Aug. 5.
The passing of August Bank Holiday marks a stage in the year even in those countries which do not specifically dedicate that day to release from toil. In Shanghai, limp but cheerful frames enjoying the unusual Sunshine begin to speculate on|lead in that they are prov the possibilities of the colder t,000 refugees whom they are days ahead, The juvenile population all the world over is of its school routine a ed in impressing on its parents the trials and tribulations which the paid supervisors of youth endure for the greater part of the year. As the telegrams to-day show the skies are made painfully aware of the holiday mood of mankind. The determination to fly from one part of the globe to another in fuifilment of some whim or fancy is developing itself to the point of making airmanship the commonplace quality which the pioneers of aviation 80 profoundly desi There are folk who do not, th are others who cannot" work even on August Bank holiday, In Shanghai, for exam there la the tale of the consoler tious manager who attended office on Monday expressly to send to his London office a cable in order to show that, even f}if London was occupied in hike ing, or yachting or seeing Surrey settle their annual diffe ences with Nottinghamshire at the Oval, he at least was holding the fort on the Whangpoo. is. characteristic of hi inanity that when it is told that calamity hangs over it, it should decide to make holiday in convincing a manner as possibi Mr. Snowden and his Economy Committee may have talked lugubriously of the dark dave of October. The British people, judging from the telegrams—and even more from the paucity of news which they reflect—have just dismissed that mode of thought from their minds. They have crowded the seaside, sprawled across the roads, lounged in the parks and swarmed on the face of the network of rivers, No doubt they will argue that, by thus bracing up their mental equipment, they are better able, now that the holiday is over to treat in their proper light the horrors of Mr. Snowden's nightmare.
Tu Shanghai' August ° Bank holiday has passed quietly enough, Even here, however, there has been nourishment, of holiday hopes. Visions' of extrication from' the doldrums? of depressed markets have forced their way into the consciousné of the takers of ease away from the strenuousness of the Bund
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