Anna Louise Tittman Memoir - University of Illinois Springfield

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off; not only for packing, but to make the reports to Wa&ington, tu~?n
over all instructions to ny assistants. I left the bam?a&s hill at4
5:OO p.m. RLss Pinder rode to the station with rrut.
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left the station
at 7:OO p.m. Mss Mills, Miss Bennett and MISS Albers we the three
nurses bomd for Harbin. Now that's where the cholera w worse. ''Captain
Beckley conducted the train. Mr. Pbxley an ARC cherrii t was to go to
Irkutsk. Tney are the offlcem bound for Verlmie-Udhk. Captaln Nash
and Lieutenant Yayton were Amricans and they were just a@ nice as they
could be. Both very nice. "Another Weutenant , Douglas @borne, is in
charge of ten guards accompanyhg a car to the rear of thp personnel car."
This was a supply train. There was sore difficulty gettfng the supplies
onto that train. There was just our Red Cross people really-well, we had
guards on the train to take caxe of the goods and to gmql the train when
we stopped. me dining place was very crude. It was like oh, a j70@
mts, who were working out way off somwhere in a ro lace, just bare
wooden tales and so forth. Our ca is a second e, but it is really
very nice. The cleanliness of it is swcprising c it with other cars
which I have seen. The upholstering is leather. compartmnt to nlyself
.in the fiddle of the car, I am very comfortable. carny, besides
our personnel car and the guard car, a chow car with a crew. Thirtytwo
cam of supplies, drugs oil and so forth. l1
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"Sept&w 2,; 1919; 'We passed Nickolsk, the division or branching off point
of the Trans-Siberian railmad.
tosky. "
Passed a trainload of Czltch tmups at Lip-
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A. "At 1: 00 p.m. we arrived at Grodekovo. Then we saw .q camoufla@d arrnored
car with a regirent of Cossacks. Two trainloads of Chinqse arrived at Pogmnichnaya
at 4:45 p.m. This is the boundavy between Russiapd Manchuria. The
railmad's rimed Mchuria Ussuri Railroad and ends here a d Chinese Eastern
beghs. One sees m.ny high hills one thousand feet hip$ tbm@ this section
with smaJ.1 gai?dens extending to their peaks. "
,''*pt:der 3rd; ' kfi Win, Manchuria, at 3: 00 a.m. and passed through
Khandaokhotey. At the latter point we were held from 3: 45 p.m. until 2 : 15
a.m.' Septeder 4; 'bdaj*rinQ for an &gin@ to carry us
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cp our way. We are
obliged to suffer a change of engine &t every division. /Saw lots of broom
corn gmwhg. Chinese bandits, Hunhuai were mported to be at work. No
evilhence, anyhow, we didn't see any. And thank goodness At the division
point there are a group of tracks; from three to seven s gTe tracks come
tomher at the divfsions.ll When you get there it is a lace to stop. Then
the3 got stuck. "Beyond Nikolsk, it was rAkiing. We w ed around about
a pa&.
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''~.@x&er 4,--1919; -manpo, a Manchwian town with a R sian cololly.
Tnm hours visit. hived in Harbin at 10:OO p.m. hc mct, rdlitary report.
Population 50,000, 30,000 Russians. " Well, the 5 ,000 was incorrect
and the 30,000 was what it is.