Taken from Pedestal After 66
Years' Residence After Jooking down proudly upon the Shanghai populace for the past 66 years, a noble Admiral in the French Concession suffered a severe loss to his dignity on July 30 when he was forcibly removed from his perch and. placed unceremoniously on the ground trod by common fect. He presented a sad picture of fallen Pride as he stood beside "his old pedestal in front of the Poste Mallet, Rue clu Consular, His cloak still swung jauntily over. his left shoulder, his right" hand" stil grasped. his famed telescope, while he still Yeaned upon a bollard' threaded with the hopes of his old craft, But he appeared shaken by his sudden and. forcible removal, spite of the fact that he was bbviously trying desperately hard to retain his dignity, despite his impossible position, stuck awkwardly on. the ground, and surrounded by a. rope barrier' roughly thrown around him.
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