This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 edition. Excerpt: ... chapter vii the imperial railways of north china--1900 to the present time the development of this line has now been traced up to the Boxer outbreak in the summer of 1900; we have now to continue its history from that point to the present time. Of the Boxer movement somewhat diverse accounts have been ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 edition. Excerpt: ... chapter vii the imperial railways of north china--1900 to the present time the development of this line has now been traced up to the Boxer outbreak in the summer of 1900; we have now to continue its history from that point to the present time. Of the Boxer movement somewhat diverse accounts have been given. It originated in Shantung. According to some writers, it was from the day of its birth purely anti-foreign; according to others, it was in its inception anti-dynastic, but at a later stage its forces were diverted by Imperial agencies from their original channel and directed against the foreigner. On the whole, the latter view appears of the two to be the more in harmony with the facts. We should, however, be exceeding our present limits were we to indulge in any discussion on this head. Whatever its originating motives may have been, the movement was far more anti-foreign than anything else when it burst over North China in June 1900. The 16th of that month may be taken as the date on which it was brought to a head. There had for some weeks previously been intermittent outbreaks of lawlessness in the province of Chihli, and to the south-west. Stations had been burnt on the Lu-Han Railway then under construction, and French and Belgian engineers accompanied by large parties of missionaries from the interior had been compelled virtually to fight their way to Peking. The staff of the Pekin Syndicate had been forced to leave their post in Honan and work their way down to the Yangtze; the line between Tientsin and Peking had been in places destroyed, while on the 28th of May the station at Fengtai had been burnt. In consequence of th
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