It is welcome news that the Shanghai Muni-ipal Council in adi its protest against the introduction of trai ulations by the Japan-se naval authorities, has lodged one with the against the utilization of Chinese hed to the Japanese gendarmerie Szechuen Road and Chapoo Road ti also been drawn to the fact that on the occasion of a recent demon-ion, police of the Shanghai Special City vernment actually functioned in Hongkew k, It is more than a little difficult to under-these things i be. The authori-responsible for th inten ance of order de 1 an arcas are sufficiently jealous their own rights to t they would in their the rights of others. It is wholly undesirable hat Chinese auxiliaries attached to the Japanese ie should be allowed to operate on quite bad enough that in denial f the rights and interests of the International Settlement the Japanese themselves do so, but much when Chinese are allowed to worse assume functions which belong exclusively to the police of the Settlement. So far as Hongkew is ce ed, despite the idea which seems to be growing in some minds that this lung is the exclusive property of the Japanese for th demonstrations, the fact is that it is owned b the Municipal Council, and that an going there without its permission is nothing but a common trespa: That the police of the nghai Special C Government should have property hich is no concern of theirs ing to be roundly reprobated.
tion upon which there has recently been so much resistance is rendered all the ier when the rights of the various bodies 3 d around Shanghai are realized observed.
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