One may ascend by a broad stair way to the upper rooms where the stakes ore higher and all table attendants, with the exception of the croupier, are attract.ve girls, Small tleoves open directly upon the upper Tooms so that opium smokers may watch the gambling.
As the night passes and crowds thin out, playing is confined to fewer tables bit proceeds all night at some. The estimated Income of this house Tuns into five figures daily which ts easily believed from the number of people which fs the rooms for abe Manchoukuo Visa Office Planned Here Shanghai, Apr. 1.
Reports that In future all travellers intending to visit or pass through Manchoukuo would have to obtain their visas in Japan, were denied yesterday by an offelal of the Japanese Embassy in Shanghai, who explained that the report might have arisen owing to the fact that there had been some difficulties during the past few months in connection with the issuing of visas for Jewish refugees from Germany, who Intended to travel vin Russia to Shenghai, This had necessitated, he stated, the opening of a visa office in Berlin.
the Russian Government had refused to grant visas to any of the refugees unless they were In pos session of a Manchoukuoan visa, For foreigners in Shunghi added, the conditions were the same as before, visas being obtainable in Dairen, Peiping and Tientsin, There was a possibility that the immediate future a Manchoukuo visa office would be opened in Shanghai, he continued, but plans were not definite at the moment, With the opening of this office, he concluded, forelgers intending to travel through Manchoukuo would be able to secure their visas before commencing their journey,
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