In connection with the registration of British subjects, for which many prosecutions have been heard at H.
Police Court in recent months, efforts have been made to show that the action by the authorities is of entirely recent date. The "Sixty, Years" Ago" column of today's '"North-China Herald" should dis-pell this belief for.c is clearly mentioned that at that early date the authorities were acting stuely to enforce that section of the Order-in-Council
Consular authorities to obtain " complete registration of British subjects, in Shanghai, The quotation from the chronicle of sixty years ago reveals hat application had been made for a fresh batch of sixty summonses applying to residents returning from {rips home or 70 new British residents. Of course, in those days, there was quite a rooted objection to even applying for registration on Ianding in Shanghai and this was the probable cause for strict measures "by the British authorities, but even although this objection has disappeared nowa~ days the imperative necessity for renewing the initial registration every year cannot be too strongly emphasiz~ ed. British subjects on arrival in Shanghai are expected to resister within month of their arrival but annual registration, according to the Order-in-Council, must be made every year, due notice being advertised in the newspapers.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.