While November hesitates to de-olde between being sunny or tearful <with a hint of fog—in. Shanghat fand Is even more uncertain regard-ne tts prover temperature the molle bring evidence of the approach of Christmas in the a 33 numbers. By the time ave been read and entoved it will time for. Shanghailanders to ponder over. their Christmas programme. unless there are stern dis Clolinarlans who pack these welcome arrivals Into a cupboard for produc-than on the proper date. Amone the new arrlvnis is the weekly edition of "The Times" whieh—dated Novenber G—carrien Christmas stories, onutifully coloured. pictures readiness for the seaton. The fronflroece fe a delightful portrait Kino in his study at' Sandrine? sitting tu front of a microphone through "which his Christmas mes sage to the Empire goes. There fenndertul sents Winfracred™ photosranh of London from a height of 21.000 feet and it turns the whole fof Greater London into a vivid map. Contrasts between Christmas. trans: ort In 18%4 and 1034 brine In coaches and aernnlanes and streamlined mo= tors. And among the photographs in natural colours is one of the heart of the Rmoire—the statue of Eros in his familiar settling of Piccadilly Circus and the famous beverage hight-signs over the Montco.
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