Although most Shanghailanders, who were abroad in the city's streets during the daytime yesterday, must have realized that floods were inevitable as is always the case here when there is a heavy rainfall, it is a safe bet to state that, perhaps, only one or two of them could have had a fairly accurate idea of the vastness of the flooding by nightfall as it was seen by a "North-China Daily News" reporter, who made an extensive tour of the city by bus and rickshaw—taxi and tram services having stopped g to the floods—to paint a verbal picture of the city as it appeared to him.
The most striking sight was the number of cars stranded along Nanking and Bubbling Well Roads, which were tuned into canals by the continuous rainfall. Every ten steps, rickshaws and other enterprising Chinese were pushing the cars though there were quite a number that had been abandoned. Further down in Bubbling Well Road, just above Yates Road, two truckfuls of Italian Marines found themselves in an unenviable situation as their lorries refused to bulge notwithstanding all the efforts exerted by the drivers to start them going. score of marines, knee-deep in water were pushing the lorries in an attempt to get out of the flooded part of the street, while others remained inside, preferring to wait till they would be taken away in other lorries.
Shanghai's most busy corners-the intersection of Nanking and Chekiang Roads—were deserted last night as water rose to a level never seen before. The ground floors of Sincere's, Wing On and Sun Sun were covered with water and afforded a dozen of Chinese youngsters the fun of their lives as they waded and played in the water, while at another place, a few steps away, a grown-up Chinese lay lazily in the water, ignoring everything around him.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.