The Archive · 1927

Chivalrous Chekiang

As there is more or less of malice in a group, the world over, one of my Chinese friends bear the following it that Belgians, Italians, Russians and even Frenchmen travel at pleasure and reside at will, but you—mentioning three natfonaliti ly come and go in our provines The only retortjeourteous that I could make at the moment was in substance" Ye in chivalrous Chekiang, especially kindly Kashing, the Nationalist soldiers have only temporarily occupied our premises and only partially Fuined our property, but at ten of jour stations in Kiangsu they are still using what they have not! damaged regardless of promised protection—what may happen to us hhere if these same soldiers pass through on their homeward march?

At best, in the opinion of many, foreigners now residing in the interior are "toleration tenants leven when occupying their own par-chased property.

Apart from delayed trains, "the return trip to Shanghai was without incident.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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