The Nome nugget., 1938-06-11

SIX years later France was con- ceded the territory between the British concession and the Native City, and only a few years after ward Americans leased land in the Hongkew district, which extends along the Whangpoo water front north of SoochoW creek, where the river makes a sharp curve to the right.
 This so-called American Settle ment was never organized as such. but was incorporated with the Brit ish district in 1863. Thus came into being the International Settlement, l premier nucleus of modern Shang- hai. Other portions of land have been added on the west, where old timers used to bag snipe in off days from their offices
 The French chose to remain apart and today continue to administer their own concession as a separate unit.
 The years have seen a fast-mov- ing panorama since the early days when the International territorial fu- 1 sion came into being. received nourishment and became what has often been termed "The Model Set dement, The administration of the International Settlement has been in many ways a unique experiment. perhaps without parallel in any oth- CT place; and results make it evi- dent that the Shanghai municipal council has served the Settlement well.
 Governed by Elected Council.
 The council is composed of a group of members elected by the taxpayers of British, American, Japanese, and, more recently, Chi nese nationality The number has been increased from time to time until 15 members are now included in the group that directs the affairs of the Settlement of 1,008, 900 people.
 Paving, policing, planning "a multitude of tasks face the paternal body which, gratis, guards the in terests of International Shanghai. A similar, but smaller, task confronts F other men who handle the affairs of the French territory with it's near ly 435, GOO inhabitants
 Because Shanghai has not always had a peaceful career. troops of the four chief foreign nationalitics have been maintained to give necessary protection to the residents of the city. Shanghai has also had vol unteer corps with a personnel of more than 2,000 which was organ ized at the time of the stress of necessity during strikes and when the pot of Chinese political affairs has been boiling over.
 Big, bustling Shanghai, this titan of commerce in Far Asia, lives be- yond the boundaries of any one set tlement or nationality; it commands all of them together for its life and trade. We'll beyond three million people are numbered in the districts that form the whole of greater Shanghai.
 Cosmopolitan, too as only one of the worlds largest seaports can be. it records in it's census 50 foreign nationalities. The commercial capi- tai can also call from it's midst representative speaking practically all the numerous dialects in China, if one should ask for further con fusion in the linguistic babel.
 Picturesque Scenes on the Bund.
 The facets of life and activity of the metropolis are as multiple as the peoples that compose it.
 Stand any day along the Bund and watch the variety of traffic that passes under the signals of tall, bearded Sikh traffic policeman. Electric tramcars, loaded buses. and trackless trans, filled to all l available standing room; motor cars and trucks of every kind and l size, although American makes are l in majority; wheelbarroWs that trundle along with tremendous loads; coolies, turned beasts of bur den, bearing bales and baskets of | incredible weight; great two wheeled trucking carts, with as many as six or eight perspiring coolies straining at the pull ropes. rickshas, well past the period of their best usefulness in these days of increasing taxi service. trying by their very importantly to gain a stinted living; bicycles, carriages. pedestrians-the whole contrasting | procession passes.
 On another street Chinese we'd ding palanquin or long funeral cortege moves along with all the red and tinsel glitter that China as- sembles around these two events. At the corner the procession waits for a traffic jam to clear before | it can proceed.