Editor of the "Nonru-Cunwa Daty News"
Sinj—It is amazing that there has eite which appeared In your journal October 28. 'There can be no doubt of the appositeness of that part of Mr. R. 7. Evans' address which was reproduced in the leadertte, or of its bearing on conditions in 'Shanghat as much as on condi-ions in 'Tientsin, Never, it seems fo me, has there been' a better description of one aspect of life in Shanghai than street corner' Race clubs operatin out. of. their aiMeulies, them into letting things run of ok.
Shanghai, however cerns, companies) clubs, tons, ete, which maintain these lot teries, sweepstakes, savings and so on, appear to welld a sini ter influence, for seldom indeed is or any tion of such activities; and the only evidence (and that very abstract evidence) or press disappr 'Members' Cash Sweeps, Suscription Funds," andthe like jy provided by your own journal in its refraining " from publishing, in the news columns, the number which draw dogs, "or ponies, or pelottes, ax the case may be.
have htard it said, by a resident that gambling whether organized or iting or commercialized, of the community for it ey seriously to be. tackled by the authorities" as an evil, or by the the dogs and ponies are concerned, quantum suficlt is inter~ preted in' terms of the maximum availability of days, dates and time: rather than by any consideration of what might be a reasonable amount of "sport-cum-gambling (oF populace of Shanghai needs; and Whether it be an exclusive club catering to those who follow the ponies, the highly efficient body
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