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Fighting in Streets Of Peking.

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Fighting in Streets of Picking.
London, Aug. 27.-Street fighting
breaks out internationally in Picking
according to dispatches from Shang
hal, the allies not having sufficien
forces to police the vast city. A!
small parties of the allied troops pene
trate into new districts they have te
engage halfarmed mobs.
Shanghai dispatch of this date re.
peats the report that the japanese
troops pursued the dowager empress
and the court and overlook then
so miles northwest of Picking. The
emperor, it is added, threw himsel,
on the protection of his captors. The
prisoners have not yet reached Pc
king.
In the engagement at Tientsir
1000 Americans, British and japanese
routed 5000 Chinese and killed 300 OF
them.
The viceroy of sze-Chuen is reported
at Shanghai to be sending troops to
the Tonquin frontier and to be in
tending to fight the French at Meng-
TIE.
The bulk of the German fleet re-
Gently at Shanghai has gone to Taku
as an escort to the new German min
lister, DIR. Mumm Won Schwarzenstein,
who is bound for Picking.
Clan fights are of daily occurrence
in the heung-Shan district.
The foreign residents of Shanghai
are alarmed at the arrival of the ex-
traordinary number of warships and
are fearful of European complications.
but they have been assured by some of
the naval commanders that the gath
ering was accidental.
More Soldiers Arrive.
Tallu, Friday, Aug. 24.-Transports
are pouring into Tal1u. Three large
German vessels have arrived and are
unloading. One regiment that has
disembarked is on its way to Picking
and another is bound for Iientsin.
Three Russian vessels also are in the
harbor. The Fifteenth infantry, the
Third artillery and 500 marines are
camped at Tientsin awaiting orders.
Rations for 40 days are being for
warded to the Picking contingent by
boat. A hundred civilians have left
Picking, including the customs force,
and are on their way down the river.
The foreigners here desire that a
new expedition shall be sent against
Pao-ting-Fu to destroy the city and
avenge the massacres of foreigners
which occurred there.
Waiting for Lii to Move.
Washington, Aug. 27.-Chinese Off
Gals expressed belief Saturday that
LII Hung Chang, the Chinese peace
envoy, had started for Picking or
Tientsin. While there is said to be
no official advices to this effect, vet
1T is so in accordance with the ex-
pectation of China's course that the
officials accept it as a fact. If this
proves TO be correct. it may bring
about early opportunity for personal
exchanges between Earl Ii and the
commanders of the allies and the
ministers of the respective powers.
The Chinese government has been
entirely silent since the capture of
.Pekin", except in the two commune
cations from Lii Hung Chang, and up
to the present time Minister WI has
received no word responsive to the
American answer sent to him by Mr..
Adee last Wednesday. Three days
have elapsed and there has been am
pie time for Ii Hung Chang to formu-
late his next move. In the circum-
stances it is felt that he accepts the
American and German answers. and
such others rs may have reached him,
as negativing any present prospect
OF negotiations along the lines he
proposed.
The opinion is expressed that this
will prolong the uncertainties of the
diplomatic situation, during which
Earl Iii will seek to meet the require
mcnts laid down by the omitted States
and other powers, while the latter
will endeayor to reach some common
ground of understanding for the fu-
ture.