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Show CARTA IX RE ILLY" KILLED IN RATTLE Washington, Aug. 22. The navv department de-partment has received the following cablegram from Admiral Remey: "Che Foo, Aug. 21. Taku, Aug. 20. Pickens" command is landing today. 'Tekin. Aug. 16. All except imperial city cleared of Chinese troot.s; American Ameri-can troops first to enter imperial city; have penetrated to the gates of the pal-cce. pal-cce. "Captain Reilly, Fifth artillery, killed on loth. "Morning 19th. Sixth cavalry and 5; bout 400 English and Japanese dispersed dispers-ed about l.ooo Boxers about eight miles outside of Tic-n Tsin. "About 100 Chinese killed, five Americans Amer-icans wounded. Chaffee's losses, six killed, thirty wounded; two days' fighting. fight-ing. "REMEY." The navy department understands from the reference to the palace that the American troops, after penetrating the imperial city, were, when the dispatch dis-patch was sent, attacking the forbidden forbid-den city. This is the inner enclosure of the imperial city. |