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DescriptionGERMAN OFFICERS WELCOMING FIELD-MARSHAL COUNT VON WALDERSEEAT THE RAILWAY STATION, TIENTSIN.jpg |
Identifier: cu31924023140977 Title: The land of the boxers, or, China under the allies Year: 1903 (1900s) Authors: Casserly, Gordon Subjects: Publisher: London New York Bombay : Longmans, Green, & Co. Contributing Library: Cornell University Library Digitizing Sponsor: MSN
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Text Appearing After Image: GERMAN OFFICERS WELCOMING FIELD-MARSHAL COUNT VON WALDERSEE AT THE RAILWAY STATION, TIENTSIN [38] THE ALLIED ARMIES IN CHINA 39 the first time the leading military nation was brought face to face with the difficulties involved in the despatch of an expedition across the sea and far from the home base. And its mistakes were not few. Their contingent found themselves at first devoid of transport and dependent on the kindness of the other armies for means to move from the railway. One projected expedition had to be long delayed because the German troops could not advance for this reason, until the English at length furnished them with the necessary transport. The enormous waggons they brought with them were useless in a country where barrows are generally the only form of wheeled transport possible on the very narrow roads. Their knowledge of horse-mastership was not impressive, their animals always looking badly kept and ill-fed. The first German troops despatched to China were curiously clothed
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