CHINESE & FOREIGNERS
CHANGED ATTITUDE IN SHANGHAI I Chinese in Shanghai now treated foreigners, including the British, with contempt, said Miss Margaret Sterelny on her arrival in Sydney in the Eastern, from Shanghai, where she has lived for 25 years. “Since the war ended, the Chinese in Shanghai have become exceedingly arrogant and rude,” she said. This goes for Chinese businessmen as well as house servants. “Chinese cooks now order the owners of the house out of the kitchen. They say: “This is my kitchen. I work here. You get out.” ‘Before the war Chinese in Shanghai would make way for a foreigner. Now they bump foreigners out of the way.” Mrs B. L. Radomishelsky, another passenger, said foreigners had to pay 6000 American gol ollars to get the lease of a furnished house in Shanghai. She added: “Everything else is plentiful, and if you have money you can get anything from caviare to champagne.”
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 11, Issue 18, 18 April 1947, Page 2
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