which means merely a day's closing of offices in Shanghai is at home the biggest national festival the year. Although unlike game other holidays it does have some beating on the banking business in the popular conception, there is no holiday during the year and no festival in any other country which is quite like the British August Bank Holiday Monday. It is 'a day when the majority of the country simply shuts up shop and adjourns for the day to the seaside or the country aided by prodigious feats of transportation and catering. for which preparations by the respective wizards have been made for months, always, of course, with 'a keen eye kept on the weather. Foreigners who have visited England and witnessed the spectacle have eft with indelible impressions of the country indulging in mass pleasure just for a day and have Aecounted it one of the greatest of British institutions even though to. many it means only taking a few buns and a bottle of tea to the nearest "park or a trip to Hampstead Heath and its hectic pleasures. An additional attraction how is the Navy Week programme, the period from August 4 {o August 11 Raving been designated for the purposes when the great dockyards of Portsmouth, Chatham and Plymouth are open to the public and many: famous warships will be open inspection. Gunnery, torpedo and diving" displays will be given and will Include a demonstration of the Davis submarine escape apparatus which was used so successfully at the sinking of the submarine Poseidon at' Weihaiwei some time
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