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THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. LVIII.]
Epitome
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
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Leading Articles : --
The Situation in China
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Japan and Rasia
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Fast Mail and Passenger Services
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The New Admiralty Dock
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The Law Courts and Post Office
Canton's Trade in 19021).
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South Africa and Chinese Labour
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H. E. Tak Sow and the Gage Street Murler
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Sir Ernest 8 tow and Lord Curzo.....
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Hongkong Legislative Council
Hongkong's Assets and I abilities
The Admiralty Dook.....
Hongkong in 1932
Japan and Russia
Robberies ii Hongkong
China's Currency
Canton Notes
Cruelty to An inals in Hongkong.
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HONGKONG, MONDAY, 13TH JULY, 1903.
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
Shanghai has declared Foochow, Swatow, Canton, and the Formosan ports infected.
The Mainichi says that the Russo-Chinese Bank has been authorised to establish branches at San Francisco, Hongkong, and Calcutta.
Telegrams from Kobe state that the Port Arthur Conference will probably adopt M. de Witte's peace policy. General Kuropatkin returns to St. Petersburg immediately.
L'Echo de China says that the French Cham. ber has adopted the projected cable between 27 Saigon, Pulo Condor, and Pontaniala "-pro- 27 bably Poutianak, on the west coast of Borneo
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For the purpose of encouraging Japanese trade in Siam, the Japanese Minister at Bang kok. Mr.Inagaki, is reported to have approached with a suggestion that the Osaka Shosen Baron Kodama, Governor-General of Formosa, Kaisha's regular subsidised service to Formosa should be extended as far as Siam.
It is rep rted in Shan hai from Kwangsi that General Plan, commanding the Tsochiang Circuit of Kwangai, who e troops have joined the rebels, upon being ordered by Viceroy Sham to resign, committed suicide immediately after receiving the Viceregal order.
The North-China Daily News states that a private telogram of the 30th June from a Chiness official at Peking to a Chinese official in Shanghai, says that the special agreement re Lieutenant General Fukushim, who so dis-Ching and M. Lessar on the 18th, and as soon Manchuria was signed at Peking by Prince
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29 tinguished himself in the campaign 29 north in 1930, has been made by King Edward & Military Knight-Commander of the Bath and is now Sir Yasumasa Fukushima, K.Č.B.
Foochow
Corean News
Correspondence
Supreme Court
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Bribery Charge at Police Court
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Hongkong Water Polo League
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Royal Hongkong Golf Club]].
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Completion fee Poífid Cable
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Forgery of H. & S. Banknotes
Fined for Shelterin from a Typhoon
The Sumner Disaster I
Japanese Cruisers. Visit Austr. lia A Hongkong Boy's Plight Hongkong
Miscellaneous Commercial...
Shipping
BIRTHS.
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A report was current in Shanghai on the 1st inst. that a number of officers and men of the Japanese Reserve living there have received to Japan to join their regiments. The same is reported from Peking
2 orders to return
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On the 27th June at 19, Chapoo Road, Shanghai, the wife of J. B. JACK, of a 8 in.
On the 27th June, at Lyndhurst, Mount Eliza. beth, Singapore, the wife of H. REIGE, of a son.
On the 28th June, at the German Consulate, Foochow, the wife of G SIEMSSEN, H.Q.M.'s L'onsul of a daughter.
On the 1st July, at No 195, Kitano-cho, Kobe,
the wife of ARTHUR E. COOPER, of a daughter.
At the German Consulate, Foochow, the wife of G. SIEMSSEN, H.G.M.'s Consul, of a daughter.
MARRIAGES.
On the 27th June, at the Registry Office, Singapore, HERMAN OSCAR KRAFT to REBECCA STERNBERG.
On the 30th June at Yokoha na, MARIE MARGARETHE LOTz, of Hayama, to NIKOLAUS Markus McRGIN, of Yoohama.
DEATHS.
On the 28th June, at Kobe, EDUARDO JORGE, the son of 'ELISBINO and KATHERINA GUTERRES, aged 24 years
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On the 3rd July, at his residence in London, of pneumonia, JACOB ALNEOLD, senior partner of Messrs. Arnhold, Karberg & Co., aged 69 years.
Hongkong Weekly Press
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It is reported from Japan that Mr. Sands, the American adviser to the Corean Imperil Household, has resigned his office and returned his contract. A Belgian gentleman, recantly has arrived in Corea. eLgaged by the Corean Government as adviser,
The Tientsin correspondent of the Mercury final judgment in the railway riding disputa telegraphed on the 2ud instr. Detring's awards the Bund and station roads to the Railway Administration, thus completely justi- fing the British claims.
The Unite States frinsport Sumner, while engaged in distribu'ing troops in Southeru Luzon, in the Philippine Islands, struck an uncharted reef and had finally to be beached. Coastwise transport steamer, carrying wreck- ing parti s with salvage plant, left Manila on the 5th inst. The Sumner will in all probability come to Hongkong to be docked for repairs.
We understand that the Admiralty has definitely decided to go ou with the new dock on the island, in spite of all difficulties occasioned by the original imper ect ideas formed of the nature of the Harbour battom at the selected spot. The task will be much more expensive than was at first allowed for, but the Admiralty has decided nevertheless to have it carried to completion. Some correspondence will be found on p. 24.
The time occupied by the mails from this homeward by Siberia, s ys the N-C Daily News, rangement by which the mails now go in sealed will be considerably shortened by the new ar bags to Moscow and are sorted there. The Mongolia on Sunday (the 28 h ult,) took aine sealed bags from Shanghai to Moscow, where the facilities for sorting are much greater than at Dalny or Port Arthur. The Chinese Eastern The Canadian Mail (London dates May 28th) Railway Co contemplate building three more per Empress of Japan arrived on the 7th inst (41 sister-ships to the Manchuria and Mongolia, days); and the German Mail of June 9th, per
which will allow of a through service twice Prinz Heinrich, arrived on the 8th inst. (29 days). ' Dalny, with one steamer always in reserve.
a week between Shanghai and Nagasaki and
ARRIVAL OF MAIĻS.
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as it has been ratified by the Tsar and the Em- being mentioned), the evacuation of Manchuria press Dowager of China (the Emperor not
by Russia will be begun:
Owing to the state of his health and the difficulty of framing a satisfactory Budget for next year in accordance with the lines indicated Tokyo corespondent of the N.-C. Daily News, by the recent political compromise, says the
the Premier, Viscount Katsura, has expressed a desire to resign; but the Emperor has directed him to take a brief rest, retaining office. It is generally expected that some arrangement will be effected without a disturbance of the Ministry.
The Admiral in command of the Japanes to Corea with eleven torpedo-boats. naval station on Tsushimh Island has proceeded, It is mander of the Japanese standing squadra. in reported that Admiral Hitaka, Chief Com view of the present situation in the Far East recently addressed a memorial to the Naval Staff Department suggesting the advisability of organising the Japan Sea sqnidron, and also the necessity of formulating a plan of defence aud general operation from the naval stand- point
It was reported in Peking a short time ago that the French Minister had revived a tele gram from the French Consul at Lungohow to the effect that the insurrection was spreading in Kwangsi province, and the Government troops had suffered repeated reverses. In con- sequence of the unsettled state of the outry. the Consul further stated that he had considered · · it advisable temporarily to leave Langchow for became more quite before returning to bis tho Tonkin border and wait uutil matters
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The Mainichi publishes the following tele- granı, dated Ssoul. 25th June:-The Russian Minister to Seoul sought an Imperial audience? on the 7th inst. The Corean Minister for Foreign appli ation before is Majes' y. The Russian Affairs decline to lay the Russian Envy's Minister is reported to have presented a note to the Emperor through the Corean official who acts as Russian interpreter. In this note the Minister is reported to hisve pointed out that Russia will be compelled to station troops st Wiju if the place is thrown open to foreign tr. de. The application of the Minister for an Imperial audience is understood to have been designed to serve as a demonstration against the opening of Wiju.
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