"Nomn-Cuixa Dany News"
To the Editor of the Sint should be imperative that. all Candidates for the Municipal Council should state their platform—in other words give the Electors a definite statement of their views on running the Settlement.
The electors are entirely in the dark as to what attitude their representatives are going to adopt elected and this leads to the apathy voting—for instance, the question of private Telephones has never been broached yet, @ small householder who uses his telephone infrequently to have his rates raised and the boarding-house, catering to far more persons than they should on one telephone, are, in proportion, far better off, Thenagain—t dislike intensely to hit at any nationality, but it is essential—we have a paid force of Russians on the Volunteer Corps strength, from what I can gather from conditions here at the moment, we could easily find suficlent Britishers, Americans, Germans, ete, who would be only too glad of the opportunity to replace these men, and I put it to you, what did Russians do to build" up this International Settlement? 1, became merely a place of refuge utter the Revolution and their influx ruined the local labour market.
Let the ratepayers band together and state what attitude they expect from the Candidates and vote for the ones who conform to thi Shanghai, Mar. 22. accordance with recent pr the candidates" statements will ued "on Sunday.
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