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HONGKONG JOTTINGS.

The war making the fortunes of many. comunercial houses in Cochin Ching, but hero in Hongkong tho aathorities are taking the strictest menguras to prevent any breach of British neutrality regulations.

THE SHIPPING WATER SUPPLY.

MR. J. W. KEW INTERVIEWED.

As the importance of Hongkong as a shipping port now marohes with that of London, the Government is recognising the necessity of supplying versols in port with paro and wholo- some water, and is taking overy precaution to

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, MAY 8гn. 1905

REVIEW.

Im, Lande der Schwariflaggen, or "Travelling life and observations during an eight month's tour in Tonkin," by FRANZ BORKMANN, BUEMEN: Max Nossler,

RUSSIA'S GOLD RESERVE,

the class'o

NOTICE

REMOVED TO No. 17, QUEEN'S ROAD,

A Time correspondent writos:--Sir,-Were it not for M. Kokovtsoff's totchiness in the matter of motophors, I dual feat i clined to see in his protest against my estimates of the WE HAVE THIS DAY decline in the Russian gold reserve and of the increase of the note issue & variant excuse of Mrs. Easy's wetuurse for the unlawful. triumphant tone with which M. Kokovtsoff challenged The Times to verify the intactness of the gold reserve, it is certainly an important admit that the reserve is-slowly, perhaps rain gained that the Minister should Dow melting away, while the note isate is increasing and there is no chance of redressing the balance by the old expedient of foreign loans,

The farm in the Now Territory have not insuro an uncontaminated supply. To this end nativebanditti who livebetween Yunnan province i 4984, of her baby, Whsu we remember the Premises formerly occupied by Mr. FR. BLUNCE, silk lace manufacturer, and Next Door to

had a bright time thisyour. The firstcropof paddy lias been an absolute failure; fruit is much bohind time; but the abundant crop of peanuts and the promise of a tino second crop of paddy will perhaps to a certain extent have their compensating advantages,

I noticed a few days ago a surveying pole and flag fred in Glonesly wear the path leading up to the Roman Catholic Cathedral. I assume that the preliminary surveys for the new tramway aro being made. It occurs to me to add int 1 hara noticed no each poles and Bags yet over at Kowloon marking the route of the projected

railway to Canton.

"Black Plage" (schwartzfiaggen-pavillons noirs) is the title given by the French to the several exemplary cases against junkmasters for and the Song-kadelta. Notwithstanding the hair. watering ships from doubtful streams have been mising narrative of HerrBorrmann, the Reviewer tried before magistrates at the Police Court, sad helioves they are no more terrible than the But ponnities have been inficiunt. The beaccalight beards or Hunghutze of Manoharis. They (the to which ships are attracted, however, for puro | Black Flags) are said to be descendants of those and expeditious applies, is that of the Hong who fled from the Ever Victorious Army during kong Steam-water Best Company; and in order the Taiping Rebellion. The Annaniter tell terri to glean an insight into the working of this ble tales of their ferocious and cruel deeds; and company, a Daily Prens representative on it may be suspected that these tales have affected Saturday called on the energetic manager, Mr. the gatherquitous much as his netual adventures, which, frankly, appear rather tome after the J. W. Kow.

oxclamatory padding which leads up to them. There is a good deal of the gushing description of the globe-trotter, Herr Borrmann going into

M. Kokovtsoff telle us, in the first place, that the gold reserve in the middle of March" amounted to 1.38 million roubles, and consequoutly showed an increase of 99 millions, as compared with the und of 1004, and not 89 millions as I had calculated. My statement, however, did not refer to the middle of Asked as to the fleet of the company, Mr.

March-unless by this Old Style is meant Kew stated:-This new numbers aine boats.

but to ten days later, the 25th, who, according and a teath is under construction. A new

to Lattun's telegram. M. Koketsoff" made a boat, milt by Mosers, Macdonald and Co., raptures over the big buildings, the signs of personal statement" giving the Bgures as I Moreover, u telegram from The quoted them. which carries about 240 tons, has recently bond civilisation, the women (nicht unschönen frauen) | Times correspondent of the same date gare su estimate drawn from Befal sources, according put into commission. This is fitted with a

the churches, the clean coats of the boys. eta.

to which the gold resurse was then even lower

Sinco Sir Charles Dilke wrote his book, Problems of Greater Britain, in which he referred to the complaints of the weakness of bump capable of delivering between forty to The charm of the "heiliger abend!" almost-namely, 1,310 million roubles-while M. tos defences of this Colony, a great deal hurty tons por bour, and is divide by ste

Lulkheads into water tight compartments.

our Former Address,

LONG.

PM

Flourkong, 4th May, 1905. considerable number of French adventurors. The colong itself seemed to make no progress, and small wonder. M. Donner, whose sonse of humour is as strong as his wethods are practical, tells us that, when ho arrived at Suigen. the capital of the colouy, ho found that the Lieutenant-Governor simply a iny figure in the hands of tho Legislative Council, the Conseil Colonial, which, in its turn, was governed by a President who always had a njority of the members under his thumb, by reason of the fact that he controlled a large section of the voting power. by means iuto, which it is better not to inquira too closely. The majority of the members of

strongthen them in every Every precaution is token ta see that the water, ho customary wonderment at the masses off March 29, gives it at 1,804 millions. I mmat There were 2,000 of these in Cochin Chins, and i

bean done to possible way. Even during the last twelve months, since the advent of General Villiers- Hatton to the Colony, it has been evident to everyone of ordinary observation that much has been accomplished in this connection, and we can recognise that if Hongkong is the Spithead of the East, it can no longer be sid that it is a "Spithead without the Spithead ar

Portmouth forts" though, perhaps, it may still

ho said to be "without the

Portsmouth

garrison." As, however, the depart are of the

Burmas and the Mahrattas has boon indefinitoly postponed, wo happen to have at the present time an exeptionally strong garrison.

when on bourd, is not contaminated in say way. With our new boats we will be able to cope with the increasing defeand, and acccicrate the supplying of vessels.

As to the supply, continued Mr. Kew, we deliver government filtered water from the specially constructed reservoir at Laichikok and shipping people see the advantage of being provided by ear besta, not only on secount of their unapproachable cleanliness, but also by reason of the despatch with which

our powerful steam

baffles his descriptive powera; and he exhibita

"hot-house" plants that bloom in the open sir. Just fancy! They base potatoes in those parts, our dear old common or garden potatoes. He had always been told that the potato was introduced from America. Ah! But Asia was

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this Council were elected by French citizens. 1,500 of them were salarial officials! But that was not all. Its the town there were also about 300 natives of India from the French colony of Pondicherry; and, though the natives of Per CASE OF 48 PINTS... Cockin Ching had no share in the election of members of their own Council, these Indians were entitled to vote and their votes were

known and visited before America was even heard of. Therefore (page 31), the potato must have first reached Europe from Mid-Asia. Every now and then, the author and his companions, who are surveying the country for railway, sit down and open a bottle of champagNB. pumps put the waton such a good cure for homesickness and melan. I do not think M. Kokorisoff rendera a service to colony, were elected by subordinates of the

on board. Our craft lying alongside a vessel dres not retard the working of cargo in any

TANSAN

Schwanciach, writing to you under date of consequently decline to admit, poading the production of further evidence, that on the date on which I wrote the gold reserve had M. Kokovisoff's next contention is theit I been increased by 99 million roubles. estimated the yield of the Berlin an at its nominal amount of 231į millions, instead of its Let yield of 210 millions. Here he is, no doubt, eatin

These same electors, Government servants, correct, for by an oversight I omitted to escuratirely controlled by a few interested parsons. PER CASE OF 10 SPLITS

This, Indians, and the 510 non-official Franch however, would only have reduced the yield to citizons, sont a Deputy to the Paris Cham- lute the loan at its issue price of 95.

20 millions. The other ten millions are,ber. The result was that the suppera, accounted for by commissions and the Conseil Colonial, which contr majority of It is expRMER, In emphasizing this circsustance I

gut, and with it nearly all the affairs of the the oredit of his country, for it redness the met

i ieutenant-Governor, paid servants of the It is Government; and their candidates were invari-` issue price of the loan to do rly (8) indeed, said that the Russian Treasury received ably committed to a polier of opposition to the Professor Migouline, the eminent Russian of the interests of the electors. The President contributed to the Russ that the average interest the hollow of his hand, and the irony of the economist, has lately caluutated in an article of the Council easily held the Indian voters in Russia is paying for all the loans uogotiated arrangement was made complete by the fast that The Deputy for Cochin China acted in during the last twelve months ie not less than 7 per cent.

concert with his electors, and was able to get the car of the Minister for the Colonies in Paris. M. Docmer describes the situation and all its att adant evils with a fine acorn, qnd it did not take bim long to put an end to it. He sums up his account in the following words :-" Insub

Hongkongis a wealthy city. You hare the fast way, whereas if a junk is lying alongside for not until page 57 that the exciting adventures eveu legs then M. Kokovisoif chims, and Lieutenant-Governor and the

forced upon your attention by the way the meausst clerk puts en "side," and for further illustration note the fines imposed in the Police

Court on eron the meanest coalia. For an offence which in Eagland would be punisbod with a fine of half a crown or fire shillings, it

may be observed that the Hongkong coolie is

mulcted in $5, $10 or $15. And they pay if too, in the majority of cases. If they haven't

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some hours, the loading or unloading of cargo is considerably hampered. Further, the water supplying junks are built of pine, and their holds are not properly laid off to insure the water being kept clean.

The Government having made it compulsory for junke to apply water from the Government source of supply only, ought consistently to enforce cleanliness on these junk waterboats.

There are about one hundred junks, large and ralo provide the money readily enough. amall, supplying water, and in numerous cases Some coolies were fined $15 each last week for they supply other junks and launches. The company supplies water cheaper than why other "making a noiso, disturbing the pesce and quietude of tho neighbourhood "the neigh-pert in the East whore beats ara in vogue, and must be a comfortable place to sleep in these are II. M. Navy, Mosses Butterfield and Swire, hot nights when dogs in more select neighbour-1 Mesars Jardine Matheson and Co., The P. & hoods howl all night at the moon and crowing 0. S. N. Co., The Canadian Pacific Co., Messrs cooks keep thair "shrill clacions" going from

Dodwell and Co, Messrs Marty and Co., The dawn till it's time to get up.

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bourhood of a police station. A police station amongst our numeroas clients, said Mr. Keoye caught something that was green and over by the Government. If the money was deprived the King of all power by zapoving his

During the scarse of his remarks at the Craigengewer Cricket Club's "At Home" at the Happy Valley on Saturday afternoon, that

enthusiastic oricketer, Mr. T. Sorcombe Smith President of the Langue, took the opportunity to throw at a few recommendations to the number of willow wielders present. The first question he thought required consideration was with regardto Umpires. There was often trouble condorning these, although they did their beat to give an impartial decision.

If

botsman given out had cause to com. plain them were others who had equal cause not to complain. His suggestion was the t in future an official umpire should be attachod to each club and the umpire of the Hongkong "A" team might umpire in a match between Craigongorore and the RAM.C. and so on. If this suggestion were acted upon the League Committee might be saved any difficulty in the matter of Maputos during the coming season.

Further, watches should be tallied before the game started; and, if uvaessary, during changes in the play. Again, if the last over of a match is not Anished when time is up, and there might be a sufficient number of balls to get the remain- ing number of batsmer ont, that over should be played out regardless of time.

Much public attention was attracted last year by the success apparently schiered in the treat- mont, of plagus cases at Kennedy Town Hospital by giving to the patients large doses

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TENNIS TOURNAMENT. The second round of the Hongkong Cricket Club's tennis tournament concluded at the

Pavilion on Saturday.

Results of the round are as follows:-"A" close, singles-E. Humphries, & walk over; Slade beat Tarner; Bouchier boat Barrett; Pinckney beat Hanrock; Master beat H. W. Smith; Beattle beat Zohrmann; Edwards boat Muopherson; and Lawson boat Murphy.

"B" class, singles-King beat Jordan; Spencer beat Sclandors; Craig beat Purcell, Falloon beat. L. D'Almada; Birdboat Sapur Mackay beat Harris; Lammert bost Masso; and Henderson beat Gray.

Double Handicap--Beattie and Koyrett boat Smith and Ram; Purcell and King boat Rutherford and Henderson; Hastings and Slado beat Craig and Holyosk; Newell and Falloon beat Master and Owen: Ormiston and Phelips bent Hancock and Zebrmann; Turner and Smith beat F. X. and Leo D'Almada e Castro: Swan and Koch boat Atkinson sud Morrell.

Professional. Pairs-Boyd and Macpherson boot Humphreys and Jupp Hastings and Bailey beat Atkinson and Morrell; Koss and Carpenter boat Murphy and Turner.

Championship Class-Humphries beat Roes; Pinckney best Pearce; Master beat Boyd: E. Humphreys beat Zehrmann,

of carbolic acid taken internally. So strikingly successful did this treatment appear to be that Mr. Ho Kam Tong, compradore of Messra, Jardios Matheson & Co., generously had a considerable quantity of this medicine made nad distributed it free of cost with full directions

Two games are not marked off on the notice amongst the Chinese living in Altogether 3,000 bottles of it word so distri-bord as played, and if these players have not played off, they may probably forfeit their

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The following are to-day's matches in the third round, which is to be finished by Thursday, 11th instant:--

"A" class, singles-Bouchier . Pinckney; Edwards v. Lawson.

bated, and although full retures were not chance in the tournament, as the third round received, Mr. Ho Kam Tong in a letter to the

begins to-day. Principal Civil Medical Officer of Health, mentions thint from the returns helaas boon able to obtain it is seen that the percentage of oures ́with carbolic acid among the Chinese is higher than thatgiven in Dr. Thompson's report of last year. Dr. Kook, however, in his report, says in reviewing the treatment of plagus: "I fear it is impossible to avoid the conclusion that up to the present we have discovered nothing that is really effective, nothing that can rank as a specifie in the same way as the diphtheria antitoxin The use of carbolic acid in herrie doses was not conspiononely successful and I consider we have sufficient ground to retise the favourable impression which was formed of it the previous year."

BANYAN.

The poorer classes in this country are usually atterly igno. t of all principles of hygiene. How, indeed, could they be otherwise with no one to teach them? They do not know how to feed their babies; they do not understand the importance of fresh air and cleanliness, or the dangers of alcohol. These are all things that can be tauglit. They are taught in other countries; and it is time they wore taught in England-Spruker.

"B" class, singles-Bird v. Mackay, Double Handicap-Hastings and Slade Newell and Falloon; Knyvett and Beattie u Purcell and King,

Professional Pairs-Boyd and Macpherson v Ross and Carpenter.

WEATHER REPORT

The Hongkong Observatory yesterday issued the following report:~~

Pressure is

author and

kind that grow as much as three metres long. At page 71, we find the friends being entertained hospitably by

those terribio Black Flags. They have, it seems, beastly (bestialischen) faces but mics clothes. The visitors were announced by horeld roubles, instead of the 142 millions at which 1 M. Dunmer's book which concern his success'ul

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choly and after it, they are usually cradled It is into slumber by softly sighing zephyrs,"

Mr. Cornil left them for ten minutes Then came C. in wild baste back speech lack ing."

They soothed him after a while, and he explained that he looked through the trees, and about twenty metres aboud he

The third cuntrution of M. Kokortsoff in saw-a tiger! In his hurry to come back and very remarkable. He statos that 60 million tell them he tumbled over a prostrate bamixo roubles of the German loan were subscribed in The party held a council of war, armed them Russia, nd consequently, hus contends, this amenat roust not to calculated as having borg solves with many guna, hat when they got there added to the gold reserve. As the figures with the lair was bare, the tiger unfortunately (which we we now dealing do not include gold China administration to a degres to which it was schlupfwinkel aufgescheucht. At page 68 in circulation, but only relate to the st ok of would be difficult to find a parallel elsewhere," the author himself undergoes an exciting gold in the State Bank and the Treasury and Affairs in the neighbouring province of deposited with foreign bana ers, this contortion

Cambodia, nominally ruled by the aged and experier.ca. He was scrambling over rocks in ie quite irrelevant, unless M. Kokovtsuif wishes selfish King Norodom, were hardly tester. The anallah, picking flowers, when suddenly his us to understand that the louds were taken French Resident-General bad practically the product of bona fide internal subscription scale; and, as the native chiefs went with the brown, that writbed, and wrigglel, and seemed it tanut hose added pro tanto to the gold reserve, man who could command the biggest batta ions, PREMIER to be from six to eight metres long. I became or the stock of notes in the Treasury and Sate the King was eating out his heart in impotent

there is no trace of this subscription, for m

though the Resident-General Lad secured all icy cold, as the honoured reader will suppose." Bank. So far as the stock of notes is concerned, fary when M. Doumer Brat visited him. Bat Realising that it might chup him in its folds, the end of 1994 the stock stood at 72 million authority for himself, he made no good use

without any hesitation I departed carefully. roubles, and M. Kokertsoff now tells us that

as he found it; spending his time in huating although the zote issus has been raised during elephants, and showing his impari-nee of any control, even when bis own superiors attemptod the same peried by 7 million roubles,

For these rensons I am quite unable to are to exercise it. Aguin M. Donmer, with praiso- with the Russian Minister of Finance that the worthy promptitude, ascertained the facts and decrease in the gold reserve during the first dealt with the situation. three months of 1905 has been only 31 million I am purfectly roady to sucede his plea--and I do so with the utmost sympathy that he only received 210 millions instead of see no reason to modify my 231 millions on account of the German loan, stimate. In other words, un M. Kekovt's own showing, the gold reservo has lost at least 121 million roubles in loan than three months. This is at the rate of 484 million roables per annata. What this means will be seen when it is remembered that during the five years anding with 1904 Russia lost gold at the rate of 250 million roubles per annum, in spite of the foreign money market being open to her. That is to say (see The Times telegram Marek 25) that she received in balance of trade, leans and native gold production, 214 million ronbles, while her stock of gold increased by only 38 millions. If now, when the fall affect of the closing of the foreign money market aganet her is still unfolt, the outflow has increased at the rate of 18 million roubles per annum, what may we expect in the near future with the enormous costs of the war tugging at the gold reserve? It arast be clear, that under these circumstances her stock of treasure will not last long, and it resemblance to M. Kokovtsoff's own conception of the Humbert safe will speedily be realized.

M. Kukortsofa observation on the note issue arealse irrelevant, and eren misteading. I made no distinction in my letter between notes in bat circulatiou and

гозетта, notes in contented myself with pointing out that the note isang as a whole had been increased by 70

with trampots of buffalo horns. Lu Vin Phuoc, the Black Flag Chief, courtesied head to knees, with dschim-dachim" (chin-chins P). He killed the fatted calf, sa to speak, by order ing his twelve year old brother to shoot five sheep Sed five pigs that wors driven in in a most brutal manner," and complimented the boy for the expert butchery. There was also some tortering of prisoners, with a view to amusing the foreign gueste, but it is not clear who these prisoners were. The foreign guesta, disgusted by the torturing, rushed to their horses and fled away. This sounds quite an exciting escape but anti-climax is provided three days later when La Vinh Place returns the call, offers his friendship, and says he will be glad to welcome the railway when it comes, and to take great care of it. The little book is very, neatly printed.

BILLIARDS.

St. Patrick's Club tournament between the Royal Engineers and Police was concluded on Saturday night, the resnit being a win for the Engineers by 133 points. The final game played on Saturday evening was between Edwards (Police) and Glasbrook (Engineers),

Langley

the former winning by points

The scores in the final were as follows:

ENGINEERS POLICE

Fanlon ... Morris Whiles !... Rond Moore

...168

Pitt

156

Earner

.. 201

Withers ... Cooper Brown Edwards...

Totals

213

250

250

256

1,488

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We hava dealt mainly with these passages of administration, and that policy of forther expansion which he sums up in these words :--- “Â nation with a bold and energetin policy may secure a flourishing commeres This is the policy that I have paraned in Indo-China to the utmost PRACTICAL EXPERTS of my ability and resources, in order to seatre a future for Frases as a great Asiatis Fower.”

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JAPAN AND FOREIGN CAPITAL.

Count Okums, whose name is world known former Prime Minister, has contributed an exo llent article to the North American Reciou, en Japanese problema, from which we maks the follwing interesting extract, in which he not only ronowe his old advoctoy of a in re liberal policy but testifies as to what ireo traïs has done for Japan. Count Okama sa

Although under the fendal systom Japan was not a poor country, it has laboured under a gun. siderable disadvantage with regard to its recent development. In America and Russia for ex- ample, much foreign capital has been used to

small sum of £14,000.000 raised in London, de catry, whereas in Japan except for nothing but Japanese capital has been used. This bas necessarily made the development of the country, and the subsequent necessary new enterprises, fall rather heavily upon the Foreign aspital is mock Japanese people. needed in Japan, especially with a view to the

It will be

development of the railways. necessary to change the laws relating to foreign worship of land before much capital can be from outside. I have ever baen zu advocate of allowing the foreigners to own land in Japan. Some years ago when the excitement over this question run high, my advomney of

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million roubles since January, in sidation to an increase of 270 million roubles which took place in 1904. This, M. Kekortsff does not cortest. Still, I am unable to understand how 250 he makes out that the vote circulation has only by 29 million roubles. At the end 250 increased 250 of 1944 the noto issue stood at 230 million

thrown into my sarriage, which so shattered 250 roubles, of which 827,900,000 wer in circula- this policy was the cause of a boul being my leg as to lead to its amputation. Frea tion, and 72,100,00 in the Treasury and 176 State Bank. Since then the note he has been Trade har heen very good for the country, and D MERCHANT NAVY Holohan... 219 SK

206 raised to 970 millions, but the stock of notes in the industries have developed without any Gisabrook

reserve, according to M. Kokortseff's own Protective duties. Formerly the import duties 1,621 statement, bas euly risen to 85 millions, being averaged 6 por eat, and now they average

an increase of 13 millions. Deduct 13 millious

but these bave been simply for per, cont. from 70 millions and we have tin iserous Government revenue and are without any circulation-momoly, 57 millions, and not 29 Protective intention. It is good to see how millions as the Minister of Financa altugrad.

Japan's trade has developed under a Free Trade system. From ten millions sterling the annual trade returne hare reached fifty millions; and, at the past rate of increass, in fifty years Japan may hope to have trade returas equal to Germany."

THE HONGKONG CRICKET LEAGUE

The Leagne table stood as follows at the end of the season:-

Club, Played. Won. Lost. Drawn. Pla.

18 12

2 4 Craigengower ... Kowloon...... 1S 12 6

*36 A.O.C.

18 11 H.K.C.C.A". F H.K. Felice RE............

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These are extracts from a Times review of W. Dommer's recent book:-Even those fow English People who know anything bent Indo-China will be surprised to hony that the eclony, which now consists of Colin China, Tongking (though the French perversely invis upon writing and pronouncing the same Tonkin), Annam, Crmbodia, and Laos, a ter- ritory twice as large as France, w 2, 60,00 inhabitants, dates from 1858, when the Fench The best average for 12 matches and up established their first satilomot at on, in wards:-

Parsees

13

No. of

Avengo. matches.

14 28.14

18,58

On the 7th at 19.5 p.m. The barometer has fallen over E. Japan, and risen in N. China.

Club. Player. The depression is passing away to the Pacific | to the N. of highest over the Pacific to the S.A.0.C., 9. M. J. Webh

Japan.

H.K. Police, P. C. Edwards.

14 Craigongower, A. O. Brawn. of Japan.

Gradients continue light over S. Ching, and | 83rd Co. R.G.A., Bom P.C.

Rivers moderato N.E. winds may be expected in the Formosa Channel, and moderate 9.E. winds Kowloon, & Lightfoot

Civil Service, E. Witchell... over the N. part of the China Sea.

ForecastLight to moderate B.E. winds; RA.M.C., Lt. Harvey...

H.K.C.C. "A"

"No xetura's sont in R.E.

fair.

Returns from the Philippines are lacking.

12 28/ 12 1776 13 189 13 154

THE CHINESE WAR INDEMNITY.

Cochin Chiun Bince that date they have, a short intervals. acquired, by coupost ne M. Donmer says, the

and it is elnia, d that the protectorate differs, in sense, from absolute persession Up te novary 1897, when M. Daumer a rited, it is a at Saigon, Fronch Indo-Chine, lud or pa da

A had very valuable asset to Franco. children and themoney of her maid that was about all--if we leave out of count the fact that it had provider bom, and scio not vary reputable means of vor hood

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In the House of Commons or April 6th, Mr. MeCrae (Fdinborgh, E.) asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he could state the amount of the annual instalments now payable in respect of the British share of the Chinese ind maily; and whether these in-talments Cavendish (Derbyshire, W.), who Mr. swered the question, said,-Negotiations are now in progress between the Chinese Germont and the representatives of the 'P wars as to the basis

els of payment of the indemnity. Until these are concluded the amount 18T of the annual instalments receivable by this country cannot be stated. Proposals will in due conts be submitted to Parliament as to the

plication of the British share.

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