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that any material advantage will accrue to extend it. The Times of India points TELEGRAMS.JAPAN DURING THE WAR. [so far, with
India from participation in Mr. CHAMBER-out that the able analysis of India's pre-
LAIN's scheme. We could not in the space A. S. WATSON & CO., of a single article follow the reasoning of the despatch with any minutences, but we may try to give an outline of it.
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sent fiscal policy contained in the despatol is inferentially a powerful argument in support of Mr. BALFOUR's plea for retalia tory powers. "India owes her present "advantages partly to the nature of her export trade and partly to the circum- *stance that she luns a tariff to bargain A published telegram from Admiral Alexieff, with. By using this tariff she has secured transmitting the Commandant of Vladivostock's "better terms for Indian coffee from prorogart, eada abruptly with the words "the "tectionist France; the memorandumoney opened fire." Yesterday evening's broadly hints that by the freer employ-messages, which are un-oficial, estimate the ment of it more liberal terms might be bombardment to have cost £20,000 in shells, * extorted elsewhere, and that it must be mostly 6in. and 12in.. "egarded as a weapon held in reserve if "the Powera attempt to make Iudin the "whipping-boy for a fiscally heretical Eng "land. This is precisely the position in which Mr. BALFOUR wishes to plure Great "Britain."
We recommend all those who are interested in the subject to read the Lu- Rinu Government's despatch.
Parade for the Hongkong Volunteers will be held at Head Quarters for Battalion Drill at.3 p.m. en Saturday, the 12th inst,
At the prevent moment India enjoys the advantages of free interchange of commo. dities to an exceptional extent. If the mutter is regarded from an economic standpoint exclusively, India has some- thing. if Dot
to offer very much, to the Empire; but she has a great deal to risk. The fanncial danger to Indii of reprisals by foreign nations is so serious that Ind a would not be justified in, embark ing on any new policy, unless assured of greater and more certain benefits than the writers of the despatch hare in wind. Thuse three sentencos give the main conclusions o the Inding Government. Of India's pré- sent enjoyment of free interchange of ex- porta there can be no doubt. As the Time: of India points out, Indian coautores al ready has the advantages for which tariff refurrers at home are contending. There is not in India, as in England, a condition of rapidly rising barriers against the pristruoted railway betwon Taigas and Toroku The opening ceremony of the newly-con- cipal exports and of declining foreign trades. in Formoon took place on the 8th ult, Mr. The circumstances giving rise to the Guto, Chief of the Administration, being SCOTCH WHISKY, demand for reform at home are absent in present at the ceremony.
India, where the low tariff for revenue pur- poses only is entirely free from any trace of protection or preference, and, especially with the excise, acts as no barrier against imports. Of Tadian export trade one half pays no duty at all, and the remainder is charged with "THERE'S NOT A HEADACHE relatively moderate duties, or, as in the case of the United Kingdom, with duties levied for revenue. What the Government have to consider, says the Times of India, is not how to secure a freer interchange of goods, but what would be the effect upon a free dom of interchange already existing, in an noique measure of participation in a pre- ferential scheme. The risks run by India A. S. WATSON & CO. | from foreign reprisale are plain. Indian im
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BIRTH.
On the 27th February, at No. 1, Bund, Yoko- hama, the wife of HERBERT IRVING BELL, of a daughter.
MARRIAGE
On the 25th Febinary, at H.B.M.'s Consulate, Hobe, and afterwards at Trinity College Chapel, Osaka, FREDERICH PARROTT, to Dr. M. E. OSBORN CLEAVER
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ports from the British Empire exceed exports by seven millions and a half ster. ing; Indian exports to foreign countries, en the other haul, exceed imports by upwards of thirty millions sterling. The despatch comments hereon:-"Inasmuch as India is "a debtor country it follows therefore that "we are at present dependent on
our trade with foreign countries for the dis "charge of our net international obliga. ** tions. This is ап clement of first "importance in the consideration of the
present question." continues: “By ten years of effort, sacrifice, "and perseverance we have slowly built up “a fair measure of public confidence in the
stability of our finance.
But, if
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Besides the two large battleships ordered
JAPANESE RELIEF FUND IN LONDON.
LONDON, 7th March. The fand in Londen for the widows and families of Japanese soldiers and sailors has reached £7.600.
these dutiful people,
that fly never say "Hurrah" until the [FROM OUR SPECIAL COEBEEFONDENT-]
policem, or the village beadman, or some per- Tokyo, 24th February.
son in anthority, siguilles that this is the correst The daily question is "What nows? what momont. They hang out baunors joyfully, THE BOMBARDMENT OF news?" The same reply is always given when told by the authorities. In such matters
VLADIVOSTOCK.
"There is no news, this is the period of waiting." they invariably wait to be told. Thors in little Strangs na it may seem, battles require even er no spontaneity, as we understand it. Yet more preparation than the note of a play in the enthusiasm is real and thorough, oven theatro, and the public must wait till all is though sa docile and disciplined. A Japanese ready. All clamour is useless; the managers will be proud and happy to die for his Emperor, keep the curtain down until they are satisfied yet would never dare to cheer him when passing that all is ready. We try to coax: if we have in the street, for such a thing has never gat to wait, let us go and do our waiting in the beeu sanctioned.
At Shinbashi station I saw two womeo, per- place whore the preparations are going on, lat na amuse ourselves and pass the time watchingi haps mother and daughter, orying, and a small But the reply, courteously inflexible, is-what boy with them. He also cried, till he noticed u would a correspondant do there! Why, ho foreignor, and then he just stared gravely. He would correspond, of course; and that is just came forward a step or two, so I asked "What the thing that cannot be.
mankes you ory, little man?" Ho managed to The Japanese authorities are perfectly right. understand my Japanese, and said, “Father secrecy regarding their plan of campaiga is an | gone to war. Mother and sister, all crying.!' essential to the success of their life and death "Father ory toe?" "Not a hit-disagresable struggle with the hugePower, the bully ofEurope, old beast!" and the insatiabis devourer of Asia. From Port Arthur to Vladivostock is a long, exposed line of communications, which Japan can threaten at a hundred points, and keep the Russians in fever of apprehension, rauning hither and thither to meet incessant alarms, while a tremendous, overwhelming combined move may be in preparation at souse little-suspected spot. And if Russia occupied Cores, so 'mush the longer line would she expose to swift descents of Japanese forces from the ses which they command completely. The trump card which Japau helda, by her ses power, is the ability to attack suddenly at any unknown point of a long line. Suddenness depends on secrecy. And seerocy and Pressmen are incompatible. One or the other must be sacrificed, and the Japanese are wisely determined that their national existence shall not be imperilled for the sake of British newspspor readers or any other. The mero foot of letting one correspondent go for ward would mean having to let all go; and if
JAPAN'S ADVANCE ON MANCHURIA.
LONDON, 7th March, Russian acouts report that the Japanese who had landed in Plaksin [?] Bay are returning, in
Manchuria. order to try a mero practicablo route towards The pusses are blocked with avalanches,
CONTRABAND OF WAR.
LONDON, 7th March, Mr. Balfour says that Rassin's declaration from Begland, the Japanese Government har arranged, according to a Tokyo despatch to the that coul is contraband of war is of great (kaka Mainichi, that work will shortly be importance, and that he is taking steps to taken in hand for the construction of three des- | obtain more precise information, troyers at the Admiralty yard of Yokosuke. The despatch adds that the authorities have also decided to build B submarine for the Japanese Nary.
Recently, as our readers will remembw, the Amerten-marie was Toyo Kisen Kulsha 8.9. chartered by the Japanese Government. whose intention it was to utilise the vessel as a supplementary cruiser. The America-maru
PROCEEDINGS AGAINST MR.
COWEN..
LONDON, 7th March.
Tolmin, said he approved of the action of Sir Earl Peroy, replying in the House to Mr. E. Satow in ordering proceedings to be taken against Mr. Cowen, the Editor of the China Times, which bad quoted certain defamatory was almost ready at Yokosuka, but now It is articles against Russia. considered that ne so much damage has been done to the Russian fleet these supplementary vessels vill not be required, and it is possiblo that the America-maru's war dress will bo H.M.S. Cressy arrived from Mire Bay removed and the steamer returned to the yesterday morning; while H.M.S. Talbot left San her moorings, presumably for a oruiss. The Company for the resumption of the
8.6. Mercedes arrived from Wellington gestar- day with 7,000 tons of coal for the Admiralty.
Francisco-Manila run.
Yesterday morning, saya tho Nagasaki Press
of the 27th alt,, we received a call from Colone! Aldonlah Youssof, the Turkish officer who, as previously reported in our columns, came to Japan for the purpose of offering the services of many of his countrymen to the Government during the war with Russia. In the course of an interview the Colonel expressed his regret that the authorities did not accept his offer, and
NAVAL NOTES.
HOCKEY.
H.K B.C. V. .9.9. VENGEANCE."
The more I see of the country and people now, the more I see history simply repeating itself. The world has generally imagined that the war of ten years ago batireen Japan and China was a farce, that the Chinese did not fight, and that the Japaness had a walk- ovor, proving nothing as to their capabilities. The world at large does not think very careful. ly. My view of that war, which I went through from beginning to end, was that the Chiness made by no means a poor fight; they. did even better than I think some nations of Europe would do, and the Japanese won, not by a walk-över, but by sheer Land Bghting and skil- fal tactics. They tackled an opponent just ten times their size, an opponent that had been long dreaded by the rest of the world. Now, Bus-
sia is no bigger than China. It fills more pacs on the map, but that is a disadvantage. I cannot help thinking it is the same old story of the torpedo and the whale; balls counts for
wone defeated because of defosts which tho
tion about troops, simply said, "Our special Russians also possess in very marked degree: London papers, ever without a line of informs-othing against fire and force. The Chinese
correspondent was last heard of at Biegbang offers steeped in pesulation sad corruption. this would be immediately noted by eager more given to pursuits of pleasure and dissipa- Rassians, who could infer that the correspon- tion than to earnest work; men mere clods, dents would not be there if there was nothing underpaid, brutalised, brave enough, bat
to see. Moreover, if Pressmen were allowed on
too dull-witted to be of use. I have not the scous, some one of them would surely be seen. all the regiments of Russia, bat noble to resist the temptation to smuggle his I marched to Peking in 1900 with something "news" away despite all premutions and re-like 20,000 Russians, of the same sort that gardless of consequences; for there are such will face the Japanese, and I could not deeds done sometimes. Already two or three help thinking they wers like so many thousand men have been plainly warned to leave the For sheep or ballooks, Armies of millions are East entirely, because they were found dangerous valueless it made of material inferior to their in this way.
A newspaper triumph might opponents. Prom what I have seen of Russiane conceivably wreck na empire.
and Japanese and Chinese ia sotion, I think the points of essential diference between the war of 1904 and that of 1894 will prove sur prisingly small.
Later, the despatcu stated his conviction that this war with Rusia the game ending:--H.M.S. Vengeance, 4:1 of the train, how many there are par train, how each; now thoro are boals of them, dozous and
by à change of the fiscal policy, the "balance of trade in our favour should
dwindle or disappear, the whole work of "ten years would be sacrificed, and a set-back «to our trade, our revenues, and our credit "would immensely outweigh any benefits
So, one begins to be afraid of saying even Played on the Club ground at Happy Valley what is allowed to be seen. Day by day I soo yesterday afternoon, this game ended in a win trainloads of soldiers leaving Tokyo in fall for the Vengeance. In the first half the Yen campaign order, with all impedimenta for active One difference is in the number of foreiga In the service; for my own information I can count, Presamon and military attachés. In those days geance scored two goals; the Club ons. second half the Vengeance mored another two, pretty fairly, how many men fill a compartment there were very few, only three or four of
H.K.H.C., 1.
many trains, and so on; and I would greatly acores of them, Japan treats them only too like to tell you the figure which is in my mind, well; in this tedious "wait batween the nota,” representing the troops that have passed down the whole swarm passen its time dining and Japan's main trunk railway from the headquar-wining, attending lavish banquets offered by tors to the shipping place. I would like to tell enthusiastic Japanese on one pratext or another, you, but not to tell the Russians
with geisha-danses, acrobats and jugglers, and Some idea of the gigantic struggle that is all kinds of entertainment. Some of the foreign The new British battleship Africa, of which Ground at Happy Valley yesterday after-to come may be gathered from the indications guests dino not wisely but too well at thesa is the Tsar's published statements. He is festive gatherings, and make extraordinary will be a vossel of the largest size. the first keel-plate was laid recently at Chatham,noon. The Leviathan kicked off, making a
Her rush on their opponents' goal. Tho Cressy reported to have declared that the Russian exhibitions of themselves before their astonished
"C'est magnifique, muis displacement at deep draught will to 16,423 keeper made a goal save within the first few people must not look for early success, Oriental hosts.
as it was intended to dea! a tremendous blow | ee n'est pas la guerrel" In every village and minutes, Murphy, of the Leviathan, burt his
was a just one, and that the sympathy of the civilised world was ostended to Japan in her hour of trial. He also stated that he had served under Viscount Kitchener in the Soudan and was intimato in that campaign with the late Sir Hector Macdonald, The Colonel left on the Seydlitz for Indiv
FOOTBALL
H.M.9. "CRROST" V. H.M.8. “ LEVIATHAN.” The semi-final in tha Football Shield Competition was played GD the Club
"that we might, reasonably expect from tans, as compared with 2,164 of Nolson's ship ankle and was carried off the field, being taken with all the weight of the empire's forces, which mountain glen. there are daily enacted thrilling
"most unconditional surrender of our opponents in the war of tariffs." Against this danger, the preferential advantage which might be hoped for is light in the balance. If duties are not to be imposed on raw materials imported into the United HONGKONG OFFICE: 14, DESVUE ROAD 1. Kingdom, India can rereive no advantage LONDON OFFICE: 131, FLEET STREET, E.O.
in the hunne market for these. This would rule out all India's staple exports except wheat, the most fluctuating of all. Even
Hoxoroko. 10TH MARCH, 1904
the Victory, built at Chaiham nearly 150 years ago. She is one of a class of sight battleships called after the principal parts of the British Empire. The Africa will be a battleship of the King Edward VII. olase, and will be the largest and widest vessel ever coustenoted at Chatham dockyard. Her length overall" will by 453it. Sin, and her breadth 78ft. The engines will be of 18,000 horse-power, which will impart a spoed of 195 kaots, The Fasul will have a powerful armament of branch
complement. exclusire of Admiral and Staff, will be 777.
away to hospitalina ricksha. The Leviathan thus
were one man short. McCoy (Cressy) scored
HONGKONG SANITARY BOARD.
A mosting of the Board will be held to-day- 10th March, at 4.15 p.m.
would take months to prepare; meantime the and touching scenes, worthy the oleverest per Russian defence contres at Harbin, far in the or brush. But in Tokyo the daily complaint is
It the Tsar means what he is "No now; we must wait.” the first goal; Mills (Cressy) a second. The interior. Leviathane, though they played an excel-quoted as saying, he moans to take up a position lent game, did not sero in the first half, where Jagan cannot attack so easily as from On the re-start the play was again very fast, the the sea, yet where he would constantly menice Leviathans having decidedly the best of it the Japanese if they confined their attention Kine (Leviathan, scored a goal; and a little to the seaboard. This, then, would be a war with armies running into the hundreds of later Oldham scored another, making the scores stol, An exceptionally good game ended in a thousands, not mere tens of thousands as when
years ago. The war may range over thousands of miles of the wildest country, it may reach Titanic dimensions, like those of Bajazet and Timar the Tartar, Coughis, and Kublai Khan At any rate, I think there is no harm in saying that Japan appears to be ready for some sach
Is the last number which has reached us of wheat would have to meet the competition loading and quick-fring gans, The ship's draw:-H.M.B. Orisey, 2; H.M.S. Leviathan, 2. Japan beat another supposed "Colossas," ten will move:-
ner.
A
A MILITARY WEDDING AT
HONGKONG.
enormous effort.
1. Mr. Ahmot Runjabs parsaset to notice
That steps bo taken by the Board to remedy the defects in the drainage system introduced
the Sanitary Surveyor into the block of buildings known as Nos. 46, 43, 50, 52, 54, 56, 58, and 60 Caine Road and generally to romedy similor defects existing in any other property where the filth of ons building is conveyed into the yard of another through open surface channels
2 Questions by Mr. Ahmet Rumjalin and
and the Surveyor thereto.
the Bounlay journal the Times of India, of Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and there is reproduced a highly important the United Kingdom itself on even terms, despatch from the Government of India to Indian and Ceylon tes already command
MADAME CANDUTTI'S CONQERT. Mr. BroDrior, dated the 22nd October the home market. The only articles of
Sergeant Thornhill, B.E., was yesterday last, and published Inst mouth. It deals. Indian production likely to benefit by pro
As will have been already learnt from the morning, ut S. John's Cathedral, married to Miss express notices isnod yestarrlay, Madame Can. Austin, of Hongkong. Some 20 non-commis. with the question of India and tariff reformferential treatment are tobacco and indigo, dutti was obliged to abandon her concert, sioned officers, in full-dress, white gloves There were in ordinary times 34 trains per at considerable length and in an able man, unimportant items in the export returns,
advertised for hest night, owing to the break-awarde, eta, ware prosent, besides a number of day carrying pansongers from Tokyo to Our Bombay contemporary, while The conclusion of the Indian Government's down of her piano, Madamın Caudatti leaves ladies, and a few civilians. Mr. Horley lead Tokohama and further west. Now there are publishing the bulk of the despatch, has despatch considers the case of the United for Shanghai toñey, to fulfil angagements the bride to the altar; Miss Rhode Varcos was ten; the difference represents not necessarily a also a leading article which is worth reading Kingdom adopting a policy of preferential there, to the general regret of the music-lorers bridesmaid; Staff-Sergt. C. H. Taylor, R. E. precise number of troop-trains, but, so, anch replies by the Acting Medical Officer of Health by all those interested in the subject of the tariffs or of rotaliation, when if India of Hongkong, who wish bor better luck in best map. After the marriage ceremony, which ordinary traffic stopped to allow for military road
3. Further correspondenco relative to the adheres to her former
was performed by the Bav. F. T. Johnson, the quirements. And the troop-irsing are so fre- attitude of the various parts of the British refusing to differentiate between different
principle of Shanghui.
united couple pared down the aisle under crossed quent that the country people, at any rate the application for exemption from the provision Empire on the fiscal question. In response countries'
THE OPENING OF KONGMOON, import
swords, making an exit from the Cathedral door village childron and many adults, 200m to pass of full yard spaces for Nos. 2 to 7; Star Street. she might beconst to Lord GEORGE HAMILTON's desire to
amid showers of rice; while the bells burst all their time now alongside the railway, cheer- the battlefield of conflicting interests
4. Application for permission to use the [FROM A COFRESFONDEST.] receive suggestions, from the point of view in which she has no direct concern.
forth in a merry peal from the tower. Thoing the soldiers as they are borne past from basement of No. 43, Cochrane Street, for the of Indian intorests, as to the resolution foreign country, secure in possession.
party then proceeded to the reception, held in time to time. All along the line, about every preparation of food. Kongmoon, 7th March, passed by the Colonial Premiers' Conference of a free und
At 10 o'clock this morning the Acting Com Road. Included in the presents were a silver what elaborata scale, for simple peasantry; the rooms above the Soldiers' Club in Queen's half-mile, there are gay decorations on a socze equal market for its
missioner of Customs personally hoisted the teaservice, presented by the Soldiers' Club; a festoons of flags and lanteras, lighted up at in London in 1902 in favour of preferential goods in India, might be emboldened to
Chinese onsign on the Customs fagstaff, o tariff's, the Indian Government made an peralise Indian trade in order to bring guard of honour from the revenue steamer silver table-centre, presented by the junior non-night with occasional fireworks, dovices in ever- endeavour to examine the conditions of pressure to bear on the mother country or Fei-hoo presenting arms; the red oneign and commissioned officers of the Royal Engincere; greens, mudel warships, and so on. And ot./ 6. Application for pormission to sink a well
silver Marine Lot 120. houseboats, the temporary head-quarters of t-slands, puch-bowls, and many other country-folk wait round these until late into HBM Consul and the Commissioner of Cas-useful articles. tome respectively, while three guns boomed forth the genial Commissioner of Customs invited from the revenue stemmer. The ceremony over,
all the foreigners present to his houseboat, where a bumper was drunk to the health of the new treaty port.
Thus was the Port of Kongmoon formally opened to trade.
to the present tariff, and to consider how threatening, says the despatch, if other they would be affected by any scheme of countries were to know that India would be preferential duties within the Empire, and prepared, if need be, to retaliate in kind ou whether it would be of advantage to India their imports into India. In no circum. to participate in them. The despatch has stances, however, would India allow a policy been characterised in Ind is ns succinct of retaliation to develop into one of aggres lucid, and statesmanlike, and the Times of sion. The writers of the despatch are hope India declares that it will be difficult for the ful that the mere sanouncement that India'e most convinced, advocate of Imperial reci hands are free to act against those penali. procity to disagree with the logic of the ring her 'exports will suffice to maintain document. The conclusion arrived at by her in enjoyment
the Indian Government is that it is unlikely measure of free exchange or
of
her
present
even to
WEATHER REPORT.
the wintry nights, shouting loyally as the trains go by. At the stations, and in the streets of big towns, the enthusiasm takes more imposing form; whole streets arched, festooned, gaily The Hongkong Observatory yesterday issued decked and illuminated after dark, while the following report:--
cheering crowds can sometimes be heard at On the 9th at 11.10 am. The baromater has | midnight, a mile or two across the town. pressure is how highest, and fallen in south rison slightly in the Yangisze valley, where
China H.M.8. Moorhen and the French gunbost
Gradients are moderate on the China coast Argus are in port.
and slight elsewhere. Moderate to fresh mon soon will prevail in the Formoen channel, and The weather is cold and dull with avery pro-light variable winds over the China ses spect of heavy rain.
Forecast Light 8. winds; ovarusst, dall.
wal of licences to sell food for man oxtaide the 5. Applications for licences and for the rene-
maЯkets.
7. Application for the renewal of fat-boiling licences in respect of Nos. 5, 6 and 26, Templ Street, Taumati,
8. Correspondence relative to the paring of dairies and laundries.
9. Esports of the analyses of the public water supplies for the month of February, 1904.
10. Lime-washing Return for the fortnight ended the 1st March, 1904.
knows that such demonstrations in Japan are All this brave show is touching, when one
purely dutiful and by instruction, never pon- 7th March, 1901 tansons. Those people are willing, eager, to show their devotion, but they never do such things of themselves, Paternalism
11. Rat Return for the fortnight ended the
G. A. WooncOCK,
Becretary