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During the week June 10th to 16th, the general : in the extreme, and it was a fine point to determine w ing the entrance of the Peiho should be seized. It wi tion to the end of time if the ultimatum sent in by th der on Saturday, June 16th, to hand over the Forts bef crisis in Tientsin and Peking or not. The official pe lay observers affirm that it made no difference; tha captured by the Reactionaries was fully committed the non-capture of the Forts would have involved th and native Christian in North China. The admi point, and, with the exception of the American Offi of action. After a council of war they sent in the ul fire at daybreak next day if the Forts were not referred the matter to Tientsin, and was ordered not initiative He did so by opening fire at the six gunbo of the Peiho, about 2,000 yards in a bee line above the 1 is much general misapprehension about this brilliant f nothing in the world to do with it, lying as it was twel twelve foot bar between it and the forts. The entire · little cockleshells of gunboats the British Algeri and the Russian Bobr, Gelek and Korietz-and two Japanese numbering about 300 each. The residents of U.S. Monocacy, which, after getting a shell through he of range. Many refugees fleeing from Tientsin were wharves, and were under fire for some hours. The fi the darkness, but when dawn appeared, at 3.45, the gui and afterwards by the Iltis, steamed down the river ai the N. W. Fort. A single well-timed shell would have six vessels, but Chinese gunnery was once more at mastered the heavy and beautiful weapons on the Forts, parties had rushed the North-west Fort, and then pro large North Fort at the river mouth. This was also es against the two fortifications on the South side of the 1 affair was finished before 6 a.m.-a large number of accuracy of the Allies' fire. Four Chinese torpedo-boa conspicuous bravery by the British torpedo boat des distributed amongst the Allies. The demolition of the

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