Its distance to Tientsin is about seventy or eighty miles less than that of Chinwangtao to Tientsin.
After lying for fully half an hour, he got up and continued his way towards Tientsin.
It was the first positive information that was received in Tientsin that the Legations still held out.
No doubt was felt that the armistice was the result of the capture of Tientsin.
In May of 1898 we started down to Tientsin by houseboat, with our children, for a much-needed rest and change.