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The Japanese Loan in Germany.
- Lowdon, xath July, The Japanese loan has been largely over- subscribed in Germany.
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Birth of a Prince.
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, JULY 14, 1905.
PRENCH NATIONAL FETE.
QUIETLY CELEbrated IN HONGKONG.
Our French neighboure and friends are 10-
day celebrating their National Fete, which
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CRAVAL NOTES.
The Lords of the Admiralty have determini- ed to relinquish the system of fixed or ground minen,
The Austrian cruiser Panther, which is at present on a visit to Australia, is leaving for New Zealand and will then come across China. She is classed as a third-class cruiser, but is almost essentially a 'torpedo-boat.
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Tokib, July 4... The trial of Captain Bougouis and his Japan- exe assistant, Maki, took place this morning at the Tokin Court of Justice. The Court set al 9.50 am. Judge Imamura presided, assisted by judges Fukagawa and Oka. The. Public Procumtar was Mr. Anju, and Mens
'tis the intention of the Admiralty to mo- toba, Seki, and Takagi appeared as Counsel for the accused. More than sixty persons at bilise a number of reserve battleships and tended the Court, including Mr. Strange, the cruisers, with the object of experimentjag is stepson of Captain Bougouin. Captain Boumanouvres of the kind practised at Tsushima,
& months' sight L/C. konin was, dressed in a black frock coat, The Admiralty is replacing the cruisers tor
-30 days' sight San Franco & New York 461 white waistcoat, and black trousers, Hepedo nets, and establishing on one of the war
4 months' sight
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471 appeared to be less weak than was anticipated ships fire control stations equipped with range 3 days' ght Sydney and Melbourne....1/11) asmonths sight Franesyderab 4'} from the reports of his illness.
6 months' night
Maki was first required to answer preliminary questions, and then Captain Fougouin was asked whether he could speak Japanese. Upon his replying in the negative, Mr. Magaki and a Court interpreter were required to make affirmation that they would give a faithful in- terpretation of the evidence of the accused.) Captain Bougauin was then asked his age,.
commemorates one of the great epoch-marking events of Freach history-the storming and capture of the Bastille on the 141b of July, 1789, In France the Fête is celebrated by the Russian Caucasia
ma-Bes as a sort of bank holiday, while official Four persons have been arrested in Tiflisly it is marked by the bestowal of decorations, for being in possession of 119 bombs. the' review at Longclamps, and the military
funcheon at the 'Elysée.
ftut there is Mining Catastrophe in Westphalia.
growing tendency to treat the day Thirty-nine miners are hopelessly entomb-less as a political remembrance than as a ed by a fire at the colliery at Dortmund.
national holiday, in which all classes may join without fear of compromiting their Accident in H.M.S. "Implacable," particular opinions. In ilangkang where French interests are firmly entrenched, with By the bursting of a steam pipe in H.M.S.the result that the French colony is of no ia- Implacable, two men have been killed and considerable size, the National Féte was cele. brated quietly. The tricolour was displayed seven injured.
on several buildings along the principal thoroughfares and one or two patriotic French The Princess of Wales has given birth to merchants had closed their premises for the day. It is satisfactory to think that the relations between French and English were never more cordial than they are at present, and in Hong-nationality, residence, &c. kong, which is nothing if not cosmopolitan, many Britishers readily responded to the call of their French friends to honour Fête-day of France. Following the usual custom, M. Gaston Liebert, French Consul, was "at home" at his official residence in McDonnell Road this morning, on the occasion of the French National' Holi- day. Among those who called upon M. Lie. bert were H.E. the Governor, Sir Matthew Nathan, attended.by Caplain Arhihnat-Lesile, A.D.C., and Mr. R. A. B. Ponsonby, private secretary. The majority of the Consuls' at present in Hongkong uttended, and there was also a large representation of the members of the French community. A very pleasant halfe hour was spent in the spacious reception rooms, where cordial salutations were ex- changed between the Consul and his visitors.
The British Fleet at Brost. The festivities at Brest are proceeding with extraordinary cordiality.
Another Mahdi. Renter's News Agency learns that a new' Mahdi has appeared on the core district west of Berbera,
[N. C. P. News] The Plenipotentiary Departs. A MAGNIFICAN SEND-OFF.
Tokio, 8th July. The departure from Tokio of Baron Komura, Peace Plenipotentiary, and party took place at 1.50 p.m. to-day. The send off given the party was more splendid probably than that accorded on the departure of the Headquarters Staff for Manchuria, which left Tokio on the 6th of July last year. The town was hung with flags and there were deputations carrying flags outside the railway station. The platform was quite jammed. The Foreign Ministers gave a God- spreil inncheon to Haron Komura at the Im perial Hotel yesterday.
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The firewell at Yokohama was of the most splendid description, The Elder Statesmen Cabinet Ministers, and many others went over
tha
NEW GUINEA AND TIMOR The people of Australia have a keen eye to the future of the Commonwealth, and one evidence of their belief in the country is their desire to draw within the scope of the Federal Government all the outlying islands which might be used as a basis for aggressive move.
nation
The papers in dreir fewell comments write in a tone of unqualified satisfaction, and almost with confidence. They pray for every success to the mission that it may secure a permanentments by foreign nations, They have already
shows their interest in the l'ortuguese posses sion of Timor, which could easily be dominated by Australian influences, and it is safe to predict that the disposal of Timor to any other than Great Britain er her from Tokio to the port. The G. N. S. Min great dependency would be deeply re- nesota, on which the party were a travel, was sented. Now attention is directed to New dressed with bunting. The guardship akazie Guinea as a field for Australian enterprise. fred a salute of nineteen guns, and the mani. From the official reports, British New Guinea cipal corporations arranged for a ring of bonis practically virgin ground. The administra fires, as the ship left. Torpedo-boat No. 20 and the Yamato Marx, with a band on board, escorted Haron Komura as far as the mouth of Tokio Bay.
THE WAR.
Boouts in Collision.
Takio, 8th July.
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THE RUSSIAN CRUISERS AT
MANILA.
ALLEGED SUSPICIOUS MOVĖ.
It was not through fear that the men of the Russian cruisers would mutiny the United When these preliminaries were over Pre-i-States monitor Menadnock so hurriedly took
os powder. diag judge ordered that the trial be held in camera, and the public in Court, including Mr. Strange, were ordered to leave the room. Only two foreign gentlemen, apparently. belonging to the French Legation, together with Mr. Kashiwabara, Councillor of the Department of Justice, and Colonel Uchida, of the Gen. darmeric Corps, were allowed to remain. The hearing continued till late in the afternoon, when it was adjoureed.—japan Chronicle.
The Monadnock does not keep powder on bourd on account of the climatic tendencies towards spontaneous combustion on a ship of that type. On Thursday night, as published in the Cadlinews, the Monadnock received a full supply of powder from the Cavite yard by the order of Admiral Reiter. It came in an ammunition lighter, towed by a navy yard tug.
This was a most unusual proceeding and duplicated only in times of great emergencies. The Monadnock is now ready fur wat.
It is to be regretted in the interest of Japan, says the Japan Chronicle, that the trial of Cap. The reason why she replenished her maga tain Bougouin is being held in camera. Of sine and took up her present position, com course there may be reasons for keeping cer-manding the three interned foreigners, is no tain parts of the evidence secret, such as where less than the belief that the officers of the ships -oot the men-were meditating a coup, which, that evidence may refer to military plans or movements, &c., but it seems to us that all were it tried, would jump Manila Bay some. such information could easily be suppressed morning into prominence as the scene of the while allowing the real gravamen of the charge most sensational Russian move of the war. It and the evidence in its support to be seen: was believed that the Russians had made up The prosecution, we take it, has to show not their minds to slip their cables and run for only that the information which Captain Saigon or some other friendly port, Baugouin was alleged to have in his possession was obtained in an illicit manner, but that the accused made an improper use of it. This part of the case ought to be open to the pablies even if it were necessary to conceal the nature of the information which the accused is alleged
This is the salement made by a petty officer of the Afenadnock yesterday to a Cablenews. representative.
He said: "On the forenoon previous to the night on which the powder was taken aboard; an officer of one of the Russians came over 10
What took
to bave obtained. It seems the more necessus, and told our commander that, although ary to insist upon this point as some suspicion they did not fear mutiny, the conduct of some evidently prevails in France that the case has of the men was suspicious, and the Russian been trumped up on account of the recent admiral thought it best that we should be pie. political differences between France and Japan, pared for possible trouble in case it come. It need scarcely be said that we do not share Our commander thanked him and communicat this opinion, but at the same time it seems to ed with Admiral Reiter,, who directed our us that the Tokio Chiho Saibansho is making a commander to repon to him. serious mistake in entering upon a course of place between them I cannot say, but this is action that will certainly tend to encouragé what afterwards leaked out: rather than to altay suspicions entertained in countries where the independence of the Japa- nese judiciary is not so well recovnised as it is by those of us who have had a lengthy ex- perience in Japan.
THE NOW INDEMNITY AGREEMENT,
tion does not, however, appear to be quite as satisfactory as it should be, but it will improve with the development of the country. Sir William Macgregor, while Guvernor of British New Guinea, expressed the greatest confidence in the future of the colony, and his opinions were never voiced unless sound and solid rex- sony could be adduced in support of them. Australia looks upoo New Guinea as an outpost of the Federation. lies defenceless, a ready rey to any counity or combination of forces
The Peking Correspondent of the Shanghai which might rise agrunt Great Britain, and the seal Australian spirit is shown in this sentence Mercury writes under date 3rd July-A new taken from the Sydney Telegraph: "To pic agreement was signed yesterday by Prince In each instance the Russians were repulsed-ed enemies of White Australia, it behoves us
vent it from becoming a point d'appui for arm-Ching and the Vinisters of the : ignaiery Pow. ers of the Peace Prolocal of 1903, in reference to do all within our power to promote its oc-
to the payment of the indemnity. You are, of SHIPPING JEISĀM.
cupation by people of our own race. The course, aware that China and the Powers have Shipmasters should note that, owing to the natural resources of New Guinen are described, not seen eye to eye on the question of the rate to be protocol specified that the indemnity way
It is officially repref that collisions be tween scouts thok place on the 6th inst, t Wanglungpao in the Yingecheng district; at Sanshilipan and Shuanharpan in the Changin region; and at Lungwangmiaotse, north west of Kangping.
.."It appears that no stock was taken in the
fear of a mutiny, but information had reached the admiral which inclined him to believe that the Russians were altempting a foxy move. They are limited to zco tons of coal per ship per month just enough to keep the furnaces going and while they are not taking on much of the carbon by day, they are loading heavily by night. This was more suspicious. The meaning was plain, The Monadnock was ordered to change her position so as to com and the three strangers, and her magazine replenished. On the sligh est sign of a fly. by-night you may expect to hear some heavy Bun-play and see-bits of Russian cruiser's coming down from above. The Russians will wonder what hit them."
A Russian officer interviewed last night,
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mutiny. Mayor Brown, who has been en- tertaining many of the Muscovites, was standing by, and the officer added; "if they do mutiny and throw us everaboard, we are going SUPPORTED BY HIS Pupils of all ourselves quite at home." to swim ashore to your nice house and make teinid there was no far that they would try a coup, but he said nothing about the coaling. The Cablenews gives the above for what it is worth. The petty officer of the. Menndanck said it. Mayhap he was talking to the marlines –Cablenews, gih inst.
washing away of the bank, the quarantine and the possibili es of the country for settlers, at which the indemnity should be paid. The said it was the "josh" aboard the three ships beacon on Chung-pao-sba Island has been and the profusion of labour indicated. But paid in gold, but the amount was stated in at the officers' niess that the men would shifted 4.5 cables 5. 54 &. from its former from a political poirt f view the great thin istasis at the rate then prevailing. Silver, how to fortily New Games so that an enemy position.
bent on attacking vulnerable Australia might ever, subsequently fell heavily, and the Chinese The Philippine coast and geodetic survey receive a check at the very outset of operations. authorities naturally wanted to pay taels which has just published a new edition with corrections With New Guinea peppled and ruled by white they wished to be considered as the equis alent and additions, of one of its series of railing di settlers, whose interests would lie bound up the Treaty was signed. To this proposition of the rate of exchange prevailing at the time rections for the use of mariners. This publica- with the interests of the Commonwealth, and the Pawers demurred. The question, of tion presents to navigators the latest informa with Timor standing neutral, or preferably, course, was whether China or the Powers tion available, relative to the coast of under the Union Jack, then Australia could should suffer the loss entailed by the fall in Mindanao and the adjacent islands.
feel tolerably safe from facizn invasion, nor the value of silver. By the new agreement would the people be haunted by the knowledge just signed (hipa recognises that the in- that there was un enemy at the gates.
demnity was a gold obligation and that she must bear the loss caused by the fall of silver.
The gist of the agreement just signed is that the lotal amount of the indemnity still mutand. ipp, some 450 million Haikwan taels, must be
The Russian hospital ship Kestrowa arrived in Manila bay on the 8th inst. from Shanghai, When entering the harbour the vessel flew the merchant marine dag on her stern and the red| PROFERTY NEAR THE DOCKS cross ensign at the mainmast. The object of the vessel's visit is presumed to be to take on board the wounded sailors from the three in- terned cruisers new cared for at the Cañacao hospital, but nothing definite as regards her mission cru'd be learned-Cablenews.
There was another hearing in Japan the other day in the case in which en Awaj› juck owner sees the Kobe agent of the Pacific Mail S.S. Co. for the loss of his junk in collision with the steamer Siberia. After hearing the evidence of a carpenter who built the sunken junk, the Court stated that the expert evidence given at the former hearing regarding the value of the lighter, &c., was considered unsatisfac- tory, and the bearing would be again adjourn ed. Fresh expert evidence will be obtained.
THE "MINNESOTA" AFFAIR.
Papers to hand from Japan throw further light on the accident at Nagasaki and show
SOLD BY AUCTION.
This afternoon, at their sales-rooms, Messrs. paid at the rate stated in Article 6 of the Pro- nghes and Hough, Government Auctioneers,tocol, as well as about eight millions of arreats put up for sale by order of the Supreme Count up till 1st January, 1995. China undertakes 750 square feet of valuable leashold property to pay the arrears pro rata by telegraphic trans, sitoale near the, docks: at Kowloon. The fer directly to each power fifteen days after tha property is registered as Inland Lot No. 149, acceptance of the proposal. China also under- and has a building thereon known as 74 Des takes to pay four per cent, per annum from zat Voeux Road, Hunghom.
January to date of payment. National Bonde ware to be signed when the proposition was agreed to.. On the last day of each month equal monthly payments are to be made on the total sum payable yearly as interest and instalment of the indemnity fixed in ac cordance with tables to be annexed to the The lot is held from the Crown for the National Boads-on the other hand, China residue of a term of 75 years from the 19th may deduct at the end of each half-year December, 1892, at an annual Crown rent of $7. four per cent. per annum on such payments Bidding commenced at $400 and rose by offers from the date these payments are made up
The position of this lot is about midway between the slaughter-house and the reservoir, and almost opposite. Tong Hing and Co's engineering and bost-building works, on the way to the Docks, at Kowloop.
that the loss of life is not so serious as the Hing, contractor, Among those present were either in silver or the price of silver on the authorities at first believ d According to the Japan Chronicle of the 6th inst., the nccident occurred on the Monday evening, and during the darkness it was difficult to estimate the exact particulars in what appeared at first a very serious accident. It seems that when the solicitors for the plaintiffs. the Minnesota arrived at Nagasaki she took up a position near the new floating dock of.
the Mitsu Bishi, Company, and it being desir able to maor the huge vessel further away, the propellers were set in motion, when by some means a coal lighter near was sunk. Verna colar reports state that suction, caused the lighter to sink but perhaps some more feasible. explanation will he forthcoming. On bold the lighter were about forty coolies, men and women, and some appear to have been struck, by the propeiler. One coolie had his leg cut off Of five women who were missing the¦ bodies of two were recovered on Tuesday,
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