The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-08-16
HI CHINESE WAR.

London, August Ia, $50 a. m.-The
British consul at Canton, says the Daily
Telegraph correspondent there. has re-
ceived the following message, dated Aug.
6, from Sir Claude Macdonald, British
minister in Pekin.
"Our situation here is perilous. In ten
days our food supply will be at an end.
Unless we are relived, a general massa-
ere is probable.
THE Chinese offer to escort US to Tien
Tsin, but remembering Cawnpore. we
refuse the offer. There are over 200
European women and children in this
legation"
The Shanghai correspondent of the
Daily Express wiring yesterday says:
"The allies at loon Saturday were
within 30 miles of Pekin."
AS General Chaffte's report, which is
the only authentic ne VS. received here,
regarding the advance, located the inter
national forces about 40 miles from Pc
kin on Friday, it seems probable that
the Shanghai reports optimistic. 1t is
scarcely likely that the allies could adj
vance 20 miles in as many hours.
A Yang Tsun dispatch, dated August
Z, giving details regarding the capture of
that place, says: d
1.-The Russians and French held the
Ia Al. Dial II. L 1NEA A.
Americans the right center and the
Japanese the extreme right. The British
and Americans advanced on the villages
at a rapid rate for 5000 yards. under a
severe shell and rifle fire. The Russians
opened and the British American adj
vance became a race for positions, cul-
minating in a brilliant charge.
"The heaviest loss of the day was sus-
tanned by the Americans, the Fourteenth
infantry having nine killed, 60 wounded
and two missing. The Bengal Lancers
unsuccessfully attempted to cat off the
Chinese retreat"
Another Yang Tsun special says:
lowing to a mistake, British and Rus
sian guns shelled the Fourteenth
United States infantry during the night,
wounding ten"
Commenting upon this occurrence, the
Standard says: sit is a melancholy tC
! learn that the losses of the Americans
+ who seem to have borne themselves with
. conspicuous gallantry, were increased by
the deplorable occurrence, in conse-
quence of which one of their regiments
was surrounded by Russian and British
cannon. The incident emphasizes the
: necessity of that cAose cooperation not
easily obtainable without a single com
mander and IL general staff" Oficia
y advices from Yokohama, received yester
day, say that the allies propose to ad
. vance on August Z to Nan Isl Tsun be
. tween Yang Tsun and WI Sing. TIL
Japanese suffered no casualties at YAM
n Tsun, but the official report says the
had 300 at Peitsang. The Daily Mail
st. Petersburg correspondent declare
that the taking of Aigun has sealed tn
fate OF Russians in northeast Manchu
ria. He adds: mo prisoners were takel
by the Russians. Wholesale massacr
:, was the order of the day and when tn
: battle was over the Cossacks rode owe
= the field. killing the wounded with tn
- butt end of their rifles" Once again tn
press of Europe remarks upon the abil
ty of the American government to 81
n cure news ahead of the rest of the worlC
at is to General Chaffee," says the Da
ty ly News, "that we are again indebte
OF for news from the front. Not a sing
" dispatch from Sir Alfred Gasalee. hs
thus far been issued by the war office
ed Commenting upon the American r
ply to the Chinese overtures, the Dali
News says: The reply is more concili
wv tory than that of Delcasse and in son
r respects it is a little am oiguous. Sti
~ it's suggestion is the same. 1t may
~ observed that the United States govern
ment does not seem to separate itse
- from the allies"