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The scissors from Soochow were kindly given to our camp by Mr. I. Rex Rice, of Greenville.

[photograph of a harbor]

Photograph by Mabel Craft Deering

OUTSIDE AND UNDERNEATH THE THOUSAND-YEAR-OLD WALLS OF SOOCHOW

[photograph of tree and stone wall with archway]

Photograph by Charles H. Kragh

WHERE THE TONGUES OF HISTORY ARE STILLED

This blockhouse on the outskirts of a village near Soochow is a relic of the Taipings, who, during their 14-year rebellion against the Manchu dynasty, capture the city in 1860. When the famous British officer, Charles George (“Chinese”) Gordon, invested it in 1863 he found it a mass of ruins.