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hats, [[underline]] in ragged clothes, [[/underline]] but each bearing a [[underline]] rifle, [[/underline]] preceded [[underline]] by a man bearing a flag [[/underline]] and another [[underline]] beating a drum, [[/underline]] all very [[underline]] clumsy [[/underline]] and [[underline]] ridiculous but for the thought that this may be the beginning of "China's awakening" [[/underline]] and [[underline]] much trouble in store [[/underline]] for those [[underline]] white traders [[/underline]] who in their eagerness for trade have compelled the "awakening" instead of "letting sleeping dogs lie quiet".
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Am told many [[underline]] emissaries [[/underline]] of [[underline]] Russian Bolsheviks [[/underline]] are [[underline]] spreading all over China [[/underline]]
[[underline]] March 11. [[/underline]] Still bad cold. Beautiful bright day. Evening went to dinner at [[underline]] Scotchmer's. [[strikethrough]] Coun [[/strikethrough]] U.S. Consul General Jenkins and wife [[/underline]] there; Captain ET. [[underline]] Constien [[/underline]] U.S.N. and [[strikethrough]] comm [[/strikethrough]] flag officer
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of the 2 American small warships at anchor in service & wife. Mr. Carnegie, Manager of Electric lighting company and wife and Osborn Watson U.S Trade Commissioner the other guests A very pleasant and interesting conversation till 11.P.M.
March 12. [[strikethrough]] Order from George F. Fisher White shawls for Redman, Rossi, Townsend, Howe & Parsons and 3 pieces of silk and 3 chinese purses for Celine, [[/underline]] to be charged to Bakelite Corporation and wrote George Baekeland about it Asked Watson to buy me specimens of so called [[underline]] "dutch" [[/underline]] and so called [[underline]] "German" amber and to mail [[/underline]] to Bakelite Corporation. X
[[left margin]] X [[underline]] Launch [[/underline]] of [[underline]] Christian College came to fetch me [[/underline]] for dinner at President Baxter's house.  Then addressed Faculty and students at [[underline]] Sweazy Hall. [[/underline]] Subject = Chemistry in America. Much handicapped by my cold. [[/left margin]]
Returned at 10 with their boat. Evening when coming home I found a [[underline]] young man from North Carolina whose name is Bradsear [[/underline]] and who was a pupil of [[underline]] Herty. [[/underline]] He travels