It is to be expected that night life in Tokyo and Shanghai receives ample attention, although Mr, Tiltman is frank enough to recognize in regard to Shanghai that the exploitation of the wickedness of the modern Babylon has been overdone:
Actually. while Shanghai's night-haunts ere no places for infants, it 13 high time that the "modern Babylon" myth was exploded. There is mot one sin to be found in the whole length and breadth of that "cesspool" which is not angled before the visitor to Malaga, Genoa, or Marseilles. In regard to every aspect of the vice-racket except two, Port Said could give Shanghai points end win hands down. Night-life in the greatest Sea-port of the East is unique only because its blonde Russian gold-diggers are more accomplished than their sisters elsewhere, and its vice-Standing unknown even. at Chicago have attained an affluence and
im its heyday. The gangsters of
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