I saw a Bour, a short man, with a dark. board, going round carrying his rifle under his arm as one would carry a sporting rifle, and shoot three of our wounded Private A. C. Bell, 69th Company Imperial Yeomanry:
I heard a Boar call to one of our men to put up his hands, and when he did so the Boer shot him from about 15 yards off.``I was about zo yards off. Private George, 69th Company Imperial. Yeomanry!
I was walking back to camp wounded when I saw a Boer about 17 years of age go up to a wounded Derby man, who was calling for water, and shoot him dead. This Boer then came up to me and took my bandoller away. Gunner W. H. Blackburn, 18th Battery Royal Field, Artillery ...
I saw a Boer take a rifle and bandolier: from a wounded Derby man, and then shoot him. The Boer then came to me and asked me for my rifle. I showed him where it was lying on the ground.
Pte. P. Mulling, French's Scouts:
I got into conversation with a wounded Boer in No. 6, General Hospital,. Johannes- burg, and he told me that the name of the Boer wearing a pink puggaree, who is sup. posed to have shot Lieut. Spring (query), Imperial Yeomanry is Piet Forster, a German, who speaks English well. Several of the men state that they saw a Boer, evid ently someone in authority, trying to stop his men from shooting our wounded. Ail the above men are in No. 6 General
Hospital, Johannesburg, and state they are. prepared to swear to the statements above.
C. HEVÍORTH SAVAGE, Major. Deputy Assistant Adjutant-General, Intelligence, Krugersdorp, 20 July, 1991.
RUBBER.
[959c to be left in the Godowns, where they will be Africa." He points out, however, that there had twelve pockets, with a flap coming down of the gutta-percha Tree, and planting is now
“All broken, chafed, and damaged Goods are
examined on the 9th instant, at 3 P.M.
No Fire Insurance has been effected,
HAMBURG-AMERIKA LINIE Hongkong Office. Hongkong, 2nd September, 1901, [948c
[ORTHERN PACIFIC STEAMSHIP
Captain Weigall, will be despatched as above NORT! COMPANY.
on SATURDAY, the 7th instant, at 5 P.M.
This Steamer has Superior Accommodation for First class Passengers, is fitted iroughout with Electric Light and carries a Doctor.
For Freight or Passage, apply to
JARDINE, MATHESON & Co.,
General Managers. Hongkong, 4th September, 1001, Гобус
THE OSAKA SHOSEN KAISHA, LIMITED.
FOR TAMSUL VIA SWATOW & AMOY,
HE Company's Steamship
THE
"NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
STEAMSHIP "DUKE OF FIFE" FROM TACOMA, VICTORIA, YOKO- HAMA, KOBE, MOJI AND SHANGHAI
The above Steamer having arrived, Con signees of Cargo are hereby requested to send' in their Bills of Lading for Countersignature, and to take immediate delivery of their Goods from alongside.
Cargo impeding the discharge of the Vessel will be landed and stored at Consignees' risk
"DAIGI MARU,” Captain T. Kitano, will be despatched as above and expense. an SUNDAY, the 8th instant.
For Freight or Passage, apply to
THE MITSUI BÚSSAN KAISHA, Agents.
Hongkong, zud September, 1901
Izz6c
"GLEN" LINE OF STEAMERS. FOR NAGASAKI KOBE & YOKOHAMA,
HE Steamship
TH
GLENROY," Captain Forbes Selby will be despatched as above on TUESDAY, the 10th September.
For Freight, apply to
MCGREGOR BROS. & GOW, Agents. Hongkong, 2nd September, toor
[póze PORTLAND AND ASIATIC STEAMSHIP .COMPANY,
Agents for and in connection with THE OREGON RAILROAD AND NAVIGATION COMPANY, Operating the New First-class Steamships
INDRAVELLI" "INDRAPURA,”
and
"KNIGHT COMPANION," between HONGKONG and PORTLAND (OR.,) Calling at SHANGHAI, NAGASAKI, MOJI, KODE, THE
and YOKOHAMA,
THE Steamship.
"INDRAVELLI," will be despatched for PORTLAND (OR.) on or about the toth September, 1001.
DODWELL & Co., LIMITED, Agents. Hongkong, 3rd September, too.
"BARBER" LINE OF STEAMERS.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
5.5. "SATSUMA," FROM NEW YORK; STRAITS AND MANILA.
~ONSIGNEES of Cargo are hereby informed that all Goods are being landed at their risk into the Godowns of the the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company, at Kowloon, whence and/or from the wharves delivery may be obtained.
No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns, and all Goods remain ing undelivered after the roth instant, will be
subject to rent.
are other reasons why its possession is of importance to Great Britain, and he_special- ly, emphasises the facts that it contains the head waters of the Nile, and that it affords an outlet for Indias emigration. "East Africa," he says, "is the America of the Hindoo, and we do not naturally desire to see all the Indian enterprise in Eastern Africa sheltered by a flag that is not British. But Uganda is not only suited for Indian enter- prise. One of the most interesting passages in the report deals, with its suitability for white colonisation:-
SOIL AND CLIMATE,
In the eastern part of the Uganda Protecto- rate there is a tract of country almost without parallel in tropical Africa ; a region of, perhaps, 12,000 square miles, admirably well watered, with a fertile soil. cool and perfectly healthy climate, covered with. noble forests, and,
to A
BA
very great -extent, uninhabited [4 by any native race. This area lies at
En altitude not less
than 5,000 and not more than 10,000 feet. It is healthy for European settlers as the United Kingdoms, British Columbia, or temperate South Africa. I have never joined issue with those enthusiastic and ill-informed persons who in earlier days put forward every tropical African possession as a British Colony. I trust I have always been careful to point out that countries like Nigeria, Sierra Leone, the Gold Coast and most parts of British East and Central Africa, though forming valuable dependencies to be governed after the manner of the Indian, Empire, were wholly unsuited as future fields for European settlement; the white man might go there as planter and capitalist, but could never hope to make it the bome of himself and his descendants as he would have to do in the self-governing Colonies of the Empire. with regard to the Eastern Province of the Uganda Protectorale, I am able to say decidedly that here we have a territory' (now that the Uganda Railway is built) admirably suited for a white man's country, and I can say this, with no thought of injustice to any native race, for the country in question is either utterly uninhabited for miles and miles, or at most its inbabitants are wandering hunters who have no settled home or whose fixed habitation is in the lande outside the healthy area.
All Claims against the Steamer must be pre sented to the Undersigned on or before the fob instant, or they will not be recognized.
All broken, chafed, and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on the roth instant; at 3 P.M.
No Fire Insurance has been affected. Bills of Lading will be countersigned by
DODWELL & Co., LIMITED, Agents. Hongkong, 5th September, 1901. [9650
IMPERIAL GERMAN MAIL LINE.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES,
Through Bills of Lading issued to Pacific Const Paints and all Eastern, Canadian and United States Points..
For through Rates of Freight and further THE Steamship Information, communicate with or apply to
ALLAN. CAMERON, General Agent
f9ose
Hongkong, 23rd August, 1901. AUSTRIAN 'LLOYD'S STEAM NAVIGA: TION COMPANY.
STEAM TO YOKOHAMA AND KOBE.
THE Company's Steamship
"TRIESTE,"
Captain Mitia, will leave for the above places, on TUESDAY, the 17th September, P., For Freight or Passage, apply to Z
SANDER, WIELER & Co., Agents, Hongkong, 28th August, 1907.
S.S." PREUSSEN,”.
of the NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD. baving arrived, Consignees of Cargo are hereby informed that their. Goods, with the exception of Opium, Treasure and Valuables, are being. landed and stored at their risk into the Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company, Limited, Kowloon, whence delivery may be obtained
No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns and all Goods remaining undelivered after the loth instant, will be
subject to rent,
All broken, chafed, and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on TUESDAY, the tosh instant, and E9z68 THURSDAY, the 12th instant, at 9.30 AM.
All Claims must reach us before the 16th
MINERAL RESOURCES.
But
Siz. B. H. Johnston speaks in terms of high Of the resources of the country generally
approval. Rubber of good quality is plentiful; there is coffee of commercial value; excellent wild cotton and timber, and an abundance of sugarcane. Elephants, zebras, and ostriches are further sources of wealth. With regard to minerals, Sir H. H. Johnston writes with more reserve, but he shows that iron, copper, and coal are to be found in the Protectorate, and he, thinks the chances of gold discoveries are
Government to take fiscal measured in view of sufficiently good to warrant him in advising the
to SOUTH AFRICA, RED SEA, BLACK SEA, THE CHINA MUTUAL'STÉAM NAVIGA" instant, or they will not be recognized, the possibility. On this point he says a
LEVANT, VENICE and ADRIATIC PORTS), THE Company's Steamship
"CHINA,"
***
Captain Leva, will be despatched as above on TUESDAY, the 17th September, D..
For information as to. Passage and Freight, apply to
SANDER WIELER & Co. Agents
Hongkong, 28th August, 10ht...
"GLEN" LINE OF STEAMERS.
16850
FOR NEW YORK, VIA SUEZ CANAL THE Steamship
THES
"GLENGYLE
Captain T. Darke, will be despatched for the
TION COMPANY, LIMITED.
TRANS-PACIFIC SERVICE
:.. TO VICTORIA (E.C.) AND SEATTLE ! Calling also at TACOMA and carrying Cargo on through Bills of Lading to New YORK and other points of the United fitates in connection
with the
* GREAT NORTHern Railway Cols
LINES:
THE Steamship
MOYUNE," Tons 4646.
A
No Fire Insurance has been effected. Bills of Lading will be countersigned by the Undersigned.
NOT
-- Agents, ****
NOTICEY
the
"I know positively of no great mineral wealth in the Protectorate at..
present moment, any more than the experts who fre-
NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD,S
MELCHERS & COquently examined the Transvaal before 1884
ind any idea of its wealth is gold, at su
sur- Hongkong, 4th September, roor
prises may be in store for us in Uganda, which may equal or surpass the diamonds and gold of South Africa and I consider that a rule should RESPONSIBLE FOR DEETS, be laid down in anticipation of such develop. ment that the Uganda Protectorate is in time to repay to the United Kingdom all the moneys. advanced in, yearly subsidies and spent on the construction of the Uganda Railway. I firmly believe that before many years are over the country will at any rate produce a local re Venue. sufficient to relieve the British t (935- | SBA WITCH, American ship, Howes.--Master: payer from any obligation to provide further
is due here 6th September, and will have quick despatch.
For Rales of Freight and further Particulars, above Port on or Passa pipple, 190pply to JARDINE, MATHESON & [9270
For Freight to
MCGREGOR BROS. & GOW. Hongkong, 281 August, 1901,
Hongkong, agth August, xpon........
Co.,
Neither the CAPTAIN, the AGENTE, nor the Owners will be RESPONSIBLE (or any DEBT contracted by the Officers or the Crews of the following Vessel during her stay to Hongkong Harbour:
L. SCHEPP, American ship, C. S, Kendall, BC Carlowite & Co.
ridges loaded into the magazine much more quickly than without it, but the clip holds the cartridges in the belt and prevents their being lost. The belt worn by the Boers generally over it and fastened to a stud. The bottom of the pocket or pouch was perforated. The clip with five cartridges in it was put cartridges protruding through the holes at the horizontally into the pouch, the ends of the
cartridges were then secure and could also be bottom, and the flap being fastend down; the
withdrawn quickly from the pouch. The action of the Lee Melford is like ours in respect to the loading, each cartridge being separately inserted. The infantry carried their cartridges loose in two pouches in front on each side of the belt plate, the effect of which was bad in two ways; the man could not lie prone and was constantly losing his cartridges. Our cavalry, combining as it does the essential ad- vantage of both mounted infantry and cavalry, renders unnecessary the two distinct branches, but it should have a gun firing a larger bullet.
SHOOTING OF WOUNDED AT
VLAKFONTEIN.
EVIDENCE OF OFFICERS AND PRIVATE
...SOLDIERS.
War Office.
The following was issued to the Press by the
Kitchener sends following information respecting shooting wounded by Beers at Vlakfontein
LIBUT. DUFF'S EVIDENCE.
Licat. W. S. B. Duff, Imperial. Yeomanry, has given me the following information:
The day after the fight at Vlakfontein on 29 May he was conversing with "Lieu. Hern, also of the Imperial Yeomany, who had been badly wounded in that engagement, and has since been invalided home to Eng- land.
Lieut. Hern, told him that while he was lying wounded on the ground he noticed about 26 yards from him Lieut. Spring and Sergt. Findlay, both of the Imperial Yeomanry.
They were both slightly wounded, and were binding up each other's wounds, when a young Boer, wearing a pink puggaree round his hot, came close up to them and shot them both dead. This Lieut. Hern aaw himself.
He lay quite still, and the Boers thinking him dead contented themselves, with taking his spurs and leggings. Lieut. Hern also said that the same day others of our wounded were deliberately shot by the Boer
C. Heyworth Savage, Major, Deputy As- sistant Adjutant General, lutolligence, Kru gersdorp, ai June, 1901.. Further information collected by Lieut. Duff, Imperial Yeomanry, in reference to the alleged shooting of our wounded by the Boers during the fight at Vlakfontein, 29 May, 1901.
SOLDIES, EVIDENCE. Private D. Chamber, H. Company, 1st Eat- lalion Derbyshire Regiment
Whilst lying wounded on the ground I saw Boer shoot two of our wounded, who were lying on the ground near me. This Boer also fired at me from about five yards away, but missed me
Private W. Bacon and Private Charles Girling 1st Battalion Derbyshire Regiment:
The exports of rubber from Sierra Leone in 1900 amounted to £3,406 to Germany, aud 23,335 to Grent Britain. In Cochin China the Government is patronising the cultivation
being tried in various pants, chiefly in Laos, also in Annam and Tonquip.--in-French indo- China the exports of gulta percha for 1900 amounted to 339,000 kilos, against 52,813 kilos in 1899. Gupta pertha comes chiefly from Annam and Laos. A picul of good quality is worth about £13.
Shipping.
Arrivals.
MARA KOLD, German steamer, 1,950, G. Kradit,
3rd Sept-Moji 29th August, Codi. E. A. Trading Co. MANCHURIA Russian steamer, 1,627, D. BANCA, British steamer, 5,99, P. Martin, Svanoff, 4th Sept,from Port Arthur
R.N.R., 5th Sept,Foochow 3rd Sept.,- General.-P. & O. S. N. Co.." N HONG WAN 1, British steamer, 1,806, Pantney, 5th Sept.,.-Singapore 28th Aug“, General,
Chinese,
HAILAN, French steamer, 377, Andersen, 5th Sept, Pakhoi and Hoidow 4th Sept, General A. R. Marty
DAYDREAK, British steamer, 700, A. H. Best,
5th Sept.,-Canton 4th Sept... Generál— C. M. S. N. Co.
FIREBRAND, British gunboat, 455,
5th Sept.--Canton 4th Sapt. -
Clearances at the Harbour Offer. Pak Kong, British str, for Canton. Choysang, British str, for Shanghai. Zyeemoon, German str., for Shanghai. Bingo Maru, Japanese str., for Singapore, Daybreak, British str, for Ningpo. Clam, British str., for Balikpapan: Eastern, British str., for Timor. Reiching, British str., for Swatow. Manchuria, Russian str., for Port Arthur, Taicheong, German sir., for Foochow. Haitan, British str., for Swatow. " Tientsin, British str, for Nagasaki. Francais Coppel, French str., for Portland,
Benar tires.
Sept. 5, Princess Irene, Ger, stry for Europe. Sept. 5, Foochew, British sir, for Tientsin.. Sept. 5, Hipsang, British sir, for Hakodate. Sept. 5, Taichiow, German str., for Bangkok. Sept. 5, Sibiria, German str, for Singapore, Sept. 5, Piccola, German str, for Saigon Sept. 5, Michael Jebsen, Ger. str., for Haiphong Sept. 5. Protector, Norw, str. for Shanghal, ́ ́. Sept. 5, Flaitan, British, str, for Coast Ports. Sept. 5, Dr. Hans Jerg Kier, Norwegian str.,
For Samwak.
Sept. 5, Lycamson, German str; for Shanghai: Sept. 5, Eastern, British str., Australian-Forts. Sept: $, Choyrang, British sir., for Shanghai, Sept. 5, Manchuria, Rus. str., for Port Arthur Sept. 5. Ness, British str. for Moji.
Per Hong Wan 1; from Singapore--1,098- Chinese, enhan
Departed.
Per Perla, for Manila-Messrs. F, H, Ilse, E. C. Pollit, Mri, J. H. Mead and child, Mr. W. O. McIntyre, Mrs. Barton, Mr. W. R. Reber, Mrs. V. Weissmann, and Mr. O, Ahlycr
sızların. M
~ Per Prinzess Trene, for Singapore-Messrs, Mis. Price and children, Rev. J. Smith, Messrs. Sturm, A. Z. Magell, C. Hoemdorp, Rev. and
E. Meil and Stockwell For Genoa-Mr, A. Knoth Consul-General B, C. G. Scott, and Hop, F.-H. May, GM.G.. For Southampton Mrs. Hanson J Anderson and H. Talbot, For London--Mr. F. H. May and children, Mr. and Mrs. B. C: Dixon and children, Messes, E. Cook J. M., Crop, E. Bruce, J. McLearn, D. Cedi, C. Anderson, E. Capalne,” and W. Harcourt. For Breman-Capt.: Krebs, Mr. // Calender and children, and Mr. G. Sasic.
Whilst lying on the ground wounded, with two other wounded men, four Boers came up to us, dismounted, and fired a volley at us. We were all hit again, and Private Goodwin, of our regiment, was killed The Boers then took our arms away, and after swearing at us, rade away.
Corporal surgeant 1st Bn. M. Derbyshiro Regiment
Whilst lying wounded behind a rock I saw. Boer sheata Yeomanry officer who was walking away wounded in the hand.
SHIPPING REPORTS
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