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JAPAN AND INDO-CHINA.
THE KADOMA" DOCUMENT." (BY A NAYAL OFFICER )
THE HONGKONG. DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, MARCH 11тя, 1905.
and would assure the docility of the Chinese: that hor dislike of his toe would indãonce her China would play in the wax of Indo-Chins the condnot towards him. How would the act, be port played by Coron in the war of Manduria wondered Would he ignore him absolutely, The great and general idea of the plan of or
friend the Frenchidan, who is all uerfus, Wites oblige the army of invasion to be moved commandenced bying.
tax
the message; -
Durrant had already guessed the gist of it, for hy his knowledge of the ancient Greek al- phabet, he had been able to make out the words Fort Arthur," and to see that there was some
very short announcement in two words after it, Then the Grook arbiter spoke,
Fort Arthur," she said, has surrendered Yesterday the Japaness entered it and 2,500 Russians are taken prisoner."
Sophis heard it. She dashed slightly, and Merci," she said simply," at revor and hor oyas fell a little. with how to Madanie, and a slight nod to Durrunt, she walked slowly away,
Ho
attack would be to base the Japanese concentra. But he had not known his Russian. A nation tion in Formosa, where all stores, ammunition of diplomata they know to the full that thoughts A certain attribute of national character munitions of war would he accumulated: ara b-st concealed by words, not by silence. which the Englishman would call stolidity and
by this means Japan will be most favourably Directly she took her seat, she talked. Not to the foreigner, in all probability, stupidity, is not placed for the commencement of hostilities him exactly, but round about hira," as it wore altogether a thing to be despised. The Anglo-The ideas of the author concerning the transpor She opened animated conversations with the Saxon is constitutionally slow his mental ting power of the Japanese mercantile marine 3roek matron and with the dignifio M. is processes are the reverse of agile, and, to we colleqnial language, it takes some time to beat are those go orally slopted by the military Commissaire who sat at the head of the table. authorities. Five divisions could be tmos. Only so perfect was her French that Darrant thing into his head. The very reverse in our ported at the auras time, und this would scarcely dared to pit his own very awkward
of that tongue against it. So he wa for degroo and prone | and vivacity; quick to a
and without any. two parts. The print chosen jump at conclusions; and it the quality which makes him sa non-understandable to the English, the disenbarkation of this army and the base active expression of her
Bay assigned to it afterwards is the
That she intensely disliked Groat Britain just as the slowness of this lufter maker bira eta, to the north of Leits-chaannd contiguous was clear as the sky, of the Mediterranean. an insoluble problem to the French. Jusi lately the Echo de Paris has published a document to the Chinese southern prorims. That por She pronounced the words "Anglais and tion of the Japanese Army, formed in two
Angleterre" always with a slight shrug of the disclosing of plan for the invasion of divisions, which was first road, would ombay, shoulders, and her references to ies Japonais
finished point a perferted
The tactful commissive held the balance well. Indo-China by the Japanese, sed this oridence the tenth day of mobilisation at Nagasaki, were scornful to the most
BUL of the "orßdy" of the Japanoke has ran like proceed under convoy to Formoso, in He occasionally said nice things to Durrant,
Freach. embarking the second two and when Explain grow too political in bor talk seventeenth day, transports regaining the Japanese ports of the
change the subject. Once he
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utter misery, and his heart boat sympathetically for her in the huur of her national shame. He took the nowspaper from Madame.
Sophia was standing alone, looking idly into the blue water, prodding the ground with her saarn, slight spiseli, accompanied by the sbarp. forcible utterance by # male voice of a jerky little word that was in neither Gros nor She knew that it was Durrant and that he water. She turned and glanced at him..
In that glance he thought he discerned, of Dean's Dinner Pille, will effort a curs. Bat
wildfire through the Franch Preis. It is true fust one or two of the more responsible organs divisions. Then latter would be fiang directly he won spoke of Napoleon, and remarked in had thrown the nowspaper angrily into the treatment; and in its early stages, careful remember 18985 and how the fruits of well won victory over Chian wore snatched-from the on to the Indo-Chinase coast on the thirty complimentury way of the clovorusse of the Japanese by tha Franch, with the assistance Rain and Germany; at this very fact makes 03 a and embark tho first lot, which would bo Russians at Mescow. He quoted the old.time
› more sober.minded inclined to believe that Bugmented by the B. Division mobilised in saying that Russia has two gonorals who can mingled with an abandonment of grief, a look if neglected, exlargorarat of the liver may the mur
Formosa itself, and forming with it the second dafent all invaders, Generals January and of gratitude to him for the slight action by result, and the action of the organ may be
rained; which he had conveyed to her his sympathy for
there will ba in spite of tho there must be something in it
dyspepsio, mic, and ariny, By wor
working the transports in this man- February,
perhaps skin disosu. The muscles that drive "And now in Manchuria," he said, smiling, her uation in ite hour of humiliation. categorical denials of Japanese diplomatista. nor three days, it is calculated, will be saved by
Ho responded. In a second he was by her out the poisonous waste will be numbed, and The imrden of Empire in the present ons is wing Forms instead of the coturn journey one of them is again in command."
Durrant thought he would interpose harm-side A few whispered words, in the simplest there will be constipation. Doan's Diagor light matter, non se time passarul enthusiastic all the way to Japan. This gom in time is, in
corrective ; their action Englishman's Pills are the great liver na ho was growing tried of the silence of French, he told her au lessly visions of world-wide dominion come to be
an kim
sympathy for a nation in tears, and of a man's is mild but reliable; they give a healthy stimulas iwed in the cold, dry light of untiosal finance the pinkin of the author of the "document,"
that salcient bile ja hold absolute command of the sea by
heart touched at the sorrow of a beautiful to the liver,
Produced to digest the food and ease the passage of waste. woman. The Mils, Sophis forgot hur ususi sititade painted and glorifies the ambitions of which
during the forty daye night possibly
All the chief chemists and medicine-dealers Continental Powers have faded to a dull drab come to ati end when French reinforcements of towards him. Fixing her ayes him, she said: And the influence of four more days of travel, of materialistle disappointment. For Germany battleships from Europe-erased about the "You English are our enemies!"
in close company with one another, on two sell Doan's Dinner Tills, price 141 for day there is south-West Africa, a water oss desire,
Taken aback, Durrant fouced the question. young people whose hearts had beet so onriously I box, or B. for 6 boxes; or the medicine may users-und it forty-fifth
madame? Surely Bro and the Herrar insurrection" for France what is calculated for the Japanese Army will
but nuited in a strange land by a strango siraamat. be bad, post trae on raceipt of price, direct from anco. brought a result that might have been the propriators-the Fuster-McClellan Co., 8. thore trifle of some millions of square miles
Walie-strast, Oxford-street, London, England. in Northerns Afrion, including Moruce, nad be morally and waterially established in South. pentr
an China, and independant of the happeniz ga
"But you want to see Rueria conquered. expected. A third army, destined to reinforce You sympathies with theso Japonais " tha wo first, will be disendharked in the rear of Ferien at Foochow; based Formicks and holding a defensive attitude will covor the new Hodisalariation; it
and the Navional Exchequer, tios, roseato uble, as
he calculates that the pro-iut that General fights for both," he said.
now Indo-China.
Mansiour Deloncle, who has prosente a port on the subject of the defance of Indo- China to the Commission extra-Parliamentaire
ot Hea
When this
fleet
ix
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Poor Durrant could not deny the impeach ment, but he was too gallant a fellow to reply in kind, especially to auch a fair politician. So he told a half-lies white-yellow" lis.
23-2
He landed at Constantinople, she went on to Olesa Bat not many wecke olapsed before Durrant, bin passport duly vize by the British Consul was making his own way across the UINART PERE & FILS, REIMS dreary Black Ses, and Sophia was awaiting kim
de la Marine," considers that. “Japan, even if he Japanese will also cover the liut England would not wish white rucs on the quay of the Russian senvert
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the
cf cornunication of the army from Naga snki For chow. Ulterior events, such as the arrival of reinforcements from Algeria or Franed, will be impotent to modify this state of affairk: which is based on the entire comment of the sea by the Japanese during the first forty days of the cetupsign, and author of the document shows that in that time it will be possible to land 250,000 ms and all necessary stores, &c., and from the moment Baral action will hinder the landing no objective of the land forces. On paper the schemas looks well, and in the hands of such organisers of victory as the Japanese it is possible that it might come off, but it must be remembered that forty days is the irreduciblo minimam, and that everything must work like clockwork for the object to be obtained; thers is no margiu left for accident or breaking down The third army,
00 men, to be disamborked Vine, should be assembled in in the cost of €3
Inpanese ports on the sixty of the French the days after the hypothetical arrival of naval reinforcements. Those could, of course, blockeds the Japanese ports bat have to reckon with the Japaurso effective fleet, straight out of deck, while the French will have left many thousands of miles behind them, and will be alfairly short of everything sare ammunition. The author of the document" places the Japanese floot at six battleships sad six armour.
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ad ersisers: but at the Frenca point mat, it is
how more t
to be noully conquered by a yellow ane," ho aid, "we do not wish the Japanese to conquer Kain."
ho softened wonderfully. So P" she said. Bat the English generally? They think not the same!"
Oh, y repiled Darrant, plunging desper into mire that is the feeling all over England. We admire the Japanese, of course, but--well, personally I adore the Russians,"
An, somehow, spoken in French, the lie didn't seem quite so much a lie. Besides, in que way, he did adore them. Had he not read Tolstoy, and did he not worship the music of Tchaikovsky
?
The rapprochement was within night. His little tib had removed the cause of her projudios against him, and now she looked on him not as an Englishman and su enemy, but as a rather agreeable, and not badlooking young man.
"He drew his deck chair close to hers wext day, Corsica side by side, she accepting and improv and they admired the ragged mountains of ing on his French in the most bswitching fashion. He took her forward, and for sit hour or mure they watched together the spectacle of a huge dolphin swimming in front of the boat, its vast body swaying to and fro.
Like a torpede," he said.
It was unfortungle, it turned her thoughts once more to those hateful politics
I wonder," she
than that, and they will shortly have been of Port Arth," what'nows there has: |
We shall know nothing," he said "until we land at Patras on Wednesday morning, and then only by reading a Greek paper,
himself that he wished
And there was at least one Russian in the loud of the Tsar who did not entirely regret the loss of the Eastern fortress, and at least one Englishman who thought an Anglo-Russinu alliance within the sphere of practical politics. -Vivian Carter, in Coylon Times.
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iblated, is the most probable and dangerous foo which we have to fear in Indo-China. foremes the possibility of joint notion betwe China and Japan i
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a pessimistic mons consid-red to taking view of the situation by his own countrymen for so doing and from the general configura tion of the sea and land frontiers of Cochin Chins, Annam, and Tonkia, he deduces the general plan of operations which would be likely to be pursued. He recognises that from the Hrst Japsa could, and would, acquire the comand of the se, as the French fleet in Far Eastern waters could not mako bend was against the "Nippons," sud would be compelled to take in saigon, which would then be block aud that the effect of the blockade would be to allow the Japanese to transport troops or hindrance until the arrival of without ist or reinforcements from Franco. •The Japanese." says Moon. Deletele, "would establish hans at Polo- onder. Kwang-Chou-Wan, aut she no the coast of Anam, and we shoull be able to do nothing to stop.
theta from establishment and disembarkation The only redy, in his estimation,
to anfile inty strengthen the colony to enable it to hold out against the Japanese aliach until such tim a as reinforce- ments could rouch it from the mother country, But here Mons. Deloscle is falou foul of a
naval critic who pints out that, should France lose the command of the sen in the first instance to g
basa Benomy with RB near at hand as Formosa, the chances will be terribly against
her regaining it. us her nearest "jumping off place is to reckon with those vessels which can be salved Siego Suarez, in the north-east of Madagas-from the bottom of Port Arthur harbour.
The document has been disarowed by our Siego Bharthar ride of the Indian Ocean; gallant allies, and Berch Kocions las And he entered to to tas nentral power of and with Saigon blockaded, the French rein-
writer: forcements would be in orea worse case than categorically denial that he is the
it from whatever source
may
Lave emanated, it
charming a creature. nee such all events, has Vladivostock as an objectivo.
France 8.1 is generally reserved only for a
They gradually fell more and more into each colobre." It is somewhat difficult to other's company. The fact that Stromboli was supposing that he can get there. It is pointed
that out by the deputy that the French paral force
clouds of smoke served for him to this is so, as supposing oxnding fitful understand in the Far East merely represents approximately
ask her to spend an hour or so one evening "for- the "document" vore genuine, which it very the same
same force which Hussin had at at the begining of the war, and that the evidently is not, Javan at the conclusion of her ward" watching it, and a coll of rope jost
war with Russia will require a good long time accommodated the two of them. Author even A., Reserve Division at Faigon is practically soldes
te recuperate before trying conclusions withing, and it was anonuced that one of the "fourth for war except for its
another European Power. No attempt ha lass" passengers-passengers who for thirty of the admiral
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as a pleasing exercise of ingennity. On the face
another played the mandolino,. that
"Let us go and listen to them," he proposed, approved of by the crities, as they point ont nothing
bat a strong and solid fortress would China, and not only man, but all the pieces and
The habit of sitting side by side be able to protect the fleet until the arrival of munitis also, would seem to be an impasible and another seraphic evening they passed
be said in conclusion. If there are.any people seemed to grow upon them, reinforcemente. Saigon itself does not find task in forty days. There is only one thing to together. favour in the opes of these gentlemen, who point in the world who could perform such a mile- ont that the Dockyard is old-fashioned and calous fent of organisation, the probability is practically useless, thint there is not even an it would be the Japanese--Naval and Military Installation of electric light (English Backyards read
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"1"
which would be at tho dl of 585 man,
CLUD
by
vessels which could not reach Saigon is not of it, to more 250,000 men from Japan to Indo song andey can find shelter-song a good j
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"You are not well ?" he asked. "Oh, yes.
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otherwise? Forgotten phrases and idioma slowly a-ttling down in newly purchased deok encouraged by such a tutor, how could it be chairs to the contemplation of each other.
One of the passengers engaged heavily in ring back to him and he was at last mastering that long forbidden wystery of the conjunctions. this croupation bore the unmistakable Saxou He was able to talk to her ju French-nore than that, to speak to his feelings, his thoughts, in the That naval preponderanes means the rate stamp, and from his face it was clear that he tion or the loss of her Asiatic possessions to did not at all approve of his fellow passenger language which to most Englishmen is a mere France seems to be the idea of all who are now those that were risible, i shy rate. A group
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When in the dawn of the next day, and the description which it is to take in Roumanian Jow, a little Armenian! What a through his port hole, and saw the mountains of
le it to be by the maintenance of a company
wherewith to spend the eight days of the Ionian Islands, he detested them. He could Another
Battle flant, or is it to be by means of the journey to Constantinople, he thought to
them only as omens of the war nowa she so largo defensive force of submarines and destroyers? himself; Then he sat up with a sudden tart. dreaded. A ntle while, a fow hours only, Mons. Delonele inclines to the latter flory: What was this vision appearing from belor? might bring grief to Sophia, who dearly loved As the ship steamed into the but here the practical men step in and, doubt Youus, pretty, chio, with petite features, les in strict privacy, point to what has happen- telligent expressicu, and bright oyes, who could Gulf of Corinth, the grow oren more silent and ed to Russia by adherence to a strictly defensivo che be? Ho run las wind over the etha: logy of answered his quastions with a brief "oni" and means of naval warfare and the clinging to a Europe, but could not fix her nationality. hage
French it was not; she was too paroly pretty to It is now time to consider Le document be German, 100 fair to be an Italian or say Kadoma," which has created such a sensation in species of Latin. She was slightly Oriental and Franco, and which, whether of Japanese origin yet withal Western: When the possessor of caught bisgance, she looked gove
or not; or by whomsoever written, is a very the puzzling vishen it seemed that she remarkable and interesting paldication. One a trifle surprised.
in-
non
He know that she was thinking only of one thing of the fate of the fortress.
Arrived at Patras, the steamer was stormed by small boats manned by chattoring Grooks. On the quay be heard the to him-bidson cry of newsboys, yelling something oxcitedly, which You will come here with me?" he asked
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the earrings of the girls themselves, who lead Russian (it must be remembered thie purports to the position was awkward, The only two Brat page. have been written in 1902), no matter what was parsons on this boat, who might reasonably be **Roid it! Band it1” she said quickly. "Port by no mesas au idle life within the convent
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