The Archive · 1900

British and Japanese Fired Upon

An officer of the Poochi learned from one of H.M.S. Centurion's people that as the 350 British sailors and 200. Japanese were leaving the Tangku Railway Station, two volleys were fired into them, wounding three of the British, and causing many casualties to their Japanese allies.

AN UNLUCKY RUSSIAN, With regard to the Russian vessel that was hit five times, we are informed that she had four holes alone in one side, three of them being very near her water line.

'THE ILTIS LATE AT THE FIGHT, The German cruiser Iltis came down the river from Tangku an hour after the firing began, when she opened, and was followed 20 minutes later by the French gunboat "destroyers" up the river on Monday The British took one of the captured.

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