German Legations were unburnt. Nearly all the houses in the Chinese city had been destroyed. The inner gate of the Imperial city had been captured by Boxers. The central gate of the Tartar city was held by germans, with two guns captured from the' Chinese. The other gate was occupied by Chinese, also with guns.
It was reported that there were 20,000 troops under Tung Fu-hsiang between Peking and Tientsin, also 10,000 men under Chen Tse-lin.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.