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TELEGRAMS.

(Reuters.)

Great Britain and Thibet.

LONDON, 19th July.

Mr. St. John Brodrick, in reply to a long question by Mr. McNeill, said that Russia had been informed at the beginning of June last that Great Britain would adhere to the policy enunciated in the despatch of the 6th

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH THURSDAY, JULY 21, 1904.

THE WAR. ·

SINKING OF THE “SMOLENSK"

A RUMOUR.

A somewhat sensational rumour gained cur- rency in the city to-day to the effect that the Russian Volunteer cruiser Smolensk had been sunk by a British cruiser. The origia of the report is untraceable.

bin at six o'clock in the evening of the 21st April.

THE LATE CAPT. CAMPBELL.

ASSAULT ON A WATCHMAN.

AT THE BOWLING CLUB,

Narakha Singh, watchman at the Bowling Club, below the Hotel America, appeared before

prosecute the bar boy, Yeung Hing Chi, of that Mr. J. H. Kemp, second Palice Magistrate, to Club for assault and causing grievous hurt to him in the bar-zoom last night.

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'November; but the action must obviously / Government, though highly improbable, is con-Mitchell, one of the firm of Armstrong, Mit-the complainant, were that he received orders for July, Tis. 152 for August and Tis. 156 for from Mestrs. Kelly and Walsh or Volunteer

́depend to some extent on the attitude of the Thibetans, and the Government declined to undertake not to depart from that policy in any eventuality. So long, however, as no Power endeavoured to intervene in the affairs of Tibet, Great Britain would not at- tempt to annex, establish a protectorate, or seek to control the internal administration

of the country.

The War.

RUSSIANS AGAIN ROUTED,

Such an action on the part of the British

sidered as not at all impossible. It is argued that, regarded as a privateer, the Smolensk placed herself in jeopardy when called upon, as reported, by the commander of the British man-of-war to release the s. 6. Malacca which she unlawfully captured and which she declined to surrender. The Russian vessel crossed the Dardanelles under the commercial flag and has since been engaged in a privateer ing mission, regarded in a technical sense, in the Red Sea, under the Naval flag.

If the report proves to be established on fact, the forthcoming developments in Europe are sure to assume a most serious aspect, unless, of course, the Russian Government repudiates the action, as she is capable of doing, of herso- called Volunteer Fleet.

THE SS. "CHELTENHAM."

A PRIZE AT VLADY STOK.

General Kuropatkin reports that General Keller attacked the Japanese positions around Motienling and was repulsed. The Russian force consisted of 18 battalions cx-. clusive of reserves and attacked in three columns; finding, however, that the enemy was in an overwhelmingly superior force they In a recent issue weke Chronicle) report retired. The Japanese then attacked them.ed that a chartered British sie mer, whose Fighting began at 11 on the night of the name is given as the Cheltenham, was several 15th and continued until 3 p.m. on the 17th days overdue at Fusun from Otaru, which port instant. The Russian casualties were at was left on the 28th ultimo. It has now been ascertained that the steamer was captured by the Russian squadron. A telegram was recent- ly received from London at the Tokyo office of the Hokkaido Colliery and Railway Company, by which company the steamer was chartered, to the effect that the vessel had been captured by the Vladivostok squadron and arrived at Vladivostok on Monday last. Similar informa- tion also reaches Yokobama.

least one thousand.

LATER.

The Seizure of the "Malacca." The Malacca has arrived at Suez flying the Russian naval flag, commanded by Rus sian naval officers and worked by a Russian

crew.

Sensational Rumours. Sensational ramours of international com- plications owing to the Russian seizures in the Red Sea are sending Consols down. These rumours are without foundation, but it is understood that Great Britain has ap proached the signatories of the Treaty of Paris with the view of insisting that Russia defines the status of the Volunteer Cruisers still in the Black Sea Great Britain may claim demurrage and compensation for sei- zures already made, but proposes to confine action to the future.

The vessel carried cargo for Fusan consist ing of 30,000 railway sleepers, and 12,000 cubic feet of timber, the whole representing a value of Y35,070.

THE JAPANESE SYSTEM OF ESPIONAGE.

(TRANSLATED FROM THE "NOVOE YREMYA.") True to the traditions of the Yellow race, the Japanese have reduced espionage to a fine art. They covered the whole of Siberia and Manchuria with a network of spies, and also persons commissioned to destroy the railway line, bridges, and other buildings. The train in which we travelled passed the bridge across the Volga at Station Batraka a few minutes The Chinese Railway Loan. after the capture of two Japanese, one disguis The Chinese Railway loan was fully covered as a monk, the other as a peasant, taken in ed, but the underwriters have to take up a the very act of applying an explosive charge to one of the piers. The difficulty of catching part,

such people is enhanced by the fact that the Japanese can pass as Siberians, many of whom they closely resemble in feature, without much risk of detection. The organisation of the espionage department for a future war with Russia was commenced in 1898, immediately It is considered not improbable that the Rus after our occupation of Port Arthur, which was sians at Tasbihchian will again fall back in con- regarded as a deadly insult by the Japanese; centrate between Anshantien and Liaoyang, from that date, in fact, Japan determined to go to war with Russia, and began to make her where there are semi-permanent défences in existence, with the view of having a big battle preparations accordingly. Not long ago a field, where the Russian flanks will not be men-Japanese was arrested, exactly resembling a aced by sundry Japanese columns.-N. C. D.

General Kuropatkin's Plans.

Tokio, 13th July. The Russian main lines now extend from Tashihchiao to Haicheng and Liaoyang, along the railway.

News.

SIR ROBERT HARI::

A correspondent in Peking states in a pri- vate note that Sir Robert Hart, who has been suffering from lumbago and is consequently somewhat lame, hopes to get off to Pei-tai-ho. The Inspector-General wishes to get complete ly out of hamess for two months, and except in urgent matters will not have his correspon. dence sent on to him. It is understood that Mr. F. A. Aglen will be in temporary charge of the Inspectorate-General.-P. & 7. Times,

NEWCHWANG NEWS.

8th July.

ADMIRAL SKRYDLOFF REACHES PORT ARTHUR.

The torpedo-boat destroyer which left a few days ago has safely reached Port Arthur. It is sait, and with some reason, that she came

Admiral Skrydioff, the newly appointed cam- mander of Pan Archiir squad on, and that she bas fulfilled her mission. The Siveutch is now anchored abreast of the fort where she does guard duty.

A BLOW TO BRITISH PRESTIGE.

Chinaman in appearance; he wore a real pig tail, which, he explained, he had purposely allowed to grow during the last six years. In Irkutsk was caught a spy who had tried to send some tobacco and cigarette cardboard mouthpieces by post to Japan. When the parcel was examined by the police authorities it was discovered that detailed maps of the future theatre of war, drawn on minute squares

of paper, were concealed, tightly rolled up in the cigarette mouthpieces. Many Chinamen were captured who had tried to destroy the railroad and telegraph, and some who from the hills of Port Arthur bad signalled to the Japan ese fleet. One method of signalling was by a lantern attached to the breast, and concealed beneath the clothing of the bearer.

Capt. John Campbell, who was in command of the ill-fated Japanese cruiser Hitachi Maru, his assailant before his own vessel was des and according to report, did his cuinest to ram troyed, was a native of Wosherby, in the county of Durhani, where his, father was a school master. He was a relative of the Rev. Colin Campbell, a well-known Scottish minister, and one of his sisters is the widow of the late Mr.

chell, and Company, the Tyne shipbuilders Capt. Campbell was approaching 40 years of age, and had been at sea since a boy. He is described as "a typical sex commander,

quare-jawed and of medium height. He had been with the Nippon line for some years, and regularly made two voyages yearly between Yokohama and London. It was last Christmas that he left Middlesbrough for the Far East with the Hitachi Maru.. He had twice escaped death by drowning in shipwreck, and once from a burning ship.

STORIES OF RUSSIAN PICUCATION.

When General Meckel said of the Japanese military organisation that all that was on paper was really to be found, he was at the same time criticising indirectly the Russian methods of preparation for war.. I talked to a Frenchman last week, says a writer in The Sketch of June 15, a man with a great stake in the Far East and a firm believer in the Russian Alliance, and when I asked him how long he thought Port Arthur would hold out against the Japanese, he shook his head and replied that that depended not upon the valour of the Russian troops, but upon the quantities of provisions, ammunition, and coal that were upon paper only, and yet were counted on at St. Petersburg as existent. He seemed to think that, but for the provisions which were rushed in at the last moment, there would have been scarcely a fortnight's supply in the great

fortress.

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Shanghai advices, of the 14th inst., state:- Business reported:-Indo Chinas at Tis, 79/79) for October. Farnham, Boyds at Tis. 151/15

December. Maatschappijs at TIs. 300.

Business done direct:-Hongkong and Shang- hai Banks at $665 Farnham, Boyds at Tls, 252 for July, and Tls, 153 for September. China Sugars at $184 to Hongkong,

Do.

TO-DAY'S EXCHANGE..

Selling

The complainant had his head and face bandaged up, while his clothes, were covered with blood-stains. The facts, as alleged by

not to allow any outside "bays" in the bar At about 10.30 last night on going round the. club, he saw a strange "boy," to whom the bar-boy had just handed a bottle of rated water. Complainant went in to the bar and took away the bottle, from which the stranger was in the act of drinking, and ordered the Intter to leave the premises. Enraged at this interference with his "guest" the bar-boy London-Bauk T.T.... snatched the battle out of the complainant's hand, and, before the latter could defend him. self, broke it over his head inflicting three severe cuts. It is alleged that the guest also struck the complainant. Neither side had any witnesses to call, as the punkah-puller, who was the only man they knew of who had seen the commence- men of the trouble, ran away in a fright, and other men standing by were strangers. The defendant simply denied the charge. The case was remanded until to-morrow aftemoon on the possible chance of securing further evidence, the bar-boy being released on $50 bail and his "guest"on $75.

SPEEDY CAPTURE OF A

BURGLAR.

A fat semi-nude coolie, carrying a nearly new brown leather gladstone bag along Third Street in the early hours of the morning, would naturally arouse suspicion, even in a tokong's breast. That it did so this morning Wong Sam, a fat balf-dressed coolie, knows to his The Far East has always been an Eldorado

sorrow. Wong was walking gaily down Third to the peculating Russian official and the dis- Street at 3.30 am, to-day, showing a very honest contractor, and the story that Dalny

beat and handy gladstone bag, when a Chinese was, if possible, to be destroyed by the constable, investigated with the result that Russians, in order that no unsympathetic Wong, having, no satisfactory explanation to contrast should be made between the real value offer for his possession of the luggage, was of the buildings and the sums paid for their arrested on suspicion and locked up. Later Most of the this morning a report was received at the erection is quite a likely one. stories of Russian peculation I have heard bave Station from Lo Chou Shing, a contractor, of been told me by Russians themselves, who Third Street, that during the night his house accept the fact with that calm pessimism which had been burgled, and a bag contain. is one of the Oriental traits of the nation. Aing $16 in cash, and several suits of silk story which I have heard once or twice from clothing, had been stolen. Russian lips and which is a typical one is that of the fifty waggons.

These were the

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If wet the Concert will be held in the CITY HALL

Hongkong, 21st July, 1904,

CANTON DISTRICK' LOCAL NOTICE TO MARINERS No. 66.

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identical contents of the bag found in Wong's Sole Proprietor......Mr. JAS. CHRISTIE. possession, and Lo, calling at the Station, Iden. tified his property. Inspector Collott placed Wong before Mr. Gompertz, and stated that the man had said at the Station that he climbed up some water pipes into a verandah, and thence entered a bed-room, and seeing the bag he took it away. His Worship sent Wong to six months' hard labour and six hours in the

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PUBLIC AUCTION,

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THE Undersigned have received instructions from S. H. JOSEPH, Esq., to Sell by PUBLIC AUCTION,

A contractor, an honest man in his way, was engaged to make some hundreds of waggons for the Russian Government. The first fifty were completed, and the contractor took them to the commissariat yard. The official whose duty it was to receive the waggons looked at them and then walked down the line, putting a sumber, from one to fifty on each. He then ❘ stacks." asked the contractor to lanch with him, enter tained him nobly, and, after the meal, suggested that they should go and fook at the other fifty waggons. The contractor declared that he had no more ready to deliver, bat the official told him that he was mistaken. They went to- gether to the yard and walked down the other side of the line of waggons, the official making

His submarine majesty, Hai Long Wong, or them from fifty to a hundred. The official then the Dragon King of the Sea, has, according to suggested that the price of the second fifty native report, rendered valuable assistance in waggons should be divided between the con-connection with the raising of the sailing boat tractor and banself. "Did the contractor Geiska which, on Saturday last, was given a accept?" has been my usual question, and an resting place amid the seaweed and shells of the astonished "Of course!" has been the in his home. On Monday Mr. Grice endeavoured variable answer

to locate the boat with a view to salving her, but after spending the whole of the afternoon with grappling irons and hooks the task had to be abandoned, and the work was put in the hands of Ah King, The men to whom the job was entrusted were firm believers in the power of Hai, and not wishing to give offence and earn his displeasure, set about constructing a replica, in paper, of the Geisha, which they might offer him in exchange for the boat at the bottom of the sea. This having been completed they set out for Junk way, and having put it afloat set light to the paper and allowed it to drift wherever the wind and tide lister. It soon disappeared from view, and the men proceeded to the spot where the Geisha was supposed to have sunk and in a very short line localed the wreck and brought her to the surface. It is to be hoped they appreciate the kindness of the Dragon King in permitting them to rob him of his spoil.

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The above stories I only repeat as I was told them by Russians. The two which follow I heard from sources which make me think that they are true. A Russian man-of-war came into a British port, and the principai merchant who dealt in coal was asked to go on board and state his prices. He saw the officer whose duly it was to make purchases, and stated his lowest price for best 'steam-coal. He was as sured,by the officer that he was mistaken, for that his price was really half as much again,

VICEROY TSẦN OF CANTON.

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The most astonishing tale on this subject ever was told was of the warship that was built at Vladivostok. Some great official at the port in the Far East was some tens or hundreds of thousand of pounds short in his accounts. The money had gone in speculation and entertain ments. One of his subordinates made a sug gestion which put matters right at once. warship was built at Vladivostok (or paper); it was armed, provisioned, and manned (on paper); it was sent to sea (on paper); it encountered a There were Korean spies also. At Liaoyang typhoon (on paper), went to the bottom of the recently met a whole party of them, under

sea (on paper), and the relatives of the crew escort, three men and a woman! They were received compensation (on paper). The great about to be subjected to cross-examination by official found himself clear of his debts and our authorities. At Inkou was pointed out to

with a nice little sum to the good, and all the me a Chinese spy who was serving a Japanese minor fry, contractors and suchlike, received baron as lackey, master and man both follow nice little donation for the loan of their signa- up here with three companions to fetching the same infamous trade. He frankly ad-tures to the necessary documents. All that mitted that he was a spy and naively remarked was known at St. Petersburg was that a locally that as he received pay he was obliged to carry built and manned warship sailed from Vladi- out his master's orders. in Harbin lately a vostok and was lost at sea. Japanese colonel and major were tried by a field court-martial. Disguised as merchants, and accompanied by servant and a whole caravan, they had journeyed from China across Men- golia into Manchuria, camping out at night After passing the Manchurian in the open. frontier they were followed by a mounted patrol of the Russian frontier guard, which did not at first notice anything suspicious about them. But at one of their bivoracks, 20 miles south-west of Station Turchikh, the scouts noticed near their waggons some sus. He demurred, but found that, if he wished to picious flashes of light of a strange colour like sell his coal, be must sign a receipt for pay electric light. The non-commissioned office: ment at one and a-half his real price. The in command of the patrol, knowing that simple officer assured him that it was always done, Mongols were not likely to have electric lamps in and that the money the ship made in this way their possession, ordered his men to seize the was divided on a perfectly understood scale. caravan. There were discovered, bu.ied in the

The other story is of the purchase of a ship, ground, gun-culton, Bickford Juses, and other for the Russian Volunteer Fleet. I will not appurtenances and instruments for the destruc- particularise the part of the country where it tion of railways; and the pretended Mongols occurred, but will simply say that a vessel suit. bad detailed plans of the line. In Harbin able for the Volunteer Fleet was for sale in a they admitted that they belonged to the Japan foreiga port, and 'a Committee of Russians ese military service, and during their trial stated came to look at her. They lived, as my in- Tux new Governor of New Guines, Capt. that many officers had been sent to Manchuria formant put it, like fighting-cocks, and seemed Barion arrived at Port Moresby on June 17 with the object of trying to destroy the Russian in no hurry to conclude a bargain. The ship and took over possession from Mr. Chris railway. The court condemned them to death was bought. My informant had an opportunity by hanging. The condemned men begged for at a later period of looking at the official figures their lives, but the commander of the Man- concerning the purchase of the ships of the chunan Army declined to grant their appeal. Volunteer Fleet; and he found the purchase permitting, however, in view, of their position money for the ship in question had been as officers, that they should be shot instead recorded af almost double the figure which was of hanged. The sentence was executed at Har was really paid.

The Espiegle appeared outside the bar, but after. communicating with the British Consul she again left for Chingwangtae. Chinese view of this action is that the gunbbat had been ordered to keep away by the Russians and that the British are afraid. Anyhow British prestige has gone down considerably in consequence,

FIGHTING NEAR NEWCHWANG.

Heavy firing took place at a village south west of Kaichow, 2; miles from here. The firing lasted from noon until 3 p.m. Some gun-vessels took part in the engagement, but no particulars are to band.

RED CROSS NUSES.

There are a number of Red Cross people here, including nurses. They will shonly "proceed along to where their services will be

required.

SHIPPING

is brisk; there are 14 ships in harhour at present-Shanghai Mercury.

A GERMAN daily newspaper will shortly te launched in Tientsin. Mr. G. Malade of Ier Ostasiatische Lloyd passed through Chefon some days ago on his way to Shanghai from Tientsin, having completed arrangements for publication. Tageblatt für Nordching will be the name of the paper.

ON SATURDAY,

23rd July, 1904, at 2.30 P.M., within his

residence, No. 5, Seymour Road, THE WHOLE OF HIS HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE,

Comprising:- DOUBLE and SINGLE IRON BED. STEADS with WIRE and RATTAN MAT- TRESSES, TEAKWOOD WARDROBES, MARBLE-TOP WASHSTANDS, TEAK WOOD OVERMANTELS with BEVELLED GLASS, PICTURES, GLASS and CROC KERY WAKE, COOKING STOVE and UTENSILS, &C., &c.

TERMS:-As usual, Catalogues will be issued,

HUGHES & HOUGH, Auctioneers, Hongkong, 21st July, 1904.

THEATRE

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FROM ANTWERP, LONDON, PORT SAID, SUEZ AND STRAITS. Consignees of Cargo by the above-named vessel are hereby informed that their Goods are being landed and placed at their risk in the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company's Godowns at Kowloon, where each consignment will be sorted out Mark by Mark, and delivery can be obtained as soon as the Goods are landed

This vessel brings on Cargo

From London, &c., ex S.S. Oceana.

Optional Goods will be landed here unless instructions are given to the contrary before 2 P.M. TO-DAY.

Goods not cleared by the 17th instant, at 4 P.M., will be subject to rent

No Fire Insurance will be effected by me in any case whatever,

Damaged Packages must be left in the Godowns for examination by the Consignee's and the Company's representative at an ap pointed hour,

All claims must be presented within ten days of the steamer's arrival here after which date they cannot be recognised.

No claims will be admitted after the Gooda

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A Peking dispatch states that a number of Censors have sent up to the Throne a joint memorial denouncing the incapability of H. E. Trên Ch'un-hsien, Viceroy of the Two Kwang provinces, as proved by his inability to suppress the Kwangsi insurrection within the past twenty months or so, and calling for his immediate dismissal and punishment. It is believed that the Grand Council have merely recommended that Viceroy Tsen be cashiered, but have avoid- JAPANESE DECORATION ed the question of punishment in their report on the matter to the Throne. It would be a good plan for the Empress Dowager to send denouncing Censors and the member of the Grand Council down to Kwangsi and see what COMEDY they can do to put down the insurrection in that province.-N. C. D. News,

Robinson, the Chief Justice and acting Gorer- nor. Two days afterwards, at seven, on Sun day morning, the latter shot himself with a big army revolver in the centre of the forebead, 30 yards in front of the Residency, and was dis- covered by bis successor. Po reason can be assigned for the tragedy. —S, F. Press,

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