Shanghai is the essence of every-hing ecsmopvliss: for any day one can read in the papers, ads. for energetic Germans, Scotch experts in importing and exporting, expert Esthonian agriculturalists, English of whose existence he did not know a couple of weeks previously. His description of the city is a gem of conciseness. He took in Foochow Road at one glance. electricians, New Zealand conductors, Philippine foremen or Lett engineers.
Lastly in the shop-windows are spread out products imported from all over the world, Japan is very much there, at every street corner, with her woollens, silks, cultured. pearls, lobsters, iron ware, rubber Brticles, Inequers and toys; America With her gasoline stations, garages, canned. preserves and cigarettes; England with her tailors, fabrics, sporting goods and shirt' factories; the Philippines with their mangoes and straw hats; Hawaii with pine~ apples; the USSR. with agricultural products and match boxes; Alaska with salmon; Australia with butter and' Hongkong with green peas.
In the matter of cabarets and night clubs, the American Shanghat boasts of the Shanghai Club with the Biggest bar in the world, and the North Szechuen Road, when evening falls, earns a similar' diadem, for it the greatest brothel in the world with its diversity of courtesans, white and yellow, Slav and Anglo-Saxon, Korean and Malayan, Chinese and Hindoo, halt-breeds of all shades and every category dancing and @rinking to the sound of Philippine orchestras or player pianos. natives costume and foreigners from 40 countries; sailors specially: bland giants with shoes like elephant's feet with nurses' caps stuck on the ide of their heads,
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