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SHANGHAPS FUTURE.
Present and Future Status Defined.
MANIFESTO BY COUNCIL.
"No Time Now For a Drastic Change.
The following important declaration of policy regarding the future status of Shanghai has been issued by the Council of the Shanghai International Settlement.
good-will, respect, and conciliation.
CAPTIVE'S CHANCE
'ESCAFE FROM BANDIT
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SOLDIERS TO THE ATTACKS.
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Kidnapped with another man by bandits during a raid on Tal-O' village early this year, a Chinese named Loong Ping has managed to Oscape and return to his rointivos who had long given hip up for dend. The missing, man made kle: drama-i tic re-appearance.
Friday afternoon looking badly misused.
According to him, he and his The Council for the International
Appeal to Men of Moderation. Settlement of Shanghai, recognising
fellow captive were taken by the] its grave responsibility for the Ponding the outcome of the bandite to their stronghold on a hill safaty of the lives and property of strugirle that is now being waged in Chinese territory. The name of the Chinese and Fordigh residents throughout China between the the district he does not know. His within the area of its administra- forces of temperance and intemper- companion died of exposure acồn tion, considera that the time has ance, of evolution and revolution, after their capture, while Leong arrived for publie announcement the Council appeals to moderate who was badly fed during hia, cap- of its considered views as regards minded Chinese and foreigners alike tivity sometimes wished that
of to support the measures that are too would be taken out the local situation..
(2) The International Sattle- being taken to protect the Interna- misery. Deliverance came, unex ment of Shanghai is an area set tonal Settleinent from acts of pectedly when a party of Chinese aside under agreement between the aggrosalon either, from within or soldiers ralded the bandits strong-
its Chinese Government and the For- without
borders. The hold. Leong decided to make a run eign Powers, within which the Council also urges the Powers con-tor freedom. During the thick of Municipal Council is vested with cerned to insist upon due respect the fighting-the bandits did not by soldiers have full authority na rogarde all mat- being accorded to treaty oblizations any means. let the ters necessary for the maintenance entered into Between one self-res things their own way he slipped of order and good government. Up pecting nation and other self-res-away and made for the seashore. to the present the Settlement has pecting nations until the time Hare luck favoured him for he found been administered by "Municipal arrives when these obligations can a small bout. Losing no time, he Council composed of nine forelg- be reviewed in a proper perspective. immediately pushed off. Towards Inera, Under thiê wholly, foreign,
S. FESSENDEN.. administration Shanghai has deve-¦ bped until it has become the prin- { cipal port in China The vast in- ternational trade that
has Deen!
Chairman,
dusk he met a junk and here was provided with the first meal he had had that day. Thor, as the junk was going ta Chinese territory from which he was anxious to keep
MONDAY, MARCH 28, 1927.
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(2) It is within the Council's knowledge that agents in the ser- Ivice of revolutionary interests, are: [actively engaged in spreading sub- verave doctrines among the less responsible elements of the Chinese Heorimunity of Shanghai with the
object of fomenting class hatred. and general disaffection. If there nefarious schemes are successful
turned to his small boat, and fol- owing directions given him by the junk people, rowed towards Tai-O, where he arrived the following af- ternoon, having been taken on board homeward Bound junk while still welt out to. sep.
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London, Feb. 12, Melbourne-Enter reporta indi- vory pate that the bush-fires are Berce in the Warrandyto, Elthar and Lilydale Districts.
The flames were aided by $ strong wind and spread within five miles of Madame Melba's residence
they will inevitably lead to civil commotion and mob violence, and result in crippling al forms industrial enterprise and destroying the trade of the Port, The Council realizes the gravity of this aspect of the local situation and its pos- sible repercussion throughout the (civillaed worly, and will use all the resources at its disposal to retain
This is a photo of a valuable at Lilydale. control of the situation. Concur vase which came from the Peking
An appeal has been broadcast for rently with these sinister activities, palaces nearly thirty years agotachments of police have been al a thousand volunteers, while de a national spirit is gradually tak and is now worth $15,000. It is
ready despatched. ng form throughout China, with the property of Lam Wai-man of There were thrilling moments at many aspects of which the Council Hong Kong and is on display at Caulaeld Racecourse where the finds itself in gympathy. Unfor- his shop, Messrs. Wai Kee stand caught fire. The large crowd (Queen's Road and Pedder Street refused to leave their vantage point corner of Hong Kong Hotel). The and rush for safety till they had vase itself is only 25 inches high seen the finish of the race.
Heavy Damage. but on it has been "worked" the!
London, Feb, 13, figures of a hundred stages (the Chinese sign of prosperity). It is Melbourne. Several county, dis- a faultless piece of the best tricts in Victoria have suffered con- result of Proposed Chinese Councillors. China. The stags are shown in a siderable damage as A. The Council is fully alive to the woodland setting, in different co-bush-fires...
Saw mills, timber and many fact that the rapid growth of the lours and no two of the same Chinese population of Shanghai haa shape It was made in the Man-houses were burned down. rendered an alteration in its cons- cha Imperial potteries, under the titution desirable, so as to allow for
tunately an influential section of Bithir movement is "at" present dominated by persons holding ex- treme and revolutionary views who are seeking to cloud and distract the legitimate aims of the Chinese in order to serve an evil purpose of their own.
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the inclusion of Chinese Councillors peror Kien Lung who reigned 100 YEARS HENCE. having the same duties and res- from 1,736 to 1,795 AD. Inspec
ponsibilities as Foreign Councillors. tion is invited.
HUMAN PELICANS.
"EVERYBODY WILL BE
DEAF."
At the Ratepayers' Meeting of April, 1926, a resolution was pro- nosed by the Council and duly ap
PENALTY OF CIVILISATION. proved by the ratepayers to the effect that the participation, of
Lendon, Feb, 21. Chinese residents in the govern- During the hearing of a caso in The "Daily Mail" New York cor- ment of the Settlement was desir- the Calcutta courts it was stated respondent says Mr. Thomas Edi-] able, and that the approval of the that some habitual crooks had de-aon, who is nearly stone-deaf, re- Powers concerned should be obtain veloped a capacity for concealing joices in his deafness and predicts ed so as to allow for the addition valuables in cavities, if their that in 100 years, owing to the in- of three Chinese members on the throuts..
creased nolainess of civilisation, Council. This proposal has duly One old offender snatched a gold especially in America, everybody received the approval of the Powers neck chaia from a woman. A hue will be deaf. concerned, the Central Government and cry was raised, and the man ar- Such deafness he describes as at Peking. and the Provincial, rested on the spot, but there was no beneficial and he attributes his own Government of Klangsu; and the trace of the Ingt property. After lack of nerves and power of con Council is only awaiting the ap. the exercise of judicious pressure centration largely to the fact that pointment by the Chinese Com- the man vomited the chain, which deafness protected him from munity of three Chinese members he had concealed in a cavity in his traeting noises of people.
ta He declared, he should take in order to proceed with the con sideration of certain outstanding
reading as it beats the babble of ordinary conversation.
The eya problema, "the solution of which requires the advice and opinion of CHARGED WITH SIX MURDERS. is the whole thing, hearing is a
very minor affair. Its loss is not) representative Chinese. Assuming the three Chinese Councillors take
"worth worrying about."-Wireless. their seats this year, the Council will comprise the following:-Five British, Three Chinese, two Amori cans, and two Japanese...
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Warsaw, Feb. 17. M. Mestivima, a wealthy Polish! fermer, was arrested at Rozan and those of the French Bluebeard" accused of six murders recalling
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THE UNTOUCHED MEAL. People Who Starve With Food on The Table. "No, I simply cannot ent." Actual tragedy is suggested by these
I took doctor's medicines, until I got quite disheartened. After eating I had agonies of pain, and the sickness be came so bad that I dreaded meal times.
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PASSING OF "MRS, GAMP."": "We have perhaps seen the last of the old Mrs. Gamps, remarked No Time Yet to Change)
-Motivim was living in a. big the Right Hon. Neville Chamberlain, The Council for the International mansion with his mistress who is Minister of Health, in opening an Settlement of Shanghai will be a well-known Warsaw society wolannexe (the gift of an anonymous | guided by the results achieved by man. She disappeared and her donor) to the Post-Certificate School the Alteration in its constitution re daughter went to the mansion of the General Lying-In Hospital, ferred to in the precoding, clause look for her and also disappeared. Southampton Street, Camberwel. and by political developments, when Then a friend of the daughter "And yet," he said, "I can recollect stupio words, so often heard, Because considering how far a policy of vanished, followed by a chamber fust before the war, wher: I was a loss of appetite is the genesis of devolution can be applied to a city maid and a 'governess, of the size and importance of
Finally a Danzig engineer went member of a local health commit trouble that sooner or later reveals it Shanghal where vast international to stay with Mestivim and he dis toe, interviewing some ladies who self as indigestion or Nervous Dyspep- hore a very strong resemblance to sia, with violent Headache and other Interests are involved, It is the appeared
Beware of Loss of Appetite, renders Sensational developments are ex. 'Mrs. Gamp. They could not read serious symptoms, Council's considered opinion that the present is not a suitablo time pacted as a large quantity of humana, thermometer, and, certainly could of both sexes. It is a symptom you
not keep their notes." for the Powers concerned tộ con- bones have been discovered..
Since 1918 the period of training dare not ignore, sider any drastic change in the
in Britani had THE SECRET OF KEEPING WELL. Shanghai administration. Influences
HER LIFE FOR HER CHILD. for midwives
THE OUTSTANDING FEATURE, been increased. from three to twelve The secret of koeping well is to keep have been released in China with
months, and although we were still up the quality of the blood. By en- about Dr. Williams Pink Pilis for Fals the express and avowed purpose of
Los Angeles, March 8.
Willems Pink Pills supply strength A mother's aporifice of her own behind some Continental countries, riching and purifying the blood. Dr. People is that by their purifying strengthening action on the blood, and stirring up discontent, class hatred and racial prejudice, and until dife in an attempt to save that of whare two years training was to the enfeebled organs of digestion and by rapidly increasing the red corpuscles
anable them to digest thoroughly the
the in the blood, that impart new life and` Jed it would be a fruitless. task to her death claimed Jessie, the two wifery had improved enorood eaten without causing pain or vigour to the nerves and to the whole these lauences have been eliminat- her child proved of no avail to day quired, the standard of malús,
and a half years old daughter of mously. It was a great fent to distress. The good result attempt to recentile Bino-Foreign Mrs. Mary Long.
seen by system. That is how they have earn have halved the Infant mortality an impediate improvement in the ed their
world-wide reputat viewpoints:: In making this' state- - + ment the Council does not wish it Mrs. Long leaped in front of an rate in a quarter of a century, an appetite; then the skin becomes, clear, remedy for ausdinis, debility, nervous
the ages gain
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flex of indly post Arway pleasi further changes in its constitution beneath the wheal State, which prevented the Blabon years I ridared, the that future experiente may suggest Jessie, who was not quite clear of London from performing the martension shall be attested by evolutionary, ks. opposed to revolutionary methode, and that they shall be considers fin an atmosphere created by: mutual
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