Whilst our representative was the mission, an unfortunate cool came moaning and groaning into the compound and sat down patiently to await the arrival of the American lady mission doctor, Miss Bur-dick, Upon her arrival' he exposed te view a hand most terribly injur-face spattered with plete the spectacle fies were buzzing round him in scores.
On being! questioned, it. transpired that out of curiosity he had picked up a. bomb, and the machine had explode ed in his hand, Earlier in the day another coolie had done the same manner.
Travelling Shanghaiwards at night, one's car is usually held up. two or three times by soldiers requiring a lift to Shanghai. When our representative's car was stopped by two piratical-looking individuals in military uniform, both armed to the teeth, and permission to accompany the car to Shanghai was refused, they took the rebuff pleasantly and politely, and did not attempt any show of force, which they might well have done.
The countryside appears penceful enough generally, and it is dificult to realize that a campaign has just been fought over it. The crops look well, and the peasants go about the work as if nothing had happened. The only warlike signs are bodies of troops at intervals along the road, either drilling or bivouacking. Also, every few miles or so motor-cars may be seen, deserted and overturned in ditches.
At one point our representative observed a Post Office car in excel-Tent condition, standing up to its axles in water in a ditch alongside the road.
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