Text of the protest follows:—"After the series of terroristic crimes took place in the Settlement and French Concession the general condition of Shanghai became very tense, Such crimes increased day by day but no clue has ever been found and no murderer has ever been caught, but all are still to be free at large. So residents in the Settlement ore feeling unsafe, as they are not fully protected. Under such conditions, the Shanghai Municipal Council cannot be excused in.neglecting to give proper orders and to dispatch active police forces and he Police authorities have also failed to carry out their duties properly. Such are the undeniable facts. Recently at the very beginning of the Chinese New Year, two major assassinations of Chen Loh and Marquis Li took place consecutively. So that Your Honourable Shanghai Municipal Council and the Police authorities čo fail to bear any responsibility in securing the peace and order has been proven by the actual facts without allowing any denial 1, the Mayor of the City Government of the Greater Shanghai, realize this major responsibility in securing peace and order and in protecting the life and property of the Shanghai residents and do feel that the present general conditions are too terroristic and too grave, so I tender you this memorandum of severe protest and I wish that you will give me your immediate reply with regard to the following five points.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.