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went against them. Though guilty at times of almost every offence against the usages of civilised war, the Beers at other times displayed a strange magnanimity; and though persoundly they allowed few in- stances of marked courage, as a whole in tactical knowledge und perseverance they At all fully equalled their assailants. events they were unsuccessful, and after the relief of Kimberley by the British troops had perforce to begin a steady retrogres- sive march. Slowly but surely the British
The valia of Japanese gold coins exported from Yokohama to China, Europe, and America from the beginning of the year up to the 15th ult., is estimated at 13,000,000 yen.
the
Thero is reason to hellove that the tire on keroseno junk was caused by some of the crow burning joss stinka.
Professor J. M. Dixen, who was for many. years one of the best known foreign residents of Tokyo, is reported to have been killed in
a bicycle ucchlant at Glen Park, Colorado.
The Band of the Hongkong Regisent will play at the Hongkong Hotel this evening from 8 pm. to 9.30 p.m. The programme is -- March......... "Pompage"
Hamo
It is stated that French capitalists intend to Övertuw...... "Stradoka
Elotow Selection "Reminiscences of Offenbach "Vinter run a lina of steamers between Haiphong and Waltz
"Valse Lente"
Gilles Hongkong, with calls at Pakkoi. The Freuch Fant:15.
"Tibernian Bonquet" Kuppey Waltz Bella Nita"
are buying up large tracts of land at the lust. Trolere Offenback named place. Selection... "Orphee aux Enfers'
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Two contractor's coolies empłogal in cou nection with come building operations in Monjos Junction began to quarrel on Thursday. One injured the other in a vital part and the man had to be taken to hospital, where he lies in a presario condition. The other man appeared before Mr. Hazeland yesterday, and on the
Japanese shipowners are said to contemplate the establishment of a regular mail steamship communication with the Caroline and Ladron Islands, the new Gefann Colonies. Four boats |—the Tokai, Fampo, Chomci, Shippa--will bo
engaged in the new line.
army pushed on. It was but a short time til Bloemfontein, the capital of the Orange State, was occupied, and Srer the President was a fugitive, but the country was not actually occupied for more than two months, when Harrismith, that bad from the begin uing of the war been a source of trouble to the Enghali forces, was finally occupied, and Dinner Winë, Green Seal Capsule $10.80 with this the catire of the former Orange | journed until September 7th. hail to the extent recently hekl in Tokyo, it was stated that
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Count Inouye is responsible for the statement that the demand for Japanese coal exceeds the supply by 700,000) tons a year. The colliery Persely it is greater, and this year the oxenet, they say, has been 1.150.000. Taking this into consideration a meeting of Japanese colliery owners was hold a few days ago when it was proposed to form a Cool Trust, to restrict the sales, and to make advances to the owners to tide them over the perind of restricted output.
The cinder-bouts which ply about the harbour
TELEGRAMS.
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THE CRISIS IN CHINA.
[FROM OUR CORRESPONDENTE]
*Shanoua, 30th August, 10.18 p.m.
THIRTY SHANSI MISSIONARIES
REPORTED MURDERED.
REUTER'S SERVICE.
LONDON, 29th August.
THE WAR IN SOUTH AFRICA, General Buller's recont success was at Ber- geulal north-west of Dalmanuth, which posi tion the Rifles and Inniskillings carried at the poiut of the bayoust. It was defonded to the last. The Commandant was captured. The British lose was about 60; that of the Boors was heavy.
Loxnos, 29th August,
It is reported that Yu Haieu, Governor
THE WAR IN SOUTH AFRICA. of Shansi Province, has murdered thirty
Lord Roberts reports that General Buller refugee missionaries in his yanien at Tai-occupied Machadodorp yesterday, The Bours yuunfu.
mude a pror stand, retired northwards, and were pursued by Col. Dundonald to Kelvetia, where they occupied a strong position. Goner French ejected the enemy from. Elandsfontein.
MORE FRENCH GUARDS FOR At the General Meeting of the Suiuan
SHANGHAI Kyusai Kwai (Shipwreck Relief Society)
600 French marines, one battery of moun- during the past year 2222 members were tain guns, and 160 Anussite soldiers landed newly enrolled 1,103 meu had assisted here to-day. They were played to the various ways, and the lulle and cargo saved by the Society amounted to over 568,700 yen in French Settlement by the bigpipers of the
Baluchi Regiment. value.
- THE CRISIS IN CHINA.
LOCAL MOVEMENTS.
The crow of the Japanese destroyer N CHANG CHIH-TUNG PERSECUTING the Staff of the Third Brigade, the headquarter
REFORMERS..
Shanghai to endeavour to arrest the reform
Chang Chih-tung is sending deputies to
Toyohashi on the 9th inst: All the guns and pronioutory, arrived at Saselio by the warship other equipment were brought back by the warship, says a
Japan paper, and the onlyers thinga remaining on board the destroyer are the boilers, which will be saved at no distant
date.
The Kobe Herald states that the Nippon Yusen Kaisha will shortly resume the running
of its steamers on the North China lines, as the chartered steamers will gradually, be discharged by the Government, and the Company is also requested by the Mitsui Bussan Kaisha and others to transport their cargo to North China. It is reported that the freight on coal at Moji is falling at present, as many discharged steamers are now gathering there.
took them to the Police Station. They were the starboard side that he decided to bouch her on a sandy shoal, which he knew to lie within 3 knots, and thus eave the vessel from sinking. The iurash of the water was so great, however, timt he had not time to carry out his intention.
Bear-Admiral Skrydloff, who has been ap
ing to give further bloodshed, preferses | 11 turns out that many of them are from the which recently fonadered of the Skantang the less straightforward course of peregrin-blocks and at the time of the Chim-Fapan wa ating the country, in order to keep thealy the taxt being changed, while one or two irreconcilable faction up to the collar. It of them date back to the thst Franco-Chinese is a curious fact, if a strange tribute to | war. the fairness of the British Government, that both these men, though sought after person- ally to give account of their own connection with certain questionable proceedings, have elected to leave their wives under British protection rather than trust them within their own lines. It would, however, be manifestly uafair to judge the actions of a general in the field, who with everything against hit has yet contrived to make a good stand, and at one time, according to his lights, not alto- gether without the hope of a successful issue, by the same rates as we apply to civil-are continually stealing coal frem ore vessel or
The captain and the crew (32 in all) of the Bus as Kroger and STETN; and hence, another, and accordingly when the water poliss
come across one they generally make a search.teamer Toyomitsu-Maru, which recently though the policy of the latter in urging on Early yesterday morning P. C. (71) Willion foundered of Mokpo, Cores, arrived at Shi a hopeless and useless resistance, the im-Pitt suurele s cimler-bont and found between monoseki on the 7th ult. by the Shirakawa- practicability of a successful issue for which two and three hundredweight of coul hidden on More and left there for Kobe immediately they had full means of knowing, renders derneath some cinders. As the twomen is. charge The captain stated that he struck a sunken reef thom, according to all law and practice, per could give no satisfactory account as to how at a point off Sencho Island in a dense fog. really liable for the consequences; it has they became possessed of the coal the constable The vessel sustained such serious dange on at all periods been customary to allow a wider latitude to the leaders actually en-cuch faed $100, or three months. gaged in the war. The position of the Notwithstanding the large demand for Cardiff Transvaal at the moment is not unlike that coal consequent on the constant stream of wur of the Orange territory after the occupationships belonging to the differeut Powers of Bloemfontein; that is to say that while which arrive at Singapore to coal, there the capital and the entire west and south are but a few vessois reported to have left ure in the hands of the British, who have Cardiff for the Far East, says the Straits Times, assumed the administration of government. On the other hand, the export of Japanese coal, there is still a wide extent of mountainous in spite of demands elsewhere in the north. country in the north-east into which the seems to be pretty stealy, janging by the num- British troops have not yet penetrated. In ber of ressels which are reported to have kft | Kuchinotza and M«ji.. As far as we have been this country there is a danger of the war able to ascertain, from six to eight vessels laden which, after the capture of the capitals, be- with Japanese coal may be expected to arrive gan to assume an irregular and partisan during the current month, bringing from 25,100 | character, degenerating into the more "guer- illa stage. It has in fact arrived at the position when the truest patriot may well On the 17th August, at the Grange, Logan begin to ask himself whether a further dis. Road, Penang, the wife of F. §. E. GAFFNEY, of a
play of hostility may not engender on his
According to a Japanese paper 50 Japanese country worse evils than a frank acknow.
of a garrism town, mys the N-C. Daily News.epolies employed for the service of the German ledgment of honourable defeat. Posterity Every morning the Indian troops are marched away in North China were despached from Kobe has always reserved its admiration for the out for drill, there is a continuous bigl, blow. on the 19th ult; by the Metangeraad Mary for men who, in the interest of his country, has ing, dhun beating and piping at the camps, Taku. Another hitch of 200 coolies also left unreservedly accepted fate, rather than for and every day Broadway is thronged with the Kobe on the 23rd for Taku by a German trans- him who to his country's ruin has prolonged swarthy warriors in khaki. On Saturday morn port. An Osaka paper states that the French a hopeless strife, und engendered feelings of ing last the three regiments marched out to the Government hus place an order with a Japanese As in all ages public policy has ruled, with lasting hute which it may require genera-Race-ourse for drill. and the Dutch men of contractor, through the French Minister to approbation of the world at large, that tions of peacefal intercourse to eradicate. are also went out in large numbers for Japan, for the supply of 1,000 Japanese coolies drill pårposes. “The soone as the Eumpers to serve with the French forces in China. The success alone justifies revolution; so has Much then as a generous public may admire and Indians marched along Nanking Read was contractor will probably recruit the labourers been accepted as a maxim that decisive the self devotion of men like Dewar and very effective and evoked many strange ejacula either at Kobe or at Nagasaki. Each coolie defeat renders further resistance illegitimate. BOTHA, it is not of such that the great hcfoestions from the Chinese who lined the sidewalks, will receive 1.75 yen per day, and in addition The world, however, has not yet been able of the world have been made. Sonuzz in Yesterday morning the French Volunteers will be clothed and fed. to formulate a rule as to when the justify the Cauensis, in his courageous stand against turned out for early drill on the Bace-course ing period of success has arrived in the first the Russian attack on his country, gained and they presented e vory ice and soldierly case, nor, in the sound, when the decisive the admiration of the world. When, how appears. Their brass band plays marebing period of defeat has arrived--when patriot ever, lailled and defcuted, he at last. had to gives place to guerilla, eventually to sink submit to the Russian anny, and did so with deeper to the level of the bandit: The old a good grace, it is doubtful if he did not
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whose names were found in the lists seized at Hankow after the discovery of the
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SHANGHAI, 31st August, 10.40 p.m.
REBEL GOVERNMENT THREATENS LIU KUNG-YI
The notorious reactionary Chao Shuchitao has been appointed by the rebel government to proceed on a tour to investigate the co- duct of Viceroy Liu Kang-yi. The latter is alarmed and has summoned Li Hung-chang and Sheng to Nanking to consult with him.
FOREIGN SUPPORT NECESSARY.
It is necessary that the Allies should soon take strong measures to support the friendly viceroys,
NO PEKING NEWS. There is no news from Peking. It is eurions that messages cannot pass safely between Peking and Tientsin, THUNDERSTORMS BREAK CHEFOO.
SHANGHAI WIRES
The wires between Chefoo and Shanghai
The transport Sumatra urived in the har bour yesterday from India, bringing with her
Wing of the Jats, the Fiold Audit Office, nul parts of the Native Field Hospital. There were N.C.O's and men, and 343 followers, with horses altogether 20 British and 9 native officers, 453 and males.
The Pentakota and Virawa resterday return- el to Hougkung from Taku.
The transport Saluvia sailed for Weihaiwai. The German squadron has left the harbour, the Warth going direct to Weihaiwel on Thurs- day. am the other four vossels to Woomarg yesterday.
The Comite, French gunboat, left yesterday for Canton.
TIENTSIN.
[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.]
Tientsin 16th Angust.
PEKING NEWS-AND LACK OF NEWS, Until to-day our last Peking newe was from scholarship and his long intimacy with Li Mr. Pethick, so well known for his brilliant
Hung-tang. He stated that the foreigners had still rice and horseflesh for three weeks, but that the natiro Christians in the Pei Tang having only rice husks to cat, and the children. were dying in great numbers from starvation--
going first as usual. Mr. Pethick was anxious" that the Relief Column should proes on and give no heed to Chinese threats of exterminating the Legations and their defenders."
Ever since the Column loft Tientsin thirteen. days ago very little news has come from the
are reported to have been broken by thunder-front. We British folk put it down to the
year he was made úaval commander of the Black storms.
Sea ports. He was born in 1844. patereil the Russion Nury 1861, became midshipman 1864, lioutenant 1808. captain 1885, and rear-admiral 1893, He was commander of the Ganget, battleship, from 1889 to 1893, and of a division" to 31700 tons. Besides these consignments of of the Baltic Ficet during. (895 and 1896. He Indian and Australian coals may be looked for has many orders and decontions, Russian and about the same time, say another sight or ten foreign. Among the latter is the Queen's thousand tons.
Shanghai just now wears the regular aspect
music splendidly, and altogether our French friende must be proud of their volunteers,"
Jubilee medel.
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CASUALTIES OF THE NORTH
CHINA FIELD FORCE,
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stupidity of our Centorial Department and to the malign jofuence of rod-tapa Thero is absolutely no justification for nine-tenths of the" consure" exercised, in mesenges, telegrams, c. and the general costiveness of the Military Intelligence Departinant refects little credit on their commonsense, The Japanese and Ameri- The following full list of casualties with cans sensibly recognize the demands of the North China Field Force, up to 24th an anxious public, and freely givi away August, has been received by wire from Pe all the news they can the nows, 28 king, 31st August, and has been forwarded rule more intimately concerns their people, and saya sery little about ours. It has yet to be ex- to us by H.E. the Governor
plained why telepmoms are pouring through Peitsang, 5th August.---13th Field Battery, Tintin for the New York papera, and yet no-
thing has come down from English sources i
for 8 men slightly wounded.
our own Press. R.W.F., 1,366 Colour-Bergl. Jones, slightly wounded.
Hongkong Artillery, 554 Gunner Sinta Singh, severely wounded.
Hongkong Regt, slightly wounded, 9 Nalek Bhinan, 1,117 Lance Nakk Faiz Ahmed, 127 Privite Halibulla, 1,029 Private Mulated
Shah.
Casualties among native troops, one man
Tie Horan, troops have arrived here after their six weeks' trump from the South West. A great body (5,000) passed to our Nortloward yesterday: and another lot has attached itself to a Big Boxer entrenchment six miles from our Set- tlement A reconnoitring forer -f seventy-fivo troopers of the U. S. 6th Regiment and twenty: five Bengal Louvers came in touch with them
three days ago our folk were nearly anbashed, being fired at from less than 300 yards by many hundreds of riffes. Thore were, however, no
A cook in the employ of the constables' mess killed, 3 native officers slightly wounded casualties, though there was one very gallant
at Aberdeen appeared before Mr. Hazeling at rank and file, dangorously wounded one,
the Magistracy yesterday, and ploaded guilty, toʻ
an offence which we have reason to believe is severely wounded eight, slightly wounded more common than most people are aware three. among culinary artists, and was soutenced to
It seems that on fre different occasions, when
Yangisung, 6th August-1st Sikhs, 2nd
J. Dirder.
roseco Some of the American horses are now.
to the work and are not quite drilled: one of them throw his rider henvily and bolted: the man was stunned and would have been a prompt victim to the Boxers. They were already rush-
Cavahy, at present attached to the 1st Bengal Langers, turned his head and saw the sitna. tiva; he wheeled around, dashed back, and got the half dosed American lad up be hind him just in the very nick of time. This gallant feat greatly impressed all who saw it, especially our appreciative cousins.
The French and Russians have been passing
into Taku for the last five or six days at the rate of a thousand a day, and I hear, on au- thority, that should be unimpeachable, that the i Japanese have in all landed 24,000 men, "Thd the Russians 20,000. If so, all I can say is that
may add that coolies and camp followers, now that the Chitiese kare gone, are much in excess
At the Magistracy yesterday Lieut. George sabject of dispute is being very clearly attain to still higher animation. To fight Hutdissen, of the 22nd Bombay Infantry, at two months" hard labour for his delinquencic, Licut. Costello, dangerously wounded, hing at him when Lt. Gausen of the 3rd Bengal placed before our eyes in the case of South boldly till the death, if necessary. is int one present stationed in Hongkong, charged his ser
The British public looks with of the characteristics of a patriot; tovat, Sayad Rustam Khan, with leaving his he had gone to the compradors with the book joints, doing well.
service without reasonable notice. The come- sonne impatience at what it affects to con- submit faithfully and unreservedly when plainant said he engaged the defendant before they required, he had asked for something in
in which his employers had written down what E.W.F., külsa, 5,075 Private T. Morgan skler the extreme prolongation of the war resistance is no longer for the good of
learing India. The defendant having uskod for addition, siying that his rustars had forgotten died of sunstroke, 5,488 Private W. Huddles Dewer and Botua rise before their eyes as his country, is a second, and in BO an advance, he advanced hira.50 rupees. He to enter it into his book and asking the com- ton. Dangerously wounded; 3,522 Private obstinate guerillas, who refuse to accept the respect inferior, quality of the man who told him he would make no arrangements as to adore to make the entry. The compradore O. Jones. Severely wounded. Privates 4,901 plain call of duty in not coming in at once loves his country. It may remain a moot what he would pay him in Hongkong, as he had done this. On leaving the shop the cook
W. Doyle, 4,53$ 3. Hughes, 3,933 J. Jones to lay their arms; yet perhaps a little may point whether Kosso deserved best of would wait and see what was the current rate of hnd erased the entry and kept the stuff for him. be said in their favour; and had their hands his country in his armed resistanco to Aus pay there. The other offers seted in the same self. Hence the importance of householders Slightly wounded, 3,808 William Edwards, been quite clean, even the British people tria in 1848, or in his submission în 1860. way. When they arrived at Hongkong they checking the compradore's lists with the entries 8,748 0. Vickery, 4,725 J. W. Williams, 4,151 would have come to look upon them as
agreed to give their servants their food and 20 in their own books. rupees a mouth-His Worship' That would be
A correspondent in the north writes to us Casualties among Indian native troops, | such ammolars have never been in evidence. I very excellent pay. The Complainant: In India it would be extraordinarily good. He added about a very genuine grievance. A letter to him that he engaged the defendant on the 29th from Shanghai reached Tientsin after 47 days; rank and file, killed 5, dangerously wound- June, so that the 50 rapeas advanced to another from Taku to Tientsin (28 miles) took 19 ed 3. severely wounded 20, slightly wounded
i would take him to the middle of Sep days; and his own letters to the south for the 6. tember. When the defendant arrived here he most part have never reached the addressess at The truth is," he says, "the people on demanded 30 rupees a month, and he told him he could not have it. He was continually ask the American and English war vessels have ing for more money, but he refused to promiss treated our mails with contempt and with the him mere, and on the 23rd August the defen- grossest curelessness. Ward room officers have dan told him he would not work for lúm any privately confessed to the opening of letter
On the following morning the combat whether this was in the exercise of military longer. plainant went ont early and on returning at censorship I do not know. Such would be about 11 o'clock he found that the defendant their probable defence if their conduct were had gone away. He did not see him again until impugad Correspondents letters taken that day-The defendant: On the 23rd did you direct to Headquarters or given to prominent not strike me -The complainant: Yes, I did, officers, he continues, bare fared even worse he was extremely insulting to me.-His Worth those treated in the ordinary way. The ship: Now you had no business to strike him safest means of conveying letters is to entrast That pats you out of court. You had no right them to the German or Japanese post offices. to take the law into your own hands. Under the There is certainly something in this utter sircumstances I must discharge the defendant, which requires explanation.
brave men hopelessly following a lost cause- In the 24 hours preceding noon yesterday Compared with other wars of the same there were reported one fresh case of plague nature, the rapidity of Lord RoDERTS's and one dđạnth. campaign is what will strike the future student of history. It is not yet a full year Sanitary Inspector L. C Brett had another since the Boers, fully prepared to undertake batch of property owners before the Magistracy an offensive campaign, with arms and yesterday for breaches of the regulation as to artillery of the latest and most scientific backyards. There were 23 houses affected
and a fine of $15 per house was imposed. description, led by able and determined men, and supported by the secret sympathy Wo wore informed by the Telegraph Com of at least one of the first-class Powers, panies yesterday afternoon that the Chines suddenly marched into the northern ex-notify that telegraphic communication with tremity of Natal, and at once commenced Chefoo is interrupted. This outs off com- hostilities. The British had but a small munication with North China. army corps available, and had to retreat
On Thursday about a dozen men got into the before superior numbers, and finally undergo Central Market and began to indulge in some a very determined siege in Ladysmith. As horse-play. They tried to knock over some states in many other modern instances, both Two men were arrested and brought before Mr. des had made the seige the crucial test Haxoland yesterday but were discharged, the of the campaign; the Boers lost in the evidence as to identification not being satis struggle, and the remainer of the campaign factory.
all.
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of Bolliers:
Later, 8 p.m. 8th August-One man native regiment
SOME DETAILS OF THE CAPTURE.
Mr. Toi, the Japaness Consul, has received accidentally drowned.
9th AugustLadiun native troops, two news from the front via wire and runners com. bined. With his usual good sepse and courtesy gun slightly wounded.
ho has put it at everybody's disposal. The Japanese and Russians (with the French) marched along the North side of the Tung Chew Caual, while the English-speaking Forces followed the South side this brought them to the East Wall of the Manchu City In the 14th, on the early morning of which they opened fire. There was a fierce artillery duel for from 8 to 10 homes at night the Japanese with dynamite blew up two of the minor gates, the Chow Tang and Tung Chih, and en- tored the Tartar City at dawn in the 15th.
14th August B.MLI 2,782 Lance Sergt. J. H. Dadd, died of heart disease.
Indian native troops, rank and file, severely wounded 2. slightly wounded one, missing one.
16th August Indian untive troops, one man alightly wounded.
20th August 1st Bengal Lancere, Lieut. Macaulay and one man slightly wounded.