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Herr Schwab under Fire]
Brown of Moukden
A Story of the Russo-Japanese War
BY
HERBERT STRANG
AUTHOR OF "KOBO: A STORY OF THE RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR" "TOM BURNABY" "BOYS OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE" ETC.
Illustrated by William Rainey, R.I.
G. P. Putnam's Sons New York and London The Knickerbocker Press 1906
"To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield." --_Tennyson's Ulysses_.
_My dear Raymond,_
_Last year I wove a romance about the early incidents of the great warnow happily at an end; this year I have chosen its later incidents asthe background for my hero's adventures. But while in "Kobo" thestruggle was viewed from the Japanese stand-point, in "Brown of Moukden"(which is in no sense a sequel) you will find yourself among theRussians, looking at the other side of the shield. It is not theromancer's business to be a partisan; and we British people were atfirst, perhaps, a little blind to the fact that the bravery, theendurance, the heroism, have not been all on the one side._
_As a boy preparing for the Navy, you would have liked, I dare say, tosee Jack Brown in the thick of the great naval battle at Tsushima. ButI had three reasons for giving no space to that famous victory. First,Jack could not possibly have seen it. Secondly, sea-fights had a verygood turn in "Kobo". Thirdly, I hope some day to give you sea-dogs awhole book to yourselves--but that, as Mr. Kipling somewhere says, willbe another story. Meanwhile, if you get half as much fun in readingthis book as I have had in writing it, I shall count myself very luckyindeed._
_Yours sincerely,_ _HERBERT STRANG._
_September, 1905._
*Contents*
_Chapter_ I IVAN IVANOVITCH BROWN
_Chapter_ II MR. WANG AND A CONSTABLE
_Chapter_ III DEPORTED
_Chapter_ IV THE GREAT SIBERIAN RAILWAY
_Chapter_ V A DEAL IN FLOUR
_Chapter_ VI IN FULL CRY
_Chapter_ VII A DAUGHTER OF POLAND
_Chapter_ VIII A CUSTOM OF CATHAY
_Chapter_ IX AH LUM
_Chapter_ X THE HIRED MAN
_Chapter_ XI WAR-LOOK-SEE
_Chapter_ XII THE RETREAT FROM LIAO-YANG
_Chapter_ XIII MR. BROWN'S HOUSE
_Chapter_ XIV A NIGHT WITH SOWINSKI
_Chapter_ XV COSSACK AND CHUNCHUSE
_Chapter_ XVI FIRE PANIC
_Chapter_ XVII THE WAR GAME
_Chapter_ XVIII A FIGHT IN THE HILLS
_Chapter_ XIX CAPTAIN KARGOPOL FINDS THE CHUNCHUSES
_Chapter_ XX THE BATTLE OF MOUKDEN
_Chapter_ XXI AH LUM AT BAY
_Chapter_ XXII CAPTURING A LOCOMOTIVE
_Chapter_ XXIII FROM MAO-SHAN TO IMIEN-PO
_Chapter_ XXIV LIEUTENANT POTUGIN IN PURSUIT
_Chapter_ XXV THE PRESSURE-GAUGE
_Chapter_ XXVI A DOUBLE QUEST
_Chapter_ XXVII SAKHALIN
_Chapter_ XXVIII THE EMPTY HUT
_Chapter_ XXIX THE HEART OF THE HILL
_Chapter_ XXX CROWDED MOMENTS
_Chapter_ XXXI ENTENTE CORDIALE
*Glossary*
*List of Illustrations*
_Plate_ I HERR SCHWAB UNDER FIRE . . . . . . . . . _Frontispiece_
_Plate_ II A SEARCH PARTY
_Plate_ III JACK SAVES AH FU
_Plate_ IV SOWINSKI'S VISITOR
_Plate_ V AT FULL TILT
_Plate_ VI "RECALL YOUR LAST WORD!"
*Maps and Plans*
Manchuria and part of Siberia
The Battle of Liao-yang.
The Battle of Moukden.
The Siberian Railway from Mao-shan to Han-ta-ho-tzue