25th May, 2:25 P.M.
The first thing I do is to run to the telegraph office . The complaisant Pan-Chao offers to be my interpreter . The clerk tells us that the posts are all up again , and that messages can be sent through to Europe . At once I favor the _ Twentieth Century _ with the following telegram : `` Sou-Tcheou , 25th May , 2:25 P.M. `` Train attacked between Tchertchen and Tcharkalyk by the gang of the celebrated Ki-Tsang ; travelers repulsed the attack and saved the Chinese treasure ; dead and wounded on both sides ; chief killed by the heroic Mongol grandee Faruskiar , general manager of the company , whose name should be the object of universal admiration . '' If this telegram does not gratify the editor of my newspaper , well -- Two hours to visit Sou-Tcheou , that is not much . In Turkestan we have seen two towns side by side , an ancient one and a modern one . Here , in China , as Pan-Chao points out , we have two and even three or four , as at Pekin , enclosed one within the other .