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sciences, while ten entered the military schools that country. The three years limit being on the point of expiry the students have ordered by the Governor of Chekiang to return and take charge of the schools of estern Learning and Military Academy recently established in Hangchow. Should any of these returned students, however, show special qualifications or aptitude in any branch. of science which would require further study in Europe, it is proposed by the Hangchow provincial Government to send them abroad for another term of three years to complete their studies. In the meantime it is intended to send another batch of thirty students to Japan to succeed those who are 1000 to return, and this most commendable schome, it is reported, is to be kept up successively for four or five terms of three years each. FAMINE AND SICKNESS IN HUNAN PROVINCE. A Changsha, capital of Bunan, dispatch to hand, states that: owing to the drought of the past seven or eight months in the prefectures of Hengchoufu and Yungchoufu and the large independent sub-prefectures of Kueiyangchou and Pinchou, in that province, there have been exceedingly poor harvests there. The unfort unate inhabitants have to subsist, in lieu of rice on a mixture of sweet potatoes and Indian corn ground together with etm-leaves, and this, accompanied by famine fever, carrying off numbers of people. Furthermore that, although the districts nearer the senior prefecture of Changsha, where are the head.

is

quatters of the Governor, Treasurer, and Judge

of the province, have had better harvest results, speculators have bought up the greater part of their sice and stored the grain inside the city of Changsha, and have so far refused to sell unless at two and a-half times the usual rates In consequence of this there is also a scarcity in the region round about Changsha, and there are fears that hunger and discontent will drive

the suffering people into rebellion, unless the officials who, so far, have shown a lamentable apathy to the troubles of their subjects, exert themselves to import rice to sell at cost price

to them.

THE LATE CHINESE MINISTER

TO ST. PETERSBURG,

EXTRAORDINARY, REPORT AS TO HIS DEATH.

Peking, May 1st. Tsai Chun, Chinese Minister to Tokio has resigned on the ground of indisposition. Sung

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, MAY 13, 1902.

vigorously exerted to burke any accurate out- side knowledge of what is going on. But the details which have reached us are sufficient to make it very clear that the long smouldering aspirations of the people for freedom from the suffocating despotism of their present regime have begun to assume a very dangerous appearance.

But be the outcome what it may, our object is to show that apprehensions of Russia's war power, which are largely induced by the specious glamour of her colossal aspect, can be vastly exaggerated.

the very great wankness of Russia as one finds

There is nowhere so lively a perception of

in Russia itself Russian thinkers are able to re- cognise that her enormous expansion has been merely the subjugation of a number of semi- barbarian tribes in Asia; and, moreover, they are well aware of a graver source of weakness still. For what anyone who has mixed much with, all classes of the Russian "people must remember as his most startling impression is the almost universal longing for defent-in some great campaign..

TERRIBLE DESPAIR.

of a terrible despairas to the present condition The expression of this feeling, the offspring

of the country, is to be heard in North or in Southern Rusata, East or West, wherever the speakers are able men and women, who love their country and country's freedom. Among the most varied classes of society and people

existe Yuugelt sident desite for defeat in

this strangely

a coming war. For no other possibility of liberation from the vast accumulation of misery inspired by the greatest love for their country. seems to present itself to "Russians who are than the debacle which an unsuccessful war would entail upon their ruling system.

To us such a spirit must be astonading, and its widespread existence in Russia at the pre- sent moment, while it may induce the Govern ment of the Tzar to regard war as a necessary political diversión, must inevitably deprive the great northern Power of that unity and cohe- sion which are absolutely indispensable to the successful employment of armed force.

י,

But in addition to this element of weakness, even the armed force of Russit, with its impos ing array of millions, has from time to time exhibited traces of this same socialistic,yearning

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A South China Viceroy has telegraphed to the Government a representation for an enquiry as to the cause of the death of Yangju, the late Chinese Minister to St Petersburg, who is rumoured to have been kicked down the stairs in the Russian Foreign Department. The Viceroy states in his message that if the report is correct it is a disgrace to China. It is also very strange (the Viceroy says) that a son of the deceased should hang himself, without observing mourning and the fact may be taken as confirming the rumour to a certain extent, The Viceroy urged the Government to press forward an enquiry and he advised the Govern ment that no one will consent to succeed the deceased if the whole affair is not promptly investigated":

The immigration of the poor Russians into Manchuria has considerably increased lately...

The Chinese Minister to Washington has forwarded his resignation several times by wire. Asahi

DISTURBED RUSSIA.

THE PEOPLE'S RESISTANCE.

To his officers, except in certain picked corps, where they receive special military education and training, the same description applies: and the last big Russian maneuvres were marked by the most ridiculous mistakes on the part of the commissioned ranks, both high and low....

It is probable, for instance, that without the support of their ally, the Russian-hosts would not have the slightest chance against the highly trained armies of the Kaiser; while as to the much debated advance on India, the British soldiers, Sikh or Goorkha, will not find their match in the hordes of the Muscovite on mountain or on plain.

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For several days past leaflets have been scattered broadcast in St. Petersburg calling on the people to meet to-day (March 16th) in front of the Kazar Cathedral,

This morning the whole of the vast square was occupied by mounted gendarmes and with the object of preventing the meeting troops, which had been moved in overnight Other troops were drawn up to prevent the other factory centres ts the place of meeting. workmen marching from Schluesselburg and

In view of the grave news from Russia, as reported by Reuter, the following clipping from the Advocate of India, may be of in terest-Speculations upon the outbreak of the next great war have long been, associated in the minds of political thinkers with the potential The military force in the Nevsky Prospect readiness of the Russian Empire to press to wards the realisation of certain well-recognised was most imposing, while numbers of troops ambitions by the employment of her military were concealed in public buildings and in by. and naval resources,

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