did after a time. Then they entered the building, and presumably they will intimidate the workmen and owners and demand further of seems of money, also insisting that water and electric light be supplied from the Chapei works, to none of which have the owners agreed. That is, unless the Chinese authorities come to some agreement with the Settlement authorities and these affairs re placed on a proper basis The Chapef Police also entered another bauding, this being- the house formerly used by the Shang-
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