HC Deb 29 June 1900 vol 85 cc63-4
MR. GIBSON BOWLES (Lynn Regis)

May I ask whether the Government have received any news from China.

THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS (Mr. BRODRICK,) Surrey, Guildford

Her Majesty's Consul at Tientsin telegraphs that the British losses in Admiral Seymour's force which arrived 26th June, together with relief force, were as follows— Captain Beyts, R. M. A., killed, seven officers wounded, twenty-four men killed, ninety-one wounded. Returns from foreign detachments not yet completed, but total is stated to be sixty-two killed, 212 wounded. Various reports have reached the Government as to the positions of the Legations, but the most recent one points to their being still in Peking.