The Archive · 1937

Friendly Relations

If you treat them humanly and are able to speak the language you get along famously with them, exchanging cigarettes and chatting. When forced to stop, a driver will find his placed in the shade and brushed off while he himself is, considerately directed to a teahouse where all kind: of refreshment are available Other inveterate drivers, all of prominent ess here, were called in by telephone and emphatically added their weight in' denouncing what they called a very damaging and misleading report by men Who must have treated officials with orders to carry out like bothersome cot They all emphasized yesterday. that foreigners tend to receive more courteous and lenient treatment than Chinese drivers and that the officials or police are really trying to be nice to them to encourage them to return.

"Certainly cars are stopped and spected, but the matter is simply the carrying out of routine orders and similar to what takes place in crossing State' boundaries in the United States" When drivers cannot speak ihe language they should be all the more'ready to comply with the orders of uniformed officials.

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