Hong Kong Telegraph 1895-04-20

Hong Kong Telegraph 1895-04-20

Year: 1895

THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE MEETING THE RESULTS OF THE WAR In reviewing the report of the Chamber of Commerce for 1894 we may at once leave out consideration and put aside all those portions of the report and correspondence which refer to the war between China and Japan; the treaty between Japan and England; the preferential duties at Canton; the transit pass question, and the reatric-tions on the importation of machinery into China, for they are to-day ancient history. The war between China and Japan is at an end. Japan has won a stupendous victory. China has sustained an igno-minious defeat. There will be no further question between England and Japan as to treaty revision or reconsideration, or as to any further postponement of the coming into operation of that treaty. Japan is now a power in the world and will pro-bably demand and receive permission to resume at once, in her own territories, the SANITATION THE PROMENADE CONCERT HONGKONG SKY RACES, 1895 BRITISH POLICY IN THE FAR EAST In a recent issue under the heading of "Shall we Muzzle Japan?" the James's Gazelle wrote:-"No doubt, if Japan seeks-as she probably may some day-to break up China. We must interfere. But there is not mu