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CONTENTS,
Births, Marriage and Deaths Leading Articles:-
A lint to Inves'018.
Peace in Somaliland.
Pi acy in Soul China.
America Fears Japanese Immigration.
"To Hongkong and Farther.'
The Terms of l'e-ce.
Hongkong Rifle Association.
Abandoned.
The l'e Leung Kuk.
fack Ahore..
Tologram →→→
Russian Non-Combatants.
Healings:-
China Manila Sic mship Co., Ltd. The Hongkong Hotel Co., Li The Hongkong Kill: Association. Campiell, Moore and Co. 1 d. Tanjong Pagar Dock Bill.
Legal Intelligence:-
'A Question at 'sque.
Applications in Bankmptey. New Territory Land Appeal. Police.
More Extraditions Wanted
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A HINT TO INVESTORS:
asth March)
PEACH IN SOMALILAND.
(27th March.)
pre apt to get a view of certain rakish craft strongly against the Asiatic. He remarks: Whether it is Russia, or Japan which is now pirate boats, many of which have for years Asiatic, however much he may imitate the important as the character of the agreement been sailed up and down the const prey dress of the white man, learn his language upon which the conditions of peace would ating upon the smaller commerce and and spend his wages for him. Nor will he be used. The American press, taking it making rich hauls of booty whenever an ever have the slightest concern with our for granted that the President of the United occan-going steamer has come to grief td laws except to evade them, nor with our States will be called upon to act as inter- been left to the mercy of wind and wave Government except to cable it, and to de- mediary, publisit various sets of conditions Pirates have held full sway over Kwangting ceive it. The Japanese in California is just which are alleged to be the preliminary bases and Kwangsi almost from time immemorial, as intensely, eternally, and essentially of negotiations, and it is a curious fact that and of recent years their depredations are Japanese as though he had never there is the greatest unanimity as to what ele is no getting away from the fa even more barefaced and more serious than left Yokohama or the rice fields of these conditions should be. Japan will, of The decision of the Straits Government that what the British; traders often forgets ever was the case before. It was not very his native country," He comments cotirse demand the evacuation of Man. to withhold from the shareholders of the that the commercial track he treads long since that a housebolt containing a upon the anti-foreign sentiment which pre churia by Kussia, and require that the ter Tanjong Pagar Dock Company, the is per daily is almost variably marked by the party of foreigners from Canton was attack vuils in Japan and quotes a European ritory in question be handed over to China cent, compensation which they claimed blood of his country's troops. Indeeded and several of them wounded, while one writer's stattment (Mr. R. Van Bergen) that in accordance with Treaty termis. The free- over and above the actual value of the when come to study the history offth of their native boatmen was killed. before the anti-foreign feeling is shared equally dom of Korea, under Japanese suzerainty, property which the Government have ex-growth of the British Empire for the last the pirates were driven away. This was by all classes, the Government and a very would, no doubt, be conceded; but whether propriated is likely to lead to much misgiving three centuries, at almost every point followed, a little while later, by the murder few notable persons excepted. It is pointed Japan would agree to the retention of Vladi on the part of those who have invested their le conclusion is forced home that the of a British subject on board of ank, and out that the Japanese are intensely conservavestock by the Russians is another question, money in similar undertakings. It simply great wamnker has been the peace-loving Numerous piracies on the Canton River.tive at heart and protectionist in spirit. It is further suggested that the Chinese means that the Government are in a posi-trailer himself. He demands new marketThe Chamber of Commerce urged the White men taught them all they know of the Enstern Railway should be transferred to tion to over-ride the law which in the for British manufactures and the security Government to make early and strong re-handicrafts of civilisation, but once the the control of an International Commission, Siraits, recognises the right of thog whose of the old ones and the result is that presentations to H.M. Minister at Peking brains of these white men had been thorough- and that Port Arthur should be occupied by land has been compulsorily acquired, to 15 vast areas of territory are absorbed without, B.M. Consul-General at Canton with ly sifted they were quickly sent back to their the Japanese. In some reports it is stated per cent compensation. So well under anysides as to the responsibilities connected a new to adequate pressure being brought homes. Their pence in Japan was not that Japan has laid it down as a condition stood is the law on the point, and so free with them Telegrapiffe Information has by them on the Chinese authorities to insti- tolerated for a moment when the Japanese precedent, to settlement that Russin must quently has it been exercised in favour of Mitely been received from Gelpral Swayne, te and keep up a proper patrol of the found themselves competent to undertake agree to pay an indemnity of $500,000,000. those whose property had been taken for the Commissioner and Consul General forlaters of the Delta. For some time the works "The Japanese," the writer goes. So that, if these rumours are wellefounded, administrative or other purposes, that the the Somaliland Protectorate, ling that two Chinese gunboas, under European on to say, "is loo patriotic to needlessly the sum total of apan's gains is the acquisi $5 per cent. compensation was it settled Muhammed Abdullah, or the Mad Mucommand, patrolled the river, and for the employ foreigners at the expense of his own tion of Pott Althur and an indeninity principle in the legal world. On the pica lah has sent a deputation to Bethera, and time being put a stop to the depredations people, but there are some Americans who which may or may not be paid.or That the purchase and sale of land was not that peace has been concluded. This nows of these desperate rovers. As soon as a piracy would employ devils if they would accept a course, there is the prestige which Japan. the main object of the Tanjong Pagar Dock will be received with satisfaction as bringing was reported the warships proceded to the cent an hour less than angels." When the war has won by her victories on, the baille- Company, the Government have abrogated to a close a melancholy affair with a Mussu scene, but by this time the pirates were with Russia is concluded, Japan will be over-field-no negligible quantity but that the right of the shareholders to compensa nan zudlot for the possession of a slice peacefully at work in the fields, and directly run by thusands of discharged soldiers, for cannot be materially estimated. The ques tion. They claimed that this expropriation of an African province only a little smaller the gunboats cruised off they threw aside whom work must be found. If that work tion is, would Russian dignity permit of a was not a compulsory acquisition of land, than France. Moreover, it should teach us the hoe for the blunderbuss and got afloat is not forthcoming, the Japanese, accord settlement on such terms, especially when but a compulsory change of investment. To that if we gain advantages by widening in their snakeboats awaiting the coming of a ing to this reviewer, will invade America, dictated by the scorned Japanese? The the mere outsider that seems to be quibbling our boundaries, we also incur respons junkload of merchandise. And so affairs have and as they are willing to work for wages mediation of President Roosevelt may have with words, certainly shows marvellously hilities in securing for its inhabitants continued ever since, and might have been which could not maintata a white man their great effect, supported as it would be by little consideration for the sharehbider, who opportunity for that prosperity which left unheeded were not attention again presence in the United States will be a con- Frencli opinion; and Russia would probably. is tossed backwards and forwards at the undoubtedly, a needful basis of civilisatie directed to their doings by the looting and
stant menace to the labouring classes. be only too glad to emerge from the difficul whim of the Government like an impotent The little war has been going on for db aanton destruction committed aboard of Moreover, the Japanese are well-acquainted ties in which she has been landed in the shuttlecock. What is worse, it may be greater part of five years, and we are stranded Baron Gordon and Shrewsbury, with the power of organisation and the Far East, but there is always the stiff-necked taken as a precedent when other schemes of afraid that the bill in blood and treasure the agents of the vessels will doubtless de capabilities of the boycott system; indeed, Grand Ducal cabal to be considered. Pro- similar import emanate from that august when it comes to be totted up, will, hemand an explanation, and possibly an ex-it is said they have reduced these principles bably the best assurance for a speedy settl
ment lies in the internal troubles, which body the Colonial Office. The rights of rather alarming one. It was unfortunate that ample will he made of somebody in China. to a fine point, so that should they get a private citizens in this part of the world may the magnitude of the Mullah movement was It is to be hoped, however, that they will not footing on American soil they would speedily beset Russia. The point should not be not he very great, but they are at least worth not realised long since, when if the region atop short of one solitary punishment. The become a permanent danger to white labour. overlooked, however, that in all these nego some attention, although the apparently high was thought to be with fighting for, a Delta of the Canton River appears to be Again, Japan has not sent her fittest to the tiations, the claims or pretensions of out- handed action of the Straits Government properly equipped expedition might have the happy hunting ground of all the criminal United States; it is the seum, those for whom siders are not given a moment's considera dnes not lend colour to the idea that any been "Organised af the outset. This, of classes of China, in times of poverty it is the no place can be found in Japan itself. Re- tion. Japan and Russia may call media attention was given to that side of the course, is where the mistake was made. It rendezvous of the most desperate dregs of ference is made to the fact that the Japanese tors, but the terms of peace contain nothing question From the point of view of the was our business, in return for the territory, the Chinese race, and those members of do not mingle with the population; they are to show that outside parties are concerned average investor there is much that remains to have stopped the devastation that was society whose heads are at a premium find not assimilated in the American people. in the question, while China's territory is inexplicable in the action of the Straits being committed by the mad Prophet, and with the pirate bands of South China a safe The most ignorant Slav, after three genera parcelled out among the parties as if it were. Government. After many years of hard instead of this failed to give the and profitable asylum. One would have tons, is a true-born American, an integral a sort of Tomiddler's ground. It cannot work, the Tanjong Rager Dock Companygallant Colonel forces sufficient for the thought at any rate that occasional collisions part of the State, filled with the ideals and be long, however, before an official state had built up a business that was of supreme undertaking, for three years, in three would be heard of between the gunboats of independence of the American citizen.ment on the subject must be issued by one importance to the port of Singapure. Share distinct, campaigns, weak detachments were the government and the piratical launches But the Japanese still remains Japanese or either of the parties and then we shall see boiders had relinquished part ofthefe divi- despatched to Somaliland, and on each oc and "junks But as a matter of fact such clinging to his own customs-aud people,what we shall see. dends in order that the scope of the Comcasion the marauder handled them severely. events are seldom noted, and when they are it refusing to associate with white men, pany's operations might be enlarged, and the The Mullah was no new and unknown generally amounts to nothing more than and ever ready to take advantage of any. works developed. They had done so with enemy, Practically ever since Great the loss of a few heads and a dollar or two opportunity which may lead to power over the ubject of benefiting in the future from Pritain assumed the protectorite of Somali in the pocket of some official. The or against white men. It is even maintained their immediate self-sacrifice-all to no purland in 1884 he had been a more or less Chinese authorities, if approached by the that the Japanese immigrant is more objec pose. They had acquired lands in the conspicuous figure in Somali life, and al- British Government, would doubtless pro- tionable that the Chinese. The conclusion vicinity of the docks, having in view the though it was so long after as March of 1890 fess themselves powerless to deal with the is that should a Japanese invasion be permit expansion of their business. Now the Govern that the real story opened, we might have question; but that would be by note, the American labourer will be forced into "re-lavasion" Signs and Symptoms in ment comes along and says that these lands learned that he was no ordinary peasant nicans surprising. What, however, does hobuism and criminality by the fierce are part and parc of the Company's business making pilgrimatcesto Mecca and, therefore, strike us as peculiar is that the Powers in competition of the degraded Asiatic labour, anl, consequently, no compensation is due. not to fegarded if the light of a militant general, and that Great Britain in particu. and that it behaves all goud Americans to But to day these lands are exceedingly valu- sint. Five years ago the British Consul far, has not struck a blow at the heart rigorously push forward a crusade against able; had it not been for the efforts of the General at Berbera leamed that a Mullah, of the traffic and rendered its existence Japanese immigration. Tangong Pagar Dock Company the lands or Prophet, was collecting arms and men impossible long ago. Piracy on the West would have been practically worthless. Be on the southern confine of Somaliland, River is much too common an occurrence fore the Company started operations, Tan- and did not at first regard his doings to surprise either the Chinese or Western jong Pagar was a mere swamp, valueless to with much interest. Correspondence was traders, whose business necessitates the use anybody except a few Malay shermen. exchanged and the man seemed a model of the principal channels. Familiarity The Comply trained the ground, ré- Mullih, and considered as being upon the with this sort of thing seems to have bred claimed it, and converted the swamp into side of law and order. A few weeks later, contempt of it among the Chinese, and until an important property. It is true that the however, he threw off his mask, and showed some energetic action is taken by one or Company acquired the land on cheap terms himself in his real light by raiding tribes other of the Powers to suppress it by from the Government, but is that any reason within British territory.
After one of roating out the whole nest of pirates why they should now be penalised for their his invasions of Abyssinia and Small both on the Delta and along the coast, the foresight and energy? Iftir. Government had land, in the course of which a large nefarious business will find its followers intended to utilise the lond, they should have number of natives were killed or en much to the annoyance of foreigner and maintained a firm grip on it from the first. slaved, the Emperor Menelik and the native alike. In that case shareholders would have receiv· | British. Government each sent out an expedi ed their dividends in fuli, knowing how pre- | tinn to effect his capture. The former was
Deth of a Prisoner, Important Test Care. Assaulting a Cosiman. Russian Finns in Court.
Mysterious Death.
Ca lision in the Itarb. or.
Correspondoneo
The American Tar shore. Hongkong Hotel Employes' Grievance, Miscellaneous Artioles aud Report-
H.E. and the French Conveni Hongkong and Manila,
Mr. I. R. Twentyman.
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Hongkong as 'Naval Base.
"One Summer's Day,"
Hongkong Satirised.
Pene Friedrich Leopold of Prussia, Major Prichard's Farewell
Kilis in Hongkorg. Entertainment at St. Josepli's College. Masonic tesallation.
Wireless Telegraphy at Cape D'Aguilar,
Hongkong Rope Manuferring Co, Ltd. Were you an April Fool?
Hongkong's Distict Watchmen.
Market Revenue.
The Case of the Emigrant. -
-Disease.
Naval Notes.
Shipping Jetsam, v
The French Chujser Sully Lanting the Steamer Shic modury, Victoria Gaol.
Westminster Glee Par y...
Seamen in Error,
Negligent Kavigation
Canton Notes.
Emigration at Swatow,
West River Trade.
Wireless Telegraphy in Shanghai.
An Improbable Story
Trade Marks: a most useful f'amphlet. China Navigation Co's New Steamer. Damage by a Mine
China's Integrity.
The Canton-Hankow Railway.
The Commander in-Chief
The Duties of Landing Agents.
Russia suing for Peace.
Running the lockade.
Russians burn Japanese Troops with Pecarious was the tenure on which they held unsuccessful, but the British force was more
troleum.
North-Borneo “Blue Earth."
Elephant hunt near Bangkok.
The Late Mr. R. D. Sayston, The Russian Press on Peace. Commerci+1:-
AMERICA FEARS JAPANESE *
IMMTEBATION.
(29th March.)
"TO HONGKONG AND.
FARTHER,"
HONGKONG - RIFLE.
ASSOCIATION, A
on
(31st March.) Many in Hongkong will regret the de mise of the Hongkong Rifle Association. It was the only Association whose member- ship was open to all and sundry. There are still three rific clubs in existence in Hong- kong, but to become a member of these one must be either an army man; a volunteer, or on the reserve, so that the plain individual, who has not the time or the inclination to don the uniform and complete a certain number of drills annually, is debarred froin the pastime of rifle shooting. This is the (March 30th.)
inore astonishing in view of the impetus Several cases have recently come before given to the formation of rifle clubs in Great the Marine Court of Hongkong in which Britain. It is recognised that a citizen may sailors have been charged with impeding be an exemplary volunteer and at the same the progress of their ships by refusing to time an execrably bad shot; but it work. The defence in two cases reported is not the volunteer, as a volunteer, yesterday was that the men had signed that is required as much as a steady agreements to the effect that they would go and reliable hand
the trigger. to Hongkong or farther." the men, in According to the chairman of the Hong- both the instances referred to, were firmly of kong Rifle Association, riße shooting- has. opinion that on reaching Hongkong their been flagging and the purpose of the Asso- agreements expired-despite the fact that ciation to bring riflemen together, organise they had only served two of the three nieetings, and provide ranges, has been de the property, and the vast work of progress at fortunate, as it succeeded in dispersing the !
maths for which they had signed--and six-feated in every respect. The greatest range Tanjong Pagar would have remained half, forces of the fanatic, who, however, managed
Teen Spaniards went to prison for two at the command of the Association was 600 finished. It would seem that the more aj to escape and lake refuge for several months
months martyrs to their belief. The yards, and the firing point was the public corporation does to improve the face of the among the Dalomanti tribe to the South- In a recent telegram it was announced earth, the less consideration does it get west of our territory. Not long afterwards that the Immigration Bures of the United agreements were produced in Court, and it thoroughfare. Leaving out of consideration The speculator in and would appear to he again assembled some of his partisans and States, acting on a requisition from Texas, was quite clear that the men were in the the inconvenience which must have been have the best of it, for his only object is to again invaded British Somaliland, attacking had decided that Japanese were not entitled wrong but it can readily be understood caused by the latter fact, it must be evident hold the property untitit becomes valuable the tribes under the protection of our Govern to papers of citizenship in America. We that a phrase, the meaning of which is pa to the least skilful with the rifle that a tent to an educated man, may convey maximum range of 600 yards is absurd. through the energy of his neighbours. In ment, which then sent a new expedition against commented, at the time, on the immense
some totally different idea to a foreign sailor. In actual warfare it is seldom that pot shots Hongkong fand speculation was an extreme him. Things, however, appeared to go badly problem which faced the Federal over It was the words "To Hongkong and far are exchanged at 600 yards, and when it is ly profitable game, at one time; but as far with our own forces, and urgent appeals for ment in attempting to restrain the immiga ther" on which the seamen tripped. What considered that a bullet from a modern as it lay in the power of the overment the more men from the officers conducting the tion of Japanese to America, and the power they thought farther signified it would Lee-Melford or Mauser is effective at 1,500 system was adoped of restricting the area of war met with an indifferent response. The of the Japanese to enforce what they and be curious to learn; the probability is that 2,000 yards, the practical uselessness the ground to be sold, in order that people of attitude of the Mullah grew more and more fibers might consider legitimate demands. if they looked at the map they would not of the Hongkong range is apparent. small means might havegi opportunity of sub-menacing, and it was found useless to leave From San Francisco papers which have just find a place of that name, and therefore they. In this connection it may be remarked that On 15th March, at Tsouping, Shantung, omitting bids. The result was that the sites him alone, for the moment that Abdullah come to hand, it appears that the Japanese might come to the conclusion that it was a Major-General Russell, formerly military Mr. and Mrs. A. E. CREENING (EBM), a were acquired by people who proposed to found himself unopposed he took the invasion of the United States has become a daughter.
mere finish to the sentence--a sort of round-attaché to the British Embassy at Berlin, On 31st March, at No. 7, Chiakiang Road, crect residences on the ground, and to have aggressive. At length, after a series of question of supreme importance. A re-ing-off period which added to the euphony advocated the construction of sea-targets for Poolung, the wife of J. D. STRANI, of á
an abiding interest in the Colony. It could reverses the Government realised that, at markable series of articles entitled "The of the whole. But there is deeper signi- volunteers, holding that it would be impose daughter..
not be argued that the Tanjong Pagar Dock whatever cost, the Mad Mullah should Problem of the Hour" and dealing with the ficance in that term, to Hongkong and sible to provide land ranges for all the clubs MARRIAGE.
Company-secured their land for other than be disposed of finally, and so drew inmigration of the Japanese has just aparther than appears at first sight. Both in existence or in course of formation. The business purposes, and to say that because upon India for reinforcements, and not until peared in the San Francisco Chronicle and boats on which trouble with the crew occur Hongkong Association, however, had to be that land is necessary to the future develop these men were to hand was Colonel Swayne as the articles are framed in sober language, red carried cargoes of coal from ardiff, and content with a range which was only suited ment of the docks and therefore not entitled | able to extricate himself from a tight corner. and the question considered in a most both were bound for the East, having for Morris-tube purposes, and it is little to to be considered in a claim for compensa. The small war developed into a big cam logical spirit, they are decidedly worthy of apparently no particular destination in view. he wondered at if the members grew On 12th March, in the United States, after tion, seems ridiculous on the face of paign which has since been shewn to attention. The writer, who prefers to remain They were sent to Hongkong, and finding apathetic considering the restrictions under The Company, we maintain, should have have been adequate to prevent the Mad anonymous, recalls the methods adopted to how matters stood they were both ordered which they practised. At the same time a a severe operation, MT Ben Har the benefit of their foresight. If the Govern Mullali from menacing Somaliland. It is exclude the Chinese from the United States, to Japan. But had there been a Russian number of tried "shots" are likely to be left ton, Canada, wife of Dr. Edgerton H. Hart of Wuhu,
ment contend, as they do, that Tanjong to be hoped that the Government will be and warns the people of that country, and fleet in these waters their eventual destina. out in the cold and the Colony will lose the agar Dock Company liave the monopoly able to satisfy the British nation that the especially California, to awaken to the "fartion might have been Vladivostok, and then services of those who might be best qualified of, warehouse accommodations and water game was really wonh the candle. On more serious and more formidable problem we should have bad the entertaining spec to serve in times of emergency. It is not at frontage who is to blame unless it be the broad gounds we can see, no vestige of on of an influx of Japanese." While granting tacle of the Russian besieged embracing all satisfactory to read that there is "not a (overnment? However, the fact remains excuse for an attempt on the part Great meed of admiration to the Japanese for their
At the General Hospital, Singapore, on the thiown aside. It is his duty to remain hum whatever to gain. Neither have we made would in no way advance, but rather retiraception, subtle of meaning, and hinting at.
his claims disregarded, and his interests. We have no benefits to confer, and nothing that to allow them free ingress to America Hongkong, and farther was clever cont of the Colony," 22nd instant, JOHN BLACK MAGNAUGHT, of ble, to, believe that all things are for the pretence of taking up the white man's burden, the world's progress.. "It is stated that there
immense possibilities. Unfortunately, the Messrs. Fraser & Neave Lid, aged 31 years. ROBERTSON, only son of the Rev. and Mrs. T. materially profited by the so-called "compul- to the tribes from whom we expect obedience.
On azad March, et Ningpo, THOMAS CLAUDE best, and to reflect that if be bas hot himself and certainly have acknowledged no duties are mething like 100,000 Japanese in the Crews were not alive to the humour of the
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DEATHS.:
On 15th March, 1905, on boird the Pacific mail 8.5.: Korea, JAMES HENKY SIMMONDS.
Lower Yangtze Pilot, aged 38 years. Buried
at ses.
Shanghai, ERNEST SCHMIDT, aged 32 years.
On 20th of March, at 4B, Peking Road, that the shareholder has been quietly shelved, | Britain to exercise sovereignty in Somaliland. | energy and intelligence, the writer maintains their Finnish and Spanish deliverers. "To brilliant shot in the three rifle. A
Goodchild, aged 54 months,
On 2nd March, on board the ss. Kipsing. travelling from Tienis n to Shanghai, VILHELM HENCKEL, born in Copenhagen, aged 11.
On 23rd March, it "Villa Lesmona, Shang hai WINSTON LESLIE SASSOON, infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Sassoon Benjamin, aged months,
sory acquisition," he has benefited hundreds
of his fellow-citizens, not only in Singapore PIRACY IN SOUTH CHINA.
but in every part of the world. This may. be a pleasant thought, but he is a philo sopher who can appreciate it. To Hong. kong investors the crux of the question lies
(28th March.)
Those who go down to the China fes in ships and have the misfortune to be strand-
in the consideration of what would happened anywhere in the neighbourhood of land
THE TERMS OF PEACE.
States, of whom at least 35,000 are there from the lack of one of nature's greatest gifts, situation, and the Spaniards are not suffering. in California, The race problem" is," there' fore, a very vital question to the people of the western States, and it is argued that the same restrictions which are in force against the indiscriminate admission of Chinese. should be enacted in the case of the Japan ese. The writer of these articles is very
i
Since the fall of Mukden, persistent reports have been in circulation that one of the belligerents has made overtures for peace,
ABANDONED.
ing with the story of a mysterious disappear Only a few months ago, London was ring
ance, a young lady doctor paving vanished from the face of mankind as completely as if she had been whisked into the clouds. That case produced a multitude of others, all tending to prove that the metropolis was one of the chief disappearing centres" in
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