At noon, my friend Yang Ch'ao-chió, a Military Chüjén graduate, sent a servant over to my house suggesting that we should join our families together and escape from Peking in company from the dangers threatening all, and fixing to-morrow morning as our time of departure.
中午，我的朋友Yang Ch'ao-chió，一位军校进士毕业生，派一位仆人到我的房子建议我们和家人一起逃离北京及威胁所有人的危险，并定下次日早晨为离开的时间。