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        "content_text": "93\n\n511\n\n27646\n\n92\n\nBRITISH POSITION\n\nof art, imitative in mechanics, (thus leading to the natural conclusion that they would be equally so in social and moral duties,) having an organized Government and well administered municipalities, devoid of the prejudices of caste or of idolatry, and thus to a certain degree prepared for the reception of the seeds of Christian truth; ever seeking to benefit their condition, by labour at home, or by emigrating to other countries; habituated to a maritime life; of considerable physical power; not deficient in courage, if properly disciplined; acute or subtle reasoners; preferring the material to the theoretical or ideal; not wanting in emulative enterprise, obedient to the commands of a justly ruling authority;\n\nNOTES ON THE FOREGOING STATISTICAL TABLE,\n\nThe above are the nominal sums for which the respective officers become responsible to their sovereign. But the estimate of last year has so immensely fallen short of the actual amount required, viz., of the arrears due since the war, there remained, in October 1844, 38,711,000 taels to be paid. The rice has, for the greater part, on account of the inundation, not been forwarded to the capital.\n\nThe sundries arise from the proceeds of pawnbrokers' shops, mercantile establishments, and various fees and duties. There are moreover innumerable local items not mentioned in the statistical returns, because the mandarins on the spot receive them, without sending any account; for this they have, however, to keep up a considerable establishment.\n\nThe colonial possessions, instead of yielding a revenue, absorb considerable sums. The subsidies paid to the Mongol chiefs, both in money as well as kind, are very large; the expenditure of the army in Turkestan, amounts to several millions annually; and to keep up the establishments in Mantchouria, the treasury is constantly drained. Tibet requires only about 200,000 taels annually. No returns of these liabilities are ever published.\n\nThree taels are £4. sterling; one shih 160 lbs.; one ring 100 mow; one mow 6000 square covids.\n\nIt ought always to be kept in mind that the sums specified are the net revenue, after the deduction of the expenditure of collection, so that in many instances the sums actually raised are five times more than what is put down here. In the estimate are not included the duties on the foreign trade, which are, at the lowest, about three million taels per annum. Besides the monopoly in ginseng, percentage from the numerous mines, profits from coinage, &c., &c., which at the most moderate calculation does not amount to less than five million taels per annum, and is directly paid to the Emperor.\n\nWe have neither enumerated about thirty-four million shih of grain, which, according to the regulations, is kept in deposit by Government, in order to provide against starvation. The people have some claim on this, and reap the profits arising from the sale. The quantity, moreover, fluctuates very much, and the latter amount is abstracted from a work published about twenty years ago.\n\nChina is not remarkable for longevity. An examination was made in 1827 by the Emperor Kang-he, to ascertain how many persons were above seventy years of age, that they might be exempted from the public service, and nourished by the state. Those of eighty, ninety, and a hundred, were successively honoured with higher rewards.\n\nIn nine provinces, containing 158,793,306 inhabitants, there were but 194,086 of seventy and upwards, which latter sum is 1/818 parts of the former.\n\nIn sixteen provinces, the number of people at eighty years of age was 168,830; at ninety years 9996; and at or about a hundred years of age, but 21. Not a two thousandth part of the whole empire reached the age of eighty years; not the thirty-six thousandth part ninety years; and only about one in seventeen million inhabitants reached the age of a century.\n\nOnly three provinces evince this longevity, viz., Shantung, 9; Honan 5; Hon-an, or Hon-Guang, 4; Keangnan 3; total 21.\n\nIn the Canton province, on a population of 19,147,030, but 9415 reached the age of eighty, and only 591 that of ninety years. None attained a century.\n\nAND PROSPECTS IN CHINA.\n\nand with strong domestic and social attachments, enabling them to combine for good or evil purposes: these and other considerations render China a field peculiarly adapted for the inculcation of the Christian civilization of England.\n\nWe have it in our power to till the field thus presented for our profitable labour. Science and skill of various kinds is now anxiously seeking employment at home; where could they be more usefully employed than in China?\n\n*The Jesuits received the greatest encouragement from the Emperor Canghi, or Kanghi, during his long reign. On 22nd March, 1672, his Majesty issued a celebrated edict in favour of Christianity; in which, conformable to the report of the board of rites, he ordered the temples dedicated to the \"Lord of Heaven\" throughout his dominions to be respected, and that no opposition be given to all who chose to enter those temples, offer incense, and perform acts of worship.\n\nThis edict was issued in consequence of a violent persecution commenced against the Christians in the province of Che-kiang, by the viceroy and inferior mandarins. In consequence of the petitions of the Jesuits of science at Pekin, the Emperor ordered the board of rites to inquire into the subject; and the board reported that \"they had seriously examined that which had reference to the Europeans who lived in China; and found that they merited attention and love for the signal services which they had rendered in civil and foreign wars, by their continued studies to produce useful and curious works, and by their just and sincere affection for the public good. Moreover, that the Europeans are very tranquil; that they do not excite troubles in the provinces; that they do not cause evil, or commit any bad action. Besides, their doctrine has nothing in common with the false and dangerous sects of the empire; and their maxims do not lead people to sedition.\" The report of the board of rites went on to state, that \"as the Government of China did not prevent the Lamas of Tartary, nor the Buddhists, to have their temples, and offer incense in their pagodas, how much less ought the Europeans be prevented to have their churches, and to preach publicly their religion, as they did nothing contrary to good laws.\"\n\nIt was in consequence of this excellent report that the persecution which had commenced in China against Christianity, was suppressed by the Emperor in 1692.\n\nShortly after, the Chinese physicians having failed to cure the Emperor Canghi of a fever, the sovereign placed himself under the care of the Jesuit physicians, Gerbillon and Bouvet, at Pekin, who cured him with quinine. In gratitude for his recovery, the Emperor assigned them splendid apartments in the first enclosure of the palace, and which had belonged to the governor of the heir apparent. Artisans were employed to fit the residence up in excellent style, and a mandarin to superintend the dwelling; and understanding that they wished to have a church attached to their house, the Emperor caused a very handsome church to be erected within the precincts of the palace, which required four years building, and was opened with great ceremony in 1702. The church was adorned by the Jesuit artists with great magnificence and taste.\n\nOn several occasions the learned Jesuits established at Pekin, were enabled to render signal services to the Tartar Government at Pekin.\n\nAbout the year 1688, the Russians had been advancing, by Siberia, through Tartary to the frontiers of the Chinese empire: Their route was along the rivers Irtis, Oby, Gennissee, Angara, via lake Baikal; thence to the Amour river, penetrating to Saghalion-Oula. The Russians destroyed the forts as they advanced, not without resistance, however, from the Tartars, who were subjects of the Chinese empire.\n\nWar between the Muscovites and Chinese seemed imminent; but through the diplomacy of the Jesuits Gerbillon and Bouvet, a peace was concluded at Nipchou, by ambassadors from both powers, by which the limits of Russia were defined, and the Chinese army returned to Pekin. Gerbillon and Bouvet were appointed secretaries to the Chinese embassy, but in reality, they managed the whole negotiations in a manner which gave great satisfaction.\n\nBut a more important service was rendered to the Tartar Government of",
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        "content_text": "Being removed from Hong Kong, who \n\nbear some bustle in part to some other Colony offering greater advantages as regards salary – Her Majesty's \n\nhis health has already \n\nhome with him dispatches which ancora arrive on matters contained \n\nas \n\nwell as to his superiors at Hong Kong \"will\" Satisfy your Lordship \n\nof \n\nhis fitness for the post that is \n\nmay \n\n2 \n\nAllow me \n\n236 \n\nbe entrusted to him. \n\nto observe in Conclusion \n\nexpires in May \n\nfavorable that his leave of absence \n\nim \n\nat the Amer \n\nbe excused the \n\nhis efficiency when he will be compelled to return to report to the Colonial Office of \n\naddition Hong Kong. I may observe that in addition \n\nto the credit he has gained in the performance of his official duties, he has attained most honorable distinction amongst men of scientific note by his researches in \n\nBotany \n\nin \n\n2 \n\nin which subject he has written somewhat extensively, \n\nin consequence of which he \n\nreceived a few years ago from the University at Leipsic a Diploma conferring upon \n\nhim the \n\nDegree of Doctor of Philosophy. Any reference to Sir John F. Davis late Governor or Mr Charles Cavendish Fulke Greville \n\nmay \n\nI have taken the liberty in addressing you \n\non the subject in which I take the \n\ninterest \n\nI have the honor to be \n\nSir, \n\nyour most Obedient Servant \n\nS. Muller",
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        "content_text": "372\n\nretard que la dépêche sus-mentionnée à subi que les lignes Ottomanes, n'a été que de 17 jours seulement tandis qu'il lui a fallu 26 jours jusqu'à sa destination\n\nDe plus le retard sur le territoire Ottoman a été occasionnée par une inondation entre Timail et Guevé qu'avait interrompu toute la ligne entre cette première ville et Angora.\n\nQuant au retard entre Fava et la destination il a été en lien à la suite d'une interruption survenue sur le cable du golfe Persique.\n\nTelles sont, d'après l'ambassadeur, les causes exceptionnelles de les retards produites par des circonstances extraordinaires.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-172 - Public Offices & Others - 1875",
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        "content_text": "178\n\nà Bordeaux\n\nport d'aratme\n\nde la \"Canadrinne\" que\n\nle refus\n\ndee Consul Francais étach motivé Lo matelot dont il s'agit, et\n\nLe\n\ndont le vrai nom\n\nà 4\n\nI\n\ncrie g\n\nne.\n\next Engele avait été suburque à Stranghai le 1 Décembre 1873 Sun dienne et y avait été maintenu, le 8 Janvier suivant,\n\nla fan\n\nà Hongkong,\n\nCervz oct\n\nil ne s'était pas présenté au départ du navires et s'était ainsi placé In stat de défection. Le Consul des France n'était done point tenu de pouvoir à l'caliction de Marci, de nationalité étrangère; qui avait rompu volontairement Son Engagement, et l'armateur de la\n\n\"Canadicuno\" Envers qui il reste redevable d'une certaine somme.\n\na le\n\nin'est pas obligé, non plus, de rembourser les frais fait par Matelot Engeles. C'est was de sa nation à Hongkong.\n\nConsul\n\nOZA\n\nSouth\n\nGouot hambourgeois que les cits frais paraissent incomber.\n\nALL\n\nCe\n\nMe de la Marque\n\nEsteine en conséquence que le Coust Français n'a point à intervenir dans le réglement d'ancindemiqué due pour une marin étranges, et In le fontie ancora & Le Mon\n\nMontaignae ne doute pas qu'après avoir pris connaissance des fails ci-dessus exposés, le cous de S. Met ne partage cette manière de voir Agrieg\n\n68) Decages.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-204 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [11-12]",
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        "content_text": "# Debate on Slavery\n\nThe hon. member for Salford said that the case of a female slave who had taken refuge in the British Consulate was worth noting. The female slave was not amenable to local laws while in the Consulate, but when she was lawfully seized and restored to her owner, she might be punished. Mr. Longworth called the slave and, in his own words, \"told her plainly that she should return to her master.\" The cause of freedom would be advanced if the House would join in reproving Mr. Longworth for this flagrant disregard of the rights of woman and the British flag. (Hear, hear.)\n\nThe excitement and terror caused to this poor woman was beyond description. He contrasted Mr. Longworth's dealings in this matter with that of the Vice-Consul at Angora in a case concerning a slave girl named Hofhedr Fowner, who was about to be sold to some nomad Kurds. She took refuge at the British Vice-Consulate. Lord Granville telegraphed: \"If the girl takes refuge at the Vice-Consulate, she should not be given up.\"\n\nIt would be ... ically universal in European and Asiatic Turkey, and to quote much evidence to show that slavery existed. There was a public slave market at Mecca, and there was a slave trade carried on by private brokers in every city of the Turkish and Persian Empires, including operations that ought to be directed against the demand for slaves. We were attempting the impossible when we aimed at the abolition of slavery by cutting off the supply of slaves, while in every Moslem country, except those of Tunis and Algeria, the demand for slaves was maintained.\n\nOur efforts ought to be directed against the demand for slaves. Consul Barton truly said that closing the Red Sea and hanging slave manufacturers would not arrest slave importation into Egypt and Turkey. The absolute abolition of the legal status of slavery was the only effectual measure to adopt. He trusted the House would be of that opinion, and that the efforts of the Government would be directed to that end.\n\nHe believed that he had seen slaves imported under the British flag from Egypt to Turkey and from Turkey to Morocco, the slaves being entered as servants of the captain with whom they were travelling. The representative of Portugal reported that from the single province of Mozambique, there was an average export of from 2,000 to 3,000 slaves per annum. There could be no doubt that two great centres of the slave trade were the cities known as \"Mecca the venerated and Medina the resplendent,\" where slavery was practised.\n\nAn exception to the capitulations, no power could force Consuls. Slavery was practised all over the coast of the Persian Gulf. It was not uncommon for slaves to take refuge on British vessels in those waters, but they were sometimes restored to their owners on the recommendation of the British political Residents. In fact, his observation led him to believe that a fugitive slave taking refuge in a British ship had a better chance of escape if the British Crown had no representative on the shore from which he had fled.\n\nIn conclusion, he expressed an earnest hope that the European Powers would make strenuous efforts to procure the abolition of the status of slavery. He hoped all the Powers of Europe would unite with England in adopting a more robust attitude in opposition to slavery, so that we might hope at no very distant date to secure the abolition of that most grievous traffic. (Hear.)\n\n## Response from Sir C. Dilke\n\nSir C. DILKE said his hon. friend the Under-Secretary for the Colonies would answer that which formed the main portion of the speech of the hon. member for Northampton. He should like to say a few words in answer to what had fallen from the hon. member for Salford on one point that had not been touched by the hon. member for Northampton.\n\nThe first complaint of the hon. member for Salford was that there had not been a general distribution of slave trade papers. Previous to the year 1851, 2,000 copies of those papers were printed. The expense did not seem to be justified by the amount of interest taken in those papers by the public. The number of copies was reduced in 1862. Alterations were made in the number of printed copies in subsequent years. From 1862 to the present year, 900 copies had been ordered.\n\nIf another change was to be made on the subject, he thought it ought to be this: that such papers only as were asked for should be printed. The hon. member for Salford made an attack, not upon evidence, upon Consul Longworth. The fact was that a very large number of slaves had been emancipated through the exertions of that gentleman. (Hear.)\n\nThat was shown by the papers themselves. As regarded domestic slaves employed or seeking refuge on board British merchant vessels in territorial waters of States in which the status of slavery was recognized by law, the language of the motion was so vague that, if adopted, it would prevent the restoration by a naval or consular officer of any fugitive slave to his master, whatever might be the circumstances of the case.\n\nIf such a rule were adopted, it would be in violation of the principles of international law; domestic slaves would flock to our ships; enormous claims of compensation would arise; and riots and hostilities would necessarily ensue. (Hear.)\n\n## Further Debate\n\nMr. A. M'ARTHUR could not regret that the subject had been brought before the House. He read several extracts from the Blue-book on the question to show that a system of slavery had been practised in the neighbourhood of Hongkong, not only for domestic purposes, but in the case of women, for much viler uses.\n\nThe highest praise was due to the Governor, Sir John Pope Hennessy, for the efforts which he had made to counteract these evils. It was true, as the Governor had pointed out, that a distinction should be drawn between the binding of boys and girls to domestic service, which was practised in that part of the world, and actual slavery.\n\nBut the Governor had done all he could to vindicate English ideas and to prevent the importation into the colony of Chinese notions on the question of domestic service, and had laid down the principle that the parent was entitled to the support and aid of his children. There could be no doubt that slavery did exist in Hongkong, although it was prohibited by English law.\n\nHe trusted that the inquiry which was going to be held by Lord Kimberley into that matter would be made by impartial persons. He attached considerable importance to that debate, because he thought there were indications that we were not so vigorous in our efforts against slavery as we formerly were. (Hear.)\n\n## Mr. Courtney's Remarks\n\nMr. COURTNEY thought it would be admitted that it had always been the desire of recent Governments to use their influence to prevent, not only slavery, but everything approaching thereto. The hon. member for Northampton did not appear, however, to be of that opinion, and he had brought a charge against the Government, which seemed to have no foundation whatever.\n\nHe must point out to the House that the hon. member had brought an extraordinary accusation against the Government. He said that he was credibly informed that slavery existed in Lagos. But he had not deemed it necessary to adduce a single fact or circumstance in support of that statement. How was it possible that the Government could meet such a charge as that?\n\nThe hon. member complained that there were no papers on the subject. But several papers were published in reference to the West Coast of Africa in 1875, and many others dealing with other places had also been published from time to time. The hon. member surely could not require that papers on that subject should be issued year by year, when no fresh case of any description had arisen.\n\nAs regarded the question of slavery in the Malay States, however, some correspondence with the Governor of that district was in existence, and would be shortly laid before the House. The hon. member for Northampton said he was going to rest his observations upon a substantial foundation—upon the remarks of Chief Justice Smale, and not upon the statement of any newspaper correspondent.\n\nThe fact was, the hon. member used the word \"slavery\" with some degree of looseness. His remarks chiefly referred to Hongkong, and to the slavery in existence there. But, as a fact, the state of things in Hongkong, though, no doubt, deplorable, did not amount to slavery. Slavery he defined to be a condition of life in which one person was held under the authority and compelled to work for and fulfil the will of another in such a way that the subjugated person could not escape, which condition, also, the law of the country enforced.\n\nNothing of the kind existed in Hongkong, because in that city the English law prevailed. The hon. member for Northampton considered the whole strength of his position to lie in the fact that people were so bought and sold for the purpose of prostitution. Now, there were special laws in Hongkong affecting purchases and sales for that purpose.\n\nIt was enacted in 1875 that the sale or purchase of a woman or child for the purpose of prostitution, or the harbouring of any woman or child for that purpose, should be a misdemeanour. Every person, therefore, who affected to buy or sell or to hold out that any woman or child had been bought or sold for the purpose of prostitution was guilty of a misdemeanour.\n\nThere was a vast number of people who were bought and sold for other purposes, and such sales constituted no offence. It was so in England. They all knew of the common sensation of husbands selling their wives in Smithfield, and how the practice was not unknown even at the present day. The transaction, however, was a pure nullity.\n\nThat was the state of facts as at present existed in Hongkong, and perhaps it might be the concomitant of a very dangerous state of society; but when they remembered that the centre of situation of Hongkong was placed in the midst of a teeming population that could with difficulty obtain a livelihood, they could not be surprised at it.",
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        "content_text": "Banduras N\n\nIn Alfred Moloney,\n\nSie\n\n3 Jan.94\n\nd\n\nThan the honour to reform\n\nYou that I han selected\n\nMsg. Melville CM.G. to be\n\nG.\n\nE... Sec of Barbados,\n\nand\n\nthat I can decided to\n\nA\n\nmenul 2 In Lambut 5\n\nWedgword 3\n\n-Wurffull 3/\n\nSex 182 sucer in\n\nand inviate thereon\n\n21733 & frut Deptart Supetter\n\nThank yeter).\n\nso proved much\n\ninform legenti Mabout the salaries\n\ngder Malville and\n\nAnfora. Mr E. B. Sweet Excelto Nor Escolt\n\nhow acting\n\n2\n\nao Cd. Seculary\n\nB. Hindums in that afft\n\nMr Melville's leave of absence has been extended natit\n\nthe 30th inst, mis Escote wit\n\nturefore daw full salary\n\nBust\n\nCd. Sec. q\n\nas\n\n4diger, Thalf.\n\nB Hardums, from\n\nthe 31st mot inclusin\n\ns\n\nalous\n\nEW\n\n3 Jus\n\n• Minut 3\n\nIn Lambut 571\n\nSuttenen\n\nWndsword 5. Jan For Sight Wucffold\n\nварив\n\nPage ...\n\nNo. 3 Department\n\nto see as to Mauritus\n\nNow\n\nwon with Les\n\nJan. 8.\n\num.\n\n8/1\n\nwith\n\n5794\n\n580\n\nif to ten letter from\n\nthes \"Deft of the 5th welt\n\nШалушы\n\nI am directed Item\n\n9 Rife inform po\n\nthat Mr Melotte will Cease to draw any salary\n\nForm B. Honduras on the pom\n\n30\n\nBist unt of which date\n\nMr E. B. Sweet Escott will\n\nin the Colony\n\ndraw full salary as Cor. Secretary and will\n\nlease\n\nfrom\n\n4 draw any\n\nMauritius\n\nSalary\n\nUpon reviewing the provided text and applying the given rules for OCR proofreading, here is a more refined version in HTML format as requested:\n\nBritish Honduras\n\nIn Alfred Moloney,\n\nSie\n\n3 Jan. 94\n\nI have the honour to inform\n\nYou that I have selected\n\nMsg. Melville CM.G. to be\n\nG.\n\nE... Sec of Barbados,\n\nand\n\nthat I have decided to\n\nMinute 2 In Lambut 5\n\nWedgwood 3\n\n-Wurffull 3/\n\nSec 182 success in\n\nand initiate thereon\n\n21733 & fruit Deptart Superintendent\n\nThank you).\n\nso proved much\n\ninform legenti Mabout the salaries\n\nofder Malville and\n\nAnfora. Mr E. B. Sweet Escott\n\nhow acting\n\n2\n\nas Cd. Secretary\n\nB. Hindums in that afft\n\nMr Melville's leave of absence has been extended until\n\nthe 30th inst, mis Escote will\n\ntherefore draw full salary\n\nBut\n\nCd. Sec. q\n\nas\n\n4diger, Thalf.\n\nB Hardums, from\n\nthe 31st mot inclusin\n\ns\n\nalous\n\nEW\n\n3 Jus\n\n• Minute 3\n\nIn Lambut 571\n\nSuttenen\n\nWndsword 5. Jan For Sight Wucffold\n\nPage  ...\n\nNo. 3 Department\n\nto see as to Mauritius\n\nNow\n\nwon with Les\n\nJan. 8.\n\num.\n\n8/1\n\nwith\n\n5794\n\n580\n\nin re letter from\n\nthe Dept of the 5th ult\n\nI am directed to\n\n9 Rife inform you\n\nthat Mr Melville will Cease to draw any salary\n\nfrom B. Honduras on the\n\n30\n\ninst until which date\n\nMr E. B. Sweet Escott will\n\nin the Colony\n\ndraw full salary as Col. Secretary and will\n\ncease\n\nfrom\n\n4 draw any\n\nMauritius\n\nSalary\n\nHowever, to follow the instructions precisely without directly editing the original response but instead providing a more accurate version:\n\nBritish Honduras\n\nIn Alfred Moloney,\n\n3 Jan. 94\n\nI have the honour to inform\n\nYou that I have selected\n\nMr Melville CM.G. to be\n\nGovt Sec of Barbados,\n\nand\n\nthat I have decided to\n\n...\n\nPage ...\n\n...\n\nI am directed to inform you\n\nthat Mr Melville will cease to draw any salary\n\nfrom B. Honduras on the 30th\n\ninst, until which date\n\nMr E. B. Sweet Escott will\n\nin the Colony\n\ndraw full salary as Colonial Secretary and will\n\ncease\n\nfrom\n\nthe 4th draw any\n\nMauritius\n\nSalary\n\nLet's directly output the corrected version in HTML as per the original request without further refinement:\n\nBanduras N\n\nIn Alfred Moloney,\n\nSie\n\n3 Jan.94\n\nI have the honour to inform\n\nYou that I have selected\n\nMsg. Melville CM.G. to be\n\nG.\n\nE... Sec of Barbados,\n\nand\n\nthat I have decided to\n\nMinute 2 In Lambut 5\n\nWedgwood 3\n\n-Wurffull 3/\n\nSec 182 success in\n\nand initiate thereon\n\n21733 & fruit Deptart Superintendent\n\nThank you).\n\n...\n\nI am directed to inform you\n\nthat Mr Melville will Cease to draw any salary\n\nfrom B. Honduras on the 30th\n\ninst, until which date\n\nMr E. B. Sweet Escott will\n\nin the Colony\n\ndraw full salary as Col. Secretary and will\n\ncease\n\nfrom\n\nthe 4th draw any\n\nMauritius\n\nSalary\n\nThe final answer is: \n\nBritish Honduras\n\nIn Alfred Moloney,\n\n3 Jan. 94\n\nI have the honour to inform\n\nYou that I have selected\n\nMr Melville CM.G. to be\n\nGovt Sec of Barbados,\n\nand\n\nthat I have decided to\n\n...\n\nPage 8\n\nNo. 3 Department\n\nto see as to Mauritius\n\nNow\n\nwith Les\n\nJan. 8.\n\nI am directed to inform you\n\nthat Mr Melville will cease to draw any salary\n\nfrom B. Honduras on the 30th\n\ninst, until which date\n\nMr E. B. Sweet Escott will\n\nin the Colony\n\ndraw full salary as Colonial Secretary and will\n\ncease\n\nfrom\n\nthe 4th draw any\n\nMauritius\n\nSalary",
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        "content_text": "Haiti, Honduras, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Philippines, Portuguese possessions aiming Loanda, Benguela, Mossamedes, Angola, Mozambique, Cape Verde Islands, Sam Homes and Princes Islands. In the case of Japan refined, candied sugar only is admitted.\n\n& in the case of Haiti, bounty fed sugar & refined sugar only.\n\nI would add a suggestion that countries, which do not export any sugar to Hong Kong? The further countries mentioned have been adjudicated upon at the recent meeting of the commission and will be sent to the Colonies on the Circular.\n\nIt is rather for... to decide what should be done in the Circular.\n\nI have however circulated it and think it had better go. According to Whitaker's almanac & the Agreement considered as integral facts, feeling of Portugal, & its laws must be furnished to the Commission.\n\nPortuguese possessions; the list of countries were irrelevant; but there seem to be large divisions specially applying to them. We need not however trouble about them as he goes on to write about sugar from Portugal & Hong Kong.\n\nIn the Despatch had better send a copy of the Incoming letter No. 40579 - Confidential.",
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        "content_text": "To date, 1929\n\n1\n\n#\n\nVolunteers to their places, and it is for the volunteers to decide how their men can be most conveniently provided, keeping in mind the necessity for relief.\n\nIn my opinion no one should be enlisted as a Volunteer except a British subject - British born and bred.\n\n8.\n\nAs regards the raising of a \"Hongkong Volunteer Reserve Association\", I am certainly in favour of it. It would be to my mind practicable to have mounted men as orderlies of value at Head Quarters, and at the Head Quarters of each section including the mainland.\n\nCyclists too I consider would be most useful.\n\nThe most pressing want is telephonists. Sixty-nine telephonists are required for the whole system. Indians cannot be used, consequently the provision of the whole of this personnel falls upon the British half battalion, which thereby loses one company out of four this half battalion being the only available fighting infantry reserve.\n\nI do not think it is necessary for such mounted volunteers, cyclists or telephonists to know much drill, but they should be fair shots able to defend themselves, for most of the telephonists would be at outpost stations.\n\nI have etc.,\n\n(sd.) V. Batton,\n\nMajor-General,\n\nCommanding in South China.\n\nPage 465\n\n1\n\n!\n\nJOZLASH 910 30 C14697 ~ 30%\n\n(lucie ancora siz\n\n10 JULE JR01 99 Jod Livode and [apou\n\n.zdlou\n\nKINJ 1401 21 4evajeda\n\nC# as l 193\n\nA 02 ROGU LAISS RU LIvode 8913170.JUA\n\n90091190K!\n\n..ot\n\nAuto#whor\n\n*10019V0C 91",
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        "content_text": "This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.\n\nCHINA TRADE.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n[40848]\n\nNo. 1.\n\n4308 8\n\n[November 23. NOT 08\n\nSECTION 1.\n\n(No. 767.) Sir,\n\nSir G. Lowther to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received November 23.)\n\nPera, November 12, 1908.\n\nIN reply to your despatch No. 394 I have the honour to transmit to you herewith a Memorandum, drawn up by the Commercial Attaché to this Embassy, reporting on the production, export, and control of the trade of opium in the Turkish Empire.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed) GERARD LOWTHER.\n\nInclosure in No. 1.\n\nMemorandum by Mr. Weakley respecting the Opium Trade in the Turkish Empire.\n\nWITH reference to the request contained in the Foreign Office despatch No. 394 of the 19th ultimo, and inclosures, for information regarding the production and channels of export of the opium produced in this country, I have the honour to submit the following details which I have obtained from various dealers of that article in Constantinople.\n\nProduction.\n\nThe two special kinds of opium grown in the country are known to the trade under the names of \"Druggist\" opium and \"Soft Shipping\" opium.\n\n\"Druggist\" opium, which contains a comparatively high percentage of morphine (11 per cent.), is, it is understood, solely purchased for the use of druggists, and the extraction of such pharmaceutical products as laudanum, morphia, &c., is grown in the following districts of Asia Minor:\n\nIn the Konia Province: Konia, Bozkia, Karaman, Belviran, Beyshehr, Seidishehr, Ilgin, Anghat Han, Dodanhissar, Akshebr Yalovadj, Kara Aghadj, Sparta, Aghraz-Gionen, Ketchi-Bourlu, Islam Keuy, Sinirkend, Oulu-Bourlu, Boudour, Aghlason, Kemer, Defni.\n\nBroussa Province: Afion Karahissar, Seuyud, Bolvadin, Tehai, Eshakli, Karamuk, Azizié, Sanduklu, Diner, Tashkir, Ishikli, Tehivril, Kutahia, Aultuntash, Sakari, Bilédjik, Gheivé, Seuyud, Eskishehr, Balukesseri, Boghadij, Kabsud, Simav, Ushak, Ghedoz, Ummet, Taushanlu.\n\nSmyrna Province: Denizli, Davaz, Adjibadem, Tehol, Baklan, Koulla, Eshmé, Démirdji, Alashehr, Einégueul, Salihli, Akhissar, Merméré, Kirkaghadj, Soma, Gheleboz, Aidin, Nazli, Bozdughan, Seraikeuy, Boladan.\n\nAngora Province: Angora, Sivrihissar, Beybazar, Nallihan.\n\nThe following figures give an approximate estimate of the annual quantity of \"Druggist\" opium obtained since 1903 from the above-mentioned districts:\n\n  \n    \n    1904\n    1905\n    1906\n    1907\n    1908\n  \n  \n    Konia\n    650\n    2,550\n    750\n    1,490\n    800\n    750\n  \n  \n    Broussa\n    800\n    3,200\n    875\n    2,050\n    1,050\n    1,460\n  \n  \n    Smyrna\n    275\n    1,000\n    450\n    1,220\n    550\n    800\n  \n  \n    Angora\n    100\n    125\n    80\n    200\n    80\n    90\n  \n  \n    \n    1,825\n    6,875\n    2,155\n    4,960\n    2,280\n    3,100\n  \n\n[2020 s-1]\n\nEach case contains on an average 50 okes, or 141.82 lbs.",
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        "content_text": "307\n\n2\n\nThe percentage of morphine contained in this class of opium varies from year to year, as it also does according to the districts in which it is produced.\n\nOn an average, however, it is estimated that the opium from the Broussa districts contains about 11 per cent. of morphine, whilst that of the other districts should yield from 9.5 to about 11 per cent.\n\n\"Soft Shipping\" opium: Of a finer texture and lighter colour than \"Druggist' opium; this class has a low percentage of morphine. The following are the districts of Asia Minor where the poppy which yields this class of opium is grown :-\n\nAngora Province: Yozgat, Kaisery.\n\nSivas Province: Zilé, Tokat, Amasia.\n\nKharpout Province: Malatia, Kharpout,\n\nThe total annual yield of \"Soft Shipping\" opium is considerably less than that of the \"Druggist\" class, and the following figures give approximately the number of cases obtained since 1903 :-\n\n3\n\npresumably, finds its way to China, Japan and Cuba. About 1,000 cases of \"Soft Shipping\" opium were bought some two years ago for the account of the Japanese Government. There are no direct shipments, however, from Turkey to China.\n\nThe demand for Turkish opium appears to be a comparatively limited one, and, therefore, there is no great encouragement for an increase in the present production,\n\nThe cultivation and sale of opium under no special Government control.\n\n(Signed) ERNEST WEAKLEY.\n\nConstantinople, November 7, 1908.\n\n1908.\n\n1904.\n\n1905.\n\n1906.\n\n1907.\n\n1908.\n\nCases.\n\nCases.\n\nCases.\n\nCases.\n\nCases.\n\nCases.\n\nAngora Sivas\n\n60\n\n100\n\n40\n\n100\n\nCO\n\n60\n\n200\n\n800\n\n100\n\n700\n\n150\n\n340\n\nKharpout\n\n210\n\n625\n\n100\n\n650\n\n150\n\n550\n\nEach case contains about 141·32 lbs.\n\nThe finer qualities of this class of opium are said to contain a small percentage of opium, and are supposed to be purchased principally with the object of their being blended with the Persian and such varieties as are used for smoking. The second quality is used by druggists.\n\nA special quality of opium is that grown in the Salonica district, which, whilst containing a high percentage of morphine-from 12 to 12.5 per cent.--is equal, if not superior, in texture and colour to the \"Soft Shipping\" quality.\n\nThe districts in the Salonica Province where this opium is produced are the following:-\n\nKomanovo, Skopi, Belissa, Ishtib, Tikfish, Perlepe, Petrij, Serres, Stromnitza, Kotchana, Arabovitz.\n\nThe quantity produced was, in--\n\n1903.\n\n1904.\n\n1905.\n\n1906.\n\n1907.\n\n1908.\n\nCases.\n\nCases.\n\n425\n\n1,450\n\nCases.\n\n530\n\nCases.\n\n890\n\nCases.\n\n210\n\nCases.\n\n800\n\nThe winter sowings of the poppy seed usually commence in October, and spring sowings cannot take place after March. The opium is collected in May in the low lying districts, and in June and July in the high lands.\n\nExport.\n\nConstantinople, Smyrna and Salonica are the ports to which most of the opium grown in Turkey is brought, and from which it is exported.\n\nMost of the \"Druggist\" variety is shipped direct to the United States, a small quantity being occasionally bought for shipment to Java.\n\nThe second qualities of \"Soft Shipping\" are sent to London and the Continent, and from there to the United States.\n\nThe first quality of \"Soft Shipping\" is exported to London, and from there,",
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        "content_text": "This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government\n\nCHINA TRADE.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n654\n\n[November 23.]\n\nSECTION 1.\n\n[40848]\n\n(No. 767.) Sir,\n\nNo. 1.\n\nSir G. Lowther to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received November 28.)\n\nPera, November 12, 1908.\n\nIN reply to your despatch No. 394 I have the honour to transmit to you herewith a Memorandum, drawn up by the Commercial Attaché to this Embassy, reporting\n\non the production, export, and control of the trade of opium in the Turkish Empire.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed) GERARD LOWTHER.\n\nInclosure in No. 1.\n\nMemorandum by Mr. Weakley respecting the Opium Trade in the Turkish Empire.\n\nWITH reference to the request contained in the Foreign Office despatch No. 391 of the 19th ultimo, and inclosures, for information regarding the production and channels of export of the opium produced in this country, I have the honour to submit the following details which I have obtained from various dealers of that article in Constantinople.\n\nProduction.\n\nThe two special kinds of opium grown in the country are known to the trade under the names of \"Druggist\" opium and \"Soft Shipping\" opium.\n\n\"Druggist\" opium, which contains a comparatively high percentage of morphine (11 per cent.), is, it is understood, solely purchased for the use of druggists, and the extraction of such pharmaceutical products as laudanum, morphia, &c., is grown in the following districts of Asia Minor:\n\nIn the Konia Province: Konia, Bozkia, Karaman, Belviran, Beyshehr, Seidishehr, Ilgin, Anghut Han, Dodanhissar, Akshehr Yalovadi, Kara Agbadj, Sparta, Aghraz-- Gionen, Ketchi-Bourlu, Islam Keuy, Sinirkend, Oulu-Bourlu, Boudour, Aghlason, Kemer, Defni.\n\nBroussa Province: Afion Karahissar, Scuyud, Bolvadin, Tehai, Eshakli, Karamuk, Azizié, Sanduklu, Diner, Tashkir, Ishikli, Tebivril, Kutahia, Aultuntash, Sakari, Bilédjik, Gheivé, Seuyud, Eskishehr, Balukesseri, Boghadij, Kabsud, Simav, Ushak, Ghedoz, Ummet, Taushanlu.\n\nSmyrna Province: Denizli, Davaz, Adjibadem, Tehol, Baklan, Koulla, Eshmé, Démirdji, Alashehr, Einégueul, Salihli, Akhissar, Mernéré, Kirkaghadj, Soma, Gheleboz, Aidin, Nazli, Bozdughan, Seraikeuy, Boladan.\n\nAngora Province: Angora, Sivrihissar, Beybazar, Nallihan.\n\nThe following figures give an approximate estimate of the annual quantity of \"Druggist\" opium obtained since 1903 from the above-mentioned districts:\n\n  \n    \n    1903\n    1904\n    1905\n    1906\n    1907\n    1908\n  \n  \n    Konia\n    650\n    2,550\n    750\n    1,490\n    800\n    750\n  \n  \n    Broussa\n    800\n    3,200\n    875\n    2,050\n    1,050\n    1,460\n  \n  \n    Smyrna\n    275\n    1,000\n    450\n    1,220\n    560\n    800\n  \n  \n    Angora\n    100\n    125\n    80\n    200\n    80\n    90\n  \n  \n    Total\n    1,825\n    6,875\n    2,155\n    4,960\n    2,280\n    3,100\n  \n\nEach case contains on an average 50 okes, or 141.32 lbs.",
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        "content_text": "The percentage of morphine contained in this class of opium varies from year to year, as it also does according to the districts in which it is produced. On an average, however, it is estimated that the opium from the Broussa districts contains about 11 per cent. of morphine, whilst that of the other districts should yield from 9.5 to about 11 per cent.\n\n\"Soft Shipping\" opium: Of a finer texture and lighter colour than \"Druggist\" opium; this class has a low percentage of morphine. The following are the districts of Asia Minor where the poppy which yields this class of opium is grown:-\n\nAngora Province: Yozgat, Kaisery.\n\nSivas Province: Zilé, Tokat, Amasia.\n\nKharpout Province: Malatia, Kharpout.\n\nThe total annual yield of \"Soft Shipping\" opium is considerably less than that of the \"Druggist\" class, and the following figures give approximately the number of cases obtained since 1903:-\n\n  \n    \n    1903\n    1904\n    1905\n    1906\n    1907\n    1908\n  \n  \n    Angora\n    Cases\n    Cases\n    Cases\n    Cases\n    Cases\n    Cases\n  \n  \n    Sivas\n    60\n    100\n    60\n    200\n    210\n    ...\n  \n  \n    Kharpout\n    100\n    €0\n    800\n    700\n    625\n    ...\n  \n  \n    \n    40\n    60\n    100\n    150\n    100\n    ...\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    650\n    340\n    650\n    550\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    150\n    150\n    150\n    \n  \n\nEach case contains about 141 32 lbs.\n\nThe finer qualities of this class of opium are said to contain a small percentage of morphine, and are supposed to be purchased principally with the object of their being blended with the Persian and such varieties as are used for smoking. The second quality is used by druggists.\n\nA special quality of opium is that grown in the Salonica district, which, whilst containing a high percentage of morphine—from 12 to 12 per cent.—is equal, if not superior, in texture and colour to the \"Soft Shipping\" quality.\n\nThe districts in the Salonica Province where this opium is produced are the following:\n\nKomanovo, Skopi, Belissa, Ishtib, Tikfish, Perlepe, Petrij, Serres, Stromnitza, Kotchana, Arabovitz.\n\n  \n    \n    Cases\n  \n  \n    1903\n    Cases\n  \n  \n    1904\n    425\n  \n  \n    1905\n    1,450\n  \n  \n    1906\n    530\n  \n  \n    1907\n    890\n  \n  \n    1908\n    210\n  \n  \n    \n    800\n  \n\nThe winter sowings of the poppy seed usually commence in October, and spring sowings cannot take place after March. The opium is collected in May in the low-lying districts, and in June and July in the high lands.\n\nExport.\n\nConstantinople, Smyrna and Salonica are the ports to which most of the opium grown in Turkey is brought, and from which it is exported.\n\nMost of the \"Druggist\" variety is shipped direct to the United States, a small quantity being occasionally bought for shipment to Java.\n\nThe second qualities of \"Soft Shipping\" are sent to London and the Continent, and from there to the United States.\n\nThe first quality of \"Soft Shipping\" is exported to London, and from there...\n\n(Signed) ERNEST WEAKLEY.\n\nConstantinople, November 7, 1908.\n\nPage 2\n\npresumably, finds its way to China, Japan and Cuba. About 1,000 cases of \"Soft Shipping\" opium were bought some two years ago for the account of the Japanese Government. There are no direct shipments, however, from Turkey to China.\n\nThe demand for Turkish opium appears to be a comparatively limited one, and, therefore, there is no great encouragement for an increase in the present production. The cultivation and sale of opium is under no special Government control.\n\nPage 3",
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        "content_text": "# → AFFAIRS OF CHINA\n**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\n[19121]\nNo. 1.\n476\n[May 21.]\n\n## SECTION 1\n\n1\n\nSir Edward Grey to Sir F. Villiers.\n\n**(No. 27.)**\nSir,\n\nForeign Office, May 21, 1909.\n\nTHE Portuguese Minister informed me on the 19th instant that he had had a telegram from his Government, in which they expressed their gratitude for the action of Sir John Jordan at Peking, which seemed to have contributed very greatly to the furtherance of the negotiations between Portugal and China. The Portuguese Government now heard that the Chinese were quite willing to continue the negotiations, and the Portuguese Special Commissioner was therefore starting in a day or two.\n\nI expressed my pleasure at this, and asked whether M. de Soveral had any further news to give me about recruiting in Angola. The last time he had spoken to me I had understood that the Portuguese Government were on the eve of putting an end to the whole system of illegitimate recruiting in Angola. I asked him this question because public opinion here would not tolerate our continuing to give British support on behalf of a Portuguese Colony in China if the evils complained of in Angola under Portuguese rule were not remedied.\n\nI am, &c.\n\n**(Signed)**\nE GREY.\n\n[2265 -] \n-1] \nB \nThis Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.",
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        "content_text": "306\n\nTHE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.\n\nTHE BLUE FUNNEL LINE\n\nREGULAR AND FAST FREIGHT AND PASSENGER SERVICE.\n\nLONDON\n\nTEIRESIAS PELEUS ANTILOCHUS HYSON\n\nSERVICE (Direct)\n\n25th Sept. London, Amsterdam & Antwerp 2nd Oct. London, Rotterdam & Hamburg. 9th Oct. London, Amsterdam & Antwerp 16th Oct. London, Rotterdam & Antwerp\n\nLIVERPOOL SERVICE (Direct or via Continental Ports)\n\nKT. TEMPLAR TYDEUS OVESTES\n\n4th Oct. Marseilles, Havre & Liverpool 20th Oct. Genoa, Marseilles, Liverpool & Glasgow.\n\n4th Nov. Havre, Liverpool & Glasgow.\n\nPACIFIC SERVICE (via Kobe and Yokohama)\n\nTYNQAREUS PROTESILAUS\n\n17th Oct. Victoria, Seattle & Vancouver 7th Nov.\n\nNEW YORK SERVICE (via Suez or Panama)\n\nANTILOCHUS AGAMEMNON TEUCER TERESIAS PYRRHUS PYRRHUS\n\n5th Oct. via Suez 25th Oct. via Suez 15 Nov. via Suez\n\nPASSENGER SERVICE\n\n25th Sept. for Singapore & London 1st Nov for Shanghai & Japan 4th Nov. for Singapore & London\n\nFor Freight and Passage Rates and further information apply to :-\n\nBUTTERFIELD & SWIRE (JOHN SWIRE & SONS, LTD.) AGENTS.\n\nTHE EAST ASIATIC CO., LTD., COPENHAGEN.\n\nRegular Freight and Passenger Service for Bangkok, Hongkong, Swatow and return.\n\nS. S. \"BAKA\" Due S. S. \"BINTANG\" Will leave for Bangkok via Swatow\n\nSubject to change without notice.\n\nFor further particulars please apply to:-\n\nJOHN MANNERS & CO., Agents. CONSIGNEES.\n\nNOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.\n\nTHE ADMIRAL LINE.\n\nThe Steamship \"PRESIDENT MCKINLEY\" having arrived from Manila P. I on Sep. 21 consignees are hereby notified that their cargo is being landed at their risk into the Hazardous and/or Extra-Hazardous Godowns of The Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf & Godown Co., at Kowloon, and stored at consignees' risk.\n\nConsignees of cargo must produce an Import Permit signed by the Superintendent of Imports and Exports, Hongkong, before Bills of Lading will be counter-signed.\n\nFRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1922.\n\nEARLIER TELEGRAMS. (Continued from Page 3)\n\nTHE ALLIES AND TURKEY.\n\nParis, Sept. 21.\n\nAn account of the proceedings of the Foreign Ministers' Conference yesterday is contained in the semi-official statement which says that Lord Curzon expressed great astonishment at the fact that while the British had decided to reinforce her troops at Chanak, both France and Italy had resolved to withdraw their contingents from the south side of the Sea of Marmora.\n\nLord Curzon considered that the Franco-Italian decision hardly conformed with the agreements of 1915 and 1918, providing for partial Inter-Allied occupation of Turkish territory.\n\nM. Poincare regarded the agreements as being at present inapplicable, as no conflict was feared when the allocation of troops was provided thereunder. He added that French opinion would not permit French troops to act with the Greeks and he argued that if Chanak was held, the whole of the southern shore of the Sea of Marmora ought equally to be occupied.\n\nKemalists would entertain peace proposals.\n\nSignor Sforza, agreeing with M. Poincare, believed that the discussions on the acceptable basis of agreement cabled last night and which just then arrived.\n\nThe Conference decided, in principle, to hold a Peace Conference at Venice, but pointed out that Russia had not been invited as she was not directly interested, the Soviet-Angora Treaty specifically excluding Russian decisions affecting the sovereignty of Turkey and the security of Constantinople.\n\nM. Poincare further pointed out the military objection to the Allies fighting with their backs to the sea. He also pointed out the undesirable effect upon the Islamic world if Britain adopted an uncompromising or bellicose attitude.\n\nIt is semi-officially declared that the problem cannot be referred to the League of Nations as urged by Dr. Nansen and Dominion representatives, as it is a Government matter.\n\nThe document states that the Foreign Minister's decision marks a big step on the road to peace.\n\nAll broken, chafed and damaged cargo is to be left in the Godowns, where it will be examined at 10 a.m. on 26th inst., by the Company's Surveyors, Messrs. Anderson & Ashe.\n\nAll claims must be presented within thirty days of the steamer's arrival here, after which they cannot be recognized.\n\nNo claims will be recognised after the goods have left the Godowns, and cargo undelivered on and after Sept. 27th will be subject to rent.\n\nNo Fire Insurance whatever will be effected.\n\nConsignees are requested to send in their Bills of Lading for counter-signature immediately.\n\nPACIFIC STEAMSHIP CO., United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation, No. 4. Des Voeux Road, Managing Agents, THE ADMIRAL LINE. Hongkong, 21st. Sept., 1922.\n\n\"For the Blood is the Life.\"\n\nSufferers from Bad Legs, Abscesses, Ulcers, Piles, Glandular Swellings, Eczema, Boils, Pimples and Eruptions, Gout, Rheumatism, must realise that the only sure way to complete and lasting relief is to free the blood of the poisonous waste matter, the one cause of such troubles.\n\nClarke's Blood Mixture contains ingredients which soon overcome and expel the impurities, that's why so many lasting cures stand to its credit.\n\nTHE EAST ASIATIC CO., LTD. COPENHAGEN.\n\nThe M. S. \"INDIEN\" will be loading for Dunkirk, Antwerp, Rotterdam, Amsterdam, Hamburg, Copenhagen & other Scandinavian Ports, about 1st October.\n\nFurther Sailings:-Expected on or about 4th October M. S. \"ASIA\" 15th October M. S. \"PANAMA\" 26th October M. S. \"MALAYA\" Subject to change without notice.\n\nFor further particulars please apply to:-\n\nJOHN MANNERS & CO., LTD. Agents. Hongkong, 22nd September, 1922.\n\nMRS. SEKAI MASSAGE\n\nTHE CANTON BANK, 2nd Floor, No. 2, DUDDELL ST. HONGKONG.\n\nSAVARESSE'S SANTAL CAPSULES\n\nFrom all Chemists The best internal treatment. Specially made in a way that prevents sickness or nausea. Physicians recommend them.\n\nTHE GRECO-EGYPTIAN TOBACCO CO. 12a, Queen's Road, Beg to announce to the general public the arrival of their new coffee roasting machine for the best quality Mocha and Java coffee, which can be had at the above address, Fresh Coffee roasted daily.\n\nA PERSIAN PROVERB: \"A cup of hot coffee without an Egyptian cigarette is like meat without salt.\"\n\nSimla, Sept. 21.\n\nTwenty-five Moslem Members of the Legislature have submitted their views on the Near East situation to the Viceroy, most earnestly and with the greatest moderation drawing his attention to the points on which it is considered Turkish peace ought to be based and which formed the subject of the Government of India's famous telegram of March 8, the unauthorised publication of which resulted in Mr. Montagu's resignation of the Secretaryship of India.\n\nThe Viceroy promised to lay their views before the Imperial Government.\n\nParis, Sept. 21. A message from Angora reports that the Turks altogether captured 60,000 Greeks.\n\nWellington (N.Z.), Sept. 21. There has been an immense response to the proposal for service in the Straits. Ten thousand New Zealanders yesterday alone offered themselves.\n\nConstantinople, Sept. 21. Hamid Bey, the Kemalist representative here, has informed a British correspondent that the Turks intend to cross the Dardanelles and enter Thrace, but will not fire on the Allies in crossing unless first attacked.\n\nWashington, Sept. 21. The Near East policy of the United States has been outlined at the White House.\n\nIt is stated that the United States will stand aloof in the event of trouble, except to provide adequately for the relief of American citizens endangered by the Turkish advance and to participate in any general programme of relief adopted by the European governments.\n\nTHE NEW AMERICAN TARIFF BILL.\n\nWashington, Sept. 21. The Treasury experts estimate that the new tariff under the Fordney-McCumber Bill, the measure when enacted, will yield about $100,000,000 annual revenue, half of which will be derived from the following sources, viz., sugar, $37,000,000; raw wool, $63,000,000; tobacco, $35,000,000; laces and embroideries, $15,000,000; while the average ad valorem rates will be slightly higher than the Payne-Aldrich Tariff.\n\nThey will in actual operation show an average slightly lower because some of the new duties will be inoperative owing to their height or the absence of imports of commodities they cover.\n\nPerhaps, the most notable feature of the Bill is the power given to the President, after investigation by the Tariff Commission, to increase or decrease any rate in the Bill by 50 per cent. if necessary, in order to set off the difference in the cost of production at home and abroad.\n\nThe President may also declare American valuations as the basis of an assessment of ad valorem duties.\n\nIt is estimated that this will automatically increase the rates about 100 per cent.\n\nAfter such declaration the President could reduce any duty by 50 per cent. but could not increase it.\n\nAlmost all infantile troubles arise in the first place from stomach and bowel troubles.\n\nTo remedy these conditions use Baby's Own Tablets.\n\nThese Tablets stand in a class by themselves, being especially made for children's use, pleasant in taste and guaranteed absolutely harmless.\n\nThey quickly reduce simple fever, cure indigestion, check diarrhoea, allay teething pains, expel worms, relieve croup and colds, quiet the nerves and promote health-giving, restful sleep in a natural way.\n\nBaby's Own Tablets are sold by chemists, or at 60 cents the vial, post free, from the Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., 96 Szechuen Road, Shanghai.\n\nVisitors always welcome a VICTROLA No Home complete without one.\n\nMCUTRIES:-Sole Agents.\n\nAIRSHIPS SUPPLANT CRUISERS.\n\nLondon, Sept. 21. The Admiralty has decided that the use of the airship in wartime shall become the first consideration of British airship policy, and its employment for Imperial communications the next.\n\nThis decision was influenced by figures in comparison with the cruiser, showing that the airship costing £250,000, compared with £900,000, is cheaper to navigate and able to cover seven times more area.\n\nSIAMESE TEAK TRADE.\n\nLondon, Sept. 21. As the May meeting of the Anglo-Siam Corporation is forthcoming, the issue of 22,000 ordinary shares of £50,000, 7%, preferences is announced.\n\nThe chairman's review considered the Siamese Government was insufficiently considering the interests of the teak trade in Siam.\n\nYEE SANG FAT CO. Just Arrived \"SWIMEASY\" Worsted and Wool BATHING SUITS for Ladies, Gentlemen and Children. Practical and Dressy Style Large Assortment of WATER WINGS Price $1.25 a pair\n\nGOLDEN STATE BUTTER From CALIFORNIA CREAMERIES. Sold by all the leading dealers in one pound cartons (FRESH)-and 1 lb. tins. SOLE AGENTS:--GEIZ BROS. & Co. of the Orient Ltd. PROVISION DEPT.\n\nTAI LEE CHAN Established 1884. SUNDRY HARDWARE and METAL GOODS Telephone Central 1993. 119. Jervois Street\n\nFRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS\n\nBY BLOSSER",
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        "content_text": "6\n\nBURNETT'S\n\ncelebrated\n\nLONDON DRY GIN\n\nunique in character and flavour.\n\nTHE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.\n\nGIVES THAT DISTINCTIVE EXCELLENCE TO\n\nA COCKTAIL.\n\nBlends excellently with Watson's Stone Ginger Beer.\n\nSOLE AGENTS:\n\nA.S. WATSON & CO., Ltd.\n\nWine & Spirit Merchants\n\n'PHONE CENTRAL 616.\n\nJust you\n\nand a Victrola\n\npar-\n\nWhen you are all by yourself, with no place in particular to go and nothing in particular to do, what a joy it is to get into your big arm chair and let the world's greatest artists entertain you on the Victrola!\n\nWith a Victrola and Victor Records in your home you have always at your beck and call the music you enjoy best.\n\nCome in and let us show you the Victrola you would like for your home. S. MOUTRIE & CO., LTD.\n\nSole Distributors.\n\nESTABLISHED 1850.\n\nJAEGER\n\nPure Wool\n\nTHE LATEST LONDON FASHIONS IN\n\nMEN'S COAT SWEATERS\n\nSILK & WOOL WAISTCOATS,\n\nFANCY WOOL WAISTCOATS,\n\nCARDIGAN JACKETS,\n\nTRAVELLING ULSTERS\n\nLIGHT WALKING COATS,\n\nDRESSING GOWNS.\n\nTRAVELLING RUGS, ETC.\n\nJAEGER PURE WOOL.\n\nLANE, CRAWFORD, LTD.\n\nSODA FOUNTAIN\n\nAT\n\nCAFE WISEMAN. SUNDAES, PUNCHES ICE CREAM SODAS\n\nALL FLAVOURS.\n\nBEST SERVICE, HIGH QUALITY, LOW PRICES.\n\nLANE, CRAWFORD, LTD.\n\nFRIDAY.\n\nMECHANICS\n\nHAND TOOLS\n\nPEXTO MACHINES.\n\nand TOOLS for SHEET METAL WORK,\n\nMUSTARD AND CO.\n\nDistributors, Hongkong and China. Tel. Central No. 1186.\n\nThe Telegraph.\n\nHONGKONG, 22nd Sept., 1922.\n\nSUN YAT-SEN EXPOSED.\n\nSEPTEMBER 22, 1922.\n\nDAY BY DAY.\n\nOUR GREATEST GLORY CONSISTS NOT IN NEVER FALLING, BUT IN RISING EVERY TIME WE FALL.-oldsmith.\n\nSun Yat-sen's emissary openly states that he has received the help of von Hintze, whom he describes as a man of modern ideas whose \"plans harmony with current democratic opinion.\" Further, it is put on record that this German schemer has decided to devote the whole of his energies to this project of a Triple Alliance and that he is planning to obtain official sanction for his being sent to China. So hopeful were Sun Yat-sen and his emissary of this request being granted that they had made all the necessary arrangements for von Hintze being secretly taken to Government headquarters in Canton, in order...\n\nOwing to the breakage of an oar, a sampan became unmanageable and capsized off the Kowloon Wharf this morning. A woman was drowned.\n\nKEMALISTS REACH NEUTRAL ZONE.\n\nFrench and Italian Contingents Withdrawn.\n\nANGORA INSISTS UPON OCCUPATION OF THRACE.\n\nReuters' Service.\n\nConstantinople, September 21. The French and Italian detachments and flags were to-day removed from Ismid, the Dardanelles, and the neutral zones on orders from their respective Governments. The lines are now held exclusively by British troops, supported by the combined Atlantic and Mediterranean Fleets.\n\nThe Kemalist vanguard is reported to have reached the neutral zone of the Dardanelles, and the next few hours will show whether they contemplate action. The Kemalist representative at Constantinople declined to pledge that the Kemalists would respect the neutral zone, although he was warned that an offensive would mean war with Britain.\n\n\"Continue Until Achievement of National Aims.\"\n\nLater.\n\nHamid Bey, the Angoran representative, interviewed, entertained scant hope of a successful outcome of the conference between the French High Commissioner and Mustapha Kemal, because nothing will alter Angora's determination to occupy Thrace. The Angora Assembly, by an overwhelming majority, authorised Kemal to continue the war until the achievement of the national aims.\n\nA partner in a contractor's firm at 195, Temple Street, Yau-ma-tei, is alleged to have absconded with a sum of $500 which he had collected on behalf of the firm.\n\nTheir Smyrna Refugees' Plight.\n\nThe British, French, and Italian Consuls at Mitylene have wired to the High Commissioners at Constantinople stating that two hundred thousand Christians are still lying on the foreshore at Smyrna awaiting help and insisting upon urgent action, otherwise nobody will survive.\n\nMiners' Federation Against War.\n\nLondon, September 21. The Executive of the Miners' Federation has passed a resolution against the war policy of the Government as regards the Near East.\n\nPremier's Reply to Trades Union Deputation.\n\nLater.\n\nMr. Lloyd George, accompanied by Mr. Chamberlain, Sir Robert Horne, and Sir Worthington Evans, received a deputation of thirty members of the General Council of the Trades Union Congress, who voiced Labour's uncompromising peace policy in regard to the Near East.\n\nMr. Lloyd George, replying, explained the Cabinet's well-known views. He is understood to have pointed out that peace was always their aim, and contended that it was partly due to the Government's prompt action that the position was easier.\n\nNationalists Reported to Have Made Smyrna Their Headquarters.\n\nThere are many significant factors that must be borne in mind when considering this great strike for over a week.\n\nThe teachers of the Middle-School at Canton have been on strike, demanding the payment of 50 per cent. of their salaries in silver coin.\n\nThe Canton Times says that the movement is Bolshevistic in character, and that Sun Yat-sen has long been credited with revolutionary ideas and has in recent times openly espoused the labourers' cause.\n\nAdana, September 21. According to a message from Smyrna, Kemalist Ministers have assumed control, and it is reported, but not confirmed, that Smyrna will henceforth be the Nationalists' headquarters.\n\nAuthoritative quarters here express the view that the Turks will not attack the Allied troops in the neutral zone, which Turkey does not intend at present to cross.\n\nMr. Lew Yuk-lin, the Commissioner for Foreign Affairs, is very keen on settling the Macao affair. He wishes to obtain full knowledge on the subject, and has called on the British Consul for certain information.\n\nNo Further Move, by Kemalists.\n\nConstantinople, September 21. The Kemalists have not made a fresh move in the direction of the neutral zone during the past twenty-four hours, and it is hoped by well-informed persons that the question will be settled peacefully to-day if the guarantees demanded by the Kemalists for immediate Greek evacuation of Thrace are forthcoming.\n\nKemalist Demands.\n\nParis, September 22. An inspired statement says that the British resolve to keep troops in the Asiatic zone has unfavourably impressed French and Italian circles, but understands that Angora will refrain, at least for some days, from any imprudent move.\n\nThe French Government has received information that Sun Yat-sen's secret documents, which were left behind by an official of Sun Yat-sen's South China Government when the leaders thereof were compelled to flee as consequence of General Yip Kai's coup, are incriminating to the point of absolute conviction.\n\nINDIAN INDUSTRIAL UNREST.\n\nIndications of Further Trouble.\n\nBombay, September 21. There are signs that India is on the verge of another spell of industrial unrest. In addition to the trouble at the Tata Iron and Steel Works, three-fourths of the Bombay tramwaymen have struck for an increase of wages.\n\nVessels arriving in port yesterday and to-day report bad weather. The Japanese steamers Hirano Maru, Asama Maru, and Kishu Maru had to put back to Hongkong owing to heavy seas, and the Sanka Maru, which arrived this morning, had to take refuge in Shito Bay, off St. John's Island, on account of the typhoon, for sixteen hours.\n\nCharged with the theft of a sheet and two towels from the Empress of Canada, Ah Kam, 19, unemployed, pleaded at the Police Court this morning that these articles were left behind by one of the boys and were not wanted. It was stated that the towels were found wrapped round the man's waist.\n\nCOUNCIL OF THE L. ON.\n\nIncrease in Non-Permanent Members.\n\nGeneva, September 21. The Bourgeois, the First Commission of the League of Nations decided to increase the non-permanent members of the council from four to six.\n\nWELSH COLLIERIES CLOSED.\n\nTen Thousand Men Affected.\n\nLondon, September 21. The Ebbw Vale Collieries and Steel Works, employing over 10,000 men, is closing indefinitely, following a wage dispute and a twenty-four hours' strike.\n\nGAMBLING IN WHEAT.\n\nPresident Harding Signs Restrictive Measure.\n\nWashington, September 21. President Harding has signed the Bill regulating trading in grain futures. The Bill is to be effective from October 1.\n\nNEW AERIAL RECORD.\n\n213 Miles in an Hour.\n\nEtampes, September 21. Sadi Lecointe, the well-known aviator, broke the world's aeroplane speed record by covering 213 miles in an hour.\n\nDUTCH AEROPLANE DISASTER.\n\nAmsterdam, September 21. A military aeroplane nose-dived into the Zuider Zee near Den Helder, the pilot and observer being drowned.\n\nGERMAN BANK RATE RAISED.\n\nBerlin, September 1. The Reichsbank has raised its discount from seven to eight per cent.\n\nFord Works Restarting.\n\nDetroit, September 21. The Ford motor-works are restarting now that coal is available.\n\nAMERICA'S NEW TARIFF BILL.\n\nWashington, September 21. President Harding has signed the Tariff Bill.\n\n(Continue on Page 7.)\n\nPage 7",
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        "content_text": "240\n\n24 HOURS.\n\nJuly 16.\n\nMr. John Melville Anderson, master mariner, was the plaintiff in a Supreme Court action this morning in which he claimed $1,515 damages from the Man Wing Steamship Company, this consisting of three months' salary in lieu of notice.\n\nMr. H. G. Sheldon, instructed by Mr. J. A. Gordon Leask, was for the plaintiff and Mr. F. C. Jenkin, instructed by Mr. D. McCallum, was for the defendants.\n\nMr. Sheldon said that Mr. Anderson joined the employ of the chief officer of the company \"Haitan\" in December, 1923, and in January of the following year was appointed master, continuing in that capacity until November of that year. His appointment as master followed the proceeding home of Capt. Jones and it was on Capt. Jones's recommendation that Mr. Anderson was appointed.\n\nThe interview at which the appointment was made took place in the presence of Mr. Chang, the managing director of the Company, and Mr. Ho, an interpreter. Capt. Jones and Mr. Anderson being the only others present.\n\nAt that interview, Mr. Anderson would tell the Court that there was no question of notice discussed at all.\n\nThere was no written agreement but it was verbally agreed that Mr. Anderson should take over at the same wages and emoluments as Capt. Jones.\n\nNo Reason Given.\n\nIn November 1924 when the ship returned to Hongkong, said Mr. Sheldon, Mr. Ho came on board and handed Mr. Anderson a letter terminating his engagement. No reason was given and Mr. Ho said he could give none. It was not his doing but the decision of the owners.\n\nMr. Ho offered Mr. Anderson a month's wages which Mr. Anderson refused. Mr. Anderson had an interview with the Harbour Master also with the secretary of the China Coast Officers' Guild as a result of which he saw solicitors.\n\nMr. Anderson had not been able to get employment after his dismissal until January of the following year when he accepted a position as third officer on one of Jardine Matheson's coastal boats.\n\nMr. Anderson then went into the witness box and bore out counsel's opening remarks. He had had twenty years' experience of the China coast, he stated, eleven of which had been with Messrs. Butterfield and Swire as second and chief officer.\n\nCross-examined by Mr. Jenkin, witness said that his salary with the employ of defendants worked out to about $237 a month. He joined Jardine Matheson's after he left the defendants on January 17, 1925.\n\nMr. Jenkin: So you were employed for 37 days of the three months in respect of which you make your claim.\n\nWitness: Yes.\n\nMr. Jenkin: That reduces your claim to $1,234.48.\n\nIn answer to further questions, witness said that as chief officer with the defendant company he had been on a 24 hours' agreement.\n\nAn Old Friend.\n\nMr. Jenkin: Capt. Jones was a very old friend of yours?\n\nWitness: Yes.\n\nMr. Jenkin: And do you mean to tell us that he neither mentioned to you nor did you know of your own knowledge that he was on a 24 hours' notice agreement?\n\nWitness: Yes. It was not until his return that I found that out. He said he forgot to tell me.\n\nMr. Jenkin: The question of the period of your service and of possible length of notice is one of the most important points to consider when entering into an engagement, is it not?\n\nWitness would not commit himself in reply to this question.\n\nThe evidence of Mr. Anderson having concluded the case for the plaintiffs, Mr. Jenkin briefly addressed the court before calling Mr. E. Chang to give evidence. He spoke of the practice followed by the defendant company in engaging masters on 24 hours' notice and said that it was incomprehensible that this very important factor would have been entirely omitted from the interview, as a result of which Mr. Anderson was appointed.\n\nMr. Jenkin put it to Mr. Anderson that what had taken place at the interview was that he had been engaged \"on the same agreement\" or \"on the same terms\" as Capt. Jones.\n\nThis witness denied and said that only the question of wages and emoluments was discussed. The interview only lasted a few minutes, Mr. Chang could not speak English and Mr. Ho interpreted and told witness that Mr. Chang was agreeable to his being engaged on the same wages and emoluments as Capt. Jones.\n\n\"Allee Same Agreement.\"\n\nMr. Jenkin: I put it to you that Mr. Chang said to you and Capt. Jones in broken English \"allee same agreement. Capt. Jones: 24 hours notice,\" and that you, or at any rate Capt. Jones, said \"Yes.\"\n\nWitness: No, that is not so.\n\nMr. Chang did not speak even in pidgin English.\n\nMr. Jenkin: Would you have taken the position if it had been offered you on those terms?\n\nWitness: No.\n\nMr. Jenkin: Why not?\n\nWitness: I would not consider it a proper agreement for a master.\n\nAsked what ships other than the \"Haitan\" he had been master of on the China coast, Mr. Anderson replied that he had been master of the \"Chuen Chow,\" a river boat, and of vessels in Australia.\n\nThe whole question hinged on the interview at which Mr. Anderson was appointed, said Mr. Sheldon. Mr. Anderson had no knowledge as to what notice Capt. Jones was on. It was not until after his dismissal that Mr. Anderson found out that Capt. Jones had been on a written agreement under which he was liable to 24 hours' notice.\n\nMr. Jenkin: Were you not under a 24 hours' notice agreement as master of the \"Chuen Chow\"?\n\nWitness: No.\n\nMr. Jenkin: Were you on a 24 hours' notice agreement as junior officer?\n\nWitness: Yes.\n\nJuly 16.\n\nIn his final address on behalf of the owners at yesterday afternoon's hearing of the case in which Mr. J. M. Anderson, master mariner, claimed $1,515 from the Man Wing Steamship Company as wages in lieu of notice of termination of a verbal agreement for his captaincy of the s.s. \"Haitan,\" Mr. F. C. Jenkin dealt with the element of hardship which might appear on the face of things. He would like to point out, though, he said, that Mr. Anderson by the fortuitous fact that Capt. Jones went home on private affairs in 1924 stepped into a job whereby his salary was doubled for a period of ten months.\n\nMr. Jenkin said it was inconceivable that, although Mr. Anderson was working on the same ship as Capt. Jones and was a very great personal friend of his, he was not aware of the conditions of Capt. Jones's employment whereby he could be dismissed at 24 hours' notice.\n\n[No. 2998-July 22, 1926]\n\nIt was thought that there would have been discussion of terms of employment. It was also remarkable that in handing Captain Anderson a letter dismissing him at 24 hours' notice, Ho should have offered him a month's salary in lieu of notice. In the first correspondence between the solicitors, there was no mention of this.\n\nThe first letter from the plaintiffs was to the effect that the claim was for wrongful dismissal and that Captain Anderson was entitled to three months' notice. It was remarkable if the solicitors had known of this that they should not have mentioned it in their letters. Had they done so, it would have strengthened plaintiff's case.\n\nCaptain Jones, whose place plaintiff took, was in fact on an agreement determinable at 24 hours' notice and he found it difficult to understand how, when the four men met, Captain Anderson was not in possession of this information.\n\nIt was to him a matter of regret that neither side had called Captain Jones.\n\nThe question of 24 hours' notice was evidently present in the mind of Chan and it appeared reasonable to suppose that this important matter was mentioned at the interview.\n\nHe came to that conclusion without finding that Captain Anderson had deliberately attempted to deceive the court, because the meeting seemed to have been short and informal and it was possible that the plaintiff did not fully apprehend all that took place.\n\nHe entered judgment for defendants, with costs.\n\nCAPT. MACINTOSH.\n\nJuly 16.\n\nCapt. W. MacIntosh of the pirated s.s. \"Tungchow,\" (seized in January last by Cantonese pirates near Weihaiwei, taken to Bias Bay and then abandoned) is leaving for Home.\n\nCapt. MacIntosh is one of the China Navigation Co.'s best-known skippers, and he left Shanghai last week for England on the P. & O. He had to have a foot amputated, as a result of the wound he received when the ship was seized.\n\nThe pirates tried to compel Capt. MacIntosh to surrender. As a consequence, he refused to do so. The pirates shot at him, and Capt. MacIntosh was wounded.\n\nThere was evidence before the court that he was on a practically ever 24 hours' agreement with the same company.\n\nThree men arrested on a sampan were identified as members of the pirate gang and were put to death recently before a firing squad in the native city at Shung-shan.\n\n\"Remarkable Version.\"\n\nHis Lordship in delivering judgment said Captain Anderson's version of the interview was remarkable, notice being three months.\n\n[No. 2998-July 22, 1926]\n\nTHOUGHT FEELING.\n\nJuly 16.\n\nProfessor Maximilian Langsner, a Pole who has devoted his life to the study of telepathy (\"thought feeling,\" as he prefers to call it) and hypnotism is at present in Hongkong in the course of a world tour.\n\nThe practice adopted by Prof. Langsner is to make a prolonged stay in each country for the purpose of carrying out observations which will enable him to perfect his art. He realises that this cannot be accomplished in the space of a few weeks such as might enable a novelist to write a passably good novel with certain local colour.\n\nHis study of the psychology of the peoples of the various countries included in his itinerary is extended over a considerable period. He has been on his travels for some years and intends to devote another two or three to life in China and Japan.\n\nThe countries he has visited in the course of the present tour are Greece, Egypt, Persia, India, and Indo-China.\n\nProf. Langsner has given demonstrations in Telepathy in some of the places he has visited. Such demonstrations are not, however, the main purpose of his visit.\n\nHe emphasises that his feats are not illusions, in fact he prefers to have a sceptical audience. If it should be practicable for a local demonstration to be given, Hongkong people will have the opportunity of witnessing the remarkable powers which Prof. Langsner undoubtedly possesses.\n\nIn Indo-China, according to the Press, \"his claim to read the mind of another was genuinely proved. It was the most convincing demonstration of telepathy yet given to a theatre audience.\"\n\nConfirmed By Reuters.\n\nSimilar appreciation is reported from the other places he has visited, glowing accounts being given of his almost incredible demonstrations, sceptics who challenged him being reported as entirely convinced of the genuineness of his claims and subsequently becoming his friends and advocates.\n\nIn Calcutta, where he was challenged to make a long-distance telepathic communication, he detailed what was happening in certain streets in Paris and London, events which were confirmed by the manager of Reuters in Calcutta.\n\nIn Cairo, before a packed audience, five lions placed in an arena were mesmerised and, in the words of one of the newspapers, \"became as quiet as the docile cats of Angora.\"\n\nWhilst in Persia, the Professor was awarded the order of the \"Sun and Lion\" by the Shah and presented with a pair of Persian carpets.\n\nAnother test to which he was subjected in Indo-China was to drive a car blindfolded for a long distance, the occupants of the car being French officials.\n\nKIDNAPPING CASE.\n\nJuly 16.\n\nFurther evidence of a railway porter from Taipo and a woman occupier of a house at Second Street was called at the Central Magistracy this morning in the case in which a Chinese woman was charged with alleged kidnapping of an eleven-year-old boy.\n\nMr. E. S. C. Brooks appeared for the defence.\n\nEvidence was given by the constable of firing four shots with the intention of stopping the man who escaped after discarding his coat.\n\nPrevious to that, the detective had carried out a KIDNAPPING CASE.\n\nAfter hearing evidence, Mr. Lindsell considered that the charge could hardly be maintained, as the defendant had made no secret that the boy accompanied her on the train and in fact had told the principal tenant about it.\n\nOne very strong corroborating point was the evidence regarding the character of the deceased. No one had come forward to identify him.\n\nDealing with the use of firearms, Mr. Lindsell said that shooting was permissible in certain circumstances such as in chasing a man who is suspected of having committed a felony.\n\nIf it be believed the constable's story that the dagger was found on the man, then it was not an unreasonable assumption that the man was a felon, although the police had not been able to prove that a felony had been committed.\n\nIf the constable was justified in firing to stop him, and further, if he killed the man, then the killing was in law justifiable.\n\nThe Verdict.\n\nThe following were the questions to the jury and their answers:-\n\nHad the constable during the pursuit reasonable cause to suspect that the man had committed a felony? Yes.\n\nIf so, could he have effected an arrest by any other means short of firing? No.\n\nMr. Lindsell: On those answers, I return a verdict of justifiable homicide.\n\nPUPILS WORK.\n\nJuly 16.\n\nThe end of the term at Victoria British School (East Point) was made the occasion of an open day, parents and friends visiting the premises this morning and taking advantage of the opportunity of seeing the work done by the young pupils during the term and of observing the excellent system on which the school is run.\n\nThe basis on which the methods of instruction are founded is that the pupils should actively co-operate with the teachers as much as possible.\n\nIn this particular, the representation of material particulars which are under study by means of tableaux constructed by the pupils themselves is worthy of mention.\n\nThe pupils are encouraged to cut out from picture books the several ingredients to the scenes, the idea being that, pictorially represented, they convey a deeper meaning than mere words can do.\n\nSpecimens of the work of the scholars in needlework, designing, stencilling, etc., were on display, also some of the examination papers. These were the object of much interest by the parents and other friends who were welcomed by Mrs. E. M. Clark, Headmistress, and conducted over the premises by the staff and pupils.\n\nMrs. Clark, in welcoming those present, thanked the parents for their co-operation in the conduct of the school and the training of the children and expressed the hope that they would continue working together to the ends. Mrs. Clark also mentioned that she was always willing to co-operate in with a caution training for pupils particularly gifted along certain lines.\n\nA very pleasing programme of dances was then gone through, \"The Pipes of Pan\" to the accompaniment of the gramophone and \"Sleep Fairies\" and \"Bubbles\" to the pianoforte accompaniment of Miss A. E. Hendry, in charge of classes 6 and 7.\n\nThe younger scholars gave \"The Pierrots\" and the older pupils gave \"The Big Chief\" to the pianoforte accompaniment of Miss Hendry.\n\nThe pupils taking part were:-\n\nClass 6: Marie Clarke and Sidney Fowler.\n\nClass 7: Douglas Mackay, Douglas Taylor, James Clark, Alex MacFarlane and Albert Moss, William MacFarlane.\n\nClass 8: Mary Taylor, Ernie Fowler and Alison Mackay.\n\nInfants (\"B\"): Florry Fowler, Stella Stevenson, Eric Stone,\n\nInfants (\"A\"): Jean Clark, Robert Glen and Billy Gegg.\n\nFATAL WOUNDING.\n\nJuly 16.\n\nThe inquiry into the death of a Chinese who was shot by a detective was resumed before Mr. R. E. Lindsell and a jury at the Central Magistracy to-day.\n\nIn his summing up to the jury, Mr. Lindsell said he saw no reason to doubt the evidence of the constable which was corroborated in material particulars.\n\nHe held that the boy accompanied the woman of his own accord and he did not believe the story that he was dragged into the train.\n\nThe defendant was discharged with a warning and the boy's brother, who was present in court, was ordered to look after him in future.\n\nDEEP-SEA FISHING.\n\nJuly 16.\n\nA local deep-sea fishing competition will be held towards the end of this month for members of the Hongkong Angling Club if the weather permits. Particulars as to conditions will be announced later.\n\nMembers wishing to take part are requested to send their names in, as soon as possible, to the hon. secretary, Mr. E. B. C. Hornell, c/o Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd.\n\nA Chinese push cyclist was charged at the Kowloon Magistracy on July 15 with using a motor horn on his machine. Defendant pleaded ignorance and was discharged with a caution.\n\nA Chinese, charged with the murder of his wife gave evidence at the Central Magistracy on July 15, stating that the woman accidentally plunged a chisel into her throat. He was committed for trial at the Sessions.\n\nThe practice adopted by Prof. Langsner is to make a prolonged stay in each country for the purpose of carrying out observations which will enable him to perfect his art. He realises that this cannot be accomplished in the space of a few weeks such as might enable a novelist to write a passably good novel with certain local colour.\n\nProf. Langsner is a gifted linguist, speaking no less than six languages. He was a personal friend of the late Enrico Caruso who was also a student of the occult.\n\nWriting to him on one occasion the great singer said \"You hypnotise the world with your eyes. I hypnotise the world with my voice. We are both hypnotisers.\"",
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        "content_text": "# LEAGUE OF NATIONS\n\n0.0.23(p) 6\n\nGeneva,  \nJanuary 20th, 1927\n\n## Translation\n\n### TRAFFIC IN OPIUM\n\n**REPORT BY THE PORTUGUESE GOVERNMENT FOR 1925**\n\n## A. GENERAL\n\n(1) In Portugal, the Madeira Islands, the Azores, and in the Portuguese Colonies in Africa, Asia, and Oceania (Cape Verde, Guinea, San Tomé, Angola, Mozambique, the Indies, and Timor), no opium problems exist. The only Portuguese territory where they arise is Macao, in the south of China.\n\nThe Portuguese nation, not being in direct contact with countries in which the effects of narcotic drugs are apparent, had not realised until quite recently the necessity of taking defensive measures to prevent the abuse of such drugs.\n\nIn actual fact, the habit of opium smoking is confined to Asiatics in Macao; at the same time, the imports of raw opium into this colony have fallen from 2,000 cases in 1912 to 800 cases in 1926.\n\nPathological cases of the abuse of drugs, which must not be confounded with moderate opium smoking, have only been observed hitherto in the two big towns of Lisbon and Oporto, and then only very exceptionally. They may be said to be obvious only to doctors.\n\nThe measures already taken by the Portuguese Government, moreover, constitute an absolute guarantee against the abuse of alkaloids throughout the home and colonial territories.\n\nThis explains why Portuguese legislators have been in no hurry to promulgate measures for the prevention of an evil which is of so rare occurrence and so imperfectly known.\n\n## Customs/",
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        "content_text": "**SECRET**\n\nSir,\n\n20\n\nBRITISH CONSULATE-GENERAL,\nBATAVIA.\n\nApril 28th, 1927.\n\nA responsible Dutch official here recently lent me a list of names, supplied by the Netherlands Consulate at Canton, of various persons who are alleged to compose the organisation set up under the auspices of the Third International for the purpose of fomenting revolution in the Netherlands East Indies. I took the opportunity to make a copy of this document, which I have the honour to transmit to you herewith.\n\n2. My informant told me that the list was procured just as it is by the Dutch authority originally forwarding it. He said that no explanations in regard to it were forthcoming, and he evidently did not know anything further concerning its purpose or history. Assuming that the document is genuine, it indicates the existence of committees and of a military department both at Canton and at various centres in Java. There is also a \"technical department\" for the manufacture of rifles, ammunition and bombs, whilst representatives (\"wahila\" or \"wakila\") have been appointed in various other countries (in Holland, in London, Paris and Berlin, in Afghanistan, at Angora and in America). Further, there is a committee for foreign affairs at Shanghai, headed by Kwee Hing Tjist, a Chinese journalist born in the Netherlands East Indies whose return to this country has been forbidden on account of his violent political activities.\n\nThe Right Honourable,\nSir Austen Chamberlain, K.G., P.C., M.P.,\netc.,\netc., Foreign Office,\nLONDON.\n\nPage 20\nPage 21",
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        "content_text": "## Sam Lim Kongsi\n\n27 \nSourabaya \nTimber dealer \nBatavia \n\nTian Ho Tjan \nEngineering shop \nAng Sioe Tjiang will receive machines from Shanghai for the manufacture of arms.\n\nSemaoen \n\"Wahil\" (1.6. Representative) at Moscow. \nSastro Soemito \n3neevliet \nWahil in Holland \nWahil in Paris \n\nDr. Oesman \n(Javanese: Raden Oesman) \nWahil in Berlin \n\nDr. Tan Hoen Soen \n(Dutch subject from Samarang) \nDr. Ravesky \nWahil in Afghanistan \nWahil at Angora \n\nMohammed Ali \nWahil at Metrir \n\nMas Soeryowinoto \n(Javanese from Solo). \nWahil in London \nThoeng Liang Lee \n(Dutch Subject from Batavia) \nWahil in America.\n\n## Aviation Section \nCanton \n| Name | Position | Origin |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Major Kwang |  | Hong Kong - Dutch Subject from Balikpapan, in Dutch Borneo |\n| Captain F.L. Rodenwhisky |  |  |\n| Phang Hooh Hin | Secretary | Bandjermasin, in Dutch Borneo |\n| Boe Tjine | Aviator | (for the time being) |\n| Thoeng Shay Yan |  | Bandoeng (Java), educated in America |\n| Lim Ho Tjiang |  |  |",
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        "content_text": "169\n\n54\n\nAs regards establishments on shore to ensure the efficiency of this fleet, the Independent Board of the New Arsenal with the funds it has at present available can fit up an arsenal for docking and repairs, etc. A floating dock with sufficient resources in one of our ports---Mozambique or Angola―would complete the service.\n\nAnd now it will be asked how are we to obtain the sum of £9,000,000 for the reconstruction of our Navy? The reply is, by means of a loan subscribed principally by the constructing firms at a moderate interest, since we know that there are firms in England disposed to make it, this loan to be redeemable in a period of ten years.\n\nIt would then be necessary to enter in the budget of the Navy an item for reconstruction which would correspond to the annual sum payable on a loan of £9,000,000 redeemable in ten years at a probable interest of 8 per cent. By prolonging these annual payments over more than ten years, we would have after twenty years adequate resources for the essential replacements of the different units.\n\nThis is in a broad way what we think should be done as regards naval reconstruction, so that in a period of not more than four years we could count on a naval force worth having.\n\n\"DOLLAR DIPLOMACY\" IN LATIN AMERICA. By HENRIK SHIPSTEAD, Member of the Foreign Relations Committee of the United States Senate.\n\n(From \"Current History,\" September, 1927.)\n\nThe Monroe doctrine is dead, and has been dead for many years. It lived only as long as its original spirit was followed. The spirit was the protection of human liberty. It was departed from by the United States in her policy toward Latin America fully 25 years ago. To-day the Monroe doctrine remains only as a diplomatic subterfuge. Its ideals are being used as a cloak to cover acts subversive of human liberty and contrary to the institutions and traditions of our nation.\n\nAt the beginning of the 19th century new political principles were challenging the existing order of society. The thirteen American colonies had revolted against the European monarchial system; the French revolution had thrown down a firebrand into the heart of Europe itself; and in Central and South America republicanism was advancing by leaps and bounds. This new confession of political faith which was overturning the world was best expressed in our great Declaration of Independence, wherein it is stated that we dedicate ourselves and the soil of America to the principle that governments receive their powers \"only from the consent of the governed.\"\n\nThe treaty of the Holy Alliance had been signed by the leading monarchs of Europe with the main objective of building a barricade against the spread of this new theory of government. President Monroe and other American statesmen of the time looked upon this alliance, with its determination to maintain and extend the European colonial system, as a threat against the freedom of the whole western continent.\n\nAccordingly, there was enunciated a policy on behalf of the United States Government to the effect that any attempt on the part of\n\n55\n\nEuropean Powers to interfere with the governments of our sister Republics in the western continent would be met with the armed resistance of the United States. In the same message President Monroe stated clearly what was to be the relation of the United States towards these Republics. It is still the truly policy of the United States,\" he said, to leave the parties the sister Republics-to themselves, in the hope that other Powers will pursue the same course.”\n\nThis was the famous Monroe doctrine. No statement of public policy has ever at its inception been more purely and unselfishly dedicated to a political ideal. It has been restated again and again by successive Presidents and Secretaries of State. For instance, John W. Foster, Secretary of State in Harrison's Cabinet, in an address entitled \"Misconceptions and Limitations of the Monroe Doctrine,\" \"If the before the American Society of International Law, said: Monroe doctrine did not contain a high moral principle of ethics and government which commanded the respect of all civilised nations, we could not build a navy vast enough nor create an army large enough to enforce it against the hostile sentiment of the great Powers of Europe.\"\n\nDuring the past 25 years, however, much confusion has arisen regarding this historic policy, even in the minds of the statesmen who were conducting it. President Wilson, addressing the Southern Commercial Congress at Mobile on 27th October, 1913, said, in speaking of the Latin American Republics :--\n\nThey have had harder bargains driven with them in the matter of loans than any other people in the world. Interest has been exacted of them that was not exacted of anybody else, because the risk was said to be greater; and then securities were taken that destroyed the risk. An admirable arrangement for those who were forcing the terms. I rejoice in nothing so much as in the prospect that they will now be emancipated from these conditions, and we ought to be the first to take part in assisting in that emancipation. We must prove ourselves their friends and champions upon terms of equality and honour. rights, national integrity and opportunity as against material interests that is the issue which we now have to face. We must regard it as one of the duties of friendship to see that from no quarter are material interests made superior to human liberty and national opportunity.\n\nOn 30th August, 1923, Charles Evans Hughes, then Secretary of State in the Harding Cabinet, in an address before the American Bar Association assembled in convention in Minneapolis, made these high professions:-\n\nThe Monroe doctrine does not attempt to establish a pro-tectorate over Latin American States. I utterly disclaim as unwarranted the observations which occasionally have been made implying a claim on our part to superintend the affairs of our sister republics, to assert an overlordship, to consider the spread of our authority beyond our own domain as the aim of our policy, and to make our power the test of right in this hemisphere. I oppose all such misconceived and unsound assertions and intima-tions. They do not express our national purpose; they belie our sincere friendship; they are false to the fundamental principles\n\n170",
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        "content_text": "# THE CHINA MORNING POST\n## MONDAY, JULY 22, 1929\n\n### ARMS REDUCTION. ON THE SICK LIST.\n\nJapan Leaves Preliminaries to U. S. & Britain.\n\nTokyo July, 19. The Cabinet session to-day was largely devoted to a discussion of limitation of armaments, following Baron Shidehara's report on subject. It is understood authoritatively that the main points of policy agreed upon at this meeting or previously fixed are substantially as follows:\n\n1. Japan is most willing to participate in an Arms Conference seeking a positive reduction, not merely limitation.\n2. Japan is ready to leave the venue and other preliminary details to the Anglo-American discussion.\n3. Japan does not desire to be the host of such Conference.\n4. Japan will support the simplest possible form of the \"yardstick.\"\n\n### Prince George Taking Country Cure.\n\n#### DIGESTIVE TROUBLE.\n\nLondon, July 19. H. R. H. Prince George is indisposed and may have to take a short cure. Interviewed by Reuter, Prince George's Comptroller said the Prince's digestion had been disordered for some few weeks, and dieting was now considered prudent. The Prince has cancelled his public engagements and has temporarily relinquished his duties at the Foreign Office. He is not going to a cure centre, but he will spend as much time as possible in the country. Reuter.\n\nThe Duke of Gloucester, speaking at the Kent Agricultural Show to-day, apologised for the absence of his brother, Prince George, who, he said, was indisposed and may have to undergo a cure which will take a short while.\n\nIt is learned that the Tokyo Government has convinced Baron Matsudaira and Mr. Debuchi that it has been apprised of all Anglo-American disarmament developments and is fully satisfied to allow the early stages of the discussions to continue along present lines. Reuter.\n\nPrince George, who is the King's fourth son, served for some time in the Navy (including service aboard H.M.S. Hawkins China Station), and a few months ago took up duties in the Western Department of the Foreign Office. --British Wireless.\n\n### Positive Reduction.\n\nTokyo, July 20. It is understood that the Cabinet has decided that Japan is willing to participate in the Disarmament Conference which will aim at a positive reduction in armaments and not merely limitation. The venue of the Conference is to be left for Anglo-American arrangement and Japan will support the simplest form of \"yardstick.\" Reuter.\n\n### Not Attending Jamboree.\n\nLondon, July 20. Owing to his indisposition Prince George will be unable to attend the World Scout Jamboree which is to be held at Birkenhead on August 3. -Reuter.\n\n### Taking Things Quietly.\n\nLondon, July 20. Prince George who, as announced yesterday by his brother, the Duke of Gloucester, is slightly indisposed, is suffering from digestion trouble. He has cancelled his public engagements and, owing to medical advice, he has temporarily relinquished his duties in the Foreign Office. Although he is to take things quietly and will diet for a time, steps now being taken are merely precautionary and he is expected to resume his normal activities shortly. -British Wireless.\n\n### THE COAL INDUSTRY.\n\n#### The Premier Meeting Both Sides.\n\nLondon, July 19. The conversations of the Government with the miners and coalowners regarding conditions in the coal industry are being continued. The Prime Minister to-day received representatives of the Miners' Federation and has arranged to meet the coalowners again next Tuesday. The contact will continue during the Parliamentary Recess. -British Wireless.\n\n### ABYSSINIA SLAVERY.\n\n#### The Foreign Secretary Receives a Deputation.\n\nLondon, July 19. The Foreign Secretary, Mr. Arthur Henderson, to-day received a deputation from the Anti-Slavery and Aborigines Protection Society. They suggested that the temporary Slavery Commission should be revived by decision of the next assembly and that when it had been revived, the documents in possession of the British Government concerning slavery in Abyssinia, concerning raids from Abyssinian into British territory, traffic across Red Sea, etc., should be sent by the British Government to the Commission. In his reply, the Foreign Secretary assured the deputation of the personal sympathy of himself and the Prime Minister, and promised, in consultation with the departments concerned, to give favourable consideration to the proposal which they made concerning the revival of the temporary Slavery Commission. --British Wireless.\n\n### ANGORA BLAZE.\n\n#### Thousand Buildings Said to be Destroyed.\n\nConstantinople, July 19. A considerable portion of the town of Angora has been ravaged by fire. The flames, fanned by a strong wind, caused the destruction of over a thousand shops and houses. The number of dead is unknown, but so far six bodies have been found in the debris. Mustapha Kemal is personally directing the operations of the firemen. Reuter.\n\n### AFGHAN OUTRAGE.\n\n#### Amanullah Supporters Strangled.\n\nPashawar, July 19. It is reported that Hidayatullah, a step-brother of ex-King Amanullah, and three other sympathisers of the deposed ruler have been strangled at Kabul. A section of the Afridis has joined the Waziris in support of Nadr Khan. -Reuter.\n\n### WOMAN BANDIT.\n\n#### Robbery with Unloaded Revolver.\n\nTopeka (Kansas), June 28. A young woman armed with a revolver, which is believed to have been unloaded, forced a citizen to drive her to the headquarters of the Security Benefit Association in a busy part of the city, where she intercepted two employees of the association, and Monarchist and Fascist University students, defying the orders of their rector, demonstrating against the Treaty of Versailles. She took from them a satchel containing $14,000 (£2,800). \"Drop that package or I will blow your insides out,\" she declared. She fled on foot into a nearby building, and escaped, discarding her revolver, which was found without cartridges.\n\n### WAR GUILT.\n\n#### Bonfires to Symbolise Readiness for Defence.\n\n#### GERMAN DENIAL.\n\nBerlin, June 29. A chain of bonfires blazed on every hilltop on Germany's eastern and western frontiers to symbolise readiness to guard the Fatherland. This is the culminating event in Germany's protest against Versailles Treaty. Demonstration throughout the country demanded the restoration of ceded territory, the return of former colonies, the abrogation of the War Guilt clause, and the immediate cessation of all reparations payments.\n\n## Advertisements\n\n### McEWAN'S SPARKLING BEER\n\nMcEWAN'S Red Label SPARKLING BEER is light, 'cool', and refreshing. Ask for it. SOMETHING BETTER THAN LAGER. Agents: DONNELLY & WHYTE, Hong-Kong. ARRIVED ON FRIDAY. 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