THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, APRIL 16ru, 1904.
it is undoubtedly a great stop for the Im- At the Hagne a Convention has been signed
It is alleged that some of the Chinese board- perial Government even to consider the with France relating to the buying of a cable ing-imase keepers in Singapore are notorious handing over of the entire official and pri.lu:tween Saigon und Pontianiak, in the Dutch crimps, They are said to batten on the proceeds!
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A writor in a Manila paper informs his randers mission, and looks well for the trust reposed that Ponang is one of the five Felerated Malay by the Imperial Government in the adminis-States. the remaining four basing Singapore, tration of Sir ROBERT ART. That trust is, Malacca, Dindings, and Province Wellesley! (of course, about as complete as it well could be, and very amply deserved it is. The Chinese Government have learned to depend most implicitly upon the unfailing revenues secured from the Imperial Maritime Cus- toms, and they are perfectly well assured
noirs arent the Far East," says Moukden official tetejevam, is Shanghai." The Straite Times remarks that the Shanghai Bander." or fictional news despatch. is justly more colebrated cyon than the Chefon oyster. Both of them are sepassable in their way between
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in due course, a handsome return."
Whilst, however, the Government of China is entirely satisfied with the, working. of the Postal Service established by Sir Roneer Waer, and will probably sanction its ultimate extension through the variole
The Siegopure Free Preas of the 7th inst., says: The homesvárd-bound Pretract, which left here on Monday, has on board almost cough
Civil Servants to make a Government. From Hongkong there was the Director of Public Works, the Secretary to the, Sanitary Board, a Forests man, and a Sanitary Surveyore From Singapore went Mr. C. W. Sneyd Kynaersley, Acting Colonial Secretary, and Mrs. Kynaersley while Me, C. Stringer, who joined the vessel at Penang, might well represent the anofficial element of the Council,"
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of their nefs ions practices, calling their iguo- rant compatriots into what is nothing less than slavery. They are protected from the vengeance of their vietinis by the widespread n'twork of gangs at work, who can effectually silence all
remonstrances,
The vegetable garden on the Caroline Read leading from Happy Valley to the Praya (of the condition of which us a breeding-place for mos- quitoes a correspondent wrote to us some time gubas now heen vastly improved. In place of the bad pool of groen-covered stagnant water that previously existed there is now a tiem garden-plot with vegetalles growing on it. The gardoner cannot hure suffered, for he has row mon planting-un and quite a sufficiency in the way of water-supply.
TELE GRAMS. THE WAR-BUSSIA'S DISASTER AT
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THE WAR
FURTHER DAMAGE TO
RUSSIAN SHIPS.
LONDON, 1, Ap., 5.30 p.m.
The Russian official report of the naval battle off Port Arthur states that the Bestrachni was sunk whilst
fighting, only five of the crew being
saved.
The Pobieda struck a mine and.
The Bangkok Times writes:-The fall of close on two inches of rain in three days at the beginning of April is something very unusau} in Bangkok. Birt rain and thunderstorms seuns to lore been general aver a large part of the country. It is reported that seven telegraph- posts were destroyed by lightning on the rail- way line, near Laksi, on Friday afternoon.ships, but made safely for the harbour. The most surprising thing about the year, how-
[The above telegram was published as an ever, is the absence of the usual cholera epidemic Extra yesterday morning. The Bestrachni The' water in the river was a little brackish for a very few days about the beginning of February, but since then it appears to have been quite drinkalto.
An Allahabad Pionier special telegram, dated Lanka. 24th March, gives the following account of the Oxford and Cambridge Boatrace: Despite the early hour, Sam, and the cheer- less wither, the riverside was thick with people to witness the University houtrace, Cambridge won the Surrey station. but there was littleed at Pretoria, recently revived orders to pro- ceed to India, and the mon entrained at Pretoria
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THE New Postal Department established by Sir ROBERT HART under the supervision of
the Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs bus so far been a great success, and although it has not yet been regarded by the Treaty
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there would follow a rapid reversion to of Monday there appeared what purported to the old system of corruption, sinth, and pro-Police have closed the notorious Lourdes Crotte be a cablegram from Paris, as follows:-* The crastination. Trade would son suffer, the ste). Several attempts have been wade before to revenue fall off, and smuggling become rife, close this, hall, which has an international The same with the Postal Administration. reputation for the vicious character of the It can be riied upon whils worked under scones presented on its stage, but until to-day Sir ROBERT HART and bis able and none of these attempts have been successful.' energetic assistants. But what would hap. This article was featured on the front page under the heading. Bad Lourdes. Notorious pou if the administration were placed in the
Poristan Grotto is finally closed by Authorities, hands of even foreign-taught mandarins?
It is to laugh! It is, moreover, to indulge in Would it be maintained in efficiency? hysteric cachination: Fancy the Shrine of We greatly fear it would not. Moreover, Lourdesa Notorions Perisian Gratiot And some of the Powers are very loth to surrea- der any of the extra-territorial rights acquired in China. They maintain, and with a very good show of reason, that Chinn is so incapable of effective aolf-government that they cannot part with any of the privileges they possess or in any way delegate to ker the powers they now hold. They cannot submit their subjects to Chinese law, they cannot place the concessions on which they reside under Chinese administration, nor can they estrust their correspondence to the tender care of Chinese mandarins and letter-carriers. The events that marked with so black n stain the close of the last century at Peking woaki alone have suffeed to create doubt and distrust, if indeed those
feelings had not existed for the previous half century. It is there are unlikely that China will pass out of tutelage for many a long year to come. The Chinese officials
| with an international reputation for the vicious character of the scenes' presented on its stage!' Shados of the Shepherdess Bernadotte Reminiscences of Emile Zola! And, by the way. what is n Perisino Crotto anyway A fair score for the Sunday Sun, it must be allowedk
The 1st Battalion of Welsh Fusiliers, station-
for that purpose. Many of the mon objected to the order, on the ground that the battalion had boen en service in South Africa since the start of the wu, and was entitled to be ordered home. At Howick, a small village in Natal, about 15
miles from Pietermaritzburg, a drunkan diatur- bance upcarved, which assumed such propor tions that troops with machine-guns were required tu ovorawe the participants. It may be remarked that this battalion has had much foreign service of recent years. It was in the Crimes in 1854 to the end of the war; in India during the Mutiny; in England from 1889 to 1880, when it went to India; removed to Burmu in 1885, and took part in the cam-
paign of that and the following year; went to India in 1887 (taking part in the Hazura Ex- pedition of 1891), and was transferred to Adon
in 1806. Then come a brief spell in England, from 1897 to the breaking out of the Bour war, since when it has been in South Africa.
THE QUEEN'S ROAD FIRE.
It is estimated that the Queen's Road fire, caused damage to the extent of $10,000 or so
House No. 283, where the fire broke out, was insured in the Commercial Union for $8,000, undi in the Tung On Fire Insurance Company for 92,000, No. 290 was insured with Moss Lemaire & Co. for 85,000, and 286 was also to some degree covered. In our account of yester-
day we gave the locality of the fire, by accident. as Queen's Road East instead of Queen's Road West.
NAVAL NOTES.
The U.S.S. Kehoe, Commander J. B.
PORT ARTHUR.
LONDON, 13th Apríl. Nowa from S., Potorabury says that the Japanese Reet having appcavedoff Port Arthur the Russian floot put to sea and pursued a portion of the enemy's forces, which later being reinforced bringing their total to 29 sbips, the Russian foot returned to harbour, On the way back the Petropavlovsk struck a mize, which exploded and capsized the battleship, The captain, five officers, and 32 men, sil wounded, were saved. Admiral Makaroff and
the whole of his staF wore drowned. The Grand Duke Cyril was saved in a wounded condition; his brother, the Grand Dake Boris, watched the catastrophy from another slip.
WAR NOTES.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The Russian settlements at Yongampho havo bson plundered and burnt--by Coreans,
presumably.
:
An Englishman calls, dated London, 15th March, saysA band of Russians have been captured crossing the frontier to evade military
Lieut. General V. S. Wolkoff is Admiral Alexieff's chief assistant and right hand in the execution of his plons. He first attracted attention during the Chinese campaign of 19), when he was commander of the 4th Iron" Light Brigade. Since thon kin services have been exclusively doroted to the Far East,
is probably the torpedo-boat destroyer men-obligations. Three women were shot and tioned is the Japanese Government's des patch thirty mes taken prisoners. published in the Daily Prese yesterday She was built at Elbing in 1899. Her dimensions aro: Longth 1966 feet; beam, 18,5 ft.; draught, 115. Her displacement was 350 Her tons, and indicated horse-power 6,000. maximum trial speed is given as 27 knots The Pobiedo, which is Russian for “Victory," is one of the largest ships Russia has in the Far East, her displacement, being 12,674 tons. She was launched in 1990.—ED, D.P.]
ADMIRAL MAKAROFF'S
SUCCESSOR.
LONDON, 15th Ap., 11.30 a.m.
Writing a little over a month age, Admiral E. R. Fremantle mid:-In Admiral Makuroff the Russinos have a scientific and abls man, and an optimistin Russian forecast stated that he would find tire battleships, and I think sovan cruisers, ready for service on his arrival at Port Arthur, with which he might make on attack in force on the Japanese flect, but we' hear nothing of the movements of Rassinn ships. except that they hors necertained that nono of the Japanese skips are near the port. I am
by the Russians.
It is semi-officially reported at S. really surprised at the lack of initiative shown Petersburg that Admiral Skrydoff is to succeed the late Admiral Makaroff.
THE BOMBARDMENT.
LONDON, 15th Ap., 11.30 a.m. The bombardment of Port Arthur
continued all day on Thursday.
SEOUL PALACE DESTROYED.
KOBE, 15th Ap., 11.30 am.
The Royal Palace at Seoul was destroyed by fire on Thursday. It is not known whether this was the work
THE TIBETAN MISSION.
Commenting on the British Mission to Tibet. Colling. has arrived from Cavite, Javing left of incendiaries or not.
that port ou the 12th inst. She experienced the Russian journal Ruas doctores that the -altitude of the British Press towards Russia is fine weather crossing. The U.9.8. Callao becoming loss hostilo. In the course of the debate arrived from Canton yesterday. H.M.B. Sirius on the Tibet Mission in the House of Lords, loft port yesterday. H.M.S. Ocean and other the journal thinks. the Government showed its British warships are expected back from Mirs point of view up to a certain limit. The Tibet Bay, and for this reason, probably, U.S. war- Mission, as was made clear by Lord Rosebery's | ships have had to go to outside berths. Capt, questions, is causing the nation a certain amonn Greet is taking over command of the Ocean view
uneasiness; but it is evident that the arma- Rear Admiral Foote.
of
ments
in South-Western Asia cause much greater though silent anxiety. There are very
few partisans of a war against Russia in Great Britain, for in spite of all the sacrifices she has
made to safeguard India from an incursion on the northern frontier, Groat Britain cannot be war with Russia. especially as the Mahomelan tribes of
Powers as sufficiently to be trusted to justify show little sign of real improvement, nor is certain of a successful issue to a
it likely that even the stimulus of Japanese example will have any appreciable effect on the apathy and corruption which hold Chinese Government in bondage,
Northern Hindustan submit impatiently to the British yoke. Thus if the British people ap. theplaud with true patriotism the diplomatic quo- cusses and peaceful viętories won by their Go- vernment, they are none the less the declared enemy of everything that might bring about a difficult if not a fatal war.
Firo years ago to-day the British Hag was hoisted at Taipohu, in the Now Territory.
Kowloonl
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A great anti-Chinose Labour demonstration was hebt in Hyde Park, London, on the 26th
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Tomorrow is the ninth anniversary of the signature of the treaty of Shimonoseki between Japan and China. The upsetting of that treaty. in favour mainly of Russia, led more than any. thing else to the present war,
It will be recalled by many that the inte Admiral Mukurof's name was very prominently before the world sight or ten years ago as the inventor of a method of minimising the effects of collisions at sea. On the 23rd of January, 1896, the Admiral explained his scheme before the members of the Hongkong Chamber of Commerce. Mr. A. McConachie, who preside on the occasion, mentioned, iu introducing Admiral Makaroff, that His Excellency had occupied himself in the study of similar schemes since he was a young lieutenant, and in the Seventies one of his inventions"a collision. mat"--was exhibited at an exhibition in Vienna, and received such general approval as to loud to its aloption by most Europeau navies. His suggestions for the improvement o bulkheads also favourably
the abolition of the foreign post offices in the Treaty Ports it is extensively used by foreign residents in all the Treaty Forts At present, of course, its field is limited even in China, and until that Empire has au or ganised internal postal service it cannot obtain admission to the Universal Postal Union, But the service as organised by the Imperial Maritime Customs is undoubtedly both reliable and effective so far as it goes, and if it could be extended through the in- terior, after the manner of the Japanese Postal Service, there would be little cause for complaint. It is interesting to learn that some hope of such an extension is now opening up. According to a despatch from Peking, the Boards of Revenue, War, and Commerce ure drawing up a joint memorial to the Throne, recommending the abolition of the old Courier Post Department and the handing over of the transmission of all Government and official despatches through out the Empire to the Chinese Imperial Post established by Sir Boneer HABT. The The Hon. Soc. of the Civil Service C.C. in- impressed naval constructure, and the distinc memorialists propose that the funds hitherto | forms us that the cricket season of that tion his ideas on these subjects gained for him paid out of the Treasury for the support of club is now finished, but the quoits and tennis was recognised by his own Government and the old Courier Post should be handed over season commences to-day, and there are several rapid promotion followed. The Admiral's to the Inspector-General for the extension interesting ties to be played off in the Queit lesture in Hongkong in which he suggested a Championship of the club, commencing at 2.30 false noso" for ships, and a law to compel its of the new Postal Department in order to
pm. Members are also requested to put in as general adoption, attracted a deal of attention meet the requirements of the case. This
much practice as possible at tennis in view of in shipping circles throughout the world, but Courier Post hae, it seems, been in operation the forthcoming Tennis Tournament of the the scheme had its defects and still remains in in China for nearly two thousand years, and Club.
the realm of suggestions.
A dead Chinese plages-victim was reported in a matched at West Point yesterday. A recont enquiry at Canton elicited the reply that there is no plague there this year, but we learn that among the few cases reported here several of the victims have reached the Colony from Canton less than a month before their death,
attention and
POLO..
The first ties for the "May" Polo Cup will be played on Wednesday next, commencing at 4.45, when the 3rd Durnas will play the Civilians. The Club team drew a bye.
The teams are ou Wednesday:- 93rd Barmas Capt. Simpson, Capt. Carleton, Major Stevens, and Major Strickland. Civilians:-Mr. FL. T. Gedge, HE. Mr. May, Mr. Cruickshank, and Mr. Hastings.
LONDON, 14th Ap., 11.20 a.m.
The Tibet Mission has arrived at Gya ntsa
opposed ( unopposed). Four delegates are
Dow approaching to meet it,
[The above telegram was published in our issue of yesterday, bat appeared in a mutilated form. It seeing probable that it should read as
now given, with the substitution of "unopposed" for "opposed," as Renter's telegram below. indicates.-E. D. P.]
THE DAMAGED BRITISH SHIP. LONDON, 14th Ap., 5.30 p.m. It was H.M.S. Teazer, not H.M.S. Fervent which went ashore at Portsmouth. She has
MR. SIXTO LOPEZ IN HONGKONG.
While Manila newspapera rave about the dangers of the Hongkong Junto and the risk of allowing the Filipino patriots to go back to Manile, it is rather interesting to read some contrary views in representative American papers. There is no newspaper more represen-, tatively American than the Springfield Daily Republican (though it does not come from one- of the leading cities of the United States)-in fact, it is recognised generally by Americans as a free, outspoken organ. In recent issues of the paper appear some notable articles about the present situation in relation to the United States Government's refusal of entrance to the Philippines of some of the men who are presently exiled in Hongkong, and who have property in the islands which they naturally want to roop the profits of, and more than that, families whom they long to find themselves amangat. It is interesting to note that the Republican has written more than once of the wrong inflicted upon certain Filipinos by their erpulsion and compulsory chance from the archipelago simply because of a technical point of law involved in the taking of the unth of allegianco. Mr. Sixto Lopes will be well remembered in Hongkong in many circles. He is a caltured Filipino gentleman, whose family suffured severely by the occupation by the Americans of the Philippines, he himself having had to flee to Hongkong to escape the fate of u patriot who chooses to uphold his country's cause. His secretary, Mr. Thos. T. Patterson, will also doubtless be remembered by not a few in Hong- kong During his stay here some twe youre ago he made himself extremely popular, and on his
return from an ineffectual attempt to land in the Philippines--ineffectual because he would not take the oath of allegianca, boing a British subject-his welcome by his friends here was a thing to be rentenbered. In February his daugh- ter waschristenedat S. Paul's Cathedral. London, by Rev. Canon Childs-Clarke, Sir Hornce Tozer acting as godfather. After the ceremony the Filipino colony in London, in recognition of Mr. Patterson's services to their country,
By kind permission of Major Radcliff, the successfully towed off, and has presented Miss Patterson with a christening Band of the 83rd Barma Infantry will play not become a wreck, as at first anticipated. at the Hongkong Hotel from 8 5 9.30 p,ro.. to-
[H.M.S. Teazer is a torpedo-boat destroyer of night:---
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Framice Printemps" Diurgis the same kind of vessel, but was built at Paisley: Turentel'a... "The Original Napolitaine" Jullien-E». D. P.j
God Save the King."
MEKU.
Hors D'EuvrÈS Sardines on Anchovy Toast.
SOUP.
Potage PrinceSSO.
FINA.
ENTREES.
Baked Salmon a la Regence.
Lamb Cutlets-le-Catalani Lobster a la Americaine Cneuber Fercie.
CURIT Sicabob
JOINTS,
Roast Sirloin of Beef and Horseradish and
Roast Capon Celery Sauco Boiled York Ham and Champagne Sauce.
COLD).
Spiced Beef and Plain Salad.
SWEETS,
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Coffre
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REUTER'S SERVICE.
GERMANY AND THE ANGLO- FRENCH AGREEMENT.
LONDON, 15th April
gift in the form of a handsome gold necklace with diamond and ruby pendant...
Correspondence in the journal above referred to shows that un American living in the west offered Governor Wright a $100,000 bonit disposition while residing in his own home. guaranteeing Mr. Sixto Lopez's pacific
The offer was not accepted, on the ground that Mr. Lopez would not take the cath of allegiance. Since then he has made two attempts to land in Manila, on each occasion without success. In conclusion one could not do better than quote again from a correspondent of the Republi- can Sixto Lopez was over here working for Filipino independence, and the best way to punish the traitor was to punish his family and servants, until he came into the reservation
Speaking in the Reichstag, Count von Büley and became a good. Injun. That a low, ignor- said that Germany had nothing to complain of in reference to the Anglo-French agreement, if such methods to gratify spite is not strange; ant, cruel, revengeful human savage should ase only because strained relations between Great hat that a great nation, posing as the most Britain and France would imperil the pesce of civilised and enlightened, ever ready to
the world.
THE TIBET EXPEDITIGN.
criticise others for cruelty, should adopt such a policy to subjugate a brave people fighting for self-government is well, I won't say iny more, for unfortunately, I belong to that nation. If the story of the Lopez family is the only The Tibet expedition has reached its destina-history of the war we are ever to have, it ought
LONDON, 13th April.
tion, Gyangtre, without the loss of a man, to be widely circulated."---