The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-08-14
Former Were the Heaviest Losers
According to Correspondent
of a London Newspapers.
EMPRESS DowAGER ALARMED
DECLARED HER INTENTION OF
FLEEING FROM HER CAPITAL,
But Was Advised by the Chinese Min-
lister at Paris to Stay-AIlfes
Only Twenty Miles Away.

LONDON. Aug. II. $50 a. m.-The British
consul at Canton, says the Daily Tele-
graphs correspondent there has received
the following message. dated Aug. 6. FROM
Sir Claude Macdonald, British minister ia
Peking:
"Our situation here is desperate. In ten
days our food supply will be at an end.
Unless we are relieved a general massacre
is probable. The Chinese offer TO escort
us to Tien-Tsin, but. remembering Gavin
pore, we refuse the offer. There are over
two hundred European women and children
in this legation
The object of Chinese diplomacy. as ap-
pears from the great efforts being made IN
London and at the continental capitals, is
to induce the powers to suspend the march
of the relief expedition. but It been
without success in the case OF any govern
ment
An explanation to why some of the
Peking cipher messages are dated Tsi-Nan
is made by the Great Northern Telegraph
Company. which points out that it has a
regular courier service between Peking and
Tsi-Nan and that the wires are working
from the latter place.
The Shanghai correspondent OF the Daily
Express. wiring yesterday. says: ''Tse al
lies at noon on Saturday were within twen-
ty miles of Peking.'
AS General Chaffee's report which is the
only authentic news received here regard
ing the advance. located the international
forces about forty miles from Peking on
Friday. it seems probable the Shanghai
report is optimistic. 1t is scarcely likely
that the allies should advance twenty
miles in as many hours.
THE CAPTURE OF YANG-TsUN.
Yang-Tsun dispatch. dated Aug. Z. Civ.
| ing details regarding the capture OF that
place, says: "The Russians and French
held the left. the British the left center.
the Americans the right center. and the
| Japanese the extreme right. The British
| and Americans advanced on the village
| at a rapid rate for five thousand yards
under severe shell and rifle fire. The
Russians opened and the British-American
adva ce became a race for positions. cul-
minating in brilliant charge. The heaviest
loss Of the day was sustained by the Amer
leans, the Fourteenth Infantry having nine
killed. sixty-two wounded and several
fully attempted to cut of the Chinese re-
treat"
AS the allies were TO rest three days at
| Yang-Tsun. it is supposed that further
advance was begun Aug. 10. but no Official
| news has come through from Yang-Tsun
| since Aug. S. on which date the japanese
| commander in a message TO Toxic said 10
600 Chinese were confronting the allies.
The Japanese losses at Pei-Tsang Aug. 6
| were 300 killed and wounded. The Chinese
left 200 dead on the field.
Official advices from Yokohama. dated
yesterday. say that the allies propose 10
! advance on Aug. 20 Nan-Tsi-Tsung. be-
| tween Yang-Tsun and wu-Sing. The Jap
anese suffered no casualties at Yang
Tsung. but the Official reports say they had
| three hundred at Pei-Tsang.
The Daily Mails st. Petersburg corre-
spondent declares that the taking of Aigun
has sealed the fate OF the rising in north
eastern Manchuria. He adds; mo prison.
ers We're taken by the Russians Whole
sale massacre was the order OF the day.
and when the battle was over the cossacks
rode over the field killing all the wouaded
with the butt ends OF their muskets."
AMERICANS ENTERPRIsING.
once more the press OF England remarks
upon the ability of the American govern
| ment TO secure news ahead OF the rest OF
the world. 1T is TO General Chanee," says
the Daily News. that We are again in
debted for news from the front Not q
single dispatch from Sir Alfred Gaselee
has thus far been issued by the War
Once"
Commenting upon the American reply TO
the Chinese overtures the Daily News says:
''The reply IS more concIliatory than that
OF NJ. Delcasse and I'm some respects AZ IA n
little ambiguous Still. It's substance II the
same. II may be observed that the UniksA