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Hong Kong, 1842-1843," in Journal of the Hong Kong Branch, Royal Asiatic Society Vol. 14 (1974), pp.78 and 82.
37
Holt, p.142.
38 Milne, p. 125.
41
43
Ouchterlony, p.225.
According to Bingham (Vol.I, pp. 184-9), the provincial authorities issued a notification on 27 June 1840 with a carefully spelled out scale of rewards and inducements. A later proclamation by the three imperial commissioners, with greatly increased rewards, is translated in his Vol. II, at pp.404-7. Deceits and kidnapping were apparently the norm in oriental wars. In describing and condemning them, the writers were but echoing the similar complaints made by their brother officers during the First Burmese War in 1824-26, when such actions were also encountered there. See Bruce, op.cit pp.54.
Bingham, Vol.I, pp.286-291, adding an account of Captain P. Anstruther's imprisonment with the survivors at Ningpo (pp.292-7).
Bingham, Vol.II, pp. 181-3: "When Ning-po was subsequently captured, it appeared that poor Mr. Stead had been conveyed there alive, when the brutal Chinese general had him secured to a stake, and then practised his bowmen by firing at him as a target; his body being subjected to the same brutality after life was extinct". Davis, likely to be more authoritative, has a different but equally horrendous version. Upon Yukien's direction, "the prisoner was tied to a stake in the middle of the public place [at Ningpo], deliberately flayed alive, and then cut in pieces": China, During the War and Since the Peace (London, Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 2 vols., 1852), Vol I, p.170.
4 Beeching, pp.121-2 and 136-7.
44
Bingham, Vol.I, pp.212-217.
45
Bingham, Vol.I, pp. 194-5.
J.D. Vaughan, The Manners and Customs of the Chinese of the Straits Settlements (Oxford in Asia Paperbacks, 1970, reprint of the original edition by the Mission Press, Singapore, 1879), pp.90-1 and see also p.36.
229
Hong Kong, 1842-1843," in Journal of the Hong Kong Branch, Royal Asiatic Society Vol. 14 (1974), pp.78 and 82.
37
Holt, p.142.
38 Milne, p. 125.
41
43
Ouchterlony, p.225.
According to Bingham (Vol.I, pp. 184-9), the provincial authorities issued a no- tification on 27 June 1840 with a carefully spelled out scale of rewards and inducements. A later proclamation by the three imperial commissioners, with greatly increased rewards, is translated in his Vol. II, at pp.404-7. Dec-eits and kidnapping were apparently the norm in oriental wars. In describing and con- demning them, the writers were but echoing the similar complaints made by their brother officers during the First Burmese War in 1824-26, when such ac- tions were also encountered there. See Bruce, op.,cit pp.54.
Bingham, Vol.I, pp.286-291, adding an account of Captain P. Anstruther's im- prisonment with the survivors at Ningpo (pp.292-7).
Bingham, Vol.II, pp. 181-3: "When Ning-po was subsequently captured, it ap- peared that poor Mr. Stead had been conveyed there alive, when the brutal Chi- nese general had him secured to a stake, and then practised his bowmen by firing at him as a target; his body being subjected to the same brutality after life was extinct". Davis, likely to be more authoritative, has a different but equally horrendous version. Upon Yukien's direction, "the prisoner was tied to a stake in the middle of the public place [at Ningpo], deliberately flayed alive, and then cut in pieces": China, During the War and Since the Peace (London, Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 2 vols., 1852), Vol I, p.170.
4 Beeching, pp.121-2 and 136-7.
44
Bingham, Vol.I, pp.212-217.
45
Bingham, Vol.I, pp. 194-5.
J.D. Vaughan, The Manners and Customs of the Chinese of the Straits Settle- ments (Oxford in Asia Paperbacks, 1970, reprint of the original edition by the Mission Press, Singapore, 1879), pp.90-1 and see also p.36.
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