Tokyo, July 80.
When you are a passenger on a train in China, have paid for your berth and for' a comfortable seat, but yet Chinese rabble soldiery enter your compartment, force you out of your place, help themselves to your cigarettes and generally make 8 nuisance of themselves—don't lose your temper.
So says Mr, Edwin Towzey, of Havvati, who thinks that'when one is travelling in China these days, he or she is taking a risk and that'
is good policy to "keep your on," despite the annoyances to which one is subjected.
Mr. Towzey then proceeded to relate few of the experiences that. fell him when travelling from! Mukien to Tientsin, He had engag-ea 8 special compartment amd had invited another foreigner whom he had casually met to share it. This other foreigner was a doctor and had been in China for several years, Everything went well till, al a road-side station, the train came to a stop with a grating sound and a gang of soldiery clambered aboard. Into Mr. Towzey's special compartment swaggered two noncommissioned officers, At their were a motley rabble grin-broadly, intent on seeing how gallant' officers were going to knock "the stuffing" out of the for-
The Gentle Soldier the sent was a tin of cigarettes. belonging 20 the doctor. One of the non-commissioned officers walked up to it, had a good look at it, stuck one in his mouth and several. in his pocket, passed another over to his brother officer, lit his cigarette and then held the match under the doctor's nose.
Meantime, the rabble laughed as though it were all a great joi The doctor make.no remonstrai Thereupon, the same officer proc to light another match and hold it to the hem of the doctor's trousers. All the Intter did was merely to move his leg, this eliciting another burst of fiendish gi The doctor perhaps knew the wisdom of discretion sometimes. being the' better part of valour. Happily for the medical man, the station at which he alighted' was soon reached.
Inv, Towzey was, meanwhile, congratulating himself that he was sufficiently' insignificant to be held unworthy of these tender attentions, Dut no sooner had the doctor descend. ed than Mr. Towzey was treated in a manner not dissimilar.
It was growing late, became 10 wedlock, and Mr. Towzey could not ge to sleep. Suddenly the conduct for came along and declared that he had found room for the two officers.
At the sume time, he signalled to of the soldiers and billeted them in Mr. 'Towzey's compartment. 'There was really room for only we, but the gallant soldiers prompt. ly pulled off their clothes and Proceeded to occupy the greater: Part of the compartment, talking, Jaughing and spitting all' over the floor and, occasionally, throwing. cigarette ends (of Mr. Towzey's own cigarettes) ut the owner of; the compartment.
But jit's a Jong lane that has no durning and the soldiers reached thely destination, taking themselves away, but leaving a nasty odour behind. "It's good pidgin'
ilosophicat sometimes," Mr.
added, 3 The conductors on the trains can rething, according to Mr. Towzey, One conductor, some time ego. lo related, remonstrated on Lehalf of a passenger. The soldier took him out, walloped him severely, und left him half-dead while the train steamed off, Mr. Towzey is through with sight-seeing in China for a while, and will spend the rest of his holi day in Japan before he proceeds to the Paradise. of the Pacific and the order and courtesy to be met with in that fair el'me,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.