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Indiscreet Letters From Peking
Being the Notes of an Eye-Witness, Which Set Forth in Some Detail, from Day to Day, the Real Story of the Siege and Sack of a Distressed Capital in 1900—The Year of Great Tribulation

Indiscreet Letters From Peking Being the Notes of an Eye-Witness, Which Set Forth in Some Detail, from Day to Day, the Real Story of the Siege and Sack of a Distressed Capital in 1900—The Year of Great Tribulation

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The Project Gutenberg eBook, Indiscreet Letters From Peking, Edited by B. L. Putman Weale

Title: Indiscreet Letters From Peking

Being the Notes of an Eye-Witness, Which Set Forth in Some Detail, from Day to Day, the Real Story of the Siege and Sack of a Distressed Capital in 1900--The Year of Great Tribulation

Editor: B. L. Putman Weale

Release Date: November 4, 2005 [eBook #17003]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1

***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK INDISCREET LETTERS FROM PEKING***

 

E-text prepared by Jonathan Ingram, Sankar Viswanathan,
and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team
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INDISCREET LETTERS FROM
PEKING

BEING THE NOTES OF AN EYE-WITNESS,
WHICH SET FORTH IN SOME DETAIL, FROM
DAY TO DAY, THE REAL STORY OF THE
SIEGE AND SACK OF A DISTRESSED CAPITAL
IN 1900—THE YEAR OF GREAT TRIBULATION

 

 

EDITED BY

B. L. PUTNAM WEALE

Author of "Manchu and Muscovite," and "The Re-shaping of the Far East."

 

 

CHINA EDITION

1922

 

 

SHANGHAI

KELLY AND WALSH, LIMITED

 
 
 
BRITISH EMPIRE AND CONTINENTAL
COPYRIGHT EXCEPTING SCANDINAVIAN COUNTRIES
BY PUTNAM WEALE FROM 1921

 

 

CONTENTS

FOREWORD

    Part I—The Warning
     
I     Fragments     7
II     Mutterings     12
III     Overcast Skies     16
IV     Our Guards Arrive     22
V     The Plot Thickens     26
VI     The Licking Flames Approach     32
VII     The City of Peking and All its Glories     38
VIII     Some Incidents and the One Man     47
IX     The Coming of the Boxers     54
X     Barricades and Reliefs     66
XI     Some Men and Things     75
XII     Hell Hounds     public@vhost@g@gutenberg@html@files@17003@[email protected]#Page_79" class="pginternal"

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