European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 25, 1964, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes China today Shanghai displayed As red Shoi place editor s note one of the moot difficult six has to find i Shanghai in the Sunn Siivelt Friendship Hill Riloff. Report in aus to Allan Husum Svenn wlm in Nelly Vii Ltd communist Cilmi his description of Shanghai is the second of three dispatches by Harold s.  for United press International quite obviously Shanghai and several other cities serve As show windows of communist China. Certainly Shanghai has changed and some of the changes Are for the better Treut housing projects have been completed not unlike the immense spurt int blocks which have sprung up i Japan and Liloni Kong in recent years. But along Ullh if improved housing conditions it is strange to note that Many of the. Office bul Dingi and former residences of foreigners and wealthy chinese Are steadily becoming shabby and decrepit. It would seem the old foreign Homes of Shanghai and other Marks of the bygone age must go. As Long As they remain they May serve to remind some people of what May have been better limes for them. If one takes a government conducted tour to Shanghai the first Stop is the Shanghai  noticed that contrary to our previous visits there we Reno russians filling the Broad armchairs. In contrast to our last visit we were not invited to observe the russian consulate on the Bank of Soochow Creek. We wanted to see again the sino Solel Friendship , we Hud quite some difficulty getting there. Every time we brought up the subject our guide lapsed into silence. Eventually we did arrive but Well after dark and when the place was shut. We were driven past it at about twice the Speed at which our car had crawled Down the Peoples Square the great Plaza which splits in two the former Shanghai race course and Down which Thi a now slime Gigantic May Day parades. It has no Surprise to find Hal the foreign cemeteries som of which were fun reign inn Marks have gone. What once was the jewish cemetery in bubbling Well Ruud opposite the race courses now a Public Park. Shantung it oud cemetery behind holy Trinity Cathedral is Nowa sports Arena for children. We visited the Cathedral and found the gales were bolted und that the Bureau of Public safety was housed in the rectory. We Guin cd the impression that some kind of political rally was in Progress in the Assembly  Buddhist to Holst und confucian temples remain but Reli Gion docs not seem to play much of a part in the life of the people in thought controlled China. At die cemetery the foreign Gnu clones bad been removed and used to pave a nearby Street the inscriptions facing upward. It was our sixth visit to Shanghai in the last eight years but redid not see any russians and did not hear any russian spoken. Nobody greeted us in that language nor did any chinese mistakes aloud for russian  notices in russian were still in evidence outside toilets and else where. The huge photographs of Elk la s. Khrushchev All had Dis appeared. Russian operas and ballets Are no longer seen i Shanghai. The main roads present Trie appearance of having just been hosed Down. Trash boxes and Spittoon Are placed along the Street sat distances of about 100 Yards. Another of the minor miracles is that people use them. Anyone who spits on the pavement or throws Down a cigarette butt or empty cigarette package stands the risk of being lectured on his civic responsibilities. What has happened to the sick the deformed and the diseased or to where they have been removed we do net pretend to know. We can Only say they have disappeared from Shanghai As completely As have the beggars the litter and the dirt. Next the people. New roads to s. American Jungles Lima Peru a a pro posed network of highways penetrating the heart of sout America is expected to open up Tho Mandy of