tected area, in many cases pay no taxes to the Settlement authorities, nor were they policed by any than those of the Chinese civie administration, notwithstanding the fact that these properties are enclosed by Settlement-built and maintained roads. Yet, they enjoy the comparative' peace and protection accorded them no doubt solely through the generosity, and magnanimity of the said Model Settlement and its foreign protectors, whose Samaritan enterprises are of course known to us since the days of yore!
In the meantime, the poor foreign investor who had been clever enough to invest his hard-earned cash in real estate "over the lines" under the paper protection à la Sapajou that "it's a Settlement road," is standing the risk of seeing his home shot to pieces if not razed to the ground. And this after religious! paying his taxes to the Council.
A happy situation indeed!
But, one asks, what has the S.M.C. been doing all this time, and when there was not even the whisper of a war, to find some solution to the sorry lot of the "outside" ratepayer? No doubt someone knows something about it, though possibly for some as good reason, the poor fish in the street is being kept innocently ignorant of the whole affair. In the meantime, the work of destruction goes on
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.