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With a view to guarding against the repetition of the Nanking outrages, Japan has sent a contingent of troops to Tsingtao, some of whom are now being despatched to Tsinan-
fa. The above photos show the landing of the men at Tsingtao recently..
SKYLINE VALUES. are two other office buildings of
sizeable dimensions and a Sysago-| gue, while Szechuen Road, one block behind the Bund and
SHANGHAI LEADS THE parallel to it, furnishes sites for
FAR EAST.
MANY IMPOSING BUILDINGS.
several more such enterprises, in- eluding the Bank of East Asia.) which, together with the Shah-
MOSQUITO DECISION
OF PAISLEY.
SHERIFF EXPOUNDS
RESPONSIBILITY,
within two or three months. At tant precedent likely to assist in moon Building, is to be unveiled" London, June 15-An impor- the corner of Kiukiang and Sze the campaign to stamp out the Banks of lights from faint-chuen Roads, another tall strue- mosquito menace has been laid Ty delineated skeletons the ture, the new China Press build-down by the Sheriff of Paisley in skyscrapers of the New York offing, is to be erected, and one block trying an netlion brought by the the Far East-dazzle the travelier further away, a sixth building is Renfrew Health authorities who approaching Shanghai at night. in progress of construction. produced evidence that people
Respondents pleaded non-rès-
ditches in their
It is not the towering; Christmas- Building in Shanghai, in fact, were bitten by mosquitoes breed- tree magnificence of Hongkong. is progressing at an ner yet the black gianta with rate, considering the general busi-dents' land.
amazinging in stagnant water in respon- glowing coals in their eyes oneness depression. Although no new sces in nocturnal Manhattan, but ventures of consequence have been ponsibility for an act of nature Shanghai has one of the most launched recently those already to which they did not contribute. impressive "front drops" in the under way will keep armies of world. And gradually the skyline labourers and scores of contras ordered the respondents to clean The Sheriff did not agree, and is filling in and being built up to tors busily at work for the next fout the silted rival any port of the West. It year or two. One eat scarcely land at Cathcart, already has surpassed many in travel a block in the business or the architectural beauty and residential sections of Shanghai symmetry of its approach, and without seeing construction work has no peer in the Orient. The on office buildings, apartment Bund is a jewel in which Shang-houses or shops. The architects hai is taking more and more and the business firms bosides pride.
have been drawing up plans on an So states the Far Eastern Re-even vaster scale than those al- view, and continues:
ready mentioned and the next cur- Transformed entirely, like the nerstones to be laid on the Bund rest of the city, during the past will be for buildings of sixteen decade, by the ercetion of several floors.
ANTI-VIVISECTION MEETING.
BROKEN UP BY STUDENTS.
other students, including several London, June 16.-Medical and tall new buildings, the Bund is A glance at the China Architects ing of the British Union for the girls, broke up the annual meet- undergoing yet another quick ami Builders! Compendium for 1927 Abolition of Vivisection, at Cax- transformation at the present bears this out, incidentally offerton Hall, with rattles, whistles, moment-one that will elevate the ing an index to the prosperity of mouth-organs and other noisy in- akyline a few storeys more, add this Occidental metropolis in the straments. several pinnacles to its horizon, Orient. During last year, it was! bring greater harmony Lu ts higher than at any other time. Ain the absence of their superior The police refused to intervene, archilcetural sehemé aul pave the table, givin way for untold" future develop- summary of building during the
comprehensive officers orders. ments. At the current rate of pro-last five years indicates the pace vented from speaking by the sing- Mr. Bernard Shaw was pre- gress it will not be long before of progresa. Shanghai ean beast
While the numbering of the "Frothblowers!
An- dellar shop-front.
3
High Values.
This, of course, does not repré-;
J
This did not suffice to mollify the interrupters, so the Chair- man gave up the struggle.
11 Billion-of buildings in process of con-them," followed by "For He's a
struction or built in 1926. was less Jolly good Fellow." Two huge units in this panorama than in 1925, the estimated value that so amazes the yisitor dre to is 50 per cent, greater. be completed within the next Year 01 90. One is the new Customs Building, covering one city block, with a clock-tower nearly 300 feet above the street sent the value of the land bought bers of craftsmen of different na- level, and danked by two wingsi or leased for these purposes. tionalities and concepts of style that will render it a replica of Along the Bund, along part of Sze- and at no time has the Municipa some of the famous office build- chuon Road, and on Nanking Roadflity made an attempt to enforce ings of London and New York as far as Chekiang Road, land harmony in It will be, for a time at least, the early in 1927 had an approximate partly by chance, therefore, that any locality. It is tallest building in Shanghai, a
market value of Taels 200,000 per the diversity offered to the visitor landmark visible, like the Customs mow or more, while in the rest of here, is so pleasing to the eye, and tower at Boston, for miles about. the downtown business district, it that the recently erected Yoko- The other building that is had mounted to as high as Taels hama Specia Bank, Taiwan Bank, soon to fill in a gap in Shanghai's land values, despite prevailing kong and Shanghai Bank build- 100,600 per may or ever. And North-China Daily News and Hong- long front-window stretch is the Sassoon House, another twelve conditions, have held to a high ings, the new Customs Building atory office arcade building of level, in one or two instances even and Sassoon House, will blend so slightly flat-iron proclivities, increasing.
admirably. The Palace Hotel and.
likewise rising approximately 300 In the erection of these half a the Old German Club, now occu- feet above the boulevard, and dozen large buildings in the den-pled by a Chinese bank, are" still. covering ย whole block The tral district of Shanghai, a total somewhat out of place, but these cost of this structure is the same of no less than fifteen million taeis will not survive the skyward im- As the Customs Ilouge, about is going into the construction pulse for long.. Mex. $1,000,00,
alone, the value of the land run- Palmer and Turner are the ar- ning into a total many millions chitects for both of the new im- high.
portant buildings, and, having de-
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Projected Structures. A third addition to the Bund is! Most of those now planned or signed the Hongkong and Shang- planned in the proposed new home being constructed in Shanghai are hai Bank Building, it is only na- for the N. Y. K., while a fourth, height-limit structures, the legal tural that this Shanghai firm
hacked to death becauso he would not surrender,his day's catch. that of the Bank of Taiwan, has maximum in most cases being ono should follow out models that just been completed. Just round and a half times the width of the would fit into the scheme of things
Several victims were tortured the corner from the Soochow struct on which they face, but on in their later designs. The new
under harrowing circumstançes River and of the Bund and visible the Bund there is no restriction, Customs House and the Sassoon
and burit.! to anyone on the deck of a so the possibilities for skyscrapers House match closely
In a revolt among prisoners in the large
Calcutta, June 28, stemmer in the Whangpoo, still along the waterfront, boulevard banks bufiding, with certain fun- Over 800 persons were murdered arms of the police and killed or Pyapon Gaol prisoners seized the another large structure, and are unlimited.
damental variety, partly due to the in Burma last year; and robbery wounded all of them. Failure of Shahmoon Building, combined Architecturally, it is true, the odd shapes of the sites, the use of with violence increased nearly 24 ammunition compelled surrender theatre and offices, at the corner Bund and buildings generally different materials and certain per cent says an administration to the military, who laid siege. of Soochow and Museum Roads, throughout Shanghai is rearing into the jagged sky-somewhat of a conglomeration, which enter into every largo con the savagery of Burmese crimingang to their headquarters in present peculiar engineering problems report
Terrible examples are given of was checked through tracking a Chinese gambling in Rangoon line. Also along Museum Road They have been designed by num-struction enterprise..
als. In one case à fisherman was subterranean drain.