This book is written by a former resident of Shanghai, Mr. Carl Crow, advertising and merchandising agent, who evacuated from Shanghai in the first rush of refugees early in the hostilities in this region, and, therefore, is not in a* position to write with first-hand knowledge of events in China since August.of lost year. As a matter of fact,-he wisely does not attempt to do so, but writes of things as he found them prior to tha date in both Japan, where he commenced his sojourn in the Orient as business manager of the "Japan Advertiser" some time prior to 1914, and in China, to which country he came later in the period covered by the World War ws representative for the United States Government Committee on Public Information
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.