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Shunyi trip with W F Collins
Thursday
Sept 8
Left Peking at 10 p.m. on Pui-Hoan for
Friday
Sept 9
Cheng - Chow and arrived on Friday
at 4:30 p.m., met by Q. Denham &
Sat.
Sept 10
P. Old Co. & stayed with him overnight.
This morning while we passed the
station a local train pulled in from
Peking. Among the passengers were
a party of Chinese - a small, disheveled
looking old man, a dozen women &
several children, as they alighted on
the platform with all the confusion
inevitable whenever a Chinese family
travels, the crowd went through the
air in excited tones, "It is Prince
Train". And indeed it was the famous
old Boxer leader himself who recorded
this episode to Chinnis Truchertland. We
were hearing then one of its last echoes
of the Boxer rebellion in the dark days
of 1900, when the revolt failed and
the foreign governments presented their
bills for settlement it involved the
expropriation of some of these leaders
and the permanent exile of others.
Prince Tuan, because he was a
member of the Imperial family, re-
tained his head but was sent into
exile. For years he remained in
Imberthan, but in returned to