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Getting to China

{> isn’t easy to give any general impression of China in a few minutes. The first thing one has to suggest, of course, is its size. And the unforgettable way to appreciate the full extent of the land-mass of Asia, is-or rather

was-to get in a train at Calais or Flushing, and travel east. You couldn’t do it so easily now, of course; but that was how I first went out to China four years ago. Two days and nights will get you to Moscow; and another day brings you almost to the Urals, and clear of Europe. But it takes you a full week from there to reach the Manchurian

border, over the interminable steppe and forest of Siberia, And if you went straight on from there by train (as I did later on, before the war broke up China’s main trunk railways), it would be two more days to Peking, two days to Hankow, and another two days to Canton, Granted that neither Russian nor Chinese trains were ever world-beaters for speed, you can get a rough idea of the relative distances. Three days across Europe at its widest; a week across Russia-in-Asia; and nearly six days to push down through Manchuria and China Proper to the southern coast just opposite Hong Kong. -{ James Bertram in an NBS talk on China),

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New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 50, 7 June 1940, Page 10

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Getting to China New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 50, 7 June 1940, Page 10

Getting to China New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 50, 7 June 1940, Page 10

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