of next to nothing, and a budgetting system which placed any great reliance upon income from such a source would be essentially unsound.
On the subject of the Western Area Special Police Force Mr. Phillips said something Which so many of those who so light heartedly criticise the Council fail to remember. It is perfecty true that the Council has been dealing with de facto authorities in the environs of the International Settlement. Its conduct would be most reprehensible and lable to the severest criticism if it had not, for it is its manifest duty to keep orderly conditions going for the. millions of Chinese and thousands of foreigners in Shanghai. It would be the height of foolishness to follow any policy founded on the belief: that the foreign areas of Shanghai could be administered as an enclave completely isolated from the surrounding districts, and the Council has been adopting a wise course when it has sought to cooperate with the authorities responsible for the good order of the whole area. Tt can with safety be alleged that if this policy had not been followed conditions here would not only have been very much worse than they are now, but would in all probability by now have reached a state of complete chaos.
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