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Washington, July 16 The report that Col ALLEUROPEDEMANDS REVENGE ON CHINA, fMEATED IN TIEN TSIN BATTLE BRITISH LEGATION AT PEKING. El Seven Thousand White Men Vainly Tried to Storm the Wall of the City. OVER 30 AMERICANS KILLED. List Includes Colonel Liscum, Ninth Infantry, and Captain Davis, Marine Corps. THREE U.

S. OFFICERS WOUNDED Russians Lost 100 Killed; Japanese, 58; British, 40; French, 25 Chinese Fought Desperately. (Copyright, 1900, The Associated Press.) Tien Tsin, July 13, via Chefoo, July 15 and Shanghai, July 16 At 2 o'clock this afternoon seven thousand 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 flre upon the attackere. The Americans, Japanese, British and French troops are attacking from the west and tho 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 twenty five per cent, of tho Americans were hit.

Col gust 16. The Thyrn is at Seattle, will accommodate 700 troops and will be ready for sea by the middle of August. The Navy Department to day ordered the Buffalo to proceed at once to Taku. She is now at Colombo with a large body of marines on board, as well as a crew of apprentices. ALL IS QUIET AT CANTON.

Responsible Firm in the Chinese City Cables That No Cause for Anxiety Exists There. Joseph Wild Co. of Manhattan, who have a large trade with China, have received a cable dispatch from a firm in excellent standing and long in close contact in many directions with Chinese merchants, which will prove comforting to those who have friends in certain districts in China which, so far, have remained unaffected by the present disturbances. Henry MacKay of the firm or Joseph Wild by cable asked the following question of the firm referred to: "What is your opinion about rebellion becoming serious In Canton?" This answer was received: "Canton no cause for anxiety." Mr. MacKay said there was no doubt that around Tien Tsin there was a terrible situation of affairs, but the trade there was not of the important character of that in the Canton district, where the trade with all parts of the world was very large.

He also added that the cablegram received by the firm confirmed the result of inquiries made through other channels. CAREER OF COLONEL LISCUM. He Began His Military Life in May, 1861, as a Corporal. Washington, July 16 The War Department has prepared the following account of Colonel Liscum's service record: He was born in Vermont in 1841. He entered the volunteer rvict as corporal in the Vermont Infant) ir May, 1861, and was appointed second lieutenant February 19, 1863.

He rose In ttierregular line to colonel of the Ninth Infantry, April 25, 1899. While in the Spanish war he was made brigadier general of volunteers July 12, 189S, serving in Colonel Emerson H. Liscum, Killed in Battle at Tien Tsin. that capacity till December 31 of the same year. His record briefly stated in chrono logical order is as follows: Brevetted captain U.

S. Army August 1. 1864, "for gallant services In the battle of Bethesda Church, and during the campaign before Richmond, Va." During the war of 1861 65, with his regi ment in the Army of the Potomac, participating in the battles of Cedar Mountain, Bull Run, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, (where he was woundedl. Bethesda Church and the sieirfi of Petersburg. Since the War of the Rebellion he served on the frontier, to April.

1S98. command ing his regiment in Florida and in the Santiago campaign to July 1, 1898, when he was wounded in the battle of San Juan, Cuba; on sick leave to April, 1899, and commanding his regiment en route to and in the Philippine Islands, and in command of the First Brigade, Second Division, Eighth Army Corps, January 15, 1900, to April 18. 1900; commanding his regiment in the Philippines to June 27, 1900, when he sailed with it for Taku, China. ENGINEERS FOR CHINA. Willets Point, L.

July 16 Forty seven United States engineers, stationed at this post, will leave to morrow morning for West Point, whence they will proceed to China for active duty. In the detachment will be thirty one men from Company and sixteen from Company C. subordinate officers. These reached the capital by train what an anachronism that already sounds'. on the 1st of June and were distrib uted among their respective legations, which are scattered at wide intervals, in extensive private grounds, along the street which is known to us as Legation street, but which in Peking is called, from its unsanitary neglect, the Street of Stinks.

This avenue runs to the Chi An gate of the outer wall of the city. Turning off this street, at its end, and following the drainage canal which carries off the surplus of the artificial lakes within the forbidden city, is a shrter and wider one, in which stands the British Legation alone. In the angle, behind these streets and behind the lofty walls which Inclose the legations, nestles a little colony of native residences, silent and wlndowless, like all Chinese houses, with here and there a uoisy corner of teashops and opium houses, and a crowded, narrow street of shops and vegetable stalls, where the foreigners' servants do their marketing an evenings gather in their private clubs to smoke the black dirt and exchange t. gossip of their masters. Passing from Ningchow, the head gation of the Pelho, along the twel canal to Peking, the county wears mile open and undulating aspect, full of life, ar air, and color; but when you come under the towering walls, when you pass under the dark and oppressive tunnel, with its succession of iron plated gates, when you find yourself actually within the Northern or Tartar City, a feeling of gloom and imprisonment irresistibly comes over you.

Walls, walls everywhere; no chance for the pleasant breath of heaven to sweep these noisome avenues, reeking with rotten garbage and the public indecency of habit; no escape, no contact with the outer world; walls, walls everywhere; walls towering high above the roofs of the houses; walls so mountainous, so massive, that it is impossible to conceive they could be battered down with a single shell. Nor could they. It would take hundreds of volleys of many batteries of the light field guns which can be conveyed thither to effect a breach in these ponderous embankments, on the top of which six men can ride at a gallop abreast. And when one attempts to form some conception of the extent and turnings of these walls one is bewildered and hopeless. You can walk for two days along the parapet without pacing over the same ground twice.

The outer circumference of the whole double city is perhaps over thirty miles; the Chinese and Tartar cities are again divided, and In the midst of the Tartar City stands the forbidden imperial city, whose huge yellow tile walls are twelve miles in circuit, and whose gates only one European has passed. And when we draw our eyes away from these forbid ding walls, we seem to encounter on the act ual streets something still more repellant and prison like. It is true that in the Tartar City, where the legations stand, the avenues are open wide and straight, but no friendly housefronts, with lights and curtains and hospitable doors, abut thereon, but only walls, walls, walls. The motto over the gloomy arches which penetrate this frowning circle might well be "Abandon hope whoever enters here." Soon the hostile swarms from the Chinese city and the disturbed country without be gan to circulate within the aristocratic avenues of the Tartar City, and soon they began to pillage the shops and then attack the splendid missionary compounds, schools, churches, cathedrals, hospitals. All these were soon in flames, the streets littered with loot, the prone bodies of native converts in ertly scattered about.

Rumor, with its hun dred tongues, pressed in on the trembling residents who had gathered together in Lega tion street, filling them with anticipations almost more dreadful than actual siege. Then followed the crowds, at first, day after day, merely loitering up and down the avenue, gaping at the walls and the sentries in the gates with ominous silence. Then, by some mysterious password, one knows not exactly how, the thirst for blood was unleashed and the helpless residents began to realize what had been talked of so often, for so many years that it had become more idle than the cry of wolf that the wolves, the ravenous, red tongued wolves of rapine and incendiarism and murder, were In very truth baying at their doors. The embassies along Legation street were given over to the mob only to the mob and all the European residents of Peking were crowded into the compounds of the British and French legations. This, perhaps, was somewhere about the 25th of June, nearly three weeks ago.

What the Inmates suffered during the two weeks previous to the final scene one can only imagine. The native palace and garden of the British consulate are spacious enough, but there was not house room for 100 guests. In the summer, and especially within the walls, the heat of Peking is less endurable than In any other city in the world. With out ice and punkahs, existence is supposed to be impossible. But now hundreds of dell cate women and children were crowded into a few rooms, stifling, without ice, without wine, without even water that they would dare to drink unboiled, unable even to fan themselves, while the brpad punkahs hung idle overhead, without a coolie to work them.

Flies, mosquitoes, horrible stenches, heat there were the least of their sufferings. In China there is no system of pipe drainage and the Inevitable refuse is removed daily in buckets. This service would have ceased long since, The result, with 500 or 800 or 1.000 persons crowded on to a few acres, unable ever to slio out even into the street, unable to se cure any sort of privacy, unprovided even with the common utensils of cleanliness. Is better imagined than described. That alone in that heat must have been worse than death.

And then the pitiless siege began. Within a week they would have scores of dead decomposing on the flags of the beautiful gardens, scores of wounded lying within, their sores festering beneath noisome swarms of files, deprived of the commonest alleviations, without medicines, without cool drinks, without mosquito curtains, without bunks, without punkahs. Night and day, day and night, the pitiful groans and cries of strong men struck down by bullets and fever, of children sick and hurt and starving, of women driven to shrill ravings by the horror of their fears and the Impossibility of privacy, never changing their clothes, unab(a to braid up their hair, knowing for the first time all that is meant by poverty, by un cleanliness, by constraint. Of what happened when the end came one dares not think. That the men had the hardihood to shoot their women folk I doubt; the civilians of Peking are not of that build, all of them.

In the forefront of the stormer3 would be the servants, who night after night have looked down with sly eyes on the white necks glittering with gems, the fair, bare arms, the strange beauty of the white women. Oh! what happened let us refuse to think; the sin Is sinned, the past is past, but outraged virtue and innocence and purity cry aloud for vengeance. Outline UnanrptuiMed. Dinirs on Pennsylvania tUilrauL Ticket eslcurtans. Adv.

onel French. Twenty fifth Infantry, was killed at Tien Tsin is not understood at the War De partment here. Officials state positively that Colonel French is not in China. There Is but one Colonel French in the service and he commands the Twenty second Infantry, two battalions of which are in the Philippines and the third one in this country. On June 30 Colonel French was in New York on sick leave.

Attack "Was a Disastrous Mistake. Washington, July 16 News of the battle ol Tien Tsin. as brought by the Associated Press cables direct from the field was conveyed to the Chinese minister early to day. The minister followed the recital with rapt attention, interrupting with expressions of astonishment and profound regret at this startling development. He was particularly impressed with the detailed names of the Americans killed and wounded, which appeared to remove every shadow of doubt and he asked about the various officers and their families.

The scene of the fighting came home vividly to the minister, as he has lived for a iong time at Tien Tsin, the close friend and associate of Li Hung Chang during the latter's vlceroyalty there, and every detail the engagement around the walls could be followed by him with a personal knowledge of the surroundings. In his mind's eye he pictured before him the scene of action. Here he pointed out, was the great walled city within which the native Chinese population lived. Around the city swept the Pei Ho River, very sinuous from Taku toward Peking. Below the wailed city, a full hour's ride by chair, lay the foreign settlements, or concessions or compounds.

At this latter point, well away from the walls of the main city, the foreign citizens, with the allied troops, have until now been located. The news of the fight at the walls meant, therefore, that the allied forces had advanced from their position well down the Pei Ho and had attacked the city itself. The outcome of the move he viewed with the utmost concern. He spoke with a good deal of freedom, but asked to be excused from any public declaration on the subject. In the most sympathetic terms, however, he expressed his horror at the latest developments, declaring that to no American home could the news bring deeper regret than to himself.

At the other legations and embassies the same feeling of dismay prevailed. Although Minister Wu will make no public utteranc.ee, the Associated Press is able to give what is believed to be the aspect of the situation from the Chinese standpoint. According to this view, the move of the allied forces from the foreign settlements down the river, up in the native walled city, was not only unfortunate, but was fraught with the greatest danger. With the fate of the foreign legations and ministers at Peking still in doubt, the allied forces might well have turned their attention to cutting a way through to the rescue of their officials and citizens at the capital. In that event, it is said, the normal conditions around Tien Tsin would have continued and the status quo been maintained.

But. by an assault of the walled city, the natives within the city might naturally be expected to defend themselves, believing that their homes were about to be attacked. They have been penned up within the city, knowing nothing of what has occurred without, and, from the Chinese standpoint, it probably will be found that it was in a defense against an unexplained attack that the present slaughter occurred. One of the suggestions the day, made in an official quarter, is that a commission be at once appointed to proceed to China and investigate the facts of the present situation, thus giving a basis for intelligent action. At any other time the suggestion probably would be welcomed as a means of clearing up the doubt of unreliable Shanghai reports, but now the situation appears too desperate to await the slow process of a commission.

The name of ex Minister Denby was mentioned In connection with the talk of a commission. Japanese Have 4,000 Troops at Tien Tsin. Washington, July 16 The Japanese legation to day received a cable from the minister lor foreign affairs, dated Tokio, July 10, giving some belated details of the fighting at Tien Tsin, July 3, when the town was still in possession of the allies. According to this cable there are 4,000 Japanese troops at Tien Tsin. More than half the allied troops in the attack on Tien Tsin on the 13th, therefore, probably were Japanese.

The cable is as follows: "On the 3d inst. a large body of Chinese soldiers appeared before Tien Tsin and attacked the northern part of the settlement, which was guarede by the Russian troops. Tho Japanese sent to their aid at the Russian general's request one battery of artillery and two companies of infantry. After a heavy cannonade they silenced the Chinese guns and finally repulsed the enemy. The Japanese losses In this engagement were two captains killed and about thirty non commissioned officers and men killed or wounded.

Major General Fukushima has now under him at Tien Tsin about 4,000 Japanese troops. REGIMENT TO START IN 3 WEEKS. Chicago, July 16 The battalion of the Fifth United States Infantry, stationed at Fort Sheridan, has received orders to go to China. Within two weeks the other two battalions of the regiment arc expected from A week's rest will be allowed them, and then the entire regiment will start for China. A Day' Ontlnff.

Ponn.ylvoi.ia Umtloa to ClUcaso ouura ue itVttfi.l nn f.nm Kim nAM CArCS. Leaves ovcry mornlne. Adv. Ferocity of the Chinese Suggested by a Correspondent Who Knows Them Well. HORRORS OF THE LAST SCENE And the Worse Horrors of the last Three Weeks Spent in Crowded and Pestilential Quarters.

The following summary of the events which led up to the massacre at Peking Is written by a contributor who lived for many years in that city and who is familiar with the situation there: The most appalling tragedy of modern times a tragedy literally unparalleled In the history of all times has taken place this month, perhaps this, week, of the last year of the nineteenth century, on the eve of the cen tury which all men regard as the millenium of Christianity, of civilization, of peace. More than a thousand white men, women and children have been massacred in one spot by un clean and rabid barbarians; greater massacres are recorded in history, though none approach ing it in the history of our own times. It is not the number of the victims; it is their nationality, their religion, their charac ter, the empires and ethics they stand for, which makes the catasthrophe so incredible, so overwhelming. There, in Peking, were gathered together the elete, the noble, the cultured, the great of the six most powerful and enlightened stateB of the modern world, beside notables of half a dozen minor states, each in its wit reDresentative of the science and progress of the nineteenth century. Very, very few of the floating of the foreign population of Peking belonged to the classes which, by hard necessity and manual toil, are more or less inured to hardship and prepared for vicissitudes.

These were all men and women of high birth or weighty standing; minsters and consuls, accustomed to deference and ease; great contractors and financiers who negotiate national loans and build state railways, bishops and deacons of tne ancient Church of Rome, ministers and missionaries of our own American churches, wealthy travelers, scientists, teachers, all that Is be3t and most delicate of our modern civilization. And with these their wive3 and children, stately women who have graced many a royal bevy, beautiful women who have floated through the gorgeous ball rooms of European and American society admired and loved; earnest, gentle, sweet voiced, tender eyed women who have foregone the pleasures of frivolity to devote themselves to the work of Christ, to the missions of charity and good will among men all these have been stripped and defiled, their piteous, fair bodies dragged through the mire and filth of foul Peking al leys, exposed to the howling curiosity and lust of reeking heathen, while their Innocent and beautiful children have been carried aloft on spears, their tender bodies unspeakably mutilated. This is the culmination of a century of the purest religious effort and the noblest teach ing; the awful, incredible lapse into a bar baric tragedy scarce equaled in the annals of the Huns. Let us try to picture to ourselves something of this dreadful drama still hidden from our eyes by the impenetrable curtain of the mysterious, the abominable East. Six weeks ago to day the vast city of Pek ing was already so overrun by hordes of fanatic, incomprehensible rustics, swarming In from God knows where, actuated by God knows what wild and gloomy frenzy, their hands already dyed, perhaps their very rags streaked with the blood of thousands of helpless native converts in Paotung and Tung Chow, that the ministers urgently demanded, and obtained, the dispatch of additional legation guards from tho crews of the score or more of foreign warships gathering on Taku.

In all times each legation has a small guards of a dozen or score of soldiers; these now were reinforced by 400 sailors and marines proportionately contributed by the sea powers concerned. At the most, there were at th3 beginning of the tragedy some 500 armed foreigners, of whom perhaps 200 spoke or understood the English language, while the rest, the German, French, Italians, Jap Danger That the Massacre at Peking May Be Repeated in Other Cities. PERIL INCREASES EVERY DAY. Sacrifice of the Legations Ascribed to Impotency Due to Jealousies of the Powers. GERMANY BEGS FOR HARMONY.

All Ladies at the Legations Had Supplied Themselves With. Poison in Anticipation of the End. London, July 16, 2:37 P. M. "Revenge to day, mourning to morrow," is practically the universal cry of Europe, but it is sorrowful ly admitted that there can be no revenge today, nor perhaps for many to morrows, for the incredible barbarities that are reported to have marked the last scenes within the legations at Peking.

Nothing is clearer than that the anti foreign conflagration in China is rapidly per twin H. Conger, TJ. S. Minister at Peklnif. tneating even hitherto quiescent and though it is recognized that every day Which leaves Peking in the power of the mob increases the perils and difficulties of the situation, nothing comes from the diplomatists of Europe to show that the powers have overcome the jealousies, resulting in general Impotency, to which is commonly ascribed the sacrifice of the handful of women, children and men comprising the international colony in Peking.

Nothing has been received to day that adds to the Information previously obtained regarding the massacre. The only ray of light extricable from the Peking messages appears to be the statement that Ching and his followers did their utmost in defense of the legations. The rebels, however, are evidently greatly in the majority, and the few loyalists are helpless before the hordes who have Joined and are dally Joining the blood stained camarilla who have usurped authority at Peking. The fate of the capital appears to threaten other towns, like Tien Tsin, Chefoo, Shanghai. The defeat of the allied forces Sir Claude M.

MacDonald, British Envoy at Pekinff. at Tien Tsin seems to place that town In desperate and if retreat to Taku is necessitated observers consider that it will be and Shanghai. The defeat of the allied forces likely to decide the policy of wavering viceroys. The departure of Admiral Seymour from Tien Tsin and the movement of warships toward Shan Hat Kuan, on the Gulf of Llao tung, are taken to indicate that this route may be adopted for an advance on Peking, which Is distant 170 miles from Shan Hai Kuan. The members of the Chinese Legation this morning still assert that they have no information concerning the fate of the foreigners in Peking.

The War Office to day issues a dispatch from General Dorward, dated Tien Tsin, July 11, which adds little to previous information. The Chinese, according to this dispatch, attacked the station the morning of July 11, and were repulsed after four hours' hard fighting, in which 500 of the enemy were killed. On July 9 General Dorward, commanding a force of 100 Americans, 950 British and 400 Russians, and General Fukushima, command ing 1,000 Japanese, attacked the Chinese and captured their positions southwest of the city, killing 350 and capturing four guns. American and Japanese troops subsequently rushed and took the western arsenal. General Dorward adds that the day's honors rested with the Americans and Japanese.

There were no casualties among the Americans or the Russians. The Foreign Office has received no advicea to day from China. Although Lord Salisbury, the Premier and Minister of Foreign Affairs, does ont doubt that Sir Claude MacDonald, the British Minister at Peking, has been murdered, he has not yet taken any steps regarding international relations aa regard Chip. Thorn is at present no inclination to firm a tho Chinos Minister bit SujoiC UNITED STATES LEGATION AT PEKING. CONGRESS MAY BECALLED Cabinet Officers Say in View of the Grave Situation There May Be an Extra Session.

BOTH MEN AND MONEY NEEDED. More Troops Were Ordered To day to Prepare for Duty in the Far East. All Available Men to Go. Eagle Bureau, 608 Fourteenth street. Washington, July 16 Until to day every member of the Cabinet who has been questioned by the Eagle correspondent on the subject of an extra session of Congress stated positively that in his judgment no extra ses sion would be called and that there was no necessity for convening Congress at this time.

To day the same Cabinet officers say that there is a possibility of Congress being called together in an extra session and add that the President himself will have to decide this all important question. The gravity of the situation is plainly in dicated by this radical change of opinion, and it shows perhaps as nothing else could show the high officials of the government are dis turbed at this time over the news from the far East. They not only admit the possibili ty of an extra session, but they refuse to ac cept any responsibility themselves and throw the whole matter on to the President. There is now a strong probability also that the President will return to Washington at an early date so that he may be in immediate control of the situation. Secretary Long, at the conclusion of to day's emergency Cabinet meeting in the office of Secretary Hay, stated that nothing had been heard from Canton to indicate that the President intended to proceed to Washington at once, but he inti mated that the chief executive would cut short his stay and return to the capital within a few days.

Although the War Department officials will not admit It, the Eagle correspondent is re liably informed that extra troops were this morning dered to prepare for immediate duty In China. Three thousand additional men have been selected to reinforce those already in China, making a total of 9,000 men that are. now in this country and under instructions to sail for the far East. It is believed that the extra 3,000 constitute what is known as the Home Guard. One battalion of most of the regiments that were last week ordered to China was left at the various posts.

This force has now been drawn on, it Is believed, and will be sent forthwith to the front. This step is never taken except in case of extreme emergency, and represents the straits to which the department is put in getting men, and also the seriousness of the s't nation in China. Should an extra session of Congress be called it will be wanted for the purpose of raising additional troops for service in China. The most embarrassing problem confronting the officials here is the lack of soldiers. Under no circumstances can the present force be legally added to and a large part of this is to be mustered out next year.

With General MacArthur calling for more troops in the Philippines, Cuba and Porto Rico stripped of soldiers, and barely a corporal's guard at the military posts in the United States, Secretary Root is at his wit's end to respond to the demands of the situation in China. Signs of distress of another character are also appearing. The funds of the War and Navy Departments are running low. The Navy has almost exhausted its special appropriation of $300,000 for emergency purposes, while the liberal provision made for the Army has been seriously taxed. It is thought by many that Congress will be needed to refill the Treasury in this respect.

While the special Cabinet session was in progress to day Representative Joseph Cannon of Illinois, chairman of the House Committee on Appropriations, called. His comments about tho state of the Treasury and the war expenses caused some relief in regard to this problem. To the Eagle correspondent he said: "I know nothing about the prospects of an extra session, but there is no need for calling Congress together merely for the purpose of appropriating additional funds. Should the current appropriations run out the President can run in debt to maintain the Army and Navy. There is a statutory provision which will enable him to do this, so that there need be no anxiety on the score of money." Representative Cannon said that the future policy of this government in China would bo determined by the developments of the next week or ten days.

Should it be found that the imperial government is responsible for the terrible slaughter of the foreigners, she will be made to feel the bitterness of our anger. With his voice trembling with the earnestness of his emotion, Representative Cannon said: "Uncle Sam will do his full share in providing both men and money to mete out vengeance on tho guilty ones. In shot and shell, soldiers and diplomacy we will not be found wanting." The War Department is bending all its energies in the direction of hurrying up the shipment of troops to China. There was a conference this morning between Secretary Root and General Ludington and Major Bird in regard to the prospects of improving on the present schedule for getting the regiments to the front. At the conclusion of the consultation it was stated that an additional transport had been chartered, the Thyrn, and that the Hancock would be prepared to sail from San Francisco August 1, instead of Au onel Emerson H.

Liscum is reported to have been mortally wounded, as he was walking In front of the troops. Major Regan and Captains Buckmiller, Wilcox and Noyes are among the wounded. The marines' losses include Captaiu 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 wall and the river under an enfilading and a direct fire. It was equally difficult for them to advance or retire. The correspondent counted three hundred wounded men of all nationalities. 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 Bmedley D.

Butler of the United States steamer Newark, and First Lieutenant Henry Leonard, recently on duty at Cavite, and also of the Newark, wounded. Report of Defeat Officially Confirmed. Washington, July 16 The Navy Department this morning received official confirmation from Admiral Remey of the reverse of the allied forces at Tien Tsin on the morning of the ISth. The dispatch is dated Che July 16, and says: "Reported that allied forces attacked native city morning 13th; Russians right, with Ninth Infantry and marines on the left. Losses allied forces large; Russians, 100, including artillery colonel; Americans, over 30; British, over 40; Japan, 38, including colonel; French, 25; Colonel Liscum, Ninth Infantry, killed; also Captain Davis, Marine Corps; Captain Lemly, Lieutenants Butler and Leonard wounded.

"At 7 in the evening allied attack on native city was repulsed with great loss. Returns yet incomplete; details not yet confirmed. "REMEY." It is stated at the War Deparement 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. London Receives Details of the Disaster.

London, July 16, 2:11 P. M. The Evening News prints a dispatch dated at Shanghai today, giving a detailed account of the attack of the allied forces on the native city of Tien Tsin. According to the Evening News' dispatch, the allies were repulsed and compelled to retreat with a loss of more than one hundred killed, the British losing 40 and the Japanese, 60. The Americans and Russians, it Is added, also suffered heavily.

Among tho Americans killed were Colonel French of the Twenty fifth Infantry, and finlonfil Liscum of tho Ninth Infantrv. A nnlnnBl of artillerv also Vlllfirt. vtje dispatch adds that tho Chinamen fousnt GUNS OF NATIVE MAKE WITH WHICH THE CHINESE BOMBARDED THE BRITISH LEGATIONS TK PEKING, WHERE THE EUROPEANS WERE CONCENTRATED..