An Interesting point is raised by "Oslontal Affairs" in an illuminating exposition of the Fent case on the main features of which editorial comment was made in these columns about a fortnight ago. Tt will be recalled that the plaintiff" who sued a recalcitrant tenant for Fent not only experienced such delays by the process of successive appeals that the arrears fof rent accumulated 1o.a substantial total owing the tenant's continued occupation of the house, but also had to incur further potential Joss in the original court's reduction of the rent by 15 per cent. "Orieftal Affairs" ques-Nous the applicability of the law regarding tha Court's authority to vary rents to such cases:
Xt fs obvious that when the Chinese Courts can and do interfere in this orbite ber regarded aren investment of vary dubious value. A "decision of this" kind~ Which appears to make it quite Nopeless. for Tandlords to reslot demands for rent reductions,
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