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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, SEPTI MBER 22xn, 1904.
PORT ARTHUR IN EXTREMIS, A refugee from Port Arthur who is a native of Tentsin, and who nutil about three weeks ago was an interpreter in the Russian Commissariat Department in Port Arthur, writos to a kinsman doing business in Shanghai a letter concerning the condition of the Russians in the beleaguere port, the contents of which letter havo boon kindly placed at the disposal of the Native The Notes" writer in the X.-C. Daily News. writer, who is an educated Chinese, and had been in the Russian Government employ at Pt Arthur since 1887, states in his letter that his Department, which at the, commencement of hostilities in February last had been supplying ou a uverage daily fations to some $1,000 fight-gecount a balance of $1,178,122.86, ing men belonging to the land forers, at the time of his departure was only required to furnish rations for a little over 15,400 men in the fighting line, that is to say, who were able bodied and judged fit to take their places in the Farthermore, that defence of Port Arthur. whilst proviously the Department only can cerned itself with supplying food to the land forves it had during the six weeks prior to his depo ture-been finally compelled to do the same also for the semen of the fleet, most of whom hal been landed from their half-wrecked ships to act as actikerists and assist in garrisoning
The Report for presentation to the share- holders at the thirty-first ordinary macting to be held at the Society's offices at noon on Thurs- doy, 20th October, is as follows :——
The directors have now to submit to the slarelalders à report of the business of the Rocisty for the year 1903, and for the six mouths ending the 30th June. 1904,
193-The net premiam collected for the year, after deducting returus and reinsurances, amounts, to 34,256.79138. After providing for a bonne of 20 per cetit, oneontributions paid in May last, there remains at credit of working
- active service at the date of his leasing Port
From this sun the diretors recommend the payment of a dividend of $35 per shore. equivalent to 35 per cent. ou the paid up capital of $100 per shang and an addition of $10,000, raising to the reserve fund the reserve to $1,850 They further recommend the establishment of a sterling! resurre in adition to the present silver reserve; and propcar to set aside for this pur pose £20,000, which at exchango 18,1937. will absorb a further $275,18182 remaining of 8941.68 they propose to carry forward to underwriting suspens: account to
The balance.
1 forts. In other words the 5,000, odil, men | close the account for the your 1903,
The balance to the credit of this year's Arthur were composed of both soldiers and nonat amounted on the 20th June, 1904, to men of the feet. All available houses ont of | $$2,978,397.41. the line of the terrible Japanese fire as well as Countless cellars and eaves hollowed out on the
hill sides, both in as well as out of this line of five, were filled with sick and wounded, roughly estimated by the writer of the letter at about 244, which muaber also comprised sick an wounded non-combatants. A serious enthronk of fever had also broken out, which whih he was thers was carrying of several tens of people daily, and in this category the hitherto healthy also did not escape. He also learned from sure oficial sources that the supply of ammunition for the artillery was being rapidly exhausted and those in authority had ordered that all atimauition must be carefully husbanded. The quantity of small arms ammunition was also becoming daily smaller and smaller owing to the distracted and nervous condition of the seddiers. who fired at random and recklessly on the slightest pretence. For an explanation of this strange nervousness the writer of the letter attributes it to the terrible effect of the shells which on exploding burst into small fragments. dealing tenth to everyone who happens to-be within a radius of fifteen feet or so of any bursting shell. Hence the nerves of the hitherto slow and phlegmatic Muscovite hare - now been stretched ton tension at almost break ing point. The writer thinks there cannot now be sufficient food to last the last diminish ing garrison at Port Arthur more than five weeks at most, the last two of which he thinks
would have to be on half-rations for each inan,"
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DIRECTORx.
Since the last general meeting Mr. C. A. Tours has resigned his seat on bacing the Colony, and Mr. A. Forbes, of Messrs. Brudley & Co. has joined the Board.
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POLICE COURT.
Wednesday, 21st September. BEFORE Mr. J. H. KEMP (ACTING FIRST MAGISTRATE).
LABCENY FROM A STEAMER.
For larcony of a pieco of a canvas from a steamer & Chinaman was sentenced to ane month's imprisonment,
OBSTRUCTION.
Two shop-keepers were fined $20 and $7 respectively for omasing obstraction.
ALLEGED TITELT.
A man was charged with stealing a set of fire irons from the Naval Yard. Mr. P. W. Goldring, solicitor, appeared for the defence, The case was remanded.
WRONG SIDE.
Inspector Collott elurred some truck-Coolien with using the wrong side of the road. Ons
was fined $10 and the rest 85 encl.
THEFT.
A Chinnur from Tsimshatsui, convicted of
prisonment and six hours' stocks. stealing $75, was sentenced to two months' lin-
THE TRAM-CONDUCTOR CAME. Mr. Gray Sott general manager of the Electric Tramway Company, charged & Chins passage money receivel, and no tickets given conductor with. Jarmeny of teu conts, suid to be
RICE TRADE AND MACAO.
ENLARGEMENTS
In the new commercial treaty between
The best way to preserve your Pictures is to have them enlarged. Small prints are liable to Portugal and China now under negotiation at be thrown about and thus made dirty or lost; while enlarged ones, framed and hung up, will last Peking the following proposals, are made by for over, besides serving as decorations to the walls. Poringa!:-
1-There being many Chinees residents in Macao the rice grown there is not enough to supply thews, and China shall consent to export 500,000 skil of rice annually to Macao so as to
apply the wants of the place.
2- The Macno railway shall be further extended.
Both Lan Hai-hwang and Sheng Kung-pas, the Chinese Treaty Revision Commissioners, expressed their opinion that China may ceusont to the export of rice to Macao to the extent of
two or three hundred thousand Bhil with Customs puss attached, but as extension of the railway should be allowed. Yuan Shib-kui, how- over, wired on the 22nd August that the three hundred thousand shit of rice should be the 183ximum wmount of rice to be allowed to be exported from China to Macke, and in any case no increase should be allowed, and the rice Chould only be silowed to be exported from the province of Kwanginug, and from nove of the ather provinces, and China shall retain the right stopping such exportation in case of famine Sir Robert E. Brodon a fixed term of years prevailing, and according to the suggestion of
in return for it. Mr. H. W. Looker. solicitor.hould be pourranged to the agreement. prosecuted; and Mr. J. Hays, solicitor, appeur-
el for the defences.
Eistern Times.
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Hongkong, 8th Angast, 1904.
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AMERICAN STRIKERS.
la Chicago we not only telerate with com- plusoner a declaration of way against tho popu- lation of the city, but we regard with amiable any foreign Power wero to undertake to lay su congosur operant avewed-ants-of war. If
city this anti: u would go to war about it. The embargo spou the food supply of an American stock yaris strikers, uided by the contract-
Mr. Looker said that they know, and the INNOCENT PRISONER" AWARDED" breaking teamsters, undertake to impose suck an public know. that there was a lot of Farreny
Mr. Hays: That is not evidence: carried on by the tram-conductors in that way.
Mr. Booker continuing said it
was very
In accordance with clause 56 of the articles of † diffent to get evidence. In the present ease association Mr. H. W. Slade and Mr. E. S. the cominator took ten cents for two cent Wholler retire, but offer themselves for re-fares and gave no tickets. He would prove electiou.
AUDITORS.
that; and also that the defendant handed over Mr. Watson. a Sanitary Board inspector In the absence of Mr. W. H. Poets, they may for the tickets he had sold. Board appointed Mr. F. Maitland to audit, the || Mrz" Gray Scott, and others gave evidence. It The defendant was convicted and sentenced present accounts in his place. Masses W. Mr. Watson who reported the cecurrence.
to two months' hard labour.. Hulton: Potts und A. R. Low volire, but offer themselves for re-election.
BEFORE MB. E, D. C. WorE (ACTING
SECOND MAGISTRATEJ.
THE
RIEŠÍTELINI
A. G. WOOD. Chainmau.
AFFAIR.
In 1814
The seizure of this vessel by the Japanese in the neutral port of Chefoo will recall to the recollection of students of international law th well-known case of the General Armstrong, says un Oxford man writing to the Times. this ship. United States vessel of war-in faft a fnily commissioned privateer was found in the Portuguese port of Fuyal by a British squadron. Boats wore sent by the latter into the port, and upon rearing the privateer were fired upon, and several of the boats crew were killed and wounded. the privatorr was abandoned and instroyed by The
Eventually, to avoid captare,
order of the officer in command of her.
SHANGHAING COOLIES
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A mon charged on remaid with bringing men into the Colony, by false pretences, for purposes of emigration, was sealenced to six months hard labour and six hours' stooks.
A-TH-LEXING" BOY."
Capt J. J. O'Brien Sexton, 11th Mahratta Light Infantry, charged his servant, with larceny of $10 and two shoulder sturs. The man was convicted, and sentenced to three mouths hard lubony and six hours stucks.
THEFT OF FLOUR.
A JUVENILE IN TROUBLE.
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Seven men and a wou were charged ou remand with larceny of 16 lags of four from a steamer, and two others with larceny of same. oither wall or wounded. Finally, when the Government of the United States claimed from They were convicted and sentenced to Four writer of the letter was leaving, most of the that of Portugal compensation for the loss this months imprisonment each. and. with the >oldiers and sailors of the port were earnestly sustained, on the gromu? that a violation of the exception of the woman. six hours' steckr. praying that the Japanese would make a grandneutrality of Portugal had taken place, which assault on the place, when they declared that that Government ought to have prevented. they would surrender without hesitation, in After much delay it was agreed that the question should be submitted to the arbitration of the President of the French Reguldie. Prince Louis Napoleon. The award of the President was rendered in 1851, and was to the following óffect :-
deliance of their officers.
MYSTERIOUS MONEY-RAISING. According to the Univeral Gazette, by some HE. Tiel Linng. the uysterious mea NS Special High Commissioner of Investigation (and Collector of Fauds), bas during his fort- night's stay in Shanghai managed to collect no lows a sum than Tls. 800,000. That paper is a a loss to say whence came this large sun to the High Commissioner's coffers, and hazards guess that possibly these Tls. 800,000 were dis covered lying loose in the Kiangaan Arsenal Paymaster's chest. This perhaps accounts for his Excellency's reported visits to the Arsenal. where, encouraged by his find, he had hoped to At any rate, his scraps up some more." Excellency is credited by the Unicoraal Gozetle's editor with having given stringent orders before starting for Soochow on the 13th instant that this money must not be touched or tampered with, but is to await his return to Shanghai. The mystery of the whole thing is that there has not been the slightest observable move.
3. Upon the facts submitted it was clear that a violation of the neutrality of Portugal had occurred.
2. That the Portuguesa Governor of the place had done his best by making representa. tions in the otheer in command of the British squadron to prevent the occurrence of hostilities within the port.
That the force at the command of tho
Portuguese Governor was altogether insufficient to make these representations effective,
4. Further the point of the greatest impor- fases-that instead of at the outset making application to the Portagnese authorities for protection against attack and of relying upon such protection being afforded, the American commander had, by meeting force with forces himself been guilty of a violation of the neutra- hity of Portugal.
As a result the decision was favourable to ment in the various yamens of Shanghai since Portugal and the claim of the United States H.E.'s arrival, whereby they could be suspected for compensation at the hands of that country of collecting money to present the Special rejected. The whole story will he found toll Commissioner, wheucs comes another shrewd in the award of the Prince President of the guess that the aid of native banks has beez French Republic. given in the appendix to Ortolan's Diplomatie de la Mer (vol. II. of the t enlisted by interested mauduring in the matter. At this rate Tich Liang's 'mission has been so work, p. 547). far more successful that that of his notorious predecessor Kang Yi, for the latter during his
A boy of 12 years was charged with stabbing another boy of about the same age. The delen dant said that they were playing murbles together. The other boy snatched his marbles and hit him, whereupon he (the defendant) drew a kaife-and said he would stab his assailant if he camo near. Someone shoved to other hoy ou to him from behind;-and he accidentally stabbed him,
The oase was remanded, bai! being allowed in the sum of $100.
MARINE COURT. Wednesday, 21st September.
Beroun HON. CAPT. L. BARNE-LAWRENCE, R.N. (MARINE MAGISTRATE).
88. "SAMBIA" FINED. Mr. Basil Taylor, the assistant harbour- master. charged Mr. Laxing, master of the German ss. Sambio, with failing to enter his ship at the Harbour Office within 24 hours of his arrival.
Complainant "deposed that at about 6 am, on the 19th inst. the defendant's ship arrived in port. The defendant did not enter her at the Harbour Office till 3.30 p.ru. on the 20th just...
hours after he should have done so, The defendant said he had nothing to offer in his defence, except that be had been very busy.
Mr. Luning was fined $39.
FAILING TO REPORT.
P.-C Arthur Counsell of the Water Police.
matter
Mr. Pay The Treasury has decided t Adolf Beck the sum of £2,000 as solatium" for his sufferings during the term, el soven years' penul sortitude to which he was wrong. fully sentenced. The general opinion is that a man who has been twine wrongfully convicted, this amount is a grostly harlequate susu to offer
and lins worked out a sentence of seven years' penal servitude, not in penfionev or remorse. but raging against an unjust sentence and against official blindness which refused to sec the light. Several of the leading newspapers have takon the
up, and ask for committee of investigation to get to pse (Since the bottona of this mysterious Granted! The public wants the truth to know who has mule mistakes, who has been negligent, who hus been blind to an obrions inference. If there has been anything wore the word conspiracy--thin the public will want anything justifying, however remotely, the use of to know that also. The Globe says the public eunscience demands a thorough investigation of the circumstances; and unless the authorities
without delay, and to 'conduct the necessary want to have an English Dreyfus case upon their
inquiry without fear or favour. Who was hands they will do well to accede to this demand
responsible for trying to bolster up the original judicial error, and what is going to be done with him? We want no Esterhazys here.
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THE FAMOUS BEER OF JAPAN.
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PURE PLEASING POPULAR PALATABLE PRODUCTION
embarge, and, by armed force, are measurably HAVE YOU TRIED suggessful in maintaining it. It is regarded as ons of the incidents of the strike. Nobody sems to teadise what it really means. Whon the riotous strikers upset meat waggons and destroy their contents, when they marderously assault the drivers of the waggous and fight wit the police, they commit acts of war. They say, in effect, to the people of Chicago; "We defy your laws, we defy year police force, and we will starts you to death if necessary to You shall be bring the packers to terms.
That is what it -treated as a hostile city." news. Yet, as įveryone knows, the people of Chiengo have done nothing to merit siege and starvation at the hands of the strikers. On the contrary, a large proportion of them were, at first, favourable to the butchers. None of them, at any rate, hava cendered aid to the packom The citizens of Chicago have main- them the rights of neutrals at the hands of any The rioting lawless tained au attitude which would have insured
military commander.
Self-preservation must eventually strikers avow their intention to treat (hero.as assert its claims. The people of Chicago cannot indeliuitely tolerate sets of war which affect enemies.
their ve y existence. The time is not for distant when all the lying and frivolous gabble about a so-called "strike" wil be ignored, as it should they tre confronted by revolutionaries who ara j at open war with society. To change the naus be, and the people of this city will realise that
does not change the act. The stock yards "strikers" are in railitunt activity against tho. people of Chicage. They will have to be sup- pressed as a bepsure of unoicipal defence.—- Chicago Chronicle.
"DUMPING."
THE ROMANCE OF HUNGHUTZE.
Hangbuse are under a certain young General. a very handsome. gentlemauly, mild-mannered Chinese, a splendid horseman and a first-class shot, in fact an ideal zurilla chief. The Hun hutze get regular pay-from the Japanese, it is currently reported-footmen 315 a month.
The whole question of dumping seems likely i and borsemen $25, and they have to find their own mounts and ammunition. They are divided into bands of 200 or 300, each with seven or to be settled by the inevitable law of supply horsemanship and marksmanship they are fully offerdor in this respect, being compelled to oight Japanese officers disguised as Chinese. In and demond, Germany has brou the great a match for the Cassieks, and they are better ex port lately from 30 to 40 per cent. of her led than the latter. They are very careful to do whole production. At one time the. United States was able to absorb a portion of this no harm to the natives or to any foreigners ex cept the Russians, but they harass the Russian surplus, but now that market is closed against railway guards and communications, and small her, as America will have enough to do with its bodies of Russians, terribly, for they are perfect own production. It cannot be in the interests guerillas, obeying implicitly the orders of their of producers to overload the market, or if they General, to whom the Chinese found it wise do so, prices will be reduced to a nonpaying same time before the war to give high official point, and contraction will, of course, naturally rank. As an instance of the way the Hunghutze follow. We cannot remedy this state of things wait the issue of the natural law which controle operate, it may be mentioned that the other day by retaliatory measures; what we can do is to the Russians got hold of fire of them, and cut off their heads, which they stuck up on poles as supply and demund, and which is ever working warning. A band of Hunghutze watched their to correct the errors of manufacturers. But chance until they got wind of a detachment of what is wanted in this country most of all is a twenty-six Cosmacks who were driving about a full recognition of the fact that we have fallen thousand head of cattle for the Russian Com-belied in the race, and of the necessity there is seonred their arms, horses, and the cattle, and to the bigbest saudard of efficiency, and when this is done we have nothing to fear from any competition.-Economist, nissariat. They attacked them, killed them all, for all our manufactories to be equipped up returned with five of the Cossacks beads on their own lane, a cave of tit for tat. Ex.
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PRODUCERS in the Fat Fast on account DRODUCE the Bighest Class AERATED of their High Class Machinery and also of the superior ingredients they use in the manufacture of their goods, and the cleanliness, &c., are all
whole trip in 1899, beginning from Canton P.M,G, AND P. & O. IN PARLIAMENT. charged Chau Po, the master of ticensed junk blished at the old Russian railway station here. at Kobo at 4.30 p.m.on Tuesday, the 20th Sept.. under striot supervision of Europeans only.
along the coast vities up to Tientsin, succeeded
taels, ostensibly from only one mysterions
CHINESE ARCHITECTURE..
S. 218 H.. with failing, within 18 hours' of his In the House of Commons last month, Mr. | arrival, to report at the Harbour Office.
Complainant deposed that on the 19th inst.
V. Cavendish moved that the contract dsted
A large depot of army supplies bar been osta Two theasand troops are kept here or a guard Transport and hospital stips are expected hourly. The question has still to be determin-
The C.P.R. stemor Empress of China arrived and left again at 530 am, on Wednesday, vic arrive at 2 am, on Saturday, the 24th Sept. Nagasaki for Shanghai, where she is due to The C.F.P. steamer Athenien arrived at ard left again at 5 p.m. on Tuesday via Naga aki for Shanghai, where she is due to arrive at Kobe st 9.30 p.m. on Monday, the 19th Sept.,
9 a.to, on Saturday, the 24th Sept.
The .N. steamer Teen left Musils on the 21: Sept.. at daylight, and is due here to The Indo-China steamet Namsang left Cal
morrow, pui.
REPORT OF AN EXPERT. The representative of Mours. BRATHY and HINCHLIFFE, LIMITED, Aerated Water Engineers and Chemists, Manchester, visited our Easton Aerated Water Makers, and was greatly surprised at the compactness of our factory and algo the methodical way in which everything factory recently in the course of a tour amongst
of Aerated Waters pertaining to the making strongly on the absolute cleanliness of our was carried out. He also expressed himself whole establishment, which he sasured us was
Defendant said he did not report because the charia. Loans now in force in Newebwang September, and may be expected here on the a great many. He also reported that the
4th Oct,
The steamer Catherine Apcar, from Calentia, The P. & O. steamer Pera lefs Singapore for loft Singapors for this port on the 2016 Sept, p.. The steamer Richmond Castle arrived in New this port on the 21st Sept., at 10a.m. York on the 17th Sept.
in getting only some twelve million tasks. whereas without any visible efforts Tich Liang July 25, 1904, between the Postmaster-General he was on duty in the Harbour, off Checlikoked of the status of the Russo-Chiacas Bank million and the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Naviga Island, when he stopped the defendant's trading relative to the war. The bank, which was las managed to collect newly a
ment for the purpose of furthering Russian tion Company, for the conveyance of the Eastjuk. He examined her licence, to which was organized and Guanced by the Eussian Govern- India, China, and Australia mails be approved. | attached a special permit, which had expired on
On examining the interests in Mancharia and the Far East, is Mr. Caldwell said the motion renewed for the 26th of March last. three years the existing contract with the pass book he found that the junk had visited under the control of the Russian Governnient. The entrance of the British into Ihases may Peninsular and Oriental Company at an increase Hongkong nine times since the permit was and has a strong foothold in China and Manutia for this port rat the Straits on the 18th equal to any he had yet visited and superior to possibly (Hays the County Gentleman) result in of £10,000 a year. He contended that the issued. He arrested defendant.
amount to over 50 million roubles (£5,000,00 discoveries of interest to the cause of architec-subsidy to the P. and O. Company secured a ture in general. It has always been thought that monopoly to them in the Endis, China, and weather was rough. He apologised for making It is considered here that Japan will regard it as the property of the Russian Government, in the designs and decorations of the monas Australia trade. The enormous monopoly giver mistakes in not reporting.
'The man was fixed $20 or 14 days' imprison-
wbcam, assets and profits in Manchuris would be the legitimate spoils of war in lieu of an in- terios al palaces of the "Hermit City" there to that company produced about 12 per cent. might be found new motives of decoration, and new systems of building. From the published
At the present juncture it is interesting to redemnity. The first evidence of the opening of accounts it would seem that Chinese influence the Government would find no one to take it up call that the length of the Crimean war was from this question is shown by the fact that the Lord Stanley said he agreed that if they September, 1858, to April, 1856. The Franco- -is strong in the forms of Tibetan architecture; and as all that is good in Cause building is wished to get cheap rates, to have a monopoly German war lasted more than six months, but Japanese flag is feating over the bank proper- Tartar, it is very probable that this is the case was not the best way to set about it. The Post the decisive battle of Sodor took place when the ty. Bo-for-the Japanese hace refused to
Japanese war occupied from July 1804; to with the Office only asked for this extension of the con campaign was only two months old. The Chine-yeonize the authority of the French Consolar. After the Early English wurs Celestial Empire, a good deal of Chinese tract for three years in order to give them time March, 1895, and that between Grosce al Agent, to whom Russia transferred ber worse decoration was attempted in garden architecture, to get ont an alternative theme and to give Turkey, which began on April 17, 1897, ended interests, including the bank property, because for which it is much used in the northern pro- vinces of the Empire. The most conspicuous those who might want lo compete time to build virtually on June 3 of the same year. The war his appointment was made after the opening of was over in seven months. Our own recent precedent by refusing to recognize the United
Mukden before the outbreak of narTimes. ex: mple is the fine pagoda at Kew, a really vessels, which they would have to do in ends between Spain and the United States in 1898 hostilities. Russia has established a beautiful tower, which is very much in want of to join in the competition, (Herr, hear.The campaign in South Africa lasted, as we know Stater Consuls appointed at Antung and
to our cost, for two years and eight months. motion was agreed to. a new coat of paint:
on their whole capital, and the result was that ment when the contract with them came to an end
-MISCELLANEOUS.
The Boston 8.8. Tremont, from Seattle ria The s.s. Siam, & vessel from Shanghai yester Shanghai yesterday, reports fine weather.
nses liquid fuel.
yesterday with 3,000 tons of rice for Mesars. Lants, Wagner & Co.
dan Hohastem arrived from Saigon
The H.S. Avala arrived from New-York yes. Standard Oil Co. terday with 131,062 cases of oil for the
The H. A. 8.8. Hellas, from Hamburg yester- Shohag 1,500 cases of explosives on board." day, reports a fine passago from Singapore.
quality of our goods was of a first-class nature, and they showed that gorupulous cars was Order Books and Price List. Please apply to FACTORY and OFFICE, West Point. Tel. exorcised in the course of their manufacture.
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