UNKNOWN LONDON.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 99, 8 April 1911, Page 1 (Supplement)

UNKNOWN LONDON.

Interesting Paragraphs that tell you all about the Unknotvc Regions of the gieaj. Metropolis—of “Shady” Night Clubs, aul haunts of Foreign Outcasts, and Criminals.

It is often said that the people wH<> know least about London are those '.vho live in it all thcar days, and like most of the sayings wnich become proverbial by constant reiteration, this one contains a deal of truth. London is a miniature edition of the world. Almost every nationality under the sun possesses its own particular quarter in it, and out of many well-known thoroughfares one may turn into regions that are utterly unfamiliar. IN SOHO

Soho, to many Londoners, is little more than a name, and only the few l.row it at all well. Shaftesbury Avenue, Piccadilly Circus, Regent Street and Oxford Street are all familiar enough, bu.t the quedr dAfti'ict which is surrounded by these four main arteries of the West End remains largely undisturbed. Yet in its dark ana narrow turnings the anarchist walks abroad in daylight, and the children who play on the footpath speak only- in a foreign tongue. There are newspaper shops filled with the literature of Fiance, and quaint little wine shops, conspicuous for their red blinds ana the vivacious Frenchwomen who preside over them. So-called Bohemian Ijoiidor.crs are acquainted with the many excellent restaurants of Soho, where one may dine well at a trifling cost, and they have no doubt peered through tlie steamy windows of the French >e mid lies, at the plump washer, women irtning away for dear life within. They may have loitered, too, in the curious open-air market of Little Pulteney Street, where after nightfall the hissing naphtha lamps throw fan-