[ { "id": 286204, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-154 - Public Offices - 1871", "page_number": 160, "title": "CO129-154 - Public Offices - 1871", "content_text": "## THE GLOBE. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1870.\n\n**OPINIONS OF MORNING PAPERS**\n\nThe Bombardment of Paris. The Times thinks that \"the fury and rapidity with which the batteries at Mont Avron were overpowered was in no small measure due to the fact that the spot had not yet been armed with the heaviest guns.\" There is, perhaps, closer resemblance between the besiegers' reliance on overwhelming force and the former's pause, though the latter's mode of attack was more steady and deliberate. The besiegers, however, says the writer, were less successful. The French resistance was more stubborn and more pacific than the authors of the bombardment had expected.\n\nSeizing the Opportunity. The Standard remarks that the war has reacted on prices, not in the shape of invading armies or hostile declarations, but on the sale of champagne and other luxury goods. Your regular wine merchant has not increased his prices due to an enormous stock in hand. The war is simply an excuse for extortion.\n\nTHE COURT.\n\nOSBORNE, December 19.\n\nThe Queen and her Royal Highness Princess Beatrice drove out yesterday afternoon, attended by the Hon. Mrs. Macdonald; and her Majesty walked in its grounds this morning accompanied by Princess Louise. Prince Arthur and Prince Leopold also went out.\n\nThe Marquess and Marchioness of Ailesbury are entertaining at Savernake Forest. Burgundy, Claret, and the better growths of the Bordeaux wines have not been affected at all by the struggle now raging.\n\nTHE SEIZURE OF THE FRENCH CABLE.\n\nThe Standard says — The more closely the matter is looked into, the more egregious appears the blunder of supposing that the recent act had any bearing upon the war. The Hoegh International is a telegraph, not built or equipped for warlike purposes, but for peaceful use.\n\nTHE PRUSSIANS.\n\nThe cause of the seizure of the English vessels Duclair, &c., is divulged in a letter from Rouen to the Times.\n\nTHE WANT OF FORTRESSES.\n\nA correspondent (\"W.P.\") writing from the Army and Navy Club to the Times advocates the construction of fortifications which would deter an enemy from making a raid upon this country.\n\nTHE CONFERENCE.\n\nThe French Government is reported to be negotiating. The Nizam Government has recognised the French Government.\n\nMILITARY OPERATIONS.\n\nThe gap between Bourbaki's forces will tell whether he plans to make a dashing 'raid' on the undefended districts or whether he means to follow up Werder's success and fight wherever found. The former seems the more likely plan.\n\nTHE MILITIA ARTILLERY.\n\nThe noble Earl says:-\"I think it would be difficult to point out a more glaring instance of false economy.\" The money expected on the pay, equipments, and billets of the militia artillery might just as well have been thrown into the sea.\n\nNOTICE—HINDOO'S IL Whisky Depot.\n\nKiddaban and Co. herewith announce their New Spring Stock, S. Great Tower-street, London.\n\nSNOW MISERIES.\n\nThe misery caused by the snow fall in the central parts of the metropolis cannot be appreciated by those who live there. It is in the suburbs specially that the ordinary channels of communication are stopped up.\n\nAMERICA.\n\nNew York, December 29. Gold closed at 110; the highest quotation during the day was 110%, the lowest 110g; sterling exchange on London, 109.\n\nHOMEWARD CAPE MAILS.\n\nForcargo, December 30. The Union Company's Mailer Shawn arrived in Plymouth Sound to-day at 7 a.m., with the homeward Cape Mails.\n\nOUTWARD INDIA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIAN MAILS.\n\nThe P. and O. Company's steamer Tanjore, from Suez, arrived at 7 and leaves at 11 this morning for Alexandria. All well.\n\nINVESTMENTS IN SECURITIES.\n\nSince Variety is charming, notably in ladies' attire, we make no apology for our notice of Le Follet. Very best colours, either plain or mixed, are much worn for covering dress.\n\nFASHIONS FOR JANUARY.\n\nColours are diversified with black, or shades of the same. Neutral tints are also tried. The velvet badges for visiting dresses are profusely trimmed with fan, jet, and feathers.\n\nSTAMINA.\n\nThe Law Times says: The death of Mr. William Brandthis is by no means a loss to the legal profession, but he was a distinguished scholar.\n\n## THE GLOBE. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1870.\n\nTHIS MORNING'S WAR NEWS.\n\nThe Prussians are reported to be advancing. General von Gablenz to the 18th Division to change front to their right Bank.\n\nTHE FRENCH BLOCKADE.\n\nThe Prussians are very weak before Quarrieux, and the French artillery retreated.\n\nTHE REFUGEES.\n\nA letter from Rouen of the 26th to the Times says, with time, to the right, the village of Dar, Vau, &c., were repulsed, the greater part being killed.\n\nTHE SITUATION IN PARIS.\n\nA letter from Paris, hearing date the 28th, has been received, and the news was not encouraging. On Wednesday we received definite intelligence that General Bourbaki, who was in another part of France, had reached Bapaume.\n\nGERMAN VALOUR.\n\nA correspondent of the Times has sent here a description of the fighting at Querrieux. At 4.45 I started Quarrieux for the purpose of bringing a message to a wounded friend.\n\nARTILLERY FOR THE FRENCH.\n\nIt is stated in a telegram from Marseilles that 37 batteries of 34-pounders, and 28 batteries of 7-pounders, 300 pieces in all, are being manufactured at La Seyne and other places in France.\n\nMILITARY MOVEMENTS.\n\nThe Count of War of Bourges which was transferred to Issoudun between 1000 and 1,800 killed were found.\n\nAN EXTRAORDINARY PERSONAGE.\n\nA resident in Paris describes a woman who was wounded at Le Bourget. She was transported to Warsaw, where she joined her father in a convent boarding school.\n\nTHE BATTLE OF PONT NOYELLES.\n\nA correspondent of the Lyraph, writing from the German head-quarters at Amiens on Christmas Eve, says that the morning of the 3rd of December was bitterly cold—the frost out intense.\n\nTHE ARMIES OF THE LOIRE.\n\nA French reconnaissance from Havre. Last Friday morning (writes the Havre correspondent of the Times), M. Nucelle was good enough to send me intimation of his intention to take reconnaissance of the enemy's positions.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-154 - Public Offices - 1871.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 416639, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-351 - Public Offices - 1908", "page_number": 804, "title": "CO129-351 - Public Offices - 1908", "content_text": "4\n\nKiangsu, with a view to the suppression of piracy. Four shallow-draught gun-boats, eight Chinese gun-boats, and ninety small patrol-boats ('red boats') are to be purchased.\n\n\"Railway for Ili.—The Military Governor has reported in favour of constructing three lines: one from Ti-hua Fu to Ili, one from Ti-hua Fu to Urga, and the third from Ti-hua Fu to Lanchou. He proposes that the gold mines in Ili should be developed with a view to raising capital for the construction of these railways, and that a loan should be made by the Board of Revenue.\"\n\n'Railways in Manchuria.—The Tsi-tsi-har—Hei-lung-chiang Railway is to be commenced next spring, and the Chinese Eastern Railway branch line from Tsi-tsi-har to Old Tsi-tsi-har this summer.\n\n\"Kirin-Ch'ang Ch'un Railway. The survey of this line has been completed, and the estimated cost of construction is 5,500,000 to 5,600,000 dollars. Work will be commenced on the conclusion of the Loan Agreement with Japan.\"\n\nProposed Admiral for Hupei.—The Grand Council contemplate the appointment of an officer as Admiral of Hupei, to be stationed at Hankow and co-operate with the Admiral of the Yang-tsze.\n\n**\n\nProposed new Naval Harbour.—The Viceroy of Canton has forwarded to the Army Board a Report on the harbour of Hsia Yung in Kwangtung, with regard to its suitability as a naval harbour. The question is to be referred to Admiral Sa.\n\nYang Shih Ch'i's Mission.—In a Memorial to the Throne Yang Shih Ch'i gives brief account of his mission to inquire into the condition of Chinese settlers in the Philippines, Siam, Singapore, Java, Annam, and other countries. He describes the climate and productions of the various places visited, and states the number of Chinese settlers in each. He praises the Administration of Singapore and Penang, where the Chinese have attained much wealth and influence, but states that in Java the Chinese, especially those employed in the mines, are badly treated. Everywhere he went he was well received, and found that the Chinese settlers still retained a strong feeling of affection for their native country. He addressed meetings of Chinese merchants in various places, and visited schools and other institutions, to some of which he gave scrolls presented by the Empress Dowager.\n\n\"Steam Navigation on the Upper Yang-tsze.\" (See Sir J. Jordan's despatch No. 157, of the 1st April) In a Memorial the Acting Viceroy of Szechuan reports that he proposes to establish a Company with a capital of 200,000 taels, to run steam-ships on the Upper Yang-tsze between Ichang and Chungking, and later to Suifu and Kiating, one-third of the capital to be subscribed by the Government and two-thirds by the public. An officer sent to investigate the matter has reported that by blowing up some of the obstructions in the river and using windlasses at some of the more dangerous rapids, navigation by steam vessels would be quite feasible. Three small steamers are to be purchased abroad, and the service will afterwards be extended.\n\n46\n\nFires in Peking.—It is reported that Na Tung has given special orders to the police with reference to the fires which have been very numerous recently. He states that, although the frequency of these fires is chiefly to be attributed to the exceptional dryness of the atmosphere, there is reason to suspect that some have been the work of incendiaries who wished to take advantage of the fires to commit thefts. He directs the police to exert themselves to bring all such criminals to justice.\n\n\"The Ching Hua Shih Pao reports that there was a fire at the Wai-wu Pu on the 4th, but that it was promptly extinguished.\"\n\nThe Ching Hua Shih Pao also reports that there are at present a large number of revolutionaries in Peking who have come here from Japan. The Board of the Interior are reported to have given orders for the arrest of fifty-five of these persons.\n\n\"Naval Harbour in Hainan.—The Viceroy at Canton has reported in favour of making a naval harbour at Yu Lin, in Hainan, and states that the water supply and climate are good. He recommends the construction of a railway for the purpose of transporting troops and supplies there when necessary.\n\nChengting-Te Chou Railway.—The Government have decided to proceed with the construction of this railway at once. Engineers have been sent by the Peking-Hankow Railway Company to survey the line, and work will be commenced next month. The construction will be under the direction of the French.\n\n\"Tsitsihar-Angangchi Railway.—A Chinese Company with a capital of 320,000 taels has been formed for the construction of this short line (a distance of 50 li). The contract for building the line has been given to a German firm, Messrs. Telge and Schroeter. Work will be commenced in June.\n\n**\n\n5\n\n'Proposed Appointment of Judicial Officials.—The provincial authorities of Kwangtung, Yunnan, and Kweichow proposed some time ago that judicial officers (Pu Huo Ts'ai P'an) should be appointed in the interior with a view to preparing for the withdrawal of the right of exterritoriality at present enjoyed by foreigners. The Government, with the assistance of Wai-wu Pu and Hsien Cheng Kuan, are engaged in drawing up Regulations for the purpose.\n\n\"Proposed Railways in the North-west.—The Shen-Kan Viceroy has recommended the construction of two lines, one from Kalgan to Urga, a distance of 2,450 li, the other from Sui-yuan along the north bank of the Yellow River to Ning-hsia; thence to Liang-Chou, Hami, Ti-hua, and Ili, a distance of 8,000 li. These railways could not be constructed as a commercial enterprise, but would be of great importance for military purposes.\n\nMining in Shansi.—Since buying out the Peking Syndicate, the Taiyuan Fu Mining Company have obtained permission to raise capital to the amount of 5,000,000 taels to develop the mines, and the capital has already been over-subscribed, only Chinese being permitted to purchase shares. A Chinese mining engineer has been engaged at a salary of 600 taels a-month, machinery has been ordered from Europe, and 1,000,000 taels of the capital is to be devoted to the establishment of an iron foundry.\n\nThe \"Universal Gazette,\" in an article on the danger of ignorance of the limits of foreign relations, proceeds to argue that, while the limitation of India's export of opium is a diplomatic question, China's monopoly of sale of the prepared drug is an internal Government step with which England has no concern, since the nature of the drug has been altered, and so the Treaty with England does not apply. At present the shops charge at will, irrespective of the duty and li-kin, and England has nothing to say. Similarly, Chinese prohibition of rice export does not affect cakes and biscuits made of it. Moreover, a rise in price is not a customs duty; the aliens might as well claim to interfere with the proposed stamp duties, which will be charged on native and foreign goods alike.\n\nThe distinction between diplomatic and non-diplomatic matters is quite easy. Another instance, the Soo-Hang-Ning Railway. The Tsung-li Yamên's agreement with the British Envoy might be brought within the scope of diplomacy, but, as regards construction, the publication of the Railway Regulations took that out of the Wai-wu Pu's sphere, and the Wai-wu Pu should have told Sir J. Jordan to bid his nationals petition the Board of Communications direct, and have declined to interfere, quoting as precedents the American exclusion, which its State Department insisted pertained solely to the Labour Department; the Manchurian troops question, which Russia said pertained to her War Office; the Touquin Consuls, which the French Foreign Office put on its Colonial Department, and all the other precedents of recent years. Unfortunately, the Board waited till it got a bad name by resisting popular opinion before it got the Board of Communications to make the loan,\n\nThen trade-marks: all China promised was rules like other Powers, yet foreigners are allowed to interfere with their tenor. And the Mining Rules, which were drafted with the aid of foreign advisers, were still less open to foreign revision.\n\nIf attention is paid to their protests on more and more questions, China's independence will be lost through Chinese heedlessness.\n\nThe trouble has come from the fact that the Wai-wu Pu is not bound, like other posts, to report to the Throne and quote precedents. It has assumed unlimited powers, and, with a Prince and Grand Councillors at its head, ignores all control, and, without knowing it, is a danger to the State. Could folly go further?\n\nTo recover from the consequences will take many years' struggles and constant supervision, which latter is beyond the Throne, the Council and the Ministers, and to be found only in an elected Parliament. This is the only means to safety.\n\nThe \"Eastern Times\" of the 25th March professes to give the gist of a secret report by the Chinese Delegates to The Hague Conference on the European position. He describes the Peace Conference as a covert struggle for each Power's private objects. England dislikes Germany, which, since its victory over France, has increased in military pride above not only England, but the whole world, and is now developing a navy. So Russia fell in with England's request, in order, it is said, to safeguard her Asiatic possessions after Japan's victory over Russia. So Russia and Japan nearly came to rupture over the naval question, who five years ago started the limitation of armaments proposal, now refused to sign such an Agreement. The Conference reminds him of Sung's abortive assembly of the States (in B.C. 545), when the Ch'u men wore armour under their clothes.\n\n797", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-351 - Public Offices - 1908.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 426772, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-368 - Acting Governor May - 1910 [8-9]", "page_number": 552, "title": "CO129-368 - Acting Governor May - 1910 [8-9]", "content_text": "Don't think that a Chinese resident in the Territory of Hong Kong is either a \"natural-born\" or a \"naturalized\" British subject at the time that Tambory provision enabling British subject to use is regarded by the Gov to release a lifer in order that he may go to his nation. There is no objection, I think, to a British subject settling in China under proper pre-afflies being criticised. There were 548 webe... \n\nThe Chinese Govt would therefore have been better to have said simply :- \"not bring HM subject of the Colony but...\" I doubt whether the matter is important enough to warrant direct alteration. Still, it would be a pity to give away the question of Tambory Chinamen, banishing a few lepers who - according to our contention - are British subjects.\n\nA.1.3+24/10 I doubt who legally the inhabitants of the leased territory are either natural-born or naturalized British subjects. They have been considered to be British subjects by enumeration. But the clause (14) stands. To banish a sick person from a place like this against his will to China is rather a strong order & might be objectionable if the Gov is satisfied that proper care will be taken of him.\n\nSingel Daft ABL 24/10\n\nI agree with her. A&C M Collins Mr Cox\n\nWe had heard before of this practice of deportation which was published in the paper printed at the Bergen Leprosy Conference of Aug 1909. But it was not stated that it was limited to aliens, and I suspect that there was no discrimination. This is the first attempt, so far as I am aware, to deal directly with leprosy.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-368 - Acting Governor May - 1910 [8-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 426776, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-368 - Acting Governor May - 1910 [8-9]", "page_number": 556, "title": "CO129-368 - Acting Governor May - 1910 [8-9]", "content_text": "C\n\nEnclosure 2.\n\n0.\n\n31587\n\nlange\n\n1500 10\n\nATTORNEY GENERAL'S CHAMBERS,\n\nHongkong...... 7th September, 1910.\n\nReport on Ordinance No. 24 of 191*.\n\nI have examined the accompanying Ordinance, entitled\n\n552\n\nAn Ordinance to provide for the segregation and treatment\n\nof lepers\n\nand I am of opinion that the Ordinance is one which is not contrary to the Governor's Instruction.\n\nThe object of this Ordinance is to check the spread of leprosy in the Colony by providing for the segregation and treatment of lepers and it follows on the recommendations of the International Scientific Conference on Leprosy.\n\nThe Ordinance is based on the Ceylon Ordinance 4 of 1901 and Cyprus Law 4 of 1891.\n\nThe only new matter is contained in the last three sections. Section 14 authorises the Governor-in-Council to banish lepers who are aliens. It is based on the precedent of section 4 (1) and (3) of Ordinance 1 of 1882 (The Banishment Ordinance).", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-368 - Acting Governor May - 1910 [8-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 439915, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-394 - Governor Sir May & Public Offices - 1912 [12]", "page_number": 407, "title": "CO129-394 - Governor Sir May & Public Offices - 1912 [12]", "content_text": "-399 \n\nforeign \n\nDate. 1912 \n\nHONG KONG EASTERN \n\n1083 \n\nсо \n\n1083 \n\nRrGE I JAN 12 \n\nApiens Conference \n\n10 Jan Lenas copy tel from delegates reporting \n\n906 \n\nLast previous Paper. that agreement to articles dealing with \n\nRedeciuse opium, morphine, cocaine have soais. New proposals by Germans. Proposal to approve \n\nI Stutts \n\nMr Colleis. \n\nAusd 12 Jan \n\nText subsequent Paper \n\n10.1103 \n\nThe German attitude \n\nmeans that \n\nthey have bound themselves definitely to \n\nlimit the manufacture of morphine, cocaine. The Powers simply promise to \n\nuse \n\ntheir best endeavours to limit it. \n\n1 \n\nbut in article 16 the amendment made does not impair the binding power but simply removes the words \"Especial conventions or otherwise\" (apropos the \n\n19,244). Wt.25,946-17. 40,000. 11/11. A.&E.W.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-394 - Governor Sir May & Public Offices - 1912 [12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 484232, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-462 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1920 [7-10]", "page_number": 94, "title": "CO129-462 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1920 [7-10]", "content_text": "H. B. M. Consulate-General,\n\nShanghai, 4th June, 1920.\n\nSir,\n\nI have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch No.96 (3962/20) of the 27th May, forwarding copy of a despatch from the Governor of Hongkong and inviting my observations on the specific points raised by Sir R. Stubbs in regard to the China (Companies) Amendment Order-in-Council, 1919.\n\nOn receipt from the Governor on 29th April of copy of His Excellency's same despatch I invited His Majesty's Crown Advocate, as legal adviser in company matters, to report on the points raised in that despatch. On receipt of Mr. Wilkinson's report I have the honour to forward copy.\n\nHis Majesty's Crown Advocate, with whose opinion I am in complete agreement, has dealt so fully with the Governor's contentions that further lengthy argument is not needed.\n\nSir R. Stubbs does not appear to be aware of the glaring scandal of 'British companies' registered in the Colony but functioning entirely beyond its limits which the Order-in-Council of 1915 was designed to check.\n\nSuch companies, which need have neither capital nor directors nor employees British, masqueraded as British on the strength of the payment of fees to the Colony and the exhibition of a name board outside some Hongkong lawyer's office which thus became the registered office required by the Ordinance applicable. The case of the Belgian Industrial Bank of China, Limited, finally proved how the system jeopardised our good name in China without any British Court being able to deal with the aliens constituting in fact a company held out as British to the Chinese.\n\nThe proper steps to be taken were discussed very fully not only at the conference to which the Crown Advocate refers,\n\nir Beilby F. Alston, K.C.M.G., C.B.,\n\nHis Majesty's Minister,\n\nPeking.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-462 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1920 [7-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 485660, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-465 - Public Offices & Others - 1920", "page_number": 14, "title": "CO129-465 - Public Offices & Others - 1920", "content_text": "13\n\nto the Colony and the exhibition of a name board outside some Hongkong lawyer's office which thus became the 'registered office' required by the Ordinance applicable. The case of the Belgian Industrial Bank of China, Limited finally proved how the system jeopardised our good name in China without any British Court being able to deal with the aliens constituting in fact a company held out as British to the Chinese.\n\nThe proper steps to be taken were discussed very fully not only at the conference to which the Crown Advocate refers, but also in correspondence between His Majesty's Legation and the Foreign Office. At that time it was pointed out that, since the Colonial Government's interest in China Companies was (and still is) preponderantly as yielding income, cordial cooperation in our effort to make such companies genuinely British could scarcely be looked for.\n\nThe Colonial Office steadfastly upheld the Colony in its refusal to part with a source of revenue; and the British authorities in China finally accepted the compromise embodied in the Order together with a promise that if a few years' working showed the control enacted to be ineffectual, the Order should be amended.\n\nApart from the theoretical objection recorded by the Crown Advocate, the proposal to have an independent registry for China companies was rejected partly because of a fear (since proved unfounded), that a large and costly office organization would be essential and partly because English practice permitted, as such cases as those in the Anglo-Austrian Bank and the Austrian Export and Import Company, Limited showed, of British companies as completely alien as the Hongkong practice had allowed.\n\nThe terms embodied in the 1910 Order were in 1917 discussed with His Majesty's Judge because it was found by experience that the existing control was not in fact adequate. The wording seems to have been misunderstood by any other than the Attorney-General. There is no prohibition of the employment of alien experts as technical managers or in any other important position, provided that such alien does not in fact exercise the general or substantial control of the company's working usually associated with the office of managing director. I venture to suggest that this fact provides such relief as is essential to the British-American Tobacco Company while securing adequate control for our authorities.\n\nThe enactment as to the seat of the directorate not being in itself sufficient to withdraw a company from the provisions as to China companies seems to me most desirable in view of the fact that Hongkong-China companies need not have even one British director and may have alien managing directors. For instance, the *** Wing On (China) Company Limited has resident here the two officers who alone can affix the Company's seal which is kept here: it is hard to suppose any better proof of substantial control over such a company.\n\nThe amended Order in Council was no sooner promulgated than attempts were made to evade it. 'Holding companies' were ruled out by His Majesty's Supreme Court in a recent case: subsidiary companies equally require scrutiny. Genuine branches of Hongkong companies", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-465 - Public Offices & Others - 1920.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 510529, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-504-11 Chinese communist inspired conspiracies- banishment of political revolutionary agitators 24-3-1927 - 20-7-1927", "page_number": 6, "title": "CO129-504-11 Chinese communist inspired conspiracies- banishment of political revolutionary agitators 24-3-1927 - 20-7-1927", "content_text": "**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\n20 July\n\n6\n\n28132/27.\n\nSir,\n\nWith reference to the letter from this Department of the 8th June on the question of amending the law in the Straits Settlements and the Federated Malay States, so as to provide wider powers for the banishment of political or revolutionary agitators, I am directed by Mr. Secretary Amery to transmit to you, to be laid before Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain, the accompanying copy of a letter from the Home Office, suggesting that the object aimed at might be achieved by amendment of the law so as to correspond with the wording adopted in the Imperial Aliens Order, 1920.\n\n2: Mr. Amery concurs in this suggestion, and he now considers it unnecessary to refer the question to an Interdepartmental Conference, as suggested\n\nTHE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE\nFOREIGN OFFICE.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-504-11 Chinese communist inspired conspiracies- banishment of political revolutionary agitators 24-3-1927 - 20-7-1927.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 516287, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-512-1 Political situation in China- and Canton 30-11-1928 - 23-5-1929", "page_number": 38, "title": "CO129-512-1 Political situation in China- and Canton 30-11-1928 - 23-5-1929", "content_text": "# Enclosure No.6\n\nExtract from The Canton Gazette of 17th April, 1929.\n\n38\n\n## Foreign Traders Activities to be Investigated\n\nThe Provincial Government is in receipt of instructions from the Ministry of Industry, Labor and Commerce in Nanking, to the effect that investigations are to be made into the ramifications of foreigners trading in Chinese territory, as full particulars as possible to be obtained concerning their industrial activities.\n\nReports are to be sent to the Ministry through the Provincial Government as early as possible so as to enable the Ministry to draft its proposals for presentation at the International Labor Conference that is to be held in Geneva very shortly.\n\nIn carrying out investigations, particular attention is to be paid to the involvement of foreigners with the labor element. Foreigners in this country almost invariably develop a fondness to arrogate to themselves a fancied sense of superiority over the native population, and it is often the case that menials in the employ of foreigners are subject to most gross insults and repressive measures.\n\nOne of the aims of the present investigation is to ensure fair treatment for laborers working for aliens, and also to see that China's labor laws are duly observed.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-512-1 Political situation in China- and Canton 30-11-1928 - 23-5-1929.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 530783, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-534-6 Loans for public works 24-2-1931 - 11-8-1932", "page_number": 30, "title": "CO129-534-6 Loans for public works 24-2-1931 - 11-8-1932", "content_text": "# HONG KONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL\n\n207\n\n## Regulations and Ordinances\n\nRegulation made by the Governor in Council under section 4 of the Money-lenders Ordinance, 1911, on 29th October, 1931.\n\nRegulations made by the General Officer Commanding His Majesty's Regular Forces in the Colony, with the approval of the Governor, under and in accordance with the provisions of section 11 of the Volunteer Ordinance, 1920, on 19th October, 1931.\n\n## International Agreements\n\nStipulation of the Agreement between the United Kingdom and Spain re Treatment of Companies.\n\nConvention between the United Kingdom and Spain re Legal Proceedings in Civil and Commercial matters.\n\n## Local Regulations\n\nRegulations made by the Governor in Council under section 2 of the Public Places Regulation Ordinance, 1870, on 3rd November, 1931.\n\nRegulation made by the Governor in Council under section 3 of the Dogs Ordinance, 1927, on 23rd November, 1931.\n\n## Nominations and Ratifications\n\nNomination under the provisions of Statute 4 of the Second Schedule of the University Ordinance, 1911.\n\nNomination under the provisions of Statute 4 of the Second Schedule of the University Ordinance, 1911.\n\nRatification of the International Convention for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded and Sick in Armies in the Field.\n\nRatification of the International Convention relating to the Treatment of Prisoners of War.\n\n## Information and Reports\n\nInformation re the draft Convention concerning forced or Compulsory Labour adopted by the International Labour Conference at Geneva on the 28th of June, 1930.\n\nInformation re Pacific Settlement of International Disputes.\n\nRegulations re British Nationality and Status of Aliens.\n\nRescission of the Order of the 10th September, 1931, declaring Shanghai to be an infected place.\n\nReport on the Census of the Colony of Hong Kong taken on the night of March 7th, 1931 (Sessional Paper No. 5 of 1931).\n\n30\n\nPage 30\nPage 31", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-534-6 Loans for public works 24-2-1931 - 11-8-1932.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 } ]