Besides the Naval Club, there is also a Gurrison Club where private theatricals are frequently given, and the Officers' Club that is now being built in New Town. w think, be one of the handsomest thin, its kind in the Far East, It will cost about £50,000 sterling and will be sumptuously fitted up in every way so that it will in fact be a regular palace in whose halle the highest of the Russian nobility might—and undoubtedly. will—give and be given enter tainments Without any incongruity. Taking it all round, Port Arthur promises to be magnificent social centro in a short tim Port Arthur in 1903, This is the title of an article which Colonel Artemeieli writes in the "Novi Kral" of Sunday last. The Colonel takes a broader view of the question than one might hava expected of a military man, for he thinks that now that Port "Arthur has ceased to be a mere camp and become a busy commercial centre something should be done towards giving it the privileges enjoyed by other Russian towns and letting the commercial class have a greater voice in municipal concerns. 'The Colonel does not, of course, say that Port Arthur should' be Russian town, Its peculiar position neces:
governed in exactly the same way as a. sarily requires some alteration in the municipal regulations in vogue in Russia. he two points on which the Colonel insists are: regulations concerning the rights of election {1) the necessity of changing, the present possessed by householders; and (2) the necessity of appointing civilians to administer municipal affairs as in the West. The writer does not think that the foreign element is its ea-operation in municipal affairs peanut to be feared, on. the contrary ho says" that but be for the great good of the town, "Finally," ho asks, "is the population of Port Arthur, on the whole, of a worse type than the population of Shanghai; and, if it is not of a worse type, why not have popular Government here as well as in Shanghai?"
The Manchurian Highwaymen.
An expedition orga 3 Staff here against. the Manchurian Highwaymen who have been proving troublesome of late, has proved successful. The scene of the operations was the Liao River and the Chinese were under the command of Messieurs Tulen-Sang and Fales-hea. The fourth part of a brigade took part in the operations." In an action at the village of Valin, the Highwayman were completely d: fc.tal, The Hussian losses were four killed and ton wounded, one offer being in the latter
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