The correspondent's reference in this journal yesterday to the necessity for holidays will find general approval in Shanghai where people have been cooped up for nearly two years with little possibility of getting outside. Nobody will deny the need for recharging the human system by rest, sunshine and quiet in surroundings different from the grim grey buildings which have become virtual prisons owing to political circumstances. The diffüculty lies in the very restricted list of holiday resorts available and the fact that every day the list is even more curtailed. Anti-British demonstrations at Tsingtao have induced the authorities very wisely to warn intending holiday-makers of the inadvisability of visiting the Shantung port for the time being, and this deprives Shanghai of its closest and most popular resort. At the few resorts still open and unsubjected relatively to political obstructions conditions are not so free and liberal as formerly, leaving Japan as the only attraction. On this question readers have already aired their views. The announcement by the Javanese that a larger area adjacent to the Shanghai foreign areas has been open to third-party nationals does provide a local outlet for a spin in a car, but the hostilities have certainly wrecked the tourist possibilities and regretfully so because most of Shanghai's usual haunts appear to have only a remote connection with the circumstances quoted by the Japanese for the extraordinary restrictions imposed. However strong be the urge for pastures new and fresh and the appeal of the briny, to Shanghai it looks as if it will be a backyard and bathtub holiday this veer.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.