CHINESE GAMBLING.

Shannon News, 18 January 1924, Page 3

CHINESE GAMBLING.

A correspondent protests to the Lytteltpn Times that it is not in / keeping with British justice to refuse to tolerate in Chinamen what we condone in ourselves. If Chinamen "enjoy a little gamble," but keep their enjoyment to themselves, the. correspondent thinks that the police might be better employed than raiding them. The Timers frankly endorses this opinion, and adds:—"The gamb-ling-the .Chinese do hurts nobody, and although aliens are uhder obligation to observe the < laws of the country that harbours them, we should either exclude Orientals, altogether or leave them alone as long as they are not corrupting Europeans. But if the police wish to show their abhorrence of gambling, they could devote themselves with advantage to bookmakers. Melodramatic raids on the dens of pakapoo are almost, if. not quite, useless; constant and relentless pressure on bookmakers would rid the country of men who do more harm in one day than fantan players in a year, it is known to the police that bookmakers ply "-;. their calling in the streets of every important town in the The men are known, their methods, \ haunts and friends are . known; yet when flhe policeman is spoiling for a •■■' capture he makes a raid on some unfortunate Chinamen who at the worst , are doing no more than hundreds of Europeans all around them. Our correspondent calls this unjust. It is stupid, also, and less than honest."