{"id":2052,"date":"2016-10-25T21:38:23","date_gmt":"2016-10-25T20:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ensuringweremember.org.uk\/?p=2052"},"modified":"2016-10-25T21:41:44","modified_gmt":"2016-10-25T20:41:44","slug":"2052","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ensuringweremember.org.uk\/?p=2052","title":{"rendered":"Attitudes towards the Chinese after the Armistice"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><span class=\"notranslate\"><i>&#8220;The Chinese coolies in the pay of the English army, inspire real terror in the country they occupy (&#8230; ) many misdeeds are attributed to them, some even committed with weapons in hand.<\/i><\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"notranslate\"><i>(We) urgently (ask) public authorities that\u00a0the district of P\u00e9ronne be freed and that they be shipped back to Asia. &#8220;<\/i><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span class=\"notranslate\"><i>Chamber of Commerce of Peronne, 1919<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.encyclopedie.picardie.fr\/Reconstruction-apres-la-premiere-guerre-mondiale.html\" target=\"_blank\">Reconstruction apr\u00e8s la premiere guerre mondiale<\/a><br \/>\n Rester entre soi, la peur de l&#8217;\u00e9tranger.<\/p>\n<h1 class=\"violet\"><\/h1>\n<p>Original French:<\/p>\n<p><i>\u00ab\u00a0Les coolies chinois, \u00e0 la solde de l\u2019arm\u00e9e anglaise, inspirent une v\u00e9ritable terreur dans tout le pays qu\u2019ils occupent, (&#8230;) de nombreux m\u00e9faits leur sont imputables, quelques uns m\u00eame commis les armes \u00e0 la main. (Nous demandons) instamment aux pouvoirs publics que l\u2019arrondissement de P\u00e9ronne en soit d\u00e9barrass\u00e9 et qu\u2019ils soient r\u00e9exp\u00e9di\u00e9s en Asie\u00a0\u00bb. <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Chambre de Commerce de P\u00e9ronne, 1919<\/i><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Chinese coolies in the pay of the English army, inspire real terror in the country they occupy (&#8230; ) many misdeeds are attributed to them, some even committed with weapons in hand.\u00a0(We) urgently (ask) public authorities that\u00a0the district of P\u00e9ronne be freed and that they be shipped back to Asia. &#8220; Chamber of Commerce &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"moree\"><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/ensuringweremember.org.uk\/?p=2052\">Read more <i class=\"fa fa-arrow-circle-right\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ensuringweremember.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ensuringweremember.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ensuringweremember.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ensuringweremember.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ensuringweremember.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2052"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ensuringweremember.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2056,"href":"https:\/\/ensuringweremember.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2052\/revisions\/2056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ensuringweremember.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ensuringweremember.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ensuringweremember.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}