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THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
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China Overland Trade Report.
VOL. LIX.]
CONTENTS.
Epitome
Lending Articles :-
The War Between Japan and Ruasis Neutrality Question
The Administration of Hongkong....
The War
Garrison Changes at Hongkong
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 27TH FEBRUARY, 1904.
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War telegrams, etc., will be found on p. 159
Admiral Alexioff and all members of his staff are now installed at Harbin,
The civilians at Vladivostock have ben 18 | ordered to leave owing to scarcity of food. The 158 Government is taking everything available.
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159 There was a panic on the Paris Bourse last .162 Saturday in consequence of various baseless rumours that Italy, Germany, and France were .162 mobilising.
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The Dallas Co, at the Theatre
Victoria Home and Orphanage
Canton ......
Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Co., Ld.
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Hongkong Fire Insurance Co., Ld.
Hongkong Jockey Club Raco Meoting Hongkong Volunteer Corps
Royal Hongkong Yacht Club...
Hongkong
Commercial
Shipping
BIRTHS.
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A Russian Imperial ukase relieves General Kuropatkin of the functions of War Minister, and appoints him commander-in-chief of the army in Manchuria.
Russia and Japan in reply to the United States Note say they are prepared to respect; 170 the neutrality of China outside Manchuria,
the actual seat of war.
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On the 14th February, at 35, Markham Road, Shanghai, the wife of G. C. · Ew, of a daughter
On the 15th Fe'ruary, at 39, Seward Road. Shanghai, the wife of CHAS G. BABOTH, of a daughter.
On the 17th February, at 8, Woosung Road, Shanghi, the wife of JAMES TOPPIN, of a daughter.
MARRIAGE.
On the 1th January, at S. Leona d's Parish Church. Streatham, by the Rev. W. H. Tasker, HARRY ERNEST SHADGETT, of Shanghai, China, to KEATRICE, daughter of the late HENRY HUM- PHRETS, of Cheltenhas.
DEATH.
On the 7th February, at S. Helen's, 26A Syed Alley Road, Newton, Singapore, LAURA HELEN, the wife of Dr. J. M. HANDY.
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ARRIVAL OF MAILS.
The French Mail of the 23rd January arrived per $ 8. Sydney on the 24th inst., and the English Mail of the 29th January is expected to arrive per s.s. Coromandel some time to-day, the 27th inst.
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
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Our Canton correspondent wirel that discs rous fire broke out in Canton at ab ut 5 a.m. on the 24th just, iu Toug-u-Lan, Wost Canton, and was still in progress at one o'cl ok, A large number of houses have been destroyed. probably quite 500, and the damage is put at about $1,000,000. Further details will be found on p. 162
A movement is on foot in the Philippines to have Emilio Aguinaldo appointed to the bouo- rary commission which is to represent those islands at the S. Louis Exposition.
Father Pieper, of the Steyl Mission at Puoly Puerb, Younan). reported to be the most probable caudidate for the German Episcopate of South Shantung, to succeed the late Bishop Anzer.
A squadron, lelieved to be the Russian ons recently reported at Jibuti, passed Perim at midnight, bound northward, This coincides with the reports in S. Petersburg that the squadron had been ordered home.
The French newspapers have opened sub- scription lists for the Russian sick and wounded. The Temps publishes an articlo laying stress on the anxiety of both Great Britain and France to remain aloof from the war, and urges both countries not to let their inclinations carry them beyond what is proper,
According to the P and 0. Times the Russian force at Kalgan, which is overawing Paking, amounted on the 7th inst. to 572 men. There were 3,500 Chinese troops there. Mr. Lessar has again notified the Chinese Govern- ment that Russia is going to send troops to Tientsin and Peking to protect these places
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H.E. Sir Ernest Satom, G..M.G., British Minister at Peking, will, says the China Times, pay a visit to Ti-utsin at the close of this math, when he will open the Anglo Chinese Museum and Library instituted by Dr. Lavington Hart in connection with the Tientsin Anglo- Chinese Church and College. The opening takes place to-day.
The Superintendent of the Great Northern Telegraph Co, informed us on the 24th that the Company's new route to Europe via Puking and Irkutsk has this day been opened for all traffic, at same rates as via Vladivostock. Telegrams in- tended for this route to be marked ' viu Kiachta, All telegrams for Europe handed to the Company will during the interruption of the Vladivostock line be forwarded via Kiachta.
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The Hongkong Jockey Club Race Meeting took place this week. An account of the three principal days will be found on p. 164
The Italian cruisers Calabria, Carlo Alberto. Lombardia, and Dogale bare been ordered to the Far East.
Tho Times says that Great Britain's sym- pathy with Japan is natural and legitimate, and sufficient, should the improbable emergency arise, to enable the Government to give effect to all the terms of the Japanese treaty. British sympathy is not merely grounded on the fact that Japan is our ally, but it draws strength and justification from the knowledge that Japan is fighting the battle of all civilised nations.
Reuter's Agency at Aden wires that the P. & 0, s.s. Mongolia encountered a Russian battleship and four destroyers in the Red Sea. A destroyer endeavoured to cut off the Mongolia, but failed, when the whole squadron gave chase, and, being unable to overtake the steamer, signalled her to halt; upon which the Mongolia stopped and a destroyer approached, and, after a careful scrutiny of the ship, signalled "beg to be excused."
According to the Straits Echo Mr. Jus- tice Law has decided that the Supreme Court has no power to hear appeals from convictions by the Registrar of Jiarikishas, who holds the power of a magistrate under the recently passed Ordinance. Mr. Solicitor-General Hudson is said to have recommended the sentence---three months' imprisonment for pssaulting a fare-to be set aside and the amended Ordinance again amended to empower the Supreme Court to hear appeals of this nature.
Reuter's correspondent, with the special per- mission of the authorities, has visited Port Arthur, which the Russians claim to be capable of two years' resistance. Two bodies of troops are making a parallel march towards the Yalu, with Phyeng-an as the objective, and while advancing troops to the Yalu the centre is being strengthened and preparations made to defend the railway and the North Gulf Coast. The Russians admit their unpreparedness, but are now hurrying forward reinforcements.
On Thursday the surprising news reached Hongkong that four Japanese battleships had
been sunk at Port Arthur. This came from several sources, all apparently springing from a Russian official despatch. Some accounts added two transports to be lost also. On Friday, however, the mystery was cleared up and it is now known that the ships sunk were four steam- ers, loaded by the Japanese with combustibles and sent into Port Arthur. The Russians sank them before they could do any damage, and the entrance to the harbour is still clear.
Tho Mercury's Peking correspondent writes under date 10th February:-The exequaturs for Mr. Fleming D. Cheshire, as Consul- General of the United States at Mukden, and for James W. Davidson, United States Consul at Antung, were to-day granted by the Chinese Government, and their commissions are now on the way to Peking. Mr. Cheshire was for- merly the Chinese Secretary of the United States Legation here, and Mr. Davidson the United States Consul at Formosa. They are expected soon to arrive at their posts.
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