The following, which is from Lieutenant Blue, Flag-Lieutenant to Admiral Kempf at Taku, has been courteously handed to us by Mr. John Goodnow, u. S. Consul-General A combined force of 2,000 men, including 130 Americans under Major Waller, relieved Tientsin on the 23rd instant, after silencing the guns at the Arsenal, and breaking through the Chinese lines. The Americans and British were the first to enter Tientsin, the other nations close behind. The Russian losses were four killed and thirty wounded; the Josses of other nations slight.
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