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in consequence of the Express exposure is | not likely to dwarf in importance the smallest Japaness success.
General KURO PATKIN'S #cheme, briefly explained, is to march 115,000 men into India in two sec- tious, one advancing via Merv to Kandabar;
A. S. WATSON & CO., the other via Samarkand to Kabul. The
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The Sultan of Johore was among the visitors to the Colonial Office on 11th July, and attended council held by some of the principal officials
there.
General Baron Yamaguchi, who commanded; the Japanese forces at Tientsin in the Boxer troubles, died on the 7th instant. He was pro-
moted to the rank of Viscount on the 6th.
capture of Herat and the reconcilement of Afghanistan to the new regime is to take That accomplished, Kandahar would be marched upon, and India over-
A Tokyo rumour, sines contradicted, bad it run by way of the Bolan and Khyber
that the Vladivostock quadron had been Such supplies us could not pass08.
destroyed. Many houses wore decorated in be married by the Trans-Caspian Rail-consequence, and there were colebrations of way would be shipped at some Caspian other kinds
Pross Paraia. APPOINT-ports and caravanned
General KOKOPATKIN estimates that "by the outbreak of war British in
fluence in the Persian Gulf will have become so small that Russia, need fear "no movement of the British from the Gulf side. The necessary sus belli would be invented some fine November month, and would take the form of an imaginary attack by Afghans upon Russian outposts. By THE HONGKONG DISPENSARY. the time the Engles, fly at Kandahar and Kabul, we are to have lost all influence with the natives of Imlia, and to be
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CHOLERA IN ST. PETERSBURG.
LONDON, 10th August.
Several cases of okotora have occurred in St Petersburg and the prospect of an epidemic is
viewed with alarm,
OBITUARY.
LONDO, 11th Angast
If two hundred subscribers are available the Victoris Recreation Club intend to start a monthly magazine of the Club's sport, elė. The death of M. Waldeck Rousseau is an The subscription will be $2.50 per annum.nounced. We published this in our issuo of Thers are roughity 400 mumbers in the V.R.C.
yesterday
We have received the twelfth number of the
RELEASE OF LIEUTENANT WITTON.
LONDON, 11th August. Lieutenant Witton, sentenced to imprison.
Korea Daily News, a new paper published and edited in Seoul by E. T. Bothell. Two of its six pages are printed in the native type. We recommend a more careful and suitable selectionment for life for killing unarmed Bours during of news than the present number contains,
the war, has been released,
the
The crusade ngainst the beggars which infest roots continues. A big batch were com- mittel to prison for two weeks on a clurge of vagrancy the ethor day. If they were deported from the Colony it would be to the point." comments the Singapore Fret Press. Where to Hongkong?
An object-lesson for the Hongkong magis trates might in found in this case at the Singapore Marine Court. A Chine shop keeper was fined $10 for obstructing the landing steps at Boat Quay with boxes, and two men were fined $20 «nel for obstruction with their twakows.
THE
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RUSSIAN WARSHIPS AT
SHANGHAI.
SHANGHAI, 12th August. Telegraphing yesterday afternoon, at four o'clock, our Shanghai corres- pondent said:
wounded. The lattor were sent to a hospital while the former were imprisoned, on the obarge af boin Japanese spies. Hover, ov the Japanese Cominunder in-Chief natifying the Russians that Bon-combatants must be sent away, all of the Hipsang's people who were in sound health were released on the 2nd inst., and put on board a junk without any food. On the voyage to Chafoo they met the Japanese destroyar Yugiri, and asked for some broad. The Yugiri not only gave them bread, but provided (lem with a quantity of tinned food, wines, and spirits. On the following day they sighted the N. Y. K. chartered steamer
Sullberg and signalled to lior, and she kindly took
them to Chafon. The Captain and crew of the Hipsang are loud in their denunciation of their hard treatment by the Russians.
PORT ARTHUR IN STRAITS. According to a Chefoo story, the Japanese
A Russian destroyer arrived at Shanghai to-day. It is reported that four other Russian ironclads are off troups have dislodged the Russians from all the
the Saddles.
onter defences, and are now attocking the last line of forts. The Russian mon-of-war kavo. been bombarding the Japanese position on Wolf mountain from the anchorage between Enet and West Harbours, but as they have to train their guns at a very high sugio, their gun carriages have anffored severely.
In many cases, the Russian soldiers, tiroil ontby the incessant fighting, love wounded themselves in order to get sent to hospital. The officers has had hurdly tinanough to get their meals,
[Taking this in conjunction with the official despatch courteously supplied by Mr. Noma, it seeme probable that the Port Arthur fleet as a fighting entity las consed to be, and that the fall of Port Atibar can not be far off, It was anticipated that, Hatfield. to the London papers: "May I appeal rather than allow the Japanese to obtain through your columns to old Etonians to help possession of such a valuable prize as this in the great work that is new going on in China Hotilla, the Russian admiral would venture The work was begun eighteen yours ago by three on a rush from Port Arthur, and endeavour Elon Blues-C, T. Studd, Cecil Peltill Turner, to find sanctuary in neutral ports, Where Arthur would fall without further loss of life
William Cecil writes frou St.' - Audrey's,
and A. T. folhill Turner. It is now prospering nader the guidance of the Rev. A. T. Polkill Turner Flannelled fools' do sometimes clothe themselves in different garb and have serious enterprises than getting runs.“
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faced with other Matiny, instigated and supported by Russia. This ingenious pro grame is set out at great length, Geral KraoPATKIN'S OWN language," and commented on with the customary editorial undertone of complacency, the JACK HORNER air of "what a smart boy aw 1. It must have cost our enterprising
The death of Mr. Charles Waltor Sueyd contemporary some effort to concede that
Kynnorsley. C.M.G., a retired official of the the report should be taken in no alarmist
Straits Settlements Civil Survice, has already spirit." For our part, we could not have
The Hon. Treasurer of the Alice Memorial been reported by cable. By the mail we learn foreseen any alarm from such flimsy ma
and Nothersolo II ospitals begs to acknowledge that Mr. Kynnersley died in bed suddenly. He, terial. The astute Russian's plan is too
with thanks donations of $.from Mau Haig, who had seen thirty-two years' service. returned much like that of LAFONTAINE's milkmaid, Kan Tak Lang, Yan On, Fuk Cheung Yau. to England only in May, and was staying with The cause of desili fou touch like the daydresum of ALNASCAR hang. Cheung. Loung Lai Chun, Wing, a friend in Wimbledon.
was valvular disease of the heart and anging | in the Arabini Nights. It depends so much Cheung, Chi Lan Hin. Tin Shing, Tin Uà, MER- upon creamstances being fortuitous, as sung Un. Wing Us Loi, Fo Shing. Man pectoris. An inquest was held and a verdict in Shang, W On. Tai Shing. Sun Cheung, and accordance with the medical evidence was plained in the story of the all soldier
Saj Shing. EcHERRON, told to the advisers of the Rabelaisian KING PICROCROLE, who was
truth speaker," who was convicted for playing situated very much as is the Tsan in this
on the superstitions of a foolish woman--obtain invesion now supposed to be contemplated.ing money by false pretences-begged not to For it is admitted that the success of to put in stocks in a long coat. It would be |
*What have EUROPATEIN's plan depends largely upon an insult to the gentry of China. the attitude of the Persian SHAH and the you got to do with 'gentry' anyhow!
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The man was allowed to divest A. S. WATSON & CO. Afghanistan AMEER. Recent diplomatic
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events in Persia have shown that more tha one may play the game of influence; und that, ay BYRON says, "the ductrine of the leaves behind as many
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The Kobe Chroniefe has done good work in persuading the Japanese to eliminato unaesthetic advertisements from their landscapes. It very neatly advocates the discouragement of a similar blemish from the Hill at Kohe. by suggesting that visitors seping it would deny to the
which they are at present rightly credited. Lumeing our Peak at Hongkong disfigured with huge advertisements.
doubts as any other doctrine." Despite much Russin intrigue, we doubt if Persia has been indoctrinate with either Rosso-Japanese the possession of the artistic taste with philia or Anglophobia. As far Afghanistan, during those two years of striving in that buffer state, it is not to be supposed that we should do no more than watch it. Thé! Daily Express itself came out the very next day with an amusing healing Checkte, purporting a reference to "KITCHENER's plans to stop Russia." The only counter plan mentioned is a suggestion that now India's boyalty is assured, Lord KeroHENER
At "Grassbank, Oxley Road, Singapore, they mass all the Tudian army of 222,000
wife of A. M. SARKITS, of a daughter.
MARRIAGE.
On the 21st July, at Shanghai, GABBERY, IT, J. SHENTET, of Shanghai, to HEY BLANCHE, second daughter of the late WLAN J. Rei, of Melby and of Mrs. E. K. CHANDLER, of
Pootung,
mes on the north-west frontier, presumably to checkmate a move that General St HENRY GREEN describes as unworthy of serious consideration. Still, this journalistic coup seems to have caused a srivation al On the 5th August, at Eocchow, the wife of Home, so we may consider it to the extent Ou the h July, TuonoOR CORNELIS of remarking that there is no immediate ve Bogarde, of Weesperzijde, 8, Amsterdam, Hol-casion for air: Russia being elsewhere engaged just now. When KUTOPATKIN
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HONGKONG, 13r August, 1904, So that waazing Russian plan for the invasion of India, about which wo were told
two or three weeks age, turns out to be au neademic tride of General KUROPAT HIN'S. At the time, when we first heard
time.
There was another plagae fatality yesterday. Bangkok has now a fully constituted baseball club-in which respect it beats Hongkong.
Germany has taken great interest in the im- provement of Dover Harbour, and the big German Atlantic liners have now unde Dover a port of call. Not to be satinantenvred. France is displaying an interest in the provision of alitional facilities for steamboat passengers at the neighbouring harbour of Folkestone. M. Cambon, the French Minister to London, cemented the final stone ou a now pier at
Folkestone last month, and thus helped also to cement the e tente cordéric between the two
countries.
In the Summary Court yesterday a Chinese washerman sned Mrs. Webb, of " Killutoon." for
a few dollars due for washing. Mrs. Wobb's defence was that she did not know to whem to pay the money, ns on previous netusions she had
over.
returned.
Marjuis Ito has denied as unfounded the report that he is going to Cores again in the expucity of advisor. The Marquis says he has not received a personal telegram from the Emperor of Cores inviting him to Coren. A certain Corean received a telegram to some such purport, but Marquis Ito took no notice of it, as it was not addressed to him in person. Should he be invited by the Emperor of Corea, however, the Marquis could not accept, his mavemente being entiraly subject to the wishe of the Emperor of Japan. Even if he wore invited through the proper channel, MorJUM to says the time is not yet matured for such an office to be accepted by him.
the vessels would be disarmed, and ultim ately, after the war, be returned to Russia iutact. The Japanese official account men- tions that the plan has actually be carried out. One ship got to Chiefuo, others to the German port of Kiants abou. Now we seem to have five ships joining the disarmed Mandjour at Shanghai, The "Saddles, we may mention, in view of there being other Saddle Islands in the East, are some small islets in the mouth of the Shanghei river, sufficiently close in, wu beliova, to render these vessels for the present immune from attack. Of course, these ships may not lay up at Shanghai, but it is difficult to see what else they can do, now. They will not be allowed to remain long without di sarming. ED.]
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·PORT ARTHUR FLEET
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SOME SEEK SANCTUARY IN NEUTRAL PORTS.
According to
TOKYO, 12th August.
the
reports received,
and have been reduced to black bread and onions and river water. There is a great scarcity of
provisions and shoes; and if it were possible to make the blockade sufficiently it. Park
Even the Russian officers are wearing Chines shoes.
According to the Chineso, there are now only some seven thousand available Russian fighting mon; but according to Russian refugees, the garrison, including sailors and voluutens amounts to about 23,000, excluding six to seven thousand sick and wounded.
CAPTURED GÜNK.
Eight Krupp guns and a mechanical mine. trophies of the battle of Nanshan, arrived. at Moji on the 2nd instant.
THE "PAKLING.” On the 21st ult. it was reported from Lowdon that the British steamer Pakling had been sciand by the Russians in the Red Eoa, The Falling arrived here yesterday, and wo learn from the Nippon. Ynsen Kaisha that there is no founda- tion for the report of hor seizure.
END OF THE “SIVOVTUR.” It is officially nuneunced that the Russian genhout Sivoutch, stranded in the Lino river zar Tionchuangiai, has been blown ap.
FATE OF LIAOYANG.
Telegraphing from Tokyo on the 6th inst., the N-C. Daily News correspondent says that the detailed account shows that the Japanes left Tashibehiao on the 1st instant in four columns, the Russians firing from time to time to
The Juntese.ocenried the. line between Haicheng and old. Newchwang at noon on the Brit instant. The Russians who left Haicheng retiring northward are about two divisions. The Japanese papers beliève flat General Kuropatkin will not abandou Liaoyang.
THE KNIGHT COMMANDER.
The American Ariotic gives the detailed
We are very late in discovering the following stem, but its applicability to similar, requests constantly being made in Hongkong is so great that we cannot refrain from presenting it. The it appears that the Russian squadron manifest of the Knight Commander. She China Times of July 14th says: We have emerged from Port Arthur, was attacked | carried 8300,000) (gold) of eargo for Yokohama, laca requested by Mr. Tribe to refrain from stating that he was surataoned yesterday at the British Consulate General for $70,- balance due
by our fleet south of Yentao, and dispersed. The Askolin, the Novik, another cruiser and a destroyer, took refuge in Kin oxhow,
for purchase of a gold watch and accessories bought by him in A.D. 1901 as a present for a theatrical lady, and not yet paid for. We have and another destrager in Chelco, on the much pleasure in complying with this request 11th instant. The enemy's five battleships, We also refrain from stating that the Consul,
sitting as Jalgo, gavo judgment for the amount claimed, with costs, and informed the plaintix that if the money were not paid withiu a reasonable time they might apply for a judg. mont summons, whan the defendant world have to give evidence as to his ability to pay,"
CORRESPONDENCE.
TREE FELLING: STILL ANOTHER
PROTESTANT.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE "DAILY FRESS."
one cruiser, probably the Diane, are hospital ship, and several destroyers seemed to have
regained Port Arthur on the 11th instant. Our fleet is believed to have suffered no danage.
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WEIHAIWEI,
LONDON, 10th August, Earl Percy has declined to state the Government's policy in the event of the lease of Weibniwej determining.
TURKISH PRESUMPTION.
LONDON, 10th August."
Shanghai, Singape e, Maals, Sourabaya, Bang- kok, Hongkong, and Chomsipo. Hy for the greater part was for the first named port, and included rails, wannfacturer's iron and steel,
electric machinery, car material. railroad material, stc, to the valus froughly, of $138,000 (gold).
FOREIGN SHIPS WARNED OFF. Here is a notice that was circulated among the Consals at Shanghai:-
The Commander-in-Chief of the Manchurian Army has telegraphed to the Imperial Japanese Government that he consistors it necessary thai, until a perfect state of peace and tranquillity shall be established at Nowchwang, the presence of foreign mien-of-war in that port and also on' the Lino River shall temporarily be suspended, It is requested that this decision may be conveyed to the commanding officer of any man of-war that is reported to by proceeding ta Newchwang and the Liao river."
"CHELTENHAM" FAIN PREY. Tho Japan Daily Mail is responsible for this bit of nows from Vladivostock-
paid such accounts and because she paid them to the wrong man had had to pay thom twice Mr. Justion Serronale Smith in giving gets through his present contract, he is un-judgment for the plichi said he húns If hand Bely to trouble about another for sume been compelled to pay accom!s two times over and he advised Mrs. Webb to rea that in futuro her receipts bore the firm's cloup as well as the signature of the man who collected this verount. The United States Ciren't Court has just given a decision that will interest passengers crossing the Atlantic, as it holds the Atlantic Transport Company responsible for the less of a pass rer's jewellery on board their liner Minnetonka. The company repudiated any responsibility for the loss, claiming that the conditions on which their tickets are is med freed them, but the public policy. The passenger in the case just decided had sought to deposit the jewellery with the pureur, but finding that officer apparently too busy to receive thom the passenger placed The same correspondent enclosos the follow. I dated the 9th inst. way that the situations armoured.erniser Gromoboi loft tho Cheltenham them under the mattress, from which place they ing jeu d'esprit-an amusing paraphrase in the east and south are practically un- they were cheered by the Germans.
It is worthy of note, and very urelitable to the police, that there have been no robberies at Kowloon for over a month.
A Loudon megistrato las recommended the
of the great" scoop" of the Daily Express, police to use the word "corroberute" as a test Court held that these conditions were against
of sobriety.
most of us in Hongkong managed to con clude that somebody had discovered a mare's
The Queen Victoria Memorial Status fund at nest. Detailed plans for an actual inva- Bangkok falls short or the estimated outlay by The latter sun is expected to be sion, accompanied by map, do not usually 5,000 ticals. find their way into the pages of a ha penny, raised shortly. or even a threepenny, newspaper. It is
Mr. Segawa, the Japanese Consul at New natural, of course, that our London conteu-chwang, who withdrew from his post at the porary should point out the impressive outbreak of the war, is returning to Nowchwang circumstance that this "is probably the and left Kobe by the steamer Asgo.
* first time in history that a newspaper is H.K.V. Corporal J. H. Varcos and Gunner *able to lay before its readers a copy of one F. W. White have been permitted to resign. of those secret. State documents." As to Corporal H. Giloy has been granted leave of the essential secrecy of this wonderful doen. alsouce for 4 months from 10th instant.
were stolen.-Laffan.
The other morning at Singapore an old Chinese beggar who is well known for the way sko pesters Europeans for money was charged with vagrancy and begging. She admitted being guilty, and the Magistrate said that though she had begged oven from him, he was reluctant to send her to gael owing to her age. If she was discharged she would simply resume begging
Finally it was decided to send ber to the Chinese went, perhaps the less said the better. This is a parallel case to one which creurrade Protectorate with a view to having her sent Novelists like Mr. LOUIS TRACT have prin Hongkong some time ago. Ia Singapore, back to China. The plan of sending beggars sented gratis to our Continental neighbours while the usual work was pressading in the out of the Colony is an extremely good one, says the Free Prees, if it can be found workable, and elaborate plans for the invasion of England, Third Magistrata's Court, Mr. Nuna saw bat nobody worried much, except a few Chinaman smoking in the body of the Court, if it cost some slight expense this would be As a punishment the Chinaman had to stand in only too well-spent in getting rid of these copy-seekers in our own glorious profession. a corner of the dock until the Court rose for loathsome beggars who undoubtedly do a lot
The chagrin experienced at St. Petersburg 1tifu.
towards the spread of disease.
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Hongkong, 12th August. SIR-Is it a case of new brooms sweeping clean, or of walking where angels fear to troad? On this tree question, I am on the side of the angels. Mr. Daun, if allowed to run "stavle," bids fair to sweep away, in as many weeks, tho patient effort of thirty years. It cannot be because money is wanted for the department, for applications by residents to purchase seed- Hugs and. pot plants are either met with a refusal or partially executed with a very bad grace. Does the Botanical Department exist as sinecure, or does it exist pro bono publico ? Mr. Ford by supplying, even anticipating the colory's warts, made one think the latter was the case. Youre, etc.,
from Fickwick."
OLD BROOM,
· Oh! Ford if you'd known. How false D
n had grown Ur guessed that your trees he would butcher, You'd have done then, I vow, What you cannot do now, And relinquished the business to Tat.. er."
WEATHER REPORT.
the following report
The Hongkong Observatory yesterday issued On the 12th at 11.30 am, The barometer has rises slightly in South Chius, and fallen generally but slightly at all other stations,
The greatest pressure is now found in Japan
and the least its the Pacife to the south-east of Formosa,
Gradients are slight upon the Chias Coast and molerate N.. winds will prevail in the in Channel and in the northern part of
the China Sea
Ferenset Moderato E. to N.E. winde, fiue.
A Berlin telegram from Constantinople states that the Porte has consented to the cruisers
passage of Russian Volunteer through the Dardanelles.
NO CHANCE
LONDON, 11th August. Despatches from General Kuropatkin
changed.
WAR ITEMS.
**HIPSANG "CAPTAIN'S STATEMENT. A special telegram to the N-C. Daily News from Chefoo says:
Captain Bradley and the crew of the Hipsang bave safely arrived hero from Port Arthur. Captain Bradley states that on the 16th ult. when his vessel was navigating along Tochi Island (in the Micoteo Group, about 40 railes from Port Arthur), a Russian destroyer sudden ly made her appearance, signalled or to stop, and immediately torpedoed her. Five men on the Hipsang were killed, and seven wounded The Captain and the rest of the orw, of whom five were foreigners and twenty-four Chinese,
were taken to Port Arthur, as well as the
The British stoamor Cheltenham, captured by the Vladivostook squadron, was to-day declared a lawful prize. Her commander did not attempt, to defend himself, because the proof against the vessel was overwhelming, and the aridenca tender to show that the ship had already heen" bought by the Japanese for $20,000. She was- sailing under the British fag because some of the formalities of her transfer was lacking, There were only four British subjects on board the Cheltenham. Her crew were mostly Ger. mans, and they did not conosal their joy at the fact that the Russians had captured the Chel- tenham. When the prize erew from the
LATS TELEGRAMS FROM TOKYO.
The Japanese destroyers Akabuno and Oboro approached Fort Arthur on the afterncon of the 5th instant for the purpose of reconnoitring Suddenly fourteen destroyers steamed out of the harbour and attempted to surround the Japanese a three divisions. The Japanese and attacked thro exchanged s hot fra
of the Russian destroyers which were ateering towards Hsiensheng Promontory, and the enemy retired to the harbour, giving way to the Japanese. Meanwhile the destroyer Thornche reinforced her two comrades; and they jointly drove the remaining eleven Russians back into the harbour. The promptness and volouri shown by the Japanese in this action are most profoundly appreciated, says the N.-C. Daily
News correspondent."