Journals of expeditions to Mongolia from 1919 to 1930
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up on night, but the Peking students were greatly agitated at the news was which followed for this summer. Thursday even the hour for the opening gun was not half a dozen times I don't see dinner tables. Then came the astounding news that the Twar Parks had accepted its invitation after President was coming to Peking, no we find that they would dream of coming straight at him as for a settlement might be possible after all I no realized not that man was. On the 1 May I drove his [illegible] Regiment [illegible] toward the Chinwall and found the street was lined with redcoats. Traffic was stopped and some figures in the R.R. station to the red walls of the Forbidden City, on both sides at intervals of about twenty feet stood khaki dad soldiers with fixed bayonets, I asked one of them who was coming and he answered in a single word "Chang". Fifty minutes later came three white cars [illegible] machines standing in the parking tracks. Then a larger [illegible] car [illegible] redcoats with caps of straw capsed on his head a dozen.