TELEGRAMS.
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LONDON, 14th April, The Tibet Mission in Parliament.
In a debate on the Tibet expedition in the House of Commons, Mr. St. John
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, APRIL 16, 1904.
THE WAR.
'THE RUSSIAN SOLDIER.
army will be greater than the British Army in South Africa, it will act in what is more or less hostila territory, and the enormous area from which the Eastern and Southern troops are We aie indebted to (be keen observation of drawn complicates the problem."
• Russian general for the following description of the men under his command. Of such sol diers as he describes, he mentions-that- Russia has more than two million on a war footing.
"Then you think the struggle may not end
as the friends of Russia believe it will?”
"If no arrangement is arrived at after the first big engagements the war may be long drawn out, Japan is now assured of her bases,
AT: THE WINTER PALACE. The Tsar continues to live very quietly, scarce leaving the precincts of the Winter Palace, except to pray at some favourite shirine. The sudden death of Gen Vannovsky, his oldest and most trusted adviser, has brought home to his Majesty the remembrance of Russia's great mistake in ever taking Port Arthur, For Vannovsky was Minister of War when that eve it occurred, and strongly dis-
FINANCIAL returns,
The financial returns for the patiod ended 31st January 1904, are published, in the Garella, The actual revenue was 3475,147:44, as against $434,420.54 for the same period of the preceding year. To this has to be added revenue derived from land sales, totalling $17,289.90 as avainst $1,324.50 collected during the same period of the preceding year. The total increase under the radios y items in
629,722.63. The expenditure for the period was $47-548.03 as against $474,90 104. The total increases amounted to $80,732.62, against
Co-day's
Advertisements.
THE GREAT SENSATION: THEATRE ROYAL, CITY HALL TO-NIGHT!
TO-NIGHT!!
A STARTLING SENSATION;
the allegation that he was showing a desire ¦ piece of mechanism as was evor fashioned out, Korea, and unless there are complications strategic and political grounds. His warnings revenue was $86,414.93, and the decrease CORRIDOR: of the. CITY HALL will be Broderick defended Lord Curzon against According to him, her soldier is as perfect a and may possibly be content to hold on to advised it as an egregious blunder, both on
for expeditions or an undue assertion of British interests. He said there had only
· been three expeditions under Lord Curzon's viceroyalty, which number had been greatly exceeded by his predecessors.
The Tibetans have again opposed the ad- vance of the Mission at the Red Idol Gorge, Three hundred Tibetans were killed, and ten British wounded.
Gun Explosion on U.8 8.
"Missouri."
While practising at Pensecola a 12" gun in the turret of the U.S. battleship Missouri exploded, killing 5 officers and 21 men
IMPORTANT FACTORS IN THE SITUATION,, "If Russia can feed her huge army there would seem to be no reason why her over- whelming force should not eventually bear Japan down. It seems to me that in this war no one can possibly tell what may hapen.
SIDE-LIGHTS.
Well-informed Russians have generally made up their minds to lose Port Auther. They now begin to realise the extent of the blunder com. mitted by Count Mouravieff in "leasing" that stronghold, which was done in the teeth of strong oppo ition both from the War and Finance Ministers of the day. M. Witte understood at the time what enormous expendi-
have come all too true, since the hopeless position of Port Arthur is now so well re- cognised at the capital.-T.
which is a total decrease, under various head- ings, of $19,092,63.
COMMERCIAL
WEEKLY SHARE REPORT,
In their report of the 15th inst, Messrs. Benjamin, Kelly and Potts write:-The im- provement noted in our last report has continued and a large general business has again resulted at advancing rates during the interval.
of a discipline, both fatherly and unyielding. Russia can afford to proceed steadily," This officer describes how discipline is so firmly rooted in the mind of the Russian private that, in the course of his thirty years experience, he had never seen a single ense of insubordination, He characterises the solder as sincere and unaffected in his love for the reigning monarch, profound in his religion, in which loyalty in Tzar and Fatherland are bound up, confident in his chiefs, and possessing that esp. ii-de-corps, which negatives the greatest privations. He is good humoured, guy and contented, never falters in his duty or leaves his post. Moreover the gallant general asserts that he can testify, to having seen him die in the snow, transform. ed into a statue of ice while on sentry duty Such, according to this officer's account, is the material of which Russia's army is composed Admiral Wirenius' squadron has re-entered One asks oneself if this is the sort of criticism an o.tlay of over £103,000,0:0, will now lead Ivanovitch will not experience, "when we get quotation is £63 - Nationals are still
that would be applied to the Russian sailor; presumably he would be of much the same material; yet, surely, there is a discrepancy times, of keel hauling, of extreme measures, of harshness amounting to brutality in order to preserve discipline. There are stories told by The Expelled Dominican Monks.
captains of hired transports which do not sound The Pope has instituted an Apostolic pre-well to English ears, and the excuse has been fecture on the island of Shikuku, Japan, „The new prefecture will be the abode of the Dominican monks who were expelled from the Philippines.
The Daily News correspondent at Moscow quotes a letter written home by a Russian soldier, on his way to the Far East. After giving a graphic description of life on the Trans-Siberian railway, Ivan Ivanovitch says:- "We have just heard that the Gosudar (the Tsar) has declared war against the Japanese, and that our Admiral attacked them and sank all their ships. God be praised! Wait till we get there... . Captain Liteinoff says the Japanese are only three feet high, and four of them will fit nicely on one Russian bayonet." The gallant captain is evidently the sort of officer who would get on well if he were an
Banks. Hongkong and Shanghai Banks aide-de-camp to Admiral Alexeieff, on whose have further improved with sales at 1610 and ture would be entailed by the act. The build-style he would seem to have modelled his own $545 cash, and at £650 and $665 for July clos ing of fortifications and the railroad, involving with some success. Well, we hope that Ivaning in demand at $645 cash. The London
there," too rude an awakening from his dream quoted at $358. of triumphant return with two brace of Japanese à la bochette on his bayonet. "We perienced a further substantial advance and,
sion and we hope he will. But we have our $505. China Traders base also improved and sales have been effected at $59. Cantoos have doubls.
risen to $177, and are wanted. The other stocks are unchanged at quotations,
The Russian Squadrons.
the Baltic.
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[494 Hongkong, 16th April, 1904.
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Admiral, Alexieff takes, temporarily, the command of the Russian naval squadron in somewhere. We have heard, in fairly recent tion can we obtain, even if we defeat Japan?" shall soon be home again," he says in conclu-alter sales at $450, are now inquired for at taught.
the Far East.
British Destroyer on Shora. The destroyer Teaser grounded during a night attack on Portsmouth and threatens to break up.
.'
LATER.
The "Teaser" Re-floated. The British destroyer Teaser has been re- floated.
The War.
The Tsar and Tsarita of Russia attended
the Admiralty Church at a Memorial Service. The Taarita wept throughout the service, St. Petersburg is a city of mourning; amuse. ments are cancelled and cafés closed.
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the character of the Russian peasant who needs an iron hand, Dur Russian general seems to have been singularly fortunate in the men under his command, or else the current accounts of the character of Russian peasantry have been curiously distorted. Que admires the pluck of the crew of the Varing going out to face the most terrible odds; but the sentry who stuck his post until frozen to death should have figured more prominently on the mail-deck of the Paring, which, according to accuunt, was by no means untenable, the destruction being almost entirely confined to the upper deck, which was unprotected, the hall and the main armament at the time of her feiirement fram the action being, to all intents and purposes, intact. The ship herself, it will be reniembered, was not in a sinking or otherwise helpless con- dition when she entered the harbour. She was
capable of inflicting a good deal of damage of
the enemy; for, her ammunition was by no means exhausted; and one cannot help looking
back
ig the days when Sir Richard Grenville, having hot away all his ammunition in resist ing the attack of a fleet of fifty-three ships commanded "the master gunner to split the The Recent Fight off Port Arthur. Shipthe little feveange, when in a somewhat
similar predicament to that of the Kariag
A St. Petersburg official confirms the re- port that the Russian destroyer Berstrashni was surrounded and sunk by the Japanese, and adds that the battleship Pobieda struck a mine amidships, but was able to regain
the harbour...
FREE TRADE.
FOR THE PHILIPPINES.
Ultimate free trade for the Philippines is one of the objects of the proposed internal revenue law, the public discussion of which has just closed. It is intended, in time, to
to an equal outlay for the war with Japan. So Russia will be the poorer by 20,200,000 by the Mouravieff policy. "And what compensa is the question thoughtful people at St. Peters. burg are asking. They realise the impossibility of carrying the war into the enemy's country, and also the perpetual menace of another war should Russia establish herself in Southern Manchuria and Korea. "We are not strong enough numerically in those regions to repeat the Mouravieff experiment," they admit. "Let us make up our minds to withdraw to our natural boundary, ie, the 42nd parallel of latitude, forming a straight line from Vladi- vostock westward, including Kharbim and Nonhein Manchuria, which is geographically a part of the Amur basin." "Of course, we shall defeat the Japs," said another prominent, Russian, and then you will see that Russia will give up Southern Manchuria with Pori Arthur. Some day, when our population in those regions increases, Port Arthur may again fall into our hands. But that day is far distant, and when it comes there will be no shock, no resisting the Russian torrent."
MUSCOVITES AND ANGLO-SAXONS.
CHINA'S Foreign trRADE IN 1903-
C
In his report on the Foreign Trade of China for the year, 1903, Mr. H. B. Morse says:
With apparent prosperity indicated by inflated values, China's foreign trade in 1903 has been disappointing to most of the interests concerned. The reports from the Commissioners all show a tendency to refer to 1899 as the last year of madness and retribution, by the disastrous floots in the Yangtse Valley in igor, and by the drought and deficient crops in the south in 1902, the abundant harvests of 1903 have failed to produce their natural effect and have done no more than give a breathing-spell to the millions of the Empire. Tea favoured by seduced taxation, has done well, and the trade in foreign opium has flourished; but the silk crops was a disastrous failure in mid-China and the importer of cotton goods were hit bard by the increased cost of their raw material, by texpected and unexplained fluctuations in exchange, and by the monetary stringency in important consuming markets. The north has not recovered from the devastation of 1900, and neither money nor credit is at the com-
and of its traders; and the tendency to a revival of trade which manifested itself in the course of the year was arrested by the anticipa-
There is much discussion at St. Petersburg about the new British Ambassador. Mr. Har dinge is recognised as a strong man, and a worthy successor of the late Sir Robert Morier. It is well that British interests should be in such hands during troublous times. Sir Charles Scott's reurement on reaching the age limit is regretted on account of bis good-natured geniality. He is much liked within the very small circle of his Russian friends, who appreciate his efforts to avoid any possibility DIFFICULTIES THAT MAY AID JAPAN. of friction between the two couaines. But Si
The Lower Yangtze has not absorbed the in- Creased quantity of imports which it would Russia, with its fifteen military districts, its Charles is little known; he has studiously vast resources of unes and material, is not effaced himself during the years he has naturally have called for with its overflowing regarded in some well-informed quarters as represented Great Britain at the Russian Court.granaries and its increased sale of tea. The occupying a position at all relative to the size must unhappily be confessed that the south has done well: Kwangtung has had two of her ariny. "It suust be remembered," said feeling in St. Petersbug against England rice harvests of a nature to satisfy completely
and the disappointment evoked by
the aspirations of cultivator, and its energetic Viceroy has rigorously repressed the dacoity United States are- boib very strong.
amount of argument will convince
in Kwangsi and has taken steps to check the waterway robbery-the so-called piracy-in Russians that Great Britain and the United
the Canton waters. With all the reasons sug Stutes did not deliberately instigate the war,
gested for the depression of trade-fluctuations which is held to benefit exclusively the two Anglo-Saxon nations by weakening Japan and in exchange, monetary stringency, and failure of the silk crop,-it must not be forgotten that Russia. Even in high spheres it is held that
an ex-army officer in conversation with a representative of the Pall Mall Gosette, that Russia bas 15,000 miles of frontier. Consider the troops and nations that people them; Tuguses, afghans, Persiaus, Kurds, Armenians, Mongolians, Kalmuks, Manchoos, Wallachians, Poles, Germans, Swedes, and Laplanders. It is an extraordinary assortment. The Russian
ihe No
the
Fire Insurances.-longkong Fires and China Fires have again been dealt in at $287) and $83 respectively, and further shares are wanted. Shipping.-Hongkong, Canton and Macao Steamboats have been booked at $28, $28† and $19. Indo-Chinas weakened and as low as $92 was accepted for shares, but at the close the market is firmer with sales and further buyers at 193. In Shanghai, business has been done at Tis. 69. China and Manilas are obtainable at $ath, and Douglas Steamships Dave inquiries at $35. Star Ferries (old) have been the medium of some business at $31, while the new shares have strengthened and can be placed at $183. Shell Transports have hardened and are in strong demand at 21 Shanghai Tugs have been sold at Tls. 47 for the ordinary, and at Tls. 46 for the preference shares.
Refineries-China Sugars, after sales at $123, are quieter at $122. Perak Sugars have changed hands in the North at Tls. 50.
Mining-Raubs have been fixed at $6. The crushing for the four weeks resulted in 770 uunces smelted gold from 3,000 tons of ore. hinese Engineerings have improved and can be placed at Tis. 6.20.
Docks, Wharves and Godowns.-Hongkong and Whampoa Docks have been negotiated at reacted slightly and have been parted with at Tls. 145 and 147, but close in demand at 'ils. 1474. Kowloon Wharves have advanced to $96
at which price shares are inquired for. Hong. kew Wharves have suffered a heavy decline to is. 150, but at this figure shares can be placed. Lands, Hotels and Buildings-Hongkong Lands are much firmer and have been disposed of at $145, 5146 and $147, clusing with small buyers at the last rate. Shanghai Lands have found investors at Tls. 107. Hongkong Hotels bave weakened to $132 and shares may be had at this rate. Astor House Hotels have been done
make the internal taxes provide all the revenue army is, in fact, made up of many diffrent Russian aggrandisement and Japan's growth the recurring indemnity payments have, direct. at $35. Hotel des Colonies keep steady at Tls. of the islands, gradually lowering and abating armies, cach trained to act in different spheres, as a mantime Power have been the bugbearily, reduced the absorbing power of China by 15. Humphreys Estates have risen to Sto.
the customs tariffs on imports, after the analogy of the system now in vogue in Porto Rico.
That this is the intention of the Commission, the Gablenews has the authority of one, its members, secured in a conversation the other day regarding the bill.
Gradually the new system is calculated to subsitute its imposts for those of the customs, thus removing one great bar to trade that has been the subject of much complaint among the
merchants of Manila. While it is possible that there will always be import taxes upon
some articles, the customs as a barrier to commerce will probably vanish.
in different climates, and against different and particular nationalities. Cohesion, such as it
is understood in this country, is impossible.
A STRIKING COMPARISON,
"But it may be said the British Army is made up of many nationalities?"
"Certainly, but, b'ack or yellow, while under the British flag they are under the command of British officers, and become subject to the same, discipline that prevails through. out the Empire. It is not so in Russia. Take, for example, the Russian Guards stationed at t. Petersburg and Warsaw. They are the pick of the Tsar's army, are accustomed to exercise and maneuvre constantly under the
The proposed bill contemplates taxing luxuries heavily; these inclule beer, wine, eyes of the Emperor, and are always com. liquors, cigars, cigarettes, and the like. It also manded by some member of the Imperial contemplates the heavy taxation of corporations family. They are a magnificent body of men and banks. It provides for a system of and for perfect drilling and precision of move capitation taxes, which includes not only a poliment have no equals in the officers, while the tax for men, but a similar tix, which shall be staff is made up of all the most distinguished optional, for women. The fature is just this. milliary men in the Empire. No person can sign an acknowledgement,
"The pity of heavily increased taxation of the people and by of London and Washington. it is," said one highly-placed personage, that increasing the cost of credit to the trader. hopes of an Anglo-Russian understanding are thereby destroyed. Yet these towers have really no conflicting interests, and could they HIRSI EXPEDITION INTO TIBET. once agree no combination in the world is strong enough to stand against thein."
THE SINEWS OF WAR.
Subscriptions to the naval and Red Cross funds are still pouring in. Some £600,000 are already announced. The "voluntary" character of thess contributions is however, occasionally somewhat doub fut. This City Fathers of St. Petersburg and Moscow having voted respec- tively £250,000 and $150,000, are levying the amount by a forced assessment of all business enterprises. It is hoped to gather in some 47,9.0,oco by various processes, and devote the money to building torpedo boat destroyers, which will be sent out to the Far East in sect ions. Nearly a thousand dockyard hands have been dispatched to Port Arthur and Vladivo. "Then look at the wild irregular bands-for stock. These men will reassemble the destroyer one things necessary to business, existence, without being able to show a cedula, accord the class of troops to be found even on the sian ships. A pontoon detachment has also cross the Yalu when the ice melts. Operat ing to law. There is at present no provision shores of the Baltic. Why, it is not an un-one to the front, to enable the troops to for supplying women with cedulas, and if mon thing at such a port as Riga for ions there will, indeed, not commence on
soldiers to be seen earning a few kopeks by a serious scale for another six weeks. unloading vessels. These are the troops that are to meet à compact, brave, and disciplined my dashed with the victories of their seamen, and remembering their success in China."
"The Chinese and the Russians are hardly on the same footing however?"
Cotton Mills.We have heard of no trans- action in stocks under this head.
Cigar Companies-Sumatras bave buyers at Tis. go. There is nothing doing in the other stocks.
Miscellaneous. Further business in Green Island Cements has been transacted at $231. A. & Watsons are wanted at $142. Electrics (old issue) have been done, and are still wanted at $13: the new shares have been placed at $7. China Providents have bera in demand and taken off the market at $8.75, $8.80 and $85.
Langkats have changed
hands in shanghai at Tls. 293į.
TO-DAY'S EXCHANGE.
Selling.
London-Bank T.T.
demand......
Do. Do. 4 months' sight France-Bank T.T.......
The manner in which we first came into con tact with this mysterious land is somewhat interesting. In 1774 Hastings found it neces- sary to send an expedition against the Bhutas ese, who had been raiding Indian territory and had given considerable trouble to English officials on the border. The Rajab of Bhutan appealed to the Teshu Lama, or the second official in Tibet next to the Dalai Lama, and Hastings received a letter couched in the most humble terms, begging him to be merciful to Bhutan. The leshu Lama declared that he himself was but a poor priest, "and i do now, cease all hostilities against the Rajah, Warren with my head uncovered, entreat that you may Hastings was not the man to luse such an opportunity; he at once made peace with Bhu. official to visit Tibet. This was Bogle, who, of the Chumbi Valley to Shigatse, the resi- Here the tra- accompanied by Dr. Hamilton, passed by way dence of the Teshu Lam. vellers stayed for some time, being exceed. ingly well treated by their host. On leaving Bogle received three necklaces which, he
4 months' sight L/C. was told, woald protect their wearers from afl evil. Ons of these is still preserved by the 6 months' sight L/C. Lowther family, an interesting relic of Anglu-30 days' sight San Francisco & New York 4*1
4 months' sight
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431 Tibetan amity. The Lama helped Bogle to
America-Bank T.T..
testify in court, or do any of u thousand and they are nothing more-of the Far East, and sections, and help to patch up the battered Ruslan and obtained passports for an Indian Germany-Bank T.T....
the authorities cared to l
be severe and exacting in this regard, women could be excluded from court proceedings and from the walks of trade. As women conduct a good share of the business of the islands, this would work a hardship and the law is not carried out to the letter. In order to give them the legal right to take out licenses, pay taxes on property in their own name, enter into al transactions, and in all ways enjoy the same commercial privileges as men; it is intended to provide for their taking out cedulas,.
The proposed law is based largely upon the afernal revenue law of the United States, and partly upon the newly instituted Pario Rican, system of raising revenue
PATRIOTIC FERVOR.
In one respect the war is considered a blessing in disguise. Conservative Russians believe it has once and for all stemmed the tide of revolution. It remains to be seen how
far this view will be justified by events when settle the trade relations between India and "Perhaps not, but it ought to be remembered
the first out-burst of patriotic fervor has had Bhutan and to establish a mart at Rangpore, even more satisfactory had not the Chinese, time to wear off. Meanwhile, the revolution- and the results of the mission might have been aries are not abstaining from propaganda, and mysterious leaflets continue to be distributed seen fit to interfere. Peking, however, could in factories, Government dockyards, and even
not succeed in bringing about a rupture, and
that 'East is East and West is West, and never the twain shall meet, and there are East and West in the vast Russian Empire, It will be on the Eastern troops that the brust of the work will fail, at all events in the opening stages of the fighting..
ENORMOUS DIFFICULTIES OF TRANSPORT.
"There are, of course, difficulties of trans The Commission feels confident that the bill port has the general support of Americans, "Yes, and they are immense. In the Trans. expects opposition from the interests that are val the dificulties were only surmounted by a roade the subjects of heavy taxation. Most of highly organized transport service, and that is Sopposit on bas come fro tobacco andan stea comparatively limited Yet these
inforests, and certain indust
difficulties were infinitesimal. compared with those that face the Russians. The Russian
in the barracks: Russian women in all walks Warren Hastings sent several other friendly of life are bravely coming forward to serve the missions to Tibet. The Teshu Lama died in Red Cross Some amusement has been caused 1779, just as he and Bogle were to have started by the story printed in a London paper that together across Asia from. Peking to Lhapsa, Mie Krzesinska, the queen of the Russian and Bogle died in Calcutta a few months later. ballet, is going to join the nurse brigade. The When Hastings Left Fadia in 1785, we had a story arose from a chance remark made by diplomatic agent in Tibet, but with his depar her that she would be willing to go if called. ture the era of Anglo-Tibetan rapprochement popraBut there is scant probability of such an practically ceased, the Grand Lama listening invitation, although it is known that she intends to the advice of Feking and shutting himself
́off, as far as possible, from the outer world; in a few months to retire from the stago,
Do demand....
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OPIUM QUOTATIONS.
4 months' sight Germany, Bar Silver................ Bank of England rate:
· "To-day's quotations are as follows:-
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