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Title: A Chinese Command
A Story of Adventure in Eastern Seas

Author: Harry Collingwood

Illustrator: Arch. Webb

Release Date: October 20, 2007 [EBook #23118]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

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Produced by Nick Hodson of London, England

A Chinese Command, A Story of Adventure in Eastern Seas, by Harry
Collingwood.

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We have two confessions to make before we tell you about the story. The
first is to say that there are two missing pages from the copy of the
book we used, 223 and 224, the last two pages of chapter 14, rather an
exciting moment in the story. We shall try to get photocopies of these
pages, but it will take time.

The second one will make you laugh: The Chinese Admiral Wong-Li, who
plays a big part in the book, was always being read by the audiobook
program as "wong fifty one". No doubt you can see why. So I changed
his name, with apologies, to Wong-lih, thus restoring the correct
pronunciation, and not making a huge difference to the story.

Frobisher is a cashiered Royal Navy ex-officer. He is approached to
run some arms to the rebels in Korea, and thus make his fortune. This
fails, and the arms get into the hands of the legitimate government.
After some vicissitudes he finds himself in China, and talking to the
above admiral, who offers him the command of a battleship, with the
prospect of taking part in a war against Japan. He does this but loses
his ship in a storm towards the end of the book. Meanwhile he has
found the lost millions hidden away by Genghiz Khan many centuries
beforehand. He has no hesitation in purloining these, and eventually
on getting back to England, buying his way back into grace by presenting
the nation with a number of brand-new battleships, for which bit of
sleaze he is given a baronetcy, and restored to the Navy List.

It makes a good audiobook. NH.

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A CHINESE COMMAND, A STORY OF ADVENTURE