unpleasantness of motor car driving within a 109-mile radius of Shanghai was described vehemently on July' 26 to a representative of the "North-China Herald," by two well-known residents who on July 25 returned from a' 500-mile trip. Both have long been resident here, the one maitre d'hotel of a prominent hotel for the past ten years, the other proprietor of a restaurant in the French Concession.
Equipped with passports, properly visaed, Chinese licence for their Ford V8, driving licence, hunting and shooting permits, although they carried no sporting or pocket weapons, they sallied forth from Shanghai one week ago.en route for holiday in Mokanshan, ranson for their car being stopped six 'As they said, they could see no you do, you are greeted like a long lost brother: times; soldiers with xed bayonets, pointing ries at them, before they Brrived' at. their destination. three of these six occasions, in spite my Ford VB and spend the week-end their passports being. "OK driving. We drive to Wusih, Hang-they had to fil In the various forms chow, Soochow, Mokanshan, and by regreding, birth, nationally, occupa various routes to Nanking and other tion, ete," At the foot of Mokanshan, towns." another form had. to be filled while When drivers treat the officials and the owner haa to pay §1 per day for their orders with respect they are leaving his ear, themselves given courteous treatment and a good deal of consideration for Having spent several days on the their comfort. He said that he has mountain, on July 24, they decided made many friends among the off return to Shanghai, via: Soochow. They Teached the intersection of the new rond with the Nanking highway land were waved on straight ahead, instead of taking the cut-of, Even tually: they arrived sat Wush, ward mid-afternoon: on Suly 24,
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