was that Paotingfu and Tungchow were in flames. Of the former there is no confirmation whatever, indeed theze cannot he as the wires and line are both cut. The latter will most probably turn out' to be that the extensive premises of the A.B.M.
been destroyed, not that the whole city is aflame. We hear also of the U.S. Legation Guard marching out to bring in the missionaries.
It. was reported to-day that the various British subjects in outlying parts of Peking have been ordered in, and that the English women are at the Legation.
It is generally believed in Tientsin that General Nieh is to be cashiered and that he has been formally reproved for excess of zeal in attacking a village where the folks were not Boxers. This is exceedingly probable. He sent a few heads into Tientsin on Thursday, but his soldiers showed their zeal most in looting Mr. Currie's house at Yangtsun—a district they had been sent to pr.tect. They wantonly destroyed things they could not take away.
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