TELEGRAMS.
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The War,
LONDON, 15th August. THE RECENT HAVAL BATTLE.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17 1904.
THE WAR.
ARE THE ODDS AGAINST / JAPAN ?..
compliance with this request, constituting an they move. Impassive as statues, they betray- insult to the British flag, would seem to have | ed by no outward sign the painful workings of been only another expression of this some their brain.
"The bullets mng out.
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"Jokoka fell to the left, Jokki, without having Iwitched his eyelids, fell forward. spirit of distrust in our protestations of neutra-}· "Their advocate pleaded for a remission of "Both of them were riddled with bullets. If it took the British empire, with 360,000 000 lity. It is not at all unlikely that Russia keep the death sentence to one of hard labour, in Our good soldiers had taken pity on them." people, three years to subdue the 800,000 Boersing in view the attitude of British public feel-consideration of the full avowal they had made.
The last words of my informant were punc "The speech for the defence made no im. in South Africa, how long will it take the Rusing suspected us of giving aid in the manner
tuated by a groan. Involuntarily he had moved Admiral Toga's squadron is practicallysian empire, with only 14000 people, toofscoming to the Japanese fleet; this would be pression on the two prisoners, and not a word his wounded knice.
important seeing that the Vladivostok squadron did they utter. uninjured; the Mikasa suffered the most,
"Confound the Japa!" he exclaimed, "TERING OF SHA was on its way to Port Arthur. In this case "Knowing that the law admitted of a reduc-nice mers bey live made of my leg 1, lut, no but remains in the fighting line. Total casualties 197. Admiral Kamimura's casuai-
and Jokki's end." ties were slight.
Russian Cruizers. The Gourkha has been stopped and de layed half an hour of Sagres (Portugal) by the Russian cruiser Bon, recently the Ger man liner Furst Bismarck.
LATERA
The Russian War Ships in Kino-Chau.
The Russian war ships at Kino-Chau have been ordered to dismantle, as they are un- able to put to sea within the prescribed time.
subdue the 40,000,001 panese?
The answer is-378 yours.
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If 40,000 British soldiers were killed in three the Russian Ministry bastened to apologise, but tion of the extreme penalty, we all expected a matter, I cannot help feeling sorry at jokok~'3 | DAY, the a7th August, 1904, at Noon, for the years in the Boer War how many will be killed in 378 years with the Japanese?
the effect of the apology was spoiled by an exactly similar occurrence on the heels of the former. This was a little too much of a good If the cast of the Beer war to treat Britain thing and the fleet instantly returned to Wei-
The answer is-5,0:0,000 men.
was $1,115,000,000 how much would a 378
years' war cost Russia
The answer is-$1,40,400,000,000.
The above figures, which any bay or girl in high school can casaly verify, are not to be taken, as prophetic... The Russo-japanese war will probably be a forgotten horror in the twenty-third century,
But the Boer war, with its great expense and loss of life, with its long delays and setbacks, clearly proved that it is no easy task for a large
nation to subdue a small one,
The Russians are said to be hice to one.
haiwel.
Then comes the Knight Commander incident;] the fleet develops a sudden energy which has an ominous nature; warlike precautions are taken. The British press, already stimulated, is goaded into loud profestations and things assume a decidedly serious aspect. One can peep behind the scenes and get a pretty strong impression of what is going on. Conclusions based upon slight foundations are dangerous things, but facts remain as facts; effects are the result of course, and when we see coal being burned, precautions imposed and the usual
lighter sentence than that of capital punish ment; but, after a deliberation of half an hour the tribunal condemned the two officers to the maximum punishment, namely, hanging.
“Jokoka and Jokki heard the sentence with as unconcerned an air as if it had fallen upon strangers to them. Indeed, had the verdict been a lighter one, they would probably have shown surprise.
"The sentence was to be carried out in the early hours of the following morning. Only. its confirmation by, General Kuropatkin was awaited.
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"A telegram from him was not long in com ing. The commander-in-chief of our forces approved the verdict, but wishing to spare the Japanese ranks the humiliation of the gallows,
And seeing this victim of the Japanese shells so strangely moved by the death of two spies, his encaries, I thought of the Russian painter Verestchagin's words, "The courage of the two combatants is the most serious obstacle to war." And, indeed, how can men kill each other where there is mutual esteem and ad- miration?
THE O. & 0. S.S. "GABLIC,"
The Occidental and Oriental steamship Gue- lic for years pasi plying between this port and the United States, is to be sent back to Eng tand to her owners, the White Star Company, the first of the coming year. Of all the liners
an honourable death, and be shot.
oldest, with the greatest number of voyages to "I was present when the commandant read her crezist, now closely approaching the hun out General Kuropatkin's order to the prired mark. Captain William Finch has been
her commander for yous past,
The Seizure of the "Retshitelny."
The Russian Minister at Peking, in tada. This is not a correct statement. It must be peaceful aspect of a fleet suddenly altered upon ordered that ns brave soldiers they should have running across the Pacific the Gaelic is the
remembered that Jayan is a united nation, while Russia is composed of thirty or more different nationalities,
·Every Japanese is ready to fight for his coun. try but there are many Russian communities that would sooner fight agust Russia than for
ing his protest against the seizure of the Ketshitelny, charges the Chinese Govern He also ment with complicity in the affair. charges the Chinese commodore with cow ardice or treason. He demands a full ex- planation, the restoration of the destroyer,
For instance, there are 6:00,000 Jews in Rus and the severe punishment of the com- modore. China now demands that Japans,ve the Tsar? Are they not to be counted as sia. Is it likely they will be willing to die to
restores the Rushitelny,
Prorogation of Parliament. Parliament is prorogued,
her.
an element of weakness and not an element of strength in the russian empire?
There are 3,000 Finns in the Russian empire. Within the last two years their politi- cal liberties have been restricted, and the RETIREMENT OF A P. & 9. CAPT. whole of Finland is alive with the spirit of revolt. Is it likely that the Fines will be enthusiastically patriotic during the war?
There are 12,000,000 Poles in Russia. It is probable that they will be about as inyal to Ras- sia as the Boers are to Great Britain. The Pole may be compelled to carry arms but no one can expect him to fight with vim and enthusiasm under the Russian flag.
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Capl. William A. Wheler, Commodore of the P. & D. Steam Navigation Company, and late Commander of the Persia, has retired after 40 years' service. Capt. Wheler is not entirely severing his connection with the P & O. Com pany, as he has been appointed to their agency at Cardiff, which appointment he takes up in September next. Capt. Wheler was formerly midshipman in the late Indian Navy up to the time of its abolition, when he entered the P. & O. Company's service. During the 12 years of his command he has seen a good deal of transport work, especially during the Egyptian Campaign of 1882 and the Suakim Expedition of 1865-8%, for which he received the Queen's Medal and Khedive's Star. He also command ed the hospital ship Coromandel in 1898, which was specially commissioned to take the special Service Corps to the Ashantee Campaign. His last command was the Persiu, to which vessel he was appointed in 1900, and on which he has been commander, since December, 1951,-- Ceylon Independent.
Then there is Tolstoi, he alone counts for several millions. He will not fight even in self- defence. No one can tell how widely his doc- wines of non-resistance have spread among the Russian peasantry.
the reception of news that would almost account for it we are tempted to supply our own details, The autlook is a grave one, and though we have every confidence in the machinery of our diplomacy yet we cannot help feeling that even- if the present incidents are explained away and our tuffled feelings snoothed over, we have some excuse, if we are left, at any rate for the present, with a pain in our temper,
HOW HEROES DIE.
A RUSSIAN COURT-MARTIAL..
Writing in the Nouvelliste Pandois, of Lau- sanne, M. Pravdine says: It was a Russian naval" officer, lately returned from Harbin, who gave me the following unpublished details concerning the last hours of two Japanese spics caught by the Russian Cossacks just as they were about to shatter with dynamite a bridge on the line of the Manchurian Railway. My informant, a young officer in his prime, was severely wound ed during the first bombardment of Port Arthur, He had been granted leave to go to Italy to re- Cruit, but before starting he went into flatbin to see the last of some brother-officers, and here
soners,
"It is well,' was Jokoka's reply. 'I am ready!'
"nis comrade said nothing, his most dis- dainful look expressing indifference as to the death that awaited him.
"Jokoka asked leave to write to his family, and embraced Jokki. The latter now opened his lips.
"I die more tranquil than you, Colonel. "How su?' asked the other.
* have done my duty to my country and my Maker. You have only earned the thanks
of your country.'
"What do you mean, Captain ?'
bave often thought, Colonel, of what you have told me of Christianity. You boast of its superiority to my creed. Well, I find that you are not in accord with your Christ's teachings. 1, on the contrary, have nothing to reproach myself with.'
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The S. F. Press is requested by the Raub Com pany to state that towards the end of July viol ent storms occurred at Raub causing falls of earth and trees which did considerable damage to the flume at Sempan. The repairs have cover- ed a period of over two weeks and necessitated a stoppage of milling operations during that period. Consequent upon this the usual "You are perhaps right, Captain. But now I periodical clean up which is due on Saturday have a favour 10 ask of you. Will you authorise (for 4 weeks ending 13th August) will not take he arrived at the moment when the two Japan-me to perform the first really Christian act which place, the actual crushing done during these 4 ese caught in the act were arrested, tried, and has been allowed me in my life. You know
weeks will be carried into the next 4-weekly | THE Steamship that I have still a bundle of notes of the period. The time of the enforced suspension Chinese Bank. There are, perhaps, a thousand of nulling operations has been utilised in carry. roubles. I want to hand over this money per-ing out the changes in the hoisting gear al "I saw them die, and am sorry to have to sonally to the commandant to give to the Rus-
Bukit Koman, necessitated by the substitution say so was the young sailor's answer. Secingsian Red Cross, for our enemies' wounded. Do
of electric for steam power, and the adoption you agree to this? my look of astonishment, be added:
of skips instead of trucks and cages. These "Jokki stood reflecting a moment.
changes would have involved the idleness of said:
the mill for to or 13 days in any event sooner ***I have always felt great affection for you, Colonel, and if this makes you happy, give the money to your encanics.'
shot.
"You were present at their execution ?" asked.
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"Do not take me for an Anarchist. I am a
Out of every hundred Russians, therefore, there are about twenty who cannot be relied "pon. It may even be said that some of the twenty sympathize with Japan. In the remote Siberian villages, where the Russian exties- 500,000 of them are confined it is not likely there will be any parades in honour of Al-Patriot to the cure, I ardently wished for war excieff.—££,
with Japan, and longed to see the Japs wiped out, and terms of peace dictated to them in Cokio. But, in common with all my comrades, when I saw the two Japanese officers who had so bravely given up their lives to their country, fall under the fire of our men, I could not but feel that their lot was a hard one."
THE CHINA SQUADRON
AT WEIHAIWEL
{From our Naval Correspondent.)
Weihaiwei, gul-August. Considerable interest is attached to the at-
anchor in Weihaiwe.
It will be remembered that for some time
THE “ALGUA" REPAIRS.
Some very keen-bidding-took place for the repairs to the big British steamship Algod, titude of the China Squadron which is now at Capt. Lockett, which ran on Post Bonita some weeks ago, and had to be berthed for examina tion in San Francisco. Victoria (B.C.) fims were not behindhand in bidding for the work, and with a good deal of success, as may be gathered from the subjoined list of tenders sent in. When it is remembered that the Victoria tenders include necessary charges for towage, with all its risks, it will be seen that there is some cause for congratulation that British Columbia firms can compete on even terms with the other big yards on the coast. The
list of tenders is as follows:
Risdon Iron Works, San Francisco, $72,580; Union Iron Works, San Francisco, $68,000; Fullerton Iron Works, San Francisco, $64,940; Morans, Seattle, $6,500; Victoria Machinery Depot, Victoria, $59,000; Esquimali Mar.ne Railway, Victoria, $47,500.
The Union Iron Works secured the job.
LOCAL COMPLAINTS
IN "TRUTH."
"You were present at the trial?" | asked;
Yes; I Grst saw the two spies arrested, I attended the court-martial, and was present at their execution. I will tell you all about it in detail. I am haunted by that borrible sight, and cannot shake off the recollection of it.”
For a good half-hour the invalided officer was engaged in relating the following to me, only pausing a moment as the pain in his right ance, which had been struck by a piece of a
after the commencement of operations the fleet, though concentrated, remained South and well out of the sphere of operations. As mat ters began to shape themselves and, at any rate The Japanese superiority at sea began to de-Japanese shell, became acute,
"I can assure you that when the two accused finitely show itself the fleet moved North and lay for sometime at Woosung. But Woosung, were led into the little room of the Chinese though a convenient anchorage, offered no fansa, winch had been turned into a court. opportunities for answering any sudden call, martial hall by the military authorities of tiar- and accordingly as matters progressed the fleet, bin, the judges as much as the public consist still well out of the sphere of operations, moved ng almost wholly of officers, could not conceal to the Saddle Islands-au anchorage with few their feelings of admiration, and, indeed, en Points in its lavour, but, that which we might sur-thusiasm, for the doomed men. For, after all, bise would now be the vital one, of affording they had been moved by the noblest motives; as no obstacle to instant mobility should occasion patriots they had resolved to use every means ID arise. Port Arthur was at this true generally their power to assure victory to their country, considered to be in a very precarious position, and they had not hesitated as soldiers at the and there were many who prophesied its fali orders of their superiors to march to certain within a week or two. Port Arthur, as we know, death. remained in a state of siege, but the land forces were beginning to push themselves forward, and with them the central interest of the war swept Northward.
A correspondent at Hongkong calis attention to what seems to be an expensive irregularity Now the fleet moved into Weiliawei and in the Hongkong and Singapore battalion people waited breathless for news from Port R.G.A.-a native battalion. Some months ago, Ariliur. What would happen if Port Arthur authority was obtained from the War Office for fell? Why, at this juncture, and notull now, the appointment of an acting battalion sergeant- had the fleet taken up is position in close major. On the strength of this a corporal, proximity to the fortress? Was there any serving as battalion clerk, appears to have secret news as to when the Japanese deet been nominally appointed to this post, and has | would attack in earnest? been ever since drawing 6d. a day as extra duty Then came the sudden departure at half a pay; but he remains a clerk, and never attends day's notice from Weihaiwei to Yung thin a parade. I am given to understand, says Truth, } Bay and, later, its sudden return to Weihaiwei that the appointment of an acting sergeant-major where it now lies with all the battleships in the in this battalion is altogether unnecessary, there inner harbour and the cruisers anchored out. being few or any dates for him to perform. side. Two ships are always ready to leave on The above facts appear to bear this out, and instant notice with steam up, and destroyer is surprising that the appointment should have continually patrol the water outside. been approved at Headquarters; but it can hardly have been contemplated even there that the 6d. a day should be used as a little extra perquisite for the battalion clerk.
All these movements are doubiless the re
sult of telegrams of which the general public are ignorant, and the real state of affairs can only be guessed at by conclusions which we When certain articles of hit are issued to a fare led to inter from them, man it seems altogether wrong that his officers The general aspect of the fleet with its should require him to show at kit-inspection frequent evolutions of a warlika nature, its articles in excess of the quantity issued. This double guardship system and the alert. observation applies to all branches of the Serness of the every-busy destroyers, points vice, says Truth, but the particular case which to a distinctly serious condition of affairs.. I have in mind is that of certain Marines on Putting two and two together it would ap the China station. A Marine receives two pear evident that our occupation of Weihai suits of white clothing when he leaves on for wei is regarded by Russia as an act, if no eign service, but in this instance—which occurs distinctly offensive to herself, at least friendly on H.M.B. Britomar!—the men have to pro- to her opponent. This is by no means an duce air suits of white clothing at kit inspection. unreasonable view when we take into con, That is to say, every man is expected to provide sideration the attitude of home papers and the
The formalities of the court-martial were of the simplest order, and the hearing of the trial offered little of interest, seeing that the ac cused openly, and not without a certain patriotic pride, accepted the responsibility of the crime weighing upon then. They gave their names and rank without the slightest tremor of voice. "Tchomo Jokoka, fony-four years old, colonel of the staff, passed our first from the Military Academy of Yeddo,' said the elder ni the prisoners, a short, thick-set man of strong and energetic countenance.
Teisko Jokki, thirty-one years old, captain of the staff,' said the other, taller and slighter in build than his comrade, with a thin and deeply-bronzed face. As he gave his name he turned a somewhat disdainful look on those in court. A moment later he added:
"Buddhist.'
**And you, Colonel,' asked the President of 'the Tribunal, 'are you of the same religion' as
your co-accused ?
"No, sir, I am Christian.'
"Seeing the looks of astonishment produced by this declaration, he added, quickly:
Then he
"When the commandant returned to the prisoners Jokoka handed him a sheaf of white bank-notes, with red inscriptions, saying a
"There are about a thousand roubles here. We beg you to give the money to your Red Cross.'
But had I not better send it to your [amilies ??
? **Oh!no! nal' the condemned men cred with one voice. The Mikadu will not forget our wives and children. Do not refuse us this
satisfaction,' added Jokoka; 'divide the money among your wounded.
"The commandant still insisted that the officers should send home to Japan all they left. For one moment Jokk appeared to waver, He glanced at his comrade in misfortune. The latter only reiterated his wish to make amends in this way for the wrongs committed to his hie. The captain bent his bead, acquiescing
at last in his brother-in arm's desire.
"Our commandant yielded. He then asked the two Japs whether they wished for anything. like a bath; after that we will be at your dis- "The Buddhist's reply was: 'I should much
posal.'
"A bath room is an unknown article of lax. ury Harbin, and the commandant could only send for a couple of pails of water, giving orders to the sentinels to turn away so that the unfortunate men night strip without shame,
The Christian colonel cammostly begged to be allowed to see a clergyman before going to his death.
"As there was no Lutheran chaplain on the spot, the Russiau priest of the regiment was
the Sermon on the Mount. sent to him. jukuka begged him to read out
Russian, Jukoke lullowing the text in his japan- This was read in
cell. When the priest came to the words, For ese Bible, which had been left with hun in his
If ye love only those who love ye, what reward will ye have? And ye welcome only brothers,
wherem lieth the virtue? Jokoka closed the book, joined his hands, and bowed his head a monient, his lips moving.
Joski, be said, 'you are right. You die
more peaceful thas I, for I have never felt so strongly how much my life has been in disaccord with Christ's teaching,
"The carriage which was to take the two men to their death was now waiting..
"Outside, swarmed the crowd-that hideous crowd, always alike at such times--merchants out of work, seedy adventurers who had flocked I am all the same a true Japanese, born of
oul to the Fur Fast on the look-out for an odd Japanese parents. But in my youth I was won
job. over by the soft word of Christ, and was con verted from Buddhism.'
"Colonel Jokela spoke in English, and it was a subject of King Edward employed in the Russo-Chinese Bank who translated his testi. mony. A Chinese acted as interpreter to Cap. |tain jokki.
"The explosive substances found on their persons were now shown to the prisoners; but they did not seek to exculpate themselves, nor
"The two Japanese went to their duom im. passive as ever. Only the colonel, one could see, was a prey to painful thoughts.
"Both lighted their cigarettes, and asked not to be tied to the posts.
"The commandant took a couple of handker- chiefs from his packet and handed them to the prisoners.
"Joxoka himself bound his eyes, but Jokki
wished to watch the operations,
or later. The increased facilities for bauling, attended by the much diminished cost, will amply repay for the stoppage incurred.
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"I watched the faces of the two men when this was read out. Not a single muscle did
"Twelve soldiers were posted in front of the colonel, another twelve in front of the captain.
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