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