THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, MAY 7TH, 1904
Chinlengebeng and gave (from Japauoso! official accounts) the Japaness and Russia lo:839 as 700 and 800 respectively, while the
On the 23rd ult. Peking baut 'Tientsin at golf by 11 koles to 3.
The French torp de-boat destroyers Dauphin
Bizerta (Tusie), en route for the Far East.
Chang Chiting. Viceroy of Liang Hu, and Wei Kuang-tao, Viceroy of Liang Kiang, were to meet at Wuhu on the 29th ult.; it was reported that they would disonss the removal of the
A. S. WATSON & CO., Japanese chimed to have taken also twenty and Aquilon left. Brest on the 7th ult. for Kiangnan Arsenal.
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guns and a number of prisoners. Japanese Consul bero received the saine day a Government despatch from Tokyo, putting the losses at the same figures, but stating the captures to be twenty-eight guns, twenty Russian officers, and many men, A further telegram to Mr. NOMA on the 3rd instant described the stubborn resistance offered by the Russians in their retreat on Fenghwang cheng, which added another 300 to the
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It was authoritatively stated last month, in Liverpool, that the International Sailing-ship Urion had been successfully formed, the 75 per cont of the British tonnage stimulated by the French and German owners having been obtained
Newa was received at Poking at the end of April of the killing neur Shunts, on the Lu- Han railway, of a Belgian nurosi De Jose by a Frenchin name unknown. The Belgian „Consul at Peking had gone to Shunte to in-
vestigate the affair.
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At the inquest on those lost in the submarine boat A 1. Capt. Bacon said the bodies were found at their posts. The crew were stunned by the collision. Otherwise they would have been able to stop the leak and come to the
surface,
In the course of an interview with a represent {utive of the Japan Cazelta, Sir Frederick Treves expressed himself as surprised at the orcellence of the arrangements, the perfection of the organisation, and the splendid discipline of the hospitals, several of the larger and more important of which he has visited during his tour in Japan.
The British Admiralty be granted permisi TELEGRAMS. sion to three song of the Taotui of Shangha to lospect Devonport Dockyard and all the ships in dock.
Homo papers confirm the news that H.E. Sir Matthew Nathan, R.E., K.O.M.G.. the Governor-designute of Hongkong, is expected to love about the middle of July for his post- We will procead hither by the Sees route.
Surgeon General G. Evatt, who so seriously libelled Hongkong the other day, has, it is re- ported, accepted an invitation to contest the Farobam Division of Hampshire in the Liberal interest at the next election. In 1886 he was an unscconful candidato for Woolwich.
"DAILY PRESS" SERVICE.
THE
WAR
[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENTS.]
A RUMOUR CONTRADICTED.
LONDON, 0.55 p.m.
The report that the Government had seized a destroyer building for one of the belligerents at a British yard is contradicted..
A Shanghai volunteer dinner to colebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the formation of the serps was to be held at the Café Royal, Hegant Mis.strel, London, on the 12th ult, when a good
muster was anticipated of past and present mem} [DY KIND PERMISHION OF JAPANESE CONSUL] hand.
bare, inolading five ex-commanding officers, and
battle of Meddy Flat en April 4, 1954.
SUCCESSFUL LANDING IN LIAO. TUNG GULF.
Touro, 6th May, 4.20 p.m. General Kuroki reports that on the 3rd May the Japanese mounted scouts, after a sovere hand-to-hand ight roar Fonghwangcheng,drovo the Russian horsemen towards Fenghwong- cheng,
The report of the Tungkan Medical sionary Hospital for the year 1903 is to
connect this Colony with Canton will pass The hospital is located in Tungkun City, people through territory occupied by the Mission. from Shamtsu, Taiping, Santong, Sheklung, and other places being received and treated there. This, like other medical missions. has really something to show for itself.
Engelmann in Tientsin appeur móre out- wardly patriotic than those in Hongkong. A vory successful S. George's Ball, in fancy dress, turn out to be far heavier than claimed by was given by the Englishman at the northern Tha nów railway which some day is to two, if not three, of those who took part in tho their enemies, One regiment alone, the port or the 22nd ult. Eleventh, lost forty officers and 2,000 men, and the total loss is allowed to be between 3,000 and 4,000—including the prisoners in Japanese hands, we may conclude. It will be seau that the Japanese studiously re- IN EXCELLENT CONDITION.frained from claiming any more success
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Thers is little wonder that, after this notable success of the Japanese arms in the 11.00 | first land engagement on a large scale, a
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Sir Edward Clarke.
Yesterday at noou the Magag steamer Heungahau went into dock at Kowloon for overhaul. During her stay in dock the run will be taken up by the dronam; she took up the ren yesterday afternoon. The Fatshan will probably ho the next steamer of the H.K., G. & M.S.B. Co, to be dockel.
The presentation of prizes in connection with the recent Fire Brigade competition should have taken place at the Central Police Station yes
H.E. Mr. F. H. May. C.M.G., who was visiting the Now Territory, the ceremony has been post- pored until next Friday.
A despatch from Calentta, 20th April, says -- "The news that Mr. Chamberlain's Budget
has created a storm of indignation in tea circles proposes to add another 2d. to the Tea Duty in Caleutia. The effect of the increase, it is hotiered, will lead to the flooding of the home market with the cheaper grades of China tea The Indian producer is the chief sufforer. The Tea Association is moving the Chamber of Commerce to assist them in a strong protest." Ceylon was also exceedingly indignant,
A strange explanation is given as the probable reason why the palese fire at Scoal obtained such a hold on the building without being checked, says the Kobe Chronicle. It is stated that one of the customs of the country which is or was especially observed at the Court was that if anyone gave the alarm of fire he or sho was charged with incendiarism and bokeaded.
It was therefore probably the four of the con sequences of giving the alarm which enabled the firs to obtain a good hold before it was discovered.
The Chineso say that on the 1st May about. 2,000 Russian infantry, posted on a hill cast of Fonghwangcheng, fired upon 300 of their com- rades retreating from the Yait, mistaking then for the enemy, and 100 men were wounded and 70 killed. The rest fled in disorder, abandoning the commissariat carts,
Bir Edwin Arnold's death, writes a personal Officers taken prisoners state that the only frient of his to the Outlook, doprives English Indies tint retreated in order on the lat May Hture of an interesting and attractive, if wero five or six infantry battalions and two not specially commanding, figure. Only by ill-artillery compaties. balanced adulation can he be ranked among the
200 more Russians killed or wounded wero
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be flying to the opposite extreme to withhold from the author of The Light of Asia recogni- tion of many of the qualities essential in every detached fiest, the twentieth torpedo dotilla, the well-found poetical armoury.
His flowing Hongkong Maru and Nippon Huru arrived at
Mach interest in being taken in Londen in
at Balangoda, Ceylon. It contains 76 per cent. of theria-Eve times as much as monazite, which is worth 235 par ten. These discoveries in In the Summary Court yesterday Mr. Mow Ceylon of minerals containing thorium may be bray S. Northcote, of the Land Investment Co. of great importance to the Colony if the deposits | diction and eloquence of phrasing were allied 1.5.30 a.m. on the 5th May nt Linotung. Soran sued S. A. Rumjaha for $153 odd in respect of prove to be extensive, since theris is largely with descriptive powere vivid beyond the of the enemy's sentinels wore seen on the top of rent for the house No. 15 Leighton Hill Road. employed in the manufacture of incandescent ordinary, while through the woof of his fabric
a hill adjoining the coast and were driven the Paisne Judge (Mr. T. Sercombo Sasith) are judgment for the amount claimed and costs According to a Shanghai zutive paper, the head of the Kiangsi arsenal has, after consider able pains, succeeded in making a balloon which looks very beautiful, the surface being all sorored with Chinese coloured silk. Governor
critics who looked for a turning of the tables when the Japaness faced the Bussians on land in force have received a rude blow. It would be foolish to build too much en | Japan's opening win, but we can at least with some confidence reject now the hasty anticipations of those who, admitting Defendant failed to put in an appearance, and gas-montles. Additional interest attaches to the ran a dreamy. mysticism suited to his exotic away by our fire. Japan's naval superiority, claimed that on
mineral thoriunite, which is strongly radiotheraus. Bir Edwin, beyond question, was so active, and may prove to be a source of radium. deeply imbued with the subtle phases of Oriental land at least the Russians must be the better
thought, that he wrote with a surety which few men. We do not know the numbers engaged on either side in the battle of the Yain, According to REUTER, French and German crieties hold that the Russian force must
...
The Naval Brigade, under Captain Nomoto, was then ordered to land, The ob-tide
The Yee Hing Loong end the Yeo Fat Europeans have been able to attain. Another preventing the boats! approach to the shore,
House write pointing out that in the accouut we published of the fire at 37, Bonham Strand, it was stated that they had the promises insured for $22,000 and that they recently lived at 1,
quality of Sir Edwin Arnold's poetical work was its unswerving sincerity: and hero, we
aging, is the key to the tributes of welcome that were so freely accorded to his trilogy, as
our judgment, Sir Edwin attained his highest poetical plane in some less-frequently quoted passages in his Sanskrit idyl, the Song of Songe
they waded breast-doep for 1,000 matres and gained the shore' at 7,22 am, Immediately arching, they reached the heights and hoisted their fing.
Meanwhile the araisors Akagi, Oshima and
the landing-place for the purpose of diverting the enemy The Akagi found 100 of the enemy and dispersed them.
have been small and wAR nct intended Hya of Kiangsi has been requested to bold an / Boubam Strand (in which building a dire had the successivo volumes appeared. The Light of Chi ai approached the shore on the flank of #p do more than impede
he Japanese official inspection of it. Owing to its small shortly before taken placoj. This is not tha the World gained a host of admirers; still, in progress. But a loss of from 3,000 toespacity the balloon can rise but a little over (814,000 wen
ten feet above the ground, in which position it and of SO Inavy officers
begins to osalllate a great deal until it finally does not seem to indi te а parti-
stops! cularly small force; nor does the stub- born resistance offered by the Russians to the pursuing Japanese. It may be taken as certain that the Japanese were considering occurred within the Colony. Four of
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BIRTHS.
On the 1st May, at 109, Babbling Well Road, Shanghai, the wife of S. SASSOON BENJAMIN, of a
Son.
Shangaat, the wife of G. BUCHANAN, of a daughter On the 1st May, ut 21, North Sachen Kod,
On the 30th April, at the Cathedral, Shanghai,
MARRIAGE,
by the Rev. 3. B. Ost, JABET ELENA BRUCE,
oldest daughter of 10WAH WATE, Shanghai, ROBERT BUCHANAN, eldest son of A. MAUCHAN,
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HONGKONG, 7TH MAY, 1904
During the twoity-four hours ended at noon yesterday, five cixos of plague were reported as
these were fatal-all Chinese; one caso come from
Hunghom, one from Kowloon City, one from fauchan village, and the fourth from Yazmati. The remaining case was that of an European in boarding house in Queen's Road Central. When a representative of the Daily I're enquired yesterday at the Sanitary Depart moal office with reference to the patient's name, etc, he was informed by the Assist ant Secretary that the information could not be provided.
This reticonce on the
ably superior in number. But their enemies were entrenched and on the higher ground, as well as able to attack the Japanese all the time they were crossing the Yalu. What appears to have told so heavily in favour of the victors was what General calla "the extraordinary KUROPATKIN vigour of their artillery attack.” It is
in their advance from Seoul to the Yalu has evident that the time takon hy the Japanese
not been wasted, for they have been able to transport with then artillery heavy enough to outrange and defeat the Russians. Those who blamed the Japanese military com- manders for their “lack of initiative" must now retract. Those generals were unt iubecome experts in dodging shell-fire. One telle active; they were making sure of victory.
It would not be surprising now if we
part of the officials is probably due to the fact that they are not certain whether or no the rase is actually one of plague. There have beat 71 cases up to date.
Certain ex-residents of Port Arthar who have recently arrived in Shanghai, writes the Mercury, have, according to the stories they tell,
case, they say, as they had no insurance at all on the building, of which they had only taken the ground flour as a temporary office from the Sung Hang Hong. who were iusured for the amount stated. The wording of your descriptiv££; they conclade, "givos ono the impression that we bave s fire at every place we stay." Cortainly we did not mean to imply such a thing.
In the course of a report on the German estimates of 1904, Mr. Robertson, one of the Secretaries to the British Embassy at Berlix, mentions that in the new estimates a sum of £800 is inserted under the head Furtherance of scientific, especially ethnological, studies in China." In explanation it is stated that, as the opening of China advances, a more exact study of the individuality of East Asiatic nations ia becoming a pressing necessity. It is, therefore, advisable to station permanently in China a German scholar well acquainted with ethnology and the Chinese language, whose object is to develop intellectual relations with a form of civilization little known to us hitherte, but based upon a past of several thousand years,
MASONIC.
The Consecration and Installation ceremony os that if a shell falls too close to permit of of the Hongkong. Consistory No. 11, under the affective rauning, the safest thing to do is to
NAVAL NOTES.
THE "ALACRITY."
HM. despatch-bost Alacrity, Dying the Admiral's fag, returned to port yesterday after.
nooti.
H.M.S. Creasy, the Alacrity, and a few you boats are about the only British warships at Hongkong. The U.S.S. Monterey is in dock.
CANTON.
The transports arrived at 8.5 a.m. with the frat echelon of the Second Army, who saint the Japanese nag of the top of the bill, imme. diately commoned landing, which they offected Elendidly, despite the deep water. They are now building u pontoon.
TIBET.
LHASSA OFFICIALS DEFIANT.
LONDON, 6th May, 9.55 p.m. The high officials at Lhasan have assumed. a defiant attitude, and refuse to enter inte any negotiations. A force was to leave on Tuesday last to dislodge the Tibetan army at Kharola.
[FROM CUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
Canton, 5th May. MURDERER EXECUTED. Yesterday the execution of the murderer Cheung took place.
This CARB has been thoroughly thrashed out by the officials here, and it scome pretty certain that the person executed yesterday was indeed the murderer. The case is, however, well known in Hongkong, and it is unnecessary to refer further to it.
THE SIKE WATCHMAN'S CASE,
A despatch has been received from Goners1 Abdul Mali, accused of the murder of his Kuropatkin describing thejbattle of the Yalu, in
REUTER'S SERVICE.
THE BATTLE OF THE YALU,~~ RUSSIAN LOSSES.
LONDON, 4th May,
was yesterday brought up to Canton, and the Japanese artillory attack, The Russian
were to hear that the negotiations mentioned fall fat on the face. The concussicu is less felt. Jurisdiction of the Supreme Council of Scotlaid follow-watchman at Bainam some six weeks ago which bo refers to the extraordinary vigour of by REUTER as approaching a conclusion usually bury themselves a couple of feet or so in/Hall, Zetland Street, on Saturday, Illustrious lodged in the British Consular Gaol. His losses were very great, but are not yet exactly
Again, it is said that the large Japanese shells of 33 deg. H.E. took place at the Masonic
between Japan and several financial houses in Loudon for the issue of a loan of five millions sterling, on the security of the first charge on the Japanese Customs, have provedl succoasfal.
the ground before exploding, with the result that the splintors fly up and out, so that there is a-zone near the sholl which is perfectly safe. When an explosion is beard, the necessary action is to watch the fraginents descending and Not that we think any lodge the larger ones. Altogether, the port has sound financial houses in London are likely at times, if these stories be true, been an excel- to run away with the idea of a speedy lent place in which to get excrcise of a kind. But the Japanese Personally we should prefer to get our exercise Japanese win in the war. have done so much in three months-though in some other form. the work done is the fruit, of course, of years
Companion G. A. Watkins 32 deg. presiding.
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trial will come on shortly.
known, The 11th Regiment lost 3 Colonels,
CANDIDATES FOR FOREIGN TRAINING, the 12th Regiment 9 Company Commanders. Last week an examination was held here Eight hundred wounded have been put in the which should interest all who wish well to hospital at Fanghwangchong. Twenty eight China. The Viceregal Governmont has decided guus were abandoned, the majority of the men to send forty young students abroad, twenty to and horses belag killed. According to those Japan and twenty to- other countries, and five who took part in the battle, at least 3,000 or hundred candidates presented themselves for the 4,000 were killed. examination, which was held at the I To Sha
REPEATEDLY during the present war. though it has barely lasted three months yet, the fact has been brought out of the extreme moderation of the Japanese official reports on the progress of the fighting, There has, of course, been a suspicion that the Japanese squadron operating against Port Arthur has suffered more than its Admiral bas admitted in despatches, but, after all, there is nothing to prove this, and
that even a cautious financier must be the whole fleet seems unimpaired lo muto- bers, with the possible exception of one or tempted to take the risk on good security.
By kind permission of Lt. Col. Iremonger and B.A. degree at the age of 13. For such ability the security to be the first charge on the two torpelo-boats. We have had many At any rate, wo look rather for the success wild stories from Europe, all emanating of Japan in her attempt to raise a loan in
open, that they of our Bros Infantry success in the Chins of the near future seams Japanese Customs, apparently from S. Petersburg, about great England (and probably also, partly, in the and an occasional selection from the original will play at the Hongkong Hotel from 8 to 9.30 assured. I havo had conversations with soveral
United States) than of Rossia in any attempt for a loan on the Continent.
The
On the 23rd alt, the Dallas Company gave a representation of The French Maid. criticism of the performance in the China Times concludes thus-With songs, dances, mis- cellaneous contributions of knock-about business
book, a lively and amusing if somewhat incoherent performance was carried on till
11.25 or thereabouts, when the company un- animously came to the conclusion to "chuck it,"
J. F. Lemm, 30 W. J. Osborne 30 W. M. Everil 30
Inner Guard
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Master of Works ..
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Standard Bearer
W. A. Alien 80
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W. E. Claret 30
Director of Music
P. D. Hyett 37
Aido De Comp.
E. R. Udall 30
Mazurka
Yan. The fact that so many attended shows that great interest is felt in this movement by
NEW JAPANESE LOAN,
LONDON, 4th May. Negotiations with several fiantigial houses.
the Cantonese, Among the nccessful enn- didates was Too Yuk, whom I mentioned some in London are approaching a conclusion, for the time ago as the brilliant youth who took his issue of £5,000,000 at 33, berring 6% interest;
p.m. to-night-
Ord Hume of these young men, and find that there is great THE BRINDISI MAIL OVERHAULED. arch. The Belle of Bohemia Overture. La Reine d'un Tour Adam eagerness for reform along moderate ard, Imay
LONDON, 4th May.· Selection ..."Loster Songs *”......... Chevalier sag, constitutional lines, and together with this
"La Comtesso
Translutaur
The Russian gunbont Krabri fired a blank. The Bart and the Girl... Ivan Caryll there seems to exist a very real patriotism. charge and stopped the Osiris nine hours off Selection Walts. The Choristers"
............ Phelps The feeling for Japan is of course very strong, Brindisi. After two hours' detention the mails "God Save the King."
were sorted. The Russians demanded the delight horo, the cause being recognised as Japanese mail, but this was not touched, being common with that of China.
The Empress.Dowager is reported to have and bang went The French Maid in a sudden rarentella... "The Original Napolitaine" Jullien and the Japanese victories aro haied with bought a pianola from a well-known Hongkong finale. This comes of S. George's Balls trips
firm.
Two Chinese Tactaïs from Peking bound for the S. Louis Exhibition travelled as far as Hongkong on the Malta.
Japanese disasters, but not a singlo ons of them has proved to be true, and the Russiaus themselves have abandoned them, official or semi-official though some of them were in origin. On the other hind, no Japanese version of auy incident coming from a reputable source has turned out to be false, and the official despatches have frequently been shown by subsequent information to be distinct under-estimates of the amount of success gained. A very striking instance is that furnished by the battle of the Yalu. The first news to reach Hongkong was REUTER's telegram of the 1st
Old Cheltonians in Hongkong will be inter May, stating that the State Department at
ested to hear that in completion of the memorial Washington had received news of a complete to fifty-four Old Cheltonians who fell in the Japanese victory on the Yalu. Soon after Boer war, Bishop Taylor-Smith on the 6th ult. noon on the 2nd instant our Kobe corres- unveiled in Cheltenham College a handsome the pace, we are bound to say that the odds at pondent wired the news of the capture ofreredos, which has cost £2,000.
To-morrow and on Sunday saveral excursion steamers will run to Shekwan, where the big annual festival is in progress. The journey takes about three or four hours.
to Peking, and prolonged antagonism to the Tientsin Cricket Club. This performance of Saturday night will probably stand in the annals of the celebrated Dallas Company as a thing to be remembered They picked up their parts and throw them at the audience in gallant style. The German bandsmen did not stand on their heads, nor did Mr. Vallance tear his fair in the presence of the audience, and several other things did not happen which might have happened, bat the performance was got through so that something did happen which might upt have happened. Tientsin is a very hospitable place, and if the present question is whether Tientsin or the Dallas Company can best stay
present are on Tientsin.
MENU
Hors D'EuvTOS Sardines on Toast.
BOUP,
Petage Creme a la Jackson. FISH.
Zolled a P'Osly. ENTREES. Lamb Cutlets a in Italieune
Or Tongue a la Francaise Cabbage Farcis Lobster Curry.
Roast Sirloin of Beef
Horst Chickon and Asparagus Bauce Boiled Bacon and Spinach Cold Galantine of Veal and Tomato Salad.
SWEETS.
MarmaJade and Vermicelli Pudding Tipsy Cake Peach Tart Chocolate Ico Croam and Cake. DESSERT. Coffee.
WEATHER REPORT.
The Hongkong Observatory yesterday issued the following report:--
On the 6th at 11.30 a.m. The barometer has xisen throughout, China and remains. stationary in the Philippines. A marked depression exists in N. Japan moving towards the NE. there is sleva shallow depression in the Pacific East of Luzon also moving NF.
at the bottom of the ship. After examining the mails, the Osiris was allowed to pressed.
THE ATTEMPTED BLOCKING OF PORT ARTHUR
LONDO, 4th May. Renter's correspondent at S. Petersburg wires that Admiral Alexieff, who personally directed the defence of Port Arthur, reports the attempt to block the passage on Monday was
Gradients are still rather steep on the Chine repelled. The tire-ships, armed with Hotchkiss Coast, ani fresh NE, winds will be experienced guns, maintained a hot fire; when sunk the in the Formoss Chaonei and noṛthorn part of
crows took to the boats, the majority being the China Sea.
killed by the Russian fire. The Russians saved thirty olinging to wreckage.
Forecast:-Fresh NE, to E. winds; overenst,
ine.