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Tall, SAN FRANCISCO, TUESDAY, JULY 17, 1900. PRICE FIVE CENTS. VOLUME LLIED FORCES SUFFER A CRUSHING REPULSE {7 “ssa s viic 00000000090 ¥ X ¥ ¥ ¥ X ¥ 09000000000 e vsame o d [N AN ATTACK ON THE CHINESE AT TIENTSIN 2000600000 ¥~ American Contingent Subjected to an Enfilading Fire on an Open Plain and Its Loss Estimated at Fully Twenty-Five Per Cent— Gallant Colonel Liscum Falls at the Head of His Command. == |ENTSIN, July 13 (via Chefu, July 15, and Shanghai, July 16).—At 2 o’clock this afternoon 7000 of the allied troops were attempting to storm the wall of the city. The attack began at daylight. Its success is doubtful. The Chinese on the walls are estimated conservatively at 20,000. They are pouring a terrific hail of artillery, rifle and machine gun fire upon the attackers. The Americans, Japanese, British and French troops are at- tacking from the west and the Russians from the east. The Americans suffered terribly. As the Associated Press representative left the field the chief surgeon of the Ninth Infantry said a conservative estimate was that 25 per cent of the Americans were hit. Colonel William H. Liscum is reported to have been mortally wounded as he was walking in front of the troops. Major Regan and Captains Bookmiller, Wilcox and Noyes are among the wounded. The marines’ losses included Captain Davis killed and Butler, Leonard and several others wounded. Officers declared that it was hotter than Santiago. When the correspondent left the Americans were lying in the plain between the walil and the river, under an enfilading and direct fire. It was equally difficult for them to advance or retire. The correspondent counted 300 wounded men of all nationalities. WASHINGTON, July 16.—The officers of the United States Marine Corps mentioned in the foregoing dispatch are probably Captain Austin R. Davis, recently at Manila, killed, and First Lieutenant Smedley D. Butler of the United States vessel Newark and First Lieutenant Henry Leonard, recently on duty at Cavite and also of the Newark, wounded. It is stated at the War Department that no such person as Captain Wilcox, who was reported wounded, is in the Ninth Infantry. The officials here think it might be Major Wallace of the Ninth. INTERNATIONALS RETREAT AFTER LLOSING HEAVIILY. LONDON, July 16.—The Evening News prints a dispatch dated at Shanghai to-day giving a detailed account of the attack of the allied forces on the native city of Tientsin, as reported in the dispatch to the ated Press dated Tientsin, July 13, via Chefu, July 15, and Shanghai, July 16. According to the Evening News’ dispatch the allies were repulsed and compelled to retreat with a loss of more than a hundred killed, the British rty and the Japanese sixty. The Americans and Russians, it is added, also suffered heavily. Among the Americans killed was Colonel Liscum of the Ninth Infantry. A Russian colonel of artillery was also killed. The dispatch adds that the Chinese fought with great desperation and their marksmanship was accurate and deadly. ADMIRAT, REMEY CONFIRMS THE NEWS OF DEFEAT. WASHINGTON, July 16.—The Navy Department this morning received official confirmation from Admiral Remey of the reverse of the allied forces at Tientsin on the morning of July 13. The dispatch is dated Chefu. July 16, and it says: “It is reported that the allied forces attacked the native city on the morning of July 13, the Russians on the right, with the Ninth Infantry, and the marines on the left. The losses of the allied forces were large— the Russians 100, including the artillery; Americans, over 30; British, over 40; Japanese, 58, including their colonel; the French, 25. Colonel Emerson H. Liscum, Ninth Infantry, was killed, and Captain Davis of the United States ne Corps, Captain Lealy and Lieutenants Butler and Leonard were wounded. At 7 in the evening the allied attack on the native city was repulsed with great loss. Returns are yet incomplete; details not confirmed. “REMEY.” i i R F e T RAGE IN BERLIN OVER KILLING OF GERMANS al Press Urges Harmony Among the Powers Until This Unphralleled Crime Has et With the Punishment It Deserves”—Noted Men Numbered Among Those Who Perished. 4 20 99 2 ¢ 0 000 9 0060600000060 90 00090000 TIENTSIN, July 13.—In to-day’s combined attack upon the native city over forty guns bombarded the Chinese positions. The fighting was most determined and the allies’ losses A vy. Eight Chinese guns were captured and the Chinese were driven out of the west arsenal after a fierce cannonade. A strong mixed force is close to the walls and it is expected ? an assault will be made to-morrow. ° | 0........‘0‘.1....‘0...0..0‘....-. 5 e pers insist upon absolute perfect harmony between the powers henceforth. longer quarrel,” says the Lokal Anzeiger, “or weigh things against each other. They will try everything. They will risk every man and every groat until this un- | vith the punishment it deserves.” 1 seems imbued with similar sentiments. Emperor William was immedi- ber of Germans massacred at Peking is said to be ninety-three, including s, Professors Stahlman, Colonel von Bismarck and Von Bronn of the Pe- - ials belonging to the Chinese customs, several merchants and Baroness von Ketteler. nstein arrived this evening. He will receive instructions from the a on Saturday, accompanied by General von Dergoltz. NO FURTHER NEWS OF THE T1ASSACRE. LONDON, July 17 * o @ 00 s0 00 -The news regarding the massacre at Peking has been received by the 1 unanimous expression of deepest sorrow and indignation. The Vos- “There is no excuse for a nation which commits such crimes and none tolerates or does not try to prevent them.” WHwWWW+++W+PHfi%H—M+MH%WW%H"H+++""H 3 = umm von S eign Office and start for m.—Up to this hour no further news has been received re- reported mas Peking from any source. In the House of Commons last even- admission th heTe s no ground for hoping that the report was not true, Wil- 'k, Parliame Secretary for the Foreign Office, had nothing to commun- hush fell upon the Chamber when the subject came up. A few members doff- no demonstration. S e B e erwise there ai and Chefu s at Shangl licate an increasingly serious state of affairs. It is re cabled their governments that there is urgent to protect that city, owing to the menacing attitude of the Chinese and the ot the vast stores of merchandise recently accumulated there. It seems that the ( have already threatened to fire the great oil tanks on the Chaotang side of the city. RISING CF ENTIRE POPULATION. h: MET THEIR DEATH AT PEKING. From Chefu comes the report that the entire adult male population of the three provinces % A GROUP OF THE WIVES OF THE EMBASSADORS WHO WERE WITH THEIR HUSBANDS, Cl nsi and Shantung are massing to defend Peking, under the conviction that the From a Photograph taken at Peking May 16, 1900. war. There is little doubt that a further check of the allies at Tientsin would be the ottt b e el oo bl oottt e et eneral anti-foreign rising throughout China. that are reported to have marked the | tional colony of Peking. | Peking, which is 10 miles fr . . 2 : = 2 last scenes within the legations at Pe-| The fate Of the Chinese capital appears | Hai Kuan. he Japanese officers are still confident of their ability to reach Peking before the roads King. Nothing 1s clearer than that the |to threaten other towns, iike Tientstn, hecome impassable, but the European commanders believe an advance will be impossible before SWIFT YENGEANGE antl-foreign conflagration is rapldly per- | Chefu and even Shanghal. The defeat | CRUISERS READY FOR meating even hitherto quiescent prov-|of the allled forces at Tientsin seems to | e T inces; and though it is recognized that | place that town in desperate straits, and IMMEDIATE SERVICE I "mm;: is said to be imminent at Newchwang, where the Boxers are threatening the for- AR Ry every day which leaves Peking in the | if retreat to Taku is necessitated, other | NEW YORK, July 16.—A special ¢ s power of the mob increases the perlls | observers consider that it will be likely | Press from Philadeiphia says: The c »ment. The Russians have harncar]e(! the streets and loopholed the houses of the for- ONDON, Jullr ::;”m’::"’f“s ;":_':;" and difficulties of the situation, nothing | to affect the policy of the wavering Vice- igners Fho bank officials have removed their valuables to Port Arthur. Perhaps the most se- ’“‘;‘“"‘::g nj;e“m Koot Bump; comes from the diplomats of Europe to | roys. : o S8 < ; cally the univers show that the powers have overcome the | The departure of Admiral Seymour from | o rious among the many reports from Shanghal_ 18 Athe rumor that since ‘hff massacre at Peking five but it is sorrowfully admitted |jealousies, resulting in general impo-| Tientsin and the movement.of warships Q'Q,YQSJ“ : <e regiments have been ordered south with instructions to make Chinghanpo, at the head of |that there can be no revenge to-|tency, to which is commonly ascribed the | toward Shan Hai Kuan, on the Gulf of | to be used in trans « gh | the Columbia and Minneapolis have com- B £P0eE : E . 2 day, nor perhaps for many to-mor-|sacrifice of the handful of women, chil- | Lioa Tung, are taken to indicate that this ( 2 0 ) { p the Grand canal, the objective point for the southward extension of the Boxer movement. lrows, for the incredfble barbarities |dren and men comprising the Interna- ' route may be adopted for an advance on | bendae’ ) oV ccommodations for that