Twelve days are to be devoted to the celebration of the tenth anniversary of the founding of the City Government of Shanghai. The picturesque decorations in the streets have been reinforced by those lantern exuberances which seem to give even the most official function in China a note of intimate roguishness comparable only with the gaiety of the Venetian carnival. The two elder. and, of course, the uglier sisters of the Shanghai Trinity will wish Cinderella a happy birthday. They are not so wrapped up in their own affairs as to be unable to give thought to Cinderella and her problems, They are prepared to agree that the young woman has grown much in ten years; she is not so feckless in her habits, she has discarded the irresponsibility of youth, she is developing a pretty style of her own and-she is showing what her elders may feel to be a disconcerting progressiveness in her approach to certain problems of which the modern municipal maiden cannot afford to be ignorant. Nor has she any reason to be ashamed of the way in which she has translated her ideals into practice. She may not move as quickly as she or her friends would like but even a modern girl cannot afford to be considered fast. The beautifully planned Civic Centre with its build-lings conforming to the best in Chinese architecture, its promise of a spacious future, the tentative beginnings of a housing scheme, the wharf at Jukong, the modern Fish Market, are all outward and visible signs of real progress.
8057 Four Mayors are gratefully remembered as Shanghai looks back
ernment's history. The importance on these ten years of the City Gov-of their work can be judged from their subsequent careers. The late General Huang Fu, the first of the line, became Minister of. Foreign Affairs, Chairman of the Peiping Political Council and a notable intermediary between the Chinese and Japanese Governments. General Chang Ting-fan became a member of the Central Executive Committee of the Kuomintang. General Chang Chun, also at one time Minister for Foreign Affairs, the right-hand man of General Chiang Kai-shek, is now Secretary-General of the Central Political Council. General Wu Te-chen, whom Shanghai is glad to pet from Kiangwan on the welcome again so soon after his
completion of a successful mayorally, is now Governor of Kwangtung where he has already made an excellent impression. The Acting Mayor, Mr. Vu Hung-chun, better known as Mr. O. K. Yui, has a prescriptive right to preside over the present ceremonies for, in his substantive capacity as Secretary-General of the City Government, he has been the executive chief of staff to the young muni-
Gipality ever since 1928, nearly the whole period of its existence, He therefore deserves no little of the credit for the achievements record-Jed. A graduate of St. John's University, Mr. Yui was at one time a Shanghai journalist but was caught up by the Foreign Office for employment at Hankow whence he was promoted within a year to the charge of the new City Governmentt's secretariat here. Still on the right side of forty—he will reach that age next year—Mr. Yui is an excellent example of the official of modern China, He naturally receives special congratulations on the auspicious anniversary which is now being celebrated. Both he and Madame Yui have braced themselves to the arduous task of their present duties with a dignity and charm which have been generally admired. light on the organized production of that specially pernicious drug, heroin, which far outstrips opium ju its dele-serious effects on the body and soul of its victims, Hankow seems to be the centre of a drug-distributing organization which has its tentacles in many places in China, The Governments six-year suppression plan is said to be working with success, according to Mr, Hanson, but he rightly lays emphasis in the dangers which accrue from certain aspects of registration. The chief merit of the Hankow scheme seems to lie in the separation of the drug-suppression machinery from that which is responsible for marketing opium. 1f the progressive reduction of consumption is to be brought successfully to the point of complete suppression there must be no truckling to the interests which hitherto have profited from the traffic,
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