TELEGRAMS.
ASTOR HOUSE DIVIDEND.
Mosars. Benjamin, Kelly & Potta write us as follows to-day-
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The War,
VLADIVOSTOK NEWS SUPPRESSED.
LONDON, 16th August. Owing to the censorship nothing has been published in St. Petersburg in reference to the result of the Vladivostok squadron's
THE CRIMINAL sessioNS
BUYING AND SELLINO CHILDREN.
During the hearing of a child seating case at the Criminal Sessions this morning, the Chief Justice, Sir Wm. Goodman, had before him a go-between in the maiter of the sale and purchase of children.
The Attorney General (Sir It. S. Berkeley) said that it was no offence to sell children in China, and this man, the go-between, operated in Chinese territory.
The Chief Justice said: I should like the
Chinese in this colony to distinctly understand that the buying and selling of children is quite
AT PORT ARTHUR.
1904.
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, AUGUST 18
THE ONSLAUGHT IMPENDING |racted field of fire. Within the ramparts the herown work and have checked Rüsshinaggres- interior space is divided at intervals by huge sion by means of her own trained troops. The mounds of earth, called traverses,, to protect baneful influence of a usurping monarch in any the men working the guns from enfilade fire other country in the world would have been Kuroki, with his forces spread out for scores from a frank; and beneath these traverses are brought to an abrupt conclusion almost as soon HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR of miles, may be keeping in touch with Kuro large vaults, open on the safe side, in which is it began to make itself felt. "Peking" does patkin, but Port Arthur remains the vital factor both light guns and men can be placed under not find any redeeming feature in her character. LODGE, on THURSDAY, August 25th; to the Japanese. So sure of this are many cover during an overpowering bombardment.
Her extraordinary.force of will and her love of THURSDAY, September 8th, and THURS
DAY, September äand, 4.45-6.45. experts in London, Paris, and Berlin that they
"The intervening space between these power marle hier an opportunist:. Extremely
Hongkong, 18th August, 1904. "We are informed by telegram Prisoner, in Decent East, stole in Hong pay but passing attention to the raids of the powerful works on the lower ground is defended unscrupulous in alaining her ends and ale that the Astor House Hotel Com-kong, a seven-year-old child, and under pre Vladivostok squadron and devote themselves by lines of trenches, dilches, and obstacles of ty cruel, nothing comes amiss to her which can further her ambitions. She stops at no- pany, Limited (Shanghai), bus de-tence of taking him to it theatre induced him to calculations of the period within which the every description; while even if there were
to go on a launch with him to Kowloon. He Russian fortress may be expected to succumb: penetrated the fortifications surmounting everything and is afraid of no one. "Peking" is clared dividend of 10 per cent. there locked him up in a house and subse.
Prussian military men, writing in the Kruernill on the land side are semi-enclosed works more outspoken than most contemporary his- ($24 per share) for the year ended quently took him to an opium shop at Sam-Zeitung (Berlin) and the Frankfurter Zeitung, whose gorges are protected by masonry loop. torians. He tells us with regard to the troubles chun in Chinese territory, and asked the keeper argue that the place ought to fall this mouth holed walls with the object of their defence a of 1900 that recognising the presence of for- 30th June, 1904.
to purchase or find a purchaser for the child. if it is ever going to fall at all. Should it hold as separate forts so that the defence may be eigners in China as an element of danger to After some days prisoner introduced o man
out until well beyond the middle of next month, protracted to the last, and the enemy, if pas herself, she determined to be rid of them. "Whether the Boxer movement was actually whom he alleged to be the father and the sum, they say, the defences will have been proved sible, destroyed and driven out again. Com- of $55 was paid for the child, the go-between sufficiently formidable to baffle the japanese munications from the various works, which are
originated by her to that end, or whether, de receiving a commission of $3.
for a long time-perhaps long enough for Kus visible from the land side, are very effective, ecting in it the seeds of a revolution against sian naval reinforcements to arrive. On the and safe from enfilade by their trace, the proton. herself and her dynasty, she cleverly cou- other band, the Paris Gaulois calmly awaits gation of which calls upon other works or land
trived to turn its anger against the foreigner, Port Arthur's capture without stating just when positions considered inaccessible, although will never be known. All that seems certain that Russian calamity is to be looked for. It the Japanese may contradict this assumption. would be an unfortunate event," says the l'aris The protection for guns and gunners is very paper, "but it would be a negligible event so good, and there is said to be no difficulty from far as the campaign is concerned." The Lon smoke, as in the closed galleries of obsolete don Speaker, convinced that Japanese opera-granite-faced forts, like those of Sheerness; tions against Kuropatkin are of secondary nor can men be struck by splinters of stone, general features of the defences which the portance, sensational despatches to the con- for the works are all of earth. Such are the trary notwithstanding, remarks;
"Some of the best critics in our press have Japanese forces have to overcome, and every wondered that the japanese have not masked one must acknowledge they form a pretty hard
net to crack. Port Arthur with a comparatively small force,
But, despite the increased strength of the and massed all their three armies against
modern fortress, the attack has gained in Kuropatkin; and one critic, perhaps the ablest of all, has suggested that the Japanese have power to an even greater extent. The caor- deliberately abstained from attacking the inainously increased range and weight of modern Russian army on account of diplomatic con. artillery will enable the Japanese to place a but while she does, no pio, ress is possible for China, Reformers have been systematically siderations! It is easier to believe that the large number of heavy batteries out of sight on
a long outer circle, behind a chain of fortified crushed by her. In the action of the Emperor when he sought to introduce changes into the Japanese understand the possibility, or rather probability, of the sailing of the Baltic fleet. posts, and while subjecting the defences gen-
system of Government, to check bribery and The Japanese have no means of recruiting erally to an accurate high-angle fire they will
be able to concentrate a steady rain of high-corruption and to promote instruction, the their navy; they have chosen to depend entirely upon the sea for their communications. It is, explosive shells upon the points selected for therefore, absolutely essential for them to dese attack. These, which can be lobbed into the troy the only practicable naval base which detences from a number of widely scattered Russia possesses in the Far East. They must points incessantly day and night, must in con. destroy it within three months, and if they can junction with infantry fire-to which the ground do so in three weeks their advantage will be in front of Port Arthur peculiarly tends itsell- nevitably subdue the fire of the forts. These, enormously increased.
100, it must be remembered, are under the ad- ditional disadvantage of being liable to be taken in reverse by the guns of the fleet, which is evidently ready to take hand in the business when the proper moment arrives."
engagement.
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The telegrams permitted to appear in no wise give the impression that the Russian fleet in the Far East is now a negligible
factor.
The incts, however, are known to the better informed classes, where there are evidences of bitter resentment against the system of administration responsible for the fatal inferiority of Russia's naval power.
LATER.
The War The Treatment of Neutral Ships.
The British Ambassador at St. Petersburg bas banded a protest to Russia regarding the treatment of neutral ships.
Russian Losses at Fort Arthur. An official statement in St. Petersburg gives the losses of the garrison at Port Arthur between the 8th and the roth August as 255 killed, 1,588 wounded, and 8.4 missing.
TRADE WITH JAPAN,
RAPORT FROM MR. SUTTOR.
The Japanese importations of furand wheat for the periost 1st January 31st April last amounted to £250,443 25 more than for the cor. responding four months of 1903. The figures given by Mr. Suttor, Commercial Agent, are as
follow :-
unknown to the law here. The law does not
allow any such proceedings in this Colony. A child cannot be bought or sold like ordinary goods and chattels. They might way a dog,
but not a child.
was in
Prisoner who alleged that he Singapare at the time of the kidnapping, was found guilty.
He was then, in company with a second Chinese, indicted for kidnapping two children in Hongkong in July las. The evidence was similar to that in the first case, excepting that the first prisoner pleaded guilty.
The jury found both men guilty, and it appeared that the first prisoner had been pre- viously convicted also (or kidnapping.
His Lordship, addressing the first prisoner on the first charge, said that he evidently made a trade of kidnapping and he would be com mitted to prison with hard labour fortwo years, On the second charge he would receive three years' imprisonment also with hard labour making five years, as the sentences were to run consecutively from that date, and he would ask the police to take the note that he was to
"It can not be too often repeated: the resis. tance of Puri Arthur sufficiently prolonged will was very lucky that his second conviction for deported at the end of five years. Prisener kidnapping did not come under section 3 of insure, humanly speaking, the strategical the Ordinance of 1993 (the Flogging Order) success of Russia before the first snow falls; or he would have been whipped and he (Hiss fall will insure the occupation of all southern Lordship) would have taken great pleasure in Manchuria by the Japanese. ordering him the flogging which his conduct so richly deserved. The second prisoner would have to go to prison for two years with hard tabour.
THE USE OF THE CHOPPER.
A small larmer at Shata was indicted for
Causing grievous bodily injury to another farmer to the same district of the New Territory.
It appeared from the evidence adduced by Flour-wheat, y24 (first four months), the Crown that the prosecutor owned a field
joining the prisoner's land; and that pr £403,392 125.
Flour-wheat, 1903 (first four months), soner had been detected coling a hole in the embankment whereby water would run from £152,949 105.
his (prosecutor's) land to that of the accused.
Prosecutor expostulated with him whereupon prisoner made a murderous altack upon him with a chopper severely injuring his knee and leg.
As a further illustration of the racecasing de mand for flour, in 1903 the shipments to Japan equalled over 134,500 tons, or an increase of 80,000 tons compared with 1902, and there is every reason to expect a continued expansion in the future from the fact that wheat flour is displacing rice flour, and is largely used by the Japanese in the preparation of sweets and cakes, and for paste used in making fans and screens. There is no reason, the agent says, why New South Wales millers should not cater to meet the growing requirements. At the time of writ ing (22nd May) the c.i.f. quotation is about £7 Jos. per ton. Mr Suttor states that Messrs. Jardine, Matheson and Company, W. H. Gill and Company, Samuel and Company, and Bowden Bros. are considerable dealers in
flour. So far fully 90 per cent, of the flour
business is in the hands of the Americans, and
In defence, prisouer said that prosecutor and his brother, or one of his clansmen were the gressors and all he did was in the shape of
self-preservation,
- Medical evidence to the effect that prosecutor came by his injuries as the result of a heavy blow, having been given, various other witnes ses were called.
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"In the light of this theory, which we are convinced is the true one, all the rumours, guesses, and falsehoods about the second Japanese aray and the main Russian force in the Manchunan plain lose their importance."
This shows a correct sense of the relative
importance of the factors at the front, in the opinion of continental experts. "If, however, ays the military expert of The St. James's Gaselle (London), "the strength of the defences and garrison is as great and complete as cir- cumstances demand, then, despite the certainty of as alumiae fate, Puri Anhur may offer a much more protracted resistance than is gen- erally anticipated.He-sketches in graphic detail a picture of the sangumary onslaught about to be witnessed:
"Let us suppose that the defenders have been pushed back sufficiently far to allow the Japanese to bring up their siege artillery. The positions of the various batteries of such familiar ground have doubiless long been decided upon, but inasmuch as they will be within range of the fortress guns their prepara tion with parapets and heavy gun-platforms, traverses and magazines, will have to be effect Prisoner was sentenced to 18 months' imed as secretly as possible. For the Russians, if they have ammunition and men to spare, will prisonment with hard labour.
be certain to do their utmost by gun-fire and sortie to prevent the establishment of the bat series which are being raised to deraplish their defences. This work the Japanese will do as much as possible by night, but the siege guns of to-day are of such enormous weight that much more labour is required before they can Ilis Lordship in passing sentence said: actually open fire, and it is during this period Without any authority you collected money, of preparation that the beleagured garrison can and instead of banding it over to your give most trouble, and must be held in check master, you appropriated it to your own by the Japanese infantry.
tu lorging a signature
CHINESE PRODIGALITY,
A Chinese shroff in the receipt of the princely salary of 114, with an addaion of $3 per month for night work pleaded guilty to embezzlement of his employer's inuney, culering forged receipts and obtaining property upon forged
instruments.
use.
came
merchants have been hitherto forced to the Pacific Slopes in consequences of the uncer- tainly of the New South Wales supply, but now that New South Wales is in a better position to meet requirements every ender our should be mads to obtain a footing, it will be found that the British merchants in Japan will be
"When all is ready, it will be a duel to the pleased to encourage the Newcouth Wales
you were not at all particular in that re-death between the biggest and most powerful product, and also to attend to any correspond- spect. It seems that you spent the money artillery which has ever been used in the at ence with a view to business, and advise as to in a course of extravagance, for in the tack and defence of a beleaguered fortress trade marks to be registered. The consump money items in the hat I notice 250 tor the tion of wheat is also on the increase, but as ransom of a girl, $100 for wine, und 5.00 for wheat is included with other grains it is dif
presents. Your salary was S14 per month ficult to give exact statistics.
with $3 extra for night work; therefore you must have known that you could not indulge in extravagance of that kind. Considering the fact that you are unly 21 years of age, and trough the maximum punishment is fourteen years, I shall semence you to twelve months with hard labour on each count, or three years' imprisonment in all
For lead, zinc, talow, and bones there is still an active demand, and it is necessary for our people to keep in touch with Eastern agents.
Large consignments of cupper are sent from Japua to China, Hongkong, Singapore, and India. The copper imported to the places named during the year 1903 equalled in value 1,112,500. Mr. Imitor does not say that in all came from Japan, but New South Wales cop. per is so highly thought of that he advises the market to be kept in view.
Since his arrival in Japan he has been look ing into the question of the exporis of man- ganese ores to the United States of America, A very large quantity is sent annually for the large iron works. The Japanese manganese is not looked upon as the best, and seeing that New South Wales has such large deposi:s un- developed the matter is, he thinks, worthy of careful consideration, and it should be ascer tained whether New South Wales ores would not answer the same purpose in America.
The Attorney General intimated that he would not proceed with certain other counts.
ANOTHER CHOPPER IN EVIDENCE.
Japan's first task must be to crush and subdue, the fire of the Russian redoubts, but even then their assault will be no easy matter, as we shall see if we examine more closely the nature of the defences to be crossed.
THE EMPRESS DOWAGER
OF CHINA.
At a moment when the eyes of all the world are turned towards that portion of the globe where the great fight is taking place between the Japanese and Russian civilisations, as anonymous contributor, who signs himself "Peking," thinks it may edify us, if we focus our attention upon the interesting personality if the sovereign on whose territory, that epoch- making struggle is taking place. Accordingly he has furnished us with the means of doing The life and so in the National Review. character of the really terrible old Indy have often been sketched before,.bat for at least a couple of years we have not heard much of her, except in those delightfully light snap-shots with which Mrs. Archibald Little occasionally favours us. "Peking" parrates the manner in which the Empress-Dowager accumulated power after the death of the Emperor, and then tells us of the demise of her son whose
is that she ended by deliberately encouraging the dastardly attack made by them in defiance of all civilised nations upon envoys accredited to the Chinese Court by friendly l'owers."
"Peking's estimate of the heart and character of the lady is fairly accurate. It is, as he says, that when she found the foreigner could not be exterminated, she sent presents to the people she sought to destroy. Although she had to flee when the allies entered the capital, she returned with her position ap parently unchanged owing to the simple fact that the Foreign Ministers could sat agree as to what was the best thing to do with her, should she be deposed. She remains in power,
Dowager saw in it nothing but a threat to her own power. The reformers were sacrificed and the Emperor virtually deposed, and so late as last August offe of the reformers was clubbed
her Majesty had misgivings as to the wisdom to death. But it would appear as though
Wiren at the close of of opposing reform. last year on the completion of a decade, a new honorific title and an additional £45,000 per annum-were offered to her, she turned her
1,000 cubic yards lo a maximum depth
of 8 feci.
The removed stone to be the property of the Contractor.
It is believed that the stones consist chelly of granite and that they vary in size up to 5 cubic feet. The offer should be made in respect to granite and to *uther stone", and at so much a cubic, yard. The recovered will be ineasured in the boats, and the propor- tion of granite to other stone ascertained. by a matted to ba mutually agreed upon.
the offer should state the minimum aunber of divers to be employed and the months during which the work will pruceed..
2.-To remove piles from the Cambridge (YU CHU) and Whampoa (LI TAK) Barriers, the piles to be the properly of the Contractor.
Offers for the removal of stones and piles, as above, are required at once.... 3.-To remove entirely the wooden Bridge
(SHA LO MUK) Barrier, including all outlying piles which are visible above low water. The whole of the material con sisting of piles, timber, bolts, etc. to be the property of the Contractor. The offer should state a period for the completion of the work,
eyes in the direction of the south-distracted by 4-To remove a portion of the central section of the Iron (SHA LO TIH) Barrier as follows:-
internal rebellion consequent upon famine and Inisgovernment, whilst the north was in a state of ferment produced by Russian action in Mau- churia. She refused both title and its accom- paniment. "At present," said she, "the country, is passing through a great trisis and peace has not yet been entirely restored in the provinces. The pacification of Kwangsi is still uncomplet. ed and every province has great difficulty in providing the funds necessary for the ad- ministration. My people are in great distress and 1, labouring might and day in the interior of the palace, have no heart for festivities, but am grieved to the heart at my people's suffer ings." She concluded with an apparently pious desire that "our Government may be adininis tered with integrity and justice and ever ad- vanced in progress and that the people may en joy the blessings of peace." The Dowager- Empress knew that it was not safe to accept the offer. "Peking" diagnoses the situation cor- rectly. She feels the necessity of throwing dust to men's eyes and hopes by the glamour of this sli-denying ordinance to cast a vel over the past and recover in a measure the popularity lost by her late anti-foreign and anti-reform policy.
A NEWSPAPER DANCE.
widow followed him to the grave almost im- mediately. He seems inclined to credit the story that in order not to survive him, she
On the 11th ult. a. "Newspaper dance" committed suicide by swallowing her gold
was given at Simla-by Mrs. H. S. Harrington coat-buttons, a regul, if an unscientific, method
at which about 150 guests were present. All of self-destruction, though he does not conceal from us the fact that others hint darkly at a
who were invited were requested to wear a still more tragic end assisted by her enemies badge or symbol representing a newspaper of in high place. There are stories of a deep the day, and on arrival each guest was handed a number which was donned by the side of the dark well, but that well will never be explored. Yet the death of her son was a serious blow to badge. Cards were also provided on which the prestige of the Empress-Dowager and might competitors made lists to the best of their have crushed a weaker woman, for it un-ability of the various newspapers they imagined doubtedly deprived her of even a sluadow of the dancers represented. As prizes were award- the position she occupied. But, as our con-
ed for those who handed in the most correct tributor puts it, Tzu-Hsi never was one to
list of guesses as well as for the most original badges a good deal of competitive energy was displayed. Some of the designs were decidedly clever.
1. Mrs. Young's Times of India was repre- sented by an ancient cannon, gong and mallet. 2. Mrs. Millar's Civil and Military by a
crossed sword and pen.
3. Mr. Wallace displayed a plain card with a capital "O," which was a subtle design for the Echo.
4. A little Chinese baby boy figure was the China Matt,
5. A cape surrounded by small watches, the Cape Times.
The prizes for those who made the most successful guesses were awarded to Mrs. Walker and Captain Tryce who were, respec tively, first and second with 22 and 19 marks.
recoil before the difficulties of a situation. Having tasted the sweets of power, she was determined to continue the exercise of it, right or no right. The coup d'etat of 1875 was the result. The son of Prince Ch'un and her own sister was proclaimed Emperor, though then but an infant, and thus by a masterly stroke the Empress-mother aggrandised her own family and made friend and partisan of a younger The permanent forts of Port Arthur enceinte are very different things from the redoubts of brother-in-law, in the place of Prince Kung, Kinchau. Occupying a broken chain of heights her original confederate, "who had by this around the town like Portsmouth or Flymuthune ceased to be a willing tool in her hands the Russian defence, designed by General and had therefore come to be hated by her," Vernandor, if held by a strong garrison, with His downfall and the incapacity of Prince ample supplies of food and ammuition, might Ch'un led to her choice of Li Hung-Chang as Grand Secretary and the present Foreign well at first sight seem impregnable. So effectively are the works concealed, that luck-Minister, who was associated with him as a A coolie was indicted for inflicting grievousing from the Japanese side Intle is visible on principal officer of State.
the heights even to the practised eye except a
The summary manner in which she amended badily harm upon another coolie.
straightening er swelling of the ridges herethe laws of succession and satisfied religious The French Minister at Peking bas informed requirements could only have been possible in the Warwupu that at the French Legation there China. And in that country only could it be are some astronomical instruments belonging to the Chinese government which they are asked possible to set aside the claims of next-of-kin
to receive back by sending men to carry them by dealing with the dead as though they were still above the soil, giving posthumous honours away. The Waiwupu sent several hundred which destroyed the rights of their survivors men and took them over. All these instru. ments were those lost at the time of the Boxer and successors. When Kwang-Hsu came of age, it will be remembered, the Empress trouble and now returned by the French Mini- Dowager nominally stepped into the backster.-Sin Wan Pao. ground for a while, but six years ago, "alarmed at his progressive tendencies, she forced him back into his former dependent position,.com- pelling him to ask her publicly to do so in 20 edict nominally written with his own pen." It was an unfortunate day for China. Had the Emperor's plans been carried out and the
The parties were employed in rival houses of ill fame in Hollywood Road and Lyndhurst Terrace. They had had a quarrel previously and when they met in a barber's shop on the 5th instant' prisoner -demanded to be shaved first. The prosecutor objected whereupon pri- soner went to the kitchen and returning with a chopper gave him a blow on the hand, causing such injuries that at the Civil Hospital, Dr. Laing had to amputate two of prosecutor's fingers...
and there which do not quite suggest their natural conformation. Let us, lowever, climb the heights themselves. We shall then be able to appreciate better the formidable task before the forces of the Mikado.
"Huge ramparts of earth zigzag away to right and left. The crests of these slopes out ward to allow of fire from the great ordnance behind to be directed downward. Further out the slope becomes steeper, and then descendu Accused alleged that the injuries were the sheer into a huge gulf-like ditch, which being result of a struggle between them for the out of reach of the guns above is fitted with possession a razor in the barber's shop. defences of its own in the shape of kuponiers
The jury returned a verdict of guilty of un- as well as counterscarp aed escarp galleries. lawful wounding.
These are built of masonry into both sides of the ditch, and provided with guns and loop
His Lordship in passing sentence said: Thi
Mr. Sutter adds that the Japanese Govern- mint have decided to introduce sew taxation to meet the heavy war expenses. Under the Extraordinary Budget the additional revenue for the fiscal year 1903.5 is fixed at £6,220,187 18, and is largely of a local nature, such as land tax, business tax, sake tax, sugar con-
is the second case of wounding with a chopper holes, enabling the whole interior space to be reforms he desired to effect come to pass, that has come before me to day. It is more sumption tax, and woollen consumption lax, like a savage than a human being to take up a swept with fire in case of its entrance by the China would not still have been in the pitiable esc, beginning with the current month. In great chopper and attack another man with it enemy. Above the outer ridge of the ditch is condition in which we find her. The events of certain quarters some doubts exist as to If you want to hit a mas, or have to bit a man, another parapet whose long outer slope, called the past few years would never have occurred whether these taxes can be enforced until the hit him with your fist or take a stick to hit him. the glacis, barb-wired and mined, is an exact and it is exceeding doubtful if the war which is
Don't wound him for life. I must pass the expiration of six months, in consequence of same sentence as in the other case, 14., eighteen prolongation of the main ramparts behind, Dow costing Japan sa dearly would ever have being contrary to the conventional tariff. months' imprisonment with hard labour, whose big guns are thus afforded an unob. broken out. China would have been able to do
Co-day's Advertisement.
FOR KOBE.
SHE Steamship THE
" ОСАМРО," Captain G. G. Graham, will be despatched for Kobe of the 22nd instant.
The 24 single screw piles and con. necting girders of its northern end, and the adjoining 41 groups of triple screw piles-these piles to be entirely removed and (with all chains, bolts, girders, plates and other gear belonging to the struc ture) landed and stowed on the adjacent shore at the Sha Lo Fort jetty.
The speedy performance of this work is specially desirable, and the period within which the work is undertaken to be completed will be an important factor in accepting an offer.
Offers for the removal of the Iron and Bridge Barriers as above will be received until the 10th September. Prospective tenderers of. offers are free to examine the barriers by divers, etc.
A satisfactory bond for the due performance of undertaken work will be required.
Offers in reply to this advertisement, and correspondence on the subject should be addressed to the Barrier Office, Custom House, Canton.
The right pf accepting or rejecting any offer made hereunder is hereby expressly reserved.
K. DE LUCA, Acting Commissioner of Customs. Custom House, Canton, 17th August, 1904,
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