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        "content_text": "Se 3.\n\n24\n\n239\n\nthat he was omitted to fail for not obeying your order to take his hat off, I deem it my duty as Senior Naval Officer of Britannic Majesty's Ships in China to demand his immediate release and a full explanation of the circumstances which led to his imprisonment, information of which I shall report to Her Britannic Majesty's Government.\n\nYour obedient servant,\n\nHenry Keppel Captain & Senior Naval Officer\n\nTo His Excellency the Governor of Macao &c. &c. &c.\n\n(Signed) Af.de Miranda,\n\nCom Illmo Sr. Em resposta à Carta que V. Exa acaba de dirigir-me de bordo do Navio de S. M. F. \"Maandcr\" surto na Barra de Macao, transmitto a V. Exa aqui junta por copia o officio que acompanhei a Mr. ... quando foi por mim hoje entregue no Conselho do Juiz de Direito, que compete dar ulterior andamento d'aquelle negocio segundo as Leis Portuguezas.\n\nDeus Guarde a V. Exa. Macau a 5 de Setembro de 1849.\n\nMrs. Sun Henry Keppel\n\nComandante da Estação Naval das Forças Britanicas na China\n\nPara Maria Ferreira do Amaral.\n\n(Signed) Af.de Miranda.",
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        "content_text": "254\n\n10\n\n5\n\nSecretaria d'Estado dos Negócios da Marinha e Ultramar, em consequência do ofício do Governador da Província de Macau, datado de 29 de agosto último, que transmitiu uma representação do mesmo Governador, na qual se queixa de que o Governo de Sua Majestade Britânica reclamou contra o estabelecimento português de Macau, acaba de declarar, conforme consta da nota do Conde de Aberdeen, Principal Secretário de Estado de Sua Majestade Britânica para os Negócios Estrangeiros, datada de 30 de junho próximo passado, que a Ordenação aprovada pelo Governo Britânico em nada atacava os direitos da Coroa de Sua Majestade Fidelíssima.\n\n29\n\nÉ de notar que o Governo de Sua Majestade Britânica frequentemente tinha manifestado a intenção de estabelecer que todos os súbditos ingleses residentes na China, e também residentes na dita Cidade, pudessem ser julgados pelos Tribunais da Ilha de Hongkong, pelo mesmo princípio que a Legislação Britânica, especialmente o Ato de George IV, Capítulo 31, § 72, sujeita os súbditos ingleses a serem julgados pelos Tribunais da Grã-Bretanha por delitos que hajam cometido em países estrangeiros.\n\n02\n\nTudo isso, porém, não obstaculiza que os súbditos ingleses respondam perante os Tribunais desses países estrangeiros...",
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        "content_text": "Inclosure to 2 in Des.:\n\n140\n\nCopia.\n\nSnr Live-Roy\n\nPK\n\nde Cantão Not.\n\nRespondendo de officio\n\ndo Conselr de for\n\nGovernador delegado Ide 5 da\n\nSua (22 de Agosto)\n\ndizer que\n\nacaba\n\nde receber\n\n... prozente\n\n... grande raça que\n\nsurpriza a desg...\n\nconteur as Nobre Governador. Five tambem participação deste\n\nsuccesso da Estação de Sion. Xau, & de Mandarin de Macao,\n\nacompanhado da Copia do\n\nEdital de\n\ndo Conselho do Govr.\n\nNeste Edital pois vejo que\n\n&\n\nagg... cres não pedicie sot\n\nyer to pacifica & Negociante de Macão. Sogo\n\nde\n\nnão havia...\n\nindigenas que\n\nviettessem está\n\nagg...\n\n' '\n\n3175 - August 1849.\n\nof Senhor Amaral. relative to the assassination reply, and their rejoinder\n\nfrom Council of giving cover to Jen's",
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        "content_text": "e Solor, a Siu Vice-Rei de Cantão, Commissario Imperial ect; ect: Exmo. Sr.--Se este Conselho precisasse ainda de provas para sustentar a verdade e justiça da asserção que elle deixou consignada no principio do seu Officio a V.Exa, de 3 de Outubro, ahi as tinha agora nos dois ultimos officios de V. Exa. datados de 14 do mez passado, e 1.º do corrente, dos quaes se vê clara e evidentemente, que longe de satisfazer, como cumpria á dignidade do Governo que V. Exa. representa, as justas requisições deste Conselho, respondendo-lhe sobre o ponto principal da questão, que ora nos occupa, e que versa unicamente sobre a restituição dos membros mutilados do Ilmo. Finado Governador, V. Exa. nem se quer a elle allude nos seus Officios; e, para se esquivar de fallar sobre essa materia, recorre ás suas costumadas tergiversações, como é o dizer que os tres individuos aqui detidos são alheios á questão, que o caso já está tratado ect: o que tudo evidencia o menos preço em que V. Exa. tem este caso, que pela sua gravidade tem assombrado a todas as nações que o presencearam, e que decerto devia ter merecido mais seria attenção ao Governo Chinez, se elle quizesse acaso fugir á nóta de barbaro e traidor, nóta que as nações do Oeste com justo rasão lhe hão de impôr hoje.\n\nEste Conselho não pode por tanto deixar de condemnar novamente em termos nada equivocos os repetidos actos de injustiça e violação dos mais sagrados direitos das gentes, practicados por V. Exa. desde o assassinato horroroso commetido no dia 22 de Agosto. E á vista delles poderá ainda haver alguma duvida em se asseverar que a responsabilidade daquelle attentado péza toda sobre as Authoridades Chinezas de Cantão?\n\nDiz V. Exa., que no periodo de duas Luas concluiu dois julgamentos. E o que é que ha nisso para admirar? Porventura não sabem já todos, quantos tem lido os Officios de V. Exa., o modo porque se conduziram aquelles julgamentos? Não viram todos, que entre apprehensão e execução de Shen-Chi Leong apenas medearam tres dias? Por esta forma de administrar justiça, deve-se antes considerar muito longo o periodo de duas Luas para os dois julgamentos, que V. Exa. se jacta de ter aviado naquelle espaço de tempo, pois era sufficiente o de seis dias; mas resta ver se similhante andamento nos processos é o authorisado pela lei.\n\nE quer então V. Exa. que similhantes subtilezas, e argucias, tão revoltantes, como ellas são iniquas e infames, sejam satisfação bastante de um tão enorme como atroz attentado!\n\nÉ certo que ao tempo de ser perpetrado o assassinio não estava a vigia da Porta do Cerco abandonada, nem consta que a do Monghá estivesse aquelle tempo desamparada: sendo tambem certo, e V. Exa. o acaba de confirmar com a confissão de Ko-Ahong, que os assassinos passaram livremente pela Porta do Cerco. Que os cabeças ou encarregados daquellas vigias são os responsaveis, e por elles o Governo de Cantão, não carece demonstração; comtudo ainda não consta que elles fossem ao menos chamados a responder: antes ao contrario só se nota um afanoso empenho pela entrega dos tres individuos pertencentes á vigia da Porta do Cerco, a que se deu tanta importancia, que mesmo se não escrupulisou, para a obter, de tentar um meio nefando e iniquo, como é o da troca por V. Exa. proposta. Sea-Chi-Leong foi preso, e justiçado, V. Exa. o disse, é verdade; mas que certesa ha de que fosse elle o verdadeiro assassino, e não um réo supposto? Alem disto está já provado que sette foram os assassinos que accometteram ao finado Governador, e posto esteja já demonstrado, pelas innumeraveis feridas que se encontraram no cadaver, que era impossivel a um homem só pô-lo no lastimoso estado em que elle foi achado, todo mutilado, como bem o vio o mesmo Csotang, comtudo se insiste pertinazmente em apresentar aquelle infeliz como o unico executor, e aos outros que com elle estavam, como meros expectadores daquella infernal obra, á face mesmo de factos em contrario, e já legalmente comprovados! Na confissão de Sen-Chi-Leung nem a mais leve alusão se faz aos seus cumplices; este infeliz é ali representado como o unico réo; e passado mez e meio depois da sua execução são descobertas, de um modo muito singular, mais dois cumplices, dos quaes um morre no acto da prisão, e outro, posto que gravemente ferido, ainda viveo para fazer uma nova confissão, divergente em muitos pontos essenciaes da primeira, e que os que pensarem um pouco facilmente conhecerão não haver sido dictada se não pela necessidade, no juizo de quem dictou a primeira, de cohonestar a sentença de Shen-Chi-Leong, como o unico assassino do Exmo. Governador Amaral; pois sem muito trabalho se pode ver o empenho com que se fez dizer ao réo Ko-Ahong, que só Sen-Chi-Leong foi que se apresentara a S. Exa, lhe fallara, o accommettera, e, derribando-o do cavallo abaixo, lhe cortara a cabeça e a mão, sendo apenas coadjuvado, pelos que com elle estavam, na fuga que effectuou conjunctamente com estes pela Porta do Cerco, posto que á perspicacia de quem escreveu a confissão tivesse escapado a declaração consignada no principio della de haverem sido escolhidos os dois Ko Ahong, e Li-Apao para executores do plano.\n\nTambem é digno de notar-se a mui palpavel differença que ha entre aquellas duas confissões, e vem a ser, que em quanto na de Sen-Chi-Leong se guardou mui estudado silencio acerca dos seus complices, não fallando elle em mais que na sua propria pessoa, na de Ko-Ahong, este se occupa quasi exclusivamente de Sen-Chi-Leong, e seus companheiros; sendo tambem muito de reparar, que mencionando-se nesta ultima confissão os nomes de tantos outros, se calasse o de um Kam-Tong, que a voz publica affirma ter sido um dos principaes, senão o principal naquelle atroz e barbaro crime. E teria V. Exa. que com estas e outras ficções, e subtilezas todas dolosas, e indignas até do homem, quanto mais do funccionario, se desse o Governo Portuguez por satisfeito, tendo por já tratado o caso, e por concluidas todas as averiguações acerca delle? Se V. Exa. em tal acreditou, ha de ter de reconhecer com o tempo que acreditou em um engano.\n\nCum-\n\n436\n\nSobre ser justa, bem simples era a requisição que este Conselho fez a V. Exa. no seu Officio de 3 do mez passado. Elle requereu só.",
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        "content_text": "Enclosure 6.\n\n49\n\nHormelado de Experie\n\n31 de Diciembre 1892\n\nExmo Sr.\n\nTengo la houra de demostrarle mi superior cinsients, vez mayores desers en conflicto armadas entre dos Estados, y en ello evitar acciones en Inglaterra.\n\nExpatria: Kings peces\n\nA notificar à V.E. se encontraba determinado quel el Ternel, qu abdo Cristina. Crice Reina reela E.S. Egmondante de ex Eserranda de travila de summas de Jew Coro del vado por el General a portaders defrandador.\n\nEl Estado acaba de ser entregado à esta autoridad...",
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        "content_text": "Thesis\n\nNew Series of Reports.\n\nREPORTS of the Annual Series have been issued from Her Majesty's Diplomatic and Consular Officers at the following places, and may be obtained from the sources indicated on the title-page :-\n\nNo. 2012.\n\nReference to previous Report, Annual Series No. 1702.\n\n  \n    No.\n    Place\n    Price\n  \n  \n    1802\n    Antwerp\n    td\n  \n  \n    1893\n    Amsterdam\n    \n  \n  \n    1894\n    Galveston\n    1\n  \n  \n    1895\n    Piræus\n    2d\n  \n  \n    1896\n    Stettin\n    2d\n  \n  \n    1897\n    Martinique\n    1d\n  \n  \n    1898\n    Corunna\n    2d\n  \n  \n    1899\n    Calais\n    1d\n  \n  \n    1900\n    Honolulu\n    1d\n  \n  \n    1901\n    Riga\n    2d\n  \n  \n    1902\n    Tripoli\n    1d\n  \n  \n    1903\n    Baton Rouge\n    2d\n  \n  \n    1904\n    Lorenco Marques\n    \n  \n  \n    1905\n    Batavia\n    2d\n  \n  \n    1906\n    Corfu\n    1d\n  \n  \n    1907\n    Foochow\n    1d\n  \n  \n    1908\n    Montevideo\n    3d\n  \n  \n    1909\n    China\n    d\n  \n  \n    1910\n    Philadelphia\n    1d\n  \n  \n    1911\n    Rio Grande do Sul\n    3d\n  \n  \n    1912\n    Quito\n    1\n  \n  \n    1913\n    San José\n    \n  \n  \n    1914\n    Dunkirk\n    1d\n  \n  \n    1915\n    Samoa\n    \n  \n  \n    1916\n    Bordeaux\n    1d\n  \n  \n    1917\n    Porto Rico\n    \n  \n  \n    1918\n    Galatz\n    1d\n  \n  \n    1919\n    Christiania\n    2d\n  \n  \n    1920\n    Copenhagen\n    3d\n  \n  \n    1921\n    New York\n    2d\n  \n  \n    1922\n    San Francisco\n    3d\n  \n  \n    1923\n    Kiukiang\n    1d\n  \n  \n    1924\n    Harrar\n    d\n  \n  \n    1925\n    Berne\n    1\n  \n  \n    1926\n    Mannheim\n    d\n  \n  \n    1927\n    Fiume\n    1d\n  \n  \n    1928\n    Oporto\n    d\n  \n  \n    1929\n    Haiphong\n    1d\n  \n  \n    1930\n    Boston\n    \n  \n  \n    1931\n    Tahiti\n    3\n  \n  \n    1932\n    Manila\n    1d\n  \n  \n    1933\n    Caracas\n    \n  \n  \n    1934\n    Hamburg\n    \n  \n  \n    1935\n    Portland\n    \n  \n  \n    1936\n    Malaga\n    \n  \n  \n    1937\n    Tokio\n    \n  \n  \n    1938\n    Genos\n    3d\n  \n  \n    1939\n    Palermo\n    \n  \n  \n    1940\n    Santiago de Cuba\n    1d\n  \n  \n    1941\n    Noumea\n    \n  \n  \n    1942\n    Frankfort\n    1\n  \n  \n    1943\n    Chungking\n    2d\n  \n  \n    1944\n    Ichang\n    \n  \n  \n    1945\n    Hankow\n    \n  \n  \n    1946\n    Guatemala\n    \n  \n  \n    1947\n    Syra\n    \n  \n  \n    1948\n    Taganrog\n    \n  \n  \n    1949\n    Loanda\n    \n  \n  \n    1950\n    Panama\n    \n  \n  \n    1951\n    Shanghai\n    \n  \n  \n    1952\n    Aleppo\n    1d\n  \n  \n    1953\n    Ispahan\n    1d\n  \n  \n    1954\n    Tonga\n    d\n  \n  \n    1955\n    Nice\n    1d\n  \n  \n    1956\n    Granada\n    1d\n  \n  \n    1957\n    Seoul\n    1d\n  \n  \n    1958\n    Cadiz\n    1d\n  \n  \n    1959\n    Chinde\n    \n  \n  \n    1960\n    Stockholm\n    2d\n  \n  \n    1961\n    Zanzibar\n    1d\n  \n  \n    1962\n    Tokio\n    1d\n  \n  \n    1963\n    Asuncion\n    1d\n  \n  \n    1964\n    Baghdad\n    1d\n  \n  \n    1965\n    Réunion\n    1d\n  \n  \n    1966\n    Chefoo\n    2d\n  \n  \n    1967\n    Newchwang\n    1d\n  \n  \n    1968\n    Trebizond\n    \n  \n  \n    1969\n    St. Paul de Loanda\n    1d\n  \n  \n    1970\n    Reykjavik\n    1d\n  \n  \n    1971\n    Yokohama\n    \n  \n  \n    1972\n    Warsaw\n    1d\n  \n  \n    1973\n    Sofia\n    1d\n  \n  \n    1974\n    Madrid\n    2d\n  \n  \n    1975\n    Vienna\n    2d\n  \n  \n    1976\n    Erzeroum\n    1d\n  \n  \n    1977\n    Berlin\n    1d\n  \n  \n    1978\n    Addis Ababa\n    1d\n  \n  \n    1979\n    Tamsui\n    1d\n  \n  \n    1980\n    Odessa\n    2d\n  \n  \n    1981\n    Brindisi\n    \n  \n  \n    1982\n    Macao\n    1d\n  \n  \n    1983\n    Pakhoi\n    1\n  \n  \n    1984\n    Teking\n    2d\n  \n  \n    1985\n    Mexico\n    \n  \n  \n    1986\n    Canton\n    1d\n  \n  \n    1987\n    Naples\n    \n  \n  \n    1988\n    Port Said\n    \n  \n  \n    1989\n    Algiers\n    3d\n  \n  \n    1990\n    Vienna\n    1d\n  \n  \n    1991\n    Valparaiso\n    \n  \n  \n    1992\n    Gothenburg\n    2d\n  \n  \n    1993\n    St. Michael's (The Azores)\n    d\n  \n  \n    1994\n    Antwerp\n    1d\n  \n  \n    1995\n    Tangier\n    1d\n  \n  \n    1996\n    Swaziland\n    \n  \n  \n    1997\n    Swatow\n    1d\n  \n  \n    1998\n    St. Petersburg\n    4d\n  \n  \n    1999\n    Dar-al-Baida\n    \n  \n  \n    2000\n    Dantzig\n    \n  \n  \n    2001\n    Algiers\n    \n  \n  \n    2002\n    Rome\n    \n  \n  \n    2003\n    Bangkok\n    \n  \n  \n    2004\n    Nagasaki\n    1d\n  \n  \n    2005\n    Hiogo and Osaka\n    1d\n  \n  \n    2006\n    Jeddah\n    2d\n  \n  \n    2007\n    Paris\n    \n  \n  \n    2008\n    Meshed\n    2d\n  \n  \n    2009\n    Chiengmai\n    \n  \n  \n    2010\n    Stettin\n  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E. O'BRIEN-BUTLER.\n\nReport on the Trade of Kiungchow for the Year 1896.\n\nTABLE of Contents.\n\n  \n    Content\n    Page\n  \n  \n    Rates of exchange\n    2\n  \n  \n    Steamer trade\n    2\n  \n  \n    Junk trade\n    4\n  \n  \n    Imports\n    4\n  \n  \n    Opium\n    \n  \n  \n    Foreign opium\n    \n  \n  \n    Native\n    38\n  \n  \n    Varieties, price, &c., of\n    \n  \n  \n    Kerosene\n    \n  \n  \n    Trade routes of\n    \n  \n  \n    Import of, by junk\n    \n  \n  \n    Matches\n    \n  \n  \n    Cotton and woollen goods\n    \n  \n  \n    Indian cotton yarn\n    \n  \n  \n    Remaining cotton goods\n    \n  \n  \n    Total values\n    \n  \n  \n    Native produce\n    3\n  \n  \n    Exports\n    \n  \n  \n    Albumen\n    \n  \n  \n    Fresh eggs\n    \n  \n  \n    Salted yolks\n    2d\n  \n  \n    Sugar\n    \n  \n  \n    Galangal\n    \n  \n\nPAGE 2",
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        "content_text": "## \nEl Gobierno de Madrid, haciendo mofa de los naturales, y con desprecio de lo que había firmado como caballero el General Jefe de su Ejército en campaña, en vez de llevar a cabo la expulsión o esclaustración de los frailes, trató de realzarlos más, nombrando *in continenti* para los dos Obispados vacantes en Ultramar, a dos frailes de aquellas mismas Ordenes Religiosas, que oprimían el país, que eran la causa primordial de la insurrección, del desorden y del descontento general en las Islas; haciendo así ludibrio de la virtud, ciencia y valer del numeroso clero secular español, y en especial del filipino.\n\nNo contento con esto, ha elevado y recompensado a aquellos peninsulares, que en Filipinas y en Madrid, más cobardes y más miserables, por abusar de su posición, y de la protección que les dispensaban las mismas autoridades, que habían firmado el Tratado, insultaban en banquetes, en reuniones y en la prensa, con epítetos y conceptos injuriosos y groseros, a los pacientes naturales, como ocurrió con el peninsular Rafael Comenge, protegido y comensal gracioso, del fraile que desempeña entre nosotros el Arzobispado de Manila: el Ministro de la Guerra acaba de otorgar a dicho Comenge la Gran Cruz del Mérito Militar, por haber vociferado contra nosotros, atribuyéndonos toda clase de bajezas y vicios, a conciencia de que mentía; y porque exigió como su Presidente, de los jugadores del Casino Español en Manila, que contribuyesen con treinta mil pesos, para regalar al General Primo de Rivera una estatua de oro de aquel valor. Y coincidencia curiosa; ese valiente fue uno de los primeros en huir de Manila, lleno de pavor, en cuanto allá se tuvo noticia de que la escuadra americana atacaría aquel puerto, y que el peligro que iba a correr era positivo.\n\nYa habéis visto cómo se premió antes de ahora, con una Diputación a Cortes cunera, al escarabajo Wenceslao Retana, reptil asalariado de los Conventos filipinos, que con el apoyo de aquel tirano General Weyler, su digno padrino, incendiario despótico del pueblo de Calamba, de ominosa recordación entre vosotros, no hace sino echar baba rabiosa, insultándonos día y noche con todo género de calumnias y vociferaciones fementidas, en el papelucho que costean los Procuradores de los conventos de Manila.\n\nPreparaos también, a que se haga merced de un título de Castilla al tan conocido \"Qioquiap\" (Feced y Temprado), el escritor que en \"El Liberal\" de Madrid, para corear a los frailes, no cesa de llamaros raza inferior, trogloditas, sin naturaleza ni inteligencia humana, niños grandes; el mismo que por arrebatar a los acaudalados \"Abellas,\" (padre e hijo) de Camarines, el puesto que habían conquistado con su laboriosidad, sus economías y su inteligencia, como acaparadores casi exclusivos del Abacá de la región, gestionó y consiguió villanamente, el que fuesen acusados y fusilados en el campo de Bagumbayan; y el mismo que luego esperó en vano, el fruto de su criminal aspiración, por negarle los indígenas con constancia incesante, aun conociendo sus artes perversas, a entregarle el producto de sus cosechas y de su trabajo.\n\nApenas hecha la paz, el General Primo de Rivera negó la existencia de lo pactado; y fusiló uno y otro día a los mismos que prometió amparar, creyendo, insensato, que una vez deshecho el núcleo revolucionario, necesitarían los insurrectos treinta o cuarenta años para volver a rehacerse; pero no dejó de admitir la Gran Cruz de San Fernando pensionada, que como recompensa por la paz, se le había concedido.\n\nLo mismo ha acontecido con el sanguinario Monet, autor de la hecatombe de Zambales, ascendido a General y condecorado con una Gran Cruz; con su competidor en hazañas brutales el General Tejeiro, asesino de los Bisayos, y con el Vice-Almirante Montojo, tan duramente castigado fue..., por cuyas órdenes se destruyó y arrasó la ciudad de Cebú, para vengar la muerte de un inmundo fraile recoleto.\n\nPara contraste elocuente de lo que deben esperar los naturales, no ha habido una concesión o premio para el crédulo Pedro A. Paterno, Indio filipino, único factor verdadero del milagro de la paz, a quien se han negado a reconocer hasta el modestísimo título histórico de \"Maguinong.\"\n\nAñadid a todas estas infamias e indignidades, el relevo del General Primo de Rivera, que repetimos, estaba obligado a permanecer en Manila, durante los tres años del armisticio; y el nombramiento en su lugar, de otro Gobernador, el General Augusti, que desconociendo por completo el país, ha llevado por consejero áulico al indigno Coronel Olive, el mismo que había procedido con más encono, mayor parcialidad, y con grandísima pasión, contra los pretendidos jefes, autores, protectores y parciales del santo movimiento, comenzado en Agosto de 1896; el que, como Fiscal de causas de aquella Capitanía General, exigía con cinismo insolente, a ciencia y paciencia de sus superiores, sumas de dinero importantes a los que querían ser absueltos, para luego apresarlos de nuevo, sino respondían a todas sus pretensiones venales; el mismo que con parcialidad descocada, trabajó e influyó cuanto pudo para el fusilamiento del inmortal mártir tagalo Dr. José Rizal; y el mismo en fin, que durante los mandos del débil General Blanco, y del sanguinario y canalla General Polavieja, pidió con insistencia, la prisión de los llamados \"Hijos del País,\" o sea de los descendientes de los europeos, que entre nosotros tenían alguna significación por su saber, su laboriosidad, su fortuna o su progenie, y que no se prestaban a cohecharle, para que les dejase libres.\n\nAnte esta serie de actos de mala fe, de desprecio, de insulto, de crímenes, y sobre todo de olvido de sus compromisos, tan reciente como solemnemente contraídos, los mismos que firmaron el Tratado de Biak-na-bato, se han considerado libres de la obligación de permanecer en el extranjero, y de guardar por más tiempo, la fe del armisticio prometido.\n\nY aprovechando la providencial ida a Filipinas de la Escuadra vengadora de la Gran República de los Estados Unidos de Norte América, vuelven orgullosos y satisfechos al suelo patrio, a reconquistar su libertad y sus derechos, contando con el apoyo y protección del valiente, decidido y noble Almirante Dewey, de la Escuadra anglo-sajona, que consiguió batir y destruir las fuerzas de los tiranos, que han venido aniquilando la personalidad y las energías de todo orden, de nuestro pueblo laborioso, dechado de cualidades nobles y gloriosas.\n\nHa llegado por lo tanto, el momento de que los Filipinos se cuenten y se pongan en fila, para defender con brío y resolución, y con la virilidad de hombres fuertes, el suelo que les vio nacer, de igual modo que la honra de su nombre, haciendo pública y universal ostentación de su competencia, de su habilidad, y de sus virtudes cívicas, políticas y sociales.",
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        "content_text": "875\n\n279\n\n•yvent Innoissæiedri to comiteb -baitinu end reed sai ebutaiupsib evṣ1 107 Monney Telijona\n\nbra babjad ni Loloitto daixwï eldianoçsen ya tnaldnews yi ent to Jusvetioni nego erit bre ndos¿dve deitina to minundoyose.. Tell bne nistina Jæeul Janies selonio Laioitto neixwi yd noiteInyog\n\n+\n\n.Bella\n\n-, javod a'ydzejui sill void^oovory kint ILs Milindandiwtol,\n\nwuried vol beduditadur erew dísizw. ti jand betamiðni yino don dna.. niqyire Jiulote.. najjima 12,\"unlee1S\" brus \"nedeoë\" and no kwell aeljub sit duo ¿rmo plenione, niuow yeaw. li bne Sebequi dor 387 eu Finov adua slitsoni me naivilajolli seent II: ‚etada Lexjuen e to Jarij novi, 80 Alwow bedriïus nedjim ben reloa a bebeicofroVO kun sonetneçebni and Joergen vlavolayers Iliw nistiya JoSTU .eriquű mazodsů add to ysiqJOJNİ\n\nnotzulongo erst de tot mevİ, OTOW BOOLAINARA SIQSIEŃĴxasT awob bigf exev anoljibmoo on doit vea Fivoy mistira tæerû coɛng to okomode tuilt bas ytiqadri bas eɔnebneqeini tunt risqué Bloow dołdw beniutɗo ed bluow yexwl of elderwovat tetoniano a to enoitłúngs unusvoj jezul to aludidte ent acomwans eserd to giga ni\n\nDeumitnos conativo .evitauoronq yLaisseroni asoed nistİrā JAero sity? al snoisowegory yuntilim To Josmievoð ■'ytacja BiH doner of nogu dostia edatillost od medd eaoqug varito or even blvoo do trw marie\", bra, sidog yd no beltiao ahnuongozų evidos to bmm ;dql reitkort misqus, ent (utakojŷe amoiyat ni edat. nluobes grows atnajs LOVE GIAW AJIoçer bra ererwesie Joci no dea anew asajlatni refimi2 weiv a dtiw mibni of seizaasime deizwi to dotsqeeb erit to bevisser\n\n.artsdemoniali nailki nowa „milost Misk¬g-itma yu gairikda of blnow exit al zewo¶ neterorie. Jestnet, wild nlåsing Jaeto\n\nsad sre konw yoiwi to humirt dhadaianos han Instrídkat sdt bas jepet maled edt♬ ni veande yellidoja edi revoser et bøglen yIdealbooja ni beyooeb need her yedwt tarit dengan deeduera ord ddiw ses binow na hityoba byw eiøre s'hasia to eble erit no Meared joiymey Jolano ti jud,Irtedar nu ad úlow di an slósilijautro en slutitte\n\na ai event tudi svoʻla noidnutia dreaonq edt dand Selmab ed\n\nchauvinistic element endeavouring to drive Turkey into war with England for the benefit of Germany and of Austria, the secular enemy of the Turkish State.\n\nA striking illustrations of the extent to which intrigues have been carried on is furnished by the case of a German employee in Alexandria City Police who lately returned from leave via Constantinople saying that he had been excused from military service. He was arrested on suspicion on landing, and on him were found detailed map of the Suez Canal, sheet of (--?-- ) cypher messages concealed in his tarboosh, and other compromising correspondence. He had also entrusted to (members of ships' companies ?) two (? box) es of detonators for exploding dynamite and notro-glycerine.\n\nFurther a steady stream of German officers and men both naval and military together with all kinds of war material has flow- ed unceasingly into Constantinople, which has been converted to all intents and purposes into a German military base. German officers\n\nare known to have penetrated far into the interior of the Turkish\n\nEmpire in the endeavour to stir up agitation against Great Britain and her allies. All these movements, it is impossible to doubt,\n\nhave been carried out with the direct connivance of the Ottoman\n\nAuthorities and can point to only one conclusion.\n\n(That) neutral powers (meant) deliberately and intentional- ly to provoke Great Britain to war is shown by instructions issued not later than October 18th to the Turkish commandant at Jaffa by the Turkish Minister of War, which already allude to His Majesty's Government as the enemy, give detailed orders as to resisting attack by warships and include an order to break the Consulate flagstaff and remove the insignia.\n\nThe Mosul Damascus Army Corps have since their mobilization been constantly sending troops south preparatory to an invasion of Egypt and the Suez Canal from Akaba and Gaza. A large body of Bedouin Arabs have been called out and armed to assist in this venture\n\nTransport has been collected and roads have been prepared up to the",
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        "content_text": "83\n\n- 8.\n\npersons who, except in warfare, capture an individual to make a slave of him. Moreover, the edict of March 31st, 1924, contains a series of provisions which are in the main very judicious. Some are intended to ensure the proper treatment of persons in a state of slavery, whereas the object of others is to free a large number of slaves progressively. This edict also prohibits the transfer of slaves, with or without payment, and grants to any persons so transferred the right to freedom. The road to enfranchisement was still further widened by an edict of July 15th, 1931, which further inflicts the same penalties on any person who hands over a slave, with or without payment—as on slave-raiders.\n\nIf we may judge from the documents supplied by the Abyssinian Government, judicial decisions between 1924 and 1930 have resulted in the liberation of hundreds of slaves by the application of the 1924 Edict. Moreover, a very large number of persons have been sentenced for offences against the law prohibiting the purchase and sale of slaves. These sentences and orders for the liberation of slaves have, however, been mainly pronounced by the Addis Ababa court; the provisions of the edicts are less frequently applied in the rest of the Empire, although the number of slaves liberated and sentences imposed is fairly large.\n\n9. It would be unfair to the Abyssinian Government to take exception to the fact that it has not yet abolished the status of slavery.\n\nIn dealing with Abyssinia, it must never be forgotten that that country was for two centuries cut off from the outside world, that its evolution has been retarded, and that all matters concerning it cannot be judged by the principles governing European nations. Moreover, although Abyssinia signed the 1926 Convention, she has not ratified it. Even if she had done so, she would only have been bound, under the actual terms of the Convention, to abolish slavery gradually. All that the contracting parties can demand of her is to make every effort to abolish slavery as soon as possible.\n\nEvery measure for the liberation of slaves, however, is opposed in Abyssinia by a barrier of ancient traditions. Very many officers of the Empire, including powerful chiefs, are against the abolition of slavery, either simply because they espouse the feelings of the people under their jurisdiction or because they themselves derive benefit from the present situation.\n\nThere is surely no need to point to the dangers to which the maintenance of the Government's authority would be exposed, or at all events the political disturbances with which it might be faced, if, contrary to the general feeling and despite the interests which it might harm, it proceeded to abolish the status of slavery too rapidly.\n\nEven supposing that, after abolishing the status of slavery, the Abyssinian Government were able to counteract these dangers in the political sphere, a measure which suddenly transferred vast numbers of persons from the condition of slavery to one of full freedom (as regards the number of the slaves, the Committee has no accurate information) might produce disastrous results in the social and economic fields. Doubtless this consideration played some part in the decision of the Abyssinian Government to refrain from abolishing slavery by a stroke of the pen. It gave as one of the reasons for its Edict of 1924 that, by adopting such a measure, the number of thieves, bandits and criminals would be greatly increased.\n\nIt must also be admitted that the mass liberation of slaves would have a considerable effect on the finances of Abyssinia, in that the Government might find itself bound to compensate the former owners, or take steps to ensure that freed slaves were in a position to gain a living, or, lastly, to support those who, owing to age or infirmity, were permanently incapable of earning their own livelihood, for which their master had usually provided until their death.\n\nIn short, conditions in Abyssinia make it impossible for the Government, however desirous it may be of abolishing slavery, to do otherwise than advance gradually along this path. If the Government ignored this policy of prudence, it might stir up political, social, economic and financial difficulties which would completely nullify the success already achieved.\n\nTrue, other States, previously referred to, have abolished slavery overnight—in fact as well as in law. But, without in any way underestimating the gravity of the dangers they have incurred and the sacrifices they have made, it is doubtful whether the application of this generous reform was beset with difficulties as great as are encountered in Abyssinia.\n\nIn this connection, the French expert stresses the fact that, in his opinion, it would be neither fair nor in accordance with the actual facts to describe as slaves all persons under servitude reported to exist in Abyssinia. Such servitude constitutes a special social status—serfdom—the characteristics of which, as understood by him, the French expert describes in Chapter VI.\n\nIO. The abolition of the status of slavery in the Moslem States and Sultanates referred to in paragraph 2 of the present report meets with the difficulty that its legality is upheld, not only by long-standing tradition, but also by religion—though these obstacles to abolition are not insurmountable.\n\nThe higher authorities of these countries cannot be said to be really hostile to the campaign against the institution of slavery, but they have in any case to reckon with public opinion, and often their power is not sufficient to allow them to initiate reform. For that reason, the United Kingdom's efforts to obtain from the King of the Hejaz and from the small States of Arabia, through the political agents she has placed there, an undertaking to abolish slavery have not yet brought about the desired results.\n\nII. In the absence of precise information, the Committee cannot express any opinion as to the manner in which slaves are treated in countries in which slavery still exists either in law or in fact. The general impression is that, on the whole, their lot is not an unhappy one from the material point of view. In any case, in the countries administered by Powers with western ideas acts affecting their rights are no longer tolerated; in particular, such abominable practices as human sacrifice, to which one or other class of slaves was sometimes victim in certain of these territories, are now no more than a memory.\n\nIn Abyssinia, according to information obtained by the Committee, slaves are generally well treated.\n\nAs regards the Moslem States, the information furnished to the Committee is divergent.\n\n12. The Committee has received a considerable number of documents regarding the situation of women and children in certain countries, a situation which is described as slavery in these documents. After all due consideration, the Committee arrived at the conclusion that, apart from questions which have a real bearing on slavery in the true sense of the word and which the Committee has taken into account in its report and suggestions, these documents refer to conditions which are not slavery in the technical sense of the term. They relate to abuses in the exercise of authority by husbands, fathers or employers, similar to those which may occur in a civilised state, or, at any rate, in one which has abolished the institution of slavery in fact as well as in law. On the other hand, they contain information on the subject of \"Mui Tsai\", will be dealt with later.\n\nB. Suggestions.\n\n13. Clearly the abolition, not only of the legal status of slavery, but also actual liberation are the essential objects at which Governments should aim in the territories in which slavery still exists. Not only can we not admit that human beings should be regarded as chattels, but, unless the practice of possessing slaves disappears, an end will never be put to the often abominable acts by which slaves are procured—in particular, slave-raids and the slave trade.\n\nWe realise the reasons which may have led certain Governments to decide not to separate the slaves from their so-called owners, but to wait until evolution brings about the liberation of slaves in practice. Nevertheless, this evolution should be hastened as far as possible. It would therefore be advisable to make it an offence for a person who is aware of the abolition of the legal status of slavery to avail himself of the fact that another person is ignorant of such abolition, in order to enforce a right of ownership or any analogous right over the latter person. All Governments should even consider the desirability of taking steps to spread among the populations they govern a knowledge of the fact that their freedom is guaranteed by law.\n\n14. The foregoing statement regarding the special situation in Abyssinia shows that it is at present impossible for the Abyssinian Government to abolish slavery by a stroke of the pen and that it is necessary that the Government should only advance by stages. The Committee's suggestions as regards this country will therefore be restricted to the steps which might be taken to carry out this policy.\n\n(a) The first step which may be suggested would be to aid the Abyssinian Government in combating slavery, should the latter make a definite request to this effect—in particular, in the form of financial assistance which would not interfere in any way with the independence of the country.\n\n(3) The main objective, however, should be to make the Abyssinians themselves realise fully the reprehensible character of slavery and the merit of spontaneous acts of liberation. Though laws may help to transform customs, the laws themselves are only fully applied if, in their conception, they reflect the sentiments of the general mass. It would appear that great progress has been made in this direction.\n\nThe Government will doubtless succeed in creating the necessary atmosphere if it obtains the assistance of the Abyssinian clergy. If it is true that the Abyssinian clergy themselves possess slaves, they should take the lead in applying the first of the suggestions put forward in the 1925 report of the Temporary Commission for the abolition of slavery in Abyssinia—namely, that they should set the example by freeing their own slaves.\n\nOther steps might be taken to stimulate the awakening in Abyssinian public opinion of a spirit favourable to the suppression of slavery. The Government might, for instance, bestow rewards on those who voluntarily free their slaves.\n\nFurthermore, it is certain that, if public opinion in all countries paid constant attention to the slavery question, the Abyssinian people would realise that no country can be regarded as fully civilised while it continues to tolerate slavery. This is the idea which has partly inspired the suggestion, made in paragraph 74 of the present report, for the establishment of a Permanent Commission.\n\n(c) As an interim measure to supplement the provisions of the 1924 Edict, the Temporary Commission recommended that all owners of slaves should be obliged to register their slaves within a given time limit, and that any slaves who on the expiry of the time limit had not been so registered should be freed. The present Committee cannot but endorse this proposal, but would point out that liberation should not be restricted to slaves who have not been registered after a certain time limit. Those slaves whose master when applying for their registration is unable to prove that he acquired them by legally authorised means should also be liberated. Severe penalties should be imposed on persons owning slaves who have not been registered,\n\n(d) The Temporary Commission recommended as another transitory method the abolition of the status of slavery, with the reservation that former slaves thus legally freed would be obliged,\n\n84",
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        "content_text": "161\n\n26\n\n27\n\nA.VI(1).1930\n\nA.29.1931.VI A.29(a).1931.VI A.13.1931.VI A.13(@).1931.VI C.658.M.272.1930.VI C.E.E.3.1932.VI\n\nLetter from the British Delegation, dated September 16th, 1930, transmitting a Memorandum concerning slavery.\n\nReport by the Secretary-General, submitted to the Assembly in accordance with its Resolution of September 30th, 1930. Annual Report by the Council to the Assembly (1931). Report by the International Commission of Enquiry in Liberia. Letter from the Government of the Sudan, dated April 10th, 1932.\n\nAppendix B.\n\nLIST OF DOCUMENTS COMMUNICATED BY GOVERNMENTS TO THE SECRETARIAT OF THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS IN REPLY TO THE CIRCULAR LETTER FROM THE SECRETARY-GENERAL, DATED OCTOBER 21ST, 1931 (Document C.L.272.1931.VI).\n\nC.E.E.1.1932.VI\n\nC.E.E.1(a).1932.VI\n\nC.E.E.1(b).1932.VI\n\nC.E.E.1(c).1932.VI\n\nC.E.E.1).1932.VI\n\nNote on Child Slavery\n\nC.E.E.4.1932.VI\n\nContaining letters from the following Governments: Colombia (December 2nd, 1931), Ecuador (December 15th, 1931), Egypt (November 2nd, 1931), France (February 9th, 1932), India (January 5th, 1932), Mexico (December 3rd, 1931), Netherlands (November 25th, 1931), Nicaragua (January 20th, 1932), Persia (November 15th, 1931), Sudan (November 7th, 1931), Turkey (November 12th, 1931).\n\nContaining letters from the Governments of South Africa (February 15th, 1932) and Iraq (February 14th, 1932).\n\nContaining a letter from the Government of Portugal (February 2nd, 1932).\n\nContaining a letter, dated April 8th, 1932, from the Anti-Slavery and Aborigines Protection Society, London, transmitted by a letter, dated April 26th, 1932, from the Government of the United Kingdom.\n\nContaining a letter, dated April 21st, 1932, from the Central Bureaux of the Society of Friends, transmitted by a letter dated April 27th, 1932, from the Government of the United Kingdom.\n\nPrepared by the \"Save the Children International Union\", Geneva, transmitted by the Swiss Government with a letter dated May 16th, 1932.\n\nContaining a report by Lord Noel-Buxton and Lord Polwarth on Abyssinia, transmitted by a letter, dated August 15th, 1932, from the Government of the United Kingdom.\n\nAn Advisory Council to the Department has been appointed consisting of all the Rases and a few other important men, under the Presidency of the Heir-Apparent.\n\n\"An Abyssinian Anti-Slavery Society is to be founded forthwith, into which the Advisory Council will be merged—but the Emperor said, with a smile: 'None of the members of the Advisory Council will be permitted to become members of the Anti-Slavery Society until they have released all their own slaves'. The Emperor's younger son is to be a member. The object of the society will be propaganda and also to keep the Slavery Department up to its work. The Emperor sets great store by this society, and told me that there was already quite a movement in favour of it among the young men of good family.\n\n\"The Department is to publish statistics yearly.\n\n\"The registration of slaves has already started.\n\n\"The school for the children of slaves is to start life again under the direct patronage of the Emperor, who is going to make it a live concern.\n\n\"Ras Hailu's and Sultan Abajifaar of Jimma's slaves are being liberated. They will number probably several thousand, but the Emperor had not yet heard the exact figures. A Liberation Committee is drawing up plans for the disposal of these slaves. Those of Ras Hailu were mostly employed on the land and these will be settled on Ras Hailu's land and have the same rights as other squatters—i.e., pay a portion of their crop in kind to the Government, the amount varying according as to whether they plough with their own oxen and ploughs and find their own seed or whether the Government provides these.\"\n\nMy informant adds that the regulations for the new Slavery Department were about to be promulgated, and he would send me a copy. In a letter of July 9th, he had informed me that the Emperor, in the course of a long interview, had told him that he intended to make a full statement at the next meeting of the Assembly of the League, but was not at the moment ready to do so. A large number of special slavery courts have, he says, been installed throughout the country, with an appeal court at Addis Ababa, but I hear from another source that they have not yet started in the north-west district. In the provinces of Gojjam and Jimma, they have been placed under the supervision of a special official from the capital. He added that it was in contemplation to raise a force of special slavery police\". The Emperor found that the disposal of \"several thousand\" of the slaves of Ras Hailu and the Sultan of Jimma who had been liberated has raised a financial problem, and the Emperor feared to find a crowd of thieves and prostitutes on his hands. Many kidnappers had been sent to the capital for punishment. It will take a long time to put these reforms into effective operation. To avoid misunderstanding and misrepresentation, the Emperor would like to see \"confidential and direct communication between the Abyssinian Government (and the League?) or through a special committee at Geneva.\"\n\n(Signed) LUGARD.\n\nAppendix C.\n\nNOTE, DATED AUGUST 24TH, 1932, FROM LORD LUGARD, CONTAINING RECENT INFORMATION REGARDING ABYSSINIA.\n\nThe following communication, dated Addis Ababa, August 1st, addressed to me as a member of the Committee of Experts on Slavery reached me in Geneva on August 22nd. It is from a friend resident in Abyssinia, for whose reliability I can absolutely vouch, well-known to the British Legation, and trusted by the Emperor, who asked him to come to him that he might hear from the Emperor's own lips the latest information regarding his intentions to suppress slavery. I understand, therefore, that it was the Emperor's desire that he should pass the information on to me for the benefit of the Committee of Experts, since I personally have the honour of his acquaintance.\n\nThe decree constituting the new Slavery Department is to come out this week. The Department is to be entirely independent—i.e., not under the control of the Ministry of the Interior. A new Director is appointed—namely, Liqamaqwas Mangasha, formerly Ethiopian Minister at Rome. He is young, energetic and progressive, and is of good family, being connected with the late Empress. De Halpert is to be Adviser to the Department. Offices of the Department will be opened in each province where the slavery question is particularly important.\n\n109",
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        "content_text": "SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1937.\n\nHOME LEAVE TO ENGLAND VIA AMERICA OR CANADA TRAVEL A NEW WAY BY BREAKING YOUR SEA VOYAGE WITH A PLEASANT AND INTERESTING TRIP ACROSS THE AMERICAN CONTINENT BY COMFORTABLE AND MODERN TRAINS NUMEROUS SIDE TRIPS BY VARIOUS ROUTES LET US PREPARE YOUR ARRANGEMENTS NOW. THE AMERICAN EXPRESS CO., INC. Spartan with Limousine Luxury in USA, 4 DES VOEUX ROAD CENTRAL\n\nFULL BLAST ON PRAYA By Many Wharves Smashed High Seas WAIST DEEP WATER IN MORNING The waterfront along the Central and Western Hotel yesterday morning was a scene of devastation. Carrie was Entered everywhere. Part of the Victoria Recreation Club's revered moathed was blown away and Murray Pier, next to it, had nearly collapsed at the bare blow. The stone parapet on either side of the Queen's Pier entrance were broken and lay in various positions along the concourse. Some of the large blocks of cement had fallen into the water.\n\nThe Star Ferry Pier suffered severe damage. The fall face of The Eile had been left on the earl. Petit jardin and dis- were 61103 night had a huge lantern blown to bits, and the Laiay Bow-stall bulged. The wooden wall had plainly suffered. The enchantress of that que was lying Douglas. Why condition, a mention it and larger 1 Any subured so damaged.\n\nSOUTH CHINA MORNING POST. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 3. 1937.\n\nSHIPPING NIGHT OF CHAOS IN HARBOUR LINERS ASHORE KOWLOON DAMAGE Revenue Officers' Bravery During Rescue Work Akama Maru And Conte Verde In Sai Wan Bay Nathan Road Flooded To Depth of Two Feet SCORE OF VESSELS WRECKED WARSHIPS DAMAGED TRAFFIC BLOCKED\n\n...\n\nPage 29\n\n...\n\n10\n\nTRIP ROUND ISLAND REVEALS DAMAGE Begins Repairs yards of the ship. 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        "content_text": "## \n\nPlease see enclosure to (6)\n\nCan you please supply \nthe reports listed in \nthe first para.?\n\nI have \nput up a \ndraft 3 p.m. \ntransmitting the documents promised \nin (5).\n\nSir Patrick Abercrombie came to the Office on the 14th of May to meet Sir A. Grantham. Mr. Mayle and I were also present. Sir Patrick said that he would definitely like to undertake the Hong Kong assignment, that he would be ready to leave about the middle of October, and that so far as he could see at present he would need to spend about 6 weeks in the Colony. He mentioned that he had had to spend 6 weeks in Addis Ababa, when he had been concerned to make general recommendations only, without going into any sort of detailed planning at all.\n\nAs regards terms of reference, Sir P. Abercrombie confirmed that those mentioned in our letter to him at No. 14 were very acceptable to him, and it was agreed that the specific terms of \nreference should now be worked out in the Colonial Office and sent to Sir P. Abercrombie for his comments before they are officially communicated",
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        "content_text": "# PROFESSOR SIR PATRICK ABERCROMBIE \n\nM.A. F.R.I.B.A. M.T.P.I \n\n51  \n33, WELBECK STREET  \nLONDON, W.1  \n\nTELEPHONE: WELBECK 1681-2  \n\nN. L. Mayle Esq., Colonial Office, Church House  \nGreat Smith Street, LONDON. S.W.1.  \n\n23rd September, 1947.  \n\n(46)  \n\nDear Mr. Mayle,  \n\nThanks for your letter of the 20th September.  \n\nI am sorry to bother you again, but my daughter, who is looking after my passport etc., is very uneasy about these inoculations.  \n\nI am, as you know, continually on the move and if it needs, as in some cases, three weeks to elapse between having your inoculation and entering the country, I may be caught as I was when going to Addis Ababa and I had to spend a fortnight wasting my precious time in Cairo.  \n\nI have a list of my inoculations up-to-date, and would like to be able to hand them over to someone who could tell me the following: -  \n| Number | Question |\n|--------|----------|\n| (1)    | What inoculations I need. |\n| (2)    | How long must elapse between an inoculation and immunity? |\n| (3)    | What is the potency of the shots which I require? |\n\nI find one's ordinary medical practitioner can administer these inoculations, but he knows nothing about the regulations.  \n\n(Over",
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        "content_text": "##2. \n\nI think I have given you a date: that could leave after the 18th October, but as I am to be away for over a week in Edinburgh up to the 5th October, this does not give me much time on my return.\n\n52 \n\nThere is a further matter about my passport. I have seven blank pages for visas and am uncertain whether this will be enough, as I may break my journey for a few days on the way back to visit Addis Ababa (of course at my own expense); going out, as I told you, I may stop with a nephew of mine at Karachi for a night or two, but this will not affect the journey except for bookings.\n\nIf I need a new passport, I ought to be moving in the matter very soon, unless the Colonial Office can save me from the necessity of obtaining the signature of a clergyman as to my character etc.\n\nYours sincerely, \nFremonting",
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        "content_text": "# PROFESSOR SIR PATRICK ABERCROMBIE \n\nM.A. \nF.R.I.B.A. M.T.P.I \n\n56 \n33, WELBECK STREET \nLONDON, W.1 \n\nTELEPHONE: WELBECK 1681-2 \n\n16th September 1947. \n\nDear Mr. Meyle, \n\nSorry not to have replied before but I have been on holiday. I agree with the proposals for remuneration, subsistence etc., in your letter of 29th August (40). I am not quite sure that it makes clear that all fares are paid by you, but this is assumed. \n\nAs regards the date, I think I can be free from 15th October, but I will get into touch with you; do I rely on you for when and how I will be travelling (flying boat for preference)? I hope that the route may be via Karachi as I have a nephew I would like to look up in passing. \n\nYours sincerely, \n**Abercrombie** \nPatrick Abercrombie \n\n45 \nM.I., Meyle, \nColonial Office, Downing Street \nLondon, S.W.1. \n\nP.S. I am very anxious about inoculation and would like to have all particulars. What big hold up in Cairo, Melbourne, Galler... ...to Addis Ababa 1 late fortnight... ...age in Cairo... ...up + in time & more!",
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        "content_text": "## absent himself from the country for several weeks at a time. He therefore accepted an invitation to visit Cyprus and the appointment of a Town Planning Adviser has been deferred until after the visit.\n\nThe fee is to be 500 guineas plus travelling expenses only, and this is being met from the Colony's revenue, although the suggestion was made that it could come from C.D.&W. funds. This fee includes the visit and the writing of a Preliminary Report with some diagrams but no Town Planning Maps; the Report will be made with a view to deciding what is the best way of preparing a General Regional Plan and a series of Local ones.\n\nIn the case of Cyprus it is understood that, if the Report is acceptable, Sir Patrick's Office will wish to be responsible for the ensuing work.\n\n## 124\n\n(see (26) and `90281/45-4b`)\n\nSir Patrick left by air on 15th February and intends to have about three clear weeks in the Colony; he is accompanied by his daughter, who is his private secretary, but whose expenses are paid separately and privately.\n\nIn addition to Cyprus, he has done, or is doing, Hull, Warwick, Plymouth, the Aldershot area, Addis Ababa, Colombo, Wolverhampton, and sites in Venezuela.",
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