With the close of his career in the American Consular service, Mr. Edwin S. Cunningham dooks back jupon many pleasant experiencer, an interlude of sadness, and exciting adventures. He is returning to his boyhood home in Maryville, Ten-Jnessee. His plans are vague, but he jis certain, however, that he will [return to China some day.
'From the very beginning of his Jconsuiar career, Mr. Cunningham has been in the thick of things, His frst exciting adventure came simultaneously with his arrival at his rst post at Aden on May 13, 1898, The Spanish-American War was' just beginning. Admiral Dewey had destroyed the Spanish fleet in Manila Bay and Admiral Camera was hast ening with more ships in an effort to reach Manila and sink Dewey, It was necessary for the Spanish ships to coal at Perim before they could continue on their long journey but, at the instigation of the young American, Jconsul, the British Government re-[fused the Spanish Admiral's request for coaling permission and thus Dewey was saved, because the ships were forced to return to Spain.
"Jost Being There"
Mr, Cunningham, however, re-{fuses to take all' the credit for winning this war. In speaking of the incident he chuckles and says the just happened to be there, But somehow or other Mr. Cunnitgham has had the good fortune of "just being there" when something spceiaexciting has taken place. He "happened" to be in Aden. during the Boer and Spanish-American wars, when the Suez canal was a partfeularly busy thoroughfare.
'When he was stationed in Bergen, Norway, from 1903 to 1906, Sweden fand Norway became separate' countries Jand Norway elected a king whose coronation ceremony Mr, Cunning ham attended. The Union of Soush Africa was established when Mr. [Cunningham was at Durban, South Afsica, and he was in Bombay at the ime of the Durbar of H. M. King George V. No- sooner had he lett for /Singapore than the British signed the JJohore treaty and the mutiny of the Tndian troops occurred, cating world-wide sensation, Mr. Cunningham was transferred to Hankow at the end of 1914 and arrived there in the midst of civil war. In fact, his entire stay in China has been fraught with revolutions, fwars, incidents, and continuous citement.
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