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"PRESS THE BUTTON."
TRANSPORT OF SHANGHAI DEFENCE FORCE,
REMARKABLY EFFICIENT
OPERATION.
TRIBUTES IN THE HOUSE COMMONS,
THE CITY OF HECTIC NIGHT.
[Bx 0, 0, DIXON.]
THE KUOMINTANG IN LONDON.
HOW SUN YAT SEN DAY " WAS CELEBRATED.
The following heevie" account of life in Shanghai was recently served up to renders of the “ Daily COMRADE LANSBURY TO THE Mail," and it may of interest to those who actually de know Shang
hai
Through the talk of every Guards. man you, meet in England these and hopeless envy of the Coll days runs the same note: a fierce
steamers who are revelling in active service in China.
FORE.
Two hundred pairs of tiny feet shuffled along the broad paving stones of stately Fortland place.
They belonged to the Kuomintang of Great Britain and Ireland, n Chinese society, which those who And there is much else in Shang- own allegiance to it tell you is real- his first experience of the East. The hai to enthral a young man enjoyingly the People's National Party.
A bland Chinese revolutionary Chinese is essentially a night bird-greeted me at the stately entrance how he eats, drinks, and plays of the Chinese Legation and pilot- fantan all night and works sixteen ed me through the maggificent hours next day is one of life's minor rooms, their wide walls covered with mysteries-and the European soon
priceless tapestries. The dragon was everywhere in the satin pic- tures, on the centuries-old flower
in Vases, American
the wonderful ivery) carvings
catches the infection.
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Sir C. Morrison Bell (Honiton, U.) was cheered en calling atten- tion in the House of Commons on March 18th to the remarkably eficient manner io which the Defence Force was moved by the authorities from Great Britain to Shanghai. He moved: "That this House approves of the foresight of the Government and congratulates it 'an its prompt action in taking steps to adeguard the lives of British subjects endangered by the civil war in China. He said the friend once told me, with an elo
"In Shanghai," House and the country should feel quent wave of the band, as he call. tion room, where the Ambasador The scene in the palatial recep- pride and satisfaction that the Wared for
of the Celestial Empire once re- another cocktail, Ofee and the Board of Trade were Shanghai the sky's the
"inceived the world's statesmen, was able in such a short time so efficient Hours? You drink as long as you of every description were reclin- limit. strange to Western eyes. Chinese ly, awiftly, and quietly to carry through the gigantic operation in and Broadway's all right for the tellectual young fallows; cooks and can stand. Montmartre is bright,ne in the downy recesses of the gilded chairs students; keen, in. volved in organising and transport-man with a one-way pocket; but in sailors, same of them in rough ing the Defence Force to China Shanghai the night life's fierce."
clothes and muflors.. They smoked it was really as if those Depart-
feverishly, and dropped the ash It was, and is. It became so from their cigarettes into tiny trays menta had simply pressed a button fierce, in fact, that even the Chi on carved rosewood stands. and the whole operation took place ese authorities, no Puritans in without any further fuse He con- these matters, were moved to action trasted the action which the Gov. by the scandal of The Tranches," erament had taken for the protec-
a disreputable area outside the tion of the lives and property cf Settlement and European control. our fellow countrymen in Shanghai In its gambling dens and houses of with what be supposed te must ill-fame, opium-smoking, cocaine. take as the policy of the official snifing, and miscellaneous orgies Opposition. That policy as indi- were" nightly features, until at last cated by the official amendment to the place acquired such a reputa. the Address called for "the in- tion that its only rivals in the Fer mediate diversion and recall of the East were the deas of Singapore's forces now on their way to China." Sago-street and that sinister corner He wondered whether hon, and right of Harbin, the last refuge of the bon. gentlemen opposite realised cut-throat, pickpocket, and degene what the effect would have been if that policy had been given effect
Green
to (Hear, hear.) There would not have been a concession there would not have been
rate,.
Bazaar."
known
SL
"the
were at lat
mintang, had met to celebrate the The visitors, members of the Kuo- second anniversary of the death of Dr. Sun Yat Sen the Chinese re- the Republic. Suddenly young velutichary and first President of Chiness, with large round spectacles the celestrial counterpart of Lihasberry! De Valera cried out, Meester
Brother "Reda."
Bow and Brotaley making his way It was the honourable member for up the staircase to spend the after. East. A woman is a scarlet jumper noon with brother Reds of the and a wild-brimmed black felt hat tripped along behind him. Labasberry" would like to see the Some one asked if Cocimrad
room where Sun Yat Sen was im- prisoned from the window of which he threw the dramatic note which led to his release. Mr. Lansbury jumped at the offer, and, listered politely while his Chinese guide pieced together the details of the dramatis perzone was a London drama of 18 years ago. One of its charwoman, who was said to have helped to secure Sun Yat Sen's re-
to the drawing-room, where the Mr. Lansbury retraced his steps Kuomintang were holding their memorial service to the beloved leader. Sun Yat Sen's picture hung on the wall above, an altarlike structure strewn with flowers.
Chinese texts were nailed to the
"The Trenches brought under some sort of control treaty port in China which would not have been and shorn of their more startling ransacked and looted within 24 obscenities, but Shanghai, in parts, hours, and they might have had the
is still no Sunday School. Lying most appalling disaster in China
en one of the main trade and pas. within 49 hours.
lease. (Cheers.). The senger routes of the world, on the action of the Opposition" in this way from Europe to America and matter had been so amazing that it Japan, it is a port of call for thou was almost impossible to find out sands of sightseers. All are anxious what they were driving at. It had investigate the hectic night life been argued by the Labour Party of the East, and there are that there was no necessity to send-
number of people engaged, like the troops and that the ships would do Fat Boy, in an earnest endeavour as there were sufficient men' in the ships. The landing parties of the The work ships numbered 600 men.. of the landing parties would chiefly be sentry-go, an that there would really be available only 200 men to keep people out of, an area in Shanghai with a perimeter of 14 miles.
Mr. R. M. Banks (Swindon, U.), in seconding the motion, said that the first principle of the Labour Party in any dispute with a for- Laiga Power was that Great Britain was always wrong. (Ministerial
Lлy
to make their flesh creep.
Nowhere in the world, I should think, are there so many cabarets in proportion to the total white population. They range from the cheap and respectable - palais de dane to more select resorts with exotic names like
"Paradise,"
wall, One rend: "The fragrance of his reputation flows on through- otat the ages in the history of his country." In this atmosphere of was paid. We stood, and, at a sign reverence the "Ceremo trial Tribute" from the chairman, bowed low three times to the framed photo- graph That was a tribute of silence-Daily Express.
where beautifully dressed profes- RESTRICTIONS ON SHANG obligingly dance with all comers on sional dancers, mostly Russian,
HAI CHINESE. the sole condition that they order
champagne.
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Verkhneudinsk and Tobolsk and What they drank back home in
cheers.) The second principle which Khabarovsk I do not know. But in Now that the ratepayers have they had adopted was that if it drinking anything but champagne, to foreign parks and open spaces to Shanghai no Russian girl dreams of regards the admission of Chinese definitely postponed any action as was a matter of investigating facts and as they are paid nothing by be dealt with at next-jear's meet-hang they could always trust a foreign their employers except commissioning, it may be as well to call the at-
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specifically mentioned in the pream- bees outside England rather than Shanghai is a fantastic blend of ble to the resolution shelved at the some member of the House who had East and West, of medievalism annual meeting spent his life on the spot. Nego. thinly overlaid with modernity. You ares from the Customs Jetty
On Easter Sunday morning, in the tiate, negotiate, negotiate," was atep out of a larious club and in Bund Gardens, and even to a lesser the policy of the Labour Party, Eve minutes a ricksha Las dragged extent in the Gardone, the whole of but why should Mr.
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XITOR were De A of taking the unprecedented step of aws £2,000 limousine standing out- tion is the Shanghai Expectors Macas Klectrics...
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A hundred yards beyond I check of British troops in Shanghai-or the ricksha with a jerk. From the anywhere else made for good re-filthy tenement on the right floated lations. If patience, good discip the "Marche Funèbre of Chopin, Jine, nd self-restraint could avert played with the touch of a master a catastrophe in Shanghai then the and the tragic intensity of a lost British troops would do it. But if soul. Who was the pianist? Some that, if the mob is allowed to be
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The motion was carried by 241 No one knows, and in the East coolie cléments any leeway what De LE CLERC'S AMERIA
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