Handwritten China journal of Edmund Heller (5 of 5)
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Hartmann said the cotton was of poor quality & short fiber & is used in America to mix with wool but as cotton is of little value, The people at the race were very interesting. In the 1st class grand stand fully one half were Chinese, There were also many Japanese. The chief foreign element were the Americans & second were the British. One of the illuminating features was numbers of Chinese women wearing European skirts or apparel, I questioned Prince & the