London, Nov. 23.
W. H. Auden went to Buckingham Palace to-day and received from the King the Gold Medal for Poetry awarded by His Majesty. Mr. Auden was presented to the King by the Poet Laureate, Mr. John Masefield.
The greatest obstacle in the wi of the various local factories' resum-jing full operation is the problem of transportation.
With the war shifting w from the city, peace has returned the Settlement and preparations have been made by various local factories io start again. Several British-Owned cotton mills resumed fal operations and their production' was fairly large, but they were forced to suspend because they found it dificult to bring raw materials to Shanghai.
A big Chinese tobacco factory which stanted operations again was forced to reduce their working hours because it found it impossible: to ship their products out of Shanghai.
Many other factories hesitate to re-open because of the same ditficulty, says the Chinese papers
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