Under marching orders : a story of Mary Porter Gamewell . House ia British Legation, Peking, Showing BombardmentBY Chinese. International Gun, Betsey The Coming of the Allies 181 cuff of a sleeve, and one smashed a bottlewhich Dr. Ament carried, leaving him un-scathed. To return what Dr. Smith called these ^ ^ in-cessant attentions, large guns were sorelyneeded. There was only one cannon withinthe legation lines, an Italian one-pounder,which was frequently moved from one postto another, to give the impression of five orsix guns. It was at this juncture that aChinese carpenter, foraging for too
Under marching orders : a story of Mary Porter Gamewell . House ia British Legation, Peking, Showing BombardmentBY Chinese. International Gun, Betsey The Coming of the Allies 181 cuff of a sleeve, and one smashed a bottlewhich Dr. Ament carried, leaving him un-scathed. To return what Dr. Smith called these ^ ^ in-cessant attentions, large guns were sorelyneeded. There was only one cannon withinthe legation lines, an Italian one-pounder,which was frequently moved from one postto another, to give the impression of five orsix guns. It was at this juncture that aChinese carpenter, foraging for tools in ablacksmith shop, unearthed a batteredChinese cannon, which was borne in triumphto the British Legation. The Italians huntedup an old gun-carriage, the Russians con-tributed the shells, which belonged to theirmachine gun left at Tientsin, and Mitchell,the fearless American gunner, applied aJapanese fuse to Chinese powder, and thefirst shot was fired! No wonder the gun waschristened the ^International, though thesoldiers found this name too bulky for prac-tical use, and called it Betsey. It did val-iant work for
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