Organizing 10 fight an' increase of about per cent. in their rents, most of the residents of the Pearce and Boone Roads in Hongkew, ati rea at the rooms of the Shangh 'Japanese Prest Club there on August 24 and formed a Pearce Apartments Rexidents' League, In resolutions adopted at the meet ing the residents' league announced that the members would not their rents until the landlord repre senting the Shanghai Land Invest ment Company came to a "reasonable agreement The statement said it was "unreasonable" for the landlord {0 attempt to "escape economic burdens caused by high commodity prices at the expense of his tenants."
It pointed out that the rents were collected without a hitch even in the midst of the Shanghai hostilities due to the defence of the Hongkew area by the Japanese forces.
The resolutions stressed the nocessity of a revision of the British regulations governing the apartments, "in accordance with the new situation existing at this. time, when the Land Regulations are, regarded subject to meditation."
Saturday evening.
"IL fy earnestly hoped that definite action, more than mere protests, will tye taken by the Japanese authorities for the purpose of ¢xlirpating the hostile character of the Settlement."
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