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 Before Image: alisation of Englandspredominance beyond the seas seemed to come onthose in China almost as a surprise. One remarkedto a member of the staff of our Fourth Brigade : Our voyage out here has brought home to mostof us for the first time how you English have laidyour hands on all parts of the earth worth having.In every port we touched at since we left Germany,everywhere we coaled, we found your flag flying.Gibraltar, Malta, Aden, Colombo, Singapore, HongKong—all British. Yes, added another, we have naturally beenaccustomed to regard our own country as thegreatest in the world. But outside it we foundour language useless. Yours is universal. I hadsaid to myself that Port Said, at least, is not British ;but there, too, your tongue is the chief medium ofintercourse. Here in China, even the coolies speakEnglish, or what they intend to be English. The German Organisation—perfect, perhaps, forEurope, where each country is a network of roadsand railways—was not so successful in China. For

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