(Continued from page 328.) which the Volunteers have rendered and an Fendering in. conjunction with the profes sional and amateur Police Forces, Regular servicemen who are either part of the original fatrison of have come to swell un the crisis 'Will not imagine Wat these comments under Value' the admirable work which they have done and are doing. Now, as in the past, the gratitude of Shanghai for' the way in which the forces of various nationalities have come to its assistance is immense. For the moment, however, it is natural that more than passing attention should be paid to the efforts of Shanghai's own citizen forces.
The senior officers "and the junior officers with age-brevets of seniority—even the handful of ancient warriors who refuse to lio down—will not "feel neglected if this journal emphasizes the work of youth on this occasion, The young men of Shanghai have been "blooded" as it were. They have bee obviously in charge of the situation, whether it has involved the removal of wounded and dead to ambulances, the shepherding of old gentlemen along exposed routes—more to those old gentlemen's delight than to any conviction that they deserved such cotton wool treatment—the holding of a post under 1 grim roar of overhead frightfulness of the patrolling of streets 10 keep up the morale the population, these young volunteers ave eon adequate, The colourless word is used to pay them the highest compliment of all—serious assessment of a. well-performed service. It has been encouraging to observe how unselfconsciously they" have assumed the burden of civie defence and yet have displayed just the same qualities nonchalant good-temper, "Impish sarcasm, erecting endurance as have marced the predecessors in a long line of Corps" mobilization, AS in the civil administration the situation has been to a large extent in the hands of young men—with a most useful stiffening of experience and age. The result, the opinion of those whose privilege it fo watch developments from the detached vantage point of the armchair, has been to confirm the view that Shanghai can continue fo be confident of its future; the material which was available in the past for building up and maintaining its civie prosperity and Drogress is still at its disposal. "The eld hands gan ie back and comfort. themselves. with the thought that their work goes on, They can give a grateful salute to youth, Past President of going' undoubtedly means a' rest one that Society and Scolin community in Shahgha te hay pech has stood Up to the buffets of mistortere gallantly as he has shared inthe trans We and Ins. Bain
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