of some of them. Shades of Lord Gort, who noticed a sandboy in the Maginot Line had been placed with the seam outwards instead of inwards! Nevertheless, Bond Street wil have to go long way before it equals Shang hai in the sandba barricades hurriedly erected var months of 1987. OMmee-Roers noted at that time that within a few days the sandbags outside their places of busi 1eS5 sprouted handsome crops. Chickweed was wathing to them. There remains still to be Jexplained a tradition which has grown one of the buildings along the "Bund, that sweet potatoes were growing in. some ut their Nothing less could have accounted range increase in size of these defences. However, no one will ever know, the sandbags suffered the fate of all the others long the Bund, disappearing in one of those strange all-night cleaning campaigns which 'aMlicted Shanghai, just as soon as it realized that it had nothing Serious to worry:
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