Asiatic Quarterly Review (Full Title: The Imperial and Asiatic Quarterly Review, and Oriental and Colonial Record): Volume XIII, No. 26 [‎483r] (90/238)

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stood how impracticable, not to say impossible, is the appli
cation of police regulations by agents subject to such a
complex system of checks, and exposed to such dangerous
demands, implying the punishment of the native agent Non-British agents affiliated with the British Government. or
guard in case he arrests even the native servant of a Euro
pean or other non-native resident, without being previously
supplied with the requisite order.
The remedy for this administrative chaos would be simple
enough could the representatives of the Powers unani
mously agree to allow the native agents Non-British agents affiliated with the British Government. of the Hygienic
Commission, acting under the direction and control of a
properly qualified European police officer, to enforce the
regulations which have already been submitted to, and
approved, both by the foreign Ministers and by the local
or native authority itself.
Unfortunately one or two of the local representatives of
the less important Powers, plus royalist que le roy, cannot
see their way to authorize anyone, not immediately or
directly under their own control, even to arrest and bring
before their own consular tribunal offenders against these
regulations or other disturbers of peace and order. Yet,
singularly enough, these very hyper-scrupulous Ministers
employ native guards, soldiers of the Basha, men of the
same status as the guards of the Hygienic Commission, to
arrest numbers of their (the Ministers in question) own
nationality.
The answer made to these suggestions by these repre
sentatives is : “ But we pay these legation guards ; they
are directly and personally responsible to us.” This
difficulty, however, would seem to be avoided or parried
by the fact that the guards of the Street Commission are
also paid by the foreign representatives, acting collectively,
from the Caisse of the Sanitary Council, so that it might be
thought that a solution of the difficulty could be reached.
Indeed, some method of improving order must be dis
covered, for Tangier to-day is no longer the old somnolent
Tangier of earlier days, but is even now beginning to assume