IN THE EAST INDIES. . 201 
—<_____. 
The other day we met three men who are starting 
on June 5th from Pekin to Paris in automobiles. 
Han Kow, May 31, 1907. 
Dear Mother and Father : 
Just a few lines to tell you how I wish I could 
be with you all for Robert’s twenty-first birthday. We 
often think of it and talk of you all. We sail down 
the Yangste Kiang for S’hai three and a half days. 
Then on June 4th we sail for Japan. We expect to 
remain there about a month and then for home. I 
have written about all the news in a letter to Rob and 
so will only say good bye. Excuse this scribble, but 
I hate to sit writing when outside the scenery is de- 
lightful. How often I wish the whole family were 
traveling with us. Love to each and every one from 
Tom. 
Of course, Ros. always joins me. 
S. S. Kiuling, off Han Kow. 
I forgot to say in Rob’s letter that we came here 
from Pekin by rail in forty hours, six hundred and 
twenty miles. It was very interesting, very dry, quite 
near the famine district. Every station had an armed 
guard of Chinese soldiers, although everything was 
quiet. Last night we caused a small riot at a way 
station near here. (It would have been called a great 
city in any other country. Here a village is as big 
as Paterson.) They were so anxious to see the elee- 
trie lights of the train de luxe which comes through 
only once a week. Such fighting to get near the 
windows as we switched the lights off and on. Then 
the Chinese police cleared the platform by dragging 
them off in bunches by their queus. 
