The Hongkong Telegraph.
NEW SERIES No. 8484
Telegrams
THE PLAGUE.
[BALUNG PO" SERVICE),
(ESTABLISHED. 1881.)
MONDAY: MARCH 6, 1911.
Telegrams.
TROUBLE.
六初月二年三統宣
Telegrams.
Telegrams.
PRINCE'S DAUGHTER.
THE POWERS AND
CHINA.
YUNNAN FRONTIER
WEDS IN PEKING,'
Peking, March 5,
THEIR ATTITUDE STUDIED.
ISDEUNO PO" BERVICE.]
Peking, March 5th.
The Prince Rogent was present
at the wadding of Princo Ching's
daughter.
The plague in Peking bas
already spread to Hogan.
CLAIMS FOR DAMAGES.
"SHAT PO" BERVIOR.]
Poking, March 5.
The Russia and Japanese au-
thorítica Iyo telegraphed to the
Chinese Government stating that
they intend to claim compen-
ention for their respective sul-
jocts in Manchuria, who have
sufferol severely through the
plaguo.
The Customs Commissioner at Canton his subnitto alist of re- gulations for approval regarding The quarantino of vessels ́which my inferiod with pingue. These new rules, if approved, will remain in force permanently. On to approval of the Viceroy, they will be sent to the diflorant foreign causa's on Stanicen. Thoso rules. will be enforced if supported by the foreign con als.
DELIMITATION.
JAPANESE DEMANDS.
Suzdno Po" BERVICE.}
L'eking, Mirelt 5th.
The Japanese Minister in Pek-
ing falurging the board of Foreign
| Affairs (Waiwapu) to delimit the
|boun lary between Kul Lam und?
Koroi
CHINA'S CRY FOR RAIL-
WAYS.
BIG LOAN PROPOSED.
"BHRUNG PO" SERVICE]
Peking, March 5.
The President of the Board, of
Communications (Yucliumypa)
AN APPEAL FROM PEKING, Poking, Fol. 28. The "Peking Daily. Nowa" appeals to China and foreign count is for privats proposes to raise a loan of ten
["SHAT PO" SERVICE.]
["SHAT PO" SERVICE]
Peking, March 5.
II. E. Lâu Yak Lin, the Chinese Peking, March 5.
Minister to the Court of St. James, The Grand Council has consolographically informed the „folentially telegraphed to the
contral Government that the Eug Chinoso Ministers abroad to re-
lish people have called his atten- port on the attitude of the
tion to all the authorized maps various foreign countries towards.
China.
subscriptions 4 n esist in combat-million taols from a certa'n bank' ing the plague. The paper points.
out that the Viceroy of Manchuria for the construction of railways is memorializing the Government |
for Th. 3,000,0 10 for precaution-in China..
nry monstres against plague and for domesto readjustment. The question of contímning t’is un- stiutod; exien liture is palpably hcoming critical.
SUCCOUR FROM GERMANY,
Landon via Bombay, Feb. 28.-- At the request of the German Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs the Hamburg-America
Line and the North-Corman Lloyd
PRINCE CHING
IMPEACHED.
["SHEUNG PO SERVICE.}
Peking, Mareli 5.
Conor Wn has donounced
have agreed to reserve cargo space Prince Ching in strong terms, for the frou transport of medicines
to combat the plague in the Far He impeached the Prince for hav- Enst. N.C.D. Newa."
wero
ing received bribes openly.
In the imposchment he sub-
mitted ten charges against the
RUSSIA AND CHINA.
Writing from-Mukden on Feb, 21, à correspondent of the “N.C, D. News" says:In my próvions lotters I have tried to show that Prince, the Chinese authorities making a good fight against the plague, though handicapped in my ways, especially by the sad Jack of trained men for inspecting houses and controlling contacle," It is a wonder that they have accomplished so much as they have. This weak point is of very great importance, as it has led to not a few people being taken to
REVISION OF TREATIES. ·
[“Buzuną Po" BREVICE.]
Peking, March 5.
FEAR OF THE FRENCH.
PEKING ASSURED,
[SHIRUNG PO" SERVICE.]
Peking, March, 5. The French Minister in Poking has reassured the Board of Foreign Affairs (Waiwupu) that the French merchants visiting Ko Chow nt
present have no design other than
to oxtand trade,
The Russian Minister in Peking
the isolation places, who were not has notified the President of the infected with the plague at all,
and it lias destroyed the little con- Board of Foreign Affairs (Wajwu- fidence which the common people
Jaad in any proventive measures. į py) that he will call at tho Wair wupu to-day to revise the Russian
BOUNDARY LINES.
BETWEEN BURMA ÄND
CHINA,
'SHAT PO SERVICE]
Peking, Mareli 5.
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號六月三英港香
CHINA'S STARVING PEOPLE.
THE CITY OF DREADFUL
NIGHT,
Mrs J. B. Cochran sonde n
Northern paper the following touching sketch::
land as for as pimaw on the Burmose side of the waterslied claimed by them as the proper boundary and havo stationed a forco adequate for the maintenance of order at Ipimaw. The district is peopled by Tisus, a native race gognate with the Lolos of Western, Yunnan Thoy are primarily spirit worshippers, but have adoptel in certain localities the tenets of Chinese uncestral wor- ship. With them, marriage is a primitive form of marriage by captare, but they have recently introduco in certain lovilities aggod walls and picturesque, Chineso inarriage customs. In curved roofs with us staunch a mathot of doing the hair, their for all those long conturics past: dress, they preserve their own face to the world as it has shown nativo embroideries and boad-
right under our windows, a stone's The temple of the City God, throw from our veranda, raisos its
$80 PPR ÄNNUM,
Singla Cory 10 CENTS)
JAPAN AND THE OCCIDENT.
In a fashion, moro
or loss meteorie, the Island Empiro of Japan has won its way to a position which may fairly be described as involving the fundership of tho East. Such being the case, tho
those of the West as a whole, and attitude of the poople towards vico vorsa, becomes a question of no small importance in the realm of world-politics. At the outset isolated, lotos-cating East has let it be suid that the day of an
work, Comparatively few have and the old City God himself sits isso for ever. Indeed, one adopted the Chinese custom of stolidly on his throne and smiles the time may yet come when.
might go further and say that plaiting the lair,
calmly and benignly down, un the West will vow with mis- ney of Tengyuel, at an altitudo dreds of them, are starving and sequences of its somewhat insin- Hpimaw is within 14 days jour-touched thongli his people, hun-giving, if not with alarm, the con- of 7,000 feat, above sea level, and is encompassed by mountains dying, before his face, and his tont knocking at the portals of the slumbering East. Into the vide excellent timber much in de- City of Broadful Night.” whose thickly-wooded slopes pro- temple has become indeed "Tho
question whether or not say com- and at Tongyuohr and other
men ground oxists between the the two face-hemispheres, we do civilizations and modes of life of
sido of the boundary there are professional beggars with thoirot propose to enter; but it is nevertheless a fact that community many Chinose villages and abune fuiisses of tatters, and conventional dant evidence of prosperity. The ferneked bowl and staff; people will continuo to exist, between of intorosts already exists; and roads are partially payed, and from the city who homes have those to whom popular belief at gool stone bridgesliave been built
loast has assigned an over-divided over many of the streams.
dostiny. 'London, Fob. 9.—A brief stute-
It is much to be desired that the mont of yesterday announced that two Governments should proceed the Yunnan Viceroy is pertur-soon as possible to the settle- bed by the presence of a Britishment of the dispute An unde force in the long-disputed terrified boundary is a peremita! tory on the Yuan-Burma border Source of trouble tobolicores where outlaws have been giving trouble." The dispute is one of ́s and standing, and in view of the ill-considered reports telegraphed by the Viceroy of Yunnan to the authorities in Poking and the erolence given to them by tho Chinese Press, an explanation is
| published in Europe, and point ing out that the disputed territory is really known as Li-Ma and not
A separate map showing the boundary lines, in dispute, be twcon Burma and Chius, has been drawn up, and will be submitted to the Board of Foreign Affairs
(Waiwupu).
THE INTEGRITY OF
CHINA.
SECRET AGREEMENT
MADE.
"SHAT PO" SERVICE]
Peking, March 5.
of the integrity of China.
FLEEING FROM
MONGOLIA.
<
Pion-May
Unrest Among Native Tribes.
desirable.
Chinese towns for the making ofoki templo, homeless and starving They are huddled there in that
Chinese collius. On the Chinoso
ST. PETER'S CHURCH.
RENOVATION SCHEME.
Special services were hold yesterday in St. Peter's Church in aid of the church renovation scleïne, tho premises boing badly in want of repiar. The Right Rer. H. Landor, D.D., Bishop of Victoria, preached at the forenoon and afternoon services..
boon chopped up and sold for
That community of. kindling wood, to buy broad; decent country people with their interest is to be found in the sphere of commoreg, To this little wailing children, who have wandered in, in a forlorn hopo, given ovor to commercial con- oxtent, aid in a world increasingly
at home; parents who have seen Bastand, for the presont, of rather than sil quiotly and staryosiderations, the fortunes of the
their children one after the other Japan in particular are inoxiri- starvo and dio; children left be-cably bound up with those of the hind when the parents, having West. "Shanghai Morcury," given them their last bite, stag gered and foll-they are all thore, and the old idol smilos benignly. down on all those his children.
A for nights ago a family Park raugo yesterday shooting The Reserves wero at the King's thore, were
five left-gare for the May-cups, and also class.
up hope and in one corner of this "City of Droadful firing. Night," the father first strangled his three childron and then he
+
***In 1894 and 1807 conventions wore concluded between the Governments of Great Britain and China providing for the de- limitation of the ffontier betweon
Ta addressing the congregation, and the mother hung themselves. Burma and Yunnan. In pursu-his Lordship said that if they strange sight this for the City anco of this agreement, Joint looked round they woull see that God to smile upon when the sun Commissions from both countries the window frames needed re- struggled in and showed it the during 1898-1901 surveyed and pairing very badly, and he was next morning. demarcated the whole frontier told that other things required with the exception of a distance attention forthwith. The church going about with bread, said to Two days ago, kind Mr. Liu, of rather more than 220 miles was built in the time of the second Mr. Chen, "Wo will wait till lying between the meridians 08 Bishop of Victoria, and it was for about ton o'clock in the morning, and 99 E. longitude, and extend-them to keep it in proper order, then all who are ablo will have ing from latitudo 25.35 N. to funds admitted, they wishod to crawled out to bog' 28.20 N.
At ten enlarge the building and make it o'clock when they outered the The British Government claim better fitted for the worship of temple, they found twonty eight that the boundary north of the God. The Chaplain told him that mon, women, and little children pout 25. 35 N. rotiked by the something liko $2,000 was re-too weak to move, lying prostrate, Joint Commissious should follow quired to make the church what porforce, before the placid face of the watershed between the Shwoli they all desired it to be. Ho their god. The two Christians, river and the Irrawaddy until the trusted that the offerings would sick with pity, gave them food; load waters of the Shwoli river be such as would encourage the but when they came again next are passed, whence the frontier chaplain, and which would also morning, six, too far gone to take should follow the wateraled bo-put St. Potor's Church in the food oven when it came, had tween the Irrawaddy and Salween thorough state of repair. -
died. basins as far as the confines of We understand that liberal Each morning long before day- Tibet:
collections were made in response light these two good mon take to the appeal for contributions to out what mousy wo can all give the renovation scheme.
(for wo ourselves being foreign- ors and marked mon dare not. give a cent for fear of mobs) and distribute it in coin and food to those who are, as Mr. Liu says, about to die." As these two Christians onter the temple, the gaunt wretched figures rise up
FINANCIAL NEWS.
In March-May, 1905, a Joint Commission conducted by the late Mr. Litton, the British Consul in Teng-yuch (one of the inland treaty portsof Yunnan), a Chinese official, the Taotai Shih, and Mr. Leveson, 10.8, examined the southern portion of the territory as far as the village of Hpimaw (Chineso Pien Ma) in latitude 20, Exchange on the 28th ult. were from all the shadows and crowd on the western slopesofthe water-Karan Rubber Estate Co. Ld. and snatch like crazy things for
SHANGHAI SHARES.
The quotations from the Stock
quiry the British Coronment wore | Estate Co. slures, at Tls. 20-1.2
SHOOTING.
BILLIARDS.
The socond and third games between the K. O. Y. J. I. Serge- ants and Army Ordnance Corps. in connection with the Soldiers'
to-night. Club tournament will take placo
nection with the typewriter is a The latest development in con- machine to print syllables of two and three letters by a single pressure of the key, a time-saving device that will meet with great- favour in all business housos.
The Weather Forecast:
REGIS RAIN
CHANGE
FAIR
VERY DRY
On the 0th at 11.55 a.-The
The monsoon will probably set in again over the N. part of the Chin Sea By to-morrow,
Hongkong Rainfall for the 24 hours ending at 10 am. to-day; 0.00 inches.
shed between the Salween and tho shares at Tle. 7-1.2 for cash; the food they are trying to give barometer has risen considerably It is reported that Russia has Irrawaddy. As a result of their in-Tobong Rubber and Tapioen ont. Once Mr. Lin held ont a bit on the E. coast of China, and mado a secret agreement with an- satisfied that there was no effective for cash; Kotah Bahroo Rubbor of bean-cake to a man who stood fallen quieldly over W. Japan.
Chinese administration west of Estate, Ld, shares at Tl. 8. for swaying as he waited, but the The depression lying over the other Power for the maintenance the proposed boundary. Certain cash; Anglo-Dutch (Java) Plan- crowd cried out, "Too late," as Yangtze valley yesterday, has
semi-independent nalive chiefs, tations, Ld. shares at Tis, 230 the man, his hand still outrenched S. Korea. of whom the Tong-Kong chief was for cash; Kupala Islands Estates stretched, staggered and fell dead,
"They die thore,” said Mr. Prossure is highest over E the best known, living on the east d. alates at Tls, 4 for cash; Lin, "almost every night. Some Japan in the Ensit, and over the or Chinose side of the proposed Bukit Toh Alang Rubber boundary, were in the habit of Estates, Ld. shares at Tla. 4 for if the night has been bitterly cold,
times only one or two, sometimes, Yangtze valley in the West. recoiving dies from certain cash; Dominion Rubber Co.,† villages lying to the west or Ld shares at Tle, 31 for cast: many moro, frozen or starved to Burmese side of the boundary. Java Consolidated Rubber Co.,
death."
Oh! God pity them. These The British Governmout offered Ld, shares at Tls. 7 1-4 for cash; to give compensation to these Kroewook Java Plantations Ld. dwellers in "The City of Dread- chiefs for the dues that they would shares nt Tls. 6 for crish; Ziangbo ful Night," For hundreds, yes, no longer be permitted to collset. Rubber Co., Ld. shares at Tlahundreds of thousands, of them The boundary the claimed by 7 1-4 for cash; Gula Kalumpong are starving, and dying before the British has frequently been Rubber Estates. Id. sharce at their idol's benign amiling and overstopped by the native chiefs Tls. 15 for car; International placidly folded hands. ' residing in what is admittedly Cotton Man. Co., Ld. shares at Chinese territory. Uncertainty Tls, 49 for cash; Shanghai Colton as to the future has engendered Manufacturing Co. slures at Tls, nurest among the native tribes 40: for cash; Bhaugliai Ice C. S. and disaffection has been spread- &R. Co., LI. shares at Tls. 13 1-2 ing. To put an end to this for cash; Contral Stores, Ld.8 per anomalous condition of things the cont debentures at Tis. 104 for Indian Government have recently cash; and Cathay Trust Co. shares occupied the sinall atrip of at Tia, O 1-2 for cooli
[BUAT FO". BELVICE.]
Poking, March 5, The Craud Council luas tele- graphed to the Governor of Buk
The gross receipts at the re-tranties.
Lang Kiang instructing him to cent Bangkok aviation meeting amounted to about Tes. 24,700, The President has requested receive the Chinese residents who the total thus falling below the Tea. 25,000 agreed upon. The Prince Ching and H.E. Na Tung; have been driven away by the Royal Bangkok Sports Club had to forego their porcentage,
Пиезінде,
to bo present,
The German cruisers, Gneiso-
unu (Commander von Uslar) and Leipzio (Coinmander Schrooder) arrived yesterday, and leave for Amoy on Tuesday morning. The commanders and officers called out H.E. at Government House this morning,
Forecast District. 1.-Hongkong and Neighbour- hood, Wind shifting to N.E, and freshoning; cloudy, misty.
2.-Formosa Chanuel, samo as No. 1.
3.South.coast of China bo- tween Hongkong and Lamocką, same as No. 1.
4.-South coast of China bo- tweon Hongkong and Hainan, #4me as No. 1,