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Yokohama Specie Bank Ld.
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 27TH AUGUST, 1904.
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A recent investigation shows that the number of Russian prisoners now in Japan is 1,500, and that of Russian dead buried by Japanese troops on various fields of battle is 2.600.
It is stated at St. Petersburg that the im- 146 pending manifesto of the Tsar on the occasion of the birth of the Tsarevitch will include the 147 abolition of the knout for exiles, and of corporal 147 punishment generally. 147 į
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148 General Van Hentsze has been appointed Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies. The Queen recently complimented the General and the Indian Army upon their services in the pacification of Acheen.
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Philippine Trade Despo: dent The War
The Chinese Rites for the dead
Cruisers
Exaggeration
Tariff Commission's Report
Hongkong Jottings
Supreme Court
Marine Court
Hongkong Hotel Co.
Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Co., Ld.
Frontier Notes
Cauton Notes
Typhoon at Hongkong.
The Festival for the dead
Anti-Japanese Manifesto in Corea
The Chekiang Riot Case
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Sugar in 1903-4
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Local Sport
Items
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Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation
China Trade
Hongkong
Miscellaneous Commercial Shipping
DEATHS.
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The war fever has penetrated to Seattle. It is stated that when a month or two ago a rail- way station was newly established at a town thirty miles distant from Seattle, it was named the Togo Station in honour of the Japanese.
A new line of telegraph connecting St. Petersburg directly with the station at Man 157 churaya, which is at the northern end of the 158 Manchurian Railway, has been installed in the space of 88 days. The length of this new line is 4,385 miles.
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On the 6th August, at Wanganui, New Zealand, ELIZABETH, relict of the late G. W, COLLINS, formerly of Tientsin.
On the 13th August, at Victoria Nursing Home, Shanghai, CHARLES SEMPLE WHITE LAW, son of Capt. and Mrs. J. WHITELAW, aged 13 months.
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ARRIVAL OF MAILS.
The French Mail of the 22a1 July arrived, per the s.8. Ernest Simons ou the 24th inst.. and the English Mail of the 29th July was due to arrive, per the s.8 Chusan, on the 25th inst
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
The Russians are still enlisting Chinese as soldiers and railway guards, paying them $12 month.
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The "Vigilance Committee" at Johannesburg lynched a negro last month for assaulting a white woman.
A proclamation on one of the city gates tells of the reappearance of bands of Boxers in several districts in Tsao and Yenchoufu.
The Amir of Afghanistan contemplates an electric installation at Kabul. It is hoped by this means to lessen the expenses of his small arm factory.
A Chinese authority of repu e says there is reason to believe that the Chinese Army of the future will be almost entirely remodelled after the Japanese system.
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The Sinu npao states that it is reported from Chefoo that the Russian Consul there has already begun building one-storey houses as well as huts near his place, which the Chinese work- men there declare are to house Russian sailors or other refugees who may escape to Chefoo from
Port Arthur.
The city of Dalny is reported to be assuming a lively air under Japanese domination. A number of foreiguers have taken up their residence in the place. Several Chinese have left Chefoo with the intention of locating at that port. The Yokohama Specie Bank has established an agency which is now ready for
business.
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The Shanghai Municipal Council, anxious to further the social purity crusade in that Settlement, invited the Consuls to lay their heads together and agree upon more uniform be convicted. The Senior Consul replied that and drastic penalties for such persons as might
there could be no interference with the right of the various nationals to be tried by their own Consuls.
Referring to the insurrection in Szechuan, a despatch from Chengtu, the capital of that province, reports that the Tibetans on the west- ern borders of Szechuan, having combined with the aboriginal Minotso tribes in their vicinity, have started an insurrection in Ningyuan pre. fecture and have killed several of the mandarins there. Viceroy Hsi Liang has sent the prefect of Chengtu with two battalions of troops to put down the insurrection.
The Brunswick Landeszeitung hears from a most trustworthy source that the German Crown Prince will start on a royage round the world at the beginning of the autumn. The voyage is to be inade on board the training-ship Charlotte, which is at present undergoing re- pairs in the shipbuilding yard at Kiel. The rown Prince, it is stated, will have the same suite of cabins as was used by the late Duke Paul Frederick of Mecklenburg. His Royal Highness will not do duty as a naval officer during the voyare, but will devote his time to studying and gathering information.
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The British Minister wrote the other day a despatch to the Waiwupu that the British Consul at Canton had wired him that Viceroy Tsen Chun-hsuan having gone to Kwangsi the natives of Kwangtung are not quiet and that the local officials should be warned to suppress any disturbance before allowing any harm to be. done. It is also reported, says the Peking correspondent of the Mercury, that arms and ammunition are supplied to the Kwangsi rioters officials are warned to check the smugglers and from Hongkong and Singapore, and the local
cause their arrest and punish them if found.
The great activity among the warships of the belligerents has created a corresponding activity among the British fleet at Weihaiwai"; three torpedo-boats nightly patrol the waters in the vicinity, signalling all vessels within sight as to their port of departure and destination. All the ships of the fleet are under orders to be ready for sea and have steam up at half-an-hour's notice. Not infrequently when a number of the sailors are ashore a signal is hoisted for their immediate return on board, and then may be seen the scurrying of feet from all directions towards the harbour, and sometimes it happens that a band from one of the ships is playing ashore, and in the same manner they also ent short their programme and skedaddle for the nearest conveyance to take them aboard.
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The authorities of the Kiench'ang valley have been having a lot of trouble with the so-called Lolos of south-west Szechuan. According to a N.C. Daily New correspondent in the north, soldiers were sent to punish these tribes, and in the first fight the tribes were badly beaten. Then one of the tribesmen thought of a plan. A lot of goats were gathered together and torches tied to their horns. These were driven in the
direction of the Chinese camp at night. The
celestials fell into the snare and advanced to meet the foe with the courage begotten of vic- tory. The hillmen in the meantime got round to the rear of the Chinese troops and inflicted a severe defeat on them, killing several hundred. Can any of these brave warriors have read the story of Hannibal's campaign in Campania, or there are brave hearts defending hearth and does history unconsciously repeat itself wherever
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There have been placards of great importance appearing in Peking of late, not circulated secretly in the teashops, but openly posted near the Yamen, and we are glad to say that the British Consul-General through Taotai Yang, the emigration Commissioner, has drawn the Viceroy's attention to these, and demanded their suppression. These placards have been directed against the emigration of coolies for the Rand, and are a tissue of falsehoods fabrica- ted by some evilly disposed persons for the obvious purpose of inciting the people to oppose the exodus. Tsotai Yang points out that the smigration having been approved by the Govern- ment, and the regulations approved by the Viceroy this sort of thing should be severely dealt with. The Chinese Government are about to appoint Consuls to South Africa, and there is moreover no likelihood of the British authorities in any way failing to fulfil their obligations, and there is consequently nothing to fear from the Trans- raal authorities or the mine owners. H.E. the Viceroy on receiving this representation has sent out special police to arrest the offenders in all these cases, and put a stop to the annoyance, ---Peking Times.
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