The Chinese offered so little resistance to the Allies on the march to Pekin, the war collapsed so suddenly on the fall of the capital, that scant justice has been done to the courage displayed on both sides during the heavy fighting with Seymour’s column and around Tientsin. The losses among the Europeans show how desperate it was. Admiral Seymour’s column, out of less than 2,000 men, lost 295 killed and wounded in sixteen days. The casualties among the British contingent of 900 bluejackets and marines, amounted to 27 killed and 97 wounded. The Americans out of 120 men lost 4 killed and 25 wounded. The stormers of the Taku forts also lost heavily. In the beginning of the attack on the Peiyang Arsenal by the Russians, they lost over 200 men and had to send for help to the Americans and the British. In the Boxer night attack on Tientsin railway station in July, the British, French, and Japanese defending it had 150 casualties. Out of a total of 5,000 men engaged in the taking of Tientsin native city on July 13th and 14th, the Allies lost nearly 800 men. The Egyptian _fellah_ was once considered to be utterly hopeless as a fighting‐man. But British officers nursed him, strengthened his moral fibre, and then led him into battle. Witness his behaviour at the Atbara and at Omdurman. The army that the genius of Lord Kitchener had moulded so skilfully proved invincible; and the _fellah_ did his fair share of the fighting. The Chinaman in natural courage, in physique, and in stamina is far superior to the Egyptian. Why should he not become a more formidable fighting‐man? Think what the Celestial Empire could do if its soldiers were properly armed, trained, and led; if the spirit of self‐respect were instilled into them and their natural passive courage fanned into active bravery! Think of a warlike army recruited from a population of 400,000,000; and at its back a reformed China, its resources developed, its immense wealth properly utilised, its people free and filled with patriotic pride! What Japan has accomplished, China, once her leader and her conqueror, may yet achieve. And signs of the Great Awakening are at hand! INDEX Aberdeen, 181 Admiral Ho, 201, 214, 215 Admiral Seymour at the siege of Tientsin, 24; his advance on Pekin, 30 Affleck‐Scott, Mr., 216 Ah Ting, Naval Dairy Farm, 4 Alarm in Hong Kong, 204 Alarm in Macao, 242 Allied Armies, men and methods of, 34 Allied Commissioners in Canton, 259 Allied Fleet at Taku, 8 American Army, Continental criticism, 51; excellence of the men, 51; elastic discipline, 51; courage of, 52; gallantry at Tientsin, 53; comradeship with British troops, 53; contempt for Continentals, 53; discomfiture of British subaltern, 54 Army, American, 50; Chinese in the past, 280; of the future, 298; Dutch, 54; French, 42; German, 34; Indian, 55; Japanese, 47; Russian, 44; Italian, 54