THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. LIII.]
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Week, &c.
Leading Articles:---
The Manchurian Convention Indemnity and Commercial oncessions A Decade of Foreign Trade in China
The Russo-American Tariff War
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HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 13TH APRIL, 1901.
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
It is reported that Russia is increasing her 297 naval force in the Far East by a fleet of vessels
comprising seven ironclads and seven cruisers.
H.M.SS. Aurora, Arethusa and Linnet left 299 Hongkong harbour during the week to take part in the reception of the Duke and Duchess of York and Cornwall at Singapore.
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President McKinley has directed Mr. Root, Secretary for War, and Adjutant-General Corbin to proceed to Manila and to report on 303 the military condition of the Philippines.
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A Victoria Memorial in Hongkong.
The Water Authority and the Rain
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The Crisis: Telegrams.
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Hongkong Sanitary Board..
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Return of the Australian Naval Contingent
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The Siege Train Inspection
The Missionaries and the Chinese
The Capture of Aguinaldo
A Point About the Manchurian Convention
Foochow Tea Trade.
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Theatre Royal
Canton
Tientsin
Correspondence
'Change Doings...
Punjom Mining Co., Limited
The Oriente otel Company, I imited
Supreme Court
Hongkong Rifle Association
Royal Hongkong Golf Club.
Royal Hongkong Yacht Club.
Bowling
Curious Incident at Kobe
German View of the Russianisation of Manchuria New Foreign Office Publication on China Hongkong and Port News
Commercial
Shipping
BIRTHS.
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The Echo de Chine understands the departure of M. Pichon, French Minister to China, has ..304 been delayed. He will only leave the capital .504 on the arrival of his successor, M. Beau, who 305 has been nominated for the post.
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It is reported from Nagasaki that a British cruiser will carry Mr. Gubbins, of the British Legation at Tokyo, to Masampo and Mokpo where he is going on a tour of inspection.
A telegram to the Japanese Nichi Nichi from Tientsin at the end of last month reports that talk of the partial withdrawal of the allied troops .311 311
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an attempt is made to put the plan in operation 312 the German and French will leave a compara. 313 tively large force behind. The French will 315 station & sufficient force to garrison Paoting and to hold the railway between the city and Peking.
The wife of Mr. F. H. HOEHNKE, Smith's Villa E., Magazine Gap, Hongkong, of a son.
On the 26th March, at Medan, East Coast of Sumatra, the wife of H. M. RUTHERFORD, of a daughter.
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At Ball's Court, Bonham Road, Hongkong, on the 10th April the wife of H. D. NORONHA, of a daughter.
MARRIAGE.
At St. Peter's Church, Hongkong, on the 10th April, 1901, by the Rev. J. H. France, ROBERT CHAPMAN, fourth son of the late John CHAPMAN, of Slackadale Turriff, N.B., to ANNIE ELIZABETH TODD, second daughter of George A. TODD, of Darlington.
DEATHS.
At Hankow, on the 25th March, 1901, ELSIE HELENE, the infant daughter of Alfred and Helene BROWN, aged four months.
At Hankow, on the 28th March, COLIN ALFRED, son of Alfred and Helene BROWN, aged eighteen m nths.
At Ferryhill Honse, Aberdeen, on the 1st April,
190, ALEX. G. J. CUMINE, aged 57 years,
At No. 24, Shelley Street, Hongkong, on the 5th April, 1901, DE. ALBERTO PEDRO DE CARVALHO, M.R.C.B., L.R.C.P., L.S.A., aged 41 years.
At Government Civil Hospital, on the 7th April, at 10.30 a.m., Captain JAMES FOWLER, of
the steamer Phra Chom Klao.
Hongkong Weekly Press
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ARRIVAL OF MAILS.
No. 15.
General Chaffee telegraphed this week to Washington that the opposition of the United States and Russian commanders to the dis- mantling of the Taku Forts has been futile. Count von Waldersee led the other commanders in the voting, and nine forts have been dis- mantled.
Our London correspondent telegraphed on the 10th iust.: Mr. Rockhill reports to Washing- ton that the claims of the Powers on China aggregate 500 million dollara. Mr. Rockhill has been instructed strenuously to oppose the demands of certain Powers. Mr. Hay suggests reduction, recouping themselves by additional that the Powers assent to a fifty per cent. commercial concessions from China.
A New Press telegram, dated Peking, 29th March, says that it is now decided that the British forces in Peking are to evacuate. Head. quarters will be transferred to the Summer portion of the forces, and the remainder of the Palace five miles north-west of Peking, with a
weather begins. Peking is declared to be quite troops will
go to Peitaho as soon as the warm untenable through the summer, for sanitary reasons, and only the most urgent political con⚫ siderations could keep the forces here. These will more readily come to Peking in consequence do not now exist. It is expected the Emperor of this decision.
the truth about the MeLeavy Brown affair. It is diffionit, says the Japan Mail, to discern We cannot doubt that hostile influences are Mr. William A. Rublee, one of the editors constantly exerted against him in Seoul, and of the Milwaukee Sentinel, who succeeds the late that he would long ago have ceased to hold his Mr. Rounsevelle Wildman as Consul-General post had he not been_vigorously supported by for the United States to Hongkong, leaves San British officialdom. Hence doubts are justly Francisco for this port on the 17th inst. by the cast on the assertion that the Corean Court's Pacific Mail steamer China. The appointment recent endeavour to remove him was due to a has not yet been officially confirmed from paltry question about the site of his house. Washington, but Mr W. F. Aldrich, Vice Another account says that he had given offence Consul-Gene al, has received a private intima- by refusing to sanotion a large grant of money tion announcing it Mr. Rublee made a good on account of an extension of the Palace build- record as Consul at Prague during the Harri-ings. At all events the Corean authorities
son administration.
The following reform programme is stated to have been agreed upon by the Chiness Viceroys and Governors: -(1) Princes and nobles shall go abroad for study; (2) Graduates shall s'udy abroad before becoming officials; (3) All examinations require thorough and reasonable revision; (4) More schools and colleges. are required; (5) The Army must adopt foreign drill; (6) The three years' limit of office must be abolished in the case of desery ing officials; (7) The model recommended for the police is the police force at Shanghai; (8) The Imperial Post must be extended over the whole Empire; (9) The silver dollar shall be the universal legal tender.
The Patriotic Committee of gentry, etc., at Shanghai, who protested against the Russian convention received on the 28th ult., through Yuan Taotai, the following telegram dated 27th March, bearing the Viceregal seal of Szechuan and sent by H.F. K'uei Chun, Viceroy of that province: "I desire to acknowledge the receipt of a joint telegram from the gentry and mer- chants residing in Shanghai and I entirely agres with their sentiments. I have already telegraphed for them to the Grand Council requesting that the matter be memorialised to will inform the gentlemen concerned of this. (L. 8.) K'uei Chun.
seem to have made a very resolute attempt to displace him, but they have not succeeded, for the latest accounts indicate that the trouble is likely to be adjusted. Mr. Brown's agrement has still six years to run. The latest news is that Mr. MoLeavy Brown has been reinstated.
Russia, in an identical Note to the Powers, : on the 3rd instant, says that, as any special agreement on the subject of Manchuris might instead of serving as a proof of Russia's friend- liness towards China, Russia does not insist involve the neighbouring Empire in difficulties,
on such agreement, but renounces all possible negotiations anent Manchuria, and in the meantime quietly awaits the course of events, wbilst adhering to her oft-repeated programme. The St. Petersburg Official Messenger, writing to the same effect as the Note, adds that it is manifest that the eventual restoration of Man- churia will be possible only when the normal situation in China is completely restored and central government established in the capital strong enough to guarantee Russia against a recurrence of the events of last year. The Rossiya, commenting on the indefinite post- ponement of the Convention, would like the foreiga Press to answer conscientionsly who it is that causes the occupation, Russia or the
The French mail of the 8th March arrived, the Throne. I beg that you (Yuan Taotai) Allied Powers, who are always dreaming that
per M. M (34 days).
steamer Yarra, on the 11th April
it is the Russian intention to territory.
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