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TELEGRAMS.kes of

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The War.

LONDON, 21st March.

The Temps states hat the French Minister at Tokio has protested, on behalf of Russia, against the bombardment of the quarantine station at Yan-shan-ton near Port Arthur on the roth instant.

Treachery of a Russian Officer.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23, 1904.

the Bélipse The Libian left | THE WEAKNESS OF FORT ARTHUR. | dated the 9th inst, having been taken to Chefoo

Cardiff on Jan. 29 and is expected to leave here on the 3rd instant.

THE RUSSIAN SQUADRON IN THE RED SEA.

On his arrival at Colombo, Captain Nu'tall

of the s.a. Netley all informed a representa- tive of the press, that or lie evening of the th February, bice days after he left Suez, he sighted fifteen Russian War vessels. Four were battleships and the remainder torpedo boats. They were between Center Peak and

A Russian officer attached to the General | Jabelzukur, steaming westward. staff has been convicted at St. Petersburg of selling secret plans for the organisation (of the field army to Japan. The officer has been executed.

The Near East. Five hundred Bulgarians divided into ten bands have crossed the frontier and are pro- ceeding towards Strumnitza and Monaster which are two intended centres of revolt.

LATER. Parliament The Vote of Censure, Sir Henry Campbell Bannerman, in moving the vote of censure against the Government in regard to the Transvaal Chinese ordinance, said that the British workmen in the Trans- vaal would be snuffed out by the biggest scheine of human dumping since the "Mid- dle passage" was abolished. The scheme in many respects was indistinguishable from slavery. He demanded the deliberately ex- pressed views of the Transvaalers. Mr. Lyt- telton in reply said that the Government would not have assisted the ordinance unless

a preponderating majority of Transvaalers had been in favour of it; he cited the grow ing distress in the Transvaal and said that the cry of slavery was ridiculous. The con- tract would be circulated 'in the Chinese

language in each village a month before the

recruiter arrived and the workers would receive from twelve to fifteen times the wages they would get in China. He denied that Chinamen were immoral.

THE WAR.

LAND WORK.

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THE MONGOLIA" CHASE. EXCITING INCIDENT IN THE RED SEA. PASSENGER'S ACCOUNTS OF THE AFFAIR.

A passenger, who linded from the P. & O. 5.5, Peninsular which brought in the English mails, has favoured us(Ceylon Independent) with some details of the recent incident in the Red Sea, when the P. & O. 1.5. Mongolia, bound from London to Australia, wis chased by a Russian squadron.

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The well-known special correspondent of the London Daily Telegraph, Mr. Denne Burleigh, has been writing a series of chatty letters to that journal on his journeyings in the Far East.

"It took nearly four hours to reach Port rthur from Dalny," says Mr. Burleigh in one of his letters. "Ere the wash of the surround ing hills ran down into the narrow valley and its branchings, and was carried seaward, the little loch or ford, behind the gap in the range that gives haven and shelter from storms at Port Arthur, must have been a big, a deep, and a fine anchorage. Time has silted up the harbour, and it will take three or four dredgers now at work two years or more to make wide channels up to the new quays. Not very much has been done towards extending its anchorage area since the Chinese authorities were turned out by the Russians. But-works, whereat over 10,000 copies are employed, are

by the British steamer Foxton Hall, which arrived there on the 12th.

The letter throws much valuable light on the condition of affairs in Port Arthur up to the time of the last bombardment and the fact that the writer has been in the Russian citades since the outbreak of hostilities. The letter reads in part as follows:

"I have much to say which I dare not put on

paper, for every letter leaving here is opened and if the contents are found to be derogatory to the Russians the letter is destroyed and its writer is made the object of much discomfiture in many indirect ways, even if worse does not befall him. I am taking the chance of smug gling this aboard a steamer which I hear is leaving for Chefoo in a day or two,

"I wish I were well out of this, but circum- stances are such as to prohibit my getting away, at least for the present, as I have work to do for the Government and while my remunera-

me.

craft principally engaged in trade with Port Arthur. So effectual has the blockade become that the most daring skipper will not hazard. losing his vessel and cargo in attempting to run in, although there is "big money in it," as many declare, if he succeeds. Formerly there were big cattle shipments to Port Arthur from Chefoo. This traffic has been abandoned.

There was formerly a large Japanese popula-. tion at Cheloo. The Japanese have nearly all left the pit, and what few remain are prepar- ing to go.

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Port with, ind J. M. Miller, second officer "Notwithstanding the proximity of Chefon of the Fungthum to a Times reporter, "there is less war news from Port Arthur at that place than there is in Shanghai. When we reached Chefoo the steamer was boarded by many anxious to obtain the latest war news, and particularly concerning Port Arthur. Many inquiries were made for Shanghai papers."

This statement by Officer Miller is further evidence of the effectual blockade of Port Arthur.

Following are items from the N. C. D.

News -

Tokio, 18th March:-A Russian destroyer was blown up on the 16th instant through coming into collision with an unbuoyed mine. Four of the crew were saved.

General Kuropatkin is to arrive at Moukden on the 26th of March, and at Liaoyang on the 28th.

Kobe 18th March:-It is officially annouse- ed that the Russian squadron under Admiral Makaro left Port Arthur on the night of the 1oth with supposed intenta to attempt a function with the Vladivostock squadron. On the 13th they sighted Amrd Tugo's scouts

in progress. These include the filling up oftion is large my every move is watched and a the old fresh-water lake, near the inner dack frustrated escape would mean short shift for basin; the making of three 700 ft. long new The incident, he says, occurred on the 19th docks, for the refitting of their warships; the "Of course you have heard all about the first

Confidential pourparlers have been taking place between the Ministers, the Elder States. instant, twelve hours before the Moagel a got removal of the whole of the old towns, Chinese (bree bombardments and how the Russians

men, and the Party leaders in the Diet, result- to Perim. It was about 11 o'clock in the fore- and European, to new quarters two miles were caught napping and the pride of their fleeting in a satisfactory understanding as to the Doon, when many of the passengers were on farther up the valley; the creation of railway rendered shattered and useless. The number financiad, rogramme of the war.

of the killed and wounded in the several bon the disiant horizon they faintly sighted a fleetsidings, wharves, roadways, bridges, and what of five vessels. On sighting them the Mongoli | not. And besides all these, provision has been bardments has been something awful and all ran up her flags. The next thing she observed made, and millions of roubles have been al hospitals are full, and a dozen temporary ones was that one of the feet detached itself from ready expended upon levelling and cutting have been erected and even these are crowded the others and tried to cut the Mongolia off. away hills for fortifications, the making of a to capacity limits and the medical assistance The P. & O. vessel was running parallel to great palace for Admiral Alexieff, the Governor, at hand is sadly inefficient to cape with the the fleet when the detached ship from the and a Russian cathedral. Besides, there is demands made upon it. Altogether 235 sailors other side steered in her direction and made more in progress, to wh, lines upon lines of and inhabitants, including Chinese, have been this attempt. The Mongolia went on forging streets, tenements, shops, with, of course, the killed or succumbed to injuries and the number ahead until the boat which was pursuing phantasy of parks, squares, and public gardens, of wounded is nearly as many again, Nearly whereon there is a band-stand and some rack-all the Russian warships have suffered severely them ran up a signal culling upon her to stoppe The signal was to "stop instantly," work, but, as yet, not a tree, and barely either communicated by the International Code by the shrub or suggestion of grass. hoisting of two flags in rapid succession. The signal was not made until it was seen that the fleet could not catch up the Mongolia without trouble. On the Commander of the P. and O.

boat reading the signals, he gave orders that

the engines should be stopped and this enabled the detached vessel of the fleet to come up to

within a short distance of the mail boat, when

it was ascertained that the vessel was a Russian torpedo destroyer, and had a Russian Admiral on board, whose name they did not ascertain.

Before the Mongolia stopped her engines and slowed down, it was noticed that the other Russian boats were stoking up and tried their hardest to keep up with the Afongolia which at about this time was running at the rate of six teen and a half koots an hour, though she is quite capable of doing nineleen knols. The Russian torpedo destroyer was probably the fastest of the five other ships, but even she, when seen by a naval officer who was on the P, & O. vessel at the time of this incident, was pronounced incapable for one of her classes to be able to do more than eighteen knots. On the Mongolia stopping, the Russian vessel steamed up alongside to about two hundred yards off and when it was about amidships it turned round and steamed back to its fleet, at the ime flying the signals "Excuse me." me the Russians were first sighted ey disappeared behind the horizon they dugunë in sight for about an hour altogether.

"Could you or anyone on board say why the Russian men-of-war insisted on stopping you?" asked a representative of this paper.-"Well,

the blue ensign-was flying the whole time."

Frankly, japan is taking a leaf from British practice, and vastly improving upon it, states the military correspondent of The Times. We have waged many wars, and have often struck bard and quick by sea, but seldom or never has our Army been ready to second this action at the outbreak of war. Japan is showing us how to wield that double-edged and mighty sword forged by union of all military effort to a common purpose. What matters if a few trans- ports are sent to the bottom? There are 59 000,000 Japanese behind, and why should we be less ready to sacrifice 10,000 men during Attack by sea than we are to lose the same number in a battle on land? So we see the great fleet of Japanese transports sprea wings and take flight in the wake of th ships like a flock of wildfowl, and we can for the Russian fowler on the Yalu, who sees them wheeling and circling round, but cannot tell whence they come nor whither they go,

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"Forts of no mean kind, and of great magni tude, can be counted not in units, but by tens, between Dalny and Port Arthur. The industry displayed upon every band in railway construc-

tion, housebu lung, the erection of fortifications,

the making of docks, roads, and the improve. mendable. Nor do I, nor can I, easily coum ment of the harbour, was admirable and com-

erate all the works that were being pushed forward, with, perhaps, ruthless, but unflag- ging zeal, and much prescience. Day and night operations go forward, designed to make Port Arthur a commercial emporium and a great naval arsenal.

but especially the battleships Retvisam and Cesarevitch and the cruiser Pallada, the com plements of which have been sadly decimated. "The Chinese of the place became thoroughly demoralised as soon as the first sheit was fired

last month and hundreds of them took to the

hills in droves, some very scantily clad, and

were herded to and fro by the falling shells

right in their midst and the slaughter would be like sheep. Sometimes a shell would drop

terrible.

The Russians who are wounded receive the first consideration at the hospital and the unfortunate Chinese come a long way after, while the Japanest, in the majority of cases, are left to shift for themselves as best they may. "The feeling against the Japanese bere is frantically intense and it would have been well for them could they have all got away, before

"I still hold that Port Arthur is over-fortified. Its frowning works, mounds of earth, and bastions of granite rock, its glacis and its trenches, circling and crowning some score or hostilities commenced. They are all consider- more of often remote and disconnected hills ed as spies and are maltreated on the slightest that can be dominated from other heights, pretext. As an illustration of this I will men- render them open to attack and capture in de-ion that companies of soldiery have been told tail. And to such a form of assault they are off and instructed to seize every Chinaman further peculiarly exposed, for the scorings of they could lay their hands on and twist his cue the soil are numerous and deep. Gullies

to find out if it were real or if its owner were a traverse the hills in all directions, and there is Japanese spy in disguise. A dozen of the magnificent cover for riflemen, often up to latter have been discovered and shot on the within 300 yards or less of the nearest outlying defences of the main works. Again, scarcely half the forts are completed or have any guns in position to check an attack delivered from the land side. It is intended, once the harbour has been deepened over a greater area, to open a new channel, cutting this silted sand is a direction opposite the existing basin upon the far side of the waterway. By that means the

and returned to Part Arthur.

The musical comedy, The Grisha, which was being performed at " Patersburg, has been withdrawn on account of hostile demon strations, to which it gave rise on the part of the public.

Two famous war artists are off to the front once more in Mr. Melton Prior, and Mr. Frederic Villiers-both on behalf of the us trated London News- the former with the

Japanese and the latter on the Russian side.

M. Pelletan, the French Minister of Marine, has issued an order to hurry on the prepara- tons for the departure of the cruiser D'Assas and the destroyers Javeline and Pistolet for the Far East. Only such equipment as is absolutely necessary will be completed. The Javeline and the Pistolet was to sail on 24th

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COMMERCIAL.

Advices dated, Shanghai 19th inst., report business done:-Indo-Chinas at Tis. 62) for March For agilt instant, Els. 140 for June, Farnham, Boyds at Tls, 142/143/142/ Tis. 147 for fuly and Tls. 148 for August. Langkats at Tis. 285 cash, Tis. 285 settlement and Tls, 300 for June. Gas at Tls, rio.

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curse the strength of their pinions. The practice of Japan to-day stands as the ideal and model of national strategy, for an island | Empire, and the nearer we can approach to it the more confidently may we anticipate the prevention of war in the wide territories under the British Crown.

CAPACITY OF THE SIBERIAN LINE. Colonel C. E. De La Poer Beresford, re- cently Military Attaché in St. Petersburg in an article in the Army and Navy Gonelle, says:— The London daily press seems strangely misinformed as to the condition of the Siberian and East Chinese railways. It is true that at first it was ill-ballasted, the rails too light, the sleepers too far apart, and the trains rocked unpleasantly-almost dangerous'y. But so long ago as August, 1902, the change was taken in hand. It is no secret that in 1900, during the fourteen weeks that clapsed be tween the commencement of hostilities and the time when the rivers Shilka and Amur were

closed by ice (Stretensk, the tail head on the Shilka being chosen as the base of operations), 52,000 men, 11,0co horses, and thousands of tons of stores were conveyed from Moscow to the end of the Trans-Baikal section. So that the number of men moved per week was even then 3,710 and of horses 710, not to speak of a few thousand tons of stores. This will work out to about 530 men a day of twenty-four hours. For the last six months Russia kas been sending men and stores to the Far East, mostly by land, as fast as possible. The Trans-Siberian and Estera Chinese railways have carried an average of 5,770 men a week from Moscow to Harbin. How many thousand tons of stores have been carried it is impossi- ble to say. At times during the last wa months as many as 15,000 men per week

travelled.

And how was this interesting incident taken on board by the passengers? "--"Some were amused, others indignant and not a few were, perhaps, frightened, When I say frightened I mean that sort of feeling was confined to some of the ladies only. All on board were spectators of this affair, and will long remember it. We arrived at Aden the following Sunday at 6 p.m., and at 11 o'clock that night two of the British fleet lying in Aden waters moved their anchorage.”

GERMAN SQUADRON,

A Berlin correspondent of a home journal reports that the Berlin authorities are now com. ing to the conclusion that the protection o their interests demands the presence of an in-

creased naval force in Eastern waters. They consider that they must be prepared to guarantee the absolute safety of the Kiao-chau district, and to deal with a possible revolution- ary movement of the Chinese population, and there are signs that the dispatch of a powerful squadron from Kiel is in contemplation. ironclads of the Kaiter class have received orders that point to the probability of their soon going to sea, though nothing definite is yet known. These vessels have over 11,000 tons displacement, are most powerfully armed, and have a crew of 651.

WAR NEWS AT HOME.

Writing from home when the last mail lef, a correspondent says:

of the harbour and direct access in the traders' wharves and the new railway sidings.

"The Russian ships rarely go out either for target practice or for steaming manoeuvres. From such information as I could gather, as well as what I saw for myself, they are slack in their sailor duties, for the officers spend much of their time ashore, and the ideal of Russian life seems to be finding enjoyment and solace in such amusements as a very tarry' town affords. Again, it may be that as the Russian ships are not taken either out or into the harbour under their own steam, but are hauled by tugs and directed by local pilots, there is an excuse for their not being out and about at sea every day. The fact that the officers do not handle their own ships under the vessel's own steam indicates either a want of confidence or a want of experience upon the part of their naval commanders. The pilots and tug captains, by no means all Russians, are now to be set a new trial, for the feet is to he tested by being towed out and into the harbour during the night. As the entrance is straight, wide, and clear, though but of moderate uniform depth, and the rocky hills stand out boldly, there should be no serices difficulty or risk in the adventure. From a fcquent inspection of the feet's targets after practice it is evident the shooting is of very mediocre quality. The target was never towed at any great speed nor was the range a long one, but it was rarely ever hit or put in danger. Of course I am told it is different with the artillerymen-the garrison gunners in the hig shore batteries that frown from every hill-they can shoot well, and many of the cannon are of great size.

Although the war is now only a few days old there are few outward signs in London of public excitement. On Monday an office in Fleet street hang out a Japanese flag, but it

"Barracks, barracks, and military quarters, was significant that many in the street did not recognise it, and I know at least one mati who built and building everywhere, was what I saw was stopped and asked to shed some light on all the way to Moukden. Upon arriving there, COLLIERS HELD UP" the rising sun. Another sign was the appear. one saw the accustomed crowd of Russian From the S. F. Prers of 14th inst.----

ance of a life-size photograph of Viscount uniforms, Russian letters, and the Russian flat Captain A. Cunningham of the British collier Hayashi in the window of a camera shop in floating over that of the fiery Chinese dragon. Foxar reports having been stopped by a the Strand. It attracts quite a crowd, but not bired a ricksha, with a coolie for driver and Russian torpedo boat in the Red Sea, and so many as does a collection of photographs of another for pusher, and set out upon a long after an examination of ber papers, she was Russian warships (including the torpedoed five-mile run through the ancient three-walled allowed to continue her voyage. The Dutch Retudion) in a printshop at Charing Cross. Capital of Manchuria, the home of the Manchu steamer Polyphemus was also held up in the The loudest evidence is of course the evening Kings, for the suburb of Tung-Whang, where Red Sea while on her way from Liverpool to newspaper, which in breaking out to a degree the missionaries dwell. I found Russian sen- tries on guard at the gates, as, later on, I found Java, In this case the steamer fell in with the which recalls the dark days of the Boer war. Russian squadron, but was also allowed to Siill, even in the music hal's there are only and sent some home photos of them and their proceed after an examination of her papers. sporadic references to the gallant little Japs, officers, in occupation of the Palace of the and at the first night at the Savoy Theatre the Manchu dynasty, standing by the throne, and AN ADMIRALTY COLLIER Captain Gordon of the British Admiralty audience was quite lethargic to several robust in the temples, and other buildings. collier Labuan, which arrived here yesterday verses about the war. Sooner than other cities, form Cardiff with 5,055 tons of patent fuel on London usually finds ways and means to de board, reports that he encountered eight monstrate her excitements, but although every Russian men-of-war in the Red Ses, and one is talking about the conflict there is little when the vessel touched bang there were yet to make the stranger aware of London's several Dutchmen-di. Arlber Captain Interest in the big events on the other side of Gordon has reported the there facts to Capt. the world,Munchieter Guardian.

IN PORT ARTHUR.

PREVAILING CONDITIONE

they have been docked and thoroughly over- hauled.

"At present the calculation is to plug them up sufficiently so as to be able to utilise them for harbour defence. They are all badly crip- pled and literally shot to pieces.

"The soldiers and sailors here are working like Trojans, for they realise that it is a ques tion of life or death to them and no efforts are being spared to repel a land attack, which it is confidently expected will be made in the near future. Many of the big guns from the ships have been landed and placed in the forts, the shore batteries having so far lamentably

failed to come up to expectation.

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THE HONGKONG FROZEN FOOD

SUPPLY.

DEPOT NO. 3, ICE HOUSE STREET.

Telephone No. 343. TRESH SUPPLY OF FROZEN AUS-

"Every man available is working night and day outside the city, helping to throw up earth.

F TRALIAN PRODUCE just received by works and to place the guas brought from the the China Navigation Co.'s 5.5. TAIYUAN," including MUTTON, LAMB, PORK, ships in position thereabouts,

There are SPICED BEEF RABBITS, HARES, enormous quantities of dynamite in the city PORK SAUSAGES, MILK (concentrated), and this has been used in mining some of the FRESH BUTTER, (80 cts. per lb), CHEESE, easiest approaches to the place. Miles of HAM (PRIME, SMOKED),

Pass Books will be supplied to, and Credit barbed wire have also been used in the pre Accounts kept with well known residents. parations against assault by land.

Price Lists on application,

"There is plenty of food here but it is care- fully husbanded, for a long siege is anticipated and already prices are high enough to cause great suffering among the poor peasantry. A cargo of cattle was successfully landed a few days ago and three more cattle ships are ex- pected during the next week.

"The weather is bitterly cold and the popula tion as a whole is completely demoralised. one well known man out of his mind and The reverses sustained have driven more than severatsuicidesamong military and naval officers have been reported. Attempted desertions have been frequent and already forty soldiers have been shot for this reason. I should say that there are ten thousand Russian soldiers in the place to-day.

"What is thought to have been the Japanese fleet has been sighted twice during the past two days and another bombardment is fearfully awaited. So far the forts have not sustained material damage but a large number of business houses have been razed to the ground, and there have been several outbreaks of fire caused by the shells which proved troublesome

a year even if there were here to last to extinguish. There is enough ammunition bombardment every day."

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LAU KUE TONG, Manager. Hongkong, 23rd March, 1994.

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REGULAR MEETING of the above

A LODGE will be held at the FREEMA SONS' HALL, Zetland Street, on TUESDAY, the 19th instant, at 5 for 5.30 P.M. precisely.

Hongkong, 23rd March, 1904. Visiting Brethren are cordially invited to attend

ZETLAND

1413

LODGE,

The China Merchants' steamer Fungshun reached Cheloo on March 14. On the evening of the 15th a formidable fleet of japanese war ships appeared off the harbour, creating some consternation among the inhabitants of the port by the use of searchlights, playing them on the barbour and the north shores of the bluff. The fleet did not enter the harbour, they being apprised, no doubt, of the absence of the enemy.

Officers of the Fungshun report everything A LODGE, will be held at the FREE

No. 525, E.C. REGULAR MEETING of ZETLAND

Two steamers arrived from Chefoo yesterday, the Fungikas and Harting, and by one of

as being very quiet at Chafoo, When the ship MASONS HALL, Zetland Street, on SATUR. them a resident of Shanghai received a letter left that port there were only three vessels in DAY, the and April, at 8.30 for 9 P.M. precisely from a friend in Port Arthur, says the Shanghai the barbour. Prior to the breaking out of Visiting Brethren are cordially invited to attend.

Hongkong, 23rd March, 1904. Timer of 19th- inst. · The missiva, which was | hostilities, the harbour used to be alive with

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