Soon, alas, the older residents who remain here will be repeating: "I have had companions, All, all are gone, the old familiar faces," for when one comes to take count it is astonishing the number of Shanghai folk who have shaken the dust of this place off their heels for ever (or such ig their present intention).
The new Shanghai Directory makes interesting reading just now in show-jing the tremendous change in this city's "population during recent months. In the past it has not always Twyford, near Reading. He and his daughter, Winifred, see a fair number of Shanghai visitors passing through the old country on holiday.
'Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Mockett_ and their' two little girls are having a delightful holiday in England, with happy family reunions and so on. Recent news of them was to the effect that they were staying at Teignmouth. Later they proposed to do extensive motoring in the South of England and to take a furnished! house for the remainder of their leave so that the family meetings may take ploce beneath their own roof. They are due back in October but ' will leave behind their two young daughters who will be in school at St. Winifred's College, Thanet. There are other Shanghai girls at this college, but it would be difteult nowadays to find a good school in England which had not at) Toast one Shanghai child.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.