'The situation with regard to. extortion is not much better in the ex-German concession where tenide ents, foreign and Chinese alike, are frequently' obliged. to pay tinder varies protexts all sorts and ma ner of fees over and above the Rental Assessment Tax, while the concession itself, in which the former council took so much pric now in a pretty run-down' con: dition.
A flagrant example of neglect was furnished by the recent heavy snow-fall in Tientsin, While snow were already to be seen busily gaged in clearing it away from the main thoroughfares in the concessions under foreign administration whereas in the ox-German conces: sion apparently not a stroke of work has been dono so far, a Wootrow Wilson Street, which cot stantly carries a heavy motor eae, and ricsha trafic, now presenta, the appearance of a sort of ice rink, to the danger of life and limb:
passenger and pedestrian alike Yet" the Chinese administration. collects th this area a large amount. {n taxes and other kinds of revenue, seated next to me, who are respon for the tight bonds which bind intellectual elite of both our countries. T am speaking of Messrs. Li Vu-ying and' Tsai Yuan-p feel very happy to have been able to contribute to this work, From schools established in "Peking, Shanghai, Lyons and Paris young Chinese are coming year. Their studies "have made them ambassadors of the French mind in China and it is a pleas. ure for me to see so many of them around this table, You spoke especinily of tne French Institute in Shanghai, Recent events obliged us, temporary lly, to cease tuition there, but T feel confident that in a very short while Dr. Tsu, director bf that establishment and M. Meyrier, the French-Consul in Shanghai, will find the necessary means' with which to reopen it.
Lam sorry to be obliged to leave you 20 soon. I have to be present in Poking to receive Mr. Rene Berthelot, son of the famous chemist. "He will soon Shanghai and, perhaps, will able to come to Nanking to give a lecture on his honoured father. will make endeavours to secure the
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