Shanghai's Bund is her pride. This sttest skirts the length of the quays where stand Asiatic Petroleum, Shanghai Club, Union Building, Hongkong Bank' and Sassoon House. Advertising posters strike the eye of new arrivals on the pier and haughty business and banking citadels Ile in wait for their gold prey, guarded by two bronze ons, which {indifferently contemplate the waves of humanity beating against their are emptied and telephone girls, stenographers and _dactylographer of all shades and races mingle with the crowd among vagabond rickshaws and motor cars lined up by the hundreds along the quay.
Tu Bubbling Well, the Medhurst, 8 sort of gigantic tub offers de luxe apartments and SO-yard sun-rooms which permit the lovely Slavs and Anglo-Saxons to. acquire at home that iodine colouring which is bought s0 dearly on the beaches of Tsingtao and Peltaho.
Sassoon House is broken up into offices opening off endless corridors. Without moving off one floor a person can take out an insurance policy oF place an order on the exchange: edit a publicity contract or consult 8 radiologist; have a tooth filled or buy cough lozenges; buy or sell sugar, surgical instruments, silk, woollens, curios, motors, dynamos and women's hats.
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