From the wide, green fields about the Civic Centre there arose a spatter fof firecrackers, The crowd waiting behind ropes across the street surged forward. Arm in arm the 35 married couples descended the stairs and were arranged in a huge semi-circle to have their photographs taken. A whistle blew. The-police fell back. Some few hundred relatives dashed across the street to proffer their seongratulations, and for halt an hour there was chaos in Kiangwan a6 the bridal parties battled their wey through the crowd to find their ears By 5.30 the cars were gone, the firecrackers were silent and the crowd had dispersed. The fields were empty under the afternoon sun. In Shanghai 35 newly established fami. Wes can boast of the most modern of weddings, accomplished with neat rest and dispatch.
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