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Crafty Hai-Alai Players Fool Japanese Sentries in Tientsin with Menu

Posted: August 25th, 2015 | No Comments »

I’ve been researching a lot on the popularity of hai-alai (jai-alai – though always spelt with an ‘h’ at the start in Shanghai) in Shanghai and China’s treaty ports. Here’s a good little story from 1939…..restaurant menus as letters of transit – ingenious!

 

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