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The War.
LONDON, 25th May. Russia has notified the Antwerp and Rot- terdam shipbrokers that she wants thirty more large steamers deliverable at Libau by the end of June, to accompany the Baltic
fleet.
Russia has ordered one hundred White head torpedoes of the latest model, which have hitherto only been in the possession of the Japanese. France, Italy and Austria have also given orders for the same.
LATER.
Reuter's correspondent at the Head Quarters at Moukden, wires that the Japanese have resumed their advance, and several columns are moving Northwards, although the bulk of their forces remains near Feng-whang-cheng. Small bodies of Japanese have been seen North East of Moukden, but no important body has been located.
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Camp Gyantse (Thibet), 9th May, The account of the fight in the Karo Pass was written before the pursuit was over. It now appears that there were three thousand men hehind the wall. They fted in three great masses, and the Mounted Infantry pursued them for twelve miles, riding on their flanks and shooting from the saddle. The total Thi- *betan casualties are hardly less than three or four hundred killed, possibly more. It ought to be understood that at one period of the action the situation was somewhat critical. Our
advance on both flanks had been checkel, and Captain Bethune and his immediate followers, who had gallantly rushed up to the main wall, had been killed, and the maxims and small mountain guns could do nothing to subdue the fire either from the main wall or from the samgars on the flanks. The tension was at last relieved by Major Row and his Gurkhas, who climbed up the face of an almost absolute pre. cipice, and were thus able to command the left sangars, which contained about forty rifle men. These were so busy firing on the troops below that they did not notice the Gurkhas
above them all six or seven had been killed. The remainder then balted. They looked like veritable giants crossing the slope, and afford ed an easy target. Their flight was checked by a precipice, and some threw themselves over and were dashed to bits. Rows of Gurk,
has advanced to the edge of the precipice, whence they commanded the position as re- gards the main wall and also the Thibetan camp and the plain below, Meanwhile the right sangar had been taken by the Sikhs,
$29,587.25
THE CASUALTIES AT CHULIEN. CHENG.
General Kurnki has now reported to Im perial Headquarters the list of casualties in connection with the various engagements at Chulien-cheng. The Japanese bad 5 officers and 218 rank-and-file killed, 800 33 officers and 783 men wounded, making the total casualties 1,059.
THREATENING KINCHOW.
Tokio, zin May.
The railway between Wafentien and Kin- miles; the rails and railway bridge have also chow is now destroyed for a distance of three been destroyed by the, Japanese. There are
now only a small number of the Russians in Kinchow-Sin Wan-pao.
ALLEGED FORGERY
OF OPIUM FARMER'S "CHOPS."
The case against the six Chinamen, who were arrested on a charge of forging the Opium Farmer's "chop," and with being in possession of a wooden stamp for printing the same, toge ther with a quantity of the forgeries wady for placing on the pockets of opium, was called on to-day before Mr. Gompertz. Evidence was given by the Excise qfficer, who, os account of certain information received, visited the defendants' house and, in the canne of his search for illicit opium, found a large quantity of that drug, which he was removing when his attention was attracted by the unusual appear ance of the "chops" on the packages seized, a closer inspection of which showed them to be forgeries. This led the officer to make a more minute search of the premises when he discovered the forgeries above mentioned. A comparison of one of the forged "chops" with a genuine one, showed the former to be of coarser design, the printing poor, the paper of a very cheap quality, and the ink much darker than that on the latter. A large quantity of different coloured wrapping paper was also found. When arrested, defendants denied" all knowledge of the things, saying they had either "been put or left there" by some other man whom they did not know,
The case was again remanded for one week, for the purpose of bringing in other defendants, similarly concerned.
The Japanese buried 1,363 Russian killed, while 18 officers and 595 men were taken
Bail was allowed as prisoners.
efore, in the sum of $2,500 each for the five In addition, the Japanese captured twenty-male defendants, that in the case of the' fema' one 3-inch quick-firing field guns; nineteen defendant, Ng Mah, being reduced to $1,000. ammunition waggons; and 1,417 shells. Eight The charges of illegal possession of opium by other machine guns and eight ammunition these defendants will be heard at the same waggons for the same; and 37,300 shells. One time. hundred and twenty-one rifles and fifty am. munition waggons; 353,005 bullets. Sixty. three horses; ten Commissariat waggons and 53 hamessing appliances; 694 cloth overcoats; 550 fur overcoats; 541 tents ; 80 sundries.
The spoil as the result of the Fuinhanchen. engagement comprises 357 shells for 631 metre mountain guns; 188,coo rifle bullets; 150 harness appliances: 1,720 overcoals: 40,708 loaves of black bread; 1.736 koku of Indian corn; 5,000 Manchurian bean cakes; car- penters' tools, telegraphic apparatus and sundry other articles.
AN ENGINE OF DESTRUCTION FOR RUSSIA.
It is said that a British subject has gone to St. Petersburg to offer to the Russian Govern- ment a very destructive device of which, though not the inventor himself, he is the commercial exploiter. The invention has already been well boomed in the Press by various methods, though it has not yet been adopted by our
HONGKONG RESIDENT
SHUT OUT OF MANILA.
A SNIPE-SHOOT NEAR HONGKONG.
round Hongkong itself; but the keen sports- Snipe are to be found in the rice-fields close
men in Hongkong who can only find time once in a way to go further afield congregate here in large numbers, and the individual bags are in consequence never very heavy. H. S. and self therefore, having heard that snipe were plentiful around the Portuguese Settlement of Macao, some forty miles to the West of Hong. kong, decided to try our luck in that direction.
A steamer runs daily between Hongkong and Macao-starting from the former place at 2 p.m.--and this we made it our business to catch. Punctually to the minute we left the wharf and steamed slowly out through the shipping lying in the harbour. Our passage lay through the many islands to the South of the Estuary of the Chukiang or "Pearl River," and the panorama which presented itself to our view was well described in a remark made by, S.; "The most picturesque bit of scenery I have ever come across," he said; and we both heartily agreed with him. On a bright, sunny afternoon tempered by a cool breeze, the steamer trip in itself was worth the doing," even had there been no other object, such as snipe shooting, in view.
Shortly after 5 o'clock we drew up alongside the wharf at Macao, and proceeded by rickshaw to the Macao Hotel, a substantial looking build- ng on the sea front. We had already warned the proprietor of our arrival, by letter, and had asked han to make all necessary arrangements for Chinese boats to convey us to the snipe-ground. This, he informed us, he had done; and we further learnt that the best shooting was to be obtain- ed some fifteen miles away up a backwater, a journey which would probably take us about five hours to accomplish. The tide, he said, would flood at 9 p.m. which would be the best time to make a start-so we requested him to instruct the boatmen accordingly, and to have dinner ready in the Hotel for us at seven o'clock. The intervening time we whiled away in a short stroll round the sea front. We have since visited Macao for the purpose of seeing it's sights alone but as the purport of this article is suipe-shooting, suffice it to say that the sportsman with a day to spare could do no
belter than devote it to seeing the sights and scenery around this quaint and interesting old
Portuguese Settlement. After a comfortable dinner at the Hotel we repaired to the water-
A man, described by some as a mestizo, by others as a Spaniard, said to bave once been an insurgent general, arrived at Manikon 24th inst. from Hongkong on the Zafiro. According side, where we found two so-called Chinese to the Cablenews, he was held up and prohibit house-boats in readiness, one for ourselves and ed landing, as he declined to swear allegiance the other for our servants. They were light to the American government, although accord- ing to some who were present when he declined, draught boats of some 24 ft. in length with a he swore copiously about the Americangovern.7 ft. beam. In the centre was a space 8 ft. tong men when he refused to swear allegiance to it. (boarded up to the level of the gunwales) re This man is said to be ex-General Martinez served for passengers, over which was erected the level of the boarding. The crew consisted and he comes back from Hongkong, there he a curved awning of matting some 4 ft. above ol four men and an old woman to do the cook. has made his asylum, not as a reconstructed insurrecto or even to make his bome here, but
ing.
to set up a boiler and some machinery in Iloilo, he being the agent of the manufacturers. He
As soon as all were safely on board we push-
who climbed to the edge of the glacier to com Admiralty, "A writer asks if this is a legitimate is said to speak English very well, and during ed out through the throng of Chinese craft in-
mand the position, when the sangars were vacuated, and the main Thibetan army, who were holding the wall, fled.
Colonel Brander with the force which had turned the Thibetan army from its position in the Karo Pass returned to Gyan-tse to-day. The Mission, which was already in a strongly fortified village, is now perfectly and adequate. ly protected, and not the least apprehension need be felt regarding its safety. The Shi- gatse army, which attacked the Mission, has taken possession of a ruined fort on a rock which we had abandoned after blowing up the gates. The Thibetans are rebuilding a portion of the fort, and they can be easily seen with the naked eye as busy as bees. The fort is about thirteen hundred yards from the camp, The enemy apparently have a big jingal, which carries a good distance. They fired about This evening we turned a maxim on all who exposed themselves, thus seriously interfering With their building operations. Meanwhile our rear remains perfectly open, and the post comes up daily. The attack on the Mission on the 5th was not wholly unexpected, as in-
thing to do at the present juncture from the
the voyage over got acquainted with a number of the American passengers, who took him for point of view of international law and of our
a Spaniard. Those who were seen alking to neutral duties to both belligerents, one of whom
him had cause to regret it later, for when the happens to be our Treaty ally? Here is an
customs secret service men boarded the ship those who had allowed the ex-insurgent to Englishman who is practically offering to assist with a scientific invention the enemies of our
cultivate them at all were searched and their friends. Students of history will remember
effects gone through to see if they were carry- that Bismarck, during the latter stage of the
of these were American civil government Franco-German War, made quite a diplomaticing any inflammatory literature ashot. Some incident out of the sale of arms and munitions to the French by private British traders; and employees; one was a wealthy planer from Albay province who had gone to Hongkong the charge, whether well or if founded, had only a few weeks ago to get his son who bad the effect of embittering the Germans against just finished school there. There was also a es; as, indeed, it was quoted by the Anglophobe Japanese, said to be a count, who is touring Press at Berlin during the Boer War, in part the world in the interests of the Japanese go explanation of the anti-British feeling, which vernment, making scientific researches of some we ourselves were at a loss to understand. sort. Besides these was a number of Filipinos
of no particular notc.
One of the Americans could not understand why his baggage and person were being searched, when a secret service man formed him that ex-General Martinez was a passenger aboard. While the detectives were searching one of the Americans, another detective who who knew him, came in and said: "What are you searching that man for? He's all right" Thereupon the secret service men desisted and are said to have asked that nothing be said about the matter as they wanted it hushed up.
It was decided that Martinez musi ake the
sixty shots with it and killed one follower. According to a telegram, dated Chefon, May 21st, which is printed in the Cablenews, the Japanese are making great preparations for the assault on Port Arthur. Heavy artillery" is beginning to appear on many of the small eminences which mark the approach on the landward side. The indications are that there the work of reducing the formation was given by the sick attending the will be little delay dispensary. Major Murray, commanding, sent
outer fortifications and clearing the way for a a patrol up the Shigatse road and found general storming of the citadel. The troops have been provided with instruments to facili- aathing. The sentries, however, kept on the alert, and at dawn gave the alarm. Nine erected by the Russians. It is estimated that late the cutting of the barbed wire defenses hundred Thibelans tried to ambush the post the Japanese have now fully 30,000 men invest some reached the loopholes, but our mening the city. The latest reports place the Port fore detained aboard, rushed to their posts and in two hours entirely Arther garrison at 15,000 men. The garrison and it was found that apother 8.0 Thibetans is still working night and day to strengthen the
beat off the attack. A sortie was then made,
path or that he could not laad. He was there.
THE SEA SERPENT AGAIN
PLUNGING NEAR HAIPHONG,
A hideous monster of the sea, "shaped like a flat-bodied serpent of about a hundred feet in length is reported to be on the usual periodical visit to southern Chinese waters. It is said to have been observed by the officers and
Scen-
Our expectations of a heavy bag were doom- ed to disappointment. It was evident that the best ground lay behind us, and had we con- tinued in the same direction as that in which we had been proceeding before-breakfast, our snipesticks would no doubt have returned with more birds in them than they eventually did.
The heat during the middle of the day was intense-far let it here be stated that the month i was September, at which period of the year the | climate of Southern China is not unlike that of
the plains of Bengal.
We arrived back at the boats about seven
o'clock, and on totalling up the day's bag found that it umounted to 39 couple, It might have, been worse, but on the other hand, had we been acquainted with the ground, it might,' and no doubt would, have been better. How- ever, we had had better sport-and let those who visit Hong-Kong note this-than it would have been possible to obtain (as far as our information went) on any other graund In the vicinity of Hong Kong; and for mercies vouchsafed to us in this respect we were duly thankful. Another night of heat and mosquitos, followed by the ever-pleasant trip across the intervening stretch of ocean, saw us
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the bank, and proceeded slowly-up-the-France -- Bank T.T. backwater on the flooding tide. The ery, witnessed under the rays of a full moon, was strikingly impressive-but our thoughts were soon turned to more worldly matter in the shape of mosquitos, which seein ed to show a peculiar liking for European blood after a long course of Chinese diet:
time was at hand, so we laid out our bedding However, mosquitos, or no mosquitos, bed- side by side across the centre of the boat and resigned ourselves--or 1 should say endeavour- ed to resign ourselves to the land of dreams. What with the heat and the mosquitos, pro- spects of a sound sleep in preparation for these days' sight Sydney and Melbourne...../104 following day's shoot, were not over-bright,
and truth to tell we were all wide awake at
2-30 .M. when we turned out of the back- water into a small creek, and moored along. side that bank at our destination.
Half-past six saw us dressed and ready to
start on the day's compaign. On surveying the surrounding country as it lay before us we appeared to be in the centre of a basin bound- ed by a circle of low-lying bills. Extending on either side to the foot of the bills was a
flat expanse of rice-fields-the total area of the basin being, as far as we could judge, from 13 to 16 square miles. At the base of the hills towards the North might be seen the small and picturesque Town of Lai-Tum-chao, around which, so Hing-Kee had informed us, the best soipe-shooting was to be obtained.
The appearance of the country gave every prospect of good sport. The rice-crop was in some places nearly fuil grown, but in others the shoots were still young; the whole being covered with water varying in depth from 2 or 3 inches on the higher levels to a foot and more as the fields gradually descended towards the Southern limuis of the Basin.
% had occupied the fort. We buried 140 bodies fortifications. Later reports confirm the news of the blowing up of several vessels by the after the fight, and hundreds must have got away wounded. Our casualties at Gyantse Russians. Their guns have been mounted on
the land fortifications. since the 5th are only five, including twó killed To-morrow we shall thoroughly recon- COMMUNICATIONS WITH PORT ARTHUR. noitre the Thibetan"'position. It is now
Chefoo, 21st May, known that the Thibetans who attacked
Having decided to strike out in a Northerly Since the Japanese destroyed the Chinese the Mission marched 12 miles during the Eastern Railway and cut the telegraph line, crew of the French gunboat Décidée, when cruis
direction towards Lai-Tum-chao, we commap. night, led by a Lhassa Lama.
communication with Port Arthur has practicallying in the Bay of Along, near Haiphong, "I was
deered a couple of coolies from the boat to Gyangtse, roth May.
ceased, but the Russians are now employing standing on the bridge," says the commander carry the breakfast and proceeded for the first Chinese junks by paying large sums for voyages in his report to the admiral, "when ajattention mile and a half along a substantial bund of
to and from Port Arthur. The more important was directed to a round, dark mass in the water,
some 6 ft. in breadth. Then we turned off to
Yesterday at sundown the Thibetans in the Fort opened a persistent fire on the. Mission Camp with a gun carrying a one pound solid despatches are sent through Chinese mounted about three hundred yards to port. I took it the West across the fields, and it was not long ball, and to-day they have six or seven such couriers across the portion of the country where to be a rock, but, on seeing it move, presumed before H, on the right drew first blood with a uns in position. They have got the range and the railway is cut from which they go to the it was an enormous turtle, four or five yards in saipe that rose to his left and went back. bave been steadily firing on us for several hours. nearest railway station where the messages are diameter. Soon afterwards it rose at of the Shortly after this old birds began to rise all A reconnoitring column went out four miles sent on by train. There is only one division of water, and by the undulatory movement that along the line, and we realised with the satis- to-day to the monastery on the hills on the Russian troops in Port Arthur and they have followed I saw that I was in the presence or faction of explorers on new ground that our right, whence the exact location of the approvisions enough to sustain them for a year. an enormous sea monster shaped ike a fat. quest had not been in vain. proaches to the fort could be plainly seen. But as the warm weather is coming on the bodied serpent. of about a hundred feet in Another large gathering of Thibetans is reported meat is rapidly deteriorating-Sin Was-pao. “irthe Rong Valley. It is hardly correct to say that the Mission is besieged, for our communi- cations in the rear still remains open-Kangoon Times.
It is reported from Peking that the banquet and accessories" to the ladies of the foreign legations given by the Empress Dowager on the oth ist, at Eho Park Palace cost Tis 130,000, and that this sum does not include the value of the gold, pearl and precious stones,
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THE DEFENCES OF VLADIVOSTOCK.
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By 9 o'clock, the sun being well up and the walking through the rice crops very heavy, we elected to sit down under the welcome shade of a few trees and sample the contents of the breakfast basket. Our bag as laid out before us amounted to 18 couple, which on closer inspection proved to be all fan-tailed or com- mon saipe, and all in excellent condition.
length. It appeared to have a soft, black skin covered with marble spots, and the head, which rose about sixteen feet out of the water, closely Kinchow, 21st May resembled that of an enormous turtle with Three Chinese who came from Vladivostock | huge scales. It blew up two jets of water to a report that there are over 4,000 Russian troops height of about fifty feet. It moved slowly in the garrison at Posslet Bay, including one through the water at a speed of about eight
Having satisfied the wants of the inper man, Cossack regiment and eight guns. At Viadi knots, and when about 150 yards from the rostock there are very few men left in the garri gunboat plunged beneath it like a submarine, we again set to work, this time in a different son and except 400 or 500, men: in the forts reappearing on the surface about four hundred direction, and with the exception of a short in- there are only 164 artillerymen with, 4 guns yards away. A number of the offers and terval for tiffin (and many shorter intervals for and the three war vessels do not dare to go out crew also watched the monster, which gra. liquid refreshment) walked steadily through
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