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HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 23RD MARCH, 1901.
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
A Hiroshima despatch to the Asahi states that the Fifth Division of the Japanese Army in North China will not be withdrawn in April as originally intended, owing to the condition 243 of affairs at Peking.
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It is said that the Corean War Depart ment bas ordered the principal commanders in the Corean Army to increase their force 244 up to ten thousand men. At present the Army 244 consists of only five thousand men.
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CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Week, &c.
Leading Articles:-
Enasia and China
Manchuria and the Powers' Protests
The Coming Lekin Question
The Elliott and Blonde Incident
The Sanitary Board and Small-pox
Dr. Hartigan and the Sanitary Board
The Vitriol Ontrage
The Crisis: Telegrams..
Hongkong Sanitary Board
The Overturning of the Canton River
Collision in the Harbour .....
Another Burglary in Queen's Road
Shooting Affair at the Arsenal
The Vitriol Throwing Outrage
Theatre Royal....
London College of Music...
Schilling's Walk round the World
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Canton
Macao
Peking
Northern Notes
Correspondence
Watkins, Limited
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Union Insurance Society of Canton, Limited
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Hongkong Hotel Co., I imited
The Queen Mines, Limited
China Engar Refining Co., Támited
Luzon Sugar Refining Co., Limited
Shanghai and Hongkew Wharf Co
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Supreme Court
Review
Royal Artillery Sports
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Cricket
Football
Hongkong Volunteer Corps.
Commercial
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Hongkong and Port News
Shipping
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The Shanghai New Press hears that Mr. Pritchard Morgan's mining rights in Corea have been purchased by a British syndicate, organised by Messrs Jardine, Matheson & Co. We cannot discover any authority for this state- ment from enquiries made here.
Count von Waldersee left Peking on the 250 14th instant for Kiaochow and returned on the 20th. Meanwhile Major-Generals Sir A. Gaselee and von Trotha make an extended tour of inspection of the garrisons in Chibli, leaving Peking on the 12th inst.
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On the 5th March, at H.I.J.M. Consulate, Foo- chow, the wife of S. TESHIMA, of a son.
At Singapore, on the 7th March, the wife of A. W. WESTERHOUT, of Malacca, of a son.
On the 13th March, 1901, at No. 11, Miller Road, Shanghai, the wife of WILLIAM ALLANSON, of a son,
DEATH.
On the 9th March, at 105, Warender Park Road, Edinburgh, Captain ROBERT LOWE, late of barques Osaka and Kate Carnie, aged 83 years.
According to a despatch read in the Reich stag, the troops under Count von Waldersee's command include 17,750 Germans, 14,050 French, 12,850 British, 9,000 Russians, 6,000 Japanese, 2,350 Italians, 1,600 Americans, and 230 Austrians. 123,000,000 marks have been voted for the expenses of the German expedition
to China.
Native official news received in Shanghai from Tientsin states that there are 120 batta lions stationed in different parts of Chihli province who are drawing their monthly pay and allowance, and of this number Li Hung chang who is their nominal chief as Viceroy of Chihli - intends to disband 30 battalions this spring in his retrenchment scheme.
Mr. Balfour stated in the House this week that the action of H.M.S. Plover in searching for pirates in the Gulf of Pechili (which led to the trouble with the Russian Admiral over the Elliott and Blonde Islands) was in accord with Article 52 of the Tientsin Treaty. The Russian Government, he added, had made no communication on the subject to London.
Hongkong Weekly Press Singapore, and other Eastera possessions, an
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ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
As regards the new Sepoy regiments raised in India, the Calcutta Englishman says that they are not meant for general service abroad. It having been decided that the Indian Army is to supply garrisons for Ceylon, Mauritius, increase of the army in India was rendered necessary, but the roster will be supplied from all the native regiments in India, except such as have national or religious prejudices against crossing the seas.
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The N. C. Daily News Peking correspondent writes on the 18th inst, that it is laid down as a fixed general principle in the settlement of the indemnities that claims on account of health, of delays, and of loss of prospective profits shall ba disallowed. He also states that ninety-six more names have been sent in by the Foreign Ministers, six of them for the death penalty, in- cluding some Chichou officials; the rest the Chinese Government is to punish.
The Echo de Chine announces that a French steam navigation company is contemplating
establishment of a line of steamers from po burg, vid Bordeaux, Panillao, and Marseilles, to Hankow without transhipment. Commenting on this, the N.-C. Daily News presumes this en- terprising company will set to work at once to dredge the Yangtze, so that its steamers
may be able to get up to Hankow all the year round, or that the steamers are only to run in the summer
months.
The Russian troops having seized the dis. puted railway siding at Tientsin last week, and the British being apparently unwilling to resist this action, a difficult position has arisen. According to a Ministerial statement made in the House of Commons this week, pending the settlement by the military authorities of the Anglo-Russian trouble at Tientsin, the British sentries remain at their posts on the railway, but have been ordered not to assume the aggressive. Tientsin reports speak of a highly critical position between the British and both the Russians and the French, though the British are said to be taking every precaution against possible troubles.
The N.-C. Daily News sys—Despatches from Lanohou, capital of Kansu, declare that Prince Tuan, Tang Fuhsiang, and other culprits now in Ninghsia will resist any attempt of the Government to arrest them, and that Tung Fuhsiang has a force of 20,000 well-armed Kausu veterans under his banners and about 10,000 Mongols under Prince Tuan to back A special Imperial Commis« their defiance. sioner is expected to arrive at Lanchou from Hsian by the 14th inst., en route to Ninghain, ostensibly to formally read out to the guilty officials the Emperor's edict regarding them, selves and to exhort them to obey the Imperial sentence. The real purpose of the visit to Ninghsia, however, is pregnant with grave possibilities.
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Much gossip has been sprung up in local shipping circles, within the last day or no, za to the rumoured sale and purchase of certain steamers which have been running in Chinese waters. As a result of our enquiries that the s.s. Siam has been sold by Mers Bradley & Co. of the Prays to Mr. Geo. MeBain of Shanghai at a price approaching $180,000, and that the as. Milos which came here with a cargo of coal, has changed owners, having been purchased by a Lendon Company, of whom The Asiatic Trading Co. local agents, for £25,000 (sterling). It stated that three other local steamers are market; but it is only a very vague ra that the China Merchants have sold their vessels, wharves, &c., as going concern to
syndicate, it may be mentioned, is said to German; and there is also a rumour to the effect that the Kriping Mine is to fall into German hands.
The case of King Lieu-shan, the prisoner at The Canadian mail of the 25th February ar: Monte Fort, Macao, has apparently been forgot rived, per C. P: R steamer Empress of China, ten by the general public, though his flight and arrest created no little excitement a year ago. on the 19th March (22 days); the German mail However, it seems that King is for the present of the 18th February arrived, per N. D. L best off where he is, for he is now safe from at- tack by the anti-reform party's hirelings and steamer Konig Albert, on the 19th March (29 suffers no hardships. Those who have seen bim days); and the American mail of the 9th Febs | lately report that he is in enjoyment of good foreign syndicate
health. Until the reform party is at the head of a firs King will probably remain where he is, a 19 is indeed said to prefer so to do.
ruary arrived, per T. K. K. steamer Nit Maru, on the 20th March (39 days).
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