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LETTER TO THE CHAIRMAN
of the
SHANGHAI MUNICIPAL COUNCIL.
Shanghai,
15th June, 1931
Brig.-General E. B. Macnaghten, c.m.g., d.s.o.,
Chairman,
Shanghai Municipal Council.
Sir,
I have the honour to present to the Council the second
instalment of my Report, consisting of Parts IV and V.
I had hoped also to include in the present instalment
Part VI, which is to deal with the " External Roads Areas,"
but, as completion of Parts IV and V has already taken
longer than I anticipated, it seems, in all the circumstances,
undesirable to delay the presentation of these two Parts
until Part VI has also been completed.
I should, perhaps, add that the delay which has occm>
red has been due solely to the fact that I was not able to
get through the final stages of my work as quickly as I
had hoped. Responsibility for the delay rests entirely
with me, and not with the printers, who have shown com-
mendable promptitude.
I hope to be in a position to present Part VI very
shortly. Part VII, which will deal with certain supple-
mentary questions, will follow later. I do not anticipate
that this last Part will be of any great length.
I trust that readers of this Volume will be so good as to
bear in mind what was said in my letter to you of the 23rd
April, which appeared as a Preface to the first Volume,—
both as to responsibility for the contents of my Report
resting with no one but myself, and as to the attitude in
which I would ask them to approach the study of the
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