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  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