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Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. LIV.]
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China Oberland Trade
Trade Report.
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 10TH AUGUST, 1901.
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Week, &c.
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Leading Aoles :---
The Anx.ous Side of the Situation
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The Imperial Succession
122
Bussia and Tibet
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Anglo-Japanese Relations
The Pacific Cable
Swatow's Trade in 1900
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New Honour for Major-General Gascoigne
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The Crisis: Telegrama
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Hongkong Sanitary Board
125
The Insanitary Condition of Hongkong: Part I
127
The Sudden Departure of Warships
128
Violent Local Thunderstorm
Swatow
Tonkin Notes .......
The China League and the Tariff
The Theatre.......
Correspondence
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
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An official return of the Russian losses in China up to April, ştates that 20 officers and 400 mea were killed, 77 officers and 1.449 men wounded, 9 officers and 80 men having since died; and 56 missing.
A St. Petersburg despatch (according to s Havas telegram of the 1st inst.) reports that the Russian expedition to Tibet, under the command of Lieut. Kozlov was attacked by 2,000 'l anguts and cut to pieces, in spite of a most determined resistance.
Typhoon weather prevailed at Shanghai last week from Friday onwards. The Doric, with the American mail, though she arrived at Woo sung on Saturday, was unable to land pressen- gers or mails, and could not leave again until 129 Tuesday. There was but little general damage 129 done by the typhoon.
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Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation............131 Hongkong, Canton and Macao Steamboat Co., Ld.191 Supreme Court
The Coming Cricket Week Golf
Hongkong and Port News Commercial ...
Shipping
BIRTH.
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On the 2nd inst., the Russian steamer which was carrying M. de Witte, Russian Minister of Finance, who is on a tour to the Far East, foundered in a typhoon off some islands which are cabled in our telegram from Shanghai as the Tae Islands. The passengers and crew were
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There is said to be no intention of increasing 134 the French Far Eastern squadron, but arrange- ments are being made to keep it under the command of a Vice-Admiral, with the Redoutable The Cochin-China naval his flagship. division is to be strengthened in 1902 by the addition of the gunboat Acheron, but no other alteration seems to be contemplated on that part of the station.
On the 29th July, at the Victoria Nursing Home, Shanghai, the wife of J. Hunt, of a son,
MARRIAGES.
On the 20th July, at Kobe, at the Roman Catholic Church, by the Rev. Father Fage, Ellen VinCENT, to V. Di Lorenzo,
On the 24th July, at All Saints' Church, Kobe, by the Right Rev. Bishop Awdry, D.D., of South Tokyo, assisted by the Right Rev. Bishop Partridge, D.D, of Kyoto, and Rev. G. H. Davies, Chaplain, HUGH JAMES Foss, Bishop of Osaka,
son of the late Edward Foss, of Lower Hardres, Canterbury, to Lina Janet Ovans, eldest daughter of the late John Lambert OVANS, of East Sheen, Surrey.
DEATHS.
On the 25th July, at Wachang, WINIFRED (BATEMAN), wife of Dr. P. L. MCALL, London Mission, Hankow.
On the 28th July, at the Victoria Nursing Home, Shanghai, Trowar B. Gorning, aged 65 years.
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ARRIVAL OF MAILS.
The German Mail of the 26th June arrived, par N. D. L. steamer Prinses Irene, on the 5th August (40 days); and the American mail of the 9th July arrived, per O. & O. steamer Doric, on the 9th August (31`days).
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According to the Times, the now Chinese tariff will come into force on the 1st October noxt. A Renter's telegram says that the British Government has approved of the proposals to include in the Chinese 5 per cent, ad valorem tariff articles now free from duty, except rice and cereals. A later Reuter, dated the 6th inst., says: Sir Ernest Batow, British Minister at Peking, has notified has colleagues that Eng land is unable to sign the Protocal. reasons are not stated.
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Our Amoy correspondent writes under date 3rd Angust:—” We cannot understand why the British warships were ordered here, as every- thing is quiet in the port. There is a rumour that some Japanese, supposed to be spies, have been interfered with y natives at Chinchew, about two days' journey inland, but no details are to hand. The Eclipse and Daphne are still here, and also one Japanese cruiser, the Suma." A later advice shows that the same three ships were at Amoy on the 6th inst.
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No. 7.
The 7th Rajputs, now stationed at Peking, will leave there to embark at Taku on the 21st instant for Calcutta.
It is generally understood, says the Weihaiwei correspondent of the N.-C. Daily Neirs, that Japanese firm has undertaken to run a small steamer- about 200 tons-between this colony and Chefoo for a subsidy of 8800 per mensem. The contract, it is said, stipulates for two trips a week.
We should have perferred that a
Lord Salisbury replied to Lord Spencer in the House of Lords on the 6th inst., that he was unaware that Germany had declared Manchuris to be outside the provisions of the Anglo German agreement concerning China. On the same day Lord Lansdowns stated that the total number of troops in China was being reduced to 13,000, the British numbering 4,100. Lord Lansdowne entirely concurred with Lord Spencer as to the importance of Japan in the Far East and the necessity of maintaining most cordial relations with her. That, he said, was all the more saay inasmuch as the Japanese policy was similar to the British.
British steamship company had undertaken to maintain regular communication with the outer world. Failing this, we are very grateful to our friends the Japanese. It may reasonably be exported that the regular trips of this vessel will lower the cost of certain provisions, and provide the foreign community here with s better supply of fruit-not to mention other more obvious benefits.
News received from Chining, Shantung, says the N.-C. Daily News, reports that there has been considerable recrudescence of Boxerism since the past two months in Shantung pro- vince, brought about by the accesses of the Lienchuang Hui or "Allied Villagers Chihli against the Government forces of Li Hung-chang. This is the true reason of the increase of Boxerism in Shantung, whilst another cause is said to be the news of the
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temporary retirement of Governor Ynan Shih-kai due to the death of H.E.'s stepmother the other day. Hu Ting-kan, who is acting Governor and Treasurer, is said to be a wenk man and not generally feared by the people of the province, although he has sent troops to disband the embryo Boxer Association wherever found in Shantung.
A Tokyo despatch to the Oraka Anahi, in reference to the circumstances which have led to expediting the negotiations between the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank and the German- Asiatic Bank with regard to the work of con- struction of the Tientsin-Chinkiang Railway, states that it is the satisfactory result of the working of the railways constructed by Germany in the neighbourhood of Kinochau Bay, and recently opened for traffic, which led
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the British and German authorities to bring the matter of the construction of the Tientsin- Chinkiang line to a head. Germany obtains the concession to construct two lines in Shantung. one running south-west from Tsingtao, Kinooliau Bay, by way of Weicheng and Changshau, and the other from Kiaochau to Ching-cheng, both connecting with the Chinkiang line.
A telegram to the Osaka Asahi, dated Tokyo, July 25, says: - The works for the defence of the Legations of the Powers at Peking, which were decided upon at a conference of the Com- manders of the Allied Force', it was intended should be completed before the return of the Chines› Court to Peking, and the works are being pushed forward. At first it was proposed to erect forts, but the proposal was dropped on the ground that the presence of such works in the Chinese capital would impair the prestige of China as an independent State. It was hubne- quently arranged that strong walls should be erected round the Legations, which can be turned into forts in time of emergency, A space of about 230 metres is to be lett in fromk of the walls for outlook and the barracks of the It is expected that the Logation Guards. works will be completed sarly in September.
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