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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 34, 10 February 1904, Page 4

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fiGLV FORTIFIED tt Press Association's at Pekm, writing on, f durjqg rtbe wouuc oi ! military and naval which were completed ftcfcroy's review of the )Wenwd a fever of war The immense forces tout the peninsula, and magnitude of the work fortifications kindled many alarmist rumours f rurmstrod fuel to keep Port Arthur being at and miliary station, jf the service being the a population most in ny of them with a hunpork in tiro line ol their here could be no more ar planting war ularms. tte street reports were tt«d, Japan.had declared k morrow England had ■; then the Japanese Jfeaainpho, and forty lOps were landed at Fuhich the annexation of / proclauned in Tokio. i launched by passengers pats, or springing up overable basis, were actoly by many people as j history of the day, snd tted the drawbacks of mmental control of tho aywhere people would . to'the newspapers for or denial of these storwhere one newspaper, jtree times a week, and colonel on tho Viceroy's

It, his desk in full ord at his side, supof a Russian-speak-ot some two hunula, no one depends or guidance. As leuvrcs were finished •an to subside. The 1 as saying that he (St way to prevent w lie was strong , any probable enreview of the army an exhibition for . -of other nations ittls doubt, because S FOB PEACE. (lioi on ait Port Are Siberian railroad j furnisti-guarantees ild not wish to proen years.ago, l'ort gjSall Chinese town, or three years it will aid finest E»ropean East, as woll as one fortilied naval slaorW. Dalny, which jatronagc of M. De its pi ospects had belefore he resigned his wly to be gradually is nominally the t»rilway, but no largo government wortts, ion save those cont of eetaMis-hing two U station, as was r the original plans, commercial terminus Railway, which Bald to become. Th« aqriicap, but now the which was a shallow ittg dredged, and a urge enough to float •chant ships that is there for many years, our the new town i; , complete city, wit* bus-mess Mocks, revery handsome ant barracks and hostile next three yean Hon of the old town, of a jumbled collccrooden buildings hudnaval docks. of th(

harbour, will be aestroyeo, ami BskF* tuTc9MB93^ 1 establishments will fflfartef? in tnc new city> ' QUE EFFECT OF WAR. 1 -Ope efSpct of war which would be W*i He& b> all foreigners in tho Far Bast %£&- ,woff!abe-'tße tempoiary stoppage of tff'-abV Siberian- Hallway service. Alijba Vrfesiiy tot Hne, with the other Rus|pl|''^j&lM»lterprises> has worked great HP? ckftages 4n this part of the world, is continuing to make them. lfw< jCuropeen mails are being "received ffilP*''}* Tientsin' and Pekin- within twenty B§JTjrtf«ys from London and Paris, whereas _u» time by steamers has been SJk\ " from thirty to foity days. This is Kg';? *a iniprojlfenient winch Is appreciated IgV"- --te almost .every foreigner in Japan cv/ " .'*tfl»d the northern h«M of China. More j>f^'"'trateUaware coming -to Northern J» "., ""CWna. Indeed, Fclnn, where a tourjfesjj formerly a rarity, is brought g>^'T TrttHn the globe trotter's circuit, P&f-and l» becoming one of the popular Sur-tJ »f*o9rpl*<B* Pf the East. There arc fF. L otfaer evidenee* of the changes due to fplz'l The merchants of ? - T T4entftn,- and Niu-Ohwang are beginr' mag to complain that they are losy* _ .. ing muoh of the tux business. For- * i . merly tbe furs came from t'hc inter;v- .» jgr, to these ports for shipment sH* . abroad, but now they are beginning $»-*- to find their way to the railway ccn- ;~< Ues in Russia has in Niu-chwang an exgt ' _ceecUngly valltajLue prize. The amount yJL* t pf tbe cjistpm duties which are being "r ' collected at the port by Sir Robert Host's staff and handed over to the . Russian Administration, is about ' s>ne million taels a year, while the <*.C-' iikin •duties collected directly by the ~" Russian officials amount to half a '■• _ This far e weeds the ext ; (lenses ot the Russian civil Govern2>tv-. ffcftgarrison, In addition jfcvj ' Russia la njuking fine JJai'gains in real estate. The Cllnese merchants Hussion officials, and many of them to get their property unioreign protection by making to foreign "atr&wmen," and the deeds registered in the i ' •%> CENTRE OF DISCORD. ' , _ The- residents of Niu-Chwang pre--'dtct'o>atfthe town will be the scene of International difliculties Ijetween the different officials during the com- "-% ing *,injer, as it was last winter. \\ * .-Theßussian Go\eniihent has station? a J„ «d two.gunfaoatfl there, and the Urit's.' . ish gunboat Espiegle, the American ' and probably a Japanese - t \ will ipai/a in the mud dopks., The , j 'Russian officials aro not pleased at ,V . th« presence of the foreign craft, re- ► » memi>erj«||, file troubles; which) ic- " lulled frpm the same conditions last 't- year The anomalous situation at >■. , Kiii-ChjMpg, with the foreign C'on- ■ , aula accredited to the Chinese Government while, Russia is the real , governing power, does not tend to promote harmonious relations. In tbe exercise of police power the Russian soldiejß were frequently called upon to arrest foreign sailors. The Consuls, particularly Mr Miller, the r American, representative, questioned tin authority of the Russians to interfere ipith foreign sailors. Considerable correspondence waa exchanged, but i no real understanding was reached.' The Russian officials lia-ve recently approached the foreign " merchants' witii tho suggestions that an international municipal council should be organised for the town, fr which would have two British and one Aiuorican member, wtiioso acts would be. subject to the approval of the Russian administrator. Roth tfie :•" _ 'Cbnltils and the merchants regard **Je ~ the plan Witto disfavour, the Consuls jj£ , because it would deprive them of a •tjt- -1 part of tho authority they now have, jg» npA he of Russian sov- : £g£Sg&Si-M$ the merchants because *B?V' d P n °t wlsll t0 exchange their WgX. fre«ent" estra-territorial rights to subject .to the jurisdiction of adniinistraticni.