The Land of the Boxers; or, China under the Allies - Gordon Casserly

[4] These dimensions were given me by Lieutenant Pearson, R.E., who had to tunnel the wall to allow the passage of a railway line.

[5] They had only forty rifles all told.

[6] Japan.

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]
Arrest, in Japan, [252];
in Macao, [246];
of an English colonel in Macao, [251]
Arrow, incident of the, [258]
Astor House Hotel, Tientsin, [22]
Barracoons in Macao, [255]
Barrett, Lieut., Hong Kong Regiment, [199]
Bathing parties in Hong Kong, [191]
Bayly, Captain, R.N., gallantry at Tientsin, [45]
Belcher’s Fort, [176]
Belgian Legation in Pekin, [78], [80]
Bella Vista, Macao, [240]
Bengal Lancers, 1st, [59]
Bersagliere, [54], [176]
Bikanir, H.H. the Maharajah of, [180]
Black Flags, [204]
Boa Vista Hotel, [238]
Boer Campaign, lessons of, [34];
foreign ignorance respecting, [41]
Bogue Forts, [277]
Bombay Light Cavalry, 3rd, [60];
a sowar’s opinion of the Russians, [164]
Bombay Infantry, 22nd, [200], [204], [208], [229]
Bombay Pioneers, 28th, [57]
Bower, Lieut.‐Col., Chinese Regiment, [296]
Boxers, night attack on Tientsin station, [15];
courage of, [24], [295];
losses, [25];
hostility to Cantonese traders, [284]
Brigands, [136]
Bridge of boats at Tientsin, [19]
Bridge, marble, at Summer Palace, [127]
Bronze Pagoda, [130]
Bronzes in Forbidden City, [90], [93]
Browning, Major, [48], [135], [168]
Buddha, images of, [109]
Buddhist monks, [108]
Buddhist temple, [107]
Burke, Lieut., 22nd Bombay Infantry, [208], [229]
Cable tramway to the Peak, [181]
Camoens, Gardens of, [254]
Cangue, punishment of the, [269]
Canton, history of intercourse with foreigners, [257];
food supplier to Hong Kong, [171];
projected railway to, [171], [196];
turbulence, [204];
reformers in, [206];
land and river approach, [278];
description, [261];
population, [263];
its streets, [264];
its shops, [265];
prison, [269];
its trade, [275];
its importance to English commerce, [275];
an attack on, [277];
energy of French consuls in, [276]
Cap‐sui‐Moon Pass, [209]
Carvalhaes, Senhor, A.D.C. to Governor of Macao, [244], [250], [251]
Casserly, Lieut., [208]
Cathedral, Roman Catholic, in Pekin, [95];
its siege, [97];
at Canton, [263];
San Paulo at Macao, [254]
Cavalry, French, [43];
Japanese, [47];
Indian, [59];
in Hong Kong, [200]
Cemetery at Wei‐hai‐wei, [4];
Macao, [245]
Centre of the Universe, [70]
Cession of the Kowloon Hinterland, [197]
Chasseurs d’Afrique, [43], [66]
Chifu, [6]
China an easy prize, [280];
her sufferings in the past from foreigners, [290];
of the present, [291];
of the future, [293]
Chinese Army of the past, [280];
want of patriotism, [281];
family love, [281];
Mohammedans, [283];
difference in languages, [283];
dislike to foreigners, [286];
extortion of mandarins, [291];
as merchants abroad, [294];
trade honesty of, [294];
splendid material for soldiers, [296];
in modern warfare, [296];
soldiers in the South, [227];
in the North, [228];
examinations, [273]
Chinese Arsenal at Tientsin, [15];
guns made at, [217]
Chinese Regiment, guard at Wei‐hai‐wei, [7];
barracks, [6];
behaviour in action, [295], [296]
Chinese workmen, [97]
Chong Wong Foo, [83]
City Hall, Hong Kong, [176]
Clocks in Emperor’s palace, [91]
Club, Hong Kong, [176];
Tientsin, [20];
German at Tientsin, [22];
English Tennis at Macao, [244];
Portuguese Naval Tennis Club, Macao, [251];
Military Club, Macao, [241]
Cloisonné in Pekin, its manufacture, [111]
Coal Hill, Pekin, [74]
Cockroaches as an article of diet, [224]
Concessions, European, in Tientsin, [17];
in Canton, [259], [274]
Confucius, Temple of, [111]
Consulate, British, at Tientsin, [20];
foreign, at Canton, [274]
Coolie Corps, [10]
Cossacks at play, [163]
Customs, Imperial Chinese, station on Mah Wan, [209];
at Samchun, [212];
officers of, [217]
Curzon, Lord, Problems of the Far East, [69]
Dagoes, [53]
Daibutsu at Kamakura and Hiogo, [109]
Death of a thousand cuts, [271]
De Boulay, Major, R.A., [121]
Deep Bay, [196], [210]
Development of Japan, [293]
Dobell, Major, D.S.O., Royal Welch Fusiliers, [85]
Docks, Kowloon, [187]
Dockyard, Royal Naval, at Wei‐hai‐wei, [4];
at Hong Kong, [178]
Dorward, General, his eulogy of American troops, [52]
Dowager‐Empress, her pavilion in the Forbidden City, [92];
palace in Pekin, [74];
Summer Palace, [115];
seizure of the Emperor, [115];
supposed plan to entrap the Allies, [206]
Dragon Gate in Canton, [274]
Drummond, Mr. Ivor, C.I.C., [31]
Dutch Expeditionary Force, [54];
their envy of the Portuguese colonies in the past—attempt on Macao, [232]
East India Company in Canton, [258]
Efficiency of British officers of the Indian Army, [57];
of the Japanese Intelligence Department, [49]
Egyptian fellah compared to the Chinaman, [297]
Elderton, Commander, D.S.O., good work at Taku, [8]
Embroidery in Canton, [268]
Emperor, his powerlessness, [64];
his palace, [89];
throne room, [89];
harem, [90];
private apartments, [91]
English Concession at Tientsin, [17]
English Legation at Pekin, [78]
English officers, friendship with the Americans, [21];
linguists in China, [19];
supposed ungraciousness of manners, [81];
plain campaigning dress, [27]
Examinations, Chinese system of, [273]
Examination Hall in Canton, [273]
Examiners, Chinese, at Canton, [274]
Executions at Tientsin, [28];
in Canton, [271]
Extortion of mandarins, [291]
Fair, Lieut., R.N., Flag‐Lieutenant to Admiral Seymour, [24]
Family love of the Chinese, [281]
Fans, [106]
Fan‐tan in Samchun, [225];
in Macao, [253]
Fares from Hong Kong to Canton and Macao, [235]
Favrier, Archbishop, defends the Peitan gallantly, [95];
captures a Chinese gun, [96];
introduction to him, [99]
Ferreira Amaral, Governor of Macao, refuses to pay tribute to the Chinese, [232]
Fighting races of India, [56]
Fireworks, Chinese, [219]
Flags of Chinese troops in Samchun, [215], [227]
Floating population of Canton, [260];
of Hong Kong, [185]
Flora, Governor’s summer residence, [240]
Flowery Forest Monastery, [269]
Forbidden City, [73], [86]
French Army, [42];
intimacy between French and German soldiers in Tientsin, [40];
Infanterie Coloniale, [42];
infantry, [43];
officers, [43];
method of maintaining discipline, [43];
training and organisation, [44];
Zouaves and Chasseurs d’Afrique, [43]
French colonial party, suspected designs on Macao, [233];
on Canton, [275]
French post‐office in Canton, [276]
Frontier Field Force, [208]
Frontier of the Kowloon Hinterland, [196]
Fusiliers, Royal Welch, attack on a patrol, [23];
in the Hinterland, [198];
Hong Kong garrison, [200]
Garrison of Hong Kong, [199];
of Macao, [241]
Gascoigne, Major‐General Sir W., [199]
Gaselee, General Sir A., K.C.B., [204]
German Army, [34];
adherence to close formations and antiquated tactics, [35];
campaigning dress in China, [39];
failure of transport, [39];
soldiers, [40];
their friendship with the French, [40];
officers of, [37]
German Club at Tientsin, [22]
German Imperial Navy, [40];
mercantile marine, [40]
Gordon Hall, Tientsin, [22], [28]
Gough, Sir Hugh, attacks Canton, [258]
Government of Macao, [241]
Governor of Macao, [244]
Grant‐Smith, Mr. Ivan, [245], [252]
Gray, Captain, 4th P.I., [167]
Green Island, [173]
Gunboats, allied, at Taku, [9], [10];
at Canton, [274];
British fired at, [276]
Gurkhas, friendship with Japanese, [50], [166];
ingratitude of foreign troops sheltered by them, [166];
officers at Shanhaikwan, [138]
Hall, Examination at, Canton, [273]
Hall of Five Hundred Genii, [269]
Hall of Ten Thousand Ages, [123]
Happy Valley, [179]
Hardy, Rev. Mr., [1]
Harem, Emperor’s, in Pekin, [90]
Ha‐ta‐man Street, [102];
Gate, [77]
Hatherell, Captain, 22nd Bombay Infantry, [208], [229]
Heaven, Temple of, [67]
Heungshan, S.S., [235]
Heung Shan, Island of, [233]
[Hinterland], Kowloon, [194];
character and description of, [195];
projected railway through, [196];
cession, [196];
advantages to Hong Kong, [198];
column guarding it, [202];
want of maps of, [216];
British police in, [198]
Honam, Cantonese suburb of, [260], [263]
Hong Kong, importance as a naval and military base, [167];
harbour, [184];
menace of famine, [170];
commercial importance, [171];
geography, [172];
description, [174]–184;
Club, [177];
climate, [184];
society in, [190];
value of dollar, [235]
Hong Kong Regiment, bravery at Tientsin, [15];
barracks, [187];
disbanded, [187]
Hong Kong, Canton to Macao Steamboat Co., [234]
Hong Kong and Singapore Artillery, [199]
Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank, ruins in Pekin, [71];
building in Hong Kong, [176]
Hong Kong Volunteers, [188], [199]
Horrors, Temple of, [272]
Hôtel du Nord, Pekin, [71]
Hsi‐ku Arsenal, [30]
Hsin‐ho, British landing‐place at, [10]
Hutchinson, Lieut., R.N.R., [25], [135]
Imperial apartments, [91]
Imperial Maritime Customs, Chinese, gunboat, [210];
officers, [217];
station at Samchun, [212]
Imperial troops, Chinese, [24], [296]
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]
Map of Kowloon Hinterland, [216]
Marble junk, [127]
Marble bridge at Summer Palace, [127]
Marco Polo, [269]
Melville, Lieut., 22nd Bombay Infantry, [208]
Mikado, [292]
Military Club, Macao, [241]
Military College, Tientsin, [295]
Moji, [253]
Monte Carlo of the East, [232]
Moon, Temple of, [70]
Mosquitoes, [141]
Mount Austen Hotel, [182]
Mounted Infantry in Tientsin, [26];
usefulness in Hong Kong, [200]
Mud of Pekin, [82]
Mutiny in Macao, [242]
Mutiny, impossibility of another Indian, [62]
Nagoya, electric cars in, [293]
Naval Dockyard at Wei‐hai‐wei, [4];
at Hong Kong, [178]
Navy, German, [40]
Newchwang, Russian church parade in, [45];
railway to, [133]
Nippon Yusen Kaisha, [293]
Ogilvie, Lieut., R.A., [208]
Old Kowloon City, [186], [188]
Osaka, [293]
Outrages on foreigners in China, [287]
Pagoda, bronze, [130]
Patriotism, want of, [281];
of India, [282]
Peak in Hong Kong, [175], [181], [183]
Pearl River, [236], [261]
Peddlers in Pekin, [102];
in Canton, [261]
Peiho River, [9], [19]
Peitan, Roman Catholic Cathedral, [95];
siege, [97]
Peiyang Arsenal, taking of, [219], [295];
Russian losses at, [297]
Pekin, journey to, [65];
station, [66];
description, [71];
walls of, [72];
Tartar and Chinese cities, [72];
Tartar city, [72];
Legations, [78];
mud, [82];
Allied occupation of, [83];
Forbidden City, [87]
Pigmy, H.M.S., takes Shanhaikwan forts, [134]
Pioneers, 28th Bombay, [57]
Police of Macao, [241];
affair with, [246]
Police of new territory, British, [213]
Polo ground in Victoria, [180]
Polo in Hong Kong, [180]
Ponies, troublesome Chinese, [116]
Population of Canton, [263]
Port Arthur, reinforcements from, [46];
retention of, [156]
Portuguese colony of Macao, [231];
tribute to China, [232];
police, [246];
Naval Tennis Club, [251]
Powell, Sir Francis, R.N., [178]
Pottery, [106]
Praia Grande, [238]
Punjaub Infantry, 4th, in action with Japanese troops, [48];
guarding the railway, [135];
under Lieut. Stirling, D.S.O., [168]
Purple or Forbidden City, [73]
Puzzle‐balls, Chinese, [267]
Quarto del Sargento, [248]
Queen’s House, Wei‐hai‐wei, [5]
Queen’s Road, Hong Kong, [248]
Railways in North China, [133];
from Tong‐ku to Pekin, [13], [65];
to Shanhaikwan, [135]
Railway, projected, to Canton, [196]
Railway Siding incident, [32]
Railway Staff Officers, British, [14]
Reformers in Southern China, [206]
Ringing Rocks at Macao, [255]
Roberts, Lord, [57]
Royal Indian Marine Officers, [12]
Royal Welch Fusiliers, attack on patrol, [23];
in the Hinterland, [198];
Hong Kong garrison, [200]
Rudkin, Lieut, 20th Bombay Infantry, his tact and firmness, [33]
Rue du General Voyron, Pekin, [97]
Rundell, Lieut., R.E., [208]
Russian Army, [44];
troops, [44];
endurance of soldiers, [45];
piety, [45];
courage, [46];
comradeship between officers and men, [47]
Russian Railway Staff Officer at Shanhaikwan, [144]
Russians seize railways in North China, [133];
seize rolling stock at Shanhaikwan, [146];
dinner party at Shanhaikwan on the cliffs, [149];
a dinner with Russian officers, [154];
causes of dislike to England, [155]
Samchun, [207], [212], [214];
visit to, [221];
river, [217]
Sampans in Hong Kong, [185]
San Paulo, ruined cathedral of, [254]
Satow, Sir Ernest, [128]
Saunders, Lieut., R.A., [208]
Sepoys, opinion of foreign contingents, [61], [164];
loyalty of, [62]
Seymour, Admiral Sir Edward, courage in Tientsin, [24];
his advance on Pekin, [30]
Shameen, [259], [274]
Sharpe, Captain, 3rd Madras Light Infantry, [208]
Siberian Army, [45]
Siege of Tientsin, [30]
Siege of the Peitan, [97]
Siege train, disappointment of British, [26]
Sikhs, [61]
Silks in Pekin, [105]
Shanhaikwan, [138];
strategic importance of, [134];
railway journey to, [135];
town of, [146];
Great Wall of China at, [148];
arrival of Japanese Fleet at, [149];
forts at, [151];
Japanese and Indians at, [167]
Society in Hong Kong, [190], [192];
Kowloon, [193];
in Macao, [243]
Spirit Path, [88]
Stanley, abandoned town of, [181]
Stirling, Lieut., D.S.O., 4th Punjaub Infantry, [168]
Straubenzee, General Sir Charles, [258]
Streets of Canton, [263]
Streets of Pekin, [75]
Summer Palace, [115]
Sun Yat Sen, [207]
Tai‐mo‐shan, [183]
Tai‐u‐shan, [183]
Taku, [8], [9];
forts, [9]
Taku Road, [23]
Tartar City, [72]
Temple of Heaven, [67];
Sun, [69];
Moon, [70];
in Forbidden City, [90], [93];
Lama, [107];
Confucius, [111];
Five Hundred Genii, [269];
of Horrors, [272]
Terrible, H.M.S., at Shanhaikwan, [155];
gunners, [25]
Tientsin station, [15];
concessions, [17];
Chinese City, [17];
Club, [20];
siege of, [30]
Tommy Atkins in Tientsin, [27]
Tong‐ku, [10], [11];
Allies at, [11];
station, [134]
Tong‐shan, [137]
Tortures, Chinese, [271]
Traders, Chinese as, [294]
Transport officers, [8]
Transport of Germans defective, [39];
of Japanese, [4];
Indian, [55]
Treaty Ports, [258]
Triad Society, [207], [216]
Tung Chow, [117]
Valley, Happy, [179]
Vasilievski, General, wounded at Pekin, [118]
Victoria, Hong Kong, [173]
Victoria Road, Tientsin, [22]
Vladivostock, [156]
Vodki, [154]
Von Waldersee, Count, and our Royal Horse Artillery, [68]
Wall, Great, of China, [147]
Walls of Canton, [261]
Walls of Pekin, [72], [76]
Walls of Wei‐hai‐wei, [5]
Want of patriotism among the Chinese, [281]
Water‐gate of Tartar City, [78];
of Canton, [262]
Wei‐hai‐wei by night, [2];
by day, [3];
Chinese village of, [6];
taken by Japanese, [3]
Welch Fusiliers, Royal, [79], [85], [198], [200]
West River, [276]
Whittall, Major, Hyderabad Contingent, [18]
Williams, Major, Base Commissariat Officer, [178]
Woolley, Captain, I.M.S., [208], [220]
Workmen, Chinese, [97]
Yamen, Wei‐hai‐wei, [4];
Canton, [262];
Samchun, [221];
British Consuls in Canton, [259]
Yangtsun, [66]
Yaumati, [186], [209]
Yuan Shi Kai, army of, [229]
Zaire, Portuguese gunboat, [237];
lands sailors, [242]
Zouaves, [43]