Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 July 1900 — TIEN-TSIN IS TAKEN. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

TIEN-TSIN IS TAKEN.

CHINESE ROUfED AFTER THREE DAYS’ FIGHTING. - Forces of the Allied Powers Capture the Native City and All the Forts— Total Losses 775, Including 213 American Troops. The powers are preparing to pour troops into China. From every capital comes the news that hosts are forming for a war of revenge. Now the attention of the nations is diverted from Pekin to Tientsin, which, according to reports, the allied forces had succeeded iu taking. Actual war upon China is on, and it. is feared that it will be a long and wasting war. for the Chinese, since their contest with Japan, are well prepared for hostilities. The London Daily Mail gives the following dispatefi from its Shanghai correspondent: “The allied troops resumed the attack upon the Chinese walled city of Tientsin on the morning of July 14 and succeeded in breaching the walls and capturing all the forts. The Chinese

were completely routed and the allies took possession of the native city and its defenses. The total losses .if the allies in the engagements of Thursday, Friday and Saturday were about SOO killed or wounded. The casualties were greatest among the Russians and Japanese.” The guns of the allies did immense damage to the native city, causing many large conflagrations, and finally silenced the majority of the enemy’s guns simultaneously. Then the 1,500 Russians, assisted by small parties of Germans and French, assaulted and captured eight guns that were in position on the railway embankment and the fort, the magazine of which the French subsequently blew up. A body of American. British, Japanese and Austrian troops then made a sortie and attacked the west arsenal, which the Chinese had reoectipied. After three hours of the hardest fighting yet experienced the Chinese tied. Admiral* Remey cabled the navy department at Washington that the city and torts of Tientsin are in the hands of Hie alliesf His list of killed and wounded is somewhat fuller than the first report. Total killed and wounded reported, 775; Russians and Japanese lost heavily. Our total loss, he says, is 215; about 40 were marines, but number believed t«< bo exaggerated. According to a Shanghai »lispa vh 100,tbl Chinese troops armed with Manser rifles and modern artillery are encamped at three points within forty miles ’of Shanghai, ready to besiege the town in the event of an attack by the Europeans Never, since Xerxes’ time, have tin* nations of the world gathered their varied armies together as is now the ease at Tien-Tsin. Under the wails of that grim old Chinese town. English aud American. French and German, Japanese and Russian, Austrian and Italian fought side by side, hereditary enmities forgotten. vengeance in their hearts and the great world's approval at their backs. At J.eipsie, in 1813, Napoleon, with his French and Polish troops, faced Germans. Austrians, Russians and Swedes, while at Waterloo the Corsican had to meet English, Germans, Belgians and Hollanders. In the Crimean war. Russia stood against English. French, Turkish and Italian armies, hilt in none of these conflicts were so many or such heterogeneous forces brought together as in China yesterday. The battle of Tien-Tsin might well be called the battle of the nations. ANOTHER MASSACRE REPORTED. Yellow Fiemls Slaughter 140 Defenceless Persons. News has been received that a body of Boxers, supplemented by a large force of regular soldiery, descended upon the Christian inhabitants of Tai-Yeun-Fu, the capital of Shea Si province, on .Inly 11, and massacred every foreigner they could find, as well ns the native converts. Their victims numbered about one hundred and fifty, of whom forty were foreigners. Tlie danger to Shanghai i> great, as thousands of armed Chinese are iu the vicinity.

The Kaiser has telegraphed the German merchants, in answer to their cable, that there will tie protection for the vulley of the Yung Tse after the arrival of the nine warships now cn route for China. . Mob Attacks a Laundry. Incensed at the Boxers’ murders, a crowd of men and boys gathered about the laundry of Ah Slug, a Chinese lnundryman in Kansas City, and started a demonstration that caused Sing to cad, on the police for protection.

MISSION BURNED AT PEKIN.