Remarkable Display in P. & 0. Bank Building: Large Range of Subjects and Styles "ell aa represe The Train Draws in The station was lined with Fengtien soldiers, many of whom were armed with hand machine-guns, members of the Shanghai and Woo-whilst potted plants were placed different sections of the hall, 'There were a number of fore eigners present, including several members of the Consular Body, score of Chinese officials and' sprinkling of Chinese Indies, but the total attendance was more than 600.
Chinese plays were given all the afternoon, but there were no An exhibition of Western Art! under the auspices of the China Society of Science and Art in the O, Bank Building was formally
number of people being "presen ened on Friday last week, a ares Mr. Arthur de C. Sowerby, President of the Society, in a short speech said that he wished publicly to thank the members of the Committee for the work accomplished by them which had been extremely hard and which had been done splendidly.
Mr, J, T. Pratt, H. M. Acting Consul-General, called attention to the comparatively recent inaugur tion of the Society some two years ago saying that, nevertheless, this was second Art Exhibition' which the Society had held. The first Art Exhibition had taken place year in the "North-China Daily News" Building, but this year the only. rooms available had been' found too small to accommodate the large number of exhibits. Thanks to the kindness of Lady Sheng Kung-pao, they had the use of the present: rooms. pri was the wonderful pro-One thing by which he was im-
gress of the Society, whose aims: were somewhat ambitious. He was iven to understand that they aimed to establish in Shanghai a Selence Museum, a Lecture Hall, Permanent Art Gallery and a Reference Library. A society which eimed high was likely to succeed.
'All of them owed a deep gratitude to people who got up exhibitions of this kind, as there was a very strong tendency' in a cosmopolitan place Tike Shanghai for the different sonalities to get into water-tight ympartments. Here they could find
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