In the column of fantastic Wwitticisms with "which he jgnlivens the "Daily Express," eludes a solitary grab! }of serious comment or description which stands out all the more by force of contrast. Such is to be found in one of the latest, copies of the paper to reach Shanghai. "Two Jdays ago," he writes, "I walked over the shoulder of the hill on the slopes of which was fought the Battle of Arques, and came upon a beautifully Jordered cemetery standing under he high forest and' facing the town of Arques across the river. It was a small cemetery ablaze with flowers, and marked the resting lace of the men of the South African and West Indian Labour Corps who died in the "European War. In one corner of it were graves of Chinese, the names writ-fen in Chinese characters, and a saying of Confucius engraved on the headstones in English. strange thing to discover on the fringe of a Norman forest, and one that will intrigue travellers of the future."
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.