Although on the occasion of a complimentary dinner preparatory to the Pleasant "adventure of going on Home leave, Sir Louis Beale would naturally be inclined to look upon Shanghai in a charitable light, his tribute to the excellences of" the international society here must be regarded as being more than the product of a desire to throw a valediey tory bouquet, In due course, Sir Louis and Lady Beale will be return-
england and so shrewd a diplomat jhere after their brief visit to as Sir Louis would not be inclined to give unnecessary hostages to what fever fortune may come to offlet oF encourage the official sojourner here, drawing attention to the. complexity of international currents in Shanghai, to the perplexity of its systems of administration and to the Inevitable uncertainties attendant on lis lawful occasions, Sir Louis was able to show that despite all. those drawbacks Shanghailanders managed somehow to keep the peace among themselves, to develop no little faculfor friendship—to the value of which Aristotle was called in witness—and to make real progress ata pace by no means discreditable considering
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