nghai and the News nghai's interest, almost__approaching ty, in the, fateful drama developing in e was reflected on Sept. 14 by the eager sts for the latest news pouring into the of this journal. At times it became imto satisfy the requests owing to the changes in the political scene during the revealed by the telegrams, and the radio casts, of which the "North-China Daily delivered three in addition to a bulletin jo the office and the distribution of an during the morning. merely whetted the te for more. It was not just interest in ation evolving thousands of miles away: a sense of deep concern in a series of likely to drag even thispartof the world he vortex, In most requests—and in most rations in which the Czech-Sudeten imwas the dominant topie—was an under-of hope that the worst would not happen hot even the flimsiest straw was of inible worth to cling to in the cause of And this was a feeling in all com-joo linked racially and nationally to the pal parties in the dispute which, at it has not gone farther than the diplomatic and might hopefully stay there until tion is achieved. International Shang-san example which might usefully be store the rulers of Europe in regulating ons between one state and another. This d the burden of local opinion as Shang-copie followed the news, well to Mr. Aall.
N, Aall, Norwegian Consul-General and Consul, who is leaving for Europe this ug, has been the guest of many dinners exceptions within the past week or two as heard his praises sung, but it would superfluous to add a farewell tribute to 1 who has served Shanghai so well. Mr.
was appointed his country's Conshilal in Shanghai in 1920, and with the tion of a period of three years when he as Charge d'Affaires in Peiping he has in Shanghai ever since, attending to of his country and also the community, rave crises affecting it have occurred Senior rs for Shanghai for vas 1027, when foreign military inter-became necessary owing to the dis-accompanying the Nationalist advance North, and 1937, when the Sino-Japan-hostilities broke out and plunged this t into the gravest state of emergency t has ever experienced, In both crises as in the intervening years, he acquitted If with distinction and created for him-n handling situations of the utmost de-reputation which will long be remem-'Asa representative of what may be i—without disrespect, for Mr. Aall him-jed_the term—a_ small nation with no interests in China, he possessed that ment denied to others not similarly spored, and the smoothest way in dip-y is always the disinterested way. His for the Chinese refugees gained for him ide among many thousands whose lot iped to relieve, and on the Chinese scroll ted to him describing his virtues as ness and Determined Humanity" are no ngless honorifics. The community—re~ his departure but wishes Mr. Aall hap-and success in his new post in Brazil, ty Shanghai nghai never was a city of spotless per-1 but a common observation by people knew it in other days is that the place Jooked so dirty as it does today. The of tens of thousands of Chinese refugees habitations are makeshift at the best, consequent disorganization in transport, trafic and social conditions has altered ordered routine of other days and to general untidiness which breeds dirt. jund is an outstanding example, Necessity mmpelied the conversion of what once was paratively handsome river front, with "two relieving patches of green' lawn, ser lea of cargo wharves where cattle, bles, iron, steel, cotton, silk and goods: kinds are unloaded, and the hasty. and rary accommodation provided for this pur-ins added to the general disarray initiated working. Concentration of hundreds inese wharf coolies, who use roads and ents for more utilitarian purposes. than ye rage foreigner, does not improve mat-ud makes a heavy rainfall not a nuisance undisguised sanitary blessing. Another fon unusually noticeable in recent months smoke which frequently hangs over the gp00, Through the use of cheap coal. or pS through poor combustion combined jame meteorological circumstance, the doz-small steamers using the central portion of whangpoo create m smoke screen of foul in-rand it lingers long and covers a wide ike a black haze, scattering its soot and in offices whose once-proud advantage view of the broad sweep of the Whang-fom the French Concession to Yangtsze-There is probably nothing harmful in. it a health point of view because many in= al cities in England where the pure rays 's-sum scarcely ever penetrate the gloom seth rate Is lower than in some of the ural towns. And, of course, practical erations nowadays' exclude any mention aesthetic in a city which never troubled con this score, but as external conditions a profound effect on human mentality of the communal depression which Shang-sutlering at present may probably be ed to the external change the city has enced since the hostilities started.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.