SHANGHAI.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 2, 6 December 1915, Page 6

SHANGHAI.

THE SCENE OF THE REVOLUTION.

Shanghai, city and treaty j’fort, in the province of Kiang-su, on the left bank of the Hwang-po, twelve miles above its junction with the Yaug-tse-kiang at Wustmji;, connected by rail with Wasting,’ and by canals with all parts of the province. Its facilities for distribution, and the lack of deep water at the treaty ports in the north, have made it. the entrepot of all foreign trade north of Eooeiiow and the greatest foreign market of the empire. Miles of wharves and live large dockyards hardly suffice for the traflic. The total imports (1910) amounted in value to £50,(5 11,660 (of which £2,555,770 was 'for opium), and .the exports (principally silk, cotton, tea, rice, hides, Hour, oil, straw braid, sesamtim seed, wool, and cereals) to £12,778,0(57. Re-exports were valued at £40,141,872. In 1910 a tonnage of 9,14(5,872 entered the port, and a tonnage of 9,407,9(5(3 cleared. An important part of a new river conservancy scheme was completed in 191.0 by the linal,. y.losiug of ,tlie old jfjjjp, canal, and •the completion of a jetty at 'Wn.ounc; and training wm;ks- behnw the KajmjCreek; the Astraea channel lias also beetV dredged. The work of epnserving the river is now in th 3 hands of the Chinese authorities. Cot-ton-spik'-Viing, silk-winding, shipbuilding, and the manufacture of matches, rue, paper, ice, and furniture are the chief industrial branches. The Lrench and the British and American settlements,, almost self-governing, extend about live miles below the city along the river front, and from three to four miles inland. In 1901 the population of the British . settlement exceeded 550.000. of whom less than 7000 were .foreigners. The total popuation, including that of the native city, is about 700.000, of whom some 12:000 are foreigners. Shanghai was taken by the British in 1842, And-* as opened to foreign trade in -the same year. u