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of the Chinese Courts, system of honest, if sometimes rough-and- ready, administration of justice is appreciated by the Chinese is shown by the popularity attending the Mixed Court for civil cases that was established at Shanghai during the Revolution. This deals with purely Chinese casta, in which o foreign interest is involved, and where, conséquently, the presence of a foreign assessor-and much more so bis active participation in the proceedings is strictly an instant success, and the security against corruption furnished by Treaty Port system unrelieved by a single MAS is Coming, and Wo have the presence of a foreign assessor com countervailing benefit. The sense of the
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recovery of sovereign rights," proved a powerful incentive to the enthusiasts of Young China, and the Concessions and Settlements at the Treaty Ports have been concrete instances for them to cite.
So much for the influence of the Treaty Ports in detailed cases: Their functional influence, and contribution towards the development of Young China, has operated in two ways their position of immunity from Chinese authority has at the same time been an incentive and an aid to the urdont spirits. As we have seen, they have and this again appliés especially to Shanghal-repeated Ching the part played by Hongkong in providing asylum for plotters, in serving as educational centres, and in revealing to the people of China the advantages that other systems of government says:
possessed over their own. The Treaty Port Chinese Press, too, has always been able to indulge in greater freedom of criticism of Chinese, officials and govern ment than would be permitted to
town in the journal published in a interior-the Shen Pao of Shanghai is an historic example. That this liberty should occasionally develop into licence is, of course, inevitable: there have been noteworthy cases this year in which the Shanghai authorities have had to decree banishment from the Settlement agaiust those who abused its hospitality, and the same abuse was found in the freedom of the Press, so much so that on May 1st Inst Municipal Notification was issued prohibiting the unbridled utterances of the Press," and threatening arrest and punishment for those "enitting writings and pictures subversive of peace and good order." The difficuity that has been found in these respects in preserving a just balance berwren freedom and neces sary restrictions will continue to trouble tlie Settlements whenever events in China stir up strong political feeling in any direction.
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to get a rough parallel to the Chinese attitude we must imagine that a passport to London was held to cover the City only, and that the holder of it was not allowed to proceed to Kensington. The logicality of the Chinese contention has
18, His Majesty's Consul General at Shanghai said: No dificulty is experi-,
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the past constant efforts, even on the part Hence we find that there have been it of the unregenerate Empire, to minimize
A. 8. HEWETT, the influence and the authority of the
The undesirability of this state of Hongkong, 14th April, 1913. Concessions and Settlements, and it is affairs was long apparent on sanitary certain that these attempts will be congrounds; side by side with the largest tinued as assiduously in the future. A· piquant example of this policy of obstruc tion occurred as preliminary to the Mixed Court Riots at Shanghai in December, 1905. The resort of these riots
"There was a preliminary to Friday's occurrence on the preceding day when the Magistrate (Mr. Kuan) after making another futile protest against the presence of the police cadet in Court, and his supervision of the proper execution of the sentences of the Court, retaliated by sending a runner to the Central Polite Station to see that they did their duty there properly. The selected runner
foreign settlement in the Far East there
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by the fact that a corner of the Paoshan respect. Matters were made still worse district runs as a wedge into one of the most thickly populated parts of the suburbs of Shanghai, and the necessity spent a long and presumably ratheruder the same control as all the sur- of bringing this portion at all events tedious day in the courtyard of the rounding land, was emphasized when it INTEREST ALLOWED GS CORRENT ACCOUNTS Central Police Station, where he was became the site of the station of the to be obtained on application
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EISHI ONO, Managor. sent from the Council to Mr. Kuan, con
[46-1 Hongkong, 30th September, 1913. Bratulating him on the interest he had suddenly taken in police administration and offering his representative every facility for obtaining useful information. Circumvented in this attempt in his
The insurrection of last summer gåve. an even more striking illustration of the policy of annoyance, a policy which Mr. Kuan has himself declared he has orders danger to Shanghai that this Chapei from the Tastai to pursue. it would seem district constitutes. General Chen Chi- that only the opportunity was wanted to mei had his headquarters there, and the force matters to a more serious issue? place promised to be a stronghold for the The constant trouble over Chapel rebels, with possibilities for Shanghai (Panchan) is the best example of the that were, in view of the vast foreign Chinese policy of harassing the admini-| interests represented there, almost too There phases of the influence of the stration of the Treaty Port Settlements serions to contemplate and certainly too Treaty Ports might. En described as and retarding their development, The grave to trifle with. There was, there sympathetic, but it has also operated in town of Shanghai is situated near the fore, but one thing to be done on July a manner that might perhaps be described | borders of the Shanghai Hsien (District) 26th the Council issued a notification as autipathetic. Though the immunity and the Pao-shab Hsien. As to latter declaring that neither the Settlements nor of the Settlements and Concessions from district is also riverine, the town has the northern suburb of Chapel must be
| Chinese Jurisdiction has proved a bless inevitably-tended to develop in that direc.
used as a base for warlike operations or
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ing to the political malcontents of China, | tion, in defiance of artificial political as a focus for intrigue, and ordering all they are not always, reconciled to it. The boundaries, but any attempt to secure an Chinese troops of either party forthwith THE Business of the above Bank is con
T existence within the borders of Chins of extension of the settlement in that directo exacuate the district. This order was a ducted by the HONGKONG AND these places where Chinese Law does not tion so as to bring the outlying suburbs enforced on the following day by the SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION ran Cat all events in its usual course) is under municipal control, has always been Shanghai Municipal Volunteers, and the Rules may be obtained on application.
INTEREST on deposits is allow on the a standing advertisement, flaunted in the met with the same refusal from the district was afterwards policed by a Minimum Monthly Balances at 34 per cent face of China, of her weakness and of Chinese authorities the place opened by British naval force,
the degree to which she has had to yield the Treaty of Nanking was Shanghai, I In addition to serious incidents of this to other Powers. This is especially so in and the district of Paoshan must not be the case of the Concessions where, cncroached on. The absurdity of this although their own ruler ja still lord of restricted interpretation is apparent the soil, Chinese are forbidden to reside when it is considered that in several cases or to qwn land, for here they see all the the boundary line between two Hsien -from their point of view-evil of the passes right through the centre of a city;
nature, there are other constant sources of friction of a minor kind, all showing the Chinese intention to limit the develop ment of the Treaty Portz as severely as possible. For instance, there are certain (Continued on Page 6.)
per annuma
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Depositora may transfer at their optinn AND SHANGHAI BANK to be placed on FIXED DEPOSIT at 4 per cent, per annum.
For the HONGKONG AND SHaxonai
BANKING CORPORATION,
N. J. STABB,
Hongkong, 1st July, 1811,
Chief Manager.
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......Ě. TSUDZURABARA, Manager. Hongkong, let May, 1913.
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