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~THE-MUSCOVTIE PLAN IN THE

FAR EAST.

Britishers in the Far East have been reduced to a state of despair by the complaceat attitude adopted by the British Government in face of the imminent destruction of our trade interests by the threatened annexation and closing of Manchuria by the Russians, their promise of evacuation in Beptember next being naturally regarded as a mere device to gain farther time for preparation as well as to lover'if possible the interests of Britain, America, and Japan,

"We are unquestionably confronted at the pisent time," says a well-known British mer. chant, "by a grave crisis involving the whole fulare existence of our valuable commercial interests in North China. Let the British people harbour no mistaken notion that Russia attaches any serious meaning to her promises of evacuation or to her pledges about the open door,'. In the first place she has no intention of sacrificing the enormous expenditure she has undertaken by a voluntary retirement al the last moment; and in the second place her present industrial development will never allow her to compete on equal terms with the great industrial and commercial Powers of the world. | The last is the true key in, the whole of Russia's political aggression in this quarter,

"It is in order to escape from this very com- petition in the markets of the West that we have seen her hastening across Siberia to the Far Eastern seas, where she has resolved to find her commercial and industrial salvation by the creation of vast trading preserves out of the opulent provinces of North China: If

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 2 28, 1903.

gelatinous mass of inertia unwilling or in- capable of asserting itself.

*Accordingly, a British subject is reduced to the humiliating expedient of exploiting the prestige of some other European Power. He goes to a Frenchman, a German, or a Russian, and the Chinaman, recognising at once that it is no longer a trifling matter, the case is settled, and the Britisher thus vicariously obtains his rights, to the eternal disgrace of his own emasculated government.

Naturally enough Russia plays upon this state of things for all it is worth, and may be pardoned for believing that Great Britain will swallow any amount of bluff, or put up with any commercial disability rather than fight for her rights.' It is this belief which caused the Crimean war, and which is now inducing Russia-little as slic intends to fight any genuine opposition-to parade a readiness to support her aggression by force of arms if need be. Although, as Russians have themselves confessed, her near Eastern interests are too vital to be jeopardised by an expenditure of her military and naval resources in the China seas, Russia is ostentatiously accumulating large supplies of warlike stores at Port Arthur, Dalny, and Newchwang, as well as throwing up forts and earthworks in various parts of Manchuria. She is daily adding | to her already large force in China and has long been secretly training a native army of Chinese under Russian officers.

North

The next few months will decide whether not only Manchuria but Mongolia, Kashgaria, and probably Korea as well are to be enclosed within the barbed wire fence of the Russian

Intimations.

NOTICE:

N and after the 9th Septembar, the S.S. what at the WESTERN END OF WING LOK 0%

"WING CHAI " will berth at the Now,

STREET.

MING ON & CO., 2nd Floor, 16, Victoria Streat. Hongkong, 7th September, 1993.

ASPARAGUS!

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FRESH HENRY IN COMBS !!!

75 cents per Ib.

LL these can be had fresh every day. .. Please call ut

CHING SHAN CHAN,

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PRAYA CENTRAL HONGKONG, SOAP MANUFACTURERS.

Entimations.

THE

ROBINSON PIANO

Co., LTD.

NOTE

ENTIRELY NEW STOCK

to arrive this month. Specially and

most carefully chosen, direct

FROM THE FACTORIES

BY OUR

MR. ROBINSON

Mails.

NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA. (THE JAPAN MAIL STEAMSHIP COMPANY.)

PROJECTED SAILINGS FROM HONGKONG-SUBJECT TO ALTERATION.

STEAMERS.

KAGOSHINA MARU......

K. Kori

INADA MARU,

W. Bainbridge

HIROSHIMA MARU

J. Nagao........

KAGA MARU✶

Gea. Anderson

KASUGA Mau.

Wm Hunter SADO MARU.......

S. J. G. Parsons.......

YAWATA MARU

NOW IN EUROPE.

A. E. Moses

HITACHI MARU

J. Campbell.....

GREAT REDUCTIONS

RIOJUN MARU*5

N. Obno....

in our present stock of Pianos and KAWACHI MARU

Musical Goods.

DESTINATIONS.

{MOJI, KOBE and YOKOHAMA...? THURSDAY, 1st Oct., at

SAILING DATES.

Daylight,

MARSEILLES, LONDON & ANT-

Daylight.

Noon.

+

WERP, VIA SINGAPORE, PENANG, SATURDAY, 3rd Oct, at COLOMBO and PORT SAID..ain) (BOMBAY, VIA SINGAPORE and? TUESDAY, 6th Oct., at

COLOMBO...... VICTORIA, BC, and SEATTLE, TUESDAY, 6th Oct., at

U.S.A, VIA Shanghai, Moji, KOBE and YOKOHAMA

(NAGASAKI, KOBE and YOKO

HAMA

ANT

KOBE and YOKOHAMA...........................

4 P.M.

WEDNESDAY, 7th Oct., at

Noon.

FRIDAY, 9th Oct; at

Daylight.

FRIDAY, 9th Oct., at

4 P.M.

SYDNEY and MELBOURNE, VIA MANILA, THURSDAY ISLAND, TOWNSVILLE and BRISBANE ... (MARSEILLES, LONDON & ANT-

WERP, VIA SINGAPORE, PENANG, SATURDAY, 17th Oct., at COLOMBO and FORT SAID..............

Daylight. (VICTORIA, B.C., and SEATTLE, TUESDAY, 20th Oct., at

U.S.A., VIA SHANGHAI, MOJI, KOBE and YOKOHAMA Gunionfestacijos,

KOBE and YOKOHAMA

4 P.M.

2 FRIDAY, 23rd Oct., at H. Fraser creibler_

Daylight. Through Passenger Tickets issued for the Principal Cities in the United States, Canada and Europe, in connection with the GREAT NORTHERN Railway and Atlantic Steamers. Passengers have the Option of Travelling by the Sanyo Railway.

For further Information as to Freight, Passago, Sailings, &c., apply at the Company's ncal Branch Office in Prince's Building, 1st Floor, Chater Road.

T. 8. TAKAYANAGI,

she is to have anything like a chance of found- Empire. Russia, in the meantime, has dis- HARTMANN'S RAHTIEN'S GENUINE A quantity of old music still left, Round the World Tickets also issued. Between Moji and Kobe, 1st and 2nd Class Through

ing this commercial Eldorado, which her domestic and financial position so urgently re- quires, foreign competition of every kind must be rigidly excluded from these provinces. They must become Russian preserves in the strictest sense of the word. Thus it is that Russia cannot afford to keep her word to those whose trade it is her set purpose to destroy, and all her promises to maintain the open door, with equal trading facilities for her com- mercial rivals are so much deliberate and calculated subterfuge.

patched to the scene her very ablest diplo- matists, while by a singular fatuity British interests have been deprived of the only per sonality capable of coping successfully with Russian diplomacy at a critical stage in the history of our China trade. That Sir Ernest Satow, the nblest British Minister since the days-of Sir Henry Parkes, should have been withdrawn for so long a period at such a time is the worst possible proof of the invertebrate management of our Foreign Office.

The present British Government has always "As we have permitted her to come so far professed an especial solicitude for Imperial without protest we are ready to agree that her interesis. But this great idea cannot invari- expenditure entitles her to a political pre-ably be pursued along the line of least resist dominance in the country But we will recog- Dise this only upon conditions embracing equal rights for our people to trade, own land, and develop mines in the country, as well as freedom to send our merchant ships and men-of-war into all or certain parts. Unless we obtain these conditions we must appose her tooth and

nail,"

But mere political reponderance will near satisfy Russia without the rights of absolute possessior. An important journal devoted to Russian commerical interests put the case in a nutshell the other day when it said, "The Russian Govemment must choose at once be- tween two courses. Either it must evacuate Manchuria immediately without incurring fur ther expenditure, or it must annex the country, and proclaim it à Russian province,"

Russia is aware that no other course les before her But her policy is to conceal this crucial fact and to trust to patient diplomacy, time, and the peace-at-any-price spirit in Anglo Saxondom to effect her hidden purposes. The Impudence of her pretensious is only equalled by the means taken to secure them. Money being Russia's most pressing need, she has laid hands upon the customs at Newchwang, worth £48,000 a week from British, American, and

Japanese trade, as well as the Chinese western. customs of the annual value of £45.00, derived chiefly from the junk trade.

While evading the, payment of duty on her own trade she has secured its rigid enforcement In the case of all others. Moreover, she has now succeeded in geting a Russian appointed to the control of this important department, and Sir Robert Hart, in weakly permitting the super- cassion of Mr. Cecil Bowra, the able British commissioner of customs at Newchwang, has excited the disgust and dismay of all British, Americans, and Japanese in China,

ance, and Imperial tariffs will do little to toughen the sinews of Empire if we evince no disposi tion to protect our trade and commerce from such wanton attacks as those which Russia is making in North China.

But the Muscovite has no intention of push. ing his attempted burglary to the arbitrament All that is needed is a firm front in

of war.

SOLE AGENTS FOR

COMPOSITION RED HAND BRAND, HARTMANN'S GREY PAINT, DAIMLER'S PATENT MOTOR LAUNCHES,

&C..

Sals Agent: for FERGUSON'S SPECIAL CREAM Jod

&C...

&C.

P&O SPECIAL LIQUER SCOTCH WHISKY, &c. EVERY KIND OF SHIPS STORI'S AND REQUISITES ALWAYS IN STOCK

REASONABLE PRICES Hongkong, 14th May, rok,.

AT

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LEVY HERMANOS.

AMOND

JEWFI

MRS AND WATCHMAKERS.

FASTMAN'S

KODAKS and FILMS. OMEGA" is the best, "THREE YEARS" Sole Agents for "OMEGA" WATCHES."

guarantee given to every purchaser.

40, QUEEN'S ROAD,

conjunction with those who have interests like 401 therefore, wake up to the realisation of what is our own to protect. Let the British people,

at stake, and refuse to submit to a great humi. aspirations-St. Jamer's Gazelle. llation on the threshold, of their new Imperial

Intimations.

FROZEN FOOD AND FRUITS, DEPOT No. 3, ICE HOUSE STREET. FRESH SUPPLY of FROZEN AUSTRA

LIAN PROTIUCE Just received by the China Navigation Co.'s 5.5. TAIYUAN," including MUTTON, LAMB, PORK. SUCK PORK SAUSAGES, MILK (concentrated), ING PIGS, HARES, RABBITS, TURKEYS, FRESH BUTTER. CHEESE, BACON, HAM and CHOICE TINNED FRUITS.

Pass Books will be supplied to, and Credit Accounts kept with well-known residents.

Price Lists on application.

"

LÂU LƯE TỔNG, Manager, The Hongkong Frozen Food Supply.

·Hongkong, 26th September, 1903 Lizbe

TE

JAPANESE CURIOS.

WE have on View foi a Few Days only, a

Superb Collection of the FINEST IAPANESE CURIOS, especially selected from the Collections of the Leading Art Manu- facturers in Japan.

Watson's Huilding,

N. LAZARUS,

OPHTHALMIC OPTICIAN

OF LONDON AND CALCUTTA,

SIGHT TESTED.

LENSES for the correction of Astigmatism ground on the premises,

Spectacles and Eyeglasses in all styles and metals.

Consulting Room:

No. 16, Queen's Road Central,

The Curios have just been unpacked and comprise n Unique Selection of AFTERNOON TEASETS, COMBINATION TE SETS, Nearly opposite the Hongkong Hotel with KIOTO, KAGA, CLOISONNE and DRA- GON VASES: SILVER CLOISONNE entrance through store of R. Houghton, Tailor. CLOISONNE, BUCKLES, NAPKIN RINGS, KIOTO SILK EMBROIDERED SCREENS, FIRE SCREENS, KIMONOS,

Colombia Graphophones and Records. Early inspection invited.

RITCHIE & CO., 39. Des Vœux Road, Hongkong, 25th September, 1903.

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etc., etc.

Since the triumphs which Russia has been permitted to achieve our merchants and traders have been subjected in an increasing degree to❘ Slavic arrogance of a most intolerable kind

The Russian military authorities, who have invaded the treaty port, in order 'o assert their supremacy, are hampering British trade by every means in their power. If a British merchant orders native carts for the carriage of his mer chandise it frequently happens that the Russians despatch soldiers to meet them and comman- deer the whole for some fictitious purpose of their own. In consequence natives can bardly INFORMATION has been received from the ba got to supply carriage nowadays

Again, British naval officers ashore have free quently been hustled and insulted by Russian soldiers, while British and American blue Jackets have constantly had to join forces for their mutual protection against similar ebulli. tions of hostility.

By means of pressure exercised at Peking Russia prevents the confirmation of conces lons to British and American subjects, and even leases of property already granted by the Chinese. Thus Russia bas to affect managed to establish the claim to a sort of veto upon. any transaction between the Chinese Govern- ment and any other than Russian subjects. Appeals by distracted Britishers to their own authorities have been fruitless, and so low has British prestige sunk in the nerveless hands of Its recent guardians that British merchants who have complained have been warned by the Russian authorities against repeating this offence on pain of greater disabilities than they were already enduring is on

Indeed if any further evidence is needed of hift deplomble debacle it le to be found in the fact that an Englishman seeking legal redress against a Chinaman finds it quite useless to solle, the support of his own national re prezenta

may simply treats

with contempt the protests of these discredited "oficiale at whose back is a Power with a grant

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION,

that GUN PRACTICE

will be carried out from Stonecutters! Island on the 30th September, 1903, at fargeld.in a Westerly direction, to the South of Chung Hue Island.

Practice will commence at about 8.30 AM, and end at about to AM. if the range is clear.

By Command,

F. H. MAY, Colonial Secretary's Office,

Colonial Secretary. Hongkong, 23rd September, 1903. CHINESE AMERICAN COMMERCIAL COMPANY.

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A 美華 IMPORTERS, EXPORTERS AND MANUFACTURERS,"

THE Company's OFFICES are established

at Nos. 20 and 21, CONNAUGHT ROAD opposite DOUGLAS PIER,

Hongkong, 1st May, 1903,

MEE CHEUNG,

($438

PHOTOGRAPHER, TOP FLOOR OF 192 HOUSE, IN |

The House Road,

at

Snow in a position, in his New and Com ALL PHOTOGRAPHIC ART PRACTICED In the Colony or in any part of the Far East

"GROUPS AND VIEW, AN

DAVID BENJAMIN, Manager.

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Hongkong, 23rd June, 1993.

GREEN ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY, LIMITED.

PORTLAND CEMENT:

In Casks of 375bs, net $4.75 ex Factory, In Bags of a5obs. net $2.88 ex Factory,

SHEWAN, TOMES & CO., Geo-ral Menagers. Hangkong, 15th August, 1003-

A

TUBORG BEER

being sold very cheap. Call in and see what we have. All en- quiries will be most courteously and promptly answered.

THE APOLLO

PIANO PLAYER

RECITALS DAILY

Price from $450 ́up.

PATTI ENDORSES THE APOLLO.

Hongkong, 28th September, 1903.

COMPAGNIE DES MESSAGERIES MARITIMES.

PAQUEBOTS-POSTE FRANCAIS.

NOTICE..

STEAM FOR

SAIGON, SINGAPORE, BATAVIA, COLOMEO, ADEN,EGYPT.MA" EILLES, MEDITERRANEAN AND BLACK SEA - PORTS, LONDON, HAVRE, BORDEAUX;

ALSO

Adelina Patti (Baroness Cederstrom) has given another great testimonial to the Apollo PORTS or BRAZIL AND RIVER PLATF, piano-player. She was so delighted with the instrument that was purchased by her last year

that this second testimonial is even stronger than the first one that she gave.

Mme. Patti says that the Apollo never has given her the slightest trouble and that the new concert grand is one of the most wonder ful and perfect piano-players that she has

ever seen.!

Hongkong, zod September, rons.

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| MADAM FLINT & CO.

IMPORTERS OF FRENCH MILLINERY AND DRESSMAKING,

MATERIAL ACCEPTED AND DESIGNED

during the Summer Months,

PRICES MODERATE,

CONNAUGHT HOTEL: ROOMS 4 andis. Hongkong, 31st August, 1903. (1062

Kabuto

PURE

DELICIOUS

REFRESHING

may now be had in Cases of 4 Doz. Quarts at $15.00,

ON TUESDAY, the 6th October, 1903 at P.M., the Company's Steamship Passengers, Specic and Cargo, will leave "ANNAM Captain Girard, with Mails, this Port for MARSEILLES, við Ports of Call, WITHOUT TRANSHIPMENT.

Acting Aanager.

Auctions,

PUBLIC AUCTION

BY ORDER OF THE MORTGAGE of the following

G

VALUABLE LEASEHOLD PROPERTY,

Situate in

on

TIT HONG LANE, Victoria, Hongkong, WEDNESDAY, the 7th October, 1903, at 3 o'clock in the afternoon at his

AUCTION ROOMS, DUDDELL STREET, by

MR. GEO. P. LAMMERT, Auctioneer.

All that Piece of Ground registered in the Section B. of Marine Lot No. 18 with the Land Office as the Remaining Portion of... Messunges thereon known as Nos. 2, 4, 6, 8, to and 12, Tit Hong Lane.

Cargo and Specie will be registered for 1.on- The Property is held from the Crown for the don as well as for Marseilles, and accepted in residue of the Term of 999 years granted by a transit through Marseilles for the principal | Crown Lease, dated the and day of May, 1887. places of Europe.

For further Particulars and Conditions of

EWENS & HARSTON, Solicitors,

Shipping Orders will be granted till Noon Sale, apply to only on MONDAY, the 5th October, Specie and Parcels received until 4 F.. on the same day. No Cargo will be received on board on TUESDAY.

Parcels are not to be sent on board, they must be left at the Agency's OFce. Contents and Value of Packages are required,

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For further Particulars, apply at the Com- pany's Office.

G. DE CHAMPEAUX, Agent, Hongkong, 28th September, 1903.

NORTHERN PACIFIC STEAMSHIP COMPANY.

BOSTON STEAMSHIP COMPANY,

BOSTON TOW-BOAT COMPANY,

PROPOSED SAilings from HONGKONG,

VIA

SHANGHAI, INLAND SEA OF JAPAN, KOBE AND YOKOHAMA, FOR VICTORIA, B.C., AND TACOMA, IN CONNECTION WITH NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY.

Steamers,

Tons. Captains. 1903.

TO

Pictoria

***** 3,502 J. Truebridge... [Oct. Shawmut...... 9,606 W. M. Smith... Nov. 14 Olympia 2,837 A. Dixon

Nov. 25 Taroma ...... 2,817 'M. Ridley ...... Dec.

Steamers marked (*) have no passenger accommodation,

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The attention of passengers is directed to the very cheap rates offered by this line to the Pacific Coast and to the Interior and Eastern

MACEWEN, FRICKEL & CO.. Cities of the United States and to Europe.

3 DUODELL STREET,

1st September, 1993.

-rig

NOTICE

FIRST Class FILSENER BEER guaranteed free from Salicylic Acid,

and any other Chemicals.

PRICE $10.50 per case of 48 bottles (quarts) |

or é doz. pints.

Special Prices for Quantities.

Sple Agents >

SIEMSSEN & CO. Hongkong, toth January, 1005.

Isold

THE HONGKONG STUDIO,

HIGHER CLASS PHOTOGRAPHER, 41 & 43, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL, TOP FLOOR.

PORTRAITS, GROUPS and ENLAR GING and COPYING in all Sizes. LARGE SELECTION OF VIEWS ALWAYS ON HAND PRICE VERY MODERATE. Hongkong, 13th September, 1903.

TSU FAN DENTIST

PRICE MODERATE CONSULTATION FREL. Next to the Hongkong Dispensary),

Jo, Queen's Road, Centrali Hongkong, 38th November, 1995 Grasse

SANITARY S0FT

Special rates allowed to members of Govern mant Services,

Through Bills of Lading issued to Pacific (650c Coast Polnis and to the Principal Cities in the

United States and Canada.

THE BEST PREVENTIVE OF ALL INFECTIOUS DISEASES,

BOAP.

VISINFECTANT

SOAP.

AVOID ALL RISK OF OUTBREAK BY ITS USE,

W. G. HUMPHREYS & Co., Bank, Bulidingy. Sinaplano nie upravov.

BIG

QURES

AMEN & WOMEN:

10 G is a non-poisonous

Aromady for say unnatura: discharge and Jakammation,

mau membranes. Fainters, Guaranteed not to Tigard Provents ConisKİPR GOBBLE WY CHEMISTS.

Curtaler mailed an roquest.“

EMANUFACTURED ET ·

• Arani Chizzical (s), CINCINNATI

โ

MR. GEO. P. LAMMERTE

Auctioneer.

Hongkong, 25th September, 1903.

To be Let.

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TO LET. CHEAPEST HOUSES IN THE COLONY.

MOE

FORRISON HILL GAP ROAD, Nice Houses, 4 Rooms, Bath Rooms, Out- houses and Verandahs, Only $40 inclusive of Taxes.

WILD DELL BUILDINGS. No. 147. WANCHAI ROAD. Comfortable and Airy Flats of 2 or 3 Rooms, from $25 inclusive of Taxes.

FOR SALE-CHEAP. "BAHAR LODGE" at the PEAK. S. A. SETH, Land and Estate Broker, Dairy Farm Co., Ltd. Hangkong, 12th September, 1993, [9160

TO LET.

From 1ST OCTOBER Next,

ERANIE BUNGALOW," KOWLOOK.

Apply to-

THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST-

MENT & AGENCY CO., LD, Hongkong, 26th September, 1903. ₤11750

TO LET.

FFICES now in 'course of erection on CONNAUGHT ROAD (New Prays) be tween Blake Pier and Queen's Buildings,

Apply to

THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST. MENT & AGENCY CO., LD. Hongkong, 23rd September, 1903. [11526

TO,

GODOWN TO LET,

NO. 155, PRAYA EAST, Spacious Two-

storied Godown. Suitable for Yam

Apply to

THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST MENT & AGENCY CO., LD Hoogkong, 10th July, 1903

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For farther Information as to Freight or or Coals. Passage, apply to

DODWELL, & CO., LIMITED,

General Agents. Hongkong, 28th September, 1903, 1874d

Hotel.

KING EDWARD

HOTEL.

"A HIGH CLASS. PRIVATE HOTEL.

LADIES' AFTERNOON TEA ROOMS,

TO LET

HOUSES in LEIGHTON HILL ROAD,

FLATS in MORETON TERRACE, CAUSE

WAY BAY, facing the Polo Ground, .GODOWNS at BOWRINGTON, Praya Rast,

· No. 1, RIPOK TERRACE in Flats," Apply to

THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST- TMENT & AGENCY-COLD Hocgkeng. 6th June, 1903,

PRIVATE BAR

T

BILLIARD ROOMS.

AND

Hot and Cold Water throughout Electrically Lighted,

Electric Fans (if required),

Electric Passenger Elevator to each Floor, Table Hote at Separate Tables.

For Terms, &c., apply to the

MANAGER.

TO LET.

WO SPACIOUS GODOWNS-Nos. 95

and 96, PRAYA EAST," Apply to

H, N. MODY,

Victoria Building

Hongkong, and February, 1903

⠀⠀ Insurance.

· NORTH GERMAN FIRE INSURANCE. COMPANY OF HAMBURG,SARTO

THE

HE Undersigned AGENTS of the aboval Company are prepared to accept First Class FOREIGN and CHINESE RISKS F CURRENT RATERNI

SIEMSSEN &-06.

Hongkong, 3214 October, 1902, [11160] | Hongkong, 18th May, 18957