Show ow w the adap of dekl polling g wa deade no how W a military map of peking was secretly made mado is told by general sir robert biddulph Cid during the china war of 1860 1800 in which sir robert was eng engaged aged wr our arm army y was greatly emba brass d by the absence of any map of the city but it happened that the russian legation had ad only a few months before contrived to make a map in spite of the jeal lealous ats watchfulness of the Chi chinese neso aney ey had sent an officer in a am small till covered cart such as they use to ca carry cay y their comen women about completely covered L an indicator was attached to the wheel he ile drove for a certain distance to a certain crossroad for example and took a ahot with his instrument then own the next road and in that way laballe a complete plan of peking with all its streets and roads both in tho the tartar city ty and in the chinese city general who produced the map 0 offered 44 use USO to tho the english Engli jih th there ore were no photographers then attached to the th a army but an italian photographer who had followed tho the army for bis his own private purposes being set to work produced a number of copies which proved extremely serviceable london news |