Show ENGAGEMENT AT TAKU DETAILS OF THE ATTACK UPON THE CHINESE PORT Admiral Samejima Submits Report of the Assault by thc Allied Forces Upon the Chinese City June 17th Correspondence Associated Press Yokohama June 30th via San Francisco Fran-cisco July ICth Admiral SameJlma commanderlnchlef of the Sasebo Admiralty reports under date of June 22nd that he has got from Surgeon Salgo and the Captain of the Hugo Mann the following particulars In regard re-gard to the engagement of Taku At a quartet to 1 a in on the 17lh the forts opened fire on the allied squadron which comprised one English warship Lyon France the Atago JaDanese the Corcetz Russia the Illis German and Monocacy American Tho Monocacy was used as a refuge for the foreign women nnd children In Tong Ku while the Alago was used as 3 store ship for the arms of the allied land forces and the foreign contingents generally At the time of the bombardment the Ata go could not Join In owing to the fact that her anchorage was very remote from the forts I A fire broke out during the engagement engage-ment on board the Lyon while the Corcelz was hit by 0 fdrtylwo pounder shot and two officers and four others warrant officers and sailors were killed On the Illls one officer and six others were killed and the Captain was wounded The Corectz was hit In the water line and had recourse course to the collisionmat One of the enemys shots hit the Monocacy The fire from the forts was terrible and Indicated good gunnery practice One gunboat was hit In the magazine Tho land forces which comprised aboul 35GO of the combined Brlllsh Russian and German contingents together to-gether with the Japanese contingent from the YohohashI made their attack at-tack from thc rear of the torts The contingents were arranged In the following fol-lowing order Russia Germany England Eng-land and Japan Our contingent having hav-ing been at tho rear could not take part In the opening scene of the engagement en-gagement Tho Chinese offered a stout resistance resist-ance and when the vanguards had reached a place 100 to 500 meters from the forts they showed some signs of I hesItation in their forward movement The forces of the other three powers wore then deployed and our marines passing through the gap thus produced charged at the forts with fixed bayoJ nets In this charge Capl Hallorl was killed Ills remains were at once conveyed con-veyed to the HJgo Maru bjr a German Ger-man launch On reaching the fort thc Japanese marines entered through tho breach I made by 1 the shots from thc warships Lieut Shlralshl had already been In the fort The forces of the other countries coun-tries followed the Japanese and thug s the northern and the Western forts were occupied by the Japanese the t right and the left forts by the other forces At 7 a m the fight was over when the British took charge of the western L fort and time Japanese left the forts to guard the station Tho railway track going to Tien Tsin did not appear to have been wrecked but as the locomotive locomo-tive had been damaged the crew of the i Atago were told off to repair It Off Taku tho Chinese cruiser Hal yang had been at anchor n little nearer near-er to the shore than the allied squadron squad-ron and on the evening of the 16th she seemed to clear fo action Prior to the resolution to open fire on the forts having been adopted the Newark and the Descartes were anchored near tho Halyang but they shifted their position afterward On tho evening of the 17Lh speculallons were laken against the flight of the Ilalyang but she did not flee On the 17lh at noon the Halyang proceeded to steam out of the harbor and the foreign warships dipped their flags In recognition of the Admirals tap on her mast But the Captain of the Russian warship Rosala which was anchored furthest out to sea signaled sig-naled for her to send ah officer onboard on-board and In the presence of time commander com-mander of the German fleet told him that the departure of the Halyang at this Juncture would be against her Interests She therefore deferred her deparlure On the land them musketry fire was still kept up n Intervals from the southern fort while Iji the business part of the place n thC dressed Hko coolies fired at the troops of the allied 1 force of whom there were only a small number present |