The Archive · 1935

Standard of Living in Shanghai

Latest investigations of the family condition of Shanghai labourers officials of Social Affairs Bureau have revealed that, on the average, the total yearly income of a labourer's family of five is only $416.81 and the total yearly expense, $454.38, thus causing a deficit of $87.87, which the hourers used to meet by loans oF pawning their clothing.

Three women and an infant vere drowned opposite Woosung on Tues day. (Jan. 15) as a Tungchow unk: capsized subsequent to a collision with the st. Dah Shing. Six male members of the crew were saved by villagers, who in spite of their best efforts could not loose the victims from the junk's tangled salls, from us since the World War by Three times the saluting crowd answered "Hell!" and the ceremony, marked by the singing of the [fSaariana™" song "closed" with Deutschland Ueber Alles" and the forst Wessel" song, following which the familiar salute was given as the national and party emblems were borne into the Church.

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