THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, AUGUST 5 1904.
THE WAR.
THE EVACUATION OF HAICHENG.
In another column we print an official The Russians have evacuated Haicheng, telegram from Mr. M. Noma, Consul fyr Japan, In a despatch from General Kuropatkin, he announcing the accupation, by the Japanese expresses a hope that the troops having re-army, of Haicheng and Newchwang. I will treated to the main position, after beavy be of interest to learn a few particolars of the former city which has a most interesting losses, will be able to maintain it against an
history. enemy numerically superior.
Admiral Alexeieff has gone to Harbin and from there proceeds to Vladivostok.
General Kuropatkin reports that the troops withdrew from Haici eng, unmolested, by Anshanchang road," "and though carts were provided to carry the coats and kit, the troops suffered terribly, from the heat, and there were a number of cases of sunstroke.
"PHYSICIAN BEAL THYSELF"
If there is one community in India, who are always preaching justice, equality and the brotherhood of man and clamouring and are loud in their complaints in regard to their political rights, they are the Haridus. Yet the hard, rigid and almost cruel social system
under which some of t, eir low classes, more
especially the Mahars, are kept at arm's length
and looked down, 15, to say the least, by no means creditable to their claim for leniency and humanity. Not only are these backward classes debarred from every privilege of sociat gatherings and functions, on all religious and festive occasions, not only are they and their 'children treated as paris, bu their touch, aye even their shadow is to ked upon as rank pollution. As an instance in point we may mention that about a couple of years ago a wretched Mabar happened to quench his thirst in one of the p blic springs of the village in which he lived. An hue and cry was instantly raised by the Brahmins and poor Dhondu was forthwith bauled before a Second Class Magistrate for wilful pollution and the Magistrate in his supreme wisdom fined the
Maher eight rupees. In this coming to the
Haicheng was perhaps in bygone ages, as its name implies, on the sea, which is receding further and further away from the Manchurian
A LIAOYANG.
FRENCH CORRESPONDENT'S IMPRESSIONS.
M. Raymond Reconly, war correspondent of Le Temps, has contributed to that journal the following account of his impressions of Liao- veng, which the Kede Herald translates from
Echo de Chine:-
To travel at this moment from south to north by the Trans-Manchurian Railway is like balti- ing against a very rapid current.
At each station it is necessary to stop in order to allow the passage of military trains. Those which we saw were carrying artillery. On tracks were guns and gun carriages. In closed waggons were horses arranged lengthwise, four on each side, while in the centre men engaged in cook- ing were standing or sitting. These railway When the Koreans were
waggons have come to be the troops' homes, driven from Lo plain to the eastem moun-in which they install themselves as if for a tains they built beacons and frontier strong- holds all along the edge of the plain. Many of these beacons can be seen to-day by the tra- veller along Russian railway.
plain. It has played no small part in the his iary of the country. In the early part of the Christian era it was one of the great frontier towns of Korea.
About A. D. 650 it was besieged by the last Emperor of the Tang dynasty, and after a long period capitulated. Thence the Koreans fler eastward and made their final and against the same enemy in the long-extinct volcano near Feng-wang-chenu. Again defeated they fed over the Yalu, and ever since have been only a small kingdom Tang-wang-shan, or Reg Tang's Men', was the headpariers of the besieging army Itaicheng has always been an important stronghold, and its walls have been kept in gand repair. They are about 40 ft. high and pierced by four gates but
no bastions
WHEN THE JAPANESE FOUGHT,
The Japanese made a most successful attempt and captured this city towards the end of 1894. They had only mouniain guns, brought from Korea through the hill, and for some time their position was a dangerous one.
In the depth
of winter they found it almost impossible to make earthworks, but that they could use the sand of river-bed for sand-bag protections, They also blasted the rocks on the surrounding hills and made rough forts.
The Chinese
The famous robber chieftain, Han Pien Wai,
permanent residence. The Russian excels in adapting himself to live anywhere, in the tiniest space he makes his bed, prepares bis tea, and Eats the provisions which he has brought with him. He is not troubled by any need for com- fort, for scrupulous cleanliness, or for tidiness. Those things appertain to the refined, inen softened by a leo luxurious life. He, the Rus- sian, belongs to the youthfal section.
BEHIND THE SCENES IN
· RUSSIA.
THE MURDERED M. DE PLEHVE.
THE SECRET SERVICE FUND INTERNAL WAR,
de Pielave, Russian Minister of the Interior, the in connection with the assassination of M.
following examination of the disturbed internal condition of Russia by an occasional corres. pondent of the Daily Telegraph is of remark. able interest. In this there is a due apprecia- tion of the responsibilities of the unfortunate M. de Plebve in regard to Russia's repressive domestic policy :-m
le also. For the time being the contest is as unequal as was that between Prometheus and Zeus. To the thinking peasant and working. nan it is gall and wormwood to reflect that the soldiers who repress demonstrations, and the money which pays for soldiers and for arms, come from the people to be used against the people.
~And a pond de d of money is spent in that productive way It does nol, of course, ap- pear to be unproductive to those who honestly believe that the Russian system of govemment is the manifestation of God's holy will, but this section of the population is dwindlingly small, Among the people to whom this money gives employment is a standing army of censors, etectives, "prolectors of order," spies, male nd female, and subsidised journalists--a race detested by all self-respecting Russians. The person who disposes of the funds needed for these Government scouts is the Minister of the Interior, M. von Plehve, who was formerly head of the police. Now that he is head of the Government he continues to organise"
THE FORCE OF. SECRET AGENTS
Russia resembles a vast ocean, in which there are many strong currents flowing in dif- ferent directions. It is not surprising, there fore, that some of these should ren directly counter to the Government, and as this pheno- menon has always been reckoned with, it is no novelty to-day. What is, however, a subject of legitimate astonishment is the rapidity with which the currrent of opposition goes on swell ing and extending in spite of the strenuous
in and out of Russia whose duly it is to watch endeavours of the authorities to stem it. Twenty years ago the number of the discon- suspected persons, to worm out the secrets, tented was small, their mental calibre was with baffle ir plots, and, if possible, deliver few exceptions insignificant, their hold on the up their bodies to the gaoler. For these em masses scarcely perceptible. The peasantry-ployes he has a Secret Service Fund, which ignorant, superstitious, and socially crippled by is grow larger and larger every year, and the effects of serfdom-bore their lot resignedly the incie se of this sum may be looked upon asar of the eternal and immutable order of
is a fail, correct standard by which to gauge things, against which it would be sinful to nur-
the force of the so-called revolutionary move. ment in Russia. No statement is ever pub- shed, ollicial or non-official, about the amount of the Secret Service Punut or the nature of the services rendered by those whom rewards. But recently M. von Piziv: wide report on the subject, which fell into the hands But he there makes are very interesting. of the People's Party, and the admissions which equally interesting is the motive which induced him to write the report.
What can be more moral than to see a wife following her husband wherever he goes? ur code enjoins this upon the newly wedded. Well, here, in spite of the dangers of war, in spite of the crowding and the difficil.
mur and criminal to kick. Moreover, the peas- ty of procuring a resting place and the most
antry ofthose days might be likened to a suffering necessary articles, and in a country which
child unable to lecalise its pain or correctly des- used to derive all its supplies from the sea,cribe the symptoms of its illness. But all that is changed to-day. The slow spread of religious dissent and of elementary and technical educa
nd where the maritime communications are
station, I visited a Captain of Engineers, who
commands a section of the railway. The
now destroyed, many of the railway employés, both subordinates and their superiors, are ac-
and factory hands, the careful organisation of companied by their wives, as are also some evention, the creation of a numerous class of artisans of the military officers. The other day, at a
the working-men, the propagation of Socialist doctrines, which have filtered down from the intelligent layers of Society to the masses, are among the principal causes of that noteworthy now all Russia is discontended, and therefore change. And it is hardly too much to say that criminal, because, as there is and can be no constitutional means of expressing dissatis- faction or giving utterance to criticism, all de
officer received me very courteously, offering me the only chair he possessed and himself sitting unceremoniously on the bed The room was quite small, like a student's chamber. As we talked, my eyes noted successively a
woman's veil, half wrapped in paper, and a pair
of elegant boots. I then observed that a screen shut off a corner of the apartment. Doubtless the qwer of the veil and boats was to be found behind it and I thought to myself that the Chinese screen sheltered some passing love affair. But, two minutes later, the Captain told me, simply and smilingly, that he was married, and that his wife, suffering a little from fever, was sleeping there behind the scree. "A la guerre comme à la gare!"
mands for reform are illegal.
The airing of class and national grievances in crime in Russia; all joint efforts to set them forth are severely punished, and the
conspirators. Hence there is no such thing as people who commit this offence are treated as legal opposition to the Government--all opposi tion is illegal, forbidden, punishable. If there were no grounds at all for discontent this attitude of the authorities would, perhaps, Russians say, be intelligible; but as there are very real, very tangible,
a secret
He was asked by the imperial Commission of Three to cut down the credit allotted to his de- partment by the estimates for 1904. This Com mission of Three was created by the Tsat alter the outbreak of the war with Japan, and charged with the work of curtailing, as far as possible, all expenditure already allowed for in the budget,
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and turning over the savings to the war fund. All the Ministers were therefore asked to give back a part of the credit assigned to them, and M. von Linhve among the number. He, how-
million pounds which his department had in- ever, replied that of the seven and a half tended to spend he would strike out one mil fion; that is to say, £800,000, which had been set apart for making roads, which are indis- peasable to the peasantry, and a further £200,000. These useful, and, indeed, produc-A the 93rd Burma infantry for the use of
THE HONGKONG RIFLE ASSOCIATION,
INTERPORT PRACTICE. RRANGEMENTS having been made with
army was in the villages beyond Pa-li-ho, and knowledge of the English Collector of the Dis-with five Krupp guns virtually defeated a trier the case was taken to the High Court who strong Japanese force, but not realising the quasked the conviction and ordered the fine to damage inf? cted retreated during the ensuing be refunded. For ought we know, there may night to okl Newchwang. he same hundreds of such cases of petty and galling tyrannies which these wretched people was engaged by the Chinese to dhive the have to suffer every day of their lives. These Japanese out. He made two attempts, march- Mahars have recently petitioned the Governing with many banners to the north gate, in ment of Bombay, to help them to raise their neither instance real sing that the Japar. status in relation to that of the various other est were hid in snow-covered trenches on
My official instructions directed me to go to communities under their-administration. That two hillocks he was badly, defeated, At the Government will readily give a sympathetic the end of the summer of 1900 a 'smalt Mukden, where the Viceroy resided, but at consideration to the memorial there is not Russian force captured and held this city Lianyang I obtained permission to remain
GROUNDS FOR DISSATISFACTION, the slightest doubt. The deadening and against a determined attempt of the vice- there for a few days. Liaoyang, the point of
to gag the people is as reasonable as it would depressing conditions amidst which the low governor of Mukden, Chin Chang, who with concentration of all the troops, is much the be to beat a child for screaming when it is suffer that money and the value received for it the 2.30 P.M.
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more interesting of the two places. It is a classes have to live, The entire lack of hope for his Boxer hordes tried to recapture it. them under the hard and rigid social system, men, who were quite bullet-proof as they ima-reat Russ an town in process of growth ing the dreadful torture of rheumatic pains, and gined, were mown down, and thus the Boxer l'urely administrative in character, it radiates round the railway station, the germ from which all bas sprung. Small, low buildings, strictly alike, arranged in straight knes, with equal
A LIKELY BATTLEGROUND).
give them a just clann upon the generous consideration of an upright and just adurinistra-power in Manchuria was smashed. tion like the British. at the Government will have to reckon with the so-called high The town has been under an able magistrate Caste Hindus, and as the Rast Gofkes of for the past few years, who has bravely striven Bombay says There is a deep-rooted antipa- to clear the surrounding country of robbers. thy and hatre i on the part of the Hindu Com. He did so well that the Russians left him a munity against the Mabars which cannot be free hand and vacated the city at an early date. easily eradicated and the presentiful condi-Haicheng with its natural fortresses, and situ tion can only be ameliorated even by such a ated as it is at the junction of several trade powerful machinery hike that of the Goverment routes and on the railway, has proved, as was of Bombay by Flow and tentative measures Iforrectly supposed, to be the objective of any the high caste Hindus are as foolish as to ad- japanese force which may conss the Yalu into
Manchuria. yance the old obsolete argumeals which can- dor for one moment hold water in these days of civilization and progress they would be cutting their own throats as far as the other communities in distant parts of the world are concerned. The South African Government and the people of the Transvaal who are at pre- sent endeavouring with all their might and main to prevent the coloured notions, the Hindoes included, from entering their country would be the first to taunt them and say Physician heal thyself. They are bound to urge that it does not become a nation, who are accustomed to
The population is mated at from 15,000 to 20,00 a including many Mahomedans, who will support either side as fortune may deter nine. The common people have made much money of the Russians, and seem to bear them Beyond the crenellated parapet an ill-will. can be seen roofs of houses forming the western suburb of Haicheng, and beyond is the wide portion of Baicheng River. In the distance to the left is the Tang-wang-shan, a bluff 700 ft. high, held by the Japanese in the campugs of 18945. The Japanese mounted earthen ware jars and logs of wood as guns, and so skilfully wrapped them up in red cloth coverings that the incal Chinese reported to their army that the Japanese had brought heavy artillery, whereas the Japanese had only light mountain guns against the Chinese Krupps. However, the logs of wood served their purpose, for the Level and Storage of Water in Reservoirs Chinese did not dare to attack the position, ANCTHER IMPORTANT POINT IN THE STRATEGIC POSITION.
keep their own countrymen and co-religionists at arm's length, to thrust their presence upon those who do not care to receive them in their territories."-Contributed.
WATER RETURN.
on the 1st August,
Tylam...
Byewash...
Pokfulam..
}
LEVEL.
1903
1904.
" below
o' o" level Loverlow
12' below
Loverdow
The
Another important point in the present as pect of the land campaign is Sjusen, a very old Chinese town on a high level plato about mid- way betwreu Haicheng and Takushan. Many trade routes pass through this centre. o' 1" below i '7" below
Laverflow
local business is not very prosperous as com overflow Wang.nai- o' of above 11 7" belowpared with former ages. The population is
about 5.000 Laverflow
The property is largely owned cheong..... overflow
by Manchu bannermen, who hinder progress and stop trade development. These rich land- 1904.
Iords were nearly ruined in 1874 when the 373,250.000
7.145.90 retreating Chinese army, enraged by the co- 61.350,000 wardly desertion of the Manchu forces at 16,996.000 Pingyang, especially destroyed the houses of these landlords. They also burnt nearly all the shops, which were owned by Manchus and only rented to the Chinese.
STORAGE GALLONS.
1903. 384,807,000
Tylam Byewash.......... Pokfulam...... 61,010,000 Wong-nai-cheong 30,398,000
Total 480,208,000 460,941,000 Consumption of Water in the City of Victoria and Hill District during the month of July,
1903.
1904. Consumption...138,353,000 133,702,000 gallons Estimated po-
219,600 224, 00 pulation... Consumption)
19.2 gallons per head per 25.3 day..........................} Constant supply during the whole mouth of July, 103. Intermittent supply up to 3rd July, 1904 inclusive,
Consumption of Water in Kowloon Peninsula during the month of July,
1904. 1903. Consumption...14,043,000 15,394,000 gallons Estimated po-2
68,800 pulation... Consumption
62,950
7.2
per head per
7,2 gallons day........... The Government Analyst reports that the water is of excellent quality.
P. N. H. JONES, F.W.D., Water Authority,
THE SACKING OF STUYEN, The town has never properly recovere i the sacking of it by the Chinese army which was retreating before the Japanese. Near the gates are brick walls, otherwise the town is protected by an irregular earth rampart of the private walls of native compounds. One of the gate ways is very old indeed; it probably dates back to the time of the Koreans, who were driven from here about A. D. 65 ». Siuyen is the centre of the wild or oak silk dist tct. It also gives its name to the jadiete quarries twenty miles distant. The district is usually very quiet; bands of robbers are unknowu as the mountain village guilds keep good order. The region to the north and west is rough and wooded, supplying the towns of Kaipeng-Newchwang port, and Haicheng with fuel, especially char: coal. The food of this region is maize together with a small quantity of other cereals.---Ex.
space between, monatonons and symmetrical like all administrative constructions, shelter the numerous Government offices. A small bellry rising from one of the houses marks the Church, which the Russians take with them everywhere. On all sides building is actively in progress; the little town into which men and roubles ae flowing by thousands giving birth to all sorts of adjuncts; bastily constructed shops, taverns, and enclosures in which the camp fol towers are massed together peli mell. On a siding, close to the station, six railway carriages constitute the palace of the Generalissimo; a travelling palace which is attached to a locom-
ative from time to time, and which follows ita
master everywhere. Near at hand, also in railway carnages, are the foreign Military attachés. But a brick building is now being provided for these gentlemen, a fact which seems to indicate that their stay at Liaoyang is likely to be a long one. The centre and meeting place of all this little world is the buffet, the poor and mournful buffet of a small railway station.
It suffers from a lamentable
Live, works he would dispense with, but he
the Kowloon Range on Saturday afternoons, a could not, he said, allow one farthing to be | SPOON COMPET'TION will be held TO- MORROW (Saturday) the 6th instant, at taken from the Secret Service Fund. With
RANGES-200, 500 and no yards. weal of the Government was, so to say; indis-
Seven Shots and One Si er at each range. It is hoped there will be a -od attendance of Members.
A SECRET REPORT.
suppre dels nor silence do away with truth. the measure is just as efficient. Force cannot so,uby bound up.
How farthe grievances of the Russian people are well founded, and to what extent their Govern- ment is blameworthy, it is not the province of
the mere outsider to decide; the utmost he can and should do is to state both sides of the question and to note the attitude of each party. And the position taken up by the authorities is this: For ages Russia has thriven under the present system of government; therefore it answers its purpose and suits the nation, and musi, consequently, be preserved. But any such far-reaching reforms as the malcontents demand would throw the whole machinery of government into chaos and necessitate not only further but fundamental changes in the political fabric. Moreover, the majority of the people are incapable of exercising to any useful purpose a controlling influence over public affairs. Hence they must be dealt with paternally. To this the spokesmen of the people answer that the masses will never be ripe for self-government if the present state of things endures.
However this may be, the fact is that
THE MALCONTENTS,
In his secret report about the work and the cost of the invisible army which is saving abso-
futism fron democracy, 1. von Plehve deais
with dry questions of finance. But underlying those business-like calculations there are a number of data which throw a curious light
MOWBRAY'S. NOKTICOTË, Hon. Secretary. Hongkong, 5th August, 1904.
THE GREAT SENSATION AND ATTRACTION IN THE EAST. NEVER SEEN IN HONGKONG BEFORE. SIMONS'
upon the internecine struggle in Russia. Thus, the Minister states that from the year 1883 His GRANDE
income of £96,000, which is a large sum for a Majesty allowed the Secret Service Fund an class of people who are ashamed to show their faces in society and acknowledge their calling, But all these thousands were not actually spent then; the revolutionary organisation was weak, and the body of spies needed was proportion-
ately small. Even ten years ago, when M. von
Plehve was himself Chief of the Police, the ex- penses of that department amounted "only to
£57,000 a year." He overcame the revo- lutionary party, but somehow
the need
of a larger, and ever larger body of spies and secret agents grew pressing, for Russia is a land of contradictions and mysteries. Thus a new body called "The Section of Safety and another termed "The Section of Public Order" had to be organised and set to work in Moscow, St. Petersburg, and Warsaw, and the wages of these nocturnal knights eat into the Secret Service Fund very perceptibly. The savings of former years had to be fallen back upos, and the anoual deficit amounted yearly to more and more. As M. von Plehve tersely puts it: "The spread of anti-Governmental societies composed of working men and pea- sants rendered it indispensable to develop in like manner the work of watching and investi gating, through agents both at home and abroad."
who may be truly said to comprise the body of the people, fall into three classe: the theorists, lack of chairs, does the buffet of Liaoyang who confine the selves to more or less openly When the foreign attaches are all seated at the complaining, and are oftentimes ready to large table which is reserved for them, there suffer the consequences. These are mostly remain very few seats for the numerous itus-
noblemen, tawyers, doctors, authors, and a sian officers, and stili less, of course for the
percentage of peasants. The second class humble members of the civil service, unprovidconsists of workingmen, who are Democrats or ed with sword or gold bulan. Consequently Socialists, and, not satisfied with vain lamenta. quite a crowd of would-be feeders gathers round
tions, agitate and combine, but never have the door in the hope that sooner or later some
recourse to violence as an approved means of those who are seated will make way for
which This party, of obtaining redress. them. In the neighbouring courty and horse-
rapidly is splendidly organised, and is men are dismounting every moment, jumping growing in numbers, possesses considerable precipitately from their Trans-Baikal or Mongo-nience over the lower classes. The third lian steeds; Cossack officers from the Caucasus, class re the advocates or violence the in Asiatic costume with long "caftans" and Revolutionists-who, setting their lives at high Astrakhan hats. Enclosed within high naught, kill here a Minister, there a Governor, and perfectly intact walls, the native town and vainly hope that their example will fire the covers an area of about two kdometres in
masses to rise up against the authorities, as length and one and a half in breadth. Four
the French people did in the Revolution as if gates give access to it, and a muddy ditch runs
a revolution, on such lines, were possible, in rounds the ramparts. The gates are joined an age of quick-firing guns and magazine together by two roads which intersect, and it is rifles! Midway between the second and third on these that the life and business of the town classes are the hungry peasants, who, rendered are concentraled... The adjoining desperate by their seemingly hopeless condi- streets are quiet, and behind them lie low-built tion, and heedless of theories or systems, burn houses, vast open spaces, gardens and fields.
down the hay-ticks, the granaries, the mansions It would be almost as easy to bring down the moon as to find a place to sleep.in at Liaoyang. of the well-to-do classes, eager to destroy the The only hotel, the Hotel de Poltava, a miser: substance of those who hinder them-as they able place, possesses at most ten beds, which is fancy-from having any substance of their own. not to say ten rooms. We, therefore, set off, cost what it might, in search of the French
War, therefore, is being waged between those missionary, who lived far off, right at the end three parties on the one side and the GoveID- of the Chinese town. After many turns and ment on the other. It is zig-zags we arrived at his bouse, only to be told
A CIVIL WAR
Six million francs, therefore, or £240,000, are received and spent every year by M. von Pleave in order to hinder the Russian people from manifesting their desire to see a change effected in the Administration. And
THE WAYS AND MEANS employed by those secret agents are held to be thinking Russians. To yield up one rouble for demoralising and infamous by all classes of
these millions to the war fund is, the Minister affims, "absolutely impossible." Many Rus- sian patriots who hate Socialism and revolution disagree with M. von Fichve, who, in their opinion, is but driving the people into se cret conspiracy and open rebellion. The proof of this is the fact that never before M. von Piehve became chief of the police have so many political murders been perpetrated. For secret crime on one side begets secret crime on the other. The records of murder, of attempti at murder, and of political offences generally are very full, and besides the activity of revolu tionists, the whole country is passionately in
opposition,
Clearly there is an internal war going on in Russia simultaneously with the campaign against Japan. From time to tinte one hears of na attack and defence, of the burning of pro by the Chinese who was in charge of it that the of a peculiar kind, in which, although silence perty, the killing of officials, the execution of priest was absent, eighty kilometres away!
conspirators. The Government possesses an What should we do; where to put our trunks, and secrecy characterise the operatious, there enormous body of police and soldiers, who are our horses and ourselves? Already night was are killed, wounded, and prisoners, fire and employed to put down the movement, and, be sides these, it has created a secret force, for the coming on. Should we have to sleep in the sword, victories and defeats, Numbers are on road? Necessity is a bold counsellor; we for the side of the people; money and soldiers and maintenance of which M. von Plehve phys annually 6,000,000f, from which he cannot, he cibly availed ourselves of a hospitality which no doubt would have been offered us. in the arms on that of the Government. And so long says, take off a centime. His force grows in Father's Chinese house, close to the tiny and as the authorities possess those resources, number, their expenses increase proportionate. poor-look ng church, which has no chairs, especially the army, it would be absurd toy, but the result seems to be that he is defeat merely mats on the bare ground, and in which talk of a revolution. If at some fateful momenting his own end. A serious day of reckoning
is expected after pe has been concluded the altar and the cross do not conceal the the army got out of hand-and as yet there are before the war is say some but on nakedness of the walls, we placed our camp- beds in a room which was at once the dining. no symptoms of such defection-the conditions hopes, for the sake Russia and humanity, room and the sacristry,
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SCOTCH WHISKY DISTILLERS, By Appointment to E. M. THE KING
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Supplied at all the LEADING CLUBS and HOTELS, and to be obtained from LANE, ORAWFORD & Co., Queen's Road Central