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THE CHINA MATT
TALE OF TWO SHANGHAIS
TEVER may come
ful, it may be less turbulent
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came into bein
ņ
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dropping from Shanghai's Inter-
confict in the Far East, this this is written in the great book of swamp, a miserable pied-à-terre much is certain. The old Shanghai human record and achievement. it signed to the despised "foreign de national Settlement, leaving a big vils who presumed to visit a proud hole in the ground where one of is gone forever. There will be an- will not be the old Shanghai.
hermit kingdom, begging the privi- the busiest sections of the Bund other Shanghai, but it will be dif-
Here is a sharp break in the story lege of trade with a celestial peo- had been, punctuated with a deci ferent.
of one of the strangest cities man ple. But these "foreign devils, sive period one of the most colour- those What is happening on the banks ever built. Here is a climax in these experienced Indian traders fut episodes bistory The old of the Whangpoo to-day marks the the drama of a village which came and shrewd Fangkee shippers, ac- Shanghai went away with end of one epoch-and the beginning to be a cosmopolis. Here is a turn tually made a go of it. They pulled detonations. The new Shanghai is of another. It is not often that in the road, which has already led themselves out of the mud by their yet to come. we find periods of history so neatly in less than a century, from mad own bootstraps, as their saying sliced up into sections, but it does flats to skyscrapers. No one can went; they drained the swamps and it yet say what will come of it all, built docks and piers. They even happen occasionally, and when does, it is compelling in its deci- but those who know Shanghai feel had gardens Their city was clean siveness. A good example of this that a fascinating second act is end- and beautiful and safe, and as time sort of thing is the San Francisco ed, and that only a master dram- went on wealthy Chinese merchants fire of 1906. On April 18, in that year, everybody knew that the old San Francisco was finished: Every body knew also that there would be a new San Francisco. It has turn- ed out to be a finer city than its predecessor, and something of the old atmosphere lingers on. But the career of the West's most cosmopoli- atist can provide a denouement that chose to live in the formerly despis tan city is divided by that date into will be worthy of the plot already ed settlement. section which are as sharply defin- unfolded.
ed as any division in human history can well be
Shanghai, like San Francisco, has always been unique. It will always
By Lewis Rex Miller
(in the
“Christian Science Monitor")
Change has always been of
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Russia's Army Grows Bigger
Marshal Voroshiloff, Commissar for Defence, has again called to the and Colours not only the usual annual When the foreigners came. were assigned to their unattractive class of conscripts, but an addi- abode on the mud flats, there was tional half of a class. This com- a towpath along the river in front prises all those fit for service born the of their consulates, where coolies in 1916 and that half of the 1915
Last year the conscription age
be unique, if for no other reason essence of Shanghai. The city was used to toil, pulling junks and barges class left over from last year. than because it has a unique back- insignificant in its conception (we up the turgid stream to the Chin- ground of history.. But from now mean, of course,, the international ese walled town. This towpath has on, it will be unique in a different city beside the walled Chinese city, now, become one of the world's most was lowered from 21 to 19. This way. It may be a greater city than for it is the former that has always interesting streets, the Shanghai placed two new extra classes imme- ever before, it may be more beauti- been Shanghai to the
THE
world
WORLD GOES BY By "ULYSSES"
at Bund. It is a Michigan Boulevard jdiately at the disposal of the in miniature. All through the day recruiting authorities, but it would and most of the night it teems with obviously have been impossible to traffic and pedestrian throngs. Sit provide cadres at once for the vast beside the Bund for an hour, and number of recruits thus made avail- you will see someone from almost able. every nation under the sun- pass
For practical reasons it was de- before you. The substantial build- ings built by British, Americans and cided to spread their call to the co- other Westerners along this pictures lours over four years. During this que waterfront overlook this hand-period one annual class and a half the would be absorbed each year in- But surely they some street, and beyond it
of stead of the normal organ single Whangpoo Biver, where craft
class. every style and nationality swing in The best cure for insomnia is to the current, or creep slowly in
jout among the mass of boats and keep the bedroom windows open. One of the most perplexing deve-This is one of the few sleeping ships tugging gently at their an- lopments during the past week has draughts that can be obtained with- been the sudden invasion of wives out a physician's prescription. from Hongkong, most of whom made
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The experts engaged by In Paren-led quiet living. thesis of the "North China Daily lived in an age of bustle. News" have again been looking the situation over, and to be perfectly frank, they don't like it.
a successful landing
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on Tuesday
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chors. This busy scene has just known its first interruption by bombing from the air. Here, as at Madrid, commerce halts before!
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Bookcases should be carefully
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fare.
days.
The Trade Union organ"“Labour” affirms that this call to arms is a feast for the entire land and a joy- ous event for every young Soviet citizen.
"War clouds are getting denser,"
gun wars of annexation, and is pre- paring for a big war, for a world was, for a war against the Soviet."
morning. This was chiefly due to sur-protected against dry rot. But this the weird spectacle of modern war-it adds. "Fascism has already be- prise tactics for many of the local de is very difficult, owing to such a fenders had no knowledge of the im-lot of it being published now-a- pending descent.
Apart from that there is very little
been An engaged couple enjoy buying to report. Both sides have continually advancing, and it is their furniture, says a critic Yes; firmly believed that a large scale Love's Suite Dream. movement will have to be under-
taken for the purpose of getting You gotta have music. Strip-teas- them back to where they started ing without music ain't art.
New York Show Girl from.
There will be another Shanghai. The Bund will still be there. Pro bably the fine buildings, Oriental headquarters for big Western car porations, will surrice But the at mosphere of Shanghai is changing hourly. When the smell of gun powder has drifted out with the tides, Shanghai will be different.
The official party organ “Pravda”
only 59 per cent of the available points out that, whereas in 1912 recruits were passed as fit for con-. scription, in 1936 85 per cent. were declared fit by the Red Army Medi- cal-Boards. This should yield be tween 700,000 and 800,000 recruits:
A strong protest has been lodged
"If a beating damages a boy's The privileged position of the "In capitalist lands,” the news- "conscription means with the board of referees, it being mental make-up for six weeks, then Westerners will be seriously under-paper adds, alleged against one of the opposing
fear all the English public schools mined. They may cling to their growing misery. Here it is al teams that he kicked off before the must be full of potential nervous right of exterritoriality for a time, together different, because the con- whistle blew. That, of course, is wrecks.
but always there will be the con- scripts know that their families will entirely contrary to the spirit of the
sciousness, much more acute than it not be left without support.”
game.
Statements made by spokesmen on both sides indicate that every ef
to prevent
fort is still being made,
Dr. P. G. Bentlif, Jersey Prison Medical Officer.
Modern society lacks necessary for its
three
has ever been before, that their In fact, the Soviet does not pro- status is temporary, indeterminate vide any special family allowances virtues Caught between two rising for those conscripted, but does A dis- tionalisms, they must yield to one grant wives and other dependents
the present situation developing into position to speak on or the other, perhaps to both. Shang-various special - privileges in the
rfare. The peaceful sentiments scientiousness in
bressed on both sides are said toments, and a regard for
most
been basil to disco
aging.
fare of others. date has been fixed for
Directly it is
tarted but n
ged in end opitions
resses.
gnited to
agree hai will probably
Be
much more way of employment, housing, and
the wel- Chinese, or much more Japanese and so on.
If than it has been in the past.
The
Moreover, the Red Army-con- Prof Harold C. Brow Leland the Westerners stay, they will do Stanford University.
so on stricter terms of sufferance script enjoys during his period of service a much higher level of life granted by strong masters., euthanasia doesn't in old days, the reckless, dashing days, than in his native village or indus
don't want or need the soldier of fortune days when trial town.
anything t
my end. I am Western enterprise exercised its Indeed the rations, quarters, soon going to be my own euthanasia: dostination almost unhindered over and recreation provided for the George Bernard Shaw, comment a drowsy Orient, are drawing to a Red Army compare very favourably Britain's "mercy death close. The last sleeping giant, with these provided for the British
Army. China, is at last aroused.
ing
THE CHINA MAIL.
ER 18, 1937
NYON ANNEXES SIGNED Italian Official Attitude One Of Aloofness
TO TAKE NO STEPS ANGLO-U.S. ROMANTIC
TO
GENEVA
ESTABLISH CLAIMS
mT-MK
ONE
Geneva, To-day.
TRADE DISCUSSION
Washington, To-day. President Roosevelt ve had an interview with the tant Secretary of State, and Secretary of Agriculture, and eussed the question of trad agreement with Britain. Reuter.
Complete agreement has been reached on the text of the annexes to the Nyon Agreement, and a slight verbal modification satisfied objections rais- ed by the Greek representative, M. Politis.
The instrument was signed at 6 o'clock yester-H.K.V.D.C. day evening, and the Nyon Agreement will be dis- tributed to-day.
OFFICERS
His Excellency the Officer
STORY OF SHIVA TEMPLE FINDS
and Canyon (Arizona),
To-day. There are clear traces of ani- al life on Shiva's Temple, scal- yesterday by the vanguard of the American Museum of Natur al History's Expedition.
It is understood that the passage added to the text to meet Greek objections allows the Governministering the Government has means of wireless. ments to exercise discretion in home waters.
The Nyon Conference ended its
STAMPS
task by establishing a complete "SULTAN'S PALACE system of defence against illicit warfare by submarines, surface vessels and aeroplanes.
The new agreement was signed without reservation by all nine Powers.
The text is being published to day to allow its communication to Italy, who will again be invited to participate in patrol as in the case of the original Nyon Agreement. Renter.
ITALY STANDING ALOOF
No Intention Of Making Proposals
Rome, To-day.
New Issue For Turkey
are
Four new postage stamps shortly to be issued by the Turkish government in honour of the con- gress of Tarkish history to be held at the former Sultan's palace of Dolma Dagtche on Bosphorus.
summer
The expedition is communicating with the outside world from the plateau, 7,000 feet above sea level Ad-and a virtual island in the sky, by
been pleased to approve the follow- Revealing the presence of ing promotions and appointments animals, the expedition states that in the Hong Kong Volunteer De traps have been set to capture live fence Corps, with effect from 10th The animals, they state, are ex-
specimens. September, 1937
Lieutenant Francisco Paulo Sepected to be quite distinct from queira to be Captain." ·
any known 'species-Reuter.
Second Lieutenant Leslie Ben- jamin Holmes to be Lieutenant.
Company Sergeant-Major Kyrie Claude Hamilton to be Lieutenant
Lance-Sergeant Wilfred Herbert Owen to be Second Lieutenant.
Sergeant Francisco Vicente Vieira Ribeiro to be Second Lieu- the tenant
Two of the stamps will be used for postage to countries pverseas while two will be valid only for postage in Turkey. Their designs will recall various phases of an-
cient Turkish civilisation.
this
Latest Official Appointments
The following official appoint- ments, etc. are announced:Ho Mr. C. G. Alabaster to be a tempor Jary additional judge.
EPROSY THREAT
Made To Austrian Actress
Charged with having attempted to extort money from Paula Wesse ly, the famous Austrian film actress, by threatening to infect her with leprosy, Walter Moule, 19, a clerk, is facing trial before Vienna court.
A few weeks ago Paula Wessely received an anonymous letter re- questing her to deposit at a certain Fifty foreign scientists from 18)
spot in the Vienna Suburb of The Italian Government has no European and American countries
Mr. G. S. P. Heywood to act as Fischamend a box with £2,000. If. intention of making new proposals have been invited to attend
Director of the Royal Observatory she refused, it was said in the letter. to Britain and France regarding year's meeting of the congress. The Mr. L. Starbuck to act as Assis-the writer had means to infect her participation in Mediterranean con-association of Turkish History,tant Director of the Royal Obser- with deadly leprae bacillus. trol, since complete equality in the founded seven years ago by the vatory.
Following orders of the police entire Mediterranean is Italy's con-president of the Turkish Republic, Mr. L. CF Bellamy to be a Fraw Wessley drove to the de- dition for any participation in the Kamal Ataturk, organises the con- Member of the Urban Council. fscribed spot and deposited an empty patrol plan, declares the Italian gress each year. Its aim
Approval of the appointment of box. prove to the world that the Turkish the Hon. Dr. D. J. Valentine to be Soon afterwards Moule fetched The newspapers emphasise the people have been leaders of civilisa-an Official Member of the Legisla-the box and was immediately ar- right of Italian warships and mer-tion for centuries.
rested by plain-clothes detectives. chant ships to take any course they choose, and it is declared that sub- marines under the protection of the Italian flag will not submit to any Anglo-French dictates.
press.
"Stampa," which has become “out- spokingly anti-British and anti- Anthony Eden, declares that the en- tire situation is completely clouded
over.
Thanks to British policy, the en- tire negotiations have led into a blind alley and the question remains whether Mr. Neville Chamberlain will be able to lead Mr. Anthony Eden, whom the paper holds wholly responsible for the entire situation, to a "better understanding of reali ties.
Ocean
The offices of the Supreme Court will be open daily from 10 am to 1 pm during the Long Vacation, except on public and general holi- days, when the offices will be en- tirely closed and on Saturday when they will be open from 10 am to noon, subject, however, to the pro- visions of Section 5 of the Supreme Court (Vacations) Ordinance, 1898, so far as it relates to the Criminal Sessions. The Long Vacation.com mences on the 20th September and terminates on the 17th October 1937. (both days inclusive).
is to
tive Council.