According to recent statistics the population of Shanghai is increasing at the rate of nearly 100,000 a year. Rich man, poor man, beggar man, thief; each presenting a problem which must be solved by this community. Problems in finance, labour problems, and problems in the main. tenance of law and order. On every stroke of the clock there are eleven more mouths to feed; eleven more heads must be provided with a shelter; eleven more brains will commence to-exercise themselves with matters of personal profit or mischief for others. Shanghai will solve these problems as she has solved many others through 88 eventful years. Her facilities for profit westment are unequalled in generally speak-unemployment problem.
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