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JAPAN.

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(FIOM OUR CORRESPONDENT.

Tokyo, 23rd January: TOKYO STREET RAILWAY AND FOREIGN CAPITAL

Sir Makol MacEachern, of Mosers. He Ilwraith. MacEachern & Co. of London and

THE HONGKONG. DAILY PRS. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 3RD 1903

passed into the bonds of foreign shareholders. there would be nothing to be frightened at, as the whole plant, ete, is to revert to the Musici pality after the Anglo-Japanese Company hes run the business for 30 years. In other words the corporation is to get gratis from foreign capitalists a valuable and profitable street trafic business.

NORTHERN NOTES.

The following items are from the P. & T Times of the 17th ult

Aluby poor were frozen to death during the extreme cold in Peking nhout ten days before.

News keeps dribbling in that Rusia will completely evacuato Manchuria by the 1st of the 3rd Moon. It must he understood this laid down by Dr. Morrison.

THE MARCONI SYSTEM IN A

NUTSHELL.

The principle of this wireless folers phy may be briefly stated thus:-The waves of electric

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currents passed through a wire st. up ribra- FILMS, KODAKS AND ACCESSORIES tious in the ether which fills ul! spaco. Theso wares or vibrations are gathered up by wiras at the receiving station, and delicate instra-

Mellarte, las, acting on behalf of a British length on the electric railway' question, for the Pracuation will be on the lines so graphically ments record ilia pulaliens with suob accuracy FDEVELOPING AND PRINTING UNDERTAKEN.

I have judged it worth while to write at this

introduction of British capital to Japan is a very important matter: and besides, I think that the many Scuttish readers of the Hongkong Daily Pro will be interested in this important scheme in which a man with a paruo like Malcolm Machacharu plays the leading part and in which, if all goes well, engineers with names quite us Scottish may have a good deal to do.

that ther reprorlara the exact signs made by Viceroy Yund is reported to be sending the the sender. To facilitate the transmission of these wares through the afrosphere the send- cap round among the Vienrays and Governors to raise funds for the rebuilding of the Pekinging and receiving wires bare to be rais don high poles. Those at Cape Breton are 215ft. gates. Chibli has contributed Tls. 59,0 -0,1

One of the P.inces reovamends the Emp ess bigh.

The latest endeavour is to, so tune" the Dowager to cancel the order for the spacial ex- amination next year, us so many useless meaning and reiving instruments that it will have been recommended for it, and the special be possible for several to use the same wire. abjuet for it was to obtain good officials with- One receiving instrument will only tako out loss of time. The Prince suggests that

syradiente, almost, concluded an arraágerant with the electric street railway of Tokyo in virtue of which the British syndicate will supply the apanese company with the capital it Ladly needs. This company was originally | dinated with a capital of 80092 yen, bat on account el a great extension iu ile scheme of operations à capital of six million yen became necessary aud, us this sum could not be raised in Japan despite the undeniably bright pro- speels of the railway, it became necessary to intrcdure. foreign capital. Me. Kondo. President of the Nippon Yusen Krishn interested himself very much is this annttor during his recent trip to Europe and the result is at Eir Malcolm MacEncbain is here today negotiating. He has already drawn ng thụ. proposals which he wishes the Japanese com communication to the Corean Foreign Offen pany to sign, and though they any energo in with reference to three roparte items:-() | volunteered to give up the past, and invited to learn that, though the system sould carry

slightly modified farm from the Tiscassion The excessive lekin dues levied at Mi-yang

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COREA.

FROM OCE CORRESPONDENT. |

Mokpo. 17th January, THE JAPANESE MINISTAR REMONKTĦATES,

The Japanese Minister at Seoul has cut a

on the Mak-tong River, whith an a serious

GOOD WORK. PROMPT R TURN.

WE HAVE AN ESTABLISHMENT SOLELY DEVOTED TO FXECUTING

WORK FOR AMATEURS, AND WE HAVE LARGER AND BETTER FACILITIES

men he ree monded by the universities instead. musages sent by another instrument "tuned" FOR DEVELOPING AND PRINTING THAN ANY HOUSE IN THE COLONY.

and their introducers be held strictly respon sible for their efficiency.

Viceroy Yasun on Chang Chi-tung. By L'Impotrial, are said to have jointly memoralised against the Minister of Education, Chang, for Yu-wei He

accepting pupils of Kang them to take all responsibi ities,

Two cases have recently occurred in Poking

to the same pitch, that is, sending vibrations. of a given length and frequ ney. Other iustra ments will work at different "pitches and ACHED & CO., three or four messages may be passing simul taneously.

The other day a man wanted to telegraph ta uship a thousand miles at sea, nad was amazed

ovor the ocean, it could not pick up a ship a thousand miles on!. Tto difficulty was that way bridy give them hero. In the first place vistacle to Japanese trade, ( The hesitati n of a ma dered boriy baing packed in a trunk and this particalar steamer's gear was only saited! I should state that the Loudon syediento which i to su the Daiichi Ginko 5-yeo bills evinced by left in some lonely plsce. This is, we believe, to shorter distances, and could not take a

le Cereals on account of the divorumet opposition to these hills. (3) The aécessity of serdiag a Corean Minister to Tokyo to inke up that important pest, at persent in the bands of an Acting Minister only.

Sie Maicola represents is to be made into a com- puuy in accordines with the Baghish law, that Lite shares are to be taken up by the shareholders of the Tokyo company, and that it will be under the same directorate and work with the sale capital as the Tokyo company. One-quarter the share capital is to be subscribed by Japanese, the other quarter by foreigners, wliki the remainder is to Le raised by issuing debentures. These debeatures will be lasted by the Lotion en- pany, which is also to have the privilege of sup- plying the company with the tanterial it wants. Important conditions are that the staff of diretors and auditors shall consist of an equal number of Britislets anst Jejonsse; and that the chief engineer on the work of construation is to be a Britisher and to rewain in the employ ment of the company for two years after the conclusion of the work of construction,

It will be seen that the dual arrangement

ander which the two corapanies work together is a very ingenions one. The London company's, shares are to be taken up by the shareholders

COREA'S POPULATION.

An investigation in the nature of a census at the vad of 2 showed that there are in Cores 2.46,176 h uses with a population of 5,782,516 -the latter an incres of 67,502 since the last enquiry.

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IMPERIAL FINANCIER.

It is said that, thern being go proper successor

to the post of Finance Minister, His Majesty the Emperor will himself directly control the Department.

HONGKONG IN 1902.

The Loudon & China Express of the Sad January writes of as as follows:-

The Colony maintains its position as the canim! British intoreet in Fur Eastern waters,

a new phage in Chinese crime, though sadly familiar in the West.

The Government, finding the resources of taxation becoming limited, is considering at proposal made by one official to tax secondary wives at the rate of Te. 100 a piece. It seeras hardly probable that eves desperate straits will bring this to pass, however. What a pity it is that some official does not suggest the practica! remedy of reducing Court expenses!

The Mahommedan anti-footbinding Society started in the west of the city, uns circulating their regulations and gaining adherents.

The Kussinos have applied to the Chinese to export salt to Vladivostock, and the Vicoroz jocal salt merchants are much excited over the was instructed to arrange the mutter. The

for salt.

mussage over so great a space. One stommer was spoken 1,50 miles away when equipped with receivers specially adapted for the purpose,

The system is now in use for land telegraphy in the Congo Free State, and at Tonolulu communication is kept up with surrounding islands by Marconi telegraphy.

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THE NOBEL PRIZE. Alfred Nobel was the remarkable member of o remarkable family. His father, Emmanuel Nobel, was invited from his native Sweden to Russia to arrange the torpedo deiraces of Kronstadt in 1937, and started a big ship-building business ander Government auspicas As that business did not prosper ho returned to Sweden, having his son Ludwig to wind it up. Ludwig wound it up, bat remained in Russia, and made a huge fortune by derclop

Ho iurented the ing the Baku il-walls.

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condly, that the poison was not carried by ali mosquitoes, but only by a particular kind of Mosquito, called duophelesna Greek word meaning a mosquito that one busas nse fur Italian doctor, Signor Grassi: spent the worst The next experiments were unde is Italy, Au part of the year, with five other persons, in the worst district of the Campagna. They broaihod the same air and lived the same lives ns the cter inhabitants, except that at night they retired within a mosquito-prone hut. The risult was that, while everyone else in the village suffered from malaria, they were all exempt from it. The connection between malaria and the mosquitoes that one has no ne fer was nON HY conclusively established as any truth in medicina can ever be.

Tho Chik Pao states that it is said in Poking tlus Government intend to enrol 90 or 341 battalions of Mahommedan troops, as they are much hardier in sarvios than the Chiness,

The Customs Toold has notified all Consuls

The managing director of the Marroni Com- that foreigners holding hand outside the foreign

esticments must report the same to the Chi-pany was asked how scon the public would be ness authorities and bave it duly surveyed and allowed the privilege of sending messages, ut what registered.

speed the messages already transmitted veregent, and whether the service would be liable to inter- ruption by thunderstorms or other electricad dis- turbances? To the frit question Mr. Hall replied that the instruments would be busy for some time with official correspondentes and com- plimentary messages, and it was not possible to fix a date for the public opening of the service. On the question of speed Mr, Hell declared that it was now only a matter of doubling, trebling, or quadrupling the instruments. With the old

of 15 words a minute had been secured. With system of conveying the oil from place to coherer a maxium of 25 words and an average

35 words. The company is now making con-

monument to his memory whenever of is! tracts, and large contacts too, "conditional on

delivered at our doors. Alfred Nobel, his pleted. He wanted to see whether it was the succesful demonstration of our ability to

younger brother, devoted himself to the send and receive simultaneously different ines sages though differently used instruments explosive industry. After his own lahora connected with the vamùaerial wire." This is in

tory had been blown up by nitroglycerine, effect a promise that the difficulty of tubing has been successfully overcome. It has been move experiments, and discovered that continually said that "toning" is a failure, but if powdered charecal were mixed with the nitro. the making of these contracts, as Mr. Hall glycerine it became comparatively safe to store pointed out, is a substantial answor to ste and handlo: The resulting compound was what rd ult. allegations. As for the danger of atmospheric wo know as dynamite. Out of dynauzite, and

interruptions, Mr. Blak pointed out that the company will contract to send messages under out of a smokeless gunpowder which he also N.D.Lany atmospheric conditions. It is possible for invented, he made a fortune of £2,000, and on his death he left the greater part of it for the Marconi systom to work in a thunderstorm

the institution of the faxons Nobel prizas, and in semi-tropical countries where other systems are completely interrupted. The com- pany's next development will be another long. distance service for pallie use, the ventract for which is now being arranged with a foreign Government.

of the Tokyo company and paymont for these azul it is heartily to be desired that its sanitery order, which is the first ever received by China the new magnetic delector the speed is about | place in tanks instead of barrels. We se

shares is to be made, not in cash, Lut with the shares of the latter company,

THE IFFICULTY,

recard could be a little brighter. The arrivals of a plugue expert (whatever that may imply), |--sanitary-cxpect, and Japanese doctors do not seem to have driven away the visitation. The The one difleully in ir Malcolm Mas real source of the plague has been known Eacharo's way is the suspicion with which the for some time to be rais, and it seems conservativo section of the Japanese regard any strange that a war of extermination has not association of their countryarta with foreigners long ere this brought their number to the for las nees purposes, un the 16th inst. ior smallest possible limit. Stranger till is it to example, Uus Ecchi Shimbun of Tkyo published find the assistant surgeons engaged on the spot un article on the negotiations above referred to, in the investigation of enspicious deaths out in the connus of which it allnded to foreign down in wumber. A rew Sanitary Board with possession of shares in Japanese enterprises as advisory powers only, is recommended by the an event of the most dainous description, and exports; but their chief recommendations tried to make out that Baron Sene, the Minister concern the housing, and therefore of necessity of Finance, was guilty of an atrocious attempt the sanitation of the population. The motto on to sell the the country" because he favoured the the entrance to the Happy Valley Graveyard at negolitions. Baron Visumi, the Ministor of Hongkong, “Hodie miki, gras tibi," is Home Affairs, Mr. Okada, the President of the illustrative of the uncertainty of life in the Electric Tramway Company, and others enrly days of the Colony; but if the authorities also eume in for some hard knocks, Even will only take for their text "Sanitas, sanitas, the Tokyo Ánhi, which is fairly impartial omnia saniles," the words will be more nearly in in this matter, remarks that while in in-line with modern sentiment, and may yut show troducing foreign capital, it would be pre- an excellent way out of pingae troubles.

matters so that fernble io etrange. would be entirely in the control of Japaneer sach a course is at present impossible. In Malcolm short, the publication of Sir

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The antives are not particularly grateful for the introduction of good cash her, as the ex- change my some-750 to the dollar and they hod the purchasing power of the Mexican limited accordingly.

IUTINY ON AN EMIGRATION

STEAMER,

The Singapore Free Prose of the

writes:

On the arrival of the Fainiau, a boat trading between Bangkok sud Singa- pore this morning, it was reported that a mutiny bad occurred on board whilst the vessel was on her journey hero. It appears that the Tsintau left Pakhoi ootud for Bangkok in hallast and having on board 1,356 solids whom it was in- tended to landat Mnatok. Whentheship arrived in this port, however, the coolies as one man refused to leave the vessel and go on shore. They stated that they had been told the ship was going to Singapore and they were willing to go there bat they would not go off at Muntok. The Heudman had best tied up by some of the man and threats were used against his life, and the officers of the ship were unable to rescue

KHARBIN.

A. correspondent of the Nowe Freya gives an extremely interesting accnut of the present aspect of the Russian town of Harbin or Kharbin, to the Russians spell it, the controlling centre of the Manchurian Railway.

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THE NOBEL PRIZES.

But the work of Major Lows was not com. possible to suppress malaria by killing the mosquitoes, I was not such a hopeless task us" might to thought, as the breeding places of the beast are easily discovered, and it down not fly far away from them. He went to Freetown, und instituted a regu ar campaign against the mosquito larve. They bred in stagnant pools, and thousands of negroes were employed in filling up these pols or pouring petroleum upon lum.

The time came when Major boss

was able to report that it was almost impossible to find any more mosquitoes of the poisonous icind in Freetown, and that a little persever acne, will enable us to abolish these malaria bearing insects." In short, the conquest of the new provines for Europena oivilisation bas begun.-T. P.'s Weekly.

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the vernacular Press which evidently wanis foreign capital but not the foreign capitalist. Even so enlightened a man as Barou Iwasaki, the head of the Mitan Hishi tirw, objected to Sir Malcolm's proposals on the ground that be thought such undertakings as gus-works, water-works, tramways, &o, were of the nature of national undertakings and should he kept strictly in Japanese hande. The matter is anw becoming a political question, for the Progressives have commenced to investigate it, and other parties are doing the same,

The principal fear of what I may call the conservative section of the Japanese is that the foreigners will acquirs too much power in the capital of Japan; but they say that (hey are only atrain that wealthy foreign expitalists will, if they are silowed to have anything to do with the control of the electric railway, not in such a mudner as will prejudice the interests of their poorer Japanese fellow-shareholders, as for instance by betting apart large sums for reserves aud thas diminish

Ajuntok the men broke out in open mutiny, and matters began to look daagorous. They stormed the bridge-deck despite the efforts of the officers and crew to keep them buck, Sea- ing it was impossible to get them in band with be means at his disposal Capt Koch sont far assistants, and the Dutch authorities sent off fontenant and twenty soldiers who boarded the

It is somewhat remarkable that the sanitary condition of the Colony seems to retard Its business and social advenes so little. The foundation block of the extension of the naval

the island is spoken of in the near future. A scheme is afoot for the establishment of a school for the battur education of European children. while the elasticity of the Empire is illustrated by a reported contract for the conveyance of troops to Hongkong vid the Canadian Pacific line, and by the inauguration of the new Sikh and Hindu Temple. The new territory progresses favourably, due regard being paid to the necesity for sound administration and for an ability La iste valid titles to intending ship accompanied by the Harbour Muster. The and purchasers. The spectacle of a water coolies were for the time being pacified, but the famine in Hongkong, seems almost impossible Dutch authorities refused to take them on shore to onceive, but it occurred, and it reflects no eredit ou

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wers free men and not slaves. The coolies establishment of new banks Trast Company of New York, the Russo- were then formally asked if they wished to Chinese Bank, and the International Banking Corporation-is a bold step, considering the ashore md as any said no, the Harbour When they sBW barking interest, in which Hongkong Lakes Masfor ordered the Captain to get up steam prile; but competition sows inevitable in and the ship left the hard ne,

appeared satisfied and gare bat little are modarn days, and a little blend-letting may do that the vessel was going to Singapore the mon good to all.

trouble. The Tintau arrived here towards midday and remained out in the roads until communication could be stablished with the Chinese Protectors here as regards what is to

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be done with the men.

In Manchuria, as everywhere else in Asia, Russia acts upon a fixed principle of avoiding

rouds several miles away from them. In this manner in a few years, more or less, according to the anxiety of the Government to consolidate their power in the district in question, a new town arises, paroly Russian, and in the natural conres of events completely eats the heart out of the ancient centre. The station of Kharvin is no exception. The correspondent proceeds:— "This new town is already planned out, Ite centre is the church, aliandsome pile standing on an eminents, of beatiful design, and built of wood, visible from all sides round for a great distance. About it is o spacious square, already planted with trees, and on its sides are handsome brick buildings, with straight streets of which the roadways are laid with broken brick, and the wide trottoirs are lined with poles for the telegraph, the telephone, and the electris lighting power. The Government buildings are a wonder to the eye for their size, and mong the largest of them all is a huge erection for the control of the Chica Hailway, while no less colossal erection is that of the branch

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Ons is plusad to see an Englishraan winning a prize in such a competition. In 1901-when Yebini Japanese the Eret distribution was made-there was no English prize-winner; but in 1992 the award for medicine fell to Major Ross. The name, very likely, means nothing to many readers of this page, Major Hass is only an Arny doctor; Ind, Coope & Co.... Per 8 Dos. Pte. $19.50 $2.45 we look for important medical discoveries--

4 Qts. 20.00 3.00 and it is not, as a rule, to Army doctors this op though it was, in fact, an Army doctor who Guinness, invented, patented, and made a fortune out of phlorodyne. Majer Rom discovery, howover, leaves Dr. Collis Brown and his chlorodyne Fur behind, and ranks as one of the greatest medical discoveries of the century. He is the man whe solved the mystery of malaris, fund out how it is caused, how it is spread, and how, in all On the 24th alt, the Free Preas gave the

han probability, if may be expelled from all regions inhabited by white men. ing the rate of dividends. The very idea of which, it says, has been rendered obvious by following additional news-Yesterday evening

tropical countries, and also of a good many DCHUNGEN des Kaiserlichen Konsal recept debates in the British Parliament, that refused to land at bluntos were lauded from the such a thing happening, turns the blood of a Japanese shareholder cold, fer he is accustomed Great Britain and Germany now share the steamer and taken to the Chinese Protectorate live, said the Russian mouji cannot earn bis countries that are not tropical, Even in Italy werden im Jahre 1902 im OSTASIATISCHEN extensive areas are uninhabitable because of it. Lorn in Shanghai and in der DAILY PRESS to put hardly anything at all in his reserve business of supplying Afghanistan with guns, ander Police escort. On arrival at the Prater-salt alongside the swarms of cheap and suber If you are cat after sundown on the Roman in Hongkong, ausserdemn, went, erforderliths

torate Mr. Evans had then examined and then

durch den Deutschen Reichsanzeiger veröffen- account, with the result that the railways and rifles and other arms, whereas up to 1901 the distributed them amongst the various licensed Chinamen. The writer notes another charac. Campagne you catch it almost to a

In certain parts of India, and tlicht werden. former was aloue in the field. The journal then immigrant depots, from which they can be hired teristic feature of Russian culture, whether in tainty.

Kanton, den 26. Dezember 1901. other pablic works in which he is concerned

ever-present danger. Everbody gets it, and the

DEE KAISERLICHE KONGUL' 1. V., safter considerably. The Japanese of whom I goes on to refer to the rapid extension of out at rates fired by Mr. Evans. The condies the East or nearer home. Every provision is on the West Coast of Africa, it is the speak are also ufraid that, with unlimited German trade in countries where Gormans gain bare behaved in a very ardd y manner since shrazdy made in the heart of Manchuria for the first attack gives no immunity against a second. 1237 capital to back them, the foreign shareholders a footing, and says that Germany, having now their arrival here, and indeed seem delighted to

should apply at the Protectorate. Mr. Evaus ubiquitous vodka-shops, without which the stitutions are gradually nadermined by it. It worse enemy than cholera, thau dysentery, may ultimate succeed in getting the whole undertaken to supply Afghanistan with arms, be in Singapore. Any one Deeding labourers familiar systems of State-protected vice and the It comes again and again. The strongest cou

will no doubt not lose much time in flooding has not concerned himself as to their reasons Russian finds life insupportable, but there are than even the dreaded Yellow Jack

"it control of the electria railway.

that country with other products of or for refusing to go to Muntak, this being beyoud to newspapers, no books to be had, and no other effectually prevents colonisation in some of the To do them justice, most Japanese see clearly, however that there is no ground for these industry. After attributing the German bis jurisdiction, and the coolies will be treated species of recreation of any kind besides the most fertile quarters of the globe, and cripples 125 TRAPE, FORULATION AND FUTURE

as ordinary immigrante. The vessel leaves for two just mentioned. Under suca circnaistances the energy of the colonists in others. The PROSPECTS, apprehensions in the present instiness-evorinion to the action of Great Britain in Bangkok to day.

it is not surprising that the Russian, who is not man who can find a means of coping with keeping Afghanistan lead to Russian foreigu shareholders will hardly be so dis products, the Bourse Gazette droinres that

guaranteed by Government splay, speedily mainin has conquered new worlds for civilisu-Reprinted fre the "HoKoKONG DAILY PRESS"

Frice, 50 cents Cash, Messrs. Kelly & Walsh interested as to preposs setting spart as a such a state of affaire is altogether abnormal The New York policeman, it is said, eau, drifts into that class which Maxim Gorki has tion. Until the other day nothing was known reserve fund more than the six per cent, of from the point of view of the interests of Bussis, when he sheness, be exceedingly explicit. The immortalised ne barefooters," and the labour about malaria except that quinine cured it. or Daily Press Office.

Hongkong, arst January, 1900. not profit required by the Home Office, And which has spent so many millions in opening story is quited of the man who said to a Broad-a: the profile of the entire settlement ars in Soma attributed it to the drinking of con- even if the whole control of the concern up Central Asia, and that therefore the way policeman, I want to go to Fulton the hands of the sative Chisamun. A still taminated water, others to the evil odour of Rattlement of the question of the establishment Street," and to whom the officer retorted, more serious feature noted is that the Chiness decaying vegetation, others to the exhalations at Kabul of a Consniato or nome other form of but the teller odds that she does not believe it, Russian which certain sharp experiences of wonder vaguely whother mosquito bites had not AP OF THE SIKIANG or WEST "Well, why in thunder don't you go, then? Beem to be losing the wholesome respect for the of newly upturned soil. Then people began to PORTABLE SUSTENANCE. Governmental representation is now more

imperative than ever. This question, the a journal concludes, must be brought forward in never use such a namby-pamby expression

rational manner, as it is becoming more and more apparent that Afghanistan, like many other countries, finds itself the object of one of the numerous Anglo-German socords which [2674 lava been accumulating since 1893.

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world has not heard of since the days of But Major Ross war not satisfied with Genghis Khan. After making all allowance woadering vaguely. for the point of view of the writer, it is plain to investigate. He not only observed the cases, but he disserted the mosquitoes. His from his account that Russia has probleme to

laboratory experiments established two things face in China which cannot but be regarded as serions,

First that the mosquito bite was at any rate

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From HONGKONG to WUCHOWFL, Showing the Ports nul Calling Places Opened to Foreign Trade, 1897, Published at Daily Press Office. Price 25 Centa, Cash. Hongkong, 1st April, 1807