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part of Russia to mike any complaint event of Rumis'e next stop being directed of the steps that Japan Ene recently been against herself. That such was her inten- taking towards securing her military position Russia made little sttempt to conceal
having formed an incorrect idea of the true tion in the Peninsula,
chicter of Japan's military and naval stregth and conceiving that, as in the case of China, Japan would on the first threat of active hostilities quietly submit in the face of the advanced warlike pre-
What followed needs little recapitulation. Japan saw that to yield to Bussia's demands meant her own effacement as a nation, and this she was not prepared to take lato con-
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The result of the proceedings against Mr. C. F. Dixes, solicitor, is that he is suspended from for three years. The order will not be recorded practising in the Supreme Court of Hongkong until his appeal to the Privy Council against the findings of the Court have been heard. The text of the judgments delivered by Sir Francis Piggott, Chief Justice, and Mr. Justice Gompertz, Paime Judge, will be found on pags 3.
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port, sa wellas on the American cruiser. Captain Mitchell-Taylor A.D.C., yesterday called at the American Consulate General, to pay the respects of H.E. the Governor.
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RUSSIAN TROOPS MARCHING THROUGH PERSIA.
THE BEACON HILL TUNNEL DISASTER.
DEATH DY MISADVENTURE,
An inquiry was held at the Magistracy you- terday afternoon bofors Mr. F. A. Hazeland, sitting as coroner, and a jury into the cause of death of Chu Kon Yong, who was killed at the north fees of the Beacon Hill tunnel of June 10th.
Dr. W. W. Pearse, inedical officer in charge of the mortuary, depased to examining the body of deceased. He found the cause of death to be syncope, due to gaseous poisoning fumes.
Fergeant Floyd stated that all the Chinese witnesses who could have given evidence is this case had since left the works, and LONDON, July 5th. he was unable to Bid them. I He was of opinion that they had left the Colony, Ha A Russian circular to the Powers had been notified since the notion thint at the declares that in view of the failure of 5 pm. blast on the 10th the wind was blowing the Anglo-Russian measures to realise from the south part of the tunnel, carrying reforms and prevent the advance of Deceased was one of a gang of labourers work- at revolutionaries to Teheran, it has beening at the north face at the time. Some of the decided by the Government of Russia colies resumed work after the evening meal remained in his quarters. He found three hours afterwords, taken bio followed the 5 p.m. blast, but devoned there some
was drowned before the arrival of assistance.
Inspector Kerr was passing. The Inspector, after rendering first aid, caused the youth to be removel to No. 2 Station where he was kept until he had recovered.
Their further advance depends on the course of events.
smoke and fames before it to the north face.
applied, but without effect. He was then pat
Hospital, but died on the way. Besides the deceased, two other men who died from the results of the accident were removed to the mortuary.
In reply to a juryman witness said he believed
The N.-C. Daily News states that the bulk of the work which the Huangpu Conservancy THE UNITED STATES AND THE the other Chinese workinen left the Colony on
It is not necessary for an understanding of the present attitude of Japan with regard to Kores to recapitulate the manner in which Russia became interested in the seaboard of Eastern Asia. Suffice
American "Independence Day" was officially it to say that in 1861 she came into possesparations of her gigantic neighbour,
observed in Hongkong yesterday, the 5th inst- sion of Eastera Manchuria. Practically at the time ber position there was unssailable,
Ou Sunday, the 4th inst., only the Mazila, Hinor as no Power, not eron Great Britain, was at
Tean and & steamer at the Standard Oil Co.'s the time in a position to contest with bar
depot dressed ship, but yesterday, banting WINE AND SPIBIT MERCHANTS the command of these then distant regions.sideration. Russia's responsible ministers was displayed with the anal profusion ou German cruiser Iitis, on the two Portuguese Russia, it was true, was at an enormous saw too that they had been underestimating .B.'s receiving ship Tamar, on distance from her base; but she was already the military power of Japan, andy had-pradorsers and on the two Chinese gunboats in established as a military Power as far astically come to an agreement very much to Irkutsk on Lake Baikal, and had several the advantage of Russia. But the TSAR' military stations linking it up with her irregular advisers, ALEXIEFF and BESABRA. European territories, Great Britain bad sore, at the last moment furned the tables. only her navy in those regions to depend on. The offer of Japan was rejected, and
sad drowning fatality occurred and the art of transporting great armies by nothing remained but war. Under the cir. Wanchal on Saturday. Two Chinese schoolboys sen to distant campaigns had not ay yet en mataaces Japan lost not a moment, and went into the harbour to bathe near the dawned. It was under these circumstances within the next twenty-four hours actual Wanchai Sanitary Office, and while sporting in to send troops from Paku to Emzeti bat the first rare of Russia on taking hostilities had been commenced. It had been the water both got beyond their depth. One to protect Russian and other foreign posscasion of Vladivostock was to set about Rossin's favourite policy to be hitherto The other was rescued just in time by a native subjects, but the troops will not to the dispensary, and artificial respiration was WHOIS KYconverting it into an Asiatic Sebast pol.invariably the first in the field; and the case beatman, and was landed on the Praya when advance at present beyond Kazvill, in an ambulance for removal to the Tung Wah
For defensive purposes aa arsenal in East of Sinopic warned Japan what she might BLEND OF THE FINEST PURE Asin was entirely uncalled for a well expect in such an event. The cases in the might she have sent out an expedition to present instance were reversed, aud Japan fortify the North Pole. There could be no had the advantage of striking the first possible mistake is to Russin's real object, blow. which was to render her intended impreg Now in all this Russia had no ground for nable fortress at Vladivostock a safe basis complaint. What Japan did she would Board began to do two years ago at Gough for further aggression. This became still have herself done, had she been ready. The Island and Woosung is now virtually accom. more evident when after China's defeat at fact was she was not ready; and hence plished. Or contemporary incidentally men. attained so far, it cannot be forgotten that the the hands of Japan, Runale first compelled Japan had all through the war the advantions that with all the real success that has been Japan to surrender all her conquests in tage. But the lesson that Japan then learnt Shengking in consideration of an indemnity she has not forgolten, and that is, always It is to be paid by China berself for the restera to be prepared for eventualities. tion; and afterwards, without any con- difficult to 698 what grounds for complaint sideration on her own scoount, quietly in Mr. Losor, and others like him, can find March, 1898, took possession of Fort Arthur in this. After all, in the interests of pedto, under pretence of leasing it. She was not it is the wisest course for each nation to. long in occupation before she gave evidence adopt, not only in its own interest, but in as to her intention in seizing the port. She that of the world at large; and it is not could no longer pretend that her last acqui- difficult to see that the present unrest in sition was of any service to her as a pro-Europe is due far more to the unprepared tective port, as it was separated by many ness of the western nations holding out ■ed by him in the curse of his business as a hundreds of miles from her own territory temptation to adventurous spirits, thas to so she was bound in all consistency to allow any real aggressive intentions on the part that her making the new port was that of Austria and Germany, A. S. WATSON & CO.. Vladivostock was closed for some four to five months during the winter, and she needed an ice-free port. As a defensive measure, of course, t! is closure would increase rather than diminish the utility of Vindi vostock; so the former argument was Forgotten, and the action of Germany in Kinoobau. Bay the previous year was held out as sufficient justification, However that was, Russia, as in the former case at ouce set to render her new acquisition a
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A branch of the International Banking poration has just been opened at Peking.
work was taken in hand without a proper estimate of its total cost, and that while the remaining funds may suffice to comploto, the works at Gough Island and Woosang, our contemporary understands that the whole schom
of operations must extend much further than that..
Another Langkat caan in now occupying the
attention of the Supreme Court of Shanghai. Hz. Misa Mobamet Tockey is claiming damages from Mr. B. 6. F. Mellain, for wrongfully and negligently allowing certain information acquir.
TEA DUTY.
LONDON, July 5th. The United States Senate has de. leted from the Revised Tariff the tax on tea and coffee,
SOUTHERN RHODESIA AND UNITED SOUTH AFRICA.
LONDON, July 5th. General Botha is now on the way director and general agent of the Mattschappii to England to open negotiations with the Chartered Company for the in- Tot Mijn Bosch en Landbouwexploitatie in Langkat. Ltd, to be privily communicated to er to be obtained by certain persons other than theclusion of Southern Rhodesia in Cor.plsiatif and the general body of shareholders in United South Africa, the Transvaal
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The sa Tjimaki, which arrived in port on Sunday, brought fifty deportes from the Date East Indies.
Mr. A. V.Tonjillue, who has been attached to the Russian Legation in Peking, has been appointed Consul at Foochow
Messrs. Smith, Bell & Co., of Manile, have
Army with 6,000 barrels of of cement.
THE ESCAPED PRISONER. The Jack Shepherd of Hongkong has not
account of fear.
Mr. W. Waite, superintendent of the Beacon Hill tunnel, deposed that the nocl dent was reported to him about midnight on June 10th. Later he ascertained that were taken ont of the the tanuel, and those affected were being attended
to by Dr. Naida. When witness arrived he found, as he thought, three dead men, but only two were dead, the other succumbing on the way to hospital. Witness thought the accident was caused by the smouldering of some, un- exploded ammunition, and the air was so bad on the following day that he could not get through the tunnel himself, notwithstanding the fact that there were six compressors working at full pressure. He attributed the foul air in the tunnel to the heavy atmosphere outside. Every care was taken to prevent accidente of any kind
in the tunnel.
The jury returned a verdict of accidental death.
DISCHARGED AND BE-ARRESTED.
On the 29th ultimo a native appeared before A Bulawayo paper states that a Mr. J. R. Wood on the charge of being in compensation of twenty
million unlawful possession of a fox trap. Constable Taylor, when patrolling a road at Kennedy- pounds will be offered.
town, observed the man carrying the trap. The native noticed the policeman at the same time, He was dropped the trap, and walked on.
yet been recaptured, but a little more light kas CHILIAN INTERESTS IN JAPAN, arrested, and placed before the Court on the
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soon led to disclosures of the very ques tionable course bat egotiations between Russia and China had been taking. The FMPRESS DOWAGER, who had by the coup d'état of September, 1898,succeeded to power, was of all things desirous of getting rid of the pressure of the foreign representatives at Peking; and Rarsin, overtly, or by implica. tion, permitted herself to be drawn into negotiations and thetraitorLi Hung Chang. became the medium. What Russia agreed to do on her side does not appear, but the fact remains that the DOWAGER, REGENT, and her then henchman, LI, were perfectly ready for certain e nsiderations to hand over to Russia the ancestral appanage of the Ta Tarka dynasty. But Li, had he been true to anyone else, would not have been true to his own character. At the Imperial coronation in the Kremlin in May, 1896, L1 HUNO CHARG had been driven in a golden Mr. Losory has been seeking to rekindle carriage about the streets of Moscow, and strife between Bussia and Japan. Speak from that time became the devoted slave to
of a con.
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HOXOXONG, JULY 6ru 1909,
such fortifications
could
We are informed that no date has yet been fired for the conference of the Commissioners appointed to delimitate the boundary of Macao, Last wook only two cases of plague occurred in the Cole iy. No other case of communicable disenes was notified during the week; Yet Singapore has just declared Hongkong a plague-infected port.........
It is announced that Fresident Taft, in pur. mause of the new polley of commercial expan
China.
wall with the aid of his blanket, which he tore into strips to mako s rope. He left his coat behind, departing from the prison in a pair of jail trousore. Once outside the wall, it appears that he immediately made for the higher levels,
where he decided to steal some clothing. The
first that offered was some ladies underwear, way, secreting his jall trousers in the bush near which he appropriated and proceeded on his Robinson Rosi. In the western district he attempted to steal a suit of clothing, bat was arrested by an Indian constable The con- stable, however, was induced to hand his prisoner
LONDON, July 5th. Chile has appointed a Minister to Japan.
:
SUPREME COURT,
Monday, 5th July,
IN APPELLATE JURISDICTION.
BEFORE THE FULL COVET.
AN UNNUCOESSFUL APPEAL.
charge stated, but his Worship discharged the defendant.
On Sunday the same man was arrested for trespassing in the Tang Wah Infectious Diseas Hospital, and the police discovered that the defendant had stolen the fox trap from this institution. The prisoner was charged with being a rogue and vagabond; with being inside the mortuary with intent to commit a felony, and with stealing the fox trap. Mr. J. R. Wood found the prisoner guilty and sentenced him to six weeks' imprisonment on the first charge three months on the second; and three months and four hours' stocks on the third, the sentenges to be consecutive.
HOLIDAYS IN JAVA.
ion in the Far East, has decided to send Mr.arer to another Chinese, being persuaded that Nagel, Secretary for Commerce, on a special this man was o Inkong. It now appears that mission to the Hawaiian Kelands, Japan and he was a friend of the prisoner, for the latter has again escaped, and being such a slippery castomer, it is doubtfal if he will give the A native appeared before Hr. F. A. Hazeland police another opportunity of arresting him. d'Ahmada e Castro, appeared for the appellante folders of the Royal Packet Steamship Co.
a charge of
There were thirteen previous convictions at the Magistracy yesterday on being a rogue and a vagabond. A policoman against the man, siz of which were for returning caught him in the act of attempting to steal through a barred window. He was sent to jail for three weeks,
Captain Thomes 3. Parry, commanding Collier No. 3 Quartermaster's Department,
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DETERMINED ATTEMPT TO COMMIT SUICIDE.
Manila, last week socidentally fell down the the Philippines made a determined attempt to
A Chinese gentlems recently returned from
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ground between Circular Street and Des Voeux Road West with his throat cut.. As soon as the contractor found the man he blow a police whiele, which was answered by Constable
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We have received from the Hend-Agency it Mr. E. Potter, instructed by Mr. F. X. Hongkong of the Java-Chios Lijn a number of in the appeal against the judgment of Mr. and the Official Tourist Office of Batavis. The Justice Gomperts in the action between the Pa Royal Packet Co.'s steamers are plying through On firm and Chan Kwas Shan in favour of the the whole Netherlands Indian Archipelago, fitted throughout with electric light and plaintif. His contention was that the decision specially built for carrying passengers in the was wrong in fact and in law. Sir Henry
tropics, the twin screw steamer Rumphine, Bertoloy, K.C. instructed by Mr. S. Dickson, carrying passengers only and running fort- nightly between Batavia, Samarang, Sourabaya represented the respondents...
This was the case in which the plaintiff had a
and Singapore. The price of a round-trip
Court at the beginning of May,
After bearing the evidence their Lordships dismissed the sppeal.
ing at St. Petersburg at a meeting | Bussin; so much so in fact as to inear the companionway lending into his quarters on the commit suicide on Sunday. He was found in relative who desired to go to America and only ticket, available for six months-Singapore, of the Far Eastern Investigation Society, jealousy of the DOWAGER REGENT, who sent ship, sustaining a fracture at the base of the the evening by a contractor on a vacant piece of got as far as Shanghai, which came before the he has been alluding to fortifications
bim to Canton--practically in banishment skull, resulting in his death. recently erected by Japan in Korea, and trying to persuade the Russian people It is a matter of history how, taking advan only tage of the troubles in Peking he returned have one object in view the invasion of uninvited, and at once recommenced his Bussin, which he pretends to look upon as intrigues with Russia. Eussis pleaded that imminent. To point his moral he does not La bad ceeded to her the Manchu territories, step at anisrepresentation, and accusés Japan but L1, true to his character, although he was of infringing the stipulations of the Treaty ready enough to sell his country, yet refused of Portsmouth by the erection of theie to afhr bis signature to the formal docu-
The Japanese Government is reported to have ordered the wearers of Nishijin, Kioto, to make large piece of ornamental brocade, which it is their intention to contribute to the Peace Palace founded by Mr. Carnegie at The Hague. The out of the proposed contribution is about
·YE0,000.
were 451 to the Library and 211 to the Museum,
Clark, and just as the policeman appeared on the soene the would.he suicide, who was weak plote his task. Ho succeeded in lifting the from loss of blood, made a final effort to com
razor which was lying on the ground by his side, The return of visitors to the City Hall Library and was about to draw it noross his throat again fortifications. Of course the only stipulmant, and died leaving it unsigned, not- and Museum for the week ending the 4th when his haud vas stayed by the constable. tion entered into by Japan with regard to withstanding the urgent pressure of the July, 1909, they that of 20-times there The man was immediately removed to hospital, but his rosery is doubtful, us the self-inflicted fortifications is that she shall not erect such Russian Minister at his death-bed.
It soon became evident what had been the wail of Clinese 307 to the formor and 2,542 to cashes were very deep ones, and he lost a con
the latter. The Library was, therefore, used by siderable quantity of blood. along the frontier line, and the general question of fortifying Koren was not even instigating motive of the previous prepare 758 persons and the Museum by 2,753. mentioned on either side in the preliminary tions. Japan and China had been fighting
In view of the apparent cessation of the anti- conferences which preceded the negotiation for supremacy in Korea, and. Japan had Japanese boycott in China the principal Japanese of the Treaty proper. In strengthening her won the day, and had thus come into un-
destors in marine products at Tokohama defensive position in Korea, Japan has friendly competition with Bussin, who la arranged to invite the leading Chinese men neither by direct action, nor by implication, puracauce of her imaginary claims on chants to Tonosawa, Hakone, recently to hold a however remote, infringed any of her Manchuria was now seeking a prepondera-social gathering for the purpose of improving stipulations with Russia, or the European ting influence in the affairs of the peninsula. relations between Japanese and Chinese mer- Powers. We may, indeed, go further, and She had been negotiating for the acquisition affirm that it was exactly to strengthen her of Masampo, as a bavenient station-for defensive position in Korea, and so ramove her feet midway between Vladivostock and a constant temptation on the part of her Port Arthur, and it became plain to Japan eighbours to encroach, that the Protector that her success, and its inevitable conso nte was eventually coincided lu, not only by quence-Russia's establishment of a chain of Europe generally but by Russia herself. fortresses allalong her western coast-would Most of all, then, is it unbecoming on the render Japan practically powerless in the
chants.
WEATHER REPORT
Batavia, Sourabaya, Singapore-amounts to $90 Singapore currency. The journey by rail from Batavia to Sourabaya is for passengers' account, and special cheap tourist-tickets are issued by the Government railwaya Hotel charges in Java are moderate and vary from five to ten guilders a day, including all meals, The Of gial Tourist Office at Batavia has representa tives all over Java. At their offices, all informa
furnished to travellers. The folders are to be. had free on application at the Java China-
The Hongkong Observatory yesterday issued tion about excursions, trips, etc., will always be the following report :-
On the 5th at 11.50 am-The barometer has fallen moderately on the E. and N.E. coasts of China, and risen, moderately over the Upper Yangtze,
A shallow depression is moving Eastwards over the Lower Yangtze Valley.
Pressure is relatively low also over the middle and Western parts of the China Sea. It remains high over the Pacific to the E. of Japan. Light or moderate variable winds may be expected in the Formcsa Channel and moderate S. and E. winds along the northern shores of the China Sen.
"Hongkong rainfall for the 24 hours ending at 10 am, to-day, 0.00 inches.
A CHARGE OF KIDNAPPING. ⠀⠀ Before Mr. J. E. Wood at the Magistracy yesterday tive Chinese, four men and a woman, were proceeded against for kidnapping five boys from Canton and offering them for sale in the Colony. When the defendants arrived here they
The forecast for the 24 hours ending at noon are alleged to have taken the children to 39, First Street and 79, Second Street, Then to-day is as follows
Hongkong & Neighbourhood(*) In an article on the Viceregal changes, the two of the buys were taken on the s.8. Tai N.-C. Daily News says If we in Shanghai Hing to be removed to Chinese Torritory, Formosa Channel mistrust the wisdom of sending Tuanku-hatia but they complained to the steamer's shroff, and South coast of China between Hongkong and Immocks
Same as No. 1. to the extremely difficult Viceroyalty of Canton, the defendants were arrested. Another young
The con Hongkong and Hainan... it must be admitted that we love ample cause, ster, who said he was being taken to a ship South coast of China between although among the Chinese bis Excellency's complained to an Indian constable. was formerly Total at Shanghai.
hearing of the charge was adjourned. putation is believed to stand high." Yuan stable resound him, but the man escaped, TheS.E. and E winds, light or moderate;
fair to showery.
also any information re travelling through Jaya and the East Indian Archipelago is willingly. farnished.
Japan Ce's office and at Cook's office, wher
SUICIDE OF A MISSIONARY IN KOREA,
It is our and duty, says the Seoul Fress of the 14th ult, to announce that the Rer. Mr. Cartwright committed suicide on Tuesday night by hanging himself. The tragedy took place at his residence attached to the Church, opposite to the Japanese Fost Office at Naktong An inquiry was made at the British Consulate- General as to the reason for his act. Mr. Cartwright was a bachelor and came to Kores Variable winds,
four or five
years ago from Japan, where he had light or mo- lived for some years working hard for the cause
dersta
of Christianity, He was a fuent speaker
of Same as No. 1 Japanese and was the only British priest in Beoul who conducted regular services in that language. He was a quiet and zealous workin and news of his untimely death will be received
quaintances in Tokyo. with great grief by his many friends and so