Sining

Then there is the newly organised police force, and the modernising of the troops. For Sining is not only a city of temples and yamens, but of barracks. Here are quartered two hundred horse and two thousand foot soldiers.

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Peter had the bright idea of at once looking up C. C. Ku, to whom we had an introduction from his brother, a student in Peking. Ku spoke fluent English, having studied at Cornell University. He had been sent from Nanking to Sining with the rank of lieutenant-general, and succeeded in making a good impression on “The Young General,” Ma Bu-fang.

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We had planned to go in two days, though no official permission had yet arrived for us to leave Lanchow. We had done little about it, except to inform a Foreign Office official and the Governor that we wished to go further west. Frank wanted to see farms between here and Sining, and I wanted to go to Koko Nor Lake.

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