Show MADE HEROIC DEFENSE Commander Fletz Eulogized for His Action at Pin Brussels Dec 19The following dispatch I dis-patch dated yindivoslock December t ISth has been rcceivd > at the headquarters < head-quarters of the Scheutt missions hereIn here-In the district of Pin all our Interests I lute been entirely destroyed except the I Episcopal residence The bishop nineteen nine-teen Belgian missionaries four Chinese priests and 3000 Christians were saved by 1 Russian troops arriving In haste in five columns Commander Fletz with a flying column col-umn arrived first October 2Sth and made a heroic defense for live days During the terrible siege he lost in dead and wounded onethird of his force Although twice wounded he refused to leave his post until the arrival of reinforcements rein-forcements |