Show V FOOD SUPPLY IS SHORT < I Minister MacDonald at P king in Message V Dated August 6th Says Situation There is Desperate He Also Says that Unless Legations Are Relieved V Releved a General l Massacre is ProbableChinese Offer to Escort the Envoys Re fusedThere Are Over Two Hundred European Women and II I I Children According to MacDonalds Message in egatiQnV V London Aug 1i30 a mTho British Consul at Canton says the V Dally Telegraphs correspondent there has received the following message V dated August 6th from Sir Claude MacDonald 1 Mac-Donald British Minister In Peking I Our situation heic is desperate In ten days our food supply will be at an cud Unless we arc relieved a general massacre Is probable I The Chinese offer to escort us to Tien Tsln but remembering Cawnpore we refused the offer There arc over European women and children In I tills legation V ALLIES TWENTY MILES AWAY Tho Shanghai correspondent of the Dally Express wiring yesterday says The allies at noon Saturday were within twenty miles of PekingV I As Gen Chaffecs report which is the only authentic news received here regarding re-garding the advance located the International In-ternational forces about forty miles from Peking on Friday It seems probable prob-able that the Shanghai report is optimistic I Is scarcely likely that tho V allied could have advanced twenty miles In as many hours BRILLIANT CHARGE V A Yang Tsun dispatch dated August Au-gust 7th giving details regarding the capture of that place says WThe Husslaris and French hold the left the British tine left center the Americans the right center and the Japanese the right The British and Americans advanced ad-vanced upon the village at a rapid rate for five thousand yards under n severe shell and rifle fre The Russians opened and the BritishAmerican advance ad-vance became 0 race for position culminating cul-minating In a brilliant charge V AMERICAN LOSS HEAVY The heaviest loss of the day was sustained by the Americans the Fourteenth Four-teenth Infantry having nine killed six tytwo wounded and several missing nihe Ecngal Lancers unsuccessfully attempted at-tempted to cut oft tine Chinese retreat IAn V DEPLORABLE ERROR Another Yang Tsun V special says OWIns to a mistake British and Russian Rus-sian guns shelled the Fourteenth I United States Infantry during the night wounding ten I Commenting upon this ocpurrence the Standard says I Is melancholy to learn that the losses of the Americans Ameri-cans who seem to have borne themselves them-selves with conspicuous gallantry were Increased by a deplorable error In consequence con-sequence of which one of their regiments regi-ments was pounded by Russian and British cannon The incident emphasizes em-phasizes the necessity more close cooperation which 13 i not easily obtainable obtain-able without a single commander ana an-a general staff ADVANCE OF ALLIES Official advice from Yokohama dated yesterday says that the allies propose to advance on August 7th to Nan Tsi Tsung between Yang Tsun and Wu Sing The Japanese suffered no casualties at Yang Tsun but the oincial reports say they lost 300 at Pel Tsang V V NO PRISONERS TAKEN The Dally Malls St Petersburg correspondent cor-respondent declares that the fate of the rising In northeastern Manchuria has been sealed He says No prisoners pris-oners were taken by the Russians Wholesale massacre was the order of the day and when the battle was over the Cosaiks rode over the Held killing all the wounded with the butt ends of their musketsV UNCLE SAM ALWAYS AHEAD Once more the press of England remarks re-marks upon the ability of the American Ameri-can Government to secure news ahead of the rest of the world I Is to Gen Chaffee says the Dally News that we are again indebted for news from the front Not 1 single dispatch from Sir Alfred Gazeleo has thus far been Issued by the War officeV STILL WITH INTERNATIONALS Commenting upon the American reply to the Chinese V overtures the Dally News says Tho reply Is more conciliatory con-ciliatory than that of 11 Delcashu and In some respects It Is a little ambiguous ambigu-ous Still Its substance Is i tho same It may be observed that the United States Government docs not seem to separate Itself from the allies NO EXPLOSIVE BULLETS All the small arms ammunition used by the allies follow the recommendations recommenda-tions of the peace conference none being be-ing explosive or expanding The drain of China and South Africa upon Eng lands stores Is so groat that every private pri-vate firm has been enlisted to help the Government supply the demand and to restrict the reserve which Is much below be-low par All the great ammunition firms are working night and day In wishes their efforts to meet the Go crnmcnts V Tain Tau and was a follows Ichow Fuiooted V Ichow Fu is In Shan Tung province I V The property in the Presbyterian mis t sion there Is estimated to have estmated been worth about 20 000 The building lecI eluded two hospitals The missionaries themselves escaped from Ichow loiarics V Tsln Tau One days ago V |