The Eight-power Allied Forces Through Foreigners' Camera

China Before the Invasion of the
Eight-Power Allied Forces

The Entering of
Envoys and Legation Guards into Beijing

First Setbacks of
the Allied Forces
and the Capture of Tianjin

The Capture of
Beijing by the
Eight-Power Allied Forces

The War Before Negotiations and the Signing of the
Protocol of 1901

China Under the Protocol of 1901

After the fall of Tianjin, more than 10.000 foreign officers and soldiers looted for an entire day. Financial institutions of the government, pawnshops and business firms were the first to suffer. From the Changlu Office of Salt taxation, Japanese troops plundered 2 million taels of silver. The picture shows heaps of unearthed silver ingots.