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characteristic sample of Chinese policy. If he had got all he asked for, it would have been a naval flea-bite to RozoisTVENDEY 'S Armada and if he has the most euaning diplomats brel in China, he will not easily
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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS TUESDAY, MAY 16т¤, 1905
Tho Shanghai Stock Exchange subscribed $150 for a colio who showed horoism at a fire, and who got his hands burnod.
A. S. WATSON & CO., persuade RozHPESTVENSKY to leave safe exhilarating for regular consumption. Local
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anchorage at, say, Flainan, once be selects a suitable haven. Having got well out of one serious scrape, the Dogger Bank affair, ROZHDESTVENSKy seems to be hardened to wrongdoing; or to have gained the idea that be is now a law unto himself. The WINE AND SPIRFF MERCHANTS, mischief of it is that the man is right, so long as he commands this huge flotilla of destructive engines, and keeps out of the way of any flotilla of equal or nearly equal strength. It is abant time now that the enthusiastic folk who saw great glory in his leisurely pienic trip from Madagascar, to At take back some of their flatteries, first, it might be strategy to attempt to enties Tooo away from his base; but now that the Japanese patience is us parent as that of a cat at a mouse-hole, and hope in
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that direction must be abandoned, his dillydallying is very unstrategic, and begins to look uncommonly like what the schools
callfunk." For while Tono can afford to wait, ROZIDESTTENKY cannot. An Armala
on
To the stolid British intellect, French nowa- papers are apt to be a little two offervescent azd French journals have toon diligently studied lately, however, in case they might have some- thing now about the Balticars. Tuus there has teen discovered the existenes of a carious pifico. 1A Mris autioned as being in sliarga of the Mission for Stulging the Feathers of Ducks"!. Mais, pourquoi ?
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TELEGRAMS.
THE WAR.
(REUTOR'S SERVICE.
FRANCE AND JAPAN.
LONDON, 13th May. It is stated that Francs has tolegraphed to the Minister at Tokyo for full informa
FRENCH NEUTRALITY.
LONDON, 13th My.
tion of the arrest of M. Bongouin, on charge of espionage, and unless the Japanese The Singapore Free Press publishes the fol. supply strong presumptive øv.dence of his Distiu-guilt, the Minister is to lodge a strong loving story:-Overheard in Raffles.
M. Delcassé yesterday received guished Stranger (with courteous gusticals. protest. tions) Sie, would you oblige er unfortunato Dr. Motoro at a half hour interview. visitor, ignorant of the lingua franca of the country, by asking the boy to bring me a whisky and soda? Sugaporena: With plen sure. Boy, give this gentlem a a whisty and soda." Hoy: "Yessir!"-Wo susp at the point of the story to be contains in the auswer, (not given to the question: Whicaman paid?
The cofferdam built by the Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Co, to on-icavour to float the French cruiser belly has been tewed safely to her destination by the tug-boats Rabert Cooks and Hobert K. The weather throughout the trip was cahn, and no trouble was experienced The trip down occupied three days and ui, ok-en bours, and the Novert Cooke completed the return journey in 41 hours, averaging about 13 knots an hour. The Mortcata is standing by the Sully, and the salvago party under Mr. Jurk were ready to bugin operations when the pontoon arrived,
with the pontoon.
The Rev. Father Dr. A. I. Gomes, the vicar
OUTSIDE THE LIMIT. The same journal makes it clear that while
waters wh Rozhdestvousky left Freuch roquested, hooontinued to loiter about just ont- side, ent of the neutral zous." This Franco conl not very well pessoat. For those Frenchmen who even then continued to help the Russians, the Government was no more responsibly than was Engla id for the British firms who supplied the Armada with goal.
TREACH SERVILITY TO RUSSIANS
That some of the French rostuted Russia's high-handed ways soozas evident when the journals used such phrases as these: All the world" (measing the local Frouch well, as a village journal recording a loesl damise reports sometimes "Eniversal " sorrow) "is outraged at the sertility of the local Govorament."
TELEGRAMS DELAYED.
M. Houri Maitro, formerly of the Echo de Chane, Shanghai, and now for L'Avenir da Tonkin, went down to the const, and found difficulty in getting his telugen us through, so
A NOVELIY INDEED.
It is declared by the St. Petersburg Foreign Ofce, that the neutrality situationsy were the wires. is unchanged, France not having taken any official step since the traustission of the former Japanese protest. The thief con- times, that in spite of the absence of a formal declaration, Frange will not. notify the † regulations, which would he regarded not only as an unfriendly but a hostile act; ou all hands the right of Russian ships to coal and provision is firmaly insisted upon.
BALTIC NOTES.
LATEST MOVEMENTS.
werd
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Houkohe Bay. Last week spwards of forty caliers and transports were at Saigon louding cosle and provisions for the Baltic Fleet.
CANTON NOTES.
From the Chung Ngoi San Po,]
BANIITTI.
The number of robberies is by no moans decreasing, though a large number of robbers wore recently captured and decspitated. On the 10th Tost. a steam launch, leaving Sam Kong for Carton, having on board a great number of passengers, was attacked by pirates, while she was straming near Kain Slan Chi. The booty carried away by thom ninonuted to a On the 29th nitima a gang of large.
shout two hundred robbers broke into a pawn- shop in Pun-a district and carried away spoilu do the value of thirty thousand dollara. Two of the fokis of the shop were taken as hestages. When they took their departure, they were completely hemmed in by the village people anil the watchmen, all woll armed, andafight followed. The encounter lasted from mid-night till daw when the robbors sueccedo in bronzing the siego and mile their escape. About thirty róbsera wors killed and ten wore taken prisoners,
Of the village men ton were killed and wounded.
carried away as kostages. Nothing has yet been heard of the twended.
A MICK VICEROY—TANATION—ORIGIN
OF CRIME.
Viceroy Shum has sent ogaia a memorial to the Throne earnestly asking to be allowed to
DIS
The Cullenery pablisha de following, dated]
ment may take in retaliation for France'a un Tokyo, may I-Whatever steps the govern procedeated aid to Rasia, the pople of Japan aro likely to take the meting out of revenge into their own hurls, and to boycott French manufacturers. The newspapers of Japan dis- case this mutter" seriously and in many cases
He furthers says that he intends to such boycott has already began. The main-rralyn bis viceroyship under the plea of sick- taining of a general boycott against French
visit Europe and America for a change of air goods would be a severe blow to the manufac turers of this country, for France has a large and to ask the advice of some elever Earopean trade lers, and there are many Frenst houses doctors, and also take the opportunity to study rep-seated in the different cities of Japan. the affairs, customs and the mode of govern- French machinery is sold to u considerable extentment of different countries. in Japan, and French fancy goods and food products are popu ar among the richer classes. The extent to which sub a bayestt would berformed ppatuly cannot be estimated. Whether the government itself will bar French importations is it is said, being debated now among the officials.
Such an anthoritative
boycott would to a novelty in these days.
in the samo
memorial, which is a very long one, he says tluit under present conditions and circumstances the robbers of the provinces of Kwaugtung and Kwangsi cannot be completely rooted out, us the high antherities, hardly prossed by the Peking Government to send aanly a large sum of money to Peking to pay inlomuity, debts and other necessities, we, therefore, com-. pells to impose taxes of every description against their will, and every sort of gambling.
a long cruise is something like dose of SEDLITZ the longer you let it fizz, the less effictive it becomes. So far thur Baltic Fleet, has been all fizz, in more
Though according to su oficial statement senses than one, As to Ching's neutrality, about which Russia has been one of the of the Church of St. Antouis, Macao, has for- published in Paris, the Baltic Flest left the londest-voiced, most vehement complain-warded a printed copy of the Sermon preached territorial waters of Indo-China on the 9th inst. we learn that the most rigid censorship ants, who is going to enforce it? Was all by him among the ruins of the S. Paulo on
British
the 4th December Just, on the occasion of the continues to be exercised in Into-China over the
China thait activity on
laying of the foundation stono for the recon telegrams handed in for "duspatch. Station # concomitant of our warning
struction of this ad and historica: Church. messages appear to be subject to considerable to China?
Are we going to help China to The patiphlet is very neatly printed in blue delay and anything in the nature of news of the do right, 28 well us tell her to? There are and attached to it are yiwa of the present Basin feets is suppressed by the sensor. For reliable nowa, therefore, we have to wait
A PROTEST BY JAPAN. many who think our manifest duty lies ruins of S. Paulo, those of the plan of the new
the arrival bere of ships coming from the santh,
It is stated that the Japanese Consul General Church and front, side and interior of same somewhere in such a direction; and we
Yosterday nawa was brought that about 14 has written thus Shaughnai Tasts to the follow-which is the principal source of giving birth to sighted in ing effect."It is reported that lately there robbers, is allowed; gambling paying a largs could well do for China what etiquette for-whou completed. Douations to the Reconstruc
part of the revenue. Conarquently the peopl Hankuhe Bay 01 the 12 inst. The ace certain merchants sapplying coal from bade us to do for France. Individual to feed can be forwarded to sitler Dr. A. J. battleships and cruisers
Gomes, Blace, or to Mr. C. J. Goncalves, 37,
Thid Baltie Flest passed Pulo Condors Shanghai for the Baltic Flost, and the Baltic require to live a very costly life, the prices o tho necessities of life, which have already beer Chinese may be confidently counted upon to Cane i oad, Hongkong.
on the 9th iust, and is supposed to be coal. Fleet is now near the south of Canton and if more than enake the individual French
Two natives called at a watchman's resiliencing and victualling either at Caran there is any supplying of coal to the set it is heavily taxed, getting higher day after day. Moreover, the majority of the people, who aro colonists who hungered after roubles. So
at Wanchai on Sunday, and asked for the name
a breach of neutrality, and I hereby ask you to
out of employment, can hardly abiain a liveli- far as sentiment goes, Chins inclines either of the occupior. The watchman gero his name,
investigate if there is say steamer, either Chinese or Foreign, trying to carry on the hood. The industries and trade of Chias are to Russia nor Japan. They are for her the and asked the men in to drink tea. When they
now reaching a lamentable state, for the people above mentioned trade; such st-amor should be
draw the supply of various kinds of goods from devil and the deep sea; and her choice will hul partaken of hospitality, one of the uativos“ seized him by the queue und pulled him to the
imroediately dealt with so as to maintain China's
foreign countries. He says that unless sound ground, while the other heat him with an iron
tentrality
government be re-established and every sort of A. S. WATSON & CO. [always to detated by the consideration whether Neylla or Charybdis happens to be
Inspector Gould sharged the man before the lesser evil. But wher RoZUDESTVENSKY | Mr. Hazeland at 150 Police Court yesterday
gambling, especially Fantau, bo strictly prohi LIMITED.
bited, peace can never bo restored in the two moves on to Hainan or some Chinese with assault, and defendants told His Worship
Kwangs. harbour further north, China will not have that the watchman had struck one of their clinemor. His Worship cantioned the men even a HoвSox's choice. The Russinos
against taking the law into their own hauda, Oxfrommunications relating to thanews-lumn who, in response to French official entreaties, and as a reminder find them $10 each, and ́acted up to the letter but not to the spirit tound them over in the ent of $100 each to of their obligations, will not stand on keep the cace for twoɛre manths. ceremony with the Chinese. There is the possibility that the Japanese will "aplit the difference," and go as far as Hainan to give battle, in case RozuDESTVERKY goes there; but it would be unfair of neutrals to ask so much, Who, then, will chevy the tres. passors away from that Chinese island, when, as bus several times been anticipated, they turn up there ?
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Last week's plague return has seventeen Since, there cases, twelre of which were fatal. have been four, making the season's total sixty, with 53 deaths. Other diseases reported
insignificant.
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THE HIGH LEVEL TRAMWAYS.
NEW COMPANY ACQUIRES THE EXISTING
LINE AND THE NEW CONCESSION.
We understand that the Hongkong High Level Tramways Company have agreed to soll their undertaking to a now Company which will also acquire Mr. Finlay Smiths' pro- posed concussion and carry out the scheme as projected by him of a new line to the Peak.
The price to be paid to the shareholders of the old Company is $200 par ahure payahls Upwards of twenty petty larceny cases were either in cash or in shures of this new Company tried betere the Magistrate, at the Police Court shareholders' option. The new Company yesterday, and in most of the cases sentences will be under the management of Messrs. John ranging from fifteen-dege to six weeks with siz hex stocks were passed.
It is calculated that it will take the Third |
Baltic Flens ten days to he rady to procead on its northward voyage. Coaling at sa appears to be an exceedingly slow business with the Russian fleet, for wo learn that the rate at which coal was recently bunkered on Admixal Rozhestvensky's big ships was between 150 and 200 tons a dare. In this connection it may be mentioned that the British cruiser Terrible laas in Hongkong harbour tak ʼn on 2,500 tons of coal in 9 hrs 15 min.
WARSHIPS ON THE BORNED COAST Our Saulakan correspondent writes that the American destroyers Borry and Chauncey arrived at Sandakan on the ith iuat. From the Palawan Islands and left the next day for Bongao, Tawi-Tawi, P. I. The telegraph line has been working badly but on the night of the 9th it was open for an hour and news come through from Labuan that the N. D. S. Chieng Mai, from Manila to Labnan had sighted fire battleships" auchored off Maatanani Island, in calm weather, within the three-mile limit.
No flagas mentioned but it was thought probable in Sardakan that the "battleships" were a smail American squadron consisting possibly of the Raleigh, Burry and Chauncey, and a couple of small ganbeats.
WABSHILPS NEAR LABUAN,
Captain Muller of the German steamer Borneo which arrived yesterday, states that the Goras nor of Barzeć remsired information that five
Labuan
STEAMERB STOPPED AT SHANGHAI.
It is stated that the commissioner of Customs has delayed the clearance, of the steamors Wuchong, Tairoan, Sishan, Mathilda and Whampoa. It is believed that this action hag beeen taken in order that inquiry may be made awing to the proteste of the Japanese Consul, It is abo reported that theas vessels are either loading coal ia sacks or are intended otherwise to act in the interests of the Rusiaus
FFLICTION.
Before Mr. F. A. Hazeland at the Police | Court yi storday, Sergeant Gordon, of Taimchapo, charged a dumb Chinaman with using a TO DAWDLE IN NEUTRAL WATERS. boat withont 'n licence. By signs and writing A Vienu telegram engs: -The second squad. His Worship endeavoured to get the defendant ron of the Baltio Flost and the St. Petersburg
to plead guilty" or "not guilty." bat he dif Government have exchanged telegrams several
The St. Petersburg Government has not understan, notwithstanding the fast that times,
when told to, he wrote his namo at the Police given no definito order, it is belierod, to the iluet. It is also believed in well informed quar-Station. As His Worship could not prozved ters that the fleet will simply cruise on the
waters where none of the Japanes 1-ot are likely to be found, and wili pass their time sad there will be nu other action."
A SINGAPORE OPINION.
lodge who would say where the big battle" He would have the courage of little know. that mon talk of so glibly is to come off, or. whether there will be a big battle" at all. It will be more likely an affair of the vamps' nest, says the Free Press, and the aulucky wayfarer,
as there appeared to be no possible hope of his with the case until the defendant pleaded, and
doing so, the police withdrew the charge
SHIPPING.
P. & O. AT MANILA.
Passangers to Europe on the boals of the
a ruaning fight for perhaps one or two hundred P. & O. sraamship company will in the future niles, at least. The wasps soming in or keeping be granted free transportation from Manila to off as they like. And a wasp raid, that is, a Hongkong. The Calley W. F. Steven- destroyer desh--the ocho of reb. 8th at Port son and Company, the local agents of the com- Arthur-might happen any fino night to the pony, received a notification to that effect on Russians huddled close in the shelter of what stay 9th.
D. Humphreys & Son, with a Consulting Combattleships wore-suolored-at-Gaza-Island, sarever Frenck-bay is now their particnlar fancy. But it
Rotary of visitors to the City Hall Librarymittee consisting of Sir Paul Chater, C.AL.G., and Museum for the week ending the 14th Hon. Mr. C. W. Dickson, Mr. C. Ewous and May, 1905, were 287 non-Chinese, and 115 Mr. A. J. Raymond: Chinese to the former, and non-Chinese, and The shares of the old Company stood in the
1,587 Chinese to the latter institution.
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NOUVELLES DE INDO.CHINE
FILE ON A STEAMER,
It might not be a very serious dash.
At 555 pm. on May 5th fire was discovered would not help the Russian nerves to keep any on board the steamor W. Cores de Vries at the the steadier for what was to follow.
THE NEUTRALITY OF FRANCE.
N.Y,K. Wharf, Shanghai. The officers of the vessel at once gare the alarm and took measures to prevent it from spreading. The origin of the fire has been tracod to the spontaneous coin- buation of a case of matches. A few buckets of water ware sufficient to put it out
HONGKONG, MAY 16TH, 1905.
First France, now China, so little for the prestige of her ally as to continue to compromise her in the eyes of the Powers, long after being asked to go away what consuleration can ROZHDESTVENSKY be expected to show to China, whose mentrality has all along contemptuously
The batch of papers to hand frota Indo-China, been set at nuught? There is no indication
including L'Avenir de Tonkin, L'Indo-Chinnois, of a determination to make the dash for
and the Courrier Saigonnais, ars full of indica tions that Camranh Bay and vicinity is no
The Japanese Press regards with mingled
THE GERMAN 3.5. "LYDIA" Vladivostock, for which the Russia admiral
longer a journalistic cynosure, Aner's fedlings the question of Fronch neatrality in has been howing to premature applause
As the German steamer Ledia was swinging grandiloquent correspondent, M. Maynard, is the light of recout events. The Nippon declares and if this dawdling about bails, as we hope
reduced to vaia repolitions, and to highfalutin that if the Anglo-Japanese Alliance really had out from the Hongkow and Shanghai Wharf
the fores to present a third party from assisting on May 5th, the strong tid that was runnin it may fail, to induce any change in the
discussions of the fishing industry in those parts. Russia, it is doubtful if the Baltic Squadron caught her by the stern and slowed her round on Mesra. F. A. Hazelaod (presiding), J. Craig,
to a number of cargo boats with such force that Japanese tactics, it means that China will
G. N. Orme and T. II. Kaumer, four of His. Maynard is pro-Russiau to the finger tips; could oree have advanced into the China Beas threa of the boats filled and sank, while the and regrets that the local Government did so Great Britains has bo acting in favour of be the next neutral power to have its honesty
while Franca seuns to think that she may impugned. Some Chinese harbour will be
Mr. Davidson, timekeeper at the Quarry Bay Majesty's Justices of the Pence, met at the
assist the next calling place for the Baltic Armada; shipyard, churged two coolies before Mr. F. A Magistracy yesterday afternoon to consider at te belly Rozhdestvensky. Those English Japan only within the limits of strict nentrality, stammer jast three blates of her propeller. She
nentral obligations.
if she cam
can enfely do so. and China will in all probability find herself! Hazeland at the Police 'ourt yesterday with application for the transfer from WA. Ward / Cau send a tavy round time world and want for Fassis even to the extent of violating peller replaced by a new one.
In contrast with the Nippon the semi breaking into the shipyard store and stealing to one H. Slater of an adjunct license to soll othing, he says. Not so our good friends the
between sundry articles therefrom. They were convicted and retail intoxicating liquors on premises six hours' stocke.
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once more playing the rule of international shuttlecock which she is unhappily accustomed. Just us France was not ready to enforce her neutrality in Indo-China, assuming she wished to do so, so it would
Russian papers report that about fifty Japanese soldiers, who, as prisoners of war, were confined in the village of Modwied, in the Government of Novgorod, committed suicide, soue by performing harakiri and others by poisoning themselves with arsenic.
brokers' lists on Saturday at 8227, sellers; yes. terday's quotation was $225 salas.
LICENSING COURT.
Russians. It is strange, be goes on, that we
JAPANESE PRESS COMMENT.
olejal Kekumin ascribes the Japan
was taken to dook next day to have the pro-
STEAMED MOVEMENTS.
and sentenced to two months' hard labour and situ.te at No. 51 Des Voeux Road Central and cannot ext nd hospitality to our friends when solution of the difference of the Anglo-utward Euglish mails, nad is due here on the
it so palpably means life or death to them!
THE ARMADA'S MORALE.
M. Meynard raves about the perfect discipline
which some sailura, whom the atoward's mate
had refusel to serve with drink, threw that unfortunate man down the hold, breaking both his legs. Ant es where the Russian naval
men are described as riotous.
The J thinks that should France again act in violation of Ler obligation, Japan may take certain measures without repeating her protests or entering upon asgotiations.
The f.G.M. str. Preussen, which left hero on Wednesday at noon, arrived at Singapore on Monday at
The O. & 0. str. Doric left Manila for this port at 6 as yesterday, and is dus bere to- morrow at daylight.
The F. & O. str. Bengal loft Singapore for this port on the 13th inst, at 1 pm, with the and France partly to known as the Owl Grill and Oyster 3oom."
Japanese Alliancs What influence Great 18th inst, about 6.a.m.
The L.G.M. str. Zieten, carrying the German Mr. P. W. Goldring for the applicait, statul
Britain exercised over France is unknown, bat The weekly topics writer of the Singapure that his client had purchased the business from and love of officers on board the Russian it is to be remembered that it is due to the mails with dates from Berku of the 25th April, advice given by Japan's ally that prompted left Colombo on Saturday, p.in, and may be France to accept Japao's demand. Great expected here on Wednesday, the 21th inst. be ridiculous to suppose that China could Free Fress expresses well a thought with which Mr. Ward. His character was cortiled to by shins. This somewhat conficts with his own
The LG.M. str. Bayern, which left here on may have been impressed in the last few years, the excellent discharge he had from the United journal's report elsewhere of an incident in Britain supported Japan's protest, and France make any demonstration against the Russians He saye Nibs Nibogatell] has passed at last. States Navy.
did not wish to lost the goodwill of Great Wednesday at 4 p.m., arrived at Shanghai on that would not make thera laugh. Unless, He is the postscript, the happy third thought of
Mr. Hazeland stated that the matter had been
Britain. This fact shows the great efficiency Sunday at 6a.. of the alliance. perhaps, the Chinese Government had the the Russian Admiralty. The areas gates are referred to the police, and there was ni objection wit to mobiline a fleet of fishing bouts. Yet closed, gladiators have murcht in front of on their part to the tuner of the license. both England and America have solemnly Cassur's box and bare shouted their morituri to He, therefore, proposed that the application salutunt." And now the world awaits with be granted. The proposition was carried warned China against the permission of any pent breath the hoc hebot" as the short sword unenimously. breaches of neutrality. We could not have gets home or the trident of the retiarius staba expected, when writing of the impotence of the entangled victim. The cernenses of those international law some months ago, that so old Roman days were gloating gratifications to aptly illustrative a situation could arise a populace that wallowed delightedly in " blug,”
In Saigon, according to the Courrier, eus of to demonstrate the eternal indispensability and lots of it. Are we so much the better the Public Works Department ysterday after-
We have noon Shaukiwan Lot No. 404 ws sold to Mr. the Russians who arrived with some ladies of the of force majeure. The Cantonese Viceroy's widened our Colosssunt limits to those of the Wong Lai Sang for Mr. Lo Tynng Tick for damitsonde allowed himself to become annoyed pathetic appeals for more battle ships wide world itself. And there are sosts on the $414, being $20 above the apet price. Mr. by a poor Annamnits woman. Ne provocation is could not be granted. He was advised oral tiers of benches for all who read the Fang Wa Chuon through Mors. Palmer and mentioned, but he kicked her in such a way that to have meu about him "well up in telegrams, or thrill over the koduk snap-shots Turner, bought L.L. No. 1741 or $1,300, being a serious hemorrhage ensued. Her state was very
$20 above the пpset price.
grave. "Brute!" was the Courrier's comment, diplomacy," and to do the best he could, a from the soat of war in the picture papers.
ourselves in the modern times ?
LAND SALE.
At the Crown lands sale beld a'the offices of
TO. ODESSA, Russian transports in Saigon obtained per mission to load sufficient coal to take them back to Odessa. This is a rather curious report by L'Avenir.
THE BUSSIAN METTLE.
The C.P.R.Br. Athenian arrived at Shangbai at 6 p.m. on Sunday, the 14th inst., and left again at 4a.m. on Monday for Hongkong, ard is das here at 8am. on Thursday, the 18th iust.
The C.P.R. str. Empress of Japan arrived at Nagasaki at 10.30 am. on Monday, the lath inst., and left again at 5 p.m. some day for Kobe, where she ja due to arrive at 9 p.m. to-day.
The Boston S8. Co.'s str. Wyddes sailed from
The Tokya Nichi-Nicki doubts if the reply of France to the protest of Japan against the accommiation afforded the Baltic Squadron was anything but a more promise ou paper, and urges that the Japanese must keep their eyes open and are that the promise is carried out,"
Mor calmly, the Osaka Asahi remarks that the question of the violation of neutral obligations may be settled one way or the other but the present question is the plan of operation is no necessity for hurrying action. The and may be expected here this evening. and the tactics of the Japanese Navy. There
The str. Verona, from New York, left Manila" Baltic Squadron is doomed and liesst the mercy of the Japanese Floet. "Let us quietly watch for this port on the 14h inst, and may bo
expected here today. the progress of events."
Manila for this port at 9 am. on the 14th inst.