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for KAMIMURA's consideration. There is one item of the affair that is productive of satisfaction for the pro-Japanese observer. After this, any repotition of the allegations of Japanese inherent barbarism will be at a
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The death is annooured of M. August, Choriore, a director in Paris of the Russo Chinese Bank.
A lady rifle champion has appeared at. Bisley. Miss Florence Vivian Lewes, of Staines, made a core of 112 out of a possible 35 in a tricky wind. A Japanese stalibed a Filipino with a sword- case at Shanghai on the 7th inst. The assail. out was a "mafficker," and was afterwards
arrested.
H.M.S. Terrible, which is shortly expected here with reliefs for the Squadron, is bringing out some specially trained officers and mon for
the torpedo-boats,
The Palbal, erniser. Capt. Lewis Bayly, arrived Plymonth last month from the China Station. where she has twan relieved by the Iphigenia, cruiser. Capt. W. B. Fawkner.
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TELEGRAMS.
[LEUTER'S SERVICE.]
BRITISH PARLIAMENTARY
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VACATION.
LONDON, 15th August.
Parliament is provogued.
By kind permission of Lient. Cal. Iremonger and officers the band of the 93rd Burman Infantry will play the following programme at the Kow- bon Hotel, during dinner, this evening (weather permitting):--March, The Soldiers of the Guard." Livey: Overture. Medusa," Elliot; HONGKONG CHILDREN AT GOVERN- Selection. The Shop Girl." Ivan Caryll; Mazerka. "Slavonie Danes," Karoly Klay: Selection. "Way down in Tennessee." Knowles;
Waltz. "Sweet Briar," Lowthium: Barcarolle,
Characteristique." Conterno.
Here is the Daily Mail telegram that was noted by Reuter, and fathered on the Solay -Mail by most of our contemporaries: Singa | pore, Saturday, 16th July--A large armoured erniser, with two colliers in company, is stated to have been sighted by a British vessel on Thursday last proceeding westwards near the Straits of Malneca. She showed no colours, and is thought to be a ship detached from tha Japanese squadron for the purpose of capturing the two Russlan ernisers in the Red Sea, one of which is stated to have an immense eargo of
To-day being the birthday of the Emperor of Austria-Hungary, Franz Josef I., the acting cansal. Mr. N. Past, is holding a reception: at the I. and R. Consulate. Prince's Building, between 11 and 12 a.m. Mr. Post invites
Arthur, it has been a subject of con- jecture as to the cause of that dash into the open, by a fleet that looked like shelter- ing beneath the forts until the end of the war. Was it that the adverse anding was within measurable distance, and did the Russian hope thus to save something from the wreck? Was it professional cagerness on the part of Russian officers to ehow that
Or was they too cold bravely do or die? it, as has been suggested, that the high angle fire of the attacking Japanese artillery was making their situation intolerable The latest information on this bead comes from REUTER, who says that the feet left Port Arthur in accordance with an impera- tive order from Admiral SKRYDDorr, This, of course, does not explain much but information vouchsafed by some of the Holbein intends to make another ultempt to Russian officers who sought sauctuary in swim the English Channel from Dover to Cape coal on board. BLEND nentral parts suggests that part of Skryn-Grisnez. Two other swimmers are
LOFF's scheine, at least, was the effection of trading with this object in view. « junction of the two fleets, with probably some forlorn hope of a coup beyond that. With reference to this skulking in neutral ports, one comment forcibly presants itself for utterance. It is that with regard to breaches of neutrality, Russia seems to have ont imperfect idea of what may or may not be done. When Japan seems to trans- gress international law in-any such way, Rassinn perception seems to be "quickened ; bat recent St. Petersburg process compel the assumption that there is no Russian equivalent for the philosophy of the Goose and Gander maximu. What is sauce for Russia would soera to be poison for Japan. The first breach of Chinese neutrality in the current war that we can recall was the Russian attempt to evade the limitation of the right of asylum at Shanghai, in the case of the Mauljour. The Japanese, up to the incident of the Riesitelini's weizure at Chefon, have acted throughout with a scrupulous diseration, and whatever Russia A. S. WATSON & CO. has had to say about neutral ships, she has
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members of the Austrian-Hungarian Com. An unbeaten cricket team" is cosing outmunity. kis forsign colleagues, officials and on the Terrible. That is to say, that at Port other personalities. Franz Josef I, son Said. Baez, and Terim, where the team played Archduke Franz Karl, second son of the late on the way out, they easily defeated all the terms Emperor Franz I. was horn in 1830. Ha wes proclaimed Emperor of Austria. after the they met.
abdication of his uncle, Ferdinand I. And the renunciation of the crown by his father, December 2nd, 1848. He was crowned King of Hungary 1867.
Many of our Shanghai neighbours are being pleasured by Sunday trips by water to Wonsung. An hour's-breathing of the cool sea breezes each way, a suitable hotel at the far end, and the opportunity of seeing the shipping, have made these excursions populur.
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THE WAR.
[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.]
PORT ARTHUR PARLEYS
WITH BESIEGERS.
KOBE, 17th August.
The officer commanding the Japa- nese forces besieging Port Arthur
invited the Russians to surrender.
Yosterday afternoon, at the Government Lodge on the Peak, by order of H.E. the Govor The Japanese were then at the inner nor, Sir Matthew Nathan, a party of children | defences.) General Stoessel promised was entertained with various jurenilo sports on the lawn. There were gifts for the winners of a reply by ten o'clock this morning. races, and in marquees specially erecteil, the children were feasted with good things. The Governor in parian, Capt. Arbuthnot-Leslie, his A.D.C., and Mr. Ponsonby, his Private Secretary, saw to it that this young guests were all cared for. Here is the list of scooptances.
Masters Bernard and Nigel Atkinson, Missas Daun and Baby Hasil Taylor, Miss Naney and Master Joey Budeley, Miss Marjorie Berkeley, Baby Barnes-Lawrence, Miss Kola Boyd, Mas tor Guy and Vivian Bryou. Masters Bishe, and Borthwick, Miss Gretta and Master Laddio
(RAUTER'S SERVICE.]
JAPANESE NAVAL CASUALTIES.
Losnos, 15th August, Admim! Togo's squadron is practically uninjured. The Mikasa suffered the most. but remains in the fighting line; total casualties
197:
casualties were slight.
Admiral Kamimura's
Bunny, Master Toby und Baby Caulfield, RUSSIAN CRUISERS STILL BCSY.
LONDON, 15th August, Misses Cowan, Miss Kathleen and Master Lewis Craddock, Miss Kathleen Cocker, Master
The Gourkha has been stopped and delay- Claude Davis. Miss May and Master Jackie Dronze. Misses Erica. Marjorie and Murioled half an hour off Sagres (Portugal) by Denison, Misses Margaret and Baby Fitz- the Russian cruiser Bon, which was until Williams, Miss Dorothy Fullerton. Miss recently the German liner Fürst Bismarck. RUSSIAN WARSHIPS DISARMED.
Fuclis and Master Hubert Gedge, Misson Dorothy and Peggy Gordon, Masters Chris- topher, Humphrey, Geoffrey Gompertz, Miss Evelyn Grey, and Master Denis Grey, Misses Veda and Dora Grimble, Miss Gassie Hinds, Misses Alice, May and Dorothy Hoare, and Muster Edward Hoare. Misa Vera, and Master Maurice Hurly, Misses Richol, and Hope. and Master Archie Irving, Miss Ana- Experiments made in camphor growing intoise and Master Friodoli Kruger, Master M. Ceylon appear to be taring out well. Wa know, Murty, Miss Jessie Mackenzie, and Master saya. the Ceylon Observer, of several estates o
William and Archie Mackenzie. Misses. which there are flourishing camphor clearings Stella Phobe, Iris and Dione May, Miss Colin one 12 acres in extent and we have spen cam.
Mowat, Miss Kathleen Moxon, Mins Celiz
A Tokyo despatch values the damage suffored by Japanese companies through the Vladivostock squadron up to the present at 15,000,000 you.phor trees in Ceylon fest high. Little is The foreign steamers now chartered aggregate | known of the manner of distilling and prepar- 200,000 tons, and when these are idle the lossing the raw camphor for the market, and growers incurred by the clustorers must be very great.
can only chtain their information by experiments How greatly the immense Tyneside shipping and at some expense: so that they are naturally industry is affected by seizures such as that of reticent on the subject. The present writer the Allanton may be gauged by the fact that has handled Ceylon-produced camper valued there were last month, partly in consequenes of by a home them of experts at 116 shillings per the war, forty idle cargo steamers laid up in ct. No doubt before long the first shipments the great storthern river. This as an abnormnul of this new product will be made frozi Ceylon. number for the time of year.
Pemberton. Masters Billy und Frank Pinckney, Miss Nancy Playfair, Miss May Robinson,. Miss Phyllis Seth Miss Marjorie Sharp, Mis s Elsie Schubart, Miss Wilhelmina Shuier, Miss Norah Swan. Baby Strickland, Miss Kathleen Tayler, Mis Romba Tomkins, Master Teddy Tilden, Master Derick Tulloch, Miss Lilly and Master Erich von der Hyde, Miss Celia Wat- on. Master Ramsay Walker. Misses Gwenaje and Gladys Woodward.
DEATH OF MR. HAROLD CLARKE,
had no accusation to make until now against Japan. Now the Russian Minister at Pekin
The P. & T. Times notes that Dr. George is attaining a wonderful vehemence of pro-
Bishop, R.N. is-ones again on the Chins station test, and has launched a complaint of com-in H.M.S. Iphigenia Dr. Bishop was here plicity against Chin REUTER quotes the tw yours in succession in the middle. uiueties, Hospital, latore Class, of Carmichael and China, with itssal susceptibility to loudly-gallant doctor was an ADC. man, and mounted On the 7th August, at the Government Civil Words "cowardice" and "treason"; and and was one of the sweet singing Linnets. The "Naval Engagements and the Ares Belle,' in Clark. The funeral will pass the Monument at voiced complaints, is said to have demanded 6. to-day (Thursday).
the restoration of the Biesitelini. We wont which quite a number of present grave and remainder subsoribed from Chinese merchants formerly employed on the
reverend Tientsinners took parts.
DEATH.
The Daily Press.
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HONGKONG OFFICE :14. DEVEUX ROAD CI.
LONDON OFFICE: 131, FLEET STREET, E.C. Hosokong, 18rg Avouer, 1904.
HUMANITARIANS, learning Vice-Admiral
Eain offer Japan Punch's advice, in the forma of an emphatic "Don't." One of the oldest authorities on international law gave it as his opinion that a belligerent might, dua fervel agus, continue in neutral waters
chase cominenced in open sen,
Whether this opinion still holds good or not, the Japanese commander at Chefoo has a better
Mr. G. P. Souza writen us, calling attention: to the confinement in small cages of the pappies at the bird-shops. He considers it a case for the S.P.C.A. We have been to see the tre shops he mentions, and do not consiler there is sufficient to call for interference. Mr. 'Souza expresses a desire for some report of work dons by the Society. So far as we remember. the
The Governor of Kiangan (since appointed
KAMIMURA's reason for not making sure of reise than had the American commandan Society's annual report is not yet overdue. the two Vladivostock vessels that got away will applaud his action in devoting all his resources to the rescue of the drowning men of the Rurik. Naval men, if any consider.
The
were sanctioned.
The Governor of Kiangsu memorialises con- cerning the re-establishment of the Soo-tsin and Sou-lou Government silk flatures at Souchow which was opened by Viceroy Chang Chih-tung in 1895, when that gurt was first thrown open to commerce. The capital was Tls. 800,000, 500.000 being taken from the Provincial Tres Aurias at Soochow and Nauking and the
at Shanghai. But owing to the slackness of trade the flatares were leased to a wealthy Chinese merchant in 1900, who lost more than Tls, 300,000, which have now been made up by him by pressure from the memorialist. These likatures are now lensed to Mr. Fei Cheung-ying who agreed to pay Tls. 50,000 as rent par aneem, besides if possible the payment of the necessary
The filatures were re- interest and bonus. opened on the 1st Jane this your. Peking Gazelle.
Mr. Harold Clarke, junior partner in the engineering firm of Messrs. Carmichasi and Clarke, after lying ill in the Civil Hospital for nearly a week with typhoid, following an attack of proumenis, died yesterday afternoon, aged Mr. Clark was a Liverpool maa* 32 years.
steamers Height Companion and San Cheung. He was married here, and began business, ahout eighteen months
ngo.
He was a popular member of the com- munity, and his untimely demise is regretted by numerous friends. The funeral is tired for six o'clock this evening.
THE KING'S COMMISSION.
There are not many King's Commissioners in Shanghai, so the newa of an honour recently conferred upon a local man will be of interest.
Tho recipient is Mr. A. E. Werne, of the Shanghai Daily Freas, who served throughent the Boer war and was wonaded twice.
The King's Commission is an honorary rank for life, in recognition of service in the field. Mr. Werne already possesses the Queen's meila!
and is entitled to seven bars altogether.
Now South Wales Imperial Bushmen, in the
LONDON, 15th August.
The Russiau warships at Kino-chau have been ordered to dismantle as they are unable to put to sea within the prescribed time.
CHINA AND RUSSIAN BLUFF"
LONDON, 151 August. The Russian Ministor at Pekin, in lodging bis protest against the seizure of the Rientelini, charges the Chinese Govern- ment with complicity in the affair. He also charges the Chinese Cotonedore with cowardice or treason. He demands a full explanation, the restoration of the des- troyer, and the severe punishment of the demands that Commodore. China Japan should restore the Flexitolini,
DOW
(Shanghai Mercury.)
TEN THOUSAND WOUNDED IN PORT ARTHUR.
CHEFOO, 7th August.
A junk just arrived hare reports that the number of wounded and sick in the Russian
army in Port Arthur now amounts to nonrly These sick and wonuded aro ten thousand. now kept in a number of hospitale in Port
Arthur and in three hospital ships, the Mon- │golia, the Angora and Kazan, all of which are full. The Russian army is no negotiating with the Japanese army to get cussent from the lattor to send away the wounded and sick from Port Arthur by the hospital ship Minigolia to`s a place of safety.
MARSHAL OYAMA GOING NORTH.
Carrou, 7th August. According to the report of. a junk Marshal Marquis Oyama arrived at Kaiping on the 3rd August and is now going up North, as he expects to attack Liaoyang by the 20th instant.
PORT ARTHUR ALMOST IN HANDS OF JAPANESE,
Camroo 8th August. A detachment of the right wing of the Japa- Rese army now investing Port Arthur has
It is proposed to convert the business of the well-known Hotel Metropole at Shanghai into a limited liability company with a capital of $200,000 Mexican, divided into 2,000 shares of $100 each. It is stated that the reason which las induced Mr. Biddle, the proprietor, to sell his business to a company, and offer a part of the share capital to the public for subscription, Mr. Worne's regiments were the 1st and 2nd is thut he requires funds in order to improve New South Wales Mounted Rißes, and the 3 occupied the forts near Fanchitung. to the the appearance and structure of the Hotel, and he is confident that if this can be done, the latter of which he was first lieutenant and partly in the hands of the Japanese, and it is hotel will soon become one of the leading, and adjutant. -The Bund. on account of its position, most attractive hotels in Shangbai, and its earning power will consequently be greatly increased. Mr. Biddle has agreed to manage the business for five years, A dividend of 19 per cent. is anticipated. Wa understand that the stock is being largely taken up by the French community. The hotel has catered mostly for Americans.
HONGKONG.
Here is an extraordinary tribe from the Hudila Sunday Sun
Gold sign-flags that shine like a jówal,
Dung heaps that breed plague in an hour: The many vile smells and the cruel,
*Expectorations around you that shower; When filth is stamped out with its horrors,
What shall rest of thee then, what remain, Oh dirty and dignified Hongkong,
Eastern city of Shame!
of the Chesapeake in 1863. Abandoning altogether that perhaps weak contention, Director General of Grain Transport) memoria. lises regarding the purchasing of Tls. 20,000 China has a perfect case for submission if
worth of minting machinery from a well-known Japan refuses to surrender the vessel thus foreign firm at Shanghai, for the proposed mint bis conduct in that instance with a view 10 captured. The President of France, în ap
at Sonchow. The machinery is capable of turn professional criticism, will be sure to any arbitration hetween Great Britain and the ing out 300,000 coins every 24 hours, and the that it was a tactical mistake to let them United States, established as a principle profit derived from this source will be reserved away. Limited as its powers were, the
that a belligerent attacked in neutral waters for furthering reform in Kiangsu province. Vladivostock squadron had already shown forfeited his redress against the neutral The report of Mr. J. C. Shengle, official by its demonstrations in northern wors, power if he attempted to defend himself. assignee in bankruptcy of the estate of Mr. and upon Japanese coasts, that it was The Japanese account is that the Eieritelini Barney Weill, as presented at the U. 8. Con hostile factor whose elimination was a very
was the first to open hostilities at Chefoo. sulate at Shanghai on the 12th instant, showed important desideratum indeed. With the It is certain that the Russians there had the net amount available for distribution to he $3,500.38. Preference claims amounted to Vladivostock squadron rendered absolutely recourse to violence. The Russian repro-9854.54, and the unpreferential claims to hora de combat, Vice-Admiral KAMINERAentative at Pekin is therefore out of court. $12006.54. This allowed a final dividend of would have been free to co-operate more That precedent established by Russia's ally, 20.5 per cent. The report and arrangement immediately with Admiral ToGo.
just quoted, is not so unreasonable as its importance of capturing or sinking the two prima facie appearance seems to suggest. The famous old U.S. ship Monocacy, which whips he had already partially defeated, if The Ritsitelini, in Chefoo, had the option was for so many years stationed in the river at not crippled, was so vital a necessity that of surrendering to Japan's unlawful seizure, Tongku, has at last come to an untoward end: all but the ultra-squeamish would have felt and relying upon subsequent diplomacy to It will be remembered that some considerable obliged to excuse him had he considered it secure its release; or of violating the laws time ago she was sold to a Japanese firm, and last February, whilst carrying a cargo of cual his duty to continue the pursuit, leaving of neutrality by resisting. The minimam from Japan to Chemulpo, she struck a rock and the Rurik's crew to shift for themselves. count against it is that it elected to try the sank. A visitor to Tientsin who was in a pas There is nothing sanguinary in thus speak latter remedy. So it is now a lawful prize, sing vessel at the time witnessed the disaster. ing: allowing the existence of war in fact, With regard to the sheltering of Russian As the Monocacy went down in shallow water tho adage that "what is worth doing is ships at Shanghai, Tsingtao, and Chefou, it is possible she may be raised. worth doing well is still applicable, con- their continued abidance there must be sub-
A copy of the second number of The Bend, sistent with due observation of the permis-ject to disarmament. A French army fleeing the new Shanghai weekly, has reached us. We sible limits of violence as agreed upon by from the Germans in 1871 sought sanctuary confess that the duty of saying what we think of our latest contemporary causes some tremers: the international conference at Brussels, in Switzerland. They had to disarm. In the editor has been so severe upon his Shanghai districts. It is quite clear that there is no quito so bad as all that.] and wore lately defined at the Hague Con- disarming the Mandjour at Shanghai, Russia critics who ventured to offer some adrice. ference. Truces to alleviate the lot of the has already submitted to the principle. Yet There was no avowedly humorous journal in pungency seem to sell better than mors flavour. wounded are not expected until the objects we find the Russian refugees talking quite Shanghai, and this paper (on sample) ought to The plucking is either very saree with a heavy of the particular engagement have been glibly of trying to get back again to their meet an extensive demand. We found time to proportion of two and three-leaved bangy, or The toss appear to achieved. Had NELSON ordered the "cease buses. Very likely, if China finds sufficient read it through, and found it entertaining. very fine, but the letter tons have more appear- fire" when the first ship of the foe went backbone to insist upon their departure or chloroform which enables the working cluesis to
be almost as fully fired as the average Ceylons, dowa, Trafalgar would not have figured as disarmament, as the German authorities undergo the severe operation of living." That when they leave the country garden packed in conspicuously in the victorious anuals of have already done at Kiaochao (vide to applies, apparently, to other classes in the bags, but they lose a farther 10 per cent. of Englund as it does. The subsequent course day's telegrams), there will be more protests Orient. We feel obliged to endorse the Echo de moisture in the hug firing which, of course, of history might also have been very differ at Pekin. We have now said sufficient, Chine's comment that The Bund in "parfois increases the cup colour of a sample, but does ent. There is even now, no telling what however, to prevent renders from attaching méchant," and to advise (for his paper's sake if not appear to improve the flavour. Values nothing else) a little more decorum. The style appear to vary considerably from year to your mischief the Russian remnant, once repaired too much importance to the repinings of the altogether reminds us of the Manila Sunday 1902, on value of invoices exported, 8d; last and refitted, may yet accomplish in revenge Russian Minister.
One excellent epigram occurs
Sun.
Tes experts from India as well as Caylon have recently been visiting Formosa as dele- gates of Tea Planters Associations, to whom the results of enquiries into the production of Formosa Oolongs are being reported. The reporta to the Indian Association are not being published yet, but we notice that the Ceylon expert (Mr. Kingsford) says in one of his reports: A very large proportion of the taas shipped are of poor quality, the very high priced teas are due to fine plucking, the most favoury teas to weak unpranet bushes with a very unhealthy and half-dead appearancs, We have a good many photographs we took of tea in all conditions and Appearances and added favouring mattor.
"Alcohol is the ance and not much flavour.
year 7d.
* As you are no doubt aware, it is impossible to walk any distance along Hongkong streets without receiving a full-sized spittle on your clothes-discharged from some one of the myriads who are always leaning over the high balconies above the pedestrian. This unnatural habit of the Chinese of clearing their throats by their most disgusting thing in China-which is mouths, instead of using a handkerchief, is the Things are not counting in a lot. This effusion and comment is signed B. D. Morrison."
WEATHER REPORT. The Hongkong Observatory yesterday issued the following report:--
On the 17th at 11.25 am. The barometer hus risen in Formosa and the neighbourhood of the Loochoos and has fallen at all other stations.
The typhoon is situated to the north-west of the Loochos Islands and is moving in a N.N.E. direction towards the S. W. coasts of Japan.
Gradients are moderate on the Chics Const
north-west of Pigeon Bay. Port Arthur is now
reported that an extraordinary pic now pro rails at Port Arthur.
RUSSIAN SOLDIERS IN COREA.
Toxye, 6th August. About 400 Russian soldiers in the province of Ham Kuing-do are now at Tung-pantzu and plundered provisions and the telegraph line with Hamhaing: The Russian soldiers have two machine guns and 300 transport hentes,
PREPARED FOR THE WORST.
CHETOO, 8th August. Russinn stores and forts are now well prepared for blowing up so as to check the stores, etc, to be taken into the hands of the Japanese.
(Sin-Wan-Pao).
RUSSIANS IN RETREAT.
Cuircnow, 6th August. Bussians who were at Nowchwang and East
ammunition from Anshantian on the 8th of Haicheng carried away their provisions an instant. The carts wore very scarce and the native interpreters bought the carts up, but if the price were too dear they simply "comman- deered them. Many nativos sold the Russians cattle and carts at good prices.
(Oraka Fainichi)
THE TSAR ANXIOUS.
LONDON, 6th August.
It is reported from St. Petersburg that the
and fresh 5. W. unsson over the greater part has answered that the men are over-fatigued and rather steeper over the Chins Sea. Moderate Tear bas asked Kuropatkin for an explanation 5. W winde will prevail in the Formosa Channel of the continual retreats General Kuropatkin of the China Sea.
Forecast Moderate to fresh S.W. winds, and that the Siberian Corps are not accustomed
to mountain warfare. fine, warm.
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