THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
AND
China Oberland Trade Report.
VOL. LIX]
CONTENTS.
Epitome
Leading Articles :—
The War and International Politics Progress of the War...
British Policy at Weihai. Hongkong's Fire-Fighting Service
Hongkong Jottings
The War
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HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 21ST MAY, 1904.
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
The war news of the week has been of a most exciting and varied character. For the first tice we regret to have serious Japanese naval losses to record. On the 14th inst. the cruiser 378 Miyako touched a mine near Talienwan and blew up. Then, after some wild reports about losses of several Japanese warships, the news 37 reached Hongkong through an official despatch to the Japanese Consul yesterday morning stating for certain that the battleship Hatsuse 10 miles south-east of Laotishan promontory on the 15th iust, struck a Russian mechanical mine and sank. The Japanese cruisers saved 300 of the Hatsuse's crew, including Rear 387 Admiral Nashiba. Further, the despatch added 387 that the cruiser Yoshino in a deep fog off Shantung promontory the same/day was struck 387 and sunk by the Kasuga, 90 of the crew being 388 saved. Thus in two days Japan lost a battle- ship and two cruisers. On land, on the other hand, a severe blow has been struck at the 390 Russians Newchwang has been captured, Port 392 Arthur is completely isolated, and it is reported from Russian sources that the retreat on Harbin has been prevented. A Japanese force is said to have appeared north of Moukden, and a
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Hongkong Legislative Council
Hongkong Sanitary Board
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Collision between Hongkong and Canton
Dallas Co., at the Theatre Royal
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Canton
Supreme Court
Miscellaneous
Hongkong
Commercial
Shipping
BIRTH.
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On the 13th May, at 26, the Bund, Shanghai. the wife of J. D. SMART, of a son.
MARRIAGES
On the 11th April, at Durban, F. W. MITCHELL, son of late F. W. MITCHELL, of the Hongkong and hangbai Bank, to Amy SQUIRE.
On the 10th May, at Holy Trinity Cathedral, Shanghai, by the Rev. A. J. Walker, A. L. MAUDE SHORT, of Sherbrooke, Canada, to M. D. J. BRADT,
Tientsin.
DEATHS.
On the 8th April, at 67, S. Helen's Road, Hast- ings, JANE B. BROADBENT (née BLI88), wife of JAMES F. BROADBENT.
On the 5th May, at 17, Love Lane, Shanghai, ALBERT REGINALD, infant son of ALBERT WILLIAM and KATHARINE BURKILL.
On the 5th May, at 14, Bubbling Well Road, Shanghai, ЕDMUND HENRY GORE BOOTH, third surviving son of the late HENRY GORE BOOTH, second son of Sir ROBERT NEWCOMEN GORE Booтя, third Baronet, of Finadell Co., Sligo, Ireland, aged #8 years.
Russian retirement was contemplated; but Japan may have intercepted it. Great develop. ¡ments are now looked for on land.
It is officially notified that China has in- structed her representatives to assure the Powers that, come what may, she intends strictly to adhere to neutrality.
The Emperor of China is reported to have been ailing lately, and the Empress Dowager
has ordered him to rest. and two Court physicians to attend him.
The Russian Red Cross Society has received a telegram from its principal representative in the Far East testifying to the Japanese care of the Russian wounded at the Yalu.
General Pflug telegraphs that the Japanese advance to Liaoyang is characterised by indeci- Ja anese forces is a point beyond Haicheng. It sion. He supposes the objective of the principal is interesting to compare facts above stated.
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Reuter's correspondent at Gyangtse wired on the 13th instant that the Lamas were preaching On the 5th May, at 22. Miller Road, Shanghai, London correspondent telegraphed on the 18th Holy War against the British. Our
that the Tibetan forces opposing the British Mission are receiving reinforcements, including two big guns.
RUFUS F. EAST: ACK, aged 69 years.
On the 17th May, at the Government Civil Hospital, WILLIAM RALPH SEYMOUR, Junior As- sistant Master at Queen's College, aged 31 years.
The two Japanese executed at Harbin for trying to destroy a bridge were not army
Hongkong Weekly Press officers at all, but they were patriots, says a
HONGKONG OFFICE: 14, DES VEUX ROAD CL. LONDON OFFICE: 131, FLEET STREET, E.C.
ARRIVAL OF MAILS.
The English Mail of the 22nd April arrived, per the steamer Coromandel, on Thursday the
19th inst.
Japanese paper. Yokokawa Seizo was an
adventurous sceli, and Oki Teisuke was a teacher of Japanese at Peking, who joined the "Red-beards" at the beginning of the war.
No. 21
It is telegraphed from Paris that M. Doumer, President of the Budget Committee, in a speech questionable attitude of some Frenchmen tow- at a banquet this week, strongly condemned the
ards the Russian alliance. He said it was
impossible for France to side with "yellows" in a struggle between Western and Eastern civilisations.
The Times of Ceylon states that Mr. H. C. Nicolle, Local Auditor here until a few months ago, is to be appointed Treasurer of Ceylon, on the retirement of the Hon. H. Cameron, who goes on leave next month and retires three months later. If this be so. Mr. Nicolle's many Hong- kong friends will congratulate him heartily while regretting his loss to the Colony.
L'Echo de Chine has a leading article by their defeats by being assured that they have all X." in which the Russians are consoled for
occurred through their undervaluing their enemy. This will now he remedied, and in his concluding paragraph "X." warns the Japanese what they have now to expect "The wounded white bear will rise up again more terrible than ever, his fur bristling as he shakes off the few drops of blood which might stain his robe. and throws himself on his prey with little thought of pity as a slight irritation near his heart reminds him of the first bullet he received." This extraordinary outburst will doubtless console Russia for all her losses.
22 more Chinese plague cases. 17 of them fatal, have been reported since our last week's! issue. Apart from the 28 plague cases last week (26 fatal), the instances of communicable disease in the Colony were:-Enteric fever (1 European imported from Shanghai. 1 Japanese from Canton); smallpox 2 (Chinese, both fatal).
The following note of alarm is sounded in the P. and T. Times of the 30th ult:-Word reached Tientsin yesterday, 29th, from Taianfu, Shan- tung, giving information regarding a movement that is on foot in that vicinity. The secret societies have joined and formed a union against the Government and against foreigners. The people are leaving their homes in the country for the cities where they believe it will be safer. Members of some Missions who should be start- ing up about now for the annual meeting in Peking, write that things are in such a condi- tion that they think it best to stand by their work and converts at present. This is the place and district where the Boxer movement began. and where Mr. Brooks was murdered.
We received this week a visit from the Rev. Father F. R. Noval, of the Spanish Procuration, who asks us to point out, with reference to a statement the Giornale d'Italia, that it is not the Philippines as the result of the agreement true that the Dominican monks have to leave
between the United States and the Holy See.” There is no such agreement. There are still over 200 Dominican Fathers in the Philippines. they have still the College of S. Juan de Letran and the University of S. Thomas in Manila, and are founding two new colleges at Cagayan and Pangasinan. The Dominicans, it is true, will have a new institution in Japan-probably after the war-but not because of expulsion from the Philippines. With regard to the much-abused
Friars," it may be pointed out that the ex-Gover- norTaft's most noted utterance about them wasas follows:-"When I first went to the Philippines, I knew I was among a people almost entirely Catholic, and I quickly learned how much the Friars had done for the Filipinos. I have no hesitation in saying that the world is in these men's debt for Christianising and civilising those Malays, the only Malays ever converted to Christianity."
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