In addition to continuance of its running narrative of the course of operations round Shanghai and the usual despatches from other parts of China, "Oriental Affairs" for November gives an interesting and well-nformed account of the two months' activities of the special organizations established under the auspices of the two foreign municipalities and the City Government to safeguard Shanghai's food supply, The record is well worth reading. Not only does it vividly expound the difficulties of the problem with which the improvised bodies have had to deal but by showing how effectively many of those difficulties were overcome it ives much encouragement for the future when, possibly, other and new issues may be expected to arise. Its account of the adventures encountered in collecting rice for the due provision of the Settlement is necessarily restrained but it sufficiently indicates the exercise of qualities which have served Shanghailanders so well in the effort to meet the most serious emergency ever befalling this City.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.