Spring lay a dainty hand on Shanghai during the week-end, Gone was the gloom and the sheets of ice of even only a week ago. In the Hangjao Road district, which becomes more and more the country suburb of Shanghai, a blue sky, green fields and a countryside touched with the tender green of the spring crops told of the joyous the Council are naturally, if reluct wson which ix to come, "Down tantly, compelled under the present town, with the less. beau ground of skyscrapers, depression to abate that expansive-signboards and traffic streams, the effect was no less pleasant, of sunshine swept down the narrow
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