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Hongkong Weekly Press
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China Overland Trade Report.
VOL. LIII.]
CONTENTS.
Yunnan and British Enterprise in Western
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 9TH FEBRUARY, 1901.
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Epitome of the Weck, &c.
Leading Articles:-
Russia and China
The Paotingfu Fiasco
China....
Chinese Influence in Hongkong
Kowloon's Water Supply.
The Crisis:1Telegrams
The Late Queen: Nervices at Outports
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Our Late Queen Empress
The King's Message
Hongkong Legislative Council
Hongkong Sanitary Board
Another Murder in the Colony
Fatal Fire in Queen's Road.
A Local Photographer Robbed
Disastrous Fire at Kowloon
The Engineer's Institute “Duke," the Circus Tiger
New Sailors' and Zoldiers' Home
Special Meeting of Justicos..
A Horrible Story
Canton
Swatow
Tientsin...
Peking, Items
Hongkong, Canton and Macao Steamboat
Limited.......
Kowloon Land and Building Co., Limited
Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation The Hongkong Jee Co., Limited
'Change Doings
Co.,
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EPITOME OF THE WEEK!
H. E. Shêng is reported to have assured his foreign friends that H. E. Li Hung-chang is in perfect health.
A private despatch received in London at the beginning of this week stated stated that Russia had "forbidden the execution of Prince Taan."
The Government of Netherlands India has withdrawn its proclamation declaring Singapore an infected port owing to plague,
It is stated in well-informed circles in Brussels that the Belgian indemnity demanded of China will amount to 100,000,000 francs.
The Russians are restoring, under orders, train-loads of material and plant seized by them 122 at the Tongsban and Shankaikwan railway 123 works last year.
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In a list of Filipino insurgents deported to Guam appear the following names of leaders: 123-Generals Piode Pilar, and Mariano, Llanero 124 and Apolinario Mabini, Pablo Ocampo, and
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Manuel E. Roxas.
Prince Chun has been selected to convey to ..125 Berlin China's apology for the murder of Baron von Ketteler in Peking, and has started on his way to Germany,
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Supreme Court.
Correspondence....g.
Football
Royal Hongkong Yacht Club.
Hongkong Volunteer Corps..
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Commercial
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Hongkong and Port News
Shipping
BIRTHS.
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On the 23rd January, at 58, Bluff, Yokohama,
the wife of E. P. W. ŠKRIMSHIRE, of a son.
On the 29th January, at Foochow, the wife of GEORGE L. GREIG, of a son.
MARRIAGES.
On the 17th January, at the Presbyterian Church, Singapore, by the Rev. S. S. Walker, Mr. THOMAS CUMMINS to Miss LEAH HAIMOVITCH, At H.B.M.'s Consulate-General, Shanghai, and afterwards at the residence of W. C. Lay, Eɛq., on the 31st January, by the Rev. C. Darwent, DAVID CRAWFORD DICK, C.E., to AGNES LUNN, daughter of Jamies HooD, Esq., Liliesleaf, Scot- land.
DEATHS.
On the 31st December, at Whitchurch, Salop, in his 28th year, ROBERT, only son of Thomas WINDSOR, of Bangkok, Siam.
At Shanghai, on the 26th January, 1901, ANNIE, the beloved wife of G. SHEKURY, and third daugh ter of M. HAIMOVITCH, aged 26 years.
At Shanghai, on the 30th January, 1901, ANNE, widow of the late J. MCCARTHY, of Shanghai, aged 60 years.
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ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The French and English mails of the 28th December arrived, per P. & O. steamer Parramatta, on the 2nd February (36 days); and the German mail of the 25th December ar rived, per N. D. L. steamer Kiautschou, on the 6th January (43 days).
The former Viceroy's yamên at Tientsin, now occupied by the Provisional Government, was burnt down on the night of the 30th January and everything destroyed. It is believed to be a case of incendiarism.
Sir Claude Macdonald. British Minister to Tokyo, accompanied by Lady Macdonald, was Emperor and Empress on the 21st ult., when received in audience by their Majesties the the Minister presented his credentials.
The envoy selected by China to proceed to London to condole with King Edward on the death of his mother, and to felicitate him on his accession to the British throne, is Pao Shih, formerly Literary Chancellor at Canton.
According to a Seoul despatch of the 24th alt., Chinese soldiers and banditti who have been driven out of Manchuria by the Russians are plundering the inhabitants of Ham-kyeng, A message has been sent to the Home Depart- ment for the despatch of troops.
Memorial services were held on Saturday last in the prinicipal ports of the Far East in honour of the late Queen Victoria. An account of the ceremonies at Hongkong will be found on pp. 112-115, and the Shanghai and other services
are described in our correspondent's telegrams on p. 112.
It is reported that the island of Tsukiwotao, a small island lying at the entrance to the har- bour of Chemulpo, has been purchased by the Corean Government for 70,000 yen, from its owner, a Japanese named Yoshikawa. It ap pears that the Japanese originally paid 20,000 ven for the island, which was sold to him by a Corean.
The native Supao states that Russia demands a special indemnity of 30 millin taels (over and above the war indemnity) for returning the three Manchurian provinces to China, this in- demnity to be paid within 30 years in instal- ments and at an interest of 6 per cent. per annum. Count Waldersee demands a special indemnity of 500,000 taels for the murder of Baron von Ketteler.
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At the funeral procession of the late Queen in London on the 2nd instant, Japan was represented by Baron Hayashi, but China was unrepresented. It was noticed that in orossing from the Isle of Wight to Portsmouth the King saluted the new Japanese battleship Hatsuse.
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It is reported in the Perak Pioneer that Sir Frank Swettenham will be out next month, to relieve his brother, Sir Alexander, who will then go home on leave. Also, that consequent on that arrangement, Colonel Walker will can- cel his leave for the present, and continue to act as British Resident of Perak.
It is stated that a strong party of members tion is being organised with a view to active of Parliament interested in the Chinese ques-
bring the whole subject of our policy in the measures being taken in the coming, Session to
Commors and the country generally. Far East prominently before the House of
Mr. Conger telegraphed to Washington at the beginning of the week that in the negotia tious at Peking Austria, Italy, Belgium, and Spain almost invariably supported Germany, while Great Britain also usually sided with that country. The United States, Russia, France, and Japan were thus left in a minority.
The Sin Wen Puo reports that it has sent a special message to Hsianfu to learn the of Prince Chuang and Yu Hsien. The reply truth of the rumour concerning the execution received pronounced the report false. The whereabouts of the two men are not clearly know and it is believed that they are under influential protection.
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The silence hitherto observed by the Russian Press with regard to the massacres of Chinese at Blagovestchensk by the Russian troops is at last broken by the St. Petersburg Viedomosti. In making the announcement that the official investigation will be instituted "so soon as the Chinese trouble is ultimately disposed of," the Russian journal unhesitatingly avows that a and perpetrators of the Amur butcheries," but dreadful "blood-guilt attaches to the authors in some slight extenuation pleads the “ and exasperation
rages soldiery noted. What was the cause of their under which the Russian exasperation? Many of the authors of the massacres were subsequently promoted, and a few of them received decorations. "If the official investigation be not made," says the Herald, a lasting disgrace will rest upon Russia and the Russian Army."
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been made to the Staff of the China Field Force The following additional appointments have
by Lieutenant-General Sir Alfred Gasolee, com- manding :-Colonel L. R. H. Campbell, I.S.C., Base Commandant, to bo Goneral Officer in Charge of Communications; Lieutenant-Colonel J. C. Swan, 1.8.C., to bo A.A. and Q.M.G., Lines of Commnuciation; Brevet Major T. E. Scott, D.S.O., 1st Sikh Infantry, to be Com- mandant, Lines of Communication; Captain R. B. Low, 9th Bengal Cavalry, Provost Marshal, to be Camp Commandant at Headquarters in addition to other duties; Captain A. W. S. Wingate, at Chinese Regiment, to be D.A.A.G., for Military Intelligence; Captain MoC. B. Ray, 7th Bengal Infantry, Field Intelli gence Officer, to be D.A.A.G., Lines of Com- munication; and Captain G. F. S. Menzies, 1st Chinese Regiment, to be D.A.Q.M.G., Lines of Communication.
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