Show AMERICANS LULL 3OOO I I Participated in d Signal Defeat of Boxers I Outside the City of Tien Tsin I I I I August 19th I I Chinese Report that the Empress After Proceeding One Days 1 1 Journey from Peking Turned Back Terrified at the Looting o l I Chinese SoldiersReported that Japanese Have Found Emperor I Kwang HsuPrince Tuan Said to Have Been Taken I London Aug 25 345 a mFive hundred hun-dred American trpops participated in a signal defeat of Boxers outside Tien Tsln August 19th The fact Is i briefly rehearsed from Vienna Details of the engagement come from tho Reuter agent at Tien Tsln in a dispatch dated August 20th In addition to the Americans the force consisted of 375 British and 200 Japanese all under the British Gen Dorward The tight took place at a village six miles southwest of Tien Tsln where the allied forces found a cpnsidcrablo number of Boxers whom they engaged killing over 300 and taking ta-king sixtyfour wounded prisoners who were sent to the hospitals of the allies The village was burned The Americans had five wounded the Japanese Jap-anese six and the British none Hun drcds of Boxers nags spears and swordskwerc captured I EMPRESS WENT BACK From Shanghai comes a report qualified fed by the assertion that it Is from purely Chinese sources that the Empress Em-press Dowager after proceeding one days journey from Peking became terrified ter-rified at tho looting by Gen Tung Fuh Slangs troops and went back to Peking Pe-king A Chinese telegram from Tslnan Fu says that Prince Tuan has been captured cap-tured by a detachment of the allies Other Chinese messages referred to the I formation of a provisional Government In Peking by the allies out this appears I ap-pears to be a purely military measure and merely an elaboration of the scheme for dividing the city into sections sec-tions for police purposes LI I Hung Chang has received word that the allies entered Peking easily because the troops of Gen Tung Fuh Slang utterly refused to face the allies According to the Shanghai correspondent Accordln1 ent of theDaily Express Earl LI recognizing re-cognizing the futility of an attempt lo drive the foreigners from China now professes conversion to reform principles princi-ples EMPEROR FOUND Shanghai advices announce the receipt re-ceipt there of V Chinese official dispatch dis-patch asserting that Emperor Kwang Su ha been found and rescued by the I Japanese Messages from Tien Tsln report serious seri-ous mortality among the American horses owIng to the heat Thc delayed advices to Reuter dated Peking August Mth reiterate tho statements regarding the treachery of the Chinese from the night before the relief They had Informed the members relef hers or the legations that orders lisiil been Issued to cease 1 rl ng This was followed by a desperate attack and it van only the welcome sound of the cannon of the relieving force In the i I morning that renewed the courage of the foreigners The correspondent adds tw The Chinese admit having lost 3000 In the various attacks upon the legations lega-tions Our rations dwindled to one pound n day consisting of horsefleah and rice When the American detachment attacked at-tacked the whole Chinese force concentrated concen-trated against them leaving the Sha unwatched the Ho gate whereupon British entered there without the loss of a man i |