Shanghai, Oct. 17. the occasion of the first anniversary of the "City Government of Greater Shanghai,'
Mayor Fu Siao-en was the host at Kiangwan yesterday morning to hundreds of foreign, Japanese and Chinese guests. Kiangwan, all roads leading to it, and Hongkew were gaily decorated with five-barred flags and emblems, and well before the appointed hour, guests began to arrive at the Mayor's office in the Civie Centre, where a speakers' platform and suitable sitting accommodation had been arranged, while detachments from the Special Muni ality Police, were lined up facing the building, coming to attention every time an important guest arrived, Shortly after 10 am. Mayor Fu Sino-en addressed his audience as @id "other important officials from Nanking and representatives. of the Japanese military, naval and diplo~ matic authorities Including Vice Admiral Nomura, Liaison amicer of the Japanese Navy; Mr. ¥. Miura, Japanese Consul-General; Mr. Liang Hung-chi, President of the Executive Yuan of! the Nanking Government and concurrently Governor of the Hwa Hsing Bank, all of whom were much applauded, March Past After the formal part of the programme in the hall had been con-eluded, all those present were requested to step outside to pose for 2 photograph and at the same time to view the march past of the police detachment which did so in a welliseiplined manner.
After the parade, in which four trucks and two. motor-eyeies also took part, the guests returned to the hall Which in' the meantime had been "transformed into" a. dining room as long tables were erected everywhere and—neat looking Geishas, in appreciable numbers, attended to the wants of the quests while Chinese Sing Song "girls, accompanied by their orchestras, entertained. Meanwhile, a Chinese version of chorus girls, performed a mat-shed erected opposite the palatial building, although their popullarity seemed to be confined humber of Special "Municipality policemen who seemed to. prefer this entertainment to what' was taking place inside the building.
Mayor Fu proved to be an able host, apparently never finishing shaking hands with his guests while he walked from table to table and rank to their good health. "A buffet tifin was then served and the guests commenced to leave shortly. before Among those present were: Mr. C.
Franklin, Chairman of the Shanghai Municipal Council, Mr. G. Godfrey Phillips, Secretary and Commissioner-General of the S.MLC., Maj. 1K. M. Bourne, Commissioner, S.M.P.: Sir Robert Calder-Marshall, KBE: Chairman of the British Chamber of Commerce: Col. Grenier Commandant of the French Forces; J, Brediam, Director-General of the F, M. P. and M. R, Jobez of the French Police, Tu a letter addressed to his guests after the ceremony, Mayor Fu thanked them for their official visit on the occasion of the Anniversary and extended his hearty appreciation for their having attended. He apologized for Took ions of progress but it is asserted that oMiclals of the new regime are by no means satisfied with the pre-Sent stale of affairs because things are "still far behind expectations." ~'To free Asia from the yoke of Marxism by ce-operating with Japan and to carry out the scheme laid down by the "Reformed Government" so as to fulfill the requirements of reconstructing the Greater Shanghai are mentioned as the first two points of the future policy. To Improve the administrative organiza~ ton and to build a big "cosmopolitan city" of the "highest cultural. order in the world" are the two other aims of the Kiangwan regime, Power Rate Protest
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