To the Editor of the "Nonti-Cumes Dart News!
Sim—There is a great -advantage living in Victory Avenue Haig: one does not have to trudge for miles to have a funtter.
casino has sprung up. overnight and everything would be lovely except for the Mauser-nursers.
Why do they not conduct local gambling after the Monte Carlo model, Lo, without gunplay?
4.0. de A Pestilential Lair the Raitor of the "Normi-Cinwa Dany News"
Sm—Your correspondent Vicrony Temnacr: has rendered a service to the [community by directing its attention, in your issue of August 4, to the con. gestion of traffic along Avenue Haig between Route de Say Zoong and Bubbling Well Road consequent the opening of a new gambling resort at No. 346 Avenue Haig.
As he points out, the locus in quo is situated just outside both the Foreign Settlement and the French Concession, but I suggest that he goes oe far in his assertion that the police forces of these areas can do nothing in the matter. As a matter of fact [Avenue Haig, which is the only access to the resort, is at this point under the control of the police of the Foreign Settlement and the Route de Say Zoong lies, of course, (wholly) within the French Concession, In addition to the nuisance men: tioned by your correspondent there is a more serious nuisance created by the hooting, shouting, banging and general cacophony of the canaille who frequent this "illicit establishment. This vulgar clamour lasts throughout much of the day and most of the: night; during the former it seriously affects the comparative tranquillity of is residential district and during the latter becomes $0 atrocious as t0
[deprive residents in the vicinity, in-eluding those of the large apartment house known as Haig Court, and their little children of their sleep.
'A nuisance of this kind calls for: immediate abatement, but experience has taught us that it is hopeless to expect stich a remedy at the hands of the native authorities of Shanghai. It not, however, too much to expect Council which has recently had to appeal to its ratepayers to extricate it from a Ginaneial muddle to be zeal-fous to preserve the ordinary amenities of urban life for some of those who have come to its rescue with Bnty per cent. surcharges. The application of a modicum of intelligence {o the problem would doubtless discover legitimate means of ridding the district of this pestilent lair, Shanghai, Aug. 10.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.