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PARIS, sal steps which were to prove so TREET, disastrous to Russia and to Russian prestige in the East. KUROPATKIN is very bitter when he discusson ALEXEIEFF and the court gang who tried to exploit the Tala foreste and the rich plains of Manchuria for their own

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ing Gowns, Paris Models personal advantage, and he does not in Hats and Toques, hesitate to lay at their doors the whole Laces, Trimmings, Under-oriminal fully which led to the war. But clothing,Boots and Shoes, the war having begun Russia moved Hosiery and Gloves, etc., blindly and clumsily and only slowly

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TUESDAY, JANUA

Even those officers who possessed the THE FALL OF YUAN SHIH-KAL best qualities always found it more advantageous if neighbour began the We are not surprised to see that the attack, while they the centre English press regard the fall from power supported him. any was hardl pressed, and he retreated his neighbours of Yusu Bhili kai as very duringus. The instend of helping big to retrieve removal of the great Viceroy from all his the situation--nameled off. Almost no ces must be attributed to the growing one displayed a bold impulso toward the power of the reactionarias at Court, who lure evidently bided their time and taken front.

The work of the regimental their measures with deliberaticit. But we commanders was, in a considerable can searely imagine that such a strong measure, higher in a military aspect, man as Yuan Shih-kai isreputed to be will but it is impossible not to reproach allow himself to be snuffed out without tham with insufficient knowledge of how struggle. Chinese telegrams resort that to orient themselves ne to environment his dismissal from office was due to his and localities. Rarely was the com. mander of a regiment, when sent to arofnal to have lias, financial conditions of

division, able to get along without the his old Viceroyalty of Clih-li inquired into This is an old story, repeated again and aid of an officer of the Geveral Staff.

The majority of the officers who again in the annals of China. We imagine, returned to European Russia, from however that his departure from Peking

their health. There were many exses

CHINESE

Over 700officials have beer from offies In Chill Province alone.

PRINCE GHING INDIA POSED

(Wan T Tal Lo's Servipe

Prince Ching is suffering from & Bore=

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(Woh The Tot For Service).

PERING, January 4

The Board of Finance recently

decided to have a thorough investigation That would made into the financial position of all

woke up to the fact that the teak before her was more formidable than she had anticipated. The battling up of the the army, on account of sickness, on the 3rd instant is but the preliminary leg. He cannot walk without being or for the treatment of their wounds, move in the game. Such vicisaltados

supported. larger portion of her Far Eastern spent their time in the capitals or are normal events in the career of great fest in Fort Arthur by Admiral Togo large cities, for months together, Cuiness officials, as Li Hung chang only strolled about the streets, and neither 11 a.m.-- Auction of Jewellery, dec... at lost her the first move in the game, society nor the military, authorities well knew. and we should not be sur

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saw anything reprehensible in their prised that like his great patron, Yuan and she never recovered from its conduct. To the honour of our body of Shi-kal will emerge from his present trou paralyzing effects. As General Kuno-officere, however, it must be confessed bles with renowed vigour and will speedily

that if many officers shirked and delayed regain his influence. But all the same his REASON FOR YUAN SHIH-KAT'S PATRIN pathetically remarkaIn the unduly their return to the front, on the fall may occasion serious disturbances and war with Japan, which is pre other hand a large number of wounded the next few weeks will be anxiously officers strained every nerve to return to watched by all who have the welfare of eminently a maritime power, the chief the front as speedily as possible, and China at beart Already news is coming place belonged to the operations on the did return before they had, recovered down south of the wholesale impeachment sea, not to those on land. If we had of men who returned two and three of all officials who are in any way connected times after having been wounded, with the party of the fallen Viceroy, but it smashed the Japanese fleet, the war on

"But the war is over, and a mimcle will be very bad policy on the part of the Chinese territory would have become an has happened: A mass of officere, who Court if the places of these Chinese officiala

did not admit the possibility of their are filled by Manchus. impossibility for the Japanese. As serving at the front in wartime, and who set the whole of southern China in a tur- the provinces. Thereupon Ynan Shih- matter of fact, our feet helped the land spent their time in Rassid on the ground moil and cause the Government more forces very little indeed. Having sought refuge in Port Arthur, our flect did not even attempt to binder the operations of SATURDAY, January 9 :—

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armire of Ogr, Nost, and Nouzu effected Goods per Sydney anclaimed after this their disembarkation on the Lino-gang date at Noon will be subject to rent Peninsula without any impediment and landing charges.

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p.m.-Premyslav at St. Andrew's fall. feet. Our fleet did nothing to hinter the Japanese Frou bringing up all sorts of stores, guns, and amansmition and finally the naval catastrophe, at Tsu- shims contributed, in a considerable measure to the conclusion by Russia of

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of illness and other causes, bave again trouble than it could conveniently den kai told Inke Tani Tai, President of the become fit for duty and begun to return with at the present time. to the ranke, crowding out from the command of companies and regiments the brave men who bore with honour all the toils of war and acquired experience in battle. They have also won, so it would seem, the right to rapid promotion for the benefit of the entire army

General KUROPATETY brings his re- marks to a close with the following

paragraplis:--

NEWS OF THE DAY.

The German Mail of the 2nd December was delivered in London on the 29th Dec.

It is authoritativaly denied in Washing. ton that Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy, leader of the Christian Science movement, is soz- tously ill. AR

Mr E. DC. Wolfe, Inspector of

And last, among the causes that inevit- ably embarrassed for us the progress of military action. I aust note the frequent Schools has kindly consented to distribute change of Commanders-in-Chief. In tho course of nineteen months, during which the prizes on Saturday morning in connec military operations lasted, the Comman- tion with Ellis Kadoorie College. der-in-Chief was changed three times.

From the beginning of war-like activity The acution sale of furriture fixtures until the middle of October, 1904, in the advertised by Mr G. P. Lammert for Tues- cnurse of eight and one half months, the

Board, that no such investigation wal necessary with regard to the province- of Chih-li. This being reported to the Prince Regent, Tau was ordered to-- quit his office.

Yuan Shib-kui ia on his way home by the Paking-Hankow... railway. „He started on January 3rd. He is a native.

of Honan Province.

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Viceroy Toan Fang is to be China - chief representative at the Shanghai Opinn Conference....

Lady BiacDonald, wife of the British Ambasador to Jayan, who has been. Hammer for an operation, striced lack in Tokyo iu.

tima for Uhristmas,

Mr Beekman Winthrop has accepted the

office of Commander in Chief was in the day, the 12th inet, will take place at eleven hands of Admiral Alexeief. From the sud not 2.30 as was previously a premature and dishonorable perca."

middle of October until the first of stated. Another handicap from which the March, it was in my hands for a space

Mr Moir, Engineer on board the s.3.

Mr Miles Lampson, M. V. O., who was Russians suffered was the necessity off of four and one-half months in all.

From the beginning of March to the end Hong Wan, has been found dead in a in the suite of Prince Arthur of Connaught relying on the single-track Sherion of war-like action, for a space of six lagoon at Tanjong Pagar. It is believed when he visited Japan, kas taken up the All letters for publication should be written railway to meso. their troops and mouths, it was in the hands of General that his skull was fractured. There are duties of Second Secretary of The British on one side of this paper only.

supplies from Russia. The result of the Linovich. A

The fact that, out of the nineteen suspicious circumstances surrounding the Embassy in Tokyo. No anonymously signed communications that inadequate train service and the con- montbe covered by military operations, 040. have already appeared in other papers will be stant break-downs was that when the I was at the head of things only four war began the First Army Corps was and one-half mouths, and that neither at

William Schalts of Harmston's circus, position of Assistant Bemetary of State the beginning nor at the end, but only Orders for extra copies of the 'CHINA MILot 0.000 beyonds of its full sole, in the middle period, was raken into hich will shortly arrive at Hongkong. In under Mr. W. S. Knox, who succeeds Mir aoping the open loop at Bangkok, had a Root 88 Secretary when Mit Haft est should be sent before I am. on the day after and it was not till Lostilities were account when, as though at publication. After that hour the supply is nearing its close that Prince KELLOP, preconcerted signal, pauphlets, articles, nasty becident, falling to the ground after eumes office on March 4th.

We learn from a telegram printed in the limited. Cash 10 cto. Credit 20 d., per by almost superlunan efforts, enabled newspaper cupments made their appear he had looped the open part of the loop.

the railway to do a tithe of what the/ace with the object of proving that Fortunately he was not seriously injured N. 0. Daily News, that HE. Tang, Shao-

ought to be regarded as the culprit on Pages 1, 2, 3, 6 and 7, should be sent to the army expected; hut then, of course, itin-chief of our reverses in war, since and was able to appear in the ring toyi, Special Chinese Commissioner to Wasti-

had been Commander-in-Chief and reassure the audience. WHISKY Ofice, No. 5, Wyndham Street, not later then I was too late to save the situation.

Minister of War. Referring to the morale of the Russian Concerning this matter, I may Bar At the auction at Sotheby's of the Advertisements and Subscriptions which are Army, we find General KUROLATKIS, ABI said to the Emperor in my library owned by Lord Amborat a Mazarin

report of February, 1900: It will be the

President Bosworth of the not ordered for a fleet period will he continued writing

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GENERAL KUROPATKIN'S

ington has failed to effect anliance between China and the United States

A Montreal despatch of December 1st

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Miss Ethel Roosevelt, the youngest, by King Charles L., sold for £1,000. The KUROPATEIN does well to leave to sixteen Caxtons, the chief feature of the daughter of the President, made her debut

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REVELATIONS,

narred in the armies for hire. Faith in ling through" were hopeless against a God, devotion to the Tsar, love for the plan of campaign whose minutest details Fatherland have, up to the present day,

closed its doors. He was well known in CHAMBERLAIN'S COUGH REMEDY GENERAL KUROPATKIN's explanation disciplined a mass of good soldiers in had been scientifically planned and of the causes of Busin's defeat by ever department of the array into one prepared for by one of the most me other ports of China where he has still CURES COLDS

family and pude the soldica bravo and a leading obedient. But of late these fundamental thodical, patient, and farseeing of many old friends who will regret to hear HIS remedy sols vu zataras

of his demise, Mr Win Morrison Harvið kalinys the cough, relieves thestunge, principles have been zo zealously shat-modern nations,

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