Show CflNESE PLAN FAILED Russian Minister Details Efforts Made by V V TstmgliYamen to Get Envoys V V I Leave Peking Reply Was Similar to that of His ColleaguesCould Not Leave the V V Mongol Capital Until So instructed by Their Respective Gov V ernmentsEuropeans in the Legations Number Over 1000 Including I In-cluding 200 NonCombatants J and Fifty Wounded V V V V St Petersburg Aug 13M de Glers Russian Mlnlster Peking rcportsiln a dispatch under date of August 4tlin3 follows JR Tho Chinese Government recently applied to us and to all the foreign icp cscntatjves in order to arrange < the date and conditions our journey to Tien Tsln At the same time the TsungLiYamen Informed us that the foreign Government had at once demanded de-manded from the Chinese Ministers aboard our departure from Peking hinder hin-der escort We replied that wer required re-quired Instructions from cur Governments Govern-ments without which we could not eave our posts V WHAT IS NEEDED AS ESCORT I consider it my duty to point out as indispensable to our journey that the allied forces sent as an escort should he of sufficient force to protcct SOO Europeans Including 200 women and children and fifty wounded Itap pears that the jou1e to Tien Tslh at the present season of the year Is dangerous can gerous owing to lack of means of cpm munlcatlon i All my colleagues here are sending similar telegrams to their Governments Govern-ments Please Inform The famlllea of Imperial mission and the Russian colony are well V The dispatch of Gen LInovltch torn mander of the Russian troops In the province of PC Chi LI to the Russian Minister of War describing the character char-acter of Pel Tsang and Yang Tsun has been published l here but adds little to the details already known CHINESE POSITION WAS MINED Gen LInevItch estimates that the Chinese at Pel Tsang were 25000 strong He says their left flank was mined and provided with bomb proofs Their hurried hur-ried flight prevented then from destroying de-stroying a bridge oC boats and this enabled en-abled the allies to capture the whole camp including thirteen guns At Yang Tsun Gen LInevItch estimates esti-mates the Chinese force as about 20000 men The Russian losses were two officers V of-ficers and HC men wounded The report re-port concludes Our troops are bivouacking biv-ouacking at Yang Tsun and are In splendid health UNDER MISAPPREHENSION Russian official circles consider that the German papers misapprehend the real scope of the appointment of Field Marshal Count von Wtildersee V I Is pointed out here that he will act merely as president of the council of Generals V to directand combine the operations of the different detachments but without In any way weakening the Importance V of their respective commanders In executing exe-cuting strategic movements decided on In common V |