Show rR EACHER y OF op CHINESE my lid the tb dorrs dozers in aleski a troop troops bral boot la 10 Iloilo ir I 1 oki ekla there Is I 1 no longer any guy doubt as to sympathy of the chinese army with he h boxers ll admiral seymour who commanded mma oded the tb relief expedition sell sent e relieve 1 gives a detailed re report part which la Is the first inform information aaion suspicion of is DO no word has been received from front 1 I itin in fr twenty daya dayl alsi aada under late of jane june have flay to tottan tien jsn with tho the t force 0 aces being unable to resets skill by rail on jure 11 two attacks attack n the 1 advance I guard were made by the boxers nho who were repulsed vi with ith confide rable lose lo 10 to them thein and od none on our tide side on june alle I 1 it i the boxers attacked the train at t lang ian n in large 1 numbers ind slid with great determination IN a re them with a 1068 lo 10 of about too celled our lou loss waa was seven italians Itt llan abo afternoon the kozera attacked tha british fuard guard left lo 10 protect reinforcements were 10 lent at back and slid the tile enemy driven off oll with loo llyial IAl two ut our seamen were rere wounded wo we pushed forward to antloger and the tile enemy on june 13 and nine it inflicting a loss of there were rere no casault les on our aide side of the railway in our front having nad further advance by rail impossible ble I 1 decided on june 15 to return to toan I 1 ang irTon taunt where it waa proposed to organize aa an elvance by the river to atkin after my departure from lane rang two truid left to follow on bere rere attacked on june josue 18 hy by boxers lad ad imperial troop A wh who 0 lost lot from to killed our cau casu titles were 6 killed and 48 aou wounded these rhese traina meat me at yang yin aun 1 tin the evening I 1 6 the railway at yang touts waa was found entirely and the irain trains could not be moved the force foca being abort of provisions and with wounded compelled as a to withdraw on tia tien taint with ith which we I 1 ad not been in communication com for alx six da a and our supplies had been cut cutoff off on june 19 the wounded with neo saries as ss aries started by the boat be corcas marching loo gilde the river opposition waa was experienced during the whole course of the river from nearly every tillage village the boxers defeated in one tiling village retired to the next sad skillfully fully retarded our adrance advance by occupying well selected positions from which they had bad to bd bel forced often at the point of the bayonet and la in face of a gaill galling nir fire fir difficult to locate on june 23 3 we made night march arriving at daybreak opposite the imperial armory tien tain tails where after friendly advances a 0 treacherous heavy fire was opened while our men were exposed on the opposite river bank the enemy were kept in check by rifle alre in front while their position was turned by a party of marines and leamen seamen under major johnson Joh nion who rushed aud and occupied one of the th silent salient points the guns the germans mans lower down silenced two guns and then crossed the river is and ailt e captured ap t a r e d t them h e ru the h armory was u aex occupied by the combined forces determined at tempts to retake the armory were made de on the following day but ansue rk I 1 U I 1 I 1 y 1 I lound immense stores of guns rma arms a and ad of the he latest pattern beveral guns were mounted in our defense and al selled the chinese forta forts lower down dow n leaving lla having ving found ammunition and ree we could have held out for some wine day but being hampered with large largo numbers of woun wounded dedi I 1 sent to tieu tien tsin tain for a relieving force which arrived on the morning of june 25 I 1 the armory was evacuated and taj th forces arrived at tien tin on jume 21 e burned the armory |