THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. LI.]
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Week, &c.
Leading Articles
The Boxer Outbreak
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 16TH JUNE, 1900.
Bubonic plague, after a short cessation of nearly two weeks, has reappeared in Manila, two cases being discovered on the 10th inst., one in the Escolta, the main thoroughfare of the town. 406 Both victims are Chinese.
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Britain and the Other Powers in China
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Tariff Revision
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The Water Supply Question
The Ontbreak in Yunnan.
The Post Office Building
Naval Guns on Shore .....
Hongkong Legislative Council
The Crisis in China
The Boxer Rising
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Great uneasiness is reported from Newchwang, whither the Boxer agitation has spread. The merchants there are said to have telegraphed to 408 their houses at Shanghai to stop all shipments of cargo. The Russian troops are closely guarding the Port Arthur-Moukden railway.
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An Imperial Decree which Encouraged the Rioters 412 A Hongkong Chinaman's Experience of the Boxers 412 Departure of Troops from Hongkong
The Bribery Ordinance
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It is stated that Mr. Sands, adviser to the Corean Foreign Office, has memorialized the Government, urging the imperative necessity of completely remodelling the laws and judicial 413 procedure of the country, not only in the in- 413 terests of civilization, but also because the 414 independence of the empire is exposed to con- stant danger by the provisions and methods now in force.
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Hongkong Volunteer Corps
The Suicide by an American
Postmaster General's Report
Canton
The Philippine Commission
The Proposed Revision of the Tariff
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Japan and Corea
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The "Star" Ferry Co., Limited
Hongkong Volunteer Corps
Hongkong and Port News
Commercial
Shipping
BIRTH.
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The withdrawal of the regular troops from the British Shan States is now in contemplation. 416 and they will be replaced by the Military Police, It is not intended, however, to withdraw at once the whole of the military garrison from Keng Tung in the neighbourhood of the Mekong Valley. Two companies instead of a wing of a Burma Battalion will be stationed there for the present, but next year probably the post will be made over altogether to a detachment of Military Police.
On the 8th June, at No. 10, Stewart Terrace, Peak, the wife of J. P. COTTAM, of a son.
DEATH.
On Saturday, 9th inst., at his residence, No. 26, Elgin Street, ABDOOL RAZACK MADAR, aged 58 years. Deeply regretted. Indian papers please
copy.
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The German mail of the 2nd May arrived. per N. D. L. steamer Bayern, on the 12th June (41 days).
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
M. Parloff, the Russian Minister at Seoul, is reported to have returned to his post on the 30th ult. from Port Arthur.
Christmas Island is annexed to the. Straits Settlements by proclamation. The annexation took effect on the 10th June.
There is a report that Sun Yat-sun, the hero of the great kidnapping case in London some time ago, has been captured by Gen. Yuan in Shantung.
It was announced at the beginning of the week that. Sir F. Swettenham had been laid up with a severe attack of fever ever since his
arrival at Weihaiwei.
Mr. H. S. Wilkinson, the new Chief Justice
of H. M. Supreme Court, was expected at Shang- hai from Yokohama by the N.D.L.S. Sachsen on Thursday or Friday last week.
Mr. H. A. C. Bonar, H. B. M.'s Consul at Yokohama, has left for Europe via Siberia. The new U.S. Consul General at the port is to be Mr. E. C. Bellows, of Washington.
It is alleged on seemingly good authority, the Japan Mail says, that Marquis Yamagata has resigned, and that the Japanese Emperor asked first Marquis Ito and afterwards Count Matsu- kata to form a Cabinet, but both statesmen declined. There remains, therfore, no course except a consultation of the elder statesmen in the presence of the Sovereign.
The N. C. Daily News reports that despatches have been received from Peking by the local mandarins stating that H.E. Shêng has been sent for by the Tsungli Yamên to go up to Poking at once, to investigate the recent des- truction of the Northern Railway lines and to assist in the negotiations with the Foreign Ministers, which are expected to take place in the near future.
If the negotiations end favourably to all concerned there is every probability that H. E. Shêng will be made à Vice-President of the Board of Works as a reward for his assistance.
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The Osaka Asahi has received a telegram from Seoul, dated the 4th inst., stating that the U.S. Minister has applied to the Corean Govern- : ment asking for permission to export the gold bullion produced at the Unzan Mine by way of the White River in Ping-an-do, and also for the extension of the charter for working the Unzan Mine to 50 years. No answer has yet been given by the Corean Government.
The Russian Imperial authorities re- cently made a grant of £320 to the Institute of Oriental Languages at Vladivostock for the purpose of enabling certain students to under- take a journey to China during the month of May. The Russian commercial firms esta. blished in China expressed their willing and lodging during their trip to China. ness to give the students in question free board
A Seoul telegram to the Osaka Asahi, under date of the 4th inst., states that Li lu-yu, the President of the Supreme Court, Judge Tai Mei-seki, and Procurator Cho Ho-kwan, who sentenced An and Kwong to death, have been exiled to the Tetsu Island in Whanghai-do. Speaking of an impression conveyed by Japanese journals that Mr. Hayashi has not taken up a sufficiently resolute attitude with regard to these murders the Japan Mail. points out that the Japanese Representative in Seoul had to choose one of two courses; either to insist that the Emperor has been guilty of & deliberate breach of faith or else to accept the explanations offered, namely, that the acts of the judicial officials concerned in the trial were alike unknown and unsanctioned by the Sovereign. "There is, however, no room for selection," says the Mail. "If the Emperor pleads ignorance and punishes the offending officials and he is understood to have done both-Japan can not reasonably demand any further reparation. It may be disappointing to some people that there are not to be any fire- words, but the situation does not admit of them. What we hope is that Japan will make such representations as shall lead to the final abolish ment of judicial torture in Corea."
According to a Shanghai native has been a great amount of kidnapping at The Governor, of Hongkong Sir Henry Hankow recently; in fact it has been a daily Blake, has been interviewed by a representative of the Herald at Kobe, where he arrived on occurrence. A kidnapper was caught lately and
From the account published sent to the Hsia-kow magistrate, who, however, the 30th ult. inflicted no punishment. The next two caught, it appears that Sir Henry Blake, al-though therefore, on the 30th ult., were promptly on a pleasure trip merely, is intensely inter- beaten to death by the inhabitants of Hankow.ested in the recent news from Chins, and hé It appears that the scare arose in connection does not hesitate to admit that the situation with an idea that children are needed to be is critical. He does not, however, continues sacrificed to the foundations of the Lu-Han the Herald, attach credence to the view that scare at the Tsungli Yamen is working in unison with railway, as the recent Aberdeen Hongkong was connected with the Canton- the Boxers. Rather is he disposed to attribute Kowloon line. Hanyang and Wuchang share the outbreak of lawlessness and the present t Hankow's anxiety in this respect.
activity of the Boxers to causes which may be summed up thus; bad weather, failure of crops, ignorance and prejudice. The country Sir Henry passed over between Tientsin and Peking and between Peking and Shanghaikwan he describes as arid and barren, owing to the lack of rain. That this condition of things has contributed to bring about the pre- valent feeling of unrest is quite probable and that it has been taken advantage of to fan the ever-smouldering hostility to foreign in- fluences, more particularly foreign religious in, fluences, is equally probable. Sir Henry thinks it possible that complications will arise out of the sanguinary attacks upon Roman Catholio Chinese, as it is well known that France is prepared to extend her protection to all such.
The local mandarins at Shanghai, according to the N.C. Daily News, have received desatchesil from Peking to the effect that the Tsung Yamen has approved of a scheme of Viceroy Liu of Nanking to allow foreigners to buy and rent land in Paoshan district, outside of the Cosmo- politan Settlement Extension. The new area is to be south-east of the Sung-Wu (Shanghai- Woosung) Railway line, between the limits of the Extension and the New Rifle Butts. Title deeds are to be granted according to the custom hitherto in vogue in Shanghai, namely, stamped by the seal of the Taotai, the power of granting title deeds being taken away from the authorities of the Hui-Chang-Chü, or Land Office at Woo
sung.
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