Subject.
Page.
Serial No.
From or to whom.
Despatch No., &c.
Date.
Transmits copies of Nos. 9, 11, and 12 and requests that the contents of No. 12 may be communicated to the
owners.
September 6 States that the purport of No. 12 has been communicated to the owners of the vessel.
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1904.
25
To J. H. Welsford
September 8
and Co., Ltd.
Subject.
Page.
September 8
S.S. “Inkum.” Communicates No. 19; requests them to obtain an explanation from their agents as to statement in No. 16; acknowledges receipt of No. 21, and states that the Secretary of State will await the receipt of the Governor's despatch before taking further action.
Transmita copies of Nos. 16, 17, 18, 19,
21, and 25.
10
11
26
To Board of Trade
15
Ditto
**
September 6
Case of the S.S. “ Auchenarden." Encloses correspondence with the Ship- ping Federation respecting the refusal of the firemen of the "Auchenarden" to proceed from Hong Kong to Japan: asks that a report may be obtained from the Hong Kong Government.
27
Governor
Nathan.
Sir M.
308
August 3 (Rec. Sept. 9.)
Confirms No. 2, and explains why the Magistrate declined to convict the
11
crew.
28
J. H. Welsford and
Co., Ltd.
September 9
12
7
29
ཐ
"Case of the S.S. “Inkum."
16 J. H. Welsford and Telegram (Rec. Sep. 6) Reports receipt of a cable from Hong
Company, Ltd.
17 To Governor Sir M. Telegram September 6
Nathan,
18 J. H. Welsford and Company, Limited.
September 6
Kong, stating that the authorities insist on the crew returning on the 8.8. "Inkum.” Requests that the authorities may be instructed to carry out the arrangement to return the crew as distressed seamen,
Enquires as to the truth of a statement by Messrs. Welsford that the Hong Kong Government insist on the crew returning on the 8.8. "Inkum" in- stead of being repatriated as distressed British subjects.
Confirms No. 16, and requests the authorities may be instructed to send the crew home as distressed seamen,
8
13
13
14
14
To Governor Sir M.
Nathan.
271
September 9
30
Ditto
***
...
Board of Trade
32
To J. H. Welsford
and Co., Ltd.
Requests that the Governor may be informed that expenses will be col. lected in England; and submits that the proceedings of the Colonial authorities require investigation.
Transmite copies of Nos. 10, 16, 18, 21, 23 and 25, and confirms telegrams; reserves comment until a full report is received.
Telegram September 10 States that all expenses will be adjusted in England, and that full accounts and a report on all the circumstances should be sent.
September 12
Concurs in proposal to await the full
report of the Governor.
September 12 States, in reply to No. 28, that the Governor has been informed that all question of expenses will be adjusted in England, and requested to send home full accounts, &c., and report on the case, pending the receipt of which no observation can be offered on the statements made.
September 12 Transmits copies of Nos. 23, 27, 28, 30 and 32, and states that the Governor has been informed that his full report will be awaited before the Secretary of State expresses any opinion on the matter.
Reports on the case
19
Governor Nathan.
Sir M. Telegrain
(Rec. Sep. 7) Reports that the statement of the owners is incorrect, and that the crew will be sent home as stated in No. 12.
9
33
To Board of Trade
20
9
***
21
To J. H. Welsford Telegram September 7 Communicates No. 19
and Company, Ltd.,
J. H. Welsford and Telegram (Rec. Sep. 7) Suggests that the Colonial Government
Co., Ltd.
明确
Ditto
23
Ditto
14
9
1
be instructed to send account through Board of Trade for settlement in Eng- land; their agents have been in- structed to pay,under protest, whatever is demanded.
34
Governor Sir M.
Nathan.
Conf- dential.
September 9
15
(Rec. Oct. 8.)
35
To Board of Trade
Conf- dential.
October 14
Transmits copy of No. 34
16
September 7 | Expresses thanks for prompt action taken
in the matter.
36
Governor Sir M.
Nathan.
Confi- September 21 dential. (Rec. Oct. 24.)
Transmits bills for expenses incurred
for maintenance of the crew.
17
September 8
1
Reports that the authorities put the European crew on board on Septem- ber 6 and took them off again on September 7.
10
37
Ditto
268
September 8
S.S. “ Auchenarden."
Transmits, for report, copy of No. 15 ...
10
Case of the 8.8. “ Bawtry."
Telegram (Rec. Oct. 25) | Reports circumstances of the refusal of 17
the crew to proceed to Vladivostock; case similar to that of the “Inkum "; enquires, for guidance of Magistrate, whether Law Officers have given opinion on latter case.
24 To Governor Sir M.
Nathan.
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