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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, JULY 11, 1904.

LOCAL AND GENERAL

OWING to the increase of traffic, Tientsin is to have a new railway station,

THE Hongkong-Foochow and Foochow-Shang- hai cables are again in working order.

THE P. and T. Timer says that Mr. W. W. Rockhill is to succeed Mr. Conger as U. S. Minister to China.

THE N. Y. K. has chartered; the steamers Bucentaur, Buron, Pakling, and three others for its European service.

GOLD to the amount of three million yen was exported by the P. M. S. Mengalia to San Francisco on the 29th uit.

THE tea ships Prometheus and Glenturret have passed the Suez Canal the former having Single Copies Daily, ten cents; Weekly, twenty-gone through on the 29th alt, and the latter on

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BIRTHS.

At Braehead Bungalow, Chungking, on the 23rd June, the wife of Mr. JAMES MURRAY, of

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On the 28th June, at Shanghai, the wife of JOHN BERKIN, of a daughter.

On the 2nd July, at Woosung, the wife of Dr. R. H. Cox, of a daughter.

On the 3rd July, at Paris, France, the wife 26.00 of Dr. ISIDORO JOHN SANGER, of a daughter.

On the 4th July, at 18, Nauking Road, Shanghai, the wife of G. MASON BOYES, of daughter.

These CLARETS are specially selected and obtained from the LEADING FRENCH GROWERS; they are of exceptional value and in fine condition.

THE CHATEAU BRANDS are recommended to the notice of Cun- uoisseurs as high-class after-dinner Wines.

We guarantee our Wines and Spirits to be genuine when bought direct from us in the Colony or from our authorised Agents at the Coast Ports.

On 6th July, at 25 Tongshan Road, to and Mrs JAMAS H. BEACH, a daughter.

DEATHS.

THE; total number of Japanese naval losses, including the past crews of the Hatsuse and Porkino, excluding 133 wounded and under treatment, to the 30th ult, is 984.

A FORT is being erected in the rear of one of the crew of a German steamier from News] TELEGRAMS

the Legations, says the P. ST. Times.

MR. C. Fink of the Ostastatische Lloyd is about to start a German daily paper in Tientsin,

THE Court-martial on H. M. destroyer Spar- rowhawk has entirely exonerated all the officers of that unfortunate vessel.

THE light on Tungyung Island, on which the F. and O. 5. Sobon was wrecked, in 1901, was exhibited for the first time at sunset on the tst instant.

DR. FUGH was in charge of the emigrants which left Tientsin on 29th ult, for South Africa, and Dr. Chalmers accompanies the batch on the Stanley,

chwang say that about 1 pm on Friday toy saw at sen, 40 miles from Chefoo, two Japanese battleships and five cruisers-firing towards the north. They were too far distant to see what was being fired at..

THE WAR.

THE JAPANESE ADVANCE,

KAIPING OCCUPIED,

Mr. M. Noma, Consul for Japan, kindly -

A German gentleman bas received a telegram from Newchwang to the affect that early on Friday a Russian torpedo-boat left Newchwang for Port Arthur, and he also affirined that the boat was sent to receive Admiral Skrydloff, who communicates the following official tele: at that time was on board. The same inform-grams. ant believes that the Port Arthur fleet will come

out to protect this boat.

A junkman states that yesterday afternoon four large transports with Japanese troops and provisions arrived at Dalny,

Chinese from Tiger' Hill say that incessant ring was heard from 10 am, until 7 p.m. on Thursday. Other informants state that at 3 p.m. on Friday firing was 'heard, and about 5 pm, the Japanese fleet was in activity.near Siaopingto island. About 500 Japanese are occupying the majority of native houses at the

JAPANESE papers write very strongly in refer ence to Viceroy Alexeieff's proposal to the con-above island. victs on Saghalien (mentioned in our columns a month or so ago), the very lowest stratum of Russian criminality, that they should enlist in the Russian army to fight Japan.

WE have received a call from Capt. E. J. Fage who desires us to point out that he brought the THE Asahi, Kokumin, and Yorodiu have been

3.8. Maharaja from Penang, to Hongkong prosecuted for publishing an unauthorised report with regard to "the attack upon PortTherefore, it is incorrect to associate his name where she was handed over to Capt. T. Groves, Arthur by the land forces."

with the loss of that steamer off Atami at the end of last week:

It was reported that 40 cases of wireless Mr.telegraphy materials for the Russian Consulate at Chefoo were confiscated there recently by

On the 2nd July, at the General Hospital, Shanghai, RODNEY, aged 5 years 9 months, the darling son of John and Annie Meatbrel, 4 Pei-tai-ko Lane.

At the British Consulate, Wuhu, on the 3rd July, of fever, suddenly, KENNETH GASELEE, second and only surviving child of William Pollockand Lucy Murray Ker, aged 23 months,

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HONGKONG, MONDAY, JULY 11, 1994.

THE CHUSAN ARCHIPELAGO.

The Echo de Chine has apparently given up the attempt to wheedle sympathy for Russia out of the British public at Shanghai, and has taken to amusing them by way of a change. In a leading article last week

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at the Northern port that Great Britain proposes to seize the Chusan group in the next two or three days, and announced (35 that functionaries of the English Govern ment have already arrived at Shang. bai to arrange the matter. This was attri- buted to the fact that, on the fall of Port Arthur, Great Britain would have to evacuate Weihaiwel, and as a quid pro quo would re-take the islands of the Chusan Archipelago and thus have a base for her feet in China proper "at the mouth of the Empire's greatest river.

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FURNITURE Porary announcing that the report was con-

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the Customs as contraband of war.

THE Japan Mail says that 989 persons were saved from the Sado, and 147 from the Hitachi Maru. There were about 41 persons lost in the former, and 850 in the latter vessel.

TIENTSIN is expecting cheap coal next winter from a mine in Shansi belonging to Messrs. Telge and Schroeter, Mr. Binks having struck a good 4-foot scam at a depih of 300 feet.

THE General Agent of the Shanghai Sumatra Tobacco Co., Ld., has received the following telegraphic advice from the Deli Maatschappy,, Amsterdam:-'Sold 650 bales tobacco at Gids

1.13."

THE steamer Sado-maru, recently torpedoed by the Vladivostok, squadron, left Mutsure Istand, near the Shitponoseki Straits in tow of the Takasago-maru for Nagasaki, where she will be repaired.

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THE Siam Observer, of the 29th ult., says: Dr. Marques, of Macao, who is now on a visit to Bangkok, was the recipient this afternoon of an address and presentation of silver plate from Macao-born residents in Bangkok in recognition of his kindness to his countrymen. Dr. Marques leaves Bangkok on Friday,

THE Metropole Theatre was the venue of many people on Saturday evening when Mr. J. Christie again gave one of his performances which have attracted large crowds for several weeks past. It seems that these popular enter- tainments have come to stay and the enter prising manager is worthy of support.

THE construction of iron cases for mines is going on merrily in Shanghai, says the N. C. D. News. Four of them were seen belog taken along the Bund on a truck on Saturday moming and they are being openly manufac tured in Hoogkew. It would be indiscreet to ask whether they are for Russian or Japanese account. It is said they are for packing brick

tea in.

CAPTAIN George F. King Hall, who was one of the Commissioners who on behalf of Great Britain took over Wei-hai-wei on lease from THE Russians at Mukden have issued a ware- China in 1898, has been promoted to the ranking to the Chinese that the Japanese are pay ing for supplies with counterfeit Russian notes, of Rear-Admiral.

so that the Chinese must not accept Russian day at noon show a fatal cases. PLAGUE returns for the two days since alur notes from Japanese, but, the warning says, One was found" from the Russians you can accept them in the new buildings at Pedder's Street, another without fear, as no Russian will ever give a on the Hunghoma rocks, and a third in an un-false note." The Chinese are also warned not licensed sampan.

to ship any cargo down the Liao River to Newchwang, as it will only be destroyed by the Japanese, when the fighting begins.

THE Pacific Mail freight steamer Algoa, 4,897 toos, in avoiding an outwardbound barque, struck the rocks when entering San Francisco harbour, but get off and made the port with 13 feet of water in her forepeak.

THE pilot boat A. M. Bistre, which was built for Shanghai, by the Hongkong Dock Com- pany several months ago, has been run dows, and according to a correspondent of the Ching Gazette the damage she sustained will take

some Tis, 30,000 to repair.

THE following is the return of visitors to the City Hall Library and Museum for the week ending reth July, 1904-

"A A traveller from Dalny says that a great number of Japanese troops marched for Pott Arthur on Thursday.

A refugee from Yon Arthur, who left the harbour at 8 p.m. yesterday, says that only four large war vessels, nine destroyers and over twenty torpedo-boats were lying in the har- bour. The same informant slates that in the Daval fighting outside the entrance of Port Arthur, which took place on Wednesday, a large war vessel of two funnels and two masts (Poltava type) and a torpedo bost were des- troyed. It was rumoured that Russian soldiers at Fort Arthur are, from fear of the Japanese troops, conspiring to kill officers and fly away. A coachman' engaged in car transport at Golden Hill says that 300 sailors are guarding the fort at Liaotishan while 350 are stationed at Golden Hill with ten guns,

Provisions at Port Arthur are sufficient, but

fodder it scarce.

Another informant says that the artillery of the 11th Division proceeded to Tungshuk'on from Hsinatsek'on, between the 26th and the 27th Jure, and occupied Pingtoushan (500 feet high) and Pachi mountain (1,500 feet), seven miles and a half off the furt at the eastern en- trance of Port Arthur and 10 miles off the city. As the result of this the Japanese infantry accupied Siaopington island. The artillery, at first, made trial shots in order to calculate the range, and fortunately destroyed mines laid by Russians, The Russian feet, at that time, bombarded the artillery's flank and killed forty; the number of wounded is unknown. The Japanese captured seventy Russians.

Another informant says that the Japanese troops marched in the direction of the eastern coast from Dalay and occupied, after fighting from the 26th to 8th June, the surrounding heights about ten miles off Port Arthur. He saw the Japanese fleet burrying for Fort Arthur on Friday night.

Russians who left Port Arthur on Friday say that as the result of fights on the 26th and 27th eh., as many as 2,000 wounded have been sent into the town, on rickslas and any other avail- able conveyances, to be treated in the hospital. They add that the Russian fleet was at sea, when they left, and they saw the Japanese fleet! making towards Port Arthur.

A traveller from Newchwang states that on the zych ult, four Russian destroyers were engaged by Japanese, and three sank. The fourth escaped into Newchwang and was lying in the harbour there.-Universal Gaweite.

KWANGSI TROOPS, REVOLT.

UNPOPULAR OFFICERS KILLED.

Tokio, July 10th, 5.10 p.m. General Oku reports that the second army commenced operations for occupying Kai- ping on the 6th instant. After successively dislodging the Russians from their positions, we finally occupied Kaiping and the neigh bouring heights on the gth instant.

RUSSIAN RIGHT FLANK

ATTACKED AND BEATEN,

Tokio, July roth, 10.20 p.m. General Kuroki reports that on the 6th inst, our detachment, expelling 300 Russian cavalry, occupied Hsienchang thirty miles north-east of Saimachi. There were no casualties on our side.

On the 5th inst, we repulsed 1,300 cavalry of Chichinsky regiment which came to attack us near north of Fenshuiling. Our casualties were 4 killed and 3 wounded.

THE CURRENCY PROBLEM.

At the meeting of the committee of the Shanghai Chamber of Commerce, held on the 20th ult, the following letters were ordered for publication:-

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Hougkong General Chamber of Commerce,

Hongkong, 28th May, 1104. SIR,-I have the honour to refer you to the correspondence which passed last year between your Chamber and the Hongkong Chamber in relation to the presentation of a petition to the Diplomatic Corps at Peking, requesting that Body to urge on the Chinese Government the imperative necessity of taking steps to estab is a uoiform National Coinage throughout China, as a first step towards the institution of currency arrangements of a less fluctuating character than those at present in use

The importance of not allowing this matter to pass into oblivion was referred to by the members of this Chamber at their recent Annual Meeting, and my Committee are anxious to know whether your Chamber is willing to make further joint representations to the Diplomatic-Body at Peking, with the object of urging it to a course of action of a more determined nature than a mere expression of sympathy as was the case last year.

Awaiting the favour of an early reply,-I have, etc.,

(Signed) [A; R. LOWE,

Secretary,

LESLIE J. CUBITT, Esq.

Secretary, General Chamber of Commerce,

Shanghai. Shanghai General Chamber of Commerce, Shanghai, 23rd June, 1914. Dear Sir, I regret that, owing to my absence from Shangbai, your letter of 18th May has remained so long unanswered.

My committee are fully in accord with yours, in thinking that it is desirable to keep the question of currency reform constantly before. the Diplomatic Body at Peking, and l'am to say that in the course of a few days they hope to send for your consideration a draft of a letter, having for its object the awakening of the Di plomatic Body to the necessity for definite

(Signed) LESLIE J. CUBITT,

Secretary,

THE WEATHER,

THURSDAY Dext, July 14th, being the French National Fête the offices of the French Consu. late, 31 Wyndham Street, will be closed during

firmed; but, we fear that until definite news

the whole of the day. The Consul for France will be pleased to welcome at his residence, to from authoritative sources is forthcoming one must attribute the "scoop

to the

Macdonell Road, between 10 and 11 am, the members of the French community in the

Mandarins at Shanghai have received a tele. imagination of a imaginative scribe. At the

Colony, and between 11 and 12 the British and gram from Canton to the effect that the We-action--I have, etc., foreign officials, as well as his foreign colchien Brigade (4,500 strong) raised in Wuchang same time, the canard envolt recalls an

leagues, who might wish to call officially on and organized by Viceroy Chang Chih-tung in interesting story associated with these islands

this occasion. Madame G. Liebert will be at 1900, which was lent to the Two Kwang Vice- The Secretary, Hongkang General Chamber which, in the early days, occupied a very

home on the same day between 4 and 6 p.m. royalty last year, and up to the beginning of

of Commerce, Hongkong. favoured position during Great Britain's

last month had been stationed at Lungehou, search for a Colony in the East. In 1837

Kwangsi province, has revolted and gone over Hongkong was almost out of the running,

to the insurgents. It appears that from the and when, four years later, the Plenipoten-

very first, their transfer from Wachang, to the tiaries, immediately alter the capture of

Two Kwang privinces was by no means popu- Tinghai, organised a complete civil,

lar with the men who were aware of the irre-vatory:- gularity with which the Kwangsi Army Pay On the rith at 11.35 am. The barometer judicial and fiscal administration for the whole Island of Chusan the chances of our

We have on several occasions referred in these good credentials from the north, and as some Department usually paid the troops, while they has risen in China and in Formosa; in the WHITE TURKISH TOWELS. present Colony seemed further removed than columns to the splendid work performed are not unknown to Hongkong one should rely

ever. In taking possession, Sir Henry Pottin- among the suffering children of the poorer COUNTERPANES.

ger notified that, under no circumstances class of Chinese, and of the aid and protection upon spending several pleasant evenings. At would Chusan be restored again to the afforded to the indigent and aged Celestial Shanghai many of the artists received "voci Chinese Government, until the whole of the women, by the French sisters of L'Adils de la ferous encores," and the audience appreciated | Chéng Hsiao-hsü, an honest and a just official,West coast of the main island (Hondo) máyу-

the lively turns. To-morrow evening readers as Commandant of the Brigade, with the ranking towards the N.E. demands of Eugland were not only complied | Sainte Enfance. The institution is sadly in will be able to judge for themselves, and of a Metropolitan official of the 4th grade and i with but carried into full effect. Meanwhile gladly supplied by the numerous wealthy going by the reports of the performances in the

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the cession of Hongkong was announced, although several years later Chusan was again spoken of as being after all vastly preferable

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want of funds and the necessary aid should be

Chinese that inhabit the Colony. Unfor tunately many of these are not aware of the charity, care and kindness that is being lavished

ALTHOUGH it is a somewhat risky speculation to stage a variety performance in Hongkong during the summer months the Orpheum Musi. cal Comedy Co. announce a short season com mencing from to-morrow. They certainly bring

The following report is from Mr. J. t. Plumi mer, Chief Assistant of the Hongkong Obser

of the names appearing in the advertisement were accustomed to the strict regularity in Philippines it is stationary. In Japan it has sisted upon by Viceroy Chang Chih-tung risen in the S.W. and falles: in the extreme

north. wherever the pay of troops under him was con-

The depression is now situated near the cerned. The appointment, however, of Trotai

north they should not be disappointed.

LATEST NEWS FROM PORT ARTHUR.

the title of Vice-Commissioner-General of the Kwangsi Army engaged in

SUPPRESSING THE REDELS,

to this Island, whose majestic peak on the abandoned little ones of their race by certain chronicler compared with a decayed the good sisters. It would be worth the while Stilton cheese and whose charming sur- of several of the rich and charitably disposed Chinese members of our community to visit roundings he likened to the back of a negto streaked with leprosy. In 1845 Chusan was realise that the establishment is all-worthy oland Chinese refugees from Dalny and the which did not add to their kind feelings to- restored to the Emperor of China in con- their patronage. ::

the Convent, when they would undoubtedly

Chefoo, 2nd July.

The Japanese fleet bombarded of the same

removed some of the dissatisfaction felt by the men, and consequently there was not much trouble in transporting the Brigade to the southern provinces. While at Lungebou, to which treaty port, they had been sent, the According to statements made by European troops lost a number through an epidemic formity with treaty engagements, one of the

vicinity of Port Arthur, some shells from wards the Kwangsi Government authorities, that their popular Commandant not being able clauses of a convention stipulating that on MR. Wigham of the Morning Post, and Mr. Japanese artillery feil in the city on the catly. This was increased in rage when it transpired. the evacuation of the Island China would Douglas Story of the Daily Express, bave morning of the 30th June, but did no harm to work amicably with the new Governor, Ko never cede it to any other foreign Power. been recalled. Mr. G. Kingswell of the Lon time. The hospitals si Port Arthur and the Feng-shib, had been compelled to send in his In the case of the attack of an invader Great don Daily Express and Mr. A. G. Hales of the surrounding places are unable to accommodate resignation, which was accepted by the latter. Britain has to protect Chusan and its depen. Daily News, says the P. & T. Timer, have left the wounded soldiers being sent there after. A month ago orders came to the new Com- dencies, and to restore it to the possession of or Peking preparatory to leaving for home. Chine. Perhaps our, French contemporary ter with a view to obtaining if possible permis-

They will endeavour to see the Russian, Minis- daily encounters on, land, and consequebily, mandat for the Brigade, to leave Lungchou and march into Kwangtung province. The many residences of the natives are being trans in the north has some exclusive information siop to proceed to England vid Siberia The formed to receive sick-beds under the fing of order was accordingly obeyed, but by the time on this point which it intends dealing out death is announced of Mr. H, I. Middleton, a

On the 26th there was a skirmish at Chang piece meal until the great event is realised. war correspondent, who succumbed to dysen- Perhaps not. Anyhow no one takes the tryst Liaoyang. Mr. Middleton passed through lingise, 45 li eastward of Post Arthur, and on news seriously; not even the French readers, Japan on the way to the front shortly after the the following day a great number of the and now that the Russo-Japanese war has outbreak of war and assigned to the Russian Japanese troops arrived at Lungian, 25 if Army. He was an Englishman, about 35 years Port Arthur; one of the refugees says that over not been productive of startling copy during old and had long been engaged in the Paris 10,000 Japanese bave landed

se bave landed there the past week and the dog days appear to Office of the Associated Press. The London

On the coast 35 li south-east of Port Arthur have set in at the offices of the che, our Daily Mail is now the only British newspaperawat-vessel was seen Branded on a rock and Northern contemporary must not be too having a fully accredited war correspondent on two fannels were seen severely blamed for amusing its readers with the Russian side, Mr. Hands, who remains at here were only four larke warships and ten

destroyers in the harbour on the sb June. Isex such news as the pending seizure of Chusan, Moukden.

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A large stock of Canadian Asbestos and

Asbestocel goods kept.

Agents for Messm. Allen & Sons Electrical

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winds will be met with in the Formosa Chan-- nel and moderate S.W. winds in the China Seat. Forecast Light 8.W. winds, cloudy, showe y

moderate over the China Sea Light variable

SHIPPING AND MAILS.

MAILS DUE. French (Oceanien) 15th'inst Australian (Tsinan) 13th inst. American (Siberia) 13th inst. English (Simla) 15th inst.. Canadian (Tartar) 19th insty Gerroan (Preussen) zoth inst

Canadian (Empress of CA (wa) 35ih inst The Imperial German Mail 5.5. Sacksen which left here on 9th ult, arrived at Genoa on 9th insiz at 3 p.m.

The O.&O.S. S. Co.'s as. Coptic with mails, from San Francisco to the azud ult, has arrived at Yokohama and sails for this porti

to-morrow at noon;

the troops had got into Liuchanfu, the prefec ture adjoining the Kwangsi provincial capital Kweilin, the dissatisfaction of the Brigade broke out into open mutiny, says the N. C.D. News, with the result that they killed all their unpopular officers, plundered the military chest, The P. & O. S. N. Coin 5.8. Simla left ammunition carts and stores and, forcing those Singapore for this port on toth inst, at noon, of their officers, who had been spared to lead with the Outward English Mails, and is due them, marched off in a body to jin the insur. bere on 15th ist, at 6 ẩm. rents, who are reported to have naturally re

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ceived their new allies with open arms. Liu rying German Malls with dark chafu, it may be stated en passant, is just now of the Tit ult, left Colombo on overrun by the rebels...

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