While the Chinese have been engaged during the week-end celebrating their Mid-Autumn Festival, other people have been holding celebrations of other and perhaps to them more interesting events. One of these is the Battle of Loos, Saturday-—n celebration tinged with the anniversary of which fell on
a certain sorrow, for it was at Loos that the flower of Kitchener's first 100,000 were mown down. Still if was a wonderful victory and showed the way to other and greater successes. Likewise Saturday was the anniversary of the day when the first contingent of Shanghai men left for the front, and that is really a very great anniversary in the current history of Shanghai. Then there are others Who are really fond of the Harvest Moon unqualified by any other men judging by our yachting event. The latter include yachts-
correspondent's remarks—and there 1s at least one fellow who has a particular reason for his love. It was not that he was walking his best girl out under the rays of the Harvest Moon; as a matter of fact he had just been killing Germans and then wanted to go home, home in this case being a damp dug-out. But the Harvest Moon on this occasion was late in rising, and he was strung up in the German barbed wire: with less than half an idea of how to get out, in fact he knew not in which direction lay home-Then the blessed moon shone, he found the much desired path; and he always "chin-chins" this par cular moon. Unfortunately he knows only one song about the moon, and he sings that flat, but the Follies used to do it beautifully Moon, Moon, stronely shining, Don't go out to soon, For you've auch a charm about you That I cannot do without you, All very silly, without question, but such songs stick in the memory rather more firmly than the Psalms of David.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.