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urge that we should go to the enormous ex-consumption, eczema, headache, indigestion, | HONGKONG METEOROLOGICAL pense of rendering Wei-hai-wei an impregnable kidney diseases, rheumatism, scrofula, and all fortress lest perchance China should attack it.

diseases that arise from impure blood and Of course, if we were overthrown by attack at

shattered nerves, have been cured in countless sea, its fortifications would be worthless to us, whatever their value might be to the Power cases by Dr. Williams' pink pills. Women which had overthrown us. But as in that care they especially help is those characteristic we should sooner or later losa Gibraltar, Malta, troubles which they do not talk about The Aden, Colombo, Singapore, and Hongkong it seems absurd to be solicitous about Wei-hai- pills are not a cure-all. They cure by action on the blood and on the nerves, curing fits, wel, the last and least important link in the

We have received from the Hongkong chain of our saval bases stretching out to the paralysis, locomotor ataxy, St. Vitus' dance, Far East.

and neuralgia. Only the genuine pills, Observatory a new code of meteorological bearing Dr. Williams' name, cure. Substitutes signals which comes into fores at Hongkong.

Genuine pills post free from never cure. Williams Medicine Company, Holborn-viaduct, on New Year's Day. They are the same as London, for two shillings and ninepence; but those at present in use at Shanghai, and will take care to get the right ones, which did so Kowloon Point for the information of masters much good to this fine old soldier of Inkerman

of vessels leaving the port. They do not neces and Sebastopol.

sarily imply that bad weather is expected. The signals are as follows:

In point of that there appear to be only two policies worth considering (1) that of keeping Wei-hai-wei as a contingent naval base in the sense defined above-rather, in the language of Sir Cyprian Bridge, as a possible "fying base" than as a permanent secondary base; and (2)

TO THE EDITOR OF "THE TIMES." Sir,-As both my opinion and that of my THE Undersigned have received instructions respected thief, Bir Edward Seymour, on the subject of Wei-hai-wei have been publicly quoted in the House of Lords, there can be no impropriety in reminding your readers of what those opinions were three years ago, and what (so far as I know) they still are. For, although I have an authority to express Sir Edward Sey mour's present views, I have not the least fear of mis representing him. Sir Edward Seymour is at present serving on full pay, and is therefom not permitted to sublish his opiniont, but as 1 am not under that restriction l'have no hesita. tion in saying that our opinion-formed on the spot-was adverse to holding Wei-hai-wel in an that the decision to keep the British flag flying secondary base, with costly establishment, on the island, even if we only called it a sap-

costly docks, costly defences, and a garrison atorium and a watering-place, but with a certain which would constitute a large and permanent amount of coal, other stores, hospital, play-drain on our limited military resources. As no grounds, &c., within go miles of Port Arthur,

one has seriously advocated the latter policy, it but without a single gun mounted to protect the will perhaps be time to consider it seriously place even against a cruiser raid, was to create when it is so advocated. For the former policy. a strategically falac position, as the admiral in which is that deliberately adopted by the command of the station would either have to Admiralty, nothing more is required than to haul down the flag, destroy the stores, embark keep the flag flying at Wei-hai-wei. It will the sick, and cut and run, on the first threst of always be protected by the Fleet in ilme of war, or else he would have to tie his squadron | war so long as it is found worth protecting. to the place to protect it. And even when we and, if the experience of war should show that were told by our official cuval strategists that it is not worth protecting, it can be abandoned the situation was in accordance with the "higher without discredit. In these premises what policy of defence," we remained unconvinced. possible purpose can be fulfilled by rendering am still unconvinced. I do not know about the place impregnable, or even by fortifying it [67 Sir Edward.

at all? It is neither expedient nor even

PAINTS, ROPE, PACKING, ENGINE | absolutely unfortified condition. We thought that of developing it as a fully equinned they can be had at all medicine shops if you be hoisted on the mast beside the time-ball at

and DECK STORES, STEERAGE BEDS and FITTINGS, COPPER, IRON, ELEC- TRIC LAMPS and GLOBES, LIFE RAFTS, BOAT COMPASS, LIFE BELTS, 120 SOUNDING MACHINE TUBES (Sir WM. THOMSON'S Patent),

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A Great Quantity of CROCKERY, GLASS and ELECTRO-PLATED WARE,

Catalogues will be issued. TERMSA usual.

HUGHES & HOUGH,

Auctioneers.

Fongkong, 14th May, 1504.

Notice of Firm.

CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY.

NOTICE.

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I am glad to see, in The Times of to-day, that

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Sir Edmund Fremantle, who was for three Commander-in-Chief on the China Station, agrees that our policy with regard to Wei-hai-wei "has been casual in the extreme"; and your Special Correspondent now on the spot seems to be very much of the same opinion. Sir Spencer Walpole quotes Sir James Hope's opinion on the worthlessness of Chifu and Wei-hai-wei.

accumulate vast stores there, nor would it be politic to do so even if it were practicable The stores accumulated there might be found to be in the wrong place in this or that con- tingency of war, and, even if in contingencies Wei-hai-wei were found to be the right place, the stores required could always be sent there so long as we held the seas. On the other hand, if we failed to hold the seas, not all the fortifications which gods, men, and engineers

practicable, as Admiral Bridge has shown, to

Intimation.

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Chifu is out of the question, as it is now a

hai-wei 44 years changed as to render his opinion at that time Irrelevant to the present. The harbour has been deepened, and the water question has been solved Your Special Correspondent is right in saying that in Wei-hai-wei we possess the finest harbour in the Yellow Sea, for that is so, not only actually, but still more so potentially; for if you want to make an extra berth for a battleship at Wei-hai-wei you have to dredge out about 3ft, of mud over a given area, and if you want to increase the accom- modation of Port Arthur to the same extent you must dig ont soft. of the same material, er anything else there may be underneath it as the available area is mostly dry at low water. Any comparison between Wei-hai-wei and Port Arthur is as the Guildhall to a rat-trap

I do not know whether your Special Corre.

spondent will agree with me, but my idea of the proper policy to be pursued with regard to Wei bai-wei may be summed up in three words-Fortify or quit.

Your obedient servant,

C. C PENROSE FITZGERALD, Vice Admiral.

March 25.

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appeal to an equally high authority-that of Admiral Str Cyprian Bridge, now, or until a few days ago, the Commander-in-Chief on the China Station. On February 19, 1903, The Times commented in a leading article on paper read by Admiral Bridge before the Hong- kong United Service Institution on "The Supply and Communications of a Fleet," and remarked that this paper might perhaps be regarded as the Commander-in-chief's 'apologia' for the advice he is known to have tendered to the Admiralty last year, to the effect that Wei-hai-wei should no longer be organiz- ed as a secondary base for the supply of stores, ammunition, and coal to British warships in the northern waters of China." Thus policy which Sir Edmund Fremantle denounces as "casual in the extreme," which he describes as leaving the question open whether should continue to hold Wel-hai-wei or not, is ap parently regarded as the wisest policy which this country can pursue by not the least dis- tinguished of Sir Edmund's successors in the command-in-chief in China, by a man whom The Timer described as "entitled to speak on such a subject with the high authority which belongs to intimate local knowledge, to wide naval experience, and to a strategic insight and historic grasp which place him in the very front rank of living writers on the teachings of naval history and the principles of caval strategy." If, then, appeal is made to naval

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Bridge against that of Sir Edmund Fremantle, and I am the more emboldened to do so be cause Sir Cyprian Bridge is not at present in this country nor in a position to speak for himself.

Sir, the policy now adopted by the Admiralty in respect to Wei-bai-wei is not a casual policy, although to those who think with Sir Edmund Fremantle and with your Special Correspondent in the Far East it may appear to be an unwise and short-sighted policy. It has been adopted

completed fortifications and the crumbling em-

A special feature is made of full and accur ate reports of local occurrences, and of mat- ters of general interest.

in the long run. Port Arthur and Vladivostok | America. have been fortified at great cost and heavily garrisoned. Suppose, instead of spending the money on bricklaying, Russia had devoted it to such an increase of her naval power in Far Fastern waters as would have given her undis. puted command of the area of maritime conflict with Japan. Is it not certain that in such a case no Japanese sailer or soldier would ever even have set eyes on Port Arthur or Vladivo stok, still less have been in a position to attack and possibly to capture them? A matters stand, is it by any means certain that both fortresses-impregnable as they may be to direct assault-will not fall into Japanese hands, their final possession being determined not by their local #rength, but by the general fortune of war on sea and land? At any rate, when we are asked to fortify Wei-hai-wei, let us at

least he told why we are to fortify it and for what purpose. The purpose for which it is held by the Admiralty--that of a possible

'flying base "seems to require no fortification

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at all. The Fleet defends it, just as it would}ing advertisements. defend any other flying base." If the Fleet cannot défend it, it is of no more use or interest to us than fortified, it canals in Mars. If, then, it is to be fortified, it must be for some purposes other than those contemplated by the Admiralty. What are they?

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and tales of peace and war come readily (writes a correspondent) to his lips. Inkerman and the Mutiny brought him wounds: but pain could not crush his spírit,

after full was shown in debates in Parliament some two years ago—and THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST-ator some vellites had for a time been meni

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Correspondent. The latter complains that we Hongkong, 26th March, 1904.

are indifferent enough to leave Wei-hai-wei unprotected. By unprotected he means, I pre- "I won't be numbered with the wounded," sume, ucfortified, because he goes on to say be once told the surgeon who had just extract- that it is a sad spectacle to see the half- ed a bullet from him: and the old spirit still brasures." So far from regarding this as a sad lives in him. He needs no crutch, and for | spectacle-except the painful record of a this he thanks Dr. Williams' pink pills: for mistaken policy now happily abandoned-1 not long ago he was a cruel sufferer from venture to affirm that it is a most encouraging rheumatism. So erectly dess he carry his 73 spectacle, because it furnishes a most instruct ive example of the deliberate abandonment of years that an one would suppose be bad gone policy of defence that was heedless, wasteful, through so much. and utterly mischievous, and deliberate in its place of the only policy that le worthy of Power which intends to be supreme at sea in fan all probable contingencies of naval conflict.

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1 tried many remedies in valo," he said and I can't tell you how grateful I am for the relief Dr. Williams' pink pills for pale people brought me. I couldn't sleep at night for the pain. It wasn't only the theumatism, and the swollen leg it caused: my whole system was supervision, well turned out, free from error,

I couldn't digest any food

Surely it is only in the sense that it is not fortified that Wei-wal-wel can be said to be an protected. In every other sense it is protected directly by the British naval force in Chinese water, and in the last resort by the whole force gat of order.

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of the British Navy. If that force is not without pain, and is used to rise up sour in my❘ and remarkably cheap at sufficient to protect it, for what purpose throat, sty heart gave me trouble-fluttering should wa fortify it so long as the British so that it kept me awake; and I had lost Fleet is supreme Wei-hai-wet cannot be fesh so that I was thin as a lath. Now I have attacked from the sea, and we need only

keep the flag flying there and maintain there put on flesh, and, thanks to these pilis, 1.am such modest establishments as may conduce better than most men of my age. They are a 1559 to its efficiency as a contingent base of supply Ane tonic. I only wish," he ended, stroking though, as Admiral Bridge has shown, bylo | his Ene white beard, "that all who suffer as I means an indispensable, nox, in all circam did may hear of the same remedy.* stances, even a convenient base of supply for

fest operating in the Yellow Bea, On the This gallant old warrior lives at y Hamilton-

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ing we are to be suprama at sas it follows that the fame of these pills that those who have no Power except China can attack it by land at benefited by them are generally pleased to (918 | all, Yet i hardly think say one would seriously, make known their experiences, Anfémia, bile,

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