due to prevailing poverty. Set off gainst the signs of a decrease in commercial activity may be figures showing an actual improvement in industrial development. The main problem is that of dealing with the actual meaning of dis-ress as personified in the lists of unemployed men and women. Among foreigners it is said that disquieting element is the increase in unemployment among those who have families dependent on them. Another complicate circumstance is the apparent continuance of an outside belief in the potentialities of Shanghai as a labour market. Men and women are still arriving here, not with employment guaranteed them, but in the hope that, having tried to secure posts in- their own countries without, success, they may "pick up" something here. It is to be hoped that consular offi-Is will once again warn the appropriate authorities that enterprises of this Kind should be sternly discouraged. It is most unfair on the unemployed Shanghhailander that he should be subjected to gratuitous competition from outside when the internal competition is already fore enough. It is also unfair that locally subscribed charitable funds should have to be diverted in relief of comparatively new arrivals to this city. In spite of the distress, some of these intrepid visi tors have actually found a niche for themselves. This has been due usually to their possession of special qualifications. It does not Justify modification of the general statement that Shanghai, at pre-ay °Missre tie Leo Nans?"
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