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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, JULY 4, 1901.
Intimation,
We shall be obliged if any subscriber on | CANTON li celebrating the Glorious Fourth receiving his paper late or irregularly will in style.» The Captain and Officers of the write on the Wapper of the paper the Time of | Monterar issued invitations to their friends to delivery, etc., and forward the Wrapper to the witness boatnices in the forenoon and illumin Manager, Hongkong Telegraph' Co., L., 50 ations in the afternoon and evening. From The wrapper will what we know of the Montereys there is likely Queen's Ruid Central,
To be a good time in the City of Rams to-night MENSES. Swan and Hunter, of Wallsend, have been commissoned to build a pontoon, floating dock for Japan. The dock, will be of some-
To the fact that SIGNATURE SHEETS. A. S. WATSON & Co., mable us to check the delivery coolles.
to be attached to a Petition in the Right Honomule the Secretary of State for the Colonies, asking for the Appointment of a Commission to Inquire into the Sanitary Con- dition of Hongkong, &c., are open for Signature at the following places-
Messrs. A.-S. Watson & Co., Ld..
Messrs. Kelly & Walsh, Ld.
Messrs. Lane, Crawford & Co.
Messrs. W. Brewer & Co.
Messrs. Caldbeck, Macgregor & Co.
The Robinson Pjano Co, Ld.
The Victoria Dispensary.
Messrs. Watkins, Ld
The Hongkong Hotel, Ld.
The Peak Hotel,
The Hongkong Dally Press Office.
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THE French (Tovernment has entrusted Mr. Etienne Richet with an important mission to the Far East. He was to leave Marseilles
AT THE MAGISTRALY:"
STEALING FROM THR PERSON.
Leung Kem Yau was charged with stealing from the perfon of Tsen Tim. The methods. the bailed up the complainant and representing of the defendant were ingenious to say the least. himself as a detective searched him for arms, On being asked to go to the police statiqn lë refused and struck the complainant. An Indian constable arriving on the scene, the defendant was given in charge.
THE NEW GUN FOR THE 18,000
SHERRIES. by the mail steamer Anwan. The mission is what similar limensions to the Russian dock. The defendant stated he had been drinking being tightly wound round the outer of the two
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Mr. H. Ruttonjee's Kowloon Stoic. Copies of the Petition may also be seen at the above.
Hongkong, 2nd July, 1901,
VICTORIA RECREATION CLUB.
HE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
Twill be held in the CLUB LIYMNASIUM,
Kowloon, on THURSDAY, the 11th July, at
5.30 P., to receive and pass Annual Report
and Statement of Accounts and to elect Officers and Committee for ensuing year.
A. DENISON, Acting Hon. Secretary, Hongkong, 4th July, 1991.
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IT will be interesting to note if the wet weather of the past day or so produces a fresh crop of plague cases. The popular idea on the subject is that the rain drives the coblies into the houses, where they berd together in their damp and steaming clothes and so render the propa-
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THE BOY" AGAIN. Mr. W. Moore, Acting Chief Wharfinger of the Kowloon Godowns, charged Yeang Ching and Mak Fook with stealing a silver watch and a pair of gold earrings.
The complainant said. The first defen- a watchman. I missed my watch on the 3rd dant is my house boy and the 2nd defendant is
instant and suspecting the first defendant took him to the Police Station.
and had a quarrel with the complainant in a to visit successively Ceylon, Burmati, Siam recently constructed, at the same yard. The Per Clar
'brothel. Indo-China, China and Japan. The reports of dock just ordered will be bull in-sections, with
M. Hazeland held the charge proved, and the mission will be published, and the duration a view to being taken to pieces for shipment Leung was sent to prison for 6 weeks hard
and final reconstruction at the Japanese portlabour. of the voyage will be about a year.
of destination. AT 6 am, on the 19th inst., Miss Evelyne de Worms, late of the Dallas Musical Opera Company was married to Mr. Henry Davis, manager of the Bristol Hotel, in the Hotel drawing-room. The ceremony was a very quiet one and consisted only of the usual registration proceedings hy Mr. Morgappa, District. Regis trar. The bride, who was attired for the journey, carried a pretty bouquet. The couple left for Kandy by the 7.30 am, train, -- A reception is to be held in Coloni on the 6th July, A, HOME paper of May 30th says A soldier. 4.40 me recently from North Woolwich to stay with his mother in a cottage at Harvest-rd., Willesden. Soon after he became ill, and the 'doctor who was called in found the cast to be one of hubonic plague. The doctor immedi, ately reported to the medical officer, Dr. Skin Ber; the man was promptly removed to the Isolation Hospital, and four people were pat away for quarantine as "contacts." The man' will be discharged, it is expected, in about a
20.40
B, C, and GC are excellent dinner
gation of the disease a matter of case. It is a significant fact that as the dry weather ap proaches and the coolies commence to sleep. in the open air the plague returns rapidly
diminish.
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TON BATTLESHIPS.
Captain H. Garbatt, R.N., gives an account.
Institution, of the 2.5 in. breechloader, the now in the Journal of the Royal United Service
weapon which is to be mounted in the great 18,000-ton battleships that are about to be laid down for the Royal Navy. It is, he says, of course, of steel construction, "wire, ribbon"
tubes, and covered by a steel jacket. It is fifty, calibres long in the bore, the total length from the breech face to the muzzle being 386.7 in. The gun weighs 15 tons 15 cwt., the mounting with shield being equal to 13 tops 16 cwt, and it fires a projectile weighing 200 lb. (twice the weight of that of the 6 in. Weapon) with 75 lbs. nitro-cellulose, with a velocity of 3,000 ft. second, and an energy of 12,480 foot tons- results in every way admirable and surprising It is the longest weapon in relation to size ever constructed, and in destructive force exceeds the results ever achieved by artillerists hitherto. As an indication of the tendency of inadem cannon, it is interesting to note that the 7.5 exceeds in length the earlier types of the 12 in. gun, and is more than twice as long as the p older 6 in. weapon.
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The breech mechanism is of the most ingen. ious character, being of a new hand-lever type.
The breech is opened and closed by a single of the band-lever raintes flocks or unlocks) the motion of the lever.. The one horizontal swing breech-plag, which is of a special design, swings it in and out of the gun, and "cocks". the fing-striker..
The first defenilant pointed out two flower were found the watch and earrings part of one APP OCHING PRACE IN CHINA. pors (on being taken to the place) in which
of the earrings was missing and was found on the person of the 1st defendant.
This gentleman was awarded 6 weeks hard labour and 12 strokes of the birch, than fatiguing to stand up, and has, we believe, ordered his incals to be served on the mantel.
P. S. 347 deposed that he went with Sorgt. Smith to No. 12 Elgin Road and the rat de.. fendant pointed out the 2nd to him and accused the second of stealing his master's WE are sorry to hear, says a recent Malay Mail, watch and earings. The and defendant's Mr. Hare, the Secretary for Chinese Affairs, The two men were then taken in Mr. Moore's boxes were searched, but nothing was found has not been in good health lately and has house and the 1st defendant then sakl he be therefore gone to Dusun Tur for a change.lieved the things were underneath a shed out Rumour hath it that Mr. Hare will shortly side luis master's house. proceed on long furlough, and that during that time he will act as Second Commissioner Wai-hai-wei. With his wide knowledge and experience of the Chinese and the Chinese language there can be no doubt that Mr. Llare
In the London Missionary Chronicle the Rev. H. D. Beran records his first impressions of Shanghai. The foreign settlement and the magnificent Bund naturally call for some en- thusiasm. Of the native city "dirt and decency seem to be two things about which the Chinese in the city hold absolutely opposed opinions. The former they have everywhere, the latter nowhere." He records that on Christmas Day at the service in a native church the congrega- tion mustered about 100, and the collection
There seems at last to be some prospect of the protracted and confused negotiations with
FERENCE SHAREHOLDERS will be held 1 Wines and suitable for invalids and month, for it is happily not a dangerous case, has been happily chosen for the appointment. where as a result it will be pleasing rather China being brought to a more or less satisfac-
at the COMPANY'S OFFICE, No. 14, Des Voeus Road, on SATURDAY, the 20th July, at 1245 r.M., for the purpose of receiving and discus sing the Liquidators proposals for dealing with the Company's Assets.
The Liquidator,
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“HAILOONG," Captain Rathurst, will be despatched for the above Port, TO-MORROW, the 5th instant,
at Noon.
For Freight or Passage, apply to
DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & Co General Managers. Hongkong, 4th July, 1901.
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P. & O. S. N. Co's Steamship
"BENGAL,"
STRAITS.
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FROM BOMBAY, COLOMBO AND
Consignees of Cargo by the above-named
vessel are hereby informed that their Goods are being landed and placed at their rise in the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company's 'Godowns at Kowloon, where each consignment will be sorted out mark by mark and delivery can be obtained as soon as the Goods are landed.
This vessel brings on Cargo
From London, &c., ca 5.5. Britannia, From Persian Gulf, ex B. I. S. N. and B. & P.
S. N. Co.'s Steamers, Optional Goods will be landed here unless
delicate stomachs. D and B are after-dinier Wines of a very Superior Vintage." ALL ARE TRUE XERES WINES.
any case of so insidious a disease may be so
characterised.
HOWARD Graham, a boy of ten, appeared at the Centre-street police-court, New York, re cently, says the Daily Mail's correspondent,.on a charge of begging. The young culprit was Small quantities are supplied at singing "Two Little Girls in Blue" near the entrance to the Stock Exchange. The magis proportionate whole sale rates,
trate sent him to a Catholic orphanage. The boy's mother told the magistrate that her husband, Chailes Howard, was the author of
We only guarantee our Wines, and Two Little Girls in Blue." He died-two Spirits to be genuine when bought years ago, leaving his family destitute. Grahan, direct from us in the Colony or from Two Little Girls" for £2, but the publishers afterwards paid bim £100 more ow. our authorized Agents at the Cousting to the enormous sales. Ports.
A. 5. WATSON & CO., LIMITED, THE HONGKONG DISPENSARY.
The Hongkong Celegraph
HONGKONG, THURSDAY, JULY 4, 1901,
REUTER'S TELEGRAMS. RUSSIA AND THE MANCHURIAN
QUESTION.
LONDON, July and. The correspondent of the Daily Neris at Berlin, leaps from St. Petersburg that Russia has made a fresh compact with China; which is tantamount to the resurrection of the Manchurian Agreement.
LORD CHARLES BERESFORD ON NAVAL AND MILITARY POLICY.
It is stated in the Times that Rear-Admiral Lord Charios Beresford, C.B. is anxious to resign his command, so that he may be in a position to criticize the naval and military policy of the Government.
LATER.
THIS item of news is from the Morning Leader's very own New York correspondent There was considerable commotion among New York's 300,000 negroes when it became recently known that Prof. Johnson, of Kansas University, had discovered a means of making negroes white. Prol. Johnson, experintentitig with the blood of an albino, found that it con- tains a genn which causes white blood disease. He inoculated several animals, rendering them, albinus, and finally operated on a negro, with astonishing results. Four wealthy New York negroes, one worth half a million, went to Kansas on bearing of the treatment, and it is
reported that now they are nearly white.
BRISTOL Seems to have lost a chance of a good thing. Recently, says a home paper, a Govern
ment official visited the works of G. R. Stothert
played, and as they will not, work for Stathert, the Government official returned without de- positing any order. The cause of the strike is stated to be that Stothert will not employ wood shipwrights to work on iron, giving as his reason that they cannot execule ironwork with the skill, economy, and dispatch necessary. The local Shipwrights Society will not allow their members to work on wood for Mr. Slotbert
piece.
The and defendant was discharged. The Tsim Tsa Tsoi police are to be commended on a carefully worked out case and a smart capture..
LUCKY IN FINDING THINGS. Most of us are grumbling at the want of brass, Leung Lin is doing 14 days' hard labour for having too much. P. C. 342 found him with a quantity of brass fittings in his passession, He said he "bad picked them up on a wharf
him the above punishment.
Our Special Correspondent tory issue..... has pointed out that one grave disadvantage, attaching to the conduct, of the negotiations în Peking by men who had actually suffered and witnessed the abominable cutrages of the reign" of tortor, is that they are inevitably disposed to allow these horrors and their expiation to bulk · somewhat too largely in their minds. There is also, as he shows, a certain inconsistency in insisting too strongly upon, personal punish- ments when Prince Ching, whơ is associated in the Chinese mind with all the worst actions of the Chinese Government, has been received
came to over £t. He is probably correct in his wonder whether English congregations ever Mr. Kemp evidently thought so too, and gave with honour as one of the Chinese plenipoten yielded as much as 25. a head.
Is the current number of Blackwood appears ap interesting little sketch entitled "A Night's Adventure on the Pearl River," describing how party of four. European residents of Canton were attacked by pirates while on a picnic on the Canton river. The story, it need scarcely be said, loses nothing in interest from the fact that it happens to be true. Although no names are mentioned the incident recorded is none other than the piratical attack upon Messrs. Spalinger, Burckhardt, Huygen aud Hogg on January last. The details were telegraphed home at the time, but the adventure as recorded by the writer in Blackwood makes quite an interesting narrative...
CORRESPONDENCE.
¿We do not necessarily endorse the opinions expressed by. Correspondents in this column.)
TO THE EDITOR OF THE HOSURONG Telagnatic"
and Company, of Bristol, to inquire into the SIR, read your paper last night in my cause of the strike of shipwrights, which pre-quarters and saw a letter signed "Beach vented that firm undertaking work which the comber "Allow me to say it is all rot. I left Government contemplated placing in Bristol. my ship some time ago and got at once decent lodgings in the Star Coffee palace. ! As shipwrights would to some extent be w
secured the job I am now in. I do not say bucked round, hard; for three days and it is a first class, well paid position, but it enables me to live cleanly and decently and takes me away from the company of the most awful lot of loafers, thieves by birth and breeding and lazy nondescripts, that it has ever jbeen my lot to consort with. I ani sure by staying where I am for a month or two and make a good job of, the one I've got, and mind proving I am not a drunken sot, my boss will you, Sir, there is a premium on ordinary sobriety in Hongkong. In spite of being hard up in your City, I have not one particle says the Jalay Mail, will be glad to know of pity for the strong, well fed gang that roam that Mr. Tan Yew Wet, who is studying medi-round seeking whom they may devour, begging, cine and Surgery in the Alice Memorial borrowing and stealing, and although for three Hospital in Hongkong, is making good pro-days one of them, I now sign myself,
Yours truly, gress. He has gone through nearly half the course and will in about two years' tire comp Hongkong, July 4th, 1901. lete the whole. Mr. Tan Yew Wee was a dresser in a Perak Hospital, and, taking advantage of the leave for which he was eligible, left for Hongkong in the early part of 1900 to graduate as a Licentiate of Medicine and Surgery. We are glad to hear that he has
THE INVASION OF THE TRANS-MANY of his friends in Selangor and Perak,
KEI. TERRITORIES.
The Boer invaders of the Transkei terri-
tories attacked Maclear, but without success, thirty young farmers keeping them at bay until relieved by General Dalgety. The enemy retreated through difficult routes.
WEATHER REPORT.
"WORKER."
ASSAULT.
Lance Sergt. Bond No. 34 was charged with assaulting Cheung Yau, a chair bearer. This was the outcome of a letter that appeared in the Daily Press a week or two ago. The summons was dismissed, there being no ap pearance of complainant,
EXTENSIVE FORGERY AT
SHANGHAI.
țiaries. The punishment of particular evildoers, is worth securing mainly in so far as it teaches a lesson to the rulers and people of China, which cannot alberivise he taught.. Its efficacy from this point of view becomes more doubtful as lims enables those on the spot to see things in their proper, relations. At the same time it is evident that the desired lesson bas been taught in ways presumably more effective. The total devastation of a great tract of country, the complete desiruction of the my- stery and sacredness attaching to Peking, the desecration of the very shrines of Imperial authority, and the ignominious exile of the Court these are things, the significance of which may be thought to be greater than the punishment of a hundred or so of the worst. offenders. It has been, said that the previous" occupation of Peking was never heard of by the bulk of the Chinese people.' But things have changed very much, even in China since. that event and the marl: now made by the allied forces is far broader and "deeper than was ever made before. We may perhaps as sume that all China, or at least all the China that counts, is aware of the signal humiliation inflicted upon the dynasty.—The Times.
The special correspondent of the Times, writing on May 22nd, via Rangoon, from Ganton, describes the attitude of the French in that region
· The China Gazette of the zych ulto. says:— - A daring and skilfu! forgery was perpetrated upon the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank on Thursday afternoon by a young, Portuguese clerk named A. Rozario, employed in Messrs Benjamin, Kelly & Pott's office. Rozario presented a cheque signed apparently by the fun for Tls. 15,000, and asked the shroff to pay him six thousand in sycee and the rest in notes. Having no suspicion, and probably thinking that as the Bank would be closed on the two following days, the firm might want the cash for the settlements, the people in the Bank paid out the money, without further FRANCE AND SOUTHERN CHINA. enquiry, over the counter. The young man calmly gathered up his "loot and going straight to the German Bank, almost that he should be given a draft upon Tientsin next door, handed in the sycee with a request
It was 'ascertained later that for Tls. 0,000. the note was a forgery by Rozario and a very clever one, evidently done by racing the signature on the cheque over a genuine signa- ture on some other document. His movements have since been 'closely traced by the detec tives and it seems clear that he went on board. same night. The supposition is that he has. a China Merchant's steamer, bound north the
gone to Tientsin, unless the six thousand tel draft was a red-herring thrown the and a very heaty ons, thrown across the scent the trail. But it seenis almost impossible that the forger can go far without being arrested. The cheque, he forged was the last one of the book and the signature was very cleverly imitated. Rozario is only about 20 years old and bore a good character.
NORTHERN NEWS,
The political activity, displayed by the French in this region has doubtless helped to bring home to the Chinese authorities the dangers with which the reckless policy of the old régime has been fraught. Under the energetic impulse of M. Hardouin, the French Consul, who has learnt all the ap proved methods of French political propag andiem in Siam, the French are unquestionably
instructions are given to the contrary before N.E. coast of China, and relatively low over given entire satisfaction to his examiners, and Number of cases reported Other Asiatics 2 her objections to the use of the salt gabelle in cable fron Saigon to Amoy, whence it can
5 P.M., TO-DAY.
Goods not cleared by the 11th instant, at 4 P.M. will be subject to rent.
No Fire Insurance will be effected by me in
any case whatever..
All damaged Packages must be left in the Godowns, and a certificate of the damage ob tained from the Godown Company-within ten
The Observatory report says:- On the 4th at 12.10 p.m. the barometer las risen generally. Pressure is highest aver the
the S. coast. Gradients slight for N.E. and E. winds on the China coast, and for S.W, winds in the N. part of the China Sea. Forecast Varying, and E. winds, light or moderate; weather improving.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
days after the Vessel's arrival here, after which THE Banvard Vaudeville Company arrived
no Claims will be recognised.
H. A. RITCHIE,
Superintendent, Hongkong, 4th July, ror.
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Mr. N. LAZARUS, Occulist-Optician, of London and Calcutta, may be consulted for SPECTACLES at 16, Queen's Road Central, (R. HOUGHTON & Co.) (Nearly opposite the HONGKONG HOTEL), Business hours: 9 A.M. to 5 PM.
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GREAT proportion of cataracts and diseases affecting those advancing in life occur to those having some deficiency in the construction of the eyes-the many years of 'Eye Strain' ending in serious forms of disease Glasses specially adapted in youth to those requiring them save and preserve the sight;
Constantly recurring headaches, spells of dimaess when reading, weak eyes, the letters running together; any of these symptoms indi- cate a deficiency in the form of the eye requir ing Glasses only to correct and cure., VATS
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yesterday by the Kawachi Maru:
THE German mail of the 29th May was deli. vered in London on the 1st inst, PARCELS mails for Europe, &c., per s.s. Chusen will close at 3 pim, to-morrow; the 5th inst
has now been called upon to act as Assistant Lecturer on Materia Medica and Demonstrator of Osteology. Owing to the existence of the plague in Hongkong he was also requested to assist the Medical Officers in the post mortem and microscopical examinations in the Public Mortuaries,
in is said, on what authority we know not, that Mr. Kruger is writing a book. which shall contain the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth about his conflict with this country. To put it mildly, Mr. Kruger has not been exactly famous for his passion for truth - in the past; but, as the proverb- says; "it is
A SALUTE was fired at noon to-day by the war-never too late to mend." Anyway, the truth ships in harbour, in honour of American Inde pendence Day.
THE dredger Canton River still lies at the bollom for, apparently, the waters of the Harbour find their way into the vessel as fast as they are pumped out, and the machinery. employed is not capable of dmining the whole harbour.
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from Oom Paul ought to be good reading, There was a Patriarch once upon a time who lamented that his enemy had not written book. It is Mr. Kruger's friends who are likely to wait because he has, if the forecasts of this wonderful production be correct, Mr. Kruger, it appears, is, indignant, with, the Englishmen who misled him, and he means to make it as hat for them as he knows
Tur next French mail, dated June 4th, which how. We will, with permission, take this with should have arrived by S.S. Ernest Simonsenin of salt. That some Englishmen were was owing to an accident to that ship, foolish enough to write letters to Mr. Krüger transferred at Colombo by SS-Rings Moru, intimating their sympathy with him while and is expected to reach Hongkong on or negociations were still proceeding between this about 16th July.
country, and the Transvaal is likely enough, Several have already been published. But that CAPTAIN DAWSON, late of, the Heihow, is at
Mr. Kruger is in possession of any letters which present in Hongkong and, we hear, waiting to take command of the Taiyuan, trading to seriously compromise the honour and patriotism Australia The numerous friends of the genial of any English gentleman we do not for a little Captain will, we are sure, wish him all moment believe. Still we should like to read success in his new-ship,
Mr. Kruger's book-Pall Mall Gaselje,
THE PLAGUE.
Number of cases reported (Chinese......1,439
PEKING, June 27th, up till noon of the 3rd Other Asiatics 49 The question of the method of payment of July, 1901
Europeano...26 the Chinese indemnity seems to be still far Chinese .......... 8 from settled. France has finally withdrawn payment, but now the Viceroys and Governors nake the point that the heavy charge necess- ary to raise thirty million tuels annually froin' ran bear. the provinces is more than their revenues
CheFoo, June 27th.
Europeans......✪
during the past 24 hours
Total number of cases reported to date 1,524 Number of deaths reported (Chinese 1,399 up till noon of the 3rd Other Asiatics 33 July, 1901
Europeans...... 9 Chinese........EO
. Numerous refugees from Manchuria are Number of deaths reported) Other Asiatics 1 arriving here. They report that the whole pro-
during the past 24 hours
vince of Shingking is in a state of insurrection. Europeans... 0
The rebels are overrunning the country, pillag. ing and burning. Around Moukden all the villages and bamleis bave been burned, and hundreds of the inhabitants who offered resis- tance have been killed. The Russian forces are entirely insufficient to maintain order in southern Mancburia-Ostaliatische Lloyd,
Total number of deaths recorded to date 1,452
deaths are -
Since noon on Saturday last the cases and
Cases Chinese.....
"Other Asiatics...........
European
Total
Deaths Chinese"
Other Asiatics Europeans
Total
The plague returns for last week were
Cases Deaths...
34
37
The returns for 4th July, 1894, were
Tatal deaths to date
,300 12
New cases in previous 24 hours... Deaths in previous 24 hours. Patients under treatment.
A Portuguese boy named Theodore Thomas was removed to Kennedy Town this morning,
All European patients are doing well
Mrs, Frimrose was discharged to-day cured, and goes up the coast for a trip,
THE "CRESSY.'
making strenuous efforts to assert special claims to influence in and around Canton. No less. than six, French gunboats have been sent to patrol the Canton waters, a small steamer bas heen subsidized nominally to carry French mails from Hongkong to Canton, and the usual inducements are being offered to Chinese junk owners to fly the tricolour. A French bank will shortly open a branch here, and various other sohemes are on foot to place French enterprise en évidence. The commercial inte- rests of France in Canton, which main y con- sist of a small share, barely 15 per cent, of the silk trade with, Lyons, cannot possibly explain. this sudden outburst of activity. Still less can they explain the need which France las sud- denly discovered for laying an independent directly connect with the Russian system over the northern telegraph-wires. Despite the most liberal treatment which the Eastern Telegraph Company has accorded to French possessions, this scheme has long been advo cated by the French colonial party, but it. was, of course, pooh-poohed in British-cir cles, with our customary optimism, until about three weeks ago news came from Amoy that a French ship had entered and landed a cable.. there. It was a smart piece of work carried out in a business like fashin, with the utmost secrecy, rendering, telegraphic communication between France and her Far Eastern posses sions independent of cables under British control,
The provinces of Kwang-si and Yun-nan have hitherto been regarded as the main objectives of French colonial expansion from Tongking. M. Dourder, the Governor-General of Indo China, has undertaken a journey to Europe with the At Portsmouth, on the 28th uật., the new avowed object urging upon the French armoured cruiser Cressy was commissioned Government the completion the railways: for service on the China Station. She is the connecting Tongking with those provinces, first of a class to which, she has given her
but there is vanie reason to believe that a 'pro- name, and which marks a reversal of our jeci, where we are already witnessing the penultimate methods of cruiser construction. preliminary steps is being matured for includ To'an armament of two 92 in. guns and twelve ing within the sphere of French expansion the 6 in: quick-firers she unites a speed of 20 knots whole province of Kwangtung with Canton on displacement of 12,000 tons. Her size and itself. Some anxiety is certainly, beginning to her speed, however, are beside the question be felt, not only by the Chinese authoritics, The important point about her is that she is a but also in responsible circles in Hongkonguns return to that system of armour, which we the prosperity of our Colony is indissolubly adopted in the Aurora class of cruisers, aud-bound up with freedom of trade-in Canton and which has since been neglected in favour of the wealthy province of which it is the capital. qere deck protection. The Cressy and her French protectionism has killed the import successon-for there are many are a return is ant trade which Singapore formerly “carried protection to the old idea of a water line belten with the French possessiona, but Singapore in a somewhat modified form. There may be has ample resources in its own interland. there probably some doub; as to the pro Hongkong, on the contrary, is wholly depend cise effect of this belt, but there is no question ent upon the maintenance of the open door on that the new armoured cruiser is far more than the mainland. French activity in Centon, match for any protected cruiser The Crassy therefore, deserves at least to be carefully
watched - By Indo European- Telegraphi will be the strongest cruiser in the Far Eat
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