A picturesque sight was present-the French Ccnecssion Sight fell. innumerable _cleetxic flints, forming. Tumnated arch-over the crowded streets be-heath; hordes of sight-seers, par-'Yeularly among the nati tion; ever ready to parade or festivity Searchlights from the cruiser wet, herself a blaze of colour rom stem to stern, lighting up the French Consulate on the Quai de France, and the tall structure of the Cenotaph, sharply outlined against the sky, all combined to form a picture. all too rarely seen in the "Paris of the East."
'Avenue Joffre, one of Shanghai' busiest thoroughfares in normal
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