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in three yearly instalments, the first of which will be paid on the 1st of January, 1905, and the place of such payment will be appointed by British authorities or at Darjeeling.
7. To enforce the above mentioned six articles both Indian and British troops will remain at Chumbi for three years, but when the now trade towns are duly opened and the in- demnity paid in three years as arranged such garrison will be withdrawn, or the garrison will stay at Chambi.
8-At the strategical points between the Indian frontier to Gyantse and Interior Tibet or Chamdo, the Tibetans shall level all the forts. 9.-In future, unless the consent of Great Britain is first obtained, no one is allowed to mortgage or lease land in Tibet, or interfere with any of the affairs of Tibet and no powers shall be allowed to despatch any official to negotiate or interfere with Tibetan affairs and no one is allowed to interfere with road or railway making, or operations of mines, and no real estate nor businesses nor movable property shall be mortgaged or leased.
THE HỌNGKONG WEEKLY PRESS AND where even public calls are provided; and good | drains, 3 feet deep, provide for the flushing of the city, which has its water-supply, ice-factory, and everything in fact, except electric railway. t is a marvel of up-to-dateness, and more so even of cleanliness, and is most refreshing after the evil sights and smells of a Chinese town. I Relations with the conquered Chinese are, believe, very satisfactory. The better element among them has settled down, only too happy to be preserved from a regime of squeeze' and oppression, white the treacherous country people in the south have been, after years of On every side, as guerilla warfare, subdued. far as I could observe during my limited stay in the island, good relations seem to exist between the two peoples. There were no signs of any assumption of superiority on the part of the Japanese; on the contrary, they seem to live on terms of good-fellowship with their new subjects.
One cannot but carry away the impression that the future prosperity of Formosa is assured under Japanese rule; the resources of the island 10.-This agreement has been signed and seal-will probably be better developed, and trade ed between Colonel Younghusband. British relations will be on a surer footing than under Commissioner, and the Dalai Lama on the 2nd the Chinese, while the Formosans themselves September, 1904. in Tibet. The text of this will become civilised in a shorter space of time. agreement has been made in English and Tibetan, and the English is to be taken as the authentic text.
IMPRESSIONS OF NORTH FORMOSA.
[SPECIAL CONTRIBUTION.] The island of Formosa is but little known to residents of the China ports. Very few care to take a trip to a country where foreign hotel accommodation and the comforts of European life are supposed not to be found. Nevertheless I found a visit which I have just paid to the northern part of the island well worth any sacrifice of the lesser comforts-though. indeed, such a sacrifice really exists rather in the imagination than in reality.
Apart from its scenic beauties, Formosa derives particular interest from the fact that it is a Japanese colony, where the contrast between Japanese and Chinese methods of government may be viewed and some morals drawn. It would greatly benefit Chinese officials to spend a few weeks in the country.
From Amoy to Tamsui is a night's journey. In the early morning the Formosan hills come into view, and before midday the bar at the latter port is crossed, and anchor dropped in the harbour. I had heard many stories of the incivility of Japanese Customs officials, but must put them down as inventions, for at Tamsui, though very rigorous search was made (the Government not wishing to lose any revenue during the war), the greatest courtesy was shown. Indeed, during my whole stay in the island, I met with nothing but courtesy and even kindness from all classes." The official element, of course, preponderates, and it would doubtless be galling to some people to be constantly questioned as to their occupation, business, and age, were it not that the questions are put by the politest of smiling policemen, who could not give offence if they tried. Tourists in Japan have not found the same thing oppressive. The power of the law is, for good or for bad. over everything in the minutest details, and one can only say that as the people have chosen it, and it is not oppressive, it is for the best.
From Tamsui to Taihoku (Taipeh of old days) is an hour's journey by rail, past the neatest of Japanese railway-stations and through very pretty country, the river flowing through a broad valley, on both sides of which green hills rise to a considerable height; while far away in the background are the mysterious hills of the savage country, with their rich covering of virgin forest.
Tamsui has not been reclaimed by the Japanese, and is still a dirty Chinese town, but Taihoku, the capital, is a revelation of what they can do. Though it is only 9 years since the ooonpation, the face of the city has been com- pletely changed. Ia place of the dirty, un- healthy Chinese houses there has sprang up a typical Japanese city, with broad macadamised streets, neat, well-ventilated dwelling-houses and shops, and two or three really first-class official residences. The telephone is every
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RICE TRADE AND MACAO.
In the new commercial treaty between Portugal and China now under negotiation at Peking the following proposals are made by Portugal:
1-There being many Chinese residents in Macao the rice grown there is not enough to supply them, and China shall consent to export 500,000 shih of rice annually to Macao so as to supply the wants of the place.
2-The Macao railway shall be further extended.
Both Lu Hai-hwang and Sheng Kung pao. the Chinese Treaty Revision Commissioners. expressed their opinion that China may consent to the export of rice to Macao to the extent of
twe or three hundred thousand shih with Customs pass attacheil, but no extension of the railway should be allowed. Yuan Shih-kai, how- ever, wired on the 22nd August that the three hundred thousand shih of rice should be the maximum amount of rice to be allowed to be exported from China to Macao, and in any case no increase should be allowed, and the rice should only be allowed to be exported from the province of Kwangtung, and from none of the other provinces, and China shall retain the right of stopping such exportation in case of famine prevailing, and according to the suggestion of Sir Robert E. Bredon a fixed term of years should be prearranged to the agreement. - Eastern Times.
DEATH OF AN AMERICAN
ADMIRAL.
On the 17th instant General E. S. Bragg, United States Consul-General, received news of the death of Rear-Admiral Henry C. Taylor, U.S. Navy, Chief of the Bureau of Navigation, an appointment he had held for only two years. Admiral Taylor died at. Ontario, Canada. He commanded the Alliance on the Asiatic Station ip 181, when he was sent by the Commander- | in-Chief to the Caroline Islands to safeguard, American interests. In 1903 he was appointed President of the Naval War College, and in 1896 took command of the battleship Indiana, He commauded the convoy of fifteen ships which escorted General Shafter's army from Tampa to Santiago, and for his spicuous conduct in battle," in the action with the Spanish fleet, off Santiago de Cuba, on July 3rd, 1898, was advanced five numbers in rank. He was commissioned a Rear-Admiral in 1901, and his administration after his appointment, in 1902, as Chief of the Bureau of Navigation, was marked by many reforms, which grew ont of his conception of the "mili. tary efficiency of the fleet." As a mark of respect to the memory of the deceased, the ding at the U.S. Consulate, as well as those of all American firms, and ships in the harbour, were hung at half-mast.
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AN ERRING GUIDE.
The title of "Berol's Guide to Shanghai în particular and China in general" would have been more accurately descriptive if the last half dozen words had been omitted. As a guide to China in general it is a pretentions humbug. places of interest" at Hongkong, for instance, apparently consist only of the Peak, which affords a “splendid view " (note the singu- lar number), a few streets and public buildings, some Chinese villages (no hint as to where they are or how to reach them), and Kowloon, a foreign settlement with a splendid Band." Places in China, even Feking, are dismissed with a few lines, and the author certainly fails to keep bis promise to tell the traveller “how to get from one place to another, the distance to be covered, by what means, at what o st, and what is to be seen when he arrives there." If the book had been offered on sale to the public as a reliable guide, we should have felt obliged to regard it as a fraud. We see, however, that it is presented by the Hotel des Colonies Co., Ld., Shanghai," and have no doubt that it
two will admirably serve purposes, as an advertisement for an excellent hotel, and as a souvenir and remembrancer for travellers who have visited it. We are quite willing to admit that as a guide to Shanghai it is also very useful. Its usefulness would not have been impaired by omitting the high-falutin preface of six page length, or the interpolated history of the opium war, or numerous other little bits that have no coucern with the writer's im- mediate business. The statement that a "dis- hevelled, uncombed quene ant an unshaven hend signifies that a parent bas died within the last three months may persuade globe- trotters into the belief that some Chinese have more parents than they ought to have. Berol on page 09
22 expresses annoyance that vendors of incense should force their wares "into our hands in the most pertinent manuer." And is it true that “silks and laces are cheaper at Shanghai than common dress materials at home" Finally, if the visitor finds “Shanghai Society a gilded babble," how is he going to
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scratch the thin layer of tinsel," and of what, in a bubble, does "the material below" consist ? We have no idea what the business of Mr. William Berol of Shanghai may be, but that his métier is not literary work is ev dent. On His one thing we may congratulate him. "guide" includes a selection of remarkably good photographs
POLICE RECREATION CLUB.
OPENING OF A BOWLING GREEN "
AT TSIMSHATSUI. With the advent of the Civil Servic+ Reorea- tion Club has come a reawakening in the Police Force in regard to athletics. It is interesting to recall that a Police gricket team was the pioneer Civil team to play at Happy Valley, and that the Police Sports used to be one of the main athletic events in Hong- koug. But for several years a sort of to have come over the lethargy appears Force, and, excepting tennis, nothing in the way of physical recreation has been followed up. This condition of things is evidently to be allowed to prevail no longer. several members of the Police Force made very good appearances in the CS.C.C., with the result that they are organising a team of their own this year and have secured a pitch as well as a tennis ground at Happy Valley beside the football field.
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At Tsimshatsui Station also a bowling green and quoiting pitch have been laid out, and these were formally opened on the 17th instant by Mr. F. J. Badeley, the Captain Superintendent of Police. The green is in front of the station. It has been taken up and dressed, with turf got from the New Territory, under the supervision of Inspector A. C. Langley of Tsimshatsui. At the opening ceremony there was quite a large number present, including many ladies, and a most enjoyable afternoon was spent. Mr. Badeley, who was accompanied by Mr. E. R. Hallifax, Deputy Superintendent of Police, opened the green by rolling a jack down each pitch. Sides were then picked as follows ...
C.S.P,'s Team--Chief Inspector Baker, In- spector Cuthbert, Inspector Langley, Inspector