Shanghai Industrial Expansion Travellers in the far northwest of Shanghai, that little known region to the north of Gordon Road police station, will have observed with interest the many signs of industrial expansion which has recently taken place. A fow years ago, it was nearly all waste ground' and marsh land, the happy hunting ground of the water buffalo and beggar communities whose knowledge of landlords is even more primitive than their mode of life. Now, beggars and buffaloes have been driven farther afield, and much of the land bordering and adjacent to the Soochow creek taken manufacturers and merchants need of sites for mills and godowns. Within the last 10 years the aspect of the district has completely changed, and the change to industrialism has latterly been greatly accelerated. Large modern mills and factories have sprung up in all directions, and many others are in course of ereetion. Even on the Chapei side of the creek, reinforced concrete is making conspicuous advance.
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