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CANTON, 28th Sept., 4 p.m..
Arnold Kurberg & Co., in the Back The fire at the godowns of Messrs.
Read, has now subsided.
It is, therefore, somewhat surprising to find added to this the profit derived from the that, in 1903, under: this head, there sale of Crown lands, viz. 8242,347.154. was a decrease of more than H.K. Ts. rapid and satisfactory increase is still further 5,000,000. In consequence of no rebate indicated The estimated revenue for the being given by the native customs at whole of the current year is $6,208,308, Canton, there is no advantage in shipping which, reckoned on the average basis of by junk, and as a result the decline in the the seven months collections, falls short amount of cotton yarn imported, which at by an amount, in round figures, of one time was carried in quantities to over $62.000, Licenses and internal revenue 100,000 picols a year, has dwindled down to a are responsible for, an increase in the col few hundreds. So far during the present year lections of 2874172.421 court or office the revenue shows a slight increase on the fees, payments for specific purposes, amount collected during the same period of and reimbursements in aid, exceeded the 1993; but, the conditions prevailing, when total for the same period last year by BLUEJAUKETS AT CANTON
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perial Defence, His Excellency, when Gover. All communications Intended for bilention nor of the Gold Coast, initiated and carried to
3 HONGKONG, TELEGRAPH should be addressed to The Falitor. I. Ice House Road, and a perfectly satisfactory conclusion, a system should be accompanied by the Writera Name and of volunteer work, which accomplished much Ordinary business communication bould be addremel in the direction of rendering life and pro- perty more secure in that dark and unliealthy region. But setting aside the advocacy of volunteering in the general sense of the term, and which, in the main, usually appeals to the young and energetic Briton abroad, The rater par quarter and por mensen, proportional, the proposal in regard to the: Hongkong The daily lone is delivered free when the addrom Volunteer Reserve Association ought to aditional $1.80 per quarter is charged for postage. commend itself to every resident of manly world % 30 cents per qiiess to any part of the instincts providing always that physical in Bingle Copier, Daily, ten cents; Wookly, twenty-firmity offers no bar to the handling of
gun. Many a man can find time and healthy brain-feeding recreation in rifle practice, and by eurolling himself as a member of the As- sociation be can make himself a proficient and efficient marksman; and, thus become an important fighting unit in the defence of the Colony should such an unfortunate
(27th September.) necessity arise. Although up to quite re-
Within eighty miles of Hongkong is the cently the appeal, or as it were "call to prosperous treaty port of Kongmoon, opened arms," was not very generously responded to trade in March last, and already bearing to, we have no hesitation in predicting that testimony to the forethought of those officials with the modification of the previously sug- who pressed for its inclusion in the list of gested age limit, that the number will very ports on the West River. Situated in the speedily be considerably augmented. The Sanui district, one of the richest and most Governor has been able to place such facili-thickly populated in the province of Kwang ties in the way of members to become si, and between which and Hongkong passes efficients, that residents should rise en masse, a constant stream of passengers, Kongmoon and scize the happy occasion by the hand, is rapidly developing into an important ex- It was pleasurable to note the acquiesence change mart between the foreign ports of on the part of the gentlemen owning horses Hongkong and Macao, and the western and ponies in the scheme for the formation portions of the province, with which it has
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Kungmoon.
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Canton Conflagration.
Bluejackets at Canton,
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A Japanese Volunteer Fleet. Japanese Press Opinions on the War, Yokohama Specic Bank.
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·HOKOLONO, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1904.
FOR THR DEFENCE OF HONGKONG:
of a limited Light Horse Squadron; and under the direction of that born horseman, the Hon. W. J. Gresson, the most useful work may be expected. One of the bright est announcements His Excellency was in a position to make, was that no less than sixty-six ladies had engaged themselves to undergo a course of study in first-aid to the injured, so that in the event of emergency, there need be no lack of competent nurses to minister to the wants of the wounded, For ourselves we wish the movement every success, and inaugurated under such happy auspices, we have little doubt, but that the Hongkong Volunteer Reserve Association, will stand out in the future as one of the most laudable institutions of which the Colony can boast.
THE KOWLOON CUSTOMS,
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KONGMOON.
$28,283,80; rent on government
pro-
hundred tins of gasoline were des- Eighteen thousand tins of oil and
troyed. ·
a
DROWN A CHINAMAN..
THE WAR.
LIAOYANG ON THE DAY OF OCCUPATION.
CITY OF DEAD AND DESTRUCTION.
corps left its quarters according to the order. but after proceeding about four miles the road became very bad, the carte sinking deep in mud. The land here is low-lying, and the absence of drainage transforms the district ind
swamp. The 'clayey soil' greatly taxed the horses, which soon became exhausted. After
clock in the afternoon. Cannonating had an hour's seat to refresh the horses, an order. was received to push on in haste. It was 1
already been opened, and the want of ammuni
they advanced the worse the road b came, and ion made it imperative for them to go on The men struggled forward, but the further
out of order, some of the carts being, Immor
the worse the further they nilvanced she worse the road became, and the line of march gut
able In this predicament the sun set. This was followed by a heavy fall of rain, and the night became so 'dark that nothing could be seen. Cannonading was still in progress, The corps pressed on with desperate energy and at last the men arrived at a stream, which blocked either to advance or retreat, and there they their way. It was now impossible for them spent the night under torrents of rain, meh daylight on the 31st, the corps resumed the and horses knee-deep in water and mud. At
the report was written, not having shewn any material alteration it is doubtful whether aperty, land and houses, and rent increased satisfactory change will be brought up in the by $43.453-49 and $5,213.10, respectively. It is announced that the Consular Compared with the total increase, includ inquiry into the circumstances at- ing land sales, which amounted to B1,071, tending the drowing of a Chinaman, Boris, we have a comparatively small de by American bkicjackets, has resulted tease of $155,446.23, made up as follows:-in the acceptance of compensation by Light dues, 8573-57: post office, 629,01222; the relatives of the deceased, miscellaneous receipts, $22,498.86, and
march, and at last reached the main road, [A fuit account of the recurrence is reported which was found impassable. A by road was water account, 8103,361.58. Satisfactory in another column of this issue. half. 7 discovered, but this was little better than the as the increases have been on the re
rest intersected with mud holes the feet deep. Maize stalks were laid on the road and the venue side of the financial statement, the
men inade some progress, but continually carts items of; expenditure are also cause for
were overtumed and horses fell. At length gratification. The actual expenditure to the
the head of the line reached the first place of destination, Hakkibo, at 7.30 o'clock in the 31st July, including all the public works,
afternoon, having spent about seven hours in amounted to $3.594.713.56, as against.
marching a mile and a quarter. All falt much $3,049,192.18 expended during the same
relieved, but Lieutenant Ota, in command of period of last year. This is largely to be Army Corps under General Oku thus describes Jokoha. At 9 o'clock on the morning of the corps, was determined to complete, the The Mainichi correspondent with the Second march and press on to Daichokatai by way of accounted for by the additional outlay on the scene at Liaoyang immediately after its the rst instant half the corps proceeded public works, extraordinary, which shows an capture by the Japanese - "I was in Liaoyang to Shichinitai, one company to Daiches on the very day of the conclusion of the fight-katai, and another company to the artillery. increase of 8465,129.29, or an expendi ing. The area of the new city of Liaoyang is position, and delivered the monition supplies for the same months of last year. Mili-direction of Yukush, Susan Hill, the scene of joining the main force at about 6 o'clock on the ture of $690,174.29, against $225,044.64 about five miles square ex ending on both sides The corps. then repaired to the ammunition of the railway station. Proceeding from the store at Anshantien, and obtained fresh supplies, tary expenditure, contribution to Imperial the bloodiest battle, stands our high against the evening of the 2nd instant. The distance be Government and expenses of volunteers sky on the right, the railway station being on have increased by upwards of $188,403,&feet wide in proximity to the railway station. nights to cover it, and during this time no one Tween Togobo, and Daichokátai is only about i the left. I found two lines of trenches about miles, but the corps took almost three days and while payments in connection with the About two co further on barbed wire netting had the chance to sleep. They were also short Botanical and Afforestation Department was laid out in ten and twenty folds like a of food. One day the man worked and fasted, have advanced to $33,929.28, or $17,387,91 killed a number of our brave inen.
spider's web. This netting had entrapped and had another day their only food was jaw polk beyond the expenditure for the cor
Under the toes. During the journey a number of horses acts were pits 20 to 30 feet deep, behind which died from exhaustion. The men had to take responding period of last year.
were fences. The strength of the defences was off their boots or wasaji and walk with bare feet, total of decreases is $150,227.67, the Telissu, and they show what importance the
much greater than that of those at Naushad or with the result that the feet of many were in a itens comprising $40,247 less in the Russians attached to Liaoyang. When the
very bad condition." Sanitary Department, $21,380.07 in the auxilliary defence works arrive at such perfec- THE SIEGE OF PORT ARTHUR Post Office and $17,618.33 in the New Ter-works. Near the barbed wire dead men and tion, they indicate the strength of the main ritory land court. Then follow police, fire horses were strewn, Here a Japanese soldier brigade and gaol with a decrease of Here a Japanese in the death grips with a Rus- was prostrate and there a Russian lay prone. $13,513.15. Pensions stand at $10,815.21 siar, the two stabbing at each other with their less than they did when a similar compara- bayonets: Dead bodies of men and horses tive statenfent was made up last year, while coagulated blood, and already emitting a very were lying at every step, horrible with the medical departments show a falling off offensive odour. Rifles, bayonets, bots, and of $10,5a1.65, the Colonial Secretary's de caps were strewa at random in almost in- partment of $7,094.86, and the harbour's recent battle. Walking further on, I found connection with this decrease in the expendi-Behind these works, an immense number of master's of $6,974.61. The only item in fines of breast works, under the protection of
which the Russians bad poured a deadly fire. ture which seems to call for any comment rifle cartridges was found, left by the Russians is in relation to the disbursement in
in their hasty retreat. the sanitary department. three or four years government has For the last been doing its utmost to eraditate the plague, and every request that has been put for ward by the Board with a view, in the opinion of the members, of increasing its efficiency and the meaus of combating
excellent river and creek communication. It may be remembered that, seven months ago, an office of the Imperial Maritime Customs was opened there, and shipment and dis charge of goods and passengers was autho- rised under the provisional rules for trade on the West River: Since then the port has been growing apace, and latest in- formation, culled from the columns of the North China Daily News, is to the effect that a Weiyuan has been sent there as a magistrate. This is a new departure as, not being a walled city it has never been ruled over by such an official, the people hitherto coming under the jurisdiction of the mandarin at Sanui. With its ever increas. ing volume of trade it has been judged necessary to send a special deputy, so that there may be no block in the business, as would probably happen if all were left to the magistrate of the Sanui city. Moreover, it is
constructing a new line of telegraph, which reported that the officials in Canton are will connect Kongmoon directly with Canton and the Viceroy's yamên. It is not to be wondered at that this place is so flourishing, writes the Canton correspondent of our Northern contemporary, for it is both the receiving and the distributing centre for all the Hongkong trade, which has to do with that wide and rich district known in the neighbouring capital, as the "Four Cities."
The
numerable number, speaking eloquently of the
connected by roads with the others.
There
A: RUSSIAN REPORT.
carefully concealed from the public by the While, the operations at Port Arthur ag Japanese authorities, this policy rather encour ages than otherwise; the circulation of continu pus; reports; alleging cogmous, losses, un, ther part of the beslegers.". "Abroad, the kaaneit Interest is felt in the struggle that is now going od as it has done for months past, but nothing is really known of the true position. The fol
towing, of many reports published abroad, it supplied by a Russian correspondent of the
Associated Press.
With each additional report from Port Arthur wonder increases, both at the persistence of the Japanese attack and the heroic stubbornness of as the ally throwing away thousands of lives, the defenders of the fortress.. The Japanese in the hope of shaking the courage of the Fus sion troops
(26th September.) The most noteworthy fact in connection with the trade coming under the cognizance of the Kowloon Customs is that the revenue continues to decrease. Last year it was the smallest collection on record, and when, in February, Mr. J. R. Brazier, the Com missioner of Customs, sent in his annual report to the Statistical Department at Shanghai, the prospects for the present year were far from bright. The total collection from the stations of Taishan, Lintin, Sam- The revenue collected there last year, before the epidemic has been granted by it. wardice are admirable Signs of the confu-guns, cartridge belts, and even their boots, to
The large increase in expenditure, which has of late appeared in the financial statements, under the sanitary department,
There were five desperate assaults,on, Green Hills on July 26th, the Japanese returning each
"The eminence behind the extensive breast. vered foris erected in three lines, each fort works was the Russian artillery position, co.
forts are covered with strong timber-8 or g inches thick, over which sand bags are laid The manner in which the forts are pret our afficer exclaimed: The works of defence con appears rather absuid than strong. One of our structed at the instigation of the God of Co-apa, car ridek badly, throwing away their facilitate their flight, and leaving 7,000 dead or
Indian corn, coats and trousers, papers, &c.,
sion of the enemy were apparent. Black bread,
were strewn all over the forts.
time with apparently inexhaustible reinforce
ments. On the final assault, however, the
wounded.
hand encountera.
cuated Wolf Hills chiefly for strategic reasons,
as the hills made the line of defences too long to effectually withstand the fusione attacks of the Japanese.
Sixty thousand men were hurled against our The assault of July 30th was made in the dark of night, in the hope of surprising the Russians.
again at the point of the bayonet. It was 13,000, but we, drove them bock again and
chun, Samun, Shauchung and Shatowkok, coming under Treaty Port conditions, was controlled by the Kowloon Customs, was some Hk. Tls. 8,500 better, or nearly twenty
The assault on Green Hills, was repeated on Tis. 326,800, or a decrease of Tis. 29,276-on per cent., imports and exports sharing
Russian quarter of Liaoyang, in front of the
About a quarter of a mile further on is the July 127tb; and there were frequent hand-to- the figures of the previous year, which, com- } equally in the increase. From the Customs has been largely due to the recommenda- Western gate. Here the houses are poorly:
The assaults of Joly 28th and July 29th pared with the revenue in 1896, amounting | Gazette, for the period. April-June last, it is tious of the experts, which had been ap- Their number is about 4,000, Fire was still Japanese being too severely shaken.. "We eva constructed, being mostly white plastered. the Wolf Hills, were not followed up, the to Tls. 579,203, shows a remarkable falling seen what rapid strides the port has since proved by the Government, and the most raging, black smoke almost entirely covering off. It is explained that a fourth of the made. In that period of 1902, the revenue important of which was that a permanent the city; and the Japanese soldiers and Chi amount is duty and likin on opium, but collected, expressed in Haikuan taels, was, one has to remember that, while the 10,442, which during the same months of Kowloon Customs collects the likin and the following year had increased to 12,821, thing.fer on general imports for Canton at and from April to June last rose to the high Taishan and Lintin, the duty is payable at figure of 22,235, completely absorbing the method of ridding the Colony of the epide- Canton, and all dues leviable on exports retums from Kumchuk, whose revenue was mic it should follow that, in course of rails. The magnitude of this Russian work another Shipka Pass. The Japanese poured in from that city or elsewhere are payable at the stated as mil. Its foreign trade amounted time, the revenue set aside for the pur- part of origin, and nothing but the very little to 14,586 and the native to 7.451, the im cargo from neighbouring places pays at Tai-port duty under the former head realising
pose of fighting the shan. With the exception of imports there some ten and a half thousand Haikuan taels diminished in severity. With the authorities several stories high, and the appearance of the
gradually to decrease as has been a shrinkage under each duty head and export close on three thousand. The ing, and Mr. Brazer ascribes this sole in tonnage entered was, 182,995, represented must rest the determination of a difficulty crease to the larger quantity of goods by 739 vessels, and of these numbers no less question, envolving many serious issues. To partially suspend sanitary measures may of the "sundry order, chiefly kerosine than 114,658 tons, or 359 vessels, were for entail grave consequences. Plague is being oil, taken by other places than; Canton. eign-going steamers. In all probability, the There is no doubt that the steadily trade of the port could be dealt with quite specially studied by several of our medical declining revenue, during a number of years, as expeditiously with fewer vessels, but it officers, and we may rely upon them has been contributed to by a series of seems that various companies have become doing their best in the interests of the droughts which, of course, arrests the imbued with the idea that the fabulous Colony and of the profession at large. advancement of all agricultural products wealth of the supposed Kongmoon gold
scourge ought the plague is
plague staff should be appointed quite dis- the flames. Flaut, fudder, &c., were burning nese coolies were kept active in extinguishing tinct from the ordinary staff of sanitary in heaps here and there inspectors. As more is being learned of all the stations in Manchuria 1 bave seen so The Liaoyang station is the most extensive
of the year by year
tions, each connected with the main line by most effective far. The engine shed is divided into 16 sec-,
extensive that hundreds of thousands of men the dead and the dying, literally ran with blood. is truly remarkable. The platform is so fresh battalions, and the slopes, covered with and vast quantities of goods can be disposed Our Thirteenth Regiment was forced from its of at one time. There are about a hundred position, but the Fourteenth Regiment came buildings in the station compound, all up, and with the bayonet again dislodged the
victors. whole is very impressive. The field of Man- As near as can be ascertained, this assault churia is vast, and the Russian plan of work is cost the Japanese 10,000 men. The Japanese constructed on similas. lines. Japanese flags losses since the siego, began have been 18,000 are now flying on these buildings. There is a men. The explosion of one mine wiped out fine bungalow beyond the line of store-houses 5,000. This was an awful sight. A volcano of the east of the station. This was the official stones dismembered the bodies of the soldiers residence of General Kuropatkin. There is while the sky was lit up with a purple glare and large carefully-tended garden, and the house the mud walls of the Chinese village were contains eight or nine rooms, still partly for thrown down by the shock. After this fight nished. The store-houses are full of artillery General Stoessel colected 20,000 Japanese ammunition, barbed wire, rifles, pickaxes, and rifles. other articles."
and causes failures of the crpos. The mine is shortly to be placed at their dispo TELEGRAMS. disturbed slate of Kwangsi Province con- sat, when those on the spot will come in for linues to have a direct influence on trade, a full share of the trade which will of neoes- not only at Kowloon, but at Canton and most of the ports of the West River, and sity arise. The first in the field may stand to benefit ; but their's will be a long and a tedious wait.
COLONIAL: FINANCE
(1st October.)
FARNHAM BOYDS.
THE SCHEME ACCEPTED
BY-SHAREHOLDERS.
(From Our Own Correspondent.)
SHANGHAI, 26th September,
8.5
p.m,
the extraordinary general
to
THE AMMUNITION CORPS ON
THE BATTLEFIELD.
DIFFICULTIES ENCOUNTERED AND
OVERCOME,·
a
The correspondent of the Mainichi with the Second Army Corps, describing the difficulties and hardships experienced by the ammunition corps during the fighting at Liaoyang, Bays these corps encountered not less hardship and privation than the combatants themselves, and their services fully merit special record. Con tinuing, the correspondent says:
The thind artillery ammunition corps of the Ogawa column, which formed the third train the order of march, forcibly distinguished
The Japanese installed twenty siege guns on the Wolf Hills August 8th-four of these are 12-inch guns. They have not yet reached our shore batteries, which are still out of range, but they have damaged the dry dock and the railway station..
The Japanese are mapping the town by sections for the purpose of bombarding, and they are assisted in this task by a Chinese engineer who recently deserted to them.
The Japanese fire an average of 800 shells daily and they keep up their fire both day and night,-Kobe Chronicle,
PORT ARTOUR NEWS
until the authorities can impress upon the insurgents their determination to quel the (24th September.).
rising there is little hope of better prospecta The remarkably succinct and clear, ex- for trade. Then again, the old cry is heard planation of the new scheme of volunteer of a Buctuating exchange, which, so long as defence which His Excellency, Sir. Matthew China remains on her present unsatisfactory.
26th ult Nathan gavo last evening in the City Hall, silver currency, will renderd transactions penditure of Hongkong, which covers the The latest_report on the revenue and ex-
Seven junk's from Port Arthur arrived Friday and Saturday, one coming in Friday night and should do much locally to engender most difficult and perplexing With the financial period from the 1st January to
six Saturday morning, says the Chefco Daily licalthy interest in volunteering from any opening up of the district there is no reason the gist July, shows that the Islands meeting of shareholders in Messrs.
News of 18th font. Two of them and the standpoint Than Sir Matthew Nathan why the customs returns at the Kowloon advazice towards greater prosperity is being S. C., Farnham, Boyd & Co., held at
the harbours at Fort Arthur aisce Fobra there are few British officials more qualified station should not take a change for the steadily maintained. The revenue, collect Hongkew, this evening the proposal
They were released a few days age and their to speak on the question of Colonial. De better. Kwangtung is a great consumer of ed, exclusive of land sales, amounted to which had been made to purchase on occupied. Al about 11:30 o'clock on the The stereotyped phrase very little informa fence; for, apart from his unique expérience foreign manufactures and has exceptional $3,559.443-41, as
the Company's property and under-night of August 29th the third artillery amms- tion will about fit what the passengers have to is (in command of the Ammanition Corps) men of ricksha coolle, for such he claimed-he nition corps; received orders from Lieut-Col divalge. One of them, a rather select-emici. to march to Hokkibo on the following day, I had been during his three yeary stay in Port
in such matters while Allsling the important facilities for obtaining them which are not the same period of the preceding year, or taking was considered and ultimately
duties of Secretary to the Committee on Im-afforded many of the other provinces of China; | an increase of no less than $804,681.58.2000p
in
itself by hard labour. This corps Tientsin weasels which have been detained in
all dimcelties and surpassed all other corps on
te march, and was the first to deliver the sup.
ply of ammonition the artillery at the crews depart
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