Nothing more satisfactory has hhapyened here in recent days than the espouse which has been made to the Chinese appeal to raise fund to reward our police who are dally risking their lives in the work fof dealing with armed robbers and Kidnappers. Anybody who has ever had experience of such work, whether it be as a policeman in the streets of a town where lawless elements have concentrated to prey upon the wealth of the community, or in attempting to track marauders in No Man's Land, know how wearing a task it island what great [demands are made upon endurance and morale, and anything in the nature of an incentive to further effort is to be welcomed. The rapidity with which the contributions have come in is, apart from the feature just mentioned, a very gratifying sign, as it shows that our Chinese residents do appreciate the efforts of the police to give them protection from the very grave menace which has grown up. Prov bably no community has ever been faced with such a particular peril, nor in view of the divided authority which prevails have there been so great difficulties in coping with it, We need not here go into the tion of the lack of ce-operation which has hampered the police—that has been stressed often enough—but we do here seo how very loyal are our Chinese" business men to the authorities of the Settlement, in contra distinction to certain of those who may be described as the semipolitical elements. We understand that Chinese who are interested in the present movement are eireularizing others of their fellow countrymen with the object of swelling the fund, and we have no doubt that those less favourably situated from 'a monetary point of view will contribute equally proportion to their means,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.