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Show rOXOEU IS ALL UKULT AMBniCAN MINIBTHtt IN PBKIN 8BNUU ANUTMHfl MBBSAOB. Mil llr.l.el Iif I lilnra Tlimix ami In a rrrllmt I o.lll.,n-,,l..l,r. nf ICMI.f tore )la l'rrr.luie Har. Tbe war depertHtculhaa reeciteal the following dlaptjtah from 'lien 1'tln from Colonel Daggett, an Amarlaan oftiaer, dated Aaguat I: Mveaage Juet reeelred from Cougar atya: "Minna inth, by agreanient, no tiring. Data prorlaionatcteral wtabe, little ammunition All aaf, welt. He port allied fnrcm aoon advance. I'rae-tlcally I'rae-tlcally no looting by Amerloanti no inineeeatary killing ' The following letter of Lieutenant-roluiiel Lieutenant-roluiiel Hhiba. military attache at thn legallou of IVkln, dateil July S, armed ar-med at Tien lain on the ISIh, at o'eleek In the i'enliig: We are all awaiting lmHitlrnlly the arriral of rcliiforceiiirnle, mid If Jon pan nut reach here in lrt limn a week'e time it it probable that we will be uu-able uu-able In hold out any longer. limprriir and Ktnpre Dowager appear ap-pear to be Mill at l'ekln Were our furcet to arrlre It la very proliablo that they would lire to Han hhmhan. Klllol and wounded up loilnte: lilght killed, one a captain of Infantry and an cmbattador't attache! arven terl-outly terl-outly woundeil, the llrat leerrtary of legation Iwlng one nf twenty tllglilty wouiided. '1 he number of Luropcaua killeillatlity In all. Important additional confirmation of the Mifety of the legatlont haa been I received in London hv Mr llmicKn Campbell, repretenlallve In L'uropa of the Cliluiteciittoiut tervir', from the I couimlioiicr of ciiitonit at (lie Too, In the thapeuf a l'ekln dltpatch, not dated, but belletrd to havu bleu writ ten on July (I, eigne.! by IkjIIi Mr Hubert Hart, luapralor-gcneral of cut toma, and Mr Hubert llrit'duu. deputy Inapcatur-geiirral, to tlio following effect: ef-fect: "Htnff and fiimlly atlll wife.- Thl liat been eonllnniil by tlie com-inlatlunerof com-inlatlunerof enttotua in Hlianghnl. A teimatloual Nhaiiglial rorrmpomt-ent rorrmpomt-ent Hill hlnta that tlie Clilnete are Juggling with dutca, but. In face uf tlie ronttaiitly aecumulntliig ctldrnce that the inlnlatera went tafo on July 33, and dltplte the oinlulon from nil the dltpatchet of unxlotitly detlred Infur-uiatlou Infur-uiatlou regarding the real tltiiatlou, pollllcnl and otlierwlae, nt l'ekln thero arc tery few In Iimlon who do not bellefi) the dltpatchet genuluo and rc-Uablr. 1 he alllet now confronla rnott dlfll-cult dlfll-cult and dangerout problem. Williaut doubltha uilnlttcre era held by the Chlnete at hottugva', aud the outcome i of tbe advanoe on reklu1wblclitttnj.alli I probability, but already brguii, will be I awaited with Inlrnte amlet. I IhoChlneao are atruugly Intrenched ' at Wang Ttun, from which potllion, however, it la believed they can be , ejected without great clinicnltr. The danger It that, if defeated there, tho . Chlucte will rctlro on .'chin and put the rcmaluder of tlie Huropeana to death. It la alto potalblo that tho advance o( tho altlee will be tha tlgnal for tho Chlncto authurillea to cogipcl all for clgncra to quit the capital, In which event they might become tho prey of the fanatical lloxcra. Tlio feeling It that nothing whatever ehould now delay tha advance, aud that uu negotiation! of any hludahould be countenanced until tlie allied Iroopt rrncri l'ekln and atiuro themtelvet re gtrdlng tlie fulo of the forelguera. |
