Show Shanghai Wickedest W City of o Orient Blend BlendO Of O Ancient A Modern Hotels r Mansions and Beautiful Beau Clubs Flourish in Foreign Settlement Editors Editor's s note Henry F. F Missel- Missel witz United Press staff correspondent torte corre for five years ears was sta sta- stationed in the orient He has written the following stor story deserf descriptive descriptive de de- de- de serf p five of ot Shanghai the modern city of the orient By HENRY F. F MISSELWITZ l United Pre Press Staff Stott Correspondent WASHINGTON Jan 29 29 Shang hant hai sometimes described as the wick wick- city of ot the orient spreads its exotic blend o of cast and west alon along t the low banks of the river rive some 20 miles upstream from where the Yangtze meets th the rho sea Young Chinese maids in sheer silks and modern in fashionably bobbed black hair foxtrot to American jazz in swanky night clubs with sleek Chinese Chinese Chinese Chi Chi- nese youths educated in American and European universities Old Chinese from the countryside come to the city eity with farm produce Swathed in coarse blue clothing in ina a winter or thin blue cloth in summer they mingle with the younger gen gen- cration Against the background of the lh c swiftly chanting changing ing cast foreigners foreigner s come and go on their endless mis mil lions Traders descendants of me men n who came in the clipper ship days own spacious estates on the outskirts ts Others come for a week a month or a year with rich quick rich get quick schemes in which high t intrigue often oHen plays a sinister part PICTURESQUE SETTING G Tall TaIl Sikhs from India rifles slung in readiness over o their shoulders police police police po po- lice the tile international settlement their r bright turbans black beards and flashing eyes part o of the thc picturesque picturesque esque setting United States marines British Tommies French sailors Japanese forces mingle along the bund bond or waterfront t. t and road rondo Foreign war men tic lie off the bund bond in fn the river ready to protect lives Ilves and property of their nationals In 1927 1921 during the Canton Canton Canton Can Can- ton revolt 46 warships warships were there In th the foreign areas areaS which stretch some six miles mUes along the river front and have a perimeter of nearly 30 miles handsome mansions modern banks hotels and beautiful clubs flourish Taxicabs busses trackless trams run on the avenues cluttered with and ancient Chinese wheel wheel wheel-I barrows Overhead airplanes from airdrome drone hourly on airmail and passenger runs LONGEST LO BAROn BAR BAROn BAROn On the bund bond the Shan Shanghai hai club with its longest bar In the world stands just below Avenue Edward VII the boundary between the French concession and International settlement A few blocks away the American club facts faces aces the municipal building building itself Itself a magnificent t stone structure covering a city block Night clubs run until dawn filled with tourists from l liners ners that call almost daily at Shanghai The British still have men in Shanghai and the United States has 1200 1204 men in the Fourth regiment of marines who went out originally in 1927 The police are controlled b by the Brit British sh In the international settle settle- settlement ment The commissioner is British usually an officer from the Indian army The inspectors and others arc British and under them arc the Sikhs and Chinese patrolmen and traffic officers Their equipment includes machine guns tear bombs a great red maria truck with machine gunson guns gunson on swivels and searchlights all as a'S modern as any fighting crime fighting machinery machinery machinery ma ma- chinery in the world GANGS MODERN They Ther need it Chinese gangs angs and opium rings are bold The gangsters fight it out along the lines of ot the best western traditions Shanghai is a city of more than inhabitants Of OI these pos pOSe sibly arc are foreigners including the he Japanese who predominate There are upward of ot American civilians in Shanghai British 1500 French and some 2000 other westerners aside from the Russians There are perhaps Russians Russians- men without a there country country there to to- to day They form a problem So far they hey have not had a voice in the government government gov gov- of at either cither foreign conces conces- concession concesion lion ion area Shanghai as far as the foreigner r is concerned is ruled b by the municipal municipal mu mu- al council in the French con con- cess cession on The inter international settlement settlement settle settle- ment meat is so called because it is composed com tom posed of ot the old British Japanese c and md what was to have been the American American Amer- Amer ican can concession REFUSE CONCESSION CESSION The American concession offered by y the Chinese who wanted to isolate isolate iso- iso late atc the foreign traders lay between the he British and Japanese The gov government ov- ov at Washington refused t to u take ake a concession in Shanghai or anywhere anywhere any any- where else in China a policy followed fol fol- lowed owed out to this day The British and Japanese proposed a combination and the international 1 settlement resulted France refused and has her own French concession ri at the far end o of ai the foreign area o on n what originally was swamp land full ful 1 of pestilence where the fife Chinese reck rock reckoned reckoned no man could reside The barbarians barbarians bar Brians barred after sundown from fro m the he old Chinese city of ot Shanghai brought out en engineers drained th the swamps and built a modern city |