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THE WAR.
(REUTER'S SERVICE. SHANGHAI'S NEUTRALITY.
LONDON, 23rd August. Nows from Berlin says that the German Contul in Shanghai bas been înstructed not to interfere with Chinese neutrality. The ***Kussophil' journal į Kruz Zeitung admits that the Japanese demands in Shanghai are perfectly just.
THE GRAVE DETRIMENT.
LONDON, 23rd August. The Liverpool Chamber 61 Committee has forwarded a resolution to Lord Langlowne
THE TYPHOON.
DWELLING HOUSES COLLAPSEL -
The failure of the electric power supply rez terday foronocu must have been keenly felt all over the city. We can speak for one business establishment, where the inconvenienca was
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, AUGUST 26т¤, 1904.
Ono advantage of well-kept unllabs was vory apparent yesterday.
FIRST REPORT OF TARIFF COMMISSION.
ENLARGEMENTS
The best way to preserve your Pictures is to have them onlarged. Small prints are liable to The conclusions of the Chamberlain tariff commission, referred to in to-day's leader, arabe thrown about and thus made dirty or lost; while enlarged ones, framed and hang up, will last. prosented as follows:
for over, besides serving tu decorations to the walls.
Our inquiry has shown:--
Several cases were down for hearing in Dank- ruptcy but owing to the absence of the Chief Justice, Sir William Goodman, they had to be postponed, as his Lordship could not get away
(5) That the Iron and Steel industry of this from kis Peak residence ou account of the Hovere weather. He did not arrive at the country has declined relatively to that of other
countrion; Court till the afternoon.
Business at the Magistracy was also delayed (2) That our export irade to foreign coun
as the Chieftries has diminishes, while that to the Colonies the weather conditions, Magistrate, Mr. H. H. J. Gompertz, was has increased; unable to reach the Court until eleven o'clock.
great. The hewry rain made all dark for several hours and the electric light chose the darkost hour for refusing to shine. We then discovered that candles and punkahes do not work in her.
(3) That although our trade with the Colonies mony. If the punkahs sung, the candles
Ths Sanitary Board, which should havo metus increased, the Colculsi mar et is inerossing melted away; if they didn't swing, we meted. The machine man slept through it all, secure in yesterday, did not. Maay of its members were much more rapidly, and that foreign countries are securing a growing proportion of this the knowledge that the wheels would hot gostoru-bouad, unable to reach the Board Room.
The breakdown" in the Electric Light Cole Colonial trade; round, and that it was not his fant. To add to the editorial worries, with a row of houses blown servies yesterday seriously interfered with busi. down, one vessel swaraped as other typhonic news in those offices and factories solely depon. damage to ascertain, one of the reporting staff dant, on the Company's service for either light or motive power. The breakdown was far must needs allow himself to be imprisoned on the wrong side of the harbon. The ferries leadtunately repaired by 6.30pm.
At no time during yesterday afternoon could a stopped running on account of the typhoon
(4) That the relative decline of the British Iron and Steel industry is not due to any natural British disadvantages or want of skill and enterprise on the part either of British manufacturers or of British workmen ;
That it is due to the fact that the man32
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SUGAR IN 1903-4.
JAPAN, HONGKONG, AND THE PHILIPPINES.
Suger was imported into Japan in 1903 to the value of 12,140.2889 as against £1,476,924 in 1992. This large increase was entirely in run sugar, for which there has been as active market throughout the year. In this
trade the Dutch Indios Lave had by far the Kirgend share.
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TRADE
MARK.
TELEPHONE No. 135.
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The receipts from Hongkong worn oven less than in 1902. In former years the value of the! HAVE YOU TRIED
earnestly hoping that arrangements will out neurons Kowloon folk will have to seek clear view be obtained, from the hill, of Kowloon facturers of the United States and Germany, Hongkong sugar trade with Japan often -speedily be made to remerly the grave provender and lodgment in Victoris until the or its hores, but it is believed there is u good luring seered control of their home inarkets | excealed £1,000,00%, and was setilen much below
detriment to British commerce resulting from Russia's proceedings re contraband, The co-operation of all other Chambers is solicited.
It is stated that the Bussing erniser off
The Cape is the Santepok, but it is more possibly one of the eonverted German Linere.
A BELATED PROCLAMATION.
LONDON, 23rd August. A proclamation has been issued at Malta forbidding the couling of belligerent ships proceeding to the seat of war, or to any where on the line of route, with the object of intercepting neutral ships on suspicion of earrying contraband.
servicu reso
deal of wreckage there to.
If this sort of thing happens oftes, and it wens it has been freensutly the case in the past, we shall begin to agitate for anreported. underground railway to Kowloon, or an aerial railway.
In Ming Yan Tane, a loss of life is an old Chiuose dare being killed by the collapse of a teuerant. The front of the honse case away into the street, and the roof Several times within the past two months the fellin. The torrential mix was probably more typhoon signals have been hoister in the har-responsible here than the wind. The holy was bour, but no typhoon this season bas approached recoved by members of the police and fir Hongkong early as this on, which has brigade, who also released an imprisoned practically pnt a stop to business during the lust frightenes, but uninjured Chinaman. One or two days Signals have been hoisted since two tenements collapsed in Brisgo Street. Tuesday, and the shipping business has been practically stopped over since Sampaus, lighters, and junks were speedily, Cavel to the usual shel- ters.
The red-siguals were replacel at: 9.53 p.m. on Tuesday by black signals indicating that the
typhoon was within 500 miles south-east of the Colony. By 9.45 h.m. it had moved to the south, and at night it was nearly due south. and The Timer under-moving in a westerly direction. Rain full in cessantly during the whole of Wednesday.
stands that a similar prochumation will be continuing throughout the night and the whole issned to all British dependencies.
REGARDED AS A RELAPSE.
LONDON, 23rd August. The appearance of a Russian cruiser on the Cape route has evoked renewed protests from the Press. The fires says that, in view of Russia's form undertakings in reference to the Volunteer eruisers, if the cruiser really is the Smolensk, the question has relapsed to an acute stage demanding prompt and vigorous treatment.
THE LIMIT OF RUSSIA'S
CAPACITY."
of yesterday. Though we have not yet been able to ascertain the amount of rain which
On the slopes, the gule has been setting a had example to the A forostation Department leaving many monarchs of the woods bare of their choicest growths. The paths and roods are littered with leaves and branches.
At least om seriens landslip has occurred,
one being noted in Park Lane. There must he others. § Many of our humbler citizens of the sheltering to-night under original race are strange roofs, because of the foll, actual or imminent, of their own.
by means of high riffs and an organised system for the regulation of their export tracke are in a position to dump their surplus products "pon the British and other markets, irrespectivo, of cost; ~ (6) That the practies of dumping could be carried on by foreign countries, but for British system of free imports;
(7) That the British fiscal system should be revised in such a manner as to check this practice. to maintain, so far as possible, our export trade to foreign countries, und develop our Colonial market and increase the employ ment of the working classes ;
that sure. It has sufferol from the compoti: tion of the bounty-fed articks and of thui Japanese refineries. Thes Tatier receive encourage ment from the Japano Giovernment in the slupe of a rebate on raw sugar, established in the 1992, the duty of 27 sen per 1331bs, boiag refunded on sugar below Dutch standard No. 14 if rolned within a year. There are two refineries at work in Japan, one at Osaka and the other at Tokyo. According to the reports of these con...". panies, their sales acted in 1902 to 13,000 tons and 9,000 tons respectively. Both are in. creasing theic plant, and a large rofinery is being erected near Moji, which is expected to begin working this year. The Japanese ils. mand for sugar is a constantly growing one, and time must slaps before the 'native rolining industry is in a position to satisfy it. Latterly. bouely-fed beet sugar has supplied the defi- ciency, but the situation shonk undergo a change -now that bounties havebeen abolished in Europe.
That these objects can be obtained by means of a system of tarifs arranged as
follows:-
(A) A General Tariff, consisting of a low scale of duties for foreign countries which admit
British wares on fair formos
(B) A Preferential Tariff, lower than the General Tarif, for those of our Colonies which
give adequate preference to British manufac
terea, and framed with a view to securing froer trade within the British Empire;
It is too early to judge how far their abolition will permanently bereft the Hongkong trade with Japan. At present it looks as though it (C) A Maximum Tariff, consisting of com- might help it, for since the abolition of the bounties in Septerther last there has been a
fol during the forty-eight hours, it is safe to pandemonium in the streets. Verandah Blinds waratively higher duties, but subject to reduc
at their fastenings, flapping like
regard it asthe record rainfall of the present
Beaton.
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The following typhoon warning was printed and distributed yesterday
Hongkong Observatory,
25th August, 11.39 a.. The typhoon has recurved to the Northward. and is now South-West of Hongkong, distant about 1-20 miles. A very strong gale from the
South-East is expected in Hongkong.
W. DOBERCK.
In the two or three hours before dinner the velocity of the pale increased, and the ad rushes of bumil masses of air raised
strained rent sails, and anon ture loose, to
Shutters, after a in unfamiliar places.
of fretful swinging rapidly weakening hinges. would fully go "bang" against the neighbouring wall, and then, in some cases, drop with a crash.
TOUISO
д
SONY
All round in the gathering gleem, thuds and crashes could be heard at intevals, and the unfortunate persou
whom business forced abroad in such weather bad a creepy sensation in the Director.
of Jervous system
his upper works--the thought of lying tiles and ether heavy debris waking hini eeck cover wherever One close share, from u tile, was ex- possible.
ferry servics to Kowloon caused at one o'clock, and those who had gone across to tiffin we unable to get back, while the many who were nnable to cross over to their homes communicul-
071 to their friends od their excuses
insula by the courtesy of the police, whe are in telephonie communication with the mainland.
the
Ruinoura as to the damage done wore, as usual, prolis, and for the most part untrust- worthy.
At mid-day yesterday the Barometer was still falling, and the typhoon increased in severity Steamers which had woathered the storm in the A Military writer in the Fester Lloyd attempts harbour at their usual moorings desmod it naces. to determine the date when Russia will arrisey to ses more sheltered position. The at the extreme limit of her capacity for action Hø in the Far East, and what this limit is Hays:--Every 80,000 men, including remounts, commissariat train very day. require one As not more than eight trains can run daily over the Trans-Baikal Kailway- of which one is awnil train, and two others mast only carry conls and railway material-thero remain five trains for the transport of troops or provisions, Assaning that there are now 250,000 men in the Far East who must be fed from Europe, only two trains a day can carry troops. For every which had sought shelter in Kowloon Bay. altional 80,000 meu, another daily commis-dragged her moorings and sariat train is needed, so that when General Oue of car reporters, sent to investigate the case of the Sharonnut, was storm bound Kuropatkia's army amounts to 400,000 men there will be no trains left for the transport of himself on the other side of the harbour, fresh troops, or horses or war material. If it is Alt that is known on this side is that the assamed that of the 189,000 men only about Shawmut dragged away from her anchorage, 300,000 will be actual combatants, the inference and that the tug Robert Cooke was unable to is obvions that Russia ca never use her numeri- tow her off after she struck. cul superiority to its full extent, and that limits are set to her wish to wintores General Kuro- patkin, limits which may have already been ranched in the niobilisation orders issued up to
10.
OUR NAVY.
The large Tacoma liner Shawnaf, 9,606 tons.
went ashore.
The P. & O. steamer Chusen which was due yesterday morning, had not arrived when
we went to press.
Down at the water frost, the ses presented a seade of awesoum grandour, when the flying clouds of sprey over the rea-wall permitted its turbulent waters to be viewed. Along the Preya, shops and offices were tightly closed; for the
Lord Brassey, before the London Chamber of squalls threatened to wreck exposed interiors. Commerce, on 15th July, delivered an addre When the Ferries had to stop running about Peninsula passengers en the state of the navy, with special reference one o'clock, many
He said in first- were disappointed, and said so. Some induced to the intesta of commerce. class battles ijs ready for service we were, a Chinese Imuch to take them over. This is the eqoul to a combination of three Powors, and if { vessel referred to in the introductory remarks including ships building, and assuming an equal at the top of this column, as having swamped. rate of progress, we were fully up to a two- No confirmation of the rumour has readied Power standard. We were strong in craisers us, however, and we presume that a safe, if of every type. We had maintained our marioxciting, orossing was effected. time promacy, but we had mailoined it by an expenditure never before uppreiched in timo of peace. The expenditure necessary for ourselves depended on the expenditureelsen here. The con- 1ingency of war with the United States was not in the contemplation of British statesmen, und we were band to look more narrowly to naval opprovations on this s'de of the Atlantic, and we had been compelled to go forward. In naval policy Lalf-measures acomplished nothing. We
The 6s Kinshan had a narrow escape from being dashed to pieces at the Canton wharf. One of her mooring ropes gare way.
Some of the rofuse hoppers sink. Their musts were occasionally visible where they lay.
Opposite the office of Messrs. Butterfield curge beat broke up, and and Swire a several derelict junks and much wreckage were reported not far away.
Another narrow excape was that of the
had now gone beyond the aggregate expenditure Manllarou boat Zafiro, which broke adrift
Old residents affirm that there hasn't been a worse typhoon in the last dozen years, and very
perienced by a well-known resident.
few as bad.
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THIS 19 A
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PLEASING POPULAR PALATABLE PRODUCTION
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tion by usgetation to the level of the General market fulling off in the importation of German WHY
Tariff.
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THE PORT OF COLOMBO.
and Austro-Hungarian beet sugar.
The sugar industry of the Philippines is in a deplorable state, and yet no country in the
NOT?
tea-merchant" writes :-- Some ten years
world offers brighter prospects or more profit WIY NOT?? ago, in spite of almost unanimous protests of ablo returns to the sugar investor. At present the pilots and the captains of these steamers the aujust. tariff discrimination oporates large- which regularly used the port, a northern armly against any great improvement, but there was decided on at the entrance to the harbour,
industry dowa.
the intended utility of which was no doubt to secure smoother water and cheaper working for the cargo lighters, while the colossal monument. of stone was to prove a lasting record to those who were then in power.
every
are
other cansos just as weighty which keep the WHY NOT???
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IT IS A SPLENDID ACCOMPANIST.
It is not altogether the tariff. When trade is dull and prices are low, manufac turers are ton prone to seek redress in legis IT MAKES MUSICIANS OF US ALL. fion or tariff tinkering, without first using every endavour to lower the cost of production by improving their plants and economizing labour The Philippine sugar planters, are in precisely
predicament that the same estates in Cuba, and nearly all of the estates IT MAKES ENTERTAINING VERY in Porto Rico and the Antilles. Up to ten years ago the ruling prices of sugar were high, and anybody could make enormous profits manufacturing the raw article. Extravagance
fell many
EASY.
NOBLEST SCORE WITH THE FINISH
AND EXPRESSION OF A MASTER.
was the order of the day. A sugar plantation YOUNG AND OLD CAN PLAY THE was better than a goal mine, and the planters were the aristocrats of their respective coun- tries. They lived in the gayer capitals of the world, spending their incomes. like princes, leaving their properties to be managed by strangers. As long as the immense profits rolled in, they noter thought of improving IT their properties, or installing modern machinery.
"The result has justified the opinion of the puncical men. but the Government authorities have wished to cover any difficulties of naviga tion that have arisen in connection with Admiralty ressels by buying two tags (the Samson and Goliath) of great power and of A WIRE FROM HASSA.
great cost both in production and upkeep A telegum from Lhasa, dated August 3rd, hat tugs may be necessary is dobr table, but far says:--The force arrived here this morning and mow economical ones would answer camped about a mile from Potulu, in the imme-mercantile purpose, especially as nearly all the diate vicinity of the Dalai Lama's private gar. large liners are now fitted with twin-screws, den. The greater part of the city is located at and so can turn round and borth without the base of some high ground connecting two assistance.
-If all these mistakes could he forgotten it hills, on one of which is a shrine. On the other is placed u grust, sombre building, three might be well to let them rost, Ini the latest stores in height, said to be used as a Modical move by the authorities is to raise the rates College. The city itself consists of a muse of on shipping genomlly (not those only which use the tugs, mind yon), and so to make the port,
And then slowly the conditions changed well-built houses, closely packed, with narrow
Westward lies a great n arsh, over more expensive all round. With the present The German best sagar industry came into streets.
prominence. Fostered under governmental which the high road s Other points of the state of trado in Coylon, this is deplorable.
subsidies, employing the most export chemists, whose business is chiefly in coal compass are dotted with groves and gardons Those
future find the latest improved sanchinery, and with hope in the near My containing the summer residences of the off-
coromadions port ou
capitalists willing to receive a legitiviata return eials and Tibetan noblemen. The most strika cheaper and more
on their investments, they forced the price of the Straite. but this ing feature of the city in its massive buildings the other side of and a great monastary with gilded roofs again will only help to make more serious sugar down all over the world, These roofs are of pagoin shape and look very the position of those whose trade mad, of Chinese. The whol appearance of Lhassa nocnssity, be conducted at Colombo. bears remarkable testimony to the accamcy of the descriptions of Sarat Chandra Dass and The points located other Asiatic travellers.
of
to
For years there has been a desire that the conduct of business should be taken from the prosent authority and placed in the hands of a on the published many are also easy distin- businesslike and properly constituted port trust, guished, Raia was falling this morning whe the camp was struck, but, when the bridge and this last proposal to weigh down the port was crossed, the sun came set, and high spirits may be expected to raise a cry that even Bumx. and briskly. A group pervated the force, thenen marching chefully on and Goliath' will not be strong enough
persons in brilliant to put aside. costumes could be seen through glasses, standing on the roof of the Petala and watching our approach. One might possibly have bon the Dalai Laun himself, who, according to latest reports, is still in d Potulu. Half way the force was met by the Nepalese Resident with u small ozcort. The Nepalese said a faction had sworn rather to die than let us enter the city but the delegates unaenned by beat of drum that there must be no fighting, as the Tibetans would then be as dust beneath the British feet The faction then clisperand. When the comp was pitched, the Amla jaid Colonel Young husband a ceremonial visit. He was carried in a decorated sedan chair, escorted by Chiness soldiers in blue nuiforms, carrying formidable billlooks, to which red banners were attached.
At present the city of Lhussu is out of bounds for all ranks
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Vacuum pans, evaporation in multiple, can- trifugals, and, most important fall, defecators, are not known or employed in the islands. is even stated that on one or two places whers pats were installed, they were thrown out at the and of the first crop the owners reverting tô There are good profits in the sugar business. the older asthols, which they understood.
por cent. of the juics is extracted from the cane. properly conducted, but when only about 40 and half the available sugar realized, it is no wonder that the prolts are on the wrong sile of the ledger at the end of the crop.
THE
ALLANTO" CASE.
A S. Petersburg despate' states that: Dr. Passove, a distinguished international lawyer, who has benu called to the English Bar, has been retained to conduct the appeal of the
THE BALTIC FLEET.
Official orders were published last month The with regard to the Baltic Fleet. second Pacific Squadron will be made ap of two detachments, the first being composed of the following vessels:-Emperor Alexander III. battleship, 13,600 tons, 18 knots: Ofury,
owners of the Hoffast steamer Allanton and of battleship, 12,674 tous, 18 knots; Navaria, battleship, 10,200 tons, 10 knots; Siset Veliky, the car, seized on June 16, against the battleship, 8,500 tons, 16 knots; Admiral Nak- decision of the Russian Prize Court at himoff, armoured cruiser, 8,524 tous, 16 knots. Vladivostock. The appeal will be heard before The second detachment will be composed of the the Council of the Russian Admiralty, with following vessels-Aurora, cruiser, 6,620 tons,
two Senators belonging to the Russian Court 20 knots; Dmitri Donskoi, armoured cruiser,
As official of the Russian. of Casastion. 16 knots; Swietlane, cruiser, 3,598 tons, 20 Ministry for Foreign Affairs and the legal adviser on shipbuilding in France, Russia, and Germany from her fastenings during the afternoon. E was only a silly sailor just come 'ome from knots, Almaz, cruiser, 2.385 tons, 19 knots to the Ministry of Marine will conduct the The vessels will carry a full war complement of Russian case. The British Embassy has been and we built at lewat 20 per cent more cheaply After colliding with the Douglas Co.'s haoy,
gans and ammunition. While the vessels are in communication with the Rasian Ministry Lan in Russia and France. The indionti ns and just missing their wharf, she managed to
in the roadstead they will be surrounded by a for Foreign Affairs regarding the seizpre were that competition en naval preparations
chain of armed guard cutters.
of the Allanton, but in any caso no formal The French nail, which was to have left on was becoming less estere. If foreign Powers cut
protest will be made, nor any demand for corn- down we were ready to follow. In his opinion the homeward voyage at mid-day on Tuesday
A poor woman, stricken in years, was found neuration presented, pending the result of the in illicit possession of alt which is, appeal. Mr. Balfour has consented to receive a there was little room for criticism in the latest remained at her moorings till 8.30 p.m., when programme of construction for the British she ventured out through the Lymoon Pass.
mont monopoly. She was brought before Committee to protest against the confiscation navy. The ineffective class had disappeared, The Empresa of Indic left the harbour, but
says the Sium Observer, an Indian Govern-deputation from the Parliamentary Shipping the European magistrate. Beyond denying of the steamship Atlanton and her cargo by the And our efforts in the future might be directed probably only to ride out the storm in the
vigorously, that it was salt, she would say Russians. According to the Daily Mail's St. nothing. The incriminating powder was turned Petersburg correspondent, the protest against more than hitherto to the reinforcement of the
out of the jar on the magistrate's table; be the seizure of the steamer Allanton is likely to fleet in battleships. He urged that the Admiralty
dipped his finger in it, and tasted it. The moot with meant consideration, since among the should do more for the education of the young
woman burst into a food of tears, exclaiming ship's papers was found a written undertaking The police beat rae and bully me to make me from the Japanese Government to pay the full offers of the Naval Reserve, and might gire
tell Hes, and I am brought here to see the salib value of the ship to the possessor of the vessel premiums to shipowners for the education of
eat the ashes of my poor husband."
in case it was seized by the Russian authorities. cadels.
make Stonecutters' Ishand shelter.
Lyemoon Pass. The suone rourk probably ap plies to the French mail steamer which left for the North at noon yesterday.
The shipping business is, of course, practically at a sindstill. The Heungshan was unable to return to Macao as usual.
The Wooming rotten cruel sea, au' ' was
drunker nor sin Ane only blacked a pooler's eye as intertored
wi' he.
An' selp me, they ran in in!
'E was only a silly sailor just paid off 'is ship,
His blooming retten slimy ship, as stink
more nor a whale.
An' a' only kissed the barmaid, au gave the
boss some lip. An' s'elp me, two months in jail? 'E was only a silly sailor an 'e look an signed
again On a greasy leaking hooker, foreign bound, Wi a crew of cut throut shellbacks all e the
brand of Caiz. An' s'elp me, 'e got drowned!
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