the Assuctation ask that the Com missioner should open negotiations with the Consular Bos at once For the suppression of existing, courses and say, inter alia, that teteyhound racing hay proved' itself to be a curse, benedeial only to the foreigners and a few Chinese who happen tw be shareholders. There are two courses at present in existence in the Foreign Settlement und these are attracting tens of thousands of persons every week.
A few so, they say Cor the pur-Pose of sritnessing the dogs run but the majority go for the purpose of gambling. Included in the latter ire many Iabourers and poor peo~ lo, who spend their hard-earned savings In trying to ike more But they love, and, in order to recoup their lus dive more deeply and are in & financial mire out of whi result is thut they bor-ow, or even commit evi me, go to the races again in the hope of xeting thole money back and invariably they los Seldom do away winners. Trage-9 result. The evil is so positive and the danger so menacing that the Commissioner of Foreign Affairs is asked to negoti-tate with the Consular Body for the suppression of axiating courses and the prevention of new ones from springing up.
Writing to Dr. ©. T. Wang, the] ulvantage of the curiosity' of the Chinese people in new innovations, have organized three asanils of dollars from those! who attend. "Many persons have Jost positions while others have suicide because of We are confident that have the welfare of the inex people at heart, will do your Test to put un end to the brwclice by instructing the Commissioner of Foreign owetiate with the Consular Body} nd_the French Consul-General for! the stippression of all greyhound courses marder that the people away hen fit"
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