Hotel became a bee-hive of activity! shortly past noon on Thursday, when the 325 tourist-passengers of the P.-S, Empress of Australia arrived there following a trip through the native city and the: Settlement, and began' making inquiries for mail from the homelands. At an information desk in. the lounge, attendants from the local offices of the C. P. R. were on hand to dispense the prized parcels and more than one wistful ejaculation was overheard regarding the "enor. mous mail" someone else had got Many well known nay cluded in the passenger lis ar's cruise by the Austral is the flagship of the Canadian Pacific fleet. A brief two days are all that are allowed for stopover in Shanghi and it is interesting to note that the' Australia wit! go to Chinwang-tap, whence her passengers will be privileged to see Peking, a city not Included in the itinerary of recent. tourist ships.
After arrival about 11 o'clock on Thursday "morning the tour-fists were given a cursory view of the Settlement and the ative environs and then had tiffin at" the "Astor House, As soon as possible after this they tout ange more in motor ears and lelias to explore the-town farther. here are among the passengers all types of tourists, many of wont preted their pleasure a the tour arrangements when questioned yosterday. Not all can be called the "tipper" type, as was. proved by fa short chat with a distinguished group, the Earl and Countess ut Pembroke and Montgomery, and the Earl of Rosslyn, who are being entertained by Sir Elly Kadoorie r2- turning to Shanghai, and also. a Passenger on the Australia, Mrs. Hazel Harris Mansfeld, juvenile editor of the San Francisco) "chronicle," and well known in American journalistic circles; Mr. Edsom L, Pease, ex-president of the Royal Bank of Canada, at Montreal; Dr, Gertrude F. Jones, returning
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