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HONGKONG. Tit KSDAY, JUNE 16, 1904.
KUSSIAN TACTICS.
AT THE THEATRE,
"THE NAUTCH girl,"
Surely even the non-commissioned officers in the Russian ranks must have known that the time had arrived for their men to fix bayonets, to get out of their trenches and charge down upon the advancing enemy.
The Fanny Stanley Opera and Dramatic They were fresh, unfatigued; they had the Company scored another success yesterday advantage of ground and were heavier men evening at the Theatre Royal with The NaulĂ | than their opponents, no mean factor when Gr, and it is a pity that the audience was not cold steel is used. But the order never
a larger one, for the performance was well came, and that counter-charge-which com
worth braving the inconvenience of a warm All the members of the bined with the attack on the righ flank of
June night indoors the Japanese, and taking place at a tinte well, the songs and choruses being given withi Company acquitted themselves exceedingly when their artillery was short of ammunicare and ensemble, and the execution of the tion, might have secured success-was never made. We are not told who was respon |sible for the passive attitude of the Musco
vite troops, but, whoever he may be, he has merited the severest blanie a soldier can incur.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
THE Hano: Exhibition cost $2,4 13,000.
NAI WAY surveys in China, during 1903 cost the French Government $250,00
THE Dragon Hoat festival will be celebrated throughout China on Saturday next.
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wan, the Colony of Indo-China pays $30,000
DURING 1993 at least $22,020 was spent on th French post office at Canton, and abou: $10,000 on buddings at Pakhoi.
scose by the band was of the best. To-night Les Chiches de Corneville will be staged, with Miss Fanny Stanley as Serpolette and Mr. Willie Driscoll as Gaspard. The production of Uns ever popular and charming French operetia should prove a real attraction to Hongkong theatre-goers.
| 2018 TUNG CHAN BANKRUPTCY.
At the Supreme Court this morning his Lordship' the Chlef Justice, Sir W. M. Good- man, sat in bankruptcy, jurisdiction in the matter of the Tung Chan Firm ex parte the Sui Kat Bank. Mr. J. Scott Harston (of Mesars. Ewens and Harston) appeared for the petitioning creditor and asked that receiving order be made. Mr. John Hastings appeared on behalf of the debtors,
The Chief Justice-How about assels ? Mr. Harston-Mr. Shepherd has been acting as interim receiver.
The Chief Justice--Thea it is alright? Mr. Shepherd-Yes.
The Chief Justice-1 grant the receiving order and appoint Mr. Bruce Shepherd official riceiver.
THE CHINESE WAR INDEMNITY.
TELEGRAMS.
"HONGKONG TELEGRAPH”
SERVICE.
THE WAR.
THE VLADIVOSTOK SQUADRON
ATTACK ON MERCHANT STEAMERS.
(From Our Own Correspondent.)
YOKOHAMA, 10 h June, 10.40 am.
The Jij reports that the Vladi..
On the 16th utt. Mr. McCrae asked the Chan-vostok squadron has attacked soveral cellor of the Exchequer whether he could now percliant.steamers near Tsunoshita, THE SIEGE OF PORT ARTHUR, state if the annual instalments of over 300,000 but, thanks to a dense fog, these suc-
HISTOR C PARALLELS.
The siege of Port Arthur promises to be long and distressing--promises to be one of the famous sieges in the history of the world.
receivable in respect of the Chinese war indom- nity would, after the private claims of British subjects had been satisfied, be applied to the reduction of debt according to the terms of the undertaking of the Chancellor of the Exchequer
in 1902.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer: The in- stalment receivable from China at the end of
be
ceeded in escaping.
RUSSIAN WARSHIPS OFF IKISHIMA.
remaining instalments will be applicable to the Ikishima. One of them left the squa- discharge of the British Government chat dron and disappeared to the cast- has not yet been settled in what mann railway claims are to be liquided. Pending
wards. settlement on that matter, it would be prema- ture to propose to Parliament to decide as to the ultimate application of the receipts,
JAPANESE TRANSPORTS IN DANGER.
APPREHENSIONS FOR THEIR
Three Russian warships have been SINCE noon of yesterday six cases of lago In shortness and decisiveness it will be next month is expected to suffice for the pay-sighted approaching the island of have been recorded, four of winch ended fatally difficult to beat the record of Alexandria, everying off the balance of the private claims The gun of which was effectually silenced within TOWARDS the adminstration of Kwangchouten hours by the British feet under Admiral Seymour. Bet these few hours witnessed such a destructive deluge of shot and shell as might well have laid a big city in ruins. No fewer than ten thousand projectiles were hurled against the forts of Alexandria, many of then monsters of 1,700 pounds weight, fired from | eighty-one ton guns. Singularly enough, THE EASTERN MAIL „SERVICE.
this murderous hail of iron did little damage to the fortifications the majority of the shells barying themselves harmlessly in the parapets of sand which had been raised to protect the balle les. Hut so terrible was the havoc and slaughter wrought among the adherents of Arabi Pacha by the flying fragments of the shells which exploded that the forts were quickly evacuated, while some of the shells started a fire which destroyed almost the whole of the town.
LIKUTENAKI W Arbuthnot-Leslie, and Scots Guards, has been nominated as Aide-de-Camp to Sir M. Natuan, Governm of lungkung.
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quay under construction & Sasgon will he $10 metres long, and mine large vessels will be able to be alongside at the same time.
If the many errors inuatie: by the Russian leader on the Yala were blameable In the extreme, they nevertheless sink into insignificaner when compared with the idun ders that ocurred on the same side ** Kinchow and at Nanshan om the 20th A1 the longay manes, in Indo-China, 7,500 May last
On the Valu the faults, tur bands are employed, and the swulace has been which General Sassaltch is responsible. | removed to the depth of 25 metres, it being an were cause that what might have been an open at working
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orderly retreat became a complete out, | Pht N.D.L. steamer Bay va has past vele A. S. WATSON & CO., will: its attendant heavy losses in men brated its mialer. Baving made the voyage to and gins but at Nanshan a culpable lack | East Asta and back for the fiftieth occasion of energy, or ignorance, of the first rules stce being pui on the line in 1887. of the art of war, resulted in the plete defeat of General Stoessels cent mand when, had the right thing been done at the right time, a severe check and per haps a deleat might have been inleted our allies.
It is, however, just to state that. from the accounts to hand, a would serm
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A BONFIRE OF 1 sqquate pianos is to be a
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Sebastopol, with its grim, massive forts, de Tended by seven hundred guns, many of them of heavy cable, held out against the combined amies of France and England for 327 days. When, however, the place was evacuated, it was found that the town was in rums; and to complete the work of destruction such docks.
and forts as still remained standing were blown
up by the engineers of the allied forces.
It took 132 days for the Germans to bring Paris to her knees a generation ago. During January, 1971, no fewer than ten thousand shells were comed into the doomed town every
PROPOSALS OF THE COMMITTEE OF INQUIRY.
SAFETY.
Mr. Evelyn Cecil's Inter-Departmental Com.
Later information states that the
sented a report to the Postmaster-General, mitiee on the Eastern mail service have pre-Hitachi-maru and Sado-maru left which will be published at an early date, Moji yesterday, transporting troops recommending that when the Peninsular and to the seat of war. through tenders should be invited for a mail Oriental contracts expire in 1905, sectional and service to begin in 1908. With reference to
Serious apprehensions exist for their safety.
A TROOPSHIP ATTACKED,
NARROW ESCAPE OF THE "FUSO-MARU."
the different schemes which the P. & 0, Com-- pany have put forward for an extension of their services after Jan. 31, 1905, the committee are opposed to an extension for seven or five years, but a majority ate in favour of an extension for three years with 24 hours' acceleration and an annual subsidy increased by £10,000, making
The Captain of the steamer Ibu- £340,000 in all while a minority voled for accepting the offer of an extension of three war reports that he sighted the
years without acceleration and an annual sub-
The Fuso-mart, which was in the
135 that the mistakes made were due rather feature of the convention of piano manufact day, and of these five hundred fell into the city for five or seven years with retrospective vicinity, had a narrow escape. from
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But why these limitations of shape
UN the yth inst., the French Minster for War presented to the Chamber of Deputies a re- quest for a supplementary credit of 25,000,000 Trancs, to be expended in sendrag out to and maintaining in Indo-China important re-injoice- ments of European troops.
neglect and ignorance on the part of sonic of the Russian commander's subordinates, rather than to an error of tactics on his own. The manner in which a party of Japanese sappers were able
threep in the night to Riachow castle and explode a dynamite petard which levelled the gates of that fortress, thus clearing the way for an assault, indicates only too evidently that a most deplorable outpost and guard system THI battleship Albion, flagship of Rear- nast have been established at this import Admiral the Hon. Asheton G. Curzon llowe, ant point on the extreme right of the Rus second in command of the China Station, and sian line of defences. Owing to the down-the armed shallow-draught steamer Robin, are
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able, early in the following morning, to establish their artillery on the heights of Tahoshang and sweep the enemy's trenches with a plunging fire. But the greatest blunder was yet to conte. At 3 p.m. the Japanese guns had used up all their ammunition and had ceased their fire awaiting a further supply, General Stoessel had organised a successful attack on the enemy's right flank, whose troops in this part of the field were on the pot of being forced to retire on their renere.
To relieve the situation spelt disaster. pressure, General Oku launched a division, WHITE TURKISH TOWELS. Į commanded by Prince Fushima, against the
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Contract for New Tonnage on reasonable terms
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Arge stock of Canadian Asbestos and
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to be recommissioned at longkong for a further term of service in the Far East.
THE commercial prosperity of Swatow, which is in marked contradistinction to the other southern renty ports, as for example, Amoy, acting Consul, largely be ascribed to the ab Foochow and Ning po, must, according to the Mention of officialdom from interference in commercial matters.
By kind permission of Lt. Col. Demonger and officers, the Band of the 93rd Burma Infantry will play the following programme of music at the King Edward Hotel, during dinner, on Friday, the 17th inst., (weather permitting/
-Mai
Everlie Nefertare 3.k Seleti Valls Car Wall
Ketum of the Dramaja .. Murghenta d'Amou
"Little Christopher Columbus
La Cutal
Three Little Mank Pas des Fleurs Jolly Negros
til as the King.
Elexchez „Meyerlines Ivan Caryli Translateur Hushman Delibes .Berger
by kind permissio of the Commander of Police, the Macan String Band will play the llowing programme of music at the Macao Hotel during dinner on Saturday next, the 18th
proper. During a single day the Prussian buried twenty-five thousand projectiles at Paris at a cost of £60,000. The havoc they wrought was fearful, and the resultant fires threatened to destroy whole districts. During the seige
crumb: d to disease and hunger. no fewer than forty thousand of the inhabitants
For niety-four days Plevna defied the pick of the husstan army, although its defenders were hopelessly outnumbered, and on Decem- ber 10th, 1877, after the last grain of rye had and tried to bew their way through the Russian been eaten, the indom table Turks sallied forth
legions. Osman Pacha commanded his gallant were pierced, but the odds against them were too remnant in person; three lines of trenches great. Surounded by almost countless hordes of the enemy, his men mown down by sweeping torrents of bullets and shells, the brave leader at last yielded to fate and allowed the white flag to Bulter from the roof of the hut near which he was lying mutilated and in agony.
sidy decreased by 10,000, making Laz0,000 Russian squadron attacking the in all. All members of the committee, how- | Hitushi-maru. ever, were united in recommending that the options offered by the company of an extension
reduction of sub-idy should be embodied in any agreement that may be framed. The com- mittee suggest an increase in the contract speed to and from India of not less than 24 hours and also an increase in the speed over the China sections of the service. This would raise the Indian mail speed to nearly 16 knots per hour.
tive tenders are for the national benefit, and The committee adopt the view that competi
that these could be most readily obtained by inviting them not merely for the service as a whole but for each of the following component sections -
nating fortnightly services (1) between a port A. India-One weekly service or two alter.
of South Europe and Bombay, via Aden, in and Karachi in each direction. each direction; (2) between the port of Aden
nightly service or two alterating four-weekly B. Straits Settlements and China-One fo..
services-(1)(a) between a port of South
months under the brave direction of Gordon, ditto with extension 10 Shanghai ; (2) (4) be. Khartoum withstood the Midi for eleven Penang, and Singapore, in each direction, (6) Europe and Hongkong, vía Aden, Colombo,
and in Kars General Williams, with 15,000tween Colombo and Hongkong via Penang ammunition for three days, kept an in-extension to Shanghai :(3) (a) between Madras men, with provisions for three months and and Singapore, in each direction, (6) ditto with vesting army of 50,000 at bay from June to November, "General Williams," wrote Mour- avieff, the Russian general, to his gallant foe, "you have made yourself a name in history, and posterity will stand amazed at the endurance, the courage and the discipline which this siege has called forth in the remains of an army. Let us arrange capitulation which will satisfy the demands of war without disgrac ing humanity.".
Gibraltar, as all the world knows, stood im- pregnable against all the assaults of Spain and France for 874 days, although week after week 6,000 shells were hurled at it every day, and in spite of the combined attack of forty-six sail of the line and a countless fleet of gun and mortar boats and floating batteries which had cost £500,000 to construct.
and Hongkong, via Penang and Singapore in each direction, connecting with London Bom- bay mail service, (6) ditto with extension to Shanghai; (4) (a) between Singapore and Hoog- kong, () ditto. with extension to Shanghai.
alternating four-weekly services.
C. Australia, -One fortnightly service or two
THE LATE LORD SALISBURY.
capture.
JAPANESE CRUISER 10 THE RESCUE.
BRAVE FIGHT AGAINST ODDS.
A report from Kure states that the Japanese cruiser Nitaku bas engaged two of the enemy's warships off the island of Okinoshima.
A desperate conflict is now in progress.
(The Niitaka is a protected cruiser of 2,420
6, 61 10, 3, and four smaller guns.-EDig Ton Her length is 235 feet and speed 20 kasets. She is quite a new vessel being launche ed last year, and her armament consists of H.K. T
Opium for China.
(From Our Own Correspondent,)
BOMDAY, 16th June.
Bombay yesterday afternoon with The P. & O. Co.'s mail steamer left
about 375 chests of Malwa opium. Prices are asfollows:-
Malwa (New)...Rs. 1,400 (Old) 1,500
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(Oldest) 1,800. The market is firm.
RUSSO-JAPAVESE WAR HUND.
connection with this fund was 530,488.01, of The total nett sum realised in Hongkong in which St 1,528.60 was for providing additional comforts in hospitals treating all sick and wounded from the war, and $18,919.41 in gid of the families of japanese killed in the war.
Drafts for these amounts have been sent to
Russian centre, the strongest point in their position. Advancing at the double by sue cessive bounds of from to 4 to 500 metres, then lying down to gain breath and to reply to the driving blast of the Russian gua and riße fire from the trenches, the devoted AM autograph letter which the King sent in
In both Houses of Parliament a resolution was adopted, on the 17th ult, to the effect that division moved onward towards the position. Lady Stanley contained the following pas Each time the lung lines of dark-coated men
sage had the great advantage of knowing
an address be presen ed to His Majesty, pray. your distinguished husband personally, and
of a monument in Westminster Abbey to the ing that he will give directions for the erection rose and moved forward at a run; the dead aften heard from his own lips the mast interest
late Marquis of Salisbury. The resolution was and wounded fell in heaps, struck down by ing accounts of his grand travels and explora-
moved in the Upper Chamber by the Marquis the ceaseless hail of metal coming from the tins, and the valuable services he rendered Russians esconced in their well-sheltered for the civilised world. The great name he
of Lausdowne, Earl Spencer acting as seconder Richmond, Va., was defended by General with a speech worthy of the occasion. In the trenches. At last, after terrible loss, the won will ever live after him"
Lee through a year of terrible fighting until Commons the mot on was moved by Mr. Balfour Japanese lie panting on the slope, crouching
the seizure of bis lines of supply compelled and agrees to without a division. The tributes for shelter from the death that speeds over
him to evacuate it on April 2nd, 1865; Luck paid to the latest tesman in both llauses them, only 200, perhaps 150 metres, from
now held out for eighty-six days, when General were not only adequate to what may well be their final goal. The little yellow men
Havelock came to its relief, and Strasburg, described as an historic occasion, but were also must have breathed hard, filling their lungs
with all its strength, defended by a garria true reflection of the feeling of the whole for the last rush that would win the day.
son of 17,005 men, had to surrender to the country. No modern statesman has been held Now it was that one of the worst and most
Germans after a siege of forty-eight days. in higher esteem than Lord Salisbury. Mr. ignorant blunders in the history of a war was
Among other notable sieges Mafeking survived Gladstone had the gift of commanding a greater committed by the Russianofficer in command
seven months, Kimberley 133 days, Ladysmith enthusiasm, but it was of a strictly party at this point. To such as have the slightest
118 Potchefstroom 94, Metz 71, Gæta 77 and character. I ord Beaconsfield stimulated public Chitral fort 46 days. technical knowledge of the rules laid down by
interest and stirred the popular imagination, military experts for the defence of a position
A much closer paralled to the siege of Pon but it was only very late in life that he par Anthor can be found in the bombardment of suaded the whole country to recognise his m it is evident that at this phase of the fight THE steamer Kaiser Friedrick M, which has Santiago, during the recent war between trinsic greatness, and then he never command- the final charge of the Japanese should have been lying idle for some time at llamburg, has America and Spain. The United States wared universal confidence. Lord alisbury's hold been met half way by a counter charge. been bought by a private firm on behalf of the ships Texas, Indiana and Brooklyn, opened on the confidence and respect of his country.. When they rose for their last rush the war Russian Government. The Kaiser Friedrich fire on the town at a range of six miles, and men was complete throughout the larger part riors of Nippon were still half blown, they was built in the chicliau Yard for the for three hours poured shells lots it with such of his career. By one of those flashes of
North German Lloyd, which refused to accept effect that, although the gunners could not intuition which frequently come to the people The li C.S. N. Cos. Namsang from Cal- her, as she could not attain the stipulated rate even see their target, fifty-seven buildings were on the mass they recognised the sterling characconta and the Stralis faft Singapore for this
speed. After a change of boilers the steam wrecked and set on fire, and it would have of the man, his self-denying patriotism, bis part on 15th
made a few voyages for the Hamburg laid the whol
must bave been tired by their rapid advance over nearly half a mile of ground up a stiff gradient, and the terrible losses they had Buffered bad certainly shaken, to a certain extent, their confidance in themselves.
instant.
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H.E. Sir Clauda M. Macdonald, H.B.M. $10086.15 from Chinese. A detailed statement Minister, at Tokió, Mr. Ho Fook collected
will be printed in our next issue.
SHIPPING AND MAILS.
MAILS DUE. American (China) 17th inst, Indian 【Namsang) sand inst. German (Roon) and inke. Canadian Asheniaw) 28th inst.- Indian (Suisang) 19th inst. Canadian (EwArt of Japan) ili prox.
The
ou 13th inst. for