Cheung Choi Leung Chon Chan Ping Li Ty Wong Po
Wong Chang
Chan Fat Chon Kai Tung Fat Tao Chang Chan Chou
Tung Fat,
Sailors (16).
Li Weng
Tong He Lan Chon Sin Yue Chan Kin
Firemen (16).
Chou Hung Chou Dong Lum Choy Wong Kui Jung Yui
Li Fan
Wong Fook Do Wing Ah Chon Chung Sam
Wong Chou Leung Chou Chon Sing Chan Fook Li Cheong.
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British steamship "St. Kilda " which sailed from Hong Kong at 9 A.M. on that morning with general cargo for Kobe and Yokohama, including rice consigned to private firms at those places, was captured by the " Dnieper" about 4 P.M. in the afternoon and sunk on the following morning.
2. I have now the honour to transmit, in case it should be required in connection with any action His Majesty's Government should see fit to take in the matter, a copy of the manifest of the "St. Kilda as declared before a notary public.
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3. I have informed you by telegraph† of the despatch of this document.
I have, &c.
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Commander I.R.N.
T. SKALSKY,
No. 193.
M. NATHAN,
Governor, &c.
PUBLIC
RECORD
OFFICE
monimnim
May, 1905.
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Enclosure 6 in No. 196.
Russian cruiser "Dnieper,"
off Diamond Point, Sumatra, Sunday afternoon, June 11, 1905.
PLEASE spread the news as best you can, locally or otherwise, that the Liverpool steamer "St. Kilda was captured by the above cruiser last Sunday, 60 miles off Hong Kong, and was sunk.
All the officers and engineers, cook, steward, boatswain, and mess-room steward have requested to be taken as near home as the cruiser can take them, and are likely to be taken to the Baltic.
R. T. YOUNG,
Enclosure 7 in No. 196.
Chief Engineer, late steam-ship "St. Kilda,"
Hong Kong to Kobe.
Telegram from the GOVERNOR, Hong KONG, to the GOVERNOR, Singapore.
(As deciphered.)
"ST. KILDA" sailed for Kobe on 1st June with general cargo, consigned to private firms at Kobe and Yokohama,"
荡荡
including rice
SIR,
FOREIGN OFFICE TO COLONIAL OFFICE.
(Received July 21, 1905.)
[Answered by L. F. transmitting copy of No. 207.]
Foreign Office,
your
July 20, 1905. I AM directed by the Marquess of Lansdowne to acknowledge the receipt of letter of the 12th instant (23121:1905), inclosing a report from the Governor of Hong Kong, respecting the movements of vessels suspected of having been in attendance upon belligerent fleets.
With regard to the case of the steam-ship "Syfang," which has apparently acted in contravention of the undertaking given by her master that she would not attend on any belligerent as a collier, I am to state, for Mr. Secretary Lyttelton's information, that his Lordship is in communication on this matter with the Commissioners of His Majesty's Customs who have been requested to furnish his Lordship with any information which can be obtained as to the future movements of the vessel.
As regards the question of instituting proceedings under The Foreign Enlistment Act against the Agents of the "Poschan," to which Sir M. Nathan refers in paragraph 10 (2) of his despatch, I am to state that Lord Lansdowne is of opinion that the matter may be left to the discretion of the Governor, in consultation with the Attorney-General of Hong Kong.
I am at the same time to express his Lordship's appreciation of the very able, prompt, and lucid manner in which Sir M. Nathan has dealt with the various cases which have arisen in connection with this subject.
1 am,
&c.
F. A. CAMPBELL.
No. 197.
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No. 199.
STRAITS SETTLEMENTS.
Reference :-
| ALLY WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE BE REPRODUCED PHOTOGRAPHIC- COPYRIGHT PHOTOGRAPH-NOT TO
9 PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON
HONG KONG.
GOVERNOR SIR M. NATHAN TO MR. LYTTELTON.
(Received July 17, 1905.)
[Copy of Enclosure to Foreign Office, July 22, 1905, L. F.]
(Confidential.)
Government House, Hong Kong, June 16, 1905.
SIR,
FROM the second Enclosure to my Confidential despatch of the 14th instant.* on the subject of the capture of the British steamship Oldhamia," by the Russian Volunteer ship "Dnieper," you will have learnt that the latter vessel was in the neighbourhood of Swatow on the afternoon of the 4th, and from the telegrams which the Governor of Singapore informs me he has sent to you, you will be aware that the
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GOVERNOR SIR J. ANDERSON TO MR. LYTTELTON. (Received July 24, 1905.)
[Copy to Foreign Office, July 26, 1905, L. F.]
Government House, Singapore, June 29, 1905.
(No. 287.) SIR,
WITH reference to my telegram of even date,§ as to the steam-ship " Aparima,"
I have the honour to acquaint you that the entry in the official log of that vessel is as follows:--
"27th June, 1905. The steam-ship 'Aparima was stopped at 2-15 P.M. by the Russian Imperial cruiser 'Terek,' in latitude 2° 22′ south, Tongitude 109° 21′ east. After the ship's papers had been examined the steamer proceeded at 3 P.M."
L. F. transmitting a copy of No. 194.
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↑ No. 184.
§ No. 191.
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