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Y Taipo Camp.

0.0 13022 RECU REGEL MAY 17th April, 1899, 11.15 p.m.

Your Excellency.

The engagement to-day has ended by Berger reaching Sheung Ts'un in the Pat Heung valley and by Simmonds being stationed at San Uk tsai, 4 miles from here. Major Browne has returned and his account of the action is that the Chinese had chosen their positions well and that if they had only fired well the British troops would have fared very badly.

Browne is wounded slightly; and so is another man. No other casualties on our side. The casualties on the Chinese side cannot be ascertained, but some men have been killed. Captain Simmonds is stationed at San Uk tsai in a position commanding both valleys, Berger wishes to advance to-morrow.

I am strongly of opinion that the most effective manner of dealing with the situation is for the troops to be landed from Hong Kong at Castle Peak and for them and Berger to advance simultaneously whilst the "Fane" could cooperate from Deep Bay.

The leading villages which have been chiefly instrumental in creating the disturbance are Kam Tin, Ha Tsun, Un Long, and Ping Shan. My information is that these villages are determined to resist. I think they should be brought to reason, especially Kam Tin, which is an old offender.

So far as I can ascertain, the Chinese soldiers who engaged our troops are not regulars, but some...

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Y Taipo Camp. 0.0 13022 RECU REGEL MAY 17th April, 1899, 11.15 p.m. Your Excellency. The engagement to-day has ended by Berger reaching Sheung Ts'un in the Pat Heung valley and by Simmonds being stationed at San Uk tsai, 4 miles from here. Major Browne has returned and his account of the action is that the Chinese had chosen their positions well and that if they had only fired well the British troops would have fared very badly. Browne is wounded slightly; and so is another man. No other casualties on our side. The casualties on the Chinese side cannot be ascertained, but some men have been killed. Captain Simmonds is stationed at San Uk tsai in a position commanding both valleys, Berger wishes to advance to-morrow. I am strongly of opinion that the most effective manner of dealing with the situation is for the troops to be landed from Hong Kong at Castle Peak and for them and Berger to advance simultaneously whilst the "Fane" could cooperate from Deep Bay. The leading villages which have been chiefly instrumental in creating the disturbance are Kam Tin, Ha Tsun, Un Long, and Ping Shan. My information is that these villages are determined to resist. I think they should be brought to reason, especially Kam Tin, which is an old offender. So far as I can ascertain, the Chinese soldiers who engaged our troops are not regulars, but some... Page ... # Note that as per the instructions, I corrected spelling errors (e.g., "HongKong" to "Hong Kong", "on-sualties" to "casualties"), fixed spacing issues, and rejoined broken sentences. I also formatted the text into proper paragraphs. The original text had some OCR errors, which I corrected while maintaining the original content and tone. I did not rephrase or rewrite the text, and I did not include any comments or explanations. The output is in HTML format using for paragraphs.
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zuele in to со Y Taipo Camp. 0.0 13022 RECU می اسم REGEL MAY 17th. April,1899, 11.15 p.m. : Your Excellency. The engagement to-day has ended by Berger reaching Sheung Ts'un in the Pat Heung valley' and by Simmonds being stationed at San Uk tsai,4 miles from here.Major Browne has returned and his account of the action is that the Chinese had chosen their positions well and that if they had only fired well the British troops would have 'fared very badly. Browne is wounded slightly; and so is another man.No other on- sualties on our side. The casualties on the Chinese side can- not be ascertained, but some men have been killed. Captain Sim- monds is stationed at San Uk tsai' in a position commanding both valleys, Berger wishes to advance to-morrow. I am strongly of opinion that the most effective manner of dealing with the situation is for the troops to be landed from HongKong at Castle Peak and for them and Berger to advance simultaneously whilst the 'Fane" could cooperate from Deep Bay. The leading villages which have been chiefly instrumental in creating the disturbance are Kam tin,Ha Tsun, Un Long and Ping Shan,My in- formation is that these villages are determined to resist. I think they should be brought to reason, especially Kam Tin, which is an old offender,So far as I can ascertain, the Chi- nese soldiers who engaged our troops are not regulars, but some MOTE
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со

Y

Taipo Camp.

0.0

13022

RECU

می اسم

REGEL MAY

17th. April,1899,

11.15 p.m.

:

Your Excellency.

The engagement to-day has ended by Berger

reaching Sheung Ts'un in the Pat Heung valley' and by Simmonds

being stationed at San Uk tsai,4 miles from here.Major Browne

has returned and his account of the action is that the Chinese

had chosen their positions well and that if they had only

fired well the British troops would have 'fared very badly.

Browne is wounded slightly; and so is another man.No other on-

sualties on our side. The casualties on the Chinese side can-

not be ascertained, but some men have been killed. Captain Sim-

monds is stationed at San Uk tsai' in a position commanding

both valleys, Berger wishes to advance to-morrow. I am strongly

of opinion that the most effective manner of dealing with the

situation is for the troops to be landed from HongKong at

Castle Peak and for them and Berger to advance simultaneously

whilst the 'Fane" could cooperate from Deep Bay. The leading

villages which have been chiefly instrumental in creating the

disturbance are Kam tin,Ha Tsun, Un Long and Ping Shan,My in-

formation is that these villages are determined to resist. I

think they should be brought to reason, especially Kam Tin,

which is an old offender,So far as I can ascertain, the Chi-

nese soldiers who engaged our troops are not regulars, but some

MOTE

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