Mr. A. W. Beaumont, sports promoter:—Shanghai may have been a bad city some years ago but I do not think it is now. The youth of Shanghai are taking more and more to open air sports and are leaving the indoor ones alone, and so the city's moral tone is improving. If tone were to believe the stories of Shanghai's badness he hears from some of the old residents, he would have a fixed idea of the city as it was years ago. But on invest tion he finds that much of the wick-eelness comes from the memories of old timers, who, I am afraid, have their recollective functions mixed with some of the books they read as youths. Shanghai is not a bad town at all,
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