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have, of course, wrested the two best harbors away from the Chinese - but some day hereafter, when these great Orientals get ready, they will surely have them again for themselves - as they should!

At Tangku-Taku, we waited ten hours for the water to rise in the Pai Ho river so that we could continue in our ship to Tientsin. This gave us a chance to see the old forts famous since the Boxer war, and our ascent of the river by daylight permitted us to see the "Jai ping road" over which the Japs made their famous march and practically all of the locality made famous during those dark days.

Tientsin is charming and a great commercial city and point of strategic importance, where Germany, Japan, England, France and Russia have magnificent concessions and where the U.S.A. was offered but declined similar recognition - what fools we are? England has the best, Germany second best, but far the prettiest, and Japan during the last three years, has made the greatest improvements! Russia has as yet done nothing but build a very fitting monument in memory of her men whose lives were lost in the Boxer war

I reached Pekin last night and this morning, Sunday, went first to pay my resect to Von Kettlers memory, then to the Lama Temples and back again to my excellent hotel via the imposing monumental arch so very appropriately and beautifully erected by the Chinese under German enforcement, to atone in a way for poor Von Kettlers death. Of Peking and how it impresses me after all these years of dreams I shall write you later. Tomorrow morning I shall cable you of my safe arrival. With all good messages to yourself and family. Always yours most sincerely,
Charles L Freer