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A CHINESE CLAN-FIGHT.
TWO HONGKONG RESIDENTS IN DANONE,
Two young Hongkong men who at the end of last wook went on a trip up the Pearl River above Canton found themselves in the naigne but ratlier perilous position of being embroiled in a Chinese claz-light and were forced to make baste out of the countryside. They sailed from Hongkong on the Bonam and arriving at
Canton in the ercuing took a paddle junk up the rivar to the village of Sapohing, Saiche prefecture, which was reached early on the following morning. On arrival at Sapoling they discovered that a state of war existed between that village and the neighbouring village of Tanche,
THE SITUATION IN KWANGSI.
The N.-C. Daily News learns from a reliable | source that in response to the demand of Governer Wang Chili ch'un of Kwangs), who deems himself insulted by people in Bhanghai because they have charged him with attempting to borrow troops and money from the French in Tonkin, and oled public meetings in Chang Suho's garden and elsewhers to protest
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, JUNE 121H 1903
against his conduct, that the Foking CentralĄ Govorament has sent down orders to Shanghai. for the arrest and punishment of six persons residing in the Settlements os the charge of sedition and calling together auditions gathers ings. Amongst these six patriots are a Hanlin, two chujen, a licentiate, and a Buddhist priest, a retired ex official of high rank. The N-C. D.N. has it also on good authority that a certai a high mandarin residing in Shanghai has been at the toltom of this persecution, and that when the meetings took place at the Chang Gardens he ordered the Tassi to stop them
LATE TELEGRAMS.
STEVIA SHANGHAI AND JAPAN.]
THE BALKANK.
London, 25th May, The insurgents in Macedonia have attacked
THE AMERICAN FAILURE IN THE
PANTS PHILIPPINES.
Mr. Perceval Landen writes under the above bending two interesting articles in the Daily Mail. The first of these we give below :--
When King Badams of Madagascar was the Turkish strenghold in the neighbred Macila, March 1, 1903, of Lake Prlabs, and after thirty hours fighting advised many years ago to organise his army, have captured the position. One hundred and he said that he rolled upon his two great
fty men were killed,
A Bulgarian Land under Sretkoff has been zuuihilated by a Turkish f.ros near Monsstir.
BOUTH POLAE ENTERPRISE.
Berlin, 2nd Jans, - The steamer Gauss of the German South-Polar Expedition has arrived at Durban-0. Lloyd,
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Berlin, 2nd June. We official circles in Berlin it is considered that the measures taken by France la ordar to repulse the attack of the Mourish tribes on the Governor-General of Algeria are fully justified,
lientenents, General Haso (forest) and General Tazo (fever) more then upon eix army corpa Running northwards under Mindanao and
Luzon one begins to realise the fourful diffanity of the task that the Americans had, and still have, before them in the subjugation of the Philippines. The is lands lie ont, like a loosely thrown length of myrtle-green velvet, a rich tangle of bage vegetation from the tops
the hills to where the white teeth of the sea break nador the very boughs of the mangroves on the shore, The Spaniards managed to retain their Bominal
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important part of the truth. The Government like a sea-bird, and after that did not ship any attempt to repair the lots by importing buffaloes began to rise, and the wind depressed. A vozy are, indeed, wholly to be praised in their more water. The barometer some time after from China-though the comparatively small heavy ses, however, was left, and the Iris was Chinese beasts that have been bought will bat slowed down once more. The Iris has on board poorly replace the huge balls that have of 400 miles of deep-son cable, in addition to a atvesity bein bred for the deep mind-soils of the full-set of cable repairing gear. The crew num Philippines-bat so long as the Government bora 95 bands, the men having been man of the persist in their policy in far more important mot. Royal Navy. the islands decline, and it is the unpleasant truth, ters, just so long will the trade and prosperity of
These places are situated about 50 miles above Centon. T origin of the trouble is thus oxplained, young man from Sapobing made a visit are evening to the neighbour. ing village of Tancho, where he indulged in gambling at the fantan-tables and lost money. But instead of losing kis cseh with the | and arrest the leaders of the morement. The The Figaro raises the question as to whother sovereignty over the intends by a judicious though the fact has been either not represented | good grace of a veteran gambler he became Taotai being more broad-minded, hesitated to a British Agent is in any way connected with policy of allowing sleeping dogs to lo. The or not understood in the United States, that a
nasty, secased the master of the place of cheat ing and snatched some money from the table Thereupon the master hit him on the face and Le retaliated in like fashion. There the matter appeared to bare been ended. The young man went back to his own village that night. But it seems that the stfair rankled in his mind, for hp informed the older that he bad suffered on insult and demanded that they, the Chan olan, should take notion towards getting an apology from the others, the Cheah clau. The elders after consultation among themselves went over to the Chesh village and insisted
take cetiou, until he was forced to by direct orders from H. E. En Shou, the Governer at Socolow.
Native Affaire ont In its Notes on Shanghai, contemporary also mentiona that on the 4th inst. the local mandarins re- cuived the following telegram from Kwangsi: "The rebelion in Kwangel is increasing and daily getting more dangerous and more formidable. The Imperial army here is too weak to be of any use and is insuficient to garrison all important cities and foras. The latest news is that the robals have besloged the
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this attack or Dol.-O. Floyd,
London, 3rd June. One French column proceeds on the 9th of Juno to Figg, while two oibers simulta- weously round up the troublesome tribes. M. Jounart proposes to ko p a fores in the Figig district as long as the Moors are unable to preserve order.
London, 4th June.
It is naderated that Spain has received verbal assurances from France regarding Morocco, Navertheless the Madrid papers hars a presentiment that France is taking the first Morocco-N-C. Daily News,
Americans have sat before themanives nothing less than the running of their writ into the last and least corner of this fever-laden jungle.
Tho result has beau inevitable, and whether
suppression of brigandage, the fact remains that the Government calls it a war or the mere they bave made little progress in a war that bids fair to rival in character and duration the almost, blateric conflict that is still being waged
Sumiatas by the Datch. under not entirely dissimilar circumstances in
Two years and a half ago I was sitting in the
thinking bow curiously identiest the whole sore was with the life in the central ball of the
Monat Nelson Hotel" at Capetown.
very serious depression has brought business în the Philippines almost to a standstill. More than this, the sum of four million dollars paid) last year as duty opon imported zins was
revenue. It is a sinister indication of a fact abiained from a most deplorable soukso of that cannot be explained away much longer, and that is that the fund is boing largely abandoned in country that depends entirely for its prosperity
upon agriculture.
The reasons for this misfortune are freely discussed in Manila, and in my next letter I
apen an apology baing tendered. To this the city of Changahon, belonging to the prefectural step towards a preponderant influence in wide entrance of the "Oriente Hotel in Manila Lope lo represent, the opinions of the men who l Ühesh'+idors næsented readily, and paid the complainant some $0 or $3 dollars by way of compensation and also supplied him with some medicinal balls with which to treat the injarica he had got on the face....
This was not considered by him, however, to be sufficient reparation. Seeing that his own village elders would not support him in any further action he want to another village of the Chuns, inflamed the poople there with recitation of his wrong, and incited them to take summary revenge upon the Cheahs, Accordingly some 40. of the villagers next day sel out for the Cheah villago, armed with Mauser rides, They took up a position on a hillock behind the village and Bred 300 or 400 shots into the ancestral bail. Then the Chesh villagers got infuriated over the outrage and demanded an apology from the invaders. The Chuns replied that they would fight the quarrel out..
That was the stage of which matters stood when the two Hongkong gentlemen got there. The elders of the villages then agreed that there should be peace, and an armistice was drawn up in accordance with the understanding arrived at and was signed with the ancestral chop of each of the contracting parties. This agreement the Chuns accepted in etl good faith and they went back
division of Taipingfa (Kwanga provinco) and that unloss relief is sent at onceit will certainly fall into the lands of the rebels. The prefoot of Taipingia, Wa, has been sending appeals for troops and the Governor (Wang Chun) has therefore ordered a force under Ho Taotal and Major General Pan to proceed to Chungohou to raise the siege." Chungohou is depart mental city, about forty-five railes north-east of Langahon, and some twenty miles west of the Kwangiang border, Taipingfu city is aboat twenty odd miles from the Aznamose borders
UHINA'S TRADE.
Under the heading of "Mr. Gwyther's Report" F. A. writes to the P. & T. Times on the 28th Misy as follows →→→
I see from your report of Mr. Gwyther's speech at the recent meeting of the Chartered Bank that the petticoats of Threadneedle Strost are flapping again. Mr. Gayther is such a learned and great practical authority that his remarks are always very interesting and are very carefully perused in the Far East, therefore, when we see Mr. Gwyther deprecating action, which weare gradually being forced to believe is neces sary to the growth of our trade, we can only lament, and to the best of our ability kick against the pricka. Mr. Gwyther states that there is an
BEITAIN AND GERMANY,
London, 4th June, The German Chancellor, Count Von Bülow appears anxions to avoid anything which, by fanning anti-German feeling in England, may promote Mr. Chamberlain's ideas. The reserve shown by the German papers is regarded as showing how much the scheme alarms them. N.U. Daily News.
SOME ARMY COMPARISONS.
In his The land of the Bonere: er China under the dilice, which we briefly reviewed in these columns recently, Usptain Gordon Casserly (who is very convinced as to the merits of the Indian troops) holds that the efficiency of the German Army has been much overrated, Their transport in China was exceedingly defective, and they found themselves depend ent on the kindness of the other armies for means to move from the railway." Their knowledge of horse-mastership was Dot impressive, their animals always looking badly kept and ill-fed." The lessons of the South African campaign have not keen appre cinted, indeed, judging by last year's man. convees, it is doubtful whether thesp. lessons have ave now been taken to heart, The
A JUMBLE OF BOCIETY AND DEATH. There were the saine old hopes and fears, the same old lies, rumours, criticisms, flirtations, miserits, and scandals; the samas jumble of acciety and death, Monte Carlo and martial law. as to what the day might bring forth within perbags also the same underlying nervousness the very town. A man had boon killed only the wook before at Sontanas, caly four miles from the Bridge of Spain, and there was an uneasy feeling that all was not well, despite the optimism of the newspapers.
A young Americap officer illuminated the situation by a word. We had been talking of the war in South Africa and a touch of fellow feeling made him frank. I was saking him how I could get out to the front-what passes or permits were required, and whom to apply to. He saluted the povement and considered.
"You," he said, with his glass at bis lips, "you want to get out to the firing line?"
"Yes."
"Well, I guess"—and hers half his tumbler emptied-Ignees the tiring line is co-extensive with the coast-line of these island.."
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ORIGIN OF THE HORSE, Frofessor Ridgeway says he deduced from
12, QUEEN'S ROAD. various sources the opinion "that the Aruls never! owned a horse until they bad become monstare of
THE "ZAFIRO" CASE. whom are sprung our own raising stock through North Africa, and the Barbary horses, from
REPRINT of "THE ZAFIRO' Lord Godolphin's Barb. North Africa, there A MYSTERY" Caso in pamphlet form is fore, and not Ambis, or any other part of Asin, now on sale. Copies may be obtained for cash, is the original home of the thoroughbred. Now, $1 each, at the Office of the Daily Pres.” though the pedigree of the cart-horse type can be traced to the coarse, thick-set little wild horus of Europe and Asis, the ancestor of the Barb is yet to seek, for CHINA AND JAPAN Africa has no wild horse, such as Tarpan or Presevalthy's, though she has an ass and four TELEPHONE AND ELECTRIC rebras, including the quaggs, now extinet. Oan the Barb be sprung wholly or in part COMPANY, LIMITED.
with a feast of cakes, sweetmesis and samsha of £10,000,000. One wonders how long he traditions of close formations and centralisation bandits" and the prosperity of the country, from a zebra Arab fools at birth constantly | o their villige and made merry, over the event annual advorec balance of traila against China | Garmnu anthorities are still faithful to the
of command under fire.
portant thing.
Unbroken lines in
have zebre markings, sometimes retained when They put away their arms, knocked down the would maintain that this adversa balance has
full-grown, as by Professor Ewart's Arab defences that had been hastily erected to repel existed. He declines in one part of his speech the attack are the rule, and no divergence But the latter has now become the more im-
from the straight-forward direction, in order
From the papers, where the word "szoway" the invades and ware at the Leight of their to give en stay on Political Economy, suil then
horses of the Libyan Garabantes have longer merry-making when without any warning proceeds to propound that a continuous adverse to take advantage at cover lying towards his bron bedioatly discontinued for the less Bily Fatime. Strabo, too, notices that the
hoofs than any other horeca. large force of men from the Chalalance of £10,000,000 own exist without the flank is anthorised. The increased destrus disquieting expression ladrones," one would
country becoming insolvent. Br. Gwyther tive power given by low trajectory to gather that the last flicker of the war was Ewart's hybrids from Burchell's zebra and village fell upon them. The attacking party must be in possession of figure not available to modern firearms does not seem to be properly being that day stamped out, that the Philiparious mares, show the markings not of a numbered some 600 men400 with Manseze
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Aro, is not striven
trained in the same close formations as the
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ancestor of both Equus caballus and Burchell's sebra were atriped like the Somalilandand moun:
by arrangement. tain sebra: "Bat is it necessary to go so far back! May not the Somaliland zebra stripes in the by. NO CHARGE FOR INSTALLATION brid he due to the circumstance that the dam in anch case bad a certain amount of Barb blood in ber, which was derived from either the Somali-
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more likely, from some very slowly allied from the zebra of North-East Africa, or, es is species, row extinct, which, like Prezevalsky'n horse, may have had eastors on its kind lega like Equius caballus.
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and 200 coolies. Of course the Chan villare residents in China, for the Customs Retarus for understood by them. Th+ creeping forward pines were already basking in the sun of Burchell's zebra, but of a Somaliland zebra, was entirely unprepared for the attack. The the last ten years show an adverse average balance of widely extended and irregularly advancing American prosperity, and that the sanguine from which it has been inforced that the remote PEKTORJOIN Made en entranos into the village coeds to give Eve points to be borns in miad by {within easy reach. le not favoured; and the prophecies of the commercial extinction of and carried all before them. They sicked 17 houses. First of all they directed their By Government that determines to abolish the dread of the effect of cavalry charges on the Hongkong wore as good as restised. attention to the looting of a rive-shop; from it free coinage of silver. I will deal with his fanks of such scattered formation still rales the
But the very day of my arrival there came they carried away between 400 and 500 points serialin. (1) is colf-evident. (2) The tactics of the attack. The development of the piculs of rice, thres cows, half-a-dozen necessity of the maintenance of a gold reserve initiative of the soldier, of his power of seting the rumour of a strange speech in Iloilo, and two days later every one, except the newspapers, was talking of almost nothing else. It was pigs, and they killed earen or eight more adequate for all requirements (presumably for himself under pigs which they ware nasble to take with including redemption of all silver coins), has after. In steady, mechanical drill the German them. Also they shot dead an old woman been proved to be a fallacy by the Indisa private is still pre-eminent, but in wide expan only the local paper of Iloilo that had had the challengo that a responsible administrator has, 60 years of age. The doings of the invaders Government and by the success attendantsions he is helpless without someone at bis temerity to report verbatim the strangest naturally caused the greatest possible alarm in upon the many countries which, with only elbow to give him orders,
Of the French Army Captain Casserly's I suppose, ever thrown down. In effect, Gov. the village. All the inhabitants were called to swall stocks of gold, waintain at uniform par arms, doors and gateways were harricaded, of oxchange, for their silver coinage. (3) The opinion is somewhat more favourable-coloured ernor Taft said that the islands were going demand of the enddenly enlightened "native" slightly, it may be, by the greater affability to te administered by the Americans for the. and for half-an-hour or so there was a sharp toe geld in exchange for silver, can be refused of the French officer. The French Army is benefit of the Filipinos and for the Filipinos if those Americans and others who had When the attack first began the women of antil such time as there is a sufficient reserva
were still discontented, the obvious thing for, the vilinge sought safety in flight. The two of gold to warrant the exchange of gold for German, but it can adapt itself more rapidly complained of the policy of the Government danghte:s of the “squire" of the village tried to silver. (4) The suggestion that forged soins to extended order. The Russian troops struck effect their escape by running into the adjacent will be numerous proves Mr. Gwyther to have Captain Casserly sa determined fighters, but them to do was to get cut. It is true that paddy-finds but they were intercepted by been no student of similar opportunities for devoid of the power of initiative or of three days later the indiscreet little paper of woa written leader deprecating the misunderstand- the Chest men and stripped of their cloth frand given in the may countries that thinking for themselves. The grust power Iloilo found itself obliged to print a carefully ing and jewelry. Their cries attracted the maintain coinages above their intrinsic value. of the Raasian soldier tios in his
moved, and echoes of the speech reached one attention of the Chans, who went to their resous If he maintains that an Asiatic people is derful endurance under privation that fowing that had arison, but Manils remsized
even in Japan. and beat off the enemy. Thereafter the Chans differently constituted to an European one, other European troops could expport."
It may be interesting to examine what. this returned home but so great was thair fear of I refer him to the case of India, where Japanese make ideal foot soldiers, but the a night úttack that all the women and children the able Government Committee of 1898 Japanese onvoley, consisting of small men of
authorities has been successful. A stranger must went to seek protection in the neighbouring said that fear of illicit coinage had proved under-sized animals, would be uselem in akook policy means, and bow far the altruism of the
"The organisation, oquipment, and friendly villages hearing only the fighting to be bogus fear, and no case of forged taoties. men in the place. A council of war was called coins had been brought to the notice of the material of the Japanese Army leave littis to of necessity rely greatly upon hearsay evidence and it was resolved that us the Chaabs Government. (5) The mggestion that im be desired. Their engineers and artillery are and the tone of many who do not cars to be had broken the peace contract the tea Chan pesunions States would over-isens silver coins well trained, and both rendered good service to identified with any open criticism of the
and comfortable on the main dock. opinion has been at times considerable, as olans should be asked to assist in the pasishems to be rather out of place as advice to the Allies in 1990. Their Intelligence De Government, as the punishment for a careless
high ment of the aggressors. The olans responded Government that itself proposes to limit partment had been brought to
know to their cost. But the verieat tourist has and is on her maiden voyage... The trip out] readily to the invitation and late that sight the number of ouins in circulation. Any standard of efficiency; and its perfection the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank clerks fria belongs to the Pacific Cable Company, Estimates given forall kinds of Electrical work
only to travel a hundred miles along the one has provided lots of excitement; in fact, the began to pene into the village armed with State that stopped free coinage would astonishes those who are permitted to gain ■ Over-issue, Mr. Gayther then refers to the
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Trained Mechanicians sent to Out-Ports to alizfy them until the next hurricane season. arrows, and Mazsor rifles Barricades were Middle Apes zs a feir criterion of what a State with its spies. When the Legations were erected round the town; vannen-aiz and ten in the enlightened twentieth century might be threatened, Japanous who had bees working at
In old days the extraordinary fertility of the Rho encountered the cyclone which the Japanese fit up Installations if required. pounders--were placed in position for defons expsater to do! Now, Bir. the extraordinary inferior trades in Peking came in and revealed anil provided the Filipinos sot only with daily cruisers, the Russian orniser, and several mail
thing nderlying the five points is the silent and provisions were laid in MNRE
So serious had the sitention become that and tacit acknowledgment that the stoppage of theseves as military officers who for months bread, but encouraged a great and growing trade boats encountered in the Indian Oceti, and
or years had been acquainting themselves within the hard woods of Luxon, melave and sarrs, next day the Hongkong visitors loft the village free coinage would be able to raise the intrinsic at the urgent request of the elders, who considered value of the silver coins. I would refer you to the plans, methods, and strength of Chins, in ceffet, and, of course, above all, is the famous that their presence might precipitatamatiers and points, 3, and 5. The speaker some hardly inforiste still further the attacking party. to have realised where his words were loading Prompt and unquestioning obedience in #bres of the so-called hewy. Now, one passes
casional squalls. So flerce was the blow, that Accordingly they came down the river to him to, for he is in the midst of su animated everything is the motto of the Japanese soldier.rough milles of deserted paddy fields, leaking er left Colombo. The barometer fell, and the sea Canton on an armed boot, belonging to the defence of the stutua que With regard to Their conrage at the storming of Tientsin oib, and sour, where the stabbls of what should hava i got up. Strong winds blew, and there were ori: village
the supply of gold, which Mr. Cyther on the march to the capital, and at the capture
ses broke on board, and carried away the for The Chan people have informed the authorities suggests could only be brought by a forsign of Felding won the adiniration of all the Alliss, been the last drop bat four pricks up doolately the engines were reduced to 70 revolutions. One Canton of the doings of the Cheahe and how loan, is be aware that a most moderate estimate and their behaviour and self-restraint in the in the abandoned waterbeda.
ward telegraph. Tustead of abating, the ses they broke faith with them. It is not yet known of the output of gold in China is £1,000,000 hour of victory or equalled only by their
You will be officially assured that this had grown bigger, so much so flat the engines how ths- trouble ended, bat our infortesata starling annually? The introduction of foreign gallantry in action. The Japanese troops
system say that the Chute moun to fight the affair to a methods of mining will probably increase this carried the German Irish. They look lightly upon the original amount in the near future. The close of Mr. ¡ to excess, but this was partly the result of their decortion of the hand has been caused by were still further reduced--30 revolutions only, No. 1, QUEEN'S ROAD EAST cause, of the fracas but are determined to take Gwyther's speech, in which he speaks of the offers desire to show to their European critics plague of rinderpest among the carahou, or this being just sufficient to keep the ship's boud emple revenge for the deadly disgrace offered catlook of silver as very forlorn, only serves to the splendid fighting quality of their soldiers
is neither the whole truth nor the most ship put before a hurricane. She rode the sOB to the two ladies who were stripped in the paddy-accentuate the necessity for China's establishing whom ne amount of slaughter would dismay in water buffaloes. This is, of course, tras, but it on. After this oil fags were got pat, and the
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