As an indication of changing ways and changing days, Stan Hugill winds up that book with a quote from an article by Edward Behr about what had once been the Sailortown in Shanghai:

I asked Mr Li, the Director of the (Shanghhai Foreign Seamen's Home), whether foreign seamen ever misbehaved in Shanghai..."I am most distressed to have to say that occasionally some seamen...come here under the impression that women can be procured. One German sailor came to me the other day, blatantly demanding where he could find a woman. I took him into my office and explained to him that we were no longer living in the old society...I then took him by the hand to the games room and suggested a game of ping-pong. Every night the German came back for a game."