The Archive · 1938

FREE-FOR-ALL IN CABARET ALLEY

Considerable excitement reigned in Rue Chu Pao Shan at about 830 pin, on March 1, when scores of French and. Italian sailors came to blows, resulting in many of the parlcipants receiving black eyes and other minor Injuries: A squad of [twenty French policemen restored order in the street The quarrel was said to have been started -belween a French and an Ballan sailor over a dancing gir? and Jsoon developed into a free-for-all Yesterday being pay day, more sailors seemed to have gathered than usual One report says about 200 sailors Tue Health Report of the French IMunicipality for the week ending February 26, shows that the total jintmber of deaths from all causes Jamongst the foreign and Chinese optlation in the Concession were Porelgners 1, Chinese 751, Deaths from. notifiable diseases " were:—Foreigners, Typhoid Fever 1 and [Measles 1; Chinese, Tuberculosis. 4 Jand Measles 1,

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