The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-08-18
ALLIES MAKE AN IMPORTANT
ADVANCE.
Way to Peking Now Believed to be open
An Army of $4,000 Marching to the
Rescue.

WASHINGTON, August 9.-The cap
ture of Yangtsun, the first objective
point of the international forces, was
the supreme news of Importance recei-
we'd today on the Chinese situation. The
first word of this capture, effected last
Monday, came to the Signal office at
the War Department from Colonel
Scriven, the general officer at Chefu,
saying:
"CHEFU, Aug. 9.-Signals, Washing
ton, Aug. 6.-Yangtsun captured today.
Wire up. Need own transportation. All
well. "SCRIVEN."
Half an hour after this message a ca
blegram from General Chaffee, giving
additional details of the capture and
showing that it had been at the cost of
about sixty casualties among the Anne
rican troops was received.
! WASHINGTON, August 10.-By cap
turing Yangtsun on Monday two days
after the advance on Peking, the allied
| forces have taken a long step toward
their goal, and Washington alreadyfi-
cures that ten days more shall bring
them to the walls of Chinas capital.
In taking Yangtsun sixty Americans
were Killed or wounded, mostly in the
Fourteenth Regiment, but General Cha
! flee could furnish only the name Lieu
tenant Lang of the Ninth Infantry. The
| total loss was about 200 men. The allies
losses at Peitsang are now reported 113O
of whom Russia contributed 900.
LONDON, August 10, 1855 A. Mn
the capture of Yang Tsun the losses of
the allies, according to a, dispatch to the
+ Daily Express from Chefoo, August Sth,
purporting to give an account of that
| engagement, We're 200, the majority of
them being killed.
THE allies marched on Tang tsun,"
says this report, "at dawn Monday.
The position held by $1,000 Chinese was
well intrenched to the east of the river.
After four hours of heavy fighting the
| Chinese were driven from their defense
works"
Another dispatch to the same paper,
dated Tientsin, August 9th, recOunts a
reconnaissance that morning by the
Japanese beyond Hsiku, the result be-
| ing that the enemy was developed in
strong force, we'll fortified, at Wei-ho.
The Chinese were superior in numbers,
and after facing the fire of seven guns
the Japanese retired on Hsiku with
three killed and twenty seven wound
ed, but having captured 200 horses.
With the exception of these messages,
General Chaffee's report is the only ac-
count published by the London morn
| ing papers telling of the capture of
Yang-tsun. The editorials generally
incline to view the progress toward Pc
king as splendid thus far, but one
which cannot be maintained at the
present rapid rate, as the concentra-
ton of supplies and the establishment
of bases will cause inevitable delays.
| The Commissioner of Customs at
Shanghai has received a routine mess
age from Sir Robert Hart, Director
General of Imperial Maritime Customs
showing that the latter is still conduct
| ing the business of imperial customs
rather curious change of affairs when
taken in conjunction with the words
happily still alive" which he included
in the dispatch, which was dated Pc
king, July 9th.
! WASHINGTON August 9.-General
| Terauchi, second in command of the
Japanese staff, has sent a dispatch to
the War Office of Japan and transmit
| ted to the legation here, saying that
the international arm would total $4,000
men on August 18th to advance on Pc
king. This dispatch stated that on the
| 4th, when it was forwarded the ad-
vance had not begun. This was at first
| incomprehensible in view of the fact
that lighting has actually occurred. But
the later statement that the interna-
tional force would total $4,000 men on
the 18th appears to make clear General
Terauchi's meaning and to reconcile 1t
with General Chaffees dispatches.
The present movement of some 10000
men doubtless is viewed in the light of
q reconnaissance in force the main
movement of the army of $4,000 to fol-
low on the 18th. This makes clear the
meaning of General Chaffee's dispatch
that Yang-tsun was the objective point
The War Department has been puzzled
on this point. 1t would appear, how
ever, that the first force of 10000 men,
having opened up communication to
Yang-tsun, brought forward supplies
and established this advance base, the
way would then be clear for the adj
vance of the large force on the 18TH
The capture of Yang-tsun is, therefore,
an important strategic branch of the
fast maturing military plans. The
place is about eighteen miles beyond
Tientsin, and little less than a quar-
ter of the way to Peking.
CHEFOO, August 7.-During the en-
gagement on Sunday which preceded
the occupation Of Pei Tsang by the al
lies the Russians lost 500 killed and the
British fifty. The Germans and Jap
anese also lost heavily. The road to
Peking is supposed to be open.
WASHINGTON, August 1O.-The fact
that the American troops did not have
an opportunity to distinguish them
selves was something of a disappOint-
ment to the officials at the War Depart
ment but, knowing General Chaffee as
they do, they are confident that If his
men We're not engaged 1t was because
IL was physically impossible to bring
them into action. The continued brill
liant work Of the Iapanese. who seem
to have borne the brunt Of the lighting
at Pei Tsang rs well as at Tinntsin,
attracts unstiutcd praise For the dough-
ty warriors Of the Mikado.
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