Shanghai yesterday experienced the heaviest snowfall in many years, transforming drabness into fairyland, increasing traffic hazards, and creating an enormous amount of slush by noon, when the thaw set in.
Later, in the day t here was a frost which planted icicles along the walls and window ledges.
Here are four vistas of Shanghai wearing the livery of winter.
Since the opening of Nantao on January 25 there has been a rush of Chinese applicants seeking. permission to return to their former domiciles, the "Mainichi" said yester-lay.
Crowds besieged the certificate offices established by the Shanghai Special Municipality, two of which registered an average of 600 applicants a day, according to the
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