The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-07-22
Charge Of the Ninth Regiment at
Tientsin July Is.
Rushed Into Trap where Four
Thousand Rifles Were CencentrateA
ON Then Colonel Liscum Nor
tally wounded While Carrying the
Flag After Colorbearer Had Fallen

2O.-The attack ON the native city o
Tientsin on July 13 resulted In the mar
rowest escape from what seemed up t
midnight would be a terrible disaster TO
the allies ss i.i
"The Russians swinging north and th,
other allies south. ut daybreak the Rus
SLAMS were to take the forts near the ma
tive city wall and the other allies the cit,
itself.
General Tukushina, the Japanese com.
mander, promised that the Japanese en-.
gineers. after three hours shell fre from
all guns. would cross the bridge over thu
moat before the wall and. blowing up the
great south gate. make breach for the
infantry to enter.
Upon this depended everything. General
Tukushina had not secuted the bridge and
IN twenty-four hours had not secuted the
ground over which the charge on the
bridge had to be made.
The Chinese destroyed the bridge and
flooded the land around it The allies
shell fire In NO wise subdned the Chinese
rifle fire from the loopholed wall. which
was thirty feet high. with a moat twenty
feet in depth around it.
An outer wall Of mud made II impc SSH
Bile for the infantry and marines coming
up the field to reply to the Chinese fre.
They lost fifty men In ten minutes, then
rushed back from the mud wall which
they had reached
| General Dorward. the British COM
mander. hastened forward with frag-
mentary instead Of an integral skirmish
line.
The American marines and the Welsh
| Fusiliers together under command of Wal
Ter. were on the extreme left. Then the
British marines and the French advanced
with the Japanese along the road toward
the gate in the mud wall.
'Dorward's plan for the Americans to
| support the Japanese was not made clear
| to Colonel Liscum of the Ninth limited
States Infantry.
"Dorward lays the blame for the blunder
and sacrifice Of life on Liscum. but Dor
wards chief of stan was heard to saw when
Liscun moved:
".Get in down the rad anvvhere
quickly
Colonel Liscum hurriedly led his men
through the gate in as omen order a. ,o.-
sible.
They were immediately under sra rhs
staff saw them mace ovor .ha hr,d.o ,aads
ing to a field which nroved IN ha q cuI do
sac. w
Before the fwo ba,taI,ons NJ Amer;cans
numbering ka6 men. could extend them,
selves they were subjected hesides the f,ro
from the ioonboaes IN tba sort ~ a 49,
fire from the enaSrasures In . line Of Tor for
titled mud houses on their f,ank
Three thousand rifles probably were
turned on them with an accuracy which
has amazed every officer among the allie.
"The blue shirts of the American troons
made them distinct marks where the khaki
uniforms of the other allies could mot be
seen. Colonel Liscum, guiding his men.
walked up and down the line, not even
ducking his head while the bullets fell
around.
THE Americans charged into the asnk
fire with rushes. The ground over which
they charged was marshy and lined with
bitches.
1t was evidently Colonel Lscum's in
tention to rush the houses from which the
hank fre was coming, and thus get posi-
eion Ior uanhine al tne wall.
a. wy the iine had 1ust reached the
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"sI enass not Sas y;.,r,s .,,.
..The nest instant . ] shsrnsboo.ar.s hr,-
let went through the brave co,nna,:s ah-
domen.
".I'ye got it. he said as he fell
"'Get at them If YOU can the diving Of
ficer added as his last words.
Don't retreat, boys; Keep on firing.
"Regan was hit Immediately afterward.
~All day long the allies line Law under
any cover the men could find, running out
of ammunition.
1.-The July sun was beating down on them
and they had nothing to drink but the
salty marsh water.
Meanwhile the wounded came struggling
and crawling through the gate in the mud
wall. There was no order. They were seen
anywhere without men to carry the lit
ters.
THE doctors were hit by the sharp
shooters while trying to attend the wound
ed of the Ninth.
They could not attempt to carry on the
wounded from the bloody field.
Major Regan. CAPTAIN BookmfIler and
Captain Moves were all hit twice
..Noyes who was adiptant was nit IN
the arm before eo;ng into tha S.,d .ra
then hit IN tha 1ev Ha c-e "a hi.
through the ditch With tha .a.a. -. h,s
neck to renort tbs sitration ta ca,,n.s s
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