It is strange that such an acute observer should have failed to mention the four professions in which there certainly has been a very re-markoable and rapid development—to wit: the drug trae, cabarets, drinking-halls and brothels. The extension Jof the last is quite particularly notieeand specially to the respectable householder. Here is a case where the clock has. certainly not} been put back, "Hitherto such "houses of amusement" were confined lo a special district in the South City, and were stridly banned from any other: paris of the city. Under the new dispensation all that has been changed. And in. response, doubtless, the huge and suddenly increased: do-mand since the occupation, brothels have sprung up quite openly in all the quiet residential parts of the city. to te Inlense annoyance of the respectable Chinese householder whose doors are battered on at all hours of the night by drunken soldiery looking for the brothel next door, and whose womenfolk do not venture to leave their houses after dark.
Many foreigners have had to change their quarters in consequence of these annoyances, And: there is the classi-of a minister who lives in. 12 highly respectable street. whose front door was assaulted and nearly broken in by three armed and drunk Japanese. When the Chinese police appeared on the scene they were promptly beaten up, and it was two hours before the Japanese military authorities deigned to look into the matter and get the gentlemen {0 Femove themselves. No apology was tendered, as far as one has heard, nor was anybody punished.
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