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On receipt of these instructions I am ordering a survey of the land covered by the title-deeds sent by you, which I am indorsing and sealing, and will send separately. information. I am also sending this reply for your

Inclosure 3 in No. 1.

I have, &c.

(Card of Taotai Jui.)

Consul-General Sir P. Warren to Taolai Jui Ch'eng.

(Translation.)

Shanghae, January 9, 1907. Sir,

I AM in receipt of your note of the 4th January with reference to the issue of Taotai's deeds to British merchants for land in the Chapei district. You state that you have received the assent of the Viceroy at Nanking.

I note the Viceroy remarks that Shanghae is a great international centre, with which I entirely agree, and much appreciate his kind intention to promote friendly feelings. But I must point out that Shanghae is a Treaty port, and that foreigners have by Treaty the right to buy land here. It was on this ground that I have requested you in a previous note to stamp and return three deeds held by British subjects. I trust that you will send a favourable reply, that the deeds may be duly issued.

I have, &c.

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school and invited attendance, and have appointed an instructor, who has studied police methods in Japan, to direct the scholars, teach and drill them, so that they may acquire the real disposition for police work, and become thoroughly acquainted with the duties of their profession. I think it probable that, as they will have attended the school since its start, these pupils will have completed their training by the first or second month of next year, and will all then be sent to Chapei to serve as police there.

Foreigners living in the Chinese area at Chapei and in the Chieh Chiu I (Tu)—– those places being contiguous-are by Treaty all under our protection, and it is my duty to provide police in these districts for their protection.

I shall give the necessary instructions to the officials and deputies for the distribu- tion of the different patrols in these places, and when I have fixed a date for putting this into operation I will communicate with you again. I shall be glad if you will inform the Municipal Council that in future the municipal police must assist the Sinza police in all cases of pursuit and apprehension of criminals. This will conduce to the public peace and avoid complications.

I shall be much obliged for your kindly co-operation in this matter, and have the honour to request an early reply.

I have, &c.

(Seal of Taotai.)

(No. 14.) Sir,

Inclosure 4 in No. 1.

(Card of Consul-General.)

Consul-General Sir P. Warren to Sir J. Jordan.

Shanghae, February 5, 1907.

I HAVE the honour to inclose, with translation, copy of a despatch from the Taotai to the Senior Consul with reference to the proposed police force for the Chapei Chinese area. This document forms No. E 29 XXV of the Minutes of the Meetings of

the Consular Body.

I would add, in continuation of my despatch No. 7 of the 14th January last, that

I have received, on the 23rd January, the three title-deeds duly stamped, which the Taotai has hitherto refused to issue.

I have, &c.

(Signed) PELHAM L. WARREN.

(Translation.) Sir,

Inclosure 5 in No. 1.

Taotai Jui Ch'eng to the Doyen of the Consular Body.

Shanghae, January 20, 1907. THE Chieh Chiu 1 Ward (Tu) and other places in the Paoshan district are contiguous, on the inside to the district north of the Sinza Bridge, on the outside to the international Settlement. Since when, as an exceptional measure, foreigners have been allowed to lease land there, people have settled there in increasing numbers, the bad characters of Paoshan and the Shanghae districts have hidden there, and are in frequent communication with the bad characters within the Settlements, and cases of intimidation, brawling, wounding, and robbery are of daily occurrence,

On looking into the cause of all this, it would seem that the extent of the district precludes the easy suppression of crime and the arrest of criminals, and the establish- ment of a police force would be of great effect in keeping the public peace.

The Chinese gentry wish to establish a Settlement of their own at Chapel and the surrounding district, and I received instructions to get together funds for the laying down of roads, establishment of public offices, &c. I thereupon started a public

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