Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-07-05
ADMIRAL sEYMoUR's REPORT:
xtstemens OF the Operations OF
Coiumn-Galiant Condues o.
All Engaged.

GntUn1n-0@th@N
All Engaged
n June so, 3 a. MN VT
ventures of the hard fighting anes'
under Admiral Seymour, their
| ing Anting, IL miles from feAin
| decision TO retreat, the capture Oh ric7
and immense stores of arms
and ammunition, affording material
For a strenuous defense until rele'eu-
all this is told in a dispatch 1ro"
miral Seymour, received by thS
miralty at midnight, which runs a.
follows:
.sTien Tsin, June %, via Che FOO
.June %. 1905 n. m.-Have returned 10
Tien Tsin with the forces, having oSeH
unable to reach Pekin by ran on
June 13, two attacks on the aaNa"0eu
guard were made by h boxers ""'
were repulsed with consideraoie ioS
to them. and none on our slue- oH
Time IA the Boxers attacked the tram
at Lang Yang in large numoers -"
with great determination. We rePclseN
them with a loss of about one huncred'
Our loss was five Italians.
.sThe same afternoon h Boxers aF
tackled the British guard left to pro
tect Lola station. Reinforcement
were sent back, and h enemy were
driven off. with 100 killed. Two OF ""s
seamen were wounded.
.We pushed forward to Anting' ana
- o on lime Is anu
June IA, infiicting n loss of 10. lhere
were no casualties on our
s.Extensive destruction of the ram
road in our front having made further
advance by rail impossible, decioSu'
ON June 16, to return to Yang Isun'
where is was proposed to organize an
advance by the river to Pekln. After
my departure from Lang Yang t"o
trims left to follow on were attacked,
on June IS, by Boxers and lmpSrlaI
troops from Pekin, who lost from iour
to five hundred killed. Our casualties
were six killed and As Ihese
trains could not be moved. The force
being short of provisions N hampereu
with wounded, compelled us to with
draw on Tien Tsin, with which we mad
not been in communication for SIX
days, and our supplies had been cut
off.
ION June 10 the wounded. with nee
essaries, started by boat, the forces
marching alongside the river. oppo-
sition Was experienced during the
whole course of the river from nearly
every village. the Boxers, when defeat
ed in one village, retiring to the next,
and skilfully retarding our advance by
occupying well-selected positions from
which they had to be forced often at
the point of the bayonet, and in the
face of a CALLING fire difficult to To-
cate.
ION June 20 we made a night march,
arriving at daybreak opposite the i'm
perial armory above Tien Tsin, where,
after friendly advances, a treacheIous
heavy fire was opened, while our men
were exposed on the opposite river
bank. The enemy were kept in check
by rife fire in front, while their .osi-
ton was turned by a party of marines
and ssamen under Maj. Johnson, who
rushed and occupied one of the salient
points, Selling the guns.
THE Germans, lower down, silepced
two guns, and then crossed the river
and captured them. The armory was
next occupied by the combined forces
Determined attempts to retake the
armory were made on the following
day, but unsuccessfully.
Found immense stores of guns,
arms and ammunition of the latest
pattern. Several guns We're mounted
j in oar defense, and shelled the Chinese
forts lower down..
Having found ammunition and rice,
we could have held out for some days;
but, being hampered with large num-
bers of wounded, l sent to Tien Tsin
for a relieving force, which arrived on
the morning of June 25. The armory
was evacuated, and the forces arrived
at Tien Tsin on June &c. We burned
the armory.
Casualties to date:
British, killed, 81; wounded 75.
American, killed, 4; wounded, %.
French, killed, /; wounded, 10.
German, killed, IL; wounded. 90.
Italian, killed, 5; wounded, 3.
Japanese. killed. 2; wounded. 3.
Austrian, killed, /; wounded 1.
Russian, killed. 10; wounded, 27."