Indiscreet Letters From Peking

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Editor

Putnam Weale, B. L. (Bertram Lenox), 1877-1930

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

Credits

E-text prepared by Jonathan Ingram, Sankar Viswanathan, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team ( www.pgdp.net/)

Language

English

LoC Class

DS: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: Asia

Subject

Beijing (China) -- History -- Siege, 1900 -- Personal narratives

Category

Text

eBook-No.

17003

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/17003

Release Date

November 4, 2005

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.E-text prepared by Jonathan Ingram, Sankar Viswanathan, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (https://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
2. 2.B. L. PUTNAM WEALE — — — CHINA EDITION — 1922 — — — SHANGHAI — KELLY AND WALSH, LIMITED
3. 3.CONTENTS
4. 4.FOREWORD
5. 5.INDISCREET LETTERS FROM PEKING
6. 6.PART I—THE WARNING — I — FRAGMENTS
7. 7.II — MUTTERINGS
8. 8.III — OVERCAST SKIES
9. 9.IV — OUR GUARDS ARRIVE
10. 10.V — THE PLOT THICKENS
11. 11.VI — THE LICKING FLAMES APPROACH
12. 12.VII — THE CITY OF PEKING AND ALL ITS GLORIES
13. 13.VIII — SOME INCIDENTS AND THE ONE MAN
14. 14.IX — THE COMING OF THE BOXERS
15. 15.X — BARRICADES AND RELIEFS
16. 16.XI — SOME MEN AND THINGS
17. 17.XII — HELL HOUNDS
18. 18.XIII — A FEW CRUMBS
19. 19.XIV — THE ULTIMATUM
20. 20.XV — THE DEBACLE BEGINS
21. 21.I — CHAOS
22. 22.II — THE RETREAT AND THE RETURN
23. 23.III — FIRES AND FOOD
24. 24.IV — THE BONDS TIGHTEN
25. 25.V — THE MYSTERIOUS BOARD OF TRUCE
26. 26.VI — SHELLS AND SORTIES
27. 27.VII — THE HOSPITAL AND THE GRAVEYARD
28. 28.VIII — THE FAILURE
29. 29.IX — AN INTERLUDE
30. 30.X — THE GUNS
31. 31.XI — SNIPING
32. 32.XII — THE GALLANT FRENCH
33. 33.XIII — THE BRITISH LEGATION BASE
34. 34.XIV — THE EVER-GROWING CASUALTY LIST
35. 35.XV — THE ARMISTICE
36. 36.XVI — THE RESUMPTION OF A SEMI-DIPLOMATIC LIFE
37. 37.XVII — DIPLOMACY CONTINUES
38. 38.XVIII — THE UNREST GROWS AND DIPLOMACY CONTINUES
39. 39.XIX — THE FIRST REAL NEWS
40. 40.XX — THE THIRD PHASE CONTINUES
41. 41.XXI — MORE DIPLOMACY
42. 42.XXII — THE WORLD BEYOND OUR BRICKS
43. 43.XXIII — TRIFLES
44. 44.XXIV — DIPLOMATIC CONFIDENCES
45. 45.XXV — THE PLOT AGAIN THICKENS
46. 46.XXVI — MORE MESSENGERS
47. 47.XXVII — THE ATTACKS RESUMED
48. 48.XXVIII — THE THIRTEENTH
49. 49.XXIX — THE NIGHT OF THE THIRTEENTH
50. 50.XXX — HOW I SAW THE RELIEF
51. 51.I — THE PALACE
52. 52.II — THE SACK
53. 53.III — THE SACK CONTINUES
54. 54.IV — CHAOS
55. 55.V — SETTLING DOWN
56. 56.VI — THE FORBIDDEN FRUIT
57. 57.VII — THE FEW REMAINS
58. 58.VIII — THE PALSY REMAINS
59. 59.IX — DRIFTING
60. 60.X — PICKING UP THREADS
61. 61.XI — THE IMPOSSIBLE
62. 62.XII — SUSPENSE
63. 63.XIII — STILL DRIFTING
64. 64.XIV — PUNITIVE EXPEDITIONS
65. 65.XV — THE CLIMAX
66. 66.XVI — THE END
67. 67.BOOKS BY PUTNAM WEALE

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