Shanghai, Mar. 8.
Shanghal_may be cold' and cheerless these bleak March days the wails of the pessimists are Stil heard down the north winds "but nothing could suppress the Joy last night in the Central Di trict when beloved "Big Ching shone benevolently out into the ft. Tt was on fateful Black Saturday, August 14 last, that the Customs clock went black after sundown and, despite much coax-temined to night owls Ing, the famous timepiece's face
for nearly seven months, Last night it shone again, bringing ood cheer to all whose nightly Found takes them near The Bund, to mariners on the river, and 10 those who now can count the weary "watches of their duty through curfew-silent streets, gather material for another best-seller.
Mrs. Katsuko Fujii, of the Kyoto Botanical Gardens, arrived here to convey. the Japan' Women's National Defence Association's good wishes to {troops In Central Chint The largest group of passengers: Jon the vessel was the Japan Salvage Company's expedition of 35 engineers. and workers, sent here to afloat the Nissin Kisen Kaisha's river ships sunk off Nantao.
Delayed for a day by fag, the Nagasaki Maru left here less" than five hours after her arrival. Among the departing passengers was Count /Kocho Ohtani, Chief Abbot of the Higashi Hongan Temple in. Kyoto.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.