City's Growth Staggers All Imagination.
Gen, Wu Te-chen, Mayor of Greater Shanghai, who was the main speaker Saturday's tifin of the Pan-Pacifc Association in the Civic Centre Building, chose for his topic. "Th Development of Greater Shanghai.
c.f. Wang, who presided, pa Prior to" the main address, Dr tribute 0 Col. M. Cosgrave, Cana Gian Trade Commissioner" and. {pioneer member of the association, who is shortly leaving for Australia fon transfer. Col. Cosgrave replied in sable fermk shang 'Mayor Wu said:—"Shanghai, as you know, is the name given to' the tid. walled city, which was built in 1290. Five hundred and forty years Tater, that is, In the 10th year of Tao Kwang (1830), the population of who city was placed at 40,000, according to City Records. That part the outskirts, now known as Nate ao but then the main waterway 19 the city, had a population of about 40,000. "Shanghai then was a market for farmers and fishermen, who made lup the bulk of the population, In he city, native handicraftsman were in the majority
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