Shek Pai Wan, see Aberdeen
Shelley, A. F., Auditor-General, 46
Stanley, Lord, 39, 43, 46
Stanley (village), 3 5; barracks built,
Tai Kok Tsui, shipyards a :, ,i Tai Mei Tuk, 301
• ·•I
Shelley Street, r 5 5
Shen Zhen, occupied by Hong Kong Volunteers, 194; 195; murders
at, 196
Shen Zhen River, 193; Japanese cross, 258
Sheung Wan, 40, 46, r 3 r Shewan, Robert, r 8 r
Shewan Tomes and Company, r8r Shimonoseki, Treaty of, 207
Shing Mun, redoubt conquered, 258
3 5; temple at, 40; 60; school,
rr 5; pupils at school, rr 6; gaol built, 245; captured by Japanese,
261; settled in 1920s, 287
Star Ferry Company, post-war, 272; concourse, 309
Statue Square, 214, 24 1 Staunton Street, school at, r 14 Staunton, Revd V., r r6
Steam power, superseding junks, 1 60; impact of steam turbine on trade, r6r
Tai Mo Shan, occupie? by J-•.,· : i
forces, 25 8 ,
Tai Po, 219, transformed into ..,
town, 284-6; 301 .. .
Tai Po Hui, opposition to-the. Brirish at, 194
Tai Shan, customs station at, 19 5 '. ; Tai Tam, Tai Tam Gap, new re-.:
ervoir finished, 219; Governor opens stage two of reservoir, 221· Tai Tam Tuk, waterworks, opened,
210
, .
Taikoo Docks, inspected by Lugard, 206; 208; size, 208; strikes at,
post-war, 2 72
Taikoo Shing Estate, 286
Taiping Rebellion, 23, 65---:6, 71,
72; Bonham visits leaders, 73 ;
80; effects on Hong Kong, 87;
280
Taipingshan, 33, 55; fire in, 72;
roo, 107, 15 5, r55; and plague, r 8 5.; resumed by government and razed, 188
Taiwan, blockaded, 294
Tan Chung-lin, blamed by Blake for obstructing take-over of New Territories, r 94
w.;
Tanka village, 3 3 3
Tarrant, :;ues Ah Lum, 8 3 -4; 91 Tea, packing, ix; 8, rr, 65 ; adulter-
ated, 135
. Teacher training, 290
Telegraph, electric, established, in fluence on Hong Kong trade, r 3 2 Tenement housing, Chinese, plans,
154
Thatcher, Margaret, 321
Thracian, HMS, 254
Tianjin, 65, 80; Treaty Port, 82,
250
Tian Wang, 72
Tide Cove, 254; Japanese approach, 258
Times, The, on Anstey, 8 3; on Hong Kong society, 84; opinion on Hong Kong 18 59, 90
Tolo Harbour, 254 Totmochy, M. S., 3 29
Town planning, after typhoon, 13 r-2; thwarted, effect of Suez
- Canal and telegraph, l 3 2 Trade unions develop, 229
Tramway, first section opened 1904, 206; boycott by Chinese, 2 r 8 Tre1ty Ports, foreign factories in,
3 r, 64, 66, 207; Governor's
:. .-1sdiction abolished, 74; 9 5, n- 7-8
Treary of Tianjin, terms, signature
of, So; Chinese refuse to ratify, 8 2; signing, Sr; supplementary, 8r; ratified, 1860, 82; 93, 158
Trench, Sir David, 3 r 3
Triad societies, 104; problems with, 174, 312
Trieste, 73
Tropic (opium ship), 95
Tsim Sha Tsui, murder of Chinese at, 20, 94; 208, 2 I 5
Tsuen Wan (Gindrinkers Bay), water brought from, �99; 254
Tuchman, B. W., 331
· Tuen Mun, site of Tang garrison,
Portuguese at, 3 3 3; new industrial
estate, 297
Tung, Captain B., 6r
Tung Lo Wan, see Causeway Bay Tung Lung island, fort excavated,
333
Tung Wah Hospital, 104-5; open-
ed, 104; reception hall, 104; subscriptions to, 105-6; . and Chinese interests, and advice to Registrar-General, 106; Eitel's description of, 107; aids Po Leung Kuk, 108; powerful force, I Io; r r r; mediates in boatmen's strike, 170; 181; criticized over plague
treatment, 188; in the 1920s, 243 Turkey, ro
Twenty-one Demands, the, 225 Typhoid fever, originating m
brothels, r 5 3
Typhoons, 1841, 34-5 ; 18 67, 127;
18 74, 130-r; 142, 176; 1906
(effects), 209- 10; 210
Unequal Treaties, 30
United Members of the Executive and Legislative Councils (UMELCO), kept informed of negotiations on 1997, 3 22
United Nations, the, embargo on trade with China, 277-8
United States, and opium, ro; 65 ; embargo on goods to China, 295 University of Hong Kong, 21 2-13;
proposed by Lugard, 21 2; chairs endowed, Colonial Office's cool reaction to, composition pro posed, origin of students, 213; first Vice-Chancellor, 2 r 3; insuffic iently funded, share in Boxer Indemnity, 243 ; Rockefeller Foundation grant, 243 ; Fung Ping Shan Library, 243 ; expan sion before World War II, 243 ; post-war problems and develop ment, 290-2
Upper Wyndham Street, 143
Urban Council, the, born from the Sanitary Board 193 6, 243 ; lack of power, its membership, 243 ; absence of enthusiasm for, 243
Verandah, 146, 3 44 Versailles, Treaty of, 224
Viceroy of Guangdong-Guanxi, 80; deputy to, r 8 1; 193; and Lugard,
206, 210
Viceroy of Hebei-Hunan, and rail way funds, 205
Victoria (city), early development, 3 2-40; name adopted, 40; in the
Index
18 40s, 55-8; in 1846, 56; in late
1840s, 57; 59; Ice House Street,
73 ; water supply, 96, roo; 'filthy', r 53; Chinese schools in, 115; 131 , 174-6; in the late 19th
century, 176-8; Lord Curzon on, r 82; in chaos as Japanese poised to attack, 259
Victoria, Queen, 26; and Hong Kong, 3 r; Golden Jubilee, 18 87, 176; statue commissioned for Victoria city, 176; death of, 198;
24 1
statue of, 201, 201,
Victoria Peak, 27
Victoria (steamer), r 2 5
Vo/age, HMS, arnves m Hong Kong, 21
Wa Fu Estate, 287 Wade, T., 80
Wai Sing lottery (Guangzhou), r8r Waley, Arthur, 327
Wallis, Brigadier C., 256
Wan Chai, 55, 223 ; mob violence
m, 311
Wan Chai conspiracy, the, trial, 31 6
War Revenue Committee, the, set up, 153
Washington Naval Limitation Treaty, terms, signatories, 225; 2 54
Washington Treaties, the, 224 Water supply, 35; inadequate, 87;
insufficient, 96; partial failure of, 96; proposed source at Tai Tam, r 3 2; work delayed under Hen nessy, 148; continuing inad equacy, 152; Tai Tam scheme started, 166; conduit from Pok Fu Lam constructed, 132; Tai Tam Extension scheme, r 84; from Tsuen Wan, 199; provision for the New Territories, 199, 199; Tai Tam Tuk waterworks opened, 210; Kowloon waterworks com pleted, 214; post-war position, 272; Plover Cove, High Island Reservoirs constructed, 3 oo-r,
302
Watson, A. S., 227
Webb, Sir Aston, designs Supreme Court, 201
Weihaiwei (Weihai), returned to China, 332
Wei Yuk, becomes additional un official member of the Executive Council, 190
Wellington, Duke of, and opium, 12
Wellington Street, 40, 5 5, 56
West Point, army established at,
362 Index
34; Navy decides against movL to, 38-9; 64
Westminster Review, The, 7 5
Western Street, 33
Whitehead, T. H., opposes grant to Po Leung Kuk, 190; signs petition, 189
'Whitewash Brigade', the, 186-8 Whitfield, Major-General H. W.,
closes gaming houses, 1 26; and West Indian police, 1 29; 134
Williams, A. K., 3 31
Wing Lok Street, 1 3 3
J.
Winnipeg Grenadiers, sent to Hong Kong, 256
Wood, H. J., 3 27
World War I, 1, 222-3 ; effects in Hong Kong, 222; ends, 223
World War II, 1, 2, 254, 261
Wyndham Street, 56, Ioz
Xiamen (Amoy), 5, 28, 29, 30; Japanese land at, 254
Yan Wo opium firm, 181
Yangzi (Yangtze) River, Valley, 80, 164, 222, 294
Yankees, 77
Yau Ma Tei, new drainage begun,
Youde, Sir Edward, Governor, takes part in Sino-British negotiations,
322
Young, Sir Mark, arrives in Hong Kong, 249; rejects Japanese sur render demands, 260; surrenders to Japanese, 261 ; taken prisoner (to Wusong, Taiwan), 261; 260; returns to Hong Kong, takes over administration, 273; 'new angle of vision', 273 ; the 'Young Plan', 273-5 ; leaves Hong Kong, 274
'Young Plan', the, 273 -5; provi-
sions of, 2 74 Young, Dr W. S., 212
166
Wong,
Y., 327, 3 28
Yuan Shikai, 222, 225
Wong, L. S. K., 332
Wong Nai Chung Gap, captured by the Japanese, 261
Wong Shing (Dr Legge's collabor ator), 106; appointed to Legisla tive Council, taking Jackson's seat, 1 69; background, 1 69
Yeh Mingchen, Imperial Commis sioner, 78-81, 82
Yellow River, see Huang He
Yi ('barbarian', 'tribal person'), 7; use forbidden by Treaty of Tianjin 1858, 80
Yilibu, Imperial Commissioner, 29
Yuen Long, transformation from
village to New Town, 28 5-6
Yung Wing (pupil), 112
Zhoushan, ··24
Zhu Jiang (Pearl River), 5, 10, 1 2,
28, 65, 79, 302
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