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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

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Language: English

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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
II MUTTERINGS
III OVERCAST SKIES
IV OUR GUARDS ARRIVE
V THE PLOT THICKENS
VI THE LICKING FLAMES APPROACH
VII THE CITY OF PEKING AND ALL ITS GLORIES
VIII SOME INCIDENTS AND THE ONE MAN
IX THE COMING OF THE BOXERS
X BARRICADES AND RELIEFS
XI SOME MEN AND THINGS
XII HELL HOUNDS
XIII A FEW CRUMBS
XIV THE ULTIMATUM
XV THE DEBACLE BEGINS

PART II--THE SIEGE

I CHAOS
II THE RETREAT AND THE RETURN
III FIRES AND FOOD
IV THE BONDS TIGHTEN
V THE MYSTERIOUS BOARD OF TRUCE
VI SHELLS AND SORTIES
VII THE HOSPITAL AND THE GRAVEYARD
VIII THE FAILURE
IX AN INTERLUDE
X THE GUNS
XI SNIPING
XII THE GALLANT FRENCH
XIII THE BRITISH LEGATION BASE
XIV THE EVER-GROWING CASUALTY LIST
XV THE ARMISTICE
XVI THE RESUMPTION OF A SEMI-DIPLOMATIC LIFE
XVII DIPLOMACY CONTINUES
XVIII THE UNREST GROWS AND DIPLOMACY