Cathay and Palace Return to Normal After Bombing Shanghai, Sept. 10
Yesterday two neighbours, separate Jed only by the width of the Nanking Road and both ooking out on. that thoroughfare as well as on the Bund, Jegreed simultaneously' to come to life again, after five. weeks" clowtre, "As they were the Cathay and the Palace Hotels which suffered #0 sadly in the bombing of August 14, the effort was notable.
Many. friends called in on Mr, Robert Telfer and Mr. F, Boss to con: gratulate them, Very sensibly the opening was not made the occasion for [any special flourish, A' business-like {return to work, s0 far as. conditions Permitted, "was' the keynote "of. the attitude of the two managements, Signs of the disaster were all too apparent as the visitor was taken up tothe ballroom of the Cathay gazed at the matting which roots part for the Palace Hotel where the. bomb wrought such havoc, Yet th tals of the return to normal there—kitchens running, lounges reopened and dining rosine calmly prepared to perform thelt proper Fumetions.
Indeed the famous Peking room on the eighth Moor of the Cathay looked fas if it had been running without me lerruption, although could It have fee en persuaded to release some of Lits impressions trust have had 'a uiriting story to tell. A' glimpse that room in' which so many people fin" Shanghai "have spent. plestant evenings and enjoyed many midday luncheons give a cheer promise of ter times. Mfay they soon come for both hotels "and for the com: munity generally.
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