The Archive · 1938

Foreigner's Car

"My chauffeur is searched from head to foot each time (the corres pondent lives at the Broadway Mar sions) we cross the Garden Bridge hho ig made to open the little cupboard fon the dash board each time; and my expensive leather-covered seat cush-ons are dragged out of the car and flung on to the roadway," he went This, he said, happened each time despite the fuct that the correspondent himself was in the car and was armed with every conceivable toria of pass, 'A foreign lady, new to Shanghai, who crossed the bridge by car arrived at the Broadway Mansions in a condition bordering on the hysterical, as a result of the rough searching. of the chauffeur by the sentries on the Bridge. One of the latter was. observed by the "North-China Daily News" to. be carrying a fully-toaded sub-machine gun

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