In the face of the impending establishment. of the joint police bureau in the Western District, for which an agreement has been reached between the Shanghai Municipal Council and Greater Shanghai Municipal Government, which require the closing of gambling houses, the status of such establishments was still mot clear yesterday, although the Chinese press reported that all gambling houses in the Western District and Nantao were closed on Tuesday.
Inquiries made with the two leuding establishments in the Western District, the "Lu Kuo" in Avenue Haig and "Lien Chiao" in Tifeng Road, brought the unanimous answer that "we are still open; please come." They -even denied that they were closed on Tuesday when their adver-fisements appeared in the press affiliated with the new regime. Yesterday, however, their advertisements did not appear in at least one of such newspapers.
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