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WAR IN CHINA.
Alarming Reports from Can
ion and Vicinity.
Reports of FrloUoo Between
Rnaalan ana English
Foroee.
Loadoa, Jana 27. 3.45 a. sj ?A
fresh phaa* of Iba sbalitioo io Cbioa it
the probability of ?woasdiste ootbrsaks
m Iba great *oataera proviooial aaoires.
The popolaee there is daily assuming a
saor* hostils attitade towards foreign
srs, s*d th* latter perceive symptoms
of a general risiag. aod especially at
Nsa Klag, where, aoeordiog to a dis?
patch to Iba Daily Eipress. daiel yes
tarday, Kaag Wo, ooe of ibe most troe
ilaat eoem?es of foreigners, bis arriv?
ed by way of th* Qraod oaoal. armed
with Coll powers iron the empress to
dsal with lb* sootbsro province* Th*
frtecdly attitade of Viceroy Li Kuo
Yib toward* foreigner* has brought
bias iat* disgrso* with Prioee Toao,
praaideot of the tsi saog yaonen.
The aorest at Osotoo is deseribed by
a di*pat*b fro** that oity to The Daily
Telegraph, dated Monday, via Hoog
Koog y*sf*rday: "It i* feared that we
ar* aa tba *va of a seeos of bloodshed
?ad aoarshy io the two Qosogs only
paralleled doriog lb* Tai Piog rebel
tioa Tba sigos of a morderoos op
rising ar* so manifest that wealthy Chi
?es* are harrying from Csotoo aod
vieiaity, takiog their wives, families
aod valaeblee
"Li Uaog Chang bss egaio beeo
peremptorily ordered to Pekin. His
enemies deolaro tbst they will morder
kiss befor* bo eao reaoh there. His
preasnco alooe restrains th- revolution
try elements bsre His departure will
let looss Ibe 'black Bags' aod 'red
girdles 1 Koowiog this, Li's trosted
omoers ar* eeodiog their families to
Hoog Koog.
?The viceroy himself (rants the
Asiatic*** io ibis crisis He says that
they alooe wial oo territory, aod be
places himsslf largsly?slmost uore
ee/vedly?io their bands At so
importaet ooofereooe today he reiterated
this statement
"AH tba sjissiooaries have beeo
?etiSed of tba issmiosot peril tbroogb
sootdsoltel raaosrs. Tk*y ar* leaving
Csotoo harriedly, aod ooly a few are
?aw here
"Commander McLean of lb* United
States steamsbip Don Joao do Austria
is the Irst there to protest foreign
tateteeu. He is oapable aod eoergeiio
aod is reeoforoed by H. M S. Redpole.
Two haodred forcigo resideofs at
8baeseea are armed.
"The Csotoo population reaches
2.000.00 io sdditioo to '250,000 living
oo joaks sod flat bottomed river boats
Most of these people aro disaffected sou
iocendiary prno amu'noe srn iaoreasiog
in number of the ti oleot."
Sb%ogbai cables that tbo Preset con
sol th? re bss received a telegram from
Shan Toog asserting tbst 11,000 Cat
nee? troops arc mskiog a foroed march
from Sbao Toog to Pekio
Two Jesoil fathers aod ooe boodred
aat>e Christisos have beeo mordcrcd
io lb* soathern part of the provioeo or
Chi Li The Chine - military aotbori
ii? Y- h?ao discovered reoroittng at
Shanghai iosids the foreign settlement,
aod some ageete have teen arrested in
the act of eoostrooMog eotrenebmeuts
aroaod the Karopoao concession*.
A Cbissmao oooneotcd with war pur
chases of the Chintee government in
Karope who has boon interviewed by
the Daily Kxprese says that China has
isjtasose quantities of arms aod amrnu
oiiioo and will "stagger boaisnity'1 if
drivso io defjod herself.
Cbefoo, Jone *J6 ?Tho Americans
aod Hrirish entered Tieo Tsm, firs
sil*noiog tho gut s of ton arsenal and
breaking through the Cl.iiKHe lines.
The foreigners were *i**| bo h: t. il.
The Kassises lust four billed ana Iii)
wounded The losses of the utOwf
oat* HstMtsN wer? <*mall
/ Joairal Humour's force II about lit
miles from Tien Teio. I Ii ?urround
ed by Chinese troops and Hogers and
hamper"! by lbs prssenoo of siok aod
wouoded
It is repotted that all foreigoors were
?ill from Pskia with a weak Chinese
April. IS40
"Be Ju,
SU1V
goerd ?od it ie assumed that they ere
siiih Admiral Seymour
Oot tboaeeod Japanese are lauding
it Teko tod 2,000 more ere expeoted
tomorrow wbeo a battalion of Freoeh
te aleo dot.
The foreigo edmirela bete appointed
Capt Wiee, eommaoder of the Moooo
toy, to ba oommaodaot at Toog Ko.
Cbofoo. Jooo 26 ?The oifioera of
the British first-ilass trailer Terrible
tettrt that disoord ezittt betweeo tbe
Russians tod Aoglo-Amerioaos, tod
tbe? eay they beliere tbt Russians art
ptaooiag to break tbt ooooert tod take
poeoetaioo of Peklo iodepeodeotly.
Tbej tatert tbtt Viet Admiral Say
Dioor'o eommtod laoked ooiaoo, tbt
fortigotn eolkiog beeaoie tbey were
oodtr British leadership. Tbey bitter?
ly deooooee tbe Rottito general's ooo
dott at* oteitiliied tod barbarous, tod
tbtrgt that tbt elaoghttr of peaceful
Chinamen at Taku baa aroused tbe
otherwise ptteife nativei against tbt
foreigners
Washington, Jone 26. ? Tbt presi?
dent bat teaigoed Qeo A R. Chaffee
to tbe eommtod of tbe military forces
io Cbiot. Qeo Chaffee ires tt tbt wtr
deptrtmtot to dty rtttitiog instruo
tiooe tod will lea?a for S in Fraoeiaoo
io lime to tail oo tbt first of July with
tbt 8iitb oat airy. Tbia dttaebmeot
sails oo tbt Grant whiob btt bteo or
dtrtd to touob tt Nagasaki for forther
ordtra. It it potaiblt tbti iht ship will
tbto tail dirtttlf for Chefoo with Qeo.
Chaffee tod tbt Sixth ttftlry. Gen
MaeArthor wte etbltd to day an order
dirtetitg tbe oommaodiog cffioer of the
Ninth infantry tod such other fjrces aa
may be operating io Ghioa by the time
of the Grant's arrival to report to Goo
Chatte oo hia arrival there. Unless
present plana change, headquarters will
ba established at Chefoo. Gen. Mae?
Arthor waa tleo direoted to aeod Capt.
Ru?eell of tbe signal corps with a
deUobmeol to Chefoo Ctpt. Russell
during tbe Spaniab war, worked in
ooojuootioo with tbe oaval effioere and
be bae beeo aeleoted to have charge of
tbt aigotl operatiooa because of hie
familiarity with that work io both the
army aod tbt otvy.
THE RELIEF COLUMN IN
SIGHT OF SEYMOUR'S
FORCE
London, June 28. 3 30 t m ?The
composite brigade of 2,300 men who
rtiaed the investment of Tien Tain
aid pushed on to help Admiral
Seymour has probably saved him, but
the newt hat not yet reached Chefoo,
the nearest wire point The latest
steamer striving tt Chefoo from Taku
brought this message, dated Tien
Tain, Monday. Jone 25 :
"The Russian geoertl in command
of the relief forte htd decided, io
view of Saturday's heavy fighting
tod marching, that one day's rest for
the troops wtt essential and that the
advaoce should not be resumed until
today
"Meanwhile came Admiral Sey
mour's heliograph that bit position
was deaperate aod that he could only
bold oot two days The relief atarted
at dawn today (Monday) "
Saturday's fighting began at day?
break The allied forcea opened
with aevertl of tbe Terrible'a 4 7
oaval gunt, tiz field gone tod numer
out machine gona, the firing being at
long range. Tbey continued to
tdvtnce steadily, the Chinese artil?
lery replying The guns of the allies
were more skilfully handled and put
the guns of the Chinese out of action
one by one, the Chinese retreating
about r.oon.
NKOK AND NECK. ?
There was keen rivalry among the
representatives of the various nations
aa to which would enter Tien Tsin
first, ?od the Americans and British
went in neck and neck. The Rus?
sians stormed tbe arsenal, thereby
sustaining the Urgent losses
Several thousand Jtptneso have
left Taku for Tien Tain, and al.
together 18.000 Japanese have land
j ed The international troops now
aggregate Rotflo 20,000 and Japan
is preparing to send 20,000 more.
With British American, and other
troops ordered to go, probubiy GO,
0')0 will be availablo in a month
CHINESE FORUR3,
The Tung Shan refugees and the
foreign engineers at Chefoo estimate
the Chinese troops now in the field
at 25,000 troops at LuTai, 25,000 at
Shang Uai Wan, 15,000 at Ptkln
The dispatch received by the foreign
oflice stating (hat too foreign legations
were re<iunated to leave t'ekin with
in a specified time is interpreted in
tome unofficial quarters as tanta?
mount to giving Ihn ministers their
passports and to a declaration of war,
but us China doot nothing like other
countries, tfco < fiic.UI opinion la that
there is nothing to do but to uwait
the course of events and to see what
the ministers themselves say when
they are rescued
All the students tt the foreign
hospitals Io Canton are leaving
rVomen missionaries are returning
st and Fear not?Let all the Ends thou
ITER. S. C WEDNE
from the West river ports There wai
?light disturbance at Wo Chou Tues?
day while the women were embark'
ng The crowd shouted "Kill the
ioreign devils.'1
AN APPARENT ULTIMATUM.
According to advices from Shang?
hai the Chinese officials, by direction
of the southero viceroys, are asking
the consols to agree to conditions
"insuring," ss the Chinese say, "the
neutrality of Shanghai aod other cosst
cities " Tbsy are also asking that
foreign warships shall not sail or
anchor near the forts nor go to ports
where there are ' no warships
now; that tbeir orews shall oot go
ashore, and that the protection of for?
eigners be left to the Chinese author
ties These conditions are consider
ed at Shanghai to be virtually an
nltimatum from Vioeroys Liu Kuo
Tib and Sbang Chih Tung The
consols desire a sufficient naval and
military force to back up tbeir refusal
to comply with these demands. The
total naval foroe there now consists
of 969 men, with 32 guus in the
forts, and 10,000 men outside Shaog
bai with modern rifles and machine
guns.
JAPAN'S PREPARATIONS.
The magnitude of the arrange?
ments Japan is making suggests pro?
vision against present contingencies
other than the suppression of the
present disturbances in China. She
has chartered 19 additiooal transports
and now has 35 in all
Losses the of International Forces
Stated In Detail
London, June 29, 4 a. m.?The
casualties of the international force
attacking Tien Tsin were : "Ameri?
cans, killed 3, woonded 2 ; British,
killed 2, wounded 1 ; Germans,
killed 15, wounded 27 ; Russians,
killed 10. woonded 37.
The gun fire of the Americans and
British is described as "beautiful "
After the relieving force poshed on
to relieve admiral Seymour, Chinese
regul?re under Oen Nieb, says a dis?
patch from Shanghai, sgain attacked
Tien Tsin fiercely and bombarded
the foreigo settlement with a terrible
fire.
Col Dorward, British, commanded
the column that relieved Admiral
Seymour American marines parti?
cipated in the achievement Th
admiral was found entrenched and
surrounded by immense manses of
Chinese, who were driven off by the
relieving force after a brisk fight
His men had made a brilliant resis
tance, never failing in course for 15
days of continued fighting During
ten days the men were on quarter
rations They started with provia
ions for ten days and they could have
held out a day or two longer
STANDING SIEGE
The column was a few miles
beyond Lofa Deeming it hopeless
to attempt to break through the
hordes, Admiral Seymour essayed a
night retreat toward Tien Tsin,
but be came into collision with
a strong force of Chinese arriving
from the northwest sod could neither
advance nor retreat There was
nothiog to do but to entrench and to
stsnd siege He vsinly attempted
heliographic communication
Seymour's men oaught several Chi?
nese who said the legislations had
been burned and the ministers had
been imprisoned
The Chinese displayed fanatical
courage in the attack.
Four thousand Russians left Tien
Tsin four days after Admiral Sey?
mour, but they never got in touch
with them.
Railway communication between
Taku and Tien Tsin has been restor
I ed and the force is advancing toward
Pekin. Fighting was in progress
Wednesday in tho vicinity of Tsechu
tin. Large preparations are being
made to support and reenforce the
Pekin relieving column
Twenty thousand troops of all
I arms, largely Japanese, have now
I been landed
I THEIR FATE YET A MYSTERY
The fate of tho members of the
legations is still a mystery If they
are alive and unharmed at Pekin. the
Chinese government deserves some
j credit, tho Shanghai correspondent
thinks, for restraining tho fanatical
mob
Tho Shanghai correspondent of tho
Daily Telegraph, wiring at 9 05 p
m yesterday, sa\s it is reported on
good Chinese authority that the g?>v
! eminent alarmed by tho foreign mil?
itary preparations, has issued an edict
Ordering the peremptory suppression
of the Bogsrs and announcing a deci?
sion Io proteol the legations at all
bassrds However, this nay be, the
British consulate at Bhaoghai receiv?
ed definite infotnationyeeterday, the
; Daily Bipress correspondent say**,
(ti ?t while solennly pronising com
pletc abstention front warlike preps
rations, the Obinese are mounting
several new six inch gutiH at tba Woo
Sung forts
MOVEMENT OF TROOPS.
Three British warships have sailed
Aims't at, be thy Country's, thy God's I
SPAY. JULY 4, 1900
from Hongkong to reenforce the
allied squadrons at Shanghai
The southern provinces are tend?
ing troops toward Pekin, and the ex?
odus] of Chinese of all classes from
Shanghai continues at the rate of
from 10,000 to 15,000 a day.
The Russian prestige hae been in<
jured daring the recent fighting, and
an anti-Russian rising in the Liau
Tong peninsula, Russian Machuri, is
predicted
According to the Shanghai corre?
spondent of The Times, advices from
Shan Tung say that Gov Yuan Shik
Kai maintains relations with foreign
era and has aent numerous couriers
to Pekin, bot none of them has re?
turned.
A telegram from Jardioe, Mathe
sod & Co., dftted Shanghai this after?
noon, suggests that the ministers are
still at Pekin, bat admits that there
is no news from the capital.
The telegram adds : "Seymour ar?
rived at Tien Tsin with 312 of bis
foroe wounded, besides 62 killed.
The damage done to Tien Tsin is
much exsggerated. Shanghai is still
quiet.
Another dispatch from Shanghai
reiterates the announcements of the
massacres of native Christians in the
inland districts whioh rival the Ar?
menian horrors.
The Ministers' Fate
is Yet Unsettled.
No Satisfactory Information
Received at Washington.
Washington, June 28?The day's
developments in Chinese affairs were
meagre and the general opinioo bore is
that the two messages received?one
from Kempff and the other from Li
Hung Chang?oould not be aooepted
as settling the important question as to
the fate of the foreign ministers at Pe?
kin and their families and attaohes.
The seeretary of the oavy, by special
instruction of the president, had been
particular to cable Admiral Kempff
several days ago to keep the oavy de
partmeot informed of everything that
bappeoed within the zone of disturb?
ance in China, and it is believed that
bis omission to make any reference in
his oablegram of this morning to the
whereabouts of the ministers was based
on the absence of any information on
that subjeot at Taku, where tho admi?
ral is with his flagship Newark, and if
no information oould be had at Taku,
only 30 miles down tho river from Tien
Tsin. of tho presence of the ministers
in Admiral Seymour's column, but
eight miles distant, then officials here
cannot understand bow any govern?
ment oould have superior facilities, and
so tbey felt justified in waiting for fur?
ther advices before aocepting the
Chinese statements on that point as
aoourate.
Minister Wu, who brought Li's mes?
sage to the state department, oould not
explain away the points of variaooe be?
tween the vioeroy's statements, and
the eabla measagea received from other
eooreea. However, he pinned his
faith to the aeooraoy of the message
and pointed out that it agreed olosely
with Admiral Kempff's message of
yesterday, stating that the minister's
were reported to be with Seymour.
MESSAGES FROM KEMPFF.
The oavy department has had fur?
ther communication with Admiral
Kempff, in the shape of two messages,
ooe touohiog the strength of the foreign
forces ashore in China and another
which the officials stated hud no bear?
ing upon the military situation, but io
neither was thcro any mention of the
ministers. One consideration which
mukett against the uorescrved accept?
ance by tho cificials of tbe aesuraacs of
minor Chinese offioials, including Li
Hung Chang and Minister Wu, that a
state of war does not exist is the fact
that Mi. Conger is not permitted to
oommonioate with bis own government
by the same means employed by tbe
Tsung Li Yamen in getting news to
tho outside world, leading to a suspi?
cion that he is not at that perfect liber?
ty whioh marks the existence of a state
of war. It is possiple that tho Chinese
government may bo able to offor a satis
factory explanation on this point, but
at present the clTniaU say that our
futuro relations with China depend al?
together upoa what Minister Conger
ha-, to 6ay when ho is finally brought
ar?ain in touch with the state depart*
moot
NO CHANGE FOR THK BETTER
Washington, June (J.H ?None of
tho members <>l' the cabinet who
I were present nt today's meeting
1 ooold see the least obaoge for the
bettor in the Chinese situation
Secretary I lay was not present, nor
was Secretary Gage, but the other
members said that nothing had been
heard from the ministers stationed at
Pekin, and this fact was causing the
the greatest alarm for their safety
It was stated that every possible
efl'ort was being made to secure in?
telligence of their whereabouts, but
up to this time without results. No
and Truth's.'
THE
additional troops, it was said, had
ordered to China, but matters were
being put in ebape to meet any
emergency that might arise When
the cabinet meeting broke op?a
little before 1 o'clock?there could
be no doubt that the members shared
the general depression at the lack of
news from Minister Conger
Intervention Fully Justified
the Conclusion of the De?
partments in Washing
ton.
Washington, June 27.?The devel
opments of tbe day respecting China
were important and interesting. Tbe
Chinese minister's report of tbe depart
ore of tbe foreign ministers and their
guards from Pekio greatly relieved tbe
officials here, who took it as the first
tangible evidence that tbe imperial
Cbioesego vernment bad a foil realiza?
tion of tbe eoormity of permitting tbe
ministers to oome to personal harm sod
were thus undertaking as far as lsy io
their power to observe tbe amenities of
international exchange.
Tbe keenest interest is sbowo by tbe
offioisls to lesro tbe conditions under
wbiob the ministers left Pekio. The
Chinese minister's diipatob was omi?
nously silent oo that point although tbe
minister himself maintains almost obsti?
nately bis confidence in the non-i xist
eoee of a state of war, it was generally
admitted that it would be difficult to
aooept his conclusion if it shall transpire
that the Pekio government has itself
sent tbe ministers away with their
passports or what may oome to the
same thing with a guard as a saf
oooduot At the state department it is
said that if it shall be explained that
tbe imperial government did t b is.
not with a purpose of rupturing diplo?
matic relations but simply to insure the
safety of the ministers which they were
unable to guarantee as loog as they
remained in Pekio, then there is still
ground for an understanding. It is,
however, pointed out that in such case
the self-confessed inability of the
imperial government to maintain peace
and order at the capital would amount
to an admission of its otter failure as a
goveromsnt and would leave China in a
worse state tbao that of aotual war.
Io either event it now appears to the
satisfaction of the officials that there
was absolute justification for such inter
vention as we havt offered in China
Notice has come to the government
that the cable companies have again
reopened communication telegraphic?
ally with Taku and Chefoo. This
arrangements has been made by means
of the Russian telegraphic system con?
necting with the Siberian railroad
system. A European agent has man?
aged to reopen tbe lines through the
means of communication between
Chefoo and Taku and Tien Tsin are
tortuous and precarious
The war department officials still in?
sist that no orders have gone forward
to send more troops to Cbioa than tbe
Ninth regiment, now oo its way from
Manila' aod tbe Sixth cavalry, which
will sail from Sao Francisco next Son
day for Nagasaki aod perhaps Taku.
It is said that with these two organisa?
tions aod the marines now oo Chinese
soil Geo. Chaffee will have the full
brigade to which bis rank eotitles him.
Humors of withdrawals of troops
from Cuba are said to be the probable
basis for the persistent statements that
more soldiers have been ordered to
China It is admitted that two regi?
ments will 8000 be ordered to the
United States from Cuba, tbe parti
cu'.ar orgaoiz itions being designated by
Gen. Wood ; but they simply will take
tho plaoo io borne garrisons cf regt
meet* of soldiers which will go cut to
Manila to relieve volunteer organiza?
tions there
COMMUNICATION FROM CHINA
Washington, June 27.?Tbe Chi?
nese minister called this morning on
tho secretary of state aod comm joicited
to him thrcod)uo ts of a dispatch which
ho had received from the tsung li
yamen.fdated 19th inst. Tbe dispatoh
.states hat tho foreign ministers bad
before this dato asked permission for
the legation guards to enter tho city,
which permission bad been grantee' ;
that they subsequently asked that there
guards bo reinforced, which the Chinese
government was not disposed to permit.
The dispatch then goes on to state tbat
tho consul general at Tien Tsio, sup
possd to be the FfSDOh OOOSOl general,
bad telegraphoi the viceroy of Chi Li
that the foreign admiral had demanded
the surrender or the Taku forts and
tint the foreign ministers were shortly
to leave Pekin for Tien Tsio with their
guards
ton.
TKUK SOUTHRON, KatablUhed Jan? 13*?S
' Series?Vol. XIX. So.49
Hard Fighting of
the Allied Forces.
The Official Report Forward?
ed by Admiral Seymour.
London, June 30, 3 a. m.?Tbe
adventures of tbe bard righting allies
under Admiral Seymour, tbeir reach?
ing Anting, 12 milee from Pekin, the
decision lo retreat, tbe capture of
rice aod immense stores of modern
arme and ammunition, affording
material for a strenous defense until
relieved?all tbie is told in a dispatch
from Admiral Seymour received by
tbe admirality at midnight, which
runs as follows :
"Tien Tsin, Jone 27, via Chefoo,
Jone 29, 10 05 p m ?Have returned
to Tien Tsin with tbe forces, having
been unable to reach Pekin by rail.
Oo Jone 13 two attacks on the
advance guard were made by Boxers
who were repulsed with considerable
loss to them aod none oo our eide.
Oo June 14 tbe Boxers attacked the
train at Lang Yang in large numbers
and with great determination. We
repulsed them with a loss of about
100 killed. Our loss was five Ital?
ians
"Tbe same afternooo tbe Boxers
attacked tbe British guard left to
protect Lo fa station. Reenforcements
were sent back and the enemy were
driven off with 100 killed Two of
our seamen were wounded
"We puehed forward to Anting
and engaged tbe enemy on June 13
and June 14 inflicting a loss of 175
There were no casualties on our eide.
"Extensive destruction of the rail?
road in our front baviug made further
advance by rail impossible, I decided
on June 16 to return to Yang Teun,
where it was proposed to organize an
advance by the river to Pekin. After
my departure from Lang Yang two
trains left to follow on were attacked
on June 18 by Boxers and imperial
troops from Pekin, who lost from 400
to 500 killed Our casualties six
killed and 48 wounded These trains
joined me at Yang Tsuo the same
evening.
"The railway at Yang Tsun was
founded entirely demolished and the
trains could not be moved The
force being short of provisions and
hampered with wounded compelled
us to withdraw on Tien Tsin with
which we had not been in communi?
cation for six days and our supplies
had been cut off
"Ob June 10 the wounded, with
necessaries, etarted by boat, the
forces marching along the river.
Opposition was experienced during
the whoie course of the river from
nearly every village, the Boxers,
when defeated in one village retiring
to the next and skilfully retarding
our advance by occupying well
selected positions from which they
bad to be forced, often at {.be point
of the bayont and in face of a galling
fire difficult to locate
"On June 23 we made a night
march, arriving at daybreak oppoeite
the imperial armory, above Tien
Tsin, where, after friendly advances,
a treacherous heavy fire was opened,
while our men were exposed ou the
opposite river bank The enemy
were kept in check by rifle fire in
front, while their position was turned
j by a p*? .* of marines and seamen
under Mb Photon, who rushed and
occupied oi.d of the salient points,
Belling the guns The Germane,
lower down, silenced two guns and
theo crossed the river and capiuicd
thes?* The armory was next occu?
pied by the combined forces. Deter?
mined attempts to retake IBS armory
were made on the following day but
unsuccessfully
"Found immense stores of guns,
arms and ammunition of the latest
pattern Several guns were mono ted
in our defense and shelled the Chi?
nese forts lower down
"Having found ammunition and
rice we could have held out far some
days ; but, be;ng hampered with
; large numbers of I wounded, sent to
Tien Tsin for the relieving force
which arrived on the morning of
June 25? The armory was evacuated
and the forces arrived at Tien Tsin
on Juoe 26. We burned the armory.
"Casualties lo date British, kill?
ed 27. wounded 75 ; American,
killed 4, wounded25; French, kill?
ed I, woonded, 10 ; Germans, killed
12, woonded, 62* Italian, killed 5,
wounded, 3 ; Japanese, killed 2,
wounded, 3 : Austrian, killed 1,
wounded I ; and Kassian, killed L0,
wounded 27 "
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