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THE PONGKONG DAILY PRESS TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 1744. 1903
In India income-tax is now levied on all annual incomes of £39 and upwards,
Cholera is reported to be raging in some of the southern islands of the Philippine Archipelago,
Yesterday the running-chosk system w adopted for the first time in the Manila Častom Honse,
All the Russian warships, which have been concentrated at Dalny recently, proceeded to Port Arthur'on the 15th inst
Yesterday being the 29th day of the 8th moon, was the féle-day of Hwa Kwang, the god of fire, and of Mê, a deified physician. ·..
There are 1,000,000 people in the United States, over toner of age, who cannot speak English, the majority of how are Germans.
On and after the ith in the Russia authoritie at Port Wether werd to lovy tonnage dues ez al versals verbing late at the rate
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Surely concerted action. This is an affair which touches the general welfare and the revenues hereafter of the Colony. The caes! is one for the Colony as a whole to take up, headed by its Government. The Govern. ment of Hongkong cannot afford to sit and watch the threatened blow struck at the city over which it rules. Commercial extinc. tion of such a place as Hongkong is more! thin a commercial matter, it is a political watter of the utmost possible importance. Alone of the Earopean Powers which have required for themselves footholds in China, Britain has rade no attempt to connect At those footholds with the interio Weihaiwel ire voluntarily cut off our chance of opening up part of, Shanteng by A British line. At Hongkong, after sixty years of occupancy, we have not n yerd of rail running into Obiun, chile a lew hours' journey away there will soon be seen a great foreign line, opening up hundreds of miles of country of the richest churacter. and connecting Canton with cue of the other greatest cities of the Chinese Empire One in Penang of the grows rather weary of using the word "die grace in counection with British alway policy in China, and weary indeed of the whole subject. But it is a weariness which must be overcome for the sake of the future, and of the verdict which will be passel on us by those who come after us. This Colony is not a place to which we have merely come to make money. It is, in a way, a trust which bas been handed down to us by the makers of Hongkong. That they at the same time made money for themselves proves (though it is not a matter which requires any more proving than it has received in hundreds of yenre of history) that it is possible to be sound business man and a benefactor of one's country as well. Certainly we are not deficient in sound business men here. Must it be said that we have none ready to come forward, at this emergency, and face the action which should have been taken so many years ago? We are convinced that there will be no opposition on the jurt of the A. S. WATSON & CO. cal Government, for their experience here has not left the higher officials blind to facts connected with Hongkong's position with The speech on regard to South China.
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H.M.S. Espiegle was successfully docked at Shanghai on the 5th inst. A great crowd of coalies assisted in bouling her, although she was under her own steam. H.M.8. Rambler arrived at Amoy from Shanghai on the 1st inst. She will probably remain in port for surveying purposes until the Now Year.
At the meeting on the 10th inst. of journalists snd business men at Tokyo, it was unanimously resolved that the present uncertain situation is calculated neither to safeguard the country's intereste nor to maintain peace, and the antion therefore urges the Government to take resoluto stope, N&C. Daily News.
We take this from the
An important evening paper at Athens, the Hastie, published last month a very temperato article on the pro-Bulgarian sympathies of Great Britain. It points out that these sym Pathies do credit to the Inmanity of the British, who always sympathise with the op- pressed, But, at the same time, they should remember that Greece, too, has her vital in- terests in the Macedonian question, and that the Macedonian Greeks cannot be expected, at the bidding of Groat Urituis, to dig ap the bones of their ancestors and abandon Macedonia wirke feeling to the Slave, just as the Grocks of Parga were to the forcat by England to surrender their homes to are not the Turks in 1819. The article expresses current Berlin feeling at Athens in the sentenca: "However mach we may dislike the Turkish Government
work on the bia was £ga fed in payment
Routers so gla prevailing in utterances of the a taken at all bartongy hete, sag, message to the Ostralische Lloyd.
H.M.8. Fearices took down Liens Dile to Selangor to commence the Admiralty Survey of Port Swettenham on the 31st uit., and wad herself to proceed to Port Swetterham as soon
the individual Turk is a far Letter follow than the savage Bulgarian."
as the Amphitrite arrived from Hongkong.There is probably no more familiar sight on our streets than the cook or cook's mate carry- The Berliner Tageblatt reported on the ing home the provisions for his master's dinner.
TELEGRAMS.
"DAILY PRESS" SERVICE.
THE FAR EAST,
RAILWAY CONSTRUCTION IN SOUTH CHINA.
OPENING OF THE CANTON-FATSHAN LINE.
In the chronology of remarkable events in China, the opening of the first railway in
LONDON, 16th November, 11.15 a.upurely Chinese territory in Southern China has now to be recorded as having takes pliso, on Sunday, November 15, 1903.
As every
THE COST OF DALNY. Thirty-five million roubles have been allotted the Russian Government to the expenses of the fortification of Dalny.
GENERAL NEWS.
one knows, several railways have in recent years bout made and, brought into opera tion in the northern provinces, but the line from Canton, the metropolis of the Bonth to the populous city of Fatshan, abont' ten milos up the West River, is the first seolio of railway to be opened in the southara. pro vinces, outside the French colonial territory of Indo-China. It forms part of a line to Samshui. which is boing constructed by the American
LONDON, 16th November, 11.15 2.0. Chins Development Co. who have the concession
THE U.S. AND THE ISTHMIAN
CANAL
President Roosevelt's message to Congress neserts that the United States can allow no one to obstruct the world's highway.
CRICKET IN AUSTRALIA GREAT
VICTORY.
The English cricketers defeated Victoria at Milbourne yesterday by su innings and
71 runs.
FRANCE AND SIAM.
It is stated at Paris that relations be tween France and Siam have been severed. ACCIDENT TO LORD KITCHENER. inst, that the Rasian Minister of War hasWho does not know the bnekst-usually a very given orders to keep the tenth army carps, who all one-slang on the end of his pole or
Lord Kitchener has been thrown from his headquarters are at Charkow, in readiness to tried in bis haud, in which all that in to go to the Far East. So far uo conßrmation of skle his master's palate in iized together in this report has beeu rausived - Berlin. Ficturesque, if unhealthy confusion Brand horse near the tunnel, a mile from Simla thing shondora with onions, garnished with and his fibula has been fractured. He was, Grave complaints have been made to thesish, ice and vegetables more of ten than and not Acting Collector of Customs at Manin regard the whole crowned with a live chicken or two found by some coshes and brought back. - ing the high-handed and arbitrary manner inded down by the logs and squawking Instily. which the Immigration Department is being Leng familiarity with this sort of thing has conducted. The complaints are made by Chinese residents, and changes in the depart went are shortly expected, says a Manila exchange.
de us callous alike to the lungers we run
REUTER'S SERVICE.
for the grand trunk line from Canton to Han- kow, which will run along the opposite bank of the river. Under their agreement with the Chinese Government the Company have the power to issus 42,500,000 dollars, worth of fifty-year 5 per cent, geld bonds, the interest being guaranteed by the Chinese Government. Excellent progress is being made with the From Canton to Fatahan the dia- work, tance is only 10 miles, but by the middle of January it is expected that the satire branch line from Cuutvu to Samshui, a distance of thirty miles, will be opened. At the same time, preparations are well advanced for the com mautement of work on the grand trunk line at both ends. Out of Conton some 150 miles of the permanent way are located, and the work of construction begins at this end of the lina probably in enurse of the next fortnight. Including branches, there are approximately about 1,000 miles of railway to construct, and Mr. Willis E, Gray, the general manager and ungineer-in-chief of the line, caloniates that the work will progress at the rate of 125 or 130 miles a year.
the
There was not so large a crowd of Chinese as one would hire expected to see assembled to witnes the departure of the first train but probably this interesting fixtura had only been made known to comparatively few of the local official and gentry. Mr. Gray had
from the free distribution of disense hearing THE UNITED STATES AND COREA, invited a small party of friends from Houg
germs emanating from the live stock thus Carried, and to the unnossary discomfort It is a merrel The Washington correspondent of the imposed upon the wretched bird. Morning Post seads au American semi-fell that no one has ever attempted an improve- report to the effect that the U.S. Cabinet is ment in the system. No doubt this is mainly much exercised over the reoccupation of dee to the heart-breaking diealty experienced
U.S. Government will insist upon the
LONDON, 14th November. The United States are endeavouring to secure the opening of Atija [ Wijaj instead of Yong-amphe, and are sending Mr. Allen, the
kong mid chartered the Kinahan for their conrayanes; besides these there were present on this interesting occasion nearly all the Euro- pean and American residents of Shameen. Thus guests from Hugkong included the Condor nut Mrs. Robinson, foa. F. H. May (Colonial
Sunday of the Hon. F. H. MAY Moukden by Russia, It is understood that the in inducing cooks to depart from "olo custom Minister to Cores, to Chemulpo on board a Secretary) and Mrs. Muy, Hon. Gershom
possibly be interpreted except as a fulleration of the new American Chinese treaty recognition of the meading to Hongkong as cours it is ratified by the Senate of the rubaby questions Teemary, mispratimo message
American interests in China Governor's views, it is known, are What seems 13 oren more probiomech
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Mr. Kato, Japanese Corsal at Chemulpu, be lacking at the moment is any reports that about twenty or thirty Russian power of initiative. Enormas improvements sailors of the Bobre quarrolled with a number have been made in the New Territory sneg Japanoso subjects on the wharf on the after- it was ceded to Hongkong. But the Ney toon of the Iet inst. A fight, ocenered in which tares Japanese were badly injured. Seven Territory will not be of much use to us!
others also sustained slighter injuries. Some of tions that hure itely as a vegetable garden and a cattle- the crew of the Japanese Bruiser Chiyada sers maning district. It should be important to mixed up in the bar. Several Russians were
also injured in the conflict. the door to Kwangtung and the zeighbouring provinces. In a few years' time it promises to develop into a "back-door merely. To my no more, this would bau puer reward for the men who stroggled so bad in the aineterath century to make Hongkong what it is now.
already oppose factory ces will be inserted.
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Cin the anti sa atinge Newelwan, JAMES J.
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UN LA
A fatul Chinese plagna 'rass was reported from Come Road during the 48 hours ending
at moon yesterday,
of the ospitals: A. II. Mackenzia, 821
1
be batter and more, cleanly ostkeds. With a
to effecting this much-to-be-desired im rovement the Hongkong Society for the Prostation et Cruelty to Auimals strongly recommends the adoption of a small and light bamboo onge for the carriage of live poultry, and for this purpose they have had a few samples made, which may be seen at the offiss of their Secretary, at the market, or at No. 49 Des Voeux Road Central, at the office of the Great Eastern Commercial Trading Co. who are the makers and who are ready to supply
any quality at short notice and at a moderate pris. It is to be hoped that householders' will give their support to the idea and thas secure for themselves clean and undiutaminated food Re-inforcements are coming out to other Far and at the same time bring to an ead much Eastorn squadrons beside the Russian. For unintentional cruelty to the birds destined one, he (ferman gun-ressel Sperber, of 1,19) eventually to find their way to the cooking-pot. tons, 1.500 horse-power, and $ guas, in commandContributed
Captain Weniger, is shortly expected, also a Botiin of US. gimbouts is coming out from the United States to Manila by way of the nex Canal. It consists of the Decatur, Dale, Buic bridge, Chauncey and Perry, and was to leaveNorfolk about the 1st ust.
Lient. L. H.
GLADSTONE AND GORDON.
warship in order to impress the Coreans.
INTERPORT RIFLE MATCH
HONGKONG NOT LAST.
Mr. M. S. Northcots informed as yesterday afternoon that he had received a tulegrant from Peuang announcing that they had scored 750 in Interport Rifle Match. Tis makes the
* Singaporo Bual position as follows:-
Shanghai Hongkong Pening...
***
627
... 915
... 891 750 Penang thus retains the worden spoon which last year she won with a scure of 871 and the year befors with 721.
THE A.D.C.
A CORRECTION,
!
The Amateur Dramatic Company gave their second performance of Lord and Lady Aigy in the Then re last evening and were again favoured with a crowded house, From start to Naturally in air, Johu Morley's life of Glad.finish, tas pieco went very smoothly and well. Chandler commands the dotills, which is store there is something said about the The Fual performance takes place this arening. By az unuecountable accident we were made The Bou. Freasurer of the Alice emorial couroyed by the Bullámune, bạn of the American | ridiculous aluso hurled at the Liberal Premier's late nt. WALTER NORRIS,
Divided counsels were at the to my, at the end of the first paragraph of our Medias Arty
un: Nothersols Hospitals bugs to acknowledge, protected cruisers. The Stz Canal route is head in connection with the death of Gerdon at On the 7th Novembey, al he Drsura Qur
bottom of the Gordon catastrophe. Mr. Gladnolies yesterday of the A.D.C. performance of it is impossible for the torpedo-boats to steam um, temno hd, Singgo. Grazer with thanks, the following donation to the funds chosen in preference to the Japan one because Khartoum. WILSON, mitit Modent of the Tan Toch
very lung distances as they cannot carry stone, it should be noted, was not personally Lord and Lady Algy that "the defect" [of Song Hon, Batagel Tayomuz
sufficent eval, but the frequency of ovaling responsible for Gordon's mission. It was settled dragging of action) is a small one compared stations along the Suez Canal route does away by Lord Hartington. Lord Graavill, Lord with that of the company." What we actually Northbrook, and Sir Charles Dilke, sad he wrote was " compared with the many excellenciós with the difficulty.
acquinseed He was in favour of sending up exhibited by the company." The blunder in Zoteir Pesha, ne Gordon wanted; the Cabinet perhaps too gratesque to base been construed out-roted him. In April, 1880, when the into hostile criticism. guastion of an autumn expedition was discussed, the Caliret decided for it by six to Hvq, Mr. Gladstone being in the minority. The battle of the routes tasted some more months. When the calostrophe came, the Queen sent to Ir Gladstone and Lord Hartington ut Holker Hall an angry telegram of reproaches--a telegram not in cypher, as usual, but open. Mr. Glad.
The Party Press.
HONOKONG veter: 14, DeSVœux Road 1. LONDON OFVICL: 181, FLEET STREET, E.C.
Hosunose, 17th November, 1903
Is writing pesterday of the threat to Hongkong's position through British in- action we might appar to be doing an injustic to the concessionaries of the Kow- loon-Cautan alway; and this we by ne means wish to do. The question is not, of courag, one which can be settled of hand.
We are asks to state that there will be a choral preetice of the Ityme of Praise in S. John's Cathey rul at 3.20 p.m., to-ding, instead of the theatre, City Hall, as betere
The visitors to the Cdy Hall Library and Museute for the work ending 15th November wers 137 non-Chinese and 5 Chinese to the former, and.57 non-Chinese and 1970 Chinese
to the latter institution.
A lecture on "House Drainage." by Mr.
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reviewed this sad chapter:-
THE AMLEN CASE AT MANILA.
March 3rd 1903.
Stowari, Mr-Hema,(Bulgian Consul M.c.. H. Nowa (Japanean Consul-General), Mr. and Mes, C. A. Tomus, Miss Hancock, Mrs. C. W. Dicksos, Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Graham, Mr. and Mrs. E. Gèsia, bir. H. E. R. Haater and Miss Hauter, afr. and Mrs. W. Danby, Mr. Fang Wa Chua, Major Dopping-Hopeustall, RE, Capisin Hody (Suurwood Foresters), Means Murray swart, J. H. Lewis, D. B.,
King, R. mek. H. Hancock, Dietrich, and others. Law, E. S. Whosier, A. J. Williams, H. B
Five launches left Shaniéen about ten o'clock, conveying the gasts of the General Manager half a milo up to river to the site of the railway station, a laiuch accamdating the Band of the Sharwood Forrestere binding the way, anding at the pin, the Ing: party passed up to the train between lives of smartly-uniformed failway ganda armed with rifles A locomotive and half a dozen ramp;evised exrssian) in readiness to convoy the party on thisie first railway journey to Fatehan. Altogether about ) persons were accommodate in the train, half the number being prominout Chinese residents of Canton, Unfortunately if, E. the Viceroy was unable to attend, the day bring the anniversary of the death of su Eires who reigned a hundred and fifty years ago; it was on this aeroput also that the officials present were not in full dress
The supremorsent arrived st half-pasi teu. The cars being fall, Mrs. C. A. Tomes and
to the engine, and at the usual signal Mrs. Gray accompanied the General Manager ·
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from the conductor the ladies started the train, which went off to the accompani cont of music Now that measures have been taken to remore
by the baud end a rousing cheer from the guests Tibetan obstructiveness, says the Straits Times,
aud spectators. The train wont away with a it is juteresting to note that about the middle
speed which seemed quite exbilarating, though of last month, Captain Rawlins and Lieutenbut
the rate was only about 12 miles an hour. Bargreaves had returned to Kashmir from a
At various points along the line of route small" The U.E. Sapreme Court has at last handed expedition in Tibet. After crossing Labak Pass
bodies of armed railway guards were stationed. the party went das cast to continue Captain
dawn its decision in the matter of the petition In all, upwards of 400 of these men were for writ of habeas corprs in the case of employed, the majority of them being of the The sure of a service match played last Deaty's survey. Many new lakes were dis Friday has been sent to us for publication. We covered. At Thek Jalugg the expedition was should have been very glad to have published stopped by armed Tibetans who, though
Frank Stanley Allen. Allen in his petition usual type of Chinese soldier, armed with all in whieb, even the blunderbus hed its place it in our issue of Saturday. It is quented fri nály, insisted on the return of the expedi- stone in a long reply was "not bitogether able alleges that he is being unlawfully detained kinds of modern and obsolete lethal weapons that all sneh scores be cut in on the day of tion. Lieut. Hargreaves lost any baggage to follow the conclusion which Your Majesty has by W. Morgan Shuster, Collector of Customs, Whether to stand to attention" as the trai approached, or to adopt the attitude of pre play if publication in these colurns is desived, ponies in a blizzard raging for eight days, kuten p'eased thus to announce." In a letter to who threatens to deport him' as an alien con-
tract laborer under the Act of Congress passed paring to receive cavalry," the company com- the party discovered some grain buried by colleague five year later, Mr. Gladstone thus
manders were uncertain, and at some points on Captain Deny The triangulation extended
In the Gordon case we ell, and I rather
The decision reviews all the Acts of Cengrets the lino the spectators wore amused to prominently, must continae to suffer in silence.
the line adopting It is contendel, with a great show of fores, J. J. Bryan, will be given at 9p. 16-aight into longitude 85 degrees east,
A meeting was held inst menih held in Vicuna, Gordon was a kere, of heroes: but we ought to on the question and finds that, until such time some of the men in that a line from Kowloon to. Cantou will Queen's College. Models and diagrams are to be
as the Secretary of the Treasury appoints me attitude and some the other. Wherever attended by numerous representatives of English, have known that a hero of heroes is not the never pay its way, from a merely financial used for illustration. is same subject will bo
further diseaseed on Friday. Admission is by French, Belgian, Dutch, German, and Russian proper person to give an effect, at a distant other officers to execute to immigration laws, there were small groups of Chinese they point of view, and that it is unreason- ticket.
railways, and also by agents of the North point, and in most difficult circumstances, to
enthusiasm quite unnatural to the stolid people able to expect that anyone is going to
The Arthur Hill Vaudeville Company has German Lloyd and International Sleeping Car the views of ordinary men. It was unfortunate the administration lawfully remains in the welcomed the arrival of the train with an✪ sacrifice himself purely for the good of the Colony and in the interests of posterity. arrived in Hongkong, en route to Shanghai, Company, with the object of arranging a direct that he should claim the hero's privilege by hands of those officers appointed by the Pre- of this country- fect which becamo patent to Quite so; and therefore, admitting, for the where they will play for a season, afterwards servies from Western Europe to Peking. Finally turning upside down and inside out every iden sident through the Secretary of War and that all observers when at last the train drar up at bled, but their onthe tiasm was confined to the er Their repertoire it was decided to ran a train de duze from London, and intention with which he had left England, the Collector of Customs has authority to Fatsbau. Here is very large crowd had assem sake of argument, the unprofitableness, finn
consists of the latest up-to-date London "turns," and Fagin via Borlia and Warsaw to the Chinese and for which he had obtained our approval. enfore the law.
Had my views about Zobeir prevailed it would
plosion of countless orsolters, the attitude of the crowd being one ofistense, but respectful curio- than cially, of the railway, it becomes more
so that we may expect to bavo some variety capital, beginning from the first of next not have removed our difficulties, as Forster M. do Perl, who presided over the meeting, was ever a umatter in which the whole Colony shows before us in the near future,
sure the Russian Government would arrange to would certainly have moved, and, with the Tories
sity. Evidently the cheering at the intere diata points was an American graft, and may should abow its concern. This is an under-
When the Hon. F. H. May, at prosent simplify the passport and Custome regulations and Irish, have carrived, a condemnatory ad- taking which is vital to Hongkong's future
of the peopl. This toursrk recalls one made prosperity; it will not pay a single firm to Colonial Necretary, desumes the Acting Govern for through passengers, so that these tedious dress. My own opinion is it that it is harder to
eship of Hongkong, his Private Secretary will, and nupleasant formalitise would only be gone justify our doing so much to rescue him than two other questions referred to in his petition, be taken to prove the docility and teasibility build a line on its own account; and time is Mr. R. A.. B. Ponsonby, now Private through once. The meeting also took steps to our not doing more. Had the party renched Whether or not he is a member of a loaned by Mr. Gray to tho offect that alike in-Yunnan ever passing and the danger of Hongkong Secretary to B.E. Sir J. West Ridgoway in arrange for reduced ses passages for travellers Khartoum in time he would not have come away profession; and whether accountants of like, and Kwangiang the engineers have been received being left out in the cold drawing neuter Ceylan, and hin A.D.C. Capt. M. R. Burly to Peking, should these desire to return to (as I suppose), and the dilemma would have kind, auemployed, can or cannot be found in with unexpected favour by the Chinese people.
Earope by steamer. What, then, is pointed to as the remedy? 33rd Barmas.
returning to Hongkong.
arisen in another form "
The petition for the discharge of the prisoner is consequently dented, but permission is granted him to address the Court on the
the islands:
Perhaps to most of those who travelled over
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