After Easter Shanghai resumed its normal business routine [yesterday after the Easter holidays which, from the point of view of weather, were very pleas-fant. All communities enjoyed the break in workaday life at atime of the year when [Spring has lost her shyness and is clothed in a beauty which will attain complete florescence the next week or two. Internationally, Easter was unusual this year because three' great churches celebrated the religious festival together without the usual lag customary of one calendar. There was, however, one mantfestation of egret and that arose from the jons on the means of spending the holiday. Hedged in by political circumstances which, as hae been remarked, make Shanghai, one Vast internment camp rather than a free city, people had very few places to visit in order to extract {from this break in routine the utmost of pleasure which a large population, hungry for the Sight and enjoyment of green and unconfined spaces, so desperately needs it life is to yield its riches. Within the foreign areas, large aum= bers of people flocked to the parks, and Jessfeld was one of the most popular spots. Many people went out riding, walking, motoring or eye Ting around Hungjao. A. few went downriver to Gough Island and Battery Creek where this pleasant tittle place of week-end sojourns, s0 popular before the hostilities, has atmosphere offer which the crowded foreign areas lack, Others took advantage of the week-end trips: by foreign. shipping companies to visit the Lower Yangtze delta, where Shanghai obtains [much of its food supply, and came back report Ing an enjoyable time. The main problem: of gelling out of Shanghai, however, remains un~ Solved, "It is now nineteen months since the Sino-Japanese hostilities commenced and fifteen months since the Chinese troops were driv ut of this area, but the barriers to "tourism" fof the hinterland around Shanghai areas wi tassallable as they have ever been. A few fortunate people have made motor-eat trips outside the foreign areas and report that the odds which were formerly traversed by. dreds of ears during week-ends and holiday fare in feifly decent shape, but while the present situation continues it is impossible to entertain riy hope for an early reopening of this high way. system. "Japanese reluctance to have motorists inspecting their military bases, and Uncertainty caused by guoritin infiltration con-Mitute obstacles which cannot be ignored. Perhaps by Easter next year things will be better but, notwithstanding all objections, it docs seem thai "at least the immediate " environs 'Shanghai might be reopened, and the fact that golfers are pennilled to use' Seekingjao course fence again is an indication that conditions are hot to0 bad. Otherwise, why is the City Gove Jernment of Greater Shanghat advertising the necessity for obtaining extra-Settlement licences.
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