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In the April Scribner Mr. Clarenos Cary sion Worcester Ares a very laudatory account of the growth prospects of Dalny, a Fiat-City." This hemp dealers and is accompanied by many excellently-reproduced 4 to hemp photographs, which aid very materially in Commission is considering them.iving an impression of what Dalny now is and opinion is that much of the present what it may become. As at Taingtan, the the subject is due to the fact that multitudinous poorer classes of the indigenous ths ago the Navy Department in folk are not to swarm among the foreign made tenders to the leading hemp residents as they have elsewhere been impra offoring to buy, large quantity of dently suffered to do, being, instead, held at fixed price, Hemp of the conveniently aloof from the main city by an unobtainable here at that intervening park, a precaution the manifold the arms could consider the advantages of which, Mr. Cary points out, will be merican, however, who had never readily appreciated by thote who know the un. In the hemp Business here, sub pleasant and detriment grouillement of the ples of a lower|| grade and offered to British Colony of Hongkong and of the Foreign rder. The Navy Devartment approved Concessions of Shanghai, But we may remem Wapsamples and bought his hemp, which was bar that this was the original intention at these quite as good as the samples shown, but was places. If Dalny is a huge success like those not the grade asked for Arst, nor was it places Chinese would surely be the highest Arst-class-herapy think that this incident purchasers. Will they be allowed to buy PAs the complaints referred to to prospects Mr. Cary thinks that a large trade and that they probably must speedily accrue to the port by reason of the presence there of the railway, and indeed, that the principal trans-Pacific steamer lines of all nations will ultimately make Dalay their most important Far Eastern port of call, what- ever they may intermediately continue to do with Yokohama and Nagasaki, and whatever may be their existing affiliations with Shanghai or Hongkong.
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- THE ANTI FOREIGN ATTITUDE natursäkter IN CHINA
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"A Chinese Patriot" white to a London daily commenting on the attifule of the Powers towarija China and the alleged anti-foreign feeling of his countrymen. He would like to ask whether there is not, reason why this anti- foreign feeling should exist, and answers yes.
“The first reason, I think, is the injudicious inconsistent action of the European missionaries in China. What would the English people say if Chinese Buddhist missionaries were to come to England and sades your to propagate their religion in the high-handed manner adopted by Christian misionaries in China, interfering with the magistrates‹ and police, where converts were concerned, and threatening the vengeance of Chine if their demands were not acceded to? The second reason, is the anti-Chinese feeling ro prevalent in Europe, America, and the Europea Colonies, as evidenced by their attitude towards Chinese labour. and their frestruent of the Chinese generally. The third reason is the policy of “grab' (one can call it nothing else) followed by the European Powers with respect to Chinese territory. A fourth reason may be found in the behaviour of the Allied troops at the relic of the Legations during the late troubles in China. These troers by their looting of private houses and ill-treatment and killing of innocent people, showed that they were not so civilised as they boast to be, and that the word barbarians,' which they so contemptuously applied to the Chinese, was far more applicable to themselves. In conclusion, I would say that if the European nations were to treat China with the courtesy and consideration due from one civilised country to another to treat her, in fact, as they treat on another-there would be no anti-foreign Lesling in China. The Chinese know that they have much to learn from Western civilisation just ***, perhaps, the European n tions may find that they have something to learn from Eastern civili alion—and would only be too ready to meet European nations half-way if they were approached in a proper spirit."
ASSAULTING AN EXCISE OFFICER.
Although Port Arthur, which is only some 40 miles sway, may fairly bristle with guns, or swarm with capable Cossacks, there is not to be the slightest suggestion of military safeguard present or contemplated at Dalby. Just here, the astute Russians are borrowing a leaf from the experience of Shanghai, which, under like conditions, has been able to summon the fleets and troops of the outside great Powers to her aid in time of stress, and this too without thereby en countering an unpleasant expense-account Per contra, the nearby German creation of Taingtan, on Kiaooban Bay, lies open to inspection as an object-lesson, and is an example of what the Dalnians have prudently sought to avoid. Heres proposed commercial town, though admirably constracted and possessing the necessary deep-water access to docks (and even away back to good coal, with likewise possible future freight connection), is found cheek-by-jowl with a military stronghold where it must forever stand or fall, or be perturbed, according to the fate of its adjacent fortiños tions; its trade development meanwhile suffering the blight of militarismus in the usually tightly buttoned form.
[May 18, 1903.
kuris,baing rehwang. Goods per cent, daty and 74 per cent.
two ports into Marchuris Dalny, the chief market north of the latitude entering by Newchwang if for distribution in the if for distribution in the country. Goods entering by Daly pay nothing. The distancO from Daloy to the la itude of Newchwang it 150 miles. If, then, the cost of transport for the 150 miles is less than 71 per cent. ad valorem shippers will send their goods to Dalny; the railway will proft, and Chinese revenue will suffer. But the railway cannot compete against a water-way such as the Liso River, so that it is certain that Newohwang will benefit and not lose by the railway, since the great accession of wealth & beings into the country will stimulate production in the interior. I was present at the departure of the ārst through tea train from Dalny to Odoess. It consisted of 24 waggons carrying ten tons each, and the freight and all charges from Hankow on the Yangtase by railway steamer to Dalny to Moscow, were 15 20 the Russian pood of 38 lb. Tea Imported by ses pays a duty in Rusia of R 35.20 the pood, sut by land only 23 so that a great saving is possible on the Bow route. All tea wilksurely be sent this in the futuro. ::
Vladivostock was a
Nowhere in the English handbook Dalny spoken of as a free port. A free port in Bassia would be a phenomenon greater than Parliamentary representation, freedom of the Press, and manhood suffrage. Dalny will be a free port till the occupation of Manchuria is effective. free port till Jan. 1, 1991, when such crushing duties were imposed that the port has been practically ruined in two years Even so powerful is corporation as the American Trading Company are closing their agency. When the occupation is complete Dainy will bee me the same as any other port in Russia.
A COMPLAINT FROM THE
14 ARGONAUT.”
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"Witness" writes from the Chins Station to the N. & M. Record as follows:----
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board of the Argonaut a list of the ships that. Quite recently I observed on the notice were considered eligible to partake of the honours of the late crisis in the Far East, and was rather surprised to find the cruiser Argonaut not mentioned. The date of our arrival in Hongkong was August 13th, 1900, and at that time the trouble was far from being at an end. But unfortunately for us we ware detained at the kst-mentioned place until the early part of November, after which we were “Dalny thus on the one hand advantaged, and despatched to Amoy, which is about 230 miles on the other free, would seem fairly equipped north of Hongkong, so that we were not in the to enter on a career of safe and unimpeded vicinity of the seat of war, and could not there- development. What are her present or fore take any active part in the operations. prospective rivals for the commercial supremacy But the ships included in the list, which lid of the fature along the China coasts ? these, the great entrepôts of Hongkong and have been sent to finish their work, which we Of practically nothing for their honours, might Shanghai, now, of course, stand far-and-away had to do. in the front, with the nearer neighbours Tien- tsin and Newchwang well up in present import auce; but each and all of these are handicapped by a heavy charge of lightering transhipments, not to speak of crowded or insufficient "bunds of water fronts. Hongkong enjoys no railway, while Tientsin and Newchwang must encounter dosed seasons of ice. Ching-wan-tao will probably have both handy railway facilities and ipe-free conditions; and therefore offers promise, although, as yet, rather a poten islity than a factor in the race.”
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Mr. Cary se. ms to think that Americans will profit most from Dalny. “Our British cousins, lacking our own independent position and our agreeable market prospects hereabouts, with ever before their eyes the certain bogey scares above referred to, may fume over Russia's triumphant progress, or our erstwhile protégét, the Japanese, continue (for other reasons, but with equal fatility) to kick against the pricks' ; | but what have we or the United States of America to do in either of their galères ?—L. & C. Express."
The doll's awa' wi' the exciseman," Burns wrote, and many's Chinaman out here would not feel particularly sad if bis satanic majesty were to bolt with every one of the officials who safeguard the interests of the opium farmer. A party of excine officers under P. C. Calliper to execute an opium warrant at an and umbered house in Tai Hang village on 13th inst., and one of them was furiously mate inmate who objected to lans for future enjoyment spoiled
** in hand by P°C. Dr. Morrison, the Times correspondent at
removed to the | Peking, says of this port :-
Ames were Dalay is at present a free port--that is to $15 each før |
faties are collected there upon goods
distribution in Manchuria." The'
the ship's company of the Argonaut, that about I would like to point out in favour of some of 30 ratings, under the gunnerymesicër, ware despatched on shore at Shanhaikwan in the early part of 1901 to dismount a heavy 6ìn. naval quick-firing gun, which the military authorities on shore (British) were almost on the point of giving a few lbs. of dynastile. But the Argonauts arrived just in the nick bf time, and saved the weapon from destruption, tran- sporting gun, mounting, and "everything connected with it (weighing about 11 tons)" a distance of something like three miles, over marshy ground and streams several feet wide, a railway trolley for conveyance to Tientsin. to the railway station. There it was placed on The time taken was 15 days, which I consider smart, having regard to the obstructions met with. But my point is this our ship's company assisted with the work; why not therefore share the honours !"
The Bangkok Times understands that Captain Lange in resigning from the Royal -Siamese Navy and is returning home.
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