In the presence of high ofleials of the Chinese Municipality, decorations were conferred on March 15 on. Mr. S.C. Young. Deputy Commi sioner of the SMP, and Ssu Hi, D. M. Robertson, by" Mayor Wu Te-chen.
Meanwhile, a petition was fled with the Court of Consuls at 3pm. on March 16 by Mr. L. C. yang, counsel for Mr. 'S. ¥. Yeh, resident of the barricaded Tie Road area, who contends that he only failed to pay his tax for the last quarter owing to, the failure of the Council to send an officer to collect it, and that he sent the amount due to the Council on March 12. In the petition, Mr. Yeh applies for a temporary injunction restraining the Shanghai Municipal Council from locking the lane and from discon necting the sewage, "The ceremony was performed dur-hela in ne Auditorium of the Cly held in the Auditorium of the Government. at the Civie Centre, Kiangwan. The Chinese Police Band layed during the ceremony, after Which the. two Settlement police oticers received. the congratulations of the Chinese officials present.
The decorations were granted by: the Ministry of the Interior in appreciation of work done by Settle. mont detectives in helping 10 capture a Inge gang of political assassing after a bold attack on prominent
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