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The following interesting necount of the trip by train from Feking to London was written by Amy V. Drucker for the Manchester Guardian. The writer travelled third class and her total experies came to less than £30. So satisfied was Miss Drucker with her experience that she declares that she will certainly travel by the same route, and in the same way on her return to China.
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1925
It's impossible to travel "third class', which, each smoked in turn. Being told by the Trans-Siberian Railway," said I must take some sort of disinfectant with me. I bought some permanganate of everyone in Peking. Yet here I am potash This, I thought, is the moment despite the many warnings of loathsome for disinfecting, and put a few crystals discases and varied species of vemmin into water, and sprinkled half the mugful. on the floor and left the other half on should catch-safe in London, and the table in the window. At three bitten, after my Mid-summer journey o'clock I was wakened by some cold. across Asia to Europe by train. Moreliquid aplashing me, A Mongol, leaning over, I thoroughly enjoyed the journey, fout of the window, had spilt the Condy's accomplishing it more quickly and cheap over my face and pillow. I gave him a ly than I could have done by any other piece of my mind in English, the gist of route. My expenses from Mukden to which he caught; I washed and lay down London, including fure, berth, foud vists, again. Suddenly I was reawakened by tips," cabs, and hotel bills (three nights at i more cold water; this time another Harbin and ong in Moscow), were less Mongol above me kad, thrown some water than £30, and the journey took aineteen out of the window and it had blown back.. days, including two days in Berlin. The More words! I resolved to get myself third class was well arranged, each coin-moved, and on the pathetic plea of not partment containing six berths. The having a soul to talk to and I was so backs of our seats turned up and formed enjoying the quiet-1, was allowed to an upper berth by so simple a means change. This time I was in a compart that a child could have worked it, so that ment with a German pastor and his when the compartment was not full wa daughter, a Polish engineer and his wife, let them down and had plenty of air. The and a Russian doctor, all of whom could compartments opened one into the other, speak either German or French. I was and at the end one of cach carriage slept more comfortable, but there was less a guard. He looked after us all, and privacy and quiet. Nevertheless we were cleaned out, the carriage twies daily all very friendly, and travelled to Morrow Local women came in and scrubbed the, together. The Polish engineer, who floors at all the bigger stations. Most spoke good Russian, found small in- of us brought our own bedding, but expensive Bolshevik hotel, which was saw one or two who, for a small sum, spotless. I had been told that the only two hotels in Moscow free from vermin hired clean-looking mattresses and rugs. Each of us had a numbered berth. Ws charged eleven roubles the night: I only
paid four. all unpacked, and kept our things for daily use on a large shelf which ran right round the top of the carriage. Our daily exercise was jumping out at the six or seven, halts and rushing round, as we only stopped about eight minutes. “
-We need not have stayed in Moscow had we not been delayed by an accident a little way beyond Manchuli, the border) town between Chiap and Bussin tremendous storin flooded the lines. Sud As we arrived the station bell rang We retreated slowly to a village, where denly the engine stopped and backed." once, an indication that we could gewe stuck twelve hours, never knowing down with safety. Out we all would bundle with our kettles and tin pots, alling it might be any moment, we did not for certain when we would start Think- shouting "Where's the hot water?"
dare explore much. The only food we Then somewhere or other we would find boiling water in a boiler, with taps which could buy was eggs and coarse brown bread. Just round about we found shells, we turned straight on to the tea ready hand grenades, and numerous odd bones. in our pots or into our kettles. Then on The village itself was in ruins, and there we would rush to buy bread and butter.
at the small shops on the platform cre large disused barracks dropping to get our bottles filled with deliciously fresh pieces. One of the villagers told us when milk which the peasants brought. From consider ourselves lucky. The last time we grumbled at the delay that we might them we could also buy hot fish, fowis, small joints of mutton and real, fresh engine driver had failed to back in time, a similar accident had happened, the chops, cream, theese, and even ica the train was derailed, and only one-third creams, all at very low prices. A good of the passengers were saved. We had ated cooked fowl cost 1s. ed., and ten started badly that day. Early in the boiled eggs cost od Suddenly, in the morning we had to change trains and midst of our bargaining, the bell would were severely searched at the Customs in ring twice, and we would scuttle bark Manchult. It was a very tiring, lengthy to our carriages, fearing to be left behind process, partly owing to the officials be and be forced to wait a week for the ing new to their work. We had also to next train. As the bell rang three times rebook, which tried everyone's patience, the train steamed out. Besides these for every ticket had to be written out, halts we stopped twice daily at bigger and again by someone unused to the job. stations for thirty minutes or longer. Hardly had we left Manchuli when the restaurant car, available to all classes, train stopped, and more Customs officials was attached to the train Being dearer, inspected us once again. And so and the food not as good as the peasants thoroughly! Especially their own com brought, few of us used it. In Peking patriots. A Russian girl opposite me I had also been warned against the pen had a lot of their attention. They open- ple. I night mert and the likelihood of my ed her powder-box, stirred the powder being robbed I lost nothing, and mostly about, turned over everything, searched met very pleasant people. At first not aber food-basket, and actually broke one single soul in my carriage knew any of her buns in two From one lady who Language but Russian, of which I knew was travelling with eight new hats they not a word. Yet we managed to converse kept back five. We all rather enjoyed by means of gestures and pictures, and that. In Latvia, Lithuania, Germany, here and there someone from another Holland, and here we had to go through carriage interpreting.
the Customs again. Except for these.
Once it was not quite so pleasant. A searches the journey was very easy and number of Mongols came in after mid-pleasant, far and away more enjoyable night and took the three empty upper to me than six weeks on the sea. berths. They talked well into the small If ever I go back to China, and I hope hours, threw from one to the other a long I shall soon, I shall go the same way... pipe filled with a filthysmelling tabacco,
AMY J. DRUCKER.
JAPAN "AND CHINA.
How much Japan has to do with the present unrest in Eastern Asia is JB in the
same time avoid offence to China, so as to retain the confidence of her friends at Feking and avoid precipitating a boycott of Japanese goods,
of the drove tries to vert he mind of China from aversion to Japan and fear of her aggression in China, the Japanese publicists cannot but he aware that China's real dilemma is how to get rid of Japan, for China, in the past twenty years, has had more to complain of on account, of Japan than in relation to all the other foreign Powers put together. Even the present. trouble arose primarily out of a dispute in a Japanese cotton mill during which a Chinese was killed by a Japanese.
B. in the Loudon Morning Fust Her policy of a Monroe doctrine for the Far East, and, her practical possession of the hegemony of that part of the Pacific, naturally point to her as the potential leader of Asia but since Asio does not trust Japan, her domination of the situation only tends to excite, the already acute desire of China for au tonomy. During the European war, both Germana and Bolsheviks ware deprived of extra-territorial rights in Chins, and for the first time in her history China had the privilege and right to deal with South Manchuria, with its thirty million So long as Japan controls the whole of these aliens as freely as they had people, its rich moines and prosperous formerly dealt with her nationals; and industries, Ching will feel that Japan China, having acquired the taste for ex- is the chief menaco to her freedom, since pelling foreigners, does not see why she her concessions and Interests are greater cannot now apply the rule to all aliens and more jealously protected than those and bring them under Chinese In But of all other nations.
this China ennnot do without getting rid
But China Is in the condition the
of Japan, the dominant factor in the Japan was fifty years ago, under petty problem. How to acquiesce in China's policy and at the same time maké ber- self an exception to it, is Japan's pros blem? Doubl
chieftains, without a central government of any force or efficiency; and among the chieftains of China Japan always bas | A friends whom she supports through wer and peace, controlling them by devione mennt, such as the Nishihara, lonne, and hor military and naval agreement con eluded with Chine in 1910.
The consequence is an attitude of ambiguity on the part of Japan, who is obliged to agree with the Western na tions interested in China, and at the
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