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CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Weck, &c.
Leading Articles:
The Progress of Negotiations..
The Alleged Russo-Chinese Secret Treaty. More Light on the Poking Siege
Education of European Children in Hongkong The Decline of the War Correspondent Hongkong's Sorrow for the Queen's Death Proclamation of King Edward VII. The Crisis: Telegrams
Hongkong Legislative Council Hongkong Sanitary Foard
The Piratical Outrage near Canton
Diocesan School and Orphanage
The Late Queen Empress
The Peking Roll of Honour
The Theatre
Harmaton's Circus...
The Chuchow Massacre
Canton
Manila
Railway Improvements in Formosa.
Foochow
Shanhaikwan
Report.
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 2ND FEBRUARY, 1901.
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EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
Her late Majesty's funeral takes place to-day in England at 1 p.m.
To-day is to be observed as a day of public mourning in the Colony, and all public offices (with the exception of the Police Magistrate's department) will bo closed. The Memorial Service takes place at St. John's Cathedral at¡ 11.30 a.m.
No. 5.
M. Jennitschka, the Austrian Consul at take charge of the Consulate-General there. It Yokohama, has been transferred to Bombay to.
is reported that he will be succeeded by Mr. Max Kutschera, who has up till now been; Consul for Austria-Hungary here.
News has been received from Changsha, the capital of Hunan province, according to the N°C. Daily News, to the effect that several tribes of the Misotze aborigines inhabiting the Our Shanghai correspondent on the 28th ult. mountainous regions dividing the two provinces 2 telegraphod that Li Hung-chang was seriously of Hunan and Kweichau hare set up the naill and was indeed delirious. H.E. Sheng, how-standard of insurrection against the mandarins
ever, denies that Li is ill at all:
and have defeated the Imperial troops sent against them with great slaughter thrice in succession. The consequence has been that an appeal for aid has now been sens to Changsha and a demand for at least 5,000 troops has been
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According to native official telegrams received in Shanghai on the 28th ult., Prince Chnan 95 and Yu Hsien were belieaded by order of the Chinose Government on the previous day.
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It is announced that Prince Ching is arrang-made upon Governor Yu Lien-san of Hunan ing on behalf of China to send a special envoy to condolo with King Edward on the death of the late Queen and to felicitate him on his ac- cossion to the throus.
Count von Waldersoe has transmitted to the Ministers of the, Powers a plan for the evacua- tion of Peking, and possibly of Paatingfu. conditional on the punishment by Chins of the 30 guilty officials and an agreement to pay the war
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The Naval Dapartment of the Japanese Government has decided to construct more torpedo-boat destroyers with the money set 102 apart for one torpedo tender, as four or five effective destroyers can be built for the same amount of money.
Correspondence
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Hongkong Volunteer Corps.
Supreme Court
A Japanese Prince on Russia and Manchuria
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A Russian View of the Chinese Outlook Tragic Death of Sir Edward Symes, K.CI.E. ¡Hongkong and Port News
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of GUSTAV AD. MELCHERS, of a son,
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Mr. Courer, U.S. Minister at Peking, telo graphed to Washington this week that no prac- tical progress is being made with the peace nogotiations between China and the Powers. The report, however, from native sources that there had been an actual rupture in negotiations
is denied.
On the 21st January, 1901, at Bremen, the wife the German men-of-war in Hongkong Harbour, By command of III.M. the German Emperor as well as those at all other British ports, neither fired salutes nor dressed ship on Sun- day, the 27th ult., the forty-second anniversary of the Emperor's birth, as a token of respect for the late Queen Victoria.
On the 22nd January, 1901, at 4A, Markham Road, Shanghai, the wife of H. W. DALDY, of a
son.
On the 26th January, 1901, at No. 1, Astor Road, Shanghai, the wife of MAX NICLASSEN, of Tientsin, of a son.
MARRIAGE.
On the 27th January, at St. Peter's Church, by the Rev. G. France, JoHN RATTENBURY to FLORENCE ANNIE THERESA WATTON, eldest daughter of the late J. R. Warre, of Hongkong.
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provinco, failing which the military posts in the isotze terrritory will have to be abandoned. A number of secret memorials, says the Uni- versal Gazette, havo recently been presented to the Empress-Dowager by Conservative officials in the refugee Court. Some of the memorialiste suggested that the peace negotiations, now go- ing on at Peking, should be discontinued; others proposed that the country should be divided into two portions-a north-western, and a south- eastern-to be defended separately; while some recommended that those high officials who had' been degraded for their complicity with the Boxer troubles, and whose heads woro demanded by the Allied Powers, should be raised to power once more. Finally some have advised that a largo supply of arms and ammunition must be mauufactured at once to prepare for a resump. the Empress Dowager has already sent to the tion of hostilities. These memorials, it is said, Viceroys and Governors of various diffèrent pro- vinces for discussion.
Discussing the limits of Field-Marshal Count
that the Marshal is absolutely and solely respon- von Waldersee's responsibility in North China, the Japan Mail says:-There can be no doubt sible for all military operations. The idea that in such matters he is governed by mandates from the Powers conveyed through their Reprezenta- tives in Peking, is based on ignorance of official
routine.
untrammelled so far as concerns any operations The Field-Marshal's competence is that he may consider necessary for preserving
certain expedition or a certain series of expedi- poace and order in the province of Chihli and for quelling the Boxers. If he considers that a tions must be undertaken, no European Govern- ment would think of interfering so long as the field of operations was confined to Chihli, which is the Marshal's district. Whether needless
The following items are from the Peking and Tientsin Times of the 12th ult. It is repeated that H.E. Sheng has been ordered to Peking.- Kora, the now Japanese Minister at Poking, The cold at Tientsin has been intense. Mr. Chargé d'Affaires there at the time of the China-Japan war, has gone on to the capital, and Baron Nishi has left for Japan. The English expeditionary forco has returned from Yangisun in excellent condition. Mr. Lo Tao-expeditions have been undertaken, leading to seng, compradore of the Russo-Chinese Bank. died on the 10th.The Hospital Ball was ex- pected to net $1,000.
In the course of some remarks attributed by the Chiuo Shimbun to Mr. Kato, Japanese Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr. Kato de
the wanton sacrifice of lives and the ruthless destruction of property, is a question we have -no right to attempt to answer one way or the other with our present limited knowledge. The Field-Marshal had means of judging which are hidden from us, and was
LONDON OFFICE:"131, FLEET STREET, E.C. nounces the total infeasibility of attempting competent to judge the certainly far more
ARRIVAL OF MAILS.
The American mail of the 29th December ar- rived, T. K. K. steamer America Maru,
per on the 26th January (28 days).
any outsider can be.
to raise the problems of Kiaochow and Port | What we have always regretted is that the burn- Arthur at the present stage. He says that the ing of villages entered into the programme of time is pist for such protest. Japan had an these punitory expeditions. It seems inevitable unquestionable right to object when the occupa-that the burning of a whole village must inflict tions were actually made by Germany and Rus-guffering on many innocent people, to say noth- sia, but she suffered her opportunity to pass, and if she formulated an objection now, she arms for its practical assertion or to see it would have to be prepared either to take up
quietly ignored.
ing of the obvious objection that the unfortunate villagers have no choice about admitting the sequently subjected to such harsh punishment Boxers for harbouring whom they are
by the foreign troops.
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