Pleasant accounts have been received privately from Hongkong fully endorsing Reuler's suggestion that the Colony rose to the occasion in dealing with the sudden influx of A woman who can 3 comment—has expressed the view that "Hong. Konig has done wonderfully for the Shanghai refugees and Is organizing _marvellously." [Other evacuees have written in much the same train. Tt fe inevitable that" hitches should feccur, that some points should be overlooked, that some requirements cannot be fuldiled in Jan emergency ich as that which confronted it ike Colony.
In fairness tothe evacuees it should be' said that they have on the whole shown themselves ready, to endure, Improvisa-Hong, to "double up" or even "treble up." Judging from come comments in the Hongkong Journals they have also had to realize the! fembarrasement which their arrival has caused some of the regular inhabitants. It.is not all Sam (or either party to this temporary. union eotonial most people have sum lent Jot" the internationalized Briton with "her
faith in British comradeship, sense of humour fand adaptability to believe that by this time the asperities have been eliminated and the "The chief impres-lon gained at this distance is one of distin! gratitude to resourceful and hospitable. Hong~ 3 J hone.
This Journat's special correspondent _has for ought into proper" perspective the admirable Jarrangements made by the Hongkong author!- ties and unoMelal organizations for the recention of the evacuees from Shanghai. Confirmation of his impressions is derived from private letters which continue to contain cheerful se~ counts of the Shanghai invasion of the Island. [One husband has been good enough to permit Jquotation from a connubial despatch which, doubt rightly if affectionately observes, Jeomes. fron a woman with a head on her shoulders. "The lady after a despairing wonder whether there ore any "strictly truthful people Tett in the world" proceeds bowels of the the trend of this letter suggests that Shanghai has no reason to be uneasy about the kind of welcome given te its evacuees.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.