The Siege of the Peking Legations, Being the Diary of the Rev. Roland Allen
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He had gone to the Police Station and reported the case and then brought away the keys. That was cool, but useless in the present state of affairs. We saw also two other smaller fires. At 1.0 p.m. the British guard on the North Bridge brought in a Boxer, who, though unarmed, had walked right up to them dressed in full war-paint. He advanced dancing and gesticu- lating, and was taken alive. This~behaviour savoured strongly of Boxer magic. It looked very much as if he had come deliberately to sho...w that he could not be shot. He was bound in the court and sent to the cells. About 4.0 p.m. the Eussians and Americans caught a man trying to set fire to the June U THE BOXER ATTACK 83 Legation Street ; otherwise things were fairly quiet until it grew dusk, when the Germans on the cityij wall began firing apparently at Boxers outside the; city, and then occasional shots were heard from time J) to time at different points. At this time we were holding the whole quarter, from the Imperial City to the Tartar wall.
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