500 Americans, and 500 British and Japanese have met and fought 3,000 Chinese seven miles from Tientsin. The Chinese retreated with a loss of 300 killed and wounded. The: British and Americans had 12 wounded, the Japanese 10.
IS H. M. KUANG HSU IN PEKING?
News received from official sources is to the effect that the Emperor Kuang Hsii is safe in the Japanese Military headquarters at Peking, his cottage having been intercepted by a Japanese cavalry detachment while travelling northwestwards and 80 miles from Peking. It it also stated that Jung Lu has succeeded in escaping from Peking and managed to reach Paotingfu on the 23rd inst. and with him also was Duke Chung Yi, father-in-law of the late Emperor Tung Chih, and promoted Chief Preceptor of the Heir Apparent last January. This seems to point to the fact that the Empress Dowager cannot be far away from that vicinity.
Chungking, 26th August.
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