Show 1 CAPTURED BY RUSSIANS Sol 11 Two Columns of Czars J diers Attack Saghalin I TOWN OF AIGUN BOMBARDED Russians Lost Six Killed and Fifteen l t Wounded In a Retreat from the Frontier the Chinese Surprised a i Detachment of Russian Guards Escorting Es-corting a Number of Workmen the Latter Suffering Severe Loss St Petersburg Advices are that Chi 10 ti nesq Soldiers are Joining Boxers St Petersburg Aug 1Gcn 1 Grodc JcofC has sent the following dispatch to the War office from Khabarovsk dated August 3rd y Two columns from Blagovcstchesk 3 crossed over the Amur river at 3 a m under Cols Schwerln and Scheriklrofl Ih attacked the Chinese troops and took the town of Saghalin one gun and a 7 quantity of Mauser cartridges The steamer Sllenga suffered severely llSJ from rifle fire The transSelsk detachment under Col Pfotenhauer bombarded Aigun with twelve mortars and the Chinese i replied One officer and five men were I killed and fifteen men were wounded Z Four armored steamers are patrolling 1 the Amur SURPRISED BY CHINESE N A telegram received today from Engineer 1 En-gineer Offenbcrg dated ICawgKumsig r Gaslmur in the transBaekal province l Wednesday August 1st says In the retreat to the frontier the 1Ii agents workmen and gurds were surprised sur-prised and bombarded by the Chinese in the Chingan Three t4 passes guards ill and one workman were killed and ii twenty workmen fled to the mountains none of whom have returned ill d A dispatch from Shanghai dated J Thursday August ° nd received hero it today says that after LI Hung Chang left Canton the Imperial troops joined i1j the Boxers The dispatch adds that the provisional troops along the Yang Tao = river remain quiet owing to the promise t prom-ise of the Viceroy of Nankin to the foreign for-eign Consuls l I MURDERING MISSIONARIES I Boxers it I Is further stated In this q dispatch are murdering missionaries In south China but are not disturbing I treaty ports I Troops are being secret ii ly l brought to treaty ports i Batteries of the Yang Tse river the I dispatch says arc being repaired and new ones are being erected at Wu Sang despite the declaration of the Viceroy that tho work would be stopped and live guns have b con mounted tq The dispatch accuses the British of a setrot understanding with the Vice roy In accounting for the indifference I of the British fleet to the strengthening of the Chinese fortifications at Wu Sung |