And now T have a strange coin-incidence to relate. For, believe, it 07 not there happened the very "same accident, as took place in a motorbus in" which I was travelling in exactly a year ago almost!
day. About an hour out of Pingchuan, as we were dashing alonx at full speed, luckily on the flat, one of our back wheels came off and went spinning merrily ahead. We all road facing outwards with thei rifles at the ready. ese passengers were excited pessimistic, and ran about desperately frying to squeeze into the two other buses. that had drawn up alongside. The Chinese, on the other hand, remained quite unmoved and with their usual philosophy stood there patiently Jawaiting the issue. For myself, 1 naturally felt bound to see this coin-Jeldence to the hilter end. The other! buses went on leaving us alone. In about an hour the wheel wax fixed on again, but was held, as 1 notiond with considerable misgiving, by only six "instead of the original nine bolts. The road from here on became very" mountainous indeed, and went zig-zagging up and down over two tremendous passes, Our Japan-jose driver tried to make up for lost time, taking the bends at full spees and crashing through streams ang over bad places without the slightes: regard for the six bolts, However, our luck held.
This last part of the route brings home to one very forcibly, how fortunate the Japanese were during their Jehol "campaign" of 1992 in having only Chinese up against them. Had this enormously dificult mountain country been held, for instance, such tribes as those on the north: west frontier of India or even ey Formosan head-hunters, the Japanese would have required' quite other forces and exertions to subjugate the province.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.