"Journal de Shanghai" Makes a Promising Start On Saturday morning, there appeared the first manifestation of a new force in Shanghai which, one is convinced at a glance, is going to be real and permanent asset to this community. The reference is to the first sue of the "Journal de Shanghai," which appeared chaste and conservative form but in thoroughly modern and businesslike style. The efficiency of the staff that has brought. this new organ into being is evident throughout, from the printing and "make-up" to the presentation of news and the editorial tones, Comment everywhere has been favourable and M.
Jean Fontenoy is to be sincerely congratulated upon his production, The value of this paper to the whole Occidental community, those who do not read it as well as those who do, will be obvious to anyone with a political sense who appralags ite quality and the tone of initial leading article. It is 9 paper welch, the Paslalan editors who search the exchanges for light on China when this country is in the limelight will not ignore, or discard and, if one is to judge by"
editorial introduction, which is 'a statement of policy, the "Journal de Shanghai" will face facts frankly and comment upon them with unusual justice and candour.
The lending article in this first issue opens with a graceful tribute to the "Echo de Cine," the pioneer organ in the French community, which served it long and faithfully and paved the way for the establishment of its successor. It is then explained that the French Chamber of Commerce saw the urgent need of a new paper when the "cho de Chine" ceased publication, because Sino-foreign relations had, at that very juncture, reached a crisis, with Red influence prodding on the Chinese revolutionary move~ ment' and distorting respectable national aspirations. The Shangh community was without a French unofficial organ when it needed one most, so the "Journal" was conceived and brought into being as soon as problems of transport and mechanical difficulties would permit.
The leading article points out while most of the French follo in China read English readily enough, an English language paper can never be their paper. A journal has a personality and is encouraged or criticized as a person and, it is implied, no paper but a French paper can be so received in the French community.
In closing, after an appeal to the French-speaking Chinese to read the paper and give it advice, it is made clour that foreigners' here—the French certainly—desire chiefly to live in peace and to have unmolested the fruits of much constructive work done under diplomatic guaran-teos—which is to the interest of th the editor adds, Apart from a full display of routine news, there is ing showing of Europel Eastern correspondence.
sins no reason to doubt that the journal" will acquire dignity here and influence in France, adding one more voice to those that sock to interpret China and the foreigner's ease in China to the Occident,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.