Excerpt from The Fighting in North China: Up to the Fall of Tientsin City
By the troops of all nationalities under circumstances widely different from the first. During the forty years which have intervened the relations between China and the Powers have been regulated for the most part by communications through the Tsung-li Yamen, the Foreign Office of China. This period has been remarkable for the number of outrages committed against foreigners. Ever since the interpreters Wade, Parkes and Loch with their two French colleagues were imprisoned.
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