Blue waters and green and the Far East today . t to the intelligence, sobriety and industry of its vastpopulation it is unsurpassed by any nation in theworld. Given a decent government, the growth ofa national spirit will follow and China will take itsplace among the great powers of the world; and itwill be a power that will make for peace, not war, orterritorial aggression. Profoundly interesting in[203] THE FAR EAST TODAY. every way, historically, governmentally, ethicallyand otherwise is this great mysterious realm. Perhaps when I recover from the smells and for-get as one does the
Blue waters and green and the Far East today . t to the intelligence, sobriety and industry of its vastpopulation it is unsurpassed by any nation in theworld. Given a decent government, the growth ofa national spirit will follow and China will take itsplace among the great powers of the world; and itwill be a power that will make for peace, not war, orterritorial aggression. Profoundly interesting in[203] THE FAR EAST TODAY. every way, historically, governmentally, ethicallyand otherwise is this great mysterious realm. Perhaps when I recover from the smells and for-get as one does the disagreeable things, I shall wantto come back. Certainly I have never seen any othercountry as interesting in all its phases. F. and her sister have met, once more, to part again,perhaps for the last time. It will be a hard wrench,and it will be hard to think of them out here expatri-ated, living always under this Shadow, but they arecontent, and we cannot stay. To-morrow we turn Eastward, turn toward Home. L 204 > > z Mw m xo 2 >r H. JAPAN (Continued). Shanghai lies fifty miles from the sea, and twelvemiles from Woosung, at the mouth of the Whangpoa,which is really the port for Shanghai. The P. & and large war vessels go clear up to Shanghai,but vessels which touch for but a day anchor atWoosung, on the Yangste, and a tender takes passen-gers and mails the rest of the way. When our ten-der left the wharf there was a great crowd to see itoff, the greater part of whose attention seemed to beconcentrated on one man, a slight, bald-headed gen-tleman, manifestly embarrassed by the number ofbouquets that were being handed up to him, andespecially so by a terrific fusillade of gigantic Chinesefire-crackers that exploded just as we started. Natu-rally when they yelled Whats the matter with replied enthusiastically that G. was all right,most of them with voices that indicated they had beenup the night before, we wondered what particularHigh Grand Mr. G. was.
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