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Show CHINESE GOVERNMENT OUILTV: Coatee Ha-t lll.iu. fnr lllitnrbsnce 1 1st el tha leet or llm Throne. In a talk with the relieving force at I'ekln, Minister Coogtr said: They tried to aunlhllato us the day before J oil got In PrinroChlng, prcsl- I denlof the Isiing-ll-Yamcti, suit word that his tillliern had rciilved orders to cease llrttig on ut, tindirpain of death. At 7 o'clock In theLtrnliigot the same day tha Chinese opined lire, nud this soutlumd all day If tho rellitlng column d not or ritrd when it did we should probably hate succumbed The Americans lost sctcn mnrlucs killed aud llflicn wounded and una child died. TLe whole moteinent is purely a goternmentnl one. The lloxera aro only a pretense, hating no gnus. The coulldentlal adtlsorof tlie empress was the leader of the Imperial troopt hero. lu eleten daya over 3,000 shells fell among us. |