The Archive · 1940

Western Area Police

ad Talks Continue Satisfactory Progress Said Made naturalness.

It was reported yesterday that One wishes one could include the satisfactory progress had been made made Dr. Howard Fleming of Peter Banham in the negotiations, between thè in the same category of just-right- Settlement police and the Shanghai ness. He does well enough by the Special Municipality Police chief for comic incidentals and admirably. in establishing a joint police bureau in at the quarrels with Clare, but he isthe extra-Settlement road areas in rather inclined to resemble à vigorous me Western district for which a bull in a china-shop at times.

Paul Guest deserves a special mention on his own for his delightfully natural cameo of a barman. Tan should take the trouble But may one pertinently inquire why modus vivendi was signed last February by authorities of the two municipalities.

At the last meeting with Colonel Lu Ying, chief of the Chinese city regime police, Major K. M. Bourne, Commissioner of the Shangha! Muntcipal: Police was said to have discussed. informally the joint. police bureau scheme. No definite date has yet been decided upon for inaugurate ing the joint office but it was said that Major Bourne was awaiting Coloniel Lu reply in connection with the draft agreement. poses, its, historic ethos. " All 1 which for most of us lie below, the threshold of our awareness, she sees external

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