TELEGRAMS.
(Reuter's.)
The War.
LONDON, 29th March,
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, MARCH 31, 1904.
THE WAR.
EXCITING INCIDENTS IN THE RED SEA.
Since the outbreak of hostilities in the Far East we doubt whether there have been any
It was
It is reported at Seoul that an engagement
incidents in the Red Sea sa exchings those took place on the 23rd instant between a detachment of Japanese infantry and Cosia which four Butish culliers were forced to sacks between Anju and Chongfu. The take part, about the end of list mouch Japanese were victorious, the Russians retir.net case of asking a ship to halt, board the vessel, examine the: papers &c., and withdraw with the now familiar apology "beg to be
ing slowly. The Japanese had fifty killed;
the Russian loss is not knowth
LATER.
Chinese Labour in South Africa.
excused," but a case of deliberate detention.
Austraban Station, where she will replace H.M.S. Sparrow, reports that she WAR shadowed by a Russian torpedo boat near Surt. When the Clio was about 50 miles off Suez, a fleet of Russiao men-of-war was sighted at a distance. The night was a very dark one, and the Russians were continually flashing their searchlights. The British gunboat which was steaming at a speed of ten knot an hour, continued her voyage without taking any not ce of be Russian warships, when, suddenly. the look-out man saw a ship 50 yards behinri her, and identified it as a Russian destroyer, which had been despatched from the inain
fleet to follow the Clio The British sloop
continued on her way, and was not signalled in any way. The Russian, which had ap
One of the detained steamers, the Frankly, arrived yesterday morning (says the Ceylon Independent of fith inst.) af er her release, Mr. Lyttelton in the House of Commons bound for lapan wish a full cargo of coal, and proached her, gradually wi hdrew and steamed
said that in view of the success in dealing with recent outbreaks of plague in South Africa, he declined to prevent the introduc tion of Chinese Inbour.
THE TIBET MISSION.
Calcutta, 17th March. The following news has reached Calcutta, The Tibetans at Tuna say that the proposed attack on the mission on March 2nd was post. poned at the instance of the Lamas who held a combination service at Gura and solemnly | cursed us for three days, prophesying that the British fn ces would dwindle away by acts of Providence The Tibetans report the arrival of reinforcements at Kalashar with 16,000 modern rifles of which all but soo are useless. The new troops are said to include levies from the Kongbo pravince which lies at the northern bend of the Brahmaputra. The Kongbos are a wild tribe who are believed to be the most material people in Tibet. It is significant that baties of Tibetans have encamped two or three miles to the east and west of the camp at Tuna, ostensibly to collect fuel.
The yak dung supply has failed at Tuna and bath British and Tibetans duced to use the dung of wild asses.
ROAD-MAKING AND SURVEYING. The difficulties of transport experienced by the Mission to Tibet have naturally caused
Government to devote considerable attention of late to the possibilty of making new sonds by various routes to Tibet. Some official, of P. W. Dept., have, therefore, heen engaged recently in consultation with those acquainted with the district in deciding if a new align ment is practicable through British Sikkim A still more important move has been made in the direction of trying to survey a new road through Bhutan.
Starting up the valley Jaidacera in the Duras the party, consisting of two executive officer, and an engineer, started early this month making their base of operations the forest bun- galow on the houndary of Bhutan. After cross- ing the boundary they were met by some minor Bhutanese officials who at first courte.
Cap a Kid: had an exc ting narrative to relate to brother Caplanes when he came ashore in the course of the day. The Frinkly tell Barry early in February, with a cargo of coal for Yokohams, and when she had reached the Red Sea, on or about the 2 th of the month, she was seized by two of the Russian battleships belonging to Admiral Wire-ius' squadron, and laken a distance of twenty miles below the Gulf of Suet where she had to anchor and keep company with the other culliess which were already detained und were under surveillance. Coal, of course, was contraband of war, and when the Kussins found out that the Frankby was also add with coal they naturally seized and denied her. They at first
THREATENED TO MINK THE SHIP. Later they made the folowing proposals:- 1. That he (the Captain) should take the ship himself to Sevastap k
2. Faiting this, they would put an armei crew on board and take her there themselves,
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3. Tint they would take the whole of the crew out of the ship, all her effects and valu ables, and then destroy her.
Meanwile the Admiral had cabled to the anthurities at St. Peterburg, and the reply came that the ships were to be detained and confiscated, together with their cargoes.
A day or two later another cable was des patched to the Russian Capital, and the Cap-| tain of one of the men-of-war barded the detaired vessels and informed their respective Captains that it was
THE CZAR'S DESIRE
that no merchant vessel should be detained or confiscated, and accordingly the four ve ses were liberated, after a detention uf eleven days A note to this effect was entered, in Russ an, in the log book of each vessel.
The ss. Frankby has a lascar crew on board Her lengthy detention had naturally caused her to rain short of provisions, and she signalled to the Russian men-of-war to this effect, but they took no notice of it. The skipper of the Frankby consequently had to put back in Surz and take in a sufficient quantny of provisions
ously informed the survey party that they&, before resuming his voyage to Čolon:ba, would not be allowed to proceed further. Since this occurred, however, we believe that higher authorities intervened and that the difficulties have been smoothed over and that satisfactory progress will presently be made.
AN EXCITING HUNT.
Chumbi, (Sikkım) 17th March. The Mounted Infantry. this morning, at Lingmatbang had a most exciting chase after a doc (Shao-Sikkim stac) which came down on the plains. The animal finally fell from ex- haustion and was captured alive. It is, pro- bably, the rarest zoological specimen in the world.-Er
TYNE LIKE A NAVAL BASE.
There are prosperous times ahead for the shipbuilders of the Tyne, thanks to British Admiralty and Japanese orders. At Messrs. Paimers' vessels for the Pritish Navy are either in course of construction or are under- going repairs. A remarkable sight is presented at the Elswick yard. Seven or eight warships. lie in the river, including the Turkish baule ship Abdul Hamid, the ex-Chilian cruiser pur. chased by the British Government, and the turbine-propelled Amethyst, third class cruiser. The keel of the new Japanese battleship was laid about a month ago, and the work is being pushed forward at inp speed. The monthly. report of the Boilermakers' Society says that
Messis. Palmers' wo ks have the appearance of a naval basc.
On arrival at Suez the Captain went on board a British man-of-war had the entry in the log- book translated, as till then he was in the clouds as to what the Russians had written. he entry showed that the ship had been detained and liberated, and could proceed.
I may be of interest in state that the four colliers, when they were detained, were sur rounded by two battleships, two cruiser, and :welve torpedo boats.
£85 A SHOT.
0,000 VANISHES WHEN THE JAPANESK
FLEET FIRES 118 GUNS.
The enormous cost of moderu naval warlar has been amply demorstrated by the recent battles in the Far East On certain ships the costliest single shots have entailed an expense of fo each. These are from the 12-inch guns, and if every gun on the Japanese battleships and cruisers was discharged but once, the total would amount to ver £10,000, to be correct,
10,311 175. 6d.
Take as an example the Arikasa, the flagship of Admiral Togo. The Mikasa is armed with 4 twelve-inch guns, 14 six-inch guns, 20 like- inch guns, 6 three-p under guns, and 6 two- and-a-half pounders.
These 12-inch guns each cost £6,0., and every shot costs ro. Two shots can be fired a minute, and thus in a short quarter of an hour the Mikuju's" four guns can discharge 120 shots at a cost of £1,603. But while her 2. ch guns are booming, other guns keep up an incessant fire. Her fourteen 6-inch guns throw some 18 shells of toolb weight each per minuts, and, as each shell costs £14, the tatal for 60 seconds is £252. With her 20 3-a guns In the Budget Estimates of the Bombay fort she can hurl 240 shells a minute of call weight, Trust of the new works contemplated the most
at the cost of £3 each, or £620 in alí. A important is the large project for the new docks | single shot from one of her six 3-pounders at Mody Bay, the final detailed estimates forests zo1, while that from a 1-pounder makes which were sanctioned by the Board in October big hole in 175. last and are still b fore Government. The
THE NEW DOCKS
AT BOMBAY,
The guns on the various flects range from total estimated C01* is s. 3.32.69,836, twelve and a-bali 10 single pounders, and including ranger of 3 floored sheds for each Maxims and ^ order fe`'ts, The 5.5 Canet gun berth, Railway sidings, and hydraulic cranes, is favoured by both sides, particulary by the plant and machinery. Tenders for the masonry Russians. It discharges shells at the rate of and excavation of both the wet and dry docks
ten per minute. As against the £0,000 idd have been invited, the date fixed for their for a single shot from all the Japanese guns submission being 12th April, 1974 le is (excluding torpedo-boat and destroyers, of accordingly anticipated that the hot weather course), the £3,210 that it would cost the and monsoon months will be spent in pre- Russians for the same thing looks a modest liminaries and that the work will be pro sum indeed. But they have only seven effective ceeded with vigorously in the next cold sea cruisers to the fore, and three of those are shut son. There has been no important alteration up in Port Arthur. At the same time, if they in the design which provides, as previously fired all their guns only once, the cost would desribed, for a wet dock to acres in area, he £3,20. The l'obeida (the Viet ry) may be affording a total length of quayage of 12,600 taken as the representative cruiser, for, although linear feet, with entrance go feet wide and a the dussian ships are built of varying designs, depth of water over the entrance sill at 11. W. they a e armed more or less the same. The O. N. Tides of 34 feet 3 inches, and a dry dock Pub facarries four in, guns, and a single 1,000 feet in length with entrance go feet in shot entails a cost of a. She has cleven 6-in. width which opens off the wet dock The out-gans and twenty 3 in. guas (12-pounders). She lay budgeted for in 1904-05 includes part cost also carries 26 one-pounders, the total cost of of a powerful new ladder dredger with two fring all her guns once being £544-5 F Hopper. barges each ul 1,000 tons capacity Press. -which are now under construction by Messrs.
Simons and Co., Renfrew. Half the cost of this plant, estimated at Rs. 10,93.509, is to be charged to the new dock and half to the special fund for the replacement of dredging plant.
off to rejoin the man body, being evidentl satisfied that a search was of no avail. The Clio, which started from 1'ortsmouth towards the end of January, had no intimation of the nutbreak of hostilities all she reached Malta, when a tramp-steamer gave her the news.
THE SUGAR TAX.
The proposed modifications in the sugar tax, to be pot before the Diet by the Japanese Gov. emment for consideration, are as follows:-
Quality I per picul, increase Y. 1,00 making
total tax Y. 200,
Quality 2 per picul, increase Y 140 making total tax Y. 300.
the intention of the Powers fully, to carry out the reforms, and we will to the atmost of our power assist in supporting this peaceable and humane work."
FRANCES SQUADRON
IN THE EAST.
Speaking of the naval preparations now going on in various French ports, Le Yuckt says :—- We have enumerated the various warships which could be sent to Chinese waters il need
be, but we repeat that there is as yet no ques tion of it. Besides, it is not advisable to send out ship after ship to encumber the French parts and points of support in Indo-China,
which are il furnished with machinery, tools and supplies. As it is, the stock of coal at Saigon, amounting to 9,000 tons, would be speedily exhausted if all the French war- ships were compelled to real there, as they would be in case of France being engagen In a war. It is true that the Minister of Afarine has just ordered a further supply of 6,000 tons to be sent nut, but there is a great walt also of her matenal, with which the home ports even are not too well provided. 11 is tumoured, says Le Yacht, that the Perle, a submarine, is to be sent out on board a
cruiser, and that it would be better to send out with one or two otliers on board the Foudre, a torpedo depot ship. In deciding when to
Quality 3 per picul, increase Y. 3.80 making send submarines to the Far East, the French
tot tax Y. 6.00.
Quality 4 per picul, increase Y 4 20 making total tax Y. 7.00.
THE NEW BUDGET. Amongst the several financial measures to be adopted by the Japanese Diet, with a view 1 increase the revenues of the country during the war, is a modification of import dues on the following gonis: -
Manufactured Sweet, from 10, ad calmein to be 30%.
Preserves with Sugar, from 57 ad valorem to be 30/
Salt qualy A, per picul, from 1.0418 ta be Y. 30.
Salt qualty B, per pul, frorn Y.0.737 to be Y. 2.50.
Alcohol, per tre, from Y. 003 to be Y. 0.45 Chinese sanshu ad valorem bom 20% in be 120%,
Tabacco, ad valorem, from rco) to be 2j0%.
The Matitur Hochenblitt, the organ of the German General Staff, has published an article Jiscussing Russia's prospects of reinforcing her army in East Asia. The paper, as already reported in a brief telegram, takes a pessimistic view of the capacity of the Trans-Siberian Rail- road, and especially of the section crossing Lake Baikal, where it says the difficulties to be overcome are enormous. The limited capacity of the line is said to be a much more serious matter than the threatened damage to it by natives. The paper estimates the present trop moving capacity of the railroad from Russia's experience of last summer in moving two brigades to Tschita, cast of Lake Baikal, which was only accomplished at the rate of eight and a half miles an hour. At this rate it would take thirty-six days lu convey 25,000 men from the Ural mountains to Mukden or Vladivostock. The Wochenblatt assumes the prevent strea.th of the Russian army in Eastem Asia to be 158,761 men, and, upon the foregoing estante of the time require i to more trops, at declares will take until April 2 th tur Russia to raise the strength of her East Astant army to 233,000 The paper is of the apimon that the eastest thing for Japan to do to compel Russia to abandon Mancauna is 1 strike at the centre of the country, or, in other words, concentrate her forces against Harbio.
men.
BALKAN TROUBLES.
RUSSIA'S APPREHENSIONS.
Apprehensions respecting the maintenance of peace in the Balkan Peninsula are rapidly spreading and growing more intense very largely to unauthorised statements from Germany abour England's determination to usurp here of provector of the Christians in Turkey and to obtain a stranger forting in Southern Persia. "High official circles" at Berlin authorise a Russian correspondent there to state that Mr Chamberlain had recently said to intimate friends, "Englund will profit by the first opportunity to be in war "stream" of such perniceat facts" is bein poured unceasingly into Russia from Germany, and is exlculated to cause enormous harm to the peace Earope and the world.
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authorities would do well to consider that the current of most of the rivers out there is very swift, and that the speed of the Perle type of submarine is only eight knots. In the rivers at Sagon and Haiphong the speed of the current :s from 410 6 knots. It is also a question whether life on a submarine in the tropics is a possibility.
THE NEW GOPERNOR OF THE -STRAITS SETTLEMENTS.
"TRUTH" SAYS THE APPOINTMENT CREATES PROFOUND INDIGNATION AND DISGUST."
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HONGKONG RIFLE ASSOCIATION.
ENTREES. Mution Cutlets a l'Italienne. Braised Fillet of Reef a la Jardiniere. Tomato Farcic.
CURRY. Sweetbread.
JOINTS.
Roast Sirloin of Beef and Horseradish. Roast Capen and Bread Sauce. Boled Call's Head Sauce Piguante. Cold Galantine of Turkey and Egg Salad.
SWEETS.
Baked Fig Custard Pudding. Pineapple Ice Cream and Genoa Cake. Apricot Tart Tipsy Cake.
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VICTORIA RECREATION CLUB.
SEVENTH ALLIC MEETING. THE COMM TTEE of the VICTORIA RECREATION CLUB request the pleasure of the Company of the LADIES of Hongkong on EASTER MONDAY, the 4th April, at 11.3, on the Hongkong Football Club Ground (kindly placed at the disposal of the Committee) at the Happy Valley.
By kind permission of Lt. Col. W. S. BIRD- WOOD and Officers, the Band of the noth Mahratta Light Infantry will perform during the afternoon.
Admission to the Grand Stand and Enclosure (Gentlemen) $1.00.
Members of the Hongkong Football Club on presenting Membership Ticket. Free.
No Person's other than Officials and Com-
Truth, of February 25th, brought by the last april, will be for SPOON, com pelitors allowed within the Course.
mad, has the following :-
The appointment of Sir John Anderson to the Governorship of the Straits Settlements has created profound indignation and disgust throughout the Colonial Service, and should properly be the reward of arduous and distin- guished service in the Colonies. 'There would be no difficulty in finding men who had a good claim to the berth on such grounds. But all their services are disregarded in favour of gentleman who had never seen any Colonial service, and who rises at one step from the status of a Downing Street clerk, salary graded
Frum £50 to £1,000 a year to the dignity of "His Excellency the Governor, salary and table-money £5,800 per annum, with a large furnished house and innumerable perquisites, an A. D). C. at L6o a year and with valuable lucal patronage! Whatever Sir John Anderson's abilities of services, there is nothing in his retard to justify such extraordinary favour as this. It is also impossible to suppose that Mr. Allied Lyttelton, in lus few weeks' sojourn at the Colonial Office, was so impressed wab the services of one of his principal clerks as to feel bound to reward him in this way at the expense of the whole Colonid Service. He must obviously have been prompted to make, or approve of the appointment, and there is
le difficulty in identifying the prompter.
TO SINK THE SUBMARINE.
The submarine will certainly add a new terror Inventurs to the naval warfare of the future. may claim to have solved the question of sab-
marine navigation, but there is still plemy of room for improvement m various details- notably vision when submerged and speed when running both above and below water, 1! is this low speed, coupled with the comparatively long ume taken by some submarines in diving, that will give an opening to a counter-attack by ships whose movements are confined to the surface, either by gunfire, throwing heavy explosive charges, or, in the case of fast vessels by the use of an outrigger torpedo. The submarine has to come to the awash position for the purpose of recounottring her prey. If she sights a watchtaf destroyer pa trolling outside the enemy's feet, she starts diving at unce. But it has been estimated that a thirty-knot destinyer can cover no less than 926 yards in a minute, while those only able to do twenty-five knots are good for 771 yards in the same short period. So that the destroyer, having seen the submarine half a mile distant, is after her with the speed of a railway train, and if, as is the case with some foreign sub- marines, the fugitive lakes two or three minutes to get well below out of harm's way, her career and that of her crew would probably be quick.
But despite the warning given by the Minister of Foreign Affairs to the Tulgari in "Government, the danger of war between Bol
garia and Turkey is recognised as real andy terininated E increasing.
All accounts show that both countries are actively preparing. The la est intelligence from Sofia states that the soldiers already trained, who in ordinary times would have been dismissed to their homes, are being retained in the army in all the towns on the Turkish frontier. The Pore likewise has been preparing for some time, and Austria is ready To carry out the concerted plas,
Consular reports from Turkey describe the bit terness of the Mahommedans as being wrought to a high pitch. While the Grand Vizier, Ferid Pasha, gives full assurance of peace, in military circles a Holy War is openly spoken of. On the other hand, the Turkish Embassy at Vienna states that all reports of Turkish mobilisation are entirely without foundation. Turkey has also issued a Circular Note to the Powers wherein it is declared that she enter
taiss no warlike designs, and that the re- inforcements of troops on the frontier are only intended to prevent the crossing of Bulgarian bands.
At the ceremonial audience of Mr. Bucha-
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Quotations for the week close as follows:--- Hongkong lani s
$6173 $.85 Sil. Hongkong Fires China Fires
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HE COMPETITION on SATURDAY,
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Ramura, 200, jo and hoo yaids. Seven Shots and a Sighter at each Range.
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