Falling in with the mood of 'Shanghai's seventieth birthday Dr. Chatley, as will be seen, has me dulged in the pleasant' occupation of picturing Shanghai two centuries hence. Into the picture he brought that ancient Yangtze wi and, particularly, its untidy—or Yangtze is so constituted that the Lidal—habits. "10 appears that the record flood figure of one gener tion may be a normal occurrence next, Dr. Chatley kindly forets a time when Shanghailanders will have to raise all their roads and building sites by one or two feet, This is important information, should be borne in mind by all those who are inclined to be irritated about their landlord: carry out repairs, unreasonable to postpone that apers tion until the time comes for the site to be raised." Then—the plaintive voice of the down-trodden tand-lord can be heard to say—it will be possible to make one good job of it at one time, Whether Dr. Cha considers that thi will simplify. dise side Roads problem has not been revealed. The authoritative me formation which he has provid certainly proves that the one ce stant factor in the kaleidoscope yeh is Chinn i the inconstancy of the venerable but ever youthfully skittish Yangtze,
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