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#6 – 10 Things you (probably) didn’t know about China at the Treaty of Versailles

Posted: May 19th, 2014 | No Comments »

#6 – George Morrison (“Morrison of Peking”) was officially part of the Chinese delegation in Paris….

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The  well known Australian journalist George Morrison (‘Morrison of Peking’), the former Times correspondent in China was an official “foreign adviser” to the Chinese in Paris. But he went down with bad kidneys, subsisted on a diet of boiled fish and rarely surfaced, leaving for England and dying soon afterwards. He spent the entire conference stashed away in the MacMahon Palais Hotel.

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