THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. LIII.]
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Week, &c.
Leading Articles:
A Year of Allied Policy in China Military Systems of Russia and China Great Britain and the Indemnity Plague Prevention in Japan
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HONGKONG, MONDAY, 17rH JUNE, 1901.
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
The date for the Chinese Court's departure from Hsianfa to Peking has been fixed by 482 Imperial edict as the 1st September next.
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The Missionary Troubles and a Proposed Cure 484 The Departure of Sick Chinese from Hongkong 484 French Railway Schemes in Yunnan Baggested Plague Measures
The Crisis: Telegrams....
Hongkong Sanitary Board
Proposed Naval Yard Transfer
The Plague
New Volunteer Shooting Range
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The New N.Y.K. Line from Hongkong to Seattle...490 1.M.C. Dues and Duties: January-March
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It is declared at. Washington that the Powers are not yet agreed as to the amount of the Chinese indemnity, although China has offered 450,000,000 tsels.
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The first plague case was recorded at Shang- hai on the 7th inst., the victim being a fireman on the Belgian steamer Charles Rogier, which left Hongkong for Shanghai on the 26th alt.
A Peking telegram of the 10th inst. says:- The Boxer movement is reviving to the south 491 of Paotingfu. The whole country is in a 491 ferment.
There will be no expedition of .491
allied troops.
Pakhoi
Foochow
Northern Notes
Correspondence
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'Change Doings
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Hongkong Cotton Spinning, Weaving and Dyeing
Company, Limited.
Supreme Court
The Pak Kong Opium Case
Hongkong Volunteer Corps
British Trade with Siam
General Voyron's Report
The Chefoo-Weihaiwei Cable. The Allies and the Indian Troops... Mohammedan Mission to China Trade of South-East Asia Hongkong and Port News Commercial
Shipping
BIRTHS.
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Lord Cranborne questioned in the House of Commons, said the Government understands that Germany intends to continue the main- tenance of a garrison at Shanghai for the 494 present, but that no explanation had been 494 furnished to Great Britain.
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The Jiji learns that arrangements have been 495 made by the authorities for an addition of 100 485 torpedo-boats to the Japanese navy by the end of the 28th fiscal year, which ends in March, 1906. Of the above number, about 20 vessels 499 will be constructed during the present year.
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On the 8th June, at Burnbrae, Orange Grove Road, Shanghai, the wife of WILLY HASENBALO, of a daughter.
On the 7th June, at 35, Broadway, Shanghai, the wife of P. L. RAEBURN, of a daughter.
On the 12th June, at "Luginsland," West Peak Road, the wife of PAUL WITKOWSKI, of a daughter.
MARRIAGES.
Sir Claude Macdonald, British Minister to Tokyo, accompanied by Lady Macdonald, left The Tokyo for England on the 23th ult. Japanese Ministers, Austrian, German, French and Belgian Ministers saw them off. It is stated that Sir Claude will return to his post in November.
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An Imparial Decree has been issued ordering the people to respect the Lu Han railway and and also ordering the enrolment of an Imperial telegraph line as Chinese Government property, Railway Guard. Another Decree suspends all military and civil examinations for five years in all places where anti-foreign riots have occurred.
According to the New Press, on the retire- ment of Mr. Byron Brenan, C. M. G4, Mr. Pelham Warren, C.M.G., will fill the position of British Consul General în Shanghai, his post at Hankow being taken by Mr. EH. Fraser, C. M. G., at present on sick leave in Japan. Mr. Tratman will leave Chefoo to take over Mr. Fraser's duties at Chinkiang, while Mr. Brady, now home on leave, will replace Mr. Tratman at Chefoo. Mr. Hosie will relieve Mr. Fulford at Newchwang. Mr. H. Sly had been trans- ferred from Peking to Canton, while Mr. Smith has been transferred from Tientsin to Corea.
A. Tokyo telegram of the laf inst. to Bhang: hai says:-The new Cabinet has been formed by General Viscount Katsura, as Premier, the distribution of the more important portfolios being-Home Affairs, Baron Utsamo; Foreign Affairs and Finance, Mr. Sone; Justics, Mr. Kiyours; Communications, Viscount Yoshi- kawa; Agriculture and Commerce, Mr. Hirata; Education, Dr. Kikuchi. The Minister for the Navy and Army are as before, that is, for Navy, Admiral Yamamoto, and for Army, General Baron Kodams. Practically the now cabinet has been reconstructed from those statesmen who served under Field-Marshal Marquis Yamagata.
It is stated from London that the Minis'eral at Peking are not yet unanimous on sévér a With regard to the report of a riot in Qual-points connected with the Chinese indemnity. part and the murder of a French missionary, This is notably the case in connection with the time-limit question. China is willing to accept it now appears that the murdered man was &
The 40 years as the maximum period, but several On the 27th May, at the English Episcopal native convert and not a missionary. Church, Nagasaki, by the Rev. A. R. Fuller, origin of the riot is reported to be due to taxa-Powers favour a longer period. Mr. Rockhill, HARRY VANSITTART, eldest 8011 of Henry tion. Some tax-gatherers were sent there from the U.S. representative, insists upon the adriss- DICKINSON, of Harrow, England, to MARY, the Imperial Household Department recently, bility of stipulating for the opening of the youngest daughter of the late George HUNTER, and the islanders resented the presence of these whole of China to foreign trade, instead of of Longside, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.”
to favour this proposal. Sir Ernest Batow, On the 28th May, at St. Andrew's Cathedral, officials. Some native converts were employed increasing the Tariff, and Japan is understood Singapore, by the Rev. W. H. C. Dunkerley, by these officials to collect the tax, and a dispute W. BODGER, Station Master, Teluk Anson, Perak, ensued between these converts and the natives. however, opposes it. Mr. Rockhill has tele- It was not an attack on the entire body of graphed to Washington that the Ministers to Miss M. Cook, of Hawston, Leicestershire.
native Christians. It is reported that the refuse to refer the indemnity claims to the DEATHS.
The States in French Minister to Seoul gave instructions to Hague Arbitration Court. the Commander of the French warship ordered consequence decline to participate in a joint to Quelpart not to land marines on the island. guarantee by the Powers. The French gunboat Surprise has now returned to Chemulpo.
On the 10th June, at Kobe, ANDREW FERGUS WILLIAMSON, of the Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China, Hongkong, and Gourock,
Scotland.
On the 12th June, at the Government Civil Hospital, WILLIAM HENRY MILLS, son of John and Henrietta MILLS, aged 4 months.
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ARRIVALS OF MAILS:
The American mail of the 11th bay arrived, per P. M. steamer Peru, on the 10th June (30 days); the German mail of the 13th May arrived, per N. D. L. steamer Kiautschou, on the 11th June (29 days); and the French mail of 17th May arrived, per M. M. steamer Saha, on the 16th June (30 days).
On the 11th inst., Lord Cranborne, in the absence of Lord Lansdowne through illness, received a deputation from the Associated The deputation urged that the British Government should take | adequate messures to safeguard British com- | mercial and political interests in China, and also urged that Great Britain should aim at increased facilities for trade rather than a money indemnity. Lord Cranborne replying, said that the Government felt acutely the importance of the commercial aspect, and that as the duty of the Government to secure to traders full opportunities for trade, but traders must be prepared to take certain risks lost they be supplanted by foreigners. He deprecated any international control of China, which implied disintegration.
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The local Government of Peking, which was recently handed over by the Allies to the Chinese authorities, on probation, to 800 whether the latter will be able to keep order without outside help, is now conducted on the fo lowing lines, says the N.-C. Daily News: The policing of the Tartar City is in charge of the Commandant of the Peking gendarmerie and his officers, who, together with the rank and file, are all Manchus. On the other hand the various sections, or “cities,” ontside the Tartar city walls, are under the control of the ated Police Censors of the Five "Cities,” by local gentry and patty police magia Instead of the useless Green-tarban" troo
Cits the (Chinese natives of Peking) who as patrols and police in the Five
remnant of the Plenipotentiaries have now substituted foreign- modelled troops from the Peiyang Army,
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