THE WAR.
THE AREA OF OPERATIONS IN KOREA.
[BY ANGUS HAMILTON.] The area of immediate activity in Korca lies at the present moment in the region immediate ly between the watershed of the Yalu and the chy of Pyongyang, Until the Japanese have arrived at the Yalg, however, affairs of outposts only will occur, since ordinary military precau- tion demands that either side should project in advance of their position a screen of outposts by which to cover their preparations: It is, therefore, unlikely for the moment that any engagement of importance will take place.. Various scattered parties of troops will still maintain observation of each other, any general action between the opposing forces being reserved until the Japanese are in touch with the Yalu position.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 1904.
certain naval flourish, they are at the moment | the command of Colonel Pavaroff. The cavalry subsidiary to the principal features in the situa- scouts which were operating as far as Wiju tion, although they serve to distract attention ware the first and fifth companies of the Argun-¦ from the operations on land. In the meantime, sky regiment: The first-named regiment com- however, while the ineffectual bombardment of | prised 898 soldiers and 55 non-combatants, and Port Arthur continues, Japan is gradually had ga waggons attached, apparently belonging | securing Key lines of communication in Korea to the commissariat department, The Japan
and bringing up.
up her forces to the strengthese army found, in the vicinity of Ka-san, a which the scans of her operations will demand. military suit of clothes bearing the crest of the Many days, however, must still elapse befors First Regiment, together with a number of the campaign may be said to have moved be overcunts and some of the Russian military yond its present and preliminary phose. equipment.
"EMPRESSES" AS CRUISERS.
ON THE WAY TO THE FRONT.
5.5. Ping-Tsing (Off«Moji),
March 23rd.
It was well in the middle watch when the
It has fallen to my Int in my time to be mixed up in all kinds of floating craft: het "This here 1861-er" with her Chinese fing and Japanese crew beats all. About the size of one of the Glyde clathas, anti quite as speedy, she accommodates (?) 252 passengers. Once known as the flee fin, she was no doubt (40 odd years ago) a flyer; but alas! we have progressed, and her old compound engine as it wheeze out its chorts would supply Bobby Burns's
In regard to the report that orders had been given the company to transform the steamships of the Empress fine, plying between Vancouver and the Orient, into armed cruisers, we finding-waited for "clang" of the antiquated that it was reported that the Empress 1 shipped stand-by bell rang out and the mud hook slowly at Hongkong weir six-inch guns and all the unbest itself from Dai Nippon, A. cold Nor'easter is blowing, and I anticipate a rough necessary equipment for making the important change in their capacity. It was also under passage. sloud in Vancouver that the Expresses, until Preparations to this end, we may take it, are the termination of the present war, are to main. being pushed aliead rapidly, and in the mean-lain the vigilance and readiness for enter. time a general lull in the development of the gencies while at sex that would be observed on campaign is noticeable. The pause which board a British ship of war. On the Empress thus takes place is a merciful one for the at suitable spots on the broadsides there are interests of the Russians, whose lack of pre-sponsons on which the six-inch guns are mount- piration becomes mare apparent as the days ed with their steel shields, while the ammnuni. pass. Indeed, it is to be doubted whether any tion for the guns is kept at places handy to Power played for so grim a hazard with so the guns, and well protected from possible little in hand. In every direction there is a stray shots. The vessels are specially strength-ghost "a song of steam." Having made sundry complete absence of supplies and materials; cnes all around the gon sponsons to check the the chaotic condition of the Russian com- strain of gun fire, although the carriages of the munications making it impossible that any six-inch weapons are fitted with the Vavassour force can be detached from the Yalu and Liao coil apparatus which gathers up the recoil "positions, as well as the work of holding the and allows the gua to return to fiing position railway, to take the initiative in Korea. The without handling. Owing to their speed and alternative may be less disastrous, since the coal capacity the Empresses would make armed Russians fight well on the defensive.
cruisers of no mean power. As is generall, known, the officers and crews of those fine vessels are naval reservists, thoroughly trained for their duties in case of any trouble event of Great Britain being drawn in the quar- rel, the Empres es would play no unimportant part in the conveyance of troops and stores.
There is no doubt that the weakness of the Russian-position-is well known to the Japanese, who otherwise would not proceed at once to convert Pyong-yang into their advance depot of supplies. If the Russians were capable of taking the field in fore the position of 'yon, yang, lying within the area of operations, would be too hazardous for the Japanese to attempt to seize before they had come to conclusion with the forces of their opponents. As it is, stores and men are moving through to f'yong yang without any sign of haste or any evidence of This procedure, extraordinary precaution. therefore, suggests that the Japanese possess exhaustive information upon the subject of the Russian condition, and if this premise is accurate it is impossible that the Russians can afford to move in any numbers across the Yalu.
The position which the Japanese are now holding permits a line from Pyongyang to Won-san to be taken up by their forces. Against this, there is evidence which shows that the Russian advance screen extends to Syak-chyon, a little south of Au-chyn, where the advance main body is located. Correspond. ing with this movement, a mixed force of Cos- sack mounted and dismounted ruen has arrive at Tan-clyon, on the east coast, some sixty miles north of Won-san. If reliance may be placed upon the existence of this force in the field, it would appear that the Russians are in occupation of the northern region, with the intention probably of uniting these two forces and falling back on the Yalu position. If the 'occupation by the Japanese of Hun-chup is night, it will be difficult for the force who have now arrived within the vicinity of Won-san to retrace their steps along the east coast of Korea to the Russian frontier. The only practical route is one which crosses the peninsula due west, and enables a meeting of these two ad- vanced Russian forces to take place some- where in the vicinity of An-chy The position of An-chyu is convenient for the Russians, since from that point, and running in a north-easterly direction, immediate observation of the move. ments of the Japanese forces along the Pyong. yang and Won-san line on either side of the Peninsula is possible.
SEA FIGHTING.
In the
From an engineering point of view the naval operations in the Far East are of surpassing interest, inasmuch as they constitute weil nigh the first serious fighting that has occurred with odern appliances. It is a singular circum. stance that the Japanese have now twice gained experience in sea fighting where we as yet have none, and our American cousins in the Spanish war very little. It would be wrong to generalize from the very meagre details yet to hand of sea fighting last month in the Far East. So far as yet appears, the torpedo, once 40 dreaded as to be threatened with cundemna.
lion as an infernal machine, is infinitely more inerciful in operation than shell fire. It is true that the ships torpedoed lay at anchor in a port where they could not well sink far enough to drown their crews, and indeed the picture drawn by the New York Itrald's correspondent of the Pertenied's conk calmly throwing out slops on the morrow of the disaster, gives a serio-comical touch to the affair. In that case the torpedoed ships have been simply put our of action more or less temporarily without any more serious loss of life than was richly deserved by a force caught so flagrantly napping. It would be a very different affair in deep water, but then the torpedoing of ships in steam at sca is not SO The more recent torpedo easily effected. action in a snowstorm would tend to show that Nature can occasionally be effectively used to dispense with the need for submarine boats.
calculations in regard to the vessel's two boats, four life belts, and twelve wooden buckets, have decided to stick quite close to the "rice buiter" and give the other 251 a chance,
Together with me, and closeted in a wee 100m, are three others; two are correspondents for Tokyo papers bound for Chemulpo. As anticipated, the weather outside Roku en was sufficiently bad to cause the skipper to anchor, and we lay bobbing about for the remainder of the night. It was no2, indeed, until 3 pm. on the 22nd that the s. a moderated and we were
able to start again.
Fusan, Mar. 23.
At 6 ant. we marls the rocky coast line, and soon afterwards passed the precipitous cliffs that mark the entrance to the land locked bay. Winding round the base of a fir-crowned hill, To the and the town of Fusan comes 10 view, westward a roadway cut through the soft bill leads to the railway terminus, and we could see a couple of engines hauling trucks on the sidings. Surmounting a bill, as one glances towards the railway buildings are imposing foreign-built houses, and over one of them floats the red ensign. Further along, half-hidden, are more buildings of substantial structure. A small breakwiter, about half-a-mile in length, runs along the water front, sume 2.0 yants from the "bund" At one end of this break- water is situated the Customs compound and the haloba.
One's first impression of Fusan is that the town is decidedly Japanese, from the sampans that carry you ashore in the houses and streets. But the Koreans and their garments are Al first
decidedly strange to the new-comer. the pure white of the rament reminds one of priests; but the suited and dirty linen of the labouring classes makes a somewhat unpleasant
contrast.
The streets on close inspection prove ill-kept and dirty, and although the telephone and electric light have come, there appears to have been no attention paid to sanitation......
Rumour reaches the camp, via Chemulpa, of "the fall of Port Aithur," and quite a thrill of excitement runs through the populace. We eave at noon for Chemulpo.-Kobe Chronic
Coming to the shell-fire actions it is interest-
A St. Petersburg dispatch reports a great to note how terribly successful it was off scarcity of foodstufs for the armies en route to Chemulpo against cruisers, and how relatively Manchuria. The problem is becoming su harmless at Port Arthur against fully armour.derious that army officials are apprehensive ships. It has long been foreseen that a shell lest they become unable to deal with it. Meat bursting among a crowd of men inside an iron rations are sparingly served on the long trip box has would convert a stricken ship's 'Iween decks into most ghastly shambles. That appal- Iker, and the lesson that seems first to be
across Siberia, in view of the many delays on the way, and the troops for the most part are
their personal interests for their country's sake. They can not attend to their aged and decrepit parents, can not nurse their sick and dying wives, can not lend" ear to the cries of hunger of their beloved children. Is there any one possessing the common feelings, of humanity who can look with calm unconcern upon these pathetic scenes of heroic patriotism and self sacrifice?' The State must of course take steps to provide for those that sacrifice their family interests on the altar of country, and we learn with pleasure that the Govern mant is now submitting suitable projects for the consideration of the competent authorities, But we have to take into consideration the facul, that any measure of relief undertaken by the
State must be subject to the restraints of rule and be governed by the general average of
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YOKOHAMA SPECIE BANK.
Fellowing is the forty-eighth report of the Yokohama Specie Bank, Limited, presented to the shareholders at the half-yearly ordinary general meeting, held at the head office, Yokohama, na 10th ult.:---
Gentlemen:-The directors submit to you the annexed statement of the labi ies and assets of the bank, and profit and loss account for the half-yearending December 31st, 1903.
The gross profits of the Bank for the past half-year, including yen 555,245 brought for- ward from last accounts, amount to yen 7,715.- 119, of which yen 5,597,551 have been deduct- ed for current expenses, interests, &c, leaving a balance of yen 1,617,667.
To-day's Advertisements.
CAULKERS to the NAVAL YARD. For Particulars and Forms for tendering, apply to the Chief Constructor's Office, Naval Yard.
F. B. OLLIS,
Chief Constructor. Hongkong, 7th April, 1904.
BUSINESS TRAINING COLLEGE.
"SHORTHAND,"
TENDERS are invited for the Supply of
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The directors now propose that yen 110,000
TO THE EDITOR OF THE "CHINA MAIL.” be added to the reserve fund, raising it to yen 9,320,000. From the remainder the directors
Hongkong, 5th April, 1904. SIR,-Your correspondent X. Y. Z. in last. recommend a dividend at the rate of twelve per night's issue should give his name and his OWN cent per annum, which will absorb yen 720,000, opinion, and not quote the Phonetic Journal. on old shares and yes 360 000 on new shares All Phonographers know the strong opposition. the Pitman Institution shows to all systems į making a total of yen 1,080,0.0. I
that have any good and original ideas, and has The balance, yen 427,667 will be carried for been the means of casting aside temporarily ward to the credit of next account.
NAGATANE SOMs, Chairman, Head Office, Yokohama, 10th March, 1994.
visible facts, 50 that account can not be taken. of the special circumstances of each family and each member of a family. Resides, the amount thus granted in relief neces sarily can not be superabundant. It might be enough for families with iew members in remote village regions, but it would be
in populous cities. Hence the necessity of evidently insufficient for large families residing resorting to private initiative and of supple- inenting these insufficiencies, correcting these nequalities, and endeavouring to meet the needs of each suffering family. Compatriots, it is our duty to look to the welfare of the weak who are dear to those that are spilling their blood and risking their all in defense of the Capital paid up honour of the nation. Let us at least endeavour to enable them to face death in their country's cause with peaceful heart-assured that the spectre of starvation will not menace the loved unes they leave behind. This is at once the duty and the privilege of their fellow-country. men, and we appeal to the public to co-operate
tion. We may add that though this Associa heartily in the discharge of the solemn obliga.
tion has been founded in v ew of the piesent crisis, it may subsequently happen that the result of the work done may suggest the advis ability of continuing the Association as a per manent institution.
Following are items from the N. C. D. Newt:-
Takio, 31st March. In the engagement at Chongju on the 28th of March, five Russina officers were severely wounded, and three Cos
Major- sacks killed and twelve wounded. General Mischenko was present at the engage-
tient.
The Russian attempt to neutralise New- chwang has failed, owing to the British stale- ment that it must be dependent on the with- drawal of the Russian troops
The Russian administration at Newchwang having issued preliminary regulations with re- gaid to the military control of the port, the Foreign Cunsuls on the 28th of March asked their home governments for instructions on doubtful points.
Tokio, 1st Apul.-It is stated on good authority that the Russian force between Chiulicachéng and Fenghuangcheng has now reached about one army corps. Relays con-
sisting of five or six men each are posted every one or two between Chinlenchéng and Antunghsien. The Russians are hastily erect ing entrenchments in the Yalu valley with the
Seven have been finished at Autunghsien, and object of keeping open their communications.
five or six more are under construction.
Tokio, 3rd April.-The Yalu is thawing. It 15 reported that the Russians have withdrawn from Shanchhyon, midway between Chongju and Wiju,
The contributions to the Soldiers' Relief So- ciety have reached ans million yen.
THE TOMB FESTIVAL.
The Tsing Ming, or tomb festival, which was celebrated throughout China on Tuesday last,
BALANCE SHELT
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acceptances, and other sums due by the bank Dividends unclaimed Amount brought forward from last
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several new shorthands and at least three splendid methods, to my knowledge for superior to the one named, invented over 60 years back by a Schoolmaster. Pitman's is obsolete; and as different as the CANDLEburned by Pitman, and the ELECTRIC light as used by the: up-to-date system." Sir Isaac Pitman told me at our last interview that our method as to certain strokes "was a clever inception," and 1- volunteered that so long as he lived 1 would nat introduce the new st the public. I kapt my word. It is the remaining partners that are so anxious to retain the Pitman Institute, and not one of whom, I aut certain, know a lesson in the one I am so successfully introduc. 607.343 ing throughout the world. I do not lay claim to be the sole inventor, but anly one of seven practical reporters from the British Houses of 72,871,851 Lords and Communs and High Courts. I am prepared to teach Pitman's system to any idiot who is auxious to devote three years as against as many months; and ten times the cost-
WARWICK PEELE, Principal,
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118,019,456 || I am, Sir, &c,
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555,245 1,062,423
Yen 221,200,837
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64,092,455
122,744,316 520,676
1,775,883
Yen 221,200,837
PROFIT AND LOSS ACCOUNT,
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We have examined the above accounts in
This definition of the location of the Russianling forecast has been verified almost to the subsisting on sour soup with cabbage. No and was responsible for much inconvenience detail, with the books and vouchers of the bank
and Japanese forces and their positions in Korea corresponds with the indications which have already been given of the direction in which the Japanese will advance. With Won: san, Chemulpo, and Fusan as their bases, the
earnt is that a cruiser should not let herself be
withstanding this grave situation, General Kuropatkine declares the soldiers are in fine caught in narrow waters where her speed and mettle and they will surprise the world by their maneuvring power cannot be utilised for avoid-willingness and capacity to meet the exigen ing shell fire. It looks as if the duo ned ships cies he admits are ahead in the bitter campaign at Chemalpho were far from well-equipped for lea is not provided by the authorities, but
and the returns from the branches and agencies, and find them to be correct.
We have further inspected the securities, &c., of the bank, aud also those held on account of loans, advances, &c., and find them all to be in accordance with
concentration of troops which is taking place the dread baptism of shell-fire they sa gallantly nearly every company suppites utself though the Ming dynasty. The Tsing Ming fesuval may the books and accounts of the bank.
in Southern Korea is independent of any action which may be attempted from the base which they have recently established at Possiet Bay. In all probability, the Japanese will not use Fusan much longer as a base to their operations in Northern Korea The supplies and men necessary to hold. Southern Ko et may deploy through Fusan; but for the immediate purposes of the campaign Chin-am po and Won-san will represent the immediate bases with the estuary of the Yalu and lossiel Bay as the ultimate bases of the future opera It is unlikely that any great movement will take place from Fussiet Bay until some de finite result has been obtained in the direction
Tiuns.
inen receive only seven roubles a year. The Captain say that tea keeps the rank and file in humour to bear hardship and face danger. Every tailway in Russia is carrying soldiers to
went forth to face. Before saying more than that one would like to have more reliable par- Liculars the extraordinary 8,0,0-yard range at which, according to the telegrams, the Japanese made such good practice, even adjunction points that connect with the Trans- mitting that the sea was so smooth as gave's steady platform. The chief lesson, so far, seems
to bear on the business of the deck officer> more than of the engine-room, or even than on
the designer's functions. It is: Don't get c.ught napping particularly in narrow waters, more especially on a partially armoured craft-above all where you have no battleships to retite upon-Indian Engineering.
Commander Hirose, who was killed in the of Port Arthur and the Yalu. The Yaly and second attempt to black Port Arthur, was Lian Rivers are, however, the turning-kay, 10 decorated with the Golden Kite Insignia, Third the operations upon land, and from Chorus Order, insignia of Small Rising Sun of tion on the flanks of the Liagtung Peninsula Font Order of Merit and granted a pension the strategic advantage rests with the Russians of 703 Senior Sergeant Sugino, who was qatil the Japanese have made their attempt to also killed, was decorated with the Insignia of invest Port Arthur or to cross the rivers. the Order of the Golden Kite and the Insignia The movement of troops elsewhere is supple ofthe Single Royal Rising Sun Order and a mensary to the general disposition of the forces, pension of Yaoo. which disposition is contained in chief by the Line of front occupied on; the Yalu. The Extremities of the Russian, position there, Ta-tung kao and Wi-ju, hold the line against which the Japanese must necessarily advance if they wish to tum Part Arthur. The deploy
Siberian line. Troop trains are followed by processions of cars lined with ammunition, guns, two-wheeled carts and hospital supplies. The soldiers are generally between 21 and 27
are provided with long sheepskin overcoats | and double jackels of deerskia or goatskin. Each company is under direction of its Cap- tain and supervises its own kitchen and no- minates its cook and provision master, All
aged with great efficiency as a majority of the matters pertaining to the company are man-
soldiers are peasants accustomed to highly developed communal existence.
NOBUO TAJIMA,
regarding "boy pidgin," is one of the three prin- cipal annual festivals of the celestial Empire, the other two being the New Year and the Mid-Autumn festivals. They date back pro- bably no farther than the earlier years of the
be called the Festival of the Dead, and it reminds one very forcibly of Le jour des Maits which is celebrated in Paris on the last day of the year, when so many thousands of the Pari- sans repair to the cemetery of Père la Chaise, where their friends and loved ones are sleeping. so in China, un the Tsing Ming festival, unmense numbers of the people repair to the graves of their ancestors to worship and sacri-
Da. lice at their tombs. This no doubt was origin
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years of age, and are said to be lull of vigour.ly dune merely as an act of remembrance of Their uniforms are plan almost to the point of the dead, but it has apparently, in later years, de- mieanne>$ When the troups reach the mil- Mary storehouses east of Lake Baikal they grated until at the present une it would seem to partake more of the nature of an attempt to conciliate or propitiate the spirits of the dead, of whom the Chinese stand in perpetual dread. As we know to our cast, the Chinese who are away from home when this feast comes round, use every effort to return to where their ances- tors lie buried, in order that they may performs of supreme importance. The common people, the necessary worship, which is to them a maver
not having ancestral halls of their own, perform "TEIKOKU GUNJIN VENGOKWAL" their worship before the ancestral-tablet which From the Nippon Yusen Kaisha, who, with is found in every home, and in which the Chin- The last moments of Commander Hirose the Yokohama Specie Bank and the Mitsui ese believe the spirits of their ancestors reside. and the marine officer Sugino, both of the Russan Company, is receiving subscriptions in
The curious old custom of eating fruit and Futur, are as follows. When the vessel wa Hongkong on behalf of the association for re- flower cakes at the graves of their ancestors at about to drop anchor, Sugine descended into fief of those serving in the Japanese Army the Tsing Ming festival is still observed by the the hold to ignite the explosives, when the and Navy, we have received a small pamphlet Chinese who are desirous of fulfilling their filial enemy's torpedo struck the ship and killed him. setting forth the act of endowment, and giving duties and obligations, although, perhaps, not ent of a force through Hun-chun andows | Commander. Hirose, when the crew had got a statement of object. The latter is as follows; to the saine extent as formedy. This custom, i'movement with greater prospect of success, into the boat, not seeing Sugino searched At this sublime moment, when our soldiers however, originated in the Hao-chih or Cold once it will be necessary for the Russians.to through the ship. The sinking vessel erm. and mariners are fighting in defense of our Food Festival, which is probably still morean- fxtend their force across the two fronts, thus pelled him to take to the boat and as they were country against one of the great neighbouring cient than the Tsing Ming festival, and which the centre of the Yalu position, in retreating, a missile struck the Commander on "owers, nobody can deny that we are in the was formerly celebrated on the day preceding hald, in circk, any movement from the head caring his body overboard and leav face of an extremely serious crisis, the that festival. But this old least seems to have
Unil the Japanese attempt hasing nothing hind but a piece of flesh. magnitude of which is unparalleled in the been forgotten, or, being so near Tsing Ming | Malwa New
the Yalu, however, Port In connection with the brush at Chongju on history of our past. It is unquestionably a has caused it to be incorporated with it, says a stand intact, the strength of the the 18th ult. it appears that it was part of the moment when the whole nation ought writer or the subject. An old Chinese work,
lag sufficient to prevent the cavalry of the Imperial Bodyguard that was 10 stand up in the cause of the public referring on the Hao chih festival, says that Patna New dog of troops atg-liep-wan and Dalay ngaged with a detachment of the Chichinsky weal. The young and robust are with anyone who on this day eats hot food will have
as the operations on son may provide a regiment of Za-Baikal Cossacks under the flag. they have to sacrifice all his vice-faida destroyed by hall.
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