The Archive · 1937

All About Shanghai

A Shanghai newspaperman, who is comfortably settled in- a Fleet Street office, has been contributing to the home papers articles about Shanghai, Not ely did he tell, his startled readers that there were 250,000 rickshaws in this city, but that he knew of bars in the place which had not been closed for fifty year There is one thing about this incident or emergency, whichever you please, and that is that, before it has ended, we shall know quite a lot about this place which we never knew before.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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