Anna Louise Tittman Memoir - University of Illinois Springfield

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appreciation of his experiences in France and with the q of occupbtion.
He is mting up the Czech incident and hopes to ~@l& it from
Peking. Gave him one of uniform pictixes on request. He offered to
exchange and will mail one of his taken Ln Berlin when he arrived there
ahead of the amy of occupation after the Armistice was signed. He went
by airplane fmm Fk.a.nkfort--that was in Gennmy-He told qe about being
caZled down by General Pershing because he dld that.
the m. l1 ( chuckles ) But they made it up. "There is q te a deliat ful
fat Frenchrran, adjutant chief Guell, who spends mst of Ws tim in the
hall,'' it was kind of a corridor. See, on those trains tbe corddon was
on-one side, and the place where the passenem were were all on another
side. "Most of his time he was in the hallway singing salutes and sbtches
of French son@. He is very shapeless and genial. I' (chu$kles) So tims
they are, you how. Laugh and grow fat. "One of my f'riepds on boa%, Mr.
Ray Tho@son, suggested that he would rrake a good souveni~ to take back
to Spr*Sylgf'ield. I wonder. (Laughter)
"Septder 27, 1919; Mr. Smith and I had lunch in our covpe from the basket
which Miss Harrington packed for us. Wrote letters on Corona at all
odd mmnts to horn folks. Mr. Smith worked at his typewp-lting and we thus
carried on quite an offlce. Read Stevenson in the ew-. Reached Manchuria
today. "
'!September 28, 1919; Lots of Japs everyhex at the statton. Tneir flags
floating f'mm the station door. I got up too late to be Fdrrdtted to the
diner. Nr. Smith got a chaiy, tea mas, the station and m&ed wim what
~~~~~~they accepted our Amx-ican mney. We had potted ham and atrawberry
jam sandwiches in our cape." Tnat carre from the bgsket, too. "Arrival
in Harbin at 9:30 p.m. &t by Miss Bartlett." Ess Ekrtlett was
this elderly nurse who was In charge of the lvhnchurian grpup and got in on
most of the ref'ugee work that we did.
''lvlr. Smith stayed at Red Cross headq-ers all ni&t fo want of a room
in a hobel. Everything very cmded. Many refbgees and 5 ansients in -in
station. Alive with them. Jap, Chfnese, Cossacks and pebple of every description.
He left at 2:00 p.m. for Peking." See, he wat down fmm Harbin,
he didnl t @;o to Vladjvostok. I have a little story that corns
A mr went around that they were going to build another hotel,
ly at Harbin, but his was mng our pup and our w. 1 guess
started it, we blamed everyting on them. But they were Mailding
Well, there were so many mre that they had to have sonpplace
(chuckles)
Q. (&uckles ) So that Is the reason they were building a new hotel. To
put We mrs in it?
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A. That s r@t. "Saw mn and women bebg cared for in
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the sam room. Took
them to the Central ~ospital--raIlroab hospitd, it was- tow patients only,
Saw little children, som of them up patients. an i ecile in a large
ward where the*~was also a very ill typhoid case. Toe lles were b pat
profision.
During the afternoon, Miss Bmlett, Miss Judge and Niss Lloyd," those two
were British girls and they wrenlt really Red Cmss, y had been working
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