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INSURANCES

NORTE GERMAN BIRE INSUS

ANCE COMPANY OF HAMBURG

The Undersigned AGENTS of the above

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

No. 708

Company are PRERED TO ACCRET FirstTHE following Notloo is published. Class Foreign and Chinese Bisks at Carrant Kates.

SIEMSSEN & CO.

[31 Hongkong, 29th May, 1895. FRANSATLANTIC FIRE INSUR- ANCE COMPANY OF HAMBURG

The Undersigned, having been appointe AGENTS for the above Company, are pre pared to ACCEPT RISKS against FIRE of Current Rates.

By Command,'

J. K. STEWART LOCKHART,

Colonial Secretary. Colonial Secretary's Office,

Hongkong, 3rd November, 1901.

NOTICE TO MARINERS.

HONGKONG HARBOUR.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, DECEMBER 2nd, 1901

From the 1st December, 1901, until about SIEMSSEN & CO.,

the end of February, 1902, floating obstruu- Agents. tions will be laid, from time to time, to the

[29 North of Stonooutters' Island, Hongkong, 16th November, 1872.

The obstructel area will be bounded on the THE WESTERN ASSURANCE COM-West by a line drawn from the most northern

PANY OF TORONTO, CANADA,

point of the Island to the Watering Fier at INCORPORATED 1851.

Laichikok, and on the East by a line drawn from the Government Pisr, on the North shore near the Magazines, in a N.N.E. direction to the mainland

CAPITAL..

LATα 000.

THE Undersigned, having been onointed THE

AGENTS for the abore Company, i prepared to ACCEPT RISKS »gainst, FIRE at Current Bates.

WM. MEYERINE & CO.,

Agents.

1:87 Hongkong, 19th May, 1909. AACHEN AND MUNICH FIRE IN-

SURANCE CO. CON OF AIX-LA-CHAPELL

THE Undersigned, having been appointed THE

AGENTS for the above Company, are prepared to ACCEPT RISKS against FIFE at Current Rates.

REUTER, BROCKELMANN & Co.,

Agenta, Hongkong, 21st April. 1897

194

UN INSURANCE OFFICE, LONDON

FOUNDED 1710,

The Undersigned having been appointed AGENTS for the above Company, are pre- pared to ACCEPT RISKS against FIRE a Current Rates.

SIEMSSEN & CO.,

Agents. Hongkong, 16th May, 1892.

URBAINE'

FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, LD. Established 1838)

530

HE Undersigned, having been appointed THENDRAL GENIE for the above Company, are prepared to ACCEPT RISKS at current rates,

·P. LEMAIRE & CO. Hongkong, 7th February, 1901.

P

499

HENIX FIRE OFFICE

The Undersigned are now prepared to GRANT POLICIES of INSURANCE against FIRE at Current Rate.

DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & CO.,

Agents for the Phoenix Fire Offca, 132 Hongkong, 17th August, 1887. SALAMANDER FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY.

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HE Undersigned, having beca appointed AGENTS for the above Company, 'are prepared to ACCEPT TISKB against FIRE at Current Bates,

HOTZ, JACOB & COM Hongkong, 2nd April, 1900,

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YOETH BRITISH AND MERDAN.

TILE INSURANCE COMPANY. TOTAL FUNDS AT SIET DECEMBER, 1900, £14,752,681.

I. AUTHORISED, CAPITAL... £3,000,000 0.0 SUBSCRIBED CAPITAL,... 2,750,000 0.0 PAID UT CAPITAL

087,500 0 0. 2,899.716 14 4

The Undersigned, having been appointed AGENTS for the abore Company, stu pre pared to ACCEPT RISKS against FIRE at Current Rates.

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IN. TOMES & CO.: SHEWAN:

CANADAgents. Hongkong, 3rd July, 1901.

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Vassols and juuks are prohibited from anchoring in the obstracted area.

A fairway, about 300 yards wido, will be buoyed through the obstructed aron, being marked on the North by 2 red buoys, and on the South by small black baoys carrying white fags. No obstructions will be laid within thie fairway, but vessels and janke are pro- hibited from suchoring therein.

At night the red buoys marking the North wide of the fairway channel will carry red lights whenever any obstractions are laid.

Steam vessels must always use the fairway; sailing vessels and junks may sail across the abstrusted area in day time at their own risk.

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R. MURRAY RUMSEY,

TAF SIBERIAN RAILWAY.

The Standards corrependent wrote on the 25th ult from Vienna:-The Politische Corres, pondence publishes an important statement which, in a way, supplements the Standard's Shanghai telegram about the new Manohuria Convention, and throws light apon Russin's present Asiatic policy. The inspired St. t'etersburg correspondent of the Vienna news sheat says:--

THE ISTAMIAN CANAL. A Washington despatch of the Lud inst says

In view of the expected return to-day to the United States of Lord Paancefote, and the immediate résumption of negotiations, which, in this case, are to put into the concrete form of a treaty the proposition agreed upon by the Governments of the United States and Great Britain, se a convention to replace the Paunce- it may be proper "It is the intention of Russia to accelerate fete Hay Treaty of last year, it the construction of the Siberian Railways, the to state upon the highest official authority, that completion of which was originally planned for thero is absolutely no other question than that 1905, 40 as to have this immense work finished of the Ithanian Canal involved in the negoti- next year. The motives for this haste ure notations. Furthor, it is stated that no demand only last year's events in China and the Russian has been made by the British Government for occupation of Manchuria, but important political any compensation whatever for the relinquish- ment of its joint right in the control of sich a considerations. In the first place, there is the desire to postpone indefinitely a conflict between canal, Russia, Japan, and Bagland, by setablishing a military equilibrium between these Powers in the Far East. To gain this end, Russia mast he in a position to concentrate a large military force at Port Arthur with rapidity, which, without the completion of the Trans-Siberian Railway, would be out of the question."

It is by no means certain that Russia could easily and the money for the complation of the Railways next year; but her auxiety to get a through line to Port Arthur as soon as possible is quite clear. Assuming that the statement of the St. Petersburg correspondent is correct, and I have little doubt it is, the new Manchuria convention is as easily explained as are Russia's efforts to remove whatever might menace peace in Europe and force her to take untimely action elsewhere than in the Far East.

When the policy of Russia in the East

great was enunciated that is, at the Accession of the present Tsur-Prince Lobano, who best nederstood him, and grasped his ideas most fully, recognised that two conditions were es sential for the realisation of hts Imperial master's vast and almost vixionary Achemos, The first was no Kassian eutanglement in Europe, and no chance of one, In accordance with the necessities of this condities, Prince Ferdinand was recognised us Ruler of Halgaria, the Armenian ruassacres were ignored, the -[3006 | Balkan Convention with Austria was con elnded; and even German oncroachments in

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Prince Lobanoff's second condition was that Ru sis should avoid any couliot in the Far East till she ía strong enough to be confident of success, because he knew that, once defeated, whether in conflict with a single Power or a combination of Powers, the great Asiatic Em- pire which Russia wanted to carve out for kas herself was lost for ever. At that time it see that the completion of the Siberian Rail ways would count as a factor; but M. Witte, the Minister of Finance, undertook to provide the means for pushing on energetically with the work, and Russia's satiro polies with regard to France was inde subservient to 31. Witte's plans for keeping the Russiau Exchequer 12 plenished, both for the railways and for con structing a new Navy for service in the Far

with knowledge of English Book East, Erents in China forced Russia, wach against her will, to proceed at a quicker-pacekeeping. Able to write a good Chiness letter, than was originally intended, and to expos

testimonials, stating age, experience, and salary horself to immense risks. Especially ineon- and translate sume into English. Apply, with venient for her were the events of last year, which brought the forces of all Europe to the required, to- spot where she bad meant to be left slope, and which compelled her, lest she should lose an opportunity, to occupy Manchuria prematurely, for it was felt that to de tend the provins except by the terrorism of Rassian prestige would be almost impossible until the railway connection with European Bassin via Siboria was established.

In the meanwhile two great things have happened; the one favourable, the other un favourable to Russian plans. The advantage to her is that England's war in South Africa, instead of being finished withla a few months year. ore year, now has entered upon a third 2 & 4, Stone Street, New York; In Kussia it is firmly believed that it would be 20, Bucklersbury, London, E.C. most difficult for England to engage herself Hongkong, 25th November, 1001. [2094 elsewhere for at least another year, and pro- bably for two, especially as the Army has to IEN TING.

be reorganised. The event unfavourable for Russian plans is that Japan has carried out hor aval programme; all the big warships she ordered abroad being now launched, and mort of them already in Japanese waters; so that would she be sure of England's freedom of action, Japan might any day throw down the gauntlet to the Russian rival and bid him clear out of Corea, out of Manchuris, and oat of China altogether all this, of course, only so long as the Biberian railways are not completed. Im- mediately they are completed Russia would be able to throw any number of troops into Manchuria, or thina, or Corea, English assistance to Japan would then come too late. It could no longer alter the fate of either China or Japan; and Russia would be undisputed master.

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