Show i l Keeping e ping Order in China I Prof K B T. T 1 Williams says While theoretically the tile police powers of the whole country y are exercised by the i minister of tit lilt Interior at ut Peking In In I except in to some of the plin principal pal cities the thc peace pence Is maintained very much as of as of ol old old old-by by by control through the village elders and md the tuc s s tern of mutual responsibility I I On the whole the the method of holding holding h the neighbors responsible for one another's another's an an- others other's conduct and aud the elders ciders responsible 1 i I sible for fOl the village tends to tc check so- so serious i rious offenses On the other hand If If i the general sentiment Is opposed 11 to I any regulation such ns fiS that foi bid ding opium smoking the probabilities nr are that the neighbors will shield one i another Th The responsibility for the pao tl-pao as fiS the principal elder for the I good order of the whole village makes I I his Ills office any anything tiling but a n sinecure I n 1 |