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THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. LX.]
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China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
Epitome
Leading Articles:-
The New Treaty Ports Colonies in Leading Strings
The Battle of Diplomacy
Unreliable Authorities
HONGKONG, MONDAY, 19TH SEPTEMBER, 1904.
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The China Medal with clasp for the relief of Peking has been presented to Mr. A. W. Harvey Bellingham.
The German company of Volunteers at Shanghai has just won the inter-company challenge shield for the third time, beating the 199 English artillery by three points,
The "Yellow Peril"
Again.
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Continuing Education
Hongkong Jottings
Hongkong Legislative Council
Supreme Court
Marine Court
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Hongkong Cotton Spinning, Weaving, &o, Co., Ld.205 The Chinese Engineering and Mining Co., I d.......26
Canton
Pakhoi
Correspondence
Hongkong Blue Book
The Coming Man in China
A Shanghai Admiralty Court..
"Yellow Peril" in New Guise
Currency Reform in China
Chinese Methods
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Settlement of the Shihen Anti-Catholic Troubles...208
"Gneisenau" Captain Fined
Native Fighting Near Shanghai
Neutral Goods on Japanese Ships
Important Japan-Cores Agreement
Impudent House Boys
Snakes in Hongkong
The Winning Number
Royal Hongkong Yacht Club.
Cricket League Annual Meeting
Trade Items
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Hongkong
Miscellaneous
Commercial
Shipping
BIRTHS.
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The sailors of the U.S.S. Wisconsin gave a dramatic entertainment on the foc'sle deck at Shanghai on the 9th instant. They played a piece called “In Virginia."
The Japanese Authorities have been notified by the Swiss Government that the Empire of China joined the International Red Cross Convention on the 29th of June last.
The St. Andrew's Society Bursary Committee at Shanghai has decided to offer two prizes of $100 each, to be competed for by Scottish youths there, at a special examination in Scot- tish history, geography, and literature.
.2 8 A telegram from Newchwang reports a 208 collision that occurred on the 6th instant between the steamer Yatsu Maru and the 209 gunboat Atago at Newohwang. The Yatau 209 Maru sank at 2.30 p.m. in front of the Eastern Customs. The total loss is estimated at a 29 hundred thousand yen.
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On the 28th August, at Kuling, the wife of WILLIAM KELLY, of a son.
On the 10th September, at Shanghai, to Mr. and Mis. THOMAS HENRY HARRIS, & daughter.
MARRIAGE.
On the 6th September, at St. Joln's Pro-Cath e- dral, Shanghai, by the Venerable Archdeacon Thomson, the Rev. ROBERT C. WILSON, of Bethel, Vermont, to SARAH TAYLOR RHETT, second daugh- ter of the late JOHN RHETT, of South Carolina.
DEATH.
On the 1st August, at Ware (England), LYDIA, widow of Right Rev. G. SMITH, D.D., first Bishop of Victoria, Fongkong, aged 85 years.
Hongkong Weekly Press.
It is rumoured that several more
Roman
Catholic priests (Belgians) have been killed in the Ichang District. Last week the N.-C. Daily News reported that four French torpedo-boat destroyers and one French gunboat were all in readiness to leave Hankow for Ichang, presum- ably on account of these rumours.
Sharji Chwastji Sanjana, the Parsee barris- ter desired at Bombay to answer a charge of forgery, left for India, in custody of Inspector Power (Bombay Police), by the P. & O. 8.8. Chusan. He was, brought from Manila and his rendition was it will be remembered, obtained from the Hongkong Government.
The Shanghai police locked up an American drunk. Consul Goodnow, having tried the case, sailor who had a loaded revolver, and seemed confiscated the revolver; and as the Court rose, he said to the English constable Goddard: As you have succeeded so well in preventing any possible disturbance on the part of the
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ARRIVAL OF MAILS!
The French Mail of the 5th ult. arrived, per the s.s. Australien, on the 13th inst.; the Ger- man Mail arrived, per the a.s. Sachsen, on the 15th inst, ; and the French Mail of 19th alt. is expected to arrive, per the s.s. Salasic, some time to-day, the 19th inst,
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
Russia has announced a new issue of notes.
▲ treaty between Great Britain and Tibet was signed on September 7th.
The Japanese have been distributing relief to the Chinese round Haicheng.
much pleasure in presenting you with the revol- ver with my compliments.'
The Buddhists in Hunan, being somewhat alarmed at the possibility of having their temples changed into schools by the Government, hare, says the N.C. Daily News, hit upon & happy device to avoid such a calamity. Several of the Buddhist temples in this province have passed into the hands of Japanese priests now in the province, with the object of avoiding the for schools, seeing they belong to foreigners. possibility of their being used by the Government
The Liaoyang victory cost Japan nearly 18,000 men killed and wounded. Russian losses numbered 30,000. Both these estimates were official. General Sassulitob was wounded and captured with 3,000 of his men. There is no authentic news of Port Arthur at the time of going to press, but the Japanese are believed to be hammering away at the inner defences of the fortress. Preparations are nearly all made in the Japanese cities for a celebration of the fall of Port Arthur.
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The Chinese soldiers, massed outside the old ́ city of Yungp'ingfu have devised a somewhat unusual scheme for directing people to the camp. Along the road that runs from the East gate of the city, on the walls of various temples and compounds, they have painted the figure of a foreign soldier. It is ourious to meet a crude painting of a German or Japanese soldier standing to the salute, in a distriot so generally free from the actual presence of foreigners, other than missionaries.
The staff of the Shanghai Branch of the Inspectorate-General of Customs is being rapidly scattered. Sir Robert Bredon, K.C.M.G., is in Japan, and his future movements not known. His private secretary, Mr. Commijs, is ordered to Tientsin; Mr. Ready goes to Shasi to not as Commissioner; M. de Bondy is transferred to Mr. Tochtermann to Peking. The N.-C. Daily Ningpo, Mr. Hemerling to Newchwang, and News understands that the other three members of the staff. Messrs. Lowder, Bowring, and · ́ Sandercock, have not yet received their instruc- tions.
A sensational escape from the Shanghai American Consular Gaol is recorded. G. T. Odlum, who is undergoing a sentence of 24 years' imprisonment for fraud at Canton, escaped' from the cell in which he was confined at 2 a.m. He effected his escape by sawing through the Bailey on the charge of helping Odlum to escape, bars. They have arrested an Englishman called Odlum has since been caught. He was found hidden in a chest of drawers at his friend's house. He gets ninety days' extra of rigorous imprisonment. His English friend was being
tried at the British Court.
the question of the establishment of a police school at Tai-yuan-fu, capital of the province, He states that for the purpose of training modern police experts for service in the various districts where police forces will be organised as commanded in Imperial edicts, he has now opened this school with 60 youths who are to be taught by three Japanese police officers who will be engaged at monthly pay of between $200 and $120 per man, with free quarters. The course of the students is now temporarily fixed at one year, owing to the urgent demand for # them in the province. The expenditure will be . Tls. 12,000 per annum.
The Governor of Shansi has memorialised on
The Peking correspondent of the Shanghai Mercury sent the following sensational story dated August 27th. A most pitiful incident occurred last evening at the quarters of the British Legation Guard. Someone went to an officer of the Guard and said that one of the soldiers was insane. The officer went to the barracks to investigate and found the soldier in the act of cutting up his clothes. He then got out into the street and ran as far as the French Hospital on Legation Street, where he was followed by some English soldiers. In front of the hospital were a number of Chinese coolies with their jinrickshas. The insane man carried his bayonet at his side, and with this he started to stab the coolies. After making every possible effort to stop him, the pursuing soldiers shot him. He was taken to the American Legation Guard hospital, where itű was thought that he was only slightly wounded, An examination was made by an English and an American surgeon, and it was found that he had been shot through the addomen, and he died a few minutes,'
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