Shanghailancers awoke on the morni 9 of Oct, 14 in the Settlement and French Concession to. find. that She had changed overnight into a "Venice of the Orient."
Instead of streets there were canals along towhich muddy water swirled while rickshato coolies, cars, trams and buses ploughed their way through places where the flood three feet deep. This was @ result of a violent downpour uring a Muunterstorm early in the morning. Above are scenes in Shanghai, The depth of the flood can be gauged from the picture (top left) while (op Tight) is a scene outside Majestic Apartments The tower pictures sow seenes' outside the Grand Theatre and. at the Nanking Road Chekiang Road corner,
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