Adams, on route Manila:—I have been in Shanghai but a few hours but in that short space of time I have seen much that would give me the idea that Shanghai is a lively town as compared with other large cities. Perhaps it is because Tam a visitor and just here for a short time that I have seen so much. I say. that the visitor somehow {gravitates toward liveliness when he is. But Lalso remember that after being i Paris some time I thought the city was greatly overrated in respect of its badness and Tam sure 1 would be of the same opinion here, were I to stay. Now that T am going out T can venture the opinion in, all that much of the' badness of Shanghai is occasioned by the Visitors who arrive here with preconceived notions of the lively place Shanghai is, and when they don't find it in keeping with their views they start gut to make it so. But the whole subject of badness has been terribly overrated.
The Under Dog Sary" interviewed on the Bund 11.30 p.m.:—"Shanghai bad! Say
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