What practical measures shall fur~ righ the earnest of this mutual endeavour on the part primarily of the two communities, the Japanese and the "Anglo-American, to remove existing suspicions and to maintain for the assurance of the continued ]veelfare of this Settlement that ancient foundation of harmonious inter national ce-operation? Iv it not for the Japanese, for they have the treatest actual power to make local peans subserve rational ends, to give he assurances that such is not their avowed aim? The earliest token, therefore, ix assuredly required from the Japanese community in the form of an urgent claim on their own authorities for the restoration of locat civil control, in replacement of na-tonal military control, over the area Jot the Settlement North of the Soochow Creek In which they mostly addition they must insist, that rho satisfactory reforms can be achiov= fed which neglect the social vile Jcondoned by Japanese authority in the Chinese-populated Outside" Roads Areas; evils which that same author ity is instant in preventing in the Japanese-populated areas of Shanghai. If'no mention is made in this regard of the Chinese "community, because for all effective purposes the Influence of that community Ju. fur~ thering national government policies in the Settlement ie already almost completely neutralized, Tu any overt ly organized way, the Chinese community is largely quiescent national political expression, and it {swell that ils Yeaders too' shoul emphasize to their. constituency necessity of a continued divorcement of civie from national polities, Assurances Necessary Simultaneously British and Amerlcan assurances must be given that all truly local aims and objects of the Japanese community will be iven the most earnest and sincere consideration. Given such mutual assurances among the several com= naunities there is then no need for the "technicality" of the Land Reulations to. stand in the way of hecesmry reforms in the municipal administration, That technicality, fundamentally, is thut there shall, our local acts, be no further abridge ment of the degree of Chines sovereignty In respect of the Settle= ment which the letter of that ancient charter acknowledges "and. signifies, The essential of the preservation of China's sovereignty is fundamental 10 what is urged here. China is sover= eign of the Settlement sell, Further= more, ultimately in munteipal affairs, too, ihe sovereignty of China in the /Setitement is unquestioned, Judge Feetham was unequivocal in {that insistence. For the time being, however, and" consistent with {ho (Continued on page 331, col, 5*)
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