THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
VOL. LII.]
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Week, &c.
Leading Articles:-
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 15TH DECEMBER, 1900.
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The Allies and the Chinese Government.
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Affairs in the North
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Britain, the States, and China
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'The Government and British Interests in North
China
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The Destruction of Refuse
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The Plague in 1990...
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The Crisis: Telegrams
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Hongkong Legislative Council
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Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce
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Fire in Queen's Road Central
A Matahed Fire at Happy Valley.
The Crisis in China
The Concert in St. George's Hall
Hongkong Volunteer Corps
The Dramatic Season
"Lodge St. John" Installation and Banquet
Newchwang.
Canton
Manila
Formosa
Oxford Local Examination
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ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
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December (28 days).
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Fund in Aid of Sufferers from the Typhoon
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A.D.C. Performance in Aid of the Italian
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Alice Memorial and Nethersole Hospitals
Correspondence
The Punjom Mining Co;, Limited
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Supreme Court
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Cricket
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Football
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Royal Hongkong Yacht Club a.
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Hongkong Volunteer Corps..
Hongkong Choas) Club
Hongkong and Port News
Commercial
Shipping
BIRTHS.
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
Of the War Vote of sixteen millions sterling passed by Parliament on the 12th instant, half a million is to be devoted to expenses in connec- tion with the China expedition.
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According to the N.-C. Daily News Tientsin correspondent, a large force of Viceroy Chang Chih-tung's Hupeh “rescue" army is reported 485 485
as stationed in South Chihli. Its object is 485 unknown.
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Last weak the British troops at Shanghai when on leave were without their side-arms. This appears to be a result of the recont dis-
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We hear from a trustworthy source that H. E. the Governor of Macao has received a telegram. from the Minister of Marine, Lisbon, to the effect that the British Channel Squadron was expected at the port of Lisbon on the 5th inst. with the express view of paying a compliment to the King of Portugal and his Government. A later telegram announces an agreement between England and Portugal concerning › Delagoa Bay.
Replying to Mr. Walton in the House of Commons on the 9th inst., Viscount Cranborne said that he understood that the present, dis- position of the Shanhaikwan Railway was purely temporary, and that the matter was engaging the Government's attention. He denied that British interests had been neglected at New- chwang. He also ridiculed the idea of not demanding the punishment of Chinese officials and a money indemnity, and said that the Powers were entitled to a just reparation for their
wrongs.
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Two stories are circulated about the result of the negotiations between England and Russia with regard to the latter's tenure of the railway from Shanhaikwan to Yangtaung, states, the...! Japan Mail. One is that Russia has declined to give up the line until she is recouped the expense she incurred in occuping it; the other that she has agreed to hand it over to the head-quarters of the allies." We imagine," the Mail adds "that the latter version is truth.” It is also the version which our scanty intelligence on the subject supports.
At 74, Middle Road, Singapore, on the 2nd Do. / turbances, but we do not hear that the other | the north with regard to the proposed move-
cember, 1900, the wife of Mr. C. SCULLY, of a daughter.
On the 3rd December, 1900, at No. 4, Shantung Road, Shanghai, the wife of the Rev. W. NELSON BITTON, of the London Mission, Shanghai, of a son. On the 3rd December, 1000, at 7, Albany Gardens, Shanghai, the wife of A T. KEMBER, F.R.C.S., Ed., C. M. S. Hospital, Hangchow, of a son.
At Kowloon, on the 9th December, 1900, the wife of Mr. W. WILSON, of a daughter.
At No. 67, Wyndham Street, on the 11th De- cember, the wife of Mr. A. WEILL, of a daughter.
MARRIAGES.
On the 28th November, 1900, at Holy Trinity Cathedral, Shanghai, by the Rev. H. C. Hodges, FREDERICK J. J. PRYNN to ELIZABETH C. CHUMPE. At St. John's Cathedral, Hongkong, on the 10th December, by the Rev. R. F. Cobbold, M.A., JOHN JAMES CURL WATSON, M.A., M.D., B.Ch., Trin. Coll., Dublin, Major Royal Army Medical Corps, only son of the late Capt. WATSON, Military Train (Army Service Corps), to MARGARET Sara Lyons, eldest daughter of John LTONS, Brauksea, Sydney, New South Wales.
At St. John's Cathedral, Hongkong, on the 12th December, 1900, by Rev. B. F. Cobbol, M.A., GEORGE MONTAGU HARSTON, M.R.C.8. (Eng.), L.B.C.P. (Lond.), second san of George Alfred HARSTON, of Wentworth House, Harrogate, to MABEL ELSIE HARSTO, daughter of Edward F. Buttemer HARSTON, of 24, Trebovir Road, South Kensington
DEATHS.
At Tanjong Rhu, on Sunday, the 2nd Decem- ber, Mr. J. C. GROTH, late Apothecary of Port Dickson, aged 38 years.
On
the 7th December, 1900, at the General Hospital, Shanghai, JoHN N. MERRILL, of San Francisco, U.S.Â; aged 35 years.
On 11th instant, at 12.30. a.m., suddenly, at hir residence, 14, Arbuthnot Road, Januario AntonIO DE CARVALHO, for many years cashier at the Colonial Treasury, aged 70 years."
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troops were similarly unarmed.
According to Laffan's correspondent, Sir Ernest Satow has objected to any indemnity being claimed from China for the native Christians at Peking, who, he says, indemnified themselves by looting after the capture of the city by the Allies.
The Government of Netherlands India pro- poses to reform the organisation of the corps of schuttery or militia in the ports of Java. Servico remains compulsory on all Europeans but the conditions will be made easier. Khaki drill will be used for the uniforms.
A Blue Book was issued this wook. Sir Claude Macdonald's despatches concerning the siege of Peking, makes special mention of Captains Strouts, Poole and Halliday, of civilians Oliphant, Warren, Dering, Cockburn, Ker, Norris, Morrison and others; likewise of some foreigners, notably M. Shiba.
The latest Imperial appointments indicate a very vacillating policy. Sun Chia-nai, the new President of the Board of Rites and member of the tanlin Collage, is a friend of the Emperor. On the other hand, Wang Wen-shao is elevated to the Grand Secretariat, Lu Chuan-liu and two other reactionaries promoted, and Sung Shau, former Governor of Kiangsi, has been appointed Governor of Kiangsu.
From news at length to hand about the German expedition from Peking to Kalgan, it appears that the commander, Count York von Wartenberg, was killed in battle with the Chi- ness (not suffocated accidentally by the fumes of a store, a previously reported). His troops, however, reached Kalgan before returning to Peking and relieved the French mission in that city. The Chinese regular troops were driven into Shansi.
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Conflicting reports have been telegraphed from
ment of the Imperial Court. On the 8th inst: it was stated that the Empress Dowager was going to Wachang. while the Emperer would proceed to Peking. On the 9th the Empress Dowager's designs were said to be uncertain. On the 11th she was reported to have threatened summary vengeance on anyone suggesting a return to Peking. On the 12th the Grand Secretary at Hsianfu is quoted as authority for the statement that the Court, if it moves, will go first to. Taiyuanfu.
It is reported from-Seoul that anti-Christian riots have occurred in the locality of Ping-an, Corea, and it is feared that all the Christian buildings in that locality have been destroyed. It is known that there are many American in the above, neighbourhood. missionaries Another telegram from Seoul states that there are signs of great unrest in the provinces of Kyeng-sang and Hwanghai, which it is believed will result in anti-foreign riots. The Emperor is said to be greatly perturbed and has issued orders to the Ministers of Justice and of Police to suppress the rioters at once.
The N.-C. Daily News draws attention to the fact that it is hatred, not fear, that the southern Chinese feel for the Manchus, and says:--/Thin may be seen from the fact that for the frui time since the “pacification” of the Taiping rebellion (1882), Manchus who have recently come to Shanghai, down to Canton, Yangtze, have assiduously refrained fro ing themselves representatives of the race, and have either called themselv of Anhui, Kiangwa, or Cheklang, Thi to the fear of summasination at the handu
Chinese inhabiting the regions south of Yangtse and as far south sa Kwangal Yunnan.