
On a different subject, just look at these nefarious doings in the vicinity, in 1926:

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The above postcard shows the card room in the French Club, which opened in January 1926. Here is what the North-China Herald had to say about it:…
Link to the Hong List 1926: https://archive.org/details/north-china-desk-hong-list-1926-01-shanghai Like before, the PDF file has navigation in…