THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. LIX]
Epitome
AND
China Overland
Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
Leading Articles :-
Japan and Russia
The War
The Neutrality Question
Bias in War News
Hongkong Jottinga
The War
Hongkong Legislative Council Chinatown Fair
The A.D.C. in "His Excellency".
The New H.K.C.C. Pavilion
HONGKONG, MONDAY, 22ND FEBRUARY, 1904.
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ARRIVAL OF MAILS.
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Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation.....147
Notes from the Botanic Gardens Mr. Gershom Stewart's Wedding Foochow
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Pakhoi
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The Great Fire at Shanghai
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Anglo-Japanese
Co., Ltd.
Locomotive and Engineering,
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Hongkong Brewery Co., Ld.
China Fire Insurance Co., Ld.
Supreme Court
Reviews
Sporting Notes
The Hongkong Bacos
Cricket
Football
Polo
Hongkong
Commercial
Shipping
BIRTHS,
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EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
The week's war telegrams will be found on p. 140.
Contractors have undertaken to complete the 149 railway line across Lake Baikal by the 28th
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On the 5th February, at Kobe, the wife of ARTHUE T. HELLTED, of a son.
On the 8th February, at Pendry, Bubbling Well Road, Shanghai, the wife of CHARLES K. SHAW, of a daughter.
MARRIAGES.
On the 6th February, at Holy Trinity Cathedral, Shanghai, by the Rev. C J. Fitz-simons, Symons. BA., GEORGE FRANCIS CLEMENT, eldest son of AUSTIN DOBSON, LL.D., of Ealing, to JANET BLAIR, eldest daughter of THOMAS NEATBY, M.D., formerly of Hampstead.
On the 6th February, at 122, Rue Palikao, Shanghai, by the Rev. Young J. Allen, D.D., LL.D., the Rev. ALBERT . BewEN, to Miss JEANNE SANDERS.
On the 10th February, at H.B.M. Consulate- General, by Sir Pelham Warren, K.C.M.G., and afterwarde at Holy Trinity Cathedral, Shanghai, by the Rev. C. J. Fitz-Simons Symons, B.A., WALTER ENGLAND, youngest son of JOHN MICHAEL WILSON, of Dublin, Ireland, to LINA LUISE,
daughter of FRIEDERICH WILHELM KOCH, of Hamburg, Germany.
On the 11th February, at H.B.M. Consulate- General, Shanghai, by Sir Pelham Warren, K.C.M.G., and afterwards at Holy Trinity Cathe- dral, by the Rev. C. J F. Symons, GERALD ARTHUR, younger son of E. W. TISDALL, of Dublin, Irel nd, and Shanghai, to EMILY HARRIETTE, elder daughter of JOHN CRAIG THOMSON, of Limerick, Ireland.
DEATHS.
On the 4th February, at Hangchow, MALCOLM FINLEY, youngest child of the Rev, J. C. and Mrs. GARRITT, aged 8 months.
On the 6th Febru ry, at Kobe,ROBERT HUGHES, a native of Liverpool, England, aged 59 years.
On the 10th Feb uary, between Soochow and Shanghai, ABEL JOHNSON, I.M.C. Souchow, aged ōl years.
On the 11th February, at the Government Civil Hospital, Capt. WILLIAM HUTTON, of 8.8. Benlomond.
On the 12th February, at Nagasaki, SARAH G LDMAN, of Bardicheff, widow of the late SAMUEL GOLDMAN.
On the 17th February, at his residence, No. 48, Elgin Street, JOSE GABRIEL da Rocha, late ac- countant of the General Post Office, Hongkong. Deeply regretted.
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Several cruisers and destroyers are prepiring at Brest and Toulon to proceed to the Far East. Six thousand tons of coal-briquettes have been hastily despatched to Saigon.
The Russian warships Oslabya, Aurora, Dmitri Donski, and a number of torpedo-boat- Jibatil until further orders. destroyers have been ordered to remain at
About 1,500 or 1,600 people are calculated to be using the Canton-Fatshan line daily, but with regard to the construction of the main line we still hear of more employees being turned off. Admiral Makaroff has left S. Petersburg He supersedes Admiral Stark in command of the fleet at Port Arthur, and is accompanied by a large staff, including Engineers and Naval Architects.
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The only reference to the attack on Port Arthur on the 14th instant published in 8. Petersburg is the statement that a 12 in. shell struck and slightly damaged the Volunteer the warship torpedoed was the cruiser Boyarin. s'eamer Kozau (P). The Japanese believe that
It is stated in S. Petersburg that General Ivanoff, the Governor of Turkestan, has been ins'ructed to prepare for possible military action in the direction of India in the event of hostile to Russia or attempting any enterprise Great Britain adopting an attitude openly
in Persia or Tibet prejudicial to Russian interests.
A Russian destroyer has been ordered to leave Port Said. After a Government survey an application by Russia for permission to dock a destroyer at Suez has been refused. In addi- tion to this the Austrian collier Java, ohartered for Port Arthur, has been treated as a belligerent and ordered to leave Port Said immediately; she is now discharging.
Mr. Hay has addressed a note to the Powers, asking if they are willing to join in a notice and thereafter, the neutrality and integrity to Russia and Japan that during hostilities of China must be recognised. France has accepted the Note regarding the neutrality of China; and Great Britain has agreed in principle. It is expected that Russia will also
concur.
An official Japanese Note published in Paris says Japan has advised China to remain neutral with a view to reducing the evils of war to a minimum, although she is well aware of the advantages to be derived from an alliance with
China,
She now urges China to take effectual measures to protect strategic points and to prevent belligerents from violating Chinese neutrality; from making Chinese ports bases of operations; or from their being used as places of refuge.
The Tsar has issued a manifesto, bitterly Admiral Alexieff telegraphs that the tor-inveighing against Japau, in which he declares pedo-transport Yenisei has been blown up and. that much time is now necessary to strike blows Arthur. Captain Stepanoff, three officers, and Japan's treachery and provocation, however, sunk by accidentally striking a mine at Port worthy of the dignity and the might of Russia; 92 men were lost.
will yet be avenged a hundred fold. Reuter says: The remarkable wording of the Tsar's recent Manifesto, admitting impliedly, the un- preparedness of Russia and foreshadowing a long delay before decisive action is taken, is mach commented on. The Times considers it means 8 war of exhaustion and another wholesale retreat similar to that from Moscow, leaving Port Arthur and Vladivostock isolated. Thi, the Times observes, is a great resolve, but its success depends on the will of the
It is stated in S. Petersburg that there is a large movement of Japanese troops covered by cruisers proceeding to the Gulf of Liaotung with the object of cutting off the Manchurian railway near Port Arthur.
Russia has informed the United States that she will not grant an exequatur to Mr. Morgan, the United States Consul at Dalny, because she desires no foreign officials in the Liaotung peninsula during the war.
Admiral Alexieff admits that attempts have been made to wreck the Manchurian railway and to blow up the bridge at Sungari. He says these attempts were noticed in time, and the line is now closely guarded.
Reports from up-country reaching Canton point to a very serious state of affairs for the agriculturist. If the rains do not come very soon. it is feared that nothing can avert a repetition of last year's famine.
A Legation despatch from Tokyo says that no attem t has yet been made by the Japanese to land near Pigeon Bay or its neighbourhood, that no Japanese vessel has been destroyed, and that the fighting power of the Japanese fleet is practically unimpaired.
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enemy.
The Russian refugees from the Varyag and Koreetz picked up by H.M.S. Talbot at Chemnlpo on the 9th inst, are coming down on H.M.S. Amphitrite. Such of them as are able to be moved will be taken on to Colombo in the Indo- China steamer Namsang, being transferred to her in Mirs Bay. We understand that some 40 placed in hospital here, the local Govern of them, the most seriously wounded, will be
ment having already been warned to prepare beds for them. The remainder of them, över 100 in number, will be sent on to Colombo, to be lodged in the camps previously occupied by the Boer prisoners who were detained in Ceylon. Six officers, two colour-sergeants, and 50 marines will be placed on the Namsang to escort the Russians down to Colombo.
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