THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
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China Overland Trade Report.
VOL. LII.]
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Week, &c.
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 24TH NOVEMBER, 1900.
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Leading Articles :---
The British Fleet in Eastern Waters Official Mystery in North China
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The Coming Winter and Chinese Affairs
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Population and the Weight of Power
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London and Chinese Immigration
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The Crisis: Telegrams
Hongkong Sanitary Foard
Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce
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Fusiliers at the Seat of War
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The Crisis in China
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The China Squadron Command
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Hongkong Released from Quarantine
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Sham Fight at Kowloon
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The Capsizing of the Canton River
Manila as a Rival to Hongkong
Interesting to Sportsmen....
The Theatre.
ARRIVAL OF MAILS.
The French mail of the 21st October arrived. per M. M. steamer Ernest Simons, on the 20th November (30 days).
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
An Anglo-Siamese Agreement has been published in London, remedying the taxation 413 grievances complained of.
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Messrs. Ward & Marsh's 2nd Subscription Concert.414
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Canton
Peking.
Tientsin Notes
Dairy Farm Co., Limited.
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Punjom Mining Co., Limited
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Extension of the Italian Convent
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Supreme Court
Cricket
Football
The Interport Shooting Match
Hongkong Volunteer Corps
Hongkong and Port News
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Commercial
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Shipping
BIRTHS.
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The Empress Dowager has issued a Secret Decree, warning all Viceroys and Governors to prepare for immediate war.
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Viceroy Chang Chih-tung has stated that General Tang Fuhsiang now entirely dominates the Imperial Court at Hsianfu and makes posco impossible. The Yangtze Viceroys have urged the Empress Dowager to return to Peking and are said to have guaranteed her personal safety. She regards them, however, with utmost suspi- cion and thinks they are plotting her capture.
Dr. Knappe, German Consul-General at Shanghai, has been on a mission to Nanking. According to a Chinese official despatch, he asked Viceroy Lia Kung-yi, first to permit foreign troops to ascend the Yangtze, and secondly to stop all supplies to Hsianfu. Itismore probable that the establishment of a German Consulate at Nanking was Dr. Knappe's object.
Russia, England and Japan have hitherto managed the civil government of Tientsin, but it is now said that Germany has asked for a share, states the Japan Mail. Her demand is supposed to be based on the fact that her mili. ' tary strength in Chili has been augmented, the Wal-inference being that the civil administration of the occupied districts is to be partitioned with reference to the forces of each Power at the
A Reuter's telegram reports growing com plaints at Washington against Count von dersee's military action round Peking as excessive and calculated to exasperate the Chinese.
Count von Walderses has requested the with. 419 drawal of Chinese troops from the vicinity of territory occupied by the Allies, on which he will discontinue the despatch of punitive expe- ditions.
At 9, Park Lane, Shanghai, on the 16th Novem- ber, 1900, the wife of Geo. Caulton, of a son.
On the 17th inst., at No. 5, Lyéemoon Villns, Kowloon, the wife of the Rev. J. H. FRANCE, of a
Bon.
At "Bemfica," Robinson Road, on the 20th
November, the wife of A. M. L. SOABES, of a son, At Hongkong Hotel, on the 21st November, the wife of J. HAND, Aberdeen Dock, of a son,
MARRIAGES.
At St. George's Church, Penang, by special license, on 1st November, by the Rev. W. H. C. Dunkerley, M.A., ALFRED EDWIN SKEELS, of Cambridge, England, to GEORGINA KATHLEEN STARKY, of Bath, Somerset.
At St. Andrew's Church, Chefoo, on the 7th November, 1900, by the Kev. A. E. Burne, MICHAEL JAMES SILVERTHORNE, younger son of the late Alfred SILVERTHORNE, to KATE, only daughter of the late Captain Thomas Lyxll, of Gardyne Castle, Forfarshire, and Mrs. Jus. J. CLEMENTS, of Chefoo.
On the 8th November, at St. Andrews Cuthe- dral, Singapore, by the Rev. D. Holland Stubbs, WILLIAM ALexander MacKENZIE, Marine Eugi- neer, of Birkenhead, to HELEN MARY, widow of Capt. Arthur Hodge TILLY, late Pilot, Singapore. On Thursday, 8th November, at Colombo, Mr. J. C. KOOPMAN to Miss B. C. FICHTNER,
DEATHS.
On the 11th instant, at No. 51, Bubbling Well Road, Shanghai, EMILY CHARLOTTE, relict of Charles H. Dallas,
At the Diamond Jubilee Memorial Hospital, Tientsin, on the 13th November, of typhoid fever, LIONEL C. BARFF, aged 31 years.
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On the 14th November, at No. 10A, Wilkie Road, Singapore, LILY, daughter of Mr. H. GRAND,
of Katz Bros. Limited.
At the General Hospital, Shanghai, on the 15th November, Mrs. HENRI FEER, née Oliveau, aged 19 years.
At Terra Verde," on the 18th inst., VICTOR, the beloved son of E. B. KELLY, aged 15 weeks.
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The report emanates from London that Count ron Waldersee has complained to St. Petersburg that the Russians grarding the railway at Taku and Tongku relinquished their guard without warning.
Count von Bülow stated in the Reichstag this week that Germany intends no adventurous policy in China and that the reinstatement of a strong Chinese Government will best suit Germany's interests.
The Russian newspapers, faithfully reflecting the official view, strongly condemn the con. ditions formulated at Peking as unpracticable of a dangerous crisis. and as likely to lead to the endless prolongation
There is a report that Sun Yat Sen, who was one of the prime movers in the Kwangtung rebellion, is now in Formosa. It is said that the Japanese Government will probably order him to leave the country, on the ground that his presence is considered detrimental to public peace.
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The Universal Gazette reports that there has been a meeting of the high officials in attendance on the Court at Hsianfu to consider the advis- ability of a return to Poking. Of the ten who were present four voted for the return, five for continued residence at Hsianfu, and one for further flight in to Szachuan.
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It has been ascertained that the Chinese actually did attempt to divert the Customs duties collected at Shanghai into the interior, ostensibly to meet the needs of the Imperial Court. This was, however, discovered by the vigilant director of the Russo-Chinese Bank, M. Pokotiloff, who put a stop to the proceedings by energetic representations to the Viceroy.
Admiral Seymour's command on the China Station has been prolonged until the settlement of the present difficulties in China. Admiral Rawson, however, according to the latest from home, was to have sailed for China on H.M.S. Glory, which was to leave on the 21stinst. Admiral Seymour proceeded to Hankow on the 21st instant.
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A telegram received in Shanghai at the be- ginning of the week announced that the three principal official culprits condemned to death by the Allied Powers for complicity in the missionary murders were beheaded at Poatingfu,.... and not shot, as was announced by the Ostasi atische Lloyd. The same despatch states that the heads were exposed on bamboos an entire day and that the circumstance has greated a profound impression amongst the Chinese in
the North.
The Tientsin correspondent of the Shanghai Mercury describes the explosion of war-junks at Tulu (or Tu-lin) thus. The British part of the Paotingfu expedition, he says, on their way back captured several large Chinese war-junka and found them loaded with arms and ammuni- tion. The latter having been placed on shore was being guarded by Indian sentries, but these were unable to keep back a lot of curious Chi- nese, mostly boat-people. Suddenly a terrible explosion took place, the whole lot of captured ammunition igniting. No British were injured, but five Indians and about a hundred Chinese witnessed it described the scene as most terrible; were killed besides many injured. Those who the sufferings of the dying, the ories of the many so fearfully torn, and the smell of burning flesh left impressions which nothing will erase from the memory.
According to a service contemporary the pay of Count von Waldersee in China has been fixed at 2,000 marks (£100) a month. As the annual income of a general commanding in the German army is 21,900 marks (£1,085), Count von Waldersee does not appear to derive any great increase of pay from his new post. His allowances, however, are on a more liberal scale, as he is granted 10,000 marks (£500) a month as table money; but with this he has to provide for the subsistence of fifty officers of his staff, and also to pay for entertainments he may have to give to the superior officers and diplomatists of foreign Powers. He will also continue to draw pay at the rate of 36,000 marks (£1,800) a year as a field-marshal on the active list, and also a certain number of rations. Altogether, therefore, the pay and allowances of Count von Waldersee will amount, while he holds his appointment, to 180,000 marks (29,000) a year.