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The Collier's Weekly correspondent at the front says the Russians wora antaumbered by the Japaness at Linoyung by "at least 50,00..?"

On page 5 of this paper will be found several very interesting itoms, inchuling an account of renewed activity among the Boxers in the North.

The Sanitary Board sits to-day (Tuesday) at 4.15

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A German strategist opines that Russia will not endeavour to reconquer the positions best, bat will advance in the spring from Vladivo- stock on Corea,

The Jews of Tientsin have bought a new plece of ground for a synagogue and cemetery. The present cemetery has been found too marshy:

"the monuments are fallen down."

The Tientsin Autumn Haco Muoting will be held on the 1st, 2nd and 3rd November. There are mine events on each day; but the valac of the respective races are not yet filled in the programine.

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In our report yesterday of the fight between Burke and McPheo it was stated, by mistako, that McPhee fouled Burke in the closing round. Instead, Burke fouled McPhee, as. the referce's decision, reported correctly, showed.

The statement, repeated by us, that Chin's had protested against the Anglo-Tibetan Trosty, is now declared falso. A Poking tolegram to. the N-C. Daily News, says: The Waiwapu donounces oficially the statement recently made On Russian authority, and declares that it has never protested against the Anglo-Tibetas Treaty. It appears, Bevertheless that there was some strong objection raised at Peking.

A dangerous pirate whom the Chiness authorities have been trying for a long timo to get hold of has just been captured in Macao and handed over to the Canten authorities. He claims () to have killed about 200 people including a whole company of soldiers to the number of 40 who had been sent to arrest him. He was taken while aslepp by a Macoo Government servant who had been sent to Inspect the house which the pirate used as his headquarters.

It may not be generally known, says the China Review, that the "Diplomaticus" of the Westminster Gazelle who is now. Russophobist of the deepest dye, sud is always writing about the dangers of an Anglo-Russing alliance, is the nom-de-plume of Mr. Lucien Wolf, 3 jour- nalist who some years ago was sent to Russia on a mission in connection with the Jews, wrote most highly of the country, and become a persona grata to the Thor. Why he Ims changed his views is a mystory.

Let us suppose that "Scotland for Ever" is urraigued before the Supreme Court sú capital charge. (As he would say be careful, wenre only supposing.") Suppose, moreover, that he has retained the Hon. Mr.. ANISEED

SHEWAN as advocate to plead for his life. COUGHThen suppose that the prisoner's counsel begině to cause "rours of laughter in Court," by citing Bardell v. Pickwick, by suggesting that His Lordship the Judge should diet on thistles in order to enter into the feelings of Scotland for Ever," and interpolating The "memningless word 'Rats!" when the IRON black cap comes to be donned. Is our | correspondentstill going to maintain that the

General Stoussel, as an independent com- method of presenting a case is immaterial? Sir Matthew Nathan visited Queen's College mander, would have a perfect right under the We imagine that Lo would be somewhat | yesterday morning. He asked that tho pupils Russian military regulations to surouder ut grateful to any newspaper commenting that be given a half holiday, and expressed his in-discretion," said a member of the Russian his case had not received proper treatment. tention of sending a book to Carl Baujo, the general staff at St. Petersburg, but it may safely be assumed that a man of Stoessel's tem- At all events, he would be aulikely to re-

per will not create a now precedent in Russian history. Our military annals do not show s peat his present blunder of regarding a flippant speech as a preventative" of evil

single ouse where a commander yielded a for humours already collected.

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We have been favoured with a copy of the Middelburg Observer, published by T. M Pollock at Middelburg in the Transvaal. Mr. Pollock was formerly on our staff, and we are

The Tientsin Review thinks it will occasion some surprise to learn that the Yokohama Specie Bank in Tientsin charges a discount of 15 per cent on the Japanese paper money issues for use in Manchuria!

The game of poker has been acquiringglad to see he is doing well. extraordinary popularity at Hongkong, and we have repeatedly heard of high play among young men who cannot be said to claim singlar intimacy with high pay. The other day, at a sitting of the Supreme CHERRY TOOTH PASTE. Court (our report of it being unwarrantably withheld by the reporter) there was heard a ense directly arising from that seductive and Of cards. We A. S. WATSON & CO. mind-ob-essing gaine

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avoid a fight. Sevastopol was only taken by storm after months of besiegement."

With regard to the appointment of Captain Wirren to the command of the Port Arthur squadron, the Chino Review learns that Captain Wirron was on'y promoted to his captuincy three years ago. There are 10 captains

He has thus

the seventy-seventh in seniority.

A Shanghai jury, inquiring into the death of Hagh Gow, lato scoond stoker on H.M.S.in Vestal, found that he was accidentally drowned in the river there. A sampan coolie said he saw He was in a the man jump in the water.

dranken state..

The

THE WAR.

[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.]

THE EXPECTED SORTIE.

SHANGHAI, 3rd October, Two tugboats have gone down to Guzzleff to bring up

the Bayan which is reported to be ancliored there.

THE RUSSIAN REARGUARD.

SHINMINTON, 18th September. Apparently the Japanese interul to surround Monkden and are sending troops up to Shin- mintan; but the Russians hok the road to Moukden from here in force, and have soveral Divisions on the Hongho River.

JAPANESE SUPPLIES.

NEWCHWANG, 18th September.. Japan is landing reinforcements, supplies, and winter necessaries in large quantities and despatching them to the front, both by land and rail, from Tashichao, and by boats up the Liao The River, as quickly as possible.

[The presence of the Bayan at Shanghai is evidence that the expected second naval dash from Port Arthur has taken place. Japanese high trajectory fire was making the harbour quite unsafe for the Russian ships remaining. We shall probable hear of a naval engagement outside, and the fate of the others.

SOOD.}

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RUSSIAN REINFORCEMENTS.

LONDON, 1st October. Reuter's St. Petersburg correspondent wires that the second Manchurian army will consist of the 4th, 8th and 16th corps, the 6th Siberiun corps and several brigades of Tirailleurs.

HIS SUCCESSFUL FAILURE.

PARIS, 18th September.

EI.R.M. the Tsar has spesially con- gratulated General Kuropatkin on his success. ful evacuation of Lisayang and orderly rotrent to Moukdon. The Japanese are advancing on Moukdon

FOREIGN ENLISTMENT ACT,

LONDON, 27th September... The Echo de Paris publishes from St.

Petersburg some correspondence between the British authorities and a coaling firm at Dartmouth, which was desired by Rassia to

RUMOURED RECALL OF ADMIRAL furnish coal for the Baltic Squadron en route to the Far East, with reference to the inter ALEXIEFF.

pretation of the Foreign Enlistment Act.

LONDON, 1st October.

A rumour }s current that Admiral Alexieff is about to be recalled.. The Grand Duke Nicholas Nicholahvitch is widely cre- dited to be his successor.

THE SHOW FLEET.

LONDON, 1st October. The Dowager Tsaritsa and the Queen of Greece inspected the Baltic feet at Roval yesterday. The Tear reviewed 27,000 troops

at Odessa.

From Northern Papers).

HIGHLY INTERESTING TERMS.

LONDON, 18th September.

The correspondence extends from the 21st of May to the 24th of August, when the Admiralty finally informed tho firm in question that the provision of coal under these circumstances to vessels to be employed in connection with the wat would be an infringement of the Act.

THE LIAOYANG AFFAIR.

The Nichi-Nichi criticises the report of General Kuropatkin, in which the Generni describes his retreat from Liaoyang as orderly and that nothing was left behind for the enemy. This has given the impression, among military critics, says the Tokyo journal, that the retreat from Liaoyang was previously planned and that the plans were carried out without the least bitch. This report is very misleading, and the facts prove the contrary. The trophies which The Daily Telegraph states that they learn have fallen into the hands of the Japanese te immenso, and consist of rifles, ammunition, Return of visitors to the City Hall Library in the Russian Navy, and Captain Wirren is from a high Japanese official that the authoritiesels, food, fodder, clothing, &c. When the at Tokyo are issuing a preliminary circular investigations of the Japanese are completed it ber. 1904, were 22 non-Chinese and 67 Chinese been promoted above the hende of many senior outlining the tormas upon which they would be will be found that the trophies taken at Line- to the former. and 67 non-Chinese and 1,622 officers, and may resort to soniy exceptionally bold prepared to make peace, after the capture oyang will amount to such a quantity as to be course for swing the remaining ships in Fort Port Arthur, the occupation of Moukden, and unprecedented in the history of war. They Arthur as an earnest of his promotion.

the taking of Saghalien. They are as follows did. It is impossible to

EDY whether Japanese will now be more vigilant than ever 1. To hand over the whole of the Lisotung General Kuropatkiu made such 匪 mis-

watching the squadron.

peniusala to China, on condition that the latter leading roport wilfully with the object of makes Port Arthur an open port.

imposing on the world, or whether he was 2. An International committee to be appointed ignorant of the true state of things in to take over and control the Manchurian Rail the confusion. The immensity of the trophies ways, purely as a commercial enterprise.

taken by the Japanese at Liaoyang will alone 3. To have an indemnity of one thousand suffice to destroy the impression made apon the

peblio that General Kuropatkin retreated skil million yen paid by Russia.

4. Russia to hand over to Japan all the war fully and successfully. The Nicht-Nichi, in ships that she may live at the time in the Far conclusion, asks where the Russians are to obtain their supplies of provisions now that Eastern Seas.

Liaoyang is fallen. With Nowchwang and the Liao River in the hands of the Japanese and now the central part of Monchuris also, the only channel of supply for the Russian army is Vladivostock. There is the Siberian Railway, but it is wholly occupied by the transportation of troops. When the Japanese flest blockadess Vladivostock, which is expected shortly, where will the Russian obtatu, their provisions? If a supply is looked for from Europe by the Siberiaa Railway the transportation of troops must be As the Russians iu seriously interfered with. Manchuria increase the greater quantity of provisions is required. The abandonment of Liaoyang by the Russians is also a heavy blow to the Russian source of supply, and their future diffiralties can better be imagined than descrāb- ed.-Kobe Chronicle.

A Chinese detective was clwerved yesterday vigorously punching a hawker in the vicinity of Des Voeux Road. Two Europeans interven ed and put an end to the assault. The hawker In a criticism of the new book by the writer expressed an ardent wish that the matter could whom tho Sunday Sun of Manila calls Henry be brought to the notice of the detective's puper incidentally superior officers. It was suggested to him that Savage Slander," that remarks: We have one of the healthiest the best means of doing that would be by cities in the Orient. As compared with Hong-summoning the detective for ustaal. But the kong, it is a paradise."

hawker would not entertuin the idea for a

moment, explaining that he feared this would result in greater violence to himself, if not by the detective, then by hired loafers."

5. After the capture of Saghalien Island, Japan would be prepared to lease the same to any company, British or American, for a pay ment of a sum of say about fifty million yeu and a royalty on mineral and timber products. [The China Review, which received this message, regards it seriously but we are dubious of these un-named “high officints."')

the mess into which it apparently put the defendant would give pause to the numbers (31 of young men who are even now being led into a rainous pastime for the pursuit of which are needed more money and more strength of mind than many of them pos- seas. Owing to visits paid by both young men in the case, anxious to persuade us to Withhold their names from the public, we have acquired a fairly reliable idea of the The ciwumstances of this particular case. defendant was admittedly nyro at the game. The plaintiff based his application for suppressal on the generous plea that publication would seriously damage the professional career of his late opponent. The sincerity of this representation, we do not specifically impugu; but we would like him to conquer his egoism long enough to try to see himself us others must see him in this unhappy incident. We have never previously heard of a gealleman suing for such a debt; nor, for that matter, permitting himself to be sued. We took the liberty of asking the defendant why he allowed such an ignominious suit to go to Court, and ROSENBERG SÖRENGEN, third engineer of the Cable gathered that he was persuaded thereto by thoro has been no case of plague. Last weak's How does our contemporary know that the 100 Chinese were killed and 350 wounded, most

BIRTHS.

On 27th September, at Shanghai, the wife of HARRY E. GIBSON, of a son. •

On 28th September, at Tientsin, the wife of Gur D. B. BIDWELL. of a daughter.

MARRIAGE.

On 29th September, at Shanghai, CHARLES BLABTIN JULICH WELEK, to MTE, MARIA GRANDON,

horn da Fonseca, widow.

DEATHS.

Ou 20th August, at London, DOROTHY CATHE KINE, infant daughter of G. E. and M. C. STEWAB. On 24th September, at London, RODAN HOME Cook, late agent of the Hongkong and Shanghai sat Koha, Japan, aged 54 years.

Banking at Shanghai, )

On 28th

of the Imperial Maritime Customs, aged 20 years. On 28th September, at Shanghai, JanS CARL steamer Stor Fordiske, aged 26 years.

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friends, The advice of friends is, un- fortunately, not always the advice we sbould

take. 'The defendant would have done better to pay what was asked, and afterwards to have cut the plain-

It is also on record

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that His tonour Mr. SERCOMBE SMITH had to request bim to "behave as a gentleman in the Court. The amounts mentioned in the course of the case show that the stakes

The Courrier de Tientsin leurus, on good authority, that the Chinese employed on the Yunnan Railway are rapidly dispersing owing to their fear of being forced to enrol by the Chinese sent to raise troops, or the alternativo of being considered as rubels.

The Tientsin Review remarks: some of our too greedy centrabandists have been caught trying to smuggle arms, and the last consignment of some 50 revolvers belonging to a well-known German speculater were captured and confiscated on the 8. Kaimberg.”

The new China Review at Tientsin is quite outspoken. It says "And now that we have both the morning journals pro-Japanese we are all the more proud of being the only represent. Againative, at any rate in the north, of both sides of the question, with a pronomical sympathy for the much misrepresented and realigned Russiaus." In the same issue we read. "We have had our special attention drawa to a specimen of what is termed, by the Japanese, a dumdum bullos and cartridge, and, on caseful examination, we found that it is nothing more than the usual elongated flutnosed ballet used for the Russian Army officer's revolver!"

Readers who have noticed the absence of the usual plage return, and who may miss it in tho future, are reininded that no news is good news Since the last report was published sometimes.

record is blank in regard to all other communic. bullet shown to it was like those found by the

Japanese?

able discusss,

[Yesterday we published a Routergram dated 29th September, to the effect that General Kuropatkin reported that the Japanese had begun "an offensive movement."

No matter what the Russians do. Aggressive or dofonsive, It's plain to thom the Japs, behave In manner quite offensive.

"Captain Blanchard luas returned to Tientsin from Newebwang with the steam tng and lighter belonging to the Tak Tug and Lighter Com- pany, which he took to the Liac River some time

The Novoye Vremya's war correspondent sent the following account of the death of

THE WAR AREA.

Moukuss, 21st September. The valuables, Imperial and others, have been removed from the Palace and Yamens and sout to Peking. Stores hitherto sent by rail north. warde to Shinminton and three by road are now being conveyed by junks up the river Liao. Advices from Lianyang state that, in the recent fighting in and around the city, nearly

of whom are being treated at Dr. Wolwater's Red Cross Missionary Hospital. The doctor himself is recovering from his wounds.--China Hoview.

[Dr. Westwator's friends have already report-

ad that he was not wounded at all.]

J

A RUSSIAN CONTRADICTION.

MOURDEN, 16th September.

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FOOTBALL."

In the six-a-side series Sandford's team last oroning boat Boyd's team by 10; and Gray's team beat Ancolt's team by 2--1,"

There are two games fixed for this afternoon: Boyd v. Knyvett; Williams 2. Ratherford,

The Japanese Conan) at 'Yingkow has tele-

Kiuliencheng-Muravsky died like a hero. artillery Colonel Murarsky at the battle of When the battery was about to retire he ordered a halt, trained the guns again, and re Colonel Ogorodnikor requested publication of opened fire. In a few socords almost every the following: surviving man had been mown by the Japanese...:

The imaginary rumours that General Zassou-graphically informed his Hongkong colleagus, Then Muravsky himself loaded and fired the

who in turn advised the Colonial Secretary, to gans. When there were no more shell he took litch has been captured with 3,000 mer the breech-blocks and batterad them against a entirely untrue. The general is with Kuro. rock. The few men loft alive in the neighbour-patkin, and none of his troops are prisoners. hood rushed up to him and begged him to retire (Sgd) Harkovitch, Chief-of-Staff. "Go yourselves, children, with God! You' have done all you could, but I remain," he said.

Without my gims there is no place for zas?. A second later he fell, struck by half-a-dozen bullete."

BUT THEY SEEMED TRUTHFUL

the effect that skips or vessels arriving in

are no longer subject to quarantine from the Yingkow from Hongkong, Canton and Swatow

S0th September last, the above mentioned ports. being declared to be no longer infected with contagious disease but the prohibition of importation of rags, waste-paper, hair, sarth- and manure is still enforced.

The British destroyer Chamois has been souk while executing her steam trials off the Ionian islands. All on board were saved. The Chamois was a destroyer of 300 tons displace. tiff. Also (as we hope he will now) hement and 80.4 knots spood, built by Palmer's should have made up his mind to eschew Co. at Jarrow in 1890. She was commanded by THE gentleman whose letter appears in a poker in favour of some game less exigent. Liout. Sydney H. Tennyson. neighbouring column, over the pen name of We do not think we are far misled in our «Scotland for Ever," has demonstrated, so conclusion that in this case the successful far as we are sorcerned, that if it does litigant makes a poorer showing than the require a sledgehammer to get a joke into

one who lost. It was deposed that he a Caledonian skull, it certainly does not need

"generally won," and he himself stated a can opener to get one out. Our cores that he stood creditor to other victims for pondent, so far from joking “wi' deeficulty," consideruble amounts.

HARBIN, 16th September. -betrays a subtlety of humour, and a "by

The offteist reports of Marshal Oyama are in ordinar" finesse of jocularity, when he has

their details exaggerated, especially with regard to the capture of ammunition and waggons to chuckle is parenthesis as he pens the

Humanum est errare. At any time we are carrying some. When retiring from Luoyang word "opinions" as a sort of makeshift

never reluctant to grant the fullest scope to two milway waggons were left on the railway title for the remarks that appear in this played for were much too high for young

correspondents who wish to correct errors, real siding, being badly damaged by shell fire. Although particular column of the paper. The deli- men of their financial means.

or supposed, that they may see or seem to see This incident evidently is alluded to in Oyama's appeared together with his compradore. He cale soupçon of sarcasm (bracketted) seems the Junge was obliged to give a verdict on

in our colamas. Yesterday we published two report as the capture of a large quantity. It was last seen a week ago at the St. George's to have set in motion some internal caehin the evidence, there being an acknowledg.

account of the fire ut Messrs. Arnhold, Karberg to report about quantities of ammunition, &c. that his behaviour was somewhat strange, und natory incchanism, like merry bells jang-ment that there was "value received," the

letters correcting our Canton correspondent's was absolutely impossible for Marshal Oyama Farm, Bubbling Well, where it was noticed & Co.'s oil tanks. The writer of the second captured on the day the Japanese entered he was very reckless with his money. Earlier ling ont of tune, so that we picture him debt would obviously not have been · con- When

Among the many hard cases which one heave letter was careful to say the fire was at Fong Liaoyang, us there were nous left behind.. We in the same day he had been seen at the his laying down

peu to laugh unintertracted except at the curd table.. ruptedly at this hon not which had, as it such documents become necessary, poker is of daily, that of some European sailors seems Tsün (not Fati)," whereas the first letter have good authority for saying that those Hotel des Colonies, in company with his were, slipped out and surprised its author no longer an exciting pastime; it becomes a worthy of attention. It appears, says the anti-written by a brother of the gentleman in whose reports are circulated with the intention to compradore, who paid over into u fit of self-gratulatory giggling. On no business, and a shady one at that. The Japanese Review at Tientsin, that the Japanese interest both were avowedly penned, endorses satisfy Japanese public opinion, which craved a considerable sum in coin and in notes. other supposition can we explain how he young man about to learn" poker should Government or some Japanese shipping. com- our correspondent's mention of Fat as the for reports of large captures of everything All enquiries on the part of Mitchell's pany chartered soune foreign steamers; and on locality. In justice to our correspondent, we military, in order to allay the national regrets friends and the police have failed to discover him, therefore cast out his mental view of poten- their arrival here to load, sent adrift the must express the opinion that he intended to at the apparently useless heavy losses of life and there are fears, says the Shanghai Darly came to disagree with our opinion of the tial winnings, and set himself to realise Hon. E. SHEWAN's speech "on these what he stands to lose." It appears that, European sailors, replacing them with Chinese; convey no imputation against Mr. Xavier, who incurred in the unsuccessful attempt to cut off News, that he may have met with fani play. A.

Review]

ised through the British Court. grounds," ie., that our comments are even in Hongkong, it is possible to lose telling the former that it was easy to get better may have bcou injured more by the efforts of or surround Kuropatkin's forces.-ED. Chind warrant for the arrest of both men has been

Verl, sap.

employment in this port. So the men are usually interesting, powerful, facile, palat more than money.

ago, laden with about 400 tons of timber and iron to be used in the construction of the new stores and godowns now being erected by Messrs. Bash Bros. at Newchwang. He coasted up the west side of the Gulf of Pechili and met

with no adventures on route.'

stranded.

his too zvalous friends.

Mz. James Mitchell, who hus boon trading in Shanghai, with offices in Hankow Boad. as a commission agent, has mysteriously dis-

to him there