Anna Louise Tittman Memoir - University of Illinois Springfield

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A. Well you see I had friends in klna and I was always 5.
but all I knew about them was the Chinese laundrynan. The
geogaphy that I had on it didn't stay with me very much.
special fkiends there. At this time of leaving Russia, wh ch was in
February, 1920, having gone there in June, 1919, and after
were on their way in boats to their destinations in the Un
left. It was in February, I can% tell you what date, but
the middle. I took a boat to Shanghai, China and the peps
especially interested in seeing was sick in the hospital.
repo&er, the Chicago Tribune reporter whom I met on the T
Railroad, retwning fl-om responsibilities in my terrlto
Irkutz, I was on the way back and anxious to get back to V
as I say I left there in February.
Q. What was the reporter's name, I've forgotten?
A. Frederick A. SrrLth. He had a very good sense of humor
about him. But he was ill of havfng partaken of food that
sorething because his ailment cam. It was the diarrhea tl
such things and it travled in his body and it affected one
have part of a rib removed to hwe it drained.
Q. Did you get to see him?
A. Yes, I did. And he improved but I hew others there a
to more. One of the first things I had to do, I did go to
was recomnded to m beforehand, and registered so I had ;
Then I went to the hrican Red Cross headqumters in Shq
been notified that I would corn. I was under their chaperc
all the while I was in China. I was required to report thl
I fig$& make in residence and so forth, and that was about
responsibility. They saw to it when I was seeking transpo:
United States. It was very difficult to get transpolrtatia
who had established themselves in China, well say for some
like Singer SewFng Machine and different big businesses he:
they were doing the same thing I was going to do, and that
time in mtil you can get a boat back to the United States
one eventually was a YWCA woman Erom America, and there we:
say who were building. up the YWCA in China, they were estal
mtter of fact. Then af'rfend in my own unit had given me
Arne~ican worn friend and she was very interested. A frie
YWCA woman named Daisy Brown was ill. I was just the persc
the right time to go and take care of her.
Q. Now this is in Shanghai?
A. This is in SkmpJni.
Q. Did you do any other traveling in China?
A. Yes I did. I stayed with Nips Bmvm for a while. Ther
she was in good shape. I becam acquainted with her sistei
was a teacher in the school fop grls in Nanking. I went I
to do, to make a visit there. 4 have the mp here. It wat
terested & Chha
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probably
n that I
ans Siberian
y in as far as
adlvostok. So
md I liked that
w infected or
at results from
lung. He had to
3 I had letters
z hotel which
place to stay.
hi. They had
mge we shall say,
different changes
the length of my
ta$ion home to the
because of people
swlness concern
3 in the states,
is just put your
How I did get
1 a number I would
Lishing th~m as a
s letter to an
3 of hers who was a
1 who arrived at
&e ~cuperated,
in Nanking, who
s, as I was invited
very interesting.