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E-text prepared by Jonathan Ingram, Sankar Viswanathan, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net/)
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
CHINA EDITION
1922
SHANGHAI
KELLY AND WALSH, LIMITED
CONTENTS
FOREWORD
INDISCREET LETTERS FROM PEKING
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 CONTINUES
XIX
THE FIRST REAL NEWS
XX
THE THIRD PHASE CONTINUES
XXI
MORE DIPLOMACY
XXII
THE WORLD BEYOND OUR BRICKS
XXIII
TRIFLES
XXIV
DIPLOMATIC CONFIDENCES
XXV
THE PLOT AGAIN THICKENS
XXVI
MORE MESSENGERS
XXVII
THE ATTACKS RESUMED
XXVIII
THE THIRTEENTH
XXIX
THE NIGHT OF THE THIRTEENTH
XXX
HOW I SAW THE RELIEF
PART III-THE SACK
I
THE PALACE
II
THE SACK
III
THE SACK CONTINUES
IV
CHAOS
V
SETTLING DOWN
VI
THE FORBIDDEN FRUIT
VII
THE FEW REMAINS
VIII
THE PALSY REMAINS
IX
DRIFTING
X
PICKING UP THREADS
XI
THE IMPOSSIBLE
XII
SUSPENSE
XIII
STILL DRIFTING
XIV
PUNITIVE EXPEDITIONS
XV
THE CLIMAX
XVI
THE END
BOOKS BY PUTNAM WEALE
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