There is a fairly regular daily train leaving Yenching at 6.30 a.m. which gets to Techow at noon and goes on to Tientsin. Occasionally one finds a dirty second class coach fon this train but for the most part itis entirely composed of decapitated third class coaches. The majority of the passengers going north slee the night at Yenching but possible to leave Tsinanfu at 4 by car and still catch the train, although the traversing of Tsinanfu city by night is not to be recommend, unless the car driver has 'a Japanese pass, Japanese posts and entries are continually holding the car up going through the city cut from our own experience we would say that the possibility of getting, shot at by one of these posts 1 highly possible as the Japanese are taking no chances and are all ready to shoot should a car not stop immediately when challenged, We Understand there has been a certain, Amount of promiscuous shooting on Japanese sentries in the past men in civilian clothes and naturally entries are nervous, particularly as most of the Japanese troops here appear to be very young soldiers indeed.
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