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THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. LIII.]
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Week, &c.
Leading Articles:-
Russia in North China.
The New. China Blue-book.
A New Scare in Corea
Our Inadequate Police Force
Malaria: Curo and Prevention
The Crisis: Telegrams....
Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce.. Serious Trouble in Victoria Gaol...
The Canton River on Even Keel Again
The Vitriol Outrage
The Draft Manchurian Convention
The Corean Question
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HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 30 н MARCH, 1901.
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EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
Mr. John Goodnow, U. S. Consul-General, returned to Shanghai on the 16th inst. by the 263 Nippon Muru.
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According to the New York Tribune, the .264 United States has declined to protest against
Russia's seizure of Manchuria.
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The Treaty of Commerce between Belgium and Corea was ratified on the 12th inst. The 266 treaty is understood to be similar in nature
to those entered into with other powers.
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News reached Shanghai from Peking on 268 Monday that the Rev. J. Stonehouse, "of the 268 London Missionary Society, was reported killed by armed robbers 45 miles south-east of Peking. The body has been recovered.
Mr. Conger and the U.S. Government
The Glengyle-Hangchoir Collision
Hongkong Volunteer Corps
Theatre Royal
Hongkong Missions to Seamen
Canton
Swatow
Correspondence
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Cluna and Manila Steamship Co., Limited
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Hongkong Hotel Co., I imited
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Queen Mines, Limited
China Sugar Refining Co., Limited
Luzon Sugar Refining Co., Limited
Punjom Mining Co., Limited
Shanghai Land Investment Co., limited
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Supreme Court
Applications for Licences
Football
Sports
Royal Hongkong Yacht Club.
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Hongkong Volunteer Corps.
China's Foreign Trade in 1900.
The Development of Kinochan Hongkong Dockyard Hongkong and Port News Commercial
Shipping
BIRTHS.
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A French telegram from Peking reports that the bodies of the French subjects who died dur 270 ing the siege of the Legations last year have 271 been solemnly carried to the French Cemetery
at Peking and there buried.
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Reuter telegraphs that the United States on the 17th February expressed to China its sense of the inexpediency and even of the extreme danger of considering any privato territorial or financial arrangements, at least without the full 275 knowledge and approval of the Powers. Mr. Hay sent a of this memorandum to all the
copy 277 Powers, including Russia.
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At Kuala Lumpur, Selangor, on the 15th March,
the wife of Wallace Cook, of a son.
On the 16th March, 1901, at 36, Nanking Road,
Shanghai, the wife of J. J. JUDAN, of a son.
MARRIAGES.
On the 15th March, by the Rev. J. R. Hykes, D.D., at No. 2, The Bund, Shanghai, J. WARD
HALL, of Shanghai, to ANNA LOUISE EUSTACE, of Washington, D.C., U.S.A.
At St. John's Cathedral, Hongkong, on the 22nd March, by the Rev. F. T. Johnson, M.A., JEAN MUIR FOWLER, daughter of the late J. H. FOWLER, of Rangoon and Gourok, to EDWARD FALKENBERG
The China Gazette telegram to which the Times referred last week is probably the follow ing, which is dated Tokyo, 20th March, and appears in the China Gazette of that date:All Corcan waters, a formidable Japanese squadron The Russian warships having left Japan for is mobilising in Japan for immediate despatch to the coast of Corea.
syndicate to work the steamship trade between A proposal is on foot to form a Chinese
the ports of Kwanchauwan, Hoihow, Pakhoi and Haiphong. At present there are trading be- steamers of the Marty line, three Germans, and tween those ports and Hongkong the six |
a Douglas boat. Local traders.interested in the
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Mr. Conger, U. S. Minister at Peking, has gone home on leave, sailing from Hongkong on the 28th inst., after a visit to Canton and Macao.
The United States have suggested that $200,000,000 be fixed as a lump sum for the Chinese indemnity to the Powers, to be divided · into eight equal parts.
The China Merchants' steamer Benclutha, which has been laid up at Shanghai for the past six weeks undergoing a thorough overhaul, ar- rived in harbour on Monday. We learn that the Company's steamer Kwanglee is undergoing repairs at Shanghai, and will be down here in a day or two. The fact of the company effect- ing the annual repairs to several of their steamers, coupled with the knowledge that an- nsual activity is being displayed on all their wharves and warehouses in Shanghai and else' where, tends to discredit the report which was current here last week that the company were disposing of their properties. We learn, more- shipping circles last week as to any such deal over, that not a word was whispered in Shanghai having taken place.
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In the new China Blue-book just to hand some details will be found in connection with the withdrawal of Mr. M. F. A. Fraser on August 2nd from Chungking, which evoked so much comment and criticism. His leaving Chung- king was in pursuance of orders from Lord Salis- bury, who wired to Mr. Warren at Shanghai that naval and military authorities at Shanghai would be hampered until Europeans were with drawn from riverine ports, and directing Her Majesty's Consul at Chungking should leave the European commuuity. As Mr. Fraser was much blamed at the time for his action, it is In reporting his leaving, he mentions that Mr. only fair to him to mention these circumstances.
and Mr. Nicolson, of A. J. Little's," refused to William Hyslop, C.I.M., Mr. Brill, of Chicago,
go in spite of all_remonstrancos, and chose to of helping those expected from the interior stay behind and affrout danger with the view- during the next few weeks."
He says
the names of these gallant men deserve to be recorded."
The dispute at Tientsin between Britain and
GROS, of the Deutsch-Asiatische Bank, Hongkong. | lines stated affirm the field is too small to admit | Russia has been referred to the arbitration of
DEATHS.
On the 15th March, 1901, at 84, Rifle Range Road, Shanghai, Mabelle, the beloved wife of James H. OSBORNE, aged 35 years.
On the 19th March, 1901, at the General Hos- pital, Shanghai, ROBEET GIBSON, late Foreman Carpenter at Farahani, Boyd & Co.'s Cosmopolitan Dock, aged 23 years. .
At Tan Tock Song's Hospital, Singapore, on the 20th March, JOHN CHRISTIAN NEUBBONNER, eldest son of the late James Lonis NEUBEONNER, aged 39 years
of any further innovation and regard the new scheme as somewhat utopian.
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Count von Waldersee. A Neo Press telegram of the 16th inst. gives the following account of the dispute. The railway company wished to lay The news of the past week concerning the rails from the station to the riverbank, which is Manchurian Convention has been very contradic-only fifty yards away. The intervening ground tory. Our Shanghai telegram of the 25th inst (uow occupied only by debris of a few Chinese stated that the Grand Council at Heianfu bad huts) is claimed as Russia territory, by right of telegraphed to the Reformers Committee at conquest, because Russian blood was spilt there Shanghai to the effect tha: the hrone had des- in the defence of Tientsin last June and July. patched orders to Yang Yu. Chinese Minister The claim is denied by the other Powers, on the at St. Petersburg, forbidding the signature of ground that by international ageement there was the Convention. At about the same time a no war of conquest, and futhermore all nations Renter's teleg a gare the New York report alike took part in defending Tientsin, and all that China had refused to sign. On Wednew shed their blood, on that particular spot as well hai, the first repeating with variations the story to assert their claim, posting guards with day night two telegrams arrived from Shang-as elsewhere. The Russians took forcible steps of Yang Yu declining to sign, and the second bayonets to prevent the railway work from unnonno d that Li Hung-chang had signed, cooding. British guards have also been under pressure of De Giers's threat to haul clows alongside, to prevent any further down the Chinese flag if he did not. The re- sion, and the opposing pickets may con The French mail of the 22nd February ar- port about Li's signature was on Thursday conflict at any moment... Meanwhile, rived, per M. M. steamer Occänien, on the 25th stated to be “ rumour.
r." From a German is stopped. It is necessary to get it done
·March (31 days), and the English mail of the | Chinese source a report was current that the | soon as possible, in order to facilitate the
Convention had been signed at St. Petersburgwarding of supplies for Poking from resim on the 20th inst.
in the river.
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