In other minor ways the foreign community in Tientsin is made to feel uncomfortable. There is the case of the Race Club. The autumn races, it is true, were not actually directly held up, but Chinese and Japanese were warned off from attending. A few weeks prior to the meeting the Chinese local authorities asked the Race Club for eighty thousand dollars, ounds that in former day ad made contributions to ies from its earnings at such meetings.
But those prosperous days are g since past, and the Tientsin Race Club was unable to entertain the request. For some mysterious reason the British authorities, about five years ago, conceded to the Chinese the right of policing the end of the Race Course Road adjoining the course. During the time of this year's autumn meeting Chinese police threw a cordon out on all the roads leading to the course, including the Race Course Road, and all would-be Chinese race-goers were forced to turn back. Only a very few of the hardiest punters managed to reach the grounds by water.
Again, the grounds of the Country Club adjoining the Race Course have been made unpleasant and unsafe. There have been two cases of attacks on foreign ladies walking there. And as usual nothing has been done.
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