remotion for Captain E, 1 M.|Striking Change in Conditions Barrett Near Shanghai: The Rail-
Captain E. LIN. Barrett, cat. way Services is to be congratulated on his apointment, which is now announced, The Lunghua Arsenal now pre-to the position of Deputy Commis-sents a very great contrast to what sioner of the Shanghai Municipal it was recently.
Police Force. He takes the position or so fully armed soldiers guarding. vacated by Major A. H. Hilton! the main gate and several at the Johnson on his appointment as tes and doors, on Friday 'Commissioner-General, there was only one member of the Shanghai Protectionary Captain Barrett's promotion is Force guarding the place, being on likely to be popular, as he himself' sentry duty at the main gate. The is one of the most popular men in were none of the slovenly soldiery the Countil's service. As a sporting hanging around the roads, and no-man his talents are the envy of body to hold up motorists, Shanghai, Interport cricketer, rifle Everything presented a quiet a shot, golfer and billiard player, he! pearance and, with the exception of number of coolies, the place was. deserted. On all the doors we crossed paper slips, these—being f] reals placed there by the General Chamber of Commerce to: signify the building s0 sealed had ken over from the military.
None of Sun Chuan-fang's army ax to be seen, it being stated that I these soldiers had been withdrawn to Sungkiang.
The Shanghai North Station was airly quiet and two trains have been running to Nanking with passengers. The Hangchow service has suspended its calls at the North tation and stations on this side of Lunghua Junction, While some 300 of Marshal Chang Chung-chang's troops were sent to stations along the ie, some 500 men of the, also excels on the association and Rugby football field, on the tennis.
t, in the bowling alley, even, though not of late years, on polo ground. Captain Barrett so has played cricket for Hants, tered the Royal Military College in 1899. In 1900 he held a commission in the Lancashire Fusiliers and fought with that regiment in the Boer War, putting in some very' fine service. In 1903 he joined the Malay States Guides, a regiment of khs, with whom he gained the intensive knowledge of Sikh character which has proved xo invaluable! in Shanghai. His handling of the during the war and keeping the is thumb fully E. conferred jon him subsequently. He came to China in 1907, when he joined the Shanghai Municipal Police Force as Assistant Superintendent. His ascent in the force after that was steady and regular, at be no two minds -of his fitness for the position which he is now to hold. national (Fengtien) Army'
early in the morning, these presumably being mon select-from the army of Gen. Li Ching-lin (Tupan of Chibi).
Three trains were ordered to be ready for service along the Shanghai-Nanking Line, these being, was said, for' the purpose of repatriating Chi Hsieh-yuan's old forces. We were told that while the Ministry of Communications Peking might have issued an order providing for the free transporta-of these men, the bill would be! debited against the local officials. The Chamber of Commerce has been asked to raise funds for the re Patriation of the men, but as this will take a large sum of money, the Chamber has stated that it can only do its best to raise as much as it possibly can, Ma.-S. C. Yang, a local Chinese Lawyer, has been appointed by Mr.
K.' Chen, Commissioner of Foreign Affairs, legal adviser to the Bureau. Mr. Yang has been A\ sociated with Mr. H. D. Rodger, Jan American lawyer, for a number Jof years and is well known in the Shanghai courts. Mr. Yang, is also an Expectant Magistrate Kiangsu Province. He was award-jed the 4th Class " Chiaho by the Cantral Goverment,
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