Passing on, it is pleasant to find that Mr. Greenwall has polite things to sey about the Shanghai Club that should be gratifying to the membership: ating of bate n tole "Talking of bars, the most famous that of the Shanghai Club. To see A of DR a Saturday morning is A Ais Dar on a Satamat "well, forget might that one Americans. and. the Europeans are mostly British, line uj Europeans, Are. oe elc deep. and wat in front of the pot drinks to oe served conducted club, and T was very surprised that, of all the Paste iced Sapeze i find arnns Vds ib found d wee wriers 2. S Shanghai, the eric ace where I allowed was on one mar atthourh dice Shanghai Club... playing is not allowed in the bar of The Shanghai Club, many thousands, Cite tony races. One of the duds over sweenwdbps" in the world Shanghai Club. A dd be written of the have been won and walked in fiteraliy wealthy and who have come on! through a str "China's "Little Marshal"
In concluding. one passes Chapter XV, "Chinese Sketches, which it is hoped may prove informative to China residents: mitudonisl Bureau, which was called ranking Mrs. Soong opened a The Door of Hope." Girls who had small dowries went io this bures to find a husband. paid a small fee and in return went through a Course of household duties.
And on page 266 we learn that:
Hea "ie om. every where in China as the "Little Marshal." He is everything that the leader of China is not. I do not know for certain whether Chiang Kai-shek is really as anti-foreign as he is said io be, but there is no question that the "Little Marshal" is pro-foreign. He likes to play golf, bridge and poker even though he plays the national game of mah-jongg. He likes to go to the foreigners' clubs and sit among them, talking rather bad English and sipping whisky and soda. Although Chiang Kai-shek may be anti-foreign, he has cast cif many of the old Chinese customs, especially one which allows a Chinaman to have as many concubines "Little Marshall' laying a lone hand, but neither in favour of Moscow nor of Tokyo. In China to-day, however, that does not mean a great deal. One may be playing a lone hand on the chessboard but to-morrow one may be a pawn, or perhaps I should say a knight or castle, in the hands of somebody. hey have kept me well posted, and my information is most up to date," the reader of this pabulum called "Pacific. Scene" is informed, and "my publishers persuaded me that what I had already written had value, and that my first-hand knowledge of the real situation in the Pacific should be published. So there it ds"
So there it is. Quite!—w.B.L.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.