At every station a guard of Chinese soldiers lined up on the station platforms as a guard with piled bayonets. They looked quite good in grey uniforms. On a few stations there were Japanese guards also. The Manchurian houses are here roofed without angles or tiles but are covered + look quite different from China. At Shandailinman station we passed under the Great Wall which is here a part of the City wall + reaches the sea. Beyond only a small section can be seen crossing the plain to the high rugged ranges marking the horizon inland. The railroad thru level fields of millet with herds of black pigs, white sheep + a few large cattle grazing. It was no engineering feat to build the line.