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WATSON'S

TOILET PREPARATIONS

WATSON'S GLYCERINE AND CAR-

BOLIC SOAPS effect a saving of 50%,

owing to the large size of the tablets. They

are made of the purest ingredients and are elegantly put up. Our Carbolic Dog Soap

is the best thing of its kind in the market.

WATSON'S TAI VEUK FONG HAIR

WASH prepared from a recipe of the late

Dr Ayres, continues to give much satis-

laction to those who use it.

WATSON'S ORIENTAL

DENTE

FRICE In the early days of the Colony the

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THE

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH THURSDAY, MARCH 31, 1904.

All communications Intendol for publication in The "HONGKONG TELEGRAPH" ahoald b3 addressed to The Editor, 1, Ice House Road, and should be accompanied by the Writer's Name and

Addrom,

Ordinary businewcommunications should be addressest

to The Manager.

The Micalemorandum on the, Sugarcane Crop of India was issued on the 6th inst., and places the probable total outlurn of enw ongar in the five reporting provinces at' 1,899,850 tons against 2,046,680 last year.

KOWLOON BOWLING GREBN:

CLUB:

The result of the first round in the Neish Bowls competitions was as follows:-

winter; troops, stores, and guns have to be de trained, taken across the ice in slidges, and re-entrained on the further shore. G

TELEGRAM

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH ",

SERVICE.

THE WAR,

THE FIGHTING IN KOREA.

The sledge journey is not without peril», as 6ssures open up in the ice, and the lake in sub- "A" COMPETITION.-G. R. Edwards hea ject to earthquake shocks which break the ice THE heats for the Vict wisecration Club J. W. Robertson, Jas. Ramsay beat J. Mac-in a moment la all directions. It is also slow, 100, 120, 320 and 440 yds. flat races and the donald, W. Deas beat D. Gow, J. Galk beat involving a great waste of time, as it is vital 120 yards hurdle race will be run on Saturday). Henderson, J. R. Wilson beat A. Milroy, for the Russians to open quicker and easier The Editor will not undertake to be responsible for at 3 p.m. Finals to take place at the sports on. Parkes beat A. Kinross, 'j. Kyles beat communication with the Far East, they are now

any rojected MS. not in return any Contribution.

Easter Monday.

building a railway across the ice, over which stores and guns will be conveyed, though troops THE ENGAGEMENT AT CHONGFU. will detrain and march, as the risk of the rail way journey is considered ton great for them, (From Our Own Correspondent,).

Much depends on the success of the railway, but its failure is quite probable, though one cannot but admire the Russian engineers for their daring in attempting auch an experiment.

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work? is 34 cents per quarter.

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DEATH.

At Mayfield, Tenang, on 24 h inst., V. H. S.

CHARIWOOD.

Walker

"B" COMPETITION.-J. Ramsay beat

By kind permission of Lt.Cat, Iremonger Walker, C. W. Alexander beat G. R. Edwards, and officers, the Bind of the 93rd Burma. Kyles beat A. Milroy, W. Deas beat Infantry will play the fllowing programme Parkes, J. Hender on beat W. Famsay, D. of music, at the King Edward Hotel, during Gow beat J. Macdonald, J. Galt beat J. W. dinner, on Friday, the 1st April, (weather Robertson. permitting).

March five thre Nationa

"The Washington Par

..." Nell Gwyn "... llward the reħult ." Floralora" ....Leste inant Au dez Weser '' Gustas Presset Selection......" Reminiscences of brotland *.Godfrey Valie

Margi Cake Waik.

Bergen

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"Jally Negues God save the King.

THE Americans intend putting up a lighthouse on Taganac Istand. This would certainly be a

capital thing for Saulakan, but is hard to see wherein it would pay the Arsenicus to put a light so close to the Borne coast, for Taganap is only 16 miles from Sandakan. * may be that nothing will come of it, or it may have

The Hongkong (elegraph something to do with the clarem made is the

HONGKONG. THURSDAY, MARCH 31, 1901

pore.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Island of Tagawac by the Americans Ship- ping here will sot mind much so long as a light is put there, for it is a thing that bs been agitated for some years now, writes a corres- pondent to the S. F. Press,

THE Landon correspondent of The Asian gives the following amusing description of things as they are at the War Office, at present: Pall Malls in a state beidering on bruzy in T-MORROW being Good Friday there will be sound cases and nervous colaphe in others at no issue of the Hongkong Teltgr ph.

the spring cleaning which is going on there. with Mr. Arnold Forster behind the broom. The War Office Commission has not been in

public used no other. Liquid dentifrices SIR John Anderson has left London for Singa

do not keep the teeth white and clean. We recommend the above preparation to all,

and especially to those who are heavy

smokers.

THE English mail of the 17th February was delivered in London on the 20th inst.

A PLAGUE body was found dumped on vacant

doning the day ended at noon yesterday.

Vain.

A. S. WATSON & Co., round near the building yard at Mangkok. Ministerial life is now earnest. Everybody is

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ESTABLISHED 1841.

Hongkong, 26th March, 1904.

TELEPHONE NO. 56. CABLE ADDRESS : "*ACHEE," HONGKONG

A. H. C. CODE. 4TH EDITION

ESTABLISHED 1859.

His Honour Mr. T. Sercombe Smuth sat in the Supreme Court as acting Puisne Judge this morning and disposed of a number of cases in summary jurisdiction.

LIKE all helligerents in all ages, Admiral Alexief declares that Russia's caure is just and will be upheld by Heaven. History is strewn with the irony of such phrases. Telegraph.

THE Hon. Treasurer of the Alice Memorial and Nethersole Hospitals begs to acknowledge with thanks the following donation to the 135 funds of the Hospitals

A CHEE & CO., 祥 利廣

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ROCHESTER LAMPS,

WHITE TURKISH TOWELS.

COUNTERPANES.

COOKING RANGES,

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HOUSEHOLD REQUISITES.

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Hongkong, 8th January, 1904.

CARMICHAEL AND CLARKE,

CONSULTING ENGINEERS AND

SHIPBUILDERS,

SURVEYORS AND CONTRACTORS.

REPAIRS PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO.

D. MacDonald

Truth.

$25

THE French steamer Admiral Gueydor, which

arrived at Suez on 27th alt. 1owed by the tug Sarr, was ashore near l'er m for a considerable time, and will probably undergo repairs at Suez. This vessel sailed from Perin on the 17th instant to Marseilles.

The Government has been most keenly impressed by the reports of their agents as to the feeling in the constituencies about the condition of the Army. Time is short and

being shaken up, and old officials are rubbing their eyes and asking themselves whether it really is the War Office or a bad dreain. is an ugly thought that at the present tale of "drive" Pall Mall will be like an American newspaper office before long-with the danger of having to "get at the briefest notice Our

they resent the thought of being "shot out," as good stolid military officials can stund fire, but

the phrase goes.

There

The drawings for the second and third rounds

Are :-

"A" COMPETITION (2nd Round).-W. Deas 7. W. P msay

3rd Round. Galt v. J. P. Wilson, E. W, Alexander or J. Wilkie z. 1. Kyles. W. Deas or W. Ramsay v. GR. Edwards, and J, Parkes v. J. Ramsay.

Alexander ". J. R. Wilson.

'B" COMPETITION (2nd Round). W

A.

3rd Round: Henderson v. J. Willie or

Kinross, D. Gow 2. 3. Ramsay, C. W. Alexander or J. R. Wilson z. W. Deas, and

Galt ". . Kyles

by the end of April.

The second and third rounds to he played aft

AND CAN SHE MOVE IT IN TIME?

IN MANCHURIA,

Once acres the lake Manchuria is speedily enters cl

Here there will be danger at every bridge and culvert from Chinese bandits and Japanese emissaries. There have already been reports that mines have been found under brid- ges, and that the line has been in places des- troyed. These reports are intrinsically pro- bable, though of what is happening in the interior we shall not be permitted to hear anything from Russian sources, and so these tales can rest on nothing but guess work, But arrangements are known to have been made for breaking the bridges.

:

YOKOHAMA, 30th March, 10.30 a.m.

During the fighting that took place on Mon ay at Chongiu the Japanese

cavalry made a desperate charge upon the

enginy.

The infantry followed the mounted

troops at the double and repulsed 600 Russian cavalry, who were occu

pying the town.

The Russians fled in the direction of Wiju, carrying with them the majority of their dead and wounded.

..

The losses of the Japanese consist- ed of one officer and four men killed, and two officers and ten men wounded.

Allowing for Lake Baikal, but not for the breaking of bridges the calculations of the CAN RUSSIA MOVE HER ARMY Japanese staff are that from four to six trains a day can be moved in each direction. When the ice begins to melt un Baikal, in the early spring, the number of trains each way is ex- pected to fall to two. What interruption to traffic may be caused by the breaking of bridges it is impossible to say. But in the zone in which it is likely to occur, Manchuria, the line is well laid, and can move fourteen trains a day,) CHARTERED - BANK OF INDIA; so that arrears caused by interruption of traffic ought to be quickly overtaken.

The Japanese fleet having cleared the sea

that army having landed in immense force in for the transport of the Japanese army, and Korea, the problem of Japan's success on land depends on the answer to the questions: Can Russia move her army overland to the Far East, and can she keep it supplied when it has been concentrated on the Far Eastern finn?

The Russian force now in the Far East is known fairly accurately. It mustered in mid- January 150,000 men and 266 guns, but it had to accomplish the following task i.

distance-inside the Chinese frontier, 1,200 miles. 1. To guard the railway for the whole

and Vladivostock and the works on the 2. To garrison the fortresses of Port Arthur

Laotung Peninsula, which must be kept strongly manned in view of the activity of the Japanese fleet.

it would thus appear that the serious ob- stacles in Russia's way are (1) the distance, Baikal. Temporary destruction of culverts and which is immense, (3) the interruption at Lake bridges in Manchuria may aid considerably to the delay caused by these stupendous impedi- ments.

Enough has been said here to show that it is preposterous to suppose that Russia will be able to move half a million or one million men to the Far East, or to overwheim Japan "by her irresistible mass." If the Japanese, like the 3. To provide the field army, now being be same chance for the Russian millions. Boers, sat still and merely waited, there might massed upon the Yalu.

Reinforcements have been sent since mid. January to the extent, at the very outside, of 50,000 men, That would give Russia an available field force of under 1:0,000 men

TEN TRAINS & DAY.

THE National Anthem which the bands of the Unless this army can be further and heavily Russian cruisers played as they sank at reinforced, it has litle chance of success Chemulpho is the only estrenal hyn which was adopted as such by open competition numbers 262,00 men, so that the Japanese against the Japanese, whose field army alone

Catil the time of the Emperor Nicholas thecould without difficulty place forces equal to English God save the King" bal elvert the Russian army on the Yalu on either side of Russia, but Nicholas determined to institute a that army, and attack it simultaneously from genuine and native bussian authem Ite an- Korea and Newchwang. nounced a competition, open to all musicians, for an orginal national by mn committee reduced the thousands of entries to

Everything then depends on the reinforce A musicalments which can be seat from Russia in Europe. According to Russian statements, troops can be forwarded over the Siberian Rul way at the rate of 4000 men per day, or 120,000 per month, the journey being accomplished in about a fortnight.

Far East in fighting trim.

As to the Christianity of Japan, just look at the Imperial Arms of Russia as a revealing piece of symbolism. What do you see? Two devour- ing eagles' heads to supply a single stomach, and between these, the works of Cilinka Could there be a fuller confession of greed highly martial character with the drums and and 1.va, the Czar himself decided. The

trumpets of Evoff's composition won the Im perial verdict, and it was decre d as henceforth

This, however, is an absurdly optimistic the Rus-mo National Anthem. Chemulpho is calculation, because it takes no account of the National Anthem has been played with effect.day after day, to keep the army already in the not the first battle-ground where the Russian supplies and stores which must be forwarded The great Skobelaff used music with sucress time after time. At Plevna, when the repeated Russian attacks had failed, the men were so disheartened that he feared to order yet another assault. Then Skobeleffs wandering eyes lit on the hands of the Imperial Guard, He massed them together, and as the strains of the national hymn burst over the stricken 6eld the soldiers felt the blood flow more quickly in their veins. They pulled themselves together, and, inspired by the music, swept over the entrenchments and took Plevna.

Hence- forward in the campaign Skubeluff used the regimental bands for all they were worth.-Ex.

THE Admiralty is arranging for the building of a mumber of river gunboats for the China station. This is being done in compliance with Sir Ernest Satow's insistence upon the need for the better protection of British trade interests in Chinese waters.

A SPECIAL. cablegram to the Indian Patly Telegraph says:-The New Zealand town of Opotiki has been submerged and the inhabi- tants have fled aboard ships in the Bay. Opotiki is 170 miles S.-E. from Auckland city, and lies in the angle formed by the Otara and Warorka, over which is a truss bridge 340 feet long. The population numbers about 1,007 people.

AT the instance of the New York Export and import Co. an application was made by Mr. E. J. Grist, before the Chief Justice this morning, for adjudication on the estate of C. E. LeMu. ayon, who was stated to have left the Colony and to have suffered execution to be levied against him by the seizure of his goods. The assels were stated to be about $4,000. The Chief Justice made an order.

with her bows badly damaged. Another transport replaces tier. The Dumbarton Castle will take to their destination the troops from the Assaye. They showed admirable discip line during the collision.

CAMPBELL, MOORE & CO., LTD.

ANNUAL MEETING.

The eighteenth ordinary annual meeting of shareholders in Campbell, Moore & Co, Ltd., was held the offices of the company at noon 10-day. There were present Messrs. J. W Osborne (in the chair), and V. F. Musso di Pirattu (directors). M. A. A. Sonra (secretary), G. Murray Bain, I. P. Madar, G. H. 10:15, G. Budulo, and A. O'D, Gourdin.

The movement of a British division requires thirty-eight trains of twenty-five carriages, or, taking an average of all arms, 300 men with guns, stores, and horses can be moved in each train. If we allow 100 men for each Russian train-as the Russian army takes the field with less baggage and encumbrances-the move. ment of 4.000 men would require ten trains a day.

THE SIBERIAN BAILWAY.

There is some dispute as to the capacity of the Siberian Railway, but the usual estimate of fourteen trains a day might be nearer the truth in the summer, and when there are no hindrances to traffic. If, then, 4,000 men were daily procee-ling east, that would leave only four trains for the work of carrying roal for the ships to the further end of the line, keeping the locomotives of a force which was slowly rising day by day from 150,00 to 250,000 men.

For this four trains would be utterly in adequate, it is doubtful if more than one or two troop trains daily, if so many, could be intercalated between the supply and coal-trains go`ng east. Much depends, of course, on the amount of supplies collected by the Russian< on the spot before the war, but in view of the discovery made at Port Arthur a month before

The notice convening the meeting having hostilities began that the proper quantities of been read,

food, forage, and provisions were not forth coming, it is not probable that these supplies will last for long.

But the Japanese will not wait or sit stil!; they will attack all the time.

THE OSAKA SHOSEN KAISHA.

AUSTRALIA AND CHINA.

The Manager of the Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China writes as to-day as follows:-

ing telegram fromour Head Office in Loddon !--- "We have this morning received the follow-

'At the approaching meating of shareholders, the directors will recommend a dividend for the past half-year at 10% per annum, free of income tax, that £75,000 be placed to reserve, which will then stand at £800,000 and that £63,000 be carried forward as undivided profit.'”

THE CROWN. AGENTS,

The Colombo Observer (7th March) draws The Russian army of 5,003,000 might as well attention to the fact that it is not very many not exist.-Ceylon Independent,

months since attention has been drawn at more than one Eastern British port, Colombo included, to the absurd and almost medieval system of doing nearly all local Government business

shr for the first months of this year, amounted 24th last that the General European Member. through those expensive people, the Crown The total receipts of the Osaka Shosen Ku. | Agents for the Colonies. It was only on June

to Yen 1,060.798. The figures of the steamship moved for the Ceylon Government to give company's receipts for last month, compared greater encouragement to local mercantile and with those of February of last year, are as

industrial enterprise, with due regard for follows:-

economy and efficiency—as Crown Agents dis.. couraged local enterprise and laid a heavy bur den of charges on the Colony for all goods pur. chased through or contracts made by-them. The Governor (Sir West Ridgeway) did not

229,239 17.836

Receipts

Febuary. 1904. Yen.

February. 1993, Yep..

Freight

206,161

Passenger Chanerage Sub-idy...

.116,274

.159.113

64,004

88,635

Miscellaneous

Total..******

15656

.....561,207

3,400

13.252

457,362

THE SIZE OF BRITISH

BATTLESHIPS.

ARE THEY TOO BIG? There are many who feel, says Engineerings that the steady advance in the size of British battleships, from the 14,000 tons of the Royal Sovereign of ten years ago to the 15,000 tons of the Formidable, the 16.350 tons of the King Edward VII, and the 18,000 tons of projected ships, involves too great a concen tration of national capital, in view of the com- pitative ease with which such units may be rendered, hars de combat, if not completely destroyed, by the torpedo stealthy fired from small, inexpensive craft,

The national confidence in the British Admiralty administration is great, and rightly 30; but there is the oft-repeated allegation that some of the foreign vessels designed and built by the great warship-building firms in Eng- land are of relatively less weight, and yet embody qualities equal in the aggregate to those of British naval ships In explanation of this it is said that the cause of the greater displacement of the ships of the British Navy is to be found in the wide interpretation placed on that comprehensive phrase, "Admiralty practice." We have heard that on one occasion, when the combatant officers of the service were asked to make suggestions for battleship design, the resultant vessel would have been of prohibitive displacement had all their ideas been acted upon. It is just possible that the evil officially admitted in this case prevails to a more or less degree in the prepar- ation of the plans of all ships. We know, adde the journal from which we quale, that tradition and developments in science ale often in con flict, and it too frequently happens that the claims of both are met by the simple, if ex

Admitting that the British ship must contain The great obstacle to the rapid movement of and exbibit all the qualities to be found in her trains is Lake Baikal, over which the first train possible opponents, there is still the chance There being no questions the chairman pris reported to have passed this week. As is that these may be attained by other c nditions

A London telegram of the zist inst. reports

The Chairman said:-Gentlemen, the report that the transport Assaye, bound found for and accounts having been in your hands for [45 Bombay, collided with the Transatlantic some time, with your permission, I will take

So far it has been assumed that the trains steamer New York during a fog to the Solent. them as read. There is nothing for me to say

were moving in summer under the best condi. The Assays had to return to Southampton in relation to the report and accounts which tions, and that there is no ice, no broken bridges, are set forth so clearly, although for the benefit no interruptions of any kind to traffic. There of shareholders I might remark that so far this are, however, very formidable obstacles to be year the business of the company is in a healthy faced by the Russians, so formidable that the condition, and we hope it will continue as at movement of troops seems to be almost out of present and that when we come before you at the question, and the problem to be faced by the end of this year it will be with as good a the Russian General Staff is the far graver one report as we now have. Before moving the how are the troops already in the Far East THERE are four infirmities of which the Census adoption of the report and accounts I shall be to be kept supplied with food and ammunition? pensive, method of duplication. of India has take note during the last two pleased to answer any questions which share. decades-unsoundness of mind, deafmutism, blindness and leprosy. The first thing that strikes one about the result of the latest enu- meration is that there has at each of the last three censuses been a decline in the number of people suffering from each of them. In 1881, there were 937,063 persons afflicted by one or other of these diseases; in 1891 the total was 856,357; and in 1901,it was only 670817. The diminution is more apparent in some of the diseases than in others; but it has been very {47 | marked with regard to the whole of them.

TELEGRAMS: "CARNICHAEL," Hongkong.

A. B. C. Code, 4th Edition.

A Code.

Lieber's Standard Code.

TELEPONE, 132.

Hongkong, 27th March, 1993,

holders may wish to put,

posed the adoption of the reports and accounts.

Mr. G. Murray Bain seconded, and the

motion was carried.

Oat he proposition of Mr. Musso di Piralta seconded by Mr. Potts, Mr. A. O'D. Gourdin was re-elected auditor.

A

The Chairman:-That is all the business gentlemen. Thank-you for your attendance Dividend warrants will be ready to-morrOW,

LAKE BAIKAL

.

well koown, the lake freezes to the depth of 3 than those briefly described as “Admiralty ft. When the frosts begin a passage is plough practice." The Chilian ships Liberiad and ed through the ice by a powerful ice-breaker, Constitution, bought by the Government, on which the train is badily embarked. But and now the Triumph and Swifiture, were after a time the ice-breaker fails to cut through therefore looked upon with special interest: the ice, and there is no means of moving trains and this has been very materially intensified across the lake.

by the splendid performances achieved, not Communication between Russia and the Far, only on the steam and maneuvring trials, but East is thus broken at Lake Baikal during the niso on the gun tests of the Libertad,

reply unsympathetically, but he argued that so often both the quality of the good was better,., and their celerity of purchase greater, when got through the Crown Agents; and also that the motion was premature and could not affect the 1974 estimates. The matter being delayed one year, it was to be hoped that Parliamentary attention would be given to it. At length we (Straits Echo) are glad to note that this was to be afforded the week before last, for the London Timer of Feb. 13th speaks of question in the House of Lords for Feb. 25th- Lord Portsmouth has given notice of a question for Thursday week as to whether Crown Agents for the Colonies receive fixed salaries for their services in connection with the Colonies and protectorates they represent; (2) what those salaries are; (3) whether the Crown Agents are permitted, to levy a percentage on expenditure or on any operation undertaken by them as Crown Agents; (4) what returns made by the Crown Agents. is the amount of this percentage; (5) are annual

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tha Colonial Office showing exactly what sums they have received by the levying of this per

to the aforesaid perceptage, and to any salary centage; (6) is it not the case that, in addition

that may be paid out of the Imperial Exchequer, the Crown Agents receive addition) salaries or allowances from all or any of ibe Colonies or protectorates for which the act? The the press of war-news, was not able to telegraph Observer thinks it is a pity that Reuter, with

the replies to this question, which deals with a matter of a vast an importance to his Eastern subscribers.

SHIPPING AND MAILS.

MAILS DUE French (Annam) 4th pròx20 Indian (Hangsang) 4th prox: Canadian (Athenian) 4th prox American (Doric) sth prox. Canadian (Empress of India) 15th prox. American (Siberia) 17th prox.

The C. P.. R. Co.'s 3.3.. Empress of "Jap in- arrived at Vancouver at 1 pm, on 30th Inst.

The C. N. Cas, Anauf left Porf Darwin on 30th inst, for Manila and Hongkong.. Singapore for this poft on goth iusty at 5 Part. The P.&O. S. N. Co.'s... Farmosa left

The M. M. Co.'s 5.5. Annum,, with the next French Mail, will leave Saigon to-morrow

pm, and may be expected here on The Java-China-Japan Lijo

Mojí vía Amoy for this port on soth inst... may be expected here on 6th prox. 1, ut

The A. A. Coisa Cloverly from New York &c., left Singapore yesterday afterno Manila and is due here on syth prox, TU STUCHE