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beard, a few years after the death of ALEXANDER at Babylon commenced to raid the northern frontiers of his distracted empire. Taking skitful advantage of the disputes between the great conqueror's suc- CONSORS ABBAK succeeded in founding a
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Four cases were added yesterday to the plague i TELEGRAMS, roll, bringing up the number for the year to 292.
It is said that the new tramways will begin running on the 1st of August-in about six weeks' limo.
Incoming river steamers report an musual number of dead bodies floating in the Canton. waterway.
Two Chinamon were sent to prison for one and iwe niouths respectively at Penang for illegally injecting morplus,
It is confidently reported that Coupi vou Bulow, the Imperial Chancellor of Garnany will resign in the antum.
Sir Henry Blake appears from the latest Ceylon impors to have completely veenvarivi from his recent recident.
A new variety of totalisator has been intro- duced into New Zealand, wherely backers can indulge their fancy for double event wagerTS,
The price of The Times has basu relaced to subscribers from 3d. to 20., but the casual buyer has still to pay the higher figure for The Thunderer."
Several local residents have offered prines in the Dragon Buat Festival competition st Aberdeen to-day, so that the races should be of exceptional interest.
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[FRO OUR OWN CORRESPONDENTS.] IMPENDING RETIREMENT OF SIK ROBERT HART.
TIENTSIN,
June 7. The Chine Times announces the impend ing etirement of Sir Robert Hart, the Inspector-General of the Imperial Maritime Customs.
THE WAR.
[JAPANESE OFFICIAL DESPATCHES.]
RUSSIAN VLADIVOSTOCK
SQUADRON.
JAPANESE TRANSPORT SUNK. ANOTHER TORPEDOED..
Toro, 17th June, 12.20 p.m. On the morning of the 15th inst., the
GOVERNOR-GENERAL OF FINLAND Vladivostock squadrea, consisting of the
SHOT.
ed off Genkai and attacked our TIDS-
LONDON, 17th June, 10.5 am. General Bobrikoff, the Governor-General |ports. of Finland, Ins been shot. The wound is dangerous one and it is feared will prove SIM.'
Cha
THE STEAMER HOLOCAUST AT NEW YORK
LONDON, 17th June. The total number of victims who perished in the disaster to the steamer General Slocum has been ascertained to be 1,130.
(REUTER'S SERVICE.]
Lones, 15th June,
KHAN. Passing into Hungary and Germ my DES the hordes bale fair to destray the rising
civilisation of Europe, which lay helplomat their feet. Fortunately at the crucial uroment the sonior KHAN Ogorat died, and BATE, realising that the inevitable wars of the succession would need all his energy, Jeft his conquests incomplete and recalled his troops to the steppes. In the nineteeach
The district Judge of Jafns (Ceylon) has century, again, the EMPEROR NAPOLEON, in cansed a notice to be muls that all juvenile THE SAD DISASTER IN NEW YORK. the pursuit of the will-o'-the wisp of Univer-smokers of cigars or cigarettes under the age of HONGKONG DISPENSARY in its new sal Empire or ssed the whole of Europe 18, if found in the act, will be severely punishæl. without opposition and entered on the plains
Admiral Sir Cyprian Bridge was received by of Russia. The Russiau army was unable His Majesty the King at Buckingham Palues.cn to stop his advance, and Moscow, the first the 13th it. upon relipshing his appoint- city of the Empire, was taken by the French.ment Es Cornmander-in-Chief of the China Driven to desperation, the Russians set fire Badron.
The Echo de Chien says that a supple- to their own city, and the French having no shelter, and far removed from their base ofmentary credit of 24,000,000 francs. (£968,000) has been laid before the Chamber for the dispatch operations, had to retreat. In that disastrons
and maintenapes of a supplementary contingent retreat the grand army of the Emperor perished practically to a man, and with it practically parished the empire that he had
premises are as follows:-
Week Daya, 8.30 A.B. to 5. P.M.
Saturday, 8.39 A.M. to P.M.
Samday,
10 AM. to 1 PM.
An Assis'nut will be on duty at all times to taken so much care to found.
dispenso prescriptions.
In all these cases the lust for empire which in each individual instance had pro- moted the invasion conduced directly to the issue. Tgain initial success, and suficient rus inertia to overrun its peaceable nuigh. bours, the first stops of such an army anst
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of troops in Indo-Chini.
It is rumoured that, notwithstanding their Government subsidy, the now French river steamers Paul Bran and Charles Hardouin are
making an indifferent show against the other
Cantou craft, and may change hands shortly.
The Stanley Opora Co. played Colleen Been to a rather stall audience last evening. The Company appeared to advantage in this piece and really deserved better patronage. Tomiglit the company give a grand raudeville entertain-
THE INVESTMENT OF PORT ARTHUR.
RUSSIAN JOURNALIST'S GRAPHIC ACCOUNT.
ST. PETERSBUNci, May 14. An interesting chronicle of the events of the first week's investment of Port Arthur is given in a despatch from Liaoyang. It is written by Nemirovich Dunshenko, the leading Russian war correspondent, who escaped from the e- leugsered fortress by the last traid,
From the 4th of May, he says, a powerful of the enemy's cruisers, Adzuma, Aranta, Iden, work, and another unknow, with thin Bossia, the Grambol, and the Rurik, appear-flagship Mikes and the other battleships ►
Shikishim latanie, Asuli, Yashinta and
rvamined constantly in Fuji,
sight of Port Arthur. departing at night and returning at dawn. The enemy's torpedo- bosts occasionally searched our wd and barges waited off Pigeon Bay. Apparently the Japanese wore watching to sea if we intend- Ted"ta infer fury with their landing beyond. Ova
communications with the north were broken on the 5th, and on the following day the telegraph The squadron was sighted off Oki Island office refused to accept messages. The Japa on the 16th.
uese cavalry reconnoitved the persinŝula' to as. certain if we were locked up. The fact did note cause any particular impression at Port Arthur The weather was beautiful, bands were playing on the boulevard and there were many pro.
heard that the Japanes had fired apon the ludutgoing train carrying sick and wounded, And ba
The Hitachi-mara was sunk, and there are but few survivors The Sado warn WAS torpedoed, but not smuk, and the majority of the men are believed to have been suvel, The Idzumi-mara'e fate is unknown.
Tokso, 17th June, 3.15 p.m. Admiral Kamimum's fleet started on the morning of the 15th inst. in pursuit of the Vladivostock squadron.
(The three transports namndaloveure Nippon
Yusen Kaisha steamers, The Hitachi-maru“ which has been sunk with considerable loss of The sluser General Strewn, with He apparently, was a twin-screw steamer of thousand Garman Sunday School excursionists,6,172 tous, well known in Hongkong, as before mostly women and childrou, ou bond, has been the way she was on the Company's Europian The line. Sho WOR built in the Mitsu Bishi burned at Hell Gate, New York harbour.
tire was so rapid that to boats could be launched.dockyard at Nagasaki, and is the largest
we buliavo the The luga finally beached the steamer, but firs and
only steamer AP hundred lives wero bat.
proaching the size, which has been built in Japan. The Sado-Maru, which the Russian BARL OF DUNDONALD'S DISMISSAL.
squadron terpadosi, was also before the war She is a twin- engaged on the Europese run. screw steamer of 6,223 tons. The Izumi Maru, whose fate is at present unknown, is a steamer of 3,280 tons which used to be employed on the Bombay ran.-Eu.!
LONDON. 15th Juno.
An Otlaws Order of Council has been pro- mulgated dismissing Majer Ganoral the Earl of Dundonald, Commanding the Militia, for grave indiscretions and insubordination. The Conseil deeply regrets that an officer of his rank so regrettably failed to apprecints the principio of
Constitutional Government.
[VIA SINGAPORE.)
STRIKERS DYNAMITE BLACKLEGS,
LONDON, 7th June. A number of non-unionist minémat Indopend euce, Colorado, awaiting a homeward train at two o'clock in the morning, were blown up by dynamite which had been placed under the Te-morrow being S. Authony's Day. the
platform. The dynamite was explodel by ineans French stasinar Charles Hardouin (Captain
of a wire 300 feet long which had been fixed to Merlin) will run on an excursion to Macao.
a revolver. Sizter were killed and nine leaving the Company's wharf at the end of Queenmortally injured. It is believed the net was tho Street at 9.30 a.m. and returning at 8 pm. Arrangements have been male for a late tram
pause is practicable, nor can any time bement. allowed for reflection, nor for consolidating the kingdoms overran, or arranging fur communications if once interrupted.
The
to the Peak in connection with this excursion.}
Mr. Charlos Phillips died at the Gener a Hospital, Singapore, on the 7th inst. after a lingering illness. Mr. Phillips was one of the oldest residents of Singapore, and cans there frota India about forty years ago. He was originally in the army, but retired on pension, and for nearly thirty-four or thirty-five years ho was Superintendent of the Sailors' Home.
In issuing another supplement to his Stems Index of the Colony Mr. Arthur Chapman, the Government Assessor, intimates that he is pre
There is a suggestive entry in Sir M., E. Grart Duff's jourual dated June, 1980, which
deserves to be recalled: Mot at the soirés of the Royal Academy Sir Edwin Arnold, who is thinking of starting for a journey round the world. He was specially attracted by Japan. Imagine, he said, a country whose grammar
imperative mood" ! ' does not contain an
Doesn't it. Ask Russia.
pause in sun si career is fatal; the leader is no more master of his actions than is the On the 10th June, at midnight, at Yokohama, Helas, the beloved wife of ALEXANDER WEIGHT, Malay who has once started to run amuck. of Shanghai.
To advance or to halt are both equally fatal, and, driven to desperation, he gʊuta bia eyes and rushes bliully forward. Sach was the cause of the decay of Egypt; such of Tosunose OFFICE: 14. DESEX ROAD C. the und attempt of Danius to conquer LONTION OFFICE: 131, FLEET STRENT, E.C.Greece; such was the ruin of the Empire of Genghiz; such was the end of NAPOLEON'S HONGKONO. 18TH JUNR, 1904,
final effort towards universal monarchy: Is all ages a very similar law of nature has and such in the end, even should Russi prevailed to prevent the dream of universal contrive to erade for the moment the doom cupin ever being realised by mortal foun.. she has prepare! for herself, will be the re- The cause has ever been the same; a break sule of Russia'a unwiso meddling with the-pared to undertake the preparation of a map of in the communications with some distant seemingly insignificant empire of Japan. the city in two sheets as a key to the Street dependency has exposed some defect in Matebed against Russia in even war, Japaa Index-if-sufficient support is forthcoming. The size of the map proposed would be 4ft. Din. by organisation, and the great empire, towards could have had no prospect of success, but
Ift. fin.. and the price with index would pro- the building op of which so much skill and Russia in her intense folly gave ber of her hably act excel 85 pur copy.
own notion the only possible means of suc- energy has been expended by the founders, anil at much loss of blood and misery has cess, al Japan, as Greece at Marathon, been nadergone by the vanquished, has master of herself, boldly sized it. suddenly collapsed in the face of some fortress of Port Arthur, to gain which apparently insignificant for, whose ability Russia has staked her honour and her for defence was not thought worthy of reputation amongst the nations, has turn- It may have fallen by entering into the councils of the invaders. ed against her. It was thus that the gre. RAMENES, having the time these lines are published; it conquered the whole of Syria i to the way survive in Russian hands for a even never be Jasignificant town of Kadesh, found himself few months; it may suddenly brought up by the 'king of the fated to fall into the hands of the Khatti (Hittites). RAMESES had been mis- Japanese armies. Yet we are none the less informed as to the position occupied by the justified in believing that as an Empire enemy, and advancing with his bodyguard Russia has fallen for ever-bever again to Her owa of some two thousand men, found the he a bugbear amongst nations. Hittites had succeeded in surrounding him. oppressed millions have been brought to His soldiere fought with the courage of wonder at the falsity of that seeming despair, and succeeded in guarding the king strength which once looted over them as till weinforcements arrived, when the fee something mors than natural; the nations was defeated with great slaughter. BAMESES, in Central Asin, conquered not by arms but however, took warning from his narrow by the distant prestige of her arms, which escape, and concluded a treaty with the they had been asset ware invincible; have Kiatti on equal temas, and we hear us seen that prestige scattered to the winde; more of further hostile advices of Egypt and seeing the last rag almost frantically into these regions. SO DARITS THE BEAT, grasped in nervelces hauds, have naturally more bracing lianto would restore her to King of Persia, in his schemes for the con-asked themselves: Are we not men ourselves as good as these? The nations of Europe quest of the world found himself twenty- four centuries ago confronted on the plain who have been looking to Russia as the of Marathon by a little Grook ariny; all urbiter of the Continent, and founding their Asia had submitted to his arms, and it own little achomes of conquest on obtaining seemed an almost ridiculous thing that a at least Russia's complacency, have like country which was not as large as the least wise come to look a little more closely into of his satrapies, should dare with a few her ability to help, or the value of her thousand men to confront him in the field. opposition should she decline to take part Before evening the bitherto invincible Per- in their little shuttle.
Sueli, wo take it, has been the most use sian army had undergone a defeat, so severe, -and accompanied with so great a loss of ful lesson taught by this most modern of prestige, that from that day the power of wars, which, yet scarcely more than four Persia commenced to decline. An adven months old, has already been pregnant with turer, one Asan, of whom nobody had ever lessons of the most valuable nature.
From a Blue Book issued by the Colonial Office regarding the importation of Chinese coolies into South Africa. it appears that for every labourer shipped up to 10,000 the Chinese Government is to receive a for of this, and for overy one in excess of that number is. Safeguards are provided for the protection of the coolies in the mines, and a minimum of 455. per month is
guaranteed to rich man after six months service
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work of stikers. The local militia. bavo bess called out.
THE SUEZ CANAL.
LONDON, 8th June. At a mesting of the Suez Canal Co.. the President foreshadowed a reduction of the dues from eight and a half francs to elght somu.
The dividend reached 135 francs.
GENERAL KUROKI'S ADVANCE.
Tokyo, 17th June, 12.20 p.i. General Kuroki reports that a dolarů. ment occupied, on the 12th, Huijio, 65 miles north-east of Kuantian. There were 300 casualties sustained on our side; the
unknown. One enemy's casualties are prisoner's epaulette shows the Fifteenth Fast Siberian Regiment.
the
[RUSSIAN OFFICIAL DESPATCH.]
Major-General Dessind, Russian Bill Agent in pama, nus continuament the following telegram to the Shanghai Press:
Mockney, 10th June, 6.10 p.n. The general position in the theatre of war is to-day as follows:
menacers.
Wa
hit two rumours arrived of the docternation of the railroad and the blowing up of bridges, but our spirits were not depressed. The military talked of nothing except the second sisge of Sebastopol, although, as a matter of fact, Sebastopol was not cut off on the land side.
Wo cau de like our forefathers in thor universal gentiment expressed. The Chiness are working as amal and few are feting. The soul of the defence of the Russian stronghold in General Kondateuko. Casolese activity prevails in the fortifications and armored No one is now admitted to Port batteries. Arthur. Women from Dalny, which is doomed * to destruction, sought shelter here. hit they were not allowed to remain.
Beyoud Cape Terminal the Japanese are landing immense stores of rice and siege guts The surrounding wights are occupied by their, scents. The enemy struck the railroad between_ Sanshilipu and Palantion. They blew up a saction of the line and a bridge with melanite, and fired on our sentries. Finding the dend holy of one of the latter, the Japause took off his unit rolled it up, placwl it under his head as a pillow, wel then reverently erased the decl man's arms on his baris.
On the 7th I decided by hook or by crook to join the Manchurian Army, it being impossible to write or telegraph from Port Arthur. B- for my departure I paid a farowell visit to the batteries and inspected the positions. They
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masses of Cape Stone and the frowniny Dragon
kind Saepinglan, where the enemy's ☛ were said to larking. westward gleaned the Miandao Islands, with Lisolisha and the Tiger's Tail in the fore- ground, while behind me, far, far away, towered The army of General Kuroki has com
the Eagle's Nest, whance onu et see the whol menced the advance with its advance Regent's Sword. Peninsula. Out upon th FROM THE "STRAITS TIMES"]·
guards, especially on the right flank, in the limitless mean twelve thy spots indicated the direction of Sa-ma-ki and Czian.chan (), Japanese warships, und soller dots the enemy's STRAITS CHINESE INDIGNANT. KUALA LUMPUR, 7th June.
al which latter place there are large bodies swift-moving launches watching the wast to, The Committee of the Chinese Chamber of of troops. Our mounted detachments, hav-provent any of the craft from slipping through
to Chefoo or Yingkow. Commeres held a meeting yesterday to discussing carried through their reconnaissances, i lotter received by Torkay Loke Yew from are falling back on the main body. There Mr. C. E. Spooner, the General Manager of
Jare small skirmishes every day; on the 7th of June a large engagement took place at The meeting decided to reply to the letter, Sa-ma-ki, where a Japanese Brigade pressed the F.M.S. Railways, on April 5th.
pointing out that the General Manager's com- munication did not agree with the order lesnel hardly our small detachment, to guards and station-mastors in regard to special first class carriages for Chinese only en certain trains, and xlso enquiring why the rule
be enforced, instead of labelling first-class empowering guards to evict passengers cannot
rarriages For Chinese."
The better class Chinese in Perak are also moving in the matter.
THE
The second Japanese army is approaching Port Arthur.
On the 8th and 9th June the enemy's
Kaichou squadron bombarded the cost between and Hsing-yao-cheng, without achieving any sucrest.
Our detachment, which bad attacked An- chou in the first days of May and which,
I decided to steal through at night eross the stretch of railway on which communication had '▶ Heen interrupted. General Stoessul proposed that I should accompany Captain Olmitzuff, who had been empowered to enter into com
Bunication with the onomy.
We left at six in the morning, and two hunte later reached this positions commanded by the energetic and tireless Ganara! Fock, who defends the whole northern-section of Liaotong.
Reports wore coming in every few minutes of Japanese landings, large and small, of first, en- counters with oar ontposts, of our first losses, On every sila soldiers and coolies were busy at work digging trenches and throwing upredoubts,
FILIPINO COMMISSION TO according to the Japanese reports, was sur-This feverish military activity contrasted
AMERICA.
Boston has refused to entertain officially the distinguished party of Filipinos who are making
a tour of the United States to study American
This institutions and show the people what tho bytter class of the Filipino people really are. docision of the Boston authorities has caused
members
ton. In Washington (according to the Evening och comment both in Boston and Washing Transcript it is thought that the citizens of
of the Filipine Commission, Bostou do not understand the standing of the But the officials of Boston aver that they do thoroughly understand the character of the visitors. Hongkong Filipino opinion is that the rebuffiinistered by Boston shows fuel- ings of sympathy wit the Filipino people as a whole, the Commission being regarded not as from observers taking stock of the country, but as being mostly made up of mercenaries specially selected by the P.I. Government.
It is with very deep sorrow, says the N. C. Daily News, that we have tourneuzes the death of Mr. Alexander Wright, of Shanghai, which occurred at Yokohama on Friday night. Mrs. Wright, who had been ill for some months, started with her younger daughter, Ethol for British Columbia in the O. & O. S. Coptic on the 16th ultimo in the hope that a trip to a
health, but she was taken worse on the voyage and had to be landed at Yokohawi, her husband and her elder daughter, Mrs Gilbert Davies, going over from Shanghai to be with her. For a little while she showed some improvement, and good hope was entertained that she might. recover hut the hope was tein, and she passed
On the 17th at 11.45 a.m. The barometer has away quite quietly and painlessly on Friday, sur- rounded by those she loved most, Mrs. Wright, risen in BW. Japan and fallen in Kid China who was a daughter of Mr. Kenneth Mackenzie- and aleo but slightly in the Philippines.
The depression in the North has passed into one of the early residents in Nagasaki, was born and married there. Subsequently her husband the Pacific but there are indications of another became a resident of China, und in Shanghai depression in northern China. Mrs. Wriglit mude hopts of friends, attracted by her quiferm good-nature, her hospitality, and her kindzes to all around her. The very deepest sympathy will be universally felt with her husband and daughters in the terrible loss, they have sustained.
WEATHER REPORT.
The Hongkong Observatory yesterday issued the following report:---
Gradients are very slight on the China Coast; and light variable winde will prevail in the Formose Channel.
Moderate SW. monsoon prevails over the China Sea.
Forecast-Moderate SW, winds, showery,
rounded and whose immediate surrender was imminent, is now, as we have acerlained, out of all danger and bas had only very insignificant losses.
(Signed) Major General FLOUG,
Quartermaster-general
[REUTER'S SERVICE], THE FIGHTING IN LIAOTUNG.
LONDON, 15th June. Despatches from Generals Kuropatkin and Kharkivitch, and Admiral Stackelberg received in St. Petersburg confirm the recent reports of severe fighting to the North of Port Adams, which appears in indicate a general advance of the Japanese north- wards from Kwantung.
strongly with the peaceful aspect of nature, now in her fairest spring beauty. Masses of lilac, almond, and apricat blossoms delighted the oys and nestling in blossom card verdure the Chinese villages continued to wear an aspect of idyllic repose. It was a fairy picture framed by hills of reddish hue.
General Fock has learned the secret of abi- quity. He requires aeither food or steep. His men are bright and active. Scouting parties penetrate every nook and corner, appearing when the enemy least expect them.
We were going on to Kinchau, distinguishable
After passing that plues we decided. in the distance by the threatening proble of its
to stick to the railrund, and boarding a gostim defences
truck, reached Sauchilipu.
Not's single railway employee was to be sten, There, but the station was crowded with China-
тел.
Admiral Stackelberg reports a battle on
As soon as we approached the station three the 14th instant, in which the Japanese horsemen dashed off towards the hills to the repeatedly assaulted a position South of Wa-east. We found Sanskilipe Station intact, fangtang, He claims that the Russians but mutives reported that the stations further retained the position, but admits that the along the line were on five. losses were severe. A regimental comman- der was billed and General Gerngroes wounded.
[VIA SINGAPORE.]
SCARCITY OF COAL AT PORT ARTHUR.
LONDON, 8th June. The Times learns by wireless telegraphy that the coal in Port Arthur is insufficient to enable large vessels to take to con.
Captain Odintzoff mounted the augina which had brought us and ordered the driver to go ahead, leaving me behind in commnad of the truck and of a second engine with soldiers. My orders from Captain Odintzaff were that if Japanese cavalry appeared I must at once return, to Kinchan without waiting for him, and if he did not return by seven in the evening I must go luck-in any case.
Three hours later we saw smoke in the distance, and concluded it to be from a deserted
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