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Hong Kong Annual Administration Reports, 1841-1941
COLONIAL REPORTS—ANNUAL.
The Committee worked in co-operation with the Charitable Societies in Canton, who displayed their usual energy and generosity in organising relief, and by and with the authority of the Chinese Authorities, who rendered every facility to the Members of the Committee who supervised work and relief in the district assigned to them.
3. The outbreak of war with Germany and Austria, and later with Turkey, produced a novel and trying situation in which the entire community showed a most commendable spirit. Offers of assistance from all classes and races were tendered, and conspicuous in their proffers of help were the members of the Chinese community. Practically the whole of the British male population, including very many of Indian, Portuguese, and Chinese race, not already enrolled, gave their services to the Volunteers, the Volunteer Reserves, and the Special Police Reserve. Their services were most valuable and their public spirit rendered possible a considerable reduction in the regular garrison for duty elsewhere.
The following Companies and organisations lent valuable assistance to the Government:-
The Tramway Companies and the Star Ferry Company, who conveyed soldiers and volunteers free of charge.
The Committee of the Matilda Hospital, who received free of charge certain German ladies until other arrangements could be made for their disposal.
The Joint Telegraph Companies, in all matters connected with the censorship of telegrams.
The Hongkong Volunteer Cadets and the St. Joseph's College Boy Scouts rendered useful service as messengers.
Before the end of the year £17,000 was remitted to the National Relief Fund inaugurated by H.R.H. the Prince of Wales. This fund was liberally contributed to by all classes of the community, including Indians, Portuguese, and Chinese. Various other funds for relief of Belgian refugees and for supply of tobacco and clothing to the troops were also instituted and liberally supported by the community.
The cost of the passages of a number of recruits for the Armies in England not only from the Colony but from places in the Far East were defrayed by the Colonial Government. Up to the end of the year seven local residents went to take up Commissions as officers and thirty-seven for enlistments. From outside the Colony two were selected for Commissions and ten for enlistment. The Peninsula and Oriental Steam Navigation Company were good enough to grant favourable preferential rates for these passages.
4. The difficulties encountered by the Green Island Cement Company in their endeavour to obtain limestone from the Kwang-tung and Kwangsi Provinces were not wholly overcome, and the supply during the year was not satisfactory.
5. The Opium Farm was taken over by the Government in March and the restrictive measures adopted have already had a good effect. The energetic action of the Revenue Department has succeeded in...
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32
Hong Kong Annual Administration Reports, 1841-1941
COLONIAL REPORTS—ANNUAL.
The Committee worked in co-operation with the Charitable Societies in Canton, who displayed their usual energy and generosity in organising relief, and by and with the authority of the Chinese Authorities, who rendered every facility to the Members of the Committee who super- vised work and relief in the district assigned to them.
3. The outbreak of war with Germany and Austria, and later with Turkey, produced a novel and trying situation in which the entire community showed a most commendable spirit. Offers of assistance from all classes and races were tendered, and conspicuous in their proffers of help were the members of the Chinese community. Practically the whole of the British male population, including very many of Indian, Portuguese, and Chinese race, not already enrolled, gave their services to the Volunteers, the Volunteer Reserves, and the Special Police Reserve. Their services were most valuable and their public spirit rendered possible a considerable reduction in the regular garrison for duty elsewhere.
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The following Companies and organisations lent valuable assistance to the Government :-
The Tramway Companies and the Star Ferry Company, who
conveyed soldiers and volunteers free of charge.
The Committee of the Matilda Hospital, who received free of charge certain German ladies until other arrangements could be made for their disposal.
The Joint Telegraph Companies, in all matters connected with
the censorship of telegrams.
The Hongkong Volunteer Cadets and the St. Joseph's College Boy Scouts rendered useful service as messengers.
Before the end of the year £17,000 was remitted to the National Relief Fund inaugurated by H.R.H. the Prince of Wales. This fund was liberally contributed to by all classes of the community, including Indians, Portuguese, and Chinese. Various other funds for relief of Belgian refugees and for supply of tobacco and clothing to the troops were also instituted and liberally supported by the community.
The cost of the passages of a number of recruits for the Armie. in England not only from the Colony but from places in the Far East were defrayed by the Colonial Government. Up to the end of the year seven local residents went to take up Commissions as officers and thirty-seven for enlistments. From outside the Colony two were selected for Commissions and ten for enlistment. The Peninsula and Oriental Steam Navigation Company were good enough to gran. favourable preferential rates for these passages.
4. The difficulties encountered by the Green Island Cement Company in their endeavour to obtain limestone from the Kwang- tung and Kwangsi Provinces were not wholly overcome, and the supply during the year was not satisfactory.
5. The Opium Farm was taken over by the Government in March and the restrictive measures adopted have already had a good effect. The energetic action of the Revenue Department has succeeded in
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