A COSTLY VICTORY
General Nieh Rescues Prince Ting, but Loses 2,500 Men.
A battlefield report on General Nieh's costly defeat of Prince Tuan's forces during the Boxer Rebellion, interwoven with a note on Li Hung Chang's uncertain departure from Canton.
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Daily Inter Mountain · July 13, 1900 · Page 1
1 min readShanghai.
New York, July 13.—A dispatch to the Journal and Advertiser from Shanghai says:
The viceroy of Fuhkien has received dispatches from Pekin, dated July 7, announcing that General Nieh with 9,000 men has reached there from Lutai by making a long detour to the north.
He met and defeated Prince Tuan's army and rescued Prince Ching, but lost 2,500 men in the operation.
He is now trying to rescue General Yung Lu and to save what may be left of the legations in Pekin. Nieh is favorable to the foreigners.
The state department has also received a dispatch from Consul McWade at Canton, saying that the viceroy, Li Hung Chang, has engaged quarters upon the Chinese steamer An Ping, but that the date of his departure is as yet undetermined.
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