March 20.
The leaders of the British community in Shanghai have taken prompt action to define the community's attitude to the forthcoming Municipal Election. They have broken precedent by deciding to recommend Mr. H. E. Arnhold, Mr. V. St. J. Killery, Mr. W. P. Lambe, Mr. J. H. Liddell and Mr. Harold Porter as the accredited British candidates for the five seats allov.ed by convention to their community, and to support the candidatures of Mr. J. W. Carney and Mr. C. Franklin for the American, and Mr.
'T. Urabe and Mr. T. Yamamoto for the Japanese seats under the same convention. This important decision should be recognized as marking a strong sense of the vital necessity of consolidating British opinion in the direction of the Set-flement's affairs. The leaders of the community are clearly actuated by two main considerations. They desire to ensure an emphatic British vote as firm evidence that the British take a real interest in the affairs of the Settlement in which Great Britain has so much at stake.
They also desire to recognize the spirit of fairmindedness which has actuated the Japanese and Ameri-
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