In spite of all this Wu Pei-fu cannot be altogether ignored. When he gets started with a body of troops own command he does acthings, he still persists in "making news" by saying unusual things, so when the brief series Jeonferences in Peking were over and Marsnal Wa had finished what the [Chinese press describes as his "visits to the front" and had settled down Jat Changhsintien, it seemed wort while to call, if only to discover whether the events of the past two years kad in any way lessened his fighting spirit and assurance and to renew old friendship with the ever kind and hospitable members of his immediate following. In this excess sively hot weather the crowded Kin-Han trains are not inviting, so the enter drove down to the shabby railway town of Changhsintien over left. his car in tte village street in charge of swarm of raked children and was guided to the railway station by relays of friendly and polite soldiers, and there along the central platforat lay the endlessly long staff train—a replica of the one that took us on the fateful excursion to Shanhaikuan in ithe Autumn of 1924. Note of the entries stowed any disposition to stop the unannounced visitor-a was not until the writer had arrived ata private car, about which a dozen of the body guard were clustered, that lone of the guardsmen stepped for-Jward ang asked for a card.
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