JAPAN'S NAVY.
A CHILD OF THE BRITISH FLEET,
At the present moment interest centres in
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1904.
and methods this may have been true; but that
was before they understood the reasons for the numerons innovations they were asked to adopt. They copied first and found out the reason
the Navy of Japan. She has built a complete afterwards, which seems to be quite the right
Intimations.
Division of the City of Victoria and in the Eastern Division of Kowloon are
fleet since her struggle with China only ainey to learn a new language-learn to speakWNERS of HOUSES situated in the years ago, and greatly improved her organisaHowever this may be, it is quite certain that hereby notified that under No. 5 of the Domes-
tion, which was then good. All the ammoured ships, except the Yakumo and Adrums, were built in Eng and, and many of the other ships are also of English orign. In fact, the Japan ese Fleet has been largely moulded on the British model by Braish officers. It is the child. of Great Britan. When the people first awoke to the meaning of sea-power, they realised that they were situated in the Far East much as Great Britain is in te Far West, that both countries must make their flects their first line of defence. As far back as the seventies the British Admienity was approached, with the re- sult that a mission was sent out from England to lay the foundation of the nuval organisation on which Japan has built. Vice-Admiral Sir Archibald (then Commander) Douglas and a
first, and then study the grammar afterwards,
they are now a long way past the imitative stage, and in some matters they appear to have improved upon the methods of their instructors, With further reference to the perronuel, Admiral Fitzgerald states:
The first thing that strikes one is the im. mense earnestness of officers and men, a deter mination to excel, regardless of trouble and in spite of occasional mishaps. There is no shilly. sballying, no dilatoriness, whatever they do they seem to do with all their hearts and as if they liked it. The pay of both officers and men is very small compared with that of other nations but they appear to be thoroughly well. contented.
Japan has built up her navy with the assist.
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Domestic Building or part of such Building tic Cleanliness and Ventilation Bys-laws any which is occupied by members of more than one family shall, unless specially exempted by the Board, be LIMEWASHED and CLEANSED throughout to the satisfaction of the Board during the months of JANUARY and FEBRUARY. The Sanitary Board being convinced of the necessity of Cleanliness in its efforts to stamp out Plague, is determined to rigorously pro secute any owner in default after the 39th
FEBRUARY.
Auction.
Action No. 143 of 1903.
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONGKONG,
ORIGINAL JURISDICTION.
PUBLIC AUCTION.
DURSUANT to an Order of the Supreme 1 Court made in this Action and with the Approbation of ARATHOON SETH, Esq., Act- ing Registrar,
THE FOLLOWING VALUABLE LEASEHOLD PROPERTY, situate at WANCHAI to be Sold by PUBLIC AUCTION, TO-MORROW
NOTE: The Boundaries of the above Dis-(SATURDAY), the 13th Day of February, 1904, tricts have been ALTERED and are now as at 12 o'clock Noon, on the Premises, follows:-
by
THE EASTERN DIVISION OF THE CITY IS BOUNDED ON THE WEST BY GRAHAM STREET AND ENDICOTT STREET.
MESSRS. HUGHES & HOUGH, Auctioneers,
Mails
ORIENTAL
STEAM
HAVN
COMPY
THE PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL STEAK NAVIGATION COMPANY,
STEAM FOR TRAITS, CEYLON, AUSTRALIA, INDIA,,|
ADEN, EGYPT, MEDITERRANEAN PORTS, PLYMOUTH AND LONDON.
Through Bills of Lading issued for Batavia, PERSIAN GULF, CONTIMENTAL, AMEKI- CAN and SOUTH AFRICAN PORTS.)
THE Steamship
"MALTA,"
Consignees,
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES. THE P
"HE P. & O. S. N. Co.'s Stésinship
"BORNEO,"
FROM ANTWERP, LONDON, PORT SAID, SUEZ AND STRAITS." Consignces of Cargo by the above-named vessel are hereby informed that their Goods are being landed and placed at their risk in the Hongkong, and Kowloon Wharf and Godown, Company's Godowns at Kowloon, where each 'consignment will be sorted out Mark by Mark, and delivery can be obtained as soon as the Goods are landed.
Optional Goods will be landed here unless instructions are given to the contrary before 1 P.M., TO-DAY."
Goods not cleared by the sath instant, at 4 P.M., will be subject to rent.
No Fice Insurance will be affected by me is any case whatever,
Damaged Packages must be left in the Godowns for examination by the Consignee's and the Company's representative at an ap- pointed hour.
All claims must be presented within ten days they cannot be recognised. have left the Godowns.
No claims will be admitted after the Goods
number of other officers of the British Navy had ance of Great Britain, but to-day she stands on the West by Robinson Road and a Straight No. 7. Albany Street and held from the Crown | BOMBAY, TO-MORROW, the 13th instant, of the steamer's arrival here after which: date
a hand in this early work, and as recently to the Japanese Government as naval adviser and lat- terly Captain E. T.C. Troubridge, R.,, has been attached to the British Legation at Tokio, and has no doubt given advice and assistance, These youngest children of civilisation chose the British Navy as their model, because they had faith in it, and in order that their future officers might see how English abips were managed a number of cadets were sent to sea
alone. Before the war with China the fleet was regarded with some distrust by the majority of the people, but the prowess which officers and men then displayed raised enthusiasm for the fleet to a high point. The impatience which has been shown in Japan during the long- this new pride in the navy; everyone in Japan delayed negotiations is largely the outcome of believes that, even against so great a Power as Russia, officers and man will be able to give a good account of themsleves. The training of
The Eastern Division of Kowloon is bounded
Line drawn from the North end thereof through of Kowloon. the Yaumati reservoir to the Northern boundary
By Order,
Sanitary Board Office, 4th January, 1904.
G. A. WOODCOCK,
Secretary,
JURY LIST 1904.
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NOTICE is hereby given that FURS VARY
The Property is registered in the Land Office as Section D of Inland Lot No. 429 with the Messuage and Buildings thereon known as for the Residue of the Term of 999 years.
Annual apportioned Crown Rent $13.83. For further Particulars and Conditions of Sale, apply to
EWENS & HARSTON, Solicitors. Hongkong, 12th February, 1904.
Notice
of Firm.
NOTICE.
bove Ports.
Captain. C. L. Daniel, canying His Matesty' Mails, will be despatched from this for it Noon, taking Passengers and Cargo for the Silk and Valuables, all Cargo for France, and Tes for London (under arrangement) will be transhipped at Colombo into a steamer proceeding direct to Marseiller and London; [232 ather Cargo for London, &c., will be conveyed
vid Rombay,
in British men-of-war, and studied in the naval the younger officers, in particular, in their establishments of this country. Nothing that warlike duties has been of the most thoroogh CONSOLIDATION ORDINANCE, 1887, I have NOTICE is hereby given that THE IN.
could 'e done to give the officers of the Japa. nexe -et an inside knowledge of British methods was omitted, and even to-day two Japanese officers are serving in British men-of-
kind; they live for the navy, and all other interests are far away in the back ground. These products of the newest system of training feel that they have at their head officers, who,
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PORATION have, ns from the NINTH DAY
TERNATIONAL BANKING COR.
Parcels will be received at this Office until 4 F.M. the day before sailing. The Contents and Vaine of all Packages are required.
Shippers are particularly requested to le the terms and conditions of the Company1
Its of Lading.
For further Particulars, apply to
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Hongkong, 12th February, 1904.
E. A. HEWETT,
Superintende Hongkong, 6th February, 1004
FROM HAMBURG, PENANG AND SINGAPORE
HE H.A.L. Steamship
"ANDALUSIA,"
Captain G. Schmidt, baving arrived from the above Ports, Consignees of Cargo are hereby requested to send in their Bills of Lading for countersignature by the Undersigned and to take immediate delivery of their goods from alongside.
Optional Cargo will be forwarded unless
war, one in the Mars and the other in the if they are not of their own high scientific THURSDAY, 18th instant, in Order that any YORK being the Businesses carried on by NORTHERN PACIFIC STEAMSHIP notice to the contrary be given before TO..
Royal Sovereign.
OF FEBRUARY, 1904, taken over the Business of the EASTERN BRANCHES of THE GUARANTY TRUST COMPANY OF NEW the Latter Company in HONGKONG, SHANG HAI and MANILA and that, as from the said
TERNATIONAL BANKING CORPORA-
During these years, when an experienced ditions of warfare, are no mean strategists and standing, are experienced in the actual con staff was laying the foundation of an organ-tacticians, and have had ample opportunities other Person may be respectively either added NINTH DAY OF FEBRUARY, 1924, THE IN- |
sation in Japan, and Japanese officers were adrat in British ships, a truer conception of these small but intelligent people was obtained. Subsequent experience has fully confirmed the high opinion formed in these early years. The officers are quick, good disciplinarians, and keenly devoted to the scientific side of warfare, including gunnery and the torpedo. The Japanese have always had a love of the sea, and
for bandling great fleets.
Intimations.
LEVY HERMANOS.
DIAMOND MERCHANTS, JEWEL
this is reflected on board the modern feet as surely as in the old days of quaint sailing ships. ' The men, like their officers, have shown coup- age, powers of endurance, and a high order of intelligence. Throughout the war with China, all the crews behaved admirably. The world rang with their prowess, and no doubt in any conflict in the future they will achiave yet 53 greater distinction.
Appended is a complete list of the men-of-
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war which belong to this, the youngest of the THE CHINA & JAPAN TELEPHONE
Great Powers, and the ally in the Far East of Great Britain. All the first-class battleships' and a large number of cruisers and torpedo craft have already been mobilised....and are at sea under the supreme command of Vice-- Admiral Togo, Japan's " Fighting Admiral,” as he is styled. The ships completed for sea since the Chino-Japanese War are indicated by an asterisk.
[List has been already given, so far as con ceros chief fighting ships -Ed., S.EP]
Such is the fleet which Japan has at her com. mand, almost all its more Important unlis hav- ing been built since her struggle with China, and paid for largely out of the indemnity she then recelved. It will be seen that the coun. try possesses twelve first-class modern armour,. ed ships, six being battleships, and six lar ge cruisers-in fact, battleships in disguise,' Ten of these man-of-war were constructed in
England, and only two abroad-one in Ger many and the other in France. In torpedo craft Japan has a graat numerical superiority. over all the Powers represented in the Far East, and along the much.indented coists of Korea, as well as in the protection of her own territory, she has ample scope for successful : operations.
Probably no British officer bas studied the i Japanese feat for so many years, and with
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such care, as Vice-Admiral Penrose Fitzgerald. BATTERIES,
He was with Lord Elgin in 1838 when the
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at that time, with the first steam vessel pos
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Queen Victoria Admiral Fitzgerald also visited INSULATORS, the country in later years he was there in 1899-and his opisina of the personnal of the fleet has a peculiar interest, since it expressat the views of one who knows what efficient crews should be, First, referring to the war with China:
The blockade of Web-Bal-Wel during winter of Arctic severity showed a tenacity of purpose, a patriotic devotion to duty, and an utter disregard for harðahips' and fatigue which are unsurpassed in any naval Records I have read. As an instance of the plock and determination shown by the Japanese pavy on this occasion, it may be anentioned that a lieutenant in command of one of the torpedo-boats was frozen to death at his posts and there were many other epi soden during the war which showed with what heroic contempt for the terrible hardships of a winter campaign in North China the fapanese naval officers and men were animated. The
· pluck and hardihood are, no doubt, inherent In this race of these sturdy y warriors; but all the dash, courage, and endurance in the world will not enable men to work modern warships and torpedo-boats without previous training And experiance; and it was in recognising" this fact that the Japanese statasmen showed a wisdom and foresight which could scarcely
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PRICE LISTS ON APPLICATION,
ELECTRIC BELL INSTALLATIONS,
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Estimates given for all kinds of Electrical work.
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The said List will remain so posted until
requiring that his Name or the Name of some Person may apply by Notice writing to me
to or struck off from the said List, upon cause to be duly assigned in such Notice.
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STEAMSHIP "OLYMPIA,” FROM TACOMA, VICTORIA, YOKO. HAMA, KOBE AND MOJI, signees of Cargo are hereby requested to send The above Steamer having arrived, Con in their Bills of Lading for countersignature and to take immediate delivery of their Goods from alongside.
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G. DE CHAMPEAUX, Agent, Hongkong, 9th February, 1904.
FROM HAMBURG, BREMEN, ROTTER, DAM, ANTWERP, PENANG AND SINGAPORE.
THE HAL. Steamship
"BAMBERG,"
Captain Miltzaff, having .amired from the above Ports, Consignees of Cargo are hereby requested to send in thair Bills of Lading for countersignature by the Undersigned and to take immediate delivery of their goods from alongside,
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