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oficer was permitted to pass through the crowd, which was still milling around the building, and returned in about 20 minutes with a certification from the U.S. Consul. I was then eecorted through the crowd by the same individual, accompanied by the half-caste, after the former had waved my "identification" for the crowd to see. On arrival at the U.. Consulate, I was requested to sign my release or the identification paper, and this document was retained by one of three parties either the "police" officer, the half-caste or an employee of the Dollar Trading Co., I could not be certcic which. When a igning my note to Mr. Boucher, I roticed that the half-crete copying my name on some papers in hie hand, and he stated that he was a "newspaperman". individual spoke some English, and I understood him to say he had come from Kweilin.

There is not the slightest doubt in my mind that I owe my safety, if not my life, to Mr. Boucher's action in supplying promptly the necessary identification.

Yours faithfully,

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? Curtia.