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A fo'ngram to the Shanghai Times, dated TELEGRAM S. by the people when they combined to phas arged the Wai-wu-pa to enforce the Trade Peking, 3rd May, wys:-The Japanes Minister proach the Tase and press their grievances Mark Regulations, The Wai-wu-pa rop'iod upon him, was in reality only a mild appli-that it would be necessary to postpone the ention of the lesson taught them by the enforcement for another six months.
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An influential meeting of Chinese- merchants has taken place here, în
THE WAR.
["DAILY PRESS SERVICE.] GENERAL KUROPATKIN.
Loxnos, 9th May." The recall of General Kuropatkin from the front is confirmed.
THE BALTIC FLEET.'
LONDON, 9th May. Admiral de Jonquieres las reported to the French Admimity the departure
VERY LIKELY.
But, continued the Times, to do the Russians justice, they seem at present rather to invito action than rafuse it, and it is against the chances for them to be able to shake off the numerous Japanesa seonts. Possibly, then, after coaling of Cape St. Junes or at Pulo | Condors and escorting his ecovoy into Saigon, Rozhdestvensky may desire to give battle in the neighbourhood, so that his ships damaged in the cetion may run in under the French batteries at Capo St. James and escape capture..
- But will Admiral Togo accept the Russian
| invitation? It is at least as likely that he will wait till the enemy is compelled to proceed further to the north, burdoned with a part of
comection with the new American "Exclusion" arrangements. The of Admiral Rozhdestvensky from the his convoy nad subject to the constant atten-
Ponsonby. Ex. two parcels of books for the
protested vigorously, and Library. The proprietors of all local now meeting papers, one copy a ile; Mosers, Gregor & Co..telegraphed its decision to the Wai- 60s case Lomon Squish.
Trespassers should take warning by the native by Mr. F. A. malty inflicted on Hazeland at the Polier Court yesterday. Chun
Hong was found loitering on the ground between the Government Civil Hospital and the Sisters' quarters at 10 o'clock on Tas-day evening, and as he could giva His Worship no reasonable excuse for being there, he wa
Ried $100 or three months", and six hours
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in Hishineff is beyond denial, and it is hardly to be wondered at timt the people who were taught that combined force was the way to get rid of the Jews, should imagine that a combined remonstrance would be the proper means of obtaining redress of grievances from the THAB. It was also not unnatural that the authorities should have been to a great extent punir stricken when they found a strong combination among the people, as they knew but too well to what purposes, under their own encouragement, such combinations had been turned before. and thus they were disposed, before any
ALondon paper meations that in a village actual danger had arisen, to resort to measures which have roused the indigan. near Dover last mouth a gentleman engaged in fien of almost the whole of Europe, and have Chian was marcind to the daughter of a local professional gentlcan, to whom he had bocoma gone beyond the cruelties of the worst engaged as the result of a matrimonial advertise- Oriental nations. Even in China, wherémont in a London paper. Photographs were during times of rebellion there have been exchanged and a'l arrangements made by atrocities that have made Europeans shudder correspondence, and the bridegroom travelled pauic and cruelty have never gone the from China to Kent to marry the lady whom he lengths to which they went in Russia. When rebellions occur in China there is a vast amount of decapitation of the leaders and of men notoriously implicated; but even the Chinese would besitate to shoot down a defenceless crowd, without warning, in the street. This, however, is the spectacle which Russin presented to the world at the very time when she claimed to have the divius right of extending her beneficent rule over millions of people in the Far East. Certainly, all who have any hope of seeing the spread of civilization in these parts have reason to be grateful to Japau for having 'made a stand' against Russia's aggression. A. S. WATSON & CO. It is no exaggeration to say that Russia is
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One of the smaller Shanghai papers writes strenuously about China's breaches of faith, IL
"As the Mackay Treaty now stands after nearly three years, without a single clause fulfilled, it ranks us one of the worst blots in the history of British diplompsy. There is not a single one of the clauses of that treaty the epirit of which is operative to-day, but China has got back all and more than she lost. through her foally criminal act of 1900"
A very small street. Arch was charged before Mr. G. N. Orme at the Police Court yesterday with the larceny of two vases from a Japanese acio store in Prayn East on Tuesday, and the
master of o second-hand furnitura shop in Lower Lancar Row was charged with receiving the stolen property. The boy stated that he sold the property for S130 while the max'er said he paid 23 for it. The case was adjourned until to-day, bail being allowed in the case of
the receiver in the sum of $500.
Viceroy Yuuu Shih-k'ai and wn-pa Viceroy Chou Fu have decided that one
form of the protest shall be a general boycott of American goods until the
Treaty be modifier. All the Guilds throughout the Empire are being urged to co-operate in the boycott.
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ANTI-SEMITIC FEELING IN
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LONDON, 8th May. The Tins in a significant article says
tions of the Japanese scouting division and destroyers, which may wear away part of the Russian forco bofore the battle,
THE THIRD SQUADRON. The Singapore Free Press of May 1st sase- Putting together two and two, it is pretty plaiu that the four resulting indients that the Thirt Baltic Flock parsed Singapore on Saturday night. The report of the Catherine Apcar at Pesang on the 29th was to the effect that two rivivus of sight and seven ships respect- Thursday night sixty miles south of Pamang Allowing for a reported low rate of speed
ively
were at half past sight oa.
that would bring the Russi to the neighbourhood of the Carimous any time ou Saturday,
that a more deplorable error could be com- mitted by Frame than to suppose that the complaints of Japan can be treated lightly; while everything will be done to prevent a rupture of the entente, France must remem. her that England will have no cluice but belonging to the East Asistio Co., went on s The other "two" is that the launch Singa
to comply, if the facts alleged by the mysterious cruise on Saturday night leaving the pontoon of Johnston's Fier abéttnine o'clock Japanese are established, and Japan asks
and belag absent for five hours. One of her us to fulfil the obligations of the alliance. passengers was the Russian Conen), and it may The Jupanese Minister had a prolonged read that a picnic on a dark and gusty night forms an part of his programme at interview with M. Delenssé on Sunday. The
present.
the plus sign between the "two and markets are weak
may possibly be found in a report that s the international
umber of war ships were seen in the neighboar hood of Darian Straits on Saturday by Lord Lansdowne has made earnest repre-characterises the native, but have apparently fishermen, who speak with the vagueness that seatutions to France, in reference to the something to tell. The night was a good one necessity of a strici observance of neutrality, for the purpose of eluding observation, and the An official statement in Paris says that probabilities are that the Third Squiron is
now to the eastward of Singapore. the Government has not only sent the most positive instructions to the authorities in Indo-China to enforce neutrality regula. tious, but has unremittingly seen to the execution of these instructions.
LONDON, 8th May. There is a strong anti-Semitic feeling in Warsaw in consequence of the Jewiab shop-situation. keepers and cabdrivers ignoring the socialists. Prominent persons are perrunding the Governor to investigate the disturbances on the let inst., with a view to allaging popular irritation.
FRENCH SHIPS COLLIDE.
The Courrier Saigonnais of 1st May reports that the Customs launch danom (90 tons) has bean eat in two by the Manche. The skipper of the Auram, believing that the Munche was in distress (1) changed his course, and bis helasman, making a mistake, took him right iu front of the oncoming ship. skipper was slightly iojared,
saved.
The Custome The crew were
H..& S. BANK CHANGES.
Owing to his departure for Home, Mr. H. E. Tomkins, Chairman of the Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation, resigned his saut on the Board of Directors. Mr. II. A. W. Slade, Deputy Chairman, has been elected Chairman in his place, and air. A. Haupt
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THIRD SQUADRON PASSES SINGAPORE.
Captain Daries of the 8.8. Wingekow from Liverpool via Singapore reports that at a.. on the 5th instaut the third Baltic Sqiadron, consisting of four battleships and two cruisers, passed through Singapore.
DESKETENA,
L'Avenir da Tonkin in a leading article comments severely on the forcible seizure of three deserters from the Baltic Fleet by the commander of the interned Rassian ship Diana, The indignation of the French press (both the
in many ways actually more barbarous than the nations ahe desires to subdue. What difference for instance can anyone see between the Kishineff massacres and similar 133 outrages which from time to time hare keen
perpetrated in China—for instance the Tiextend through spontaneous combustion, carrods heon elected Deputy Chairman, Mr. Courrier Saigonnais and L Atenis being par
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An outbreak of firo, supposed to have been
in a coal watshed near the Tsimshatsui Folie Station yesterday morning. The fire originato on the top of u leap of coal, and caught on to the roof of the matshed, but was extinguished before much damage resulted, and before the brigade, under Deputy Superintendent Lyons,' arrived from Hongkong. The matshed is believed to be the property of Mesara. Biomasen and Company.
Mint Massacre? The moving force (playing OIL the ignorance of the masses) wae essentially the saine; and the mode of carrying out the plot, by complaisance amounting to actual instigation on the part of the authoritice, identical. Indeed, the more that becomes known of Russia, the mure it becoines apparent that all that his been stated with respect to her " methods" from the days of NAPOLEON's celebrated wit-heard before Mr. F. A. Hazeland at the Police ticistu: "Scratch the Russian and you find the Tartar" falls short of the The saying of the Great actual facts. General appears only well justified in the light of modern experience. With at HONGKONG, MAY 11TH, 1905:
outward appearance of refinement, Russia THE unanimity with which the Press not
is in essentials far behind the ordinary only in England but upon the Continent standard of civilization; and it would, indeed, condemned the action of the Russian author-bea lamentable circumstance if such a ities at the thus of the outbreak of the nation should obtain a dominant position in recent disturbances is remarkable. The the Far East, which could result only in u only papers who have in any way approved of the scvore measures which were adopted is perpetuation of all that is of the worst
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THE NAVIES OF CHILI AND
ARGENTINA.
A correspondent writes:-"Notwithstanding the report of the Tinei correspondent, that Bus.in has acquired the Chilian and Argentine A charge and cross-charge of assault were
Navies; or the intimation from good (?) diplo matic sources that the warships will be brought Court yesterday. A coolie from Quarry Bay, to the Baltic to serve as a anolaus for a new complained that two others were encroaching Navy in onse Admiral Bozhdestvensky comes to on ground which, it was his privilege to work, grief, I venture to suggest that so far as and as they would not move off he took up my knowledge of Chili goes-the report mast position on their particular plot,, and on the he either exaggerated or pare fiction, Chili defendants endeavouring to shift him a fight considers herself a maritime power in Sonth ensued. Mr. Otto Koor Sing appeared for the America and speeds infinite pains on the train- complainant and Mr. R. A. Harding for the ing and personnel of her Navy. Her more pro defendants. His Worship found the commising officers are educated at the naval plainant and defondants equally guilty, and flued them all 825 or alternative of six weeks imprisonment. He further bound them over in the sum of $100 to be of good behaviour for twelve months.
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ticularly censoricus) segons evidence of French desire to maintain strict us farther
nentrality. Russians seem to be deliberately Bouting French sathority all along. Unless France strongly roseuts it, of course, she must expect somo blame.
THE IMPENDING NAVAL FIGHT,
Although written so long ago as April 10th, s Times article received yesterday contains much that seems new with regard to the preparations for the naval fight. The Third Baltic Squadron of Nebogatoff is believed to be of very little fighting valus. The Times evidently believed that Rozhdestvensky intended to show fight before it arrived, so that it could follow on and sweep up the debris!
JAPANESE PREPARATIONS. The article continues
It has not been advisable, hitherto, to say
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JU-JITSU TRIUMPH.
An excellent illustration of the utility of ju-jits was given last month at Sandhurst, ways a London contemporary, where Professor Uyenishi, of Golden-square, was giving a display to the cadets of the Royal Military College. A man. who
he Sergeant S. G. Foved to
who in the reputation of being the strongest man in the Army and Navy, came forward and challangel this professor to a bont. It was coolly suggested t at a pupil of Professor Uyoniski's, who was present and who has had the advantage of five months' training, should take up the challenge. Although not abnormally strong, the student succeeded in throwing his opponent several times, and finally defeated him by o throw over the head, followed by an armlock. Sergenut Dacombe afterwards explained that in order to prove what real strength could do ho had been specially sent for from Chatham
against Japanese art.
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JAPANESE ACTIVITY AT TIENTSIN.
under
One cannot pass through the Japanese Concession without being impa-ul with their activity. Many new buildings era construction or nearing completion, prends and waste land are being filled in, much of it being
well back from the river and one would think not likely to be built upon for some time to come. But, even so, it is a great blessing to have it filled in, and thus decrease in our more immediate vicinity the ansanitary conditions. So far as we are aware, notes a N.-C. Daily News Deronppudent, not so much is doing in any of the other concessions, perhaps more in Last year the the French than in any other. Russians built a large Consular building in their Concession, which is on the east side of the river opposite the British. A few buildings are being erected in other settlements. White there are no special indications of speerly peace | yet all are hoping for it soon, and more or less expecting it as the present situation in the north and in Russia ara considered. Business bas been much affected by the war, and it may be that peace will bring about the return of better
times in the north.
SUICIDE "SADLY PREVALENT” AT SHANGHAL
a portion (and only a portion) of the German among Asiatic nations. And what is Press, who maintained that the steps taken intellectual intensity of the East would experiment with Chinese laboar, corroborates to educate and possess the skilled men and leave of a large squadron of cruisers and auxiliary to announce a sermon on the subject. Here
werejustifiable as means of preserving order,
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anything about the Japanese preparations in the Malay Archipelage, but it is believed that they gunnery establishments in England; and have been very thorough, and have aimed at Chili is, with some reas u, proud of her saperi. the c plute observation and control of all the ority in maritime matters over the other South channels by which it was possible for Russian American States. It is quite possible for ships to approach the China Beas to the north
A non-conformist preacher at Shanghai, whose nation to purchase and equip ships whilst of Australia. This object has been attained by a network of intelligence agents in all the im-
sermons are frequently of the up-to-date" A correspondent of the Singapore Free Press, possessing practically no skilled men to man
'sadly prevalent" st Shanghai it was his duty who writes from Johannesburg concerning the thera; but I think it is improbable for a nation portant points of the islands and by the activity ind, recently felt that because suicide was wessels suitable for the work of scouting. The are some extracts from his reported utterances: what has already been said as to the effect of herself with no ships to put the men into.
It has been my lot to talk to a large number "In the case of Argentina sob a wholesale adoption of the bold course by the Russians har, assert itself, and would be powerful enough the importation of the Celestiul oa the mind of gale right he possible, as this state does not pra. indeed, apparently rendered all these precautions of people about it, sometimes in the cemetery For this, they were upbraided, by papers
to prevail against a nation so lacking in the Kaffir. Before the arrival of the Ching feas to much maritime power.
previous to an intermeat, and sometimes in Chili may part nanacessary; but possibly the very excellence of general conversation; and I h vo ben sur- taking a different view, with some severity
man the Kaffir was becoming more lazy and with a vessel here and there as she has doas the watch may have led to the Russian choice prised and shocked by the number of nick just; as, bowerer much we may differ with that instead of rais.ng them to a higher degenerate than ever, but now & wonderful tofore, bat tɔ giru up ontirely a Nory of which of routes. In any case, three important points angst us who keep it before their miuis Be perhaps with a little more than was strictly right principle either moral or political; so
have been gained by Japan-tho Russians have quite a possibility for them, them, it is fair to recognise that they spoke level, Russia would herself fall below the reaction bas set in. Kafira, he says, are finding the nation is proud seems almost too exagger.
heard it said if I could not keep myself I been observed and reported without delay, and would soon be in the chow chow water, or only according to their full conviction that level of the nations over which she had Africa, and there is the remarkable plenam.
are pably now under close observation, something like this, why should not a man do secondly, Russian scouting by Eussian oruisers it if be likes? or it is far better to put an other people. Them is a familiarity with the has been rendered impracticable; and the end to yourself honestly than be a burden on despatch of colliers in advance of the float has abject, a readiness to exceso and condone it, an been altogether stopped. The Armada has been absence of horror of it, which to my mind are
thought of a sin loads to the doing of it. of the Japanese has been made vasier.
inde- pendent division of cavalry in the field; bebied it are the detachments to pass on information to the commander, while the main body in rear is protected by its own scouts in precisely the 65 Le manner as na army of operations on land. There is an impression in some quarters that the Pescadores may be Tago's headquarters.
obtained domination.
them fatal
a State is justified in proceeding to any lengths for the purpose of maintaining order. Such a view is an exaggerated application of the "Salus populi suprent est lex" maxim, and though we may The Police raided a gambling house in Square differ widely with such an application Street last night and arested fourteen Chinese of a doctrine, sound in itself, we *N who were playing paikan. They will be charged at least understand people of a certain at the Police Court to-day, school coining to the conclusion that
Kafir.
A member of the Globe staff, having subscribed after all would be better than Chili's 'no bread' The scouting squadron acts liko sa
their way to the Transvaal fromall parts of Sonthated an idea to be entertained for a moment,
"Further, what prics would Chili domand enon of the black man actually woking for work. The correspondent speaks highly of th for the complete surrender of her advantage in Three more plague cases are reported, two of class of Chinatown, thu is being imparted, South America by giving up her Flest alte describing him as of good physique, industrious-gether. Would not Peru, which lathes Chili after the drabbing received in years past, find and much more cleanly in bis habits than the I the opportunity for playing a return match forced to hold together and the, strategical task sure to lead to it, for familiarity with the
with her poor Half-loaf of a fleet which
to a now dictionary, bas began to write like at all. Chili has a definite policy, the same as this:-"In the notio universe of writers, there any other state; and, were I a Chilian, I should seems to be a dichotomy, which I const it to End no sum of money large enough to warrant Are the allotropio and giving op a fleet that makes such policy parergon to sory. isomeric capacities of the English language to possible." be used dynamically or kinetically? Shall the rebant..couchimarian horns of a neologístio. caucus of mugwamps.establish their hegemony apo aur ouest littoral-shall their operose chitins ho allowed to pril late into tuberosies? It does not arride me that our pa mary plainness should suffer deliquum, and that these metics these tumid microcephalie it is difficult to bring ordinary people to
A table of the rates of exchange at Hongkong denizens, with their megalomaniac tongues, accept the necessity for any Buel for demand drafts on Louden, as they were on
who regard sound as ancillary to the quite drastic action #8 was resorted to, even Mail Days, 1874 to 1904, with a table of yearly exiguous sanso, should flourish, while the under the most pressing circumstances. approximate averages, is now on sale at the autochthonous inhabitant dwines. This is an There is, however, one fact which makes it Daily Press Office. The averages have been opodeldon for our mattoide, a question for our alienists. No Board Sobool erelbise can add impossible for the open-minded people to carefully worked out. The other tables offer a
useful and interesting history of the rises and to the velleity of the eyegetical equire or the justify the action of the Russian officials, falls as shown twice each month for the last crapulous hooligan, or lessen their inalactable even upon grounds such as those above in. thirty years.
General Wogak has been appointed Russian when force is either threatened or resorted Military Attaché in London. He was Eussian to to coerce a government, any and all means i Attacke with the Japau-se army in the Chinese inay be employed to repress so serious awer, and later took part in the siege of Peking. danger. On such grounds it is comprehen. Mr. C: W, Dickson, of the firm of Messrs. sible that some excuse might be found by Jardine, Matheson & Co., returned to the persons of this way of thinking for the Colony by the German Mail steamer on measures which were adopted for suppress. Tursday. Mr. Dickson was accompanied by ing the risings, though, it might be inferred, his family.
nescience."
A THIEF'S OVERSIGHT.
A debt of $200 swept one life away from our midst. Think of the sadness of it! There are many points about it that we might dwell apou, but time forbids. It seems a fact that educated people are more liable to it than the uneducated. The temptation to do it is strong in the military profession, possibly because they always have weapons with which it can be accomplished. Almost all insano people hare a suicidal ton dency, sad there is a strong disposition in juries and in the commuuity generally, to regard HONGKONG'S “LITTLE FLUTTER,"
very saicide as temporarily insane, a belief That the cables are in order we know from which I do act at all share. Quite as many do There is one thief in the district who will be thoroughly disappointed when he reads the the little fatter at Hongkong, the object it in fail possession of their faculties, and they do it beanse they have in most cases lost their newspaper report of his latest exploit. On April of which is not apparent unleas our
China touch with God, lost their sense of the sacred- 27th the House of Hiromi Danzo, of Hyogo, was squadron expects a fight to the southward, and
Dess of human life. entered, anul a esskbox containing Yen. 400 stolen. The following day the fact was reported the China squadron ought to know, Naval to the police. At about man in Friday warfare is sa affair of such Emitless guile when commander does not mean fighting, or even cashbox was picked up by a passer-by in 's road-
iron on bodder to the police when he does, that we cannot say as yet that Hiromi recognised the on investigation he was overjoyed to find
find the Russians have not calculated out the effect that You 350 yet remained in the box, of their movements upon the enemy's decisions, the thief baving overlooked the fact that it and may not get slip past if the desire is to had a false bottom, and having taken only Yon. 70 lying in the app most section. The honest roid action and resch Vladivostok in order to finder of the box ought to share in the good place the convoy in temporary security there
before fighting.
E.O bis, and
fortuns of the owner,—Japan Chronicle.
"Is it not absolutely clear that the loose talks in this community and palliation of it is a claar proof that some of our fellow residents have unhappily no real faith in God
"We have had far too large a number of suicides in Shanghaj in the last few years. The numbers have been so great in our smill.com- unity and many po unexpected that we may well ask ourselves to look into this matter, ti guard ourselves from the awful sin. We will say nothing about those who duit in a moment. of insanity; them we will not judge.