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THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. LIX.]
Epitome
AND
China Overland Trade
Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
Leading Articles : --
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 26TH MARCH, 1904.
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EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
War news has been extremely scanty during the past week. Some telegrams, etc, will be The Evacuation of Newchwang & Manchuria 23 found on pp. 235-6. Teaching of English in Hongkong..............
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The Russian cruiser Aurora and three des- .235 troyers of the Mediterranean Squadron have 25 arrived at Bizerta,
Hongkong and Leprosy
Chinese Labour for South Africa
The War
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Hongkong Legislative Council
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Hongkong Sanitary Board
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Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce
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Memorial Service at Hongkong
Report of the Inspector of Schools
Hongkong Observatory in 1953 Notes from the Botanic Gardens New Engine-Works for Hongkong Hongkong Odd Volumes Society Frontier Nites
Correspondence
China Borneo Co.
China Sugar Refining Co.
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Reuter's Agency at S. Petersburg wires that it is unofficially stated that the Japanese re- opened the bombardment of Port Arthur on the 22ud ins'.
An official Russian despatch, confirming that Japanes infantry and artillery occupied Anju and Pingyang, says that an increased movement of troops between these places is noticeable.
241 A Russiau officer attached to the General staff has begu couriered at S. Petersburg of 212 selling secret plans for the organisation of the field army to Japau. The officer has been executed.
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The management of the Can dian-Pacific 23 Railway Empress Line, acting under the iustructions of the Government, refus s transport foodstuffs to Japan, as they are held
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The Temps (Paris) states that the French Minister at Tokyo has pro'ested, on behalf of Russia, against the bombardment of the qurautiue station at Saushantoa, near Port 217| Arthur, ou the 10th instant.
Luzon Sugar Refining Co.
Watkins, Limited.
Campbell Moore, and Co., Ld.
Green Island Cement Co.
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Yangtsze Wharf and Godown Co., Ld.
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Supreme Court
Football
Cricket
Royal Hongkong Yacht Club
Hockey Cup
Ladies' Rifle Associatiou
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Bowling
Royal Hongkong Golf Club
Hongkong
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Miscellancous
Commercial.
Shipping
BIRTH.
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On the 12th March, at Woodneu, Singapore, the wife of JAMES CAMPBELL KER, S.M.J., of Johore, of a daughter.
MARRIAGE,
On the 12th Varch, at S. Andrew's Cathedral, Singapore. by the Ven. Archdeacon Dunkerley, HARRY EPHICK, seco d son of Mrs. DALLAN, Singapore, to DOROTHY HART, eldest daughter of Mrs. R. CowAN, Singapore. DEATHS.
On the 14th March, at 2, Wilkie Road, Singa- pore, BERTAM GEORGE, оn of Mr. and rs. 1. L. Frost, aged 9 weeks.
On the 18th March, at Seoul, Corea, ALFEED BORT STRIPLING, aged 63 years.
On the 19th March, at the General Hospital, Shanghai, JOHN SNOWDEN, pilet, aged 71 yea s..
The Washington Government, at the r quest of Mr. Takahira, has instructed Mr. McCormick to ask liussia to a sist fifty Japanese non-com- batants in iberia, whose lives are in danger, to reach Berlin, where the Legation will look after
them.
The Government of the United States bas sanctioned the laying of a cable from Japan to Guam on the ground that as it will afford commercial facilities the laying of the cable at the present time does not constitute a breach of neutrality.
It is almit'ed in S. Petersburg that the Japanese are concentrating in the North of Corea more rapidly than the Russians, and that they have effectively fortified Auju. General Mis- hara s them unceasingly, directly they more chenko, however, with 6,000 cavalry is ready to
beyond Anju.
On the 21st iust. our Shanghai correspondent telegraphed that one thousand op nm-smugglers, under a leader of the name of Yuan, had started a rebe lion 70 miles south of Chungking, de- feating the Imperial troops, who lost 16 men killed, while the remainder fed The Chung.
Hongkong Mechly press king officials have sent reinforcem nts.
HONGKONG OFFICE: 14, DES VEUX ROAD CL. LONDON OFFICE: 131, FLEET STREET, E.C,
ARRIVAL OF MAILS.
The French Mail of the 19.h ult, arrived, per the 8.8. Salazie, on the 22ud inst.; and the English Mail of the 26th al. arrived, per the 8.8. Bengal on Friday, the 25th inst.
The Hongkong, Cantor, and Macao 8.8. leungshan brings news from Maca that a band of pirat s attacked a Chines township about eight miles from Macao, last Sunday night. The town guard was called on to defend the population, with the result that 17 of them were killed. The pirates, however, were killed. As they managed to carry away the repulsed, aud, it is siid, som of them were dead and wounded, their less is not exactly
known.
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Lieutenant-General Schilinsky, until now Quartermaster-General in the General Staff of appointed Chief of Staff to, and General Flong the Russian Army in S. Petersburg, has been Quartermaster on the General Staff of, General Kuropatkin.
with a most circumstantial account of the Hongkong was startled on the 22nd inst.
capture of Port Arthur by the Japanese on the 20th, after 16 hours' fighting. No confirma- tion was to be had from any other source, and the story was next day completed "exploded."
The new section of the Canton-Hankow branch line from Fatshán to Samshui will not be opened until April owing to delay caused in the constructional operations by the rains. It was originally expected that the formal opening of the new section should take place to-morrow. It is about 30 miles in extent. On the present line from Canton to Fatshan about 4.000 passengers travel daily. When the new section is opened it is expected that the number of passengers will be doubled.
Writing of the Tientsin deportation case the Kobe Chronicle says:-The result is that Mr. Cowen, after building up a successful bas- iness, is compelled to abandon it, and to leave Chins, For most men in a similar position this would mean ruin, and in the circumstances the punishment seems to be very much more severe than the offence deserves. It seems to us that the power of deportition possessed by British Courts in the Far East under extra- territoriality is not sufficiently safeguarded against abuse, notwithstanding that each case has to be reported to the Supreme Court.
Mr. T. Cowen telegraphed to the Straits Times from Seoul, in the 15th inst., that Corean office-seekers are trying to arrange a revolution in the Royal Palace, on the pretext of effecting sweeping reforms. They are hoping for Japan- es favour, but Minister Hayashi firmly dis- countenances any haste or violence in the pre- sent crisis, and hopes to be able to effect reforms gradually, so as to avoid friction. He recog- nises that the Coreaus, as politicians, are uni- formly insincere in their actions. The Royal Palace is infested with swarms of astrologers and parasites, whom it is hoped to weed out gently and with patience.
Recent dispatches from Kwangsi, says the N.-C. Daily News, report that malcontents and baudits of that province are bagianing once more to start upon their guerilla warfare against the Governmentand Viceroy Taêu (Shim) is making elaborate preparations to put a stop to it. To do this HE. has been again drawing upon other provinces for reinforcements, no less than 6,000 men being asked for from the Governor of Shensi alous. It is also stated in reliable quar- ters in Canton that the Viceroy intends to make a careful selection out of all the troops he bas drawn from the various provinces, as well as from the regiments he has himself raised and or- ganised in Kwangtang provinces, and with these picked battalions form the nucleus of a proposed army of 40,000 reliable soldiers who are to be entirely armed and provided with the best rifles procurable and drilled and organised after the modern style. These troops are to be held ready himself at their head, when ver circumstances for transport to the North, with Viceroy Sham
of war require their presence outside Shanhai- kwan.
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