| Description | Letter to Marion Sambourne from her brother Edgar Herapath, saying they have been for lunch on HMS Leviathan, one of the latest and most powerful armoured cruisers, they leave for Shanghai in two days time and hope to go up the Yangtze on a steamer then go on to Japan, gives his impressions of the Chinese and of Hong Kong, thinks that the Russ-Japanese war is having little impact at the moment but will affect world trade in the long run, they went to Ceylon from Calcutta but only stayed there six days before going on to Penang, describes Singapore |