Dysentery prevails among the allied forces at Tientsin. There are two hundred yationts among the Japanese troops alone.
THE MAUCH ON PEKING, The march on Peking by the Allies is expected to commence on the ist August.
SEVERE FIGHTING NEAR TIENTSIN, Late arrivals from Tientsin state that severe fighting occurred on the 2st, 22nd and 23rd inst, at Peitsang, about nine miles north of Tientsin, The foreign troops engaged were Russians and Japanese. The Chinese were in overwhelming nu hers and the attacking party. Desperate fighting continued for nestly' three days, the allies holding their own, in spite of vast preponderance of their foes, British troops were being rushed up to the assistance of the allies, The Russians and Japanese are said to have lost more than 1.000 men during the fighting on the first two EWS FROM PORT ARTHUR, The turret steamer Oak Branch arrived hereon Monday from Port Arthur, which she left on Friday last. Tuo of three days before her departure, a party of Chinese about 20 in number were found poisoning the wells a few miles outside Port Arthur, The Chinese were summarily executed. On Friday last a force of 2,000 Russian troops was preparing to leave Port Arthur, engage a budy of Chinese soldiers en. trenched few miles from the town. Much excitement prevails and mot tial law has been proclaimed throughout the Russian Possessions on the peninsula.
On Sunday morning the Oak Branch, when off Quelpart, "saw a Japanese steamer ashore, with another steamer standing by to as In the opinion of one of the officers of the British vessel, the Japanese steamer appeared to be badly situated.
The vessel referred t" is the Japanese transport Satsuma-mara, whose stranding was reported in our yesterday's issue. The steamer rendering' assistance is the Ssikio-maru, Both of these Japanese vessels belong to the Nippon Yusen Kaisha.
The following notes are from the " Hongkong Daily Press" of the 28th ultimo
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.