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The Hongkong Celegraph

HONGKONG, Wednesday, March 30, 1904.

THE PROGRESS OF THE WAR.

It is becoming apparent that the war is rapidly nearing the stage at which the opera tions of both the combatants will gradually be disclosed and it be possible to follow the course of the campaign, whether on land or sea, and understand the object which either of them has in view by the movement he may make. Agam acknowledging our indebted ness to Mr. M. Noma, the Japanese Consul, for interesting communications from Tokio, we are enabled to place our readers in posses sion of the details regarding the second attempt, made on Sunday morning, to block the entrance and the inner roadstead of Port Arthur. According to a St. Petersburg tele gram, received here by Reuter's on Monday.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.especially that he will be able to come back in, conclusion, he said that for baba TELEGRAMS.

COUNTERFEIT dollars are said to be plentiful in Kuala Lumpur again. The counterfeits or made of an alley of hiswich and tin certalers very carefully rung einnot be delected.

the Far East.

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"perfectly restored to health; for, as you know, in the course of his duties he sustained an injury to one of his knee joints, which has laid bigu up for some months. We hope that the rest and advice he will be able to get in Eng. land will restore him to perfect health (ap- THE transport Chody has left Marseilles with plause). On behalf of the members of the over 1,000 troops for Tonquin, Three torpedo sanitary staff, I wish you, den voyage (applause). boat destroyers the copotte, Cutip and Woodcock said:-Dr. Atkinson and Flamberge are held in readines, I proceed to gentlemen, I thank you very much, indeed, for this very fine present, but I feel sure you will agree with me that it was unnecessary to do so because I am certain wo have got on very well together. I must acknowledge. I am rather a bad band at public speaking, but like most people I can wish for a good deal, and it is, indeed, a very hearty wish, of mine that, not withstanding the fact that during the past year THE Hon. Treasurer of the Ance Memorial excellent work has Leen done by the depart and Nethersole Hospitals begs to acknowledgement, that the work may be improved year by with thanks the flowing donation to the year until the plague is finally stamped out. funds of the Hospitals :--

Another wish of mine is that all those who went in for the recent examination may come out with glowing colours (applause). And yet

THE Japanese steamer Shinshu-Marw which stranded near Chemulpo on the and just. is reported to have become a total loss. She was 1,918 gross and 1,657 registered tax, and was built at Dumbarton, icotland, in 1873.

C. Wilcockson

$1

THE Osaka bosen Kaisha which Istely decid- ed to re-open its regular service to Gensan with the chartered vess ↑ Jacob Diederichsen has now postponed the opening of the survice indefinitely, and bas transferred the s can er tö the Chemulpo line.

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another. It is that the Civil Service Club may win the shield next year (applause). In our team we have some excellent material,

and I remember that on three occasions, over fo runs have been made need not add they were not scored by myself. On one memor: Ma T. Sercombe South intimated to members able occasion, I believe i made six. And of the Press at the Magistracy this morning lastly, now that the time is nearing for my de that additional accommodation would he pre-parture, I wish you all "good-bye" (applause), vided for reporters attending the Court. This news will be appreciated by Pressmen who have been considerably handicapped in their work for years past by reason of their havin to trust in chance in getting a seal.

on the 21st inst, a telegram was received by the acting Master Attendant at Singapor from the Harbour Master at Port Dickson stating that the local stearrer Hiedag Timor had gone ashore on the bar at Sepang, which is close to Port Dickson, Messrs. Wee Bin and Co the owners of the Rintang Timor sent the

Hong Liam to her assistance yesterday. No

details of the accident have yet comg 10 band,

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would be approached by the Inspectors he had written to the Captain Superintendent of Police asking him to convey to the members of the police force his, appreciation of their services In the past. (Applause)

MILITARY ASPECT. OF, KORBA.

Writing on the military aspect of Korea in the Morning Post, Mr. Ernest Dawson says:-The map of Corsa shows two roughly parallel lines, either of which might serve as a natural frontier between that kingdom and Chion. They are the line of the Yalu and Tumen Rivers, which is the actual political frontier, and the line of the mountain range which forms the eastern waterhead of those streams and the western watershed of the Ta-tung. On the Takong, and some twenty miles from the mountain range, is the town of Pyon-yang, or Ping-an, the site of one nf the ancient capitals of the kingdom. Through this place runs the military road from China, which is also a caravan route, and the beaten track of

* ANCIENT BATTLES.

HO

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BERVICE:

THE WAR.

THE ATTEMPT TO CLOSE

PORT ARTHUR

ADMIRAL TOGO'S REPORT:!.

(From Our Own Correspondent,)

YOKOHAMA, 20th March, 5.30 p.m.

Admiral Togo, Commander-in- chief, reports that a second attempt to close Fort Arthur to the free ingress

the old French missionaries. The strategic importance of the town is shown by its having of the Russian fleet, was made on been the ground of at least four decisive battles.

Sunds last by tour Japanese hulks endes uring to block the entrance to the port.

Near the close of the sixteenth century a Japanese Regent, the Shogun Daiko Fidejosi, having determined to invade and conquer China sought the alliance. of Korea. The Korean King, having at the moment no panicular Mr. Bryan said:-Dr. Atkinson and gentle ground of quarrel with his western neighbour, men. i am sure if I had been in perfect declined, whereupon the fiery Fidejosi invaded health, which, unfortunately I am not to-day, Korea, landing at Fusan with an army of one would express, more adequately, my sincere hundred and fifty thousand men. This force thanks for your kindness and for Dr. Atkinson's met with but little resistance, and overran the kind remarks in presenting me with this token peninsula, capturing and destroying Seoul and of your esteem. You will, I am sure, pardon taking possession of the whole country right up me, if I refrain from making a speech as it is to the two rivers. The Chinese Emperor, rather difficult for me to speak this morning dreading a further advance of the Japanese, pur I can assure you that I appreciate your kinda large army in the deld and came to the ness, and thank you very much, indeed. assistance of Korea. The main body of the (applause),

Chine-e marched overland, crossing the Yalu on the ice; the western coast was at

THE DECREASE IN CRIME,

but it is understood that she is in a dangerous STUCKS AND BANISHMENT AS DETERRENTS, valley of the Tatung and gave battle to position.

I will be remembered that a year ago Christian people in the United States and Canada were asked to join in a week of special prayer for missions abroad, during the week beginning with April 5th and closing with Easter Sunday. The response was so general

THE POLICE AND MR. SERCOMBE SMITH.

Mr. T. Sercombe Smith took his seat on the Rench at the Magistracy to-day for the last time as Senior Magistrate, he having been appointed to act as Puisne Judge during the absence on leave of His Honour Mr. A. G. Wise.

A pleasing ceremony was enacted at the

Chinese

the same time threatened from the sea Fidejosi concentrated his troops in the the Chinese at or near Pyon-yang. The were severely beaten, and were driven out of the country. The victory how ever was not followed up. Fidejosi withdrew leaving many of his followers to settle in Corea. Before the century closed he again invaded Korea, defeated another Chinese army at Pyon

yang, and was only prevented from invading

the attempt was 'repulsed,' but a somewhat and cordial that the Fleventh Annual Con- Magistracy this morning when the Police In China by his own illness and death....

ference of the Foreign Mission Boards in

the United States and Cnada meeung in January decided to repeat the call for united prayer, during the week beginning March 27th and closing April 3, 1901. As Andrew Marray puls it, "Tue inissionary problem is a personal one. No sacrifire can be too great if we can out. get the Church to

inspector Hanson as their spokesman, met in Court to offer their congratulations to Mr. Smith and express their regret at his leaving

spectors and subordinates, with Chief-Detective

The Bench.

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tung Valley was again the scene of an import Early in the seventeenth century the Ta

ant battle between Chinese and Japanese armies; on that occasion the Chinese were

different light is given to the matter in the Admiral's report which, although frankly acknowledging that the vessels were not suc cessfully sunk, shows that the Japanese suc ceeded in getting to the entrance of the har- bour despite the searching rays of brilliant lights which swept the waters from the forti. take time and wait unitedly before the urone felt they could not allow the opportunity to pass town and its approaches, massed their land

fied heights. It is very evident that Admiral Togo's aim is to imitate Admiral Sampsun's tactics by sinking vessels at the entrance to the harbour and bottle up the remainder of the Russian fleet in the land-locked basin. It will be recollected that a similar attempt was made early on the morning of the 24th February when four old hulks, laden with explosives, were sent into the harbour. By this time the Russians should be getting used to the unexpected visits of the Japanese, whose plucky determination to effectually

of God, to review her position, to confess her shortcomings, to claim God's promise of power. and to consecrate her all to Ilic service.”

THE Russian battleship Adiť (Proteračín Zaorthesky (one wonders how this formulable name will be abbreviated for daily use in the Russian Navy), which was laid down more than six years ago at Nikolaieff, has just succeeded in getting through her official trials sausfactorily, but beyond the bare statement that the designed horse-power (10,620) was considerably exceeded, no particulars as to speed, consumption of coal, &c., have been allowed to transpire. The length of time this ship has been under construction i. equivalent to the loss of nearly one third of her life of

Mr. Henson said that when the Police force knew that Mr. Smith was to be transferred to the acting Puisue Judgeship for a term, they without congratulating him on his advance ment, and to thank him for the help he had g ven to them when they had come before him with cases, and for his advice on points of law that cropped up. Though it was said that a Hanson remarked there was a certain amount policeman's life was not a happy one, Mr.

of satisfaction in cojoying the confidence of their superiors and the public. They wanted the criminals to dread them, and the law abid ing public to respect them.

Mr. Smith, in thanking Mr. Hanson and his fellow members of the police force, said that be was only going away from them for a short

victorious, and the Japanese were driven south- ward, where they settled in large numbers.

THE LAST WAR.

in 1894 the Chinese, having fortified the

forces in and around it, while their fleet con veyed transports laden with troops to the mouth of the Yalu, The Japanese, disembarking on both coasts, at Gensan (Won-san) on the east and at the mouth of the Ta-tung, moved in three

fighting on the 15th and 16th Seph, they com columns on Pyon-yang, where after two days

pletely routed the Chinese Army. If, as seems probable, the Russians send gunboats up the Ta-tong and land forces to occupy Pyonyang and cover the advance of a cloud of borsemen

The approach of the hulks was discovered by the enemy whose fish torpedos succeeded in sinking two of the bulks, the other two being sunk by their own crews at the mouth of the harbour.

The Admiral regrets that the scheme was not entirely successful, insomuch as the latter vessels have.

gone down at some distance apart,

The casualties on the Japanese side are four killed, including Captain Hirose, formerly of the Hokoku Maru, and nine wounded.

One of the enemy's torpedo cruisers Was hit near the engines. The Ja- panese torpedo boat flotilla sustained no damage at all.

CONCENTRATION OF JA- PANESE-FORCES.

100,000 SOUTH OF ANJU.

NEWS FROM NEWCHWANG,

(From Our Correspondent.)

SHANGHAI, 20th Maroli, 8.58 p.m.

It is reported that the Japanese

through the passes, it is most likely that the have already landed a force of one anciant capital will see another bloody combat time--perhaps a year. It was with a certain Russia and Japan, the possession of Seoul Anju. All the troops are marching under its walls. For though, as between hundred thousand soldiers, south of

but he was pleased that he was going to a amount of regret that he left the Magistracy, would count for something-far more than be- tween the armies which fought at Pyon-yang

FURNITURE block exit from, or ingress to, the harbour is efficiency, as against the average in the British higher office. With respect to the help and in old days-the true objective of the Japanese

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HOUSEHOLD REQUISITES.

construction of one-sixth or one seventh. In the British Navy, ships rarely attain to a "life of efficiency" of twenty years' duration, and such brevity of existence as efficient fighting machines and their ever- increasing cust render it desirable; not to say imperative, that the period under construction should be reduced by all possible means coo-

but another proof of the sort of men with which the Russians have to contend. It will not be denied that now she has lost the command of the sea, it is most vital to Rus sia that her communications from Port Arthur to Moscow should be maintained. This is no easy matter, and it is quite possible that the Japanese Admiral is keeping the for at Port Arthur continually on the alert as á shield to further operations elsewhere.struction if it is desired that that country should This afternoon news comes to hand of a reap the fullest benefit of its outlay on its

skirmish at Chongfu where the Russians were repulsed. We have seen that both armies are on the march, and most pro bably, it will be shortly after one of these

hushes to which, of late, we have become accustomed, that the sudden thunder of guns will announce the rival forces have

PHOTOGRAPHIC|met on land. It is here that Japan, if

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PROMPT RETURN. Hongkong, Sth January, 1904.

she is to accomplish the task she has set herself that is, the expulsion of the Rus sians from Korez and Manchuriase will have to prove her superiority as she has done afloat. In a defenceless conflict, [45 command of the sea would save her from invasion; but ships are powerless beyond CARMICHAEL AND

the range of their guns, and sea power will CLARKE,

not drive the Bear out of Manchuria. Con. trary to the general impression we have seen CONSULTING ENGINEERS and

that the Russian troops in Northern Korea 1. SHIPBUILDERS,

are withdrawing "before the steady advance of her enemy, whose first army corps of 40,000 men is moving slowly, steadily up to the neck of the peninsula. What the end will be none can tell; but already the course of events is proving that the Japanese know

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sistent with good and reliable workmanship. The same law obtains also in the Russian as in all other navies, and the Russian ship

builders will have to shorten the time for con'

Navy, it is stated that the ship, machinery, of the Stings, are entirely the products of Russian workshops, and made of Russian material.

armament, armour, and in fact the whole

30N POYAGE"

PRESENTATIONS

.:

Shortly before ten o'clock this morning

that no member of the force had ever come to Yalu, advice he had given to the police, he hoped now, as, then, would be the passage of the

thither; the advance proceeds slowly.

Alimentation stations are being established at points situated fifteen miles apart.

bim and found him brusque and unwilling to I stated my reasons in a previous, article for give any assistance he could. He had given believing that if Manchuria were to be the it with the greatest of pleasure, because he theatre of war, a summer campaign, would, be knew that the training of the police officials the more advantageous for the Japanese. The

The Russian authorities at New- had not been such as to make them in all cases same peculiar features of their army as would, entirely conversant with every point of law-in that case, operate so their, favour seem to chwang have declared beans and he, himself, did not profess to be familiar with promise that for a campaign in Coren the

(Renter's.)

The War.

LONDON, 28th March. General Kuropatkin has proceeded Liam Yang.

The Russians bave proclaimed martia. law at Newchwang.

Earl Ferry in the House of Commons li said that the British Consul at Newchwang had urged the retention of a British war ship at that port, but Admiral Singeald Noel concurred with Admiral Sir Cyprian Bridge in considering it inadvisable.

every point in law. If he saw that a case had winter would be most favourable. The climate beancake contraband. been wrongly lodged or that same advice was of Korea, owing to its more southerly latitude desirable upon procedure he never failed to and influence of the sea on both sides, is much give it. The help he gave was help to himself, less vigorous than that of Manchuria, Ai as it assisted him immensely. Cases were Seoul the mean winter temperatura is given by then prepared accurately. Mr. Hanson had Mrs. Bishop as about 33 deg. Fahrenheit. This quoted the saying that a policeman's life was implies that the ronds and the surface of the not a happy one; well, it bad not been much country generally are soft and slushy,, and the in his power to make that life happier, but he Japanese niobile columns, independent on ab had tried to make them as comfortable as he emergency not only of wheeled transport but could while they were in the Court, and if he of animals ditogether, would: Rad their advan- had contributed in any way to the pleasure of tage in this. On the other hand, a Corean the force then he was well-rewarded (applause), winter would have much the same disadiyan. When he first came on the Bench, in July lasi, tages for mounted troops as a Manchurian there was not the least doubt that there was a summer, so that the Russians would lose the large quantity of crime committed in the beoefit of their immense sopepority, both of Colony. The resident Chiness population was numbers and quality, in horses.

law abiding and very respectable one, and he

THE QUESTION OF ROADS. was always of opinion that the resident The roads of Korea are slightly better and Chinese, as well as the Europeans, agreed with more numerous than those of Manchuria. Be pleasure to join in any attempt to diminish side the important highway already men crime in their midst. That led him to re- tioned, there are five poblic roads of what introduce the stocks and pass certain sentences may be called the first class travering of some severity; they, however, were only the peninsula and centering at, Seoul. These passed upon previously convicted offenders, roads are described with, some particularity He was happy to say that H.E. Sir Henry by Mr, Wiliam Elliot Griffith in Korea, the Blake, our late Governor, and the present Hermit Nation (1897). He says they are from Officer Administering the Government bad soft to geft. wide with ditches for drainage. recognised that the only way to decrease Three of them reach the capital from Fusan, crime in the Colony was to banish persons with many crossings of ryers, The Hon. Dr. Atkinson (President of the who had come here to take away what they

PSONS RIVERS. Board), who made the presentations, said Mr. could get. As a result of the measures be had The Ta-tungis navigable as far as Pyon. Woodcock-and Mr. Bryan, I have been asked taken-stocke and, primarily and essentially, yang for moderately sized vessels of small by the members of the Sanitary staff to present banishing-and by means of the co-operation draught The Kang Kiang will carr to you these vases as a small token of their of the police, he was glad to say that his work, vessels as far as Seoul, hut at low regard and esteem on your departure, en jeave and the work of his colleagues, during the last channel at the North of Kangwha Island al- to England. The members of the sist feel, five or six months had caused crime, to cod most disappears. The Yalu, thirty miles wide that they cannot allow you in go away siderably decreases. He felt it to be a very at its mouth, narrows considerably immediate

orce spontaneously, and he hoped that bottomed,

members of the Sanitary Department assembled in the Board room for the purpose of saying good-bye' to two popular officials, who have now left for Europe on leave. One was Mr. G. A. Woodcock, the popular secretary, who has been associated with the Sanitary Board upwards of four years, and the other was Mr. J. J. Bryan, Sanitary surveyor. To Mr. Woodcock they pre ented a handsome silver dragon bowl and stand of typical Chinese design, on which was engraved the following words "Presented to G. A. Woodcock, Esq., as a mark of esteem," while Mr. Bryan was given a prettily designed silver fruit dish and ebony stand, inscribed "Presented to J. J. Bryan by officers of the sanitary department.”-

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the weight of their enemy to an ounce for such a long period without their giving you high honour to be asked to meet the members above, and at Wiju in navigable only by flat-

They have left nothing to chance; and one same token of their appreciation of the klad, | of the: mess you have always fendered to them, in, the | his anc course of their work. I am sure they jain with me in wishing" YORİ DİETRADI

may strongly suspect that she knows more about the Russians than they know them selves, or they would never have defied her (47 | to mortal combat.:

and a very good lime in the old plau With reference to Mr. Arran

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