foreign population of Peking the Chinese for that matter was tied to me -- year if war, very few believed that the middle man Park or the Superintendent from Peking for would be able to settle their differences and agree upon a plan of joint control of North China which would give us peace. In fact, when my wife and I arrived in April as jurors of the Third Artistic Exhibition, Peking was at fever heat with excitement. We came in the heels of the worst dust storm since 1900 after me for ten years since the Boxer rebellion had the capital been so continuously enveloped in swirling clouds of liess. It was an evil omen. That summer the city gates had been closed for two weeks, before we could go in or out while Wu Pei Fu ousted by force of arms the pro-Japanese Anfu party. From The foreigners suffered greatly it is true but not only because the soda went out. There was whiskey in plenty but they must have soda and it is rumored that the International Express which went to Tientsin was of chief -- instance blame be adhere fit [illegible]