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THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
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China Overland Trade Report.
VOL. LII.]
CONTENTS.
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 18T SEPTEMBER, 1900.
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About a hundred and fifty officers of the British Army are expected to arrive in India next month to fill existing vacancies in British
corps.
It is understood that Mr. G. Greville, H. B. M. Minister to Siam, will not return to 159 Bangkok, but proceeds to Mexico to act as Minis-
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Epitome of the Week, &c.
Leading Articles :---
The Entry into Peking
Financial and Commercial Reform for China 158
The Question of China's Partition
The Japanese Action at Amoy
A Lesson in Combined Action
The Crisis: Telegrams
Supreme Court
Hongkong Sanitary Board
The Crisis in China
The Servant Question in Hongkong
Hongkong Home Guard
The Wreck of the Futami Maru
Charge against a Sanitary Inspector
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Yung Lu and Tung Fuhsiang
Canton
Swatow
Amoy Wuchow
Manila
Sailors and Soldiers' China Relief Fund
Sandakan Notes
H.M.S. Terrible Fund
The Hongkong Hotel Company, Limited
Company, Limited
Hongkong Volunteer Corps
The Gymkhana
Hongkong Football Club
Hongkong Cotton Spinning, Weaving and Dyeing
Hongkong and Port News Commercial
Shipping
BIRTHS.
ter there.
It is announced in the London Gazette that the Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. W. Pritchard Morgan as Consul-General for 165 Corea in London.
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On the 16th July, 1900, at Weihaiwei, the wife
of EVAN MATHEWS, of Tongshan, of a son (still- born).
On the 7th August, 1900, at Kobe, the wife of
JOHN HALL OSBORNE, of Tientsin, of a son.
On the 9th August, 1900, at Tsingtao, Hotel Prinz Heinrich, the wife of H. SCHROETER, of Tientsin, of a son.
On the 20th August, 1900, at Shanghai, the wife of A. LAIDRICH, of Hankow, of a son.
On the 26th August, 1900, at No. 3, Mosque Junction, Hongkong, the wife of R. M. DE SOUZA, of a daughter.
MARRIAGES.
On Thursday, the 5th July, at St. Peter's, Southborough, THOMAS JOHNSTONE BOURNE (A.M.I.C.E., Imperial Chinese Railways, Tientsin), youngest son of the late Rev. S. W. BOURNE, B.A, of Winfarthing, Diss, Norfolk, to EDITH MARY, youngest daughter of the late H. W. BRIDGES, Esq., of Mistley Dene, Southborough.
At 11 a.m., on 25th August, at St. John's Cathe- dral, by the Rev. R. F. Cobbold, JAMES S. Barber, U.S.N., to MÁBLE F. WHILEY, of Hongkong.
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The French mail of the 27th July arrived" per M. M. steamer Salazie, on the 29th August (34 days).
EPITOME OF THE WEEK,
On the 28th ult. there was to have been a general illumination and a Fire Brigade Parade at Shanghai. It was subsequently announced that it had been postponed.
The German Imperial Gazette announces that the title of "Councillor of Legation" has been conferred upon Baron von der Goltz, inter- preter to the German Legation in China.
The O. & O. s.s Coptic, with the American mail, was detained ten days at Kobe, owing to a Chinaman developing plague on board, and there- fore did not reach Nagasaki until the 29th ult, Mr. George Jamieson, C.M.G., was to leave England for China on or about August 25, to undertake an important and delicate mission in connection with an Anglo-Chinese company of which he is a director.
Indo-China were disembarked at Shanghai to On the 27th ult. French troops from
30th ult. 600 French marines, 160 Annamites, assist in the defence of the Settlements. On the
and a mountain battery were landed..
The German squadron under Admiral Geissler, consisting of the battleships Kurfürst Friedrich Wilhelm, Brandenburg, Wörth, and Weissen- arrived in Hongkong early on the 28th ult., bury, and the despatch vessel Hela, which proceeded on its way north yesterday.
The Courrier d'Haiphong is responsible for the statement that the French Consul, doctor, and postmaster, who recently left Hoihow in consequence of the threatening aspect of affairs there, have received imperative orders to pro- ceed to their posts immediately. The Kersaint has been sent to Hoihow for their protection.
This week all the native papers in Canton were suppressed by order of the local authorities and their offices were closed. The reason is variously stated, but it is believed that the main cause of offence was the reproduction from the Hongkong papers of the report that the Japan- ese had succeeded in capturing the Chinese Emperor.
H.M S. Esk was paid off at Shanghai on Tuesday last, and recommissioned next day by Lieut. and Com. William F. Blunt, vice Lient. and Com. Chadwick. Mr. James G. Watt succeeds Dr. Hugh S. Burniston as about Amoy will be found in the telegrams Gunner W. J. Johnson remain from the old surgeon, while Sub-Lieut. A. C. Goolden and from our correspondents on p. 160.
The news of the week from the north and
The Czar has conferred the St. George Cross upon General Linevitch, the Commander- in-Chief of the Russian troops, for the relief of Peking.
The celebrated bacteriologist, Professor Koch, reached Hongkong from New Guinea this week and has gone on a visit to Canton, whence he will return to Hongkong and thence proceed home.
commission.
According to a Nagasaki paper, the Mitsu American authorities in the Philippines to Bishi Company has signed a contract with the supply 60,000 tons of Japanese coal, which are to be delivered up at Manila in four months, for the use of American men-of-war and trans- ports. Karatsu coal has been selected, and it is said that the first consignment of 5,000 tons is now ready for shipment,
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The Chinese Mail's Shanghai correspondent telegraphed on the 29th ult. that Li Hung. chang had memorialised the Throne, suggest. ing that Prince Ching, Yung Lu, Lin Kung- yi, and Chang Chih-tung should be appointed to conduct negotiations with the Powers.
The Macao Government has issued a Boletim absolutely prohibiting the import or export of firearms in the colony. This regulation applies to sporting guns, and any one landing in Macao- the magistrate and have his guns confiscated. with such will be liable to be brought before
Several of the leading firms in Moscow have silk at Kalgan have been plundered, and after... received news that their warehouses of tea and wards burned by Chinese rioters und troops. The, goods taken away or destroyed are valued at 7,000,000 taels (about £1,167,000) reckoning the tael at 3s. 4d.
On the 26th ult, the steamer Pioneer reached Chungking after 24 steaming hours up the Yangtze from Ichang. She brought back with her to Chungking the British Consul, Mr. M. F. A. Fraser, the staff of the Imperial Mar- itime Customs, and several passengers. The staff of Chungking was reported to be very satisfactory.
The two young Siamese, selected by the King of Siam, whose departure from Bangkok for Eu- ¦ rope to be trained in the German Army we have Prince Krom Phra Chakrapatipongse, and the already noted, are the sons of the late H. R. H.
bongse, has gone on a visit to the Czar. son of Laung Pityutayanyong. One of the Sia- mese princes, H. R. H. Prince Chao Fa chakra-
On the 30th ult. the s.s. Australian arrived in Hongkong, bringing with her the passengers from the Nippon Yusen Kaisha's s.s. Futami Mindoro, Philippine Islands, on the 17th ult. Maru which was wrecked off Cape Calavite, The Futami Maru left Sydney on the 2nd ult. met with a typhoon when nearing Mindoro. with mails, specie, passengers and cargo, and Details will be found in another column.
The British transports arriving at Hongkong in their way north during the week were the Palamcotta, Lawada (25th ult.), Patiala, Sala- mis (26th), Ujina (27th), Nairung (28th), Formosa (29th). The departures for the north lian. Lawada (26th), Ujina (28th), Formosa were the Fazilka (25th ult.), Palamcotta, Antil- Nairung (30th), and Salamis (31st). The hospital ship Carthage left for Welhaiwei on
the 28th.
On the 24th ult. a small Japanese Buddhist temple at Amoy was burnt and in consequence a party of armed Japanese with two maxim guns were unexpectedly landed at Amoy, after-i- wards crossing over to the Settlements at Kulangsu Island. They were followed on Sun- day by one hundred and fifty more of their perfectly quiet, were at a loss what to make of compatriots. The local Chinese, who had been
the Japanese action, and accused the Japanese of burning the temple themselves as an excuse for landing. On the night of the 28th ult. H.M.S. Isis sailed for Amoy, which she resched marines in the British Concession. In the on the 29th ult., next day proceeding to land 70 meantime the Japanese have despatched from Formosa an infantry battalion, a battery of artillery and a company of engineers. A state of panic prevails in Amoy and half the Chinese population has left.
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