Hongkong, Dec. 10
'The chief topic here this week hasbeen the abnormal weather: conditions which ships are reporting Jon arrival, whether from north oF Jsouth. The exceptionally strong monsoon has delayed vessels from Singapore, Bangkok and other places to' the south to an extent: which has led in several cases fears for their safety.
One small coaster, the other day. took as long as a fortnight to do the voyage from Bangkok to Honglony having to put into shelter on way. In addition to the northeast monsoon, there have been remark-
Haishen, and Chiaho, the gunboats lennually. And being vitally interest- ably late typhoons, the last of which, Yunghsiaig and Chuyu, and the led in the efficient administration of at the beginning' of this month, destroyer Tungax—18,390 tons odd, [Tsingtao their ce-operation in its! tigzagged alarmingly for several days. with a complement of 1,200 sailors Jgovernance would be worth many ud 1,600 marines, bought over from times that amount. But the Chinese One ship was actually given up the South last. year for half a lakh: have so far shown themselves unwill-for lost—unofficially that is—but Jarrived here last week-end four days of dollars. "When Chang Tso-lin and ing to give them any locus standi in Joverdue and decidedly the worse for Wu Poi-tu last fought, Chang which they could really help. wear. This was. the Jardine, threatened Wu's flank by landing Matheson str. Hinsing, which took: men here, not openly or in large nine and a half days to arrive from. numbers, but unobtrusively and
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