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Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. LIX.]
Epitome
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China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
Leading Articles ; -
China's Trade in 1903
German and British Railways in China The Tibetan Question
The War
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 9TH APRIL, 1904.
Advices from S. Petersburg state General Artamanoff with 500 Cossacks has oo. that 273cupied Unsan, forestalling a Japanese force
advancing from Cheng-ju.
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It has been ascertained that the Russian 274 squadron was at Vladivostock when the Japaneso 275 bomdarded it, but did not show itself, having; 1.276 another object than that of fighting an enemy
276 stronger than itself.
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Hongkong Public Works in 1903
Afforestation at Weihaiwei.
Hongkong Jottings
Military Operations in Jola
278
A Trip to Walchow
Hongkong Sanitary Board
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New Governor of Macao
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Notes from the Botanic Gardens
279
The Praya Reclamation
Trade of the Philippines
Frontier Notes
Canton
Amoy
H.M. first class cruiser Andromeda, Capt. R. N. Ommaney, left Sheerness for Hongkang ou the 12th ult. to relieve H.M.S. Blenheim on this Station. She briu.s new crews for the Moorhen and Teal, which are to be recommis 28sioned out here.
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Foochow
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Supreme Court
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Licensing Court
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Campbell Moore, & Co., Ld.
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Green Island Cement Co., Ld.
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Yokohama Specie Bank Ld.
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V.R.C. Athletic Sports
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Kowloon Bowling Green Club
Russia and International Law Hongkong
Miscellaneous
Commercial
Shipping
BIRTHS,
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On the 28th March, at No 50, Bubbling Well Road, the wife of William AUGUSTUS WHITE, of a daughter.
On the 30th March, at Kobe, the wife of HENRY A Cox, of a daughter.
MARRIAGE.
On the 31st March, at the Uni a Church, by the Rev. C. H. Hickling, ROBERT W. ASTILL, of Shanghai, tɔ ROSE WILLIAMS, of Birmingham.
DEATH.
On the 27th February, at Edinburgh, J. P. WINGATE, of Amoy, aged 28 years.
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News from S. Petersburg says that the receut statements of an anti-Government plotia Corea are confirmed. The influential Pedlars' Guild is involved. The main object of the plot is to overthrow the pro-Japanese (overniner and dep se the Emperor.
There is an element of humour in the com- ment of one of the vernacular journals, says this Kobe Chronicle, to the effect that "it is reported that the Corean Emperor will ask the advice of Ambassador Ito mors in regard to the safety of the Imperial House than on political matters,”
In Shanghai last Monday news of a serious engagement, unless the Russians continued their policy of retirement, was hourly expected. The Japanese land forces are operating in a larga irregular lozenge, at the angles of which are Newchwang, Wiju, Kirin, and Vladivostock.
the decision of the Russian Government to have The S Petersburg Official Messenger notifies recourse for the present, to the so-called "free cash reserve" for warexpenditure, while retrouch- ing in various directions, notably in the con- strucion of railways. These retrenchments will aggregate £13,000,000
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A Japanese destroyer engaged in scouting able for the passage of ships, 130 yards wide. at Port Arthur has discovered a channel, avail-
shipping festival. known among the Chinese as In consequence of the approaching tomb wor- Chingming, there has been a large exodus of Chinese to Canton. The river steamers run- uing from Hongkong to Canton are leaving every day with large numbers of Chinese passen- gers: by the various steamers which left here last Sunday evening a few thousand Chinese must have left the Colony.
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to confer with the authorities.
M. Khilkoff has returned to S. Petersburg that says the scarcity of cars and locomotives on the eastorn section of the railway remedied; west of Irkutsk ten trains, beyond bas; been Lake Baikal nine goods trains, besides passenger and military trains, are running daily in either direction. M. Khilkoff returns in a fortnight to supervise the construction of the circum-Baikal line.
L'Echo de Chine keeps up its campaign of mendacity and malice. correspondent" to the seat of war, who has It has sent a "special succeeded in penetrating to Tsingtao! The value of his information may be judged by his statement that the Japanese revictual their ships at Chefoo and Weihaiwei, a malicions lie (as the N.C. Daily News remarks) that should be nailed should not have published after Lord Selborne's to the counter at once, and which the Editor categorical denial,
the purpose of taking a poll of the votes in of the Tanjong Pagar Dock Co., Ld., held for The adjourned meeting of the shareholders
favour, respectively, of the motion proposed by the Chairman, Mr. J. Rumney Nicholson, and the amendment moved by Mr. John Anderson, took place on the 25th ult. There was a large attendance of shareholders and the greatest in- was evinced in the result, which was declared as follows:-For the amendment, 512;
Ceylon papers to hand yesterday report from terest
Russian
Hongkong Weekly Dress Europe het, owing to French in is improving. Against, 1.956; Majority against, 1,444.
HONGKONG OFFICE: 14, DES VEUX ROAD CL. LONDON OFFICE: 131, FLEET STREET, E.C.
ARRIVAL OF MAILS.
The English Mail of the 19th March arrived per the 8.8. Malla, on the 8th inst.
EPITOME OF THE WEEK. War Telegrams, etc., will be found on p. 277 of this week's issue. The latest news arriving via London indicates that the First Army Corps of the Japanese is advancing on Wiju, which town had already been occupied by Japanese cavalry. The Russians for the most part are supposed to be concentrated on the north bank of the Yalu River, through parties of their cavalry, probably Cossacks, are acting in Corea, on the flank of the Japanese The latter's First Army Corps numbers 45,000; but the total strength of Japan in Corea at the present moment is unknown. Nor is the Russian total in Manchuria known approximately. Vaguely it is supposed to be somewhere about 290,000. Both sides continue to enforce great secrecy on correspondents.
Letters reaching Paris from Hanoi describe the province of Kwangsi as a perfect cauldron of rebellion. No news to that effect reaches us via Canton.
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feeling toward Britain
They also state, on the authority of the Times Seoul correspondent, that the Japanese railway extensions in Cores are designed to allow the holding of the country in event of a reverse in Manchuria.
The Russian reinforcing squadron which is now stated to be due to leave Europe in the middle of July, will' consist of the Dmitri Donskoi, Aurora, and Ostabya, four new battle- ships of the Tsarevitch type, two old and three and nine submarines, the latter carried on new cruisers, two destroyers, five torpedo-boats, board the larger vessels,
read with interest: Peking. March 24.-- The The following telegram to the Asahi will be German Minister to Peking is demanding & concession for a railway between Tientsin and Chingkiang. for which a concession has already been granted to Great Britain. The British syndicate has not commenced the work, and hence the German demand. The negotiations are in progress,
The Novoe Fremya regards the British ad- dominating Tibet and the Dalai Lama's govern- vance in Tibet as a highly important move, as by ment, Great Britain will inevitably dominate territories bordering the Russian dominions, the whole of the Mo gol world, including the and is certain to use the position to create a thousand difficulties for Russia The Sviet expresses similar views.
Home papers
announce that three more British military officers are being sent by the War Office to Japan. They proceed via Van- couver, per Empress of India, for Yokohama, They are: Captain Badham Thornhill, R.G.A., a well known and popular figure in Hongkong; Lieutenant Betton-Foster, K.G.A.; and Lieut- enant Piggott, R.E. Yesterday the P. & 0. 8.8. Malta brought to Hongkong, on their way north, Lieut.-Col. Tulloch, of the 126th Balu- chistan Regiment, and Major P. E. Crawfurd, of the 1st Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment, who are to be military attachés to the Japanese
arniy.
The Emperor William, on the occasion of the running of the first train on the Shantung railway, telegraphed his congratulations to the Governor of Shantung, who has replied as follows:-"I thank your Majesty from the bottom of my heart for your telegram of congratulation. The railway has now been completed as far as Tsinan-fu, and will further the welfare of the commerce of both countries. I firmly trust that the friendship between the Germans and the Chinese will always endure and and Chinese merchants may co-operate in may become more intimate, and that German
striving for the fulfilment of your Majesty's harmony. I will devote all my powers to hopes. All is peaceful in the province of Shan- tung. I wish your Majesty health and long life.-CHU-FU, Governor of Shantung."