Massacres of Christians by heathen Chinese, and horrors of the Boxers; containing a complete history of the Boxers; the Tai-Ping insurrection and massacres of the foreign ministers; manners, customs and peculiarities of the Chinese .. . MAJOR GENERAL A. R. CHAFFEE. -1 I ^; V ^Sm0 ^.^&?**f55p* £c *iru / . j ? —x JAPANESE INFANTRYMEN WITH THE ALLIED ARMY IN CHINA A NET-WORK OF SECRET SOCIETIES. 149 observers bear witness; while their kinsfolk, the Tartars, overranthe world and fought like heroes, though well aware that a woundedman had little chance except of death by torture or starvation. Duri
Massacres of Christians by heathen Chinese, and horrors of the Boxers; containing a complete history of the Boxers; the Tai-Ping insurrection and massacres of the foreign ministers; manners, customs and peculiarities of the Chinese .. . MAJOR GENERAL A. R. CHAFFEE. -1 I ^; V ^Sm0 ^.^&?**f55p* £c *iru / . j ? —x JAPANESE INFANTRYMEN WITH THE ALLIED ARMY IN CHINA A NET-WORK OF SECRET SOCIETIES. 149 observers bear witness; while their kinsfolk, the Tartars, overranthe world and fought like heroes, though well aware that a woundedman had little chance except of death by torture or starvation. During the war of England and France with China in 1857, awar which gave the Chinese many pretexts for not only attackingthe Manchu dynasty, but also for endeavoring to expel the for-eigners from the Empire, Sir Robert Hart, then a young man inthe British consular service in China, was sent to Tung Chow tomeet the Chinese leaders and discover a proposition for peace. Hewas accompanied by two other representatives of England, a Frenchrepresentative, a correspondent of the London Times and a guardof twenty-six English soldiers and twelve Frenchmen. They met the Chinese leaders at Tung Chow and the termswere made upon which the French and English forces
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