THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
VOL. LII.]
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Week, &c.
Leading Articles :—
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 1st DECEMBER, 1900.
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Allied Inaction in China
The Peace Negotiations
The Massacres of Missionaries
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Sir Robert Hart and Others on Chinese Affairs.427
Relief of Typhoon Sufferers......
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The Crisis: Telegrams
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The Crisis in China
The Fusiliers at the Seat of War Opening of the Blake Pier
The Soldiers' Club
The A.D:C. at the Theatre....
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ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
No. 22
The N.-C. Daily News learns that the Upper Yangtze steamer Pioneer has been sold to the British Government for use as a gunboat.' She was last week at Chungking.
The N.-C. Daily News of the 24th ult. date states that it has been assured on the very highest authority that Dr. Knappe did not even touch the question of sending troops up the river in his conversation with Viceroy Liu Kung-yi at Nanking. The story of his having The English Mail of the 26th October done so seems therefore to be without founda. 428 || arrived, per P. & O. steamer Clyde, on the 24th|tion. The Viceroy is said to have been very 429 November (28 days); the American Mail of the in the Shanghai native papers also.
disturbed at the report, which obtained currency .429 26th October arrived, per P. M. steamer City 430 of Peking, on the 25th November (29 days); and the Canadian Mail of the 5th November arrived, per C. P. R. steamer Empress of Japan, on the 30th November (25 days).
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Messrs. Marsh and Ward's Concert
Church Missionary Society
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Burglary at the American Consulate
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Lady Blake's Speech at the Woman's Conference,
Shanghai
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Canton
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Swatow
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Foochow
Correspondence
Supreme Court
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The Li-ü-mun Gambling Case.......
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The Perseverance Piracy
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Cricket
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Football
Hongkong Volunteer Corps
Royal Hongkong Yacht Club Mosquitoes and Malaria in Hongkong Hongkong and Port Newa
Commercial Shipping
BIRTHS.
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EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
A second report of Yu Haien's suicide has reached Shanghai threngh native official sources. Another powder explosion occurred at Hang: show on Saturday last, killing 40 men and destroying many houses.
It is stated that the Empress Dowager now ..439 proposes to remain herself at Hsianfu, but to 499 allow the Emperor to return to Peking "when 439 peace has been concluded.”
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A serious affray was reported from Shang- .441 hai on the 27th ult.~ Some French soldiers are 441 said to have used their bayonets in the street, and
443 & Sikh policeman was badly stabbed in the
stomach.
H.M. cruiser Blenheim leaves England at the beginning of this month for the China Station, to relieve H.M.8. Undaunted. The Blenheim is a first-class cruiser of 9,000 tons and 24,411 i. h. p. She was built at Blackwall in 1890. Her armour is 6 in., gun position, and 6-3 in., deck; she carries two 9-2 in., ten 6 in. Q.F., sixteen 3-pr. Q.F., seven maxims and two light guns and four torpedo. tubes (two submarine). Her speed is 21.5 knots. She is a sister-ship of H.M.S. Blake.
A telegram from Dr. Morrison appearing in the Times of the 27th ult, announced that the Foreign Ministers at Peking had accepted Bir Ernest Satow's proposal for recasting the com- mercial treaties with China. They also accepted Italy's proposal that the guarantee for the in- demnity to be paid by China should be under foreign control. The lowest estimate of the At the time Dr. Morrison telegraphed the Con- indemnity puts the figures at 60,000,000 taels, joint Note of the Ministers had not yet been presented.
Our Portsmouth correspondent, under date which is to be commissioned on the 1st November 26th October, writes- The battleship. Glory,
as flagship on the China Station, will be the most
A Tientsin telegram, dated 22nd November, to the N.-C. Daily News, states that the French At Stanhope House, Pensarn, Abergele, North Municipality are issuing a notification announ. Wales, on the 20th October, 1900, the wife of E. cing the practical annexation of the Extension / Powerful and smartest flagship in the Far East.
JONES HUGHES, of a son.
On the 20th November, 1900, the wife of J. R. CAPELL, of a daughter.
At Ligoniel, the Peak, on the 28th November, the wife of F. H. MAY, of a daughter.
At Macao, on the 28th November, 1900, the wife of F. X. M. PLACE TAVARES, of a daughter.
MARRIAGES.
On the 17th November, 1900, at H.B.M.'s Con-
sulate-General, and afterwards at Holy Trinity Cathedral, Shanghai, by the Rev. H. C. Hodges, M.A., HENET EDWARD MCCANN, of Chinese Im perial Postal Service, to FLORENCE ANNIE, second daughter of the late William R. FULLER, of Che- foo, China.
On the 23rd October, at the Church of St.
Thomas a Becket, Portsmouth, by the Rev. Richard Wall, brother of the bridegroom, LEWIS WALL, Engineer, R.N., to MAUDE AGNES, daughter of E. MAST, Hongkong.
On Sunday, 25th November, at 3 p.m., at the
residence of Mr. A. Weill, No. 67, Wyndham Street, SAM DONNENBERG to EMILY GRUNSTEIN,
On the 28th November, at St. John's Cathedral, Hongkong, by the Rev. R. F. Cobbold, J. C. PETER, of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, to ALICE HOPE, daughter of the late Captain Wm. CHIO, B.N., and of Mrs. CHIMO, "Westdowne, Wyke Regis, Dorset.
DEATH.
At Puloh Brani, Straits Settlements, on the 16th November, MATILDA, wife of James. H. CARROLL,
of the Settlement there.
The latest despatches from the north are desponding in tone. From Tientsin comes the news that Boxers and soldiers are creeping back to the neighbourhood of the port and that the local Chinese fear trouble when winter closes it up.
Native Christians reaching Shanghai from Fancheng in Hupeh reported the recent passing of 400 boats with supplies for the Imperialists at Hsianfu. All available boats, moreover, on the Han River have been chartered for the same object.
The United States have addressed a circular to the Powers suggesting that less extreme measures in regard to punishment and indemni. ties be taken as a basis of negotiations. Russia and Japan are reported to be supporting the
United States.
The U. S. cruiser Yosemite was wrecked in a
typhoon at Guam on the 13th November. Five of the crew were lost, the remainder being rescued by a collier. Justin Island was de vastated by the typhoon, one hundred natives being killed. The erniser Yosemite was a converted merchant-vessel of 6,179 tons and 4,700 i.h.p. She was launched in 1892 and carried ten 6-in. Q.F. six 6prs., and two maxim guns. Her speed was 16 knots and her complement 285 men.
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She is being finished off rather elaborately and ought to be much admired when she is in China waters. The following are some of the officers to be appointed:-Lieutenants Harold Chris- tian (1st Lieut.) F. L. Attenborough_(T.), Harold G. Sims, William W. Wilson, M. R, Best, and A. R. W. Sartorious.
To-day is the Empress Dowager's birth- day. The usual celebrations, however, will apparently not he held this year, for in an Imperial Decree published on the 14th ult, the Emperor says (or is made to say) :--" I find the Sacred Mother to be so despondent and sorrow- ful at the present turn of affairs, necessitating the abandonment of our Ancestral capital and the flight of the Court, that Her Majesty has no heart to do anything-even to the celebration of her birthday anniversary-and she has there- fore commanded us to stop all such ceremonies. We have, however, tried our best to persuade Her Majesty to change her mind and have only succeeded in getting her consent to meet us at the head of the princes, nobles, and high ministers of the Court in the ordinary sudience room and there receive our obeisances. In con- aideration of Her Majesty's determination not to hold any festivities on the day in question, owing to the present crisis, further importunity of ours would show a lack of sympathy on our part with Her Majesty's prosent sorrow. We therefore hereby command that all celebrations proposed be stopped forthwith.”
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