March 19.
Ail parties concerned deserve congratulations on the restraint and good temper which have marked the week's siege of a certain outside road area off feng Road. They have their reward in an agreement which restores to the besieged the ameniies of municipal service and ensures to the Shanghai Municipal' Council the payment of its dues. From the first it was recognized that no-one liked the position. Experience tells how easily the deve-Jopment of a difference of opinion may produce stubborn adherens a "preconceived attitude. that the step to serious 1 may be short, especially if some unforeseen incident unleashes the element of disorder. The Council seems, by the help of an admirably disciplined police force, to have suie= cessfully maintained' the—time-honoured pedagogical view "It hurts me more than it does yo If the luckless inhabitants of the barbed _w' cessively' impressed by that genial condolence, they at least avoided the extreme gestures of annoyance. The cordial ce-operation of the auth of the City Government of Shanghai in the search for escape asse will be applauded. wes were at the dis 1 of both sides and the tentative Arrangement now made for the collection of the dues in that particular it is hoped, prove to be workable and effective, As a precedent it nity not have value; obviously so much depends
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