THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. LV.]
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
Epitomo of the Week, &c. Leading Articles:-
Whitewashing Yung Lu Foreigners in China
The West River Outrage
HONGKONG. SATURDAY, 18TM¤ JANUARY, 1902.
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The Offenders of 1900 and their Punishment.
t... 39 The Yunnan Railway Question.
The Ton in Press and Great I ritain
The Crisis Telegrams
The Outrage on the West River
H.M. Naval Yard' Extentsion
The Court at Peking
Correspondence
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EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
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Viceroy Yuan Shikai has decided to engage a Japanese Colonel to be his military advisor, and ixty other Japanese military officers to Marquis Ito is expected to visit Paris in train the Chinese army in China aftor Japanese
February.
Tattersall's Annual Cotton Circular says that the ontlook in the Lancashire trade is better, partly owing to the improved Chinese demand. L'Echo de Chine says that on the entry of 40 the Court into Peking the Empress Dowager 40 roturno the salutes of the foreigners near
whom she passed.
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Yung Lu's Rehabilitation
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Organ Recital in St. John's Cathedral
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A French View of the Situation in Siam
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China and Manila Steamship Co., limited
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i bina Provident Loan and Mortgage Co., 1 imited.
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Supreme Court
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Cricket
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Football
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Royal Hongong Yacht Club
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Royal Hongkong Golf Club
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Water Return
The Railway Race to Yunnan Plague and Sanitation
Hongkong and Port News Commercial. Shipping
BIRTHS.
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Ye Saijun, who was recently appointed Corean envoy to proceed to England to take part in the Coronation of King Edward VII, will sail for Europe in February,
It is reported in Shanghai that Russia secured, before the death of Li Hung-chang, the concession of a strip of territory at Manwai, south-east of Shanghai, near Yangisze Cape.
The officers of the Singapore detective staff who were charged with illtreating the prisoners 48 convicted in connection with the Hongkong 48 and Shanghai Bank robbery have been acquitted at the Singapore assizes after three days' hearing. The jury stopped the case.
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At 151, Union Street, Aberdeen, Scotland, the wife of JAMES Russel BraZIER, Commissioner of Chinese Imperial Customs, of a daughter. (By telegram.).
On the 27th December, at Mission House, Knala Lumper, the wife of A. E. GREEN, of a daughter.
On the 5th January, at 1, Bubbling Well Road, Shanghai, the wife of GEORGE DALLAS, of a son.
On the 7th January, at Soochow, the wife of THOMAS FERGUSON, I.M. Customs, of a son.
On Monday, the 13th inst., a British steamer, the Nunning, belonging to the Hongkong. Canton and Macao Steamboat Co., was fired upon on the West River, and the Rev. C. E. L. Cowan, chaplain of H.M S. Glory, was shot through the leg. Particulars appear on p. 40.
Despatches from the North report that the various generals under Viceroy Yuan Shikai ure now actively engaged in enlisting young, able. bodied Chilli men for their various corps, it being rumoured that some 40,00 are to be
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The design is being prepared for the medal to commemorate the recent operatious in China. It will bear a marked resemblance to the medal issued for the China war of 1860, .and the ribbons will be of the same colours. All who took part in the fighting will receive the decoration-soldiers, nurges, Indian public followers, and servants, and it is believed the Hongkong garrison will also participate. A war gratuity of about half the rate of the South African war gratuity will be awarded.
Yuan Shikai, after having memorialised the throne, has issued an order to reorganise the Northern Squadron (Peiyang fleet) at once, for which purpose 1,100,000 Taels per year will be available. Admiral Yi Tung-kou has received orders to prepare quarters for the, squadron at Chefoo. It is expected that he will assemble his ships immediately after the Chinese New Year. It is reported that only British naval officers will be employed as instructors, negotia- tions with the British authorities to this end having been already taken up.
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The removal of the capital of French Indo- China from Saigon to Hanoi has begun, bat is not likely to be carried out for the present. The opposition to the removal at Saigon has been strong enough to prevail upon the Paris Government to reconsider the question Doumer favours the removal on the ground that Hanoi has a cooler climate than Saigon. Meanwhile a new French steam navigation company has been started, with Saigon as centre, which proposes to run steamers from
On the 8th January, at Tsingtau (Kinochow) added to the Peiyang army in the immediate that port to the China coast, rice-trading being
the wife of MAX HOMANN, of a daughter.
On the 13th January, at No. 49, Wyndham Street, the wife of ('. MOONEY, of a son.
MARRIAGE.
On the 28th December, at St. George's Church, Penang, by the Rev. F. W. Haines, B.A., Colonial Chaplain, assisted by the Rev. H. C. Henham, WILIAM HENRY BELL, of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, eldest son of JAMES BELL of Douglas, Isle of Man, to DORA, youngest daughter
of the late JoHN HOGAN, of The Avenue,
DEATHS.
On the 21st December, WALTER NORTON DOW, of the Hongkong and Shanghai Eank. (By tele- gram.)
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Ethelhurst," On the 27th December, at Penang, CLARE EVELYN, youngest son of the late Lient. T. A. Fox, Harbourmaster of Penang, aged
21 years.
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A likelihood of a renewal of military activity is reported from Samar, PI. It is said that the individual officers of the U.S. troops on the island are to be allowed in fature greater latitude in dealing with the enemy. 2,000 Filipinos aro estimated to have perished in Samar.
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The Shanghai Mercury correspondent tele- graphed from Peking on the 9th inst:-"At audience held yesterday a decree issued condemning Tung Fuhsiang to be ex- ecuted on account of the Kansu outrages." Tung Fuhsiang has been already arr sled. There is no confirmation of this news from other sources as yet.
Count von Bülow, speaking in the Reichstag this week, said that events in China had convinced the Chinese of the unity of the Powers, and that they were determined to combat barbarism. Germany's policy in China had realised for her a strengthened position in
the main business.
We understand, writes the N.-C. Daily News of the 11th inst., that Sir James L. Mackay, the British Commissioner appointed to negotiate the new commercial treaty between Great Britain and China, along with his Assistant
Commissioners, Mr Cockburn and Mr. Dad- geon, and their official staff, met the Chinese Commissioners yesterday. The conference was private. We are informed on good authority that each of the Great Powers will negotiste its own treaty separately. As already stated, the negotiations between Sir James Mackay and China are now taking practical form, and. as soon as these are complete, it is said that Germany, France, Japan, and America, in the order named, will pursue their negotiations.
In announcing the transfer of Marshal Son from the military command on the Franco- Chinese frontier to Hapel, Le Courrier d'Haiphong says that Son's friendship was purchased by the sum of $30,000 paid him by
Hongkong Weekly Press Shantung, and secured equal rights with others M. Doumer, who also fêted him and otherwise
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ARRIVALS OF MAILS;
The French mail of the 13th December arrivod, per M. M. steamer nos, on the 15th January (83 days); and the American mail of he 19th December arrived, per P. M. steamer Pern, on the 17th January (29 days).
on the Peiho and Yangtsze.
An Echo de Chine telegram, dated Puotingfu, The Imperial Court | the 4th instant, says:
has been transported mest satisfactorily by the Luhan railway from Chêntingfu. In addition to the Imperial train, ten other trains followed, carrying the suite and baggage of the Imperial Their Imperial Majesties were en- Court. chanted with their first railway journey. This first trip constitutes the inauguration of the line from Paoting to Chêntingfu, which is open to the public from to-day.
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diplomatic dodges" to ensure his assistance in keeping the frontier free of brigands. The Courrier says that unless the French authorities come to terms with the Marshal's successor, M. Doumer's dollars will prove to be good money thrown away. The moment the subsidy is renewed and the principle of paying the Chinese officials to keep order on the border is admitted, it will be a costly ́thing for M. Doumer's successor, and posts on the froutier will be eagerly sought after by the Chinese military mandarins.
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