Accession[1969.0005] Papers of the Edgar FamilyPart of Item[1969.0005.00056] Blanche Due's letters to her mother Mrs. Smith [3 of 5]IdentifierUMA-ITE-1969000500060Scope and ContentShanghai. Child's progress; heat; "There has been trouble here again - this time the South against the North. The Southern troops seem to be chiefly coolies & riff raff of all kinds & the poor brutes half of them don't seem to know what they are fighting for - but they hate the President, Yuan-Shih-Kai. The better class Chinese dont want this fighting at all, & a general idea seems to be that it is being stirred up by Japanese who want to keep up an appearance of trouble or even actual fighting and so spoil the credit of China, in Europe, so that they can make loans to China on their own terms The Arsenal here (at Kiang-nan 5 or 6 miles away) is held by Northern troops & the Southerners fought from 3 this morning till 8 to take it - 5 hours solid fighting & even at intervals after that - but we have just heard that they have had a bad defeat & that the trouble is over. I do hope it is true chiefly for the sake of the miserable women"; tailor working in the house; Leif - gold pin with his birthday money. Mentions cable sent by Leif to assure her that the fighting has not harmed them.Access StatusOpen for public accessRequest TypeRequest unitUnit1969.0005 Unit 0011MenuBrowse digitised items | Available online
Edgar Family, Letter from Blanche Due to her mother, Mrs J.M. Smith, 23 July 1913 (23 July 1913), [UMA-ITE-1969000500060]. University of Melbourne Archives, accessed 11/12/2025, https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/214020
