What practical measures shall furnish the earnest of this mutual endeavour on the part primarily of the two communities, the Japanese and tke Anglo-American, to remove existing suspicions and to maintain for the assurance of the continued welfare of this Settlement that ancient foundation of harmonious international ce-operation? Is it not for the Japanese, for they have the greatest actual power to make local r.eans subserve national ends, to give the assurances that such is not their avowed aim? The earliest token, therefore, is assuredly required from the Japanese community in the form of an urgent claim on their own authorities for the restoration of loca: civil control, in replacement of national military control, over the area of the Settlement North of the Soochow Creek in which they mostly reside.
In addition they must insist that no satisfactory reforms can be achieved which neglect the social evils condoned by Japanese authority in the Chinese-populated Outside Roads Ares; evils which that same authority is instant in preventing in the Jzpanese-populated areas of Shanghai If no mention is made in this regard of the Chinese community, it is because for èll effective purposes influence of that community in furthering national government policies in the Settlement is already almost completely neutralized. In any over! ly organized way, the Chinese community is largely quiescent in ational political expression, and it is well that its leaders too should emphasize to their constituency the necessity of a continued divorcement of civic from national politics.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.