Anna Louise Tittman Memoir - University of Illinois Springfield

Anna Tittmn 150
Q. Oh, it's fascinathg. I've loved it.
A. Well I'm glad.
Q. Now you saw MY. Smith h Peking didn't you? Tne repo*er?
A. She wasn't Mr. Smith, she was Mks. Hunt. Gh, Mr. Ma, no I nzeL him
comhg on the train fkwn the interior 'of Russia d m to -in. He left
at Harbin because he went down to Pekbg.
Q. Didn't you see him agaln though?
A. Well, yes, I saw him again in Shanghai. I cam back tlo Shanghai to
wait for boat. Because it was so hard to get passage @I a boat, mre
people hadn't been able to go, the hricans and so forth who were living
Fn C h d , they couldn't get pass a Because it wasn't sqfe when the war
was in session. But the war was over going on a year vihe we lefi. The
reason we lef't Siberia was because we were withdrawn and % lthe hrican
troops were withdrawn, and this general who was the head f all these occupations
or assions of the n-illitary who were there. I to d you about the
parade and things showing the rrmy different nations.
would have been sooner than now, I would have been able
the nes of things.
Q. Do you re~rrber what nationality that general was tha'q was in charge of
occupation?
A. hrican, Udted States. It was called the of Oqcupation but Red
Cross was called a cormrdssion, the Siberian Codssion.
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Q. How long were you In Peking?
A. Quite a while. I got around there. These teachers the nurses and
the others that were going to work in the hospital that Wckefeller was
buildbg, they came on ahead and were asked to study the lmgua@. They
were going to language school, but they had tim off, too, For instance,
they took ITE to the Great Wall. I climbed on the Great Wa1. Now around
that whole thing, that Is the (inaudible) of the round dukes In the house,
all the hills, up and down. That's where the old rriissiorq.rci-es
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who were
goin@; to go bonr: and had never seen the Great Wall cam d they put IIE
to sham because they could walk up those hills and I co &It. They had
to kind of pull nze up.
We went in ~Ldcshaws. But a lot f thhgs went on.
Tn Russia the one thing that b@ressed IIE a lot was the s ies. They were so
gray and red conbbed and things like that. Then 1 could look out rq window,
I had the dodle window too, and you have one little . . .
A. Yes. They had two windows, kind of like we have the $tom windows,
only a little hole up here, big as a pane of glass, it h4d a hinge on it
and you could open.tt and I think I would open another on . They both had
panes of glass in them, not bi panes but you see mine he has two panes.
See here it gets so dirty here Q.
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betwee~~the two windows an I can't @t it