Peking Vignettes (7) -- Modern progress against a medieval setting: a Peking-Mukdon express pulling up at the Ha Ta Men, one of the southern gates the borderline between the old Purplo Forbodden City and ***** City. Beyond the gate stand the former legation ***** by foreign marines. It was there that, ***** anti-foreign Boxer uprising in the summer 200 foreign refugees were besieged; and it ***** this gate among others, that a relief expedition ***** troops consisting of American, British, ***** and Japanese forces entered and ***** indemnity of $320,000 ***** by most countries as a fund ***** development in *****. December 21, 1938. (Photo by Japan Photo Library).