Coming Here Strict Regulations in Japan Harm Trade Tokyo, Dec. 27.
Located beyond the pale of dance-abhorring Japanese police, Shanghai end Dairen are attracting increasing numbers of Tokyo taxi dancers whose ranks are being rapidly thinned by repressive measures, a y revealed today.
With the nation still in the grip of the China conflict, when officials feel that this is no time for frivolity, the dancers foresee little likelihood of any relaxation for some time to come in the stern regulations that now govern the business.
The hegira of professional dancing partners towards Shanghai, in particular, is expected to grow early t year when all dance-halls in Jepanese-controlled territory in Tientsin will be closed.
Peiping, Dec.- 27.
Te British, American and French and Army officers and commanders of the Embassy garrisons were guests of Gen. Sugiyama, Commander-in-Chief of the Japanese Expeditionary Force in North China, at a tea pai in his official residence here yesterday afternoon. t was Gen. Sugiyama's first meeting with foreign military and naval officers stationed in Peiping since his recent appointment as Commander-in-Chief of the North China Forces to succeed Gen. Count Hisaicht Terauchi. Gen. Sugiyama preceded Lieut-Gen. Seishiro Itagaki as War Minister.—Domei.
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