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hem, and shot the other thru the |
head-all in a twinkling.
For two hours we fired on the storm
centers, and at dusk we mopped up |
I, because / knew the Ningpo Guild |
rom basement to roof was first into |
the structure-which | had designed. |
1t was my luck to go up the back |
stairs, with hard crowd of landed
gobs from one of the permanent pa
troll in Shanghai at my heels. So,
when we got to the roof, the fun was
over; for the other party, storming
the first floor and then going up the
front way, had caught plenty red
handed, and blown them to smither-
Gems while yet they worked their
guns.
And, of import and with mean
ing only to be grasped out here
where It means something close,
many of the snipers were Reds,
Soviet agents. Russians, Reds who
had supplied these Chinese with
arms and the eeging on to loot,
to rise. But, along with what few
Chinese we caught, they were sent
west.
And, as darkness fell, the streets
cleared where troops were sent, and
an ominous feeling pervaded us all
we awaited only dawn, prayed for
rain to drive these heathens in doors.
But no rain came, and instead only
renewed local sniping, sudden out
burst in unexpected quarters on I'M
protected women and men, sudden
attacks on armed isolated patrols
The General Strike.
A general strike had been called at
the very outset. and servants and
clerks, laborers, and seamen, wheel
barrow men and coolies, all walked
out. But, even tho the servants at
all the hotels walked out at the first
sign of trouble, the boys at the Amer
lean club stayed, stayed all thru the
fighting and the trouble, faithful to
the end.
Jack and lined up our boys
when the general strike was called,
and told them that If they dared
to 40 outside except for food or on
orders, they would be followed and
beaten to insensbiIity.
And, only because they had worked
for Korff for five years, and had been
into every part of China with him,
they stayed-nor did they once go
outdoors.
At first, the feeling of impending
death gave me a queer sensation IN
the stomach and you can fully real
ize it, for it's not that feeling when
a man is hot, is in a battle like on
the front, but it is that feeling out
here of being shot from behind, be
ing killed while walking down the
street late at night, shot from some
abbit-warren by some coolie who u
| sorth, life value, little more than
dollar Mex. But one soon grows useC
10 even the greatest of dangers, anc
| I now go places alone, or with an
other man, where l know that sud
den death might any moment light OF
me. And I've broken into the foules
dens, filled with foaming agitatori
land anti-foreign organizers, will
drawn gun, and without firing a shot
any of our raiders, taken into Gus
tody the whole mob-but not wfthou
cruel, bloody beating for each.
A Soft Side.
I've seen China in its worst, an'
i've seen places during this trouble
that never before has white face beef
seen. I've lived, really lived; but
don't want to die yet. Dolly, the miss
es, is in the hospital being operates
on for appendicitis, very low; an'
I'm crazy with the worry Of it. Boy
boy. wish you could see the littl
girl. Sweet as an old etching, ant
as good-natured a little black-eyet
devil as a man could wish for. And
Hank, I'm the first beau, and tn
last, that she ever had-frst one t
kiss her.
A four day romance and she re
turned to Hongkong with the Titan
stamp on her finger; then she go
lonesome, for she's alone in the worl
and had been all her life in the cor
vent at Hongkong. So, a cable to me
II sent an answer-and here she 4
the queen of the Smith roost, Mrs
Smith, if you please. Yeah, we al
splice up sooner or later. She WORKED
night and day during this trouble
and broke down the other day. To
night-aw hell!
got to change the subject, or sto
where ! am.
No Man Knows.
Some day, Hank, I'll tell you al
about this trouble-and 1t may b
that may have lots more to tell yo
about it. For it's not over yet. Til
crisis hasn't come yet, the country
rising, and not man here knows o
pretends to know what the future ma
bring.
My outfit has been in touch with
! the men who are alI-powerful here;
even as nv outfit Is aII.poWerful In