Canidrome To-Day 5.30PM Rain or Shine

May 1940 – Though the Japanese were threateningly surrounding the International Settlement and Paris was about to fall and the French Concession to come under the control of the collaborationist Vichy regime nobody could stop Shanghailanders going to watch dogs run round a track…and bet on them obviously! Even the weather couldn’t stop the dogs at the Canidrome. Why they hyphenated To-Day though I have no idea.