has become very obtrusive in Tientsin lately and is already the indirect cause of much evil. The Council of the Municipal Extension is under a promise not to interfere unduly with the Chinese until the three yeary probationary period is up in its anxiety to adhere to the spirit of this promise it has hitherto ignored as far a3 possible certain disreputable insti tutions which had established themselves in the Extra Concession before the new regime. Knowing that the Chinese officials" will not interfere, the rascals who run these places ave Become. more presuming: they lave promoted their gambling hells into lottery offices, which they advertise far and wide. By a neat manipulation of their address they give the impression that their venture ig under foreign auspices and protection, and, of course, imply that the administration is correspondingly honest. The place has become a miniature Monte Carlo already, only infinitely more disreputable. It is a social fester, so much so that the high Chinese authorities have made urgent representations to the British Consul to put an end to it. Prompt action has been taken to abate the nuisance, It isa probable result of the above lottery scandal that we have had an epidemic of
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