Aug. 15.
Tue extraordinary hold which Dr. Sun Yat-sen has upon the imagination of his fellow-countrymen of the South was shown by the excitement aroused by his arrival in Shanghai. We even hear that in some places where Cantonese are employed in large numbers, work was seriously interfered with on Saturday, the day that the Empress was due, merely by the spell of his name. At the Customs jetty yesterday fifty-four different organizations are said to have been represented among the crowd of Chinese welcomers. Some of them carried flags of distinctly political hue, which they tried to fasten to railings and posts. Seeing that such ""common objects of the sea shore are municipal property, and that there are probably as many organizations in Shanghai which are violently opposed to Dr. Sun as those on his side, the demonstrators were very rightly told by the police to remove their flags.
A welcome to Dr. Sun was one thing; a political demonstration ending possibly in a riot was quite another. For like reasons it was very wisely arranged that Dr. Sun should not land by the ordinary tender but, as was actually done, should be disembarked quietly at Woosung. So the demonstrators at the public jetty had to go home disappointed.
It is hardly possible that Dr. Sun's presence in Shanghai should not have a disturbing:
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.