Although much sympathy was felt inthe disappointment causes by the cancellation of various functions on Saturday owing to the wet weather, there has been some compensation the drop of temperature which gave Shanghai welcome respite from the frst onslaught of what was beginning exceptionally fierce hot spell. Having thus experienced cooler days, his community will perhaps be able fo face a resumption of summer's normal asperities with greater calm~ ness and equanimity. One old resldent was beard to declare that he could not recall a Fourth of July in Shanghai so free from signs of hot weather, "Nevertheless "the cheerfulness. of the celebrations of the Fourth seemed to suffer little on that account, Mr, Clarence E. Gauss and Colonel C.F. B. Price were enjoying their frst Fourth of July since their return here in their new appoint. ments, Judge Milton J. Helmick must have felt like an old inhabitant as he associated himself with his two dis-Lingulshed colleagues in leadership of the national celebrations, Tt was generally agreed that the "new hands" fulfilled their allotted tasks admirably and non-Americans gen erally had good reason. to approve of the gaiety of the day's doings, marked as they were by generous hospitality.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.