New-York tribune., 1900-08-10
YANG-TSUN CAPTURED.
CHINESE ARMY A SECOND
TINE DEFEA TED.
LOSSES OF THE ALLIES APPARENTLY
HEAVY SIXTY CASUALTIES IN
THE AMERICAN FORCE.
IRY rELEeRAPH TO ruE rararxE.I

tRY TELEGRAPH TIVE TRIRUNEI
Washington. Aug. 9.-The Chinese army. re-
ported to Major-CieneraI Chaffee to be thirty
thousand strong which held intreuched positions
at and between Pei-Tsang and Yang -Tsun FIVE
days ago, has suffered second defeat within
the short space Of two days. Yans-Tsun has
been captured and occupied by the International
forces. but apparently not without heavy losses.
the casualties in the American contingent alone
amounting TO sixty. The news came to Ad1u-
tant-GeneraI Corbin this afternoon in the fol-
lowing official cable dispatch
YanG-TsuB occupied to-day. wounded. Sec
Ond Lieutenant Frank ". LnuE. Ninth United
States Infantry. not severe. and casualties
about sixty enlisted men, nth Regiment
United States Infantry. 18th United states
I1fantry and Battery F. 9Th Artillery. Nearly
all from f4th Infantry. Names later Many
men prostrated by heat and fatigue
CHAFFEE-
This however. was not the earliest news re-
ceived. Lieutenant Scriven Of the Signal Corps.
who is serving in General Chaffees command.
and is in charge of the Army field telegraph.
flashed the intelligence to Taku as soon as
Yang-Tsun fell in the following dispatch. which
was received by General GreeIy before the ar
rival Of General Chafee's message.
August g.
Yang-Tsun captured to-day Wire up Need
These dispatches. both OF which were dated
at Che-FoO to-day. sent thrill OF satisfaction
through the War Department as we'll as
through the other two departments in the big
granite building, but it was mingled with one
o. sorrow on account Of the brave men who had
fallen Some of the younger and more en-
thusiastic Army officers began 70 count the
number Of days before the fall Of Peking would
be announced. but their more experienced
seniors took a less rosy but by no means gloomy
view of the prospect.
QUICK AND HARD WORK
One feature of the news which excited uni
versal comment was the fact that after fighting
a battle at Pie-Tsang on the 5th and defeating
the enemy. the expeditionary column had
crossed the Pei-Ho on Monday. the 9Th. marched
twelve miles and attacked and defeated him
again, and occupied his intrenched position
This was sharp. quick and hard work under a
broiling sun, which told severely on the troops.
as shown by the last sentence of General Chat
fees dispatch: Many Frustrated by heat
and fatigue"
Every one had expected that the Chinese
troops would make stubborn stand at Yang
Tsun, but the close and quick pursuit from pei
Tsang followed by an immediate attack. had
evidently disconnected. if il had not demoral-
lied them. and they fled after a brief resistance
no time to destroy the steel railroad bridge over
the Pei-Ho. which is said by railroad men who
nave inspected IL TO be a solid affair
For the second time since he arrived in China
month ago with his regiment Lieutenant
Lang. Of the 9th Infantry has stopped a Chi
nese bullet He was slightly wounded in the
battle OF Tien-Tsin and again at Yang-Tsun on
Monday. His last wound was 'noderate'-tbat
is not severe or dangerous
Lieutenant SCriva0's dis0a+cb sb,v-, 49, -
Signal Corps detachment is keeping up with
the column. laying it's field telegraph cable as
1t goes. so that as soon the cable between
Taku and Che-Foo is working dispatches from
the front can reach Washington without much
delay.
VIGOROUSLY PUSHING THINGS"
1t is expected that a base Of supplies viii bs
established at Yang-Tsun, and provision made
there for the temporary and treatment OF
the sick and wounded. who must number sew
eral hundred. but it is thought probable that
the march toward Peking will be resumed by
tomorrow or the next day, if. indeed it was not
to-day. The commander Of the American con-
tingent. who served in the Army of the Po-
tomac. probably has not forgotten the order
given by Grant to Sheridan one historic day In
Virginia to push things for he and the other
commanders appear to be doing so. to the evil
dent surprise and discontinue of the enemy
If the Chinese troops are not too badly de-
mOralized they may make stand at Lang
Fang. which is twelve or fifteen miles beyond
Yang-Tsun and thirty-twO to thirty-five miles
beyond Tien-Tsin. 1t there that the ad-
of SeymOur's relief column checked.
and he compelled to retreat TO Yang-Tsun-
But he had scant two thousand men, was with
out either cavalry artillery. and he tried TO
push through by rail. When the railroad was
broken up both in his front and rear. and he
was left destitute of subsistence or medical
supplies and short OF ammunition, he could only
retreat surrender.
THE ROUTE TO PEKING.
II is said by those who are familiar with that
region that at Lang-Fang the expeditionary
force will begin to escape from the low. flooded
and pestilential plain and will find itself
in an open. gently rolling country where mill
tary operations will be comparatively easy.
Lang-Fang is not quite half way between Tien-
Tsin and Pekng. in distance. but considerably
more than half way far military difficult
ties to be overcome are concerned OF course. as
the force advances the difficulties OF transporta-