THE WAR IN THE PHILIPPINES:
MCARTHUR ADVANCES,
STUBBORN RESISTANCE BY, THE REBELS
MANILA May 4th.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, MAY 10.1899.
YOKOHAMA LETTER"
(YROAL-OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
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YOKOHAMA, May 2nd, 1800. There is some, speculation as, to the fate of lotteries here when the revised Treaties are There is considerable agitation in this put into operation, such as the Pari-mutuel on. country against the Civil Code as regards the the Race-course and the Yokohama Investment Major General McArthur's division took the inatter of emphyteusip. For the benefit of the Company. The provisions of the Japanese Penal Code prohibit any kind of lottery in the field again at daylight yesterday and advanced uninitiated may state that an emphyteuta is one who utilizes another person's land for the from Apalis to San Fernando, desplie the pro
Japanese Empire. A number of Japanese, testations of their commissioners, who recently purpose of agriculture, &c.There is apparently
however, are in favour of licensing the profes came in to confer with General Otis. The ample cause for dissatisfation in this connection,sion of conducting lotteries, subject to certain restrictions, and in this connection the Kyoto rebels stubbornly resisted the attacking forces as the operation of the Civil Code would be both at San Tomas and San Fernando, liable to deal injustice to a large number of pea-
Chamber of Commerce presented a memóriaj sants. A custom that largely prevails in Japan to the Governacut some time ago. A verna- General Hale's brigaele, consisting of five
is the cultivation of land under a dual arrange cular journal now reports that the Yokohama 32:10gons and a guttling under Major Young,
Investment Committee recently, sept, to the 6th Artillery, two battalions of the 51st lowa, ment, the wealthy man providing the necessary the Nebraska and South Dakotu volunteer capital and the farmer the labour. Under Home Office a note requesting information as regiments started at daylight along the nain this arrangements the capitalist is registered to whether their business will be suspended as the owner, but it is tacitly understood when the revised Treaties come into force. wad from Apalit to Fernando, some ailes
that it is really a joint ownership, the farmer The Minister for Home Affairs concluded that to the right of the milroad. The enemy was first encountered, at 6.45 o'clock near Sangated the right of emphyteusis for an it did not come within his province to decide unlimited period. In this manner large tracts the matter and forwarded the application to Simon. The lowas at once opened fire upon the rebel position, a small unfinished trench on. of land have been cultivated, the right of the Department of Agriculture and Commerce. the left of the road, and drove the outpost emphyteusis in a great many instances being The latter department fought shy of the ques. tion, however, and returned the communication ahead in fairly good order. The natives after hunted down from father to son for generations.
to the Home Office. While being battered about | setting fire to the village evacuated it. As the But in the event of the Civil Code coming into column advanced it became more and more operation the right which tenants have inherit-
from pillar to post in this manner the question as to who is to settle the matter must resolve evident that the rebels had entertained the idea from their ancestors, may be cancelled by the that the Americans would split up their forces registered owners after the expiration of fifty itself into a lottery. and use both railroad and highway; hence, years. This, on the face of it, appears to be a beyond a few pitfalls and imperfret trenches advisable to limit the period of the right of em very unfair armingement, and if it is deemed all of their earthworks were so constructed as to command the emankment alone, leaving phyteusis there should be some provision made. in the way of compensation for those who at pre- their occupants unprotected from the road. The result was that as General Hale's brigade Liberal members of the Diet have expressed sent enjoy the right is perpetuity. Some of the advanced the rebels, who were-waiting for the
the opinion that proper steps should be taken *Americans to advance along the railroad. were
compelled to evacuate their positions and to deal with this long descended right, and therefore it is probable that during the next session of the Diet this question will be brought forward for discussion.
retreat to San Tomas.
At 7-45 o'clock the head of the column reach ed the banks of the river, on the other side of which the rebels were strongly entrenched for, a distance of over a mile on each side of the railroad bridge. Major. Young's platoon im medi itely proceeded to shell the enemy's position, while the lowa and Nebraska volunteer regiments, which were thrown along the bank, fired volley after volley into the trenches. The rebels. however, offered a most stubborn resistance, and for fifty-five minutes held the Americans in check, despite the very heavy artillery and musketry fire which was maintain
ed across the river.
Ukimately, however, they were flanked by the Nebraskans, and a wild scramble for the railroad, who wins were in writing, ensure
During the engagement and advance of yesterday afternoon the following casualties occurred :--
KILLED.
James Spoirry, Company G. 1st Nebraska. Two other Nebraska volunteers killed, naues
unobtainable
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WOUNDED
B. F. Dunning, Co. E. 1st Nebraska.- Willard B. Johnston, Co. R, 1st Nebraska. Clark Koorill, Co. F, ist Nebraska. The gallant Brigadier General Frederick H. Funston, formerly Colonel of the Kansas regi- ment, was wounded in the right hand while leading his men towards San Fernando. The wound is a very painful one, and compelled the general to quit the field to come into town for treatinent, much against his will.
Caplain Albright, of Company C. 20th Kan- sas, was wounded in the left thigh while sup porting the battery with companies C and it of his regiment, and the following men under him were wounded-
T. J. Davidson, Company H, 20th Kansas. B. I. Olliver, Company, 11, 20th Kansas. Frit: Clapp Company1, 20th Kansas Captain lon, of Company K, Montana Volunteers, while acting as major in the field, was wounded in the hip, and one of his men, private Fred Smith, of Company C, was wounded
A vernacular journal has been dwelling upon the necessity of judicial officials acquiring a knowledge of foreign languages, and remarks that when Japans assumes jurisdiction over for eigners the importance of an acquaintance with foreign languages by judges and public pro- curators will be multiplied. The journal further says it would he advisable that, with an in- crease of pay to judicial officials the subject of foreign languages be included in their examination, that proficient men might be attracted to the service. There can be no doubt that such a knowledge would be of the utmost value to pudicial officials in dealing with complicated foreign cases, but at the same time it must be acknowledged that to make it a sine qua nou for such officials pass an examination in foreign languages would not he treating then fairly. I am not aware that such knowledge is required of judicial officials in any other country, and the Japanese authorities would scarcely be justified in making it compulsory here.
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In my last letter I gave some particulars of a case where the police had prevailed upon a servant girl to confess to having stolen a watch which was subsequently found to have been mislaid by its owner. The two policemen who were arcused of brutally ill-treating this girl have been tried at the Tokyo District Court and being found guilty were, on the 28th April, sentenced to two months' imprisonment and seven days' detention respectively. They, how ever, both appealed. From details which transpired at the trial it appears that after being taken to the police station this poor girl was stripped and then one of the policemen used a hempen rope to thrash her back, while the other struck her two or three times with a jifte (a kind of iron pace); also a Japanese penitolder was placed between the fingers of her right hand and pressed into the flesh. As a result of thisfcruel treatment the girl was unable to work for ten days and had to apply lotions to her injuries for a fortnight. The police, of course, denied having ill-treated her, but the doctor's evidence in addition to the girl's state- MANY DISTURBANCES ABOUT THE CITY. Apparently there was some organized attemptment established their guilt fairly conclusively. Superintendent of the M. Murayama, to disturb the peace of Manila fast night, for Tokyo Water Police, from whont the watch there was frequent frings about the streets in many parts of the town As many as thirty shots were heard the Ennita and Malate districts, and the vicinity of Bilibid prison was roused for half an hour while a little shoating match was in progress. - -
Employees at the ofice of the Captain of the Part state that about eight o'clock there was considersable firing in the direction of the mouth of the river, beyond the San Antonio fort.
in the left car.
R. J. Van Hook, of Company K South - Dakota Volunteers, was also wounded during
the advance.
The guads along the water front observed three native boats passing about 500 yards of shore. When they opened fire the boats beat a hasty retreat toward Baranaque. The prompt reception that the attempts met with from the soldiers will no doubt go a long way toward discouraging future disturbances.
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was alleged to have been stolen, has been compelled to resign, although he was not coguisant of the naltreatment to which the girl was subjected. I trust the Higher Court will uphold the decision of the Tokyo district Court, and that this case will have a salutary affect in awakening police officials to the res ponsibility of their positions, and the necessity of exercising a proper, supervision over their subordinates, and thus prevent a recurrence of practices which are liable to hold then up to the storm of the civilised wohl.
At the niecting of Prefectural Governors (about which I made, some ¿uments in my. fast letter) the Minister for Home Affairs atth. mmitted a long list of instructions, among which SICK AND WOUNDED RETURN TO' MANÍLA occurs the following: At hot springs it is not
Last night's train which arrived in Manila at
always possible to prohibit the bathing of men half past ten, brought down a large number of and women together, This practice, how- sick men who were sent is from General ever, should not be overlooked as far as Lawton's expedition. The majority of the men the control, of public morality is concerned. are suffering from heat prostration and dysentery. Foreigners especially feel shocked at this The country through which the last week's indecent custom. Steps should be taken to march has been made is marshy and feverish, gradually suppress the practice." This clause and in many places the rice fields are already has been the subject of comment in both covered with several inches of water. Fighting foreign and Japanese papers, although it is not over, such ground is very conductive to levers of sufficient importance to call for any extep and quickly exhausts the men. Altogether 91tional notice. It has always been the custoin sick and 20 wounried men were brought in, also for the japanese to have mised ballg (mide) one body..
at hot springs, and they think there is no more The distance of the field operations of General harm in it than we do of fixed bathing in McArthur's division, from the train at Calumpit, costume) at our seaside resorts at home in prevented the return of the men who were fact much less than a good many people at wounded in yesterday's fighting at Santa Tomas. home think on the subject. I suppose the They will be sent to the hospitals at Manila authorities would never have considered it today,
necessary; or even advisable, to restrict this practice were it not for the inflated writings of foreigners, most of whom are only too willing to gloat over witnessing the sight and after- wards wax eloquent upon the unmoral castoms existing among the Japanese. Such hypocriti. cal effusions are not worthy a moment's con- sideration. Where ladies bathe at home how common a sight it is to see youths, and men of a ripe nge too, perched on points of vantage near at hand watching the gambols of the fair ones through binoculars. Yet ir Japanese would scarcely turn his head in passing to look at a bevy of girls who are going through their ablutions perfectly naked. The only conclusion one can arrive at is that the elaborate and carefully contrived costume of the European lady bathor is much more suggestive of vice to a European than is the nude figure to a Japanese
WHERE IS THE DIFFERENCE?
We (Manita Timer) have éreived from advocating the cause of the Filipinos, & copy somebody in Hongkong, who is interested in of an address which has been framer for the purpose of appealing
the people of the Unit-
ed States, induce the Government to suspend hostilitiesin the Philippines and confer with the Filipino lenders with the view of preventing further bloodshed, The address says.
sented the intelligence of the people of the
islands.
"It is also waleniable that on January 5th; President AlcKinley issued a proclamiation dirough General Otis declaring that on the roth of the previous menth the Philippe Islands had been ended to this country' by Spain by the signature of the Erraty of Paris, and further ordered him to extend the military Government of the United States to the whole of the ceded territory, and to deund the surrender of Holo, which was then held by the Filipinos in an orderly manner by capture from the Spaniards,
This is exactly what the United States itself purposes, this is almost word for word what has been offered, and the offer has never been with “drawn. -It still holds good, but the fighting began and is continued tolely because song Filipinos would not wait for the fulfilment of this programme. It is imperative that all those who will not wait for this to be done satisfact orily must be reduced to submission before any. thing else can be done. The act of reducing them to submission is no violation of the pro mise but is simply paving the way for the fulfilment of the promise.
THE "NEERA" BEACHED.
SHE STRIKES THE BAR AT TRINGGANÝ.
The steamer Eng Ann, which arrived at Singapore recently, brought news of an accident to the's, s. Veela, one of the fleet of the Straits Steamship Company. A day or so. back, the Neera was entering the harbour at Tringganu when she struck the bar heavily. She was not thought to be seriously damaged at the time and proceeded towards her anchorage inside the harbour, where there is deep water. I was found, however, that the slip was making water repidly, and Captain Coysh decided to beach her. No trouble is anticipated in pumping the water out of the vessel and bringing her to Singa- pore. The Neera is a steamer of 159 tons net register.
A DEPRAVED CRIMINAL..
THE LIGHTNING ROUDER"
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JAPANESE AND CHINESE LABOURERS FOR HAWAI
It is learned through a semi-official source that the sugar planters of Hawaii have given an order to a Japanese emigration company for over 6,000 labourers. The planters fear that the Exclusion Labour Laws of the United States will be applied to the Hawajian Islands, Hence their haste in importing, Japanese ou long term contracts prior to the operation of this anticipated law."
From other sources it is learned that similar contracts will be made with Chinese, and that a representative of the sugar plausters is now in China securing coolies. An attempt will also be inade, it is said, to import Filipínos, but it is thought that in the latter case mech difficulty will be encountered, as the Filipinos will no care to leave the surroundings of their fellow nuchachos and muchachas. Unlike the Chi nese and Japanese the Filipinos do not leave their homes.for emigration purposes.
SINGAPORE PHILHARMONIC
SOCIETY.
• THE ANNUAL REPORT,
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Afternoon
Low water-Morning and
Afternoon-ligare smink ANNIVERSARIES
1774-Latip XV. died, 1853-H.M.S. Rather destroyed a piratical
fleet near Hongkong
and Delhi, Ange
1857 The Indian Mutiny broke out at Mzerut 1864-Capture of Chang Chow by Col. Gordon
1865-Jefferson Davis captured in Georgia.
and "The Ever Victorious Army“ va
1876-Great typlicon in Formosa; 4 ships lost, 1885-Occupation of Port Hamilton by the
British fleet. NORMA 1894-Hongkong declared infected with Bubo-
⚫nic Plague.
TO-MORROW," Thursday, 11th May, 1899, Chinese--2nd of 4th moon of 25th year
Kwang-si. Sun-Rises
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shr. ssming High water-torning magd 9hr. ¿zmin.
Afternoon.ctthr: 28juin.2 Low water-Morning zhr, qömin,
In their report for the year ended 31st March last, die Committee of the Singapore Phit- hamtonic Society state that the membership of the Society has increased daring the year and that the number on the rull is now 290. Messrs, Barker and Laugher, who were respec tively Hon. Treasurer and Hon. Librarian of the Society, resigned on leaving the Colony, and were succeeded by Messrs. W. Makepeace and A. P. Ager. Five concerts to which || members bad free admission-were given during the year and a musical evening was held in August. Two additional Concerts were given by the Orchestral Section of the Society; † the proceeds of which were devoted to the purchase of a set of timpani (which have now arrived); and the first of concerts for children was held in the Towa
to January. Two new Hall set of timpani and a considerable amount of music have been obtained during the year, the music including 80 copies of Mackenlie's 1897 -The Powers proposed mediation between Cantata The Bride" which is now being practised. The Committee, is composed of Mr. W, G..St. Clair (President), Mr. W. Makepeace (Hon. Treasurer), Mr. A. P. Ager (Hon. Lib- Han Mr. M. Hellier (Hon. Secretary), Messrs. A. Knight S. Tontinson, E. Lanz, and F. Whitefield. The acounts show that the e- ceipts were $3,342 as against $2,056 last your. Suliscriptions were slightly larger, and the coacan receipt were swelled by the special | concerts given by the Orchestra to provide funds for a set of timpani, which resulted in a profit of $170, the timpani costing $115. The ex-
last year. Double the ardount has been spent on new music, and the item "general expenses" includes some outstanding accounts of last year. From the balance of St 36'the Committee recom- mendthat Sobe carried to debenture accounts to meet the interest on too debentures at 5 per cent, for eight months, and in form a fand for the redemption of delfintures. Provision should be matle in this year's estimates for at least $300 to be carried to this accom. It is pro- used to issue this year, on payment of subscription, member's season ticket, to schmit in all emtents of the Society, and to entitle to a reserved seat compon for those
Afternoon, shr 20min.. ANNIVERSARIES.
1843--Wang-An-tung and Hicaling visited
Hongkong. 1864-Aimed attack on the offices of Messrs.
Holiday, Wise & Co. 1866--"Black Friday"; extensive Bank failures
etc. in England. 1878-Attempted assassination of the Gernian
Emperor. 1880-The Duke of Genox arrived in Hong-
kong. 1889
Death of Father Damien. 1891 Attempted assassination of the Czare-
witch in Japan. pianos, 1894--Collision betiseen the Mike Afari and Monmouthshire near the Tungsha lightship.
No declaratory resolution as in the found is career of crite. Realing the accountpenditure amounts to $2,410 as against Suzi ture of the islands was asscuted to by the Administration before the ratification of the
Treaty by the Senate and none has been made
since.
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Any right that we assert to ownership of the Philippines mast rest, therefore, either upon coughest or upon purchase from their Spanish oppressors, or upon both, and in any case it is, as we believe, inconsistent with the principles of this Republic, and fraught with danger to its peace and to the peace of the world.
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concerts,
The metropolitan press has been thrown into a considerable flurry over an important dis- The evidence is very clear that Aguinaldo | covery lately effected by the Metropolitan Po- was bought to the islands by our own warship, lice Office, a discovery relating to the identity to his aid was accepted and desired by our ❘ of a notorious robber named Keijiro Sakamoto military operations against the Spaniards, and known under several names but most com that hopes of independence were encouraged by monly under that of the dreaded lightning our Consuls and other officers, liata Parlias robber. For several weeks just the Tokyo ment of the islands franied a Constitution, and papers have been vying with each other to un
ravel the real personality of the subject of the that the Government so formed fairly repre-
ed names that the burglar was taken into cus- raw arrest, for it was under one of his assu tady on February 18th by the Urawa police. Always alert for anything sensational or es- tinordinary, the suspicion wat 27 Be Arouted that the prisoner may have been the very lightning rubber," an object of terror for the past year to the people living in the neighbourhood of Tokyo. The suspicion has since turned out correzi, for the man examined by the famous detective and police inspector Muto at the Metropolitan Police Office, whither he had been conveyed from Urawa, has disclosed his personality
of his confession one is led to see that his a case of bereditary depravity, He was born about 32 years ago in. a well-to-do farmer's family in Qiwati Mura, Shinodagun,
After the death of his grand baragi.
whom the family owed the father to building up of its fortune, his father's and brother's dissipation in a few years wreck- ed the estate, Brough up as he was in such a family, whatever progress he made, and he is said to have been a smart boy was in the direction of evil dag. He took early to gam bling and a lite of dissipation, and scarcely had lie come of age before his acquaintance with prisons began. When he was 23 years old he was sentenced at the Mito Local Court to penal sevritude for life for having committed a Tobbery and wounded the master of the house he broke into He was transported to the { Hokkaido and imprisoned in the Rabaty Gaol. While serving his term there, he, with a number of equally desperate ruf- sans twice broke loose, only he caught again; but on their third attempt he and his accom- We (Japan Mail ) mentioned recently a rumour to the effect that a scheme was on plice, for there were only two on this occasion, succeeded in eluding their pursuers. They the tapis for diverting the greater part of the separateil. and Keiro reachel Aomori on Sumida River's volume into the Nakagawa, October 12th, 1893. His freedom regained alme Senju; reducing the former river, below after six years' confinement and his criminal that place, the dimensions of a canal, and propensity thoroughly hardened by his contact thus porinitting the successful dredging and with jail birds, he was soon at his trade again, deepening of the space within the forts, which the only boetie was an adept at, as soon as he is at present kept perpetually shallow by the detritus of the Sumida, Another project is entered Miyagi Ken. But, born criminal as he
now spoken of as having been suggested by was, he secured to have retained some sense of the lose of his boyhood's home. Disguised Mr. Furuichi, the well-known Chief Engineer as an itinerant monk he visited his native of the Home Department. It is to fill up the where he whole fore-shore from the Shiva Detached Palare to Shinagawa by dreiging the bay village and found, the house was born converted into a village school, as fockery to welcome his return. He in front. The "Tokyo" newspapers which learned that his father and, brother had been give this information do not explain what Mr. arrested soon after he was gone, for robbery Furitichi prapesus to do with the Sumida River, with violence, and his step-mother, for Iris real the whole source of difficulty, but they tell us mother had died when he was a little boy, and that the area of the reclaimed land would be sister and youngest brother, gone to some other eight hundred thousand tizzze,” which, at too ven per farbe, would represent eighty million places, nobody knew where.
rew. Even after the amplest allowance has been made for roads, cauals, &c., there would certainly remain four or five hundred thousand who, and as the total expenditure would not exceed jo inillion yezi, a substantial margin is in sight. Pending the sale of sufficient land to cover the initial outlay, barbour and wharfage dues might be levied to pay interest, and the Government's assistance might by invoked.
The first result, we already witness, a war subjugation, which antist embittter the people we seek to rale, and which, however successful, must bring disaster and death to our soldiers and unitepsured con.to people."
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The aims of the framers of the address are
First That our Government shall take immediate steps toward a suspension of Best litics and a conference with the Filipino leaders, with a view to preventing further loodshed, upon the basis of a fecognition of their freedom and independence, as soon as proper guarantees can be had of order and protection to property,
Second-That the Government of the United States shall tender an official assurance to the inhabitants of the Philippine Islands that they will encourage and assist in the organization of such "Government in the islands as the people thereof shall prefer, and that upon its organization in stable manner the United States, in accordance with its traditional and prescriptive policy in, such cases, will recognize the independence of the Philippines and its equality among stations and gradually withdraw all military and naval forces.
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Turkey and Greece.
SHIPPING AND MAIL NEWS:
MAILS DUE
English (Chris) to-morrow. Indian (Satsang) 15th iust. American (City of Biode Lausic) 18: "American (Coptic) 25th inst.
American (America Marn), 3rd prox
Tur Canadian Pacific Railway Co. steamer Athenian left Vancouver via Kobe for llong kong on the 7th. She is due to arrive at Kobe on the 22nd instant.
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THE O, S. S. Co's steamer Idomeneus, from Glasgow, Liverpool, etc., left Singapore for this port yesterday afternoon, the 9th, and may, “bb pected here on or about Monday, the 15th instant.
HoSOKONG AND WHAMPOA Dock RepuÈng, Isla de Cubasecam
Kowloon Dock. Isla de Luzonai Henry Falling... Hongkong Maru.......... Hyson
This report will be submitted to the annual general meeting of members which has been
ILM.S. Daphine used for Fiitlay aftemoon next in the Town.S.S. Bennington... fall, at 515,
TOKYO HARBOUR.
own business without assistance from the
There is no material difference of view be tween the opposing parties, if this can he taken as an actual Statement of the Filipino, proposi tion. In fact, the United States government and the Military government of the United States in the Philippines would endorse this
He left the village in a pensive mood, but present appeal and hay, in fact, said substan." tially the same thing, in several proclamatjurts, his evil genius asserted itself again before he dest is to say, "upon the basis of a recognition reached the next, for there he helped himselfin of the freedom and independence of the Philip his usual way to a suit of clothes, and attired pines as soon as proper guarantees in be had himself like a tradesman, While quartered at of order, and protection to property Where an inn in Chiba, lie drew upon him the the dispute arises is in that very phrase "suspicion of a policeman who came there soon as proper guarantees can he had." That on an official call to examine its register is exactly the rock on which the Filipinos and and was ordered to accompany the officer to Americans have split, that is the point on which the Police Office. This he did, only to attempt they are in reconcilable, and can only be brought an escape on the way; but while struggling, to If the Tokyo people had even a moderate to that sort of agreement by the subjection of force himself from the Police, two or three fire-degree of enterprise, they would have pos- one to the domination of the other. The men happened to pass by and assisted the sessed a harbotir long ago. Perhaps they are Filipinos claim that the aforesaid proper latter in overpowering Keijo. Of course he wakening up at last. But we doubt it." At all guarantees have been in existence ever since concealed his identity, and past doings, when events, they ought to be able to manage their they proclained their republican government. examined at the Chiba Local Court, and simply They not merely said this. but they started the confessed to a larceny committed within its Treasury There is no reason why the whole fight for the purpose of proving it. There was jurisdiction. He was sentenced to 3 years' nation should be obliged to put its hand into never any need to begin fighting, there was major imprisonment. He served out the term in its pocket because the people in the capital want to enjoy a larger measure of prosperity over any need for the Filipine troops to insist April of last year, and instantly returned to his on being at such close quarters with the Ameri- nefarious business, having grown more despe- but have not the courage to procure it by their can outposts that friction was sure to result.
rate and callous than ever." "It was in less than awn exertions. Another point is that if heavy. This promise to grant freedom and inde a year, at the end of which, irlast February, harbour dues and wharfage charges are to be pendence "as soon as proper guarantees can
he was again captured in Urawa as already levied in Tokyo, skippers will certainly prefer. he had has always been the promise held out told, that he achieved a great notoriety as the Yokohama.
Later to the Filipinos and it has never been with lightning robber," and is identity remain.
The latest schéng with teference to Tokyo drawn or modified, nor varied in the slightest ing undiscovered, axed the ingenuity of the degree. It links good now as it always has detective forces of the Metropolitan and local harbour is to have it at ilancea; that is to say, clone. "As soon as proper guarantees can be Police and excited the keen curiosity of the at the mouth of the Tamagawa, The cost of had then the United States will leave the Tokyo papers. The portion of his confession constructing it, according to that plan, would Filipinos to run their country unaided, but covering this particular period apparently be 30 million ven, and the engineering dificul is for the United States, as the patty making leaves many of his criminal doings in the dark, dies would be comparatively small. The only the offer, to decide whether the guarantees are but even from the scanty revelation he has trouble is that a harbour, to miles distant from or are not sufficiently satisfactory. If we in made, he sufficiently deserves the highest Tokyo could scarcely be called Tokyo harbour. ordinary, every day business, say to a man penalty. On November 11th last year, armed The Jiji Shimpo just ridicules the idea, and with a sword and a revolver, he broke into a urges that, even though three times as much "we will promise this if you will do that," then it is for us to say whether we consider that he restaurant at Higashi Murayama Village, Kita money he required, the mouth of the Sumida has done his side of the contract to our satis Tama District, Tokyo. Early next morning he is the only proper site. faction. It is, on the face of it, impossible for visited in a similar way a pawn-broker's shop the Filipinos to say what are satisfactory guar-át Kamishiro Village in the same district, and antees of good government because as it is evident, and as they cannot for a moment refuse to admit, they have absolutely no know While making these comments in justifica-ledge or experience in such matters. From tion of the Japanese I do not wish to express their qua statements, they have as little know unqualified approval of the custom, and in a ledge of what is and what is not good govem large number of cases it could very easily and ment as a carabao knows about an automobile with advantage be abolished. The inore im- car. Therefore, it is not for themselves to
·PATRIOTS AND PENSIONS.
portant hotels provide three or four rooms for judge how soon the right moment can be hot spring baths, and where such accommoda. considered to have arrived for this clause of the tion is provided it would perhaps be advisable promise to go into effect. The appeal of the Since the close of the War there has been 10 set aside one room exclusively for the use of Filipinas and their friends is intended to induce great rush on the American pension, depart ladies. There are other hotels, howeyer, which the government "to tender an official assurance ment" by "men who enlisted for service in only possest one bath-mom, and therefore to the inhabitants of the Philippine Islande Cuba The regiments that did the most those Japanese who cannot afford to patronise that they will encourage and assist in the orgas fighting have presented the fewest claims. One the larger hotels are necesarily compelled tonization of such a government in the islands as that was never under fire makes claims equal indulge in mised bathing, In such cases the the people thereof shall prefer and that upon 10:33 per cent of the full force of the regiment, nuthorities will be fully-justiced in ignoring, its organization in a stable manner, the United Two other regiments, make ulinosi as great the canting condem
The Supral (saver Stites will recognize. of claims, although they never, the mark) gi
~ THE 4 MONADNOCK" AT PARANAQUE, -* Shortly after six o'clock this morning the Mojadnock operied up with her heavy guns on the insurgent trenches gear Paranaque. Fir ing continued at intervals until eight o'clock. For severni day's past the natives have been busy working on trenches along the beach and though the hill is somewhat hidden by the thick brush that grows aboutthe water's edge, it is believed that some attempt is being made to mount another gup.
GENERAL
The gunboat Petrel arrived in the bay this morning, from Balayan. During her cruise She observed three schooners which acted in a Suspicious mansier. The Petrel overtook them and brought them in, their nalies are Ghānpaiä, Emilio and Venus,
The transports Sealandia and Citye of Puebla have been ordered to-rgjum to, Săn, „Francisco as soon as possible. It is expected that they will leave for Frisco vin Nagasaki on Sunday, 7th inst. Manila Times,
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murdered, the master of the house On January 23rd of this year he effected, an entry into a grocer's shop in Fukagawa, Tokyo, and murdered its proprietor. On each of those occasions he carried away cash and valu- ables, which supplied him with a plentiful. supply of funds for debauchery for the time But even a lightning robber could being not long evade the clutch of law and of justice. Early on the morning of the 19th of February last, he stole into a lumber merchata's shop in Urawa, Feeling hungry he thought he would help himself first to catables in the kitchen, before commencing his atrocious. work. As fate would have it, the noise in the kitchen however, awoke the lumber man, who with his son stole to whence the noise came and after a hard bght finally succeeded in byer coming the unwelcome, aitor Such,
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(6th May, ragg.):
ARRIVALS
Where from Ageals. Apr. 30 Choysung ....Shanghai J. M. & Co
30 Kwangs...W. & C'kiang. 30 Taisang Hongkon M. & Co. May ́s faitan
+1
Baimur.....
4. Misura Maret
Fiantsin... "Pakihan
B. & Co,
wan
...Amoy.
2 Glenfalloch s $1
Haiching
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3 bani......W.&.Ckian
2 Viksang C. & N'yang..
YS,& Ca
J. MF & Co.
a Mecfoo...H'kong ...CALS,N. Co
3 Sgemi Maru.A. & Shary
Whampoa... KeilinNewchwang
3 Charterhouse Aunay 3 Formosa
·3 Pechili..... G. & N'wang...
Co S
* gan........ Amoy B. &Co.
Pronto ......Hongkong là Mi & Co 4 Thales....Amoy
Fiste,
Foochow ....Wahu B&S 4 Heikes C. & Nwang
5 Chowtai Hongkong.
3 thniching SS Rikkuners.
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DEPARTURES Vessel Destination,
Apr. 30 Cherang
May - 1 Haimun “........ Amoy ?
1 MP'sura Maru kak 2 Hajtan MARENT
12
29.867 176.2
84.0
·15.0
May
2 Singan Vickihanghar
2 Taitang
2 Haichings oftcng
3 Glenfallots...S'pore
Pakshaji
3 SuHongko
3 Formosa
3 Charterhouse
'3'llangekass
3 Meefoo
Karenget
Whanson
A Seemi Maria,
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