THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. LII.]
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Week, &c.
Leading Articles :~-
Our Task in China
The Two Policies in China
The Situation
Wanted An Intelligence Department
An Unfounded Scare in Hongkong
A Lesson from History
Hongkong Sanitary Board
The Crisis: Telegrams.
Supreme Court
The Crisis in China
An Imperial Decree
Chang Chih-tung's Desire for Peace
The Gale
A British Transport in the Typhoon
The Riot at Tai Kok Tsui
The Kerosene Storing Case
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HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 15TH SEPTEMBER, 1900.
Sir Walter Hillier arrived at Tientsin on the 24th ult.
It is reported from Tientsin that Major 197 General Wogack is very ill indeed. His case
is said to be desperate.
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On the 10th instant 600 Japanese marines wore landed in Shanghai, making the fourth 200 nationality represented at the port.
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The rice captured by the Japanese troops in China is said to be sufficient to feed a Division for a year and a half.
The Straite Government Notification whereby 206 Sydney, New South Wales, was declared an 206 infected port on account of plague has been 207 rescinded.
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Marriage of Sir Thomas Jackson's Second Daughter 207 Canton
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Reviews
The Trade of Canton
Consular Report
Hongkong and Port News
Commercial
Shipping
BIRTHS.
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Commander David Beatty, D.S.O., of the Barfleur, who was wounded at Tientsin and invalided home, was due at Liverpool on the 12th
via New York.
A rumour, arising we know not how, was current among the Chinese. of Hongkong on the 10th inst. to the effect that H. E. Li Hung- 216 chang had died at Shanghai.
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At 140, Chapoo Road, Shanghai, on the 5th September, 1900, the wife of T. I'. BAPTISTA, of twins, sons.
According to German official news from Yokohama the, condition of Commander Lans of the Iltis has improved greatly; he will be able to return again to active service.
Field Marshal Count von Walderseo arrived On the 7th September, at 6, Quinsan Road, by the Sachsen and left on the following day with his staff at Singapore on the 12th inst.
Shanghai, the wife of G. L. WILLOUGHBY, of a son. On the 10th September, at " Dunnottar," the Peak, the wife of ARNOLD Fucus, of a son.
MARRIAGES.
On the 5th September, at Hongkong, HERMANN
LANDSKY to ADELE SCHONEMANN.
On the 10th September, 1900, at H.B.M. Con- sulate and afterwards at the Cathedral, Shanghai, by the Rev. II. C. Hodges, Charles Henry LAM- MERT, of Hongkong, to ALICE, youngest daughter of T. WEATHERETON, of Chinkiang. (No cards.)
DEATHS.
On the 21st August, 1900, at H.B.M. Legation, Peking, of scarlet fever, MURRAY KER, aged one year and nine months.
At the General Hospital, Shanghai, on the 7th September, 1900, JOHN THOMPSON WILSON, aged
56 years.
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The French mail of the 7th August arrived, per M. M. steamer Indus, on the 10th September
for Hongkong, where ho is expected early on the 18th inst.
The Australian Naval Brigade, from Victoria and New South Wales, left Shanghai by the Salamis on the 6th instant for Taku, where they will take over the garrison duty of the North-West Fort.
that last week the following British ships were A steamer arriving at Shanghai reported on the Yangtze:-Wallaroo at Kinkiang, Rosario at Chinkiang. Daphne at Wuhu, Hermione at Nanking, and
Reports have come down of looting by the relieving troops in Peking as in the case of the capture of Tientsin native city. But, as then, the looting seems to have been commenced by the lower class natives.
It was announced from Shanghai on the 12th inst. that the Empress Dowager had reached Hsingchou, near Taiyuanfu, Shansi. viously at Tatung, Shansi. Yung Lu joined the Empress Dowager pre-
Commander Usedom, of H.I.G.M.S. Hertha, is reported to have been attached to the staff of
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H.E. Li Hung-chang is, according to latest arrangements, to leave Shanghai to-day (15th join Prince Ching, who arrived at Peking on inst.) for the north, his intention being tö the 3rd inst. and open peace negotiations with the Powers.
the allied forces at Peking left that eity and The mixed punitive expedition drawn from
proceeded in a south-westerly direction, toward Paotingfu, on the 7th instant. According to native reports this week the Chinese have no less than 30,000 troops and Boxers combined at Paotingfu.
The Telegraph Companies issued the follow- ing Express on Monday afternoon :—“ Owing to the interruption of one of the Shanghai cables near Woosung there is very considerable delay on telegrams from the North. We expect the restoration of this cable at any moment. A cable has been laid and is now open between Chofoo and Woihaiwei."
The transport arrivals in Hongkong from the St. Andrew (9th), Nuddea, south during the week were:Mohawk (8th), Warora, and Jelunga (12th), Nawab and Ashruf (18th). The departures for the north were Mohawk (11th), St. Andrew (13th). H.M.8. Protector arrived from the South Australian station on the 9th, and the Glengyle, with guns and mountings, etc., from London on the 10th.
from an advertisement appearing in another The Imperial Bank of China, as will be seen
column, announces that a quantity of its unissued notes have been stolon by the "rebels" at anything to do with the Bank's Notes payable Peking, and cautions the public against having at its office at Peking in Ching Ping Tsu Yin currency, as it accepts no responsibility for the
stolen notes. The numbers will be advertised as soon as possible.
By the end of last week the British and Japanese guards who had been patrolling Kulangsu had been withdrawn, and Amoy put under the protection of Chinese troops. These wore withdrawn on Sunday last to the native city and peace was fully restored. The last reports from Amoy shows that the war- ships in the harbour were H.M.S. Isis, U:8.8. Castine, French Décideé, Japanese Idzumi, Tsukushi, Takao, and Takachiho.
correspondent at Hankow says:-"The Society A Shanghai native paper in a letter from its
men are troublesome. The Viceroy and Govern- or are aware that their military force is in- sufficient. Recently the Governor has in a telegraphic despatch to the commandant at Siangyang, 220 English miles on the North-
(34 days); the American mail of the 11th Count von Waldersee, Commander-in-Chief of west, asked for one thousand soldiers to come
August arrived, per P. M. steamer City of Peking, on the 11th September (31 days); and the Canadian mail of the 20th August arrived,
the Allied troops. Captain Derzewski has been appointed commander of the Hertha.
The Japan Herald understands that Japan is contemplating the contracting of another per C. P. R. steamer Empress of Japan, on the loan, this time of twenty million pounds sterl. 11th September (22 days).
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
The news of the week about the Chinese crisis will be found in the telegrams from our corres- pondents on p. 201.
ing, of which a portion is to be raised in Japan and the other more considerable portion abroad. A correspondent writes to the N.-C. Daily News drawing attention to the fact that the Indian troops at Shanghai are encamped in a that 200 of them are already sick. Ho calls for malarial and unhealthy spot and to the rumour their removal to a higher and more desirable spot.
as quickly as possible. The Provincial Gener- al stationed there at once ordered two regiments to set out for Hankow.":
The Chinese Feast of Lanterns was celebrated
quietly in Hongkong on the 8th inst. In view of the unsettled state of affairs in China the pro- cession of the Fiery Dragon, which invariably creates considerable disturbance in the strests, was prohibited. Some of the Wanchai omal coolies threatened to defy the authorities and to have their procession, but when the time quietly at home. The knowledge that the came they thought better of it and remained powers that be were fully prepared to enforce obedience was no doubt responsible for this,
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