W early hour this morning awaiting the results of the municipal Shanghai residents remained on tenterhooks up to any elections, results which might well have vital effects on the future of the International Settlement, scrutineers and their assistants continued with the tedious job of counting the largest number of votes ever cast in a Shanghai election behind locked doors while a detachment of Shanghai Municipal Police stood guard. The threat to the control of the Settlement caused by the nomination of five Japanese candidates. for seats on the council instead of the customary two resulted in a tense feeling of expectancy throughout the city last night and early this morning which increased as the hour of reckoning drew to a close, The result of the vote wi Allman N. F.
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