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English: "They have very good looking legs, shapely hands and that portion of their anatomy, which according to Western tradition is constructed along horizontal lines, is built in the vertical plane.

Most of the Chinese girls are owned by an old hag, called a Mama-San, the spelling is probably incorrect, but that was the way it sounded to me, and are leased out for the evening to the customer. They hav various prices such as, “one dollah short time, five dollah long time, ten dollar all nite”. The dollars referred to are Mex and the exchange was 6.17-1.

One of the sailors, aboard the Henderson, was so attracted to a girl in the Sir Sir Coffee House that he rented her every night, at $10 Mex. Just before we sailed the Mama-San offered to sell him “Mickie” for $400 Mex, about $66 in our money. How would you like something like that for a Christmas present next year? Velly ploppa, velly clean.

I met a very attractive, in fact she was more than attractive, she was beautiful, Russian the last four days in Shanghai. Her name was Galia Valdevitch and as is the usual"

From the Edward L. Parke Collection (COLL/5627) at the Archives Branch, Marine Corps History Division

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