To the Editor of the "Norni-Cinwa Dany News"
'Ssu—The hold-up of foreign cars and their' occupants on Columbia Road yesterday evening discloses a stale of affairs which is viewed with dismay by the foreign residents. the Western Outside Roads districts, and the time has surely now arrived cognisance of same to be taken the Consular Authorities.
Although the hard-worked Settlement police will no doubt take all YVossible measures in their usually efficient manner, such an alarming style of affairs Clesrly points to the necessity of using foreign trips 10 patrol the Outside Roads in. the the Western District and thus. re-nove this menace to the safety of the foreign residents in that area.
The British troops stationed there were of course sent out from home to protect the British residents, and in former years T believe that British troops were at times actual-billeted in the homes of British residents in the Hungjao district.
It is therefore not an unreasonable request that parties of British troops" shuwid undertake such patrols after dark, as same would definitely come under the category of "internal security" duties, 1 commend this suggestion to the authorities concerned, Oursine Roa Reswent Shanghai, Dee. 29
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