During that curious chapter in Occidental imperialism, the Boxer Rebellion, the U. S. dispatched some 2,500 marines and regulars to China to participate in the international loot of Peking. Last week as death and destruction were being visited on China once more a faint echo of China's earlier troubles was heard in Buffalo, N. Y., where the Veterans of Foreign Wars, older brother of the American Legion, was assembled for its 38th encampment. For the first time since the World War the aging veterans who had tramped the plains of northern China...
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