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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, AUGUST 2nd, 1904.

The Portugues community at Macao ou Sunday observed the Carta Constitucional

at noon, and the Governor's palace and public. universary. A salute was fired from the fort buildings were illuminated at night. The Bund played in the Garden of San Francisco on the Praia Grande from 8.30 to 10.30 p.m., a largo number of people being present, including a con siderable sprinkling of Hongkong residuals.

THE

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RUMOUR BY DEDUCTION.

tity-and rude things have been said about| the anti-breakfast fuddists--there is good deal that is convincing in this present article's development of the Gladstonian practice of hyper-mastication. It is found in that practice that "after thorough masti

insalivated in swallowed by an involuntary 'impale, while all hard, stringy, indigestible

substances which would cause trouble if of the interests of the Hongkong and Shanghi | wires no news from Port Arthur, but. anys passed into the stomach, are, by the reflex Bank from Mr. Rickett in April last, loft per that the return of the Acet (British) is 1e muscles, returned to the mouth for further. Baiching for Hongkong on Friday morning.garded as an indication that it has fallen.

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The Lascar crew of the Raight Commander of all the community are with them both for a

was taken to Yokohama by the C.N.S. Teinen happy and prosperous marriage.

accessed here by Mr. J. McArthur, who arrived prisoners by the Russians. The Tainan's cap. na July 5th. The foreigners were retained as from Amoy by ss. Hatching with Mr. Wtain saw two Japanese sailing vessels sunk off Knight, who takes charge of the E. E. A. & C.Izu on the 24th alt. The P. & A. ebarterad Telegraph Co. and receives a very hearty German steamer Arubin, with 30,000 barrels of welcome us" old resident" in this part..

flour, is supposed to have been taken to Vladi. vostock.

chewing or actual rejection." This function is described by Dr. VAN SOMEREN as a **new reflex of deglutition." Defenders of APPOINT- the cat-heartily-and-fear-not method main. tain that the stomach requires a solid nucleus to work on; but according to the physiologists, a large proportion of the matter we ent cannot be assimilated, and has to be reduced by bacterial and putre- factive processes-n fact which must arcusé unhappy memories in the gourmand. "That Public attention has contred upon the marks. fell disease, which brought about sachmanship of the belligerent ships in the Far dramatically sudden arrest of our King's East, but the poor gunnery of our own mou coronation

of-war in those waters has escaped notics, preparations, appendicitis,

though it is a more important matter to us *would be a thing of the past (ruys Mr. Cook) Compared with last year's return the ships of "if everybody would only swallow food that the China Fleet are making very indifferent has been Fletcherised."" The last word practice in prize firing. Lust your the battle

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The special correspondent of the Daily Graphic in the course of a letter to his jourumi on the Yalu fight says →The policy of secrecy pursmed by the Japanese authorities does not permit of numbers being given to the world, The strength of divisions, brigades, battalions

appear to be inaccessible. Those mon are fol lowed by others who scramble down the moun- tuin side and appear where they are least pected. No stage of the fight is missed by them, for their batteries are connected by tele- phone and wireless telography."

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Physical Training for Children, by Japiates Methods. By H. IRVING HANCOCK. New York and London; G. P. Putnam's Sons. This book cannot faithfully be described as Sovoral French soldiers, survivors of the what it purports to be. If dancing cannot be Chiness expedition of 1856, are responsible for learned from written instructions, jiu-jilen in tie statement that Gen. Kuroki, the redoubtable even more impossible. But a careful examinu- Japanese Commander in Manchuria, is in tion of the exercises described herein discover reality half French. His name, they say, is the fact that there is a very Ritle jinjitan properly spelled Curique. According to the about them. The author has evidently seen

SPENCHES NY THE KAIYER AND THE KING.

story of those soldiers, a Franch officer, Capt. I something of that Japanese art, as wo gather Curique, while serving in China in 1856, on coming to Chapter VIII. and its successors.' married a Japanese girl. A son was born to Prior to then, we find simply a lot of variations of then, who was given the Japanese name Kuroki, kindergarten calisthenice, for which the author corresponding to the French Curique. This need not lase travelled so far as Japan. Fow son is Gen. Kuroki. Capt. Cnrique died last of the variations can be regarded in the light. year in France. Until the last, according to of improvements, and we do not think it Bibune, he corresponded with the sou, who has book used as "a Muasal in Schools and at the story, which is taken from the New York probable that the author will live to see this

sines become famous. [This is a typical dight Home." The introduction contains an attempt of American imagination. There is, of course, at clemer Indication of the prouunciation of no foundation for the charming little romance.] jiu-jitsu, which was quite a wasted effort. That spelling is quite as phonetic as the auther's KING EDWARD'S VISIT TO KIEL, “jew-jitss," for, as a matter of fact, the Jast. sound is more than a mare liss. The "m" is faintly breathed between the tip of the tongue At the brilliant banquot given in honour of and the top teeth, the vowel being shaped as in King Edward's risit to Kiel the Kaiser pro- the French word “phiste," Mr. Hancock states posed King Edward's health in the following that he has worked as a newspaper reporter in the States, and we wondered if he were as prolix, t

It is a great antisfaction to me to offer year and padded" so much, as this work shows he ship Ocean, although she had ouly been in never disclosed. The actual number of men Royal and Imperial Majesty a welcome, for the can be and do. The first chapter contant. board a German warship.much that could have been spared. To is commission a few weeks, did infinitely better under General Kuroki's command cannot, there. thua she has this year. Hor average for all fore, be obtained, and, on a wide front, under alt Choosing your way by the sea, your Majesty the author explains that the rate of physical FLETCHER has started a cruande with M. guns was higher, and it is the average of all i the conditions of modern warfare, it is impossible has come to Germau shores ne the ruler of a great exercise is that it causes deep breathing, Gladstone's quoted dictum as a motto. pieces rather than the excellence of an indivi. to estimate it. Therefore I can only indulge in Empire, onoom passing the world through the sea, and 50 purifies the blood, yet between This crusade was deemed of sufficient dual gun that would tell in action. While the generalities; but I should say that a moderate and mest kindly willing to take part in the almost every exercise the pupil is enjoined importance for treatment in the Luncel, ces did but indifferently, the battleship estimate of the fighting strength of this wonder. German yachting arrangements. Your Majesty to spend thirty secondsdoing breathing exercises has been granted by the thunder of the gans of With regard to the exercises themselves, we are where Dr. HARRY CAMPBELL, noting the

Centurion's figuras ara so bad as to support the ful army is 50,000 men. I never saw such

atements made about their incorrect sighting soldiers. They are, independent, intelligent, the German Fleet, which is glad to see its hono-glad to note that moderation is insisted upon. It is the youngest cruation Were it in truth genuine jiu-jitsu that is being wonderful results of Mr. FLETCHER'S The 10-inch guns-her principal weapons-only self-reliant. They are warriors born and bred, rary Admiral. methods, had much to say of mystication as hit the target three times out of thirty-two They can do everything for themselves, and do among the lasts of the world, and an sxpresTION | taught, we should have felt obliged to emphasise Out of ninety-sight roands fired; it willingly. They "carry on" all the day and of the reviving sea activity of the German Er- the warnings. Physical culture has been very I am pire, regenerated by the great Emperor of much overdone of late years. A reasonable of pap"; and he attributes much illness, from the 6-inch guns sixty-nine were mised;

undying memory. lntended for the protection amount of walking and fresh air will do all that. the decline in the physical beauty of the and this in a ship that has but lately had a lost in astonishment at and admiration of them of its trade and of its territory, it also sorves, is required for health. Consider men like the

and the amazing multiplication of thorough refit and is supposed to have had her The civilian Japanese does not appeal to me.ike the German Army, the maintenance of the dentists, to the modera vicc of bolting food, guns brought up to date! This performance is

so bad as to call for prompt and searching is the cheeriest, hardest tighting, longest march. Peace, which the German Empire has kept for practice of reducing his physical exertion to aH Appendicitis is more common, not because quiry into the conses of it. It is common MER-it was, as some cynics hure suggested, made knowledge that the gun-sights of oar Fleet are

fashionable; but because (and Sir FREDE- generally unsatisfactory.

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half the night, and do it at the run.”

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In fact, I have no love for him. But the soldier

ing, all the time at it "bón diable "I have ever введ He is the handliest man I have ever come

over thirty yeace, and which Europo has preserved with it. It is known to everyone, by your

Rt. Hon. Joseph Chamberlais. Ho has made s

almost "irreducible winimum," and there are few athletes more hale than he at his age. As

How much longer. across. He can rig up some sort of device to Majesty's words and lafuenos, that your for jiu-jitou, has Mr. Hancock considered the RICK TEEYEs stands sponsor for this) mouleks Pall Mall, are we going to be content to meet any emergency. His boots give out; bajesty's whole endeavours aro directed to this peculiar breakdown to which jiu-jitsu siperts very end--the preservation of peace. As I, too, have shown themselves liable in their later can make a pair of serviceable sandals in ton have ever devoted all my might to attain this years? Returning to the book, we find it minutes from the grass and cane stalks all and, may God lens success to ear efforts. In around, He is hungry; he can find the where the unfading remembrance of the memorable disfigured with Americanisms, such as "hit of withal to satisfy himself in dozens of unlooked-hours spent together at Osborne, at the death." "belong at Court," "rimfull," grul

the like. Throughout there Are for places. He camps where ho balts, and is bed of the great Monarch of the world-Empire generalisations introduced to support the comfortable before you can say "Knife." One now ruled by your Majesty, I empty my glass author's ideas. The statement that "Light eating is the rule in Japan "compels the sugges- on that Mr. Hancock has not consorted much with wrestlers, jiu-jitsu mon, and other athletes. at, meal times. The halk of that " little bit of cooked ries" ho zaentions is amazing, without

fre so much hurried over. It is not only the business man who takes his meal all standing who is guilty; so are many good people who sit an hour and a half at table. The secret of their trouble is too much Beroune MR. J. H. KEMP (SKCOND POLICE of the most noticeable things about the army is to the health of your Majesty. table-talk. They have to bolt what they

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HONGKONG, 2nd August, 1904.

The food faddists are so numerous and various, and their contributions to the world's boretlom so distressingly frequent, that an article like "Economic Nutrition," in the current number of the Contemporary, is liable to escape the attention it deserves. The Inte Mr. GLADSTONE's not very alluring advice to "chew carb morsel of food at least thirty-two times" is taken as text for a homily which, being obeyed, is to consider- ably reduce the ills that human flesh in- herits. Many impressionable people are by

A great many Chinese officials at Peking have resigned recently.

Monday, 1st August,

MAGISTRATE).

LABCENY.

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A soldier from Mount Austin Barracks durged the canteen bar-boy (the temperance bar) with larceny of a sovereign. The soldier gave the gold colu over the counter in payment for 20 cents. Defendant assured complainant for refreshmentsad the bar-boy gave himchange that he had only given him a 20-cent piece, but

a search resulted in the sovereign being found at the bottom of a wash-up bucket.

The man was sentenced to six weeks' impri. sonment and three hours' stocks,

THE CONFIDENCE TRICK.

THE KING'S REPLY.

the absence of unnecessary noise. I have not I drink to the health of His Majesty the King heard a bugle or band, drum, whistle, or fife of Great Britain and Ireland and Emperor of since I got to the frout. No sonorous shouts of India. officers, sub-officers, and non-coms, echo down the ranks and squadrons. All is done quietly, Quietness and secrecy mark every movement,

be in war; but when the time comes for the action, lecd, or thought. This is as it akend

noise to begin the Japanese are not behindhand.

HEROISM OF BUSSIAN TROOPS,

King Edward, speaking in Gorman, replied as follows:

rash

Mr. Bugny, of Shanghai, succumbed to trick." He was in the habit of accosting people rearguard, ordered a battalion of the Tobolsk I am usually most occupied with engagemanis quide" in Tokyo. Mr. Hancock needs guidance

typhoid on July 25th, in the hospital at Shanghai,

The sa. Ikbol. with 1971 coolies, arrived at. Darban on the 26th July, after a fair passage. Coolies are reported all well.

A man was chargot on three counts with obtaining money by means of the "confidence

and showing them a roll of paper covered with one note-atoll, of course, which he had found," One of his duper offered to change the roll of

taking into account a dozen other courses that In offering your Imperial and Royal Majesty be offered. In spite of his admission that they make no bones about, if the chance my most sincere thanks for the exceedingly large volumes have been written that have kind wordain which your Majesty bas drunk been devoted wholly to descriptions of the evil to my health, I esteem myself happy alcoudy effects of alcohol," Mr. Hancock bas thought it The Russkoge Slow published last month the to have an opportunity of being able to give necessary to devote five pages to a typical following telegram from Liaoyang :~~ expression to my feeling of the deepest grali teetotal lecture-ons of the facile and "cheap" "When the Japanese, after having turned tuds for the brilliant reception which your order-and three pages to an anti-tobacco our right flank at Telissu, pressed upon the Majesty has prepared for me here. 1 am estirade that could easily have been much weary Bussian troops who wore falling back, pecially glad that it was possible for me to pay General Samscuoff, the commander of the your Majesty a visit at a time of the year when

more ably done. He credits that old "gag" about pigs not using tobacco to hie "uative regiment to advance for the purpose of checking at home. But the part which I have for many in many ways. He says (in this hook on the Japanese pursuit. Another battalion of the years taken in yachting exercised too grest on Physical Training for Children ") that "many giment also advanced, and the remaining attraction for me not to take the opportunity of the older statesmen of Japan are beginning battalions were laurried up by train. As soon of convincing myself of your Majesty's success already to ecucern themselves as to how the as the train reached the scene of the fighting in gaining over so many devotees to this form threatened tobacco evil may be carbed in their the troops rushed from the carriages and of sport here in Germang too. With this was country." That is why, no doubt, they have hurried into the firing line with all speed. The coupled the wish, if possible, to knit siill more concerned themselves to institute a national enemy's turning movement was thus arrested. closely, by renewed personal, Intercourse, the tobacco monopoly. There are many far-fetched Aboubalavadzo, the hero of this fight. The long a time connected our Houses. We had to lament the death of Lieat-Colonel intimate relations of kiuship which have for so and exaggerated statements; but we have behaviour of the docters and ambulance atten Majesty's appreciative reference to my unremit. We may honestly close with a compliment. Your already far exceeded the limits of our space. dants, who remained the whole time under fire, ting endeavours for the maintenance of peace The photographic illustrations are excellent. was no less admirable than that of the soldiers. has deeply touched me, and I am happy in the On the left wing our men, without waiting for certainty that your fajesty has the same object "reak." How the Navy Prepares for War. By instructions, had already driven the enemy from in view. May our two flags flat side by side to Gossip declares that the Tsar is between two from the police. Defendant said a customer their trenches, when the order came to retire. the most remate ages, eron as to-day, for the

TRE-POL-PEN. London: The Westminster domestic fires, the Tsarina sning for peace

They obeyed most unwillingly. The Japanese, maintenance of peace and the welfaro, not only Prose (Gerrards Ld.). Hongkong: Kelly & any pries, and bis Imperial mother advising the

advancing immediately, seised our trenches and of our own countries, but also of all other na

Walsh.

most rigorous prosocution of the war.

began to shell our retreating men with mucbine tione. I am proud to belong to your Majesty's THE books about rural life that bave been ams.

fleet as honorary Admiral, oven as my own Beet written by landenen, many of them very well The hardships of the retreat were terrible estesins it a high honour that your Majesty written, may now be thrown into the receptacle Our men had to spend several nights in the wears the British naval uniform given to your

for waste paper. In this, as in the "Log" open, lying on the bare ground, which heavy Majesty by my uore:-to-be-forgotten mather series by the same publishers, we have vivid rains had rendered sodden. Many of there had whose memory is equally sacred to us both.

pictures, toned neither up nor down by literary

The Shanghai Mercury mentions that the British destroyer Janu bunkled her bow by run- ning on to rooks noar Weihaiwei, in a log.

Pinch has had another happy thought." It pictures the Russian bear standing uneasily on nu iceborg that is being melted by the "Rising Sun" of Japan.

Weihiwei caterers are indignant because a

Shanghai paper spoke of the ruinous rates " charged against holiday-makers up there. The average rate is $6 or $7 per day, with the usual reduction by month.

Government Notification No. 523 announces

that Black's Link," the road running along the north shoulder of Mount Cameron, and south of Monat Nicholson, from Wanchai Gap to Wongneíchong Gap, is new a public road.

Mr. C. F. Goodhart, going to Europe on fur- lough, was the recipient of a specially kind letter from Vice Admiral Nool, the Commander | in-Chief of the Chian Station. The Admiral

supposed notes for u comuission, and he gare defendant two diamond rings ns security that le would not run away. When the fellow's back was turned the sharper disappeared.

Defendant picaded "guilty," and usked. Mr. Kemp to deal with the case summarily. He was sentenced to one year's imprisonment and six hours' stocks.

A REVOLVER.

Mr. Weismann was charged with keeping a revolver in his possession without permission

had left it at his café, he, personally. never kept a revolver in his life.

The revolver was confiscated,

LAST NIGHT'S -BOXING.

Last night's boxing exhibition at the City Hall attracted a very fair house. Mr. Ross gave ample satisfaction us reføres.

Kynoch . Blandford proved rather a poor

no overcoats, having abandoned them in the raise my glass to drink to the health of your † polish, of life as it evidently really is on board a display. The former was adjudged winner after ing as they were after two days of hard fighting. Emperor, King of Prussia, and her Majesty the has written an introductory article to Tre-Pol- trenches. Nevertheless, worn-out and fanush Majesties. Long live his Majesty the German man-o-war. The writers (Mr. Lionel Yoxley these kterous retired in good order. Not a mur Empress and Queen. Hurrah! Hurrah! Pen's sketches) are themselves saitors, and have

the eight rounds had been fought out.

Spike Emerton (H.M.S. Eclipse) the cham- pion featherweight of the China Station, v. H. Samuels of Australia, was a pretty pouching match. Emerton displayed remarkable agility in orading the clean shoulder blows of Samuels, also a good boxer, and at times excited the audience to forbidden upplause. In the third round Emerton Imocked out his opponunt

Denver v. Dola, ten rounds, was an event

chanceterised by hard hitting about the head, and little skill, It was a draw".

the chow cranks" from time to time scared into a moderation which has first given thera the empty feeling of an "aching void." and afterwards driven them to the opposite extreme of the barlarian joys of repletion. This, we are now told by E. WAKE Cook was a false, or "habit-hunger," akin to the most heartily thanked Mr. Goodhart in the with a right hander on the jaw and 2 left.

Hams of the British fleat in China for the on the body simultaneously. "mouth-appetite" of the boy who complain - ¡ ed that his mouth was hungrier than his splendid result of his labours in China for the stomach. In venturing the observation that good of the British bluejackets, culminating in the Naval Hall at Ichang, at present the finest in the Far East there is quite a noticeable on the China Station. lot of that same "mouth-appetite," we would repudiate all intention or desire to appear "preachy." There is a tide in the life of mon which, taken at the Hood, leads to a hearty and whole-sonlel recognition of the joys of the table. The man who does not appreciate a well-cooked and well-served

J. Christie, of Hongkong, v. Ted Smith, of dinuer must have something the watter with Robert E. Douglas, the keeper of the Oriental H. M.S. Eclipse, a 20-round context, finished up him--or be in love, which is much the same

M.8.S. in the British Museum, who figures so the evening. Christie knocked his man out in constantly as an authority in Things Chinese the 5th round Mr. "Billy" Wators refereed thing, if the professor who recently dis- and is the brother of the two Douglases who contest,

this event with ability. It was a very fierce covered the bacillus amoroan be a credible played so brilliantly for Middlesex during the Spike Dmerton challenges all feather- person. Whatever may be said about quan-public school holidays.

weights.

Baker v. Smith-both Artillery mon-locked more like butchery than anything else. Baker. The Peking & Tentsin Times understauds to begin with, went into the ring with his face that in the couran of the antamu Captain A. all braised-closed for alteration and repairs,”. R. Douglas, B.A, will succeed Major Woods as it were. He proved no match for Smith. as Ordmace Officer in Tientsin. Captain The referee stoppel the fight after three rounds. Douglas is one of the fipost bats in the A win for Saith. British Army, and played for Surrey in its

Tarrant v. Thomas, four rounds, was rather woak," and was drawn. palmiest days.

He is the eldest son of Sir

mur passed their lips. Their canly grievance Hurrah!

was that our inferiority in artillery had maile The Emperor's toast, wos acoompanied by a the day go against them. Many men who were salute from the warships, and the British and wounded in the first day's tighting not only German National Anthems respectively were

played at the conclusion of each toast. refused to leave the runks, but would not go to the ambulance station to have their wounds dressed. The doctors,' they said, have enough to do without us.'

General Samsonoff, a cool and intrepid leader, qualities which have won him the affec tions of the solliers, commands the cavalry and the rearguard.

The Japanese artillery have the advantage over us in the quickness with which they find the range. Since their war with China the Japan- ese have made a minute study of this country. "They have measured all the distances and know every fold of the ground, and hence can be certain of their aim from the beginning of tight. All the positions have been divided by | them into squares, so that they can sheli the exact section where the enemy are located Their batteries are so skilfully masked that they cannot be detected; and, in fact, in the battle of the 16th of June the position of three of their batteries could not be ascertained. They i send picked marksmen to occupy heights which

TYPHOON WARNING,

an obviously clos acquaintance with `H.M.9. Briton. Some of the articles ura of absorbing

interest, and the book is illustrated with excellent photographs, notably one of H.M.S. Goliath at Hongkong, dressed for Christmas day.

East of Acía. Shanghai: North-China Ilevald

Office.

General Bragg, the US. Consul-General, communicated to us yesterday the following The editor (the Rer. W. J. Hunner) is to be warning issued on 30th July at 4 o'clock.m.from complimented on No. 1 of Volume 3 of the East

Manila the

Observatory The depression

of Asia magazine, as maintaining the high passed south of Luzon. It is in the China Sea

standaril attained by its predecessora. Readers S.W, of Manila.

at Home seeing such a well-printed and richly LATEST STEAMER MOVEMENTS,

illumined magazine will have had to adjust some of their ideas of foreign settlements in The P.. stanmer Korea, with moils, de., China, and to conclude that if such highly left Yokohams for this port via Robe, &c. on developed work can come from a Shanghai the 31st July, and is due here on the 11th Aug. printing works, that town must be ahead in

The PM, steamer Mongolia, with mails, 4., left San Francisco for this port via Honolulu, other matters. The articles include contriina- Le, on the 29th July.

tions on "The Scliool Spatem of Chins," "The The C.P.R. steamer Athenian loft Yokohama Returned Student," "Marriage in China," and on Saturday, the 30th July p.m., for Victoria Christian Music in China," well an sme

and Vancouver.

The I.G.M. stoner Prinz Regent Luitpold chatty travel sketchen. One on Lake Biwa, left Shanghai for Foochow and here, on Japan, is noticeably bright. The article deul Saturday, at 11 p., and may be expected hereing with Chinese students who have done great on or abont Wednesday, at 8 pm. The steamer will be despatched on Thursday, 4th inst, at things by acquiring. foreign lore mentions Dr. 9 a.m.

Ho Kai, C.M.G., and says "it is difficult to