Anna Louise Tittman Memoir - University of Illinois Springfield

Anna Tittman
and here 2s Nanking. (Look* at mp) And it I s on the +&ze ~iver,
that same river that I got on to go to Hankow.
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Q. Were these krican doctors who advised her to go honp for good
American living? I 1
A. Well I think, either that or E-glish. I don't think Jthey would
trust Chinese then. (chuckle) Well anyhow, they do mak vevy good
doctors. They corm here and study you know, or they go wand.
They're very meticulous.
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Q. Well they might have been ahead of us for years.
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A. Yes. Now I cam back fiomDudjo to Shanghai and st d there until
the boat was going. This time I left, you bow, fhrn
went on a Russian boat.
Q. I thought you had left from San Francisco when you we t out.
A. Did I? Well I guess it was, I guess it was San
about three months and it was February when I left.
probably. Well I left the last day of May of the
was gone just about, but 1 landed in the state of
was interesting. But q feeling with the Negro
one you know in so long, any N e w at all.
American Nep who was desigpated as mayor
where we had nurses stationed. They said
when our Amrican Red Cross people saw him.
Q. Who designated him myor? 1
A. I don't know whether they had any kind of organizatio
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or not with
the m, they must have.
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Q. Was he in our armed forces?
A. I don't know. That might ham been the way he got th)re or maybe
he ran away, I don't know. (chuckle)
Q. So you landed in Washington. 1
A. Yes the state of Washington. I had yearningp to go t Lake Louise,
but I didn't, I stayed on the train, Wen I got that far Just thought,
"Well I want-to get horn now." % I . But the por.ter on the train
seemed such strange people to m, after seeing the Chin doing all kinds
of waiting on jobs like the boys that they keep in a pr
is the cook and one is the waiter and so on. Of course
are not large and they don't stay at night In the home,
as I was able to observe. Whe
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I got back to Springfie
changed at Chicaga to get down to Springfield, why I we
Henklels, Dr. Henklels mther d father, that was sti
home. I got in touch with Was ' @on. I had to go th
repor% and all. I had previou ly met Miss I&lano, who
worn. I saw her first at con entions, National Nws
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