Peking, May 21.
The American Consul Yunnan telegraphed on May 19 saying that the Governor had received a telegram reporting that Captain T. J. Betts, the American language officer who wes captured by bandits, has been released Reuter. been driven from a coupe by a soldier, who wanted their place. We were almost suffocated in the small compartment, but it was the best we could get. The perfume did help} us there. There were no toilet arrangements and no chance to wash, up. The Russians were asked to pay 20 cents for a small Chinese cup of tea.
"It took us four hours to get to! Peking from Tientsin. Some people: do the trip by motor-car, but then they have to pay a. "squeeze" $100 at the toll gate before they: can go along the road.
"On the trip down we managed to get a coupe because a man who} Knows the ways helped us. We: Yocked ourselves in and would not. let the soldiers enter. Otherwise, they would have thrown us out as they did to others, particularly to those whom they suspected of being Russians. When we peeped through the curtain and saw foreigners, we! Jet them into the coupe.
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