Show FIGHTING AT TIEN TSIN Japanese Papers Give Interesting Details De-tails of Engagement San Francisco Aug AccordIng to Japanese papers refugees arriving at Kobe Japan from Tlon Tsln give interesting I In-teresting details of incidents whiqh occurred curred there between Juno 15th when tho Boxers first appeared and Juno 23rd when the allies entered tho city ThO most determined lighting of the siege was at the military school which 1 wag captured by MaJ Luke with 200 or 300 marines A stout defense was 1 dc but inside half an hour the al lied troOps had climbed tho walls and 1 orced the gate the military students retiring ton large room upstairs from which the maintained a galling fire gamnt Refusing to surrender some sixty or ccventy of them barricaded themselves in and mad a lost stand there and when an English bluejacket battered in the door with an x they eupt hm dead and served another In like fashion before the attacking force Got In and bayoneted the whole lot The place was net pa flr q before ths AUJLod o9 withdrew and burned for nn hour or two amid constant explosions of cartridges car-tridges Among the casualties in he settlements settle-ments were two deaths In tho household house-hold of Tong Director of Railways This wellknown Chinese officials wlfo and daughter sought safety in the real l donee of Chang Yce Mow the Director of Mines and Railways This house was hit five times by shells from the fort and one shell exploded near Mrs Tong carrying away both the unfortunate unfor-tunate ladys legs Her daughter was also killed tho satnu day On June 20th the authorities decided to send a messenger for help For this perilous undertaking Mr Watts of the Tien Tsln volunteers volunteered Ho set out accompanied by three Cossacks Cos-sacks After 1 hard exciting rldo luring lur-ing which they were frequently pursued I pur-sued the party arrived safely at Taku having taken twelve hours to cover the distance twentyeight to thirty miles by road On thin date It was found that ammunition of getting scarce and orders were given to reply charily to the cnemys fire One Tune 21st six Junks wero sighted floating down the river evidently with the intention of forming a bridge for the Chinese soldiers to cross Fire was opened on them as they approached and their occupants driven below and as thoy came nearer a young British middy got on board two possibly three of the craft and set fire to them That fore attempt of the enemy failed there Heavy firing went on all day long from the fort and musketry fire from across the river The French concession conces-sion which was exposed on three bldcy Buffered terribly and the secretary secre-tary of tho French Municipal Council was klllnd He was speaking to S French officer when a shell fell and exploded killing two or three persons A good deal of stir was caused tho next day by the arc t of two influential influen-tial Chinese Chang Yl Mow and Tong suspected of communicating with the Chinese troops outside by means of carrier pigeons I was afterward found that Chang andTong were arrested ar-rested without cause The behavior of some of the civilians who were under arms and who conducted con-ducted tho bluejackets when they went to arrest Chang was disgraceful one person firing off his rile In the mandarins man-darins house and telling him in the most minatory manner that he was being taken away for execution A lot of valuables Inside wero looted Chang was tha most proforeign of all the Chinese about Tien Tsln and Is known to have written to Peking before communication com-munication was cut off urging the authorities au-thorities there whatever else they did to be sure to give the Ministers of the powers 0 safe passage out Although scarcely any civilians suffered suf-fered during the hombardment of the city by the Chinese scarcely l a night passed without one or moro of the defending de-fending force being killed One young Russian officer was shot dead by 0 Chinese of whom he had demanded a passport The Chinaman snowed his passport with ono hand and with the other drew S revolver and shot the officer and two men dead falling himself him-self by a welldirected shot Immediately Immediate-ly I afterward After that no Chinese without Europeans were allowed on the sight streets under penalty of being shot on I |