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General Waldersee and General Toyran report that owing to 2600 Chinese Regulars having rendered aid to the Boxers attacking- the French force under General Bailloud in the vicinity of Tsochan, thirty miles southeast of Pekin, General Bailloud on the 22nd, after a sharp fight, stormed the town, capturing four guns and five standards, and killed and wounded a thousand Chinese. The remnant fled towardi Huanhsien. The French escaped scathless. Owing to the hostility o! the inhabitants they burned Tsochan and neighbouring villages.
The Chinese Regulars lately ftiassaored ten families of Christian dbn■mti ia th« Tiochm diatriot,
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Manawatu Herald, 30 December 1900, Page 2
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