With regard to water and light, the Chinese authorities do not have 1 supply sufficient to meet the demands although they have started 'a power plant near the Woosung. Military Road, It will, however, take many months before this is able to supply Chapei with electric and-so the Chinese companies. have la the past had to get a very which they are not entitled to do, under franchise any mutual understanding between the Power Ca. and the Chapel electricity Ca. fs effected it might be all right, but there still remains the other' and more important issue, that of the outside ro Negotiations have be n this respect for some it is most unfortunate that the Chinese authorities are ging on these acts of aggression when it is necessary to maintain the status quo. The Chinese authorities threaten to seal the houses of persons taking y from the International Settlement but any attempt to seal houses in Munici roads would be tantamount to in ing a clash which would be deprecated by all. of course, it gor: without saying that any coercion on the part of the Chinese authorities would be contrary to the Land Regulations and is hardly josaible that the Council would be prepared to permit thi The fact remains that, while the d yese authorities are' trying to abt:
control of the municipal road extensions and to force the occupy ta their electricity supplies from Chinese against the will of the occupants, they still require a continuation of the Settlement supply because their own supply is demands, which situation, So far as the Shanghai Power Ca, is concerned, it will be no good thing for them if the order should be carried out for, at prosent, they are supplying electricity to occupants at rota priece and it would necessarily mean a loss if they should sell the same electricity. wholesale to the Chapel company, which would ju turn sell to the consumers at a much higher rotal present. price than that which obtai at Mestnens of the Shanghai Postal Employees Union have formed a 80- ciety for the aid of famine sufferers in north China.
She is one of the four remaining four masted basques and a panion ship is now moored in Hudson above New York where interested spectators pay to see product of the days when mon wont down to the sea in ships. She in challenge to°the present from the days of typhoon" weather typhoon men and her docks Yveen trod by masters and crows who refused to accept the newer order of steam, She has carried roustabouts and soci luminaries for he fi draw. hhcarts the world overs ing canvas has been a all to st Tt would take a John Masofild to do her justice; hor crime was that she could not compete with steam, Arnoros of the report that the Soochow authorities hnd confiscated the: properties of the. ato. Shang Kung-pao, under the National Gov ernment' mandate, the "Shunpag? faye that the Kiangyin District Magistrate, has ordered the estate that city to be seized. "However, it i ani, of Unree pawnshops there, nly n few shares ure held by dee trends ofthe decade oh the Fomainder having already gone into the hands of the Government come mission appointed to deal with the Chasity "fund. established by. Mer Sheng So there is not much to be A awtresto has been issued by the Chinese Shipowners Association "de clating that the rendition of China' shipping rights isthe only mea of saving her shipping interests and threatening to suspend business if the Japanese are permitted to enjoy the special privilege of running ships on China's inland rivers, The announcement further says that Chines shipowners will not, agred to the Japanese Government's sug: gestion that Chinese ships. will Permitted to run on the Japanese const in exchange for the privilege of permitting Japanese ships to run fon the Chinese coast because Sapanese Government knows gull well that Chinese merchants hot compete with the Japanese along the Japanese coast.
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