IT WAS ROUGHLY SEIZED
FROM HIS HAND
A
UNITED STATES
MIDSHIPMAN
IN CHINA
by
Lt. Com. Yates Stirling Jr. U.S.N.
Author of
“A U.S. Midshipman Afloat”
Illustrated by Ralph L. Boyer
THE PENN PUBLISHING
COMPANY PHILADELPHIA
MCMIX
COPYRIGHT
1909 BY
THE PENN
PUBLISHING
COMPANY
Introduction
Those who have read “A United StatesMidshipman Afloat” will recall that PhilipPerry and his friend, Sydney Monroe, recentgraduates of the Naval Academy at Annapolis,had been but a short time in theregular naval service when the battle-ship“Connecticut,” to which they had beenassigned, was ordered to a South Americanport. Here they found a revolution inprogress, and it became the duty of theyoung men to prevent the delivery of certainmachine guns and other war material whichhad been shipped from America to the insurgents.In this they were successful aftersome stirring adventure on land and sea.
The present book shows the same youngofficers on a United States gunboat in theYangtse River at a time when the lives offoreigners in China are in peril. A furtheraccount of their experiences in Eastern waterswill be found in “A United States Midshipman[4]in the Philippines.” In all of thesebooks the endeavor has been to portray someof the bold enterprises which are all in theday’s work for a naval officer, and to showhow our modern navy accomplishes big thingsin a quiet way.
Contents
| I. | An Incident of the River | 9 |
| II. | An Unpleasant Encounter | 21 |
| III. | The Peril at the Mission Gate | 32 |
| IV. | The Embassy to the Viceroy | 44 |
| V. | The Viceroy’s Treachery | ... BU KİTABI OKUMAK İÇİN ÜYE OLUN VEYA GİRİŞ YAPIN!Sitemize Üyelik ÜCRETSİZDİR! |