"Language difficulties?" the owner of one of these establishments ironically repeated, "why there is no trouble at all. Usually my customers know how to express their wishes in English and if this is not the case, they come up and point their fingers to whatever beverage they wish to consume. They are a very pleasant lot of customers and seem to be so fond of occidental music that my musicians often complain of not being able fo play continuously for a number of hours."
There are hostesses too, some of them refugees, others Russians, Koreans, and Japanese. They sit at the tables with the Japanese patrons and here too no language difficulties seem to prevail, most of the conversation being carried on by sign-language, whilst smiles on both sides indicate the pleasant subjects being discussed.
Even photographers have established themselves along Broadway and report reasonably good business, mostly in passport pictures required for passes.
A few Russian shop-keepers have also opened their doors and confine themselves to selling provisions. They have also opened a number of restaurants and there seems to be no great amount of competition between the Russian and Jewish establishments.
"Russians like Russian food and the refugees are fond of the food to which they were accustomed before coming to China," said a Russian restaurant owner who has a modest establishment on Ward Road, "and so we carry on our business without any competition worth speaking of," he concluded.
'A few Chinese have also opened again for business, particularly near the intersection of Broadway ahd East Seward Road, where tr shops, cigarette, and exchange shops and other establishments owned by Chinese, are mostly situated. The exchange shops, the reporter learned, did good business, better, as a matter of fact than prior to the war, whilst the trunk manufacturers are also experiencing a boom, with Japanese soldiers and sailors coming in to make purchases prior to returning to their home-land.
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