Many Celebrations to Mark Tenth Anniversary of City Governmer ut's Foundation Civic Centre at Kiangwan has been for days busy with carpenters, masons, painters the tenth anniversary of the City be celebrated to-day. and decorators, getting ready for Government of Greater Shanghai or decorative arches have sprung up all over the place in designs both Chinese and western. Electricians are busy at work putting on strings of lights, which will illuminate the arches as well as all the principal buildings at the Civie Centre.
The City Government building will be lighted throughout during the nights from July 7 to 18, and its outline will be shown to great advantage by the thousands of lights against the sky.
The most important centre of attraction will be the athletic grounds, where a special new building has been built to provide room for the exhibition of China's modern indus tries, Here in this building ma-' chines are setup and will be run to demonstrate the excellence of Chi-hose-made machinery and. machine-made Chinese products. At the back his building are to be seen elec-frie welding. irrigation pumps and other like machines at work.
Opposite this building stands the original Gymnasium, which has been transformed into an exhibition hall for Chinese hand-made or semis hand-made articles, Naturally, carve ings, China-ware and" Inequer-ware occupy the place of honour, but It is surprising the glass-ware placed on show, Inthe smaller gymnasium stands are quickly being put up to provide room for the many cases of beautiful jade articles, which attracted, 50 much attention' while on. pre-view fat the Sun Company's building some ime ago. Only a small charge of twenty cents will be made for admitlance Into thi show room. Not very far away from the gymnasium isa neat little matshed hall, where the most wonderful collection of China teas will be placed on exhibit The outer ring of rooms surround ing the stadium track and "eld is now being fitted up as an alr defence exhibition, It is expected that this lone will attract at least 100,000
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