The diary of Edmund Heller, October 9, 1917-January 12, 1918 : covering his return trip from the First Asiatic Expedition led by Roy Chapman Andrews of the American Museum of Natural History
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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