CHARGING FOREIGNERS.
METHODS ADOPTED IN BERLIN. “HAVE YOUR”PASSPORTS READY.” Received September 5, 8.50 a.in. BERLIN, Sept. 3. The popular craze of charging foreigners treble rates compared with local people has resulted in amazing scenes. At the opening of the winter season the opera theatre resembled it frontier, being placarded with notices: “Have your passports ready.” Many patrons brought military papers as well its passports, but unfortunately they omitted ttnv means of identification of their, lady friends. This resulted in exciting altercations, the attendants demanding positive proof that the-lady in each case was the wife of her escort. The Gentians are so well drilled in obeying orders that many brought their marriage and birth certificates, and even their income tax papers. Those without papers underwent a searching ancestry examination unto the third generation. Unfortunately for the management, very few foreigners paid for seats, and the expected rich harvest proved a fiasco.—Times.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2477, 7 September 1922, Page 4
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150CHARGING FOREIGNERS. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2477, 7 September 1922, Page 4
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