Her Lotus Year – Wallis and Coastal Steamers

Over her lotus year Wallis became a fairly regular user of the coastal steamer network despite them being prone to strikes and pirate attacks. With China in warlord chaos and the train system in disarray coastal steamers were essential of basic. Wallis took steamers from Hong Kong to Shanghai and then Shanghai to Tientsin in 1924 and then back to Shanghai in 1925.

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