SShanghal is thatthe resident aay One of the advainsages of living in
benefit so tremendously from the refreshing observations and. comments on local problems and conditions by casual visitors who bring into use powerful analytical faculties combined with a strict exactitude for facts, An article in the May issue of "The Blue Peter," the travel magazine, written by the Baroness Clifton, is a case in point and ought to be drawn to the editor's attention. "Dealing with the "spice of life" which apparently applies to Shanghai, the distinguished authoress, who is at least a little antiquated in her dates to say nothing of her facts, has these observations to make:
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hal Heroare banks and often, te Dalace of the Hongkong and Shatghat Banking Corporation, which opened itt new building a ow years ago with tit'ie majesue ceremony of 8 golden key wielded by "Diplomacy. "and icort of the Shanghai Volunteers People who attended the ceremony will undoubtedly recall the prodigal Ity of the Banks" hospitality but not the Volunteer escort, Stil, Shanghai {snot so lightly dismissed:
"here fant cathedral school, other foreign schools. anda British Women's Institute of gargantuan' proportions. "There. are news.
papers, the "North China Dally News, American paper, an "The Shanghai Mereur journalistic fireworks, French and, of course, Russian, There is some doubt as to whether the authoress means that the "North= China Daily News" is an American newspaper, or whether the wording is so vague as to add an American newspaper, whose name she has forgotten, to the list of local newspapers In any case, our evening contemporary will appreciate the fact that "The Shanghi ceased publication years ago and was incorporated with the present publication, Shanghai is good at hotels, There are the Astor House, the Catiton a the Majestic.
Of course, the Carlton never was an hotel and does not exist under the name now. 'The fight at a ratepayers' meeting over the Majestic site which ceased to accommodate any hotel some years ago and is a vacant lot should recall to local residents mer of this palatial hostelry. Maners of other hotels will also be interested in this description of Shanghai's hotel facilities. There a other quotations which could be made but when people burst into print with such misstatements there is no wonder Shanghai's problem receive such peculiar reception abroad.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.