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Empire as it existed under the great CHARLES France was no mors than a province, s dependent on Aachen as ever was Gaul on the CASARS.
Another great influence that has conjoined in bringing France and England gloser to-
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, JUNE 14TH, 1904.
At the Yokohama regatta, Yokoama aos in the interport fours and single sculls.
A Camera Club is being formed in Hong- kong, Mr. H. W. Morrill being Hon. Speretary.
The Oriented and Chino-Japanese library of the late Prof. Schlegel, of Loiden, has been it com-
A. S. WATSON & CO., gether in thess Inter times is undoubtedly dispored of at auction in that city
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their modern relations with Rome as repre- sented by the Papal Power, and here a little incident, of itself of no great importance, either in its religious or political aspect, came to occupy a position altogether out of proportion with its real weight. The Pre- sident had intended to have visitol the Pope as head of the Catholic Church, still the Established Church of France, The BUSINESS of the HONGKONG as well as that most beloved and respected by the vast majority of the French nation. Pits X., hanpored by the traditions DISPENSARY is now boing CARRIED ON of bis immediate predecessors, did not see
his way to receiving the visit reason was in no respect religions, we are not debarred from alluding to it; the ostensible cause was that the King of Italy having entered on the former dominions of the Papay, a visitor of the King could not as such bo received by the Pope. Pope Prva X. bas carned the respect of ali Europe withis and without the Church, and the The HOURS of BUSINESS of, the incident has heen locked upon by all with regret, and has done much to foster the HONGKONG DISPENSARY in its now grewing fealing of alienation in France.
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At all times there has existed a feeling of dissatisfaction with ultramontanism in Francc, second only to that which at all periods prevailed in Eugland, and which far more than any doctrinal difference brought about the separation of the two Churches. Of late it has been felt that the influence of the Church in France has been diet sted more in the interests of Roman politics ths was quite consistent with the interests of the Sinte: it was eminently a case where. in the two were solely concerned, and had the affair been taken up in a wider spirit than has actually been the case, history would have had little to relate of it. Ut- fortunately it has divided France into two camps, and this seems to have been the only shade which has intervened in an otherwise unclouded sky, Fortunately
prised over 1.100 lots.
The French Colonial Congress has adopted M. Delonde's metion in favour of an interaa tional agreement for the establishment of a monetary system in China.
The return of visitors to the City Hall Library and Museum for the week endling the 12th June, 1904. is as follows-Library, 215 mm- Chinese, 97 Chinese; Museum, 127 uon-Chinese, 1,801 Chinese,
The French trade journals publish a letter from the Indo-China Committee of Commerce and Industry calling for tenders from Franch manufacturers for the construction of a floating dock at Saigon,
"Excopt in shipping and banking, commerce, with a big. C., Juas passed out of the British merchant's hands," says the Acting Consal at. Hankow, and nothing seems left to him bai trade, with a small · t.***
A London paper received by yesterday's mail mentions that Hongkong and Shanghai Bank shares have been some what in demand, and rose on the anticipatel kuccess of the Japanese Loso.
Rear Admiral Fanque'de Jonquiores, of the French flagship Chatean Renau't, paid an official visit to H. B. the Officer Administering the Government yesterday morning. He was received by a guard-of-honour from the Hour Mahratta Light Infantry, an
A telegram from Seoul to the Japarus papers states that the Americans are paying a good dnal of attention to Manchuria. Spending much money, they use the Chise to propuro for the importation of machinery and for securing mining privileges.
A marriage has been arranged between Robert A. Currie, LM. Customs, China, oklest
se of the late Robert Currie, 1.C.S., and Eleanor Mary, third daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. W. Richardson, 27, Roland-gardens, and Swatow. China.
The following telegram was received in London last month from one of the prospec. tora in the British North Borneo Company's
A. S. WATSON & CO. neither in Italy or England has the little territory-Rich deposit of iron ore has been
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autoward event in the slightest degree marted the pleasure afforded by the visit. In France momentarily it is otherwise, and the different ways in which the two parties in France look upon the event is curious as showing how blurred are the current ideas. in France itself regarding the foundation of the French nation.
We have already alluded to the persis- tenice with which the French cling to the idea, long exploded elsewhere, that KARL
TELEGRAMS,
[REUTERS SERVICE.]
THE TIBET EXPEDITION.
LONDON, 11th June, The Tibetans hayo made night attacks on the Sikh and Goorka outposts at. Gynutse and were repulsed. Nearly all the reinforcements have roacked Chambi,
FROM THE "STRAITS TIMER."} MORE QUEUES SACRIFICED.
KUALA LUMPUR, 4th June.
THE WAR
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT]
REPORTED NAVAL BATTLE.
made their appsarines and sucks their prosinca felt in the place. The lower class of the natives joined them in large numbers to plunder and pilfer. It was two days after the arrival of the Japanese before the place assumed order again.
[FROM JAPANESE, PAPERS.]
DEFENCES OF LIAOYANG.
KINCHOW, 30th May. There are nimteen batteries outside Liaoyang fort, Of these, two on the cast, ou ou the north-east, four on the west, two on the north-
aro laid around the batteries about five flomsand
fest from them.
THE RUSSIAN VLADIVOSTOCK SQUADRON DAMAGED,
LONDON, 13th June, 10.35 a.m. It is reported that Admiral Skryd-wost and two on the south are completed. Wines, loff, has engaged the Japanese fleet thirty miles from Port Arthur Lut has returned with his squadron damaged to Vladivostock, having failed Cheah Boon Teat, a well-known and respected to effect a junction with the Russian mine owner, who Ind eloquently and strongly fleet at Port Arthur. opposed quoue-cutting, has now joined the ranks of his queueless follows.
The result of the Solangor Literary Society's debate on the towchany question is expected to bo far-reaching
The subject is a burning one, fraught with interest to the Chinese community here.
Otlier Chiness equally prominent are expected to follow the example thus set.
CHESS.
The complete list of drawings for the Cham. pionship of the Colony is :-
Pollock o. Newborn. Falloon v. Swaby, Danenberg v. Dastur, Kemp v. Moses.
Hest two out of three games.
FANNY STANLEY OPERA AND
DRAMATIC COMPANY.
Before a fair house Audran's comic opera La Meccotte was given last night by the Tanny Stanley Company. La Maxcotte is a piece fall of tuneful solos and duots, the principal baing the Glou-Glow duet between Fipps and Bettina and the solo" Lore is blind." These were satisfactorily rendered and wemed to please the undionçe. On the whole the Cora. any acquitted themselves very wolf throughout. Miss Flo Nightingale as Bettina and Mr. Frank Peachor as Pippo were bath very suc cesful in singing and acting. grand Amazon March was introducel in the third
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not under the direction of Miss Fanny Laniey Tonight the Mikado will be given in its entiraty, and as the play has not been performed here for some time, there ought to be a good house. The Nautch Girl, an entirely new play for Hongkong, will ho staged to-morrow sight.
CANTON NOTES.
FROM THE "CHUNG NGOI SAN PO.")
dylandet med bath ghing of
THE VICEROY DESIRES TO RESIGN, Viceroy Sham wit some days ago a memorial discovered near the Lank River; assay hos been made from two points 1,000 yards apart; to the Throne asking to be allowed to resign his post on account of illness and inability to govoru average 4 per cent., 1,500,000 tona su sight.
the two provinces as well as he desired. He said Major Sir Mathew Nathan, KC.M.G., thefte felt quite ashamed that, though he had exerted Goreruor-designate of Hongkong, booked Els himself to his utmost ability, the insurgents passage by the P. & O. steamer Moldaviv, which and robbers in Kwangsi liave not been entirely leaves London on the 4th inst, and connects suppressed, though, generally speaking, order with the steuner Simla at Colombo Lay has been restored, in the province. His Ex- Nathan is accompanying His Excelloney. As collency asked the Board concerned to mete we have already announced, they are joining the out what punishment he was deemed to deserve, ship at Marseilles on the let prox.
In response to his memorial an Imperial edict has been issued refusing his request and encouraging him to do his best to govern the affairs of the two provinces.
During last week 46 cason of plague were
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CONTRABAND OF WAR.
LONDON, 11th June. Great Britain has protested against the Russinn declaration that rice and foodstuffs are contraband of war,
[FROM CHINESE PAPERS
TRANSLATED BY
"THE SHANGHAI MERCURY").
MOUNTED BANDITS.
CHINCHOU, 5th June.
A body of mounted bandits, armed with modern rifles and styling themselves the East Asiatic Volunteer Cavalry Company, ure in the district of Heinnientu, ostensibly to annoy tho Russians.
RUSSIAN CRUELTY TO THE CHINESE.
As
CHEFOO, 6th June. A native who managed to escape to thie Port from Port Arthur by way of Chinniwa (Dalny) states that the Russians are anxious to prevent held from gaining a knowledge of the condition of the harbour at Fort Arthur, therefore they are using every effort in for. bidding the Chinese to leave the place. many as sixty natives have been killed by the Russians for attempting to escapo. informant was one of a party of four that left Port Arthur togsthor, but three were captured and probably put to death by the Russians while he is the only one that managed to arrive al Chefoo.
RUSSIAN SOLDIERS DIS- CONTENTEL.
Our
CHEFOO, 6th June. The Russian soldiers of the Port Arthur garrison do not receive any pay and a reduction in their daily rations has also been made lately. Even the officers are not supplied with satisfactory food. The men are consequently very discontented and indignant with their Government. The desire ajoong them to kill their officers and surronder themselves to the Japanese is getting stronger daily.
Nambers of mounted bandits haro been sọIN south of Tilin. They made a sortie against the Chinese soldiers who were sent to attack tham the 26th instauf and killed an offerr aud
ifton men.
THE TSAR'S ORDERS.
LONDON, June Ixi. It is announced in St. Petersburg that the Tsar has ordered General Stoessel that in the event of the capture of Port Arthur he must destroy all the fort, and buildings as well as the warships and runel endeavour to reach Vladivo stock. Failing to escape General Stoessel is directed to destroy everything.
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Mon, 1st June. The Boating of the Varyng will take a inek longer time than was expected, as the work can le carried on caly when the tide is low.
OPINIONS ON THE WAR.
The Italian Minister for War has received a | roport from Colonel Caviglia, ono of tho Italisa Military Attachés sent to the Far East to observe the war from the Japanese side. Ha states that the military preparations of Japan are so perfect that her ultimate success i
assured.
The St. Petersburg Correspondent of the Cologne Gazette says a cupressed feeling prevails, and the papers express regret at what they call an undoubted fact-that the Japanese know Russia far better than the Russiaus Japan. They also concede Japan's suporiority in the matter of technical knowledge, which, thy say, is at the bottom of the reverzus
Bir Gorga 3. Clarke, speaking at the an ma suffered by the Fleet. dinner of the British Navy League, said that
there were no braver soldiers in I sailors than
the Russians, yot Russia had begun with disau- for, and her strategic position was already gravely compromised. The Japanesa bad seized the initiative and maintained it. Why ? It was due to braics-brains which had drawn up a brilliant plan of campaign in which no detail was overlooked, [and brains in the bluojackol and tlio private enabling thom to respond to the great calls made on them,
*WHEN MANCHURIA HAS BEEN HANDED BACK,"
A Peking dispatch, the M-C. Dedy Nowa reports, statos that the Empress. Dowager has given her assent to a proposal presented by H.E. Viceroy Chang Chikining to the effect that, when Manchuria has been handel bäck ta China by Japan, the whole of the three provinces comprising Manchuria shall be thrown opon to the commerce of the world, RUSSIAN OUTRAGES.
without let or hindrance. Further, that instead TOKYO, 7th June. Reliable news has been received here that the of being governed as buretofore by Tartar Russian troops, after having been repulsed by Generals and Deputy Military Governors, the Corean troops at Yuansan (Corea), destroyed by thres provinces of Fonction, Kirio, and fire fifty native houses on the highlands and Houungeliang shall havs rack à Governor, outraged the community in other ways. The similar to the eighteen provinces of China natives rose in a body and killed the interpreter Proper, with a Viceroy over the thres, like the proceeded towards Pingando.
her the apply is limited. Only supplied for Cash the Great was the founder of the Fresen reported in the Colony, and there worg Telegraphic Address: Press Codes: A.B.C.5th Mikingdom; equally unfounded is the idea deaths, all Chinese. Two of the cases were
¡Lieber's
that France in the time of CHARLEMAGNE imported from Canton, Fifteen more cases P.O. Box, 33, Telephone. No, 12
became the Head of the Catholic Church.wers reported in the 48 hours endel at noon On the 10th June, at No. 4. Woosung Road. The connection of France with the Roman yesterday. Eight Chinose cases of cholera wors Shanghai, ALICE, eldest daughter of Jocs and Church is, as a watter of history, nearly reported during the week, six fatal. JOHANNA EITIEx, aged 21 years.".
flarve centuries older. It was in fact at the Japanese and two Chinose), two cases being were fire cases of enteric fever, (ono Indian, two sery beginning of the sixth century that the fatal; and four cases of smallpox figure in the Nowadays dragon-boats, which are generally in Russiar service, then the Russian troops Iiaug-Kiang, or Shen-Kan (the last named
list (ono imported from Saigon).
The Daily Press.
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де The sentence was interpreted to the prisoner. who received it with solid composure,
The ith day of the 5th moon, ie, the 18th instant, is the dragon-boat festival. The people in the different villages are now busily engaged repairing the dragon-boats, which, as a rule, are buried in the rice fields after the fete, rogirded as sacrest boats, are highly prized by the people, for they believe that the sacred boats are able to drive away, the plague-devits, as plague generally decreases after the appear- anes of the dragon-boats on the 5th day of
the 5th moon.
the
THE PAK-LOP LOTTERY.
THE OPIUM TAX.
consisting of Shênei, Kang, and Chiusu Turkestan) Viceroyalties. In view of this it has beck recommended by the Waiwupu that some high official possessing the required ruak, und above all having plouts of luck, with sowo knowledge of international amenities, should ha selected beforehand and be ready to take over the task of reorganising Ute Manchurian provinces the moment they are handed back to
THE MURDER OF A WAR CORRESPONDENT.
A local rative paper, the N.-C. Daily New says, publishes the following telegram from Tiontsin concerning the death of the late Mr. Etzel-Mr. Brindle (Daily Mail) and the late Mr. Eizel (Daily Telegraph) jointly hired a
first approaches towards Rome were made
LATEST FROM DALNY.
CHEFоO, 8th June. by the great Frankish king Hopwie, or ne his name
is usually modernised, CLOVIS, A Chiraman, namel Pong Lan, was indicted
A reliable report dated tho Pad has been at the Liverpool Assizes, last month, ou a Goths, Visigoths, and Alamanni had over-
received here from Dalay stating that the HONGKONG, 14 Juse, 1904.
charge of murdering another Chinsman, Ge run Gaal, and Clovis had appeared, with tiny-The prosecution alleged that the inen
important bridges on the railway line between Chiniwa and Kinchow have all be destroyed THAT the English Press should take a his Frankish Larbarians, to claim the heri- quarrelled during a game of dominoes at s
The Pak-lop lottery gumbling has been or damaged. To restore them to their normal great amount of interest in the recent visit tage. The Gothic tribes for the most part lodging-house frequented by Chinamon, and of President" Louner to Rome is not only were attached to the so-called "heresy of that the prisoner, producing a revolver, shot strictly prohibited throughout the whole pro- condition will require much time and expendi China. We now learn that the progressive As soon as the Japanese entored buo Erb-sen, the retiring Governor of Hunan natural but, in the face of the present rola-the Arinis, and Clovis had been revertly his companion twice in the stomach, death vines of Kwangtung since the 15th ultimo tare.
occurring a few days later. The jury, without under heavy penalty. A few days ago a nurabor i Chinniwa, they immediately devoted their efforts is to be the new Viceroy, sud he is being called tions of France and England, especially converted to Catholicisin. well time. It has been the fashion to speak strong Catholic party amongst the Gauls, leaving the box, found him guilty of murder, of gamen runners made a raid on a house in the to putting ont the fire then raging in the place up is Peking to arrange the neessury ma of the recent rapprochement between France and Clovis having taken up the side of and Mr. Justice Buckhill sentenced him te llage of Shok-Hun, in Namlei district, where and consequently only the Municipal buildings, chinery of Government, so as to be ready to and Engand as the mere fleeting fashion orthodoxy was.uble, with the cloquent and death, saying that his crime was a very cruel Pak-lop lottery gambling was still going school and Customs House near the Railway start the new order of things when the time
WETH arrested and Station were destroyed, the residential parts arrives. secretly. Five persons
At present they are locked being all intact. Most of the locomotives and of the hour; as a fact it has been long in forcible assista age of GREGORY of Tours,
brought to Canton,
goods trains in the railway station yard are still up in the military court awaiting trial. the growth, and has been brought about by to restore France to the Roman See. The
smouldering, but there are still inore than a series of events long in gestation. It may connection of CanLes with the Papacy was A Changsha (rapital of Hunan province)
The prepared opium trade is entirely under seventy locomotives and ears in good condition. seem a paradox to ascribe its foundations to of a very different nature, but could never dispatch states that H.E. Chno Erb-sen, the
ccntrol and direction of the officials. The other buildings that have not been retiring Governor of that province.bus purchased
required damaged by fire are the Telegraph Offee, Post the conquests of NAPOLEON 1., but there is have taken place had not the other pre-
Looking back through a foreign firm in Shanghai a plant for The prepared opium shops are
the buildings no doubt that those conquests so materiallypared the way for him.
a large mint said to be capable of striking two to pay a tax of six candareens for every Office, Electric Light stations (2), the Harbour altered the relations of France with Con- over the long vista of years it is 18ore than
million copper ten-cash pieces every twenty-foot of opium sold, and 18 candureens tuel for Master's Department and tinental Europe that for the fature the doubtful if France ever got adequats retura
Leurs; the price of the machinery, etc., being the spiam made from opium dross, Certificatos connected with the Municipal Department junk, hitherto engaged in the bean-carrying teudeney was to assigilate with her great for the undoubted assistance that she something like 4000). In connection with are given to the purchasers. Opium livans Tho principal building of this Departuren traŝo, on Sunday, the 5th inst., and had started where no opium is sold are divided into has however been entirely destroyed, leaving down the Shuangt'aitse river bound for a few iron posts. The Dalny Hotel, the Kaichou. At 8 o'clock on the afternoon of the enemy, rather than with the rest of Europe. rendered from time to time to the See of the mint the weirian, or official representing three classes, paying respectively a tax of six
Public Garden, the, Club and the now rail. dollars, four dollars, and two dollars per mensom,
6th inst. (Monday) the junk was sailing some England had alone, perhaps, no wrongs to
Rome; and this fact has undoubtedly at all the Governor of Ifuan, who has been conduci-
ten miles ent on the open sea when it met four revenge; and there was after all more com. times raukled in souse of the best spirits of ing the above negotiations, is said to have pur. The quantity of opium stored in the differeul way offices are all intact. The object of the chased in Shanghai a large quantity of copper munity of race and interests between the the day. The feeling, though it never rose sufficient to last the mint one your, while working shops has to be reported to the head office daily. Iussians in setting fire to the place when they other junks haring on bird some thirty were about to leave it was to demolish all the Chinese soldiers, The four junks at once two than between France and the rest of the to numerical importance, has at all times in the ordinary way. The mint is expected to People who bring opium to Canton from the
neighboring villages are required to report to Government offices, but they waungad to destroy, started to surround the bsan junk, and although the Chinese crew on board called out with might Contineat. Very much the same may be existed, and without a knowledge of this be in werking order by next October.
the effien and pay the tax. Excise officers are only a small portion of them.
Previous to the departure of the Russians; and maiu that their junk was a peaceablo.one said of the relations between France and fact it is not easy to understand the motives
employed to discover illicit opium.
they placed one explosive magazine in the their cries wore naheeded and soon a fusillado Italy. Howover much Gaul or Goth may of the actors in the present political aspect.
Central Electric Light station and several began from the rides of the ecldiers. At that The Pope Pius X, hardly himself seems to have fought in times gone by, there never
about the wharves, but those bave all buon since moment Mr. Brindle was inside the cabin of The Hongkong Observatory yesterday issued discovered and remored by the Japanese engi- the junk, and so escaped being shot it, bụi seems to have been a social hatred, and the comprehend the extreme antiquity as well as
the following report :----
The Japanese squadron will Mr. Etzel happened at the time to be standing two races more often and longer worked the respectability of the present anti-Papal
On the 13th at 11.30a.m. The barometer bas nearing corps.
soon clear the adjacent waters of submarine right in view of the other junks, and so go together than fought. It has been otherwise movement in France, and would attribute
that firm at Kobe when the port was opened sriven slightly on the Coast of China and over the with the relations between France and the it to a general hostility towards religion. Now Year's Day, 1888, and was appointed Eastern Sea, and fallen in the North of Japan. torpedows placed there by the Russians. The killed by a rifle ball, as also was a native bet Germanic Powers, though very curiously no! This, although amongst some of the most
German Consul at Kobe and Osaka. Some In S. China and the Philippines it is stationary piers and wharves of Chinaawa have been longing to the crow.
Gradients are moderate on the Cline Coast loud-mouthed supporters of President three years afterwards he and his friend Mr. Frenchman has ever quite been able to realise
end moderate E. to SE. winds will prevail in the destroyed. There is a scarcity of drinking fired iu all about one hundred shots, mistaking water in the place. The most valuable booty the bean junk for a piratical craft. But when what was the true connection between the two. LoUBEr's policy, undoubtedly the truth, by Julius Simon started at Yokohama the firm of Formosa Chanzel.
A well worked depression exists in the China captured by the Japanese are the brick yard Mr. Brindle brought out his passport and waved He belonged as much to
Sea, Southward of Hongkong, and strong E. and the ironworks with all their contents, which it towards the oths, firing at once ceased Even to the present day the Emperor Kant no means represents the general feeling of Simon, Evare & Co.
are innumerable. On the night of the 26th and the four junks sailed off immediately. is looked upon in France as a great French- the people, and it will be a fortunate thing the British as to the German community winds will be szperienced in the North part and Kobe, and is deeply and universally lamented--moderate SW. winds in the South part of that
ultimo thirteen hundred Russian soldiers fled The corpse of Mr. Etzel was taken to Now- mnu, and the founder of modern France, for France should the little misunderstand-
Mr. John W. Hall, the well-known Yokohama Bes.
Forecast:-Fresh E. winds, fair at first but from Chinniwa to Port Arthur either by train chwang, where Mr. Miller, the U.S. Consul What KARL really did do was for a time to ing in Rome lead to a better comprehension auctioneer, died at that port on the 3rd, aged
squally later.
or native boats. The next morning the brigands there, held an inquest, re-establish the Roman Empire, and in that of what is really at stake.
Mr. E. A. Evers, senior partner in the well known firm of Simon, Evers & Co., of Kobe and
Yokoluma; died at Kobe on the 2nd inst., aftor a comparatively short illness, aged 65. Mc. Evers came to Nagasaki in 1861 to the firm of C. Kuifler & Co., and founded the branch of
6. He came to Japan from London in 1872.
WEATHER REPORT.
Tho Chinese soldiers
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