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*[http://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/plymouth-military-graves-desecrated-china/story-20024636-detail/story.html#1 "Plymouth military graves desecrated in China"] November 02, 2013. plymouthherald.co.uk. British Naval base graveyard at Weihaiwei. Includes photographs of submarines c 1931. Same story [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2486695/Chinese-authorities-dug-dozens-British-war-graves-used-headstones-BUILDING-says-son-submariner-died-1933.html dailymail.co.uk] 4 November 2013.
===Historical books online===
*Article in the ''Asiatic Journal'', Volume 13, January-June 1822. "A Succinct Historical Narrative of the East India Company’s Endeavours to Form Settlements and to Extend and Encourage Trade in the East and of the Causes by which those Endeavours have been Frustrated":
**Section 1 Sumatra, Borneo, Java, the Eastern Islands, etc . [http://books.google.com/books?id=zXiILz2MABEC&pg=PA1 pages 1-11]
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.155680 ''Ernest H. Wilson Plant Hunter''] [1876-1930] by Edward I Farrington 1931. Archive.org, Digital Library of India Collection.
*[http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1973-macartney-at-kashgar-by-skrine-s-pdf/ ''Macartney at Kashgar: New Light on British, Chinese and Russian Activities in Sinkiang, 1890-1918''] by C.P. Skrine and Pamela Nightingale. 1973. Link to a pdf download PAHAR Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset. Macartney’s wife Catherine wrote of her time at Kashgar in ''An English Lady in Chinese Turkestan'' first published 1931. A later biography is ''The Diplomat of Kashgar: A Very Special Agent. The Life of Sir George Macartney, 18 January 1867-19 May 1945'' by James McCarthy.
:[https://archive.org/details/cu31924023243391 ''Through Deserts and Oases of Central Asia''] by Ella Sykes and Percy Sykes, 1920 Archive.org. Covers the brief period in which Percy Sykes relieved Macartney at Kashgar while the latter was on leave in 1916 but is really Percy's sister Ella Sykes’s travel account and says little about consular affairs.
:*Includes a [https://archive.org/stream/cu31924023243391#page/n456/mode/1up Map], in two sections.
:[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.210403 ''Chinese Central Asia''] by C P Skrine. Indian Civil Service, British Consul General in Chinese Turkistan 1922-1924. First published 1926 Archive.org. [https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.210403/2015.210403.Chinese-Central#page/n401/mode/2up Index].[https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001872231 Hathi Trust Digital Library version] where images are rotatable. The Consulate was at Kashgar. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarmont_Percival_Skrine Clarmont Percival Skrine] Wikipedia.
:Also see [[Norperforce]] for more about the Kashgar Mission during WW1 prior to 1922.
:[https://archive.org/details/antiqueland00ship ''The Antique Land''] by Diana Shipton 1950. Archive.org Lending Library. A memoir by the wife of Eric Shipton, the last British consul in Kashgar before the consulate closed in 1947.
*[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/501356 ''The Old Burma Road''] 1945. Pdf download, Digital Library of India. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.501356 Archive.org version]. Full title: The ''Old Burma Road. A journey on foot and muleback. From the diary, notes and reminiscences of Doctor N. Bradley''. The author spent many years in China as a medical missionary. This is an account of a journey taken in March, 1930 on the granite slab road along which, 650 years earlier, Marco Polo had ridden with his escort of Kublai Khan's horsemen from Yunnan-Fu to Bhamo.
*''Journal of the North China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society''. ''North'' appears to have been dropped from the title for a period.
