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SUBSCRIPTION RATES (IN ADVANCK), DAILY-$10 per annum. · WEEKLY $18 per katam,

world is 80 cents per quarter,

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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY MAY 5, 1905.

quantities to meet their requirements, or re- garded as unecessary, luxuries. With the passage of years as the Chinese become more acquainted with the new fangled notions of the West as their education improves, and contact with the foreigner becomes more pronounced, the area at the service of the Hongkong manufacturer is bound, in." evitably, to increase. Witness the

the case of Hongkong itself. In Hongkong the educa ted Chinese have assimilated foreign ideas,

THE purchase price of the Yangisze Insurance Company's property, at Shanghai, was Tis 130,020 not $120,000,00 LIEUT, F. C. Chandler, Inspector of Ammy Schools, will proceed to Slogapore on or about the toth inst. to carry out the half-yently in spection of the Army Schools in the Straits -Settlements command.

THE Chinese Cook of the Empress of Japan who was yesterday fined $40 for unlawful pos- session of opium, was this morning sentenced

PROFESSORS ON NEUTRALITY,

NAVAL, NOTES. A

The battleships Globy, Ocean and Centurion and the despatch-vessel Alarity came. In from Mirs Day this morning.

Professor Takahashi of the Tokyo Jmperial University, an authority on international law, spoke recently at a meeting of the Oriental Society in Tokyo on the question of belligerant de warships entering neutral poris.

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In all probability the transport which has been seen in the vicinity of Hongkong and which passed the Colony in company with a warship last Sunday was the Italian ship Perses which, according to the Cheloo Daily News, left the northern port on the 25th ult. She has on board 35 officers and 662 men of the Italian whose term of foreign service has expired. They are on their way to lialy. The Persen left Naples for Chinn on March 15th and brought out 250 blue-jackos for station in the Far East 1he detachments going home went

The first qucation to be considered, he said, In what a neutral Power should do la regard to the shipment of cost and provisions, or the repair of a war-ihip of a belligerent, when the later enters a neutral port. The principles followed by Great Britain and France in this practice is very strict, limiting the quantity of coal to be shipped by a belligerent warship at a British port to an amount sufficient to enable it to reach the nearest port of its own country, and when once supplied the same vessel is not allowed to enter the same British port within aboard the transport at Tako. The Fariso

The rates per quarter and per mensera, proportional if not ideal, to sucli an extent that except to pay a fine of $60, or tix weeks' imprison-i question are widely different. The" British | garrison at various places in North China The daily bans la deliveral free when the address is for the wearing of their national dress,ment for unlawful possession of a revolver soceselble to tacmengor, On copies rant by post an they are scarcely distinguishable from without a license from the Captain Superin aditional $1.80 per quarter le charged fo rpontage, the average Westerner. The saine thing tendent of Police. The accused said a pas The partage on the weekly issue to any part of the will occur in China as China is gradually enger asked him to bring it ashore, at eight o'clock in the morning, but that did not account Single Cople, Dally, ten cents Weekly, twenty-opened up to trade. It is true that the Mackay for his possession at 10.30 pm. The revolver

Treaty a question with which we shall deal was confiscated.. on a future occasion-has failed to accom plish the reforms anticipated, but it is merely a themselves free and demand that connection with the outer world which will undoubtedly benefit them as well as the Empire. They were shrewd thinkers, those commercial en of Hongkong a generation back; and when Khedive's star, the. North-West Frontier quited to carry a Russian war-ship to its next 8000 i.h.p., had badoase the property of a quiet

BIRTH.

On the 30th April, at Shanghai, the wife of matter of time until the people will wiench Queen's Own, Royal West Kent Regiment, Britain, which bas colonies in all parts of the

Leonard DuDENEY, of a son.

MARRIAGE.

LAS to Lity Dou, at Shanghai, Jon Dou. GLAS to LILY DOUTHWAITE, eldest daughter

of David Cranston,

Che

HONGKONG, FRIDAY, MAY 5, 1905.

THE RISE OF HONGKONG'S INDUSTRIES.

BREVET Colonel W. G. B. Western, C.D., will vacate the Command of the 2nd Battalion at Hongkong in August next under the four are. Colonel Western has served near Expedition (1884-5) medal with clasp and

ly 26 years in the regiment, and has the Nila

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three months. This is an example of strict | was alongside the Italian cruiser Alarco Polo neutrality." In the case of a country like Great | in Chefoo harbour.

A feet of veteran warships was put up to. world, the coal required to carry a British ship-

but in the case of the Baltic, squadron, at

realised 138,000 The sale began vary to the next port of its own flag would be small, auction at Chatham Dockyard on 4th ult, and present the nearest Russian port is Vladivostok quietly, and after a few headshakes and murmurs, the first-class armoured cruiser Odessa, or St. Petersburg, and the coal re

*** Warspite, 8,446 ans displacement, engines

of coal to enable the vessel to reach its nearest

a moment, in the twinkling of an eye. The other ships passed for lesser morsels of their original cost. The first class cruiser Simcon brought 14.550, and another of the same type, the Australia-an old Cowes landniark

10,900. The saucy second-class cruiser Arethusa (5,748 tons) weat for such an old song as £7,000, and tho. Mersey and the Seung

for a little under 51.000 first-class torpedo gunboat-a superseded class

each for a note or two" higher. A third-class

oughong Eelegraph they inaugurated their schemes of industrial Campaigs, (1897-8, in which he was wounded Britain observes, the twenty-four hour limit, title gentleman for 416,150 i was done in

progress they saw the trend of affairs, and the mentioned in despatcher) medal with clasp and only one visit is allowed in three months. potentialities of Hongkong as a manufactur. and the Boer War, (1900-1 mentioned in des The French rules do not specify a sufficiency ing centre. A glance at the Hongkong patches, C.,) medal with clasp, to his credit, directory today will show how the industries Ar the race lotteries drawn at the Shanghai port, only mentioning the next port, whether of the Colony have expanded in all direc-Club on the 29th ult; the following were the that be another neutral port or one of its dens year by year. The sugar refineries results for the Champion Sweepstakes Toeg in this respect, the French principle is very were probably the first among the industrial and Barley, $800; Bruce Robertson, Boo; John strict and the quantity of coal or provisions. Hongkong has been regarded ever since enterprises, and the success which attended Feel; a45: Quebec, 313; Brestois, 180; Scandy-supplied and the extent. of repairs must be ils cession as pre-eminently a shipping port them last year is too well-known to need pat, 170; Chailey, 85; Cire, 80; Durgor, Bo; quite limited, but as there is no limit of three cruiser could be had for about £4,150, and a and naval base for the British squadron in

bis, 65: Marius, 65; Wingard, so; Henry English rule, the French principle works out Oswald, 29; Common and Robson, 70; Colum- months before re-visiting the port, as in the Chinese waters; but of late years it has

Morriss, 35; Ring, 25; G. H. Polts, 25 Four more liberally to a belligerent. The Nether largely outgrown its original designation and

Stars, 25.1 Nephew, 13: Carl, 12; Toeg and lands supplies coal to a belligerent sufficient has become an industrial centre of no little

Speelee, 12; huxey, 12; Claugh, 10; Beverley, for 24 hours, and is very careful not to increase importance. Situated, as Hongkong is, in

to; Ellis Kadoorie, 101 Spero, to-Total the fighting capacity of a warship. the most advantageous position for distribut-

sweep, $7,784. ing merchandise in the South China pro- vincer-just as Shanghai is admirably placed

repetition. Then came shipbuilding and ship-repairing, and branching out into new spheres we have the rope works--whose products find their way into China and the United States-the glass factory, which after a preliminary acason of reverses and failure, due to Japanese competition, -has been restarted at Kowloon with every pro

LAST evening the remains of the late Mr. II, B. While were laid to rest in a quiet spat in

"There are three classes of 24-hour rules, The first is where a belligerent of either side is not allowed to leave within 24 hours after the departure of a vessel of the opponent; the

THE MACKAY TRBATY,

The following letter appears in the Northe China Daily News, over the signature of Mr. Edward S. Little —.

posal to forward a telegram to ila Foreign Office, London, has met will a very, general and favourable response. Some sixty of the. leading fitme and residents have slxned the same. The list will be kept open during Mon- day, so that those who were prevented from signing on Saturday may add their names. Will others who wish to sign please come to this office, 19, Kiukiang Road, or send me a chit, and I will forward the form to them for signature. The message will be dispatched

Monday evening.

Sie,-I am glad to announce that like pro

the Protestant Section of Happy Valley come second is where a belligerent is not allowed to tery, of which deceased bad been for so many remain longer than 24 hours in a neutral pon years overseer. The Burial Service was read excepting in case of distress; and the third by the Rev. F. T. Johnson, M., Chaplain of where 24 hours must pass before a vessel St. John's Cathedral, of which, til recently, he can he seized and dismantled. Of these, the deceased was verger. A very large number of second applies to the voyage of the Baltic exquisite wreaths and crosses sent in by sym. squadron. France cannot be blamed for not pathising friends, surrounded the grave, and applying this rule to the Baltic squadran at ae deceased was a mason, masonic honours Kamrahn, as according to the French regala were accorded him, very many masons as well ions it only comes into force when a prize accompanies the belligerent. But the Japanese blame France for allowing her ports to be at the disposal of the Russian squadron as a virtual base of operations. The supply of coal, proof visions, or the repair of a belligerent ship at a be allowed within a certain limit. When the neutral pori, according to existing usages, ust

Baltic squadron, however, makes Kontrahn its base of operations the action should not be overlooked,

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God save the King.

THE members of the Craigengower Cricket morrow aftemoon from 3 30 to 6 pm. Fancy sports will be held, after which the Le ge Shield will be presented to the C. C. C. by the President of the H. C. Cricket League and by kind permission of Lt. Col. Aitken and Officers, the Band of the 119 h Infantry will play the following programme of music during the afternoon :—

March.

Soldiers in the Park"., Manaklon Selection

& Country Gist "Moncton Valie „................“ Sobre las Olas Rosas Iam Dance... Boston Ball"...Godfrey.. **Selection........

Three Little Maida "......Rubens Two Steps.....* &tumtika Blurban

EXTRAS.

Selection

The Girl from Kay's, ................ Caryli Valse ........ Torery"

Tong.................Translateer

God save the King.

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I am impressed with the absolute: unanimily. opinion on two points:

That the Treaty is al present absolutely non-effective, d

Thai the British Government appears to be querly npathetic in reference to the Treaty and seems to be without regard for the inte resta of British Indo, and development in Chips.

Fam convinced all Britiabers will exert themselves and get their friends at home in stir up an agitation, we shall be able to compet. the British Government to make its power felt

After proceeding to quote various precedents in illustration of the meaning of the phrase "base of operations, "Professor Takahashi said it was to be defined as a constant use of the port by a belligerent vessel or vessels, and he thought there was no question that such a use in China had been made of the port of Kamrahn. Re neutrality, but the most appropriate course in the present case would be, he thought, for the inpabese to ignore the neutrality of Kamrahn and take what action might be necessary

gainst the Russian fleet,

MELLOW for dealing with the import requirements of spect of success--the ice works, the paper the Yangtse valley-it was natural that the factory at Aberdeen, the soap manufactory, shipping interests should obtain first recogni and the great cotion industry. With te tion, and climb into the chief position, so far ference to cotton, although by no means as the outside world was concerned. But with prosperous at the outset, when the $100 the rapid growth of Hongkong's population, shares were underwritten to a tenth of the and the advent of business men, whose original value, the industry progressed so commercial experience had not been bound rapidly that last year sufficient was earned ed by shipping questions, the possibility of to warrant a dividend being paid to the starting industries which depended only in shareholders. With the recent. good

as others being present al the funeral:" very slight measure upon the shipping crops in China and cotton being obtain. facilities of the port, gradually came into able at cheap prices, while yarn is by kind permission of ColW. G. B. Western, prominence. If Hongkong is a great dis- fetching better values in Northern China,, and Officers, the Band of the and flat, tributing centre, it was argued, for goods the permanent establishment-and probably "The Queen's Own" (Royal West Kent Regt.) A. S. WATSON- & Co., coming from Europe, America and Australia, great development of the industry. seems during dinner, at the Hongkong Hotel, to will play the following programme of music, why should it not also become an Industrial certain. In a recent Bluebook, Mr. J. W morrow, 6th inst, hive itself, manufacturing those articles Jamieson, British Commercial Attaché in which could be produced at a price below China, encourages the hope that cotton that charged for goods from abroad? With prospects in China will give profitable. the object of testing that idea, and following employment to the Far Eastern mills, with almost imperceptibly on the increasing re- a good and growing market for the finished quirements of the Colony and adjoining dis-product within the Empire. According to Selection of Irish Air"... Godfreys tricts, a number of local enterprises sprang the statistics given in the Bluebook, the into existence. No doubt, at first, they began quantity of cotton yarn credited to the mills on a small scale so that the importance of at Sokonpoo has practically doubled itself Club will be" At Home" to their friends 10-paration might be demanded for violation of this new movement to combine shipping in 1903-the latest figure available as and industrial interests in the Colony was scarcely evident, and it is questionable whether those who promoted the various factories and industrial schemes now in operation, recognised the value of the work they were doing for Hongkong, One factor, which should not be overlooked in this connection, was the increasing demands of the Chinese on the mainland for Euro pean, or rather Western, products. As the two races came into closer communion, and each began to understand one another better, the more backward realised the benefits to be derived from the coming of the new merchants and the importation of articles of modern design. The Chinese were exceedingly quick to appreciate the value of the connection, and even those in the interior (It may be vaguely) perceived that a new era of progress had arrived, and were not slow to take advantage of the opportunities afforded them of learning something of Western civilisation. It was at this propitious and most opportune mp. ment, that Hongkong's commercial mien As we do, not wish to find our launched their industrial, schemes, and start ed to prove that the port was no mere ap capable of realising great results from its panage of the shipping trade, but that it was own manufactures, Capital, was readily forthcoming, and a number of enterprises and American capitalists are bound to acquire took shape, the Hongkong and Whampoa respecting the Colony's position, may lead Dock Company for example, and the us to the belief that the time is not far dis Sugar Refineries, the Cement Company, tant when the surplus wealth of those coun and a host of others. The result is tries may find a profitable outlet within our that at the present day, Hongkong's in boundaries, at a rate of remuneration far in are dustrial prospects are on a par with her excess of that offered by similar industries. In

shipping interests, and, carried on side by the very same countries. side, they prove mutually beneficial. These remarks were inspired, to a large extent, by the announcement which we made, ex- clusively, yesterday that a new company THE female population of the Pescadores have with a capital of $1,000,000-the Hongkong all been removed to Formosa... Milling Company (under the management AN Indian walchman living at. Hung Lane of Mr. A. H. Rennie-had been formed to West has contracted plague. build a four-mill capable of producing some 240,000 bags of four a month, and able to THE RI.M.S. Dufferin is due to arive here at maintain its supremacy against the severest 8am on the 8th last, and will leave again on competition of the American millers. This is another example, showing the profit Hongkong derives from her contiguity to China, with her teeming millions. It also (Opposite Post Office), indicates how great is the demand of the Chinese for articles which they formerly [33-)alther produced themselves in sufficient

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NEGLIGENT NAVIGATION,

CERTIFICATE SUSPENDED,

compared with the date when the product was first put on the market. In 1901, the

Before the Assistant Harbour Master (Mr. Hongkong Cotton Spinning and Weaving

Basil Taylor), this morning, an inquiry was Company produced yarn to the extent of

held into the charge of misconduct preferred 694.440 lbs.; this increased to 816,800 lbs.

"The "Nippon" "publishes "The' opinion of l'ro- | by Captain Charles Edward Page, of the British in 190z; and in the following year it had

fessor Tomisu on the Kamirahn question, from | 9.8; Chan Wuf, againist the master of the attained the satisfactory figure of 1,130,400

which we note as follows:-

steam faunch R4 Chau Ping, certificate No... lbs.. The book values represented at the

*The French rule of neutrality puts no limit 1279. Capt. Page ssid On 20th April, at 10. credit of Hongkong's industries may not

of 24 hours for a belligerent abip remaining in ¦ a clear morning, I was on my way from Woo- pori, so that the staý, at Kamrahn of the Baltic | chow to Hongkong, to the Government, caitle appear in the aggregate so great, as they

squadron is no breach of the French 'regula- wharf, Kennedy. Town. After going, slow actually are, for the simple reason that it has

tious, and Japan has no reason, for making a for some time I stopped my engines about been the invariable policy of the manage

protest against it. But" under the' French 300 yards west of the Bygeln, and about ments directing operations to underwrite

cagulations if such vessel makes preparation 500 yards from the wharf I rounded the. the properties to an extent far below their THE Postmaster General this morning pr question. Such are French regulations, but the launch 4, lying alongside the wharf, on the for action or effects repairs it becomes another flygela with engines stopped, I saw the actual worth. This undoubtedly is a sound secuted Chan Yuk, a postman, before Mr. F. Suez Canal Treaty, signed towards the end of sea side, about fo feet from the west end of economic principle and one to be com A. Hazeland on a rather curious charge. It the eighteenth century, distinctly endorsed the wharf, blacking my approach. I blew my mended; so that when considering the in appears that one of the clerks in the office 24-hour sule adopted by England and the whistle three separate times to attract her trinsic worth of our industrial houses as a reported to him that he had caught Chen in United States, and its provisions were framed attention, and, when within hailing distance, whole it is no exaggregation to say that they the act of removing an unmarked ten-cent accordingly. France is one of the signatories hailed her. He then shoved off when I was form a very respectable agglomeration of stamp from a letter in the office. The clerk of this Treaty and such being the case, France about too yards off her. She was lying bow to wealth, invested within the olony's bounda-stated that he noticed the man meddling with is bound to observe the 24-hour principle in the westward. As she shoved off I lowered ties, and on productive works which maintain a bim deliberately remove the stamp and

a fetter and watched him unobserved, when he connection with the Baltic squadron according my boat and landed my bow live to make fast. thousands of hands. All this tends to raise put the letter down. The clerk at once se zed While the foregoing is recognised.as a principle, the wharf, the went ahead and ber awning to the principle she has already endorsed By the time my bows were up to the end of Hongkong above the position of a shipping the man who put his hand behind his back, yet in practice the law of nations places tanchions caught my port anchor which was port, pure and simple, to that of a centre of but on that being seized the stamp was found no restriction on the stay of a belligerent hanging a-cockbill. Instead of af once slop manufactures which, with the acquisition of sticking to his finger, Accused said he did in a neutral port. The rules adopted by ping he went on at full speedy ripping his own the New Territories, is bound to increase and not steal the stamp; it came off itself and each country in this connection are different, stanchions nut of his launch and taking my growth of these industries, combined with kind going on, when the latter replied that question of the violation of neutrality is decided back ggalost my bows. As it turned out, develop at every opportunity. The rapid stuck to his finger His Worship asked the but no law allows a belligerent to make pre- anchor with him sill the cable tautened out and Postmaster General if there were cases of this parations for action in a neutral post, and the then the stanchions gave, and the anchor swang

but be received many complaints of letters mained quietly at Kamrahin without shipping master of the launch Ke said: I was lying going a missing. Chan Yuk was sentenced to coal or making preparations for action, it would alongside the wharf, waiting for Mr. Groves, four months hard labour.

be too early to question the neutral obliga pilot, I know it was wrong. I tried to get out tions of France. Perhaps Russia deceived of the way when I saw the Chan Wai ap, France and declared that the Baltic squadron proach; when I hooked on to the anchor I merely remained passively at Kamsaho, But wont stern-Mr. Basil Taylor sald Chan the Baltic squadron was at Kamrabo almost | Ping certainly appeared to have beco guilty ten days, and according to information from all of negligence, for (1) he did not shave off from sources, it is impossible to believe that the the wharf soon enough, and, (3) did not bro quadran mads no preparations for action. proper care in mancurving: hin launch, ---His Personally, I think France has not the courage certificate was suspended for a month. to refute the allegation that the Baltic squadron made Kamiabo ́lts base of operations, in, answer to the question as to what course I am inclined to say that there is only hould be taken to deal with the Baltic squad-^

the better, acquaintance which European of however, no damage, was done. Chas Ping,

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

the roth inst

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FORTY narrow gauge locomotives have arrived at Seattle and were to be shipped to Japan by the steamer Afinnesoto, which was to mail on April 20. The locomotives are consigned to a Yokohama firm, which ordered them for the government. They are to be used on the military lines built by the Japanese in Korea and Manchuria. When the Japanese army of invasion moved up the Linolung peniusula to Liaoyang, and Mukden, the Chinese Easter gauge, was narrowed, a rail being shifted and Railway, bailt by the Russians with the large

large numbers of locomotives were hurried over from Japan. Lipcs were al a built from Fusan to Wiju, across Korea, and thence from

ron,

course-determination, to forestall the enemy. The Japanese aim at victory and exertion bould be made to obtain victory at all costs

Japan Chronicle

SHIPPING AND MAILS.

MAILH DUL Canadian (Athenian) Sili inst. Indian (Kumsung) 9th inst. Geman (Bayern) ipilitinst.

... American (Derde) 13th Instead

the Yald to: Liaoyang. Other branches were

The British 6.3. Den of Kelly, from London built and many locomotives are needed. Other Mas Richardson, the English lady who has and ports, leit Singapore to-day, and is due consignments will follow the forty, now being been acting as a Volunteer nurse at a military here on Toth Inst shipped. The locomotives are "kcocked hospital at Hiroshima, is about to leave Ujinaby The O... S. Co. & C. M. S. N. Co.'s down" for facility in handling. The boilers: the lakusi Maru to visit Taires, Fort Anbur, Jason left Shanghai yesterday morning, and- the other parts all have been fitted. This is a cently decorated by Bis Majesty the Japanese Kobe at 6 am, on 4th Inst. and left again, will be shipped ready to be put into place, but and the vicinity. She expects to be away for may be expected here on 7th last,

about three weeks. Mr Richardson was re- The C. P. R. Cos si. Tartar arrived at ask that does not involve much labour and it Emperor whh the insignia of the 6th Class of at 1:30 pm, same day, for Yokohama where → facilliates the bandling of the auginus.

We have been unable to meet the large de- mand for our issue last evening and those readers desirous of obtaining extra copies are Hongkong Telegrap4, available early to reminded that in the mail supplement of the marrow morning, will be included the articles printed in our line of Thursday.

the Order of the Crowniese

abe is due to arrive at 6 pm on sth lasti