THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. LIX.]
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China Overland Trade Report.
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HONGKONG, MONDAY, 16TH MAY, 1904.
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
War telegrams, etc., will be found on p. 365, During the past week Hongkong has been quarantined by Barma, Singapore, and Shang .362 bai. The plague cases for the year, up to date, .383 361 uumber 107.
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CONTENTS.
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Epitome
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Leading Articles :-
Hongkong Harbour in 1903
Land Taxation at Shanghai
'The Trouble in libet
The Peak Reservation Question
Japanese War News
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Russian Plans..........
Chinese River Conservancy
Hongkong Jottings
The Great Shekwan Festival
Railways in Chion
Acquittal of Dr. Gomez
Notes from the Botanic Gardens
Hongkong Fire Brigade
Harbour Master's Report for 1903
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Hongkong Post Office in 1963
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Bacteriological Report for 1903
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New Territory Notes
The War ..
Canton
Pakhoi
Foochow
Chefoo
Russo-Japanese War Fund. Supreme Court
Reviews
Royal Hongkong Golf Club Hongkong Commercial Shipping
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BIRTHS.
Russia has declared 'c tton contraband of war, because it is used in the manufacture of 345 explosives.
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Admiral Alexieff reports that the Russians ..367 have blown up the docks and piers at Daluy to
prevent the enemy from utilising them.
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An official Russian statement gives the Russian casualties at the battle of the Yalu at 70 officers and 2,324 men killed and wounded.
Russis has ordered the mobilisation of the Charkoff and Moscow Army Corps and other troops to strengthen the Manchurian Army. .371 Our Shanghai Correspondent telegraphs to us, under date 11th May.-A riot took place a ...372 Chiokiang to-day. The mob burned the 373 quarters of the newly organised police forc.
Several were killed and wounded.
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On the 1st May, at 169, Bubbling Well Road, Shanghai, the wife of S. SASSOON BENJAMIN, of a
son.
On the 1st May, at 21, North Szechuen Road, Shanghai, the wife of G. BUCHANAN, of a daughter. On the 1st May, at "Inverlochy," Scotts Road, Singapore, the wife of A. EMSLIX BENZIE, of a daughter.
On the 7th May, at 7, Minghong Terrace, Shanghai, the wife of ERNEST E. GREY, of a daughter.
MARRIAGES.
On the 30th April, at the Cathedral, Shanghai, by the Rev. J. B. Ost, JANET HELENA BRUCE, eldest daughter of THOMAS WEIB, Shanghai, to ROBERT BUCHANAN, eldest son of A. MAUCHAN, Dumbarton.
On the 9th May, at the Peak Church, by Rev. F. T. Johnson, MA., ROBERT MCGREGOR, Shang- hai, third son of the late ROBT. MCGREGOR, Greenock, to AGNES BRYMNER SINCLAIR, M. B. Ch.B. second daughter of WM. SINCLAIR, Greenock, Scotland.
DEATHS.
On the 28th April, at St. Luke's Hospital, Tokyo, GEORGE BATFIELD, of Kobe, aged 66 years. On the 30th April, at Kramat Road, Singapore, Mrs. M. RYAN, aged 73 years,
On the 8th May, at 91, Yongtsepoo Road, Shanghai, MATTHEW MUTTER, aged 54 years.
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ARRIVAL OF MAILS.
The German Mail arrived, per the steamer Oldenburg, on the 9th inst., and another German Mail, that of the 12th April, arrived per the steamer Sachsen, on the 11th inst. The French Mail of the 15th ult., arrived, per the steamer Australien, to-day, the 16th inst.
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Prince Adalbert of Prussia arrived at Peking by special train on the 8th inst. direct from to the Great Wall, the Ming Tombs, and other Taku. He stays for ten days and will take trips
places. He will also be received in audience by the Emperor and the Empress Dowager.
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that the Chinese Commissioner Ma deliberately The Times correspondent at Gyangtse wires
concealed the Tibetan plot to attack the British Mission on the 5th inst. Mr. Parr, of the
Chinese Customs, who is Joint Commissioner with Ma, narrowly escaped death; all bis servants were butchered.
The Daily Chronicle's correspondent at Shanhaikwan wires that three divisions of the Second Japanese Army Corps, which were being pushed up quickly to co-operate with General Kuroki's force, have defeated the Russians with great loss at Wafungties. Japanese artillery was splendidly handled:
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Russia is the first Power to approve of the Khedevial Decree which was appended to the Anglo-French Agreement regarding Egypt The French Government has requested M. Delcassé to thank Kussia warmly for the fresh valuable proof of friendship thus given to their ally.
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The Japanese loan, which is now quoted at 24 premium, was covered twenty times and is now closed. The New York section, was five times over-subscribed.
Department of Viceroy Yuan Shi-kai at Tiept- Reports received by the Military Intelligence sin, sent by officers detailed for the purpose, make the total number of Russian troops in the three Manchurian provinces and Eastern Siberia as follows:-170,000 infantry, 17,000 cavalry, and 256 guns. Of this number 20,000 infantry, 5,000 cavalry, and 32 guns are in Eastern Siberia, the rest being concentrated at Harbin and the vicinity of Moukden.
In the Reichstag, Herr Bebel attacked the pro-Russian attitude of the Government in regard to the war. He deo'arel that the Kaiser's telegram of sympathy to the Tsar on the occasion of the Petropavlovsk disaster in no way reflected the feeling of the nation. Count von Bülow denied that the Kaiser's telegram was a departure from neutrality, and regretted that the disasters of a neighboaring friendly nation had been the object of malicious articles and caricatures by a portion of the German
Press.
We see in our Portuguese contemporary O Patriota that Sr. Pedro Nolasco da Silva, the president of the Leal Senado of Macao, left Shanghai as the legal representative of a by the Empress of Japan on the 11th inst., for
syndicate formed in Macao for the construc- tion of a Sino-Portuguese railway.
Nolasco da Silva is going north to try to ment, and his efforts will be supported by H. E. obtain the concession from the Chinese Govern-
Senhor Conselheiro Castello Branco, the Portu- guese Minister, who is now in Shanghai.
Sr.
We take the following telegram and footnote from the N.-C. Daily News:-" Kobe, 5th May. Mr. A. W. Curtis, Editor of the Kobe Herald, of a statement in his leading article on the 27th has been fined. The prosecution was the result
ult., that the squadron in the Sea of Japan had left Chinhaiwan the week before. He has ap- pealed." [The following was the offending paragraph, but no offence could well be slighter: Vice-Admiral Kamimura's fine homogeneous squadron of six armoured cruisers is somewhere left Chinhaiwan six or seven days ago, presum- in the Japanese Sea-it was reported to have ably for Vladivostock or the near neighbourhood it being obviously necessary that the enemy's squadron at Vladivostock should be either bottled up or smashed up."]
According to a Peking despatch, a Belgian is The Japanese statesman, Mr. Suyematsu, at now petitioning the Waiwupu for permission to an interview with Reuter's representative, de- construct a railway between Shanghai and Nan-clared that Japan's first and chief aim was to chang, capital of Kiangsi. The Company seeking permission is composed of Belgians and Chinese, and the petition tells the Waiwapa that he has also received the assent of the Viceroy at Nanking to the project.
The Times, in discussing what it describes as the mischievous and dishonest cry of "the yellow peril," raised by the Continental Press, says that only if Japan is confronted by an international boycott is she likely to make the yellow peril" a reality. No policy could be more fatuons or unjust than to exclude her from the sisterhood of civilised peoples, and neither Great Britain nor the United States would lend an ear to such advice.
push back Russia as far as possible. Russia would never be allowed the least political or territorial hold on Corea, whose future status would be that of a Japanese Egypt. Some form of 8 buffer-state, under Chinese Sovereignty, would poss bly be created in Manchuria. Japan would regard any breach of China's neutrality as a calamity, the chief danger of which was Russia, who was doing things to irritate China, Mr. Suyematsu said in conclusion that, no matter what the Japanese successes might be, her policy is to ensure the absolute freedom to all Powers in the Far East, and no Occidental Power need have the slightest anxiety that Japan is likely to suffer from 's swelled head.”
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