The ald of Chinese exorcists was invoked last Wednesday night by the Japanese builders of the Japanese Machinery Exposition hall on North Szechuen Road to. expel all evil spirits that might have occupied the Site, local Japanese papers reported.
The two-hour ceremony was said by the officiating Chinese priest to have been the second time in the past 50 years that a Chinese religious ritual hes been employed by Japanese Shanghai.
'The half-completed building of the exposition collapsed on May 4. for undetermined reasons, injuring eight persons, two of them' serlou:'y. The Tosses were estimated by tie Toa Construction and Decoration any, contractors, at ¥.10,000, Afler receiving a new " permit from the Shanghai Municipal Coun-ell, the firm og began its work yesterday in an fort to complete the building before June 1, when the exposition is ts open,
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