Aug. 16.
The recent reports of thy intensification of the Communist campaign of pillage. and terrorization in the middle Yangtze come at a time when Shanghai has less immediate cause than for some weeks for worry over Red agitation leading to trouble among the labouring es. Within the last few, days the French utility workers' strike has been settled—temporarily, at least. The threat of a strike among postal workers, in its immediate effects and its collateral implications and of the most serious of all, appears to have blown over; and while strikes of a comparatively, minor nature still exist, the general situation which might have lent itself very easily to the fomentation of demonstrations to suit the plans of the un-july elements has, on the sur face, considerably improved. The unruly elements still exist, comparatively quiescent and little more dangerous than they. have been since 1927. Ever sined however, there has tendency' to over: emphasize the possibilities of terrorization within those elements. It has not always beett remembered that, due to the abnormal conditions of that year, the statistics of "armed crime then reached a record, ne that a serious outbreak of lessness will always take a long time completely to suppress. The facts are now, however, that Shanghai does-not compare unfavourably with other large cities in the matter of annad crime. While complete statistics of such crime in other cities a
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