The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-08-22
AT The Gates
OF The PALACE.
American Troops Have Pene-
trated the Imperial City
And Are laundering at the En-
trance to EmperOr's House.
CAPT. REILLEY DEAD.
Commander of Fifth Artillery
Killed Aug. 15.
Chaffee's Losses, Six Killed and
Thirty Wounded.
He is Placed in Control of Our
Interests in China.
And Are laundering at the En-
trance to EmperOr's House.
CAPT. REILLEY DEAD.
Commander of Fifth Artillery
Killed Aug. Is.
He is Placed in Control of Our
Interests in China.

Washington, Aug. 22.-The navy de-
partment has received the following
cablegram from Admiral Remey:
Che Foo. Aug. q. Taku, Aug. 20
Dickins' command is landing today. Pc
kin, 16. All except imperial city cleared
of Chinese troops. American troops,
first to enter imperial city, have pene-
trated to the gates of the palace Cap
tain Kelley. Fifth artillery, killed on
the 18th. Morning 18th Sixth cavalry
and about 400 English and japanese
dispersed about 1000 boxers eight miles
outside of Tien Tsin- About 100 Chi
nese killed, five Americans wounded
Chaffee's losses, six killed, 80 wounded,
two days fighting REMEY-"
The navy department understands
from the reference to the palace that
the American troops after penetrating
the imperial city were, when the dis
patch was sent attacking the forbidden
city. This is the inner enclosure of the
imperial city
The war department has received the
following cablegram:
"Tien TSin. Aug. 19--To adjutant gem
eral, Washington: With reference to
your telegram of 18th. horses, mate
rials and troops promptly landed at Ia
zu and forwarded to front. Sixth cav
airy mounted Grant (tranSpOrt) due
in Manila now. Hospitals excellent,
ample for present army, well supplied
and in fine condition Everything salts
factory Go to Pekin tomorrow. Sick
and wounded doing well. BARRY"
CHAFFEE IN CONTROL.
New York, Aug ga special to the
World from Washington says:
The war department sent General
Chaffee a cablegram of four words late
yesterday afternoon which practically
takes things out of Minister COnger's
hands and puts General Chaffee in the
position of the utmost responsibility.
The message said:
1rrrt on ions elf
ments-''
There is no intention of depreciating
Minister Conger, the government has
the liveliest sense of gratitude for him,
but ii is not deemed expedient to act
on his dispatches because after his ter
rible experience he is naturally embit-
tered and possibly unconsciously biased
and because he needs and deserves a
rest 1t is proposed to have Mr.. Conger
come home at the first opportunity and
enjoy long period of rest and recuper-
alton
a dispatch to the Tribune from Lon
don says:
Some more particulars are published
of the attack on Pe1in by the allies.
The Shanghai correspondent of the
Mail says that the walls were blown up
with dynamite. Fears are entertained
lest the communication of the allies in
Pekin and Tien Tsin should have been
cut as Chinese forces are reported in
the neighborhood of Pei Tsang. State
mentS are made in Paris to the effect
that French troops now on their way to
the far east will go to Taku, but will be
disembarked in Tonking.
The reply Of the United States gov
ernment to the offer of Ii Hung Chang
TO negotiate undoubtedly, says the
Times, represents the position which all
the powers concerned have agreed to
take up.
FIGHTING NEAR TAKU.
London, Aug. 22.-Rear Admiral Bruce
has cabled to the British admiralty from
q nF
that the allies were fighting the Chi
nese outside of Tien Tsin on Sunday,
August 19.
CHINESE PRINCES ESCAPE.
Rome. Aug. 22.-Dispatches received
here from Taku. under date of August
20, say that according to advices from
q japanese source dated August II, the
battle of Pekin was then finished the
Japanese had entered the imperial
palace The foreign ministers with de-
tachments of the allied troops were then
occupying the imperial city, the Chinese
princes and ministers having retired to
Sian Flu, west of Pekin.
Field Marshal Count Won Waldersee,
the German officer who is going to the
the allied forces in China, with the three
officers accompanying him. breakfasted
with King Victor Emanuel this morn
ing after which the field marshal went
to the Pantheon and deposited a wreath
on the tomb of King Humbert-
The Held marshal left Rome at 2:30
=. m. Tor Naples, where he will embark
for China.
MISSIONARIES SAVED
Boston, Aug. 22.-The American board
of commissioners for foreign missions
has received today a cablegram from
Che Foo as follows:
Psalm one twenty-four seven Pekin
and Tung Chow missionaries: also
Chapins. Smiths. Wicxoffs saved
The pasasge Of scripture alluded to is:
Our soul is escaped as a bird out of
the snare Of the fowlers; the snare is
broken and we are escaped -
The Pelzin missionaries are: The Rev
w. s Ament, the Rev c. E Ewing
wife and two children. Miss Ada Haven
Miss Nellie Russell, Mrs J. l. Mater
The Tung Chow missionaries who had
taken refuge at Pe6in are: Miss Mary
e. Andrews, Miss Jane G. Evans. Miss
Abbie G. Chaplin, the Rev. Chauucey
Goodrich. d. D., wife and three children:
James H. Ingram, NJ D. wife and two
children, Miss Luella Miner. Rev. E G.
TeWksbury, wife and two children. Rev
Howard s. Gait and wife. The Pang
Chuang missionaries who were at the
annual meeting and took refuge at
PelSin are: The Rev. Arthur H Smith
d. D. and wife; the Misses E Gertrude
and H. Grace Wicloff. Lin Ching mis-
sionaries under the same conditions are:
The Rev. f. NJ. Chaplin. wife and two
children
JAPANESE REPORTED IN THE
PALACE
London, Aug z2.-The allies are fight