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My problem is that when researching the 1856-1860 Second Opium War in China your web reference https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Opium_War and reading the contents and especially the highlighted segment within the “Diplomatic Incident” subsection cited below. Can you please assist me with providing a reference source regarding an assertion I quote below. It is obvious that a reliable source has provided these details but it is imperative for my research that I read this source and are thus able to quote it within my writing and of course my subsequent Bibliography. Unfortunately I do not have ready access to library sources that may have suitable reference material, thus I have to rely on internet sources from organisations such as yourself or my other published material which I have exhausted. In so doing I have found five authors who were either witnesses or actually involve in the incident non refer to the incident of "slow slicing" as reported in your article. One of the closest accounts I can find on the incident is in an 1861 book titled ‘Narrative of the War with China in 1860’by Lieut. Colonel G. J. Wolseley who at the time of the conflict was the Major-General of the British Expeditionary Force. In his narrative, Wolseley gives a very in-depth account of the war and its proceedings and especially the incident concerning Harry Parkes and the imprisonment of his entourage under a “White Flag” on the 18th September 1860. Moreover, from Wolseley’s account of the incident, as reported to him by a participant observer, that it seems from this account that 31 soldiers including Parkes were captured and suffered extreme torture. Some days after their capture the group were divided into four parties or groups. Of the 31, 18 from three groups died of infected wounds the wounds caused by excessive cruel and inhumane torture, with the fourth group, which comprised of three Frenchmen and four Sikhs, no one of the five aulthors, at the time of writing their account, does not write what might have happened to this group and it was presumed they suffered the same fate as their comrades; Wolseley makes no mention of “slow slicing”. It is this fourth group who may have been executed by “slow slicing”. Slow slicing is another name for “death by a 1,000 cuts” or the Chinese name of Lingchi" a common cruel and inhumane execution method practiced by the Chinese at that time. I might add that an another author and person captured with Parkes was Henry B. Loch. In his narrative of the events (Loch, H. B. (1869). 'Personal Narrative of the Occurrences during Lord Elgin’s Second Embassy to China, 1860'); Loch also makes no mention of the use of lingchi.    What I am wondering is if someone could look up the source of the article as reported in the web reference above below and tell me, if possible, the name and details of the source of the wording in inclusion below titled Diplomatic Incident that says "Half were reportedly executed by slow slicing, with the application of tourniquets to severed limbs to prolong the torture" so that I can read the article, in full, and suitably reference the author of this claim in my book. It seems to me that this author knows what happened to the unaccounted-for fourth group. I truly hope you can help me as the implications, if slow slicing did occur, it has an adverse impact on present-day Chinese publicised propaganda. THANK YOU IN ANTICIPATION. Dr. Robert J. Tuck Australia.

Diplomatic incident[edit] After taking Tianjin on 23 August, the Anglo-French forces marched inland toward Beijing. The Xianfeng Emperor then dispatched ministers for peace talks, but the British diplomatic envoy, Harry Parkes, insulted the imperial emissary and word arrived that the British had kidnapped the prefect of Tianjin. Parkes was arrested in retaliation on 18 September.[23] Parkes and his entourage were imprisoned and interrogated. Half were reportedly executed by slow slicing, with the application of tourniquets to severed limbs to prolong the torture. This infuriated British leadership when they recovered the unrecognizable bodies.