THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. LIX.]
Epitome
Leading Articles :-
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China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
Conditions of the Present War
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 23RD APRIL, 1904.
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Hongkong Weekly Press
HONGKONG OFFICE: 14, DES VEUX ROAD CL. 310 LONDON OFFICE: 131, FLEET STREET, E.C.
Unrest in China
The Kowloon-Canton Railway
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The China Tea Trade
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Hongkong Jottings
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War Notes
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Hongkong Legislative Council
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Hongkong Sanitary Board
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Japan During the War
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Raasian Military Blunders
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Notes from the Botanic Gardens
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Hongkong Fire Engines
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Canton....
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Amoy....
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Correspondence
Pakhoi
Supreme Court
Bowling
Hongkong Cricket League
Lawn Tennis
Royal Hongkong Golf Club
Royal Hongkong Yacht Club.
Tropical Diseases Research
Commercial
Hongkong
Shipping
BIRTHS,
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ARRIVAL OF MAILS.
The English Mail of the 25th March arrived per the s.8. Chusan, on Friday the 22nd inst.
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
War telegrams have been very scarce this 318 week. The principal news is to the effect that 18 Admiral Alexieff has resigned his command. Router gives as the reason that he finds himself 320 practically superseded except in civil affairs, .320 and that the appointment of Admiral Skrydloff, who is notoriously hostile to him, was made without consulting him.
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On the 7th April, at Gimel, Switzerland, the wife of P. R. WALSHAM, H.I.M.'s Customs, of a son. On the 19th April, at Eilandonan, the Peak, the wife of ANDREW FORBES, of a daughter.
MARRIAGES.
On the 5th April, at Yokohama, Agnes LAURINA BEATRICE, daughter of DAVID Ross, F.R.I., B.A., of New Zealand, to WILLIAM EDWARD LAXON SWEET, of Kumamoto, son of the late Rev. L. E. SWEET, of Bathford, England.
On the 5th April, at Tokyo, the Rev. JOHN THOMAS BRYAN, M.A., B.D., t. LUCY SILVER, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. SILVER HALL, of Tokyo.
On the 6th April, at Yokohama, FRANCIS JAMES HALL, fourth son of the Rev. T. O. HALL, of Stretton Hectory, Oakham, England, to BEATE CE MAUDE SUCKLING BARON, youngest daughter of the late Rev. W. J. BARON, of Withybrook Vica- rage, Coventry, England.
n the 6th April, first at the British Consulate, Kobe, and afterwards at Osaka, by the Rev. G. Chapman, B.A., assisted by the Rev. V. H. Patrick, the Rev. SAMUEL HEABLETT, of Nagasaki, to
HILDA SUSAN JACKSON, second daughter of FRS DERICK J. JACKSON, of Southport, England.
On the 9th April, at Trinity Cathedral, Shang- bai, by the Rev. J. B. Ost, ARTHUR HENRY BROOKS, of Shanghai, to ELLA FORDER, of Winchester, England.
On the 11th April, at S. Joseph's Church, Shanghai, by the Rev. Father Lorando, S.J., CHARLES JEDLICKA, of Reichenberg (Bohemia), to EMMA VAN DER STEGEN, of Shanghai.
On the 11th April, at Holy Trinity Cathedral, Shanghai, AUSTIN RICHARD THISTLETHWAITE, to ALICE DOROTHEA ROBERTS, elder daughter of the late THOMAS CLARENCE ROBERTS and Mrs. ROBERTS, of Ferring, Worthing, England
DEATHS.
On the 14th April, at Shanghai, ALAN, infant son of CHRISTIAN and MARGARET NIELSEN, of Vladivostok, aged 13 months.
On the 16th April, at Cheltenham, Major W
H. GRESSON.
On the 17th April, at No. 20, Fearon Road, Marie Constanze, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. JOSEFSEN, aged 7 weeks.
On the 19th April, DAVID CURRIE, late of Greenock, Scotland, by Accident, at Quarry Bay, aged 35 years.
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On the 19th inst. the House of Lords adopted a resolution authorising the Tibet Expedition (or Mission). Since the arrival at Gyantse we have no further news.
Service Estimates for the coming financial year From the particulars given in the Civil we learn provision is made for new British Consuls at Moukden, Antung, and Kongmoon,
that with Japan holding Port Arthur in A writer in a paper just to hand points out strength, and England holding Wei-hai-wei in similar strength, the integrity of China would be assured in spite of all other Powers.
The Shanghai Mercury says that the Changon-Ballaarat arbitration case came to a close on the 14th inst. and in rendering the award it was held that both vessels were to blame, therefore both sides should pay half the
costs.
Allegations appear to have been circulated as to a breach of neutrality by China this week. Nothing is known about it in Hongkong, which could hardly be the case were the story to be Admiral Makaroff's widow has been granted true. So far as we know, China has kept a pension of 20,000 roubles.
H.E. Viceroy Chang Chih-tung is reported seriously ill and not expected to live.
It is stated that Japanese gold coins to the value of $2,600,000 were exported to Ban Francisco by the steamship China.
yards between the Japanese outposts and the S. Petersburg reports that there are only 600 foremost Russian outposts on the islands in the Yalu.
According to the Ostasiatische Lloyd, 8. Petersburg telegrams announce that the Rus. sian troops are retiring to Monkden Liaoyang.
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The first consignments of building material for the new floating dock at Kiaochou have left Germany. The dock will consist of five separ- ate pontoons, with a total loading capacity of 16,000 tons, and will be able to accommodate the largest battlesbips in the German Navy, as well as the big liners of the Hamburg and Bremen Steamship Companies.
It seems certain now that the threatened deportation from Tientsin of Mr. Cowen, editor of the China Times, has been abandoned. Mr. Cowen has resumed the editorship. The Kobe Chronicle makes the following comment: Though the accused in such a case does not seem to have any right of appeal under the Orders in Council, such a sentence must be Admiral Skrydloff has arrived at S. Peters-reviewed by the Chief Justice, and only on his received an extraordinary popular ovation, and burg before proceeding to the Far East. conjured to save the honour of the Navy.
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Petersburg sources, to have now 300,000 men at General Kuropatkin is stated, from S. his disposal. No more will be sent to him at present, the number being deemed sufficient.
During the next month a detachment will be sent from Hongkong to the North, to relieve time-expired men of the Tientsin Detachment. Of the details that arrived from the West on Sunday 152 were Sherwood Foresters.
arrived at Gensan from the north of Korea, According to an English missionary who there are indications that Koreans in the region lying to the north of Bamhenng are organising with the purpose of opposing the Japanese.
Our Tientsin correspondent telegraphs under date 18th April:-The Teai-li Society is in creasing in a most threatening manner and is spreading in the neighbourhoods of Peking and Tientsin, as well as outside the Great Wall. Native Christians are growing alarmed. This Teai-li Society has been notorious for its iu- famous murders of Roman Catholics, and it was also busy in prompting the "Bóxers in 1900.
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the Chief Justice has not approved, and the approval can it go into operation. Presumably matter will be allowed to drop. If our surmise is correct, the condition that such sentences by the Judge of the Supreme Court has proved passed by a Provincial Court must be reviewed. a real safeguard to the freedom of the English Press in China.
has communicated the following statement to The Japanese Consul-General at Shanghai the Press in connection with the burning of the Palace at Seoul:-On the 14th inst. at 10 p.m. a fire broke out from the Kanneiden Building of the Corsan Imperial Palace and al- foreign type were entirely burnt down. The buildings except only one building of the Emperor had be taken himself to the Library belonging to the Imperial Household Depart- ment. The fire started accidentally in a cham- ber of the Kanneiden Building where the Kang (native fire-place) was being in repairs. During the conflagration our gendarmes and goldiers exerted their utmost for the personal safety of the Emperor and for controlling the fire. This deed of our soldiers has caused a very good feel- ing in the Imperial Household. The Foreign Ministers to Corea, too, expressed their thanks for the efforts used by our soldiers in protecting the Legations near the Palace.
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