When the newcomer in Shanghai hins recovered from the shock of being, born again, as it were, a helpless infant in the Far Bast, and ax he begins "to sit mp and take notice," he finds that is th to be learnt of China ial, the inscrutable, the Bund. tion to Western modes and measures of fort have been brought soil, there are still the Chinese women eagerly cleaning drift wood for the foreshore; the screaming wheelbarrow serving every purpose from carrier's cart and a hundred coolies of one traction engine to drag the roller upon fresh laid Original from
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