THE FAR EAST.
: MARCH ON PEKING. i BATTLE "WITH THE BOXEBS. EFFECT OF MAXIMS. Eoeelvod Jiino 14, 0,15 a.m. London, June 13. The leading train conveying troops to Peking was preceded by 16 British marines, and a force of 2000 Boxers endeavored to isolate them. The marines with Maxims repulsed the Boxers, 40 being killed and wounded. The British burned two villages and sustained no casualties. Nine hundred British troops have been ordered to embark at Hong Kong for Taku, at the mouth of the Peiho river,
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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 11562, 15 June 1900, Page 3
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87THE FAR EAST. Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 11562, 15 June 1900, Page 3
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