THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. LII.]
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Week, &c.
Leading Articles :—
The Allies in China
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 22ND SEPTEMBER, 1900.
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Ministerial Representations and the Far East...218 The Question of Settlement
Russia's "Overmastering Position ".
The Prevention of Malaria...
The End of Boerdom
The Crisis: Telegrams....
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The Circumlocution Office on Inland Navigation...222 Supreme Court
Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce...
The Crisis in China.
Her Majesty's Messages to Peking.
Amoy
Canton
Correspondence
Trial Trip of the 8.8. Nanning.........................
V. R. C. Aquatic Sports
Hongkong Cricket Club
Hongkong Volunteer Corps
Consular Report
Indian Cavalry for the East
A French Critic,on,Chinese Policy Hongkong and Port News Commercial
Shipping
MARRIAGE.
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Admiral Seymour on H.M.8. Alacrity left Shanghai for Taku on the 19th instant.
The Peking and Tientsin Times hears that the R. W. Fusiliers are likely to remain in Peking for the winter.
The negotiations for the prohibition of the export of cattle from Shanghai after the 15th inst. have failed.
The French General Voyron, who reached Shanghai on the 15th instant, left the same night for Nagasaki.
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News arrived on Monday from Shanghai that the intended departure of Li Hung-chang for the north had been delayed by a typhoon and that he had stopped at Woosung. A telegram despatched on Thursday night from Shanghai reported that Li was taking the Chihli Viceroy's seals and starting on Friday (the 21st) for Peking, where he will join Prince Ching.
The Foochow Daily Echo of the 15th inst. says:-It is reported that there is a threatening of trouble at Fuh-an and that the local authorities are too weak to deal with it. Many of the The Chinese are said to be obstructing the gentry of the district have moved away in con- 228 channel of the Yangteze below the Kiangyin Fooohow, the Provincial authorities can prompt- sequence, Fah-an being within easy march of Forts to prevent the Germans from proceedingly send troops to quell any disturbance if
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up the river.
Our correspondent at Taipeh, Formosa, tale- 230 graphed on the 15th inst. A strong typhoon is blowing and the floods are raging in the 231 neighbourhood.
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232 It is stated that Mr. John Foster, who was 232 recently appointed American Peace Comis- 234 sioner, is expected in Japan shortly from San
Francisco on his way to China.
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On the 19th September, 1900, at St. John's Cathedral, Hongkong, by the Rev. R. F. Cobbold, MA., WALTER CLEMENT, only son of Walter DREW, Crouch Hill, London, to MAUD, eldest daughter of George J. B. SAYER, C.E., of Hong- kong.
DEATH.
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At the General Hospital, Singapore, at about 6 a.m. on the 11th inst., EDWARD EUGENE GEARY, aged 19 years, eldest son of John Eugene GEARY.
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The English mail of the 17th August arrived per P. & O. steamer Bengal, on the 15th September (29 days); the German mail of the 8th August arrived, per N. D. L. steamer Sachsen, on the 18th September (41 days); and the American mail of the 21st August arrived, per O. & O. steamer Gaelic, on the 19th September (29 days). ́
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
The London Office of the Hongkong Daily Press, the Hongkong Weekly Press, the Chung Ngoi San Po, and the Chronicle and Directory for China, Japan, Straits Settlements, etc., has been opened at No. 131, Fleet Street, E.C.
A report has been received in Japan that seven Russian railway engineers working beyond the Corean border were attacked by the Chinese, and that three of them were killed, the rest es- caping to Wi-ju, whence they were sent to Chinanpo.
The new King of Italy has bestowed the rank of Commander of the Order of St. Maurice Peking, the Marquis G. Salvago Raggi, while and Lazarus upon the Italian Minister at Sig. Catani, the Italian attaché, has
been created & Knight of the same order.
necessary.
Germany has now in Chinese waters five battleships, the Brandenburg, Fürst Bismarck (Vice-Ad. Bendemann's flagship), Kurfürst Friedrich Wilhelm (Rear-Ad. Geissler's flag- ship), Weissenburg and Worth; nine cruisers, the Bussard, Gefion, Geier, Hansa (Rear-Ad. Kirchhoff's flagship). Hertha, Irene, Kaiserin Augusta, Schwalbe, and Seeadler; four gun- boats, the Iltis, Jaguar, Luchs, and Tiger; and the despatch vessel Hela. The total tonnage is 90,570 tons and the number of guns 380. There are also three torpedo-boats at Singapore.
The Mounted Balloon Section for service in China arrived in Hongkong by the s.s. Bom- bay yesterday. On the 10th there was an inspection at Aldershot by Major Friend, the officer commanding R.E. troops and companies. the officers being Lieut-Colonel MacDonald, The section totals seventy-eight of all ranks,
Captain Hume, and Lieutenant Martin Leake. They bring out a tremendous amount of material, The cruiser Archer, for some time guardship parties."
and expect to be split up into three or four Properly equipped apparatus and at Singapore, has had £17,000 expended on her. She is now to be commissioned from the Med-ing outfits are also part of the equipment.
retorts for making gas in the field and repair- way Fleet Reserye for the Australian Station. There she will replace her sister-ship, the Mohawk, now in Chinese waters.
On Tuesday morning Field Marshall Count allied forces in China, arrived with his staff von Waldersee, the Commander-in-Chief of the
in Hongkong by the German mail steamer the General Commanding proceeded on his Sachsen, and after visiting the Governor and
journey to Shanghai.
On the 18th instant the British Consul-Gen-
eral at Canton, Mr. B. C. G. Scott, received a telegram from the principal Bureau of Foreign Affairs, Kweiyang, Kwaichow, an- nouncing the safety of three British and Ame- rican missionaries from Hing-yi. They were to leave Chungking on the 16th instant and be taken through Szechuan by a Chinese escort.
The only arrival of a British transport in Hongkong harbour on its way north this week has been that of the Itaura (20th inst). The departures of transports for the north have been--Lalpoora (15th), Pundua (16th), Suma- tra (17th). The gunboat Protector left on the 19th for Shanghai, and the Britomart on the 20th for Canton to relieve the Redpole. H.M.8. Argonaut went out on the 17th for practice, so that the harbour was without any British Japan is reported to be negotiating a warship at all until the return of the latter ship $20,000,000 dollar loan in New York.
yesterday morning.
The news of the week from the North will be found in the telegrams from our corres- pondents on p. 221. Owing to the previous breaks-down of the line and the pressure of official messages, all news has been very much delayed during the past week.
It is with the deepest regret that we have to record the receipt of the news in Hongkong this week of the death at Nagasaki, soon after her arrival by the Ballaarat, of Mrs. Scott, wife of from dysentery when she arrived at Nagasaki on the Bishop of North China. She was suffering
the 5th inst., and she died on Friday evening, at Tientsin daring the siege, and then went on the 7th inst. The Bishop and Mrs. Scott were
to Weihaiwei. They were on their way home, via Japan, to rest. It was due to Mrs. Scott, and Sailor's China Relief Fund was started by our readers will remember, that the Soldiers
us, with regard to the expenditure of part of which fund we publish a letter from Head Quarter House in our issue to-day.
The committee recently appointed in the Japanese Educational Department to make investigations as to the best method of improv. ing Japanese writing has been considering the question of adopting kana or Roman, letter. The committee, however, being unable to come to any definite conclusion, has addressed a memorial to the Government, recommending that the committee should be placed under the jurisdiction of the Cabinet, in the same way as the Code Investigation Committee, and its authority extended. Should the Government accept the memorial, says a contemporary, it will be a long time before the result of the work of the committee is seen. At present the work of the committee is said to be în abeyance,
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