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· THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, ↑ EP.EMBER 1st. 1904.

River navigation in Harmon darleg monsoon floods has its own peculiar risks, according to

the superficial differences in the respective ! cartographic areas, Throughout history. the Bangkok Times. The river near Yeh from the roving Danes and their English was in high foot, and the BILS.N. Co.'s heirs, the wandering Norsimon and the

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leavens leavening the large Inmps. change wrought in big Africa by little Europe is another illustration. No more wise is this pers’atently recurrent error that iiiisution is a new thing under the Rising Sun. Japan had its literature while we were still scratching badly drawn pictures un soft stone and earthenware. Japan treated its

we do even now, honestly considered; only Japan made no pretence of chivalry while it legislated walnut-free" laws, mau-made, It kept up the wasteful feudalistic etiquette to a noel more recent date, bol whereis our

women as

DISPENSARY real s cialism did not begin antil one fenda- lisin left off, Japan had a healthy communal system running contempuranamsly with its Swashbuckling dings. That is why Japan remains Japanese "inder is. Enroperin venes, because there was nothing radical that required to alter. This Oriental tree hd civilized roote: its new features are

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merely shoots guilted on: the tree renatus. Its inventive faculties have not had to be awakened from the torpor of barbarism, They were as fully developed as ours, and the great conversion of the fat balf century is nothing more than a diversion-of these Copully evolved powers into similer channels

Until the disarmament of the Russian ships ut Shanghai took place, Japan was kooping her three cruisers within twenty milos of Gutzlaff Communication with Shanghai and the Cop- state is kept up by the destroyez Inazutaat,

The text of the Tsar's manifesto shows that the political amuosty granted for the baptism of the Tsurovitch is so limited and conditional that very 'ow. it any prisoners will be benefited by it. The Chinese Empress does this sort of thing better.

Referring to the Goramor's recent treat for

The forry Morning &tur is undergoing a general overhaul:

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The roport of the Supreme Court will be

The Dock Co. huve completed the repairs, etc. to the s.8. Lothian. She is shortly to take coolies to S. Afrira.

These. Sikh is now in Kowloon No. 1 dock rewiring a new sterapost. forged by the Dock Co. She damngad hur starnpost on a rock in Singapore Harbour.

It may be news to know that in the Provinco of Shansi stone, according to experts who have surveyed it, there is enough coal to supply the meds of the world (300,000,000 tons annually) for 2.100 years.

Hongkong children, the NC. Daily Nets remarks: A party on such a seale as this to The Chiness now being eurolled by the Rus- the children is quite a new departure for Honginx as railway gaurile ar armed only with kong, no previous Governor having indulged stout sticks in ense when the Russians retire them so generously.

they should turn and read the band which hus fed them.

From Glasgow we have received one of the Uity papers which contains an extract from an

Two Russian-spanking Chinese who have article in the Hougtong Daily Press on the been spying on the Japanese inevements in relations of France and England."

Our Dainy, and alsa procuring supplies for the Rus and writes in the wargin Great Britain." the examination groented. correspondent deletes the word." England?

sinus, were caught by the Japanese, and after They were both We top pardon

untives of Shantung.

Experiments have been made at Shanghai in

The Foreign Ministers in Peking have pro- raising from seed plants of Ocioum Veride. tested against the Chiuose monopoly of working The Mosquito Plant." This plant was first in of mines in Hadan, and insist that foreign capi troduced last year at Kow, when a sprimen was talists be also allowed to take part. & Princo

reived from Northern Nigeria. Its intro-Ching cannot give a decisive opinion on the or claims that by placing two or threest ter the question of monopoly is temporarily plants in a room, it is kept free from mosquitos, selverh

It is stuted from Feking that owing to certain

of activity to ours, and away from direc-disputes between some Italians and the Chiness in elarge of the Sonchow Silk Filature which wis starfed about six pués ago, in that city, when Hoform was the fashion "the Italian Legation in Paking is sending one of its members down there to try to softle matters,

tions (hut struck the earlier breign visitors as anachronistic and quivilised." Another populer misconception is that the Japanese has a detachment and mobility unknown to western peoples. This fauex «riginatest with the glide-trotter who glanced into Jape were interiors and missed the #latnet" and the sideboard, the "upright grand" and the umbrella stand. We are still being in- pressel with the "fact" that the Japanese wantsare simple and easily supplied. "His belongings can be porked in a bundle and earvied on his back." As for us, we put our money in a alone coflage and fill it with permanent furnishings, to which we are rooted like a vegetable. It is nonsense, of cours. We are nothing to dread in a

A lady passenger in the Malares, writing to the Drity Graphir, says one of the officers told the captain that the English were se terrified of Rassis that they did not expect any notice

be taken of their insult to the British. diag At Saez, the deck was surrounded with sou-

fries carrying fixed layonets. The Russia said they had orders to "make an example of ons ship to deter others frem carrying contraband.

Five shillings a week pasion to such private soldier's widow, and s. 6d. compassionate allowance For each child, is now usred by the Slate in every case where a soldier has died within two years from contracting a fatal wound or disease in Sooth-Africa.

This is the first

Widows and Orphans.

All the pather about the Russian ships at Shanghai was needless. The ships probably came there to lisurm. The Russian bluffing of Chien did not show incredible contempt." The Tsar's intervention did not save trouble. No doubt the Chinese quite understood the Hassian attitude. The Russians were saving

fiom." That was all.

plague having occurred at Finkor. but we The Japanese News Agency reports a case of (Peking Time hope the disease has been wrongly dugnosed. Anyway the Japanese authorities are taking active measures to deal with the case,

and euperintending sanitary conditionsgenerally and there is far less dauger of it spreading than formerly.

Viceroy Wai Kuang-tao ba mestrialised porting the total amount of funds collected, by the various likin offices and stations through. out the province of Kiangsu daring the year 1903 as Tls. 1,850,000, part of which has been seat up to the Imperial Exchequer in Paking for the w of the Government and part sport i

THE WAR.

[JAPANESE OFFICIAL DESPATCH.)

RUSSIAN ROUT AT LIAO.

TOKYO, 30th August.

On the 25th instaut, when the Russians wem strongly posted on the steep moonutaios, twenty-three miles to the south-east of Liaoyang, the Japanese First Army began

20 attack.

By night, the Japanese central column and captured the corresponding Russian position, after a gallant bayonet charge by the infantry.

CAPTURE OF A FRENCH BLOCKADE- RUNNER.

TOKYO, 25th August.

The Japanese bave captured a Fronek steamer from Port Arthur with her cargo, and du is to be brought to Saseka.

NEWS FROM PORT ARTHUR.

CBEFOO. 25th August.

It is stated that nearly all the forts on the Port Arthur defence line are now in emmand. of the Japanese, hut as au excavation 11 feet wide and 16 feet deep surrounds the town freni the mat of the railway line to Golden Hill, even if the Japanese infantry began the assault on the 23rd, it would necessitate a two days' engage- ment to reach the town, where perhaps to day or to-morrow a hand-to-hand tight will take place.

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A further two days engagement would pro- bably be required for the capture of the Inst. defensive position on Tiger Hill, where General Stoessel is exportal to fight to the last.

The Russinu right and left wings con- timed a stubborn, desperato resistance, and severe fighting ensued on the following day.. By evening of the 16th, after a sanguinary engagement, the Japanese right column p overcanie the Russian left, and aptured | LAND FIGHTING AT PORT ARTHUR,

eight guns.

Cueroo, th August. Lotionstun on the 22nd instant reports :---

A antire junk which left the vicinity of

Two forts at Chinonlengkun, at the end of the-- town, were destroyed on the 20th, and on the following day the powder, magazine was blown

On the 27th instant, the entire Japanese forces delivered a concerted attack, which resulled (about sunset) is the whole Russian position falling into their hands.

Japanese casualties numbered about two

thonsand.

At the same time, the more westerly army of Japan marched into Anshantion which place the Russians evacuated without resistance,

Both Japanese minies continued to press

being sent to intercept their escapa. The the retreating Russians, some detachments

movement was successful. The Russians

fusion. fied towards Linoyang in the utmost con

During this rout, the Japanese maintained a heavy fire, from which the Russians were seen to be suffering heavily.

The Japanese captured eight field gaus. a lot of ammunition, au 1 many carts.

FREUTER SERVICE.]

EXTREMELY FANATICAL"

ATTACKS.

A. S. WATSON & CO. prison of our respective acquisitive is in or history (hat this has been done,

tendencies. The Japanese, rich or poor, Nevertheless, much retains for private genero- | Kuichting indemnities. hoards more than frè can carry on his back.sity, and the Lord Mayor consontel to reopen aud in the matter of great possessions " the Mansion House Fund for Transvaal War

The Acting Governor of

Haus reports is no more in accord with the Sermon on

laying engaged five Japanese gentlemen to

LONDON, 29th August. 1.he Mount than we are. The real factor.of

serve as testchers, in, the Normal and High

Renter's enrrespondent at St. Petersburg Japan's success in war is not to be found in

The blue-funnel liner Falchus in eeported to Colleges to the Capital of the Province.

wirer: General Sakuroff telegraphs that on have been taken by the Russians to Saghalien, Theen teachers have been engaged through these idle feics. It rests, as we have | Why does not. Admiral Noel, send a couple of the Chinese Minister ia Pokyo with a monthly

the 27th instant six guns were abandoned previously pointed out. ol patriotisun.cruisers to find out what is being done with her my of from Tix. 150 te 200 por man with free during the retreat, after Friday's lighting, Patristim of the Japanese uni English there wks the X-C. Daily News. There is un quarters. These gentlenen left Tokyo for China | The Russiaŭ losses are not yet ascertained,

Prize Court on Saghalien, and if the Calcšins kind is not generi in great Empires. The

u few days ago, and it is expected they will

but exened 1,500. There were many sword, has been taken there in order tlost the Hour on

arrive early next month. more nearly its aven approximates to the

bayonet, and revolver wounds, showing the hard may he landed for this relief of the Rus parochial the livelier it is like to be.

Ju order to promote industry in Narth China | closeness and the desperate character of sins there, before the vessel has been condemned Russia, Cimu, these are too big to have byn Prize Court, it is sheer robbery, on a par

Viceroy Yuan has given permission to the the fighting. The Japanese turning Director to the Bureau of Agriculture at Pac-movergent and the enfilading fire of their this effectual patriotism. Thus the nue is with the Russian treatment of British celting to establish a glass factory at Wan-Nag

generally. not to the swift, nor the battle to the big.

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Ware getting a little tired of being told

One fatal plague 'enso was recorded yesterday.

The Troras and Affake dress ship poster day in recognition of Queen Wilhelmu ina's 2413 birthday.

Major-Generd Sir William Gascoigue and

Suffolk.

Yard extension, was killed yesterday morning A Chinese foreman pile driver, at the Naval by a boiler falling on him.

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Apropos the recent Loudon ruling in a P. A 0. case, with rogard to steamer companies liabilities in respect of passengers" luggage, a New York judge has given spilte a contrary cision in similar case. The conditions priuted upon this back of the tickets be held "are not binding, because they are not reusonable, no inverslance with public policy" Admir

importzure in establishing a precalent in con- nection with the liability of steamship owners in regard to losses of valuables on shipbourd.

The following item. accompanied by an ex- ellent photograph of the Band, appeared in the

seize the tiiteliai at all costs because they

It is said that the Japanese were prompted to | Palice Reniem: The Tientsia City Police Brass Band is composed of some 25 young Chinese knew she had rahalle de spateluson board.

hoys, whose ages range from 15 to about 21 gears. Organised by the Commissioner curly in

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Hien near Poking), for the manufacture of all guns caused the Russians to retire to a new

The Japanese assumed

the kinds of glassware after Japanese methods. position. His Excellency has given The 200 as part of offensive (resumed the offensive) on the requested capital, which will be sulmeribed by Saturday afternoon; their attacks wera Chinasa officinis and merchaats in this province. characterized by extreine fanaticism.

SEARCHING FOR THE SEARCHERS

Loxpos, 20th August. Four cruisers and one guu-bont are seek-

The Viceroy of Yuu-knej hus memorialised regarding the construction of the Peench rail- Since the spring of 1998 in Yunan. differout partios of French angineers hare muc

essively visited the province for the purpose of surveying the route which was marked out Now the coinjany suggests an entirely new route, over 1,400 li, or about 33 miles in length. The estimated cost of the necessary lands and' other expenses will he ut least. Tis. 1,000,000,

The Hon. Ser. of the Tientsin Cricket Club has received a letter from the Hon. Bec. of the Shangbai Cricket Club regretting that his epur-

that in the Russo-Japanese war there is ap- Lady Gusedigne has taken a house at Reyden.ally lawyers regard the decisions of great parent that element nstully referred to as the precedented." It may be the first tine that the Orient hus clashed is real warfare with the Occident: but it is by no meaps the first time in the world's history that a great Power bas bern shocked by the flective intervention of a new recruit to the ranks of the nations. That east is east. ~and west west, and never the twain shall 'meet, de, is strictly true in only a geogra- phical sense. Japan both past and present has met European civilisations in many essential things. Japan is not a barbarous nation newly venerel with civilisation. Japan is a civilised nation of long standing A mail from Lantion of 12th Way arrived at with the barbarism po nearer to the surface Chungking on 25th July, having been carried than is that of other nations; but perhaps ri Rangoon, Bhano, and Yunnan? the Japanese veseer, either of its former

News has been received of the total loss on the 492. after 18 months patient and indefatigabla mitter will be anable to accept the invitation

toto Islands in the typhoon, of the Mitsu Dishi Co's steam culline Akavoura Ma», 1,085 tons.

Dr. Eberle, of the U.S. army, has discovered in the Philippines the mirole of dengue fever. and has named, it plasmoels.

teaching by the bandmaster, Mr. Davis, the baud is already ably to play international an-, thems, marches, etc, and hopes to undertake music of a more classical description at an early date. The bandoaster belongs to the 21st Panjab Infantry, a regiment si prent station- edat Tientsin.

By kind permission of Lient.- Col, Iremonger and officers, the Band of the 3rd Burana Intan

of Tivutsin to send a team this year owing to the fact that they are sending a team to Hong- kongg in November, and cannot unige both visits. It has been suggested that Tientsin should visit Shanghai between now and the end of October, but, it is feared a sufficiently strong tem cannot be got together.

Japanese and the powder magazine had also At midnight of the 20th instant the fort nt Chiuochengkou nad been destroyed by the

been burnt on the 21st instant. The Japanese are now at the fuence near Chinuchengkou and between the eminence and Chioncheugkon there are no Russian defence works. However ' these places called Lnomechukoh und fean the from the place about four or Chinese li cast of

forts on the Payahshau, three Chinew li west of those places, the Russians are pouring artillery fire upon the Japausse and that prevents the advance of the Japanese. There is a defense work in the form of a moat between Chiao-chengku and Port Arthur. The Russians

are carrying ashore the submarine mines they

had laid in the harbour and are preparing ta take refuge ou board the warships whe

threatened by the Japanese lant force. Accord ing to the Russian soldiers there are over 5,000 Russians wounded. Japanese shells reached Golden Hill the morning of the 23rd instant; cannonading was incessantly heard by the junk, but after that, the junk being at a distance, no more esznorading was heard.

REFUGEES FROM PORT ARTHUR.

TOKYO. 25th Augnet. ' On the 19th inst. about 300 tremen and childwon from Port Arthur hail been went to Dalny.

THE RIESITELINI"

TOKYO, 25th August. There being heery damngs at the stoma of the Riesteliai ske cannot be used in active Fervica

WHY

THE MAUTA PROCLAMA- TION" WAS MADE.

Mr. Gibeon Bowles asked whether His aware that the Majesty's Government were Russian Volunteer Flest ship Dmitri Donskoi was allowed to take on board at Port Said tons of coal, upon her copt in giving an underinking upon his honour that his ship ou leaving Port Said would proceed at once and by the direct route to the port of Cudis; that on leaving Port Said, instead of procoding to Cadiz in accordance with her captain's undertaking, the Inwitri Donskoi remained in the oflag between Port Boid and Damietta for three days, during which hor captain stopped and examined the papers of six merchaut vessels about to enter the Suez Canal, and that a few days later, he continued the same practice off Alexandria, and, in view of theso facts, what

ing the Russian Voluntoor cruisers in South steps His Majesty's Government proposed to

African waters.

A DISASTROUS RETREAT,

LONDON, 29th August. Reuter's St. Petersburg correspondent wires that General Houtkovsky and Colonel Decarben were killed during the retreat to Lianyung.

From Northern Papers.

PORT ARTHUR,

CHEFOO, Brd August. It is stated by a refugee from the vicinity of Port Arthur that on the 21st the Japanese occupied the fort on Yitseshan and the positions surrounding Taipingeki, about a mile and a half off the town. It is akostated that the Japanese were besieging Peiyohon, the hill adjacent to

Mr. M. G. Myhre, Acting Deputy Const Inspector, publishes the following information : The Chinese guabout Feiting, sunk by an ex- plosion of gunpowder. lies in fathoms of water the old town. about 1 mile above Ching Chai Wan and 2

take in order to secure that belligerent ships of war should not be applied at British ports with coal to be used for con- ducting the operations of war. Mr. Balfour minute: The Russian vessel in question. which was not one of the Volunteer Fleat, but a man-of-war, after being supplied with 500 tons of coal at Port Said, on the declaration made by her captain that she intended to proceed direct to Cadiz, en route for Kronstadt, procooled to sea, and during the next thres days stopped and examined the papers of six marchant ve sele, two of them British. In the view of His Majesty's Government any ship which uses the coal supplied to her for purposes other that that for which it was obtained should not in the future bo accorded sealing

facilities

THE TREE-CUTTING CRUSADE.

Much indignation has, says the N.-C. Daily

taken by the Superintendent of the Afforests- tion Department. He has got it into his head. that the time has arrived to make a profit out.

Ord Hume bables off shore. There are 11 feet of wat..! THE SEVASTOPOL " HIT'S ANOTHER | Nows, been aroused at Hongkong by the concse

MINE.

All the hospitals at Harbin are full, and they will play the following programme at the making or later nequisition, is of a less Heil Cross nurses are minch pressed for room. Kowloon Hotel, during dinner, this evening opaque kind. Jupan before the foreign in- Thus total Russian fores at Mukden is said to is (weather permitting):

March...... “ Field Service" vasion was as much a civilized nation as now 100,000.

Uvertura "Tancredi Rome was, when JULIUS was invading bar

-Selection..." The Bohemian Girl'

Intermezzo.." Pendant le Bal". barian Britain, long e'er Russia began to Engineer-in-Chief and General Manager of section "Reminiscences of the Plantation wear even the swaddling clothes of social the American China Development Company. Walt.. "The Choristers Phelps rel flag during the day, and exhibiting 2 red mine off Port Arthur yesterday afternoon, and of the pine forests planted by his predecessor,

Ti engagement of Captain C. W. Mead,

refinement. Rome was presently to suffer Canton-Hunkow Railway, to murry Miss Ben- similar surprises to those now being felt by trice Zils. of Shanghai, is annouseed.

and startling than the over-rming of Man-

means of the pole. The Company were at once churia by the Japanese. Even the great informed about the matter. invincible British power bad to be surprised

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orer her funnel. From the wreck. Pi Sin Chau Beacon bears 8. 90 deg. W., and Golden Island Pagoda bears S. 66 deg. E. A surapan flying a

light at night is moored over Shanghai Merrvvy.

the wreck.

Tokyo. 24th August.

The Russian battleship Sevastopol struck a

was towed into the harbour with a houvy list to starboard.

THE “DIANA" AT SAIGON.

LONDON. 25th August.

A telegram from Saigon to Paris ays that

shell, and another below the waterline. She had four men killed and twenty-three wounded.

MINE CASUALTIES AT PORT ARTHUR

and instead of merely thinning them he has formed a plan for filling whole blocks and then planting new trees. The not result would be that alter a quarter of a century spent iu rearing pine woods to adorn the slopes, increase the rainfall, and add to the healthfulness of the colony, they are to have the sides of the hills- realizes few dolines for big department. Already

Russia, and, apparently, shared by the

The officers of the cruiser Askoldat Slang-¦ At the instance of the Director-floneraf of The police yesterday discovered a dangerous unthinking world. The invasion of Spain Electric Tramway pole, in the vicinity of

hai, who have their quarters in one of the the Southern Railways, official prodamations by the Moors was more "unprecedented" Shankiwan. There was a leakage of electricity buildings at the Cosmopolitan Douk belonging have been issued by the Vicaroys regarding the

from the wires, finding its way to the ground by to Farnham. Boyd & Co., gave a tall, partly al estruction of the Shanghai-Nanking line by the Russian craiser Diana lus one damago by again laid bare in order that Mr. Din may

fresco, on the 2nd ult. A number of Russian | British expitalists, and at the same time their officers from the other Russian skipa in port Excellencies strongly advise the wealthy Chi wao present. Quite a number of Russian ness officials and merchants to purchase the

shares of the company at £100 per share. while the excellent hand of the Askold dis-

the line is in Kiangsi, which is regarded as the coursail sweet music. The merriment lasted wealthiest province in China, it is believed that until the early hours of the morning, and all the line will become one of the most profitable thought of death and wounds and international railways in the Empire. When it is completed complications, and tangled questions of neu- the profits ou the shares will probably be auch trality, were apparently banished for the nonce. ingreased.

at the presumption of a lot of rough Ameri- His Lordship the Bishop of Lacao, D. João | ladies also graced the ball with their prosencs, can colonists, and to put up with an unpre-Pauliu d'Azevedo Castro, accompanied by the Rova. A. Gomes, T. Nunes, W. Arkwright, cedented result. There is in the present Soares and Lima, arrived yesterday by the duel nothing mole surprising than the German mail steamer Bayern from his pastoral English conquests of Gaul. It does seem risit to the Portuguese missions in Singapore late in the day to find the wonder based on and Malacca.

about fifty acres have been laid waste at Aberden. But hope that Sir Matthew Nathan will arrest this destroying hand and instruct him to turn his energies into other TOKYO, 25th August, directions. It is not to be borne that a Two Russian destroyers struck mines yester-. stranger should come there to undo the 'good day evening off Liaotishan; one was sunk, and work of so many years of patience, care, and

the other towed into the harbour.

perseverance.