relieve the sufferings of the thirsty population. Be that as it may, the gates were shut and everyone was expecting a repetition of the local war this summer. Then there was small boy - done who had not but already were on the town went standing in the brush at the grass ! We were told he was that in the interior was measles. was all set with war, small boy didn't we feel very much at home. It was the same dear old [illegible] as last summer, as hot in W or rather a normal comfortably here and we must have revelations. If if no political bomb is ready something must be made factual from such conversations at the club and on the roof garden of the 'Pei ching Fanhui' . We all felt that Smith did not, man and small boy we felt that the summer was beginning rather well. As the days went the rumors of war became more insistent. No one knew exactly who was going to fight who but then those old never does show in China until the [illegible] operations are well under way. The [illegible] they are mechanism sprouts which spring