The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-12-29
BY EDNA LEE BOOKER. (InternationaI News Service
 COrrespOndent.)

Shanghai, China, (by mai1).- Lord Northcliffe, who has been hurling bombsheu after bomb shell at the Japanese during his
 tour of investigation of condi- tions in the Far East, declares he is a, funny animal
 With a master mind that enables him to secure an instant grasp of sit nations energy which carries him through a strenuous days work from 6:30 A. M. until P. M, when he retires-a dynamic personality 1 which sweeps all before him, Lord l Northcliffe has a weakness for red necIties. He buys red neckties with l black circles by the dozens and doz- | ems. For years he has worn his fla vorite color and style of tie, and for i years he hopes to continue wearing them.
 The fame of his red neckties had | reached Shanghai from Picking, where he has been in the midst of a m ost l sensational run on the two largest government banks in the capital, and sure enough, when I met him there was the red tie and Lord NOrthcHRe. I was disappointed. He was rather 1 udgy, andr in his rain coat and hat, 1 looked more like a country squire than the fire eater who iE declaring that
 world peace is jeopardized with 1 Japanese alliance is the 'n1gger in the l woodpile' at the Washington confer l ence." and that the ""genro or elder | statesmen of Japan control not only 1 Japan but the Chinese delegates at | Washington
 | But after talking to this nan-whc | controls sixty five newspapers and | rade a fortune at ttwenty-three-for 6 l few minutes I decided that he was 6 far cry from the placid village | squire.
 | "Yes, I'm a funny animal" he said,
 T never drink but I am against pro- | hibition."
 | "Dance? ?" he exclaimed. 'sDo I look t2 Why, there isn't g. floor in shang-
 hai that would hold mo up. Wh!
 should Ia man of fifty-six years o1 ! age-Get out on dance floor ano l make a fool of nyself?"
 Golf? Yes. I am a good golfer 1 And when asked If he could beat
 on golfing terms with the British | Premier,
 During his tour of Shanghai Lord l Northciiffe visited the leading Chinese
 visited the office of the China Press which has the largest circulation ot i any American daily and Sunday news 1 paper in China, and shook hands wttt all the boys and the two "sob sisters,
 and declared that he had visited more l newspaper offices than any other mar 1 in the world, He advised the news paper mon to travel, to study French and never marry if they intend to re
 main in the newspaper game Btu above all he declared that work 1 work, work was the secret of success for an man regardless of his line o1 | activity,
 Lord Northc1iffe has been warmly
 received by Chinese officials educa- tors and journalists throughout his | visit in China,
 Representatives of the Association
 of Chinese Newspapers of Shanghai l were among the hundreds of Chinese
 and foreigners who welcomed the
 friend of China in Shanghai In ar l 9d fR h cJi
 the Chinese journalists expressed al
 earnest desire that you may give tn,
 widest publicity through the Eng1isl | press to the real needs and condition
 of China at the present day, so tha
 the inhabitants of the British Elm
 pire may apprehend the facts iron
 which the Far East question ha arisen"