[16] News from North China,The Weekly Review of the Far East(1921—1922),Jul 16,1921.
[17] George N.Kates,The Years That Were Fat,Peking:1933—1940,New York:Harper & Brothers Publishers,1952,p.81.“Heavily laden tables of re-freshment were set out on the lawn,there was lavish ice cream with many sweet cakes;and the Marine brass band,in dress uniform,played through the heat of the long afternoon,heaving up one patriotic song after another slowest at tempo.”
[18] Notes from Peking,Millard's China National Review(1919—1919),Jun 14,1919.