This week the ritual of speeding the departing traveller hasbeen, actively indulged in here, General Wu Te-chen was ° the " important centre-piece of some of these salutations and deftly managed to hold a farewell reception in honour of China's Special Ambassador to the Coronation of Their Britannic Majesties on one day and to throw out a lavish goodbye gesture on his own and Madame's account at the Civic Hall on the next, Dr. H. H. Kung, preparing to get his delegation '<or part of it—on botrd the gorgeous Victoria in the course of the week, has also been saying goodbye, and engaging in those necessary gymnasfice with time fables, itineraries and the like which even the highest dignatory cannot escape. It is dificult to! see how Shanghai m to reduce all these various functions to. the proper scale of an ordinary week's Programme. Yel somehow these things happen and, as, just before noon, in the cosy cocktail bar put at the disposal of their guests by the of the city's busiest mar Hime to discuss sandwiches and sedat gossip, soit can be assumed that Shanghai gets everything under control.
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