The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-08-06
Allies and Chinese Clash in
Pitched Battle.
Loss to Foreigners l,2OO
Killed and Wounded.
NATIVES FALL BACK
Russians and Japanese the
Heaviest Sufferers.
Anti-FOreign Party Again
Controls at Pekin.
Ii Hung Chang Manages to
Keep Away.

Washington, Aug.6.-The following ca
blegrams have been received at the navy
department.:
Che Foo. Aug. 6-Bureau Navigation
Washington:- British Fame reports, un-
official. engagement at Peitsang, Sunday
morning to 1O:3O. Allied loss killed and
wounded 1900 chiefly Russians and Jap
anese. Chinese retreating.
TAUSSIG.
Che Foo Aug. 6-Bureau Navigation,
Official report believed re-
liable, about 10000 allies heavily engag-
ed Chinese at Peitsang daylight of the
9th. REMEY.
Peitsang is the first railway station
about six miles northwest of Tien Using
en- route to Pekin.
Washington, Aug. 6.-Taussig, who
signed the first dispatch is in command
of the Yorktown which is at Che Foo
1t is said at the war department that
there is no reason to doubt that an en-
gagement has taken place. While no Of
fetal information has been received it is
said that such an engagement was ex-
peeted.
ANTI-FOREIGN PARTY IN CON-
TROL.
London. Aug. 6.-The anti-foreign par
ty again has the upper hand at Pekin-
According to reports emerging from Lii
Hung Chang's lodgings at Shanghai, his
baggage is packed preparatory to his de-
parture for Pekin. but, it is added, he
has applied to the throne for 20 days sick
leave Ii Hung Chang claims that his
representations to the Yam Use vicerOys
and Taoi Sheng will be denounced by Ii
Ping Hong because they are friendly to
the foreigners
A news agency dispatch from Shang-
hal dated today august 81 says it is ru-
mored that the Viceroy Yuan Shi Kai,
governor of Shang Tung, who disapprov-
ed of Prince Tuan. has been killed.
14TH ARRIVES AT TIEN TSIN-
New York. Aug. "a dispatch to the
Herald from Tien Tsin says the allies
are making a reconnaissance at once
starting with 1000 men against General
Mais army.
The Fourteenth United States infantry
has arrived.
Preparations for the advance on Pekin
are being pushed forward. A large num-
Der of native boats have been comman-
dered- All lighters have been seized
which will stop business with Tien Tsin.
ms could not be avoided without detrl-
ment to the military operations.
The boxers are raiding villages south
of Tien Tsin. One thousand Mohame-
dams We're massacred. The Chinese are
said to be operating from Shan Hal
kwang to Tung Chow.
1t is reported that the Chinese have
made oVertures to ransom the Pekin di-
plomats and close the war.
The emperor and empress are believed
to be still in Pekin- Their flight or death
would produce a great change. The Chi
nese now silent or nominally loyal will
become passive when they have nothing
more to fear. The fate of those who have
heretofore dared to utter pro-foreien
sentiments terrifies even the semi-en-
nghtened officials. Chang YEN son of
former ChlneSe minister to Washington
IS still exiled. Yurg Win is in hiding
Ii hung Chang has not put in an ap-
pearance at Tien TSin. His former res
ldence, where he received General Grant
ana otner notableS, is now occupied by
COsSacks Quite large quantities of bar
silver We're taken from the native city
Ihe Americans and Japanese are said to
nave about million and a half ounces
eacn OF the government treasure. The
Russians have placed their flag upon the
salt piles.
Most of the British engineers on the
railways nave received notice to quit
MORE SERIOUS.
Paris. Aug. 6.-The French consul at
Chung King telegraphs under date of
August 3. that the situation is becoming
more serious on the upper Yang Tse
,ia hiahg. me English consul, he says, has
left, with the custom house staff: and
the French consul intends to leave. win
his japanese colleague. The mail service
has been stopped
SLOW PROGRESS.
London, Aug. 6.-Correspondents at
Tlen Tsin are unable to get anvtbinr o
fresh. though dispatch from Shanghai
dated August 6, AYERS that the allies are
making SLOW progress towards Pekin
differences Of
among the generals The American
British and japanese commanders favor
one plan, the dispatch affirms. and the
Russians, French and Germans favor
another plan Prince Tuan, it is added.
seeks to inspire his army by proclama-