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faxoy will not suggest to-day "—well, if he foresaw this, argued the West, still feeling the effects of the sieges of Peking and Tien- tain, then the Yellow Peril must be very

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, MAY 27TH, 1901

The Government of India has authorised mu outlay of ten thousand rupees for the purchase of sacred books in Tibet.

The following, from a recaut number of the

Dr. Botz, late administrator of the German Consulate at Swatow, luas been appointed Con- sul at Chinianfa, Shantung.

A. S. WATSON & CO., real. But the West did not allow for the Bangkok Times, is rather pathetic. The hen when the Japanese have received their

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fact that Sir ROBERT HART's nerves bad been shaken like these of the rest of his race. Time brought reason, and the panic sub- sided until this year. Now there has arise u the phenomenon of Japan daring to face Russin, the most dreaded Power of Con- tinental Europe, and not merely facing her, but winning victories both by sen and by land. It was very natural, again, that the old feelings should recur, and that the flame, skilfully if obviously funned from S. Petersburg, should be burning bright It is very natural, we say, but -ROAD, on and after MONDAY, :th MAY, that is not to say that it is reasonable.

NOTICE OF REMOVAL.

The BUSINESS of the HONGKONG DISPENSARY will be CARRIED ON in ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS, DES VŒUX

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once more.

The militant Yellow Dangor, which, 18 Sir ROBERT HART's words in 1900, is to imperil the world's future, is the bogey of over-wrought imagination, and this must be To facilitato moving operations, our promises recognised by sober judges at their sober moments--for even habitual sobriety may be dissipated at times, which is why we get SATURDAY nezt, 28th MAY, at 2 P.M. and prophecies about ten millions of Boxers even from su eminent an authority as Sir ROBERT HART. The question remains, however, whether there is a Yellow Peril at

at Queen's Road, will be CLOSED ou

will remain CLOSED on SUNDAY, the 29th

Tavey line is still interrupted and Router's telegrams are now four days delayed." Hong. kong has not, at least, to complain like this.

The Imperial. Mint at Osaks tried out You 5,020,000 of 20-yon and Yen 2,500,000 of 10-you gold coins in the mouth of April, white the coins delivered to the Central Treasury for the sau mouth worn You 17,370 of 10-yon gold.

There is some prospect that a Cuban logation

wil shortly be established at Tokye to advance various interests of the country. M. Ramatan. now acting as Cuban Consul in the Orient, will probably be entrusted with the new post. His

wife is a Japanese, of a very wealthy family.

-Ata mooting of the British Navy Longus, says. a. London telegram to Japan, referenes were mando to the remarkable success of the Japanese, whose offensive action, both on saa and land, is regarded as offering to the ignorant in striking object Zuran And to the learned also, we

prosumo.

The Shanghai Tinion records that a rumpas occurred at Pootung the week bofore last over a dog, which having bitten a native he threw stones at. This brought a woman on the scene, and then the crew of a mandarin ganbaat added to the fun, but as they shot a godownman in the

irger arrested one of the shooters, and handerl him over the Police, the wharfinger having previously captured the gunboat!

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A Russophil writer prophesies what will hap-

desarts." But as a shrewd critic observer, when the Japanese have received their deserts the Bussions may be-iu the soup.

A Chefoo despatch of the 19th May says that the order forbidding the Russian warships to leave the harbour of Port Arthur will end with the arrival of Admiral Sitrydloff. As Admiral Skrydioff has gone to Vladivostock, the war. ships may have to wait.

The British Foreign Office List gives a dos. cription of a new flag which has been selected by the British authorities to distinguish H.B.M.' Consulates. The now flag is an Union Jack with a Tudor Crown on a white circular shield

in the centre. The Tudor Crown is of the same shape 64 that on the present postage stamps.

Me. Uchida, Japanese Representative în Pe.. king, is again reported to have addressed the Chiness Government, urging the great advis. ability of avoiding everything calenlated to sag- rest that China is about to throw in her lot with Japan, in defiance of hor neut. rality: China's enomies are eagerly seeking some pretext to create such an impression.

A Vancouvor telegram says there is scarcity of Chinese in the British Columbia labour market. Owing to the head tax of $500, none ara coming into the country, and many Chinese

TELEGRAMS.

REUTER'S SERVICE.

THE WAR.--BRITISH PROTEST AGAINST STRAY MINES,

LONDON, 24th May.

The increasing evidence that the Russians are deliberately strowing the high seas with mines is stoking strong protests from the British Press.

JAPAN PURCHASING STEAMERS.

LONDON, 24th May. The Daily Telegraph states that Japanese agents have just purchased several steamers in Antwerp of 2,000 sud 3,000 tour.

THE TSAR.

LONDON, 24th May.

The Tsar has returned to S. Petersburg.

POLITICAL FLOT IN TURKEY.

LONDON, 24th May, Kemal Pacho, ena-in-law and aile de camp of the Sultan, was arrested on the let instaat, together with other high officials, on account of the discovery of a secret correspondence with Princess Khadidje, daughter of the ex-Sultan Murad.

UNREST AT MACÃO.

WAR NOTES.

A MINE AT LARGE.

The following tolegram was received by the Commodoro from the British Consul at Chefoo:

Chefoo, 25th May. Master of ship Fawan reports that on the 26th May at 430 p.m., iu Lat, 38,35N., Lon. 11.168., he passed a largo painted boy with a broad white band, and a red flag. What appeared to be a mine was attached, floating near it.

HABBIN,

Yesterday we gave, from the Paris Maḥn, an account of the state of Harbin, Russia's new base in Manchuria. This is what the London Daily Chronicle's correspondent has to say about the same place on the 2nd April :--

The thaw bas come. For this marshy town, without pavements, without sewers, without anything which is necessary to the health of cities, thaw is the signut for frightful chuos. As the soil is freson, the snow cafuot penstrato the surface, and is transformed into a sort of fetid slime, which right in the middle of the town becomes a pestilential liquid, producing cholora and typhoid. The streets become

MAY. Medicines will bo dispensed at all times fall. And bere we think the writer in the employ of Messra. Melehers & Co.. the wharf labourers bare gone into the Canadian North, / kong yesterday by the rumour of possible troubleday the caban is punished. There is so much

as ureel.

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Times of India strikes the right note. says-what must be obvious on a little reflection that, whatever the issue of the present war, whether Japan wins or loses, the result will be a coalition, open or veiled, between the two great Asiatic nations of the Far East. Japan victorious will naturally take the lead in China, and for her own sake she will encourage an armed China in the way of a fresh Russian ad- vance. If Japaa, on the other hand, were beaten, Manchuria would become a mere appanage of Russia, and China, in constant dread of a Russian hords pouring through An assistant will be on duty at all times to the Great Wall ou Peking, would still

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HONGKONG, 27TH MAY, 1904

more be thrown in the arms of Japan

desperate but unbroken in spirit. In either event, therefore, we must look for closer union between China and Japan.

That union will be defensive and not offen-

The Tartar General Teong Chi, says a Northern paper, recently informed his Govern- ment that there were about 4,000 or 5,000 Russian troops stationed outside and inside of Moukden, and that more were expected to arrive from different places. Further, as the Japanese

conflict there, this turning the place into a battlefield, and disturbing the Spirits of the

west territories, the large number of new settlers enabling them to secure high wages. Thecannersare finding great difficulty in obtain ing Chiness to perform the customary work during

the approaching salmon season.

"A" booby trap of a most dangerous character was let down on a British reconnoitring party at the Karela Pass, Tibet. It was constructed on most ingenious principles. It was concealed

kis horses can no longer perform their duties. And people who have business to transnet in another part of the town or beyond are compel- led to remain at home for several days. If the sun shines this filth may be suck.d up and caused to evaporate a httle, but if it rains oue cannot say where the misery of the besieged, for it is a veritable mud siego, will end. Hor- bin, which has boon visited by oholera during

odious collections of filth, in which carriugas enter up to the middle of the whoals. Anyone is fortunate who has been able to charter a cub | auð drag along at a golden price in this com- mon sewer. But cabby kas struck work, or, what amounts to the same thing, has raised his charge to a ridionlons Aguro, asking six or Considerable sonsation was caused in Hong-eaven shillings for less than a mile. The next

occurring in Macau between the Portuguose black pasto and fetid liquid in the streets that Government and the Chinese Government on account of the former refusing to extradite the ex-Namhoi Magistrate Poi, who fled to Macao when he was recalled from his post by the Canton Viceroy to give an account of his stewardship, When his extradition was requested, the Maeno unthorities took the necessary steps for his arrest' and he was afterwards put upon his trial there. Bat the Viceroy, it is alleged, was not satisfied

mar, will this year perhaps be the victim of ordinary way, and sent a demand for the sam. mary extradition of the Magistrate, bucking plague. In front of the houses the owners have

which pedestrians walk. Under these planks this up by despatching to Macanese waters four dug a sort of deep fosse, covered by planks, on small gunleats and two torpedo boats. For the past few days they have been lying off Burra stagnates pestilential sewage, which never ruus Forts. Only de Portuguese warship, the away. Imagine what this would mean with a gan-bont Din, is in the harbour; there is temperatare of 95 degrees Fahrenbelt Revo reported to be great activity in the forts. That let that torrential rains fall in July sad any serious development should occur is exceed-August, when the lower town is a putrid mareb, ingly unlikely. The Chinese watcraft are and the picture is complete. The wounded are mostly obsolete, while the Portagaese forts are very woll armed. The most disquieting news that was in circulation yesterday was that the Portuguese cruiser Adamaster, which left here for Shanghai on Tuesday, had been recalled.

and Russians would one day come into actual behind sangurs, and the party was not uwure of with having the extradition offooted in the the past two years and by typhus every sum-

Sacred Ancestors, measures should be taken in

time to effect the withdrawal of the Russiaus at an early date. In conclusion the Tartar General

asked for instructions as to what measures should be taken.

Notwithstanding the drain which the war

its existence till they heard a tremendous avalanche of rocks crashing down the hillside. Fortunately the temp discharged, not on the main body, but on six of the advanced scouts, who were extended twenty paces and able to take

cover.

Dr. Dyer, physician of the Lepore' Homs, New Orleans, believes that the problem of earing leprosy has been successfully solved, Tas doctor announces that during the past ten years he and his assistants succeeded in removing every trace of disease from twelve lepors, while every case in the Lopers' Home, except those in the last stagos, materially im- proved. Dr. Dyer, who in recognised as the greatest American specialist in leprosy, says that there are three million lepers in the world, or one to every 500 living persons. Before the recent Berlin conference on leprosy only a fow ctees of the disease had ever been cured, because it was not properly understood or treated. The treatment means perseverance for a year. Dr. Dyer is convinced that if the treatment is begun early enough and maintained long enough, the disease can be cured us easily as any other. In another decade it would be recognised as quite as enrable as typhoid or yellow fever.

HM.S. Babin is also at Macao. She is not coming down to coal at present, her supply having been taken up by the s.&. Heungshan yesterday.

A CANTON INCIDENT.

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being brought to Harbin, and it will be no advantage to them if they die bere of cholers. Enormous sams are being collected for wounded in Rassia, and some of this money might well be spent in sweeping, washing, and disinfecting

atbin. At present it is a wretched place of sojourn for the sick.

CORRESPONDENCE.

IN DEFENCE OF THE POLICE.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE "DAILY PRESS."

Hongkong, 26th May. SIR,Although not a member of the Hong- kong Police Force, or, for that matter, a Go- vernment servant at all, I feel very strongly upon the subject of recent slurs and trumped-up charges on our excellent local constabulary- Your waterfront contemporary camte with a most unjust aconsation recently. The article, headed "Brutal Policeman," censes Indian policemen and Chinese lakongs with ill-treating a British sailor.

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with Japan is causing the Russian Imperial finances, the Tear has determined to carry out his gigantic project of connecting the Baltic with the Black Sen. The rival syndicatos A. S. WATSON & CO.sive, but it will lead to the organisation of competing for the contract, one Russian and China as a military and naval Power. For the other American, have had their estimates carefully examined by the Ministry of the this, as Sir ROBERT HAEr showed recently, Interior, and the authorities are unanimiously she can raise the money without great in favour of giving the contract to the American difficulty.-Our-Bombay contemporary pro-syndicate, whose bid is $315,000,000, as against ceeds :-"We hear leas talk nowadays of $500,000,000 as bid by the Russian syndicate. The Bussian Government will make it an absolute "the partition of China'; ten years hence

condition that the war-ships can pass along ** it will be a forgotten phrasy, if we'read

the canal, and it must have a minimum depth "the situation aright. But we shall be

of thirty feet. hearing much of a still only half-recognised "aspect of the position. With China able The Shanghai Mercury of the 21st inst.

to protect herself, reuly to resist aggres -

writes:-The fact that the Supao prisouers "sion, and confident in her newly-gained day caused some amount of excitement amoug were to be brought up at the Mixed Court to- In the latest number which has reached us from Bombay of the Times of India there strength under the aegis of Japan, her

the antives usually assembled round the Court "intoraal development will proceed àpace, precincts, and quito a number lingered outside is a long and interesting editorial article entitled "The Real Yellow Peril." To-day "She will not only supply her own markets, to catch a glimpse of them as they left the being the fourth anniversary of the practical" but the phenomenal industry of her fingal Court shortly afternoon. The older prisoner, outbreak of what is commonly known as millions will enable her to claim and oh-Chang Ping-lung, exhibited a worn-out. appear. ance and maintained a stolid air throughout the the "Boxer Rebellion," the discussion of "tain a footing in the markets of the world. whole of the proceedings. Not so with the the Yellow Peril seems to be appropriate, "When that day arrives, there is a genuine younger one, for he seemed to take his position especially as the subject has been brought "danger that, in the words of the late Mr.in quite s different light, at times kuitting is up agait prominently by the Continental "CHARLES PEARSON, the expansion of eyebrows contemptuously as he looked round Press in Europe lately. The cries of the Englishmen and Russians and other liken the Court, and at others indulging in almost "nations will be arrested, and the character

ribald laughter. After the soutouze bad best period when the German Emperor's melo-

passed Chan Yang made a frantic effort to dramatic picture summed up what number- "of the peoples profoundly modified, as

address the Magistrate, and had to be forcibly less people really believed have been revived."they have to adapt themselves to a

taken by the polics to the outer door leading That Russian interest ultimately has much "stationary condition of society."

to the courtyard, where both were put in a to do with the inspiration of these "very significant possibility lies, we believe, carriage and driven away under a strong police eries must be recognised; but that they "the real and the only Yellow Peril." This escort. Since the trial the punishments then imposed upon the prisoners of three years and have an alarming effect outside Russia sums up the case, it seems to us, very just two years imprisonment respectively (and also cannot be denied. Partly the echo of ly. We have only one question to ask, and which were not concurred in by the Magistrate, thews in the Paris papers and in the German that is: Will this Yellow Feril, after all, who held that the offences warranted life sent be a Peril? In other words, will the ences) have been the subject of much corres Press may be due to direct Russian prompt ing, but we believe that there is also a arresting of the expansion of Englishmen, pondence between the Consular Body and tho genuine read of the Peril in quarters un. Russians, etc., be harmful, or will not the Tactai, and although the Chinose authorities almire o man who devoted the stress of is pointing it at the prisoner's head, fired, In. touched by Russian influence, moral or necessary consolidation rather be a bless. continued to demur at the sentences as being eñorgy to express one master attribute, though stead, however, of shooting, the man through prisoner, but that the prisoner assaulted the

In that

ing and lead to real progress as opposed to mere increase in bulk? We could not attempt to argue this question here. It is too rast, and perhaps its answer can only be furnished by Time. Fut it certainly merits consideration.

The German Mail of the 27th April was. delivered in London on the 25th inst.

The return of visitors to the City Hall Libra- ry and Museum last week showed 233 nou-

Chinese and 78 Chinese to the former, 114 non Chinese and 1,689 Chinese institution.

to tho latter

pecuniary. Even in English papers we can find traces of the panic, and in some British Colonial organa there are more than mere traces. It was not unnatural that the Boxer rising should cause serious reflection on the possibility of China's millions realising the force of numbers, and not merely claim. ing their owe, partly torn from them by Western aggression, but proceeding to retaliate by expansion at the cost of the West. And undoubtedly Sir ROBERT HART, when he wrote under the influence of the famous siege of the Legations at Peking, produced a notable effect upon European minds. Bere was a man who above all foreigners of any time was acquainted with incitout which may be said to have commenced the Chinese by practical experience; and if the Boxer rebellion. Today is also the on- he foresaw "twenty millions or more of niversary-the 63rd of the ransoming of Boxers armed, drilled, disciplined, and Canton for six million dollars. animated by patriotic-if mistaken-

One fatal Chinese plague case was reported motives," about to make residence in China yesterday, the body being found on the fore- impossible for foreigners, to take back from shore at Shaukiwan Two more of the foreigners everything foreigners had taken previously reported cases have from China, to pay off old grudges with discovered to be imported, one from Canton interest, and to "carry the Chinese flag and also to be able to state that the suspected Euro- and the other from Skeklung. We are glad

hinese arms into many a place that even pean case the other day was not plague.!

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It is four years ago today since tho "Boxers " burat a railway station on the Lu-Hao line, the

now been

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too lorient, they agreed yesterday to submit to the decision given at the close of the trial rather than an unconditional release and banishment.

Writing on the late Samuel Smiles (whose death we announced in our telegraphic columns last month) the Saturday Review says:-Samuel Emiles, vigorous to the last, died on Monday at the age of 91. His green old age was the his sermon on the quality first made his name a symptom of the energy which with the help of piece of common property. Sales and Self-help is still as inevitable an association as Tobias and his dog, though perhaps half the people acquainted with the conjunction have the most shadowy notion of either. The popularity of the work, which had its origin in a lecture to young men, is as ustonishing to this generation a The Proverbial Philosophy was to the last or

A Hongkong gentleman who has just returned from a visit to the Fatahan Railway tells of a enrious incident he witnessed on one of the old "Star" Ferry launches that carry passengers from the Hongkong steamers to the railway station on the opposite side of the river. On the way back from the station to the city there was a party of soms eight or nine railway guards, who, as anyone who has seen them will admit, look more like brigands thungnardians of the peace and the rolling-stock, dressed in their quaintly-coloured uniforms, armed massive ohl American rifles and revolvers, and their with

waist-balts stuck full of cartridges. These guards had in their charge three prisoners, heavily ironed. rently they were pirates or criminals of some such sort being taken to Canton to be lodged in gaol. On the journey down the river one of the prisonera, sising su opportunity of oscape during a moment of carelessness 'on the part of the escort, made a dash for the

Appa-

criminal

Now, sir, why did not the spectator report the matter at the Police Station? Had he given evidenco against the "brute" he would have done far better than rush into print. Ha would, at all events, have had the policemen punished. When aluses crop up and there is no means of stopping them oxoopt through the medium of tho Press, by all means nec it, but when a man-if "man" Is An ap- Lord Avebury's Pleasures of Life will be to the side of the boat with the evident intas.propriate term-coolly watches next. A distinguished Frenchman attributed tion of getting away or drowning himself assault_without reporting the matter he

should not,

hoaring. surely, receive the circulation of Sir John Lubbock to the by jumping dominant note in our national character; and it had almost accomplished his purpose, when one

Having made enquiries, in the interests of is undeniably true that in one form or another of the guards seized him and brought him back, justice. I learn that no complaint was taude by the English people have a devotion to diluted On the landing-stage being reached the lender

defendant when before the Magistrate. He ethics. The ethics of Samuel Smiles were of the escort got hold of this prisoner by the being ordered to pay 50 cents compensation was, moreover, convicted, and fined $12, besides diluted with well-chosen incident, and in days yneus, and after dragging him backwards and for damaging e policeman's wiform. So the of much hand-to-mouth biography one must forwards several times drow his revolver and, facts of the case, it is to be concluded,

over

the bulwarks.

Be

are that the policemen did not ill-treat the

it may have been neither the highest nor the the skull the guard's aim was wide of the mark, constable. I thoroughly agree with "Banyan" anost intellectually expressed.

MR. JOHN ROBERTS IN HONGKONG.

The bullet missed the prisoner and struck one :

of the other guards on the upper part of the From the wound blood poured copiously down his fingers, but the injured soldier appear-

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On Wednesday afternoon and night Mr. John Roberts took on our local export, Mr.ed to treat the injury with little serioumors, for E. H. Hinds, at two games of 1000 up ut

instead of binding it up he began to ga Eilenberg billiards and two sets of three games each at ...... Moret pyramids.

By kind permission of Lt-Col. Iremongor and officers, the Band of the 93rd Burma Infantry will play the following programme of masio at the King Edward Hotel, during dinner to night (weather permitting) :— March.. Idyll..... Selection Song Be ection Waltz Cake Walk...Jolly Negroes"

"God Save the King."

"The Uhlan's Ca}}" "Hiawatha" ...Kitty Grey

"The light of Ages" "Reminiscences of Wales

MENU.

Hors d'Envres Acebovy on Tensi

HOUF

Turtle.

FISH

Doiled Fish Shrimp Sanes.

ENTRERE.

Monchton

round about among the bystanders exhibiting

when he said, in your last issue, that "it is not a pleasant spectacle to see a white mati haled along the street by, say, an Indian and a the length of making a fool of himself in public Chinese lukong. Bat if on European goes to

by getting intoxicated and making an exhibition. of himself little can be said against the methods

In the afternoon billiards Mr. his hurt. Meanwhile the leader of the guard the police employ in dealing with him.”

Bevan Roberts essayed to give (50 points in 1,000, Godfrey but found Mr. Hinds in excellent form, so that,

·Berger though he made ono break of 128. ho only Berger reached 505 when Mr. Hinds ran out with an

atton Chop Cutlet Chicken Patties

Fato-de-Foie Gras en Aspic.

JOINTS. Rouat Sirloin of Beef Roast Capon

Cold Ham.

CURRY Shrimps.

BALAD

A la Germaine, VEGETABLES.

Chipped Potatoes Stewed Bootroots. SWEETS.

Boiled Potatoes Green Peas

Plum Pudding

Coffee Ice Cream

Ahmond Macaroon Finger Cako.

unfinished 40 odd.. After dinner Mr. Roberts only conceded 500 in 1,000 and, playing a much stronger game, beut his opponent by 130. The ex-champion's best breaks were 227 and 180. At pyramids honours wore easy, eneli winning three gamies; Mr. Roberts concoded the local player t balls each time.

HONGKONG QUARANTINED

BY SIAM.

We have received from the Colonial Secretery's Office a copy of the following tologram from the British Consulat Bangkok to the Colonial Secretary, Hongkong, dated 25th May:

"Kophon quarantine on arrivals from Houg- kong and Swatow. Modical inspection imposed on arrivals from other China ports."

appeared to have been satisfied that at least some. body's blood had been shed, and he gave orders for the march to be resumed In the direction of

the prison.

NAVAL NOTES.

U.S.E. "CALLAO."

The Callao, Lioat. Miller, arrived from Samsuî yesterday.

In conclusion I might once more remark that

it is the duty of citizens observing police abuses

to report them at the station so that the culprits may be punished.—Yours, etc.,

ENGLISHMAN.

TRADE WITH AUSTRALIA,

Mr. Frederic Joues, Queensland Govern- ment Commissionor of Trade, accompanied by FLAT-BOTTOMED GUNBOATE, The British Admiralty is sail to be making Mr. F. D. Barretto, Vico-Consul for Mexico, arrangements for the construction of a number paid an oficial call on His Excellency the of Bat-bottomed gunboats, for service on the Hon. F. H. May at Government House pastar. Chinese rivers. This step, it may be believed, day morning. Mr. Jones is visiting the is to be taken as a consequence of representa Orient ports for the purpose of developing tious which have been made to the Foreign business relations with Queensland, and expresses Office by Sir Ernest Batow, the British himself well stifled with futuro possibilities. Minister in Peking, who insists that, especially of trade with Hongkong. The products in at this time, when commerce is so much which Queensland excels are frozen ment and disturbed by the war between Russia and Japan, buiter, flour, canned meats, condensed milk, British intorests in Chins requira much greater cheese, jums, fodder and forage, coal, leather,

boots, and tallow.-Contributed. protection than is furnished at present. ·

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