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TELEGRAMS,

[Reuters,].

The Chinese in the Transvaal.

LONDON, Toth April. Five hundred Chinese Inbourers broke out of the Jumpers Deep Mine yesterday, and were making for Johannesburg when they were driven back by the mounted police, who were stoned, for three hours. The casualties are not serious. The Kafirs as sisted the police. Twenty-eight, Chinese were arrested.

The Budget. The Budget Tor go4-1995 shows a sur

· plus of £1,444,000 and it is estimated that there will be a surplus for 1905-19od of £2,973,000. The duly on tea will be re duced 20. after the 1st july. The diy on sugar, and the income tax will be unchang ed. A considerable portion of the surplus will U devoted to reducing the National Debt,

VLADIVOSTOCK.

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEDNESDAY, APRIL 12, 1905.

MAÇÃO EXCURSIONS.

THE PLEASURE RESORT OF. HONGKONG,.

LOOKING FOR THE BALTIC

FLEET

The British steamer Foo Sking arrived at Hongkong this moming from Samarang, with a cargo of sugar. Shortly after the vessel en tered, a representative of the Hongkong Tele graph went aboard, hopeful that some tidings of that Baltic Flent, which has been causing such a commation in Hongkong lately, would | be forthcoming.

Of all the "resorts" in the vicinity of Hong kong favoured by the daily drudge, the plea sure-seeker, and the excursionist, there is none that can be compared with Macao. The Portuguese possession, which is within three hours run of Hongkang, with its free and easy ways, its delightful climate, and 'charming scenery, has long had an attraction for the The officer who met the journalist read the people of Hongkong. The average man who question in his eyes. "It's no use" he said, decides to take a trip there finds the time well-"we didn't see them." spent ; in fact he might fancy himself at another Ostend. If he is a shy and diffident youth, a

trip to Macao will permit him to blossom out as a fully-fledged man of the world, and a couple of trips will establish him in the eyes

of all as a roué of the first water,

"And why not?"

To begin with we had no idea the feet was in these waters, We never heard any thing about the Singapore visit in Samarang. It was only when we came in here this morning that we knew of the presence of the Baltic Fleet here. Then, again if the Fleet went to Saigon we were out of their track.

The Macao' season begins actually next. month, although the popularay of week-end excursions would almost lead one to believe

The officer produced a map, or chart, to show that it had already commenced. By and by how the Foo Shing came up, and traced the the exodus of Hongkong families to Macao probable movements of the Baltic Fleet, if will be in full swing, and fortunate it is that Sagon was the destination. On a rough they have a resort at hand so genial and inex-estimate the Foo Shing and the Hallic'squadron pensive. For those who cannot afford a trip to Japan or Europe, Macao could not be ex- celled, and that fact is too well known and recognised in Hongkong to need emphasizing. The business man can send his wife and children to enjoy the balmy air of the Partu- guese colony, and himself run across for the week-end.

There are two places to which have been given the name "The Golden Hom." "Ta one of these, with the development of Spring, the mind at man naturally tms. Not to that at Constantinople, which los bad its meed of his tory, but to that other Golden Horn out acros5 the l'amiers, even beyond them, beyond Mon There are many beauty spols around Macao, golian wastes and across the forestal heights of where the visitor may idly pass the time, rich Manchuria. Out at the limit of the Iri-watching the life on the beach or gazing at the morsk, snugly sitting on Annur Bay, lies Vla scenery of the hills. During the summer even.

· divostock and its magnificent Golden Horn.ings, the beach, which is commonly known as The mind of man may turn thisword and in the Area Preta, is crowded with ladica and fancy be inay.see fects manruuvting, armies children bathing in the calm waters which marching and ceintes matching, hear the surround the Colony. All the elite of Macao is snighty cannons roar, but all the imagination there, and visitors from Hongkong miss one of casnot conjecture a pictuie that will in part dis- the sights of the settlement if they fail to see play the magnificence and impressiveness of Macao as a sea-side resort. Special matsheds the view to be obtained from looking down on public and private-are erected for the use Vládivistock ; its harbour with all its shipping of the bathers. The rent of St for the season and then out over that magndicent Golden of three months is temptingly low. Montanha Horn to the lovely sea beyond in summer, and Russa, overlooking the beach, is another to the ocean of ice in winter. Ice, broken and favoured spot, while the tittle eminence at the tussed, piled many feet high, stretches mile upon crescent of the bay in Casilha is a charming mile into that ainer beyond during the winter situation where many congregate in the sum- months producing one of the finest sights a man

mer afternoons. can look upon when gazing over Vladivostock's Golden Horn. At the present time, man's mind is not occupied so much with the Golden Horn and its beauties, as with that military and

nával base, a sepal and rilway terminus, the now historic town of Vladivostock. What is generally known of this picturesque and inter- esting place is very little; thôngh there is much to know, and more to interest, in the history and conditions of the Russian advance post in the Far East and the immediate object of Japan's military and naval ambitions. In the year to the treaty of Feking definitely ceded to Russia the whole of the Prinarsk; that is, all the Country lying cast of the Northern and

southern Ussuri rivers. The flowing year saw the Russian naval basa of Vladivostock founded, where formerly existeal a Hule Manchurian fishing village. As was only natur-

"We might offer a suggestion that Bella Vista, with its memorable tombstones, dating from the seventeenth century, bearing their Dutch anit English inscriptions, might well be laid

out in the same artistic manner as the Govern. ment have done on the hill opposite.

There is now a little kiosk, where refresh ments are sold, and it is likely to be well patronised during the coming season, Str. William Farmer, the popular manager of the Macao Hotel, will be found as courteous as ever in catering for the requirements of Hong kong visitors.

should have been hundreds of miles apart.

"Don't you think if we knew they were about that we'd have had a squint at them? Rather"

"The most wonderful part of her wonderful military development," writes Major Seaman, "I shall endeavour to describe in this article, Japan's student statesmen had learned that, as a rule, five men die of disease in war to one from injury by missiles. She decided that this enormous waste was needless, and she sat ber- self to correct it. She established the largest, richest, the best equipped Red Cross hospital systera in the world, a system, now embracing. more than 1,200,000 members, and with stations.

in every part of the Empire. She equipped this system with hospital ships perfect in every detail, and rented them out as liners until they should be needed in war, the rental paying for their maintenance, and also a handsome profit

on the investment. “

alleged against the Czar personally, the more | Major Seaman just recently returned from the 30 when it is remembered that six weeks scene of conflict in Manchuria, whither he ago. he quarrelled with Grand Dukes and went to study that part of the business of war Minister in turn over the terms of a procianta which most nearly concerned him as a medical tion, quite in the manner of a man exercising officer. He found that Japan had already his own will regardless of advice. The theory "taught other nations profound and convincing is that the Czar is cause blind, and therefore lessons in many fields," and especially that, by necessarily effect-blind. He didn't mean to comparison, the medical department of the lead the nation into war, but went on doing American Army was utterly unfilled, in num what naturally provoked it. Alexieff, it is bers, organisation, and power, to cope with the aald; warned him two years ago that way was emergencies certain to arise in any great coming, and that Ruisia might be taken conflict. unawares, but he insisted that it was im- paisible, and went on tightening his hold os Manchuria and intriguing in Korea un til Togo's2 torpedo-boats appeared among the Port Arthur squadron. Once it was begun, he muddled the war, and when defeat stared him in the face he seat, his people into it, as he is 'doing now, recklessly as far as they are concerned, and in the stolid belief that by doing so he is preserving his dlinely-given autocracy. Hence he is the subor of the present sanguinary war, the marplot of the military staff, and the main obstacle to the peace to which he has often publicly done lip worship." Just as at home he has helped revolution by forbidding the incal bodies to organise for the relief of the. soldiery, test they should learn that union is

"Long before the war began, the storercoins aka useful for political purposes, and over-rul" of the society in Tokio were crowded with wag: dhis sagacious Ministers when they advised gon-loads of surgical dressing material, cots, him to make political Concessions. As to his tents, bedding, ambulances, and uniforms for character and personality generally, he is "nurses. In addition to making these prepara- mild, nerve-shattered youth, incapable of clear, tions, the society had been training nurses for hard thinking," "a somnambulist, nloving se- military services, and in Tokio where its bos- reatly over dizzy cliffs for a while, andpital has a capacity of 250 beds, there were 250 presents the slender figure of the self-nurses to care for the patients. complacent autocrat, standing over against - And that was only a small part of the ad- the elemental force of a seething mass of vance she made over other nations in the me men," which affects one. like the sight of dical side of her preparations. Her students At the Supreme Court this morning before a stone-deaf man, sauntering cheerfully had absorbed the most progressive methods of the Puisne Judge (Mr. T. Sercombe Smith), along a railway line while the express is rush the great medical schools of the Occident. Yeong Sai Ngam, of 26 Connaught Road, sueding up behind him, and the onlooker can warn

They saw that if their army was to be kept well- Hop Nam Leong, of 33 Newmarket Street, for neither the pedestrian nor the engine-driver." in the field, preventable disease must be con- 585, being one month's rent of the first floor of Yet, although the Cratis his own master, and rolled. They industriously studied the gerta is himself answerable for his men and mea theory, and, first of all, måde war upon bac 26 Connaught Road, West in lieu of notice and Sio for damages done to the walls and loss of sures, auch being his imperial pleasures," heteria. They established institutes for the study the door key. Mr. E. A.. Bonner (of Messrs. is pictured as surrounded and influenced by of infectious diseases, and for the manufacture Dennys and Bowley) appeared for the plaintiff, Grand Dukes, "unclean monsters who rob the of serum and lymph of various kinds. It is and Mr. C. E. H. Beavis (of Messrs. Wilkinson people of their substance, and break the re-

now acknowledgeil by the whole world that to and Grist), represented defendants. After the cords of vice and crime." It is said to be only Japan helongs the credit of some of the most necessary to rake a money scandal well enough valuable contributions to medical science in case had been argued his Honour, in deliver-

to find a Grand Duke at the bottons of it. A the field of bacteriology. To her we are in- ing judgment, said it was not proved, and it was for the defendant to prove in the strictest pos. foreign attaché, who asked "Where are the debted for the discovery of the germs of tela- sible manner that notice of his intention to soldiers' boots?" was answered, “In the

nus (lockjaw), and the plague. Through the quit the premises was validly given to the packets of Grand Duke X. Mr. Joubert tells investigations of her students the best seruza plaintiff. As a general rule the rent collector the same sort of story, adding that the comp. treatment of these diseases, and of diphtheria was not an agent on behalf of his landlord te troller of a Russian railway line told him that receive a notice to deliver up possession of "if the Tammany-hall chiefs wanted to learn premises at any time. It might be a custom

how to rob with impunity they should come to among the Chinese for the rent collector to

Russia!" Mr Joubert also relates a story of receive such notices, but that could not be ac- the Grand Duke Sergius who was assassinat cepted by the Court. It seemed to him if a

ed recently. The Grand Duke, he says,

So is will be necessary to wait a little longer before the position of the Baltic Fleet is known, It should be added, en partant, that the Foo Shing saw nothing of the Japanese cruisers either.

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as well, has been secured. Her students are still busily at work in these fields, in the ex pectation of overcoming dysentery, typhoid, leprosy, tuberculosis, erysipelas, and similar diseases. The results they have already at tained place them in the Iroat rank with rival

these precautions he is not now found treating thousands of cases of intestinal diseases, and other contagion and favers that follow impro

or subsistence and neglected sanitation, "It is much too early to submit statistical proof," says the writer in another place, but from careful abservation I venture to predict that the records of the Japanese hospitals will shaw a large reduction in the percentage of mortality from casualties, especially in pene. trating wounds of the skull, chest, and abdo- men, and injuries to psscous structures--indeed, of every variety of wounds, except, perhaps, those of the spinal cord, when compared with 9,862 cases had been received at the reserve the statistics of former wars. Up to August 1,

hospital at Hiroshima; of these 6,636 were wounded. Of the entire number, up to that time only 34 had died. To July 20, the hospi. tal ship Hakual Maru alone, in her saven trips, brought 2,405 casualties from the front without losing a single case in transit. Up to July: 1,105 wounded-a large proportion of whom...... were stretcher cases were received as the Tokir hospitals; none died, and all but one presented favourable prognoses.”

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io the present case it was not valid and would not affect the plaintiff. So he came to the conclusion that no valid notice of any kind had been given by the defendint to the plaintiff, and thus relieved him (His Honour) from considering the question as to whether the defendant was still in possession at a given date. He thought the damages were exces. he gave judgment for plaintiff for $8 and costs.

for stores for the troops in Manchuria. Huge supplies accordingly left Moscow for the front, but in the end "were all sold at greatly reduced prices to certain merchants in Germany. According to this, the "National Reviewer doesn't go so far when he affirms of the grand ducal ring that "probably no such greedy and unscrupulous hangars-on of royalty

they constitute "a numerous caste of mere blood-sucking parasites."

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"Still further did these students go in their endeavour to eliminate unnecessary illness among the soldiers at the front japan soon realised that the crux of the situation lay in the character of the ration for the troops. She set about to master that problem, and she has

ally to be expected fromthe condumns, it was a day morning and returp the same night, by the sive and having reduced this by filty per cent, I have ever been known to history," and that gone a long way towards solving it. The

long time before the place could be developed as it is to-day. In the year 185 it was a naval station and as such was inturally defended with fortifications requiring a garrison. An estimate of its size then and now may be made by comparison of populations. In 1995 this stood at 31,500 including the minary, naval, and

Supplementing the excellent service now m intained by the Heungshan, Wingchai, and Yingking, it will be seen by or advertisement column that a new arrangement is to come into force on the 16th inst, by whichit will be possible for an excursionist to leave Hongkong on Sun- a.S. tionem. The fares for the Sunday trip have been reduced so per cent on the week-day tariff by the fleungshan. The enterprise of the Hongkory, Canton and Macao Steamboat Company is likely to be rewarded by a large influx of passengers for Macan, and the Por tuguese possession stauld also benefit by the new arrangement. From all these signs then, il may safely be asserted that Macao as a health and pleasure resort will prove more popular than ever this season.

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THE MOST INTERESTING MAN OF THE DAY.

If all this is true; if the Czar is a pale image of autocracy, justifying it in nothing but a stony determination to maintain the despotism which postulates that the subject has no brain, but only a body to dispose of as his divinely-ordain. The world is vexed to-day by a problemed lord rules; and if this particular lord is only which it might well have deemed impossible, after the generations upon generations that have been spent in calightening humanity, in stimulating its sympathies, and in developing its appreciation of simple sense. A colossal war has been in progress for months. Its fortunes have turned in such a way that its hopelessness to ane party is as visible as the stars in a clear sky. Yet that combatant, per sisting in the vain and therefore murderous struggle, refuses to recognise that it is beaten, and continues to send its men to the slaughter. There was a time when this would have been considered noble, when to die for a losing cause was held to represent a patriotism just it is now announced that the Aeration Apcarified by some sort of wisdom, and it wasn't will loud for Shanghai and Meji. It appears perceived that lives given are lives fost, and that the Ariatoon Apear will be under charter that the cause is by so much the worse off. on this voyage, and the agents state that the The modern mind, having learned somethi, arrangements for future trips have not yet been sees no sense in sending men to death in sheer completed. The vessel has been taken off the obstinacy. Upon this sane conception the regular line and is now free in trade on the falubas persistency of Russia jars so heavily China const,

that a general search for its causes is natural; and just as naturally it concentrates on St. Petersburg, where the Government is. The question that then arises is whether the Govern ment means the Czar, the Czar plus the Grand Ducal ring, or the Czar plas the ring and the Ministers whom he appoints and dismisses

official element. Prior to the outbreak of the war, the population had increased to 42,000 in- dependent of the witty, aval and official classes. Situated on one of the finest harbours in the world and being the terminus of the great trans-continental railway and telegraph, as well as the terminus of the Ussuri railway, Vladivostock praves of great attraction to the casual visitor. That remarkable looking red brick tower on top of the hill which overhangs. A new departure in the sailing arrangements | the town is one of the greatest necessities of of the Apear line of steamers has just been made Vladivostock. It is the fire signal statied whereby one Company's vessels will in which overlooks the whole town and its use finure trade between China, Japan and flong may be appreciated when it is koers-that | kong. For a considerable number of years the greater part of the city is construct the Apcar steamers have confined their itiner ed of that highly inflammable material, ary to Calcutta, Singapore and Hongkong, but wand, which unless carefully watched might lead to a devastating configration, It must not he thought that Vladivostock is altogether made of wond, although an excessively large percentage of it's houses are, and it has wood paved streets. There are some very band some, dark grey brick imildings in the main street which runs from east to west from the buy in the west, near the magnificent market square and past the handsome government Buildings, towards the cast. The business portion of the town is in the west and here is the greatest accumulaino of wood structures. One of the most remarkable bouses is that of the Port Commandant, which over ooks, from

ACCIDENT ON THE "VICTORIA."

When the Swedish stenship Victoria (Captain Hellberg), now tradin: under charter of the Osaka Shosen Kaisha, was steaming through the In and Sea on her last trip to Japan, Blates the Japan Chronicle, an ac-

ration is suited to climatic conditions, and con sists largely of rice, compressed fish, soy, army biscuits, a few salted plums, tea-which neces sitates the drinking of lige quantities of buil- ed (sterilised) water-a few ounces of meat, when obtainable, and some juicy, succulent pickles.

"Striking proof of the value of this scientific study of the ration came long before the out- Dr. Tokaki, as medical break of the war, duector of the Imperial Navy, accomplished one of the greatest tasks that ever confronted

the medical authorities of any anny. To him the navy is indebted for the eradication of th most terribly fatal disease, beri beri, the former terror of Oriental armies. In the war with

Korea 45 per cent. of the Japanese troops kad this disease, and the mortality was appalling, Now it is practically unknown in the navy, This eradication was brought about almost entirely through the scientific study of the navy ration and its reformation.

influenced, if at all, by a grand ducal gang of selfish sybarites, what then? Revolution and chances that can be gambled on, perhaps. The war in the "National Review," however, while inferring that this dynasty must go down because it is "a monster with thousands of hands, all grasping and all throttling," suggests that autocracy should continue but that the autocrat must surround himself with good counsellors and take their advice. Diogenes suggested much the same thing. But it is a palpable contradiction in terms. The King is no longer autocrat when his people can force that upon him, for then government by the people has begun, It looks more likely that the war will help Russia toward re- presentative government on some such method as prevails, in various forms, throughout Eur preventive medicine, as well as in hospitals apt. it was not to be expected, indeed, that where the most improved methods of antisep- the Russians would go on enduring the tue of ties were in use, determined not to interfere the despot, which generally means that of awith wounds on the battlefield unless immedi- greedy, oppressive clique, while the peoples an their European borders enjoyed more or less popular government, I might have been dif ferent if Nicholas the Second had been another Nicholas the First, or one of those original autocrats who enjoyed personal rule by virtue of their personal qualities. But that type has

monarch is the one whose despotism, as Mr.

"Having largely mastered the ration prob lean," continues the writer, "the surgeons of the army, hundreds of whom had been trained in the institutes pertaining to the sto y of

of first-aid dressings. Probing of wounds, which ate death threatened, except by the application

invites the danger of infection, or operations on the field, do not take place except in cases of great emergency.,., tablished her great base hospitals and deve- toped her transport and commissary system to

She (Japan) es.

She

so frequently and was reported to have told apparently passed away. The model modern the bi, hest degree of perfection. the hill, the Admirally gardens. Near by, cilent occurred which might have proved very because they resented his censure, "You Gülbeat wrote, is tempered by acquiescence in made the medical department of her army of

Hence, and

may be seen the residence of the Governor serious. Without any warning the boiler used may go when you please," General of the Primorsk and the staff offices in connection with culinary purposes burst, and

the emphatically-expressed wishes of his sub-equal importance with that of the strictly fight. of the Commandant General. Further to the so great was the force of the explosion that a thing Russian, the Caar's is by far the most council or on the battlefield. A new view of began, was to prevent disease. The Japanese because of the mystery that surrounds every-jects, and not necessarily a man of strength in ing branch, and ranked its officers accordingly. The prevailing idea, as soon as hostilities East are situated the naval and military club quantity of rice which was being bolied was interesting personality of the day. In his

government has become popular, according to are the first to recognise the true value of an with a fine library building, then the Ad-shot into the rigging to a height of some 35 new book, "The Truth about the Cear," Mr.which the people govern though a King reigns. army medical corps. Care of the sick and miralty buildings- line brick pile overlook-feet. Portions of iron were thrown by the force Carl Joubert answers the prevailing question and we shall doubtless see this insisted upon wounded consumes fut a small part of their ing 'the dock-and beyond one sees the exten- of the explosion on to different parts of the by declaring that "public opinios means

tune. The solution of greater problem, pre- in Russia, in the form of an unceasing demand serving the health and fighting value.of the sive premises of the naval barracks and of the vessel, damaging a part of the rigging. It is Nicholas Alexandrovich, The Czar, he says, for those representative institutions which men army in the field, by preventing disease, by naval and military hospital. Other con usual during the cold weather for many of the "is wedded to his autocracy." The general fight and even die for, but which, having ance careful supervision of the smallest details of spicuous buildings look exceedingly handsome crew to sit round this boiler, warming thein- tendency having hitherin been to regard teen won, are often ignored, as they so un-subsisting, clothing, and sheltering the units, midst all the timber erections, are the selves by B, but by a stroke of good fortune Nicholas as a well-meaning pupper in the fortunately are, for instance by about half the is their first and most important duty." Cathedral of the Holy Virgin and the Post there was nobody near it when the explosion hands of conservative Minister and suprentely people of Australia.--Sydney Daily Telegraph. ubiquity of the Japanese army medical officer, Then Dr. Seamau proceeds to show the Office. The present Caar, in the year 1891, occurred. The man whose duty it is to attend. selfish grand ducal aristocrats this is a recent

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"He is as much in the front as in the rear. was a visitor to Vladivostock and on this to the boiler had left it but a minute previously! view of his character, but one which has de. JAPAN'S ARMY MEDICAL

He is with the first screen of scouts with his occasion he cut the sod of the southern It is certain that anybody who had been within veloped so far that the author of the famous

SYSTEM. Ussuri railway which was opened to traffic for a foot of the boiler at the time of the explosion article on "The Czar," in the "Quarterly," 382 versts on Feb. 13, 1895. As this railway would have been killed. The precise cause of of last July, enlarging on his subject, in the is one of great importance to the defence of the accident is not known, but it is believed February National Review," roundly' de Vladivostock, we may feel sure that the that the man in charge must have been guilty clares that Russia will weather the Manchurian Japanese will make great effort to cut it. On of some neglect. The vessel is now in port, storm, and that "nothing is now at issue be it are two important bridges, the first 170 miles and the Kawasaki Dockyard Company is yond the present trip and the rights and duties from Vladivostock over the Lefa river, and the fitting a new boiler to replace that destroyed. of the skipper." second, a three'span structure, over the Ussuri, 390 miles from Vladivostock, To defend this stronghold, great defence works have been, and are being developed. It is believed that the fortress contains a ganison of B0,000 men. Shanghai Times,

THE Descartes arrived at Saigon on the 6th inst., having on board of her all the artillery and ammunition taken from the Sully. As soon as she has discharged these stores she will again leave for the Day of Along.

The case against the Emperor Nicholas is presented by this fast-mentioned critic with a direct desperateness that irresistibly sug gests personal bias, though the writer claims to be a patriotic Russian official. Yet in matters of fact there is evidently much to be

A PROFOUND LESSON FOR THE WORLD,

"WAR, FIRST OF ALL, ON

BACTERIA."

The secret of Japan's success in her present struggle with Russia is her masterly preparation for war, the most impressive feature of which ❘ is her care that. her soldiers' shall be kept in good health. Such is the conclusions come to by Major Louis L. Seaman, M.D., of the United States Army, who writes on the subject in the New York "Outlock" of January at,

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