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JUNE.
2ad-Sinking of the s.8 Pakshan in Hongkong
Harbour.
4th-Departure of Mr. T. H. Whitehead from
Hongkong.
5th-Election of Messrs. Shewan and Playfair as Unofficiat Members of the Hongkong Legislative Council.
7th-Departure of Dr. Hartigan from Hong-
kong.
8th-Peace thanksgiving service in. John's
Cathedral.
14th-Final distribution of China's war indem- nity arranged by diplomatic corps at Peking. 17th-Tai Cheong-Skramstad collision case appeal dismissed in Supreme Court, Long- kong.
19th S.S. Dynomene on fire in Hongkong Harbour.-Meeting of the Chinese Commer- cial Union to discuss the Public Health Bill. 22ad-Chinese craiser Kai-chih blowa ap uear
Nanking; 150 lives lost. 23rd-shanghai newspaper libel case (O'Shea |
v. Cowen) concluded. 24th-Arrival in Hongkong of Sir H. S.
Berkeley, now Attorney-General, 25th-News of King Edward's illness received in Hongkong; special Council meeting held and telegram of condolence sent. 26th-Special intercessional services for King Edward held in Hongkong.-Sir C. P. Chater's knighthood announced. 28th-Children's Coronation tea. 30th-V.R.C. annual meeting.
JULY.
2nd-Meeting of Hongkong Coronation Com-
mittee to decide on altered programme, e 4th-400 plague cases to date in Hongkong. 5th-Presentation of Address to HIM. the King; anveiling of the statue of the Duke of Connaught at Hongkong. 6th-Poisoning, ultimately resulting in 12 deaths, of boys at Chiefoo School; supposed cause ptomaines, or else cholera-Murder of
THE HONGKONG WEEKLY PŘESS AND
6th-Annual meeting of the Hongkong
branch of the China Association. 7th-Franco-Siamese Convention signed. 8th-bestoration to China of the first section of Manchuria by the Russians.-Death of H.E. Lin Kung-yi.—Arrival in Horgkong of the first detachment of the Shorwood | Forestors, relieving the R.W.F. 9th-Arrival of M. de Witte, Russian
Minister of Finance, in Vladivostock. 10th Death of H.E. Tao Mu, Viceroy of the
Two Kwang.
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11th-Gymkhana at the Happy Valley. 17th-Kowloon Garrison athletic meeting. 18th-Reception at Peking, from which H.B.M. Minister was absent owing to non-set'lement of the Chengchow murder case. ed-Dep riure for India of the Hongkong Regiment.
27th-Large meeting of the Chios Association at Shanghai; amended resolution approving Sir J. Mackay's treaty carried. 28th-Arrival from Peking of Senhor Castello Branco, Portuguess special envoy to China.
NOVEMBER,
1st-Hongkong put ou two hours' water-
supply.
4th-1st day, Shanghai autumn race-meeting. 9th-King's birthday observed at Hongkoug. 12th-Attack by Chinese pirates on the West River on Mr. Evans, constable at H. B. M. Consulate, Canton, from tho effects of which he died. Hongkong fired off in the Inter. port Rifle Match. 13th-A.D.C.'s performance of Liberty Hall at
the Theatre Royal, Hongkong. 15th-Lin Kang-yi's obsequies at Nanking, attended by great number of foreigu repre- sentatives.
16th-Opening of the Hanoi Exposition. 22nd--Japanese garrison evacuated Shanghai. 28th-S. Andrew's Ball at Hongkong.
DECEMBE L.
4th-Suden death of Mr. A. S. Buck, U.S.
Minister at Tokyo.
[January 3, 1933.
were, it is asserted, sent up the Han river for Hsia during 1900-01, while quick-firing guns and ammunition were sent up as lately as last October. It is added that Tung Fu-bsiang's 10,030 men, who are divided into twenty bat- tlions of 500 men sach, their camps being in the wilderness between Kayaan and Niughsia, are pail from imperial funds. It is believed that Tang Fa-hsiang has proclaimed Prince Tuan's son, the youth whom the Empress Dowager made He'r Apparent and then dismissed, as Emperor of China under the title of Tung Hsi, at the town of the Alasbau Mongols. Ting yuenying, two days north-west of Ninghsia It is known that Pa Chun left Peking for Alashan som? little time ago. The palace at Heian occupied by the Empress Dowager after her flight from Peking is being got ready to receive the now kuperor Tung Hsü; while Tang Fu-hsiang's agents were to have seized Chengtu, the capital of Szechnen, bat this scheme was frustrated for the time. by the arrival of the now Viceroy of Szechuen, Tseu Chun-hsuen,
The
It is believed that Yung La is privy to all this, though it is hard to imagine that he is a consenting party to the setting up of a rival Emperor of the Wost; but there have been, AS wo have said before, a number of indicatious that something serious is imminent. proposed absorption by the Government of the telegraphs throughout the empire is a step that will strengthen the hands of the Government and may be disastrous to foreigners in the event of trouble. It seems certain that the Govern rent is not supporting Viceroy Tsen in his efforts to put down disorder in Szechuen; and it is, to say the leas', remarkable that China's leading states- maa, Chang Chih-tung, has been removed from Nauking and has not been given any other past; one of the suppositions connected with him being that he will come to Shanghai to conclude the commercial treaties that. are still being negotiated; and another that he is to bз the virtual Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs at Peking or Tientsin. Ou the other
a ricksha-coolie by a Frenchman at Singapore. 5th-Attack on the Protetor of Chinese at hand, it is believed in the north that Yung Lu
9th-Dinner to L Feng-in, KC.V.O., at
Connaught House.
18th-Typhoon at Hongkong.
24th-Monument in Happy Valley cemetery to
deceased soldiers.
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26th-Decoration of a native ofer, II.K.R, o
the Cricket Ground. 29th-Departure for home of B.M.S. Terrible,
AUGUST,
2nd-Violent typhoon; about 20 deaths af
Hongkong.
5th-Kowloon Brigade gymkhana at Happy Valley.-H.M.S. Terrible boit her former world's coaling recorlat Singapore. 4th-First snd of King's Park, Kowloon, turned
by Major-General Sir W. Gase signe 9th-Coronation celebrations at Hongkong. 10th-Torijima, one of the Bruid Islands, destroyed by submarine volcanic eruption. 15th-Tientsin Provisional Government dis-
solved; Chineso resumed p sses‹ith. of Messrs. Bruce and Lowis at Chengchow, Hunan. 16th-Protocol of new Chines? turi sigaod by the allied representatives. . & S. Bank half-yearly meeting. 18th-Hongkong and Whampoa Duck Co.'s half-yearly meeting; animated discussion re dividend.
23rd-H.K. Polo Club gymkbana. 30th-H.K. Water polo Shield final tie.
SEPTEMBER,
-Murder
5th-Anglo-Chinese Commercial Treaty sigued. 6th-Presentation to Major-General Gascoigne in connection with the King's Park opening. 9th-Return to Hongkong of H.E. Sir Henry
A. Blake.
11th-V.R.C. aquatic sports, 1st day. 12th-Alleged theft of $50,000 on the 8.8. Zafiro. 18th-Hongkong free of plague, after 10 days'
olean bill of health 20th-Volcanic eruption from Mount Rigyo,
Formosa.
Singapore; two co ›lies ki'l-d by the Palice. 8th-Meeting of Ili · shar-holders of the Hong- kong & Wham; o Dick Co. rejected the directors' proposals for A now dock at Hnnghom.
10th-1st day of the Hougkong regatta. 15th-Arrival in Hengkong of H.E. Sr. Arnaldo de Novaes Guedes Rebollo, new Governor of Macan.-Dr. J. C. Thomson's lecture on Mosquitors and Malaria" before the Odd Volu nes Sciety.
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is working to get-his son-in-law, Princə Chun, the Emperor's younger brother, made Heir Apparent, but it is more probable that should Prince Chuu have a son, it is on that son that the doubtful bcou of being Heir Apparent lo the throng of China will be couforred.
With Liu Kung-yi dead and Chang Chih- tung practically dismissed from office, there may be a considзrable change in the Yangtze Val'ey. Fereigners have confidence in Tuan Fang, the Acting Viceroy at Wuching, but it is doubtful if he can afford to take the per manent appointment, and if he is a strong
18 -Pres ntation to Chinese College of
Medicine by Major-General Gascoigne. 20th-Part of German garrison left Shanghai.-nough man for the position. He showed great 21st-Murd rous affray between Chiness aud Indians at Quarry Bay Shensi letter reports Tung Fu siang with 10,000 men in Kansu province.
22nd- British garris n evacuated Shanghai. 23rd-Important building collapse enquiry at Magistracy; architects and contractors committed for trial.
26th Match on Cricket Ground, H.K.C.C. v.
Uuited Services,
27th-German Post-office opened in British
Fettlement, Shanghai. 31st-Closing of a bock of houses off D'Aguilar Stree`, Hongkong, on account of three plague
o see.
THE RUMOURED MOVEMENT IN
THE NORTH-WEST. -
The NC. Daily News of the 23rd ult. writes:-
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mor. courago in 1900 wh n he decided to disobey the orders he received from Poking, and to protect the missionaries in his province, and for this be will always be regarded with high admiration by foreigners in China, but it is still to be seen whether he has the strength necessary to maintain order in the Yaugtsze Valley. Wei Kuang-tao, the new Nanking Viceroy, is to a great extent an unknown mau, and his ability to perform the task set him has still to be learnt.
Those who do not believe that any outbreık
is to be feared at present explain that Tung Fu-hsiang is only acting in self defence, and that he has no mischievous intentious whatever. He has already recaival orders from Peking to lay down his arms, bat declined, knowing that the next step would be that a force would be sent to sзize him; and his army is only maintained to protect himself from renewed attempts to take him prisoner. We have rot the material to determine where the truth lies that mach among thes various reports; appreheusion and aneasiness exist, is certain.
The snake that was scotched, not killed, in 1900 is rearing i's head menacingly again in the north-west of China, if the reports thit reach us from foreigners conversant with what is
The Universal Gazette slates that Russia and going on in Kansu are correct, and there is certainly no inherent improbability in them. We, China have been negotiating on the matte: of mentioned yesterday that 4.000 imperial troops allowing Russia to take charge of the cus'om had been disbanded by the provincial C maan. houses in Manchuria. It is said that Viceroy der-in-Chief of Kansu, under orders from the Chang Chih-tang, upon hearing this, at once Peking government-which means Yung Lu-protested to the Government in strong terms
once gone over to Tung Fu and had at hsiang, which is not remarkable, as they were previously some of Taug Fa-hsiang's men. These men are well provided with modern arms, and Tung's agents are reported to 3rd-Great fire at Amoy; about 500 buildings be busy enrolling recruits throughout the north-west. Large quantities of war material destroyed; one European killed
23rd-H.K.C.C. annual meeting. 25th-H.K.F.C. annual meeting. 29th-Annual general meeting of the Hong-
kong S. Andrew's Society. 30th-Return of the Hongkong Coronation
contingent.
OCTOBER.
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against any such concession to Russia, stating at the same time that if the customs in Manchu. ria were to be take : charge of by Russia, then this territory would be lost to China too, and in addition to this loss of territory, other countries would ask for similar concessions in territories temporarily occupied by them.