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A. S. WATSON

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THE KONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12Tu, 1901′

cow was running dry, and the crew of eunucha and others who had possession of the avenues of the Court did not fail to attribute the failure to the presence of foreigners and the foreign trade that was sending the money out of the country

Yesterday the "British, tamusport Glengyle | The rezurray of the Settlements at Shanghai arrived from Taku, and the German troopship is being sunda, the last one of the English. Bheis from Bruman

Bettlement being in 1864.

A Paris telegram gives the casualties at the Last Tientsin brawl as follows:-Killed, one Frenchman Sonnded, five Germans, fuur

A society has boon Icunded, with headquarters in Paris, which has for its object the premotión

derulopment of Indo-China,

& CO., Logically the remedy was, to get to a spot Eagle, the red, Lua of inrigation, le assist in the agricultural

removed at once from the hated foreigner and foreign trade; and long before the late movement had assumed any, consider- able proportions it was well known that the Dowager Empress was plotting to remove Ler entourage to Haian. To her Haian was represented as a place where all the delights of Chinese life were to be found, where THE LEADING MANUFACTUREBS the people were respectful, and whore, the

ESTABLISHED A.D. 1841.

OF

ÆRATED WATERS

IN THE FAR EAST.

| land was flowing with plenty. Haian she knew had been, in the days when China was a light to the rest of the world, the seat of Empire, and tradition spole of the delights and the luxuries of the court in these days and doubtless exaggerated the stories. Recent travellers in Shensi speak of the city as

These figuros, ars given as from a London source.

A Chinese Breman who was discovered on the 2nd font, to be suffering from bubonie plague on board the US my tramport Kentuck at Nagasaki succumbed to the disesse on the following afternoon in the hospital attached to the Quarantine Station at Megami.

Shanghai mandariat have received an offcial despatch from Poking informing them that the Roman Catholic Bishop of Shausi hue demanded an indemnity of no less than eaten million taels for the losses sustained by Romanist converte in that province. It is claimed that at least 7,000 of the Intter were massacred in Shans last year. It is plain that the remainder will

A suggestion has been made in Bangkek that Chinese Protestarata should be established by the Sismese Government, with an advisory Board of prominent Chinese residents.

The officials at Chatham Dockyard Inat month received instructions to get the Albion, battle

ship, out of hand by the 90th ult. It was understood that she would be commissioned to veliers the Centur on on the China Station.

of Indo-China, is still overflowing with speeches. M. Donner, the French Governor-General On the 4th inst, he spoke of the approaching repatriation of the French troops in North

OUR FACTORIES are constructed with little better than a heap of ruins, and be in very affluent cironmstances in the future. China and, amid cheers, paid a tribute to their

the adjacent country as relapsing to a every attention to the best principles that desert. The destruction of the trees, the

“devotion and moderation." M. Doumer is apparently to stand sa a Lepublican candidats

sanitary science can suggest; and our NEW result of centuries of bad government, has quaintest reasons that the guileful Chinese for the Chamber at the next elections.

FACTORY at WEST POINT in the

in Ehensi reached its culmination, and above all the provinces of China, Shansi is the most subject to famine. It is notorious,

The Bangkok Times says-One of the

"boy" has been able to give for ħils objection to the now registration scheme, is the statement that registration is merely the preliminary to a tatooing on the back of the hand, and that all

TELEGRAMS.

“DAILY PRESS” SERVICE.

[FROM QUE COBELLFONDENTS."

THE CRISIS IN CHINA.

LONDON, 10th June, 5 p.n.

IN CHINA.

CORRESPONDENCE.

[We do not hold ourselves responsible for the opinions expressed by our correspondents.)

MISSIONARIES IN ANHWEY AND KIANGSU,

TO THE EDITOR OF THE “DAILY PRESS,"

9th June. SIE It was stated in a note of your Wedne- --- day's issue, that a number of missionaries were

THE COMMAND OF THE TROOPS returning to Anbwai and Kiangau, which would som to imply that all or many of them had been away. Sugh, however, is not the caso, ak It is stated that, consequent upon the for a Roman Catholly missionaries are con- cerned. It is known that the old Viceroy of

departure of Count vou. Waldersee froin China, the Powers have agreed that the

ngent shall

senior officers of each.

resume command of their own troops.

UNPOPULAR DECISION ABOUT

AUSTRIAN FORCES. The Austrian Minister of the Navy hus announced that the widows and orphans of the Austrian officers and men killed in Chins are not entitled to pensions, as war against China was never declared. It is

Nanking managed to keep pretty good order in the provinces under him, during last year's

trouble, and there was no need for the mission- aries to leare their posla, though, of course, for married missionaries, the simplest common- sense must have suggested taking their families to places of absolute security, rather than expose them to even the roniote danger of the sad fate which. overtook so many women and children in the northern provinces.

LARGEST and BEST EQUIPPED in the that the population ie yearly decreasing those so marked will presently be called upon hore he has been secretary of the German reported that the; decision. excites great Ningkwo, Ynchow in the extreme north-west,

FAR EAST.

SYSTEM

and that nearly every year thousands within it die of fumine. For the last twenty years these scourges have been increasing, and A PERFECT

of Shensi has been alterately ravaged by rebellion or decimated by famine. FILTRATION is employed, guaranteeing remained for the Dowager to give it its final blow. The ordinary demands on the ABSOLUTE PURITY.

productions of the valley of the Wei were

It

in excess of its capabilities, but the last blow was struck when last autumn the The Machinery used is of the Intest type. Court flying from Peking settled down like a flight of locusts. The country produced little enough at the best of times for its ordinary inhabitants. Cut off from the rest of the Empire by impassable tracks, the Court found itself at times almost without the necessaries of life; the old imperial

A STAFF of ENGLISH EXPERTS attend to every detail of the Manufacture.

The Waters produced are of the highest class and excellence; as testified to by the best English makers,

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buildings had long ago vanished, and even the modern ramens were for the most part in ruins. It was little wonder that the presence of the Emperor so far from introducing life into the deserted city was really the harbinger of ruin, and was succeeded by a famine worse thap eveu Shensi was A. S. WATSON & CO. accustomed to. It is then no marvel that the Court is just as anxious pow to rotura to Peking as it was before to leave it; yot we should be deluding ourselves did we attribute this wish to return to any proved feeling or to any regret for the [35 crimes of the past. As a fact the Dowager is still surrounded by the same flatterora as before the hegira from Peking. The pre- tended eunuch LI LIEN-TING is still as dear to his mistress as before, and the trusted councillor is still the notorious YUNG LU. More even than these is the

THE HONGKONG DISPENSARY,

HONGKONG.

Hongkong, 31st May, 1901.

The Daily Press.

HONGKONG OFFICE: 14, DES VEUX ROAD C1, LONDON OFFICE: 131, FLEET STREET. E.C.

HONGKONG 12th June, 1901

to Sght for Siam. This country, they say, is shortly going to war with China, and the registration scheme is merely a devies to raise

2,21 Army.

The Imperial Bank of China at Shanghai is reported to have received a wire from the Board of Revenue to the effect that the doposit

Baren. D. von Bargen, one of the hermen of the Lagation siege, arrived at San Francisco by the Coptic, on the 10th ult. from Peking,

Legation for nearly two years. He has been indignation in Austria. assigned to the post of secretary of the German Legation at Rome, which he considers a big promotion, and is now on bis way to enter upon the duties of his new position,

The local Government of Peking, which was. receipt with the Bank held in name of the recently handed over by the Allies to the Yang La is the ex-Generalissizzo) has been de- whether the latter will be able to keep order, middle division of: Wawei Army (of which Chinese authorities, on probation, to KOO olered to be missing and made null and void.without outside help, is now conducted on the The loss of this deposit receipt happened during following lines, says the N-C. Daily News the crisis. The Chinese Peace Plenipotentiaries The policing of the Tartar City is in charge have notified the foreign Ministers of its of the Commandant of the Peking gendarmerie, cancellation.

and his officers, who, together with the rank and file, are all Manchus. On the other hand

The following Peking notes from the dativethe varions sections, or cities," ontside the Papons are translated in the danger Mercury. Tartar city walls, are under the control of the Gate to Tangchow has been stopped by the go by local gentry and petty police magistrates. -The proposed railway from the Tang Pion Police Carsors of the Fire Cities," assisted vernment.The geutry and officials are in a funk Instead of the useless Green-farban troops over the threatening aspect of affairs, following (Chinese natives of Paking) who used to act the evacuation by the Allies and have urged Lias patrols and police in the Five "Cities" the Hung-chang to hurry up Yuan Shib-kai's men Plenipotentiaries have now abstituted foreign- to the rescue. The Germans, fearing that the modelled troops from the remnants of the prisons of the Board of Punishments were in a Peiyang Army. filthy condition which might breed' plague, visited the prisons and consulted with the war- den as to the best means of cleansing.--Since

taking advantage of the fact that the Trasty the reopening of the railway many of the officials. was not yet concluded and no date assigned for the return of the Court, secretly left the city. Hence the various Yamens became gradually short of men; so that the suspicions of the heads of departments were aroused.". It la said that the Yames have devised a plan of better supervision.

influence of LU CHUAN-LIN still in thei A Vancouver telegram of the 10th inst

says Remarkable evidenos was adduced from

THE PLAGUE.

REUTER'S SERVICE.

LONDON, 8th June..

THE CHINESE INDEMNITY QUESTION. America has proposed that the Chinese indemnity question be submitted to the Hague tribunal."

PLAGUE IN EGYPT. Eleven cases of plague have occurred in Egypt, seven of which have proved fatal. SOUTH AFRICA-NIGHT SURPRISES

The British have executed two successful.

night surprises on Boer langers in Cape Colony.

LONDON, 9th June.

FRENCH ENTERPRISE IN INDO-CHINA.

General Doumier, Governor-General of Indo- Chins, has formed a Company with a capital of During the 24 hours ending at noon yester-eventy million francs to construct and exploit

* railway into Yunnan, “ day there were reported 22 fresh cases of plagné 19. Chinese, 3 Europeans), with 23 deaths (all Chinese).

Dr. Stedman reported yesterday morning that cases of plague had occurred in Connaught House, Captain and Mrs. Brown- bill having developed the symptoms. They were removed to Kennedy Town Hospital in the coures of the day. Captain Brownhill, who is

I cannot be said that the supposed foreground, so that the old reactionary Chinese witnesses at the Oriental Canriainion very well known in the Colony, is superintend

WANG WENEH10, as we were. accustomed

to call him, has after a year of struggle and difficulty come to be looked upon as the apost of

progress-

this afternoon. Charley Yip Yuen; general secretary of the Chinese Reform Association ing engineer for Mesars, Bradley & Co, and, for America, said that since lat January of this with Mrs, Brownhill, was leaving for England year as many as 250 Chinese had unlawfully on Thursday by the German masil on a year's orossed the boundary line into the United holiday. States. He said that a regular avarage of 200 Chinese every month surreptitiously entered

a

-A onrious caso is reported from a local board. in house, a Miss Besuard, a boarder,being now convalescent from plague, apparently without its being known that she had had the disease. Miss Beauard is a French lady, nail teaches

LONDON, 9th June.

ANOTHER SURPRISE IN

SOUTH AFRIJA.

and

It is also stated in the note just referred to, that the Roman Catholic mission is at Wu-to- hien in the north-east of Auhwei. This is also a misleading statement, as it ignores and seetK missionary establishments at Wuhu, Anking, to excindo tho well-known Roman Catholfo

many other places. Altogether thers are forty foreign Catholic missionaries in the province of Anhiwei, and six native priests. The Catholic missions of the two provinces of Kiangan and Anlawei ars served by the members of the mme missionary body, the French Jasuits, who have thoir headquarters at Siccawei. near Shanghai, There are in all a hundred and thirty Josnit priests in the mission, about twenty Chinese in the number, and also twenty- two other native priests, with a number of students and lay-brothers, both foreign and native. They count upwards of 120,006 Chris- tians, and some twenty thousand catechumers

Yours, etc.,

READER

We are glad to publish our correspondent's corrections. Our authorities for the statements referred to were the Shanghai papers.-ED.,

THE PLAGUE.

TO THE EDITOE OF THE "DAILY PRESH."

11th June. SIE,-Since the plague epidemic in 1894, this Colony has unfortunately be annually visited by this dire dises. Now that we hare and save yours of bitter experience, it is to he hoped that the Sanitary Board, or the powers that be will endeavour to discontinuo swh mengures as have been proved useless, or hire seerned to be a failure, and dovete their attention to improvements which would most likely prevent the recrudescence of the plague. I therefore humbly submit, pro bono publice, the following suggestions, viz

The British troops surprised another parts (1) That the drains should be thoroughly

of Boers at Lady Grey, Cape Colony.

Altogether the captures conset of 62 prisoners, many horses, and large quantities of ammunition.

THE NEW WAR MEDALS. King Edward will present three thousand war medals to the troops at Whitehall on Wednesday next. There will be a great ceremony. Queen Alexandra and Princess Victoria of Wales will accompany the King.

A MOORISH MISSION TO ENGLAND A Moorish mission has arrived in London

cleansed and flushed by sua-water regularly. and na often as possible.

() That whenever it is admissible, plague patients should be allowed, te be treated in their own houses, nursed by two or three of their relatiyor only, whilst the rest of the family should quit the house. By this means, it would remove from the waforkuuste patient'e wind the iden that he is going to die when takom to the Kennedy Town Hospital, and the per centage of recoveries would undoubtedly be greater, to say nothing of the general objection to the removal of the patient from

settlement of difficulties in China is very satisfactory, nor indeed is it apparent that anything has been done in the way of prevention of like troubles again. Yet it

This is not much to boast of, yet it seems is clear that all sides are practically tired ont, and, somehow or other, if nothing to reckon up the results of a year of foreign external occur to upset the tacit pact, that statesmanship. The question of China is affairs may go on till the most uprising evidently left for our successors to lick into the United States in this way. He added that great many Chinese who came from the Orient much as usual. This seems to be the beat some sort of tangible shape. Doubtless it to Canada had no intention of remaining in that can be said, and meanwhile we can will be the making of some future states. Vancouver or other Canadian cities, but simply only hope that in the general outcome of man, and it is a comfort in this age of por-billed their way through here it onder that they affairs we shall be permitted to live in pesca fection to find that there is still left for might get across the boundary without detection. Arcade until the 17th ult. Dr. Bell, who on his accession to the throne. The mission

some of our followers an untrodden road to He gave it as his opinion that in five years

there would not be half as many Chinese greatricss.

British Columbia as there any pory, for the reason that they would be al gone to the United States, He said that several instguess had come ander his own observation where Chinese had mortgaged their wives and children in order to get money to escape to the United States. He said that the Chinese law gave the_créditor the right to the children for three years after Baird, the apprentice engineer at the Cosmo- foreclosure of this sort of chattel-mortgage,politan Docks, who was recently removed from He declined to give the names of different the Base Post Office at Scandal Point, where Chinese parties. As the point was not im- portant, the matter was dropped.

that language. She resided in Beaconsfield for the purpose of congratulating King Edward one end of the town to the other, in some

delivered in London on the 10th instant.

The English Mail of the 11th May was

and comparative quietness. It is not a great victory to beast of; yet, we suppose it is something to be thankful for. If the course of affairs has taught the Powers something, it has apparently taught the ignorant crew who surround the central

Eight hundred copies of Scrutator's" government of China that there are luxuries too high for it to grasp at, and that its idea Pamphlet dealing with the insanitary condition of being able to live by itself and forf Hongkong were sent home to the members

of Parliament and the leading newspapers. itself is a thing beyond its reach. -- It bas apparently also taught it that it cauhot govern China from the west, and that to ali appearances the whole of China beyond the sea-coast provinces is practically unable to keep itself, much less to be able to dictate ite will to the others. Hsianfa has proved

E.M.S. Hermione left on Monday night for Shanghai, being followed yesterday by H.M.S. Tokohama Algerine. H.M.S. Talbot departed yesterday for

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MORROCO AND FRANCE.

examined Miss: Besnard, is of opinion that exciton much interest. ate de ceavalescent from an attack of plages She had fewerfor two days, butainos then bas heon going about horordinary avocations and been cut of doors daily, while her health does not appear to have been impaired by the very mild attack from which she seems to have suffered.

The French and Spanish newspapers are greatly preoccupied over the Morroco question, and there is some talk of a French protectorate,

GLASGOW INTERNATIONAL

EXHIBITION

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cases under most trying circumstances.

(c.) That no matter whether the Colony is free from plague or not, all houses in the eity should be scrupulously cleansed once in every month by their occupants, ie the satisfaction of a competent officer of the Sanitary Board Med

Great importance is being attached to fumigation and disinfection, on the theory that once s house has been thoroughly famigated and disinfected, no more cases of plague will occur thereat. Then by all means let every house b fumigated and disinfected. But it appears to

We have received from the P. & 0 8. N. | be more than doubtful that this process serves

he had stopped for one night, has died from Co. copies of a little circular issued from the any useful parpose, as it has been fully demos.

plague

· MACHINE GUN:00.

It is urions, says a Bangkok paper, that Siam seems always to have been hot thinly HONGKONG VOLUNTEER CORPS entertainments provided. As is pointed out, the insertion of this letter.Yours, etc., populated, and to have always been willing to bring in alien workers to make on the deficiency. But in the old days these aliong were also Indo-Chinese more or less closely akin to themselves, and they migrated in large bodies to settle in Siam for good. Siam welcomed them bemuse she could go them to work, and to develop the country, and though the continued necessity for euch measures argues some deficiency in the constitution of the country, the method actually adopted had

Apart from plague the cases of communicable an utter failure, and so far from enabling disease reported in the Colony last week were the Dowager Tsz'ut to be independent, it Entaris fever, 3 cases (Europeans, in Victoria) has actually emphasised the fact that the puerperal fever, I cans (Chinese) in Victoria) Dowager is more than ever a mere pensioner small-por, I casa (Chinese) The last case alone of the Xangiszo Viceroys. It is well known ended fatally. to those who have been making & study of Chinese economics, that with the exception A water polo match will be played to-morrow of Szechuan, for many purposes outside at 5.30 p.m. sharp between teame representing China, and never in harmony with the rest the V.R.C. and 25th Co. E.DE.A. of the Empire, the west of China does not following will play for the V.R.C.Goal in the circumstances many advantages and

The

pay its own expenses and has to be kept. Laumert; Backs-A. A. Haus, T. M. Rosa Pereira; Half-back A. A. Alvos; going at the cost of the coast provinces. Forwards. Henderson, J. H. R. Haus, Of course the roman who has been essay A. Humphreys.

ing for years past to sway the Empire

few dangers. But thoes days are gené, and the inbourers of Siam now pour in from Chine, and send the bulk of the wealth they make back to that country. Siam geta amazingly little out of the workers whose presence is so

took place at the New Volunteer Range on the The June competition for the cups and spoons the instant, when Corporal Flammer reared his first win on the No. 1 Cap, and Gunner Black sent in the best contribution towards the No. 2 Cup,

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were the best stores returned

Thirteen members competed, and the following

Corporal Plummer. 18 31 28 14

200 400 500 H'cap. * Captain Sanders 23-08 27 11 Gunser Black ... 17 27 13 25

Smith, L.G... 19. 26 20 10. Emmett 13 18 18 25

*Winners of spoons

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Glasgow International Exhibition offices, giring rated that cases have happened in beases -- * short description of the scope of this, the which have been disinfected only a few days First Exhibition of the Contury," and of the previously. Thanking you in anticipation for

Glasgow is no novice at the work of holding an

LO CHEUNGSHIU.

ago an Exhibition was bett in Kelvingrove A professor of Ishguages, some few years International Exhibition, for thirteen years

Park, and proved a most signal access. The age, on returning from India, remarked upon same spacions grounds accommodate the forth the paucity of objectionable phrases when coming International Exhibition, which opened compared with the abundance supplied by the on Tuesday, 7th May. Glasgow seeks to repeat case which came under his own notice. He Orientals of similar rank. To prove this he gives the access achieved in 1886, and should easily had dismissed man-sevent for dishonesty, do so. Under the heading of Entertainments and the next morning, at six o'clock, he we learn that £20,000 is to be spent on meie an interview with his former master He Bour alone, ---Bouse's crack New York combination intended to emplasaite his remarks. When he ished a carving-knife, with which he plainly making its first appearance in Great Britain, found it impossible to gain Samiasion, be and English, Beottish, German, Belgias, Dutch, under the window, and the "wearing " 74 Russian and French military bands being also began. He cursed the professer along the booked. Other amusements range from his race. Then he dwelt app övery detail of genealogical tree back to the first ancestor of Indian theatre with native snake charmers dos his anatomy, from the top of his head to the to a shooting jungle, water chute and switch-end of his toes." For three consecutive houm back.

he sat and swore," Bays the profemor without

party of working.men enteral the some once reposting a phrase."

Whilst travelling on the Underground Bailway in London, a

compartment, and interspersed their remarks with the commonest forms of swearing." The professor

asked them to desiet, politely whereupon he was told to mind his own business. He at once commenced to translate into English some specimens of Eastorn paths Which he had heard a Calcutta merchant's servant use to a missionser's servant. The men sidled from him as if he had the plague, and at the next station sought another com.. partinant

LATEST STEAMER MOVEMENTS.

has not troubled herself to examine into A committee has been appointed in con essential. The poll-tax is imposed only once the financial aspects of the state. For neotion with the proposed Dhamala for Hindus in three years, and even then it comes to a ber it was sufficient to express the desire, and Sikhs at Happy Valley, the foundation miserable little sum. No one, of course, wishes The NY K steamer Kagoshima Maru and it was nothing to her where the money stone of which was laid on Sunday forenoor by to keep out the Chinaman, as things are we (Bombay Line) left Singapore for this port on was to be found, that was the affair of the Raizada Lachman Singh (Indian Commissariat could do with more of him, bat ke forms a the 8th inst, and is expected to arrive here on provinces. The game was a pleasant one Base Department), who has given to the fand problem that the best statesmen in Siam would the 14th inst

The A, L. steamer India left Moji for this as long as it lasted, and next to the Dowager altogether $650. He is a son of Rai Balader do well to ponder. History shows that the port on the 10th inst., p the person most responsible was LI HUNG- Other subscriptions arp-Maharaja of Gwalior, cannot last, and while Biam's present progres arrived at Yokohama at 7am. on Monday, the Sardor Anoop Singh, Resident of Lahore, nation which get its work done by aliens The C. F. R., steamer Empress of India CHANG, who in the days before the Japan 250; Hongkong Police, $2,000, Royal Artil-sive programme is all very good and very Hobe, where she was due to arrive at 2 p.m. on 10th inst, and left again at 3 p.m. same day for war was foremost in pandering to her tory, $1,600; shopkeepers, 91,300; watchmen, essential, s patriotis interest in the welfare the 11th inst woman's greed. Of lato years there have 900; Shanghai, $600; and "A Company, and the usefulness of the people is no læn

The A. L. steamer Maria Valerie left Sings- been unequivocal signs that the old milch-Royal Artillery, Singapore, $900.

pore for this port yesterday.

essential for the future,

Scottish poets, and concludes with the following The circular is interspersed with verses from

irreproachable sentiment --

I he been the wi' comrades dear, I has been merry drinkin', 04

I has been joyfu" gath'rin gear; I has been happy thinkin', 01 But a the pleasures e'er I say,

The three times doubled fairly, 01 That happy night was worth theme n,”-

Amang the rigs o' barley, 01-

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