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Updated: July 2, 2026

The whole-province of Chihli is shaking; North China will soon be in flames; any one with half a nose can smell rebellion in the air.... This is one side of the picture, the side which friendly Chinese are painting for us.

- 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