fentai

Updated: May 25, 2025

Yet it is a very local affair a thing concerning only a tiny portion of a half-known corner of the world. But for us it is sufficiently grave. The Peking-Paotingfu railway is being rapidly destroyed; Fentai station, but six miles from Peking think of it, only six miles from this Manchu holy of holies has gone up in flames; a great steel bridge has succumbed to the destroying energy of dynamite.

- Indiscreet Letters From Peking : Being the Notes of an Eye-Witness, Which Set Forth in Some Detail, from Day to Day, the Real Story of the Siege and Sack of a Distressed Capital in 1900—The Year of Great Tribulation