New-York tribune., 1900-07-22
ALL QUIET AT TIEN-TsIN.
REPORT OF ADMIRAL REMEY on THE
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Washington. July 21.-An the official news
received here to-day from China and made pub
lie was contained IN the following dispatch from
Admiral Remey:
Bureau OF Navigation. washington
T1en-Tsin quiet. Latest report Russian
sources July 13, legations Peking still holding
out; Reliability OF this information uncertain.
MAJOR Regan. Captains Noyes and BookmilIer,
First LieUtenants Lawton and SchoefeI
wounded, 9th Infantry officers and Second
Soiace: Expect about thirty wounded men.
VIII then send all to Yokohama hospital.
THE AMERICAN CASUALTIES
As a writer of military dispatches the Ad-
miral is improving in soma respects His dis
patch was dated at Taku yesterday Tien-Tsin
was then quiet and it s fair TO infer that the
communication between that city and Taku was
not interrupted The report that the legations
IN Peking were safe July 13, which came
from Russian sources. was not fully credited
The dispatch further indicated that the wounds
OF many OF the officers and enlisted men re-
ceived in the battle at Tien-Tsin were not so
serious as to require treatment in the hospital
at Yokohama, and that casualties in the 9th In
fantry in the fighting since last Saturday were
not so heavy had been feared The only off,
Ger OF that regiment reported wounded who
was not so reported in the list Of casualties Of
July 1S was First Lieutenant Schoeffel. Others
however, may have received wounds so slight as
not to require their removal to Yokohama for
treatment The total number OF wounded in the
fighting OF July 13 was: Ninth Infantry. -;
marines 27; total. 80. It is regarded as strange
that with everything quiet at T1en-Tsin Lieu
tenant-Colonel Coolidge. commanding the 9th
Infantry has not found time TO send complete
list Of the casualties in his command TO the
AdtUtant-General before this time, and his fail
ure TO do so excited unfavorable comment at
the War Department this afternoon. A dispatch
from Colonel Coolidge to-day would have been
acceptable. It would not have cost large sum
Of money for him TO inform the War Depart
ment how many United States troops and ma
rines were in the engagement at Tien-Tsin, how
many were killed. wounded and missing; how
long the fighting lasted, the present effective
strength OF his command the condition of his
| transportation and supplies. and whether the
| Chinese forces had retreated from Tien-Tsin
and disappeared from it's vicinity. Not a scrap
OF official information on any OF these points
has yet been received by either the War or the
Navy Department, or. If so, it has not yet been
made public.
! CITY PROBABLY NOT DESTROYED.
1t is fair TO infer from the dispatch Of Admiral
| Remey which was made public (another one
| from him having been withheld) that the press
| dispatches saying that the native city OF Tten-
| Tsin had been destroyed by fire after its capture
and occupation by the International troops. AMI
that before the Chinese retreated they killed
their wives and children TO save them from
/ falling into the hands Of the enemy. were not
| correct He would certainly have mentioned
such occurrences II he knew OF them. 1t Is
gratifying to know. or even 10 believe a mat
ter OF inference. that the city not destroyed.
That would have been a disaster probably In
more senses than one, and It certainly would
have been so from a military point Of view.
II campaign to Peking is to be undertaken
| Tien-Tsin will be the chief base Of operations
and supplies It is at the head OF navigation
fer vessels Of sufficient size and draught to be
| useful for the transportation Of military sup
plies and to q considerable extent the river
| must be depended for that purpose until the
close OF navigation, because the railroad from
Taku to Tten-Tsin is single track road From
Tten-Tsin to the near vicinity OF PekiRg there
| is doubIs track and If the railroad can be re-
| paired within a reasonable time and held II
win serve to supply large expeditionary force
According TO the latest official reports OF the
/ Consul at Tien-Tsin, the railroad is well sup
Piled with locomotives and rolling stock and
| will be valuable and necessary factor in the
proposed military operations. It extends about
eighty miles. from T1en-Tsin IN the direction OF
Peking. and TO within easy distance OF the lat
ter city.
The War Department has not yet received any
official advtces as to the number Of troops which
the other Powers now have viii be able TO
place in the field in North China within the
| next ten days. It is expected that the effective
/ strength OF the contingents will be made known
to the Government within the next two or three
days