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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, JULY 25TH, 1903
Tho China Times of the 11th inst. has the following:
A Russian officer stated to a representative of the China Times yesterday that in his opinion there would be war at an early date batreon Russia and Japan.
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AUSTRALIA AND WHITE LABOUR..
THE WEATHER.
CHINA COAST METEOROLOGICAL
REGISTER, 29rà JULY, P.M.
STATION.
service to Australia with the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company, to alternate with a fortnightly service from A Parliamentary paper was issued last month Australia under contract with the Com- containing "Jospatch to the Governor-monwealth, can homeward' mails be put on General of Australia relating to the exclusive board the ressols of that company ander tho employment of white Jabour." Tho despatch, provisions of Section 69 of the Commonwealth which is dated from Downing Street, April 17, is | Post and Telegraph Act, 1901, consistently with written by Mr. Chamberlain and deals with the the provisions of Section 16 (1) of the same
Vladivostok 2 p. 1 20.49 fact that Nemuro...... Ara you quito cortain abant that asked our question of the termination or extension of the
notwithstanding the contracts with the Peninsular and. Oriental and,
coloured
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the Orient Companies for the convoyance of vesicla? The last-mentioned section ounots
Tokyo mails to and from Australia and the East.
contract or arrangement for the After some preliminary remarks, Mr. Chamenrriage of mails shall be entered into on berlian says:---
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Of course there can be no absolute cortainty audit war breaks out, he replied. All that I am certain of is that we have, modo ovory prepara. fiou, and that we shall not retire en inch. Japan may withdraw from her position, for all I low, and in that case war will be avoided, but we shall not withdraw. We are ready at
any moment.
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for His Majos y's Coverament to co-operato A MARTIAN THEORY REFUTED. with your Governmout in a new contract, and that an ess that condition could be modified.
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Naha......... In the telegram from this Dapartment of the
a condition that only white labour shall be higatijin
Taitoku th January, you were informed that with employed in sach earrings. The question is
Taichu he exception of your Goverment the postal whether placing homeward mails on board a adminstrations which are interested in the returning Panicular and Oriental steamer
Kohun...... present contracts were generally in favour of ander Station 60 will be an "arrangement"
Pescadores Weihaiwei What do you think of the clunces of war?
their extension, it increased spood could be It will be matter between Russia and Japan secured, and that the Postmaster General within the moaning of Section 16 (1. From dutela... the marginal note to Buation 16 (1), "white Sharp Pesali Neither England nor America will fight thought it possible that the desired accoleration
Jabour iu mall contracts," and from the terms England has too much at stake. She has to could be obtained for the present subsidy, but think of her Indian empire, which could be at that se regards the proposed exclusivo employ. of the sections of the Act which bear upon once invaded. Besides, France would be comment of white labour on the mail packets the question, it is assumed by His Majesty's Government that the arrangement contemplated pulled by the terms of the Dual Allianco to join | His Majesty's Government were nuable, in in, if Bassin were opposed by more thau o accordance with the policy indicated in my by Section 16 (1) are to the nature of contractul Power England is just nox full of President despatch to the Governor of Victoria of the 10th rangements to which the Commonwealth Go- THE Undersigned, having been appointed out and her new-found friendship with November, 1996, to agree to introduce into rument is a party, and that the auction would AGENTS for the above Compry, are France. England would not sacrifice that mail contract to which they wore a party not be infringed if under Section 69 mails wers and feindship for twenty Manchurias, or for stipulations intended to exclude curtain, classes put on board a ship with a coloured crow engaged propared to ACCEPT FOREIGN CHINESE RISKS.
Japon. And the Americans are not in the least of British subjects from employment in the by the Postmaster-General independently of. KOTZ, s'JACOB & CO.
disposed to fight.
contract vessels. You wero further informed the Commonwealth Gorerament, Hongkong, 1st September, 1902.
But what do you thick of the respective that the condition as to the exclusive employ. glad to learn whether this assumption is correct, NORTHERN ASSURANCE O). strength of the Kussion and Japanese forces? ment of white labour thus rendered it impossible
Russia has boon making properations for months for years, indeed, bat during iba pact few months the foibing touches have been given. Rassin is far strengos in Merolacin, it would be recozzary to abandon the sea of Nothing has been left undone, from the monata joint arrangement, and to make other plass ing of the heaviest dynamite guns al Port for an Australian service, and you were asked (16Arthur to the training of Chinese and to report whether, having regard to thess con Menchurian brigauds as Russins auxiliary siderations, your Ministers still desired the trips. In Coren the Russian forces are being existing contracts to be terminated at the curliest possible date, or whether the Postmaster. General should, without terminating tho con. AD improved The Japanese ships are slightly stronger, tracts, endeavour to secure Russia has 58 war vessels in Port Arthur 28 in service. In your telegram of the 27th January Vladivostock and sight or ten at Nowchwang. you report that your Prime Minister could ៥១ no prospect of being able to modify Japan has 117 altogether. But how will that the condition as to the exclusive employment help her? Itussia has no need to go out to sea, of white labour, and that your Goverment Our ships will stay under the protection of the on sequently could not enter luto arrangements guns of Tort Arthur, which the Japanese ships by which the employment of coloured crows cannot approach, Bosides, we have four after the Sat January, 1905, would be sanctioned, submarines, the effect of which has still to board therefore adhered to the determination seen. They may be sufficient to account for expressed in your despatch of the 9th December the whole Japanese fleet. The Japanese have ast. This announcement left the Postmaster. Do submarines.
General no alternative but to give formal notice to both the contracting companies to terminate the existing contracts on the 31st Jaunary, 1945, and as you are already aware from my telegram of the 15th instant, sach notice was accordingly given.
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And the feets?
When do you think these questions will be pot to the test? When do you expect war to
broak out?
We expect it now-to-day, always; we as rendy at any moment; but if you mess when will it actually come, I cannot say. Nor cas
anyone. But the conference of Admirals and Garrels et Port Arthur bas decided that Russia is ready, and must not yiehl un iuch.
A
The Osaka Asali received the following idegram from Tientsin on the 10th inst. Russian at Port Arthur has telegraphed to a hotel here to say that war will be declared in four or five days. It is reported hers that the
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is more extensively known that is the basis apon which it is founded. It is one thing to admit the planet is habitable, unether to prove it i juliabited. Popular knowledge vaguely under- stands that the evidence consists in the fact that indications of large artificial works have Weihainoi...
by very powerfal telescopes (uczk placed in the most favourable positions. Starp Poak But the extremo slenderness of this evidence Porhaps the rot generally grasped. strongest supporter of the theory is Mr. Percival Lowell, who recently fitted out an observatory expedition to Flagstaff, in Arizona, and also to Mexico. As a result of his experiment he claboratos Schiaparelli's theory of canals in manner which no former Encolod. astronomer has done, and proves to bis own satisfaction the oxistence of a highly ins. Janes 10a telligent. race capable of constructing a vast system of irrigation works. structure Mr. Lowell has erected is somewhat roogbly demolished by Mr. Arthur
But the
R.
insa in an exceptionally interesting articlo in the Monthly Review. Mr. Lowell is not quite the best man to deal with such a su’ject with His Majesty's Government much regret that triet impartiality. Before he made his obsar- the legislation which has recently been passed vations he publicly auncanced he was on the in Australis has made it impossible for them eve of a pretty delinita discovery in the matter to be associated in futuro with the Government of life in other worlds. That he has produced of the Commonwealth in any mail contract, is remarkable way showing some remarkable lines is certain. But be out out with the idea They recognise the importance to the cause of
Buch that Mars was inhabited, and he views the Imperial nuity
of joint Nation in matters as postal communication between phenomous he notes in this light. This is noi the mother-county and the great self.a process devoid of danger, and Mr. Hinks governing colonies, and they would not on
shows that it has bed Mr. Lowell to draw con-
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| Newchwang to leave." The Bussian referred fo must be trying to hoax. somebody, says the Kobe Chronicle,
BALACLAVA.
would certainly not agree.
Lieut. Comdr. Thos. D. Pratt, Weibaloi
The Martians, according to Mr. Lowell, enjoy Cressy, erniser, 12,000 tons, 14 guns. 21,000 h.p., Capt. Honry M. T. Tudor, Weihaiwei Eclipes, oruisor, 5.600 tons. 11 gans, Captain
Stokes, Weibniwei Espiegle, guaboat, 1,070 tons, 10 guns, Comdr. Ernest G. Barton, en route Weihaiwei
but the legislation in question, affecting as it dues principally Indian subjects of His Majesty, leares no other course open to thom
a climate not more unlike ours than ours is By the Matiny Proclamation of 1858 the unlike itself in different parts of the world, Crown declared itself bound to the natives of The air is thin and almost eldudlese, and the its Indian territories by the same obligations country is badly watered. Irrigation is neces- of duty which bind it to all its other subjects, sary to support the population: and the complex The late General Troshu's graphic sccinnt, and undertook faithfully and conscientiously system of Sohiaraparelli's "canale" is the Then Mr. in his notes recently pubished in the Kesse de to fulfil those obligations. It would not be evidence of thoir irrigation works.
A large polar Paris, of what he saw of the famous cavalry consistent with that undertaking for His owell's theory is explained. charges at Balaclava, will be read with great Majesty's Government to become parties to sap forms late every winter and rapidly melts. (storest. He was near Lord Huglan on the contrast in which the employment of His This has to supply practically the whole planet
ENGLISH AND CHIN & SI high numait of a hill, from which they ould
WITH THE PONTI AND MANDARIN PRONUNCIATION.
Majesty's Indinus subjects is in terras forbidden really canals, or rather the broad ball of
e, as from the seats of a vast amphitheatre, on the ground of colour only. His Majesty's
vogetation bordering the irrigation works. the movements of the red-cented British and Governmont have shown every sympathy This sounds well until the maps are carefully For comprehensiveness and practical service the grey masses of Bussion cavalry. Scarlett's with the efforts of the people of Australin oxamined. From an engineering standpoint this Work stands marivalled. All the new words three hundred heavy basemen were standing to deal with the problem of immigration, the theory is abeurd or impossibl. The canals which the Chinese have of lato years been com molioules, de if they were not conscions of the but they bare always objected, both as
rau in directions which are opposed to all our poiled to coin to express the numerous objects ir
regards alious and as regarde British subjects, to ideas of irrigation; water would have to ray machinery, photography, telegraphy, and in great body of Russian cavalry that was science generally, which the rapid advance of advancing to attack them from the direction specific legislative discrimination in favour of both ways in them, which would be a dificult foreign relations has imposed upon them, are Balaclava. Motionles also were the rest of or aguiset race and colour, and that objection problem for even Martians to tackle; many of Begitu in extenso. Each and every word is the British cavalry ander Lord Lucan, that applies with even greater force to the present them traverse what are said to be large areas of fully illustrated and explained, forming exercises for students of a most instractive nature. Both ought to have moved to Scarlett's support The case, in which the question is not of the rights the Court and Punti pronunciations are given, hebris of the spectators beat high with excite of the white population of Australia es against wol-watered vegetation, which seems a singular- the accents being carefully marked on the bost ment and Tecchu could not master his feeling an influx of foreign immigrants, but merely of ly wasteful method of constructing irrigation principle hitherto attained The typography of indignation My Lord, he said to Lord the eruployment of His Majesty's Indian sub-works; and finally the theory is hoist with a displays the success of an uttempt to make the Chinese and English type correspond in the vize Raglan, "the Scotts are going to be swallowell jects on a contract to be mainly performed in home-made petard in the form of a report from of body, thereby affecting a vast economy of up, and your envalry, which could overwŁelm the tropical or sap-tropical waters, space, achieving a clearness not previously enemy by a tank attack, gives them to us. Even if the service were one upon which His cap is not show at all bat oload, which of couras attained, and dispensing with those vest margins ance. Yes, yes, I see," said Lord Raglan, Majesty's Indian subjects had not hitherto upsets the great water-sapply ides.
But Mr. Hinks goes further than merely and vacant spaces which have heretofore charno.
and he dictated to General Airoy a short note been employed, it would destroy the faith of the pointing out the impossibility of details. He terized Chinese publications.
To illustrate the vast scope of the work the which Captain Nolan. "unfortunately apt less people of India in the sanctity of the obligations attacks the whole theory. Why should the following foote uresubmitted for acnsideration:-
they run in straight lines? The moon afforde s scale as large as that of Mare. The bright streaks that an example of natural geometry radiate from Tycho and some of the grander characteristics of Marlia cassle, Tanzerkame explanation of them, though we can
one of Mr. Lowell's assistants that the polar
canals. is no
examine
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Mortuurdo Mr. and Mrs. H. Macke
family. Mrs. G. Ozborn Mr. Silvia Farreglio Mr. Antonio Parreglio Mr. Max Path: Ms. Herm. Richter Mr. F.M. Biroz Mr. D. Romero Mr. F. Rodrigues Mr. Fred. D. Smith.
Chalmers Vocabulary contains about 16.000 excited than the rest of us carried at the undertaken towards them by the Crown if the marks be regarded as artificial merely because Robin, river gunboat, -86 tons, 2 guus, 240, and Mrs. Chas. Dahl Mr, Luis”) Chinos Dictionary about 100,000, whilst this to Trochu, the famous order came to be sent degres whatever parties to a policy of excluding Chinese characters, and Medhurst English and gallop to Lord Lucan. This is how, according Imperial Government should become in any work contains more than 50,000 English words which led to the charge of the Light Brigado. them from it solely on the ground of colour, sud upwards of 600,000, Chinese chamcters, "In the meantime, we rend, feat of arms But where they have already heon employed Again, despite all the grammars and other elementary works as yet, published, the student antheught of, except by those who, judging in the sorrico for as long period of years of this difficult language absolutely requires ex without passion, know the affect that an Eng to prescribe them from it now would ba amples to display the various applications sudfish force can accomplish at a given moment, to produos instifiable discontent among a large equivalents of different words which have one
was carried out before our turaptured eyes portion of His Majesty's subjects. His general meaning. Of these examples this work
The Scotts, waiting for their adversaries, Majesty's Government deeply regret that their contains more than five times as many as any
rewired them with a volley at a short distance feeling of obligation in this matter is not shared other Dictionary hitherto pablished
For practical purposes the arrangement of the and moving forward in regular order, with by the Parliament of the Commonwealth and work is so complete that a roforone to its pages indomitable resolution penetrated their mosses, that in regard to a matter which cannot affect enables a person who understands English to communicate effectively with natives who weder. where they disappeared for a moment to reap the conditions of employment, in Australia, and stand nothing int Chinese. In this respect the per at the other eml. In my life I had over in no way affects that purity of race which the residing in China, and to the natives themselves
Lient.-Comdr. Ernest W. G. Davidson, on Tangiszo Sparrowhawk, torpedo-bost destroyer, 360 toza,
the moon at close quarters. "It ia" remarke Mr. Hinks, rush beyond legitimate scientific boldness to deny in toto a natural explanation for geometrical markings not unlike those on a world more than a hundred times as far away." Not only does he consider Mr. Lowell's case not proven, but ho is tempted to adð regretted that Mr. Lowell's earlie Look a ridor to his verdict that it is much to be Tak, torpedo-boat destroyer, 250 tons, & guns,
6,600 h.p., in reserTA. Mars was written upon evidence which was Talbot, cruiser, 5,000 tons, 11 guns, 9,600 h.p. so incomplete. To have made the best map. Capt. Lewis Bayley, Weiksiwei
of another world is a notable feat. To my
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work will be found indispensable to all European soes anything like it. In my life I never people of Australia justly value, they should that it representa a scheme of intelligent Tamar, receivír ship, 4,600 tons, guns, Com
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Lave considered it desirable to dissociate them
selves so completely from the obligations and policy of the Empire.
fact
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iding in Chupete fully with which very few such a sight again. Thus when Captain Nohn
sign, and a particular shome of irriga. Teal, river gunboat, 180 tons, guns, Lingt indeed of them are perfectly acquainted. To roached Lord Encan with Lord Raglan's order,
tin, which may not appear workable, but Comdr. E. F. H. Dugmore on Yungtase must parties resident in England and interested in the position of affairs that had led to the giving
bo so because nothing else has bean sug. Thotis, craiser, 9,400 tons, Capt. J. C. A. Ching it cannot but be invaluable occasionally. of the order no longer existed. The Russian
In the circumstances it now devolves: pro Rested, is neither good science nor good asuse. Wilkinana on Iongisze
Mr. Hinke น
to sppers
agree with Sir Twood, gunboat, 362 Con“, 3 gung 200 h.p, It comprises upwards of two thousand large
on Yangtze cavalry had been routed by the small force of His Majesty's Government to ornsider what Oliver Lodge's remark in a recent number of quarto pagos,
4 Vols. IMPERIAL QUARTO, Price $20. British heavy cavalry alone, and there was arrangements they should make on their own the Commonstealth. "We sometimes think that! Vestal, sloop, 980 tons, 10 guns, 1,400 h.p., | Eve 8.)
the planet Mars is inhabited. Perhaps it is: A large REDUCTION in PRICE is made nothing left for the light cavalry to do, unless behalf on the expiry of the existing contracts, but I venture to think that on the whole it is to Purelinvara of SIX or more Copies.
it chose to charge the whole Baseinu army, but at the outset they are confronted with a probable that we are at the present time the HONGKONG:
which at the suggestion of Captain Noles it diffulty, In the event of the Postmuster only intelligently inhabited planet in the solar "DAILY, PRESS" Orvice. 14 Dar Voux
-Times of India. -Road Central.
immediately did.
General concluding a contract for a fortnightly system.
Comde. Stuart St. J. Farquhar, Yangtaza Virgo, torpedo-bost destroyer, 360 tone, in Waterwitch, surveying ship, 620 tons, 4501.h.p..
Comdr. E. C. Hardy, Weihaiwoi
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