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[[header note]] At Ma-li-pa we first learned from Clive that the U.S.A. had broken off diplomatic relations with Germany (February) [[/header note]]

some time after crossing one of the stone Burma boundary monuments. Mo-li-ling is a Chinese settlement, all the women having bound feet. The land [[strikethrough]] is [[/strikethrough]] was at this season planted to poppies which were in bloom.  The blossoms are large white 3 inches across, occasionally there are lavender blooms seen. These [[strikethrough]] opium [[/strikethrough]] are the first poppy plants we have seen.  The Opium grown here is taken across the border into China.  No custom house or British government officials were seen on the boundary.  The British have evidently moved the boundary into Chinese territory in recent years. Davis' map has Mo-li-ling well inside Chinese territory while now it is some miles inside Burma. Here at Mo-li-ling we again found only a mud hole or Buffalo wallow as a watering & camping place.

Transcription Notes:
Final word in the top note is pretty obscured; my closest guess is "(February)" - the US broke diplomatic relations on February 3, 1917, after Germany announced their return to unrestricted submarine warfare - and this note was written on March 9, so it's reasonable to assume that he would have noted it as month-old news.