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Show FIGHT NEAB PE-KlN". Many Killed in an Engagement "With "Boxers." Shanghai, June 6 The soldiers dispatched dis-patched to attack the "boxers" have fought an engagement ; quite close to Pekin. . Many, were .killed on both sides. In consequence of the representations of Japan the landing of a large Russian Rus-sian force at Taku is alleged to have been stopped. - - It is believed here. that should Russia Rus-sia persist in sending a prepondering military force to the front a collision with Japan wTl inevitably result. Alarming renorifi are current here of the hurried completion of the mobilization mobili-zation of the Japanese fleet.. The Russian minister at Pekin, M. de Giers, has made another attempt to induce in-duce the Chinese foreign office to formally for-mally request Russian assistance to restore re-store order, but the offer has not yet been accepted. Violent dissensions are reported to exist between ; the Chinese commander in chief of the forces, Jung-Lu, and Prince Ching-Tuan, who, in accordance with the wishes of the dowager em- press, is strongly supporting the cause of the "boxers." The mobs who murdered the English Eng-lish missionaries, Robinson and Norman, Nor-man, mutilated and disemboweled the bodies. The station at Yan Tin, three miles from Pekin. has been burned. The British minister, Sir Claude Mac-Donald, Mac-Donald, is reported to be quite ill. |