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Tux japanese have raised all the vessels sunk by the Russian in Talienwan Bay. The Rus sians had thoughtfully covered them with anti- decay paint before sinking them, inteading to get them up themselves..`

frir Yokohama agent of the O. & O. Co, maya. that the Garlic was detained, at Midway Is land until the 30th it.

FOR removing a Chinaman from his "house knowing him to be suffering from a contagious disease, Lok Fuk Yuen, of Queen's Road West, was this morning fined $so by Mr. Gompertz,

OWING to the recrudescence of the insurrection tax Kwangsi province and the importance of having rapid communication between that pro- vince and its righbours, the Chinese telegraph authorities have begun laying a new line be THE British steamer Anerky, which had on tween Kweilin, itte provincial capital of Kwangboard 18,000 railway sleepers and four hundred si, and the city of Yungchoufu, Hunan pro tons of coal belonging to the Seoul-Fusan Ruilly vince, whence dispatches may be telegraphed way, ran ashore near lasan (or Urusan) (to the to any province by way of Ch'angsha.

north of Fusan) on the 29th ult, at 10 am, while en route from Hokkaido to Fusan.

ST. Petersburg, 18th June. After criticising. in strong so, the war news published in the English papers, which it describes as in some isgracefully biassed and coloured,' cases

Neve Vraniya to-day recommends the Russian authorities to kilise the French news papers for the purpose of counteracting the evil effects upon the world at large of the widely- disseminated telegrams of the British & ress |--Nagusaki Press:

fr has just been learned definitely that the United States cru.ser Tacoma has been or- dered to join the Asiatic fleet. It is under- stood she will reach this station the latter part

| objected only a year ago to the crossing of the Straits by unarmed torpedo boats, can calmly look on when Russia sends through so-called merchant ships which turn out to be commerce-destroying cruisers, Japan has no status in the matter; she has "no" treaty with' Turkey and cannot put in any protest. The Jiji, however, believes in the spirit of the treaty of alliance. England is bound to prevent Russia from sending her men-of-war through the Straits, for Turkey in consenting to the breach of the provision of the Paris and Berlin treaties would be affording Russia valuable assistance and in case any power, whether connected by treaty with Japan or not, assists the enemy Eng- land's duty is clear. "It is not often that the Sultan has made any kind of legitimate! concession save under pressure. Other nations have been compelled to employ it against him, and he has invariably yielded when a display of force was threatened from a source capable of carrying out the threat. Quite recently the United States made a bold stand to compel him to grant privileges to Americans on terms equal to those given to other foreigners, and followed

The following notice has been circulated to the this up with a threat that unless a prompt Consular Hody at Shanghai:-"The Com compliance was nade to the demands mander-in-Chief of the Manchurian Army has The announcement from Constantinople there would be a United States naval demon- telegraphed to the Imperial Japanese Govern- that the Ottoman Porte has consented to stration in Turkish waters. The Sultan evid meat that he considers it necessary that, until a the passage of Russian Volunteer Cruisers ently had no desire to have the experience perfect state of peace and tranquillity shall be through the Dardanelles will be made the arising out of the Armenian claims repeated established at Newchwang, the presence of for- subject of much newspaper criticism, in so quickly complied with the Americaneige men of war in that port and also on the view of the fact that, towards the close of Minister's demands. That was a whole. Liao River shall lemporarily be suspended. It is last month, the Porte, in consequence of some lesson, and one which may need requested that this decision may be conveyed the British protest, is reported to have in repeating if the Sultan sees it to de- formed Russia, through her Ambassador,preciate the character of the British pro that no more vessels of such a type would be test against the passage of Volunteer permitted to pass the Straits. Turkey owns Cruisers through the Straits of Dardanelles. the territory on both sides of the narrow outlet into the Mediterranean, and the Sultan is bound to forbid the ships of war of foreign powers entering not only the Dar- danelles, but also the Bosphorus. In the treaty concluded between the five great Powers A hop dumped on the breakwater at Cause and Turkey in 1841 it was provided that way Bay was found to be infected with plague. They are doubiful if cancer is, as is generally several people wanted to board the P. and O.

HONGKONG. FRIDAY, AUGUST 12, 1904.

THE PASSAGE OF THE

DARDANELLES.

no man-of-war belonging to any nation save

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

to the commanding officer of any man-of-wai

chwang and the Liao river." that is reported to be proceeding to New-

THE Executive Committee of the Cancer Re- search Fund have published an interesting report. They find that cancer pervades all classes of vertebrates, including fishes, that the disease is not infectious, and that it is not transmissible from one species to another.

We have received a copy of the Korea Daily Wales, who is President of the Cancer Re

News, edited and published by Mr. E. T.

Bethell, at Paktong, Seoul,

THE Captain (Chinese) of the Kong Soo launch was fined $250, by Mr. Gompertz, this after- noon, for carrying excess passengers accoss the harbour.

supposed, increasing. H. R. H. the Prince of

search Fund has appealed for, increasing pecuniary support to facilitate research, and His Majesty the King has permitted the load to be described as the Imperial Cancer Re- search Fund.

TELEGRAM.

THE WAR.

RUSSIAN CRUISERS IN KIAO...

CHOW AND CHEFOO,

PORT ARTHUR SQUADRON RETURNS.

Mr. M, Nomia, Consul for Japan, has kind- forwarded to us the following telegram :—

Tokio, 12th August, 11.jo a.m.

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With reference to the reports hitherto received, stating that the Russian squadron. emerged from Port Arthur was attacked by our flect south of Ventao and dispersed, it is now learned that the Aaskolin, the Novik, another cruiser and a destroyer took refuge

in Kiachow, and also another destroyer in Cheloo on the 11th instant."

The enemy's five battleships, one cruiser. probably Diana, one hospital ship and several destroyers seemed to have regained Port Arthur on the 11th instant.

Our fleet is believed to be undamaged.

of the year. The Tacoma is one of the new vessels in the navy her keel having been laid in 1990. She is classed as a protected cruiser of 3,100 tons displacement, 292 feet in length with an extreme breadth of 44 feet. her draught is 15.34 feet, horsepower 4,700, with a speed of 16 knots an hour. Her engines are of the twin screw vertical triple expansion type, and her total cost to the government was $1,041.000, Her main battery consists of Log inch rapid fire guns and her secondary is composed of B-6 Her complement is 25 officers and one hundred pounders rapid fire, and four Colts automatics. FATAL ALCIDENT AT KOWLOON. and fifty-one men, The Tacuma will be a valuable addition to Rear Admiral Stirling's fleet now in these waters and it is understood to be the department's intention to shoitly dispatch several of the modern American men- of-war to these parts.

Now that there is so much traffic between Hongkong and Kowloon, and so many busi. ness men employed in Haagkang prefer in take Kowloon their place of residence, it is certainly strange to notice the entire absen e of any proper landing stage, where sampians receive and discharge the passengers. This want was especially noticeable yesterday, when

DOCK.

Last night, when some members of the crew". of the s.s. Tak Hing, which lies in No. 3 berth of the Kowloon Docks, ware returning on board, they observed a man lying prone at the bottom of the dock, and upon going to see into the matter found that it was the dead bo1y of the ship's Chinese cook. No one on board knew anything at all about the affair, and in

the absence of any witnesses, or evidence of

any sort, it is surmised that the man must have been sitting on the bulwark, and, over-balance ing himself, fell to the bottom of the dock where he met his death. It was known that the deceased had been on shore in the evening, but it was believed that he returned on board

THE PARSEE FORGERY.

Pekin, which was anchored just off the Kow.carly. The body was removed to the Mortuary, loon wharf, waiting for the tide to go alongside and an inquest will be held in due course. the wharf. They had the choice between walking down a plank, at a very acute angle, on to a lighter, and thence taking a risky jump on to a sampan, or of scaling down a per- pendicular wooden set of steps, scarcely to be called a ladder, the botton rung of which did not reach within several feet of a' sampan's gunwale at low water, on this account the only alternative for Kowloon folk wishing to visit a vessel anchored in the harbour, is to take the ferry across to the longkong side thence charter a sampan to their destination.

needs the attention of the powers that be.

The case in which Mr. Shapurji Cowasjen Sauzana, barrister-at-law, of Bombay, was charged with forgery in that Presidency, and on account of which the extradition of the accused was sought, was again called on this morning, after innumerable remands.. Mr. F. B. L. Howley, Crown Solicitor, appeared for the prosecution, and Mr. Harston for tha

A BERLIN wire of 1st inst. says that Russia bas made a confidential request to the German Government for permission to use the German Fleet, but Germany has refused to grant such Baltic Canal for the passage of the Baltic check-bane of the Japanese is double in many This is scarcely as if should be, and certainly defence.

permission.

Turkey should be allowed to pass the Straits without the express consent of Turkey, and that all merchant ships should be required to show their papers to the Ottoman autho rities. These provisions were confirmed at London in 1871 and at Berlin in 1878. We recollect that nearly two years ago the British Ambassador at the Porte lodged a protest because four Russian torpedo-boat destroyers passed through the Dardanelies on their way to the Black Sea. It was then held that such a proceeding constituted a viola tion of the international treaties under [35 which the Dardanelles are closed againsi the warships of all nations. . According to the views of those at home the character of a battleship or cruiser is in no way altered by ANOTHER rumour regarding the stranding of the fact that it has been disarmed and flies one of H.M. ships was afloat yesterday. This a flag of commerce. There is no concealing time it was H.M.S. Albion, the flagship of the fact. To take guns off a cruiser and hoist a commercial flag no more makes it a merchant ship than a man would be harm- less who takes his weapon one day and brings his ammunition the next. But this was the means resorted to by Russia to assure the

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C.B., C.M.U., which was credited with having gone badly aground, Inquiries made in the proper quarters, however, proved the rumour to be an emanation from the brain of the man in the street."

passage of the four torpedo-boats in ques- WHEN Cheong he was convicted by Mr. Russia urged in her behalf that Gompertz and sentenced to six months, hard an unarmed vessel under a flag, of com- labour, and six hours in the stocks for stealing merce cannot be regarded as a warship. an opium pipe from a shop in Queen's Road As she persisted in this contention, the West, he said he was "very unfortunate as he Porte adopted the same view and assented was not the thief though his identifier thought he was." He was identified by the master of to the passage of the torpedo-boat destroyers, And now it appears from the Reuter telegram printed elsewhere in this issue, that the Sultan will, for the time being, adhere to his original decision and permit Volunteer

the shop when placed among a dozen other coolies of his class.

THE French steamer Hatlan has arrived in

Tur Japan Gasifie notes the following curious anatomical discovery which is said to have been made by Dr. Hilgendorf, of the German Society at Yedo for the study of the natural history and ethnology of Eastern Asia. He says that the cases, instead of being of a single structure The additional bone is united to the other by a Buture, and is believed to be peculiar to the japanese race. It would be interesting to know whether any tendency towards the same forma tion can be discovered in any branch of the Malay race. If it could it would go a long way

to establish the theory that the Japanese derive

their origin from that race, and not from the Mongols.

The Japan Daily diail has the following:- Vladivostock, July 22nd. The British steamer

DANGER 10 NAVIGATIONE

The Harbour Master has kindly communi. cared to us the following information received from Mr. A. Holz, Harbour Master at Swa-

tow:-

No further evidence was taken, the case having closed with the address of Mr. Harston for the defence on Wednesday last.

Mr. Kemp reviewed the evidence, as already reported in these.columns, and said that he came to the conclusion that the accused must be sent back to Bombay to stand his trial on the charge against him. He would therefore be remanded to Victoria gaol pending the date of his being taken back to Bombay by Inspec- tor Porter, of the Bombay Police Force; but : would be allowed fifteen days in which to apply for a writ of habeas corpus, if he should think fit to make such application. Should no

be remanded to the custody of Inspector l'oiter for the purpose of being conveyed to Bombay.

Notice is hereby given that the master of the British steamer Siugan reports having, on the and inst., passed a floating wreck in Lat. 39 Cheltenham, captured by the Vladivostock 24 N., Long. 120° 54′ E. and on the same day application be made within that time, he would squadron, was to-day declared a lawful prize. in Lat. 38° 34' N., Long. 120 36 E. he passed Her commander did not attempt to defend himself, because the proof against the vessel a floating mine with projecting prongs, was overwhelming, and the evidence tended to show that the ship had already been bought by the Japanese for $20,000. She was sailing under the British flag because some of the

formalities of her transfer were lacking. There

were only four British subjects on board the Chell.uham. Her crew were mostly Germans, and they did not conceal their joy at the fact that the Russians had captured the Cheltenham,

Gromeboi lest the Cheltenham they were cheer. ed by the Gerinaris.

THE N. D. L. 5.5. " WONGKOI"

IN DOCK.

It will be remembered by our readers that on the night of the 3rd inst., a collision

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An inquiry was held last evening, by the Hon. Barnes-Lawrence, Harbour Master, at the Marine Court, into the circumstances attending- the collision between the Polar Star and a

cruisers to enter the Mediterranean. A teleport after a stiff encounter with the typhoon When the prize crew from the armoured cruiser took place in the harbour between the sampan, whereby a child of nine months lost

by water.

The Russian steamers owned by the Chinese Eastern Railway Company have been affected more adversely by the war than any other fleet, There were 17 vessels before hostilities began and now, between destruction by their friends

iliere-

some 130 miles south-west of St. John's Island, gram from Herlin of the 10th July gave the She shipped heavy seas again and again, but no news of the passage of ship's through the damage whatever resulted to the steamer, which Dardanelles in the following terms "It is is said to be one of the strangest boats in the learned that the Russian Volunteer Fleet small feet running for. Mr. A. P. Marty. She ships which have just passed the Dardanel-behaved remarkably well, only a small portion les will go to the Schneider shipyard at Le of the 'tween deck cargo being slightly damaged Creusot, France, where they will be armour- ed. The Volunteer Fleet vessels Sevastopol, Petersburg, and Orel, three of the largest AT the Magistracy the morning, many able steamships flying the Russian flag passed bodied men were charged with gambling at through the Dardanelles in the course of the West Point and other convienent spots in the blown up the Zeia, Bureia, and Nagaian, and plates both above and below water were badly opposite direction. The ferry boat, however, PHOTOGRAPHIC past week. The Sevastopol and Ure! were Colony and the New Territory. Altogether 27 the Nonni was destroyed by a mine. The dented, but the seams were not started, so she men faced the Magistrate, but their features re-last-named was a steamer of 2,464 tons, built did not spring a leak. She proceeded with the mained immobile, and Mr. Kemp let them down so lightly that it is rumoured a blush was

in 1901, while the three others were under 1,coo discharge of her cargo and was afterwards

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flying the Red Cross flag. The official de claration regarding the latter vessel was pre-

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THE following is the programme of music to be performed by the Band of the 1st Sherwood Foresters, on the new parade ground, on Monday next from 5 to 6.30 p.m. -

PROGRAMME. March......."The Silver Trumpets "Viviani Overture......The Darker of Seville "........Rouini Selection...." (ieneviève De Brabant"......Offenbach Intermezzo..." Songe D'Amour Après le Dal "..Ózibutka Selection...." The Geisha "..

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B. I. S. N. Co.'s Ujina, and lie Norddeutscher its Ife in the harbour. The master of the sam Lloyd's Wongkol. The latter steamer, which pan testified that he was coming up the har arrived in port with a cargo of rice from Hang.bour and when nearing the ferry boat he kak, had just dropped anchor off West Point, thought the latter was going to port

and when she was ran into by the Ujina which ferry, however, was to starboard, and hence the fore he kept on his way. The course of the was just coming in on arrival from Singapore. collision. For the ferry it was elicited that the The Wongkai was struck just abaft the en- sampan had a light hoisted astern instead of and capture by the enemy, 10 steamers at least gine, six plates, with the frame, beams and forward and as she carried no side-lights, that have been lost, possibly more. The Russians, deck siringer plates being damaged. The gave the impression that she was going in the when abandoning Dalny, are reported to have

blow her wlustle, signalling her course,

The Court held that an error of judgment had been committed by the master of the ferry, but of not sufficient nature as. 10 warrant his certificate being dealt with, and recommended

the Japanese transport service.

The damage is estimated at about $2,000 The Ufina continued her voyage to Shangha to schedule time, with a broken slein, and it is expected she will be docked here as soon an a

dock is available.

THE Hon. Treasurer of the Alice Memorial and Nethersole Hospitals begs to acknowledge with thanks donations of $15 from 1 On Insur- ance Co., Li Wa Co., Hang On Co, Yau On Insurance Co., Wang Hing, Tsai Hing, Wa "Hing, San Shing, Ching Wo Pong, Sincere & Co., Lai top Un, Ma Pak Leung, and I Sun The following report is from Mr. J. 1. Plum-. Co. Also of Sto from Tung Yik, Sam Wang.mer, Chief Assistant of the Hongkong Obser

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that some compensation be given the parents

for the loss of the child. A representative of the Ferry Company said that the matter would. be attended to and $50 given to the parents.

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sumably similar to statements in regard to telephoned to the nearest police station. The tons each. News, since the war broke out, has taken to the dock and placed in No. 2 berth the others. It was declared that the Orel lines inflicted amounted to about ten ricksha been received of the capture by the Japanese where the bulged plates have been removed, had been fitted out as a hospital ship, and rides per hour.

of the Amur, Argun, Afanchuria, Mukden, and the other damage is being rapidly repaired. Nevik, and Schilka. Of these the Argun, her cargo included flour, barley, semolina, to-

Manchuria, and Mukden are now employed in (45bacco, wine, and other foodstuffs and drinks.. It is reported from Odessa that the Orel's hold probably contained something of greater naval and military value than semolina." The same day a cable from Suez said. "The Russian Volunteer Flect steamer Smolensk, which passed through the Dosphorus from Sevastopol July 6th, has sailed southward from here. The vessel took two Red Sea pilots, one for herself and the other for the Volunteer Fleet steamer

Kat Cheung; Yau Cheung, Kwong Fuk Hing, Petersburg, which passed the Bosphorus

and Yeung, Lai Loi, Also of 55 from Kwong July 5th, coal-laden, and which was re-

Min Shing, Lung Shing, I Shang Fat, Tseung On the 12th at 11.30am. The barometer has ported at Port Said on Saturday. It is THE case in which a Mr. Davis, describing Wo, Sui Un Ki-Man lu Wing, King Cheung risen slightly in South China, and fallen gene- rumoured here that the transports intend himself as a merchant of Hongkong charged Wing Fung, Cheung Shing, Wing Cheung rally, but slightly at all other stations. Contract for New Tonnage og reasonable terms awaiting the arrival of the Russian Baltics Hongkong resident with the theft of his Cheung Sbing, Kwong Wo, Wa Lung, Tai The greatest preasure is now found in Japan,

with First-class Builders.

And these gold watch and chain, as reported in these Shing, Kwan Tai, Nam Hing Loong, Sam and the least in the Pacific to the South East A huge stock of Canadian Asbestos and squadron in the Red Sea."

were the merchant vessels that have caused so columns at the time, resulted in the two partles Yick Go., Wing San, I Fung, Tsun Li, Chan of Formosa. Asbestocel goods kept, Agents for Messrs. Allen & Sons Electrical much trouble with shipping in the Red Sea' changing places, the prosecutor becoming de Lang, Tin, Ships Ch Chan, San Shies Wing

Dealing with the question some weeks ago | charge of bringing a false and malicious case. Wing Hing Lung, Hop Shing Lung, Min and mod rate N.E. winds will prevail in the Japan which left Hongkong on 13th ult., and

fendant and the defendant prosecutor, in a Yik Loong, Yuk Kee Chan, Sam Shing Wing the Jiji reviews recent developments with The case was set to come on in the Supreme Ch'eung, Sai Wa Hin, Tsun Tai, Hang On, regard to the neutrality of the Dardanelles. Court to-day, when it was reported that the Lai Wo, Shin Hang Treung, Hang Fa Restau- It refuses to believe that England, which defendant had left the Colony,

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Regimental March-The Young May Moon. God save the King.

vatory:-

Gradients are slight upon the China Coas

Formosa Channel and in the nonhern part of the China Sea

Forecast-Moderats E. to N.E. winds, fac.

The C. N. Cola sa. Changsha from Aus- tralian Ports, leaves Sydney on 12th inst, and is due here on's 5th insti

The C. PR. Co's 8.8. Empress of Indiæ: arrived at Nagasaki at 7.30 a.m., on 11th fast, and leaves again at 3 p.m., same day, for Shanghai where she is due to arrive at mid- Light on 12th inst.

The Silr

on C. 1 RA CỦA Empre of Yokohama on 22nd ult, arrived in New York on toth inst, thus making a transit of 28' days. from Hongkong and 19' days from Yokohama,