Identifier: reviewofreviewsw22newy (find matches)
Title: Review of reviews and world's work
Year: 1890 (1890s)
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Publisher: New York Review of Reviews Corp
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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irst realizationof the overwhelming nature of the trouble.Gen. A. R. Chafi^ee w^as at once ordered to gofrom Manila to Cliina to take command of theAmerican troops there ; 6,300 troops destinedfor the Philippines were ordered to proceed toChina instead, in addition to the Ninth Regi-ment, sent from Manila ; and preparations arebeing made by Secretary Root to make theUnited States force in China number 15,000 assoon as the remainder can be recruited and equipped. Greitt Britain contributed 10,000troops from India, Germany prepared to send15,000, Japan and France provided for heavyreinforcements, and Italy dispatched three war-ships and 3,200 men ^to tlie East. On the28th came the bad news tliat our famous bat-tleship, the Oregon, en route for China, hadrun ashore on an island in the Gulf of Pechili;but a week later she was saved with no damagesthat could not be hastily repaired in the Japanesedry dock at Kure. Notwitlistanding the rapidityof the conflagration, by the middle of July the
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Scdie of Miles Railivdys Poads O 5 10 li 20 Courtesy of the Tidies, New York. A MAP SHOWING THE KOUTE FROM TAKU TO PEKING. THE PROGRESS OF THE WORLD. 151

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