Tientsin, 16th June.
An attack was made on Tientsin last night. The Roman Catholic Cathedral, all the preaching plices, and the greater part of the city were burned. The Boxers then made a rush on the station, and actually came within 50 yards of the Russian troops, who fired fifteen rounds with big guns.' They reported that they had killed between 300 and 400, though theta is no proof of this yet. They attacked the Settlvinent from two sides, and but for 2,000 Russians here we should have done badly, as 200 of our men had been sent down to guard the line to Tangku on which Chinese troops were reported marching. Everything is dislocated here, the wires cut, and the mail service off.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.