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In September, the Japanese took Paoting, a city on the railway line between the old capital of Peiping and Hankow.
The Last Empress Hannah Pakula 2009
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Paoting-fu, owing to the non-arrival of some essentials of their equipment.
Impressions of a War Correspondent George Lynch
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In a village on the way to Paoting-fu, for instance, through which a body of Germans had just passed, three girls were taken by our troops out of a well, into which they had been thrown before the Germans left.
Impressions of a War Correspondent George Lynch
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Paoting-fu expedition, for instance, when the troops were to pass in the neighbourhood of the Imperial Tombs, a few British soldiers were sent on in advance, and quietly informed the custodians that the
Impressions of a War Correspondent George Lynch
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No other foreigners reached Paoting-fu until the arrival of the military expedition in October, three and a half months later.
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Secretary Hay promptly cabled Minister Conger, who soon wired back that all the Americans at Paoting-fu had been killed.
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THE CHINESE CART; THE OLD AND THE NEW A cart a carrier and a locomotive at Paoting-fu way to the capital.
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Three thousand of Yuan Shih Kai's troops had been ordered to go to Peking to prepare for the return of the Emperor and Empress Dowager, but the French general at Paoting-fu had forbade them coming beyond a point a hundred li south of Paoting-fu, so that they were then encamped there awaiting further orders.
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I saw them at almost every stop, -- German soldiers from Tsing-tau to Kiao-chou, British from Tong-ku to Peking, French from Peking to Paoting-fu, etc.
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Pastor Meng of Paoting-fu, a direct descendant of Mencius, was 120 miles from home when the outbreak occurred.
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