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الد المجرم المدم به سلم ألديه Prown
Eliminating Plague
It is a good sign that the authorities at Shanghai, Europe and native, have moved in the direction of eliminating vice- apots, The recent shooting at оде of the cabarets in the "Trenches," in which a young American, Mr. Hazelton, lost his life, following upon the tragedy of the Bing-song girl, directed serious attention
to the subterranean world of the northern port, and at the prelim- inary hearing of the shooting charge Judge of the American tribunal availed himself of the presence of Chinese officials to intimate a strong hope that the diereputable public houses in question would be abolished. The hint appears to have had more rapid effect than is sometimes
the case in dealing with certain types of Chinese enterprise. At the same time we observe that the International Settlement authorities have decided to at once close down 20 per cent. of another kind of licensed premises though one kind was prove to have too much in common with the other. These steps, following
on the check to gambling by the suppression of the Wheel," con- note a practical endeavour to remove abuses.
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The Hong Kong Telegraph, January &
que, 192
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