Show British Naval Officers Are Killed As Chinese Troops Have Clash With Gunboats SHANGHAI Sept By S-By By The TheA A Press Several Preas-Several Several Bril Brit it t ish h naval na officers and and seamen mc In Mon Mon- Ion Ion- were wor ere killed and anil wounded das claye clash between e h gunboats o on Oft the It was as Y river at it learned today tod when details detail ot of o the th encounter wr were r received In Bhang Shang- has hns Information l h 1 I No been received a as 55 to O th the number of ChInese casualties The Th British dead Included Corn Com F P C Darley areY and ant A A It R HIggins of ot the tho gunboat t Dispatch and Lieutenant C F Ridge of th the tho gunboat who died from wound wounds Others s 1 idled or deal dead from rom wounds are aro Marrott l Farminer Farrow Leading Seaman n II l m Farm Farm- leer loer was of ot the gunboat while th the others other were all al alo ot oC o tho gunboat Scarab Aft r dangerously wounded In- In In n The Lieutenant Commander r I Ii IS I'S elude the S Acheson commander of l gunboat Cockchafer Abl A aman GrItt Dolan Ship Ship- Shipwright wright Crabtree Cra all 1111 of th the Die Dis patch latch and Lieutenant J 7 0 O Elliott ot or o the tho gunboat Mantis lla Two and One ono stoker tho the Mantis Manila and five Ivo on probably of ot the Cock Then and one ono on th the Scarab whose names n mn vere not disclosed also were wounded The Tho incident lo elo developed td at a when General Gentral Y lang langSen Yan ng adherent of ot Wu u Pel Pet Fu Sen an And ond nd steamers seized th the belonging to tho British fIrm of Butterfield and wire lying In port at at at th the tame same time tim lining the banks of ot the th and refusing to tc toJ i river with troops permit communication between J the tho two vessels The Th general threatened to tire on th the gunboat whose officers sought to Intervene Inter OFFICERS ARE RESCUED summoned 1 Th The BrItish consul from Chung Icing Kinc Inn undertook fu lie negotiations t to release rol nse th the tho steamerS steamer'S officer whereupon a British navel naval expedition of to 40 tomen i men mn commanded command d by Commander Commando Darley Parley of ot the tir Cruiser Cruller Dispatch Dispute WM was ordered from fr m an and arrived at In Jn th the Ite small river freighter 1 on Septem- Septem following day dllY th tho her Ier 5 E On the tho attempted to approach the thO thi steamer and In rescuing It Its officer when wilen the tho th Chin Chinese bet began n firing Urine from the th banks bank Th The Tho was wae to ap- ap approach p the th steamer learner lung be- be because cause causa of ot the th tiring firing The Th Wan Wan- Wan tung's tune officers officer jumped overboard and alt all were picked up except Chief Engineer Johnson who was wounded and presumably drowned Th The Tho CockChafer wont went w nt Into ac action ac- ac action aCtion tion and bombarded the lown town ol of Inflicting considerable damage It Is I believed n action In el selling the m merchant steamers Is I an after arter- aftermath math to tin nn encounter with I the British steamer an lieu on Aue Aug- August Aug- Aug August 1 U While discharging pas pas- passengers the tha ship was WIlS at Tunan boarded by It 16 6 armed o nol- nol diers and menaced by i sampan tampan carrying c other troops troop The Wan Wan- lieu sought to slowly while the lie officers officer drove oft off the became and The sampan proceeding to sank the sien declared the sank Fank two junks junk drowning 5 K 56 sol sol- ol- ol dier tiers and causing a II loss 1035 to 10 the tho Chinese of ot and that In re- re reprisal priest h he seized th the two BrItish The Th British naval con commander commander In In chief In Chinese waters water Vice Sir E A A Sin Alexander clair arrived at Shanghai on the cruiser Hawkins today and an 1 I Is pro pro pro- proceedIng to |