Whole of Bund in Blaze of Colour: Shanghai En Fete:
Impregnable Wall of Humanity WITH an explosion of a rocket, H.M.S. Cumberland gave the signal for the Coronation illuminations to be turned on promptly at 8 pin. on May 11.
Immediately Shanghai burst into a joyous, display of myriad coloured lights, and fromone.end of the Bund to the other skyscraper after skyscraper blazed forth brilliantly against the night sky, making the whole.water~ front mass of twinkling light that lit up the buildings and spelt "Long Live the King'and Queen" or other loyal messages.
Vari-coloured crowns stood out amid the bright array, and the Garden Bridge made golden reflections in the Soochow Creek—a striking contrast to ils usually drab colour. Away down in the direction of Point island, almost as far as the eye could see, red crown stood out plainly, marking. the boundary of the sweeping area covered by the illuminations, jand in the other direction, far down the French Bund, another building, brilliantly illuminated, stood out amid the surrounding dariiness as the most southerly point in the display. Out in the river, where usually only dark shape loomed in the dark-Ress was a ship outlined in lights HIS. Cumberland, "a magnificent spectacle, It up from stem to stern. with all who details of her structure 1o'the tip of the masts and funnels twinkling assembly of lights, Truly scone out of fairyland, and one Farely witnessed in a lifetime Great White Way"
Nanking and Bubbling Well Roads, with their seething masses. kept on the move, and off the road, by armies of watchful, policemen, were ho less lavish In Ube richness of freir display. Shanghai's "Great White Way, sight for the visitor even en mary occasions, Ut up the night sey even more-brilliantly than usual.
'Around the Race Course, where' the frst performance of the Corona lon Tattoo was taking place, It was Impossible to move, the crowds form= ing on impregnable wall along the Pavement on the north side. There was not a man to be seen on the other side of the road, however. "Remembering the wild scenes during the Jubilee Tattoo, a long line of pollcomen, including many Sikhs on ponies, Kept the crowds strictly under ce trol, and prevented them from' oss-Ing. the road, On the Race Course side of the road were more policemen,—while, stationed inside the Race Course itself was squad of helmeted policemen belonging to the Riot Squad, All that the crowds outside could sce of the tattoo were the searchlights
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