ery great historic value at~ taches to a section of the Christmas cards current in Shanghai this. year, and it will be generally admitted that seldom has there' been season when these have been of more interest than the present, Certainly those who make a colleen tion of the particular ones to which we refer will prize them but striking chronicle of the year's important events, We wre, of course, alluding to the photographic ones and it is instruct tive to, note how different battalfons, sime of them no longer in Shanghai, have picked out interest. {ing episodes in their local service. There is the card of the Coldstre Guards which shows the trooping, of the colour on the Race Cou Another regiment shows its mom-bers marching over the Garlen Bridge, while others have selected photographs depicting scenes at outposts, groups of men guarding sandbag' redoubts, with all the ace companiment of barbed wire and so forth. Then there are all the naval hotographs—a fine collection of pictures taken in the Whangpoo and elsewhere, some of them in from far distant stations but, sent to friends here as a souvenir of their stay in Shanghai, In this connection a card from the barracks of the Royal Marines at Home is especially striking, although it has nothing to do with Shanghai, but is the reproduction of a painting a century old. It is surely not. too much to express the hope that some public body will make a collection of those cards, for not only do the stand for so much history but th also in a sense constitute a tribute to the warmth of hospitality which has characterized Shanghai in its relation to the Defence Force, Pro-Comaunist handbills were found posted in Chinese territory on December 26, These denounce the Nationalist campaign as the "White terror" and Chang Kai-shek as a hireling of the Japanese impenalists.
A meeting which was arranged to be held in the Shanghai Students Union on Sunday for' the purpose Merchants and Students League' was abandoned owing to the poor attendance, In reply to inquiries we are asked to say that only 120 subscribers have come forward to support the China Broadcasting Association, a sixth of whom are in outports. This is only a small fraction of the number of those who own ing sots and are interested in foreign programmes. Unless there is a very considerable spurt in support given up to the present it looks as if the efforts of those who are doing their best to recommence broadcasting will come to nothing,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.