56 Years Missionary. in China, Many Escapes and Now at, Last Driven Out Who is there in Shanghai to-day who does not love to hark back to the old days, (or failing the ability to do this, "owing to insufficient years, to listen to tales told by old hands) "when "things "were different," Shanghai still but a potential port of wealth and many of what are now her busiest thoroughfares yet green fields? But there must be few old China hands alive, so keenly interested in all that is going on around her now, with such a strong, clear memory which carries her' back to the Shanghai of 1870 and above all with such a sparkling senso of humour, as Mise M. Laurence of heavy lorry in front of a house.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.