Last week the Chicago Daily News's lanky, quiet-spoken Far Eastern Correspondent Archibald T. Steele sent out a tale of a visitor to No. 76 Jessfield Road, Shanghai. He had interviewed in Chungking one of the few Chinese alive to tell the story of a visit there.
Shanghai, as Hollywood viewed it, was a bright and glamorous city of glittering vice; the real Shanghai was a powerful economic organism sucking nourishment from the trade of the Yangtze valley. To day both Shanghais are dead—and within the putrefaction of its mist-shrouded cadaver the maggots...
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