You’ve got it right again, Eric. :-) Thanks for the info. I’ve updated the post to reflect your correction. It’s always great to have fact checkers, so I appreciate your efforts and interest.

In your first paragraph you say the Boxer uprising story probably happened in January 1941, but as you note at the bottom, Hemingway and wife didn’t arrive in HK until 22 February. Initially apparently they stayed in the Hong Kong Hotel on Peddar Street, where that Grips bar was located. (That hotel was torn down, I believe, in the early 1950s.)

Later during their brief stay in Hong Kong, Hemingway and Gellhorn moved to the Repulse Bay hotel on the south side of HK Island (which is still there in its original location, though housed in a new building since the 1980s). I happened to pay attention to these particular details because I attended the wedding of my niece in the Repulse Bay hotel just last month and when I noticed a small Hemingway exhibit there I made a point of learning when exactly he stayed there.

Peter Moreira doesn’t specify precisely when they checked into the Repulse Bay Hotel, but on 25 March 1941, Hemingway and Gellhorn left HK for Mainland China. So probably (though not necessarily) the Boxer Uprising story was from when Hemingway was still in the Hong Kong hotel in the earlier part of that 22 Feb-25 March period.

Hemingway did return to Hong Kong and the Repulse Bay hotel after the visit to Mainland China, but since the Boxer story centers in the Hong Kong Hotel bar it’s somewhat more likely, I think, that it was in the author’s initial stay in the city when he regularly hung out in “the Grips.”

So the story, I’d say, based on what little reading I’ve done, probably is from late February or early March 1941. It couldn’t be from January, though, prior to Hemingway’s arrival.