Image from the Biodiversity Heritage Library.
Contributed by American Museum of Natural History Library.
| www.biodiversitylibrary.org
Transcription
Section of the Tartar city just
inside the great wall.
18 Being short of Cash I called
on Mr. Robert Rambin manager
of Anderson & Meyer Co., to whom
Clark had given me a letter. He
was very hospitable & endorsed
my check without hesitation &
asked me to lunch. His house
is a clean one surrounded by
a large compound. He is a
Cornell man & good friend
of Louis Furetiz. His wife
was a good sort. Rambin was
a passenger on the Lusitania
when she was sunk. He was on
the deck & saw the torpedo
strike & then he jumped overboard
without a life preserver & was
picked up by a life boat.
He said the story of passengers
being sucked into the sunken state
then blown with an explosion
was untrue. One woman