THE ATTACK ON TIENTSIN.

Evening Post, Volume LX, Issue 18, 21 July 1900, Page 5

THE ATTACK ON TIENTSIN.

LOSSES OF THE GERMANS AND JAPANESE. MUTUAL COMPLIMENTS BY THE COMju^jjEßS. (Received July 21, 8.48 a.m.) LONDON, 20th Juily. The losses of the merman troops in the attack on the native city at Tientsin on Friday last were small. This fact is attributed to their tactics in the field, which consisted in a rapid, advance, made in quick rushes. Amongst the Japanese troops the number of men wounded was 2/0. When the allies entered the city they found that it had already been looted and burned. The Germans apportion the largest share of the -honours of the victory to the Japanese, and oredit the Russians with their assistance in cupturing the twelve guns tuken by the Rucso-German detachment in the north-east part of the city. [Yesterday we were told that the Russian General ascribed the capture of these guns and the blowing up of two magazines chiefly to the Germans, who, he auded, greatly distinguished themselves.] The commanders of the contingents are mutually complimentary in their reports. They quote each other's testimony as to the work of their particular corps, and show a desire to avoid praise of their own men and to foster a spirit of goodwill and harmony. It is claimed by the .Japanese that they bombarded and captured the naval barracks of the enemy after the citadel and tho native city had fallen, and'tLat they captured eighty cannon, including sixteen guns of the most modern manufacture. VALOUR OF THE CHINESE. CHARGES RIGH;i' UP TO BRITISH BAYONETS. (Received July 21, 9 a.m.) LONDON, 20th July. The correspondent of the Daily Mail at Chi-fu states that the Chinese, when assaulted by Ih^ allies at Tientsin, stood up to a perfect hail of bullets. The carnage among the defenders was great, their bodies being piled up in a breast-high heap. Charges were made by the Chinese right up to the bayonets of the Sikks in the British contingent, but were repulsed. RUSSO-JAPANESE FRICTION. RUSSIANS ACCUSED OF WHOLESALE JU-tiariACRE. (Received July 21, €.48 a.m.) LONDON, 20th July. The Yokohama correspondent oi the Daily Mail states that the Japanese accuse the Russians of callous and wholesale massacre of the Chinese arourid Tientsin. They assert that women and children were included among»st the victims of this alleged massacre, ' and , that in one particular instance a junk containing three hundred bodies was burned. [There seems throughout the present crisis to have been much ill-feeling between Russia and Japan. Early in June when the Boxer outrages were becoming so prevalent, M. de Giesrs, the Russian Minister at PekLn, offered the Tsung-li-Yamen to lend Russian troops to assist in quelling the disturbance. As soon as he heard of this proposal the Japanese Minister went to the Yamen and discussed the question. Seeing that the Japanese representative would create trouble if the Russian offer were entertained, the members of the Yamen denied that it had been made. Nothing came of it, therefore, although as events have happened it might have been better had it been accepsed. This incident is one of many forcible illustrations of the tension in Russo-Japanese relo.tio.ns..]