TELEGRAMS
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH "
SERVICE.
Oplum for China. (From Our Own Correspondent.)
BOMBAY, 10th Sept., 1903. The P&O. Steam Navigation Company's mail steamer left Bombay yesterday evening with about 1,800 chests of Malwa opium. Prices are as follows:
Malwa (Now) .,, Rs. 1,300 (Old) 1,380 (Oldest)
» 1,470
(Renter's.).
Algeria,
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LONDON, 8th September.
An attack has been made on a French convoy at Elmunger, Algeria; the fighting was desperate and lasted seven hours. The French force consisted of 250 Foreign Legion and Spahis of which 37 were killed and 47 wounded.
The Balkan Trouble. In official quarters in Sofia, it is feared that the conditions are steadily growing worse. The Macédonian organizations are straining every nerve to force Bulgaria into Roumania is strengthening the milit- my posts on the Bulgarian frontier.
war,
LATEK. A fierce brawl, has occurred. at Beirut
between. Mussulmans and Christians owing io a Mussulman having wounded an en- ployee of the American College; the troops who were called out, plundered two Christian houses; several killed and wounded.
LATER,
Russia and Austria have proposed that the Powers make joint representations to Sofia urging Bulgaria to sever all consicction with the Macedonian Committees and warn.
ing her to expect no protection should war with Turkey break out. Germany has as sented. Great Britain and Italy are willing, bút France is doubtful,
PSIS," UJIMA” AT MANILA.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1903.
PLANTATION COOLIE ROWS.
AMUNITIES OF A TOBACCO PLANTER'S LIFE.
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event causes no little excitement in nearly all Moro homes. The fight takes place in aring, about the same size as the one used for, a prize fight, and the gladiators, generally tall, gigantic, armed with broad and long-bladed swords, step into the ring as unconcerned as though they were merely spectators instead of the principals in a deadly combat. At their
aide, very soon pass from discontent to loud! THE WILD TRIBES, OF 2HE murmurs and even insults, quickly followed PHILIPPINE ARCHIPELAGO. by assault, Happily, in many cases, the revolt terminates with nothing worse than a severe- beating, leaving more wounds and bruises Having dealt with the pagan tribes of the en the assistant's body than its surface Philippine Archipelago, I will turn to the The following authentic account of a planter's contains square inches. Even popular assis- Meros of Mindanao and the Sulu group, draw
every movement, the protruding ‘muscular life on a tobacco estate in the Dutch Nether tants are often treated is a similar manoering attention, at the outset to the mistaken
veins denote 'great physical strength The lands Indies is related by our contributor: for merely receiving the crop at its true value, impression that the More of the Philippine is fight is sener lly fast and furious, as summe
Two assistants of a Deli tobacco estate were By far the greater number of assistants, in order Moro, only in name. Columbus, when he times insts a full hour, during which can be hotly discussing the merits or demerits of a to pacify the coolles make a compromise bet-first discovered America, believed he had found heard a great clicking from bright, shining headtandit in an estate, and especially the ween theirown conscience or fear and the mana- some part of India, and called the inhabitants steel, as the blades meet during the plunges demerits of this functionary in their own plantagers' orders and receive a much larger number Indians. So with the Spaniards when they first of the contestants is wounded, often both and parties. Perhaps, early in the fight one tion. The defender of the system for controlling of tobacco trees than have ever been planted arrived in the islands and met many Mobam-receive a wound; but still the fighting con- the Chinese coolies through, a mighty head-
medans, they immediately concluded they were tinues, altogether blood in small rivulets is fast overseer of their own nationality was driven out dangerous when either the manager or the branch of the dreaded Moor family, and termed streaming down the bodies of the gladiators. Finally, strength gives way to exhaustion, and them Moros-he Spanish name for Moor. I the battle comes 10 its sad end-fatal for one isthegeneral belief that they are the descendants of the principals, who falls dend or badly of the Dyaks inhabiting Baraco and Celebes. wounded, amid great cheering and yelling How many of them came to the Philippines in from the assembled throng,
triumphantly carried upon the shoulders of the first instance, is ent known, but that admirers to the village, where a great feast infusion of Dyak blood has resulted in a race
awaits the crowd, while the dead or wounded in every way distinctive from the various pagan gladiator is removed from the field, generally tribes, or families of higher civilization pertain by a less admiring crowd than that which ing to the Filipino race. From the early days xreets the victor. of the Spanish occupation to about 1870, they were masters of the seas bordering on the vast archipelago, and were generally known as suc- cessful pirates. Along the coast of the northern islands, are high, stone towers, built years ago by the natives, from which they could keep an cye on the Moro and give warning of hig approach.
of every positiatt, and at last admitted, that the assistants are disliked, or when a bad crop real and only justified reason of existence for the threatens to reduce the coolies' earnings to a functionary was the necessity for the manager minimum. After many days of sulky growl to know everything which was going on undering and more or less open conspimcy and the coolics, to be always warned in time of a threats, a mob of more than a hundred brewing mischief. That the headrandil gen Chinese against a single European, gather erally was a greater and much more dangerous at the man's house or assault him openly scoundrel than any other Chinaman on the in the field. Nobody, who has ever stood estate, a traitor to the proprietors and a never sa- this kind of attack escaped it, hurt or Binted leech for the coolies, and that some of the unburt, will, as long as he lives, forget the headtandils were chiefs of secret societies, and brutal noise, the passion te fiendish faces, the others monsters of depraved morals had long lifted parangs (arden knifes fixed on sticks) been admitted, and this last argument, that the and hoes, and the unearthly yells and roar- man had to be a reliable spy against his own ing, of the revolt, which generally leaves a countrymen and in the interest of the general bloody, mangied corpse, or parts of a corpse'in security musi enjoy an income and an authority the Geld, It even happens-and, this was a above that of the average assistant, broke the feature in Buoniciolli's case that hundreds last dam of the younger assistant's impatience. of coolies will simply sit in court over "And did not you tell me yourself that Tan their superiors and cold-bloodedly decide to A-hok (the hendtandil) knew the whole arrange murder one or all of them Ofen their fury ments of Buon cibil's murder eight days before is really directed against the manager, but the the foul deed came off? Where then, is the use victim is generally an assistant, and perhaps the of this informal scoundrel? By Jove, if the fellow least offensive of the lot. And notwithstand has the check to give me such impedence, as being the overwhelming number of the cookies, did to K. only last week, I will strike him down, they generally have a very sound respect for even if he were in the middle of his 450 coolies." the arms of a fighting man, who will with any "Oh! Mr. S. broke in the manager, who, thing laying bandy endanger the much valued unperceived, had approached the disputants and lives of the first row in the attacking force. As overheard the last part of the conversation, i a rule they choose a weaker man and one who be at rest for a moment, knowing that
if this is really your resolution, I shall not can be easily overpowered.
you are the man to keep your word. Only len months ago one of my assistants was murdered, and I am in deadly fear of another outbreak, and wish you would leave at once.".
"So I intend doing. Good morning, gentle-
men."
In the evening the other assistants gave the departing man a farewell dinner in the house of one of their number, a Scotsman, who had joined the estate after Buoniciolli had been murdered. At a late hour the murder was mentioned again; and the oldest assistant told the gruesome story to his cómr.de."
It happened at the time of the last (1885) crop, which had not been a very great one, early rains having spoiled a considerable part of the plants, which are sold by the coolies Messrs, Jardine, Matheson & Co stated to the estate. The official fiction classifies the yesterday afternoon that they had received plants into eight sorts, the smallest and most telegraphic information from Manila to the neglected being taxed at one dollar a thousand, effect, that the British steamer an, what the hight. Good average, tobacco was many days overdue at Manila from Singa- pore when the inst mail left, has teco ashore and had to jettison part of her cargo. We have since learned that the vessel has arrived at
3,001 TONS JETTISONED.
Manila. She-jettisone about 3,000 tons of
⚫ rice.
THEFT FROM MESSRS. PUNCHARD LOWTHER & CO'S STORE.
lp Ting, a second-hand shopkeeper, was charged before Mr. Sercombe Smith at the Magistracy this afternoon for being in unlawful possession of three steel keys, value $60, four spades, value $6 and various other iron ware, the property of Messrs. Punchard, Lowther & Co. Mr. Grist watched the case on behalf of the firm, and Mr. Looker represented the defendant, Mr. Spafford, storekeeper with Messrs. Pun. chard, Lowther & Co., stated that the firm had
It was stated that in Lingga, after the death of at least one European had been decided upon, the dice indicated" Buoniciolli as the victim, and two coolies, who were intimate friends after the fashion of Chinese coolies, as executioners. The two scoundrels started the row. by loudly complaining about the receiv ing price. Suddenly one of them struck the assistant, a young man, scarcely more than 20 years old, a blow with the heavy parang, which fractured his skull. Like a tiger B. jumped at his adversary and threw his arms around him with such a force, that the second murderer had to cut through one arm no less than four times, before he could deliver his friend from
the young man's grasp.
de M., a trenchman, and the oldest assistant on the Lingga estate, where this murder oc curred, with a kind of savage satisfactional being the only man in the company who had seen the corpse, specified the horrible wounds, thirty- nine in number and then added: "It was here, 40-hinarandah, that, we deppailed the bleeding corpse, just where your table stands, Kennedy; perhaps the spot is still marked? And so it was. The unpainted floor had been soaked with the blood of the fearfully butchered man and a faded, but quite recognizable, human form was still imprinted on the plank,
THE MORO STILL A SAVAGE, The Moro of to-day is as much a savage 49 were his forefathers. When broughtin close touch with civilization, he is an artisan, but for the most part, be remains a fisherman, glorying in being a "first class fighter". While he knows nothing of firearms, he excels in the use of buckler, lance and sword, which - are his inseparable companions. He sleeps with them, and fights equally well on foot, on horseback, or in his fleet war canne. And not unlike the Dyak of Borneo, he is ab solutely indifferent to bloodshed or suffering and will take the life of a slave or stranger, merely to try the keenness of a new weapon. Locking upon work as a disgrace, his scheme of life consists in making slaves of less warlike men and taking their women for his harem,
RULED BY DATTOS.
Avisit to Mindanao will shatter many pro conceived notices, one of them being that the Mores are a united people, under one powerful chich, the Sultan. There is a semblance of a cental government, the race being divided into inany different tribes, each with its autocratic rule-a datto, whose cominand is law. Much bitter rivalry exists between these different tribes, and should the government be at war with any of the others, it would not involve
third parties. If the dispute has religious trou ble at its base, then the Moros would fight as a united people. It has also been taven for granted, that the Sultan of Sula is at the head of all the Mahommedans. This, however, is in -no sense true; for, while the Sultan has his own people, who, like the Moros of Mindanao, are Mahimmedans, there is no tribal or religious affiliation. The Sultan of Sulu is not the his dominion over many being racrely nominal, temporal ruler over the Moros of his country, whit over others he has no authority at all.
Sice the signing of the treaty in 1893, by General Davis, on behalf of the American Government, and the Sultans of Mindanao and Sulu on the part of the Moros, the government officals have dealt directly with the individual datios, for they are the recognized big men among the Maros.
The victor is
JAS. EDGAR SMITH.
JAPANESE INFLUENCE IN CHINA.
A RAPIDLY GROWING ASCENDANCY.
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PUBLIC AUCTION. Undersigned have received instructions
to Sell.by! PUBLIC AUCTION, SATURDAY, the 12th September, 1903, at 11 A. M., at their SALES ROOMS, No. 8, Des Voeux Road, Corner of Ice House Street, SUNDRY HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE,.
Comprising:-
DOUBLE IRON BEDSTEAD with WIRE MATTRESS, SILK TAPESTRY DRAW. ING ROOM SUITE, ICE CHEST, BOOK-
CASES, MOROCCO.COVERED COST MOROCCO COVERED DINING WRITING DESKS, MARBLE-TOP WASH- STANDS, TEAKWOOD SIDEBOARD with BEVELLED GLASS, PICTURES, DISH COVERS, &c., &G;
ALSO One NEW CONCERT PIANO, by Fandel and Philips, London; Three SCALES, Four IRON SAFES.(One by Lowe, London), and One COOKING MACHINE.
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Some interesting particulars Illustrating the ascendancy which Japanese influence has secured over China since the upheaval of 1900 was given in a Press Association Special Ser- vice letter recently despatched from Pekin, This ascendancy has, the correspondent says, tracted little attention because it has deve- loped so gradually and quietly, but never.heless it is probably the most important result of that
at No. 13, KNUTSFORD TERRACE, campaign, and one which may have the great,
THE WHOLE OF THE est consequences to the poliuus of the Orient.
HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, Many influential Chinese have been awakened
therein contained, Comprising: by the easy capture of their cap tal and the Russian absorption of the ancient seat of their ING-ROOM SUITE, DOUBLE and SINGLE SILK TAPESTRY-COVERED DRAW- dynasty to an appreciation of China's helpless-IRON BEDSTEADS with WIRE and ness, and are turning to Japan, as a neighbour RATTAN MATTRESSES, TEAKWOOD who raised herself from the same position, for OVERMANTEL with GLASS. DINNER help. Japan, for her part, makes no secret of WAGGON, TEAKWOOD EXTENSION her policy to unite the two great East Asiatic
DINING TABLE and CHAIRS, CARD VICE, GLASS and CROCKERY WARE, TABLES, PICTURES, DINNER SER- COOKING STOVE and UTENSILS,
Scc., &C.
&c. ALSO One LADY'S and One GENT'S BICYCLE, One RICKSHA, One CROQUET SET and One IRON SAFE.
native in an alliance which will enable them tó hold their ground against the aggressions of the West. To this end she desires to modern-
China by persuading her to adopt the Western matheds and, machinery necessary to make her independent, as Japan has done. Understanding the Chinese and associating with them intunately as no Europeans could and as only the Russians among European peoples can attempt to do, the Japanese are peculiarly fitted for this work.
The most noticeable evidence of Japanese progress is the great number who have settled in Northern China since the Boxer rebellion. Most of these immigrants are engaged in trade in a small way, and are able to meet the re-
quirements of Chinese retail trade in a manner
that the foreigner cannot,
Politically there is still greater progress. High Chinese officials have visited Japan's exhibition at Osaka, and have returned with their eyes opened to the advantages of Japanese
institutions.
There are now 200 Japanese employed in the Chinese army. All are in the northern and central sex-coast provinces, and have lieved that the Japanese Government.details superseded all other nationalities. It is be
these officers to serve without pay from Chira, the object being to reorganise the Chinese army.
The most significant feature of Japanese
progress is the manner in which Japan is educating "young China" Six months ago there were 1,000 Chinese stude ts in Tokyo; there are now 2,000. They are from the best families in China, many of them the sons of the highest officials and nobility. A part are | from the Manchus, the ruling race, and, mare wonderful still, there are some hundred or anore girls.
THE MOROS ARE WARLIKE. Although the Moros have ceased to be pirates they are nevertheless still the bold warriors of old, and being built only for the fatigues of war, they look upon work with a warrior's con- The result of the experiment of making tempt. The fact that they are as warlike to. | Japan the schoolmaster is watched with great day as their ancestors may be judged by the interest in China. Mr. Wang, the Chinese innumerable fonts dotting the country in which Superintendent of Education in Japan, finds they live. They are almost impregnable and his task no easy one. flis wards, be says, are can be seen every few miles. In fact, all the fast losing their reverence for authority and fur costas (villages) are forts entirely surrounded the ancestral traditions, and some have gone The next morning I left Lingga, where I by most formidable trenches and built with to the scandalous extreme. of adopting foreign bad had my first employment as
a tobacco high and thick stone walls having many loop. dress. Young China is mhbing elbows with planter after only seven months' service. holes, from which those within the fortification young japan, and is encountering new ideals -treedom of speech and of the Press, and I was the assistant, who did not like the im-fire their lankatas (a sort of cannon) at any ap
proaching foc. The strength of these forts representative government.
'These subjects pudence of Tan A-hok, headiandil of Lingge, may properly be conceived from the fact, that the Chinese students discuss in their societies. who on his knees confessed to the manager during a fight several months ago, it required if these 2,000 students remain long enou,h that he had known all arrangements about the days and nights for a battery of artillery to in Japan absorbing liberal ideas of government
demolish the walls. fou! murder beforehand, but dared not give
and organising societies for the promotion of The tribe always live along the seacoast, or their views, it would not be surprising on their it away for fear of being kille i himself I had rivers running into the interior and in the return to China if they formed the nucleus of a met, Buonicioli a few times in Medan, the Lake i anao country there is a large colony peaceful reformation or possibly a revolution
of them. These people are more warlike against the Manchu dynasty, Japan is teach
been at variance with government troops, more senses than one. They are known as the Lake Lazan Meros, and are greatly opposed to any form of Christian fanatics of the worst sort, and one of their role, religion or customs. The people are
minst fanatical beliefs, is that if they kill a
is supposed to be paid at 56 per thousand plants. After cutting the main plant, a second growth, called tonas, was allowed to be cut and paid half the price if an original tree. A coolic, who has planted 16,000 trees and cuts in addi- tion to those foo tomas would, therefore, draw 16x6 plus 8 x 3ollars-$120. This represents the income forfabout nine months, say from
There were four earnest faces 'bent over the January to (ctober. From October until spot and the conversation, which had formerly January the colles to the sorting of tobacco been so animated, ceased. We very soon-de- or other work or which they are paid daily. parted in different directions to our far away Against thefrop all payments received during houses. Before I left, Kennedy, who had been the first nine ponths are counted and the rest living in that house four months without even is paid eitherin one lump sum or in instal-knowing that it had been used by the murdered ments duringthe time of the shedwork. Most youth, said to me: I'll have those planks managers pier to pay the whole balance at planed to-morrow, until the form disappears once, and athe ray fixed for settling, theatre or the planks." troopsand tidelegates of the licensed gambling farm make griumphaut entry into the estate. the headtaril, generally, is the greatest share holder in thgambling farm and with a fatherly lost about two to three hundred shovels. Be grin he viss the drying sheds set apart for the branded the shovels in question, about three amusement of the many hundreds of his months ago, with the initial "C. When asked sub-ordinas, and there for several days, by Mr. Looker, why he did not imprint a clearer sometime ven for a whole week, they enjoy a brand, he stated that they would plane it off, as spree in amited pork, sweetcakes and opium, they did some time before and the small letter while the pair of shrill voices of young actors "C" was to escape their notice.
screams the horrible clarionets. The dice are rattlg day and night and the premises of the headhdils are swarming with hungry and exhaust looking faces of gamblers, who already hve lost the entire earnings of a year and my dozens of bankrupts put a cross againsneir namer on the large sheet, which doomdem anew to hard slave work for leasi dive months. The forms of contract is similso that of the Sing Kels (new men), beingfor three years, but a good and
coolie can easily earn montab-ve the inonibly advances in the next ar, and the wild spree with all its fears will recur in twelve months after
Mr. Looker:-How much would these sho. Pierces are the beating of the gongs and the capital of the tobacco districts in Sumatra, than the other tribes and for years haveing the Chinese young idea how to shoot in
vels be worth as old iron?-You do not call that old iron, do you? They are practically new shovels.
and know that he was a favourite with almost everybody on the estate..
I have alan known per anally D, who was murdered by his own coolies at, Gl..estate, slain with hoes by a gang of 12 conlies in the B miles from Lingga, and T., who was
Mr. Hanson Chief Detective Inspector sworn, stated that at about 3.30.p.m. on the 7th of hard. The house is ringing with money former Sugut estate. Brish North Borneo, dise, where they will find a harem containing
inst., he visited a house at No. 33, Gilman Bazaar, which is a marine store dealer's shop He saw defend int sitting behind the counter. He (Mr. Häuson) remained outside while Sergeant Muris in and Mr. Griffith searched the shop. The three keys, which are used for Concrete,
te, were lying at the main entrance when he arrived" He kept standing there, and Sergeant Murrison brought out the shovels. The defendant thƐn told him that they were left there, by a friend a long white ago. To
stion
$30 hand
the usicians, the actors and the licensed "more shovels were ugin brou,ht out, and as,
gnifers and their camp followers have parted be stood tapping them, the def. ndant again withe fruit of a year's hard labour of many remarked that he bought them with a set of red coolies. Only very few of them keep old iron. He was then asked to proceed to the head sufficiently cool, to return to the Station. Mr. Hanson further stated that beery Middie Kingdom, or to send their understood the defendant some nine years dings or initial winnings at the gre ago was coxswain on the stean-launch home to their relations. But this rem Perseverance, M
all-devouring, spre tobacco coolie a hard life. For this week immodera e enjoyment and five more days
("spree is the one fea'ure of
THE MOROS' WILL NOT WORK
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Christian they will go straight to eernal para ON LONDON, Telegraphic Transfer... 1971-6 both were exceptionally quiet and harmless from fifteen to twenty wives. Judgment gives have struck n single low at a confir, and T. Single handed they will attack half a dozen ON PARIS, Banic Bills, an demand..... 2351 fellows, D. was nwn for yes never to will run amok, killing every Christian in sight. way to the desires of eternal bliss, and they
was far to soft for the withes of his manager, armed soldiers, caring naught for death, which, whom these scoundrels really wished to they believe, entities sent to due recogni mu der, but dared not. I further knew. Rion in the other world if met while fighting. Assistant of Hekri, who, at the time of a general coolie row, was thrown in a river with 18 inches any more to-day, than their ancestors did cen- of water, and held down by a dozen coolies ago, and, as already pointed out, their pastime is waging war upon less warlike tribes heard the Infermat noise which accompanies. As a test, nearly two years ago, the government until he was drowned. The manager of Rimbun and enslaving the men to work for them. every Chinese row, drove the spurs in the tried to have them work on a new military flanks of his horse and arrived just in time to Vicare, Incated about a hundred miles in the road from Iligan along the seacoast to Camp save the insensible R, after dispersing the interior. The different datos were consulted,, cowardly murderers with a few revolver shots, and after considerable parleying and many single road between lingga and Clagur of these men finally reported to the officials in Rimbun and Bekri are lying in one row on a
promises made they agreed to compel the According to an old Rimbun custom, at charge of the road construction and were pof Morns they raled to work on the road, Gangs
every crop one or two assis ants are thrashed to work, but soon tiring of their new field of FATNA NEW... half dead. The three estates were the labour, one by one, they walked away until the
ganga; numbering hundreds of Moros, dwindled BENARES NEW to none. Such was the government's expe- sience with Moro labour. The road, which was
The defendant stated, a marine hawker, named Ah Kum, sold the implements to him, He bought the three iron keys for $4.30 and the the Chinese new year, he is cute to theatre of two murders and one foul murderous
assault on European assistants.
bolts for $2.80 per picul.... The marine hawker ther year as hard as his stiffened muscles told him he lived, at No. 8, Holland Street, il allow, aided by the nerve stimulating and Such is life-tobacco planter's life-and some ultimately completed by soldiers after months Shek-tong-tsui. The shovels were bought aervo-destroying opium, different intervals from Ah Kurp, together with ten
The case was remanded)
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A bad crop very
a lot of old iron. He did not describe the shovels by their name, bucentered them in
hook as o
the hopes of even the most
all Chinese present
when the time of.
Even in a goo they are Dever satisfied with paid for their. Loba
rious
times his end, At least twenty planiers died that dog's death at the hands of Chinese coolies.
F. M. J. S
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states that
sújts that have been brani has
long riven;
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those lost w
of the assistan
by the
gers of the lil-fated.
Courts have ded by the managi
of hard labour, opens up one of the wealthlest, and, antil recently, an unknown part of the island of Mindanao..
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