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by an old Chinese gentleman in long gray tabard and Chinese scullcap, and whose bespectacled [[underline]] wrinkled brown [[strikethrough]] face [[/strikethrough]] yellow face, [[/underline]] reminded that of [[underline]] a mummy. [[/underline]] All the Chinese, men, women and girls, seemed to enjoy the Champagne very much. The best and most expensive only costs [[underline]] 30 frcs [[/underline]] a bottle, which at current prices of 1 frc = 5 cents american costs only about $1.50 American a quart bottle. Light Champagne "Tisane", only costs [[underline]] 55 cents a quart, [[/underline]] [[strikethrough]] about [[/strikethrough]] decidedly [[underline]] cheaper than mineral water [[/underline]] in Hong Kong.
Passengers here are most all bound [[underline]] for Marseilles. [[/underline]] Many French officials or officers returning home, some with their wives and children, also some French businessmen and 2 or 3 Americans
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and half a dozen [[strikethrough]] loud [[/strikethrough]] noisy [[underline]] American Jews. [[/underline]] 
[[strikethrough]] The sho [[/strikethrough]] Also in steerage [[strikethrough]] rocue [[/strikethrough]] ^[[a few]] returning French soldiers and sailors on leave of absence for home There is a negro soldier amongst them. The bath room steward is a Chinese who speaks French. [[strikethrough]] Few [[/strikethrough]] All other men of the crew are [[underline]] French, [[/underline]] most of them near middle-age [[underline]] fat [[/underline]] and [[strikethrough]] moustached [[/strikethrough]] [[underline]] heavily moustached. [[/underline]] There is a ^[[helmetted]] French priest, "en soutane" with a [[underline]] long bushy never yet cut beard, [[/underline]] and half a dozen nuns or sisters of Charity. The decks are narrower than usual on steamers - [[underline]] no games [[/underline]] going on whatever - not even shuffle board. Very little drinking, [[strikethrough]] the [[/strikethrough]] a small group plays poker all day. There is no ship band, nor Jazz Thank God!  Everything very quiet and simple A few