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have not the slightest doubt, on the authority. of His Excellency the Governor, and sup. ported by Mr. S. T. Dunn, the superintends ent of the Botanical and Afforestation Depart• ment, that a Horticultural Society should bs formed in Hongkong. It has been matter" for comment that a Colony, which boasts a flower market and designates one of its prins cipal thoroughfares by the beautiful, title of Flower Hill-forgetting the official name: underthe prettier soubriquet—thould be with- "out the stimulus which is given by the ex Istence of a Horticultural Society and its exhibitions." There is scarcely a house in Hongkong which does not boast
plants, which an array of pot
Are
tended and nurtured as carefully, even by the poorest, as any greenhouse exotic in
8th of next month-and there need' bè, no
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY NOVEMBER
Lien-chau, so that we need scats expect to TELEGRAMS
VLADIVOSTOK RIOTS.-
learn the details of the sale arrival of the party until this day next week at the earliest. Mcan time we must contain, our sölus in peace and" trust that the force which accompanies the “aquadron," and the power it represents will suffice to overaws the desperadoes who think by pretence at braggadocia, to frighten the foreigners back to Canton even though they FACTS FROM THE HAMBURG-AMERIKA LINIE, have reached the gates of their destination.
THE CHINESE STUDENTS.
(24th November.) The Western world is getting a glimpse of what Japanese example is doing, for Chica
GREATLY EXAGGERATED STORIES.
and low Through the courtesy of Mr. K. Oldor manager of the Hamburg-Amerika Linie in Hongkong, we are enabled to publish the following reassuring telegrams which have been received by that firm from Vladivostok.
They should do much to allay alarm regard. ing the condition of affairs prevailing at that
side the wharf."
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it is dated the 20th inst.. It reads:
"The riot is now suppressed, and the steamers are progressing very fairly 'with the work of discharging their cargoes. The steamships Andalusia and Kowloon are discharging along The second telegram was despatched from Vladivostok yesterday and was received here this forenoon. It is from a private firm, and is especially satisfactory as indicating that all fears as to a recrudescence of the riot are at rest. Its terms are as follows:
Trouble here has ceased. Send on our
cargo immediately.!!
NANKING RAILWAY
DIRECTOR GENERAL REMOVED.
[From Our Own Correspondent.]:
hanghai, 20th Nov., 1905)
10.50 a m
o explanation is givon. The Klanga goetry, residents of Shanghai, wired samin time age to the Shangpu' (Board of Commerce) that Sheng Kung pan, Ditector General of the Shanghai-Nanking Railway Ad
Baulden the Chiness. Goyaın already repaited aro now Dr. Fulton, Machly
allprobibility the
ali Lien chau on Monday yeste We expect to reach there on
the officials,
પાવા
day 118th:
It is impossibla nt present to say how long
Fat Fast Sheng Kung Pao, the Directore Are likely to remain at Lien chau, but our the varik
tip back will be much quicker than it has been marker con removed from his position. General of the Nanking railway, luss going so far to gala ph
It is quite possible, this epistle may not: Faluny reach you at all, because it has to be sent up: cable in the Land the No th River to Yingink and thence taken Grat utter by courrier overland.
Consequently, in the disturbed state of the country, and the strong feeling which prevaili among the people against America, runner” who might be thought to be in the service of after their interents.hey urged the Hoard tions of Chinese officials, might Bad himself to recommend their memorial to the Throne.
one detained, an 'asked that the appointment of the comt may mention en pistant that at the en mittes might be approved of by, the Thross, trance to the Ching-yuen Past we noticed Sheng Kang-pan is charged with in-adminis same grading work which had been completed It would therefore, some time age in connection with the Canton tration, and curruption.
KN REROASE Hankow railwayJNEN TARDA brent approved by the Throne and Shenrolling about very heavily and the polemen met Road Conn appear that the petition of the gentry bat
PS-Excuse hasty scrawling, but we are Kung pau has been compelled in retire.-Edi
are making a frightful poise 77.8.73
RUSSIAN MUTINEERS.
· GUARDED BY JAPANESE.
ADMIRAL RODJESTVENSKY ON
BOARD.
[From Our Own Correspondent.]
Shanghai, 21st November,
12.15 p.m..
- According to the V; C, D. News of 15th Inst. the Waiwupu, after
Consultation; with Viceroy Tiên Chun-hsner, of Canton, has notified Mr. Rockhill, the U. S Minister in Peking, that
ESIWHEN LES
fa Summary Honour Mr. ing the case broker, sued Lai Xul the sum of $200, being. upon to be paid 10 com
Queen's Centrāli Mr. C. F. Dixon, office, appeared for the pizi!
Thomson for the délandan
The defendant he promised to pay
conjmis
the Chinese Government, will decapliate theiff secured a mau ready to advance
the mortgago.
persone concerned in the Lien-chau murder severely punish the officials of Lien-chau, for His Honours But the suit is on
their inability to give the necessary projection to the usissionaries in their city; indemnify the Mission for things taken away by the mob and reconstruct the hospit. And other, build, ing's that were destroyed. A reply is Dow awsited by the Waiwupu from Minister Rack bile.
how is that?
was by applying the Amateur gardener to excel in the art of pro-knowledge gained by her students in the Agents of the Hamburg-Amerika Linie, and fore they lind, appointed a commiten to took Americans, even if acting under the instruct ducing blossoms, of systematising his scheme schools and universities of the United States of floral decoration, when all his efforts atc and Europe: That knowledge overthrew the doomed to Ulush practically unseen? Only feudal traditions, transformed the people, a Horticultural Society, with its shows and created representative institutions, promoted awards, can give that incitement and instil that idea of competition which are so essen: general education and made Japan a power Lial to the successful rearing of the plants. existed for centuries, and the only one that in the world, the first Asiatic power that bas And à Society under the regis of His Ex- has earned admission into the family cellency Sir Matthew Nathan, and having as of nations. It was the work of students, its guiding spirits the leading citizens of the recent issue of the San Francisco Colony, is bound to be successful in these Chronicle it was remarked, in an editorial, days when people long for a hobby that heretofore China has educated men in which will while away the idle hour. America and Europe, but on retursing home It is a mistake, however, to thie that if a Horticultural Society is formed at they have been absorbed into the ancient system, without effecting any change in its the public meeting which takes place on the structure. Now a different use of Western doubt on that head-that it will be the dents are organizing in this empire to apply education is appearing. The Chinese stu first of its kind that has existed in Hong the knowledge to a change in its genius kong. As a matter of fact it will only be a
and nicthods. They propose to retain the resuscitation of a Society under the same impressions of the new life they learned in nanic which was established in February the West, and to create a new China to face the 13-ominus date!-1873. But that the new Japan. "Their action supplies a it languished. There was an annual flower Chinese the opportunity and hospitality Society was really a Government affair and strong reason for extending, to the might have existed at the wharves is who are being repatriated is, causing Kwangtung province being rife, a French gun had a flaw in it, and the matter fell through, and vegetable show under its auspices, bit of the American schools and universities every year saw a dwindling display of ex That the Chinese are not slow in taking ad- hibila. In November, 1876, the Gover
Vantage of the proferred hospitality is certain, on the principle that the less one has to do elected from the pick of young China" in with the constituted authorities the better, the northern and southern provinces to plu- would patronise the society better if it were
ceed aboard, are detailed in as large, if no under new management, handed over the an interest in matters horticultural, and there, was a brief revival of interest in the opera tions and shows of the Society. But the Horticultural Society of 1873 seans to have been practically stillborn ; & faded away and died, unhonoured and unsung; indeed, it is doubtful if anybody knows the actual date of its demise. What is wanted is a citizens Horticultural Society-not an affair which
stories and telegrams published in Hong Mr. Oldorp remarked that he thought the
had been greatly over-drawn and exaggerat kong with regard to the riot at Vladivostok ed. The riot could hardly have been of such a serious character as was represented if it could be quelled so easily and speedily. The first telegram," he said, "proves to my mind, that the danger which entirely at an end, for ouragents would not have allowed our vessels to go alongside if there had heen the slightest chance of their being attacked by rioters.
Had the riot
The mutinous outbreak at Naga suki': among the Russian ex-prisoners
the greatest uneasiness.
Japanese torpedo-destroyers are now at Nagasaki guarding the trans. sins are confined.
Ar Dixon: As I am instructed that was the (netu | sum agread upony being one per cont. Commnission.TK SANTAAAAALUNTE Mr. Dixon produced evidence to prove that plaintiff did secura a man, ready and, willing to CHINESE UNEASINESS. pay the required" $20,000 and the matter was Canton, Nov. 13th, being arranged when Meaari, Wilkinson and Reports of coming anti-Christian riots in Grist discovered that the lille, to the property boat proposes to steam up the Pearl River, That had nothing to do with plaintiff, who had thus greatly increasing the uneasiness and performed his part of the agreement în securing causing commotion in the minds of the people the man, and it was for defendant to perform The Viceroy, has, therefore, telegraphed to the hit. But because the matter, fell through des
ment thinking, no doubt, that people, acting inasmuch as the régular, batches of students still continued and the vessels allowed to lie, parts on, which the. rebellious Russ Waiwupu, requesting the latter to confer with fendant wanted to get out of paying for the
at the wharves they would have been at the mercy of any rioters who might be bent on burning or looling them. They could not
Oldorp said "It comes from an entirely quite reassured on the point."
With regard to the second telegram, Mr. independent party and they would not be likely to order their goods to be sent to Vladivostok if they thought the riot had not
control to some gchtlemen who had evinced greater, numbers to American, as lo Buru-have escaped, but as you see our agents are gan pablic schools and colleges. Our San need not come to China for all of the Francisco contemporary urges that America uaterial. They have it in the States in the Chinese who are domesticated among the There are hundreds of native-burn Chinese who should be encouraged to get education there, that they may take it back to the land of their fathers for the uplifting of the blood
subsided."
Admiral Rodjestyousky is on board one of the Russian transporte.
The Japanese naval authorities are
further outbreak." on the alert, prepared to quell any
LIEN-CHAU MASSACRE,
the French Minister with a view to securing his cossent in instructing the captain of the is to desist from undertaking the proposed trip.-Shanghai Times,
THE MANILA TIMES" COMMENTS. The Manila Tines writes editorially :- From such later detnijs” às have been res" ceived from China coast papers of the tragedy at Lian chay, nortly of Canton, it appears that the outrage was spontanepus rather than premeditated.
Doubleas the temper of the natives of the district had been rendered dangerous, by the
will be meant solely for the snobs-to pou of which they are a part. They have the extelegrams regarding the riot have been | INQUIRY COMMISSION'S JOURNEY | reporte of the baycall against Americans,
THE KING OF NORWAY.
traordinary advantage of knowledge of Eng with pride at exhibition times to the work of fish. The same journal advises that America their gardeners and exhibit their own ignor should hot neglect her opportunity to have ance of horticulture—but a Society which will allow the humble man, the poor Chinese her part in the lifting of China from the is gardener, the labouring Chinese coolieetness of centuries, into the light of modern who keeps a few pot plants because of his
opportunity. innate love of Nature, to come forward and compete on equal terms with the people of the Peak, a Society which will induce ou native gardeners to cultivate bigger and better cabbages, carrots, leeks and potatoes, and a Society which will at all times encour age the amateur. As already remarked; the meeting for the formation of the new Horticultural Society will be held on the 8th December, and after it has formally been agreed to establish the Society, the meeting will proceed to discuss the scope and organisation of the venture. It is cer tainly to be hoped that there will be a large attendance to support this, worthy and most excellent, idea.
TO LIEN-CHAU.
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Finally, ho observed-" I believe that the highly coloured for the occasion. I noticed, that some vessels from Vladivostok had also given a vivid picture of what was occurring there, but I am afraid there has been some terrible as we have been led to believe. At exaggeration, and that the riot was not so all Events, it is satisfactory to know that it is all finished now and that trade with Vladi. vostok will go on without interruption from rioters."
· HONGKONG TELEGRAPḤ"
SERVICE,
RUSSIAN PRISONERS
MUTINY
AT NAGASAKI
- WANT TO GO TO YLADIVOSTOK,"
[From Our Own Correspondent.||
Shangha, 20th Nov., 1905, 10.55 a.m. The Russian prisoners who were being returned to Russia, under the terms of the Peace Treaty, on board the transports Vladimir, Voronej aud the Yaroslan, mutinted at Nagasaki on Saturday,
They declare that it is their desire to continue the journey to Vladivos tok, obviously with the intention of joining the mutinous garrison there.
THIBETAN EXPEDITION,
ALARMING RUMOURS.
LIN-CHAU PEOPLE PREPARING TO RESIST.
[From Our_Special Representative.].
On the way to Lien chau,
Tuesday, 14th November, The Commission of Intuiry into the circuin- alances allendig the massiere of American ssionaries at Lien-chau, arrived at Konghau -trom which I am now writing this message which I trust you will get as soon as possible
and trough the lenders of the move nient for the exclusion of American good deny any connection with the outbreak at Lien-chau, there is evidence which goes to prove that they had inflamed the minds of the inhabitants of the prefecture and the vicinity by complying with a request to furnish them incendiary literature. Aroused by the placards, against the foreign devils, it double less needed but a spark to kindle them into open wrath and violence, and unfortunately this was furnished by some innocent act of Dr. Machle.
ervices rendered. It was no fault of plaintiff's har defendant's title should prove bad, and he asked for judgment with costa
Mr. O. D. Thomson argued that plaintiff was not enthied to any commission. As the mortgage was not put through, and therefore the agreement was not carried out." He quoted many suthorities wherein it was laid down that commission was only duo after the loan or mort- gaga had been concluded, aze
His Honoori But in this case the commls. sion was due, as the defendant admitted thật he promised to pay, 5300, commission if plain. tiff secured a man ready and willing to advance $10,000 on his propany if the title were good, This the plaintiff, did, and brought the parties. together, and, thera his part of the agresment+ termi ated. There would be judgment for plaintifs with costs. Even then the defendkot saves Stoo on the transaction.
My Lord has ligate
Mr. Thomson But he loses $200 add, costs,
His Honour"That is: his; own fault; he should have a proper title to his property.
JA DISHONOURED DRA
DEFENDANTS TO PAY,"
24th inst
Whether it is true that he laughed at. part of a theatrical performance and thus at six o'clock this morning.
Konghna is at the mouth of the Lien-chauincented the people, or whether he gave River, so that, we are only five days' journey them umbrage by requesting them, for the unke
of the patients in the adjacent hospital, to stop In the case in summary jurisdiction, in which from our destination.
the naise of the theatre, is not clear, 11 'only the Russo-Chinese Hank, of Hongkong, clalm- We have been paled or towed yo`li since ten
appears that be quite unwittingly furnisheded Rs. 40,000 from the Sam Yes Co, Ld, late of o'clock last night,
Rume cause for offence which was all too really No, 275 Des Vœux Road, and Chow. Tit Sai, bec Some few inites before Ching-yden seized upon as an excuse to give dreadful vent ing the amount due on a draft drawn by defend. reached, the gunboat, which had previously
ta a feeling of blind, animosity. Mobs are ants on their branch in Bombay, and which draft been towing our "caruvan" was obliged to
was' dishonoured by such branch on maturity, give up the task, whereupon coolies were nearly always irresponsible, and nowhere more
sa than in Chius. That the officials responsible His Lordship delivered judgment this after- engaged and they towed us to Ching-yuen.will be called terribly to task by our Govern noon,RE
Since leaving Ching-yuen we have had to be alternately towed or poled along the river,
The scenery has been magnificent, fur uperior to anything I have seen on the West River-it beats the views of the West River ver
out and out.
ment goes without saying.
As for the part played by the missionaries in China, and whether they are justified in ven turing into places which at any time may be come dangerous and thus involve their country In international complications, that is too large At Ching-yuen, we were banquaited by the
# question to be discussed at this time and in. district Magistrate, but this has been by no
the space available here Suffice it that in the means a sulitury experience, for all along the
present instance men and women and at least route the chief officials at the larger tawas
one child have been wantonly and ruthlessly have been most lavish in dispensing hospitality
sacrificed to a blind, unreas and if it
unreasoning, and to the members of the Commission expedie stitious hate.
Supers tion on which we have embarked-one might biblical promise: Vengeance is mine, saith The missionary way may take comfort in the think that we were a junketting party,
Cor
The step which President
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ME. H. E. Pollock, KC instructed by Mr. H, J. Gedgo and Mr. John. Hays, of Messra. Johnson, Stokes and Master, was for the plaint tiff, and Mr. H. Sharp KC, lastrucied by Mr. P. W. Goldring, of Mesura, Brutton, Hett and Goldring, for the defence
b- His Lordship held that the plaintiff Dank had proved its case and gave judgmost accomingly against the defendants with conta CLAIM ON A BANK COMPRADORE.
:JUDGMENT; FOR DEFENDANTS.;
24th inst.
In original jurisdiction, this afternoon,: His Lordship Sir Francia: Piggott, Chief Justice, BRINGING CHINA TO TIME.
dellveidd judgment in the case of Yung Plu The following editorial is clipped from the To, compradore of the Deutsche Anatliche Manila Times ~~ ident Roosevelt has Banki agelost Yung Fan Kip, for the recovery of thin sum of $11,400 being monies alleged to be taken with regard to the Chinese boycott is one slue and owing to the plaintiff by the defondante which will be welcomed by all Americans under and by virtue of an alleged agicament throughout the East. The matter has reached entered into between them on the 3rd October that singe where patience has ceased to be a 1953 D virtue. So long as the racial hatred against us Mr, H, E. Follock, KC, instructed by Mr. confined itself to discrimination against our goods we could afford with the aid of a little of appeared for the plaintiff, and M.E. Hi n. Wilkinson, of Messrs. Wilkinson and
the sauce of forbearance to stom ch the effort
(25th November.) Today Kong Hakon VII., the newly- elected King of Norway, and Queen Maud, lately known to the world as Prince and Princess Charles of Denmark, made their public entry into Christiania, the capital of their new kingdom King Charles-is-the- second son of Prince Frederick, Crown Prince and heir apparent to the throne of Denmark, whose father, the King of Den- mark, is also the father of Queen Alexandra of England. The new King was born in 1872. His wife, who is his cousin, WAS, Princess Maud, the youngest daughter of the King and Queen of England, and was born in 1869 They were married in 1896. According to the highlyämteresting letter This is the second occasion in modern tinies which we published on Tuesday from our of a Prince of Denmark being elected to special representative with the American and accepting a foreign throne, the first Cominission of Inquiry, appointed to in being King Hakin's uncle, King George of vestigate the causes which led to the Greece, formerly Prince George of Denmark massacre of missionaries at Lien-chau the Within a week a month ago, an important other day, and-to-bring-to-book those who dispatch was received at Copenhagen, from are chiefly responsible for the crime, the the Norwegian Premier, M. Michaelsen, at
No matter where we touched the principal the Lord, I will repay, but our Government is expedition has met with nothing but Christiania, notifying the Danish Court that
officials have personally come to offer theirkely to put more faith in the old Mosaic
Commissioners.
doctrine of an eye for an eye and a tooth for a cordiality, up to the present, at the hands of a full greciment had been reached by the
respects to the the district officials en rante. Obviously members of the Norwegian Government où
On Saturday night we met the 'ev, and Mr, tooth. that is a policy dictated by the prudent the advisability of prompt settlement of the
Dewstone and the Rev. Mr. Robinson of the officials at Canton, who, we are told, des- throne question by a resolution of the Sturt
Wesleyan Mission at Shuikwad.
They reported to us that placards covered patched instructions to make the Commising, The Danish Ministerial Council was The transports had been detained with vile accusations against everything and sjours journey as pleasant as possible. Our immediately summoned, the Ministers sal for at Nagasaki pending instructions everybody America have been posted up th representative remarks: “So far the trip two hours, and it was announced on the has been delightful," and that notwithstand. morning of the 19th October that the Danish from St. Petersburg as to whether it may explain, some 300 miles up the North
is, I may ing the "frightful noises" of the polemen Court was ready to abandon the idea of a was advisable to proceed to Vladivos- Piver and about the same distance from Can
ton as Lien-chau, and the rolling of the exaggerated sampans plebiscite, and that Prince Charles of Den- tok in view of the disturbances.
Wesleyac friends also stated that a re in which they are travelling. At the inark was willing to accept the 'Crown of
part was in circulation to the effect that two pontloads of poisoned rice had been sent to same time it is apparent thet a good deal of Norway when elected by a majority of the uneasiness prevails regarding the reception Storthing. To-morrow is the birthday of which the Commission is likely to get at Lien Princess Charles of Denmark, the new chau. The report that the people, instigated, Queen of Norway, Her Majesty to day no doubt, by the tingleaders of the outrage, completes her thirty sixth year, having been are stated to be evincing a hostile attitude,born, as stated, in 1869. and are making preparations to resist the entrance of the party, is not lightly to be neglected. Naturally, the Chinese officials with the Commission discredit the report;'. that is what they are there for, but when we lear that the guard was strengthened at Konghau that would seem to discount their. views to some extent. The North River,
The first of the Russian warships to arrive pasting through gorges and lined with beet in port since the outbreak of the war with ling crags, would form an ideal place for an Japan in February of last year is the cruiser ambuscade by determined bandits, and Almas which came in from Tsingtau to-day; considering that the party had still to which port she left on the xist inst. The travel five days before they reached Lien Almas is a cruiser of 3,000 tons and is coin- chau it was not, metaphorically speaking,manded by Capt. Ougrumoff. She was a unit out of the wood. However, the men in of the notorious Baltic Squadron under ad- miral Radjestvensky, and took part in the charge of the expedition are not likely to fight at the fateful battle of the Sea Japan on neglect any precautionary measure, and the 27th May last. in kis seventh report should the murderers of Lien-chau attempt to the navel headquarters in Japan, on the Vany of their games they are likely to get as esult of that history-making encounter, the good as they give. There is no doubt that a gallant Commander-in-Chief wrote that The very bitter feeling prevails against Americans Auron and the Alms were suspected to have and American goods. The placards inciting sunk during the torpedo attack on the it subsequently the natives, and the stories about poisoned night of the 27th May
that the Aimor escaped unscathed transpired rice being sent from America to Canton to the Geraian port in the north, while the for consumption by natives in the interior | Aurara limped into Manila bay in a damaged are not without significance. As our recondition a few days later, Both these vessels presentative indicates, these are only samples were interned until the conclusiop and ratifica of the methods by which the misguided and tion of peace, when they were released ignorant, people are played upon by the astutemffant responsible for the dastardly scene at bien chau. "The message which we published on Tuesday occupied seven days on the way from Konghau to Hongkong. The Commission was still five days distant from
A RUSSIAN CRUISER ;
"IN FORT,
This afternoon the Almas saluted the part with twenty-one guns, which compliment was promptly returned by the shore battery. Then similar courtesy, was exchanged between the Russian vessel and the Commodore of the port (Com, H, P. Williams), eleven gunt being fired by the Almas and the Zamar, respectively,
CHINA TO PAY EXPENSES,
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[From Our Own Correspondent].
Shanghai, 20th Nov, 1905, 10,65 am.
It is understood that China has agreed to pay Great Britain several millions of taols in defraying the expenses of the recent British expedi- tion to Tibet.
The Chinese, Government will pay
1,200,000 tuels in November.
JAPAN'S SUZERAIN'IY.
RULERS OF COREAN AFFAIRS.
[From Our Own Correspondent].
Shanghai, 20th Nov., 1905, 10.55 am. The Corean Government has con sented to the proposal that Japan should direct matters at Seoul
Canton from America.
That is only one of the many stories against der and to one of our admirals being treat. Deacon, Looker and Deacon, defenceda
nt retaliation; but now that it has led to brotal KC instructed by Mr. H.W. Looker of
America which are being spread, amongst the people in the interior by the reactionaries, but. it shows how strong is the feeling against America and Americans, and the uncertain tenure of life of any unprotected American family is the interior.
mu
Sym
facts of the case have been fallystet forth chega columus petit
His Lordship hold, in deliver by allopath judgment, that it had not been proved that defendant signed the so-called accounts, and judgment must therefore defendant with costs There was cous claim for $5,000 between the parties wh dismissed with cont
ed like a felon it is time to call a hair just how Peking will meet the new situation it is difficult to predict. Doubtless there will be the usual importunings for delay, but the temper of Washington must be roused to such a pitch At Ching-yuen it was commun talk among by the brutal outrage at Lien chau as to render the boat people that the residents of Lien-chau any trifling dangerous. We may also depend were seriously alarmed at the probable com.upón President Roosevelt to exert firm and sequences o of the visit of the Commission of prompt pressure, and to abate nothing of his Inquiry.
So afraid are the people of Liza-chau demand that the boycost end. That matters
bave come
ome to such a crisis is to be regretted stated to be that rumours are afloat to the We believe it always pays to coltivate friend-WESTERK effect that they are fortifying the passes en route ship rather this incur enmity, and we have and the rocky ledges alongside the river reen, that in commercial dealings much horm Some of the passer through which the river may be wrought by arousing the halsed of a runs ore, I may tell you, very narrow, people with whom we have valuable trade rela
According to the reports received, the people tions. There can be no question, In spite of in the districts surrounding Llen-chau, all of many expressions to the contrary, that we gains those in fact who may be implicated as a resolted much by our altitude on the question of of the Commission's investigation, are said to Indrinity for the
Boxer outragesting:7000)
Its appre be determined that no official boats shall be Peking on several occasions, shor allowed to proceed to Lien-chau, except by ciation, and for a time the name American was force of arms.
welcomed by official Chips as that of a friend, The Chinese officials who are accompanying and many concessions which might otherwise us, however, discredit these reports
have been sofused were obtained Could this desirable rapprochement bave been maintained we should doubtless have-reaped further bane- fire, but of late wo seem to have been steadily. going backwarde sin
estimation of the olating our official Chinese. Our
Canton Hankow railroad
It is significant, that our guard has been strengthened at Kongban.
fted The Chinese officials at all the cities en route to Lien-chau have evidently received instruc tions from the Canton authorition to pared for our coming,
For 88 000 AN OUT dron of it word with regard to the
#squadron f'eight: faisly-sized boats get abreast of any guardboat
́three rounds are fred—from blunderbusses ) (27)
Gongs, galore, are beaten as a signal of our The Japanese will also control the approach and I suppose, 21 a welcome. 2
13. The river is strongly patrolled tas b finances of the Kingdom, the affairsSo far the trip has been delightfat, bet ike at the open ports, and foreign ques very cold, although we are made as tions which may arise,
as' posible under the circumsta:
Bikharon north winds have just set in and the nights are:
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