Another Phase the waite of the "sNonri-Citina DAILx Nev $imn—Chinese dancing girls in Peking have migrated to a foreign Tand'snd the™ very, object of the Nanking Government's order for heir suppression has been completely defeated, The curious thing Bethat some of, the dancing halls, in which the dancing gins claim tam unity, no longer possess. extra-Geritoriaity" rights, "Tu this con. ection the following "maybe. Interest to your readers:
"The social evil which has sprung Peking as a result, of the HMtroduction during the past couple of years of Chinese public dancing, girls, has already had avery Frorstizng "effect on. the 70,000
Chit a with up-to-date modern Uni-Peking isan educational centre aehool bose "and gis here, and
erotics where coveduation exist sumably under foreign registration, with) Chinese public dancing girls open, every night until the small hours of the morning and "itis. from jensen and. the "license quarter" outside Chienmen in Peking become dancing girls. Thus} the red light district" in Peking. is Fine have a new feld open to them ractienlly® deserted: Girls. of il
for thei amoral activities dogra ing soc sand respectable families Aue to idsent_ economic conditions permitting their" daughters to be-Rome daneing girls have become the Vietina of elreumatances.
students. attracted by. the allering temperament. of dancing gids visit these places every night ithe week and familiarity breeds 'Tite study' is neplested and the purpose for which they have boon sent to Peking by parents fs well as the expenditure involved, enrively forgotten. Student. suides have algo' been reported." The freedom in' these daneing.'halls. is Sich that vith sleeping aecommoda-Hom so. conveniently available fpomiforcign hotels in "the neigh: Pourhood, eis not at all sure ising that, venereal disease in. Peking goethe increase, "As an instance fiot the demand for hotel accanimo= dation in the small hours of. the forming te greater than the suppl Wmay be stated. that w dancing" ith her fancy-youngeman had one Hight to. seek hotel aecomiodation From place to "place. t0 pass the Tight; vandwns eventually crested a hotel and fined $25 by the police.
The most unfortunate pi present situation is that dents of comparative means enticed by the fascinating life and" the inducement offered, sooner or later become the victims of circumstances.
In brief, dancing halls are meeting' places' for the opposite sexes cultivate ilieit relationship until the small hours of the morning, and' ing, when they become infatuated the: semi-foreign hotels serve as bawdyhouses, If as a result of this letter action is taken to restrict the sources from, which this social evil breeds, then the writer considers that the. time and labour spent in placing his observations on record will not have: been in' vain. It goes without saying that the minds of parents who send their children to Peking] from different provinees to pursue lier education, ar not at rest welfare of their sons and daughters is allowed to continue, and for whose education China Is spending: millions of dollars every year and, the remissions of the Boxer Indemnity by the foreign powers are also earmarked for this purpose.
Peking, July! 20, 1932,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.