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Show DANCE WHILE BULLETS FLY British Officers Defending the Lega' tion in Peking Joyous in the Face of Death. Probably the most extraordinnrv dance ever known was one given at the British legation during the siege of Peking. Death was treading on the very heels of the dancers, but they gave a regular and very succppsful ball not a scratch "hop," but with a band, supper, programs, an "M. C," and all the othei apparatus. Thn dancing began at 10 p. m., and lasted most of the night, while all the time thousands of Chinese fiends wcrn swarming round the place, yelling fur blood. When the relieved officers came off duty they repaired to the ballroom, while the former hatch of m;i''! partners part-ners took up their rifles and went out to the defense. Not a single casualty had occurred then, nor did one happen during the ball, by some extraordinary chance; yet some determined assaults were made by the besiegers, and threj times a waltz was stopped short In j tho middle for all the men to turn out and help in the defene. |