Referring to the food-shortage, he said that there was hardly any milk, only a few Russian milk-men being permitted to enter the Concession each day, although most foreigners re at present consuming powdered milk. There was an absolute lack of vegetables and up to the day he left Tientsin, foreigners had no meat to eat, because the only meat available had been brought in prior to the blockade being enforced and with the lack of ice—there is only one ice-factory working within the Concession—it was not believed to be safe for consumption.
Only the British encounter dificult ties at the various entrances, Germans, Italians and well-to-do Chinese being permitted to poss without hindrance "And I assure you", he continued "that it takes a lot of doing not to lose one's temper,"
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