The first party of American tourists to be seen in this part of the world since the out~ break of hostilities in the middle of August arrived on Jan. % and forthwith started to plunge into the sightseeing possibilities of Shai Formerly, the average tourist. run farcund the "Paris of the Orient™ was a pretty feeble show for there was little of China to be son, and the reputation Shanghai received for night life was more imagined than real, 'There was one important aspect, however, which could not fail to make an impression. 'That was the exhibition of East' and West living in harmony and adapting each other's modes of life into a peculiar scheme of social relation~ ships which made the city outstanding, To-day, tourists shout have nothing to complain about. For sightseeing some of the areas of desolation encircling the foreign districts must equal the worst in France and Belgium during the Great War for engines of destruction have been employed in the recent "ineident™ which were undreamt-of in that campaign. Neverthless, it hoped that the tourists will not leave with the impression that different nationalities cannot live together peacefully in this part of the world. Dificulties have arisen which are hard to explain and much more difficult to elucidate, but Shanghai as an amalgam of -racial units stands up to the strain of political problems and survives, It should be an example to the world, The Catherdral Girls School re-opened for the Spring Term on January 3, "The Kinleeyuen Wharf, Shanghai, has been re-named the Roosevelt Terminal.
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