Key Positions in Civic Affairs Secured serctat, x0 tind Mx.-c, teaata"
The Committee which the Shanghai Municipal Council has decided to appoint from among its members to discuss the proposals of the City Government of Shanghai for the adoption of certain measures of cooperation with the Government's opium suppression campaign, was understood to be meeting on' July: 1 Its members are Mr, Yulin Hsi, Mr. R.G. MacDonald and Mr. W. H. Plant appointment is believed to be in no way intended to interfere with the work of the expert committee composed of the Secretary-General. the Commissioner of Police and the Municipal Advocate, but rather to strengthen the Council's immediate contact with the situation. In all probability it wilt avoid protracted sittings, for on the experts must rest the responsibility for fully advising the Council on the various problems connected. with the City 'Govern~ men's proposals. The new Committee, in fact, may All the rule of rapporteurs in' keeping the Council and the experts in proper" laison. I may content itself by recording certain general principles and. then leaving the experts to formulate the necessary advice on the basis of the actual facts of the situation, Tt will be realized that the Counci readiness to ce: erment's camps pression was based first on its natural desire to assist the sister local a ministration, secondly, on the under standing that the campaign had the approval of the League of Nations' Advisory Committee and thirdly, but ho less importantly, on the belief that the campaign was' being "genuuinely worked in that part of Shanghai which is under direct Chinese control. 'The circulation of the memorandum which, as already "explained, outlined the facts recent published inthe survey given by this journal on July 9 has' raised grave doubts, Those double. unfortunately have been—justided further information which has now come to light and it is, to say. the least of it, exceedingly unlikely that the special committee of experts will be inclined to favour the Council's participation. in any form of opium suppression measures on the ines suggested unless there' are radical changes in, the situation,
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