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NOTES FROM WEIHAIWEL
(From Our Own Correspondent.)
WEIHAIWEL, September 30th. THE FIRST CHINESE REGIMENT. Undoubtedly the most important event that has occurred since my last letter is the arrival of a telegram from the War Office to stop the disbanding of the first Chinese Regiment,
Extraordinary, but
not
unwelcome," is the general verdict on this unexpected message, when one has sufficiently recovered from his astonishment to be capable of having an opinion at all. Ever since the telegram of February last the regiment has been dying by degrees. Each month it has lost some ten per cent, of its original strength. Now, in the midst of this "funeral march comes the order like a blast of trumpets, Hall and the process of slow death is suddenly arrested.
The cause of this latest move on the part of the War Office appears to be that the necessity for having some troops in the North seems at: last to have dawned on the dull intelligence of that elephantine department.. The question to be decided is what troops? And, pending that decison, the reducing of the first Chinese Regiment is to cease. It is obvious to anybody that if any troops are to be maintained in the neighbourhood of Peking or Tientsin, the choice should fall on the excellent force here ready to hand, which has already proved its efficiency as a fighting machine in that very district, rather than on Indian or other troops which requice transportation across thousands of miles of sca. This at length appears to have become obvious to the War Office. As one of the officers of the regiment said on receiving the new", "We are a funny people 1"-though I should have thought that it would have been better had the statement been less general and more particular!
The present strength of the regiment is $23. "It was generally understood that it would be reduce to about 300, at which point it was to have been transformed into a police force. However, some influences appear to have been at work at Whitehall-the regiment indeed is Credited with a good deal; or perhaps the con- tingent sent boms for the Coronation has created a good impression. It certainly looks as if the tide has turned in favour of the force hitherto "so ungratefully treated by the Wor Office." Not many of the officers have left up
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1902.
it is preity-safo to say, hail from the native city, which is, as you know, outside our juris diction. They have escaped without leaving a trace, and it is extremely doubtful, taking at!: the circumstances into consideration, whether the arm of British law is long enough to reach
A LITTLE BREEZE.
FAMINE AND PLAGUE.
-'AND REMISSION OF REVENUE Whilst writing on the subject of Remission of Revenue by the Imperial Government to the famine and plague-stricken agriculturists
of Gonjerat and commenting on the real or fancied grievances and vehement complaints of the official members of the Legislative Council of Bombay on the long and tedious interpella tions of their native colleagues, the Kaiser-i- Rind, one of the leading Anglo-Vernacular papers of Bombay, has the following
Coming to the interpellations, we must disagree with one of the superficial critics
in the Press who has faunted the robust
OF THE MULTITUDES " who have used it, or are now using it, we have never heard of any 'one who has been dis appointed in it. No chaims are made for it except those which are amply justified by experience. In commending it to the afflicted we simply point to its record. It has done great things, and it is certain to continue the excellent work. There is--we may honestly affin-no medicine which can be used with
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guard against imitations and substitutions, a "trade mark is put on every bottle of band of the inquisitors with the amplitude Wampole's Preparation," and without it none is genuine. It is palatable as honey and of their questions, perfectly oblivious of the
contains the nutritive and curative properties]; fact that in Little England, as many quesof Pure Cod Liver Oil, extracted by us from tinns as legislators put here twice on a
fresh cod livers, combined with the Compound single occasion in a year are put in a week or less, and that answers to questions are followed Syrup of. Hypophosphites and-the-Extracts of by more questions till the Ministers are driven Malt and Wild Cherry. Taken before meals it creates an appetite, aids, digestion, renewi to bay and their equivocality is superseded by
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for six or twelve hours at the utmost. Under the circumstances is it so great an abuse, as conjured by the imagination of the in experienced critic, of the privilege of interpella. tion, if a single member puts a dozen or even
Quite a little breeze has been created lately by a passage in Mr. Bruce-Mitford's recently published book on Weihaiwei. The passage in question deals with the various business. houses on the Island of Liu-Kung-lao, and mentions, as typical of such, the local branch of Comabé, Eckford & Co. After which it proceeds to recommend visitors, in the event of their experiencing any difficulty in finding the managers at their offices, to "make inquiries at the Club." Of all the business-houses on the Island, the Chefoo firm has seen fit to take. exception to the passage, and developed quite an amount of heat over it. The substance of the correspondence which took place, and which 1 understand is being sent to the local press,vis as follows. Messrs. Cornabé Eckford & Co. drew the attention of the author to the passage, maintaining that it constituted an insinuation as to the habits of their late manager-(a nuw one has recently, arrived)-and a reflection on their firm, Further, they asked the author to give an assurance that the two lines objected to should not appear in future editions of the book. To which the author most naturally replied that the two lines merely 'constituted a recommendation to visitors and
two dozen questions once or twice a year on a was "inserted, like most things in the book, for
variety of topics affecting the well-being of the |-the-guidance-of-visitors: He-regretted-that--Presidency?--Of course, we do not-wish-mem- such a recommendation should have been bers to apply themselves to questions of a been necessary. If in the future it became necessary, but maintains that it certainly had
most trivial character; though we must confess evident that it was no longer necessary, it
that sometimes a seemingly trivial question in- volves a principle. For instance, the Hon'ble would in the ordinary course of things be
Mr. Gokuldas has been reproached for asking omitted; but if it became desirable in the
a question regarding the payment of fowls the name of the Chefoo firm would not be interests of the public to retain the passage,
and cart hire in a certain obscure locality. On the face of it, it does look childish to ask such given only, but the names of the other firms added also. Mr. Mitford pointed out that, as is obvious to anyone reading the passage, the name of the Chefoo firm is quoted only as an example of a business house on the Island, and that the recommendation to visitors cannot be said to apply to their manager any more than to any of the others; that none of the other managers had seen insinuations, reflections, etc. in the passage; and that the manner in
a question, but what is the real object aimed
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orders upon orders and resolutions upon resolutions in the past, on the ethics of Collec- tors and their subordinates paying everything for their supply and transport,during their dis trict tours, instances are now and again reported where poor, helpless and ignorant villagers are never paid, or paid for most inadequately, for the supplies they bring forth or the carts and bullocks they furnish. It is this abuse either
to the present Major Watson, Captains which they had taken up the matter certainly by Collectors themselves or their subordinates Preparation " never deceives any who resort to
Jennings, Layard, Leader and Farquhar being all so far. What next is to happen we await
with mingled feelings of curiosity and resigna
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The peaceful tenor of the Colony's career has been broken by a marder. Early on Batur day morning last some natives coming into the town reported that they had seen the body of a Chinaman amongst sonic trees by the Chefoo Road bridge. A party was sent out to in- vestigate. The scene of the tragedy is within a stone's throw of the S.E. angle of the native city, at a point where the Chefoo Road branches off from the Coast Road South by the side of a `stream. There is here the only considerable
collection of trees for some distance in either
direction. The unfortunate victim was found to be still alive, but he expired before noon. It is remarkable that he lingered so long, for his body was severely bruised with blows from a heavy stick and stabbed in five places with a knife. The motive was obviously robbery, and the crime was as obviously premeditated. The man was a purveyor for one of the local but- chers and had been sent out to buy up cattle from the surrounding country. The murderers, SK forASAHI. JAPANESE BEER.--
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Most residents agree that this has been
AN EXTRAORDINARY SUMMER
and that the amount of rain and storm has been quite abnormal. Just as this moth
WAS
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ushered in with "the tail of typhoon," its conclusion has been similarly marked; for we have had to-day a violent thunderstorm, with sheets of rain. Yesterday there arrived a relic of some previous gale. A weather-beaten, water-logged junk was seen drifting helplessly off the western entrance, and was brought in by a tug. She had been seve rely handled in the storm, and her crew had doubtless been swept overboard by a big sea. The battered vessel was recognized by the men of one of the coastal villages as belonging to them and, "the women were weeping and wringing their hands, for those who will never come back to the town."
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