A Ribbon of Iron (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Annette M. B. Meakin

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1331097282 ISBN 13 : 9781331097280

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Excerpt from A Ribbon of Iron

The Cossacks, who were little better than savages, threw themselves upon the helpless Chinese - among whom there were fortunately very few Women and children - and drove them to the water''s edge. Those who could not get across in rafts were either brutally massacred on the banks or pushed into the water and drowned. The scene which followed was horrible beyond description, and the river was black with dead bodies for weeks afterwards. I have this from no less than five eye-witnesses. The innocent had suffered for the guilty. There was not a Chinaman left in Blagovestchensk on the arrival of the forces which the Governor had summoned to his aid from Western Siberia. Crossing over to the Chinese towns of Sakhalin and Aigun, the Russian soldiers now burned them to the ground and then proceeded to drive the rebels into the interior. I call them rebels advisedly, for this was no war with China; it was the beginning of Russia''s campaign in Manchuria, which other countries have watched with so jealous an eye.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Blagovestchensk, that town was the scene of a massacre, the descriptions of which were received with horror throughout the civilized world. As we returned to St. Petersburg by way of America it was not until after this book was written that I succeeded in getting from eye-witnesses a reliable account of what actually took place. While we were at Blagovestchensk (we left on June 28, just four days before the fijrst shot was fired) all its troops were being mobilized for China, and every boat except the post boat had been chartered to carry soldiers across the water. So little did General Gribsky and the police dream of danger near at hand that only one reserve battalion and one battery were left to guard the town. The rumour we had heard of a Chinese force stationed near A igun was a true one. Having waited for their See chapters zvi Land zviii.
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1331097282
• ISBN 13: 9781331097280
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 364
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