A correspondent kindly forwards us a letter just received from the proprietors of one of the establishments which were supposed to have been closed by the Chinese military authorities. Suppressing names, and addresses it says:—The undersigned request the pleasure of your visit at their new premises—Road any time suiting your convenience frum 8.30 p.m. any day.
For the moment regards and thanks Whether these people have shifted under pressure from one house to another, ey whether they merely wish to indicate that they are carrying on as before, we do not know: the results are the same. The time is coming when the Muncipal Councils on both sides of the Yangkingpang in common with the Chinese authorities outside Shanghai will have to frame a joint policy as regards dancing and drinking halls, etc. Mere closure, or the withdrawal of a licence from this house or that, of whatever nature, will never effect any permanent cure. The question has been rashly, though with the best of intentions, seized upon by am-atours, who have succeeded in committing the Council to a certain line, the practical effects of which are already beginning to be visible. Sooner or later there will have to be some reconsideration.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.