As we were lucky enough to have received early warning and, being acquainted with the language and conditions, were able to judge the situation correctly, the adventure lever contained any clements of serious danger for us foreigners, But It provided a very striking insight into the kind of thing that must be happening, behind the facade of League of Nations advice and of Reconstruction, over four-fifths of this unhappy country in the 24th Year of the Republic of China. One gathered a most vivid impression of the reality of fear and terror, of days and nights of anxious expectancy, in which the unfortunate Chinese peasantry spend their lives in districts harassed by banditry, even when their villages are not actually attacked. No wonder the common people sigh for some change of government, even if it means foreign domination, that can protect them from this ever-threatening terror.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.