With much enthusiasm, and still vivid recollection of the trials and triumphs of the recent memorable years, the French community in Shanghai celebrated their century-old jour de loire. Their Allied friends joined heartily in the festivities avd the programme was carried out with much success.
Celebration of the Fourteenth began in the French Concession on Tuesday night with the time honoured and popular "Retraite des Flambeaux." The Bund was brilliantly decorated, lines coloured electric lamps along the roadside and on the various offices, together with various mottoes and pretty devices, having a pleasing effect.
The torchlight procession was the event of the evening, and was a fitting preliminary to celebration of the national festival. It was noticeable that the Chinese took more active part in the proceedings than on former occasions and seemed to be very enthusiastic.
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