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LONDON, 5th May.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, MAY 8, 1905.

THE BALTIC SQUADKON AND JAPANESE TACTICS.

SOME INTERESTINO CONSIDERATIONE

Writing at the beginning of March on the falure of the campaign during the coming year, the military correspondent of the Times die The report of the correspondent of the cussed the existence of Admiral Rohjestveniky Times, that Russia had acquired the Chiliani and i a perpetual threat (so long as it floats and Argentine pavics, continues to be denied; anywhere near Japanese watere) upon the mari but it is intimated from good diplomatic me communications of the Japanese armies. To-day, the defect of the ussian Armada be 'sources, that the warships, will be brought comes more than ever imperativaly necessary, to the Baltic to serve as a nucleus for a new and the questions now are, Should the Japanese navy in case Admiral Rozhdestvensky comes go half way to meet the approaching danger? to grief,

or, Should Admiral Togo remain at his island ports and await the attack at home?

The Reported Purchase of Warships by Russia.

Later,

The Argentine Government denies the sale of warships; they are willing to sell but dare noi deilver ships during the war.

The military correspondent refers to the posi- tion of France when the Russian fleet was at Madagascar, but what he says his almost equal force when applied to the flet's present position near Annam and the advisability of the Japan. ese venturing so far from home waters."

So far as regarde'i ranče or any other new The British Naval Manœuvres. tral which lends its ports and waters to belli It is officially stated that the grand naval gerent operations, they do this at their own manœuvres arranged for, next month, are risk and peril. It is a claonian dictum that postponed, as they may cause inconvenience "it is justifiable to attack any vessels in a if carried out then as planned, and if not place from which they make an attack," and carried out entirely, they will not give the

no agis of parifal neutrality can be held to cover the Russians from attack wherever they lessons desired to be inculcated. This apmay be found upon their adve turous voyage, parently refers to the world-wide manœuvres mentioned on the 10th December and is possibly due to the desire to have a large feet in home waters on the occasion of the visit of the French fleet.

Strengthening Tho China

Aquadron..

6th Alay. Renter's correspondent in Melbourne wires that the shoop Cadmus has been ordered; to join the sloop Clio and to proceed to the

China Station.

Russian National Assembly, In spite of police prohibition, a great secret meeting of delegates of numerous pro vincial Zemsvios has been held in Moscow io formulate principles for the establish- ment of a National Assembly..

BURGLARY AT WEST POINT.

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of the damned, if the old fireship has passed home--the introduction of the Home Rule away it has left formidable successor RAM scheme-which must have added to the pre- ty, the submarine, the mine, and the torpedo plexities of to grave a charge as the Gevere and there will possibly be more play now for mant of Canada. But Lord Lansdowne did of the Japanese navy than there ever was dur soclated bimself from the Home Rule move the individuality and initiative of young officers not hesitate to let it be known that he dis ing the performance of the ser pieces at Portment, and in 1888 he returned (on the compits Arthur. It is also conceivable that the tion of his term) as a Liberal Unionist 10 torpedoes to be employed may prove to be England. At this point it may be said that more formidable weapons, and the crows be his training ceased, though nobody who knows better skilled in their use, than during the Lord Lansdowne's "infinite capacity for taking earlies phase of the naval war. :-

pains will expect him to admit it, Salisbury to the grand position of Viceroy of thdia, the most precious that the Crown can The same year he was appointed by Lord

offer, and the East fell prostrate before the double charm to which the West had already apccumbed. His administration will be re- membered as a time of comparative rest in that distant Empire, as a period of wise and beneficial reform, and as the inauguration of a. policy of closer relations with the frontier tribes which has borne good fruit in the years since past

younger naval officers outlined the course of Some time ago' one of the 'smartest of our action of a cruising squadron circumstanced as that of Japan is now, and he recommended a certain procedure which can hardly have escaped the notice of such vigilant students of war as the seamen of Japan. It would be improper to particularise, but it is probable that the outf,hting, before the adversaries close, will be fruitful in important lessons relating to the art of naval war. Even through the guard and approach the fairway to if, fortune tavouring, the Russians break Vladivostok-if this port be indeed their ob ective with such relics of their convoy as fate, in the form of Japanese torpedo lieuten ants, may leave them, they have still to enter port, and this entrance may not prove all that Russian fancy pictures it. A study of the chart of Vladivostok is fascinating at this moment, considering that the Japanese are masters outside the range of the heavy guns, and it is far from inspossible that we may see developments in this direction when the ice breaks up--Japan Chronicit.

GREAT BRITAIN's foreign MINISTER.

THE MARQUESS OF LANSDOWNE.

OPIUM IN THE ORIEN

Intimations. ROBINSON PIANO

COMPANY, LD.

Mr. Walter J. Clennell, of Kukiang, writing, to the M. G. D. News on the 24th ult, calls by the Philippine Commissioners where “the attention to two points of the Report on Opium commissioners seem to have drawn somewhat hasty inferences from Imperfectly collated statistics." He refers firstly, to the loftuance of oplam habit upon the tea trade of Amoy and says It is alleged that the ten export of Amoy,

drawn that this enormous decline was due to in 1898 to Tis. 147,000, the inference being having been Tla 2,000,000 in 1882 was reduced With

the increasing use of opium in the district. export consisted of tea grown in Formosa, so that the locally grown ten export of that year was only Tis. 500,000 or thereabouts.

But I find that Tis, 2,100,000 of the 1881

town is that island and transhipped through In 1895 Formosa was ceded to Japan Tea Amoy thenceforth appears, or, as formerly, in the list of native but in the list of foreign Articles of trado...

the value of the foreign-that I to say, For- The figures for 1898 give Tis. 3,750,000 ha

mosan-tea, passed through Amoy in that

year. The local tea, as the commissioners say,

was only Tis. 147,500.

119,000, but export of foreign tea was Tis, 3,700,000.

In 190g the Incal export was only Tis

This conclusion would of course have been fallacious, for the local tea export has in fiet suffered a very serious decline.

How few Viceroys have returned home to

A "CENTRAL PANTY"? hold office at all comparable to that which they occupied as Dictator of the Indian Empire! Yet auch has bean Lord Lansdowne's quali- fication, and such the good fortune of our country, that after a period of two years' repose he once more accepted office in 1895, as Secretary of State for War in the first Unionist Coalition Ministry. To this I have alrendy alluded, and to his succession to Lord Sathe ten export of 1881 at Tls. 2,600,000, they If the commissioners are right in assessing lisbury as Foreign Minister. In this office he should n fairness have assessed the 1898 ex- has, io truth, fulfilled Mission of Peace; and port at Tls. 3,900,000, which would have led whatever faults may be laid to the charge of them to conclude thas the trade fiad increased the present Ministry, the whole country unites by Tis. 1,300,000 in 18 years, in praising the conduct of our Foreign Affairs. Yet surely Lord Lansdowne must sometime dream of repose, after thiny five years of slicnuous enough to satisfy even President Roosevelt.

He must somelines long for leisure to dwell undisturbed amid the art trea- sures and books at Lansdowne House, to fish tend his beautiful tropical garden at Derreen, once more at his Scottish home on the Tay, to and to shoot the snipe and woodcock for which the opium habit is the cause of the decline of The commissioners imply that the growth of County Kerry is famous.

the tea export in Kiangel. -For Lord Lanidowné is a sportsmao as well: Their conclusion is again based on the an a statesman, and an enthusiastic amateur of returns for the two years 1882 and 1898 art and gardening to boot. Few men are so my figures are all correct they have, as regards popular and few sa able; both virtues are facts; but if they had taken into account the those two years, somewhat under-estimated the inimical to any chance of retirement into the intervening years and the years since 1898 they repose of private life. Prophesy is always would have seen that the published returns do dangerous; but, as things are going just now,

Whether this decline has anything to def

world; int I verily believe that Lord Lans.

Very few men are irreplaceable in this public life, of which the last twenty have been with the opium habit 1 am not in a position to:

But it is not certain that this far-ranging at tack is to Japanese advantage, nor is it at all clear that the stroke against Robjesivensky, even if its success depends solely upon Japan, can compensate for the manifest diaadvantages entailed by the offer of a fleet action 6,000 miles froni a zaval base with all its resources and all its facilities for repair after an action. To seek out the Russians off Mudagascar, with fare, on the whole, to offer more risk than pro the main Japanese battle fleet, appears, there fit and to leave 100 much to chance to make it a course that we should adept were we circum-downe is one of the three men indispensable stanced as Japan is to-day.

to England at the present time. He holds high place in the confidence of his fellow position in very much the same way as the countrymen; and he has attained to this prized Duke of Devonshire-Damely, by subordinat- ing his own personality and position to an ever-present sense of public duty, which seems to compel the Whig more frequently than the Tory conscience.

The correspondent considers that fighting guscar and Formosa might become necessary Russia at some point midway between Mada a certain circumstances, such as a breakdown of Itussian war-ships or the loss of their colliers ". But as a deliberate act of Japanese choice it offe's little attraction. The Russian will be in full strength and will choose his own time for arrival. Japan (in the case of giving battle south of Formosa) is equally, without war harbours under the lee of her fleet; there is always the possibility of the evasion of the enemy,..

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say, May be it has. But it is evident that TALKING the figures quoted by the commissioners are beside the argument, in that they include Fer- inosa tea in 1882 but exclude it in 1898.

2-Influence of opium habit on trade of Kiangsi.

not bear out their inference.

The importation of Indian opium through

ai surprise is a condition Lord Salisbury, his great predecessor, to that it would not be outside the region of possibility | Kiokiang, which was 1,650 piculs in 188', be-

It

that can never be 'assured in operations of war.

A very during burglary took place at No. 1 Chate Steret, West Point, yesterday morning, between half-past ten and sue o'clock, appears frain the police report that the first Boor of the house is occupied by Mrs. Neshit, wife of a marine engineer, at present away with his ship. Yesterday abnet 10, 10a.m. she lacked the door of her floor, and went out to church She returned at about p.. and found the quier door had been broken open, and her bed. roons ransacked, the discorched that her gold watch and chain, valued at 412 were missing as well as a purse containing some $3. The room as in the greatest confusion, nad it was apparent that the thief or thieves must have been disturbed; for some banknotes, lying in the drawer from which the watch and purse bat been abstracted, were still there, and a number of sold silver ornaments, con sisting cups and vase, were untouched It is believed the thief or thieves are still in the Colony, and it is to be hoped their arrest will soon fellow.

office,

A RARE PEDIGREE. There remains the last course, namely, that

His appointment was not, I venture to think, of awaiting the onsel until the Russian Armada surprise to those who were behind the scenes arrives in the bone waters of Japan. To at the close of the last Administration: nor did achieve its purpose the Armada is compelled astonish the few who knew how closely Lord to en.er these waters, and in order to reach Salisbury watched the career of his colleagues, Vladivostock, its only base and repairing even though he seldom appeared to notice yard in Pacific waters at present organised, them. Lord Lansdowne was marked out for our Unionist Foreign Minister from the very has but a restricted choice of routes. There is no special advantage in sailing half day he returned from his Viceroyalty in India; round the world in pursuit of an enemy who, and those who can remember the uncomplain. in order to reach his objective, must pass ining silence with which he bore the brunt of all front of our own'dours. To attack the Hussiana charges levelled against the War Office and as near as may be to Sasebo offers the greatest the Army during the dark days of 1819-19, advantage to the Japanese cause, and to fail the chivalrous alacrity with which he defended on them there with every ship that can float his subordinates, will not be surprised to see and to force a decisive action appears to be the one to endowed with loyalty and courage now wisest course. The crux will be to decide how foremost among the statesmen of Rurope. near to allow the Russians to approach before engaging them, and this point deserves the DISCOVERY OF KUMER RUINS,

earnest attention of the Japanese Naval Staff.

If, however this general p inciple of conduct The correspondent of the Saigon Opinion in be followed, Japanese ships which suffer in the Cambodia writes:-The Résident Supérieur action may crawl back into friendly ports; has just forwarded to the Ecole Française clean ships, supp.ies, ammunition, stores, and d'Extrême Orient the triple impressions of wo

the cream of information are all at the service inscriptions on stone that the Resident of of the japanese dital nest his own Barbours, Katé has found, 40 or 45 kilometres north who to fight almost within sight of japanese east of Kratie, mi the road from Keatié to the enitory will add something even to the valour Pick Chiba at aplice called Loborut Frant

and tenacity of the seamen of ourally. I he us They come from iwo temples erected about 15 sians, on the other hand, will labou under great. metres tiom uns another. The large temple disadvantages. All their best ships will be no yielded an inscription of 29 lines, and is situate fewer than six months out of dock, and by the to the west of the one where the inscription of line contact is juined the im, ortant advantage. three lines was found. The orientation of of speed should be on the side of J, pan; great. These buildings was, approximately. Nouth.ly enhancing her chance of success in a fleet The smaller is only a heap of earth and bricks, action. These advantages, in our opinion, and but a part of the outer southern, wall, of the considering the skilful seanship of our other is still standing. The statue of a allies, are so great that there can be no reason min, seated in the orthodox pose of the Buddha, »ble doub', provided that there be no material was found some 30 metres from the two ruins, change in the situation, as to which of the One would take it for a sepresentation of the three courses we have named is the wisest for Master, but for having moustaches. It mea- Japan to pursue. sues about a metre in height. These stones

But if this is true for the main battle feet, are shortly to be taken to Pompent, where there is assuredly nothing to prevent the dis the Governor-General has agreed the Ahmer patch of fast scouts and Cruisers in the direc Museum shall be established. The documentsion of the enemy, and we know, indeed, that already collected by the Feole França se will this procedure bus already found favour and be bought fron Saigon and foun the nucleus that the lines of approach are under guard of the new Museum at Paoipeeh.

far away to the south. So for bick as the end From a later issue of the same paper, we

of December last certain auxiliary cruisers

if a central party of "Moderater" were some day formed; and in it I seem to see the dual control of two statesmed both residents. in Berkeley-square, whose political salon is pre- sided over by the beautiful and gracious lady of Lansdowne House-Daily Mail,

H FINN WHO WAS FORCED

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PIANO TUNERS. Only Experienced Men Employed.

PIANO REPAIRS. Estimates Frec.

OF EVERY

gan to increase in 1835. It reached a maxi. mum,3,600 piculs, in 1891, since which date MUSIC DESCRIPTION, lowest figure, boing 1,800 in 1902. it has, with some fluctuations, declined, the

I am under the impression that native opium is far more extensively consumed than in- dian-perhaps in the proportion of four to one the opium habit may, of course, be becoming I do not know whether its use it increasing, more prevalent notwithstanding the general decline in the use of Indian drug.

only years since 1891 in which it shows an of correspondence with the export of tea. The The import of Indian opium shows no sort

increase are 1969 and 1903-bath being years in which the tea export also advanced.

is consumed than Indian, and assuming that the Supposing that four times more native opium authorities say it is double this number), the average annual consumption of opium works populations of Klangsi, is 1,000,000 (niest

out ni about x ounces per inhabitant.

However excessive the use of opium in this nor the chief, cause of the decline in the tea export. After ranging for 9 years at between province may be, it is certainly not the only

Tls, 7,000,000 and Tis. 9,000,000, a decline set opium was also on the decline, Nothing can in decisively in 1883-at a time when Indian

export was due to ladian and Ceylon competi- tion in foreign market, assisted by the export be plainer than that this decline of the tea

duty levied in China; and to the fall in the ex change value of silver.

After several rather violent fluctuations the

been reduced and Ceylon competition being. ter export reached a minimum of Tis. 3,600,000

from temporary causes, relaxed, it advarced to in 1901. Then, in 1903, export duty having

Tls. 6,000,000, a value only twice exceeded since 1883, to recede somewhat in 1924.

Whether opiam had anything to do with the matter may be doubted.

in this one cause a decline to which other and amply sufficient causes have notoriously con

Even if it had, it is surely unfair to attribute

tributed.

Uleaborg, in northern Finland, on the edge of it is possible that the name of the city of the Arctic circle, is wholly unknown to British readers. Uleaborg, nevertheless, has existed for over four hundred years, and for a century ships sailing from this port on the Gulf of Bothnia have brought hardwoods into England. is to-day one of the chief cities of the Rus ́s an empire, and, though it is a day's journey True statesmanship is a blend of he edity from a railroad, has a hotel as good as any in and training; it is neither an instinct nor a

Petersburg, while the people of the city enjoy trick. Lord Lansdowne can claim a rare all the appointments and even refinements of pedigree for the qualities which are now at the education. From a window of that Uleaborg disposal of the nation. A statesman in bis day hotel, where I had arrived at the end of a (1057) was that Fite-Otho who crossed from long sled journey (says Mr. Gilson Willets Normandy and gained the ear of Edward the in the Penny Magazine), I could easly Confessor. From him descended a pair of see the long whart and the crowd gathered grandsons who sailed to Ireland with "Strong to witness the departure of a ship for England bow, and there founded the families of Suddenly into the midst of the crowd a man Fitzgerald and Fitzmaurice.. A statesman, too, caine ruaning, flew up the gangway to the was that Fitzmaurice who succeeded as second deck of the ship, and there vanished from ny End of Shelburne, and who held the offices of sight. The ship pulled away from the wharf Secretary of State and Prime Minister "hen and began slowly sieaming out of the bay. George the Third was King"

Presently there was signalling from shore-a INDEPENDENCE OF JUDGMENT. number of soldiers were, do ng the signalling He was the first Marquis of Lansdowne, and and the ship stopped. Then, into a boat he died in 1805; of him our Dizzy wrote fifty jumped the soldiers, and rowed out to the years la er that "He was the first great Minisship. At this point I got my field-glasses, ter who comprehended the rising importance and by their aid could plainly see that there of the middle classes." Between him and our was much commotion among the crew aboard Foreign Minister conies, of course, the Lord the ship, and that the soldiers in the boat were Lansdowne who was Chancellor of the Ex housing something to the captain.ventuale fes trade, it would be natural to find anne If the demoralisation and impoveri Innent chequer at the age of twenty-six, and was for fifty ¡y a rope ladder was let down, and two of the evidence of impoverishment in other branches the province by the opinni habit had ruined years one of the most prominent Whig states-

soldiers from the best ascended, in turn, to the of trade as well, liut every a her important nen of his time. He was grandfather of the ship's deck. Now that ship was flying the Bri-commodity, both of imparts and exports, has present peer; and with the abolition of slavery, lish flug, also she was under way. These ficis advanced. of civil and religious disabilities, of grinding certainly meant she was virtually British terri Protection, his name will always be honour tory. Why, then, were two Russian soldiers export trade in 1994 was equal, a silver Even allowing for the falling off in tea, the ably associated. So much for the hereditary holding her up and boarding her? I put on my together, that passed through Kiuking, in basis to the whole trade, exports'nar imports tendencies of the Foreign Minister of to-day. fur coat and hurried down to the wharf, "It's 1882. Imports have grown stendi'y ad rapid-

What of his training? There is no room to

a peasant who doesn't want to become a soldier, ly, exparts less steadily; but the total has speak of his career at: Eion and at Balliolid Finnish gentleman whom I had snet learn that M. Loffer, the Administrator, has reached their stations and all was in readiness College, where his scholarship and his the hotel. Is the time of the annual levy and as regards Kiangsi, that the inference drawn

doubled in shut 20 years. found in the territory of T'onié Repou, recent for actior. The fact that these scouts freely popularity were equally remarkable. At the ↑ you know," he continued, "and this young by the commissioners is based upon what is Thu it woull seem, both as regards.Amoy ceded, a statue, in stone without head or arts, showed themselves and entered Singapore and age of twenty-one he succeeded to the riches fellow, a Finn, was drafted. To-day he was commonly known as a mare's nest. and a caryed stone. These vestiges of Khmer ather harbours without any attempt at conceal and responsibilities of his house, and three supposed to present himself before the military. It would be a pity if the discussion of 30 art will be sent to the baseuin at nompenhment gives us the clue to the line of thought years later joined Mr. Gladstone's Govern authorities for enlis ment. But, like all our serious a question as the proper altitude of Behind the village of Toala Borivat there have which presides over this enterprise. It should meat as a junior Lord of the Treasury. In young men, he naturally does not want to serve been found a brick tower, former Brahmin cause no surprise if some local successes 18,2 he was promoted to be Under Secretary under the flag of the Russians, who are oppresto those engaged in painting out and com governments to the opium trade habit were to temple, and as animal sculptured in stone, against these craft e courage the Russians to for War; in 1880 he became Under-Secretary sing our constitutional liberty. Here they come, batting the evils of opium by the dissemination be conducted caralessly. No good can accrue representing the ox Nandi, the usual mount persevere, but the scouts will have carried out for India for a short lime; boi resigned his But isn't that ship: British territory, and

and they've got the young fellow with them." of irrelevant and exaggerated statements. therefore exempt from search and all that of the god Siva. The god has disappeared

sort of thing?" I asked. "Not unless you caz but the axis remained squat in front of the

speak of her as being three miles from shore,

Hresults are attributed to opium that can be teniple,

shown to arise from the accidents of war, or which you certainly can't. The two soldiers in taxation, it is left open to those interested in

the fluctuations of exchange or the develop. THE Prefect of Wuchow is evidently a man of

ment of new sources of production, or changes progressive ideas and is a great believer in

the Finish gentleman said, "They have liter him over to the captain. Next day my friends defence of the opium trade to challenge brought the young Fion athorn and banded education. Not long since it occurred to him

the validity of all the arguments and conclu that schools might, with advantage, be opened

ally forced that young Finn who attempted to

sions of its opponents. in the city so be requested his subordinates to

fee from the country yesterday into the army. make inquiries as to what places were best seas, and to prevent any tricks being played with feelings of deep affection for both Lord few miles out of Ulemborg, on the outskirts of a at the point of the bayonet. He is a farmer, suited. These officials set out, but real the moment when the Russians set sail, a and Lady Lapudowne, who won their way litle village, The soldiers yesterday took the and a man of rare intelligence, lo has a farm, a turned to their master after falling in their responsibility, which devolves upon the Ad- far into the hearts of the warm-sopled mon out to that village and put him, in-irons, mission, whereupon the Prefect accompanied miralty, and will, we assume, not be neglected, people of Canada, Nor was his tenure They told the people that as the man had been them around the city and entering many of the The Russians play for high stakes, and are not of office wiltott historical landmarks, for drafted te was practically a deserter from the temples arranged that they should be turned indulgent to neutrals into institutions for educational purposes. Im But the actions we have named are not all Failway and the crushing of Rieku rebellion, his village, and there walked him up and down prit saw the completion of the Canadian Pacific the soldiers took him into the main street of army. Not content with putling him in irons; ages were destroyed and the buildings clear that the cruising squadrons of Japan may in which campaign Lord Minto (just returned to his abackles as an example to others. Then ed of everything that was likely to retard the aspire to date. When the Spaniards came up from Canada work of those who will now be appointed to the Channel they had an unpleasant ex-important idle. During these years of his first Fish in the Rusian Army. That man will

mself as Vicarpy) played an Rawlin soldier. But they will never, keep

to be was forcibly clothed in the uniform of a touch the rising generation of this great city perience, and off Gravelines they led the lifs responsibility another took place at desert at the first opponudilyen

the most important part of their mission when affice on the introduction of a somewhat're they have located the Armada ard reported volutionary measure connected with Leish the direction of its approach, When once that administration. For this independence of duty is performed their prey should be the judgment he did not suffer-few men do suffer colliers, which should be given a short shrift,

Gladstone appointed him as Viceroy of Canada for it, if they would only believe it and Mr. to hold our Eastern squadrons concentrated to succeed the Marquis of Lorne in 1881. 、 and ready, to keep a sharp watch upon the points of landing of our cables

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