A Ribbon of Iron (Classic Reprint)

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The Cossacks, who were little better than savages, threw themselves upon the helpless Chinese - among whom there were fortunately very few Women and children - and drove them to the water's edge. Those who could not get across in rafts were either brutally massacred on the banks or pushed into the water and drowned. The scene which followed was horrible beyond description, and the river was black with dead bodies for weeks afterwards. I have this from no less than five eye-witnesses. The innocent had suffered for the guilty. There was not a Chinaman left in Blagovestchensk on the arrival of the forces which the Governor had summoned to his aid from Western Siberia. Crossing over to the Chinese towns of Sakhalin and Aigun, the Russian soldiers now burned them to the ground and then proceeded to drive the rebels into the interior. I call them rebels advisedly, for this was no war with China; it was the beginning of Russia's campaign in Manchuria, which other countries have watched with so jealous an eye.

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