The Land of the Boxers; or, China under the AlliesCasserly, Gordon
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The Land of the Boxers; or, China under the Allies
Casserly, Gordon
China -- Description and travel
Indian Army, 55;
fighting races of, 56;
Lord Roberts chiefly responsible for its efficiency, 57;
its British officers, 57;
organisation of a regiment, 58;
foreign criticisms, 59;
Russian opinion of, 156;
cavalry, 59;
infantry, 60;
impossibility of another Mutiny, 62;
loyalty of the sepoy, 63
India as a training‐ground for troops, 61
Indian Expeditionary Force, 33, 55
Indian Commissariat at Wei‐hai‐wei, 5;
at Hong Kong, 178
Indian Marine, Royal, officers of, 12
Infanterie Coloniale, 42
Infantry, excellence of Japanese, 48;
Indian, foreign criticisms of, 60;
composition of a native regiment of, 58
Intelligence Department, Japanese, 49
Italian Expeditionary Force, 54
Ivory carving in Canton, 266
Japan in the past, 292;
its modern development, 293;
arrests in, 252
Japanese Army captures Wei‐hai‐wei, 3;
transport, 47;
campaigning dress, 47;
cavalry, 47;
infantry, 48;
infantry in action, 48;
organisation, 49;
Intelligence Department, 49;
officers as intelligence agents in Pekin, 49;
excellent discipline, 49;
courage and moderation, 50;
friendship for Indian troops, 50, 165
Japanese Fleet, arrival at Shanhaikwan, 149
Johnstone, Major, R.M.L.I., 30
Junks, marble junk, 127;
junks in Hong Kong harbour, 210;
war junks, 211
Kell, Lieut., S. Stafford Regt., 144
Kettler, murder of Baron, 83;
monument, 83
Kettlewell, Major, commands Frontier Field Force, 208
Kipling, Rudyard, his description of Canton, 256
Kowloon, 174, 186;
docks, 187;
society, 193
Kowloon, Chinese city of, 186, 188
Kowloon Peninsula, 172, 183, 194
Kowloon Hinterland, _see_ Hinterland.
Kwang‐tung, 194;
rebellion in, 207
Labertouche, Captain, 22nd Bombay Infantry, 146
Ladies’ Recreation Ground, Hong Kong, 184
Lama Temple, Great, Pekin, 107
Lampacao, Portuguese settlement on, 231
Language, difference in Chinese languages in various provinces, 283;
polyglot, 20;
British officers as interpreters, 19
Lantau, Island of, 183
Legation Street, Pekin, 70, 80
Legations, Pekin, 78;
defence of, 78;
visit to English Legation, 79;
guard, 79;
new defensive wall, 107
Li Hung Chang, 128, 204
Ling‐chi, torture of, 271
Liscum, Colonel, U.S. Army, his death, 53
Liu‐kung‐tao, Island of, 3
Losses of Allies at Tientsin, 296, 297
Lo‐u, 216
Macao, 231;
its past history, 231;
its present decay, 232;
danger to Hong Kong, 233;
passage to, 236;
description, 237‐40;
public gardens, 240;
government, 241;
society, 243;
affair with police, 245;
gambling houses, 253;
sights, 254
Madrassis, decay of, 56
Madras Sappers and Miners, 56
Madras Light Infantry, 3rd, 200, 204, 208
Mandarins at Samchun, 222;
corruption of Chinese, 228;
extortion, 291
Manchuria, Russian soldiers in, 45
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