Hong Kong Telegraph 1894-11-03

Hong Kong Telegraph 1894-11-03

Year: 1894

THE WAR IN THE NORTH THE OPIUM REVENUE In our issue of the 19th ultimo we called attention to the fact that owing to the irritating and unwarranted interference with the Opium Farmer in the conduct of his business by the Water Police, in the presumed interests of the Chinese Customs, the market value of the monopoly had fallen in recent years from $39,800 to &24,000 a month, which was the highest offer made for three years lease from the eat March of next year to the end of February, 1898. At the same time we pointed out that the Government, owing to the peculiar, not to say suicidal, policy pursued having practically killed the goose that laid the horns of a dilemma, for they were confronted on the hand with a certain loss to the revenue amounting to at least THE CLUB v. ARMY AND NAVY THE TRUTH ABOUT THE INVASION OF CHINA EUROPEAN ARBITRATION BY LADY COOK , NEE TENNESSEE C. CLAEFIN NAVAL JOTTINGS THE EFFECT OF THE WAR OF CHINESE POLITICS MR. A. R. COLQUHOUN INTERVIEWED "The war," continued Mr. Colquhoun, "has made clear that while Japan has signally profited by the lessons of the west, China has completely filled to do so; but it should be realized that the success of Japan is mai