The following nows comes by wire from a reliable source: Yi Lu, Viceroy of Chili, has been degraded and ordered to be handed to the Board of Punishments for trial, the disturbances having commenced within his jurisdiction. General Tung Fa-hsiang of the Kansu corps has been cashiered and ordered to be sent to the military post roads asa convict, for the murder of the Japanese Chancellor by his troops. Huang Kien-yuan, Customs Taotai of Tientsin, fled for refuge to Viceroy Ya Lu's yamen when it seemed that the Boxers were on the point of attacking Tientsin.
The casualties reported are British: one killed, four wounded.
French: one killed, one wounded.
Germans: three killed, seven wounded.
Russians: sixteen killed, forty-five wounded.
The Chinese torpedo-boats have been seized.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.