Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1933-03-22
Prepared by National Geographic Society.
WASHINGTON. d. C.-WNU Service.

ITO SHANGHATS already COM
pick newspaper world was re-
Gently added another foreign
language paper - the Deutsche
Shanghai Zeitung, which as Its
name implies, is printed In German.
Two British, two American. many
Chinese, a French, and other for
elgn language newspapers In addi-
ton to the German language paper
are an index to the cosmopolitan
aspect of the city. This aspect, too,
is shown In the city's latest census
where are recorded peoples of fifty
foreign ~natlonalities. aud Chinese
speaking nearly all the numerous
dialects of China.
Shanghai is the greatest seaport
in the Far East and emporium TO
one-eighth of the human race. A
bold skyline Of steel and concrete
now rises where reeds once waved
over marshy flats. The wide Bund,
which throbs with the KALEIDOSCOPE
ic march of motors, electric trans,
and other traffic, extends along the
water front where boat crackers
once beat q narrow footpath. Pa
per lanterns change to neon lights
for advertising display signs; beside
ubiquitous Chinese cabbage now are
supplies of caviar; from fishing TO
high finance has been the city's
growth.
At the end Of the first year after
1t was formally opened as a treaty
port, 1843. Shanghai could marshal
for statistical evidence Of foreign
enterprise and industry only "23
foreign residences. one consular
flag, IL business firms, and two mis-
sionaries." Today 1t domiciles near
ly 10000 foreigners; IT consular
flags wave In the Shanghai breezes
and others have representation /;
business firms r legion, and the
city Is headquarters for countless
phases and branches of missionary
and other activities.
For a small fishing village. hiding
behind fortifying walls for protec-
ton against the inroads of Japanese
pirates (aided frequently by Chi
nese of the same calling), and do
Ing only a limited amount of trade
with coastal Junks, to expand and
become the fifth largest seaport of
the world In less than 30 years Is
no mean accomplishment In any
land; but In China this transition Is
an even greater marvel.
To find the reason for this re-
markable transformation, one need
not search far. A glance at the
geography of its position reveals
why Shanghai should logically take
rank as Chlna's key seaport.
Ideal Distributing Center.
Its situation, approximately mid
way along the China coast, makes
1t at once the most natural distrib-
uting center for extensive trade
with coastal ports; but of far great
err Importance is the fact that
Shanghai commands the vital po-
sition for commerce at the very
outlet of the whole Yangtze river
system.
In all the world 1t liz doubtful
whether there Is another equally ex-
tensive region of wealth where the
people depend as solely upon a sin
gle artery Of traffic and upon one
entrepot as do the inhabitants of
the Yangtze basin. approximately
100000, 900 people, half Of the pop
uiation of entire China, live In this
fertile area, utilizing the river, its
tributaries, and its network of. ca
nails as their chief means of COM
%munication. Their needs, beyond
those supplied directly or indirectly
ny LHE VI tuGli VNu hhiiuos
make business for Shanghai.
AS ones steamer cleaves the
muddy Yangtze waters and enters
the Whangpoo on the approach of
Shanghai, there is little to indicate
that one Is entering China unless
a fleet Of native fishing junks hap
pens to be moving out to sea at the
time.
Today the skyline that marks
Shanghai's water front is decidedly
occidental In appearance and most
strikingly Impressive-an effect due
in part, perhaps, to its contrast
with the fiat alluvial plain rather
than to the actual heights of the
buildings. Until the present CEN
fury, low, commodious Chinese
buildings of two-and-three-story
structures served a majority of the
business concerns; but the intro
duction of excellently equipped
modern offices has initiated a period
of extensive building.
In a few minutes walk from the
most up-to-the moment districts OF
Shanghai, however, one a be In
surroundings that are little altered
since the day when the first foreign