INTIMATION
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURS DAY, SEPTEMBER 28ru, 1905'
with us.
Eight hundred and four Russian wore
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of revenge, does not originate It has been made more or pudantly in Russin and by Rossinns. On the other hand, we are not so blinded to the humun instincts of our allies that we would acquit them of alt proneness to a
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We have already pooli-pooled the attribute of "angannimity" in cunnection with their surprising abandonment of vital parts of their peace proposals; and are convinced that emirently sane and sensible 'calenla-uatif October 31st. tions were at the base of their concessions.
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understand Japanese shrewdness, and to se the progress they have made since they entered upon the war. If ever a war was a war of self-defence, this, so far ug Japan was concerned, was such. It is ab to those who remember the nervous misgivings with which they con. templated the first step to read that "there was in certainty of success the speech of
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FRANCE AND GERMANY,
LONDON, 27th September. A semi-official note from Paris indicates that an agreement between France and Germming on the question of Morocco is imminent.
AUSTRIA-HUNGARY CRISIS,
Losnox, 27th September. The crisis in Austria-Hungary has Ths. 20,000.00 [become ante. The Hungarmas are
4,999,99 excited and are demanding indepen
612.30 dence;
To write off good-will account.... To sarry forward now
recount
to
Tis 24,61 30
At his studio on Tuesday night pupils of Me. L. A. do Grapa,-assisted by local amateurs, gave a sacriful concert. The well-sited prograndine gave the performeis ample scopo for the display of their accomplishments, und the consensus of opinion in the largo campany was but the pupils acquitted themselves in a; most praiseworthy manner, auti that the other contributors to the programme add a manei to the pleasure of the orening. The artistes were Mrs. Crgin, Lies F. Hains, Miss A. Gutters, Mours. A. B.Paine, W. J. Persill, A. Walstow, Goodwin, J. Inokay, and L. A. de Graca, Mrs. Guttieres and Mens Shosh. Masks and
Thakay neted as accompanists,
I lion
a latter-dey apologist for the peace erster was an orchesten of tu performers. There certainly was no certainty of that sort upmarerit in Tokyo: only the conviction
A French contemporary has brow puldishing
THE ANGLO-JAPANESE
TREATY.
SUMMARY OF PREAMBLE,
FRANCE AND VENEZUELA.
LONDON, 25th September.
MARKETS AND MIDDLEMEN
AT WUCHOW.
The relations between France anal Venc-
Mr. Acting Consul Wilkinson, at Whichow, zuela are becoming acute, President Castro says a great deal hus been written in previous
having recently closed the French Cable | reports on the trade of Wuchow, of the mirkat. alleging a breach of contract. M. Taigny, that exists there for such articles as laney seonta, bolts, antiary, bisquits, condensed the French Chargé d'Affaires, is endeavour- medicines, and even feeding bottles; ing to negotiate, but President Castro is mother using 39, I have had to reply to
adopting an arrogant attitude.
SHARES AND COMPANIES
IN JAPAN.
I have never yet hoord of a Chinese
numerous enquiries from the makers of such articles in the United Kingdom." Ho
ilo ex. plains that, though there bak at this port in a small way for most of these articles, owing to the conditions under which business is carried on ut Wuchow, it is quite in. The Japan Chronicle says: The uncertainty possible for the Consul to be of any assistaves of the political situation has bad what is to exporters at itone in placing their partio. considered erious effect on trade generally ular productinus on the market. The foreign in Japan, but it is yet tou early to form a goods shops at this part, sad in fuck at "definite opinion on the subj-of. It is winsitted, very town in this province, are all brauch howovor, that before the pañce terms wira establishments of Chinese Gems in this Canton known there was quite the beginnings of a province, principally at Fatshun. When any business boom and the demand for money of these shops need a fresh stacic of goods the suddenly increased. At one time the rate of muunger sonids rough list of the kind of interest ou advances vese to about 10 per cent, ar
articles ho wants to his principals, who for per annum, banke in Tokyoaud Osaka increased ward it to their buyers at Hongkour, leaving the rate paid on deposits, and the advances the choico apparently very much to their made by the Bank of Japan exceeded 90,000,000 discretion." There are no wholesale dealers ren. The dissatisfaction with the terms of in fereign goods at Wuchow, and Mr. Wilkin the peace followed by the Tokyo distur-son-states-that-the British manufacturer win Bunces, sud the uncertain prospects of wishes to place his goods on that market the anoint situation in consequence of the
can only do at present by gulting into failure to receive any indemnity, has teach through his agents in China with the materially depressed the stock market. The pative merchants at Hongkong, who act as Militas disaster has aggravated the situation bayors for Chiness firms on the mainland. It al business is for the time being in a very | has often boon urged on British morch cats fu unsatisfactory condition, and the damned for Chine that they should end-avour to dispense hus practically sensed. Under the with the services of those middlemon by dealing circumstances, the funds of Tokyo and Osaka the eule at which is limited, it appears to the directly with their principals; but, for goods.
LoxDox, 27th September.
banks are rapidly increasing and difficulties nee The terms of the new Anglo-se, the rate of interest en advances is main-most advantageous for all parties. Even in the experienced in anding investments. Neverthe Auting Consul that the present system is the tained in Tulpa at about parent, peraunum case of piese goods with which our trade is Bankers are, however, working vory cautiously, chilly concerned, there dua, in gnys, be little as it is considered cerisin that a basis of a does not enhancs the cost of the goals, for fault to find with the system. "Apparently. it. sbirtings of over description are soll here and will follow. 8000er or latter as the ranalt of
in the interior at prices which one would imagine cannot leave any marein of profit to the importar & caso lins best mentioned to me of a Britiah merele doing a large business in pieco-goods in Hongkong who, to tes and incrouse his sales, oponed an agency at this port, He gave it up after a short trial because I found that his own shop" of shirtings was being sold cheaper in Wuchow by his Hongkong The explanation given to me is that shirtings and Indian yara have, tika opium, bosoms almost hinterland, and the importer looks for his a medium htt
exchange at this port and in its
to the native produce for which he bartors his goods, or which he purchases with the process of th ir sale. Thors are probably other rasous as wolf, such as keen competition, to account for the low cost at which piece-goods are sold in this
effect is excellent on the trade."
Japanese tronty have been made public The preamble states that that its objects are consolidation and the main-war in which Japan has won so many successes. Lentance of the general peace in Easter This accounts for this interest on advances ruling high in comparison with the dopressad Asia and in India; the preservation state of the market. In consequoned of the temporary check to business, tho advano s mode of the common interests of all powers by the Bank of Japan are returning very rapid. ly, and advances outstanding on the 13th show- Fin China by insuring the independenced a decrease of Y15,000,000 compare rich
figures
zures of a few days previously. The arnoant of Japan notos iasund stood at 1259,000,000
.
split $2.4 that it must come, that the people would some statistics of the awabar of foreigners and integrity of the Chinese Empire of Balk on the same day; the gold reserve folients than he himself could afford to vol
pts $3.00 splits $2.40
that
Petersburg. In Paris, it seems, there are
do their best, and that thrice-armed with a resident in Paris, adore at just quarrel, they had a right to hope that sourly 200,000 strangers, while Leadon cores the outeone would not be disastrous. As next with 95,000. In St. Petersburg the Marshall YAMAGATA Ime admitted, they number given is 20,000; while in Berfin it wero even prepared for partial discom-drops to 18,000. Som what carinly, the most numerous of all foreigners in the French fiture," The position then 19
capital are the Gormans, whoss numbers are Jana was threatened, directly menand, put at 27,089, The Swiss coms next with CO., like a person with an inciprent cancer. It 26,000, while the English total is a mera |1,006 had to be the surgeon's knife then-orthe smallest number of any except the aubsequent yielling to the lupus. It is Rus:ians, of whom there are said to be 9,000, oaly necessary to compare Japan's present Against those figures it may be interaadng in position with her position before the war, to state that it is officially computed there are less
than two thousand foreigners in Tokyo. see whether she has lost anything material in the diplomatic cagagement in America. The Corean question is settled in her
-Inverted cones, coloured red, were hoisted favour; the Liaotung peninsula is regained ; | yesterday alternoon, indirating that a typhoon the menace in Manchuria, renavel. What was moving from the south in this direction ja ure, as this Anglo-Japanese agreement shows, Japan has at least ten years in which to aind her own affairs, secure from all menace in that quarter,
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BIRTHS. On 21st September, at Shanghai, to Mr. and Mr. B. MELLIGAN; a son.
On 2 st. September, at Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Puro, a daughter.
On 2nd uptember, at Shanghai, the wife of Capt. F. Hers, of a deaghter (premature),
MARRIAGE.
On 19th August, in Buston, PɛL MOLLFE, of Shanghai, to SARRI, LYDIA BARNES.
DEATH.
On 5th September, at the Militars Hospital, Laokai (Tonging), JULIUS NEUMANS, Comi sioner of Custums, aged 55 years.
HONGKONG OFFICE: 10a, Des Vœux ROAD CL LONDON ÜFFICE: 131, FixET STREET, E.C.
The Daily Press.
HONGKONG, SEPTEMBER 28, 1905.
THE TYPHOON.
The warning was quickly seted apon, and before darkness had fuller most of the sumpans had
left the harbour for the usual places of shelter. Soms which delayed their departure were taken in tow, and one boat narrowly escaped being run down by a forry steamer, us the rising Admiral Hoxhdestrousky is now quite well wind made it impossible fer the span to
exhibit the usual light. again.
:
There wore 71,282 Russian prisoners in Japan at the end of August.
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The English mail of the 26th August delivered in London on the Brà instant.
Japanese love already subscribed: million you for the purpose of providing volunteer flout.
BANANA EATING IN LONDON.
One of the most noticeable things this summer was is the ramarkable way in which the banana bas come to the front. "Everybody appears to eat benauss upwadays and, indeed, in the city muny business en lunch entirely off this fruit alone, No fruit contains more nutriment; hud au
ten
The Mikoed's decks are undamaged. The latest official turn of essusities was 256 killed or missing al 173 wounded.
A typhoon warning dated Monilu Observatory
at nine am. yesterday said:-Typhoon West
of Manila; moving probably W.N.W.
Land in the business quarter of Arab Street, Singapore, was recently sold by auction for us much as $46 por square foot.
The Chartered Bank of India, Australia, aud China has declared a dividend for the past half year (onding June 30) of twelve per cent per annum, fres of income tax.
Clubs desiring to enter for the forthcoming Cricket League Competition are requested to send in their application to the Hon. Secretary, the age, Victoria Buildings, on or
before the 30th instant.
and the principle of equal commercial opportunities; and the maintenance of the existing territorial rights of the contracting parties..
The regions concerned number eight.
In the articles it is stated that if either nation becomes involved in a war, which it has not deliberately provoked, the other must assist it.
The treaty is to remain in force for ten years.
LATER
The war clause concerns only Asia. The press are unuimons in giving their support to the treaty.
DEATH OF M. CAVAIGNAC.
LONDON, 26th Sept.
The death i mnounced of M. Cavaignac, who resigned office as Minister of War when the Ministry agreed to the revision of the Dreyfus case in 1998.
at 102,060,000; advances at 172,000,000; the meant horrowed by the Government at Y45,500,000, and the notes issued beyond the
taxable limit at $1.000,00
In Osaka trade remtius vory quiet, and there is little demand for money. The rate of intarest is ruling at 2.43 son, aqual to about 9 por cent. Avausse made by the Bank of Japan in Osaka, which stood at 7,181,000 at the end of last month,
all off to Y2,021,000 on Saturdas. the deposits, which stood at Y1,344 00 true is it that the increase of deposits is not an increased to 2,443,000 on the same day. So
altogether satisfactory sign,
The conditions in Kobe are much the same as in other cities. Bunkers are working cautiously and many of the banks have raised the interest on deposits, though this is not yet officially announced. The rate of interest ou advances remains unchanged at 2.44 sen, equal to about 9 por cent. per annum. Deposits are gradually increasing
Adrances made by the Bank of Japan in
Kyole stood at 1865,840 on Saturday and deposits at Yl67,495. Compared with tho end
of L
the previous wed, the advances abomod a decrease of Y 30%,962 and deposits of Y143,081, It has been supposed in soute quarters that the Government, will issue domestic bonds to risa the fuud requirol for the withdrawal of the troops from Manchuris and other expen diture, but, in the opinion of a certain banker in Tokyo, it is entirely boyond the power of tho prosent Cabinet to issus Louds with success, in view of the public dissatisfaction with the. Government. This banker believes that should the Government attempt to issue bouds, it will to work their hardest to frastruto the Govern only give an opportunity to political opponente ment scheme. If the authorities sau read the signs of the times, he says, they will not be sa shortsighted as attempt to raiss a domestic loan at the present moment. This would see
it:
Profit
pravines, but there can be no question that this
province, particularly aniseed, cassiu, grondant. The vegetable oils produced in Kungsi
and wood oils have a high reputation in Chios, and the supply, which in small, is not nearly equal to the demand. The munificant forests in the north of the province and in Kaciohon abound also in all kinds of valuable woods, pro- using camphor, rubber, paper, seap and tallow, which have not as yet boon, put to any com- mercial ass. The mineral wealth of Knongsi is said, too, to be very consid urable, though noi on the very best of evidence. Some of the minos, however, according to the Anting-Consul, are unquestionably valuablo,
:
UNDESIRABLE IMMIGRANTS.
the authorities at Hongkong are at luat taking The Japan Chéaniele observasIt seems that determined action to provent the indiscriminat damping of undesirables into the Colony. The French authorities at Saigon bare for some years past been in the babit of banishing an- desirable Chinese to Hongkong, and havetheraby caused local polios ausserit es to be troubled in the clony, was no easy task, and often they Hunting these men ont, duco they were liberatel with a large number of imported eriminals,
were not discovered until some crime had been committed. The water polica took the matter in band and 201 arrangement was entered
especial point in its favour is that it ma be THE SCANDINAVIAN SETTLE to be taking a somewhat low view of Japanese with the French Government under
obtained all the year round.-Globe.
THE JAPAN CABLE INTERRUPTION.
SEMI-OFFICIAL EXPLANATION. -
די
MENT.
LONDON, 26th Sept.
patriotism.
BERLIN BETTER THAN BIRMINGHAM.
which
BOW
tho Salgan authorities have given warning of the arrival of banished. criminals, together with a list of their names, and thus the police are able to get them on arrival and prevent them from landing. A. batoh of 30 particularly evil-looking Chines criminals arrived from Saigon by the steamer Norway and Sweden have agreed to There have basu representatives of the Bir- In view of the rumours ourront both inre
Bourbon recently.
and nader this new and abroad, the ji pablishes the following the delimitation of a neutral zone, and and they have printed some very interesting the water police, and banisirent orders
migham working-claa-es taking notes in Berlin,
arrangement were at once taken in charge by s-mi-official explanation of the recent inter-
T'heir ruption of the holographie communication be to the demolition of certain fortifi-baersations on the German capital
| Foneral conclusions will be a shook to the pride passed onto adiacent them, they
having been made out tween Shanghai and Na, asakig-
1080 ports, However This submarine telegraphie cable between cations. It has further been agreed to and to as of the judies of this desirable such an arrangement may be front
fellow-citizens. The condition of the Berlin Hongkong's point of view, it Shanghai and Nagasaki consists of two lines refer all future differences to the working-man, and uctably of his children, the
would seem to be One is became interru fed at a point about
so much the worse for the adjacent porta' 100 miles from Gutzlaff 1sland et 115 o'clock Hague Tribunal for settlement.
where the administration in ot organised and able to deal with such people as 81 woll is the case at Hengkong.
{REUTER'S BERVICE.]
AUSTRIA-HUNGARY.
arrangements of the schools, the gentle art of cuokory in the working xoan's home, all these things, among many others, struck the observers from the Millands as being far better in Berlin than in Binningbam.
They pay a very honest incidental tribute to the result of that bog-y of the British raco, compulsory military service, and general inter ference of anthority with the desire of the
pleases.
THE MATIN'S" QUAINT PROPOSAL,
an on the 1st instant as the result of a violent gale, and the other line met with similar inter- ruption at about 5.30 in the afternicu of the same day, at almost the same priot. Communion- tion on the cabies between Shanghai and Tsing. tao, Shanghai and Chefoo, and Shanghai and Foochow was interrupted at about the same time, suil the overland telegraph lines of the Chinese Government were also boken down. Only the line between Shanghai and Hongkong. via Amoy, remained in working order. The tirat treatment of the Oppositionists by the at school, at the works, and in the army. Con people see an end put to a state of things Northern Telegraph Company fitted out the Emperor, who received them standing, did sequently as a man he is fit to be entrusted with whic steamer Pucilic" and anecoded in repairing
LONDON, 25th September.. Intense anger prevails in Budapest at the
untamed youth to
to do just be
They
note that the young Berliner has been from infanoy under better care and training at home,
Before le perice agreement was made, the fellowing story went the round of Europe. The French are more anxious than any other
ruining their ally. They baro tign-
One of the best features of a sun-bath, says one line, between Shanghai and Nagasaki, but not shake hands, addressed them curtly in berly which the Birmingham youth hat/selve much at stake in Russia that they this Family Doctor, is the salt water iuslver- not before 4.10 p.m. on the fith instant. During¦ German, gave them no opportunity to orhaps from childhood only almond," Bat they cant regard the present sorry p ospent.w
abroad were sent via Fnahow and Formosa, so The Oppositionists informed Count Cziraky ths interruption of the Shanghai-Nagasaki line, speak, and dismissed them in four minutes
telographic communication with the outside
Government messages
Japan and
world. The Form sau line, always being very form a Government on the Emperor's Tho troubles at Tokyo and Yokohama have heavily taxed with aw-sages, it was entirely had one rosolt not altogether bail; they have impossible to send by the same line private conditions; Count Cziralty promised to suppressed the threadbare idyll of the goutle, which leave and arrive in Japan bring the Emperor's reply in the afternoon. in very large numbers. Such doing the Japanese policeman and the respectful criminal, ease telor rutos were sent by stoomers lo and who gracefully obeyed the invitation, "Esteemed fro between Shanghai and Nagasaki. criminal daign condescendingly to enter angest
with were most struck with what is certainly the rectequamiralty and if any evilance of this were
German family ties. The atrocious ill-manners citizen of the world" to tako upon himself the of the whole matter--the deforenes of Berlin again needed it wonid be found in the fact thut children to their parents, and the strength of Rockefeller containing an appeal to the richest
ths Matin has been sending a telegram to of hordes of our city young begin at home, and burden of the payment of the indemnity claimed
RUSSIAN BRAVADO.
KIDICULOUS PROPOSAL.
Ir the first Anglo-Japanese Treaty was not aimed at Russian ambitious, it is difficult to exclude the conclusion that the new one is. Our London correspondent's summary, appearing in our telegraphic news this morning, seems to point distinctly to
tently swallowed by bathore, which is a won- Russit, as the only Power likely to fores derful toria for the liver, stomach, and kidneys, an unprovoked war upon either. Japan or We presume an exception would be made in the that Japan was not entirely out aff from yesterday morning that they declined to tourish in spito of the board school.→Hehe. Great Britain. It is unpleasant to have to caso of the water of the Canton estuary."- expose the rift in the lute, and to brcloud the happiness which the humane world is presumably extracting from the present peace; but it does not appear to us unjust to suggest that this present peace between Russia and Japan, without the Anglo- Japanese Treaty, would not have come about. The event nearest to it would have been a truce of uncertain duration. The temper of Rusic during the negotiations, and her demeanour afterwards, poiul to the sad fact that she (if we may speak of her as coberen entity for once) has failed to profit by her lato experiences, which should under normal conditions have had 2 the Curzon resigna ion, France and Morocco, chastening value. What we are now the settlement of the Lancashire dispute, suggesting, that on a suitable occasion in General Booth's tour, the international golf Channel and N. to N... gales over the N. part The Canal Company Connaission has the universal verdict it the stmy is that s
LOND N, 25th September. the not distant future, Russia would un-matoh, and so on. We will be glad to send of the Chiun 8.
Forecast. winds, freshening; fair, decided to blow up the Chatham. doubtedly seek to bring about a war this copy to any person who can use it.
squally.
gaol.**
The Braille Weekly, No. 7 of the first it contains about volume, has reached us diagrams by which the blind are enabled to see twenty pages of the embossed letters or dotted
with their finger tips. That our afflicted brethren are no longer so isolated from the world as they ones were is evident in the list of contents, by which we see the blind readers ars literally kept in touch with such affairs as
WEATHER REPORT.
the following report:-
The Hongkong Observatory yesterday issued
On the 26th at 4.45 pm. The typhoon is rag ng in Manilo.
On the 27th at 11.0 am. The barometer has risen quickly over the Philippines and N. Chine, and follen slightly in the neighbourhood of Hongkong.
The Hungarins Oppo-ilionists did not wait in Vienna for the reply of the Emperor, but returned immediately to Budapest, where they were revival with a great ovation,
THE TRANS-CAUCASIAN TROUBLE.
Ir.
by Japan. It is in your power to prevent th war being re-kindled for any that your own fortune would allow you to put down twice. Thus would you give a memorables lesson to these two empires, which seem to attach more value to invaay thon to human life, thus would you spare mankind the shame of a The Nocoge Freaga offers a suggestion which confict which henceforth resembles the "proces has the merit of originality if none other. de Shylock" as it the ransom of the After again eliminating Saghalian from the blood of a million men which is at stake." problem, without atat ng whother Russia The Mulin. concludes, after having argued in regards the island as of efficient importance to prefatory uote that, in spite of eneo a sacritic justify a continuance of the war, the Nove Mr. Rockefeller, whose fortans it estimates at Frenzta says that, since the question resolves six milliards of franes (£240,000,0001), would itself into mode of satisfying the Japanese still be one of the richest mon in the world. boudfolders, Russia would be willing to under The Temps remarks that this appeal is ut write the Japanese war debt provided she least a proposal for an original solution of the received a guarantee of Japanese good faith in negotiation Portsmouth, although it seems the form, say, of the right to occupy! Tau-shims diffe
Toalt for the dignity of the two Powers to were willing, Dat that his intervention might
LONDON, 25th September. At a conference of the leading Tartar The typhoon has sutured the China Sex and and Armenian Chiefs at Baku, peace hasnotil the debts are paid. is now situated in the W. of zou. It appears been concluded. to be moving W.N.W
Pressure is high over Central China. Gradients are steep on the China coast and a NE. galo may be expected in the Formosa
THE SUEZ CANAL........
2
A felegram from Manchurin states that the accept it in sucis a form, even if Mr. Bookefeller Russian officers and soldiers are deeply touched oceur iu suuther way, and before the idea had. by the delicacy of the Japanese newspapers, been suggested to bim, as he is reported to hare which have begun pablishing sa illestrated been for some weeks in communication with the weekly in the Russian language for the boneft Russian Government. The financial position of the prisoners. The despatch declares that of the Tear's Gorarament is believed in me quarters to be the subject of the alleged nogo. netion which can display such kindness ought to fiations with special reference to the Caspin) be the friend of Russia-Evening Standard. petroleum industry.