The white.man im China has a different problem from any other in the, world. He can claim no sort of authority. in the country, as in India.or Africa. "Ho: is purely in the position of a. guest: eometim en uninvited one, but also sometint an Honoured. ard welcome one. He! is segregated in w settlement or concession. He thay not live outside it, unless he is a missionary, When he: comes under a special treaty clause which he owes early. French patronage of Catholic missions, The settlements are small areas of land fringing a Chinese city, But the foreigner has made these areas of segregation beauti¢al and prosperous that the "Eringo," so t6 speak, has become more desirable than the garment to which it is attached! The guest} has been guilty of outshining the! host, Hine ill lachryma—and many of the late troubles between Chinese and foreigner.
The settlement. of Shanghai is inhabited by dense crowds of per sons, of whom the foreigners form but 'a merest fraction. Nearly million p live round about Shanghai settlement, of whom 800,- 000 are Chinese. A ldtge proportion of the remainder are Japanese, and of the remaining handful of white people some 10,000 are Russian refugees. The Streets of shops ind the Bund are entirely Chinse owned; wealthy Chinese, far wealthier than the foreign merchants, have built palaces for them selves in the more attractive districts, and thousands of poorer Chinese live in the purlieus. Away from the water front, if you lose your way, yep will walk an hour! before you. meet anybody but Chinese to direct you, and you will be lucky to find-one who under-' stands any language but Chinese.
This city, with its vast Chin population, is still presided ever, a:
its inception, by a munfefpal oineil run on English lines by a small group of. public-spirited gentlemen, mainly British and American. And very successfully, too, There are all the latest developmente, ud green lights at night at crossroads, very, human and reformatory, all of these are to be found in Shanghai. And not a single one of them, nor anything approaching them, across a road, not a very wide one, where another tramway. with rails runs in. th real Shanghai, "the garment to which the settlement is the fringe. For Shanghai native city, whose walls were torn down for the ramway, keeps its native ideas of rutation, and the disposal of garbage in its streets persists for the last many hundred years.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.