THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
VOL. LX.]
CONTENTS.
Epitome
Leading Articles :—
Russia Bad Coloniser
Rostmen's Strike at Canton
A. Protest Against I evity
An Afforestation Scandal Occupation af Lhassa
Chinese Classical Ballads
Are we Degenerating?
Hongkong Jottings
The War
War Items
Supreme Court
Hongkong Sanitary Board .......
Inquest
Canton Notes
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 13TH AUGUST, 1904.
The Matin assured its readers that twenty submarines (officially labelled torpedo-beats") had been sent to Vladivostock.
Communications between our forces in Lhassa and the end of the wire at Gyantse are 110 | being kept up by mounted infantry.
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The Russians are compelling the local officials of Liaoyi and Hsinan to supply them with cattle and carts, contrary to the provisions of 112 Treaty.
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Hongkong and Whampoa Deck Co., Ld. Hongkong, Canton and Macao Steamboat Co., Ld.119 North Borneo Trading Co., L...
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Correspondence
Story of the Maharajah's Wreck ......... New Steam Laundry for Kowloon
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Baron Gordon Wrecked
Hongkong
Miscellaneous
Commercial
Shipping
BIRTH.
On the 8th August, at Blackhead's Point, loon, the wife of G. PRIEN, of a son.
Writing to a member of the Daily Press staff. Dr. Sven Hedin, the famous explorer of Central Asia, describes the Japanese as the most noble and clever nation in the world."
The Secretary to the Admiralty considers the reports about H.M.S. Centurion's gun sights exaggerated. She is he told Mr. Gibson Bowles. quite fit to go into action.
The Duke of Marlborough. Under Secretary of State for the Colonies, has consented to be come a Vice President of the Royal Colonial Institute, in succession to the late Sir James Youl.
The British Tibet expedition marched into 120 Lhassa on the 3rd inst. unopposed, the Chinese Amban assisting in the necessiry negotiations consequent on the cecupation of quarters in the Grand Lama's stronghold.
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The Courrier Saigonnais states that the French Government has sanctioned the con- struction of a large floating dock for Saigon. A scheme is also on foot for the creation of a Kow-good harbour and dock at Haiphone.
Hongkong Weekly Press.
HONGKONG OFFICE: 14, DES VEUX ROAD CL LONDON OFFICE: 131, FLEET STREET, EC.
ARRIVAL OF MAILS.
The English Mail of the 15th July arrived. r the steamer Coromandel, on Thursday, the
11th inst.
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
Telegrams relating to the war will be found on p. 114.
Brig. Gen. Funston, the officer who organized and commanded the expedition which captured Aguinaldo, head of the Filipino insurrection, has been appointed to the command of the Atlantic Division of the United States army.
The Times announced on the 4th ult. that the Baltic fleet would leave about the middle of August, accompanied by twenty transports and several ships recently purchased by Russia abroad, as well as by vessels of the Volunteer Fleet.
A London telegram to the Asuhi announces of the Vladivostock squadron as a that the U.S. Government regards the actions menace to trade between the States and Japan on the Pacific, and is ready to take vigorous action if
necessary.
Following the example of Hongkong, the Board of Health in Manila has begun a crusade against the mosquito. All pools and stagnant water in the low-lying suburbs are to be liberally sprinkled with petroleum, which is an efficacious remedy for destroying the pest in its germinat-
More drifting mines are reported in the ing stage.
Gulf of Pechili.
The Sultan of Brunei has already lost five Reports from Johannesburg state that the sons as well as a grandson by the small-pox Chinese coolies are promising well.
Kobe is still getting ready for the fall of Port Arthur. Huge triumphal arches are on order.
The increase in the export of tea from China this season is regarded by the Ceylon papers as
alarming."
Mr. Durnovo, Mr. von Plehve's Chief Assist ant, has been appointed Russian Minister of the Interior ad interim.
epidemic prevailing there. A telegram to the
Straits Timers states that on the 2nd inst. it was estimated that about 1.000 persons had died. The epidemic was reported to be spreading to Tutong and Balait.
An influential Chinese paper recently stated that it was China's interest to check the Tibetans from resisting the British Expedition, if Tibet were not to share the fate of India. In view of China's earlier failures to influence Tibet, we must attribute their present passivity
to some other reason.
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The American squadron has been ordered to Smyrna. There has been a recrudescence of the Armenian agitation; the continued burning of Armenian villages, and the »bsenos of active Russian intervention, has revived the old troubles, aud the American ships are going to guard American interests. Germany is also on the qui vive,
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monk in Burma, namely, a Mr. C. Roberts, Another European has become a Buddhist
who lately arrived at Rangoon from Singapore. Mr. Roberts accompanied the Secretary-General of the International Buddhist Society on his recent tour, as far as Saraing, and was there ordained as Samanera, or Novice, under the name of Dipalamkara.
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In the House of Lords on the 12th ult., in reply to the Earl of Portsmouth, the Duke of Marlborough admitted that Sir Ernest Blake,
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director. He had, however, placed himself in of the Crown Agents, was a company the hands of the Colonial Secretary. The Colonial Secretary has since decided that Sir Ernest Blake must retire from the directorate of the company concerned.
The Russian newspaper Wostotschny Westnik, of Vladivostock. is a sufferer by the war, and has very probably by now ceased publica tion. Die Buchdrucker Woche, which reached us by the last mail, remarks that the Rus- sian journal was reduced to printing its issues on its remaining stock of wrapping. paper.
The Japanese had captured its consignment of paper, which is surely not (our German contemporary thinks) “kriegskonter- bande."
Naval gossip says that Lord Charles Beres- ford will take command of the Mediterranean squadron after his term as Commander-in-Chief of the Channel Fleet expires. If Sir A. K. Wilson does not succeed Sir Compton E. Domvile it is extremely likely, the L. & C. Express thinks. that Lord Charles will, and the officers and men of the Mediterranean Squadron would be glad to have him back again. Vice- Admiral Sir A. W. Moore is being mentioned as the next Commander-in-Chief of the Channel Fleet.
The Royal approval is announced of the fol- lowing appointments: Sir Clement Courtenay Knollys, K.C.M.G., at present Colonial Secre- tary of Trinidad and Tobago, to be Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of the Leeward Islands, in succession to Sir Gerald Strickland. appointed to be Governor of Tasmania. Sir Frederick M. Hodgson, K.C.M.G., Governor of Barbados, to be Gover- nor of British Guiana, in succession to Sir James Alexander Swettenham, who has been appointed Governor of Jamaica.
An action has been raised in the Edinburgh Court of Sessions to reduce the will of Sheriff Thomas, who was Sheriff of Orkney and
Shetland. In his will the late Sheriff ordered that he Was to be buried in B wicker coffin and made extraordinary bequests. In his lifetime he used to fine his servants for slight offences. He also fined his cat if it disturbed the peace of the house, and fined himself if he broke the rules which he adopted for his personal guidance. Another curious whim of Sheriff Thomas was to keeple “laughing waist- coat," with elastic sides, which he used to wear at dinner.
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