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commercial privileges in Manchuria-a¦ exploits of GENGHIS, the great Mongol statement sufficiently vague 10 cover conqueror, being constantly sung by these It is, of course, arrangements of most divergent characters. horsemen on the march.' It might for instance imply nothing more mpossible to check these native reports by
DINNER AT GÖVERNMENT. HOUSE. nor less than a resuscitation of the previous evidence from any other source, but it may obnoxious
On the 2nd inst., ou the invitation of H.E. between be concluded that the Chinese themselves the two countries in return for Russia's fully believe the story and hold that Peking the Governor, Sir Henry A. Blake, G.C.M.G., abandonment of her indemnity claims. itself is threatened by a grave peril. This distingnishel company, including many naval "The political and commercial privileges indeed would be no exaggeration if the and military officers at present on this station, which Russia is said to have secured might Mongol boast of the forces they can call and representatives of the civil community of imply a most favoured nation clause of an together were true; for if not of a calibre the Colony, assembled at Government House to meet Admiral Bir Edward Seymour, G.C.B., intolerable nature, or they might be perfectly qualifying them as dangerous to European who has relinquished the command of the Chine legitimate returns for the expense to which troops, their numbers at least render them station and was on the eve of departure for home. Russia has been put to in connection with the formidable to such Imperial troops as they Those present were HE. the Governor, Ad- Manchurian line. It is impossible for the would be likely to encounter on the way to miral Sir E. H. Seymour, II E. Major-General Gascoigne, Hon. J. J. Bell Irving, Commodore present to decide.
The Standard' report Peking, and it would take the best trained
A certain Powell, Bir Thomas Jackson, the Rt. Rev. is of a remarkably sensational character, Chinese army to stop them. it cannot be denied. It attributes to amount of reassuring news is conveyed in Bishop of Victoris, Colonel Perrot, Hon. J. H. Stewart Lockhart, Captain Jellicoe, Capt. Russin, however, H benevolence and the same Nanking letter which brings news disinterested character which has not of the Mongol rising, for it is stated that Tillard, Col. The O'Gorman, Hon. Com. Murray Rumsey, Hon. W. Chatham, Hon. hitherto been a marked trait of that nation, as far as is known there is no connection Dr. Ho Kai, Col. Retallick, Capt. Pakenham, in spite of certain Russian opinions to the between that rising and TUNG FURSIANO's Col. Bertie, Major Littledale, Capt. Tuke, The latter when last heard Commander Borrett, Mr. R. C. Wilcox, Mr. contrary. In fact, were it to prove that the movements.
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Kansu province, nt G. T. Veitch, Mr. J. Turner, Hon. J. Thurbarn, story of the Da'ni Vostok and £ibirski Viest- of nik are true, we should have to explain the Kuyuan, the headquarters of the Provincial His Honour A. G. Wise, Hon. T. H. Whitehead, Col. Hughes, Hon. F. H. May, Major Kettlewell, most startling change of policy perhaps Commander-in-Chief, which is about one which has ever been witnessed in the history hundred and fifty miles east of Lanchott. Capt. Hon. H.W. Trefusis, Col. Welchman, Mr. Basil Taylor, Mr. E. H. Sharp, Staff-Surgeon of a nation. We should see the professions As the Daily News says, it would be im Vasey. Mr. J. W. Norton Kyshe, His Honour of the Tsar's Government put into practice possible in the scattered state of TUNG T. Sercombe Smith, Deputy Inspector General the Drew, Hon. A. W. Brewin, Col. Wheeler, Mr. in a way which would silence all unfriendly FURSIANG's adherents, as well as criticism. If, on the other hand, the vague distance to be marched over, a very moun H. A. Ritchie, Mr. E. N. Irving, Capt. Orpen, statement of the Daily News correspondent tainous route, for the Kansu forces to reach Mr. J.J. Francis, K.C., Col. Teversham, Mr. W turns out to bear the least favourable inter-even the Shansi borders within three months Poate, Hon. C. Mol. Messer, Mr. Wei Yuk, Hon. pretation, from the point of view of the at the very least, and if Tung FUHSIANG H. E. Pollock, Mr. Fair, Dr. J. Bell, Capt. Ward Mr. F. Van der Pfordton, Mr. C. S. Bharp, Mr. Powers interested in China, we may yet be desires to join forces with Prince TUAN in
D. Gillies, Mr. F. G. Motton, Mr. R. F. Johu- faced with a grave situation. The uncer- the grass country, outside the Great Wall.ston, Private Secretary, Capt. Sanders, Hon. tainty at present is too great to make it it will take him much longer to get to A.D.C., Lieut. Blake, A.D.C., and the re- worth while to discuss the position of affairs Shansi or Chibli. The danger, therefore, presentatives of the Press. at length. Until some official confirina'ion does not appear so immediate as from the of the reports and some definite explanation earlier undetailed reports it may have
seemed. reach us, we can but suspend judgement.
THE REBELLIOUS
REACTIONARIES.
(Daily Press, 5th July.)
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[FROM OUR CORRESPONDENTS,
SHANGHAI, 30th June, 8.38 p.m. A special telegram from Hsianfu states that the Empress Dowager, believing the late Ching Sing, President of the Board of Civil Appointments, to have been traitorous and the envoy of the Reformers and the Allies, absolutely forbids the Court's return to Peking, an intends making Kaifeng-fu the capital.
18th July, and leaves by the German mail Prince Chun arrives at Shanghai on the
steamer Bayern.
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A copy of the North-China Daily News of the 27th ult., which arrived from Shanghai yesterday, brought a few further details about the rumoured aggressive movements of Prince TUAN and TUNG FUHSIANG, who, as we have already stated, are said to be threatening, the one Peking, and the other Taiyuanfu. Our northern contemporary reports, on the authority of a Nanking letter quoting despatches received in that city from Lanchou, the provincial capital of Kansu, vid Hsian, that Prince TUAN with a numerous following of Mongol horsemen, variously estimated at from 6,000 to 20,000
SHANGHAI, 1st July, 8.16 p.m. in number, had already passed through the
A telegram from Hsianfu to-day states district of Hengcheng, an important place that Ching Siag's attempted suicide was just touching the Great Wall, about ninety | abortive. miles due east of Ninghsia, bound eastwards through the grasscountry on his way to Peking by Shansi province. These Lanchou de- spatches go on to say that the majority of the Mongol corsemen are from the " Alashan" league, and are under the immediate command
The Kobe Chronicle of the 22nd ult. says that of their own Princes. The Alashan Mongols, the assassination of Mr. Hoshi Tora at Tokyo on the North China Daily News explains, inhabit the previous day will recall the incident which the vast grass-lands outside the Great Wall led to the death in 1889 of Viscount Mori when to the North-west of Ninghsia prefecture, Minister of Education, and to the bomb ex- and their chiefs cordially received Prince plosion in 1890, when Count Okums, then TUAN and his followers when they sought. Both those statesmen, however, were in office at Minister for Foreign Affairs, lost his leg refuge last autumn in that part of the Em- the time, while it is now some months since pire. But the rebel prince's new partisans Mr. Hoshi surrendered his portfolio of the furthermore claim that they have received Department of Communications. Mr. Hoshi promises of help from all the Mongol leagues was Chairman of the Municipal Assembly, and outside the Great Wall, and boast of being was doubtless present at the meeting referred able to bring into the field by the coming to in the telegram by virtue of his office when he was stabbed to the heart. Mr. Hoshi has
Vicar-General Father Barnabas, Taiyuanfu, writes on the 10th June, urging that a German force should come and protect Taiyuanfu against General Tung Fuhsiang.
At the conclusion of dinner, the toast of The King" was first honoured and speech- making began. Proposing the toast of " The Queon, the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York, and the rest of the Royal Family, H.E. the GOVERNOR said: -When in 1869 A sweet young Danish Prinosar landed upon the shores of England to become the spouse of the Prince of Wales, she was at once by popular acclaim acknowledged Queen of Beauty. As years rolled by and England learnt to appreciato more and more fully her grace and goodness, that title was changed to Queen of Hearts, and Queen of the hearts of the British people Her Majesty has remained to this day. Never tired of lending aid to any good work, Her Majesty has been especially identified with every great movement for the amelioration of suffering, and thousands of families, and tens of thousands of the sailors and soldiers of the Empire have to bless Her Majesty's name for the ex- ervise of her great influence in directions that have brought them increased comforts. Nor are the other members of the Royal Family wanting in that devotion to the public
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interests that has endeared them to the people. The Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York have ju t concluded a visit to the Eastern and Australian Colonies, where the Duke of Corn- wall and York opened the first Parliament of the newly federated Australian Commonwealth. The Duke expressed his regret that it was not possible for their Royal Highnesses_to_visit Hongkong, where I had promised His Royal Highness on behalf of the people of this important colony a loyal and enthusiastic reception; and their Royal Highnesses are now proceeding, in's manner and state bestting the heir to the throne, to visit all the other great and growing colonies, bearing to them Majesty the King, and strengthening those messages of every good wish from His golden links of personal loyalty to the throne that are such potent factors in the unity and brotherhood of this great Empire. What sailor in the room is there who will not endorse the estimate of the Duke of Cornwall and York, when en active service in the West Indies, given to me by the Admiral who mid And what soldier will not agree that whether as a regimental officer, a general or comin in-chiel the Duke of Connaught has
autumn no less than one million-Mongols. played many parts in his time, and has for a į that he was one of the best officers in the fleet ?
There is reported also to have been “ con. siderable warlike enthusiasm amongst the Mongol horsemen as they passed through Hengcheng, songs praising the warlike
considerable number of years been an object of interest to the public, so that his sudden death by the hand of an assassin forms a dramatic end to a stormy career.
'shown himself to be an able' and 'a
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