Daily Public Ledger

REINFORCEMENTS
More Troops Necessary to Capture the Inner City of the Chinese Capital.

FIGHTING IS STILL BEING KEPT UP
Four Hundred More Italian Marines Have Been Sent to the Relief of the Allies In Peking.
The Emperor and Empress Dowager Are Said to Be Under Restraint of Prince Tuan Sixty Miles From Peking.

London, Aug. 21.—Owing probably to the Peking wire being cut little news of conditions in the Chinese capital has come through. What has reached London indicates that the allies need reinforcements.

The commander of the Italian second class cruiser Fieramosca telegraphs from Taku, according to the Rome correspondent of the Daily Mail, that very urgent requests were coming from Peking on Saturday for the immediate despatch of further troops, and that in answer to these 400 Italian marines were sent off post haste.

The Japanese minister in London is said to have received a telegram announcing that subsequent to the entry into Peking a Japanese detachment went to the imperial palace to afford whatever protection was necessary. The enemy were in strength and fighting was still proceeding when the message was sent to Tokio.

The main body of the Japanese was then at An-Ting-Men gate, the Tartar city, with headquarters at the Japanese legation.

Reports of the presence of the empress dowager are still contradictory, but Gen. Yung Lu, on the authority of a high Chinese official, declares that she has fled to Si-Ngan-Fu, the capital of the province of Shen-Si, 600 miles from Peking, accompanied by a numerous suite and a strong escort.

The allies will proceed without reference to China's appeal for a halt in the proceedings.

The dispatch of August 12 said specifically that the United States was ready to enter into an agreement between the powers and the Chinese government for a cessation of hostilities on condition that the relief forces should be permitted 'to enter Peking unmolested' and escort the legations therefrom under such circumstances as the commanding general might lay down. But up to the present time there is no evidence that the allied forces are unmolested at Peking or have received the sanction of the imperial government to convey the legationers to Tien-Tsin without further trouble and under the conditions laid down by the commanding general. On the contrary all of the dispatches indicate that the allies are meeting with stubborn resistance and there is an entire lack of compliance with the conditions laid down by the United States in its dispatch of August 12.