The Hawaiian gazette., 1900-07-10


Major Waller reinforced them and then
rejoincd the British. the military college
bcius attacked. The Chinese exploded a
mine near the marines, merely bruis ng
n few of the men. Whilc ,rossilg to lila
the English they were exposed o "A heavy
fanl'inE ire and Private John Hunter
was killed ard Sergeant Taylor ana CT
poral Iedr!ck were wound d. OF the
} glish two were killed ana three won d.
cd.
Ihe English and American forces car
rCd the village outside OF the walled city
10y storm.
when the Chinese attacked III an-Tsln
on June q Major walters command. W IN
$40 Russians was ambushed three miles
from that place. They were compelled
to retreat, abandoning a three nch rine
and n Colts gun and losing four killed
and seven wounL--.
I The greatest anxiety exists concerning
the pos ton of the loregi ers at Peling.
Admiral hempff relieves that large rem
forcements are necessary in order to
reach Picking. He is anxious to avoid
all action likely to involve Americans in
future diplomatic scuss.on.
When the forts were attacked the Br T.
ish gunboat Algerire surprised and board
ed four Chinese torpedo boats under the
shadow of the forts. Thew offered one to
Admiral Kempff, who declined TO receive
1t. However, the Russians, Germans
and japanese each -oCk one OF the boats.
American casualties in relief of Tien7
Tsin follow:
Private John Hunter and Nicholas kill
ed, Sergeant Tavlcr and Corporal Ped
rick and another wounded.
Lieut.. Irwin and Cadet Pettingill, with
| forty men, were found in good condition
at TIen-Ts!n.
| LONDON, June 80, 8 a. m.-The adven-
lures of the hard-hghting allies under
Admiral Seymour-thelr reaching An
ting, twelve miles from Picking: the de-
cision to retreat, the capture of rice and
immense stores of modern arms and am
Imuniton, affordirg material for q siren
uous defense until relieved-al this was
told In dispatch from Admiral Sey-
mour, received by the Admiralty at
M dnipht, which runs as follows:
| "TIEN-TSIN, June q (via Chefoo, June
%, 1905 p. m.)-tlave returned to Ten
| Tsin with the forces. having cen unable
to reach Picking by rail- On June 18th
two attacks on the advance guard were
made by the Boxers. who were repulsed
with considerable loss to them and none
on our side. On June 14th the Boxers
attacked the train al Lang Yang in large
numbers and with great determinat on.
We repulsed them with loss of about
100 killed. Our less was seven Italians.
1.-THE same afternoon the Boxers at
tackled the British guard left to protect
l,Ofa station. Iteln1OTCGHtntS were sent
back and the enemy was driven off with
100 killed. Two of our seamen were
wounded.
I'VE pushed forward to Anting and en-
gagged the enemy on June 18th and June
18th, INJECTING loss of 175. There were
no casualties on our side. Extensive de-
struction of the railway in our front
having made further advance by rail i'm
possil lie, / decided on June 10th to return
to Yang-tsun, where It was proposed to
organize an advance by the river to Pc
king. After my departure from Lang
Yang two trains left to follow on were
attacked on June 18th by Boxers and i'm
perial troops from Picking, who lost from
400 to 500 killed. Our casualties were six
killed and forty-eight wounded. Inese
trains Joined me at Yang-tsun the same
evening.
1.-THE railway at Yang-tsun was found
entirely demolished and the trains could
not he moved. The force being short of
provisions and hampered with wounded,
compelled us to withdraw on Tien-Tsin.
with which we had not been In commu-
nicat'on for six days, and our supplies
had been cut off.
ION June 18th the wounded. with neces-
saries. started by boat, the forces march
ing alongside the river. Opposition was
experienced during the whole course Of
the river from nearly every village. the
firing 10 the next and skilfully retardinr
our advance by occupying well-selectef
positions. from which they had to be
forced often at the point of the hayonet |
ind In face of IA calling fire, difficult TO
locate.
ION June 23d we made a night march. |
arriving at dayhreak opposite the impe |
rial armory above Ten-Tsin. where, aft |
er friendly advances, a treacherous heavy |
fire was opened, while our men were ex-
posed on the opposite river bank The |
enemy were kept IN check by rifle fire In |
by party of mar'nes and seamen under |
Major Johnson who rushed and occupied |
ono of the salient points, SELLING the |
guns. The Germans, lower down, silenc- |
ed two guns and then crossed the river
and captured them. The armory was |
next occupied by the combined forces.
Determined attempts to retake the ar
mory were made on the following day, |
but unsuccessfully.
Found immense stores OF guns, arms |
and ammunition OF the latest pattern
Several guns were mounted In our de- |
Tense and shelled the Chinese forts lower |
down,
Having found ammunition and rice, W. |
could have held out ior some days but |
being hampered with large numbers Of
wounded, | sent 10 Tien-Tsin for a re-
lievlng force, which arrived on the morn |
ing Of June 25th, The armory was eyac-
uated and the forces arrived az Tien |
Tsln on June 18th, We burned the ar
mory.
"Casualtles 10 date;
"Bntish-Killed n, wounded TO-
"Amerlcan-Klled 4, wounded 70.
"Freneh-h ,lled !, wounded 10
"Gemans- Killed ", wounded R
rItalian-kiled o, wounded 81
"Japanese- KILLED 2, wounded 3,
'Auslrians- Killed J. wounded
SEYMOUR SAVED ~ McALlA