[ { "id": 221067, "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": "CO129-010 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1843", "page_number": 662, "title": "CO129-010 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1843", "content_text": "657\n\nNo: Date\n\nTo whom.\n\n116 27 March. Hon Major Caine\n\nPurport lodging to\n\nRegarding Correspondence between himself and the Military Commandant at Kowloon for the suppression of Crime Regarding the erection of a Police Station\n\nChor.\n\n117 27 March. Hon: Major Caines\n\n118 22 March, Lieut. W. Pedder R.\n\nRegarding a distressed seaman named\n\nBela Betoli\n\n119 22 March. E. Pine Coffin Care\n\nRegarding rent of Mr Gillespie's\n\nCommissary Stores Premises.\n\n120 27 March. Hon. Major Caine.\n\nThanking him for leave of absence from\n\nthe Colony.\n\n121 28th March. As Charles Bullock, of\n\nSanctioning Establishments of the\n\nChinese Secretary's Office, and\n\nof the Assistant Magistrate of Hongkong in the\n\nRegarding Marine and Harbour Regulations\n\n122 25 March. Red Charles Bruce.\n\n122 25 March Rolph Edward Elage\n\nRegarding grants of Land in this Colony.\n\n124 25 March. Hon: Major Caine\n\nRequesting day as Chief Magistrate of Hongkong.\n\nRegarding commencement of his increased Civil Salary\n\n125 25 March. Dr. Staunton.\n\nSanctioning Expenses incurred\n\non account of the Mat Church.\n\n022\n\n126 26th March. A.J. Gordon Esq.\n\nSanctioning the purchase of the new\n\nPress referred to in letter No: 189.\n\n127 28th March. A. J. Gordon, Esq.\n\nDirecting him to put a wooden railing\n\nto the Bridge, near the Commissariat Stores.\n\n128 26th March. Captain D'Aquilar.\n\nRegarding the subject of letter No: 127.\n\n129 26th March Messrs Jardine Matheson.\n\nAcknowledging receipt of their Rejoinder\n\nto letter No: 92.\n\nDent He Homell de\n\nHether Larkins Ho\n\nh, ye, t\n\n130 26th March. Lieut. H. Redder R. &\n\nGranting Mr. Lena, the Assistant to the\n\nHarbour master leave of absence from the Colony.\n\n132 26th March, Cecil Beadon Exte\n\n131 26th March. Lieut: W. Edder R.\n\nDirecting the distribution of copies of\n\nnotice regarding the Pilot Station for the River Hooghly,\n\n64 the Acknowledging receipt of Copies of a notice.\n\nUnder Sic to the bout regarding the Pilot Station for the River, of Bengal fr Hooghly during the St. Monsoon of 1843\n\n133 27 March. A. Torbull les.\n\nAcknowledging receipt of Copies of a printed\n\nUnder Sic to the Report on the Honorable Company's Botanic Gardens.\n\n134 28th March, Lieut. W. Edder, R.R.\n\nDisposing of three of the colored\n\npicked up at sea by the \"Comwall:\n\n135 28th March. The Post Master General.\n\nForwarding Postage Collected in China on Bombay letters to and from Bombay to the 31st January, 1844.\n\nForwarding\n\nTo whom...\n\nCalcutta\n\nPerport\n\nCalcutta,\n\nNo. Date:\n\n136 | 28th March. The Post Master General.\n\nForwarding Postage collected in\n\nChina on letters to, and from Calcutta to the 31st January, 1844.\n\n137 28th March. A. J. Gordon Esq.\n\nGranting him leave of absence from\n\nthe Colony,\n\n138 28th March. Hon. Major Caine.\n\nGranting him leave of absence from\n\nthe Colony,\n\n139 29th March. Richard Burgafs.\n\nBy the Granting him leave of absence from\n\nI. Scales Esq.\n\nRegarding his instructions and\n\nDeputy Post Master Office arrangements in this Colony be\n\nof Hongkong.\n\n140\n\n17 April. Thomas &\n\n14. 1 2 April. A. J. Fordon Esq.\n\nSanctioning Leases for the occupiers of Land, which was to be included in the Cantonments as proposed by Major Aldrich,\n\n142 2 April. Captain De Aquilar.\n\nRegarding the creation of a Police\n\n2=April.\n\n143|2th April. Dr. Bridgman.\n\nRegarding his exchanging a lot\n\ngranted to him for the one that he bought from the late Mr Morrison.\n\n144 2u April. Hon. Major Cainer\n\nIncreasing the salaries of the Clerks\n\nin his Office\n\n145 3rd April . A. J. Gordon Esq.\n\nReferring to letter No: 75, and\n\ninstructing\n\nhim to register and prepare leases for the new lots that may elsewhere.\n\nbe selected\n\n146 3rd April. Hon. Major Caine\n\nRegarding the trial of Certain House,\n\nBreakers at Chek Choo, and the establishment of a Head Salt Weigher in the Harbour of Hongkong, tho\n\n147 4th April Hon. Major Caine.\n\nSanctioning the hire of four Cots\n\nfor accommodation of the Police at the Seaman's Hospital.\n\n148 6th April. A. J. Gordon Esq.\n\nRegarding a proper site, and\n\n149 6th April.\n\nStation at Chek Choo\n\na\n\nplan, and Estimate, for a Police\n\n- The Editor of the\n\nReferring to letter No : 102 and informing\n\nFriend of China's\n\nhim that his paper is to cease from\n\n\" \" being the Official organ of the Government of this Colony.\n\n\"Hongkong\n\n150 6th April. The Editor of the\n\nAccepting of his tender for printing\n\nRegister Government Documents and informing him, that his Paper is to become the Official Organ of the Government, of this Colony.\n\n107 8 April. Captain J. Larkins :\n\nRegarding the rent. If to Callespie's Premises being paid to Mr. Matheson.\n\n152 15th April. J. R. Davidson Esq.\n\nAcknowledging receipt of letters, and\n\nSee to the Good Of India\n\nconveying thanks\n\nRegarding", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-010 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1843.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 225039, "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": "CO129-019 - Sir John Davis - 1847 [1-4]", "page_number": 310, "title": "CO129-019 - Sir John Davis - 1847 [1-4]", "content_text": "of\n\nonce\n\n-numbered so few, being about 1,300 men all arms, and with three Steamers and a Brig I managed, by the able cooperation of Major-General D. Aguilar and Captain McDougall of the Royal Navy, to provide for the wants of this Colony, and to bring the Chinese Government to terms at Canton, and I trust that we have prevented the necessity for expensive remedy. On a former\n\nI\n\na more extended and more\n\noccasion in 1841\n\nit consisted of three line of battle Ships, eleven Frigates and Sloops, four Steamers, and 3,000 Troops.\n\nThe Major-General's report will put Your Lordship in possession of the military details of our short expedition of seven days, and I have\n\nonly to add that the able dispositions of Major Caine, the Colonial Secretary, who was Acting Governor and Commandant\n\nin my\n\nabsence, ensured the safety and\n\nPage 304\n\ntranquillity of the Colony\n\nI have the honor to be,\n\nWith the highest respect, Your Lordships'\n\nMost Obedient\n\nHumble Servant,\n\nDavis", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-019 - Sir John Davis - 1847 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 229343, "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": "CO129-030 - Bonham - 1849 [8-12]", "page_number": 294, "title": "CO129-030 - Bonham - 1849 [8-12]", "content_text": "راہ دار سے \n\n288 \n\nSü, by Imperial appointment High Commissioner, Governor General of the Two Kwang, &c. &c., &c., in reply:\n\nI am in receipt of Your Excellency's letter of the 22d of the 8th moon, (8th October), and have fully acquainted myself with the contents of it. My mind is most anxiously concerned about the injuries which the men and officers of Your Honourable Nation, engaged in the extermination and capture of the pirates, have suffered from the ignition of the powder to which the latter, in their desperation, set fire.\n\nThe Civil and Military officers to the Eastward had reported that, on the 10th of the 8th moon (26th September), certain pirates, whose vessels were in the harbour the military station of Ping-hai, had fallen upon Tá-ngau (Tái-ò), a village within the creek. Shin, the Chief Magistrate of this district of Kwei-shen, acting in concert with the military authorities, had put himself at the head of the troops and volunteers, and from the fort of Cheh-tsang, had sunk three and burned one of the vessels of the pirates, of whom upwards of 100 were killed; some ten of the troops and volunteers being at the same time wounded.\n\nThe pirates now made for Shan-wi (Sán-mi), and being there again beaten off by the troops and volunteers, stood out to sea, where they fell in with the cruisers of Your Honourable Nation, on being attacked by whom they got away to the harbour of Tun-t'au. Here the Commandant of Hwui-chau, the Chief Magistrate, and an officer of the rank of captain, opened upon them from the forts, and having, by the cross fire of these, set one of the ships in flames, they took alive 18 of the crew as they were making their escape ashore, and as soon as they had extracted from them all they had to say, forwarded them to the city.\n\nThe destruction of the whole fleet of the pirates, and the death of some 400 of them, of which I am informed in the letter now under acknowledgment, will greatly gladden the hearts of all men.\n\nUpon the receipt of the reports from the Eastward, I had already sent an express to the civil and military officers along the Coast, with orders to make search and to seize in all directions, in the hope that (the pirates) might thus be swept clean away, and utterly extirpated.\n\nAs Su-a-páú (Tsü-á-pò) was wounded, he would, I imagine, have difficulty in flying to any distance. If he be not yet dead, as soon as he shall be taken, he shall of course be punished with the utmost rigour; there shall be no possibility of his resuming his evil career [lit. no sprout however small (which might again flourish) shall be left.]\n\nWhile thus replying to you, I avail myself of the opportunity to wish that the blessings of the season (Autumn) may daily increase to Your Excellency.\n\nA necessary communication addressed to Mr Bonham, H. B. M. Plenipotentiary, &c., &c., §. Táukwang, 29th year, 8th moon, 25th day, (11th October, 1849.)\n\nTrue Translation,\n\nT. F. WADE,\n\nAssistant Chinese Secretary.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-030 - Bonham - 1849 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 230750, "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": "CO129-034 - Sir Bonham - 1850 [9-12]", "page_number": 170, "title": "CO129-034 - Sir Bonham - 1850 [9-12]", "content_text": "Troops,\n\nYour\n\nthe Duke\n\nof Wellington will have\n\ngreat pleasure in giving effect to\n\nrecommendation and submitting This name to Her Majesty for Half Pay promotion.\n\nI have, to. (Signed) Fitzroy Somerset.\n\n(True Copy)\n\n167\n\nExtract from General Orders by the Honorable Major General d'Aquilar, C.B. Commanding the Troops\n\nWith the\n\nin\n\nChina.\n\nApril 2nd, 1847.\n\nWith the concurrence of H.E.\n\nSir John Francis Davis, Bart, &c., The Major General Commanding gladly avails himself of the Services of the Honorable Major Caine and appoints him Commandant of the Garrison of Hongkong during the absence of the Major General and the Main Body of the Troops on Expedition to Canton.\n\nShue...\n\n(True Copy)\n\nBy order,\n\n(Signed) J. Bruce, Captain Assistant Adjt General\n\n(True Extract)\n\n(Signed) J. Clark Kennedy, Captain, Asst. Adjt General", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-034 - Sir Bonham - 1850 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 230754, "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": "CO129-034 - Sir Bonham - 1850 [9-12]", "page_number": 174, "title": "CO129-034 - Sir Bonham - 1850 [9-12]", "content_text": "Mas \n\n- \n\nCommander in Chief to Whampoa in March 1841._ In May 1841 Major Caine was nominated to the appointment of Chief Magistrate of Hongkong. When the Force went against Canton in 1841 Major Caine begged Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary to be permitted to join this Regiment but was refused, vide Letter 19/31 dated 22nd May 1841 from the Secretary to Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary herewith attached. In September 1843 was appointed Member of Council in this Colony. In November 1844, obtained through the kindness of his Grace the Duke of Wellington, on Sir Henry Pottinger's application unattached Majority. In November 1846, promoted to Colonial Secretary and Auditor General, – in April 1847 when the expedition went against Canton was in charge of the Colony, as well as \n\n- \n\nan \n\nleft here in \n\nbeing Commandant of the Garrison - \n\n171 \n\nEntered the Service as Volunteer 17 Foot. 8th Nov2 1813. \n\nLieutenant 17th Foot 6th July 1816 \n\nLieutenant \"\n\n12th April 1819 \n\nExchanged to 14th Foot April 1822 \n\n# \n\nRemoved to 3o Buffs on applica: 16 March 1826 \n\nCaptain 11 Fest 9th Decr 1827 Exchanged 26th Foot October 1834 \n\nMajor by Brevet: 9 Nov 1841 \n\nMajor unattached Novr 1844 \n\n(True Copy)", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-034 - Sir Bonham - 1850 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 230768, "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": "CO129-034 - Sir Bonham - 1850 [9-12]", "page_number": 188, "title": "CO129-034 - Sir Bonham - 1850 [9-12]", "content_text": "Ladship by again detailing them, though I would beg to add that since my last application of 1846 I was appointed Commandant of this Garrison in April 1847, during the time I administered the Government in the absence of the Governor and the General, with the Canton expedition and that was favourably reported to the Home Guards by Major General D'Aquilar (vide enclosures 1st and 31st).\n\nAs the favour, I now ask at the touch of my career is probably the last that I shall ever have occasion to urge my account, I trust it will obtain your Lordship's kind support - In which faith I have the honour to subscribe, my Lord,\n\nYour Lordship's\n\nMost Obedient Humble Servant,\n\nWilliam Caine\n\nN.1.\n\nExtract, from General orders by the Honorable Major General D'Aquilar, C.B., Commanding the Troops in China.\n\nWith the Concurrence of His Excellency Sir John Francis Davis, Bart., K.C.B., The Major General Commanding gladly avails himself of the Services of the Honorable Major Caine and appoints him Commandant of the Garrison of Hongkong during the absence of the Major General and the Main Body of the Troops on service at Canton.\n\nApril 2nd, 1847.\n\nBy order,\n\n(Signed) J. Bruce, Captain\n\nAsst. Adjt. General\n\n(True Extract)\n\n(Signed) J. Clark Kennedy, Captain, off. Asst. Adjt. General", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-034 - Sir Bonham - 1850 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 236592, "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": "CO129-051 - Sir Bowring - 1855 [7-9]", "page_number": 73, "title": "CO129-051 - Sir Bowring - 1855 [7-9]", "content_text": "I derived from him in the complicated and difficult position, in which I was placed in China.\n\nI have Her\n\nA True copy\n\n(signed) Henry Pottinger\n\n(signed) Harry Pottinger\n\nKacie\n\nC\n\nthe 886-455\n\n70 A\n\nExtract from General Orders by the Honble Major General D'Aquilar, C.B. Commanding the Troops in China.\n\nApril 2nd, 1847.\n\nWith the concurrence of His Excellency Sir John Francis Davis, Bart, &c., The Major General Commanding gladly avails himself of the Services of the Honble Major Caine, and appoints him Commandant of the Garrison of Wong Hong during the absence of the Major General and the Main Body of the Troops on Service at Canton\n\nBy Order,\n\n[signed] J. Bruce, Captain Assistant Adjt: General.\n\nTrue Extract.\n\n[signed] J. Clark Hennedy, Captain Officiating Assistant Adjt General", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-051 - Sir Bowring - 1855 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 241638, "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": "CO129-063 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [4-7]", "page_number": 64, "title": "CO129-063 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [4-7]", "content_text": "71\n\nNEW ADVERTISEMENTS.\n\nCOPPER PLATE PRINTING.\n\nPARTIES having their own ENGRAVED PLATE can have their Cards, &c., printed in the best style at the Office of\n\nThe Hongkong Register,\n\nof the respective Papers, which will secure early insertion.\n\nEverything taken at Cowloon will be sent to the Government Office, if not claimed before 4 o'clock.\n\nyou will receive an official communication from me, the bending of which I should be glad to avoid, but before the Mail goes I must know whether the stolen articles listed were way whet\n\nYours truly,\n\n(Signed)\n\nNOTICE—The Hours of Public Worship at the HONGKONG REGISTER UNION CHAPEL, Hollywood Road, are, on the Sabbath at 11 A.M., and at 7 P.M., and on the Evening of every Wednesday at 7 o'clock. Hongkong, 28th April, 1857.\n\nTO LET by the month, & Three capacious Rooms, capable of accommodating ten gentlemen, with apartments for any number up to that amount.\n\nApply to\n\nBOWRA & Co.\n\nHongkong, 28 April 1857.\n\nTo the Editor at the \"Hongkong Register.\"\n\nHONGKONG, 27th April, 1857,\n\nBIRTHS.\n\nAt Felaban on the 10th April, Mrs. J. CALOROSSET Sure, of a Daughter.\n\nAt Shangwe, on the 15th April, Mrs. H. KOONS, of a Daughter.\n\nAt Macao, on the 9th April, Mrs. B. E. CARNEIRO, of a Daughter.\n\nMARRIAGES.\n\nAt Trinity Church, Shangbae, on the 13th inst., by the Rev. John Halon, WILLIAM CHAPMAN, Esq. of Calcutta, to GUNA EMILY, third Daughter of George Hargreaves, Esq., Liverpool.\n\nOn board American Ship \"Celestial,\" in this harbour, on the 25th April, by the Rev. J. W. Johnson, John A. CREWS WALD, Esq. of Boston, to FRANCES ANNE, Daughter of Edwin Lemist, Esq., of Roxbury, Mass.\n\nDEATHS.\n\nDrowned, in March last, in the 37th year of his age, JOHN VAUGHAN, Esq., M.D., eldest son of the Revd Dr. Vaughan, of Regent's Park, London.\n\nAt Macao, on the 20th April, PATRICK STEWART, Esq., Acting British Consular Agent at that port.\n\nAt Hongkong, on Sunday, 26th April, of dysentery, THOMAS HOPE, eldest and sole surviving son of the Rev. M. C. C., Assistant Chaplain to the Forces. Aged 2 years.\n\nN., lat. 31.16 N., and long. 121.46 E.; on the 22nd, the British barque Whampoa, in lat. 28:21 N., and long. 122.1; on the 23rd, the British schooner Eamont, in lat. 25.24 N., and long. 119.56 E.; on the 24th, the British schooner Emily Elphinstone, in lat. 23.17 N., and long. 121.29 E. Passed the Lady Mary Wood, on the 22nd instant, to the Northward of Turnabout near the use of the Attorney General, and just outside Formosa, on the 24th instant, spoke the American brig \"Getes,\" whose gang of workmen were busily employed in setting up the large iron gates at the bottom of Gough Street.\n\nDEAR SIR—Having had occasion to be in Gough Street yesterday (Sunday) morning, I was surprised to see this usually quiet street a scene of bustle and activity, and thinking that I had seen it announced in the Colonial Gazette that no Government or Police work was allowed on the Sabbath, I merely wish to know: 1. If any new private instructions have been given to Contractors or others to set aside this Government order. 2. If not, it is a high disgrace that Government should allow its servants to employ labourers on public work on a \"day of rest.\"\n\nI merely state what I saw almost under the windows of our Lieutenant Governor's house and opposite the house of the Registrar General and the Collector of Police &c., several Chinese workmen were employed in repairing the road; lower down the street, near the house of the Attorney General, and just outside Formosa, on the 24th instant, spoke the American brig \"Getes,\" whose gang of workmen were busily employed in setting up the large iron gates at the bottom of Gough Street.\n\nVox Populi is not admissible on the ground, amongst others, that the writer falls into the errors which he condemns. In addition—the letter is anonymous.\n\nJ. BOWRING,\n\nTo the Honorable COLONEL DUNLOP,\n\nThe Colonel issues the following Memo., attaching to it the Governor's letter, which requires that all the stolen property be forthwith returned to the Government Office:\n\n[No. 17—APRIL 29, 1857.]\n\nMemo. The undersigned offers notice that parties who have any articles which were taken at Cowloon will immediately return them to this Office. Officers are requested to state their names, or that they have returned all to this Office.\n\nBy order,\n\n(Signed) JOHN KING, Captain,\n\nTown Major.\n\nTOWN MAJOR'S OFFICE, 25th April, 1857.\n\nThe officers naturally felt annoyed at having such accusations made against them, and their several replies are amusing enough. They run thus:\n\n1. \"Have nothing—I never took anything.\"\n\n2. \"I have not stolen anything.\"\n\n3. \"I have not stolen anything.\"\n\n4. \"Seen.\"\n\n5. \"Not a legal question—stole nothing.\"\n\n6. \"Stole nothing.\"\n\n7. \"Stole nothing.\"\n\n8. \"Stole nothing: the two hats Dr. Bridges said there was no bar in taking. I have already returned.\"\n\n9. \"I have stolen nothing.\"\n\n10. \"Has stolen nothing.\"\n\n11. \"I took nothing away from Cowloon.\"\n\n12. \"I have not stolen anything.\"\n\nThis was not all; one of them afterwards wrote a letter demanding an apology under the threat of \"court of inquiry.\" We have not this intermediate correspondence, but the fellow who signs himself \"X X X\" in the China Mail, has said, so it has come to pass, the Registration Ordinance is progressing, and we have an altered and amended—if not improved draft copy of the Ordinance in the last Government Gazette.\n\nThe Band of the 59th Regiment will be performing to-morrow on the Parade Ground, weather permitting, at 4½ p.m., the following pieces:—\n\nMarch—\"Souvenir des Alpes\"—Leitzer.\n\nPolka—\"Jalve.\"\n\nSelection 4—\"Quadrilles Mouton.\"\n\nWaltz—\"Auf dem Lufte, Gung'—Strauss.\n\nGallop—\"Corsa\"—Kulorer.\n\nWe beg to return our sincere thanks to His Excellency Sir John Bowring Knt. LL.D. &c. for so kindly furnishing us with the precis of the contents of the papers taken at the attack on Cowloon, &c.\n\nBetween that and \"stolen\" there is a mighty difference in the minds of some people. We will illustrate the difference by telling the following story:—A Leith wine merchant whose business had been declining, and upon whom a strong desire for military fame just at the same time fell, was glad to take service with Don Pedro when he contended with Miguell for the throne of Portugal.\n\nIt would have been for him had he in the course of his universal acquirements stumbled upon the precaution of the good Chamundas; or had looked nearer one at the protector-te of Olyfe the hammer, when the community was governed without Laws. Back leginnion, however, was not suited to the busy, meddling mind of Wilmi le Teary. On the contrary, he conceived that the true wisdom of legislation consisted in the multiplicity of laws. He accordingly had great punishments for great crimes, and little punishments for little offences. By degrees the whole surface of society was cut up by ditches and fences, and quickset hedges of the law, and even the sequestered paths of private life so hemmed by petty rules and ordinances, too numerous to be remembered, that one now] could walk a large within the risk of having off a spring-gun or falling into a man-trap—\"Knicker\"-bocker's History of New York.\"\n\nTo the Editor of the \"China Mail.\"\n\nThe COVENT, 1st April, 1857.\n\nDEAR MR. F——\n\nMy wife (who can fight anticly for my peace of mind) derives her views of Hongkong politics from the Friend of China. Upon the ideas of the mild expositor of Sir John's responsibilities, she grafts a few of her own, and the following shortly shadows forth the result.\n\nWas Colony ever at such a pass\n\nWhat with poison, Sed riots, de dear that gas.\n\nA pretty large role of ill it will sum to\n\nThe taxes increasing, such a state the police in,\n\nAnd coolies refusing to carry our chairs;\n\nIf you'd know why this was, it is simply because\n\nThat horrid Sir John's authe Board of affairs!\n\nHe has truly thrown things in a terrible mix,\n\nAnd no wonder it is that with ge we are tow'ring;\n\nLa jury pays a,\" when the public\n\nWhy, who is the party to blame but Sir John?\n\nThe responsible man.—if your servants are capable,\n\nIf your carriage raptures, or child falls down stairs,\n\nFor sourbour, bad potatoes, or premature babi\n\nIs that dreadful old man at the head of affairs!\n\nJust look how he went and black-holed those poor bakers,\n\n(As it must be admitted they'd given you cause,)\n\nAl then four out Murrow & Co. to be breakers\n\nBy housing some coolies) of liberty's laws.\n\nFor struggling young orlenists ain't le a rush nares.*\n\nNor Christian nor Pagan is safe from his energet\n\nHet in happy to heap our dear chaplain's dham Gua\n\nThis cruel old man at the head of affairs!\n\nIf the ad come too late, or fire catches a chimney,\n\nIf our sleep is histure'd by a noisy cock,\n\nEve it a man-of-war strikes on a rock.\n\nf the sun is too hot, or the street lamps burn dim—nay,\n\nthe bugs at the school of St Andrew are lousy,\n\nOr the 59th Band plays unpopular airs;\n\nIf offcids are idle, or paracas are affils!\n\nIt's all the old as it the head\n\nBy his hobbies not only the clothes get se mangled,\n\n\"That buttons and darts take the wake of one's timiz,\n\nBut we're liable, too, in our beds t\n\nto be strangled,\n\nAnd he won't hang the man who emitted the crime.\n\nJould know how his sid yazilation\n\nIf he the load of ane's family rates,\n\nIncremes\n\nHe would practise (what I can't, fin enre) resignation,\n\nAnd put that dear end at the head of affairs.\n\n(Morita loquitur)\n\nAnd now. you've done, pray let me have a word to\n\n(That politics sextainly not a good hand)\n\nI would have you remember it's very absurd, to\n\nTalk about things that you don't understand.\n\nIf he'd three heads, His Cerberas, still be'd have reason\n\nTo say he's tough work to grizzle his air;\n\nAnd I really believe, in' you'll think it high tresom,\n\nWo might have a wote inan at the head of affairs.\n\n*Tron, WELDA.\n\nThe Hongkong Register.\n\nHONGKONG, TUESDAY, 26 APRIL 1857.\n\nRooms, where such documents as the government desires to make known are supplied for the use of all the papers without respect to party or color. It would of course be expecting too much from a man who was only a radical member of parliament any such liberality—that style of individual does not act in such a way. All his liberality is expended in clap-trap, and when the time of action comes, he is found to be nothing but a windbag—As for the Mail we could expect no courtesy from it in such a case.\n\nThe Coromandel returned to harbour on the morning of the 26th, from the survey of the rock on which the unfortunate Raleigh struck. The survey was made by Captain Bates, who was accompanied by Mr. Williams, Master of the state that so well known Raleigh, and when then for him.\n\nAs we are a day behind the for, thanks to our kind friends, the above firm, we think it unnecessary to republish the documents, but we call attention to the reasonable inference drawn by the\n\nThere is one drop of comfort in this bucket of filth—the Ordinance never will be carried out, not even when the gloss of novelty is upon it. There is no staff of officials to carry it out.\n\nWe may therefore rest satisfied that the minds of the Chinese will not be undermined by this Ordinance, and the only bad effect of it will be to disgrace a British Statute book. Spies there are, and will be—like other vermin they are useful and can be dispensed with; but the more we can do without them the better, and we hope never to see the day when the inhabitants of a whole colony shall turn spies, and no one however respectable be safe.\n\nThe Sampson has had an engagement with pirates near Mi-chin bay, to the South of the entrance of the Straits of Hainan. The steamer had followed them up to this place which it appears they have made their rendezvous for some time past.\n\nThe result of a sharp and successful contest was the complete defeat of the Pirates who were compelled to retire, having about 200 killed, wounded, or prisoners, in the hands of the assailants. We have not heard of any serious casualties to any of the Sampson crew.\n\nXI. A Chinese Houses shall be divided into things or Káp of Ten Houses each, wherein every Occupier of a House shall answer to Her Majesty for the good conduct of the occupiers of the other nine; and Occupier of a House shall be Kápcheong or Thingman to be elected by common vote of the said Tithing or Kap to that office, subject to the approval of this Government, and he shall be the proper Representative of the said Tithing or Kap, and be distinguished by some Badge to be appointed by His Excellency, and he shall hold his said office during one year; and no other person shall assume the title or badge of Kápcheong of such Tithing or Káp.\n\nXIV. It shall be the duty of every Occupier of House to report to his Kápcheong without delay, to the utmost of his skill and knowledge, all Cases, Suspicions of Crime, committed or to be committed, and respectively, for all the purposes of this Ordinance, to be aiding and assisting to the said Kápcheong in the execution of the same; and further, to do his utmost to prevent all crimes, felonies, and misdemeanours, and to apprehend all persons whom he shall find in the actual commission of the same.\n\nIV. It shall be the duty of the Kápcheong to communicate forthwith to the Registrar General all such reports as in Section Fourteen are mentioned, when the same are received by him; and likewise to report to him to the utmost of his skill and knowledge, all Cases, or Suspicions of Crime, whether reported from the Kap or not; and in all other respects to discharge the duties and exercise the powers of a Constable of the Police Force of Hongkong, so as the same are altered by this Ordinance.\n\nThis is the spy system on which the Ordinance rests.\n\nWe give below part of a correspondence between Sir John Bowring and the officers who were employed on the descent lately made on Cowloon, powerful in her armament and crew as the Sampson is.\n\nGovernment Office, 25th April, 1857.\n\nMY DEAR COLONEL—I have been quite shocked to hear that, among other things, the official sent were eiti- Register\" or \"Register's Advertiser, please address to the \"Printer and Publisher\n\nWe further learn that the Chinese captured have been given up to the Mandarins at Amoy, and that the Portuguese taken are to be handed over to the Macao Authorities.\n\nThe expedition to Chek-chun was accompanied by Mr. Wan and acquainted with only one of the inculpating facts by surprise. A large number of \"braves\" were found concealed in the city, and a few house before the attack.\n\nThere is no evidence that poisoning as an art has been practiced in China, and we search her annals in vain for a case parallel to that of Hongkong.\n\nThe pith failed through the dilatoriness of the mandarins sent for distribution among a portion of the attacked force, & quantity of a perennial creeper found on the hills of the central provinces. Its botanical character, as well as its precise physiological action, we have yet to ascertain.\n\nIts active principle appears to be highly volatile, and great exactness is needed in preparing it. Several of Mr. Markwick's gold wristlets were found concealed in a two watchkeys, a ring, and a gold watch and chain had also been pawned to pay a gambling debt, but were not in league with the police.\n\nThe expedition to Cowloon was accompanied by Dr. Bridges, Mr. Caldwell being confined to his room with illness and though the inslemency of the weather prevented it from starting till day light, several hours after the time contemplated, the soldiers were within a hundred yards of the fort ere the Chinese thought of even closing the gates.\n\nThe doors were instantly scaled, the gates opened, and the fort taken possession of, without the longest violence being used towards the Chinese.\n\nIt is said that not far from every poison tree the antidotes were ordered from the Pacific to join Commandant was of course in a state of great alarm.\n\nNOTICE TO MARINERS.\n\nShanglus, 23d March, 1857. (From North-China Herald, March 29.)\n\nNotice is hereby given, that in pursuance of arrangements made by the Chinese Authorities for the improvement of the navigation of the Yangtze Kiang, Eight patriotic Iron Nan Boyus have been moored between Chatela Island and Woosung. These have been laid down by M. GEORGE L. CAER, Master, N., in the following positions :-\n\nOn the South Sand, three painted Black, and numbered 3, 9, 5.\n\nOn the North Sand, three painted Red, and numbered 2, 1, 6.\n\nOn the North Spit, off the entrance of Woosung River, one painted Red, and numbered 9.\n\nThe bearings are all Magnetic.\n\nThe Light Ship is moored in 4½ fathoms, at low water, Spring Tides.\n\nThe Trevs upon Block House island bear from N. 15,0,0 West, distance 3 miles.\n\nGO. 1. CA, Master. BN,\n\nBy Order,\n\nH. M. S. Pique.\"\n\nSECRETARY,\n\nNINGPO.\n\nA ROCK NOT NOTED IN THE CHARTS.\n\nThe Brig \"Mariner's Hope\" struck, right in the way of vessels going in to Ningpo from sea through the Fisherman's chain. She was 12 hours on the reef, and 3 feet under her stern at low water.\n\nThe bearings of a rock or reef on which the Brig \"Mariner's Hope\" struck, are as follows:\n\nSkald Island, S. & B., distance 3 cables,\n\nSouth extreme of Chiu-san, E ½ S.\n\nLarge Volcano, S. W. westerly Extremes of Ruggeds, N. N. W. W.,\n\nand N. X. E.\n\n62", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-063 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [4-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 244735, "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": "CO129-068 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12]", "page_number": 477, "title": "CO129-068 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12]", "content_text": "(45)\n\n474\n\n(44)\n\nshall, in the course of the investigation, endeavour to bring before the Commission persons who will testify to the facts I mention.\n\nAdjourned till 12 o'clock to-morrow.\n\n## FOURTEENTH DAY\n\nThursday, 24th June, 1858, at 12 o'clock Noon.\n\nPresent, All the Members, except the Honourable Mr Cleverly, whose place in the chair was taken by the Honourable Mr Davies.\n\n### ANGUS FLETCHER\n\n—Called and examined.\n\nI formerly had a partner named Innes, who has been dead many years. I believe Mr Caldwell was once in Mr Innes's employ. I do not know of my own knowledge why Mr Caldwell was discharged. I am one of the oldest residents in China, and have known about Mr Caldwell, otherwise than as employed by Mr Innes, for some time. I did not know anything of him beyond that he was a little thoughtless; this was nearly twenty years ago. I do not recollect having ever heard any accusation brought against him.\n\nI do not know under what circumstances Mr Caldwell left my late partner; he left before I joined him. I believe he was Clerk or Book-keeper with him. I never heard a word from Mr Innes, nor from any one else, as to the circumstances under which Mr Caldwell left Mr Innes's employ.\n\n[The Attorney General having been informed that neither to himself nor to any of the public could printed copies of the evidence be furnished, but that he was at liberty to inspect them in the room, and that copies of his own evidence would be furnished, requested that a minute might be made that he had not had any of the fasciculi since the third, and had therefore had no opportunity, and now should have none, of correcting in his own copy, and suggesting to the Commission for correction in theirs, such of the errors in the evidence as taken as he was able to correct, as well as of offering suggestions for examination of witnesses.]\n\n### CHARLES MAY\n\n—Recalled.\n\nGrand-Pré in conversation; and, I was then told, that the European Constable who had charge of Ma-chow Wong had immediately before made known that certain large bribes had been offered him by Ma-chow Wong. One of the bribes was offered to induce the Constable to allow the prisoner interview with Mr Caldwell. I did not consider the prisoners secure at the Police Station as I thought necessary, and him up to the Gaol.\n\nI did not know that the papers which had been sent to Government Office had not been returned to the Police until I heard of their destruction at Government Office, therefore the papers given up could only have been those belonging to the Kwong Yik Loong [Ma-chow Wong's] shop. I recollect that Mr Grand-Pré said that Mr Caldwell had, by, I think, a note which he had in his hand, applied for the papers of Ma-chow Wong, and I am not quite so certain, but I think Mr Grand-Pré said something about Dr Bridges having authorised their being given up.\n\nI am certain that some property remained in the hands of the police, and I have no doubt this property was given up by Mr Grand Pré, who therefore can give evidence upon it. I have asked both Inspectors, but they can give me no information upon this. I do not know whether I was at that time Acting Assistant Magistrate, or Acting Superintendent of Police. I endeavoured to find out who gave up the property at the Police Station, and the Inspectors have told me that they did not, and that therefore it must have been Mr Grand-Pré.\n\nI am certain that those papers given up were the Kwong Yik Loong papers, because the others have been destroyed. It now strikes me that I have heard that some of the papers, which were deposited at the Supreme Court, were given up, upon this head Mr Masson can give evidence.\n\nI think I can produce a witness who saw the first wife of Ma-chow Wong go into Mr Caldwell's house within the last two months. I did hear that Ma-chow Wong's wife had found a refuge in Mr Caldwell's house. I heard it from more than one; amongst others, from Tong Aku the Interpreter.\n\nAbout the notoriety of the pirate Po-pak Shing, Assow, that Police Court Interpreter, who told me more than twelve months ago that this man was a notorious pirate, can give evidence. As to the connection between Po-pak Shing and Ma-chow Wong, and the buying off of the witnesses, I hand in the name of a witness who can give evidence.\n\nI saw Mr Caldwell go into the Chief Magistrate's room with the bail, on the occasion of Ma-chow Wong's being bailed by order of the Chief Justice; this is the extent of my knowledge. I do not recollect how many bail there were, and do not know if the Chief Magistrate desired Mr Caldwell to be present on the occasion. I heard that the Chief Magistrate had had a communication with Mr Caldwell on the subject, but did not know what it was. On the night of Ma-chow Wong's apprehension on my warrant, I gave special orders as to his custody, and that he should be under the special care of a European Constable, to the exclusion of the usual Chinese Constables who watch the cells. At half-past ten o'clock at night or later, I went incidentally to the charge room, and saw Mr Caldwell and Mr...\n\nMr Caldwell himself told me that the boat of which he had command was manned by Chinese, he did not say by Europeans and Indians, I know from what he told me.\n\nCross-examined.—A man deposed at the Supreme Court that Ma-chow Wong had offered him $1,000, to abstain from giving evidence so far as it referred to the identification of the prisoners, the Captain of the boat I think. He had command at different times of two boats, one of which was decked, and I should think a schooner, because he told me of his having been nearly drowned in the cabin.\n\nI taxed my memory as far as I possibly could with regard to the memoranda, and I cannot recollect more minutely than I stated. The memorandum number 8 in Mr Caldwell's report does not agree with number 8 in my evidence; there was only one paper, as I have stated with regard to No. 9. There might have been one Johnson, but there was a Graham. I remember about Graham, because he was subsequently imprisoned for felony. He was Sheriff's Officer and robbed a boat. Now I recollect, there were two letters from the Kowloong Commandant, one to Ma-chow Wong, and one to his partner.\n\nI have not the slightest doubt that I told the Honourable the Attorney General what my impression was prior to my knowledge that the books and papers had been destroyed, that the books and papers of Ma-chow Wong which were at the Police Station had been given up. I remember the sailing of the Phoebe Dunbar with the deported persons. I was the Acting Sheriff at the time, and sent in a list to Government of all persons who were then in Gaol under warrants of Justices of the Peace or Stipendiary Magistrates, coming under Ordinance 2 of 1857, viz., persons dangerous to the peace and good order of the Colony. I have no copy of the list, and know that it is in the records of the Gaol.\n\nThere were other names on the list, put on by order of the Government, quite certain that I must have told other persons, but I cannot recollect whom. At the time of the taking of the memoranda, and up to the time of my knowledge of the destruction of the papers, I had not any idea that the memoranda would be a subject of import. The memoranda were written in a style in which I would write a draft for a letter; they were scribbled. It was singular that the memoranda were not destroyed. I am sure that Roberts told me that he had found about 36 guns on board the supposed Alma. I am not sure whether he said that Mr Caldwell told him that the lorcha belonged to him then, or had belonged to him.\n\nI do not recollect Mr Caldwell searching with me for the security papers in the gold dust affair. I have not the slightest recollection of his doing so. I had the general management of the deportation, being Acting Sheriff at the time. The list of persons to be deported was made out by me or by persons under my orders. I believe the list to comprise all prisoners of the classes before mentioned. I had no knowledge of any one fact relating to one prisoner more than to another.\n\nI made the seizure on Bonham Strand; those who could not find security, and were included in the list, were very likely beggars, but I can't say that they were. I do not think that Mr Caldwell was present when I searched for the security papers, after the petition had been presented. I think it was Roberts who apprehended the men.\n\nPage 474", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-068 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 247297, "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": "CO129-073 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Bowring - 1859 [1-5]", "page_number": 595, "title": "CO129-073 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Bowring - 1859 [1-5]", "content_text": "that officer springs from the purest public - from the sense I must ever \n\nMotives, and \n\nCherish the assistance I derived from \n\nhim in the complicated and difficult \n\nposition in which I was placed in China.\n\nI have tea\n\n(Signed) Henry Pottinger\n\nA. True Copy\n\n(Signed) Henry Pottinger\n\n(True copy) Monum\n\nColonial Secretary\n\n(Copy)\n\n4.\n\n592\n\nExtract from General Orders by the Honorable Major General D'Aguilar\n\nC.B. Commanding the Troops in China.\n\nApril 2nd 1847.\n\nWith the\n\nConcurrence\n\nof His Excellency\n\nSir John Francis Davis, Bart. The Major General Commanding gladly avails\n\nhimself of the Services of the Honorable Major Caine, and appoints him Commandant of the Garrison of Hongkong, during the absence of the Major General, the Troops on service at Canton, and the Main Body of\n\nBy Order\n\n(Signed)\n\nI. Bruce, Captain\n\nAssistant Adjt General\n\n(True Extract)\n\n(Signed) I. Clark Kennedy, Captain\n\nofficiating Assistant Adjt General,\n\nColonial Secretary.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-073 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Bowring - 1859 [1-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 247678, "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": "CO129-074 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Robinson - 1859 [6-12]", "page_number": 352, "title": "CO129-074 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Robinson - 1859 [6-12]", "content_text": "TIL\n\n348\n\n( 44 )\n\nyour to bring before the Commission persons who will Grand-Pré in conversation; and, was then told, that the testify to the facts I mention.\n\nAdjourned till 12 o'clock to-morrow.\n\nFOURTEENTH DAY.\n\nThursday, 24th June, at 12 o'clock, Noon.\n\nEuropean Constable who had charge of Ma-chow Wong had immediately before made known that certain large bribes had been offered him by Ma-chow Wong. One of the bribes was offered to induce the Constable to allow the prisoners an interview with Mr Caldwell. I did not consider the prisoner so secure at the Police Station as I thought necessary, and sent him up to the Gaol.\n\nI did not know that the papers which had been sent to Government Office had not been returned to the Police until I heard of their destruction at Government Office, thereafter the papers given up could only have been those belonging to the Kwong Yik Loong [Ma-chow Wong's] shop. I recollect that Mr Grand-Pré said that Mr Caldwell had, by, I think, a note which he had in his hand, applied for the papers of Ma-chow Wong, and I am not quite so certain, but I think Mr Grand-Pré said something about Dr Bridges having authorised their being given up. I am certain that some property remained in the hands of the police, and I have no doubt this property was given up by Mr Grand-Pré, who therefore can give evidence upon it. I have asked both Inspectors, but they can give me no information upon this. I do not know whether I was at that time Acting Assistant Magistrate, or Acting Superintendent of Police, I have endeavoured to find out who gave up the property at the Police Station, and the Inspectors have told me that they did not, and that therefore it must have been Mr Grand-Pré.\n\nPresent,-All the Members, except the Honourable Mr Cleverly, whose place in the chair was taken by the Honourable Mr Davies.\n\nANGUS FLETCHER,-Called and examined.\n\nI formerly had a partner named Innes, who has been dead many years. I believe Mr Caldwell was once in Mr Innes's employ. I do not know of my own knowledge why Mr Caldwell was discharged. I am one of the oldest residents in China, and have known about Mr Caldwell, otherwise than as employed by Mr Innes, for some time, I did not know anything of him beyond that he was a little thoughtless; this was nearly twenty years ago. I do not recollect having ever heard any accusation brought against him.\n\nI do not know under what circumstances Mr Caldwell left my late partner; he left before I joined him. I believe he was Clerk or Book-keeper with him. I never heard a word from Mr Innes, nor from any one else, as to the circumstances under which Mr Caldwell left Mr Innes's employ.\n\n[The Attorney General having been informed that neither to himself nor to any of the public could printed copies of the evidence be furnished, but that he was at liberty to inspect them in the room, and that copies of his own evidence would be furnished, requested that a minute might be made that he had not had any of the fasciculi since the third, and had therefore had no opportunity, and now should have none, of correcting in his own copy, and suggesting to the Commission for correction in theirs such of the errors in the evidence as taken as he was able to correct, as well as of offering suggestions for examination of witnesses]\n\nCHARLES MAY,-Recalled.\n\nI saw Mr Caldwell go into the Chief Magistrate's room with the bail, on the occasion of Ma-chow Wong's being bailed by order of the Chief Justice; this is the extent of my knowledge. I do not recollect how many bail there were, and do not know if the Chief Magistrate desired Mr Caldwell to be present on the occasion. I heard that the Chief Magistrate had had a communication with Mr Caldwell.\n\nAbout the notoriety of the pirate Po-pak Shing, Assow, the Police Court Interpreter, who told me more than twelve months ago that this man was a notorious pirate, can give evidence. As to the connection between Po-pak Shing and Ma-chow Wong, and the buying off of the witnesses, I hand in the name of a witness who can give evidence.\n\nThere was no written order given by me for the delivery of the gold dust to Mr Caldwell, I do not recollect whether I was Superintendent of Police, or Acting Sheriff; I rather think it was as Acting Sheriff. Achak, a clerk in the Registration Office, can say who were the securities in the gold dust affair. I do not know whether the petition referred to in the gold dust affair is in existence, and do not remember whether I gave it back, or whether it was filed.\n\nMr Caldwell himself told me that the boat of which he had command was manned by Chinese, he did not say by Europeans and Indians. I know from what he told me that Ma-chow Wong had offered him $1,000, to abstain from giving evidence so far as it referred to the identification of one of the prisoners, the Captain of the boat I think.\n\nCross-examined.-A man deposed at the Supreme Court that he had command at different times of two boats, one of which was decked, and I should think a schooner, because he told me of his having been nearly drowned in the cabin. The threat of personal violence was deposed to in the Supreme Court. I was not Mr Dixson's informant as to Mr Stace and Mr Caldwell having got permission to take away the books and papers, excepted as I now state. I told Mr Dixson that Mr Caldwell and Mr Stace had examined the books and papers at the Police Station, and that my impression was that Mr Caldwell had received the books and papers from the Police Station.\n\nI taxed my memory as far as I possible could with regard to the memoranda, and I cannot recollect more minutely than I stated. The memorandum number 8 in Mr Caldwell's report does not agree with number 8 in my evidence; there was only one paper, as I have stated with regard to No. 9. There might have been one Johnson, but there was no written order given by me for the delivery of the gold dust to Mr Caldwell.\n\nI did not tell Mr Dixson, what he states in papers.\n\nI remember about Graham, because he was a Graham. He was subsequently imprisoned for felony. He was Sheriff's Officer and robbed a boat. Now I recollect, there were two letters from the Kowloong Commandant,-one to Ma-chow Wong, and one to his partner. I have an impression in my mind that there were very many more important matters not referring to Mr Caldwell, only shewing the bad character of Ma-chow Wong, in my memo.-I placed the memo. in the Chief Magistrate's hands, and read it to the Acting Attorney General. I had given it up before the Attorney General returned, but I told him of it since his return.\n\nOn Saturday the Prisoner was apprehended, on Monday the Attorney General was in the Police Court for the last time, and then only one-sixth of the memoranda had been extracted. I have not the slightest doubt that I told the Honourable the Attorney General what my impression was prior to my knowledge that the books and papers had been destroyed, -that the books and papers of Ma-chow Wong which were at the Police Station had been given up. I remember the sailing of the Phoebe Dunbar with the deported persons. I was Acting Sheriff at the time, and sent in a list to Government of all persons who were then in Gaol under warrants of Justices of the Peace or Stipendiary Magistrates, coming under Ordinance 2 of 1857, viz., persons dangerous to the peace and good order of the Colony. I have no copy of the list, and know that it is in the records of the Gaol, There were other names on the list, put on by order of the Government, and these persons were those who had been summarily convicted, and it was by the Colonial Secretary's order-I believe a verbal one, that these were included in the lot.\n\nAt the time of the taking of the memoranda, and up to the time of my knowledge of the attempt to obtain a pardon of Ma-chow Wong, inasmuch as the memoranda did not refer to the cases for which the prisoner was tried, I had not any idea that the memoranda would be a subject of import. The memoranda were written in a style in which I would write a draft for a letter; they were scribbled. It was singular that the memoranda were not destroyed. I am sure that Roberts told me that he had found about 36 guns on board the supposed Alma. I am not sure whether he said that Mr Caldwell told him that the lorcha belonged to him then, or had belonged to him.\n\nI do not recollect Mr Caldwell searching with me for the security papers in the gold dust affair. I have not the slightest recollection of his doing so.\n\nI believed the list to comprise all prisoners of the classes before mentioned. I had no knowledge of any one fact relating to one prisoner more than to another.\n\nI, myself, had the general management of the deportation, being Acting Sheriff at the time. The list of persons to be deported was made out by me or by persons under my orders.\n\nThe list was made out, and an order given by the Governor for their deportation. Mr Caldwell did not make out the list, nor did he take the men off to the Phoebe Dunbar. I think I reported to the Government that the persons named in the list came within the meaning of Ordinance 2 of 1857, and the Government approved the list. I don't think that I had any letter of instructions from the Governor as to the making out the list.\n\nI made the seizure on Bonham Strand; those who could not find security, and were included in the list, were very likely beggars, but I can't say that they were. I do not think that Mr Caldwell was present when I searched for the security papers, after the petition had been presented. I think it was Roberts who apprehended Beaver.\n\n( 45 )", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-074 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Robinson - 1859 [6-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 249931, "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": "CO129-079 - Public Offices - 1860", "page_number": 81, "title": "CO129-079 - Public Offices - 1860", "content_text": "Admiralty\n\n852\n\nTHE LONDON GAZETTE, FEBRUARY 28, 1860.\n\nAdmiralty, February 27, 1860.\n\nRear-Admiral of the Blue James Hope, C.B., to be Vice-Admiral of the Blue until further orders, and while employed as Commander-in-Chief of Her Majesty's ships and vessels within the limits of the East India Station,\n\nCommissions signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Cumberland.\n\n2nd Cumberland Artillery Volunteers.\n\nThomas Salkeld, Esq., to be Captain Commandant.\n\nCommission signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Aberdeen.\n\nColonel Charles Fraser to be Vice Lieutenant\n\nDated 23rd February, 1860.\n\nCommissions signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Somerset.\n\nRobert James Elton, Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenant.\n\nDated 22nd February, 1860.\n\n1st Somerset Regiment of Militia.\n\nHenry Gully Foy, Esq., to be Surgeon, vice Hugo, deceased.\n\nDated 23rd February, 1860.\n\nBridgewater or 5th Somerset Company of Volunteer Rifle Corps.\n\nDated 15th February, 1860.\n\n1st Cumberland Rifle Volunteers.\n\nRobert Ferguson, Esq., to be Captain Commandant.\n\nDated 15th February, 1860.\n\n3rd Cumberland Rifle Volunteers.\n\nMajor Charles Hamilton Wake to be Captain Commandant.\n\nDated 15th February, 1860.\n\nCommissions signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Berks.\n\nBerks Rifle Volunteers.\n\n1st Corps, 1st Company.\n\nHenry Bilson Blandy, Gent., to be Lieutenant, vice Charles Stephens, promoted.\n\nDated 21st February, 1860.\n\n1st Corps, 2nd Company.\n\nLieutenant Charles Stephens to be Captain.\n\nDated 21st February, 1860.\n\nJohn Masters, Doctor of Medicine, to be Honorary Assistant-Surgeon.\n\nDated 25th February, 1860.\n\nKeynsham or 7th Somerset Company of Volunteer Rifle Corps.\n\nJames Ireland Clayfield Ireland, Esq., to be Captain.\n\nDated 25th February, 1860.\n\nCharles John Simmons, Gent., to be Lieutenant.\n\nDated 25th February, 1860.\n\nHarford Lyne, Gent., to be Ensign.\n\nDated 25th February, 1860.\n\nIlminster or 9th Somerset Volunteer Rifle Corps.\n\nJohn Halliday, Esq., to be Lieutenant.\n\nDated 22nd February, 1860.\n\nJohn Blommart, Esq., to be Ensign.\n\nDated 22nd February, 1860.\n\nWells or 10th Somerset Company of Volunteer Rifle Corps.\n\nJohn Nicholls, Gent., to be Honorary Assistant-Surgeon.\n\nDated 27th February, 1860.\n\nStogursey or 11th Somerset Volunteer Rifle Corps.\n\nGeorge Fownes Luttrell, Esq., to be Lieutenant.\n\nDated 21st February, 1860.\n\nRobert Guy Evered, Esq., to be Ensign.\n\nDated 21st February, 1860.\n\nCommission signed by Her Majesty's Commissioners of Lieutenancy of the City of London.\n\nLondon Rifle Volunteer Brigade.\n\nHis Royal Highness General the Duke of Cambridge, K.G., to be Honorary Colonel.\n\nDated 24th February, 1860.\n\nLeury Adolphus Simonds, Gent., to be Lieutenant.\n\nDated 23rd February, 1860.\n\nBlackall Simonds, Gent., to be Ensign.\n\nDated 23rd February, 1860.\n\nCommissions signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Oxford.\n\n3rd Oxfordshire Rifle Volunteers.\n\nTimothy Edward Cobb, Banker, to be Lieutenant.\n\nDated 24th February, 1860.\n\nJohn Potts, Gent., to be Ensign.\n\nDated 24th February, 1860.\n\nCommissions signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Sussex.\n\n6th Sussex Rifle Volunteers.\n\nThe Honourable Percy Scawen Wyndham to be Lieutenant.\n\nDated 15th February, 1860.\n\nThe Honourable Edward Turnour, commonly called Viscount Turnour, to be Ensign.\n\nDated 15th February, 1860.\n\n4th Sussex Rifle Volunteers.\n\nInigo Gell to be Lieutenant.\n\nDated 16th February, 1860.\n\nWilliam Beard to be Ensign.\n\nDated 16th February, 1860.\n\n8th Sussex Rifle Volunteers.\n\nSir Charles Goring, Bart., to be Captain.\n\nDated 16th February, 1860.\n\nCommissions signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Carmarthen.\n\n1st Carmarthenshire Rifle Volunteers.\n\nThe Viscount Emlyn to be Captain.\n\nJohn Lewes Thomas, Gent., to be Lieutenant.\n\nCommission signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Rutland.\n\nRutland Militia.\n\nFrederick Lloyd Philipps, Gent., to be Ensign.\n\n2nd Carmarthenshire Rifle Volunteers.\n\nDavid John Browne Edwardes, Esq., to be Captain.\n\nDated 20th February, 1860.\n\nJohn Thomas Keal, Esq., to be Surgeon.\n\nDated 24th February, 1860.\n\nM. Monvale\n\nWir Blackwood.\n\n\"The Letters Patent for investing the Supreme Court of Hong Kong with an appellate jurisdiction over suits decided by British Consuls in Japan... is now completed, and ready for transmission to the Colony.\n\nThe cost of the Patent is £32.18s. Should it be paid for out of Colonial Funds, or is the Treasury to be asked to disburse the amount?\n\nObserve that the Order in Council of the 30th March last, to which the Patent refers, was published in the London Gazette. It will perhaps be thought proper to notify the passing of this Patent in the Gazette.\n\nM. Walksworth\n\nThe Colony is able to pay for Expenses justly chargeable upon it; but this ...\n\nWH\n\n27660", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-079 - Public Offices - 1860.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 251799, "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": "CO129-082 - Sir Robinson - 1861 [8-12]", "page_number": 246, "title": "CO129-082 - Sir Robinson - 1861 [8-12]", "content_text": "## 2\n\nMasters), on the charge of false imprisonment of the Coolies in this Harbour. The three first named were in due course arrested, but Mansel Macas whereabouts led to a search, as will be seen from the accompanying correspondence with the Governor of that settlement, and all trace of him has since been lost.\n\n16.\n\nAS Fir Deronte Robinson to formon Humarais 1.9. Gorun Kumasis to dis & Robinson.\n\nA few days subsequently, (18th September), while the preliminary police investigations necessary before the committal for trial to the Supreme Court were being conducted, the Commandant Superieur of the French Naval Forces in the South China, M. Compoent des Trois-, called on me and informed me that, having received a report from Baron Trenqualye, he had arrived at a conclusion opposite to that officer regarding the guilt of the Captain of the Ville d'Agen. He stated that in his opinion the Captain had knowingly participated in criminal and illegal operations conducted on parts of China not open by the Treaties of Commerce. And he accordingly, on behalf of the French Government,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-082 - Sir Robinson - 1861 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 251855, "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": "CO129-082 - Sir Robinson - 1861 [8-12]", "page_number": 302, "title": "CO129-082 - Sir Robinson - 1861 [8-12]", "content_text": "## prevention criminelle soit poursuivie \n\nSans entraves. \n\nVeuillez Agréer etc \n\nLe Capitaine de vaisseau, commandant \n\nSupérieur des Forces Françaises de Terre et \n\nde Mer à Canton, etc. \n\n(Signé) Coupvent des Bois \n\n(True Copy) \n\nMad Alexander \n\nActing Colonial Secretary \n\n## (Copy) No 709. \n\n- From H. Robinson to Mr Coupvent des Bois. \n\nSir, \n\nGovernment Offices, Victoria, \nHong Kong, 19th September, 1861 \n\nI have the honor to acknowledge \nthe receipt of Your Despatch of this date \nin which \nyou request me to discontinue the proceedings \nwhich have been instituted \nhere \nagainst the Captain of the French \nMerchant Ship \"Wille d' Agen\" for false \nimprisonment of \nCoolies in this Harbour, \nand to hand the accused over to \nyou \nfor the purpose of being forwarded to France to be there tried for \nthe \ngraver \ncharges. \n\nMonsieur Coupvent des Bois, \nCapitaine de Vaisseau Commandant Superieur des Forces Françaises de Terre et de Mer à Canton, etc.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-082 - Sir Robinson - 1861 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 251856, "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": "CO129-082 - Sir Robinson - 1861 [8-12]", "page_number": 303, "title": "CO129-082 - Sir Robinson - 1861 [8-12]", "content_text": "# offence of Piracy and Murder, Committed \nupon \nthe Coast of China, in which he \nappears to have been a participator. \n\nIn reply, I beg to state that being fully aware \nof the earnest desire of the French Government to suppress and \npunish Kidnapping atrocities, and believing also that this end can in the \npresent instance be better attained by the proceedings proposed by you, \nto which it is in my power to adopt here, I have much pleasure \nin at once acceding to your request. \n\n(Signed) Hercules G.R. Robinson, \nGovernor and Commander-in-Chief.\n\n(Signé) \nMotalexande \nActing Colonial Secretary. \n\n## Copy \n300 \n\nBy His Excellency Sir Hercules George Robert Robinson, Knight, Governor-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies, and Vice Admiral of the same: \n\nWhereas a Requisition has been made to \nme by Captain Coupvent des Bois, Commandant Superieur of the French Forces in the South of China for the apprehension and rendition of \n\nTo the Acting Chief Magistrate and other Justice of the Peace of this Colony.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-082 - Sir Robinson - 1861 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 253966, "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": "CO129-087 - Sir Robinson - 1862 [7] & Acting Governor Mercer - 1862 [7-9]", "page_number": 71, "title": "CO129-087 - Sir Robinson - 1862 [7] & Acting Governor Mercer - 1862 [7-9]", "content_text": "# Address presented to His Excellency SIR HERCULES G. R. ROBINSON upon the eve of his departure from the Colony, on leave of absence, by the Volunteer Corps.\n\n## TO HIS EXCELLENCY SIR HERCULES G. R. ROBINSON, Governor of Hongkong, &c., &c.\n\nWe, the undersigned, Officers, Non-Commissioned Officers, and Members of the Corps of \"HONGKONG VOLUNTEERS,\" beg to tender to Your Excellency on your departure to England the expression of our respect and our best wishes for your safe and prosperous voyage. We desire also to express our hope that Lady Robinson and yourself may enjoy your visit to England, and return amongst us again in renewed health.\n\nVictoria, Hongkong, 11th July, 1862.\n\n## Officers\n\n| Name | Rank |\n| --- | --- |\n| Fred. Brine | Captain and Commandant |\n| Wm. Kane | Captain |\n| R. B. Baker | Lieutenant |\n| Jno. Dodd | Lieutenant and Acting Adjutant |\n| J. Fraser | (absent in Shanghae) per F.B. |\n\n## Serjeants\n\n| Name |\n| --- |\n| R. H. Baldwin |\n| W. Schmidt |\n| A. Cohen |\n| Albert J. Chambers |\n| W. J. Henderson |\n| J. F. Hazeland |\n\n## Corporals\n\n| Name |\n| --- |\n| Jno. Rickett, Jr. |\n| W. S. Lording |\n| F. H. Birch |\n| D. Ruttunjee |\n\n## Bombardiers\n\n| Name |\n| --- |\n| Jno. S. Lapraik |\n| Ryle Home |\n| G. Lawrence | (absent) F.B.\n\n## Trumpeters\n\n| Name |\n| --- |\n| W. H. Tapp |\n| A. D. Ezekiel |\n| W. R. Garrett |\n\n## Gunners\n\n| Name |\n| --- |\n| F. J. Pereira |\n| B. T. Kindersby |\n| E. L. Woodin |\n| Frederick Stewart |\n| A. B. Power |\n| M. Ruttunjee |\n| B. Muncherjee |\n| F. Noble |\n| H. Cohen |\n| Jno. Trisby |\n| Alfred E. Rosenthal |\n| L. Moore |\n| M. Moore |\n| W. M. Morgan |\n| G. Falconer |\n| H. J. Holmes |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-087 - Sir Robinson - 1862 [7] & Acting Governor Mercer - 1862 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 254573, "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": "CO129-088 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1862 [10-12]", "page_number": 205, "title": "CO129-088 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1862 [10-12]", "content_text": "# \n1 to Mr Mercer \nThe Duke of Newcastle. \nNo 84. \nReceived 2. F. Parker \nrecognition of Mr \nReporting provisional \nAs \nHongkong for Russia at \nActing Vice Consul \n'' \nNo85. \nFinancial \nRECEIVED \n19 JAN \nбору \n& Treat 28 Jaur \nCommi \n116182 \nNo 2. \n1 \n1863 \n! \nHongkong, 28th November, 1862. \n\nMy Lord Duke, \n\nI have the honor to enclose copy of a letter from Captain Brine, Royal Engineers, Commandant of the Hongkong Volunteers, together with the Acting Colonial Secretary's reply thereto, and I have to ask Your Grace's sanction of Captain Brine's application. \n\n2. \nI am of opinion that this Volunteer movement should be supported in Hongkong. \nHis Grace \nThe Duke of Newcastle, K.G...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-088 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1862 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 255584, "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": "CO129-090 - Public Offices & Others - 1862", "page_number": 296, "title": "CO129-090 - Public Offices & Others - 1862", "content_text": "# Address Presented to Sir Hercules G. R. Robinson\n\nAddress presented to His Excellency SIR HERCULES G. R. ROBINSON upon the eve of his departure from the Colony, on leave of absence, by the Volunteer Corps.\n\n## TO HIS EXCELLENCY SIR HERCULES G. R. ROBINSON\n\nGovernor of Hongkong, &c., &c.\n\nWe, the undersigned, Officers, Non-Commissioned Officers, and Members of the Corps of \"**HONGKONG VOLUNTEERS**,\" beg to tender to Your Excellency on your departure to England the expression of our respect and our best wishes for your safe and prosperous voyage. We desire also to express our hope that Lady Robinson and yourself may enjoy your visit to England, and return amongst us again in renewed health.\n\nVictoria, Hongkong, 11th July, 1862.\n\n## Officers\n\n| Name | Rank |\n| --- | --- |\n| Fred. Brine | Captain and Commandant |\n| Win. Kane | Captain |\n| R. B. Baker | Lieutenant |\n| Jno. Dodd | Lieutenant and Acting Adjutant |\n| f. Fraser | (absent in Shanghae) per F.B. |\n\n## Non-Commissioned Officers and Members\n\n### Serjeants\n\n| Name |\n| --- |\n| R. H. Baldwin |\n| W. Schmidt |\n| A. Cohen |\n| Albert J. Chambers |\n| W. J. Henderson |\n| J. F. Hazeland |\n\n### Corporals\n\n| Name |\n| --- |\n| Jno. Rickett, Jr. |\n| W. S. Lording |\n| F. H. Birch |\n| D. Ruttunjce |\n\n### Bombardiers\n\n| Name |\n| --- |\n| Jno. S. Lapraik |\n| Ryle Home |\n| G. Lawrence | (absent) F.B. |\n\n### Trumpeters\n\n| Name |\n| --- |\n| W. H. Tapp |\n| A. D. Ezekiel |\n| W. R. Garrett |\n\n### Gunners\n\n| Name |\n| --- |\n| F. J. Pereira |\n| B. T. Kindersby |\n| E. L. Woodin |\n| Frederick Stewart |\n| A. B. Power |\n| M. Ruttunjee |\n| B. Muncherjee |\n| F. Noble |\n| H. Cohen |\n| Jno. Trisby |\n| Alfred E. Rosenthal |\n| L. Moore |\n| M. Moore |\n| W. M. Morgan |\n| G. Falconer |\n| H. J. Holmes |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-090 - Public Offices & Others - 1862.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 256171, "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": "CO129-091 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1863 [1-3]", "page_number": 499, "title": "CO129-091 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1863 [1-3]", "content_text": "## PITURN of MILITIA, VOLUNTEERS, MILITARY POLICE, AND OTHER FORCES, (exclusive of Regular Troops) in H. M.'s Colonial Possessions.\n\n| Date of Formation | Name of Colony or Possession | Whether Militia, Volunteers, Military Police. | Designation of each Regiment or Corps | No. of Officers and Men | No. of Horses | No. of guns. | Field Artillery Corps | Average number of days in each week in the year in which they are called out for training | Remarks on Organization, Recruiting, &c. |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 1862 | Hongkong | Volunteers | Hong Kong Volunteers | 1 Captain, 3 Lieuts., 1 Sergt. Major, 4 Sergeant, 57 Rank & file | None | None | | Three days | This Return exhibits the strength of the Corps on the 31st December 1862; since then several members of the Corps have resigned, but their places have been filled up by New Recruits, and the Corps may be considered to be in a very efficient State. In January, 4 Field pieces and 1 howitzer were served out. |\n\nThe Duke of Newcastle.\n\nMy Lord,\n\n1 In closure.\n\nN74.\n\nReceived ending 31st Dec 1862.\n\nfor the half year Corps of Hongkong Volunteer\n\nTransmitting Return\n\nHong Kong\n\n1 May Volunteers Hong Kong | Cafe Comt\n\n(Signed) Wm. McLeod, Captain Commandant.\n\n(Signed) Alexander Anderson, Colonial Secretary.\n\n(Five copies) \n\nPage 483", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-091 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1863 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 256415, "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": "CO129-092 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1863 [4-6]", "page_number": 172, "title": "CO129-092 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1863 [4-6]", "content_text": "122\n\nTHE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 2ND MAY, 1863.\n\nCOURT OF SUMMARY JURISDICTION,\n\nHONGKONG.\n\nThe Court sits every Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock A.M.\n\nBy Order of the Court,\n\nH. J. HOLMES,\n\nClerk of Court.\n\nCONSTANTINE JOSEPH SMYTHE\n\nOR O'REILLY.\n\nTHE Acting Colonial Secretary will be glad to receive information respecting the above-mentioned person, who is said to have been in Hongkong in 1854, and had been previously trading at Amoy. It is stated that there is a \"Surplus property\" which the said C. J. SMYTHE or O'REILLY is entitled.\n\nIn re PANG-AH-SHENG, Contractor, deceased.\n\nTranshipment and forwarding of Cargo, with a view to the adequateness of their Policies in respect of the same.\n\nInsurance\n\nTHOS. SUTHERLAND,\n\nSuperintendent.\n\nPeninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company's Office,\n\nHongkong, 30th April, 1863.\n\nCOMPAGNIE DES SERVICES MARITIMES\n\nDES\n\nMESSAGERIES IMPERIALES.\n\nPaquebots-Poste Français.\n\nSTEAM FOR\n\nSAIGON, SINGAPORE, POINT DE GALLE, ADEN, SUEZ, ALEXANDRIA, MESSINA, MARSEILLES. ALSO,\n\nPONDICHERY, MADRAS, & CALCUTTA.\n\nNOTICE is hereby given to the next of Kin, and all other persons, to produce any Wills or Codicils of the above party, that may be in their possession, before the Supreme Court, on Saturday, the Ninth day of May, A.D. 1863; or, if none, that the next of Kin do accept or refuse Letters of Administration, failing which Letters of Administration will be granted to the Registrar of the said Court, or such other person as the Court may think fit.\n\nBy the Court,\n\nN. R. MASSON, Acting Registrar.\n\nTHE PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY's Steam-ship COLUMBIAN, Captain BEAZLEY, with Her Majesty's Mails, Passengers, Specie, and Cargo, will leave this for the above places on Wednesday the 13th May, 1863, at 2 P.M.\n\nCARGO will be received on board until 5 P.M. on the 11th May, SPECIE until Noon on the 12th May, and PARCELS until 5 P.M. on the 11th May.\n\nFor particulars regarding FREIGHT and PASSAGE, apply at the PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY's Office, Hongkong.\n\nContents and Value of Packages are required. A written declaration of the Contents and Value of the Packages for the Overland Route is required by the Egyptian Government, and must be delivered by the Shippers to the Company's Agents with the Bills of Lading, or with Parcels; and the Company do not hold themselves responsible for any Detention or Prejudice which may happen from incorrectness on such declaration. Shippers of Cargo on the Company's Black Bills of Lading are particularly requested to note the Terms and Conditions of these Bills of Lading, with reference to the same.\n\nThe Company's Steamship \"ALPHEE, Commandant BOILEVE, H.I.M.N., with Her Britannic Majesty's Mails, Passengers, Specie, and Cargo, will leave this Port for the above places, in connection:\n\nAt Alexandria, with the Company's and the Austrian Lloyds Mail Steamers for the Levant, Black Sea, Greece, Corfu, and Trieste:\n\nat Messina, with the Company's Semi-weekly Mail Steamers for Malta and all the Italian Ports:\n\nAt Marseilles, with the weekly Company's Mail Steamer for Valencia, and by Railroad to Madrid. Passengers going to London are informed that the Company will convey, free of charge, from Marseilles to London, their Baggage to the extent allowed by the regulation.\n\nCargo and Specie will be registered for London as well as for Marseilles, and accepted in transit through Marseilles for the principal places of Europe.\n\nThe Company has authority to grant Insurance on all Cargo conveyed by its Vessels, at a premium of 1 per cent upon Merchandize, and per cent on Treasure, from Hongkong to Lyons, Paris, London, and Holland, and proportionally for places this side of Suez.\n\nCargo will be received on board until 2 o'clock of the 21st of May; Specie and Parcels until 2 o'clock of the 22nd. As the Manifests of Merchandize have to be closed on the evening of the 22nd, the Shippers are requested to present their Shipping Orders before 4 P.M. of said day; for past that time, no more Bills of Lading will be delivered to them, except after the departure of the Steamer.\n\nA Written Declaration of the Contents and Value of the Packages destined beyond Suez is required by the Egyptian Government, and must be furnished by the Shippers to the Agent with the Bills of Lading; and the Company will not be responsible for any consequence or prejudice which may ensue from an incorrect declaration.\n\nFor particulars respecting Freight and Passage, apply at the Company's Office, Queen's Road.\n\nBERTOLINI,\n\nAgent.\n\nHongkong, 30th April, 1863.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nALL Persons indebted to, or having claims upon the estate of N. BOULLE, deceased, are requested to send particulars of the same to the undersigned on or before the 1st of June next.\n\nJ. P. DA COSTA, Administrator.\n\nHongkong, 21st April, 1863.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nMR. R. PETER BAZEON was admitted a Partner in our Firm, on the 1st January, 1863.\n\nALFRED WILKINSON & Co.\n\nShanghai, 18th April, 1863.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nTHE undersigned have been appointed Agents for Lloyd's at Canton and Macao.\n\nCommunications at Macao to be addressed to Mr. E. L. LANÇA, H. B. M. Consular Agent there.\n\nGILMAN & Co.\n\nHongkong, 25th April, 1863.\n\nHINDOOSTAN MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY, 1862.\n\nTHE undersigned, having been appointed Agents for the above Office in Hongkong, are prepared to grant Policies payable in Hongkong, Singapore, Penang, Calcutta, Bombay, Moulmein, and Rangoon.\n\nCARAPIET & Co., Agents.\n\nOld Bailey Street.\n\nHongkong, 9th December, 1862.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nMESSRS. ALEXANDER C. LEVYSOHN and JACOB ARNHOLD have this day been admitted Partners in our Firm.\n\nOXFORD & Co.\n\nCanton, 1st January, 1863.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nWE have this day established a branch of our Wire in Foochow.\n\nMARGESSON & Co.\n\nCanton, 1st April, 1863.\n\nCOPPER PLATE PRINTING.\n\nGENTLEMEN having their own engraved Plates can have VISITING CARDS printed on them, plain or enamelled, by applying at the Office of the undersigned,\n\nD. NORONHA.\n\nHongkong, 10th January, 1863.\n\nPrinted and Published by D. NORONHA, Printer to Hongkong Government, OSWALD'S TERRACE, WELLINGTON STREET.\n\nPage 167", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-092 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1863 [4-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 256580, "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": "CO129-092 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1863 [4-6]", "page_number": 337, "title": "CO129-092 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1863 [4-6]", "content_text": "two Briefings, on the 15th and 17th Instant; and I enclose the minutes for your N.3. Grace's information.\n\n12.\n\nI hope that the proceedings taken will meet with approval.\n\nyour Grace's\n\n13. The Gunboats in ordinary to the number of our 6 are getting their Guns on board and can be manned and made ready for sea with Soldiers and hired Seamen from the blockading fleet at 6 hours notice. The batteries, four in number (earthen) being actively thrown up, Hongkong, 2, in Kowloon side, mounting 17 heavy guns, and I have every reason to trust that through the energy of Colonel Reeves, C.B., the Commandant of the Garrison, Captain Nolloth, R.N., and Lieutenant Colonel Moody, R.E., the defences that it is in our power to make in the emergency will be ready within a very short time after the arrival of the incoming mail, or at least by the time that the \"Jamestown\" would require to reach this after receiving from this a declaration of war. I had ... that I should add that though these measures have been proposed and adopted on my responsibility the Council strongly supported the propositions, and Captain Nolloth and Colonel Moody on consultation by the Council, fully concurred\n\n14.\n\nCorrected errors and applied formatting according to the given rules:\n\n1. \"Bricetings\" -> \"Briefings\"\n2. \"humiles\" -> \"minutes\"\n3. \"oor\" -> \"our\"\n4. \"Guns on bound\" -> \"Guns on board\"\n5. \"Scammen\" -> \"Seamen\"\n6. \"brochant\" -> \"blockading\"\n7. \"(carthen)\" -> \"(earthen)\"\n8. \"Hougtong\" -> \"Hongkong\"\n9. \"huns\" -> \"guns\"\n10. \"R. St.\" -> \"R.N.\" (Royal Navy)\n11. \"R. R.\" -> \"R.E.\" (Royal Engineers)\n12. \"NA\" removed as it seems to be an OCR error or unrelated to the text.\n13. \"mensures\" -> \"measures\"\n14. \"Mail news\" seems out of place, but was left as is due to rule 7.\n15. Formatted the text into paragraphs.\n16. Added `...` to indicate a missing word.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-092 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1863 [4-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 256585, "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": "CO129-092 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1863 [4-6]", "page_number": 342, "title": "CO129-092 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1863 [4-6]", "content_text": "\" for the complete security of our future \n\nEstablishments in that island. \n\n \n\nr \n\n \n\n\" \n\nTime Extract) \n\nture Commercial \n\nWider and \n\nActing Colonial Secretary \n\n- ANTAL, SANITA PENN EIG \n\n3 A \n\n29./20. \n\n336 \n\nMinutes of the Executive Council of Hong Kong \n\nPresent. \n\nMonday, 15th June ... \n\nHis Excellency In Acting Governor. The Hon'ble The Acting Colonial Secretary The Hon'ble The Attorney General . \n\nThe Hon'ble The Commandant of the Garrison \n\nThe Council met today by special \n\nsummons \n\nThe minutes of the meeting of the \n\nInstant were read and approved. \n\nThe \n\nCaptain Nolloth, R. N., the Senior Naval \n\nOfficer \n\nwho was \n\nin \n\nattendance being ...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-092 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1863 [4-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 256588, "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": "CO129-092 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1863 [4-6]", "page_number": 345, "title": "CO129-092 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1863 [4-6]", "content_text": "Wednesday, the 17th June 1863.\n\n17\n\n339\n\nHis Excellency The Acting Governor. The Hon'ble The Acting Colonial Secretary. The Hon'ble The Attorney General.\n\nThe Hon'ble The Commandant of the Garrison.\n\nThe Council met today, pursuant to adjournment.\n\nCaptain Nolloth, R.N., Senior Naval Officer, attended the meeting.\n\nThe Minutes of Council of the 15th Instant were read and approved.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-092 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1863 [4-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 256589, "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": "CO129-092 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1863 [4-6]", "page_number": 346, "title": "CO129-092 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1863 [4-6]", "content_text": "Colonel Reeves stated that Colonel Moody was engaged in carrying the military works under his charge, and Captain Nolloth reported that the manning of the Gunboats with all was progressing actively, - adding that H.M.S. Scout would probably be in harbour before long, and then work at the Southward was completed.\n\nThe Acting Governor observed that a force of 45 men belonging to this Garrison had been told off on 4 October last for duty at Canton, but that under present appearances it was very likely they would be recalled to drill here.\n\nThe Commandant said that he had anticipated this, and 10 of the 45 had already been ordered back to Hongkong. Satisfactory progress being thus reported, the Council adjourned.\n\n(signed) W. T. Mercer, Acting Governor.\n\nRead and approved, this 22nd day of June, 1863\n\n(signed) F. d'Almada e Castro, Clerk of Council\n\nTrue Copy\n\nF. d'Almada e Castro, Clerk of Councils.\n\nPage 340\n\n \n\nwas replaced with proper nouns and spellings \nPage 340\n\n is kept as is. 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Mercer, Acting Governor.\n\nRead and approved, this 22nd day of June, 1863\n\n(signed) F. d'Almada e Castro, Clerk of Council\n\nTrue Copy\n\nF. d'Almada e Castro, Clerk of Councils.\n\nPage 340", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-092 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1863 [4-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 258761, "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": "CO129-097 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1864 [1-2] & Sir Robinson - 1864 [1-3]", "page_number": 297, "title": "CO129-097 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1864 [1-2] & Sir Robinson - 1864 [1-3]", "content_text": "the permission of\n\nportation by License\n\nex\n\nas recommended in\n\nyour\n\nletter\n\noff the\n\nthe 5th\n\nA 10.\n\nMilitary\n\n29 Fetter\n\n3627 Hong Kong\n\nREC\n\nVED\n\n18 APR\n\n1864\n\nMy Lord Duke,\n\nStoughong,\n\n29th February 1864.\n\nof March last.\n\n...\n\nI have the honor\n\nto\n\nforward\n\nletter\n\nfrom Captain\n\nBrine, Commandant of the\n\nHongkong Volunteers, enclosing the Corps' £20.- subscription from\n\nthe\n\ncurrent year to the National Rifle Association; and I have to request\n\nthat the Amount may\n\nbe\n\nhanded to the Secretary of the\n\nHis Grace\n\nThe Duke of Newcastle, K.G.,\n\n...\n\nMr.\n\nMr.\n\nCorrected version in HTML as per the instructions:\n\n1. 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Brine\n\nCaptain, & Commandant\n\nHongkong Volunteers\n\nJeune Joseph\n\nSecretary\n\n10 Hongkong, 11 May\n\n– the National Rifle Association.\n\nForwarded.\n\nF. Rogers\n\nFortesque. Cardwell\n\nthe depart\n\nSir,\n\nMay 7\n\n(1)\n\nWith reference to \n\nletter \n\nof \n\nthe 26 Ultimo, \n\nI am directed by her See: Cardwell to transmit Bill (Second \n\nof Exchange) for Twenty Pounds, being the Annual subscription of the Hongkong to the Funds of your \n\nAssociation.\n\nVolunteer\n\nSecretary.\n\nPage 300\n\nCO 129/61\n\n3627/14\n\n296\n\n11 May", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-097 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1864 [1-2] & Sir Robinson - 1864 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 258765, "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": "CO129-097 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1864 [1-2] & Sir Robinson - 1864 [1-3]", "page_number": 301, "title": "CO129-097 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1864 [1-2] & Sir Robinson - 1864 [1-3]", "content_text": "Interest \n\nSecretary \n\n10 \n\n3687 Hong Kong \n\nthe national Rifle Association. \n\nMUTL \n\nThe Edo hand 22 AFR \n\n! \n\nW. h \n\n29 \n\nIt Cose. \n\nFeb. \n\n297 \n\n26 April \n\nSir, \n\nI am directed to transmit to you a copy of a despatch from the Governor of Hong Kong forwarding a letter from the Captain Commandant of the Volunteers in that Colony, in which a medal awarded to Houghton is enclosed, together with the Annual Subscription of that Corps to the Funds of the National Rifle Association.\n\n63. I have accordingly forwarded a draft for the amount authorised.\n\nYou will observe that Capt Brine mentions the fact \n\n+ \n\nPage 29\n\n(Three lines at the top and bottom indicating \"Page 29\" are kept as is, assuming they were part of the original scan delineating page metadata, though not directly visible in this response format.)\n\nHowever, to follow the exact output format requested:\n\nInterest \n\nSecretary \n\n10 \n\n3687 Hong Kong \n\nthe national Rifle Association. \n\nMUTL \n\nThe Edo hand 22 AFR \n\n! \n\nW. h \n\n29 \n\nIt Cose. \n\nFeb. \n\n297 \n\n26 April \n\nSir, \n\nI am directed to transmit to you a copy of a despatch from the Governor of Hong Kong forwarding a letter from the Captain Commandant of the Volunteers in that Colony, in which a medal awarded to Houghton is enclosed, together with the Annual Subscription of that Corps to the Funds of the National Rifle Association.\n\n63. I have accordingly forwarded a draft for the amount authorised.\n\nYou will observe that Capt Brine mentions the fact \n\n+ \n\nPage 29\n\nbecomes simply the HTML output without the extra explanation:\n\nInterest \n\nSecretary \n\n10 \n\n3687 Hong Kong \n\nthe national Rifle Association. \n\nMUTL \n\nThe Edo hand 22 AFR \n\n! \n\nW. h \n\n29 \n\nIt Cose. \n\nFeb. \n\n297 \n\n26 April \n\nSir, \n\nI am directed to transmit to you a copy of a despatch from the Governor of Hong Kong forwarding a letter from the Captain Commandant of the Volunteers in that Colony, in which a medal awarded to Houghton is enclosed, together with the Annual Subscription of that Corps to the Funds of the National Rifle Association.\n\n63. I have accordingly forwarded a draft for the amount authorised.\n\nYou will observe that Capt Brine mentions the fact \n\n+", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-097 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1864 [1-2] & Sir Robinson - 1864 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 259655, "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": "CO129-099 - Sir Robinson - 1864 [6-8]", "page_number": 305, "title": "CO129-099 - Sir Robinson - 1864 [6-8]", "content_text": "No 652.\n\n88106423\n\nColonial Secretary to Commandant\n\n302\n\nColonial Secretary's Office.\n\nHongkong, 7th July, 1864.\n\nSir,\n\nYou are directed to forward copies of correspondence on the subject of the recent Expedition to Deep Bay.\n\nCaptain Nolloth, Senior Naval Officer, has justly complained not only of the incapacity or insincerity of the Brigadier General, who was deputed by the Chinese Provincial government to conduct the business, but of the breach committed by the Government of faith.\n\nD. B. Robertson\n\nH. B. Admiral Commanding\n\nCanton", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-099 - Sir Robinson - 1864 [6-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 259746, "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": "CO129-099 - Sir Robinson - 1864 [6-8]", "page_number": 396, "title": "CO129-099 - Sir Robinson - 1864 [6-8]", "content_text": "W 9742. Hong Kong: 392\n\nR 22 OCT 1864 No N: 127. military. CO infer - 1 Aus 15! Sii Hongkong 24th August, 1864.\n\nI have the honor to report certain promotions and appointments that have been made from time to time in the Hong Kong Volunteer Corps as follows:\n\nFrederick Brine, Toyr (Captain R. E.), Captain Commandant, 7th April, 1862.\n\nThe Right Honorable Edward Bulwer, M. P.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-099 - Sir Robinson - 1864 [6-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 259747, "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": "CO129-099 - Sir Robinson - 1864 [6-8]", "page_number": 397, "title": "CO129-099 - Sir Robinson - 1864 [6-8]", "content_text": "393\n\nJohn Dodd, logs, and Lieutenant; - 7th April 1862.\n\nDo\n\nLieutenant; 10th April 1863.\n\nHenry Cohen, Loye 2nd Lieutenant; __\n\nJohn Dodd, Sqr., Adjutant, _ int. April, 100\n\nPhilip Albert Myburgh Esq., Captain, 8th\n\n1884\n\nJohn Dodd, loge, 2nd Captain and Adjutant, 24 \"May\"\n\nHenry James Holmes, lby, Lieutenant,\n\nDuncan Davidson, Pop, 2nd Lieutenant;\n\nFrederick Brine, Esq. (Major R. E.), Lieutenant Colonel Commandant 20th July 1864.\n\nHenry Cohen, Gry, Lieutenant;\n\nAshwell Crom, Love, Captain, -\n\nWilliam James Henderson, Pop, 2nd Lieutenant\n\nM. Slut-\n\nAck: werfil\n\nL rent\n\nWhy C.R.O. J infomotor.\n\n(12th Oct bu\n\nI have the honor to be Sir\n\nYour most obedient Servant,\n\nKenneth St. George Robinson", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-099 - Sir Robinson - 1864 [6-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 260078, "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": "CO129-100 - Sir Robinson - 1864 [9]", "page_number": 287, "title": "CO129-100 - Sir Robinson - 1864 [9]", "content_text": "277\n\nto remove\n\nthe\n\nfound necessary entire Regiment to Kowloon\n\nI enclose for your perusal all the Official Reports\n\ncopies of\n\nupon the subject of the riots which\n\nhave\n\nAs\n\nyet\n\nreached\n\nfrom\n\nthe\n\nCaptain Superintendent of Police,\n\nas well as\n\nof the letters in which\n\nI transmitted these reports to the Commandant of the garrison, together with his\n\nreply.\n\nCoroner's Inquisitions\n\nFree\n\nare still\n\nsitting, and a Court of Inquiry\n\nis being held upon\n\nthe conduct\n\nof the Military in these transactions.\n\nAs usual, in cases of\n\nDisturbances\n\nin which numbers of persons\n\nare\n\nengaged at night, much contradiction and discrepancy\n\nexist in the evidence on minor\n\npoints of\n\ndetail, but certain main facts have been established beyond\n\nall dispute, and these I will relate\n\nas\n\nbriefly as possible for your\n\ninformation.\n\nOn Monday night, the 12th instant, a disturbance took\n\nplace between some Europeans and Lascar seamen originating,\n\nit is supposed,\n\nin a brothel dispute.\n\nAn attack appears to have been made by the Europeans upon a Lascar boarding house adjoining the brothel, and in the fight", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-100 - Sir Robinson - 1864 [9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 260087, "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": "CO129-100 - Sir Robinson - 1864 [9]", "page_number": 296, "title": "CO129-100 - Sir Robinson - 1864 [9]", "content_text": "Robinson\n\nThe Adjutant R. Cardwell.\n\n1 Inclosure.\n\nNo. 150\n\nReceived\n\nReporting riots by Chinese at Kowloon.\n\nRemoval of the 99th Regt. consequent upon the riot.\n\n286\n\nYoung\n\nColonial Secretary to Commandant of Garrison:\n\nThe Colonial Secretary's Offices,\n\nHong Kong, 14th September, 1864\n\nI am directed by His Excellency The Governor to forward for your information copy of a letter, just received from the Captain Superintendent of Police, on the subject of a riot which took place last night in the town, and to suggest to you, under the circumstances stated, that it appears to His Excellency advisable that you should order the 77th Regiment to be forthcoming for the present.\n\nColonch Moody, R.E.\n\nCommandant of the Garrison.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-100 - Sir Robinson - 1864 [9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 260090, "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": "CO129-100 - Sir Robinson - 1864 [9]", "page_number": 299, "title": "CO129-100 - Sir Robinson - 1864 [9]", "content_text": "Private letter.\n\n289 to Commandant of Garrison.\n\nGovernment House,\n\n15th September, 1864.\n\n7. a.m.\n\nAn inquiry into all the circumstances of the riot will at once be instituted before the Magistrates.\n\nIt is perhaps as well for me to observe that the riot originated and was conducted solely by Civilians, the Military having been at no time in any way concerned in it. I make this explanation as on enquiry made by me, not received from Major Dunne in reply to my application for the Military, he said he would send a force of two Companies but that I had better send a strong Police Force to arrest all Civilian rioters.\n\n[Signed] H. M. Quin, Captain Superintendent.\n\nI am directed by His Excellency the Governor to forward for your information a Report just received from the Captain Superintendent of Police detailing a series of disgraceful outrages perpetrated last night by a party of Her Majesty's 99th Regiment upon both the Police and the inhabitants of this town.\n\nCaptain Quin has also verbally represented to His Excellency that...\n\nThe Honorable The Commandant.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-100 - Sir Robinson - 1864 [9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 260094, "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": "CO129-100 - Sir Robinson - 1864 [9]", "page_number": 303, "title": "CO129-100 - Sir Robinson - 1864 [9]", "content_text": "293\n\nColonial Secretary to Commandant of Garrison.\n\nthat to keep the Police out of the wary ye 805. riot of this description is simply impossible.\n\nColonial Secretary's Office, Hong Kong September [?].\n\nwhen going and the inhabitants being Cartanously ill-treated.\n\n027\n\nI am directed by His Excellency the Governor to transmit for your information a letter received from Mr Whyte Magistrates, stating that on Tuesday morning he suggested to the Commanding Officer of the 59th Regiment the advisability of confining his men to the Barracks for a few days, and inclosing Major Dunn's reply to this communication.\n\nI would further respectfully suggest to His Excellency that the Military Authorities be made to enquire as to the manner in which these outrages have been dealt with by the Police, and that the crime of murder most certainly attaches to some of them and may yet be proved.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed) Wm J. Cain Captain Superintendent, H.K.P.\n\nThe Honorable Colonel Moody, R.E. Commandant of the Garrison.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-100 - Sir Robinson - 1864 [9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 260100, "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": "CO129-100 - Sir Robinson - 1864 [9]", "page_number": 309, "title": "CO129-100 - Sir Robinson - 1864 [9]", "content_text": "Colonial Secretary's Office, \n\nHong Kong, 19 August 1868 \n\nSer \n\nJam \n\nI am directed by His Excellency the Governor to transmit for your information a copy of a letter with its inclosures received from the Captain Superintendent of Police reporting divers cases of assaults committed on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday last, by soldiers of the garrison, some of whom appear to have been on sentry duty at the time, upon Police Constables on their beats, and to state observations as detailed by ... \n\nThe Honourable \n\nThe Commandant, \n\n    fo. \n\n    fo.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-100 - Sir Robinson - 1864 [9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 260108, "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": "CO129-100 - Sir Robinson - 1864 [9]", "page_number": 317, "title": "CO129-100 - Sir Robinson - 1864 [9]", "content_text": "307\n\nI have not officially acknowledged them before.\n\nThe documents consist of:\n\n1864 -\n\nActing Col Secty to Commandant 14 Sept:\n\nCaptain Quin's Police Report N°44 -\n\ncovering Captain\n\nPrivate 102.\n\nSecretary to Commandant 15 Sept\n\ncovering Captain Luis Alice Report. 17:102\n\n[Acting Colonial Secretary to Commandant 305.17&pt.]\n\nJan.\n\n1. Whyte's Report & Enclosure\n\nActing Coll Secty to Commandant No.6\n\ncovering Capt = Luins Police Report. N. 104,\n\nto report for the information of His Excellency -\n\n1. With reference to the removal of the 19th Regiment to Kowloon in consequence of the late disturbances,\n\nthe Major General Commanding the Troops at Hong Kong fully concurred in the necessity of the measure for the sake of good order, civil and Military, in Hong Kong.\n\nHis Excellency's suggestion was therefore carried out without delay, and the Regiment was removed to Kowloon in the evening (with the exception of a few men left in the Barracks for the protection of Mess and other property, and a few steady staff employed). This Guard was removed to Flagstaff House the following morning.\n\n2. With reference to the cases of rioting referred to, I have ordered a Court of Enquiry to assemble at Wardley House to inquire", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-100 - Sir Robinson - 1864 [9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 260819, "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": "CO129-103 - Others - 1864", "page_number": 46, "title": "CO129-103 - Others - 1864", "content_text": "8\n\nAdvocate-General, received a step of promotion and the honour of a C.B. for China.\n\nAt the time of Lord Gough's leaving Madras for China, he was in command of a division at that Presidency where my chief, Sir Samford Whittingham, was Commander-in-Chief, and who particularly requested Lord Gough “to look to the interests of his late Aide-de-Camp, Captain Caine, who would be found active, willing, and useful,—the latter particularly with the native troops of India, with whose language he is considered conversant.”\n\nSurely, with this strong recommendation, had I not been detained, as I have already shown, Lord Gough would have had the opportunity of serving me, and I have always considered myself hardly used in this particular instance, from not being rewarded in either department.\n\nIn April, 1847, when the then Governor, Sir John Davis, proceeded with Major-General D'Aguilar, with your Majesty's forces to Canton, I was appointed in the public gazette Acting Governor, and by the Major-General as Commandant of the garrison of Hong Kong. I commanded that garrison for seven days, and for the last two days a Major of the 42nd Madras Native Infantry was in the garrison; I exercised the necessary military control over the garrison, issued garrison orders, and superintended all its military details, having made the required measures, offensive and defensive, for meeting an enemy.\n\nMy conduct elicited the commendation of the Major-General as well as the Governor, Sir John Davis; vide this Memorial. Lieutenant-General Sir William Brereton and Colonel Clarke Kennedy, commanding the Military Train, are aware of these facts.\n\nIn June, 1854, I had to prepare the colony of Hong Kong to resist Russian invasion, much alarm existed among the inhabitants as no intelligence of any authenticity could be obtained of the whereabouts of the Russian squadron. From the senior naval officer, Captain Sir William Hoste, Bart., every possible assistance was afforded, and but for that officer's ready zeal and prompt help, I should not have been able to carry out the necessary measures for offence and defence against the enemy. I would here beg to remark that on this occasion the responsibility of the means adopted rested solely with me; these, with the necessary extra expenditure, were approved by the Secretary of State for the Colonies. Sir William Hoste, being one of your Majesty's household, might, if required, be questioned hereon. A corps of volunteers was raised, and I was unanimously elected its Colonel.\n\n9\n\n44\n\nIn November, 1856, I had to quell a grave émeute at Hong Kong, among the Chinese, some 15,000 or 20,000 having tumultuously assembled, driving away the police from their posts, stopping the markets from selling, and closing the doors of all the shops, and the multitude filling the streets. Feeling that I was well known and respected by the populace, I proceeded, with a very inefficient Chinese interpreter to address the mob, and with the presence of 100 men, from the 59th Regiment, who reached me about half-an-hour afterwards, and the willing assistance of Colonel Dunlop, Commandant of the Garrison, who kept in readiness all the troops, with artillery, the mob was awed, and by the following evening order was perfectly restored, and then the stated grievances of the populace looked into and redressed. Happily no lives were lost; but I feel it due to myself to observe, that the least hesitation on my part, or one false step, would most inevitably have led to great loss of life, and destruction of property. Upon Sir John Bowring's return the next night from Canton, his Excellency was pleased to thank me in the presence of the Secretary of the Superintendency, \"for quelling the mob, and preventing the effusion of blood in the city.\"\n\nIn 1857, the Horse Guards, through the Secretary for War, permitted me to sell out of the army, but I only received the price of my company, and though the majority was sold, its amount went to the State. The reason stated in Sir Charles Yorke's letter (as per Memorial) for the price of the Majority not being granted was, \"that I had not served as Major.\" This was to me a most grievous blow. I was then verging on my 60th year, and felt compelled to accept the offer made even in the face of having commanded the garrison of Hong Kong, in May, 1847, as a Major. Had Lord Raglan, to whom I was well known, been alive, I venture to assert that my original military services would not have been forgotten, and that the result would have been different; and this I say without prejudice to Sir Charles Yorke, or any of the Horse Guard authorities. That I received a legitimate military command over the garrison of Hong Kong, in 1847, is a fact not to be controverted; I say legitimate in consequence of the order for my doing so being from the senior military officer commanding your Majesty's troops in China, and sanctioned by the Governor and Commander-in-Chief, Sir John Davis.\n\nIn addition to my Report of April, 1847, to the Honourable the Major-General commanding in China, I now append, in further confirmation of my claim to the full amount of the Majority, a present state of the troops at Hong Kong, before", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-103 - Others - 1864.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 260821, "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": "CO129-103 - Others - 1864", "page_number": 48, "title": "CO129-103 - Others - 1864", "content_text": "PRESENT STATE of the Troops serving in the Island of Hong Kong.-Victoria, April, 1847.\n\nNon-Commissioned Officers, Rank and File.\n\nCorps and Detachments and by whom Commanded.\n\nDistribution.\n\n \n Corps\n Fit for duty\n Sick\n In confinement\n Total\n \n \n Victoria. Royal Artillery.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Victoria. Detachment, Royal Sappers and Miners. By Lieut. Lillie, 18th R. I. Regiment.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Victoria. Detachment, 18th R. I. Regiment. By Lieut. Lillie.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Fit for duty\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sick\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sick Orderlies\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Staff employ\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Acting Serjeants\n \n \n \n \n \n \n In custody of civil power\n \n \n \n \n \n \n In confinement\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Victoria. 42nd Regiment M. N. I. By Captain Burton.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Fit for duty\n 212\n \n \n 212\n \n \n Sick\n \n 9\n \n 9\n \n \n Sick Orderlies\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Regimental employ\n \n \n \n \n \n \n In confinement\n \n \n 5\n 5\n \n \n Total\n \n \n \n 226\n \n \n Havildars.\n 3\n \n \n 3\n \n \n Corporals.\n 2\n \n \n 2\n \n \n Lance Corporals.\n 5\n \n \n 5\n \n \n Naiques.\n 2\n \n \n 2\n \n \n Drummers.\n 3\n \n \n 3\n \n \n Privates.\n 100\n \n \n 100\n \n \n Stanley. Detachment, 42nd Regiment M. N. I. By Lieut. Gibbon.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Saiwan. Detachment, 42nd Regiment M. N. I. By a Havildar.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Total 42nd Regt. M. N.I.\n 212\n 9\n 5\n 226\n \n \n Grand Total\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Fit for duty\n 424\n \n \n 424\n \n \n Sick\n \n 17\n \n 17\n \n \n Sick Orderlies\n \n \n \n \n \n \n In confinement\n \n \n 13\n 13\n \n \n Total\n \n \n \n 482\n \n \n Add Troops returned from Canton on the 8th April, 1847\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Total under my Command\n \n \n \n \n \n\n(Signed) W. CAINE, Major-Commandant.\n\nPage 13\n\n46", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-103 - Others - 1864.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 260823, "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": "CO129-103 - Others - 1864", "page_number": 50, "title": "CO129-103 - Others - 1864", "content_text": "EXTRACT from General Orders by the Hon. Major-General D'Aguilar, Č.B.\n\nHead Quarters, H.M. steam-frigate \"Vulture,\"\n\noff Whampoa, April 2, 1847.\n\nWith the concurrence of his Excellency Sir John Francis Davis, Baronet, &c., the Major-General Commanding gladly avails himself of the services of the Honourable Major Caine, and appoints him Commandant of Hong Kong, during the absence of the Major-General, and the main body of the troops on service at Canton.\n\nBy order, J. BRUCE, Captain,\n\nAssistant Adjutant-General.\n\nIt will be seen by one of the documents furnished by one of our Chinese correspondents at Canton, that the population there anticipated that Hong Kong would be \"attacked and plundered\" during the absence of the fleet and the main body of the forces. The opportunity was tempting, and rumours reached Canton that it had actually been taken advantage of. Supposing them to have originated with the Chinese themselves, we were inclined to lend them an incredulous ear; but since our return, we learn that an organized attack for the purpose was really apprehended by Triads and pirates by water and land. We have no means of ascertaining whether the reports were well founded, but have endeavoured to inform ourselves of their import.\n\nIt was said that several thousands of lawless ruffians were to fall upon the town, fire the houses at several points, so as to distract attention, when the Treasury, the Bank, Spring Gardens, and Messrs. Jardine, Matheson, and Co.'s premises were to be attacked simultaneously. It was further stated that the Triads of this quarter had called upon the brethren in the adjoining districts; and many of the more peaceably disposed Chinese residents were alarmed that some danger was impending.\n\nAt Heong-Kong, south of this island, an assemblage of Triads took place; and information having been received to that effect, a body of police, under Mr. Caldwell, was dispatched, and succeeded in apprehending five persons as they were returning from the meeting, who have since, however, been discharged, on finding security for good behaviour.\n\nPage 17\n\nWe have little doubt that the reports were greatly exaggerated, and that many of them may have been utterly unfounded; but Major Caine, by making every disposition in his power, and carrying them out with the most commendable activity, seems to have effectually frustrated any hostile intentions; and, charged as he was with the civil and military government during the absence of his Excellency and the Major-General, he contrived, with the small force under his command, not only to prevent any combined attack, but to overawe the common depredators, the number of offences being unusually small during the week. Having been absent at Canton, we must depend upon the information of others as to the arrangements made at Hong Kong, but we believe the following to be a pretty correct account. A central military post of thirty men was established at Keying House, with instructions how to act in case of alarm. At Mr. Edgar's house a corporal and six men were placed to keep up communication with the naval stores and the western police station, and a similar force was posted at the Seaman's Hospital to watch the Gap, and keep clear the communication with the Eastern Stations.\n\nAt Spring Gardens there was another corporal's guard, and the men in the barracks were held to turn out at a moment's notice. Besides these military precautions, it would appear that the police arrangements were equally efficient, the force being scattered all over the town to prevent any assemblage of Chinese, and watch such suspicious persons as might be seen lurking about; a reserve was held in readiness at the Central Station; the guards at the jail and Government offices were reinforced, patrols ranging from West Point to Sookunpoo, were sent out at uncertain periods; the Government gun-boat, well armed, rowed guards all night, visiting the \"Minden\" and \"Alligator\" at intervals; and effective signals were arranged for giving the alarm, either by day or night. The military patrols were placed under the military direction of Captain Burton, whose activity is highly spoken of, and the acting Governor, we humbly think unnecessarily, in person repeatedly inspected the arrangements, both in the harbour and on shore. It was quite proper that he should see that the arrangements were made; but unless especially summoned, they might very well have been left—those on shore to the military and police officers, and those in the harbour to the marine magistrates: by all of whom the duties, so far as we can learn, were most efficiently performed. As a further precaution, the Chinese inhabitants were prohibited from stirring out between the hours of ten at night and four in the morning, and those of them who possessed arms were directed to lodge them in the police office, to be returned on the arrival of the troops from Canton.\n\nPage 48", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-103 - Others - 1864.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 260824, "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": "CO129-103 - Others - 1864", "page_number": 51, "title": "CO129-103 - Others - 1864", "content_text": "18 \n\nresult was that a great number of large and small guns, muskets, pistols, swords, and spears were thus secured, but It is, of course, have since been given back to the owners. difficult to say whether any attack on Hong Kong was seriously designed; but it is well to know that if it had been attempted, the preparations were such that it must almost certainly have failed. It is said that but for the early return of the troops from Canton, the efficiency of the acting Governor's plans might have been put to the test; in which case a committee of safety was to have been appointed, the inhabitants enrolled and told off in divisions; the women and children, with the treasure, placed in the 18th Barracks, guarded by the troops off duty (about 200 men), with guns, howitzers, and ammunition; guns from the Ordnance and men from the merchant shipping would have been placed on board the \"Minden\" and \"Alligator,\" and both vessels removed from their present anchorage, and moored, the one off the naval stores, and the other at Kellett's Island.\n\n\"Sir,\n\n(A true extract.)\n\nAssistant Adjutant-General's Office,\n\nVictoria, Hong Kong, May 3, 1847.\n\nI have the honour to acquaint you that the Major-General Commanding has had much pleasure in forwarding your military report, of the 9th ultimo, to his Grace the Commander-in-Chief, and that in so doing he did not fail to express his acknowledgments of the services rendered by you, whilst in temporary command of this garrison during the recent operations at Canton.'\n\nI have the honour, &c. (Signed) JOHN BRUCE, Captain,\n\nAssistant Adjutant-General.\n\nHon. Major Caine, Colonial Secretary, Victoria.\n\nEXTRACT of Despatch 41 of April 19, 1847, from Governor Sir John Davis to the Earl Grey.\n\n\"The Major-General's report will put your Lordship in possession of the military details of our short expedition of seven days, and I have only to add that the able dispositions of Major Caine, who was Acting Governor and Commandant in my absence, ensured the safety and tranquillity of the colony.\"\n\nTrue copies.\n\n19 \n\nCOPY of a PETITION from the Chinese Inhabitants of Hong Kong, to the Governor, Sir John Davis, Bart.-July, 1845.\n\n\"A respectful petition from all the shopkeepers and inhabitants of the colony of Hong Kong, who supplicate that a good ruler may be retained by the Government, and beg that this favour be granted.\n\nThe benevolent government of his Honour Major Caine has existed since the opening of this port, and widely extended to the mercantile classes, so that they enjoyed their property. He has shown favours and inspired awe, and the robbers have found him like a thunderbolt, while his soothing influence and conciliatory conduct have brought back the days of \"lang\" and \"Zu\" (“Zu,\" or of \"Zuon\" and \"Thuu\" the two great patriarchs of the Chinese nation). He looked upon the people in no other light than his children. civil and military capacity he has, by his transforming influences, brought on a regeneration. We now hear that his Honour Major Caine will very soon be honourably promoted, and we shall then have none to whom to look up for assistance. We, your subjects, therefore now appear before you, with the utmost sincerity and truthfulness, to make known the previous favours enjoyed, humbly hoping that the high authorities may condescend to regard our foolish wishes, and permit him to retain his control, that we may for ever praise his lenient rule. We thus, creeping in our blindness, represent this, leaving it to you to determine whether our request is proper. With this petition we repair before his Excellency Governor Davis, beseeching the favour that it may be granted.\n\nYaheze year, 6th month, or July, 1845.”\n\nTrue translation. (Signed) CHAS. GUTZLAFF,\n\nChinese Secretary.\n\nFrom all the Wards of Hong Kong and Chinese Inhabitants, bearing 115 Seals of Shops and Firms.\n\n2nd PETITION.\n\nHong Kong, July 1845. \"The duly prepared petition of the shopkeepers and other inhabitants of the wards of \"Shengwan,\" \"Chingwan,\" and \"Hea Wan\" (three Eastern Districts)---\n\nBeseeching for a continuation of virtuous administration of the laws, and that the office of chief magistrate be occupied as heretofore, which they pray may be graciously granted.\n\nWhereas your petitioners, since the establishment of this settlement, have gratefully enjoyed the extensive diffusion of \n\nPage 49", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-103 - Others - 1864.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 260839, "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": "CO129-103 - Others - 1864", "page_number": 66, "title": "CO129-103 - Others - 1864", "content_text": "43\n\n1:\n\nSCHEDULE of Inclosures to Despatch No. 96, of 20th May, 1859, from Colonel Caine to Sir E. B. Lytton, Bart.\n\n1. Statement showing age, length of service, and actual salary of Colonel Caine, as also the amount of his contributions to the Superannuation Fund.\n\n2. Letter from Mr. Morrison, Secretary to Superintendency, to Captain Caine, stating that the Chief Superintendent declines to allow him to quit Hong Kong to command his company in the operations against Canton.\n\nMay 22, 1841.\n\n3. Letter from Sir Henry Pottinger to Lord Fitzroy Somerset, recommending Brevet-Major Caine for an unattached Majority\n\nOctober 26, 1844.\n\n4. Extract from General Orders by Major-General D'Aguilar, appointing Major Caine Commandant of Hong Kong.\n\nApril 2, 1847.\n\n5. Letter from the Assistant Adjutant-General at Hong Kong, conveying to Major Caine the acknowledgment of Major-General D'Aguilar for his services whilst in temporary command of the garrison.\n\nMay 3, 1847.\n\n[Note—This proves that though not a Regimental Major, yet, as the Commandant of this garrison, I did perform military duty. The garrison orders, moreover, were issued in my name.—M. CAINE.]\n\n6. Schedule of Major Caine's services from November, 1813, to April, 1847.\n\n7. Letter from Colonel Edwards, 17th Foot, to Colonel McCombe, commanding 14th Foot, bearing testimony to the intelligence, zeal and activity of Lieutenant W. Caine, and to his gallantry at the attack of Jutguh and at the storming of the heights of Jhubbulpoor,\n\nMay 3, 1822.\n\n8. Letter from Colonel Edwards, 14th Foot, to Major-General Sir H. Taylor, bearing testimony to the conduct of Lieutenant W. Caine as a zealous, active, and meritorious officer.\n\nSeptember 18, 1825.\n\n9. Letter from Colonel McCombe to Major-General Sir Herbert Taylor, recommending in strong terms a Memorial from Lieutenant W. Caine to his Royal Highness the Commander-in-Chief.\n\nSeptember 18, 1823.\n\n49\n\n10. Letter from Major-General Sir Thomas Regnell to Colonel Stewart, congratulating him on the appointment of Lieutenant W. Caine to his regiment.\n\nOctober 1, 1826.\n\n11. Letter from Colonel McCombe, 14th Foot, to Lieutenant W. Caine, bearing testimony to his merits and distinguished services.\n\nDecember, 29, 1826.\n\n12. Letter from Major-General Sir Samford Whittingham to Viscount Combermere, reporting the gallant conduct of Lieutenant Caine at the assault of Bhurtpoor, on the 18th January, 1826.\n\nNovember 26, 1827.\n\n13. Extract from Sir John Davis's despatch, marked \"Separate and confidential,\" of 21st November, 1846, recommending Major Caine for the office of Colonial Secretary of Hong Kong.\n\n14. Extract from Sir John Davis's despatch, marked \"Separate and confidential,\" of 27th November, 1846, regarding Major Caine's fitness for the office of Colonial Secretary of Hong Kong.\n\n15. Extract from Sir George Bonham's despatch, marked \"Separate,\" of 29th October, 1850, submitting Major Caine's application to retire from his post of Colonial Secretary of Hong Kong, at the end of 1851.\n\n16. Extract from Sir George Gray's despatch, \"Military,\" No. 2, of 11th October, 1854, to Sir John Bowring, approving measures adopted by Colonel Caine for the protection of Hong Kong, in June, 1854, against Russian aggression.\n\n17. Copy of Sir Edward B. Lytton's despatch, No. 43, of the 1st October, 1858, to Sir John Bowring, bearing testimony to the services of Colonel Caine during his long connexion with the Government of Hong Kong.\n\n18. Copy of letter from Sir Charles Yorke, Military Secretary to His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, on the subject of Colonel Caine's desire to realize the value of his commission, but granting only the value of the company.\n\nMay 18, 1857\n\n19. Hong Kong. Memorandum of Land Sales, from 13th April, 1854, to 30th June, 1855.\n\nW. T. MERCER,\n\nColonial Secretary.\n\nE\n\n64\n\n7", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-103 - Others - 1864.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 260841, "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": "CO129-103 - Others - 1864", "page_number": 68, "title": "CO129-103 - Others - 1864", "content_text": "53\n\n52\n\nI am sure I need not say more to induce His Grace the Duke of Wellington to look as favourably as may be consistent with the rules of the service on Major Caine's claims; I will therefore only add, that this recommendation in favour of that officer springs from the purest public motives, and from the sense I must ever cherish of the assistance I derived from him in the complicated and difficult position in which I was placed in China.\n\nLieutenant-General\n\nI have, &c. (Signed) HENRY POTTINGER.\n\nThe Lord Fitzroy Somerset, K.C.B., &c.\n\nTrue copy.\n\n(Signed) W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.\n\n4.\n\nEXTRACT from General Orders by the Honourable Major-General D'Aguilar, C.B., Commanding the Troops in China.\n\nApril 2, 1847.\n\nWith the concurrence of his Excellency Sir John Francis Davis, Bart., &c., the Major-General Commanding, gladly avails himself of the services of the Honourable Major Caine, and appoints him commandant of the garrison of Hong Kong, during the absence of the Major-General and the main body of the troops on service at Canton.\n\nTrue extract.\n\nBy order,\n\n(Signed) J. BRUCE, Captain,\n\nAssistant Adjutant-General. J. CLARK KENNEDY, Captain,\n\nOfficiating Assistant Adjt.-General.\n\nTrue extract.\n\n(Signed)\n\n(Signed)\n\nCopy, No. 687.\n\nSir\n\nW. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.\n\n5.\n\nAssistant Adjt.-General's Office,\n\nVictoria, Hong Kong, May 3, 1847.\n\nI have the honour to acquaint you, that the Major-General Commanding has had much pleasure in forwarding your military report of the 9th ultimo, to his Grace the Commander-in-Chief, and that in so doing he did not fail to express his acknowledgments of the services rendered by you whilst in temporary command of the garrison during the recent operations at Canton.\n\nHon. Major Caine,\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed) J. BRUCE, Captain,\n\nAssistant Adjt.-General.\n\nColonial Secretary, Victoria.\n\nTrue copy\n\nW. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.\n\n SCHEDULE of Major Caine's services.\n\n66\n\nMajor Caine entered the service in November, 1813, was employed in the Nepaul War of 1814 and 1815, and in action with the enemy at Jeetgurh on the 3rd January, 1815, when in the Light Company of the 17th Foot; was in the war of the Dekhan in 1817 and 1818, and engaged with the enemy at Jhubbulpoor on the 19th December, 1817, when he planted the regimental colour of his regiment, and destroyed in single combat the Arab Chief commanding on the Mussulman Saint's Tomb at Jubbulpoor; present during the siege of Bhurtpoor, when he volunteered the forlorn hope, and was wounded in the assault whilst carrying the enemy's guns:- Major Caine had the good fortune to destroy three of the enemy on this occasion to whom he was singly opposed; commanded the Grenadier company of the Cameronians at the capture of Chusan, 5th July, 1840. Major Caine has filled the various appointments of Regimental Judge Advocate, of Adjutant and of Major of Brigade at Bhurtpoor, as well as that of Major of Brigade at Meerut, and Deputy Judge Advocate General of that division. Whilst in the 14th Regiment had the honour of being Aide-de-Camp for six years and a half to his ever to be lamented chief the late Sir Samford Whittingham; Aide-de-Camp for one year to the late Major-General the Honourable John Ramsay, and appointed by the British Government in India as Aide-de-Camp to his Royal Highness Prince Henry of the Netherlands, with whom Major Caine continued during the sojourn of His Royal Highness in the Bengal Presidency in 1838. Major Caine was also nominated in General Orders Brigade Major to the late (then Brigadier) General Oglander, in the Shekawatty force in 1834, and performed the duties of Aide-de-Camp to that deeply regretted officer from February, 1839,\n\nG\n\nI\n\n·P.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-103 - Others - 1864.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 260842, "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": "CO129-103 - Others - 1864", "page_number": 69, "title": "CO129-103 - Others - 1864", "content_text": "54\n\nuntil the arrival of the China Expedition at Singapore in June, 1840, where he joined his regiment. Two days after the first capture of Chusan he was appointed British Commissioner, and about three weeks afterwards Chief Magistrate of the Island of Chusan, which situation he filled until the following February on the evacuation of the island by the British troops. Major Caine was accidentally in command of the Cameronian Regiment for a few days in Canton River, when the Lieutenant-Colonel (James) had proceeded with the Commander-in-Chief to Whampoa in March, 1841. In May, 1841, Major Caine was nominated to the appointment of Chief Magistrate of Hong Kong. When the force went against Canton in 1841, Major Caine begged Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary to be permitted to join his regiment, but was refused. (Vide letter No. 131, dated 22nd May, 1841, from the Secretary to Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary, herewith attached.) In September, 1843, was appointed Member of Council in this colony. In November, 1844, obtained through the kindness of his Grace the Duke of Wellington, on Sir Henry Pottinger's application, an unattached majority. In November, 1846, promoted to Colonial Secretary and Auditor General. In April, 1847, when the expedition went against Canton, was left here in charge of the colony, as well as being Commandant of the garrison.\n\nEntered the service as Volunteer, 17th Foot, 8th November, 1813.\n\nEnsign, 17th Foot, 6th July, 1814. Lieutenant, 12th April, 1819.\n\nExchanged to 14th Foot, April, 1822.\n\nRemoved to 3rd Buffs on application, 16th March, 1826. Captain, 41st Foot, 9th December, 1827.\n\nExchanged 26th Foot, October, 1834.\n\nMajor by Brevet, 9th November, 1841. Major Unattached, November, 1844.\n\nLieutenant-Colonel by Brevet, November, 1851.\n\n(Signed)\n\n\"My dear Colonel,\n\nTrue copy.\n\nW. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.\n\n7\n\nBurhampoor, May 3, 1822. This has for its object the introduction to your favourable notice of Lieutenant W. Caine, lately exchanged from the 17th to the 14th Foot. During the time I have commanded the 17th, I have found him a most intelligent and zealous\n\n53\n\nofficer. He has been in the Light Company for three years, and has always proved an active smart officer; indeed, he has generally commanded the company, and finding him so useful in that charge, I have not taken his wings from him when his turn came to command a battalion company, but gave him, as his right, the payment of the right centre, and the command and general management of his own company, the captain of which being sick; though with the regiment, of course drew the command allowance, consequently all the labour and responsibility fell to Lieutenant Caine, and therefore all the merit. I have never had the honour of being on service with the 17th, but the old officers tell me that Caine, as a volunteer in the Nepal war, at the attack of Jeetgurh, on the 3rd of January 1815, distinguished himself by bringing off all the ammunition which had been abandoned by the native detachments; that such had been made known by the late Major-General Hardyman to the Marquis of Hastings, who instantly rewarded our young friend with an Ensigncy, antedated ten months, to give him rank. Caine carried the regimental colour at the storming of the heights of Jhubbulpoor, and was the first officer of the right wing who made a lodgement on the Saint's Tomb, where in the teeth of the Arabs he planted his colour, aided by one colour serjeant and seven men. He there had a personal contest with the Arab Chief, whom he shot. I mention these particulars to insure Caine your protection, as he is a fine young fellow, who will (opportunity offering) distinguish himself, and be a credit to his regiment. You will find him well acquainted with the native language, and always willing to make himself useful. In manners and conduct, he is very gentlemanlike, and his departure from the regiment (in which he has been since he was three years of age) is productive of sincere regret to his brother officers.\"\n\nVery sincerely yours,\n\n(Signed)\n\nColonel J. McCombe, Commanding 14th Foot, Meerut.\n\n\"My dear Sir,\n\nW. T. EDWARDS,\n\nColonel 17th Foot.\n\nTrue copy\n\nW. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.\n\nMeerut, September 18, 1825. With the permission of Colonel McCombe, Commanding the 14th Regiment, I have the honour thus to give testimony\n\n67", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-103 - Others - 1864.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 261444, "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": "CO129-104 - Sir Robinson - 1865 [1-3] & Acting Governor Mercer - 1865 [3-4]", "page_number": 143, "title": "CO129-104 - Sir Robinson - 1865 [1-3] & Acting Governor Mercer - 1865 [3-4]", "content_text": "## \n\n**140**\n\n\"Captain and Brevet Major John Guillum Scott, 22nd Bombay Native Infantry, to be Lieutenant Colonel Commandant.\n\n\"H.E. Brigadier Viscount Gough, ordered home, and in consideration of his services permitted to retain his rank in the Corps and the uniform.\n\n\"Henry John Howard Tripp, Esquire, Gunner Hong Kong Volunteers and Extra Aide-de-Camp to His Excellency The Governor, to be 2nd Captain and Adjutant, vice Dodd who resigns the Adjutancy only and is placed on the Supernumerary List of his rank.\n\n\"Cranford Davidson Kerr, Esquire, Private Hong Kong Volunteers, to be Extra Aide-de-Camp to His Excellency The Governor, vice Tripp who resigns the Extra A.D.C. only appointment and is appointed 2nd Captain and Adjutant.\n\n\"Memo\"\n\n\"His Excellency The Governor has been pleased to accept the resignation of the Commission only held in the Hong Kong Volunteers by 2nd Lieutenant Duncan Davidson, Artillery Company\"\n\n\"First Lieutenant H.C. Coken to be Captain, vice Myburgh, resigned.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-104 - Sir Robinson - 1865 [1-3] & Acting Governor Mercer - 1865 [3-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 265685, "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": "CO129-113 - MacDonnell - 1866 [5-6]", "page_number": 155, "title": "CO129-113 - MacDonnell - 1866 [5-6]", "content_text": "## Hong Kong Volunteers Resignation of Commissioned Officers and Disbandment of the Corps reported\n\n**No. 43**\n\nHong Kong, May 18th, 1866.\n\nSir,\n\nI have the honor to enclose a communication from the Officers of Hong Kong Volunteers, which I beg to request you will be pleased to lay before His Excellency the Governor.\n\nI have, &c.,\n\n(Signed) K. Cohen,\nCaptain and Acting Commandant.\n\nThe Honorable \nM. J. Mercer, \nColonial Secretary, \nHong Kong.\n\nIn `7004/14150`\n\nCopy.\n\nSir Richard Graves MacDonnell \nRight Honorable \nEdward Cardwell, M.P.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-113 - MacDonnell - 1866 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 265688, "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": "CO129-113 - MacDonnell - 1866 [5-6]", "page_number": 158, "title": "CO129-113 - MacDonnell - 1866 [5-6]", "content_text": "## GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.\n\nNo. 81.\n\nIn obedience to a requisition from the Commander-in-Chief, His Excellency SIR RICHARD GRAVES MACDONNELL, C.B., Governor is pleased to accept the resignation of their Commissions in the Hongkong Volunteer Corps, from the 31st instant, by the following Officers, viz.:\n\n| Rank | Name |\n| --- | --- |\n| Captain and Acting Commandant | H. COHEN |\n| Captain and Adjutant | H. J. H. TRIPP |\n| Lieutenant | T. G. LINSTEAD |\n| 2nd Lieutenant | F. I. HAZELAND |\n\nUnder the circumstances His Excellency is also pleased to order the disbandment of the Corps from the above date.\n\nHis Excellency however cannot allow this notice of the disbandment of the Volunteer Corps to go forth to the Public without assuring the Officers and Members of that Corps, who have given so much time to its formation, and who at one period had rendered it so efficient, that His Excellency thoroughly appreciates the zeal and patriotic spirit by which they were animated. He further considers that the Community is under special obligations to those gentlemen and to all who in a similar manner expend their time, exertions and money for objects so essentially Public.\n\nHis Excellency greatly regrets that any circumstances should have brought to a close exertions so laudable, but in justice to this Community he must express his belief that the spirit which originated the Volunteer movement would be found to exist fresher and stronger than before, if any real and urgent necessity were to arise for defending, by force of arms, the rights of the Crown, or maintaining the supremacy of the Law in this Colony.\n\nThe Hongkong Volunteers would doubtless in such emergency come to the front again more numerous and efficient than ever.\n\nBy Command,\n\n**Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 22nd May, 1866.**\n\nW. T. MERCER, **Colonial Secretary**.\n\nEnclosure No.1 in Governor Sir Richard Graves MacDonnell's Despatch `1843` of 28th May, `1866`.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-113 - MacDonnell - 1866 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 267471, "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": "CO129-116 - Sir MacDonnell - 1866 [11-12]", "page_number": 416, "title": "CO129-116 - Sir MacDonnell - 1866 [11-12]", "content_text": "In moving about the Harbor he will observe if any of the European vessels, &c., are out of place, or have their cables foul, directing them to move or clear hawse as the case may require.\n\nHe will encourage the Masters of Junks to take out Licenses informing them that their vessels must come round to Victoria to be registered.\n\nDirections for the Boarding Officers.\n\nThe Harbor, in reference to Boarding Vessels coming in, is divided into two Divisions, Eastern and Western, the line is to be one drawn from this Office to the N. W. boundary of Kowloon. They will take weekly turns with each division. On Sundays, after the morning report is completed one officer, in rotation, may have the remainder of the day to himself, the other is to continue on duty. At 9 A.M., 1.30 and 4 P.M., any intelligence that has been gathered is to be given to the Coolie in attendance, the former for the Morning and the latter for the Evening Papers, respectively as has been hitherto usual. Vessels arriving between that hour and Sunset are to be boarded on arrival. Lists of the ships in Port are to be kept corrected daily, a list of all arrivals and departures since the sailing of the previous European Mail is to be made out for the Editors corrected up to the day previous to the departure of the outgoing Mail. On the arrival of any steamers with Mails on board whether day or night they are to be boarded if between 4 A.M. and 10 A.M. by both Officers, the West division Officer will collect the reports, list of Passengers, &c. for His Excellency the Governor, the other one will receive and land without delay the parcels of \"Straits' Times\" and \"China Express.\" If between 10 P.M. and 4 A.M. the West Division Officer will do both duties. In the event of there being no letters or papers for the local journals a report of her arrival is to be sent to them. Men of War are to be boarded by the Officer in whose division they may anchor. As the Gun-boats are much alike in appearance a correct account of the number in Port on each evening must be borne in mind, that in the morning no mistake shall be made as to an arrival during the previous night. All Gun-boats are to be boarded on anchoring and any intelligence which they may bring is to be carefully noted.\n\nThey will board every Vessel arriving within the limits of their respective Divisions of the harbor, if the vessels' number is not up it is to be hoisted and remain so until the Captain shall have reported himself at this Office. A copy of the Harbor Regulations is to be given to each ship. A proper berth is to be pointed out for the ship to moor in, observing that, except in very few cases, Merchant Vessels are not allowed to anchor on the Men of War ground. They will report any Vessels shifting berth without permission and the Masters of any having a foul hawse are to be requested to clear their chains. Vessels clearing out are to be boarded to see that none are fitted without sanction for the carriage of Chinese Passengers, acquainting me with the result. They will take special care that the Steamer's Fairway is kept clear and that all the Buoys in the Harbor are kept in their places and properly painted. They are to come to me for orders at 10 A.M., 1 P.M. and 4 P.M. unless from circumstances they are unable to do so. At 7 P.M. a report, to be made out by the West Division Officer, is to be sent to me of all Vessels arrived or sailed during the day, this will be returned and it is to form the original report for the following morning, after filling in arrivals and departures during the interval. On boarding Vessels enquiries are to be made as to the state of Health of the Passengers and Crew, if there is small Pox or other infectious disease, the Quarantine Flag is to be hoisted and the Master is to be told not to communicate with the shore but is to await orders from me. Ships having Powder on board are not to anchor in the vicinity of other Vessels until the Powder is stored, special report of such Vessels arriving is to be made. A special report also to be made of any Chinese Passengers arriving at this Port.\n\nOn boarding newly arrived Vessels they are to gather what news they can such as weather, Vessels fallen in with, places touched at, and any other intelligence which it is important that the Government should be acquainted with. In the case of Mail Steamers, dates of leaving Suez, Galle and Singapore. With respect to other Vessels the date at which last place touched at should be noted. Immediate report of the arrivals of all Men of War, including all Gun Boats, is to be made to His Excellency the Governor and to myself. The Commandant of the Garrison to have foreign Vessels only reported to him. After Office hours these reports are to be sent to the residences respectively. They will find out from Masters of ships arriving from Ports in China or Manila if they have destitute seamen on board and if they have, from what Port and by whose order they were shipped, making immediate report to me of the circumstance.\n\nAs each wears a uniform by which he is recognized as an Officer of this Government, I must impress on them the necessity of preserving a respectful and proper bearing towards all those with whom they may come in contact.\n\nOn finding any unlicensed Junk at anchor at any other place than the \"Junk Anchorage,\" they will immediately seize and give her into the Custody of the Police. During the day they will each board at least Ten Junks making an entry in the book supplied for that purpose.\n\nDuties of Officers in Charge of Harbor Master's Stations.\n\nTo board all Junks arriving at the Station and twice during each day, and twice during the night in each week at uncertain times to visit the \"Junk Anchorage\" demanding to see the \"Anchorage Passes\" of at least Ten Vessels on each occasion and to satisfy themselves generally that there has been no breach of the Law.\n\nTo bear in mind that any unlicensed Junk anchoring in the Waters of Hongkong at any place other than a \"Junk Anchorage\" is strictly prohibited, and any Master of a Vessel infringing this Law is with his Vessel to be detained until the usual visit of the Harbor Master or his Assistant.\n\nGreat care is to be taken to enter in the Register all the particulars required by Section XI of the Ordinance; Licensed Fishing Boats and Special Permit License Boats are not required to report on arrival, but these Vessels are to be frequently boarded to see that they do not engage in any other business than that for which their Licenses are issued, and any Vessel found doing so is to be detained.\n\nTo be very careful of the Custody of \"Anchorage Passes,” “Special Permits,” and “Clearances.” As they will be supplied and their value charged to the Station, at the end of the month those remaining, and those soiled (which must be produced) together with the \"Receipt of Fees Book\" will be required to agree with the Number in charge or the deficiency will be an imprest against the pay of the Officer at fault.\n\nAll Junks, except Special Permit Licensed Junks and Licensed Fishing Boats, must have \"Anchorage Passes.”\n\n'Special Permits\" may be granted to unlicensed Junks for certain purposes such as going to wharfs to discharge or take in Cargo, to haul up for cleansing the Boats' bottoms, or undergoing repairs, or for any other good reason which the Master may give rendering his removal from the \"Anchorage for Junks\" necessary.\n\nNo Junks except Special Permit Licensed Junks and Licensed Fishing Boats are to leave the Stations without either a \"Day\" or Night Clearance;\" when the former is applied for it is only to be given in exchange for the \"Anchorage Pass\" (issued at the Station from which the Clearance is demanded) and should the Master of a Vessel be unable to produce one, she is immediately to be given into the Custody of the Police. The same Rule is to apply to \"Night Clearances,\" but in addition the Master is to be narrowly examined as to his reasons for desiring to leave the Station after dark and unless they are satisfactory the \"Night Clearance\" is to be withheld. No Junk whatever is to proceed to Sea during the prohibited hours without a Night Clearance\" for which the proper fee is to be paid.\n\nIn the case of applications for Licenses, the Applicants are to be desired to convey their Junks to Victoria and the Masters thereof must appear at this Office.\n\nThe Officer at Sowkewan will visit Sy-wan Bay once a week, and any Vessel, other than Special Licensed Boat or a Licensed Fishing Boat, found at anchor is to be seized.\n\nThe Officer at Stanley will visit the Creek at the head of Tytam Bay and West or Sogcow Bay once a week, and any Vessel found at anchor, other than a Special Permit Licensed Boat or a Licensed Fishing Boat, is to be seized.\n\nThe Officer at Aberdeen will visit Deep Water and Repulse Bays once a week, and any Vessel found at anchor, other than a Special Permit Licensed Boat or a Licensed Fishing Boat, is to be seized.\n\nDuties of Inspector and Assistant Inspectors of Junks and Cargo Boats.\n\nTo be up at Gun fire and report their presence to the Assistant Harbor Master and to execute whatever orders he may give; to board all Junks seen to be coming in and make entries in the Book supplied for that purpose; of the Junks at anchor to board at least Twenty each day and see that all ...\n\nNo Officer to tout for any Tavern, Boarding House, or Store.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-116 - Sir MacDonnell - 1866 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 271485, "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": "CO129-126 - Sir MacDonnell - 1867 [11-12]", "page_number": 45, "title": "CO129-126 - Sir MacDonnell - 1867 [11-12]", "content_text": "## Q. 4.\n\nIn every such case Noppel could perhaps be placed as captain of a man-of-war of Western nationality? I have it argued W. B. T. Eväher, Commanding H.M.M. Hava Station, p.\n\n(Copy)\n\nDivision Navale de l'Extrême-Orient \nCommandant en Chef.\n\n\"Chefoo, \nle 18 Juillet, 189...\n\nMonsieur l'Amiral,\n\nJ'ai eu l'honneur de recevoir votre lettre \nMe 2 du mois dernier.\n\nAprès m'avoir rappelé que nos Gouvernements respectifs ont décidé qu'ils continueraient leur efforts pour arriver à la suppression des pirateries dans les eaux de la Chine, vous me faites l'honneur de me...\n\nA Monsieur l'Amiral Harry Rawpel, \nCommandant en Chef les Forces de la Marine Britanniques, en Chine.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-126 - Sir MacDonnell - 1867 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 277181, "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": "CO129-135 - Public Offices & Others - 1868", "page_number": 481, "title": "CO129-135 - Public Offices & Others - 1868", "content_text": "478\n\nproportion may\n\nbe fairly fixed at the\n\nor at the rate\n\nof\n\n£18. 10.9\n\nper bed as per\n\nbe\n\nmay\n\n64\n\nsame rate for each; and that this fixed at one quarter thus leaving half to be defrayed the Colony, in consideration\n\nof the benefit to be derived by it from the\n\nproposed 2nd\n\nmeasure.\n\nThat the Inspection, to be effectual\n\nshould be extended to all women in brothels, whether licensed to admit\n\nEuropeans\n\nor Chinese only; the number..\n\nof these being stated by the Registrar General to be, Houses licensed for Europeans only 40 containing 284 women, Houses for Chinese 134 containing 1544\n\n3rd\n\nwomen:\n\nTaking into consideration the numbers previously under treatment at the Lock Hospital,\n\naccommodation will be required\n\nfor about 250 diseased women.\n\n4th\n\nThat the present site of the Civil and Lock Hospitals is suitable, but the\n\nbuildings at present on it are considered by\n\nCapt. Barry Royal Engineers to be so dilapidated\n\nthat repairs... a plan and\n\nestimate for a\n\nHospital drawn up by\n\nhim are attached.\n\nThat the expense of working the establishment would be £2780. 12.6 per\n\nannum as per annexed estimate.\n\nThat the Inspection of the women would\n\ncost £1075 per\n\nannum as given in the Estimate\n\nThat the expense of building and fitting up the Lock Hospital, including the value of the site, may be taken at £18,950,\n\nas shown in the two Estimates, one by the Committee,\n\nand one by Captain Barry R.E.\n\nThat the Senior Naval and Military Medical Officers at the Station be ex officio Inspecting officers, and have at all times access to the establishment in order to enable them to report to their respective departments.\n\nWe have...\n\nI. C. Faulder Colonel\n\nCommandant.\n\nR. Aeffernan M. B.\n\nDy Snr. General\n\nPrin. Med. Offr.\n\netc.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-135 - Public Offices & Others - 1868.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 277995, "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": "CO129-137 - Sir MacDonnell - 1869 [4-5]", "page_number": 9, "title": "CO129-137 - Sir MacDonnell - 1869 [4-5]", "content_text": "For 584040/boy \n\n7 \n\n# FUNERAL OF THE LATE MAJOR-GENERAL BRUNKER. \n\nOn 27th March, the remains of the late Major-General Brunker, Commander of H.M. Forces in China and Japan, and Lieutenant-Governor of Hongkong, were interred in the Cemetery at the Happy Valley, with full military honours. The procession was marshalled on the Parade Ground, and started punctually at half-past three. A field battery, in charge of Capt. Carey, commanding R.A., led the way, and then, to the solemn strains of the \"Dead March in Saul,\" the 75th Regiment moved slowly into the Queen's-road and towards the Cemetery. They were followed by the band of their regiment, and that of the 29th Native Infantry. Then came the coffin, placed upon a gun-carriage, and covered with the national ensign, the Pall bearers consisting of Colonel Gore, Commandant, Doctor Heffernan, Deputy Inspector-General of Hospitals, Colonel De Butts, Commanding R.E., Commodore Jones, R.N., the Hon. J. Gardiner Austin, and Captain Raby, R.N. Following next to them, according to a touching custom in military funerals, the General's old charger was led by two soldiers of the 75th, and immediately behind were His Excellency the Governor, Captain Maxwell, D.A.A.G., Captain Shaw D.A.Q.M.G., and Captain Thompson, A.D.C., the Chief Mourners. The members of the Executive Council came next, and after them, the 29th Regiment Native Infantry, followed by a large number of English, American and other Naval Officers, and, finally by the Civil Servants of the Colony, who were all in attendance, and a large number of private gentlemen.\n\nThe crowd at the Parade Ground was very large, and the road to the Cemetery was nearly the whole length lined with spectators. The procession slowly wended its way in time to the music, broken by the booming of the minute guns; and passing the Guard House turned to the Praya, and marched by that route to the Cemetery. The hills surrounding the Wong-nei-chong valley were covered with spectators. On reaching the Cemetery, the soldiers of both regiments were told off on either side of the road, leaning upon their reversed muskets. The remainder of the procession followed the coffin to the Chapel, while the soldiers took up their position outside the grave destined to receive the mortal remains of their late commander. The service was impressively read by the Rev. Canon Beach, assisted by the Revds. J. Piper and Kyle; and the coffin was then brought out and borne to its last resting place. As it was lowered into the grave, the men of the 75th fired three volleys, which were answered by the minute guns hard by; and the impressive ceremony being closed, the troops were marshalled, and the procession returned homewards.\n\nIn addition to those mentioned as taking part in the ceremony, a large number of persons of distinction were present, among whom were Rear Ad. Rowan U.S.N. and Capts. Roe and English U.S.N.; the Hon J. Smale, Chief-Justice of Hongkong; Sir Edmund Hornby, Chief Judge of the Supreme Court for China and Japan; Mons. Du Chesne, Consul for France, Mr. Helland, Danish Consul, and Mr. Overbeck, Austrian Consul, in their official uniforms; Mr. Pollard Q.C., Mr. Hayllar, Dr. Murray, Colonial Surgeon, and others. The 29th Regiment were under the command of Major Ritherdon, Capt. Grant, and Adjutant Prendergast. Captain-Superintendent Deane, who took command of the Police, did good service, and was ably seconded by Mr. Assistant Superintendent Creagh, who took charge of the Sikh, and by Deputy Superintendent Jarman, who was also very busy.\n\nOn Sunday the Rev. Canon Beach, in the course of his sermon at the Cathedral, made a touching allusion to the death of the late Major-General. The Revd. Gentleman observed that, although the Cathedral was not the place to eulogise the dead, he thought he would be expected to allude for one moment to the fine old man whom God had so suddenly taken from our midst. Had he lived, it was his intention to have been with the congregation that day, and to have knelt with them before the altar of God. The Rev. Gentleman had had the happiness of knowing him well, and often admiring the true Christian spirit which animated him both in his public life and also in his own family. He had been taken away in mercy, and the change to him, it could not be doubted, was most blest, as he had gone to rejoin her, whose loss bore heavily upon him, although he was too brave and too meek to murmur or complain. But we should miss his erect and venerable form in the place which he was wont to occupy in the Cathedral so regularly, and from the Eucharistic feast, which he never (when able) failed to attend and partake of. He was a good man; and, by his high and courteous bearing won the love and respect of all, and the Revd Gentleman could not allow this day to pass without paying this tribute to his memory. Thank God! although he was gone from us, we believed that he still lived; for Jesus, the Resurrection, and the Life, in whom he trusted, lives; and the remembrance of his calm and Christian life would long survive in our hearts.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-137 - Sir MacDonnell - 1869 [4-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 281078, "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": "CO129-143 - Sir MacDonnell - 1870 [1-2]", "page_number": 117, "title": "CO129-143 - Sir MacDonnell - 1870 [1-2]", "content_text": "forming it out, which, however, were not accepted. Still, as Commandant at Hong Kong, where the headquarters of the tie-boats were, and as Commandant also of one of the gunboats stationed for the purpose of enforcing the tax bay at the Kap-shui-moon, Ping Shan was in constant and necessary communication with the officials directing the levy, who found his local knowledge exceedingly useful to them.\n\nAlmost immediately after the boy had been instituted Her Majesty's Consul was astonished to see in the Han Rong journals a statement to the effect that a branch office for the boy of the Opium ton (which undertaking had been vehemently denounced in the Colony generally) had been notoriously opened in Mangthong, and simultaneously it was reported by the Captain of one of the Chinese gunboats that an European, named James Webster, recently dismissed from the police force of Hong Kong, had been stationed at the tax-office inside the Lye moon pass, for the purpose of searching junks as they passed.\n\nHer Majesty's Consul, who had time after time warned the Viceroy against coming into collision with the Hong Kong Authorities, sent me instantly to see the Viceroy.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-143 - Sir MacDonnell - 1870 [1-2].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 281960, "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": "CO129-145 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1870 [6-9]", "page_number": 87, "title": "CO129-145 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1870 [6-9]", "content_text": "## 2nd The report made by the Captain of The \"Caractacus\" to the Harbor Master: report of the Registrar General with Petition from the Juntes.\n\nI have the honor to be, \nMy Lord, \nYour Lordship's most obedient, \nhumble servant, \nWhitfield \nMajor General Commandant for me \nmade by him I ordered payment of the sum of $1700; say one thousand seven hundred dollars for conveyance of the crews of the \"Nancy\" and 19 of \"Caractacus\" from the Paracel to Amoy $1,000, and for conveyance from the latter to Whampoa $700.\n\n### Enclosure No. 3.\n\nI enclose a Memorandum of the inclosure No. 4, the amount paid, amounting in the whole to $2013: 8%, and have to request that Your Lordship will be good enough to instruct the Crown Agents to make application to the Board of Trade for re-payment.\n\nI also enclose copies of the following documents for the information of Your Lordship:- \n1. The correspondence between Vice Admiral Kellett and myself.\n\n### Enclosure No. 7", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-145 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1870 [6-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 282006, "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": "CO129-145 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1870 [6-9]", "page_number": 133, "title": "CO129-145 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1870 [6-9]", "content_text": "# The Daily Press\n## HONGKONG, JULY 6TH, 1870.\n\n### MASSACRE OF THE FRENCH CONSUL AND OTHER EUROPEANS AT TIENTSIN.\n\nThe following was issued in the form of an \"Extra,\" yesterday morning :\n\nThe steamer Nile from Shanghai arrived last night, and was to start this morning, having left that port on the morning of the 28th ultimo. Captain Wright, who at considerable trouble consented to bring the despatches down, has courteously handed us the Shanghai Courier of the 27th ultimo, which contains the following startling intelligence :~ \n\nVery serious news has reached us to-day by the Dragon. The Chinese have risen against the French. An official dispatch, the very brevity of which is a significant commentary on its contents, says that the French Consulate, the residence of the Sisters of Mercy, and the French Cathedral were burning at the time the dispatch was being written. The French Consul, (Mons. Fontanier), all the Sisters of Mercy and several other Frenchmen (Missionaries), had been murdered. The steamers Appin and Manchu were detained (well armed) to afford some protection to foreigners. Mr. Lay, H.B.M.'s Vice-Consul, was collecting all the foreigners together. \n\nIn addition to the above official information, there is a rumor that Count Rochechonart, the French Minister, and some Russians had been killed at Pekin.\n\nImmediately on the receipt of this news H.M.S. Dwarf got up steam, and Mr. Medhurst, H.B.M.'s Consul, considerately issued a circular giving those who have connections in the North an opportunity of writing by her. She left at 4 p.m. Meanwhile some degree of protection would have been afforded to the foreigners of Tientsin by H.M.S. gunboat Opossum, which started for Tientsin immediately after the Dragon arrived at Chefoo on the night of the 23rd inst. The French Gunboat Flamme leaves to-morrow morning and Messrs. Russell & Co. have placed the S.S.N.S. Shantung at the disposal of the French authorities as a transport. In view of the departure of the Dwarf, leaving the Foreign Community here without British protection, Sir Ed. Hornby, as the last commandant of the Shanghai Volunteers, has issued a circular calling on all resident members of the corps to hold themselves in readiness should their services be required. Meanwhile we have the protection of the French Gunboats Aspic and Scorpion, and the Zebra has been sent for from Nagasaki. No explanation is given of the cause or origin of these dreadful occurrences.\n\nThe steamship Nile leaves at daylight with a full cargo, including 119 bales of Silk. She goes direct to Suez, calling only at Hongkong to deliver Government despatches relating to the news of the massacre at Tientsin.\n\nCapt. Wright also reports that the greatest excitement prevails at Shanghai, in consequence of this news. There was a further rumor that the whole of the foreign Legation buildings at Pekin were in flames. The news arrived at Shanghai at 2 p.m. on the 27th instant, when the Nile was clearing for sea, and Captain Wright immediately proffered his services to the English and French Consuls to bring down the intelligence to the Senior Officer on this station. He had previously no intention of calling at Hongkong, as he was bound home with a full cargo, a large portion of which was engaged at the high freight of £6, on condition of his making the voyage in 60 days, and for the remainder he was under guarantee not to call anywhere until he reached the Red Sea. This guarantee was waived, however, in consideration of the urgency of the case, but the Nile is still to arrive in 60 days from Shanghai or to lose £1 of her freight. Under these circumstances Capt. Wright's offer to bring down the news must be thoroughly appreciated, utterly disinterested as it is, and proceeding from motives of pure courtesy and humanity. The offer was duly appreciated by the French Consul, who was politeness itself, and full of acknowledgments of Captain Wright's courtesy. The English Consul, on the other hand, was pleased to communicate with the captain through a subordinate, who was good enough to take off three from the list of four distressed seamen going home by the Nile, in consideration of the proffered service. It was impossible to do more, as the last \"distressed seaman\" remains on board to testify in mathematical language to the three-quarters-hearted kindness of British consular officers at Shanghai, in a case in which an hour's delay in delivering the despatches, which none but the Nile could take at the moment, was fraught with danger to the whole foreign community of Tientsin.\n\nOrders have gone to England for the immediate despatch of men of war.\n\n## Enclosure No. 2 in Major-General Stoneral Whitfeild's Despatch No. 447 of 6th July, 1870.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-145 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1870 [6-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 284276, "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": "CO129-149 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1871 [1-4]", "page_number": 171, "title": "CO129-149 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1871 [1-4]", "content_text": "## \n\nKowloon Station is now sharing accommodation with the Royal Engineers and Subordinate Staff who have the use of commodious dwelling quarters, with the exception of sleeping apartments, all afforded by the Military Authorities.\n\nThe matter at issue is comparatively small, but believing that I am contending for what the officer holding any post is entitled to, according to the arrangements made by Sir Richard MacDonnell, I very respectfully venture to intrude my case upon Your Lordship, and that the above-mentioned points may be deemed worthy of consideration.\n\nI have the honour to be,\nMy Lord,\nYour Lordship's obedient Servant,\nP. Creagh, Captain, Commandant of Police\n\n169", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-149 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1871 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 284799, "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": "CO129-150 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1871 [5-6]", "page_number": 243, "title": "CO129-150 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1871 [5-6]", "content_text": "## BOLETIM DA PROVINCIA\n\n### Occorrencias policiues desde 29 de abril ultimo até 6 de maio de 1871\n\nMacau, secretaria da camara, 1 de maio de 1871.\n\nPedro Marques, Secretario da camara.\n\n### PARTE NÃO OFFICIAL\n\nMACAU, 8 DE MAIO DE 1871\n\n#### ANNUNCIO PARA ARREMATAÇÃO\n\nO cónsul geral mandará, na porta do tribunal de justiça, no dia 14 de maio, às onze horas, as boticas número um, dois, três e quatro, sitas na rua das Lorchas, penhoradas em execução do agente do ministério público contra o china Avong, a quem mais der sobre a quantia de duas mil e quatrocentas patacas, preço da sua avaliação judicial.\n\n| Crimes/Contrações | Chinas |\n| --- | --- |\n| presos por ladrões | 8 |\n| por tentativa de roubo | 1 |\n| por contravenção | 2 |\n\nAppareceram mortos em diferentes pontos da cidade, oito chinas e uma criança china; os quais, depois das formalidades do costume, foram enterrados.\n\nMacau, 24 de abril de 1871.\n\nJOSÉ MARIA DA COSTA, Escrivão do juizo.\n\n#### ANNUNCIO DA REPARTIÇÃO DO JUIZO DOS ORFÃOS\n\nFaz saber que no dia 11 de maio, às 11 horas da manhã, na capitanía do porto, se adjudicará o fornecimento dos seguintes gêneros a quem por menor preço o fizer em vista das qualidades:\n\n| Gêneros | Quantidade |\n| --- | --- |\n| Azeite d'oliveira | por 100 litros |\n| Azeite de coco | por 100 litros |\n| Arroz | por 100 kilos |\n| Aguardente | por 100 litros |\n| Assucar | por 100 kilos |\n| Bacalhau ou peixe seco | por 100 kilos |\n| Café em grão | por 100 kilos |\n| Legume diverso | por 100 kilos |\n| Vacca fresca | por 100 kilos |\n| Vinho | por 100 litros |\n| Vinagre | por 100 litros |\n| Stearina | por 10 kilos |\n| Cera e velas | por 10 kilos |\n\nBordo da corveta Duque de Palmella, surto no porto de Macau, 2 de maio de 1871.\n\nJ. B. P. DA CRUZ, Escrivão encarregado da corveta Duque de Palmella.\n\n#### EDITAL\n\nO illmº e exmº senado da camara faz saber ao público que é proibido a qualquer pessoa comprar lanternas da iluminação da cidade, sob pena de ser multado em dez patacas, revertendo a terça parte da multa para o denunciante.\n\nMacau, secretaria da camara, 1 de maio de 1871.\n\nPedro Marques, Secretario da camara.\n\n#### EDITAL\n\nA commissão encarregada dos fornecimentos para a corveta Duque de Palmella convida todos os comerciantes desta cidade a apresentarem as suas propostas no dia 13 de maio do corrente ano, às 11 horas da manhã, na capitanía do porto, para fornecerem os seguintes gêneros:\n\n| Gêneros | Quantidade |\n| --- | --- |\n| Pao de gíria | ... |\n| Bote pequeno | uma |\n| Estopa alcatroada pura para calafeto | por 100 kilos |\n| Lixas de pano para a máquina | por 100 |\n| Estopa branca ou algodão para a máquina | por 100 kilos |\n| Oleo para a máquina | por 100 kilos |\n| Alcatrão | barris |\n| Cal | barricas |\n| Cabo novo para enxarcia | por 100 kilos |\n\nBordo da corveta Duque de Palmella, surto no porto de Macau, 2 de maio de 1871.\n\nJ. B. P. DA CRUZ, Escrivão encarregado da corveta Duque de Palmella.\n\n### MOVIMENTO DO PORTO DE MACAU De 1 a 7 de maio\n\n#### NAVIOS ENTRADOS\n\n1. Barca da confederação germanica do norte Herzog Ernst, capitão P. Coprad, de 288 toneladas, de Macassar, com bicho do mar e rotim.\n2. Vapor de guerra portuguez Camões, comandante o capitão tenente G. J. Ribeiro, de Hongkong, é da força de 70 cavallos, monta 2 peças.\n3. Vapor de guerra china Shen-chi, commandante C. Palmer, de Hongkong, da força de 42 cavallos, monta 5 peças.\n4. Galera Peruana Luiza Canevaro, capitão R. Demoro, de 1206 toneladas, de Hongkong em lastro.\n\n| Navios | Toneladas |\n| --- | --- |\n| Herzog Ernst | 288 |\n| Camões | ... |\n| Shen-chi | ... |\n| Luiza Canevaro | 1206 |\n\n#### NAVIOS SAHIDOS\n\n1. Barca franceza Edmond Gressie, capitão P. Picard, de 299 toneladas, para Saigon, em lastro.\n2. Galera peruana D. Juan, capitão C. Garay, de 1283 toneladas, para Callão de Lima, com 658 colonos.\n3. Vapor de guerra china Shen-chi, commandante C. Palmer, é da força de 42 cavallos, monta 6 peças.\n\nMacau, 8 de maio de 1871.\n\nJE. SCARNICHIA, Capitão do porto.\n\npudeó en el puerto del Callao el dia 25 de enero próximo passado, procedente de Acao conduciendo a su bordo seiscientos cincuenta y dos colonos chinos de los seiscientos sesenta y uno que sacó del puerto de su procedencia. Y que de los informes tomados por este consulado general resulta que fueron bien tratados los pasajeros durante el viaje; habiendo muerto de enfermedad natural solo nueve.\n\nEn fé de lo cual se expide el presente certificado en Luna, á los 10 dias del mes de febrero del año de mil ochocientos sesenta y uno.\n\nAlso Felarde.\n\nQueen's Proctor, 18 August 1871 `4/546`\n\nCopy\n\nIt will be remembered that Kwok a Sing, a Chinese prisoner, claimed that the Chinese Government had jurisdiction over him on the charge of having murdered the Captain and others on board the Nouvelle Penelope.\n\nI am directed by the Earl of Timberley to bring under your notice the proceedings that have taken place in the case, with a view to obtaining your opinion thereon.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-150 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1871 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 290003, "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": "CO129-161 - Public Offices - 1872", "page_number": 167, "title": "CO129-161 - Public Offices - 1872", "content_text": "Land Board\n\nMiscu\n\nOB\n\nmost\n\nde was He\n\nfor long not only the principal but the only Executive Officer in this colony, which at the time of its first Establishment was the resort of a mixed population, composed of all Eastern nations, and the order and security of the Colony was without doubt due to his acquaintance with Asiatics, his perfect knowledge of the Hindustani Language and the personal activity which had procured his honorable notice in his own profession. It is but just to add, that had he followed the fortunes of his Regiment, he would have been necessarily promoted some years ago;\n\nBut so necessary did Captain Elliott consider his presence at Hongkong that he refused his natural request to be at the head of his company in the operations against Canton.\n\nTrue extract\n\n2. T. Mercer,\n\nColonial Secretary.\n\nExtract of despatch 41 of April 19th, 1847, from Governor Sir John Davis to the Earl Grey.\n\n\"The Major General's report will put your Lordships in possession of the Military details of our short Expedition of seven days and I have only to add that the able dispositions of Major Caine, who was acting Governor and Commandant in my absence, Ensured the safety and tranquility of the Colony.\n\nAssistant Adjutant General's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, May 3-4, 1847\n\n162\n\nI have the honor to acquaint you that the Major General Commanding has had much pleasure in forwarding your Military report, of the 9th ultimo, to His Grace the Commander-in-Chief, and that in so doing he did not fail to express his acknowledgements of the services rendered by you, whilst in temporary command of this garrison, during the recent operations at Canton.\n\nI have the honor, &c., (Signed) John Bruce, Captain,\n\nAssistant Adjutant General.\n\nTo Major Caine,\n\nColonial Secretary, Victoria.\n\nIn December, 1857, Major Caine was permitted by Major General Sir Charles Straubenzee, K.C.B. Commanding H.M. Forces in China, to accompany him at the assault and capture of Canton, and in the General's despatch he was pleased thus to express himself to Lord Panmure, then Secretary for War:\n\nExtract\n\n\"I take this opportunity of thanking...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-161 - Public Offices - 1872.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 298021, "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": "CO129-173 - Sir Kennedy - 1876 [1-3]", "page_number": 482, "title": "CO129-173 - Sir Kennedy - 1876 [1-3]", "content_text": "766-\n\nDir,\n\n5qyqu\n\n479\n\nColonial Secretary's Office,\n\nHong Kong, 17th Nov. to 1.75.\n\nI am directed by His Excellency the Administrator to transmit to you a copy of a Memorandum from the Commanding Royal Engineer to the Captain Superintendent of Police requesting Police Aid in removing squatters from War Department lands.\n\nOn receipt of that memo., it appears that the Captain Superintendent of Police instructed Inspector Hospool to attend at the removal of the sheds.\n\nThe Honourable Colonel Bassano, C.R.E., Commandant.\n\nBy Resident Magistrate de...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-173 - Sir Kennedy - 1876 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 298811, "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": "CO129-175 - Sir Kennedy - 1876 [9-12]", "page_number": 162, "title": "CO129-175 - Sir Kennedy - 1876 [9-12]", "content_text": "The Whitby commandant\n\nby Captain kabely\n\nI have the honor\n\nto acquaint your Lordship that I am informed\n\non private, and reliable authority that\n\nthe American Consul\n\nhas telegraphed Shanghai for\n\na\n\nU.S. States Cruizer\n\nwith a view to\n\nseizing the Officers\n\nand\n\ncharged with the\n\nMurder as\n\nsoon\n\nas they are beyond\n\nColonial or\n\nChinese Waters.\n\n2 The proceedings\n\nbefore the United States Consul and\n\nNov", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-175 - Sir Kennedy - 1876 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 299393, "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": "CO129-176 - Public Offices & Others - 1876", "page_number": 232, "title": "CO129-176 - Public Offices & Others - 1876", "content_text": "2\n\nstreet is all but impassable from the depth of mud, but near the fort shingle has been strewn on the road, which is a little improvement upon the usual state of things.\n\nHaiphong is the highest point to which vessels drawing fourteen feet can ascend the Cua-cam, and for the present is the shipping port of Hanoi, the capital of the Province, which is situated upon the Songkoi or Red River, about 60 miles distant in a direct line, and 145 by the water route. From the extensive works under construction, it appears as if the French intended it to be the anchorage for foreign vessels; but the Red River, which debouches into the sea about twelve miles to the southward of the Cua-cam, is a fine stream, with a rise and fall in the freshets of from twenty-six to thirty feet, although at this season of the year it is very low; in fact it reminded me of the Yangtze Kiang, bars and sandbanks blockading its approaches from the sea. When well surveyed, I can imagine no greater existing difficulty in its navigation to Hanoi than the Yangtze offers to Hankow, and we know how well that has been overcome. I do not therefore see the utility of the works now being prosecuted at a great expense at Haiphong, but there may be reasons for it unknown to me.\n\nHaiphong is connected with Hanoi either by the River Cua-cam or by canals, the most available of which I have mentioned as having its entrance at that place. After proceeding about twenty-three miles by this route, boats turn into another canal, and, after going some seventy-seven miles, enter the main river, the Songkoi or Red River, and so on to Hanoi, distant about forty-five miles. The water in these canals at this season is very low, and rises but little with the tides of the two rivers which feed them. During the summer freshets they are deep enough for steam launches or small steamers drawing four or five feet, or perhaps more.\n\nAt Haiphong there was little to be seen and not much to be learned, for what business there is is done at the capital, Hanoi, where the natives and the Chinese merchants reside. At one time I almost despaired of being able to reach the latter, for of native passage boats there are none, decked or covered over at least, and the distance was too great to attempt it in the \"Egeria's\" small steam-cutter. I found, however, a trading steam-launch called the \"City of Whampoa,\" which I succeeded in chartering, for I felt, unless I reached the capital, the object of my visit to Touquin would fail. I was therefore glad to hire her, indifferent as her accommodation was.\n\nCaptain Castle, the commander of Her Majesty's ship \"Egeria,\" and myself were most kindly and hospitably received by M. Turc, the French Consul at Haiphong, the Commandant of the fort, Major Dubeaux, and M. Gres, the Director of Customs. The former gave me all the information I required respecting the trade of the country, and its resources; but frankly said it was still in an incipient state, and in the hands of Chinese at Hanoi; and whether it would develop into importance depended chiefly on the communications with Chinese Yunnan being re-opened. He furnished me with a list of the principal articles of merchandize imported and exported viâ Haiphong, and a return of the exports therefrom from the 15th of September, 1875, to the 12th of April, 1876, showing a value of 198,914 t. 4 m. 6 c.; of imports there being none. Copies of these documents you will find annexed to this Report.\n\nThe Customs at Haiphong are under the control of a French officer, M. Jules Gres, with the title of Inspector; but there are three or more Annamese, calling themselves Inspectors and sub-Inspectors of Customs. I called on these officers at the Custom-house, and was most politely received; but they gave, or could give but little information regarding the trade of the country, but expressed their desire to see English merchant-vessels come to the port. I replied, that it depended a good deal upon the Annamite Government, for if merchandize or produce, either import or export, was saddled with heavy interior duties, as I believed was at present the case in Tonquin, the prospects of a trade were bad, for no merchant would come to an unprofitable market; that a large trade was good for the Government and people of a country, as it brought money into it, and increased the Customs revenue; and that without perfect freedom no great results could be anticipated.\n\nThey replied, that as regarded inland duties, it was true they at present existed, but would shortly cease to be levied, in accordance with the terms of the French Treaty; but they had been farmed to a Chinese firm, and the agreement had yet a year to run.\n\nI replied that I was glad to hear it, and advised them to keep out of Chinese hands, and to look to foreign merchants for the interests of trade; for the Chinese, from their bribing propensities, disorganized the local officials, in order to secure a more advantageous position than foreigners, who would not do this. I had reason to believe afterwards, that they referred to the inland duties on the Yunnan route, and not to those of the interior generally. Their names were:-\n\nLuong van-tan, Sub-Inspector of Customs.\n\nLo tue, Director of Customs.\n\nNguan van-sze, Sub-Director of Customs.\n\nPetrus Trueong Vinhky, Interpreter.\n\nOn the 10th instant, accompanied by Captain Castle, I left in the steam-launch for Hanoi.\n\nThere was but little to be seen of the country, the banks of the canal being too high; but from what I saw, it appeared to be fertile, and planted with maize and sugar-cane, sweet potatoes, and other products of these latitudes. On debouching, however, into the main stream, the Songkoi, or Red River, a better view was obtained; and here the bamboo and other trees, with villages and fields, made together a scene of much natural beauty, and gave evidences of a high state of cultivation. I had been informed that little or no boat or junk traffic would be seen, but I found a fair amount of it; and from the stake-nets and boats employed, there is evidently a large supply of fish; rafts of wood and bamboo were frequently met; and altogether there were fair evidences of a contented and well-to-do population.\n\nAt this season, taking from December to May, the Red River (Songkoi) is at its lowest, enormous stretches of sand-bands lining the stream, and points of them jutting almost into the centre. About May the melted snow and ice from the mountains of Upper Tonquin and Yunnan come down and the river rises rapidly, attaining a height of thirty feet, and very frequently carrying away the banks, and flooding the country, to the great destruction of life and property. We passed some extensive works being prosecuted to repair an immense breach which last year's freshets had made, and all along the river and the canals preparations were being prosecuted by banking up and supporting the bunds. Annam evidently labours under the same mistake as China in the treatment of her rivers. Instead of dredging the channel, which year by year fills up with alluvial deposits, sand and clay brought down from the highlands, the authorities bank it up, and so in the course of time the bottom of a river is raised above the level of the adjoining land, and if it makes a breach in the bund during the freshets, the whole country is inundated and becomes a vast lake. Such is the cause of the inundations on the Yangtze, and notably that of the Yellow River in China, and evidently also of the Songkoi, or Red River, in Touquin.\n\nThe approach to the city of Hanoi, the capital of Tonquin, is very fine, a turn of the river, which is here from bank to bank about a mile or more in breadth, brings into view the Town and the French Settlement which is under construction like that at Haiphong, with the barracks and Consular buildings under erection thereon. The city rises gradually from the river, and embedded in trees and foliage and seen on a bright and sunny day, has a charming appearance. We anchored off the landing-place at 10:30 A.M., on Monday the 10th, and went on shore at once to call upon the Comte de Kergaradec, the French Consul, who lives in the Annamite Examination Hall, at least a mile and a half from the river, but finding it impossible to get palanquins for hire, Captain Castle and myself called at the house of the Bishop, Monseignor Pergenier to borrow them. Here, while talking to him, M. Aumoitte, Chancelier of the Consulate came, saying that M. Turc, the Consul at Haiphong, had sent a message overland to inform Comte de Kergaradee of our intended visit, and the messenger had arrived only an hour before us, and chairs were coming to take us to the Consulate. These duly arrived and we went on.\n\nOn reaching the Consulate I was received by M. de Kergaradec with great courtesy, and found he had prepared rooms for us.\n\nDuring the forenoon I had a long conversation with M. de Kergaradec regarding the condition of affairs in Tonquin, which he very frankly explained. He said the political Treaty of the 15th March, 1874, concluded with the Annamite Government was fairly good, but the commercial one of the 23rd of November of that year was a failure. No provision having been made to regulate the transit dues on produce destined for the open ports, with the exception of those en route to and from Yunnan, consequently the Annamite Government, when called upon to act in accordance with the Commercial Treaty, replies that it is prepared to do so as soon as the frontier route to Yünnan is cleared of the Chinese bandits who hold it and levy black mail upon all that passes, but as regards the provinces the Treaty does not apply, and rest their argument upon the last section of the IInd Article; that it was certainly an oversight on the part of the framers of the Treaty, if the intention was to equalize the transit...\n\n227", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-176 - Public Offices & Others - 1876.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 299394, "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": "CO129-176 - Public Offices & Others - 1876", "page_number": 233, "title": "CO129-176 - Public Offices & Others - 1876", "content_text": "4\n\n10\n\n5\n\n228\n\nup\n\nto\n\ndues or annul them altogether, for it placed a power in the Annamite Government to cripple foreign trade with the provinces and confine it to the Songkoi River the borders of Yunnan. Such, the Consul said, was the present position. The Government was most obstructive and throw every difficulty in the way, and nothing but great firmness and saying, \"I will have this done,\" effected anything; that this disposition was exhibited from the moment Hanoi, and the other places captured by Lieutenant Garnier, were surrendered, and, as this was done before the Treaty was signed, the Annamite Government refused to ratify it, and some time elapsed before they would; that when the French soldiers, of which there are 100 at Hanoi, were first quartered there, the Annamite Mandarins wanted them to be confined to the limits of the Consulate, and would have made a prisoner even of himself, but he resisted, and so in like manner objections were made to every request; that it was far from his wish to make a display of force, but if there was not a detachment of marines in the Consulate, it is impossible to say to what lengths the Annamite Mandarins would go, and that probably he would be made a nominal prisoner. He instanced a late case:\n\na Tonquinese, who had opened a shop for the sale of European goods, hoisted the French flag over his door, and was instantly arrested by the police, thrown into prison, and finally sentenced to be beheaded. All applications for his release made by him (the Consul) were unavailing. He represented that to execute the man for hoisting the French flag was an insult to that nation, but no notice was taken of it, and finding that the prisoner would certainly be decapitated unless he took some strong measures for his release, he went to the Futai's palace with a detachment of the marines and told him he should not leave it without the man, and thereupon he was surrendered. All this, however, was very disagreeable, but it was forced upon him by the authorities. This feeling, however, was confined to the Government and the authorities, for the people were perfectly indifferent and friendly in the extreme. I asked M. de Kergaradec what means he saw of surmounting this, and he replied, nothing but a change of dynasty would be effectual, and to that the Tonquinese were strongly in favour, for they had never been reconciled to the suppression of the Tonquinese dynasty and the annexation of their country by the Annamese, and were prepared to throw off what they considered a yoke at any favourable opportunity and restore the ancient family of the \"Ly,\" of which some members still remained, and that he hoped, on the death of Tudue, the present reigning sovereign, who was prematurely old, a dynastic change would be made. Such was the feeling of the Tonquinese, M. de Kergaradec said, and when the citadel of Hanoi was captured by Lieutenant Garnier, as hereafter mentioned, above 10,000 of them expressed their readiness to join him; and some did, and were afterwards beheaded for it, and others had to fly when the citadel was returned to the Annamite Government. The account he gave me of Lieutenant Garnier's proceedings will be given in detail hereafter.\n\nSuch is an outline of the first conversation I had with the French Consul, and subsequent ones were much to the same purport. I gather, therefore, that the presence of the French at Hanoi and in Tonquin generally is viewed with extreme distaste by the Hué (Annamite) Government, who lose no opportunity of giving expression to it. Indeed, M. de Kergaradec said that the position of M. Rheinart, the French Envoy at the Court of Hué, was far from satisfactory, and no means were left untried to render his position as uncomfortable as possible. I think it, therefore, exceedingly probable that the present status quo will not last, and that sooner or later the French will assume, what they have not yet done they say, a protectorate of Tonquin, which means a nominal sovereignty of the country, or even go a step farther, for they are evidently at issue with the Annamite Government, and chafing under what they seem to consider its insulting tone.\n\nWhether the Annamite Government has reason to look upon the French as having forced themselves into Tonquin and enforced a Treaty upon it which places a portion of its fiscal revenue under French control, is a question to be looked at from an unbiased point of view. I saw and heard in that time enough, however, to convince me that whether right or wrong in their first proceedings the French will probably have to go on, and when matters assume that phase, it is useless questioning how they were or are brought about; and viewing it thus it would not, I think, be cause for surprise if they encouraged a restoration which would separate Tonquin from Annam and restore it to the independence it had in 1802 when conquered and annexed by Nguyên Auh, known as Gialong, the King of Annam, and replace one of the ancient dynasty of \"Li\" upon the Throne with whom better terms could be made. Be that as it may, I heard from good authority before leaving Canton, that Vice-Admiral Krantz, the Governor of Saigon, and who negotiated the Commercial Treaty with Annam, being dissatisfied with its results and with the position of the French in Tonquin, had gone to Paris to consult with the Ministry upon the situation, and at Hanoi I heard he was on his way back. But I also heard that the Tonquin question was not looked upon with favour by the French Government who feared complications arising from this naval conquest, and hesitated to relieve the Admiralty of its responsibility in the matter.\n\nThe principal Annamese authorities at Hanoi are, the Tong-duc, or Viceroy, and the Chuan-Phu, or Futai. M. de Kergaradec asked me if I would like to see them, or at least one of them, as the Tong-duc was ill, and I said I would, so my cards were sent. And the Chuan-Phu shortly after called upon me, and I remembered having seen him at Canton when he came to have an interview with the late Viceroy Juilin. He reminded me of it, and mentioned several circumstances, and seemed glad to see me. He brought the Tong-duc's card, with his regrets, that he was too ill to leave his Yamên. Nothing, of course, but a complimentary visit passed, and in the afternoon, accompanied by M. de Kergaradec, Commandant Chapotot, and Captain Castle, with a guard of honour of French marines, I returned his visit in the Citadel. The Annamite Yamêns, or palaces as they call them, are much the same as the Chinese. An Annamite guard of honour lined the courtyard, and the Chuan-Phu came to the door to receive us. After some conversation he expressed a hope I was pleased with my visit, and remarked I had come a long way to see Hanoi; and I replied that having been to Hainan to open it to British trade under the Treaty, I had crossed the Gulf of Tonquin to pay the Representative of the French Government at Hanoi a visit, England and France being on the most friendly terms, and that was my sole object. He then inquired whether there would be much trade at Kiung-chow, and if English vessels would come on from thence to the Tonquin ports? I answered they certainly would do so if the Annamese Government were favourable to foreign trade. He then said he wished to show me his troops and elephants, and we accordingly went to a parade-ground close by of large extent, where there were about 2,000 Annamese soldiers, under arms, and two elephants in front, which, when we were seated, advanced, knelt down nine times, and saluted. The troops then went through sundry manœuvres with great precision. They were well dressed, but badly armed with old flint-lock muskets, spears, and swords. After this took my leave.\n\nWe then inspected the Hall of Ceremonies in which the Kings of Annam receive investiture from the Emperor of China. It was here that Lieutenant Garnier had his head-quarters after his capture of the citadel on the 20th of November, and in a plot of ground in the rear he and his four comrades were buried when killed on the 21st December, 1873.\n\nThat part of Hanoi where the citadel is built is somewhat higher than the other quarters of the city, the ground rising gently from the banks of the Songkoi to the height of about 180 feet above the level of the sea. A brick wall about 3 feet thick and 12 feet high, comprising twelve bastions connected by curtains, surrounds the citadel which forms a perfect quadrilateral of some 3,600 feet on each side. This wall is supported by a plain which at places rises gradually from the interior of the citadel, whilst at others its inner side falls perpendicularly.\n\nL\n\nThe height of the plain varies also a great deal, for at some places the besieged can be hidden entirely beyond the upper part of the wall, while in others they are half seen from the outside. Inside the citadel are the houses of the Governor and other high officials.\n\nThe citadel is girt at about a distance of 25 feet with a deep ditch, containing water, of an average width of 60 feet. Five gates give access to the citadel, one in the middle of each side, with the exception of the south side, which has two openings cut through the walls near the corner bastions; they may be called the south-eastern and south-western gate. The doorways are about 15 feet wide and are closed in with strong wooden gates. Above every gate stands a tower or guard-house.\n\nIn front of each gate is a redan, that is, two walls a little lower than the city ones, the faces meeting at an angle turned towards the country. These redans are also encircled with ditches which run into the moat of the fort, a gate connected by a bridge with the city or the fields adjoining is opened through the right face of each redan. Inside the redans small houses and barracks are inhabited by soldiers, and from the middle of the \"gorge\" of the redans strong three-arched bridges allow a passage across the moat to reach the gates in the main ramparts. It is the work of French Engineers employed by Gialong, the King of Annam, after his conquest of Tonquin in 1802.\n\nIn the interior of the citadel, besides the Government buildings and some\n\n[608]\n\nterre plain\n\n11", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-176 - Public Offices & Others - 1876.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 299397, "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": "CO129-176 - Public Offices & Others - 1876", "page_number": 236, "title": "CO129-176 - Public Offices & Others - 1876", "content_text": "10\n\nelapsed between Dupuis' return from his first expedition to Yunnan and his expulsion, finding salt was in great request there, and that a picul costing 1 dollar at Hanoi was sold for 7 dollars in Yünnan, he sent several cargoes up the Song Koi without hindrance from the Hanoi Government; and when Garnier captured the citadel, he had sixteen boats loaded with salt, which had to be abandoned at the evacuation.\n\nI will now proceed to the second phase of this remarkable history. Lieutenant François Garnier was a naval officer of great ability and merit; he had accompanied Captain de la Lagrée in his expedition up the Meikong River to explore a new route to the southern provinces of China and Thibet: and when that officer died he succeeded to the command of the party, and brought it safely through China to Hankow, and was preparing to prosecute his researches in Thibet when he was sent for by Admiral Dupré to take charge of an expedition to Tonquin.\n\n<<\n\nWhatever were Admiral Dupré's intentions in sending Garnier with an armed escort to Tonquin, certainly the Annamite Government considered it was for the purpose of removing Dupuis in accordance with their request. All, however, known about it was \"that it was sent to restore order\" but whether Dupuis was to be expelled or the Annamites supported, no one knew, but the title given him was Commandant-en-chef des forces de terre et de mer des côtes de Tongking, Envoi Extraordinaire de la Cochin-Chine.\" On the 10th of October the Annamite Envoys and Garnier and his party embarked in the \"D'Estrées,\" French man-of-war, towing a small gun-boat, the \"Arc.\" Calling at Tuson, two mandarins were sent from Huo to introduce Garnier to the Tonquinese authorities. The \"D'Estrées\" arrived at the Cua-cam River on the 24th of October, where Garnier obtained two junks, and left with his staff for Hanoi, which he reached on the 5th of November.\n\nA week before, another man-of-war, the 'Decrès, had been dispatched from Saigon, towing a gun-vessel, the \"Espingole.\" The \"Decrès \" arrived in the Cua-cam on the 7th of November, and the \"Espingole\" left at once for Hanoi with a crew of twenty-eight men, a medical attendant, Dr. Harmand, and a hydrographer, M. Bouillet, under command of an ensign, M. Baluy.\n\nM. Dupuis and his Chinese received Lieutenant Garnier, on landing at Hanoi, with military honours, and he at once penetrated into the citadel through one of the gates, and obliged the sentries to show him the house of Nguyen Tri-phuong, an old man with the title of Marshal or Commander-in-chief at Hanoi, and who had previously fought the French at Kihoa, and to whom he announced himself as the \"French Governor.\" Concealing his anger, Tri-phuong offered Garnier quarters in the native city, which he refused; but, frustrated in obtaining a house in the citadel, he accepted the building outside called the Examination Hall, and at present the French Consulate. As soon as he had left the city the gates were closed, and the officers who allowed him to enter were severely punished.\n\nGarnier at once began to negotiate. He said he had come at the request of Tuduc's Ministers; he had with him two mandarins sent by the Court of Hué, and had even been told he should meet at Hanoi a Minister Plenipotentiary, with whom he could treat. The Minister had arrived, but Nguyen Tri-phuong entirely ignored him, saying that Garnier had been sent not to make a Commercial Treaty, but to expel Dupuis.\n\nOn the day of his arrival Garnier issued a Proclamation. He said he was sent by France at the request of the Annamites, who had been asking at Saigon for help, and his mission was to destroy the pirates who attack vessels on the coast, and to facilitate commerce with Tonquin.\n\nIn the meantime, the \"Arc\" having been lost on the voyage to Tonquin, Admiral Dupré dispatched the gun-boat \"Scorpion\" to replace her.\n\nOn the 10th November M. Dupuis' steamer, the \"Manghao,\" brought a letter from Garnier to the captain of the \"D'Estrées,\" requesting reinforcements; and the following day the \"Scorpion,\" followed by the \"Manghao,\" proceeded up the river, the latter carrying a medical man, Dr. Dubut, and sixty men and three officers.\n\nThus the whole of the French forces at Hanoi on the 14th of November, 1873, not including Dupuis, were :\n\nThe \"Espingole,\" Messrs. Baluy, Harmand, and Bouillet, with 28 men. The \"Scorpion,\" Messrs. Garnier, Esmez, and Bouxin, with 50 men.\n\nThe detachment from the \"Decrès,\" Messrs. Bain, Hautefeuille, Perrin, and Dubut, with 60 men.\n\nThe 30 marines of M. de Trentenien.\n\nDr. Chedan and M. Lasserre, private secretary to Garnier. Altogether, 180 men.\n\n11\n\nOn the 19th of November, Garnier published a second Proclamation, making known the conditions of the intended Treaty of Commerce under French protection. Information had reached him that the Annamites were preparing to attack him, and he thought it would be better to strike the first blow himself; and, as the time he had given Nguyen Tri-phuong to communicate with the Court of Hué had expired, he resolved to attack the citadel the following day.\n\nAt daybreak on the 20th of November, the attack was made. A first column composed of 30 sailors with a gun, headed by M. Bain de la Coquerie, marched toward the south-western gate at 6 o'clock. A quarter of an hour later, Garnier himself left the Examination Hall for the south-eastern gate, with 3 guns, 40 sailors, and 30 marines.\n\nThe great\n\nThe Annamites, taken unawares, offered scarcely any resistance. difficulty in entering the citadel was to break open the gates made of hard wood, and it was necessary to bring the guns close to and fire at a distance of a few feet,\n\nWhile the southern gates were being stormed, the shells of the \"Espingole\" and the \"Scorpion were falling near the western gate, and, by frightening away the defenders of the place, contributed to the success of the day. M. Dupuis himself, though Garnier had declined his offer of service, was taking a share in the fight, and his soldiers, having managed to scale the Eastern Gate, entered the citadel first, and dispersed for pillage. Garnier, however, gave strict orders to stop all disorder, and by 7 o'clock, the citadel being entirely in his hands, he sent back all the troops to the Examination Hall, except the marines.\n\nSome 200 natives had been killed or wounded, while on the side of the French there was not a single casualty to report. A great number of officials were made prisoners, including the Envoy from the Court of Hué, who had been ignored by the Marshal, the Governor of Hanoi, the two sons of Phan Tanh-gian, who signed the Treaty of 1862 on behalf of Annam, and Nguyen Tri-phuong himself. The Marshal was found concealed in a house where he had taken refuge after receiving a wound in the thigh from a splinter of a shell, and from which he subsequently died.\n\nOn the same day Garnier reported to Saigon the capture of the citadel, and asked for reinforcements, and issued a Proclamation to calm the minds of the people.\n\nIt would occupy too much space to detail the subsequent proceedings of Garnier, and it will be sufficient to say he sent M. Balny with 15 marines to Towli, a town on the branch of the Song Koi above Hanoi to direct the authorities to submit; and, as he passed Hungyen, the Mandarins came out and offered their submission. After passing Fowli, Balny went to Haidzong, an important citadel in the Thai-dinh River, which he carried by a coup de main on the 4th of December.\n\nOn the 1st December Garnier sent a steam-launch under command of M. Haute-feuille, with instructions to M. Balny, and to require the submission of the Governor of Nam-dinh and Minh-binh, the latter of which he attacked with seven men, and captured it, taking the Tedoc or General prisoner. Garnier himself left Hanoi on the 4th December in the \"Scorpion,\" with M. Esnez and about 70 men, in addition to the crew for Nam-dinh, capturing a fort that opened fire upon him en route, and the town itself on the 10th of December, and he issued a fourth Proclamation to pacify the people. Thus, within a period of a month, Hanoi, the capital, Hungyen, Haidzong, Nam-dinh, and Han-dinh, all important cities commanding the delta of the Song Koi or Red River, had been captured.\n\nBut, after this, came the reverse. With a handful of men he had overrun the neighbouring country, but it required more than a handful to hold it. Constant attacks were made on the several positions thus occupied, and great difficulty was experienced in repulsing them. A rumour, too, which proved true, was about that Annamite troops were coming from the southern provinces. Tuduc, the King of Annam, was greatly incensed at the loss of Hanoi, and gave orders to the Viceroy of the Province of Nguyen to march against the French, and he himself sent every available soldier from Hué. These orders were partly executed when he changed his mind, and wrote to Saigon, giving his Envoys full powers to sign a Treaty of Commerce, and sent two Envoys to Garnier with full powers, and M. Sohier as Interpreter.\n\nGarnier, in occupying the forts situated on the delta of the Song Koi, had evidently in view the keeping open his communication with the sea, but he had not secured his rear by the capture of the military city of Soutay, some thirty miles west of Hanoi, where resided the Tong Thong, Hoang Ke-vien by name. This officer had increased his army by troops recalled from the north, where they were fighting the so-called rebels, but in truth the Black and Yellow Flag Chinese factions on the frontier, who were at war with each other.\n\n231", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-176 - Public Offices & Others - 1876.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 302725, "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": "CO129-182 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [9-12]", "page_number": 247, "title": "CO129-182 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [9-12]", "content_text": "The Bill over, some time ago, and he made the necessary alterations, so that he thought they could get it through in one sitting. The only thing therefore would be the amendments to the present Ordinance. He did not know whether His Excellency would like to make any alterations in it.\n\n**HIS EXCELLENCY**-Yes, I should. With respect to the question of prison discipline I will lay upon the table later on a number of dispatches upon the gaol system of our prison. We must deal with it like men of business, and we have to face the requirements of the Colony and of the Secretary of State. I will lay these dispatches before you, and the suggestion of His Honor the Chief Justice can then, I think, be carried out, and with the evidence of the highly efficient gentleman now superintending the gaol, Mr. Tonuochy, the Select Committee will be able to deal with this.\n\nHon. W. Keswick said it appeared to him that this Bill, short as it was, should be made law, and the larger measure of the other Ordinance, with the aid of the documents to which His Excellency referred, might be dealt with afterwards, as it would take some time. He proposed that the Bill before the Council be proceeded with.\n\nThe ACTING CHIEF JUSTICE said he believed the cases which would be dealt with under this little Bill very rarely happened. It so happened that a prisoner leaving gaol struck a warder. He did not think he had ever heard of such a thing before. Therefore, perhaps they might wait.\n\nThe ACTING COLONIAL-SECRETARY said he would inform the Council that very recently, even so lately as Captain Dempster's superintendency, two or three cases transpired, insomuch that he came to the magistrate to get the redress he was not empowered to obtain under the Gaol Ordinance.\n\nHon. P. RYrie said he agreed with the statement of the Acting Colonial Secretary, as Captain Dempster had told him he always noticed that a day or two before they leave the prisoners become very insolent and refuse work, and he always had to look out for them. An Ordinance of this kind was very much wanted.\n\nThe ACTING CHIEF JUSTICE said he was not aware of the circumstances mentioned by the two previous speakers.\n\nThe Bill was then read a second time, and having been considered in committee was passed and numbered 2 of 1878.\n\n## MARKET ORDINANCE AMENDMENT\n\n**HIS EXCELLENCY** moved the first reading of an Ordinance to amend the Market Ordinance 1858. He said-Gentlemen, this Ordinance was suggested to the Executive in this way. A European butcher who proposed to open a shop in the Colony found that under the existing Ordinance it was necessary for him to occupy a stall in the market. Well, I submitted the question to the Executive Council, and we were of opinion that it really would be very conducive to the comfort of the European population if we enabled a butcher of this man's stamp and character to have his shop outside the market duly licensed, and accordingly this Ordinance enables the Governor to grant licences if he thinks proper in all such cases.\n\nThe Bill was read a first time.\n\n## SUPPLEMENTARY APPROPRIATION ORDINANCE\n\n**His EXCELLENCY** proposed the first reading of an Ordinance to authorise the appropriation of a supplementary sum of $45,000 to defray the charge of the year 1877. He said these items had long since been passed by the Finance Committee, and he now put them in the form of an Ordinance. The money had been spent.\n\nThe Bill was read a first time.\n\nA number of votes passed by the Finance Committee were submitted to the Council and approved of. They included one of $5,927 for twenty recruits for the Police from England; $34,506 for repair of damages to roads, &c., caused by the rain storms of May and June; $1,443 for cost of submarine line to Green Island; $650 for two sets of telephones; and $2,990 for Colonial defence, the items composing which amount were as follows:\n| Item | Amount |\n| --- | --- |\n| Cost of an old junk for torpedo practice | $45 |\n| Volunteer drill instructors and contingencies, say at $200 per month, seven months | $1,400 |\n| Honorarium to commandant at $100 per month, from 16th May to 31st August | $350 |\n| Blue navy serge for uniforms | $537.14 |\n| Buttons, etc. | $83 |\n| Making coats and trousers | $381 |\n\n**HIS EXCELLENCY** said he hoped to be able to lay the estimates before hon. members in the Finance Committee at a somewhat earlier period than he did last year, and he hoped to be able to lay them before the Council before the 21st November next, but of course a good deal would depend on the assistance he derived from the Finance Committee.\n\nThe Council was then adjourned sine die.\n\n240\n3 #", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-182 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 303752, "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": "CO129-184 - Governor Hennessy - 1879 [1-5]", "page_number": 344, "title": "CO129-184 - Governor Hennessy - 1879 [1-5]", "content_text": "# THE CHINA MAIL.\n\n## HONGKONG, MONDAY, MAY 12, 1879.\n\nThe following ladies and gentlemen were Guests at Government House on Saturday evening: General and Mrs Grant, Lieut.-Colonel Grant, Hon. A. C. Borie, Mr Cheater Holcombe, Admiral Polo (of the Spanish Royal Navy), Madame Polo, and Mademoiselle Polo, Commandante Lobo, (of the Spanish Royal Navy), Hon. P. Byle, Hon. H. B. Gibb, Mr G. V. Creagh, and Major Palmer, A.D.C.\n\nOn Sunday evening the guests were: General and Mrs Grant, Duke of Magliano, Don Quili, Grazioli, Honourable E. Borie, Bishop Raimondi, Lieutenant Colonel Grant, Mr Young, Dr Keating, Mr Pitman, Major Palmer, A.D.C.\n\n## GENERAL GRANT AND PARTY LEAVE HONGKONG\n\nGeneral Grant and party left Hongkong to-day by the United States corvette Ashuelot en route for the Coast Ports and Shanghai. The General and his party were accompanied to the Murray Wharf by the Governor and Mrs. Hennessy, who proceeded on board the steamer with their departing guests. A large number of the principal inhabitants were at the pier to witness the departure of our illustrious visitors, and many with whom the General and his party have come into official or social intercourse here were present to say \"good-bye\". As the Governor's steam launch, which conveyed them to the steamer, left the wharf, His Excellency called for three cheers for General Grant, which were lustily given, followed by \"one cheer more for Mrs Grant,\" heartily responded to, the General and Mrs. Grant respectively bowing and smiling their acknowledgements.\n\nThere were amongst those on the pier as the General and party left: H. E. General Donovan; the Chief Justice, Sir John Smale, Acting Puisne Judge J. J. Francis, The Surveyor General Hon. J. Price, Hon. P. Ryrie, Hon. C. B. Plunket, Messrs E. Sharp, G. Sharp, Lister, Gibb, Donnys, and Tonucchy. Mr Ng Choy, and a number of leading Chinese Merchants, and most of the leading European residents, were also present. The Japanese Consul, and the Captain of the Japanese man-of-war which arrived the other day, were also on the pier. As the launch steamed past the various ships of war, salutations were exchanged. Inspector Matheson was on the spot to render any assistance that might be necessary, and the crew of his boat tossed their oars as the distinguished party passed. The Ashuelot was reached, and the General was received on board by a guard of honour. Dr and Mrs Eastlake, Master Eastlake, Dr Vander Horck, Mr Forbes, and the Spanish Consul were on board to take leave of the General. H. E. the Governor and Mrs Hennessy remained on board the Ashuelot for about ten minutes, where, having shaken hands heartily with all the party, and wished them a pleasant passage, they took their leave, accompanied by Colonel Mosby, the U. S. Consul, who had come off with the party in the launch. The Government launch having dropped astern of the Ashuelot, the British and American Ensigns were run up at the fore, and a salute fired. The wheels of the Ashuelot moved round immediately the firing ceased, and as she steamed from her anchorage, the usual amount of handkerchief and hat waving was indulged in.\n\nWe have been requested to publish the following letter:\n\n(Copy)\n\nHongkong, 10th May 1879.\n\nMessrs. FORBES, HOPPIUS and KESWICK,\nCommittee,\n\nGentlemen,-I am just this moment, 4.50 p.m., put in possession of your note of this date informing me that the Committee of arrangements for the Garden party to be given this evening have appointed you a special Committee to notify me that on account of the threatening bad weather, they propose to postpone the party until Monday evening the 12th, and ask me to accept for that evening. I am sorry to say that my arrangements for leaving here on Monday morning are such that I do not feel justified in making any delay beyond that date. Answers have been sent to inquiries as to the date of my arrival at Shanghai, and at two or three other points we expect to touch by the way.\n\nI regret not meeting, in a social way, the citizens of Hongkong who have been kind enough to give me this invitation, and hope I may meet each and all, if not together, separately, at a later day in some part of the world.\n\nI am, with great respect,\nYour obedient servant,\n\n(Signed)\nU. S. GRANT.\n\nWe notice a feeble paragraph in this morning's paper regarding the proposed entertainment to General Grant (evidently communicated by one of the Committee), in which a weak attempt is made to gloss over the series of inexcusable blunders that have characterized the management. It is important, however, that the public should not be thus misled, and that they should bear in mind the following facts, which we have ascertained from a reliable source, and which bear out to the fullest extent the remarks we made on Saturday evening:\n\n1. A majority of the Committee, which outvoted Messrs Ryrie, Blanchard, and Craw...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-184 - Governor Hennessy - 1879 [1-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 307573, "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": "CO129-191 - Public Offices & Others - 1880", "page_number": 151, "title": "CO129-191 - Public Offices & Others - 1880", "content_text": "20\n\nMinisters and Consuls of the United States in China. In this Act it was declared that power was given to their public functionaries to arraign and try all citizens of the United States charged with offences against law which should be committed \"in the dominions of China, including Macao;\" but, on the 20th September, 1850, another Act of Congress was passed to repeal so much of the Act of 1848 as State Papers, vol. xxxviii, p. 1073. extended its provisions to Macao.\n\n1849.\n\nAugust 29, 1849.\n\nOn the 22nd August, 1849, the Portuguese Sir J. Bonham, No. 121; Governor at Macao was assassinated by a body of Chinese.\n\nShortly before this event occurred, a British subject (Mr. Summers) was cast into prison by the Portuguese Governor at Macao for alleged contempt in not taking off his hat on meeting the procession of Corpus Christi in the street. Negotiations ensued for his release, but proving ineffectual Captain Keppel, of Her Majesty's ship \"Leander,\" landed a party of marines, who attacked the prison and liberated Mr. Summers, one man being killed and others wounded in making the attack.\n\nThis led to a long correspondence between the British and Portuguese Governments, the latter demanding an apology for the insult offered to the Portuguese nation as well as compensation to be paid to the sufferers.\n\nConfidential Memorandum, No. 3279, p. 2.\n\nTo Viscount Moncorvo; September 29, 1849. In answer to the official complaint made through Viscount Moncorvo, Lord Palmerston replied as follows:-\n\n\"Viscount Moncorvo's representation is founded upon two assumptions, neither of which seems to rest upon sufficient grounds. The first is, that Macao is a territory forming part of the dominions of the Crown of Portugal; the second is, that Mr. Summers had violated some Portuguese Law, and that, being legally subject at Macao to Portuguese jurisdiction, he had been legally committed for trial for his offence.\n\n\"Now with respect to the first assumption, namely, that Macao is a territory forming part of the dominions of the Portuguese Crown, the Undersigned has to observe that Macao has not been so considered by the Portuguese Government in its dealings with the Chinese, and that on occasions in which British subjects have claimed from the Portuguese authorities at Macao protection against the hostility of the Chinese, those Portuguese authorities have either made themselves the instruments of Chinese hostility, or have remained passive spectators of acts of violence on the part of the Chinese against British subjects, and have pleaded as their excuse for so doing that Macao is part of the dominions of the Emperor of China, and that the Portuguese authorities at Macao were therefore bound on those occasions to obey the orders of the superior Chinese officers.\"\n\n21\n\nLord Palmerston reminded the Portuguese Minister of the conduct pursued by the Portuguese authorities at Macao in the years 1802, 1809, and 1839, to which reference was made in the early part of this Memorandum, and his Lordship then proceeded as follows:-\n\n\"It seems, therefore, that when British subjects are to be refused admittance into Macao or to be summarily expelled therefrom, Macao is declared by the Portuguese authorities to be part of the dominions of the Emperor of China, and within the scope of the orders and laws of the Chinese Government, but that when British subjects are to be thrown arbitrarily into prison at Macao, Macao is then declared by the Portuguese authorities to be part of the dominions of the Crown of Portugal, and within the scope of the laws of Portugal, and of the orders of the Portuguese Commandant.\n\nThese opposite assertions are irreconcilable, and the Portuguese Government must either acknowledge that on the former occasions above mentioned their officers at Macao put forward a false pretence as a pretext for aiding and abetting the Chinese in hostile proceedings against British subjects; or they must admit that on the present occasion an unfounded claim has been advanced as a justification for an arbitrary and oppressive proceeding against a British subject. It is, however, manifest that the Portuguese Government in its transactions with the Chinese Government never has claimed a right of sovereignty over Macao, and the Portuguese Government cannot assert in its communications with the British Government rights in regard to\n\n[50]\n\nG\n\n148", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-191 - Public Offices & Others - 1880.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 307609, "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": "CO129-191 - Public Offices & Others - 1880", "page_number": 187, "title": "CO129-191 - Public Offices & Others - 1880", "content_text": "Distinction between public and private vessels.\n\n§ 103g. Merchant vessels in foreign ports.\n\n22\n\nAPPENDIX.\n\nOrtolan: \"Règles Internationales et Diplomatiques de la Mer,\" liv. ii, chap. xiv, page 301.\n\n\"A l'égard des navires de commerce, nous savons que lorsqu'ils se trouvent dans les eaux territoriales d'un Etat étranger, ils ne sont exempts de la police et de la juridiction locales que pour les faits passés à bord qui n'intéressent ni la tranquillité du port ni des personnes étrangères à l'équipage. Pour tous les autres faits ils restent soumis à cette police et à cette juridiction. D'où il suit que l'autorité locale a le droit de se transporter sur ces navires, d'y faire la poursuite, la recherche, et l'arrestation des personnes qui se sont rendues coupables, soit à terre, soit même à bord, de faits passibles de la justice territoriale : sauf l'obligation de bon procédé, qui doit toujours être observée, de donner avis préalable de cette visite, soit au Consul, soit en rade, au Commandant des forces navales militaires dont relève le navire de commerce en question.\"\n\nWheaton: \"International Law,\" Part II, §101. (Dana's Edition. 1866.)\n\n\"Section 101. According to the judgment of the Supreme Court of the United States, where, without Treaty, the ports of a nation are open to the public and private ships of a friendly Power, whose subjects have also liberty, without special license, to enter the country for business or amusement, a clear distinction was to be drawn between the rights accorded to private individuals, or private trading vessels, and those accorded to public armed ships which constitute a part of the military force of the nation.\n\n\"When private individuals of one nation spread themselves through another as business or caprice may direct, mingling indiscriminately with the inhabitants of that other; or when merchant vessels enter for the purposes of trade, it would be obviously inconvenient and dangerous to society, and would subject the laws to continual infraction, and the Government to degradation, if such individuals did not owe temporary and local allegiance, and were not amenable to the jurisdiction of the country. Nor can the foreign Sovereign have any motive for wishing such exemption. His subjects, then, passing into foreign countries, are not employed by him, nor are they engaged in national pursuits. Consequently there are powerful motives for not exempting persons of this description from the jurisdiction of the country in which they are found, and no motive for requiring it. The implied license, therefore, under which they enter, can never be construed to grant such exemption.\n\n\"But the situation of a public armed ship was, in all respects, different. She constitutes a part of the military force of her nation, acts under the immediate and direct command of the Sovereign, is employed by him in national objects. He has many and powerful motives for preventing those objects from being defeated by the interference of a foreign State. Such interference cannot take place without seriously affecting his power and his dignity. The implied license, therefore, under which such vessel enters a friendly port, may reasonably be construed, and it seemed to the Court ought to be construed, as containing an exemption from the jurisdiction of the Sovereign, within whose territory she claims the rites of hospitality.\"\n\nWheaton: \"Elements of International Law,\" page 141. (Boyd's Edition. 1878.)\n\n\"A merchant vessel is not in the same position as a ship of war. Every State claims to exercise jurisdiction over its own merchant vessels wherever they are, and even when they are in the waters of another State. But when in a foreign port they must also obey the laws of the country to which the port belongs.* They are thus at the same time subject to two concurrent systems of law. Any State may decline to exercise jurisdiction over foreign merchant vessels in its harbours to whatever extent it pleases, as is the case with France; but the right nevertheless exists, and might be resumed on due notice being given. Thus, a claim by the local officers of France to board the ship, search her, and take out of her any one who has become amenable to the local laws, could not lawfully be resisted or disputed after such due notice.”*\n\nForsyth: \"Cases and Opinions on Constitutional Law,\" page 419.\n\nThe nationality of a merchant vessel depends upon-1, the construction or origin of the vessel; 2, the owners to whom it belongs; 3, the captain, and officers, and crew: Ortolan, tom. i. 180; see Wildman on Search, Capture, and Prize, chap. iii.\n\nIn some countries a territorial character is allowed to foreign merchant vessels in their ports--limited, however, to offences committed by members of the same crew against one another on board the vessel: Ortolan, tom. i. 295. In France a distinction is taken between such offences where the peace of the port is not thereby disturbed, and where they are committed against persons not forming part of the officers and crew, or by any other than a person belonging to the same, or where the peace of the port is disturbed. In acts of the first class, the French Courts decline jurisdiction; in the others they assert it: Wheaton, International Law, s. 102. But no such distinction exists in the English law, which exercises jurisdiction over all criminal offences committed on board foreign merchant ships in British ports.\n\n\"On the question whether the vessels of a nation on the high seas are part of the territory of that nation, see some sensible remarks by Woolsey, International Law, s. 54. He says that it is unsafe to argue on the assumption that they are altogether territory, but, on the other hand, they have certain qualities resembling those of territory: (1) as against their crews on the high seas; (2) as against foreigners who are excluded on the high seas from any act of sovereignty over them, just as if they were part of the soil of their country. Vattel considers ships on the high seas as part of a nation's territory : Liv. i. c. 19, s. 216; ii. c. 7, s. 80. As to ships of war, they are, even in foreign ports, exempt from this local jurisdiction. It seems now established, both in England and America, that no vessel or other property used by the Government for public purposes, whether those purposes be military, fiscal, or of police, are subject to judicial proceedings without the consent of the Government? Wheaton, International Law, s. 63, note 63 (8th edit.): see 'The Lord Hobart,' 2 Dods. Adm. 103; 7 Attorney-General's Opinions, 122. Woolsey observes (International Law, s. 54): In both cases, however, it is on account of the crew rather than of the ship itself that they have any territorial quality. Take the crew away-let the abandoned hulk be met at sea; it now becomes property, and nothing more.'\n\n\"In R. v. Lopez, 27 L. J. (M. C.) 49, it was said, arguendo, by the Counsel for the Crown, that it is a general principle of international law that a ship, public or private, on the high seas is, for the purpose of jurisdiction over crimes, a part of the territory of the country to which it belongs, and that a foreigner going voluntarily on board an English ship, and serving as one of her crew, is as amenable as a British subject on board the ships, and, like a British subject, would be liable in this country for a crime by statute 28 Hen. VIII, c. 15, and 7 and 8 Vict. c. 2: see notes to Chapter VII on Extra-Territorial Jurisdiction, p. 233. And it was contended that the same principle governs the law of America and France, in support of which the following authorities were cited: The United States v. Palmer, 3 Wheat. Rep. 609; The United States v. Holmes, 5 Ibid. 112; Vattel, book i. c. 19, s. 216; Felix, Traité du Droit International Privé, ss. 544, 573; 2 Ortolan, Règles Internationales de la Mer; R. v. Depardo, 1 Taunt 26; R. v. Serva, 1 Den, C. C. 104. In R. v. Lesley, 29 L. J. (M. C.) 101, it was said, per cur. It is clear that an English ship on the high seas, out of any foreign territory, is subject to the laws of England; and persons, whether foreign or English, on board such ship are as much amenable to English laws as they would be on English soil, The same principle has been laid down by foreign writers on international law.'\n\nThey went on board an English ship (of war), which for the purpose may be considered a floating island, and in that ship they became subject to the English laws alone per Holroyd, J., Forbes v. Cochrane, 2 B. & C. 464; and see per Byles, J., in R. v. Anderson, 11 Cox C. C. 205.\n\n\"But although merchant ships on the high seas have some of the attributes of territory, when they arrive in a foreign port they have no privilege, and are considered merely as the property of aliens.\n\n\"The Court of Admiralty has jurisdiction in an action brought by a British subject against a foreign ship for a collision in foreign waters: The Griefswald,' Swabey, Adm. 430,\"\n\nReport on Fugitive Slaves, 1876, p. 26.\n\n23\n\n184", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-191 - Public Offices & Others - 1880.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 309725, "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": "CO129-194 - Governor Hennessy Administrator Tonnochy - 1881 [8-9]", "page_number": 386, "title": "CO129-194 - Governor Hennessy Administrator Tonnochy - 1881 [8-9]", "content_text": "383\n\nfor the\n\nHennessy, before he left the colony, - appointed a Committee, for purpose referred to in the telegram, consisting of six members namely, Lieutenant Colonel L. F. Hall, Royal Artillery, Commandant of the Garrison, Lieutenant Colonel I. A. Papillon, Commanding Royal Engineers, Lieutenant Colonel A. D. Geddes, Commanding the 1st Royal Enniskillings Fusiliers, Commander I. G. Jones, Royal Navy, of Her Majesty's Ship Victor Emanuel, Mr. W. M. Deane, late Acting Colonial Treasurer and Captain Superintendent of Police and Acting Colonial Secretary and myself, with Captain Bury, Royal Artillery, Acting Assistant Military Secretary, as Secretary\n\n2.\n\nI attended one meeting of the Committee but on the departure of the Governor I ceased to do so as I considered it undesirable to remove Lieutenant Colonel Hall from the Chairmanship which I should have been obliged to do if I had attended the Committee after having become Administrator.\n\n3.\n\nThe Members are engaged at present in visiting the various localities recommended for forts and also the various points round the island where an enemy might effect a landing\n\n4.\n\n{\n\n2\n\n1", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-194 - Governor Hennessy Administrator Tonnochy - 1881 [8-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 319126, "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": "CO129-204 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [11-12]", "page_number": 130, "title": "CO129-204 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [11-12]", "content_text": "## 10th\n\nI return as requested, the letter addressed to you by the Acting Commandant and which you enclosed for my perusal. Captain Francis seems to have thoroughly gone into the whole subject for Your Excellency's information and decision, and I certainly think that the Colonial Government, if it desires a Volunteer Corps at Hong-Kong, ought to make the purchases he recommends.\n\nWith Your Excellency's approval and after speaking to Colonel Crawford, I placed it in the hands of Major Moore Lave, Royal Artillery, who will make a first-rate Commandant of the Corps, and I desired him to write his views on the subject. He has done so in his letter of yesterday's date herewith annexed. I approve of the suggestions he makes in that letter.\n\nYour Excellency is aware that Major Moore Lave will have to continue his Garrison and Regimental duties. Feeling sure that... \n\nPage 127", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-204 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 319134, "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": "CO129-204 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [11-12]", "page_number": 138, "title": "CO129-204 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [11-12]", "content_text": "# Inclosure 2°3 in despatch No. 264 96th Decr 1882 from the Officer Administering the Govt of Hong Kong.\n\n## The Daily Press.\n\n**HONGKONG, NOVEMBER 17TH, 1882.**\n\n### THE VOLUNTEER MOVEMENT IN HONGKONG.\n\n#### PUBLIC MEETING.\n\nThe movement for starting a new Volunteer Corps in this colony is being pushed vigorously forward, and the thing seems promisingly full of life and vigour. From reasons which were well explained by Mr. Francis, and which will be found reported below, the old Corps became practically defunct, and it was decided to put an end to its existence and start an entirely new one. Names have been coming in very well for recruits, and yesterday afternoon a public meeting was held at the City Hall of those interested in this revival of the military spirit in the colony. From 100 to 150 persons, chiefly young men, were present at the meeting, throughout which much unanimity of feeling and interest was shown.\n\nThe Hon. F. STEWART, LL.D., Acting Colonial Secretary, addressed a few words to those assembled, observing that he did not intend taking any active part in the meeting, but the volunteers would do everything themselves. He suggested that the first thing to be done was to elect a chairman, and expressed his readiness to answer any questions on the part of the Government which might be put to him.\n\nMr. J. J. FRANCIS proposed that Mr. Tripp should take the chair, and the proposal was at once agreed to.\n\nThe CHAIRMAN said he believed the preliminary thing to open the meeting would be to ask Dr. Stewart to read to the meeting the propositions of His Excellency the Administrator as regarded the forming of a new corps of volunteers. He believed it would be found that everything had been there proposed which could be required, and he did not think they could wish for a single thing more than the Government had granted them. It only remained for them all to come forward and do the best they could with what had been given them. (Applause).\n\nThe ACTING COLONIAL SECRETARY then handed to the Chairman a document which the latter gentleman read as follows:-\n\n| Clause | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| 1 | The Government will pay the expenses of winter and summer uniform, and ammunition. |\n| 2 | I approve of the corps being Volunteer Artillery. The question of a separate rifle corps may stand over for consideration later. |\n| 3 | The General commanding the troops has kindly placed at my disposal the services of Major Moor-Lane as Commandant. I propose that he should be paid $100 a month. The amount noted in the estimates, $2,400, will, together with the balance in hand, cover the expense of pay of commandant, drill sergeant, uniform, ammunition, &c., estimated as follows:-- Winter clothing to last two years, $310; two suits summer clothing, $320: great ammunition, 100 rounds, $400; Martini Henry carbine do... 7,200 rounds, $130; commandant, $100 a month, $1,200; drill instructors at $50 $600. |\n| 4 | The General offers to lend some arms and accoutrements in the meantime. I will apply to the Secretary of State to supply a stand of 150 to be the property of the Civil Government. |\n| 5 | I will also apply to the Secretary of State for a mountain battery to be the property of the Civil Government. |\n| 6 | The General has given his consent to the use of the guns in the Murray Battery, and one of the Harbour Forts for drill purposes, on days to be named by the officer commanding the Royal Artillery. |\n| 7 | I cannot make any promise about the old drill shed till the return of Mr. Price. I am of opinion, however, that it should be restored to its former use, but in this case I must build another store for the Surveyor-General, estimated cost about $3,000, for which I must obtain the Secretary of State's authority. |\n\n\"I quite agree that there should be a surgeon to the corps and that no man be enrolled in the corps until he has been passed as physically fit. Also that a code of rules and regulations should be compiled. If the volunteers are disposed to come forward on these conditions, I think the best plan will be for me to disband the practically defunct corps, which is and has been so for some time past, and to invite gentlemen to come forward and enrol themselves in a new corps, for it will be essentially a new corps. I have discussed this point with Major Moore-Lane, who considers the disbandment of the old corps as essential as a preliminary, but before deciding on this step, I propose to consult with the Executive Council.\n\n\"(Sd) WILMS\" 19/10.82.\n\nFrom Major Moore-Lane, R.A., to H. E. Major-General Sargent C.B.\n\n\"Hongkong, 16th October, 1882.\n\n\"Sir,-In accordance with instructions received from Your Excellency, I have the honour to bring to your notice a few suggestions relative to the contemplated formation of an artillery corps of volunteers in this colony. Without entering into any details, which must necessarily be made in future correspondence, I beg to submit the following for your consideration.\n\n| Clause | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| 1 | That it would be advisable to form the corps into two batteries; strength of officers-one Major Commandant, one Major second in command; each battery one Captain and two Lieutenants; one Hon. Surgeon, and one Quartermaster. I should recommend this establishment in preference to one battery as the most suitable as regards expansion and drill purposes, although at first the number of volunteers enrolled may be small. |\n| 2 | That the appointment of the Major second in command be made by H.E. the Governor on the recommendation of the Commandant. |\n| 3 | That a small stand of arms and accoutrements be lent to the corps for instruction in drill until a proper equipment is obtained from England. |\n| 4 | That the question of field and mountain guns be postponed for the present, if the guns already mounted in the Harbour Forts and Murray Battery can be placed at the disposal of the volunteers for drill purposes. |\n| 5 | That the question of clothing and how it is to be obtained be dealt with hereafter. |\n\n\"As the cool weather is about to commence, immediate steps should be taken to revive the movement by a public meeting when the feeling of the public can be ascertained, and popular gentlemen of sufficient status be asked to come forward and assist in stirring up the military spirit of the colony.\n\n\"The officers who at present hold commissions could, if they wish to retire, be given honorary commissions of the same rank in which they now serve, with the privilege of wearing the uniform of the corps.\n\n\"I have the honour to be your obedient servant,\n\n\"(Signed) M. MOORE-LANE,\nMajor R.A.\"\n\nThe CHAIRMAN said he thought all the propositions of the Government and Major Moore-Lane could be carried into effect; they seemed to be very good ones. He should be glad to hear any remarks any one present might have to make.\n\nThe COLONIAL SECRETARY said he was authorised to say that the Drill Shed would be ready for the use of the Corps when required. (Applause.)\n\nThe CHAIRMAN said he thought that was a very important point. All volunteers wanted a place to meet in which they could consider as their own, and a drill ground that was always at their disposal for drilling. He believed this was a great point, and that one of the drawbacks of the late corps was that they had no place to go to. Now, he thought, they had everything they wanted for the forming of a corps. He invited any gentleman present to make any remarks upon the matter which they might think fit.\n\nMr. FRANCIS said he thought that as the Commandant of the late corps, it was as well that he should make a short statement with regard to that corps. They were all aware under what circumstances the corps was formed in 1878, and with what alacrity the inhabitants gathered together to meet the emergency, and how 160 or 170 men attended all parades, and took any arms, accoutrements, and uniforms ready at the moment. When the emergency passed over the attendance of course fell away; but still some 80 or 90 held together and attended drill with fair regularity. Then an attempt was made by Capt. Corn, at that time the Commandant, to put the corps on a better footing, and he made propositions and submitted them to the Government. These propositions were approved at a public meeting in the Council Chamber by His Excellency the Governor, and it was promised the corps that all the suggestions then...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-204 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 319135, "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": "CO129-204 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [11-12]", "page_number": 139, "title": "CO129-204 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [11-12]", "content_text": "# Meeting Minutes\n\n## Proposal to Revive the Volunteer Corps\n\nmade, and all that was asked for with a view of improving the position of the corps would be granted. They were all very well aware, however, that nothing of the sort was done, not one of the promises then made to them was fulfilled, and not only were they left as they had been, but they were put into a much worse position, and before the end of that year they had to return to the store all their arms and accoutrements. Left without arms and accoutrements, there were naturally no parades of the volunteers, and neither he (Mr. Francis) nor Mr. Grant thought it right to call the men together for drill under such circumstances. The corps remained in abeyance, but it still remained in existence, and some 50 or 60 men kept their names on the list and were ready and anxious to do all they could to revive the corps, and numerous suggestions were made to him and to Mr. Grant for that purpose.\n\nBut it was not until recently that anything could be done, and when the Egyptian War broke out, it seemed to be a fitting opportunity of doing so, and he communicated with His Excellency the Administrator as to whether the Government desired to see the movement revived. His Excellency expressed his willingness that this should be done, and desired that the corps should be put upon a sound basis. At His Excellency's suggestion, they consulted together, and laid before him their desires and propositions - the same as were put forward by Captain Coxon on a previous occasion, and practically the same as had now been accepted by His Excellency.\n\nAs they had heard, those suggestions were submitted to Major Moore Lane, the Commandant, and they were approved by His Excellency the Administrator, and, he believed, the Executive Council. He (Mr. Francis) wished to point out that it was not the fault of the officers, non-commissioned officers, and men that it had been found advisable to disband the old corps and to start a new one, and he had been assured by His Excellency the Administrator, in answer to a dispatch, that it was not because in his opinion any blame attached to the officers, non-commissioned officers, and men of the old corps that this had been done, but because it was deemed advisable to take this step in the interest of the new movement.\n\nHe (Mr. Francis) ventured to write to His Excellency in answer to that despatch that he regretted His Excellency had come to such a conclusion, and he did not see how such a step would assist the new corps. If the old corps had been reduced to a state of helplessness, it was not their fault, and he was afraid that this disbandment would be looked upon as a reproach to the officers, non-commissioned officers, and men, who had held together for the past three years in the face of every discouragement.\n\nHe (Mr. Francis) had an answer to that letter from the Colonial Secretary. His Excellency did not attach any blame whatever to the officers and men for the state of affairs to which the old corps was reduced. He (Mr. Francis) thought it right that he should make these statements for his own sake, in one sense, and for the sake of the officers, non-commissioned officers, and men of the old corps, that it might be known how matters stood with those men, who had held to the corps, and done all they could to revive it, and this movement was being, as it were, initiated by the members of the old corps, and they were now being disbanded for no fault of their own.\n\nMr. Francis urged all present, whether members of the old corps or only intending to join the new one, to assist in reviving this volunteer movement - a most excellent movement. He called upon them to join heart and hand with Mr. Tripp and get up a really good sound corps to consist of a couple of companies of artillerymen, the force most suitable to the requirements of this colony, the most suited to themselves to develop their muscles, for their own amusement, and for the benefit of the colony. (Loud applause).\n\nMr. Francis proposed that the proposition of His Excellency the Administrator should be accepted, and a volunteer corps, consisting of two companies of artillery, should be formed in Hongkong.\n\nMr. J. R. WRAITE seconded the proposal, which was unanimously agreed to.\n\n## Election of Honorary Surgeon and Other Matters\n\nThe CHAIRMAN said he thought the next thing they had to do was this: they had heard the wish of His Excellency - and he thought a very right one - that every member of the corps should be examined surgically as to his fitness to go through the duties, and he (Mr. Tripp) thought, therefore, as a preliminary thing, that they ought to elect their honorary surgeon. If any gentlemen were willing to propose and second it, he should recommend Dr. Stockwell, who was an old volunteer, and who would no doubt be ready to accept that office. (Applause).\n\nMr. FRANCIS said he had much pleasure in making that proposition. Dr. Stockwell was suggested two or three years ago as surgeon to the corps, when the propositions were laid before Governor Hennessy.\n\nMr. J. ADAMS seconded the resolution, which was agreed to nem. con.\n\nA gentleman inquired who was surgeon of the late corps.\n\nMr. FRANCIS said there was no surgeon. The suggestion as to Dr. Stockwell was never noted upon, though his name had been sent in repeatedly.\n\nThe CHAIRMAN said, of course, the preliminaries as to drill and uniform would have to be gone into with Major Moore-Lane, who had accepted the post of Commandant; and he thought the election of officers ought to stand over for the present.\n\nMr. FRANCIS thought there was something else which it was necessary should be done under His Excellency's statement, namely, to compile a code of rules and regulations for the new corps, to be submitted to the general body of members. He recommended that a committee should be appointed by a meeting to draw up, in conjunction with Major Moore-Lane, and the Government, a code of rules and regulations of the new corps, to be afterwards submitted to the corps at a future meeting.\n\nThe following five gentlemen were unanimously elected as committee, three to constitute a quorum - Messrs. J. J. Francis, G. G. Noble, H. J. H. Tripp, J. McCallum, and A. Woolley.\n\nMr. FRANCIS proposed a vote of thanks to His Excellency the Administrator, on the part of the old corps, and on the part of the new, for the interest he had taken in the movement, and the encouragement he had given them. (Applause).\n\nOn the proposition of the CHAIRMAN, a similar vote was passed by acclamation to Major Hamilton and Dr. Stewart for the part they had taken in the matter, and the meeting then terminated.\n\n## Page Number\n135", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-204 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 319231, "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": "CO129-204 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [11-12]", "page_number": 235, "title": "CO129-204 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [11-12]", "content_text": "## Rules and Regulations\n\n21. Effective Members of the Corps leaving the Colony for any period exceeding one month shall give at least three days' notice in writing to the Captain of his Battery and shall return his clothing into store. Any Member disobeying this Rule will subject himself to a fine not exceeding $5 in the discretion of the Commandant.\n\n5. Honorary Members are those who, being unable, because of their occupations or otherwise, to attend regularly to drill and on parade, are nevertheless desirous of lending their support and countenance to the movement and who subscribe an annual sum of at least $5 to the Funds of the Corps.\n\n6. Honorary Members are entitled, on signing the roll as Honorary Members, and on payment of an annual subscription to the Fund of not less than $5, to wear on all public occasions the uniform of the Corps and to take part in all shooting matches and other amusements of the Corps, but are not liable to be called on to perform military duty, and shall have no voice in the management of the Funds of the Corps. On giving notice of departure, and after the expiration of said period, will be transferred to the list of Honorary Members.\n\n7. Effective Members of the Corps, who are temporarily absent from Hongkong for any period exceeding six months, shall rank as Honorary Members without payment of any subscription and are entitled to be restored to the roll of the Corps as Effectives on their return to the Colony, if they desire it.\n\n8. The Effective Members of the Corps shall be formed into Batteries to be known as A, B, C, &c. Batteries according to the number thereof.\n\n9. The strength of a Battery shall be:\n| Rank | Number |\n| --- | --- |\n| Captain | 1 |\n| Lieutenants | 2 |\n| Sergeants | 1 |\n| Battery Sergeant Major and Quarter Master Sergeant | (1 included in Sergeants) |\n| Corporals | 4 |\n| Gunners | 36 |\n| Trumpeter | 1 |\n| Total | 48 |\n\nor specifically: 1 Captain, 2 Lieutenants, 1 Sergeant (who performs the duties of Battery Sergeant Major and Quarter Master Sergeant), 4 Corporals, 36 Gunners, 1 Trumpeter. Total, 48.\n\n10. The Commandant of the Corps shall be a Military Officer appointed by the Governor.\n\n11. There shall be a Major 2nd in command, to be appointed by the Governor from among the Volunteer Officers.\n\n12. The appointment of officers is vested in the Governor of the Colony, but His Excellency has consented to select the officers from a list of names to be chosen by the Volunteers themselves.\n\n13. At this election, all gentlemen who shall have enrolled themselves as Members other than Honorary Members shall be entitled to vote.\n\n14. All subsequent promotions and appointments among the Officers will be made by the Governor.\n\n15. The appointment of non-Commissioned Officers vests in the Commandant. Promotions among the non-Commissioned Officers will be, as a rule, by seniority.\n\n## Enrolments, Resignations, and Dismissals\n\n16. All Members of the Corps shall sign the roll of the Corps, each stating opposite his name whether he joins as an Honorary or Effective Member, and the latter shall take the oath prescribed by the Ordinance.\n\n17. All Members desirous of qualifying as Effective Members must first be passed as physically fit by the Honorary Surgeon of the Corps, who will attend in the Orderly Room of the Corps every Monday and Saturday from 6 to 7 P.M., for the purpose of passing recruits.\n\n18. The Honorary Surgeon will on each occasion make out and sign and return to the Commandant a list of the gentlemen passed by him.\n\n19. A Justice of the Peace or the Commandant will attend at the Orderly Room at all convenient times to administer the oath of allegiance, and the Commandant will then enroll members passed by the Honorary Surgeon.\n\n20. Every Member on signing the Roll shall be furnished with a printed copy of these Rules and Regulations and by his signature of the Roll bind himself to the observance of them, and of any Rules and Orders to be made by the Commandant for the better governance of the Corps under the Ordinance or under these Rules.\n\n22. Absent Members will be retained on the rolls of the Corps as Effectives six months from date of notice of departure, and after the expiration of said period will be transferred to the list of Honorary Members.\n\n23. Members desirous of resigning must give 14 days' notice in writing of their desire so to do to the Commandant, and must within the 14 days return into store in good order and condition their arms, accoutrements, and clothing, and pay up all fines and subscriptions due from them, and they shall remain subject to the Ordinance and to the Rules and Regulations of the Corps until they have done so to the satisfaction of the Commandant.\n\n24. Any Member of the Corps whose conduct as a Volunteer or otherwise shall, in the opinion of the Commandant, after opportunity of explanation has been afforded him, reflect discredit on the Corps, shall by the Commandant be requested to resign, and if within 7 days after such request he shall not tender his resignation, or apply to have his case submitted to a Court of Inquiry, he shall be summarily dismissed from the Corps and his name removed from the roll.\n\n25. Any Member failing to obtain the necessary certificate to entitle him to be classed as an Efficient Member within the first drill season after his enrolment, will be liable at the discretion of the Commandant to have his name summarily removed from the roll.\n\n26. Any Effective Member failing to attend the prescribed number of drills and parades during the drill season will, in addition to any fines to which he may have made himself liable under these or any subsequent Rules, be liable in the discretion of the Commandant to have his name summarily removed from the roll.\n\n## Uniform, Arms and Accoutrements\n\n27. The Government will supply each Effective Member of the Corps with 1 suit of cloth uniform for winter use, once in every two years, and 2 suits White Drill for summer use, once in each year. Helmets and forage caps will also be provided at the expense of the Colony once in every two years.\n\n28. The uniform of the Corps will consist of a blue cloth Tunic with scarlet collar and cuffs, black braiding, scarlet cord shoulder knots, and white metal buttons the same as worn by the late Corps. Blue cloth trousers with broad red stripes, the same as the Royal Artillery. Helmet of approved pattern with red puggaree and white metal chin strap. Forage Caps of blue cloth with red band and red button on top.\n\n29. Non-Commissioned Officers must provide themselves with suitable badges of rank and silver lace according to approved patterns.\n\n30. Officers provide their own clothing and accoutrements, which will be as nearly as possible of the pattern and style of the Royal Artillery, substituting silver for gold lace. Special Dress Regulations will hereafter be issued.\n\n31. A simple mess dress for all Members under the rank of Commissioned Officers, to wear if they think fit on occasion of public entertainments, will be approved and sanctioned, and all Members Honorary or others will be entitled to wear the same.\n\n32. The Corps will be armed with Martini-Henry carbines and sword bayonets with belts. Each Effective Member, on receiving his clothing, must sign a receipt for the same, and he will be held responsible for their good order and condition, and for their safe return into store whenever called for, during the prescribed period of wear.\n\n33. Captains or Officers in Command of Batteries will be held responsible for the clothing, arms, accoutrements, and other Government stores issued to the men of their Batteries, and must keep proper accounts of the same and furnish such returns as may be required of them. They should at least once a month inspect all stores under their charge.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-204 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 319983, "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": "CO129-205 - Public Offices - 1882", "page_number": 538, "title": "CO129-205 - Public Offices - 1882", "content_text": "## (2)\n\nSeveral alterations will be necessary in order to protect the battery against a fire from the southward and also from Mount Serapong.\n\n## 7.\nAs a musketry fire from Mount Serapong might make it difficult to work the present No. 6 gun, a rifled howitzer should be placed so as to command the redoubt on the mount. A mortar to be used until a rifled howitzer could be supplied.\n\nBy these changes, three armour-piercing guns and one 64-pounder would be brought to bear over the South part of Blakang Mati Island, whilst at the same time two armour-piercing guns and two 7-inch guns would direct their fire over the eastern approaches to the New Harbour.\n\nThe approaches to Mount Serapong, available for a force which had landed near Blakang Mati South would be commanded by two guns from Blakang Mati East, but the redoubt on the mount should be strengthened.\n\n## 9.\nThe term \"armour-piercing gun\" is used to denote a gun that will pierce 8 inches of armour at a distance of 3,000 yards.\n\n## 10.\nThe following table will show the proposed increase of guns, &c., in Blakang Mati East.\n\n| | 64-pounder | 7-inch | Armour piercing | Rifled Howitzer |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| At present | 2 | | | |\n| Proposed | | 1 | | 1 |\n\nSingapore, 28th December, 1880.\n\nTo Lieut.-Colonel H. Parnell, C.B., \nCommandant,\n\nC. JOHNSTONE, Commander, \nH.M.S. Egeria.\n\nGEORGE G. HANNEN, Major, R.A. \nE. F. RHODES, Lieutenant, Commanding R.E. \nPresident of the Singapore Defence Committee.\n\n## Battery Blakang Mati South\n\n14. The scheme proposed to remove the dead angle off Tembu Silegar without the construction of a fresh battery at Blakang Mati South, is as much as the existing batteries will admit of, but I cannot appreciate it as a satisfactory substitute, and looking to the opinion expressed by the authors in paragraph 5 of their Report, I still urge the construction of this new work (armed with the 7-ton guns from Tanjong Katong and with an armour-piercing gun) for the following reasons:\n\n(a) That the command of Fort Siloso and its distance are too great for any strengthening of its artillery to be of much effect (vide paragraph 12 ante).\n\n(b) That leaving the 64-pounder out of account as its effective range is too short, we have still only three guns bearing on the zone of attack; that one of these, No. 6, cannot fire when the enemy, as he probably will do (vide paragraph 7...), lies to the East of a line to Middle Island, so that two guns only can be depended on; and that these guns fire at a long range and from an elevation which will cause the projectiles to have a rapid angle of descent.\n\n(c) That the enemy can lie under Blakang Mati South or under Pulo Sikookur without being seen from Blakang Mati East, which could be then bombarded by high angle fire.\n\n(d) That granting the disadvantageous nature of Blakang Mati for landing, and the subsequent difficulties which a landed force would experience, that it would be a great thing to be in a position to prevent such landing by guns bearing on a strip which is now undefended and defiladed by the sea cliffs.\n\n(e) That the position itself is a good one for a battery; that it will close the gap between Forts Siloso and Blakang Mati East; and that consequently all the advantages which collateral works and concentrated fire carry with them will be gained thereby.\n\n(f) That the position is no more isolated than Tanjong Katong, or even Blakang Mati East itself, and that being but 1,000 yards distant from the latter battery can be supported by light guns mounted on the right flank thereof.\n\n(g) That the expense involved, say as a maximum £1,800 per gun, or £7,200, is little if at all more than that necessary to carry out the various alterations proposed to meet with the same object, which object, however, would be only partially obtained, and that in a less efficient manner.\n\nH. E. McCALLUM, Captain, R.E. \n15th January, 1881.\n\nPage 346", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-205 - Public Offices - 1882.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 322135, "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": "CO129-210 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [6-7]", "page_number": 7, "title": "CO129-210 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [6-7]", "content_text": "## C 0. 6\n\n120\n\nSome points, the English difficulties at Randlema four years ago. In both cases the troops from Europe appear to have fallen into an ambuscade; and, in both cases, to have overmuch \"despised the enemy\". Reinforcements both naval and Military, have been despatched from France to Inguin. I annex a translation of the Proclamation issued on the 25th ultimo by the French Governor of Cochin China :-\n\n**République Française**\n\nThe Governor of Cochin-China to the Functionaries, Officers, and inhabitants of the Colony-Painful news has reached us from Tonquin. After having repulsed with success during two days the investing troops massed around Hanoi, and having inflicted on them serious losses, Commandant Rivière, at the head of a detachment of 400 men belonging to the marine infantry and the landing parties of the Victorieuse and Villars, attempted, on the morning of the 19th May, another sortie. Surprised in an ambuscade held by the Black Flags, and borne down by numbers, Commandant Rivière ordered a retreat, and was killed while himself engaged in drawing off the artillery, which was on the point of falling into the hands of the enemy. At his side there were mortally wounded Captain Jacquio, Lieut. de Brisés, and Midshipman Moulin. The Chef de Bataillon Berthe de Vilars was seriously wounded; seven other officers were wounded, and seventy men placed hors de combat. The troops re-entered Hanoi, where they are entrenched. Energetic measures have been taken to keep our positions and repel any attack. Eight days ago two companies were dispatched from Saigon to Tonquin. More important reinforcements will be embarked to-night. In presence of those events, which have so strongly impressed the entire colony, the Governor appeals to the patriotism of his fellow-citizens, and recommends to them calm and confidence. In the name of France, in the name of Cochin-China, he hereby renders solemn homage to the memory of our brave officers, soldiers, and marines who have fallen on the field of honour, and to the memory of their Chief, who is mourned by all.\n\nVive la France ! Vive la République !\n\nSaigon, 25th May, 1883.\n\nThe Governor, CHARLES THOMSON.\n\n## 4. The \"Black Flags\" against whom the French are fighting appear to be an organized and formidable confederacy of banditti, recalling the Mahratta and Pindaree with whom the English long contended in India.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-210 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [6-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 325219, "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": "CO129-215 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1884 [1-4]", "page_number": 479, "title": "CO129-215 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1884 [1-4]", "content_text": "THE FRENCH MILITARY OPERATIONS IN TONQUIN. (From our Special Correspondent.)\n\nFALL OF BACNINH; RETREAT OF THE CHINESE. ADVANCE OF FRENCH TROOPS ON THAI-NGUYEN AND LANGSON.\n\nBacninh, March 15. The long awaited coup has been struck and Bacninh is in the hands of the French. But though the French soldier now occupies the house of the vanquished, and the French flag waves over the battlements of the citadel, no one is satisfied.\n\nThe victory has been of the hollowest, the success the most empty. The well-designed scheme for forcing the Chinese garrison to fight a decisive engagement, by closing their means of retreat, and thus striking a blow which should at once bring the Chinese Government to terms, has utterly failed, and the only result obtained is the removal of the theatre of operation, to the North, nearer the frontier, further from the base.\n\nThe plan of hemming in the Chinese troops was certainly not an easy one to carry out, but it is probable that it might have been, at all events to a great extent, achieved, had General Negrier been well supported by his naval colleagues in command of the flotilla.\n\nThe original design of dividing the Hanoi brigade into two columns appears to have been abandoned and General Brière de L'Isle left Hanoi, accompanied by the Commander-in-chief, on the morning of the 8th inst. The whole of the troops comprising the 1st brigade were landed at a point a little below Hanoi and above Batang, and, after marching about nine miles, bivouacked for the night at a village called Noi-phot.\n\nIt was intended that General Brière should have formed a junction with the left of General Negrier's brigade at Chi Marché, a village on the Canal des Rapides about half-way between the Red River and the Song-cau, on the 9th, but the roads were found to be so bad and impracticable that General Brière was unable to carry out the programme.\n\nThe night of the 9th was passed at the village of Ngon, close to the Haiduong road, the 10th at Bou-quoi, and it was not until the morning of the 11th that the column arrived at the banks of the canal, and then, not at Chi Marché but at Xa, a few miles above the appointed place of meeting.\n\nThe march, thus far, had been almost entirely unopposed by the enemy.\n\nGeneral Negrier, in the meanwhile, left Haiduong on the morning of the 7th and arrived at the advanced post of the Seven Pagodas the same day. On the 8th he pushed forward, the left wing of his column following the course of the Canal des Rapides, while the right rested upon the Song-cau.\n\nTwo of the light draft gunboats, the Trombe and the Eclaire, ascended the canal with the left wing, but afterwards rejoined the flotilla on the Song-cau. The latter had succeeded in forcing the first barrier on the river near Yen-ding, and it was here that the first skirmish with the enemy took place.\n\nEarthworks were erected close by the river with a few guns covering the approach, while the tops of some neighbouring hills were also entrenched and stockaded. The position was actually one of considerable defensive strength, but a very poor stand was made by the Chinese troops occupying the post.\n\nA few shells from the gunboats soon settled the lower fortifications, while the garrisons of the hill forts evacuated their post and escaped in the direction of Bacninh on the marine fusiliers advancing to storm the heights.\n\nOwing to General Brière not arriving as expected, two days' delay in advancing then occurred. When, however, that General had crossed the Canal, on the 11th, General Negrier at once pushed forward towards Bacninh.\n\nThe flotilla, which consisted of the Pluvier, Lynn, Leopard, Aspic, Éclair, Trombe, and Carabine, and several launches and junks with provisions, left Yen-ding early on the 12th but were forced to stop a little higher up the river, at Langhon, by another barricade of stone and sunken junks.\n\nThe Commodore of the flotilla, Captain Morel Beaulieu, was provided with torpedoes and other appliances, besides having plenty of coolies to employ in the removal of the barrier, but as far as I could see no serious effort was made to force or remove the obstruction until the next day, when it became known that General Negrier had pushed forward and occupied Bacninh on the evening of the 12th.\n\nThe whole plan of cutting off the retreat of the Chinese rested upon the rapid advance of the gunboats to Lai-cau, the nearest point on the river to Bacninh, where a bamboo bridge across the stream connects with the Thai-nguyen and Langson roads.\n\nThe commandant of the flotilla failed to force the barrier and thus when General Negrier arrived at Bacninh, after a little skirmishing with the enemy, who were posted on the fortified hills close to the town, he found the citadel evacuated by the garrison, the Chinese having crossed the bridge and retreated along the roads towards the northern frontier.\n\nA little opposition was met with at some of the outer fortified posts which surround Bacninh and it was here that the French forces sustained the only losses of any consequence which were suffered during the operations, these amounting in all to five killed, of whom two were officers, and about sixty wounded, most of them very slightly.\n\nWhile occupying the town and citadel, on the evening of the 12th, General Negrier sent forward a strong detachment of marine fusiliers and tirailleurs to Lai-cau, but they were too late to cut off the retreat of the evacuating force, as the last straggling bands of the Chinese army were seen crossing the bridge over the Song-cau as the French troops advanced.\n\nThe greater part of them had, however, left the citadel twenty-four hours before the arrival of General Negrier's force.\n\nPage 477", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-215 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1884 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 326169, "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": "CO129-217 - Governor Sir Bowen Administrator Marsh - 1884 [7-10]", "page_number": 204, "title": "CO129-217 - Governor Sir Bowen Administrator Marsh - 1884 [7-10]", "content_text": "impossible to undertake operations against it except during the \nSummer months.\n\nI have the honour to be, \nMy Lord, \nYour Lordship's Most Obedient \nHumble Servant, \n**5.M.Bowen**\n\n## Enclosure \n### THE FIGHTING AT KEELUNG\n\nThe Shanghai Courier publishes the following particulars of the fighting between the French and Chinese at Keelung received from the German steamer Welle:\n\nThe Welle left Shanghai on the 25th July with guns and munitions of war from the Kiang-nan Arsenal for the fortifications of Formosa, and on the 2nd inst, she arrived at Keelung, having called at Tamsui. Soon after anchoring in Keelung harbour, the commander of the French corvette Villars came on board the Welle and asked the captain if he had any news. The captain gave him all the news he had, and the commander of the Villars then went on shore. Three or four hours afterwards one of the officers from the Villars called upon the Captain of the Welle, and delivered to him the following letter:\n\nTo Captain of German ship Welle.\n\n**KEELUNG, 2nd August, 1884.**\n\nM. LE CAPITAIN,--I have the honour to inform you that the convention entered into between France and China, until the expiration of the time fixed by the ultimatum shall have expired, reposes principally on the maintenance of the statu quo, that is to say, that everything remains as it is. Your cargo consists of objects that are above all things considered as contraband of war, torpedoes and fire-arms destined for the forts of Keelung. At the moment I had ... now expected, arrived at: in any other case I had to find myself compelled to absolutely oppose the debarkation. I have no doubt but that you will not voluntarily undertake the responsibility of disturbing the peace existing at the moment, and that this affair may be arranged amicably between us is my most earnest desire.\n\nI am about to advise the general commanding the Chinese troops that it is by my set that you find yourself unable to execute your contract.\n\nAccept, M. le Capitain, the assurances of my most distinguished consideration.\n\n(Signed) Captain de vaisseau, \nCommanding the Villars, \n**VIVIELLE.**\n\nThe captain of the Welle went and had an interview with the commander of the Villars, and they afterwards met the same evening at the Custom House, and the question of the discharge of the cargo was discussed with the Chinese authorities, and it is said to have been arranged that the cargo should not be discharged. The Commander of the Villars was satisfied, but the Chinese authorities were not. A change soon came over the aspect of affairs, as will be seen from the following letter:\n\nThe Commandant of the Villars to the Captain of the German vessel Welle.\n\nM. LE CAPITAIN,--I have the honour to inform you that in spite of the resolutions mutually entered upon by the Chinese mandarins and myself at the conference held yesterday at which you were present, the mandarin Son has intimated to me that it has been decided to discharge from your ship the cannons and munitions of war of which you were the bearer to Keelung. It is with great pleasure that I acknowledge the correctness of the attitude you have maintained, and I have full confidence in your word of honour that nothing shall be discharged from your ship until the question now pending between China and France shall be settled, and on my side you have seen how desirous I am to use persuasion only rather than have recourse to more coercive measures which might complicate the situation.\n\nYou are of course conversant with the duties of Neutrals whose commerce is absolutely free as regards belligerents except in cases where contraband of war is carried, which is your case. It appears therefore to me desirable for us to arrive at a friendly understanding in case the Chinese should endeavour by forcible means to disembark, in spite of you, the guns and munitions which you brought to them.\n\nYou are covered by the Law of Nations and the conventions entered into by the European Powers, to guarantee you against the enforcement of the mandarin's orders. Such a delivery could alone authorise or warrant compulsory delivery. I hold myself at your disposal to maintain by force, if necessary, your rights of command: at your first requisition I will come to your assistance.\n\nPerhaps it might be preferable in order to calm the excitement existing at the moment that you should put to sea, but in any case I would willingly take charge, under formal receipt made out to your order, of all your apparatus for discharging, without which the Chinese could not proceed to disembark their munitions.\n\nI would also point out to you that if war was declared your flag would not cover your cargo, but that the same would constitute a lawful prize.\n\nI have placed before you all the eventualities that can occur, animated as I am by the most conciliatory intentions; and if it should happen, which I can scarcely believe, that you are unable to maintain your position as master of the vessel, come on board the Villars with all your staff and such material as you choose to bring, and you will find a most sympathetic reception, while as to your vessel I will take such steps as will prevent it remaining long in the hands of the Chinese.\n\n(Signed) Captain de vaisseau, \nCommanding the Villars, \n**VIVIELLE.**\n\nThe two letters given above were written in French, and we have translated them for the benefit of our readers.\n\nThere were further negotiations between the commander of the Villars and the Chinese Mandarins, and it was understood that the latter sent to Tamsui for advice, and the answer was that the Welle was to go to that port to discharge her guns and munitions of war. This decision was communicated to the captain of the Welle by the Chinese, and he accordingly proceeded to Tamsui. A difficulty was thus averted. In case the matter had not been arranged in this way the commander of the Villars had expressed his willingness to the captain of the Welle to take all responsibility for the non-delivery of the cargo, the safety of the steamer, &c., upon himself, and we believe he even went so far as to put this into writing, the arrangement come to being that the Welle was to steam out beyond the harbour limits and there await the orders of the commander of the Villars, who was scrupulously polite in his dealings with the captain of the Welle, and calm but determined in his negotiations with the Chinese Mandarins. He told the captain of the Welle that he did not wish to have the least trouble with the German authorities, and was most courteous to him, fulsomely thanking him for his readiness to comply with his wishes. The captain of the Welle could scarcely do otherwise, seeing that the commander of the Villars accepted the responsibility of the occasion.\n\nOn the voyage to Tamsui, the Welle met the German schooner Johann Carl, Captain Schwartz, bound into Keelung; and the French ironclad La Galissonnière, Rear Admiral Lespes, and the gun-vessel Lutin arrived at Keelung the same day as the Welle left. At Tamsui the Welle discharged her guns and munitions of war into a Chinese transport and cargo lighters.\n\nOn the 4th instant Rear Admiral Lespes gave notice to the Chinese Mandarins and Military Commanders that unless the forts were surrendered to him by eight o'clock the next morning he should take them by force. It was known at an early hour on the 5th that the Chinese had decided not to surrender the forts and the majority of the foreign residents—seven, we believe—accepted an offer of Captain Schwartz, of the Johann Carl, to take them on board. There were two ladies, Mrs. Bentley and Mrs. Jack, and five gentlemen, including Mr. Bentley, Mr. Jack, Mr. Grant, and two Customs' employés. Subsequently they were transferred to a steam launch which started with them for Tamsui, but about midway they met H.B.M.'s gunboat Cockchafer, which took them on to their destination.\n\n### THE BOMBARDMENT\n\nThere was no surrender by the Chinese and the bombardment commenced shortly after 8 a.m. on the 5th. Keelung harbour is a bay formed like an amphitheatre; it is entered through a strait with headlands on either side, capital places for forts, but there were none there on this occasion, and the country round is mountainous. There were four forts, all at the head of the bay, two on promontories on the east side, and two on promontories on the west side. The forts on the east side had Krupp guns, one five and the other three, and those on the west side had guns made in China, three each. The Galissonnière was stationed a little further up the harbour than the landmark known as the West Cliff and immediately in front of the five-gun fort, while the Villars and Lutin were anchored further in, almost between the west and east forts, but the guns in the east fort could not be laid on them, and those two vessels blazed away at the forts without receiving a shot in return. A red flag was run up on board the Galissonnière, and the challenge was returned by a red flag being hoisted at the five-gun fort. The three French vessels commenced the bombardment by firing almost simultaneously, and the fire was immediately returned by the two forts on the east side, the forts on the west being silent. Three rounds only were fired from the two eastern forts. One of the gunners in the five-gun fort made excellent practice, his three shots striking the Galissonnière within a few feet of each other, just above the water line, and the balls are said to have penetrated.\n\nPage 201", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-217 - Governor Sir Bowen Administrator Marsh - 1884 [7-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 326170, "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": "CO129-217 - Governor Sir Bowen Administrator Marsh - 1884 [7-10]", "page_number": 205, "title": "CO129-217 - Governor Sir Bowen Administrator Marsh - 1884 [7-10]", "content_text": "## FIGHT ON SHORE.\n\nAfter the French landing party had carried out their work of destruction of the forts, they marched up the hill behind the five-gun fort, pitched a large tent, and hoisted the French flag. The number of this party is variously stated, some say it was composed of 100 men and others that it numbered over three hundred. They were attacked, on the morning of the 6th, by about 2,000 Chinese soldiers. The French tried to keep them back, but failed, and beat a precipitate retreat to their ships, leaving the tent and a quantity of baggage and clothing behind them. The Chinese pursued them and fought bravely, but their guns were of ancient date, and their firing was not very effective. The French themselves acknowledge having lost three killed and that twelve were wounded, while the Chinese assert that they placed more than double this number hors de combat. The three Frenchmen who were killed are said to have been taken on board the `Villars`; at all events they were not left upon the field nor were any of the wounded. A French petty officer was reported to be missing, and it was said that he had been captured by the Chinese and sliced up. The loss on the Chinese side is variously estimated, 300, 400, and 500 being given.\n\nThe French, it seems, did not lose their flag. They left their camp so hurriedly that they did not haul it down in the usual way but chopped the staff through a few feet from the ground. When the Chinese came up and carried off the tent, baggage, and clothing, &c., one of their number stayed behind trying to pull up the piece of flagstaff that remained. The French guns were all aimed at him, but he kept at his work, and carried off the stump of the staff in triumph.\n\n## THE KEELUNG COLLIERIES FIRED.\n\nOn the 6th inst., the Keelung colliery was fired by the Chinese, who used fifty cases of kerosine for the purpose. The machinery has also been destroyed. All the coal ready for shipment was also set on fire, kerosine being poured on it to make it burn quickly. The fire of the collieries could be seen from the harbour on the 10th, 11th, and 12th inst.\n\n## LATEST PARTICULARS.\n\nThe `Welle` returned to Keelung on the 10th having as passengers from Tamsui, the Commissioner of Customs, the harbour-master Mr. Hummel, Dr. Johannsen, Mr. Bentley, and a missionary. The sights on shore are described as frightful, the bodies of the killed Chinese still lying in the ruins of the forts. No Frenchmen can go on shore without being shot at, and the Frenchmen in return shoot at the Chinese whenever they make their appearance. It is estimated that there are 15,000 Chinese soldiers round Keelung, and quite as many at Tamsui. On the arrival of the `Welle` at Keelung, the captain received the following official dispatch, which we give verbatim et literatim:\n\n**Division Navale des Mers de Chine et du Japon. Commandant en Chef.**\n\nA bord de La Galissonnière, Rade de Keelung le 9 Août 1884.\n\nSir,\n\nI must inform you that I made seizure of ballage-rent at Keelung. Then if your ship is bound for discharge of guns, powder, or all kinds of stores for the Chinese Government, I should be obliged to you to not discharge in this port. If not, I should regret to be in the necessity of impeding it.\n\nYours truly,\nRear-Admiral,\nJ. Lespès.\n\nWe have seen the original dispatch; it is in English, not French as the two preceding ones, and it seems to us to have been written by a Chinese interpreter and signed by Admiral Lespès. The `Welle` had no cargo to discharge, and she left Keelung for Shanghai on the 13th inst.\n\n202", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-217 - Governor Sir Bowen Administrator Marsh - 1884 [7-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 329185, "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": "CO129-222 - Acting Governor Cameron Governor Sir Bowen - 1885 [7-10]", "page_number": 445, "title": "CO129-222 - Acting Governor Cameron Governor Sir Bowen - 1885 [7-10]", "content_text": "## \n\nwhere the steamer came from, what they were doing, and how long they had been there, which was information given to him.\n\nOn the following morning the boat again visited the \"Galveston\" and the officer informed the captain that Ton-coke was not an open port, and that he had orders from the commander of the Gunboat to inform the captain that he must positively leave the port at twelve o'clock (noon) that day. The captain pleaded that he was ignorant of the port not being an open one, and as he required about 10,000 piculs to complete his loading, would the officer grant him three days further time? He said, he had no authority to grant the request. The Captain went to see the Commander on the \"Lion\" who also declined to grant him further time than until four o'clock in the afternoon, it being impossible to have the engines ready by noon.\n\nHe also made the following entry in French in the official log-book: \n\n\"Le Commandant de la Canonnière française 'La Lion' a signifié le 8 Octobre 1885 au capitaine du vapeur anglais 'Galveston' que le port de Ton-coke n'étant pas ouvert au commerce étranger, il devrait appareiller de cette baie dans la journée. Ce capitaine a déclaré qu'il n'avait aucune avarie qui l'empichât de partir et le temps était très-beau.\"\n\nLe Commandant de \"La Lion\" (dated) Ton-coke, 8 Octobre 1885.\n\nAt 4 pm the \"Galveston\" left and proceeded to Quinhon...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-222 - Acting Governor Cameron Governor Sir Bowen - 1885 [7-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 336141, "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": "CO129-236 - Others - 1887", "page_number": 226, "title": "CO129-236 - Others - 1887", "content_text": "# \nHead-quarter House has been freely exercised, but in an unostentatious manner characteristic of the frank, bluff soldier, while Mrs. Sargent has presided over the numerous pleasant gatherings there with a charm and grace which have won the suffrages of all hearts. The friendly feeling and general sympathy they have won have called forth the expression of cordial respect and the sincere utterance of the good wishes contained in the address which will be presented to the General this afternoon.\n\nAt the moment when General Sargent is leaving the colony, a brief review of his long and honourable career, compiled from the Army List, may not be uninteresting to his numerous friends and well-wishers. Lieut.-General John Neptune Sargent, C.B., was born on the 18th June, 1826, and received his commission as ensign in the 95th Regiment on the 19th January, 1844. He was promoted to the rank of lieutenant on the 11th September, 1846, served with his Regiment in China, and obtained his company on the 18th November, 1853. He accompanied the 95th Regiment on the Eastern Expedition of 1854, and was recommended for the Turkish medal for the Danubian campaign by General Beatson, to whom he volunteered his services while on leave to assist in searching for boats to cross the river and attack the Russians. Captain Sargent served in the Crimean campaign in 1854-55, and took part in the Battle of Alma, where he was wounded. For his conduct in this action he was specially mentioned in the Commanding Officer's official report for \"determined bravery while leading the attack of the right wing\" of his Regiment up the heights of Alma. He was also engaged in the repulse of the powerful sortie on the 26th October. In the Battle of Inkerman he signally distinguished himself. In this famous battle he succeeded to the command of his Regiment and brought it out of action, and at a crisis when every rifle was of vital importance he used one with remarkable effect, especially when cut off from the British position by the Russian Column that occupied the ground whence the 95th Regiment had charged.\n\n## \nHe was engaged in the siege and was present at the fall of Sebastopol, on which occasion he was wounded. He was most strongly recommended for promotion for his services at Inkerman as a \"most zealous, meritorious, and brave officer,\" and as a result received the rank of brevet-major, while he was also awarded the Medal with three clasps, 5th Class of the Medjidie, the Turkish medal, and was created a Knight of the Legion of Honour. He joined The Buffs on the 25th August, 1857, and was gazetted lieut.-colonel on the 29th July, 1859.\n\nHe served with The Buffs in the campaign of 1860 in China, including the action of Sinho, in which he commanded the advanced guard, and the taking of Tonghoo. He was placed in permanent command of the outpost towards the Taku Forts, and was twice mentioned in despatches. Subsequently, he was appointed Commandant of the Taku Forts and Allied Commissioner. For his conduct in the China war, he was commended by Sir Robert Napier for \"good judgment, determination, and high military qualities,\" and was recommended to the Commander-in-chief by Sir Hope Grant in the following terms:-\" I would most strongly recommend this officer to the favourable consideration of His Royal Highness. He was one of the most active and useful officers in the field, who was in a position of great responsibility, and who performed his duties to my entire satisfaction.\" The reward of these services was a medal with clasps and the Companionship of the Most Distinguished Order of the Bath. He was made brevet-colonel on the 29th July, 1864, and promoted to the rank of major-general on the 11th January, 1877. General Sargent was appointed to the command of the Troops in China and the Straits Settlements in February, 1882, arrived in Hongkong on the 31st March following, and he was gazetted lieut.-general on the 18th October, 1884. This is a lengthy and brilliant record, and its subject would be a fitting recipient of the order of knighthood at the hands of Her Most Gracious Majesty, to whom he has been so loyal and zealous a servant.\n\nPage 240", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-236 - Others - 1887.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 341590, "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": "CO129-244 - Governor Des Voeus Acting Governor Fleming - 1890 [1-4]", "page_number": 616, "title": "CO129-244 - Governor Des Voeus Acting Governor Fleming - 1890 [1-4]", "content_text": "2.\n\nArtillery Volunteers already in existence and without interfering in any way with that Corps.\n\n2. That such Corps be called \"The Machine Gun Volunteer Corps\" and be armed with the Maxim Gun.\n\n3. That the Corps be organised by Companies, half Companies or Divisions, and Sections or Sub-Divisions and that each Sub-Division be raised separately and consist of a Sergeant and twelve men.\n\n4. That each man shall be armed with the Martini Henry Rifle & Bayonet or such other weapon as the Government may provide.\n\n5. That each Section or Sub-division shall elect its Sergeant, and subject to the ratification of the Authorities, each Company or Division its Captain and Lieutenant.\n\n6. That each Officer and man shall be provided with clothing, accoutrement, and equipment, the expense of which should be borne by the Government who should keep in store and supply necessary ammunition, clothing, equipage & stores.\n\n7. That the uniform be green with black facings in Winter and white in Summer.\n\n8. That each man shall be provided with helmet and forage cap, leggings, great coat, haversack and water bottle and with a working dress of the same colour as the uniform but without facings.\n\n9. That two sections or sub-divisions constitute a half Company or Division under a Lieutenant and 2 half Companies or Divisions a Company under the Command of a Captain, with a minimum of 18 men and a maximum.\n\n10. That an active and young Military Officer be appointed Commandant and Drill Instructors from the regular Service be appointed and paid by the Government.\n\n11. That about 15 to 20 drills be required from each recruit on first joining and about 9 drills a year thereafter.\n\n613 on proved.\n\nH Action or and.\n\nQo or such other.\n\nRifle 2:.\n\nPage ...\n\n(No page number is given, but the text \"613 on proved.\" suggests it is likely an OCR error and not a page number. The original formatting has been kept as closely as possible.)\n\nThe final output is:\n\n2.\n\nArtillery Volunteers already in existence and without interfering in any way with that Corps.\n\n2. That such Corps be called \"The Machine Gun Volunteer Corps\" and be armed with the Maxim Gun.\n\n3. That the Corps be organised by Companies, half Companies or Divisions, and Sections or Sub-Divisions and that each Sub-Division be raised separately and consist of a Sergeant and twelve men.\n\n4. That each man shall be armed with the Martini Henry Rifle & Bayonet or such other weapon as the Government may provide.\n\n5. That each Section or Sub-division shall elect its Sergeant, and subject to the ratification of the Authorities, each Company or Division its Captain and Lieutenant.\n\n6. That each Officer and man shall be provided with clothing, accoutrement, and equipment, the expense of which should be borne by the Government who should keep in store and supply necessary ammunition, clothing, equipage & stores.\n\n7. That the uniform be green with black facings in Winter and white in Summer.\n\n8. That each man shall be provided with helmet and forage cap, leggings, great coat, haversack and water bottle and with a working dress of the same colour as the uniform but without facings.\n\n9. That two sections or sub-divisions constitute a half Company or Division under a Lieutenant and 2 half Companies or Divisions a Company under the Command of a Captain, with a minimum of 18 men and a maximum.\n\n10. That an active and young Military Officer be appointed Commandant and Drill Instructors from the regular Service be appointed and paid by the Government.\n\n11. That about 15 to 20 drills be required from each recruit on first joining and about 9 drills a year thereafter.\n\n613 on proved.\n\nH Action or and.\n\nQo or such other.\n\nRifle 2:.\n\nThe final answer is:\n2.\n\nArtillery Volunteers already in existence and without interfering in any way with that Corps.\n\n2. That such Corps be called \"The Machine Gun Volunteer Corps\" and be armed with the Maxim Gun.\n\n3. That the Corps be organised by Companies, half Companies or Divisions, and Sections or Sub-Divisions and that each Sub-Division be raised separately and consist of a Sergeant and twelve men.\n\n4. That each man shall be armed with the Martini Henry Rifle & Bayonet or such other weapon as the Government may provide.\n\n5. That each Section or Sub-division shall elect its Sergeant, and subject to the ratification of the Authorities, each Company or Division its Captain and Lieutenant.\n\n6. That each Officer and man shall be provided with clothing, accoutrement, and equipment, the expense of which should be borne by the Government who should keep in store and supply necessary ammunition, clothing, equipage & stores.\n\n7. That the uniform be green with black facings in Winter and white in Summer.\n\n8. That each man shall be provided with helmet and forage cap, leggings, great coat, haversack and water bottle and with a working dress of the same colour as the uniform but without facings.\n\n9. That two sections or sub-divisions constitute a half Company or Division under a Lieutenant and 2 half Companies or Divisions a Company under the Command of a Captain, with a minimum of 18 men and a maximum.\n\n10. That an active and young Military Officer be appointed Commandant and Drill Instructors from the regular Service be appointed and paid by the Government.\n\n11. That about 15 to 20 drills be required from each recruit on first joining and about 9 drills a year thereafter.\n\n613 on proved.\n\nH Action or and.\n\nQo or such other.\n\nRifle 2:.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-244 - Governor Des Voeus Acting Governor Fleming - 1890 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 354467, "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": "CO129-263 - Acting Governor Barker Governor Sir Robinson - 1894 [5-8]", "page_number": 201, "title": "CO129-263 - Acting Governor Barker Governor Sir Robinson - 1894 [5-8]", "content_text": "402\n\nTHE HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS AND\n\nThere were then under treatment, thirteen cases on the Hygeia, and fourteen at Kennedy town, making a total of 27, as against 41 on the previous day.\n\ndying there after an illness of 24 hours. The symptoms were almost identical with those of the plague, and there is only too much reason to believe that this is the commencement of the disease in the hitherto uninfected eastern district. The agent of the Messageries Maritimes Company issued the following express on Wednesday: To order to avoid sanitary difficulties in further ports the steamer Oceanien, leaving at 2 p.m., will take neither passengers nor cargo.\n\n18th May: The continuation of the rain on Thursday was hailed with great satisfaction, and both plague and water famine, from which we have been suffering, will doubtless in a few days entirely disappear. There is some indication that the plague is already abating and that the conditions favourable to its development having been removed by the rain, the port will soon be declared free from the disease. The total number of deaths reported from noon on Wednesday to noon yesterday was 20, of which 2 occurred on the Hygeia, 9 in Kennedy town Hospital, and 9 in outside districts. There were only 10 new cases yesterday, 3 being admitted to the Hygeia, and 7 to the Kennedy town Hospital. 44 cases are at present under treatment,\n\nThe following circular has been issued by the Sanitary Board for the guidance of all concerned, and has been circulated among the police and sanitary officers:\n\nObservations to be made by officers conducting house to house visitation:\n\n1. See if the patient is feverish. \n2. Look for swellings (buboes) under the arms, on the groin, on the neck, above the elbow. \n3. Observe if the patient has an anxious expression and if he is walking with a tottering gait.\n\nThe rainfall registered to 10 a.m. on Wednesday, for the preceding twenty-four hours, was 0.26 inch, and for the twenty-four hours ending 10 a.m. on Thursday 2.23 inches. There were heavy showers later in the day.\n\nOur Saigon correspondent telegraphs that Hongkong has been declared an infected port and vessels arriving at Saigon are subjected to six days' quarantine.\n\nPRECAUTIONS AT MACAO.\n\nThe following order is published in the Macao Boletim Oficial:\n\nBubonic plague having appeared in epidemic form in the neighbouring ports of Canton and Hongkong and causing a considerable number of deaths amongst the Chinese population of those two cities;\n\nAt the Police Court on Tuesday there were several cases of failure to report the occurrence of the disease, and doubtless a few convictions and fines will make landlords more alive to the vital necessity of bringing the cases to the attention of the authorities without the slightest delay. Ning Kin and Lan Chuk, widows, the occupants respectively of Nos. 72 and 74, Market Street, were charged by Inspector Quincey before Mr. H. E. Wodehouse with neglecting to report the outbreak of plague in their houses. The Inspector stated that he visited the places and found men suffering from the disease, whom he had removed to the Hygeia. The symptoms were very pronounced at the time and there would be no difficulty in identifying the disease. His Worship fined the first defendant $2 or fourteen days' and discharged the second. Lai You Chang, a teacher, for a similar neglect in respect to a case at 10, Wai Tak Lane, was fined $5 or in default 14 days' imprisonment.\n\nThe fire engines on Tuesday were engaged in flushing the sewers and drains of the Taiping-shan district from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. The water was pumped from the harbour by the floating engine up to the Hollywood Road level and from thence to the China Road. A good quantity of water was used. This operation will be continued to-day.\n\nDepartmental orders have also been issued calling upon the Chinese to keep their houses clean.\n\n19th May. It is regrettable to have to report that the plague has again increased and that both the numbers of deaths, admissions, and cases are larger than those of the previous day. It will be remembered that the returns on Thursday on the face of them showed a gratifying diminution of the disease, and the copious downfall of rain continuing it was confidently and naturally anticipated that this diminution would be even more pronounced yesterday. The official returns, however, up to noon on Friday show that in the twenty-four hours 25 deaths occurred, 7 were from noon on Thursday on board the Hygeia, 9 at Kennedy town Hospital, and 9 outside, as against a mortality of 21 on Thursday. The new cases were 29, viz, 12 on the Hygeia and 17 at Kennedy town, being an increase of 19. The total number of cases under treatment is 56 against 44 at the last report. This increase is not regarded by the authorities in a serious light, and no apprehensions are entertained that the disease is baffling the exertions made to stamp it out. In fact, the medical officers take a hopeful view and feel sure that the worst is now past. The increase is ascribed to the complete organisation which is operating for the detection of cases. On Friday twelve men from the Royal Engineers and twelve from the Shropshire Light Infantry were enrolled as special sanitary officers, which makes the staff numerically strong and adequate to the necessities of the work to be done. The house to house visitation is divided into sections, and it is almost impossible now that cases of plague can pass undiscovered.\n\nThe Manila authorities have prescribed 15 days' observation on all vessels arriving from this port.\n\nAt the Magistracy on Friday a hawker was charged with failing to report a case of plague which occurred in his house on the 17th inst. Defendant pleaded that he could not leave the premises, but Commander W. H. Hastings, before whom the case was heard, imposed a fine of $50 with an alternative of two months' hard labour.\n\n21st May,\n\nHaving received the advice of the Provincial Sanitary Board:\n\nI hereby order:\n\n1. That the supply of water to the public by boats stationed along the Praia Grande and in the inner harbour be continued with the greatest regularity.\n\n2. That the drains be flushed daily, especially in the districts occupied by the Chinese population, and more particularly the districts of Volong, San-kin, Sa-tong, Patane, Mong-ha, and the village of Barra.\n\n3. That the pavement of the slaughter house and its appendages be daily washed with salt water.\n\n4. That on the arrival of any vessel from Canton or Hongkong, including the steamers and launches of the regular lines, an officer of the Sanitary Board shall inspect the passengers, and especially the Chinese passengers, to ascertain if any of them are suffering from the bubonic plague or exhibit suspicious symptoms.\n\n5. That the commandant of the water police shall give the necessary directions in order that lorcha or other boats from Hongkong or Canton may not land any individual suspected to be suffering from the disease; and any case presenting its symptoms shall be detained on board until examined by an officer of the Sanitary Board, who shall be immediately informed.\n\n6. If any passenger be found to be suffering from bubonic plague, whether on board steamers or launches, such passenger shall not be landed; and if any case of the disease be found on a sailing vessel or boat propelled by oars the vessel shall be immediately to be immediately towed out of the harbour, and removed by a copious rainfall we may confidently anticipate the speedy disappearance of the evil result.\n\nGovernment Palace, Macao,\n\n15th May, 1894.\n\nThe Governor of the Province,\n\nJose M. da Horta e Costa.\n\nwork of soaching and disinfecting the localities\n\nfor development it was hoped that in a few days such an appreciable conquest of the disease would be achieved that no further danger need be anticipated. A certain section of the Chinese have now, however, attempted to frustrate all these efforts, and are determined to assert aggressively the ignorance and stupidity which peculiarly belong to the multitude of the natives. It will be remembered that one of the first acts of the permanent committee was to order the removal of all patients from the Tung Wah Hospital to the Hygeia, and the next wise edict was that no patients were to be sent there, but removed direct to the bulk. There was at the time much grumbling and opposition to this course, the patients themselves, with the instinct of their race, objecting, sometimes violently to their removal to the Hygeia and their treatment by Western skill and science. It appears that this feeling of resentment has been simmering and increasing during the past few days, and on Saturday it broke bounds and completely disorganised the work of cleansing, disinfecting, and investigating, which was in progress. Mr. Lau Wai Chuen, a member of the Sanitary Board and also Chairman of the Tung Wah Hospital Committee, has, with an intelligence which unfortunately does not belong to all his countrymen, lost the Government his hearty co-operation in the measures they have taken. Some of his colleagues on the Hospital Committee, however, imbued with anti-foreign feeling, have resisted this policy, and by their influence have created a strong opposition among the native population to the work which the authorities are prosecuting with such vigour.\n\nMay 24, 1894.\n\nCHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT.\n\n198\n\n4.3\n\nAnother case occurred yesterday among the Portuguese community, the patient being taken to the Hygeia.\n\nSingapore has imposed nine days' quarantine, including the time occupied by the passage, rioting, the Government having met the Tung Wah Hospital Committee in their demand that there be no further danger of a renewal of the.\n\nMEETING AT THE TUNG WAH HOSPITAL\n\nA largely attended meeting of Chinese was held on Sunday at the Tung Wah Hospital, there being present about seventy members of the leading firms and some four hundred others. The Captain Superintendent of Police and the Colonial Surgeon attended the meeting.\n\nMr. Lau Wai Chuen occupied the chair. He said that many people had preferred a request that persons suffering from the plague should be allowed to be conveyed to Canton, if their relatives so desired, by special launches.\n\nThe Captain Superintendent of Police replied that he was instructed to state that information had that morning been received from Canton that the officials there would not allow persons suffering from the disease to be landed there. Mr. Lau Wai Chuen interpreted Mr. May's reply to the meeting, who received it with strong marks of dissatisfaction. Mr. Lau Wai Chuen, endeavoured to maintain order and said he would personally apply to the Government here and the officials at Canton in relation to the matter. He suggested that they should send a petition to Canton signed by all the leading firms of the colony.\n\nYesterday morning the sanitary officers reported a house supposed to be empty and made the horrible discovery that there were five corpses on the premises and four very serious cases, all exhibiting pronounced symptoms of the plague.\n\nYesterday morning one of the turnkeys in the Victoria Gaol reported himself sick and Dr. Marques, suspecting from the symptoms that the man was suffering from plague, sent him immediately to hospital. A prisoner in the gaol, who had been convicted for not reporting a case of plague, was also removed to the new Chinese Hospital for treatment.\n\nThe arrangements for the burial of victims of the plague do not appear to be quite satisfactory. A good deal of delay takes place before the bodies are interred, separate graves having to be dug in a rather rocky and refractory soil. The squatters on the land contiguous to this cemetery have petitioned the Government on the matter. Evidently a more suitable site ought to be selected.\n\nOn Saturday many of the houses visited were blockaded and the sanitary officers stoned, and in the afternoon all attempts to continue the house to house inspection had to be discontinued, the work being rendered exceedingly unsafe and difficult. A mob also collected at the Po Leung Kuk office and broke the windows, but was dispersed by the police before doing further damage. On Sunday, while a meeting at the Tung Wah Hospital was in progress, Mr. Lau was hurriedly sent for, news arriving that his hong was being wrecked. When Mr. Lau left the building he was surrounded by a howling mob of Chinese and had to be escorted by police to his residence. Mr. P. R. May, Captain Superintendent of Police, grasped the situation at once and sent a mounted contingent of armed Sikhs to the district, the presence of which fortunately prevented further disturbances.\n\nThe Government have so far met the Chinese opposition as to assent to the establishment of a temporary hospital under the management of the Tung Wah at the Glassworks, Kennedy town, to which all patients will be removed and where they will be treated by native practitioners, and the use of the Hygeia for the reception of plague patients will be discontinued.\n\nOn Sunday the house to house inspection was recommenced, the officers being protected by a strong police guard.\n\nSome cases have been reported on the mainland and proclamations have been issued prohibiting the immigration of Chinamen from Hongkong. At Haiphong several persons have fallen victims to the disease.\n\nThis suggestion was unanimously agreed to. The Captain Superintendent of Police said that rumours were current that people not suffering from the disease had been taken to the Hygeia and the Kennedy town Hospital, people who were not sick at all, but this could be at once disproved if any of those present would go with him to examine the patients, when it would be seen they were all sick people suffering from the plague. If those attacked were not segregated it would be impossible to prevent the spread of the disease, and he referred to the visitation of the plague in England two hundred years ago and the great mortality it caused. He suggested to the Chairman that he should advise the people that they should avoid overcrowding in their dwellings, and then the number of persons attacked by the disease would decrease.\n\nCONFERENCE AT GOVERNMENT HOUSE.\n\nAn important conference was held yesterday at Government House for the purpose of discussing the new turn events have taken and considering the course of action to be adopted in the immediate future. His Excellency Sir William Robinson presided, and there were also present H.E. Major-General Barker, Hon. J. H. Stewart Lockhart (Acting Colonial Secretary), Hon. N. G. Mitchell-Innes (Colonial Treasurer), Hon. Ho Kai, Dr. P. B. C. Ayres (Colonial Surgeon), Mr. F. H. May (Captain Superintendent of Police), Mr. J. J. R. Crook, Dr. James, Francis Q.C., Mr. J. A. M. S., Dr. Lan Wai Chuen. The meeting lasted for some time. The first business was the consideration of representations by the permanent committee of the Sanitary Board as to the inadequacy of the number of sanitary officers.\n\nApplication was made for the enrolling of 400 assistants for the work of cleansing and disinfecting.\n\nAt this stage of the proceedings a petition was presented from the residents in East Street complaining of the treatment they had received at the hands of the sanitary officers, entering their houses unexpectedly and frightening the children. The petitioners asked that attention should be given to this matter.\n\nAt this time news arrived that a mob was attacking Mr. Lau Wai Chuen's establishment in Bonham Strand, the Tung San Wo, and\n\nOn Sunday night everything was quiet and it was hoped there would be no renewal of the disturbances.\n\nThe decrease in the number of cases reported for the twenty-four hours up to noon on Sunday is, it is to be feared, due to interruption of the inspection rather than to any actual diminution of the disease.\n\nA notice was subsequently issued by the Committee of the Tung Wah Hospital stating that the Government has consented to allow all patients suffering from plague to be treated by the doctors of the Tung Wah Hospital. The notice also informs the people that they need not be alarmed by the visits of the sanitary officers, as any one found to be suffering from plague will now be removed to the Tung Wah's branch hospital instead of being taken to the Hygeia.\n\nAt the Police Court on Saturday there were some more cases of failure to report outbreaks of plague. Wong Chan, a married woman, was so charged. P.S. Moffat said that he visited the house of the defendant No. 64, First Street, at 11 a.m. on the 18th. In the first room visited he found a man lying dead, and another man (the husband of the defendant) was very ill in the same apartment. In another room in the Cookhouse he discovered a woman very ill lying under a bed, and in the cockloft a girl was seriously ill. All, both the dead and the living, had the symptoms of bubonic plague. Defendant pleaded that she was a very poor woman, and was fined $5, which she paid. Chan Chol, a shopkeeper at No. 6, Hung Lane, off Queen's Road West, was also charged with concealing a case. P.S. Smith said that he went into the premises and found a man suffering from plague. There were a number of persons present, who ran away on his arrival. A like fine was imposed.\n\nWe have heard of a somewhat curious case in connection with the plague. A few days ago a coolie was charged with cutting and wounding a companion and the hearing of the charge was remanded for a week by the sitting Magistrate, bail of $250 being allowed and procured. The following day the unlucky coolie was seized with the disease and died on board the Hygeia.\n\nThe Spanish Consul received the following official telegram despatch from Manila at 9:53 a.m. on Saturday: \"Hongkong has been declared an infected port, and vessels from thence are subject to fifteen days' quarantine.\"\n\nInformation has also been received that a proclamation will be issued to-day addressed to the Chinese explaining the objects of the preventative measures now being prosecuted and calling upon them to co-operate therein and assist the Government.\n\nMr. May stated at the meeting yesterday that he and his assistants had been welcomed and not obstructed in the different houses visited.\n\nThe following are the returns for the twenty-four hours to noon yesterday:\n\nHygeia, Kennedy town Hospital, City, Total, Decrease.\n\nAdmissions: 2, 3, 0, 5, \nDeaths: 3, 2, 0, 5, \nUnder treatment: 26, 20, 17, 63, 28\n\nThe Government, we understand, is fully prepared to support the permanent committee of the Sanitary Board to the utmost. There is a suspicion that jealousy between different sections of the Chinese is at the bottom of the recent disturbances and ill-feeling.\n\nTHE DISTURBANCES-POLICE COURT PROCEEDINGS.\n\nMr. H. E. Wodehouse was yesterday morning engaged at the Police Court in hearing several cases arising out of the disturbances in Chinatown reported in yesterday's issue.\n\nYesterday Yea Kay, a hawker, was charged with behaving in a disorderly manner in Po Yan Street.\n\nPage 403\n\n...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-263 - Acting Governor Barker Governor Sir Robinson - 1894 [5-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 363104, "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": "CO129-275 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [1-5]", "page_number": 620, "title": "CO129-275 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [1-5]", "content_text": "612\n\n## 11. On the 18th March last a competition, in which the two units of the Corps were independently engaged, took place for prizes, offered, in the case of the Field Battery, by Captain J. J. FRANCIS, and, in the case of the \"A\" Machine Gun Company, by the Honourable T. H. WHITEHEAD. The firing point was on an eminence near Wong-nei-Chong Gap, and the target, in the case of the Field Battery, was on the shore of Deep Water Bay, at a distance of about 1,700 yards and, in the case of the \"A\" Machine Gun Company, in a ravine in the same direction, at a distance of about 1,100 yards.\n\nSixteen have resigned. Of the resigning members, eight have left the Colony. Fifty-two new members have been enrolled. The number of the Field Battery is now 107, as compared with an establishment of 80 as fixed by the Regulations of the Corps. On the other hand, the number of the \"A\" Machine Gun Company is only 47, as compared with an establishment of 51 as fixed by the Regulations. It is hoped that during the ensuing season the \"A\" Company may be recruited up to its full strength, and that at least one more Company may be formed. It may be mentioned that the Corps possesses altogether 12 Maxim guns, sufficient for three Companies. It is, I believe, the opinion of competent Officers that machine gun fire will be found of considerable value in repelling a hostile attack on the Colony.\n\n## 3. There have been various changes among the Officers of the Corps during the past season. In October, 1896, Major A. R. PEMBERTON, of the Rifle Brigade, who had been Acting Commandant from the 1st February, 1895, resigned the command on the departure of his regiment from the Colony. The present Commandant was gazetted on the 14th November, 1896. This seems a fitting opportunity for me to express, on behalf of the members of the Corps, their high sense of Major PEMBERTON's very efficient and useful services during the period of his command.\n\n## 4. Surgeon-Captain J. CANTLIE, M.B., has retired, and Supernumerary Surgeon-Lieutenant F. O. STEDMAN, M.D., has been brought on the establishment.\n\n## 5. In the Field Battery, Captain J. MCCALLUM, who is absent on leave, and who, it is believed, is not likely to return to the Colony, was placed on the supernumerary list, and Lieutenant A. CHAPMAN was promoted Captain to command the Battery in his place. Sergeant W. K. WYLI was elected and gazetted to fill the vacancy among the Lieutenants thus created.\n\n## 6. In the \"A\" Machine Gun Company Captain C. M. ADAMSON and Lieutenants E. OSBORNE and A. McP. MARSHALL resigned their commissions, the former on account of absence from the Colony and the latter two because of the pressure of other duties. Colour-Sergeant F. MAITLAND was elected and gazetted Lieutenant in place of Mr. OSBORNE. The other vacancies will shortly be filled.\n\n## DISCIPLINE, TRAINING, AND INSTRUCTION\n\n## 7. The discipline of the Corps has, with a solitary exception, which was dealt with, been good throughout the season.\n\n## 8. The ordinary training and instruction of the Corps does not call for special remark. The usual drills and musketry practices have on the whole been well attended. Under this head the figures for the units severally are as follows:\n| Unit | Done over X drills | Became efficient with less than X drills | Non-efficients | Total |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Field Battery | 72 (over 40) | 9 (less than 40) | 26 | 107 |\n| Machine Gun Company | 16 (over 36) | 7 (less than 36) | 24 | 47 |\n\nOf the 26 non-efficients in the case of the Field Battery, 2 are on the supernumerary list of Officers and are absent from the Colony, 4 are absent on leave, 6 are absent from the Colony without leave, 7 are recruits who have not had sufficient time to complete their drills, 1 has recently returned from leave, 1 is in hospital, and the remaining 5, although in the Colony, have not completed the requisite number of drills.\n\nIn the case of the 24 non-efficients of the \"A\" Machine Gun Company, 6 are absent from the Colony on leave, 7 are absent from the Colony without leave, 5 are recruits who have not had sufficient time to complete their drills, and the remaining 6, although in the Colony, have not completed the requisite number of drills.\n\n## 9. In October, 1896, a Camp of Instruction was held under canvas during a period of nine days on Stonecutter's Island. The use of the Naval Range on the Island was at the same time lent by the Commodore in charge at Hongkong, and was largely used by recruits. The Camp was well attended, and the instruction afforded, consisting, besides the ordinary drills, of outpost duties, guards, reconnoitring, and field firing, was much appreciated by all ranks. To the success of the Camp I attribute in great part the activity in recruiting which has existed during the latter part of the season. It is proposed to hold the Camp annually.\n\n## 10. On the 2nd February last a competition took place with `64-pounder` guns at Stonecutters Island. Six detachments engaged in the competition, using plugged shell. The range was 2,175 yards, and the target was moored between the battery and Green Island. Excellent practice was made by the detachments generally, the best results being secured by No. 1 detachment, commanded by Sergeant G. C. HAYWARD. A report on this competition was forwarded to His Excellency the Major-General Commanding on the 24th February last.\n\nThe Field Battery fired by sections, using common and shrapnel shell, and the \"A\" Machine Gun Company by single guns. Some good practice was made by both units. A report on this competition was forwarded to His Excellency the Major-General Commanding on the 15th March last.\n\n## 12. The revolver practice by the Officers and Staff Sergeants, which was instituted during the last season, has been continued during the present season with satisfactory results.\n\n## 13. The question of coolie draught for the guns is in the same position as at the time of the last annual report. In the case of an ordinary march out, which has taken place several times during the season, the members prefer to draw the guns themselves; in fact, they display a strong repugnance to allowing this work to be done by coolies. During the season there have been no operations at a distance from headquarters for which coolie draught could be employed. It must be borne in mind with regard to this question that the finances of the Corps will not admit of coolies being regularly employed and trained for purposes of draught, and further that a sufficient number of coolies used to the drawing of loads can always be obtained when occasion requires. I am, however, informed that coolie draught for the guns has always proved slow and generally unsatisfactory.\n\n## SERVICES\n\n## 14. I have pleasure in bringing to the notice of His Excellency the Major-General Commanding the zealous and efficient services rendered during the season by Captain L. A. C. GORDON, Royal Artillery, the Adjutant of the Corps. Captain GORDON not only shows great interest in his duties but performs them in such a manner as to secure the liking of all ranks. In particular, the Corps is much indebted to him for the skill and pains with which he organized and superintended the carrying out of the several gun competitions held during the season.\n\n## 15. The other Officers of the Corps have in every way set an excellent example to the non-commissioned officers and men serving under them. By their regular attendance at drills, their endeavours to procure recruits, and their devotion to duty generally they show their anxiety to promote the efficiency of the Corps. In short, I may say of them that a Commandant could not wish for better officers.\n\n## 16. Corps Quarter-Master Sergeant WATLING and the Sergeant Instructors have been diligent and painstaking in the performance of their duties.\n\n## 17. The non-commissioned officers and men of the Corps have for the most part attended drills regularly and shown a soldier-like desire to make themselves efficient.\n\n## REGULATIONS\n\n## 18. Soon after I was appointed Commandant I formed the opinion that the Regulations of the Corps stood in need of revision in several respects. On consideration, however, it appeared to be advisable that I should gain some experience of the working of the Corps before undertaking the re-drafting of them. Now that the training season has concluded, I propose to lose no time in framing and submitting for approval a draft set of Regulations. Amongst other matters which will be dealt with in the draft will be the strength of the two units of the Corps, the number of drills qualifying for \"efficiency,\" and the formation and constitution of a Volunteer Reserve.\n\n## MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS\n\n## 19. The annual inspection of the Corps by His Excellency the Major-General Commanding took place on the 8th instant.\n\n## 20. A course of lectures on ambulance work, accompanied with stretcher drills, has recently been held by Surgeon-Lieutenant STEDMAN. Thirteen members joined the class.\n\n## 21. I have to request that the Chief Ordnance Officer, China, may be asked to keep up 30,000 rounds of `Martini-Henry Carbine` ball ammunition and the usual quantities of `7-pounder` and `64-pounder R.M.L.` gun ammunition for the use of the Corps, to be indented for as required on repayment. I have recently addressed a letter to His Excellency the Governor urging the desirability of provision being made for supplying ammunition for practice to the members of the Corps at a cheaper rate than that which now obtains, viz., $4 per 100 rounds.\n\n## 22. A considerable proportion of the `Martini-Henry Carbines` belonging to the Corps are service-worn, and the question of replacing them with new and more efficient weapons will soon have to be considered.\n\n## 23. Requisitions for Capitation Grant for Efficients during the past season have been sent direct to the Honourable the Colonial Treasurer.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-275 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [1-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 363105, "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": "CO129-275 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [1-5]", "page_number": 621, "title": "CO129-275 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [1-5]", "content_text": "24. It is gratifying to me to be able to record an apparent augmentation of interest on the part of the general public in the fortunes of the Corps, and I venture to hope that we shall see the fruit of this interest in the coming training season.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour obedient Servant,\n\nCorps Number.\n\nEnclosure 2.\n\nHONGKONG VOLUNTEERS CORPS.\n\n\"A\" MACHINE GUN COMPANY.\n\nNominal Roll of Efficients for the Year ending 16th April, 1897.\n\n13318\n\nREC:\n\nSEGO 21 JUN 97.\n\n613\n\n \n Number\n Rank and Name\n Corps Number\n Rank and Name\n \n \n \n J. W. CARRINGTON, Major, Commandant,\n 174\n Lieutenant Maitland, F.\n \n \n 139\n Gunner Hornby, T. W.\n \n Surgeon-Captain Lowson, J. A.\n \n \n (2 Officers.)\n 11\n Hooper, J.\n \n \n 183\n Humphreys, II,\n 52\n Sergeant-Major Endeley, F. J.\n \n \n 171\n Jupp, J. A.\n 11\n Sergeant Fullerton, G. C.\n \n \n 173\n \n \n Corporal Symth, F.\n \n \n 169\n \n 96\n Crombie, H.\n \n \n 170\n Nicholson, W.\n \n Ports, R. H.\n \n \n \n Plummer, J. A. T.\n 114\n Rankin, J.\n \n \n 218\n \n 39\n Reeves, II.\n \n \n 122\n Lammert, G. P.\n 185\n \n \n \n \n Skelton, A. H.\n 182\n Gunner Allen, H. E.\n \n \n 86\n \n \n Shepherd, E. C.\n \n \n 172\n \n 13\n Arthur, H.\n \n \n 195\n \n 23\n Stevens, T. L.\n \n \n 137\n Bowley, F. B. L.\n \n \n \n \n 106\n \n 146\n Gillinghan, J.\n \n\nEnclosure 1.\n\nHONGKONG VOLUNTEERS CORPS.\n\nFIELD BATTERY,\n\nNominal Roll of Efficients for the Year ending 16th April, 1897.\n\n \n Corps Number\n Rank and Name\n \n \n \n J. W. CARRINGTON, Major, Commandant, Hongkong Volunteer Corps.\n \n \n 175\n Major Carrington, Sir J. W., Commandant.\n \n \n 109\n Gunner Crook, G. T.\n \n \n 10\n Captain Gordon, L. A. C., Royal Artillery, Adjutant.\n \n \n 100\n Craddock, H. E.\n \n \n 23\n Deas, W. M.\n \n \n \n Quarter-Master Sergeant Watling, G., Corps Quarter-Master Sergeant.\n \n \n 158\n Captain Chapman, A.\n \n \n \n Lieutenant Machell, W.\n \n \n \n MacDonald, D.\n \n \n \n Wylie, W. K.\n \n \n \n Surgeon-Lieutenant Stedman, F. O.\n \n \n (5 Officers.)\n \n \n 200\n Gilchrist, J.\n \n \n 27\n Gow, W.\n \n \n 115\n Gidley, H.\n \n \n \n Hart, W.\n \n \n \n Harman, G. J.\n \n \n 31\n Hopkins, R. G.\n \n \n 149\n \n \n \n 186\n Battery Sergeant-Major Duncan, G. L.\n \n \n 11\n \n \n \n 150\n Battery Quarter-Master Sergeant Coyle, J.\n \n \n 9\n \n \n \n 159\n Sergeant Hayward, G. C.\n \n \n 18\n \n \n \n 160\n \n \n \n \n Lowrie, J.\n \n \n 141\n \n \n \n \n Lammert, R. F.\n \n \n 124\n \n \n \n 17\n \n \n \n 120\n Bromner, J.\n \n \n 79\n \n \n \n 177\n \n \n \n \n McPhail, H.\n \n \n 178\n \n \n \n \n Hance, C. E. A.\n \n \n \n Hance, J. H. R.\n \n \n \n Henderson, R.\n \n \n \n Lammert, H. A.\n \n \n \n Melbourne, C. A. D.\n \n \n \n Moller, J. A.\n \n \n \n McLeish, P.\n \n \n \n Mitchell, W. T.\n \n \n \n Mayson, W. J.\n \n \n 184\n Armstrong, J. H. W.\n \n \n \n McCrae, D.\n \n \n 189\n Corporal Ewing, A.\n \n \n \n Moses, E. J.\n \n \n 24\n \n \n \n 210\n Keunett, II. W.\n \n \n 15\n \n \n \n 119\n Mackie, A. J.\n \n \n \n Henderson, J.\n \n \n 204\n \n \n \n 39\n Nobbs, A. P.\n \n\nN.B.--Staff of Corps shown with Field Battery.\n\n(22 Non-Commissioned Officers and Men.)\n\n(3 Staff.)\n\nEnclosure 3.\n\nHONGKONG VOLUNTEER CORPS.\n\nFIELD BATTERY.\n\nReport of Gun Practice carried out during the Year ending 16th April, 1897.\n\n \n Nature of Practice\n Date on which Practice was carried out\n Number on Parade\n Number of Rounds fired\n General Idea of Practice\n \n \n 7-Pr. R.M.L. 200 lbs.\n 17th October, 1896\n 50\n \n Practice at Targets anchored, from East Shore, Stonecutters' Island, during Camp of Instruction.\n \n \n 64-Pr. R.M.L. 64 cwt.\n 2nd February, 1897\n 74\n 67\n Practice at Barrel Target, anchored from South Shore, Stonecutters' Island, Chinese New Year.\n \n \n 7-Pr. R.M.L. 200 lbs.\n 18th March, 1897\n 70\n 64\n Practice at fixed Target on land, from Wong-noi-chong Gap.\n \n\nJ. W. CARRINGTON, Major, Commandant, Hongkong Volunteer Corps.\n\nEnclosure 4.\n\nHONGKONG VOLUNTEER CORPS.\n\n\"A\" MACHINE GUN COMPANY.\n\nReport of Gun Practice carried out during the Year ending 16th April, 1897.\n\n \n Nature of Practice\n Date on which Practice was carried out\n Number Present\n Number of Rounds fired\n General Idea of Practice\n \n \n 0.45\" Maxim M. II. Machine Gun\n 17th October, 1896\n 19\n 1,500\n Practice at Targets anchored from East Shore, Stonecutters' Island, during Camp of Instruction.\n \n \n Do.\n 2nd February, 1897\n 15\n 1,000\n Practice at Targets anchored from South Shore, Stonecutters' Island, Chinese New Year.\n \n \n Do.\n 12th March, 1897\n 25\n 953\n Practice at fixed Targets, on land, from Wong-nei-chong Gap.\n \n\n(77 Non-Commissioned Officers and Men.)\n\nJ. W. CARRINGTON, Major, Commandant, Hongkong Volunteer Corps.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-275 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [1-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 367448, "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": "CO129-284 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [7-8]", "page_number": 336, "title": "CO129-284 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [7-8]", "content_text": "## HONGKONG VOLUNTEER CORPS\n### FIELD BATTERY\n#### Nominal Roll of Efficients for the Year ending 16th April, 1898\n\n| Rank and Name | Corps Number |\n| --- | --- |\n| Major Carrington, Sir J. W., Commandant | |\n| Captain Gordon, L. A. C., Royal Artillery, Adjutant | |\n| Surgeon-Captain Lowson, J. A. | |\n| Lieutenant Stedman, F. O., Medical Officers | |\n| Quarter-Master Sergeant Watling, G. W., Corps Quarter-Master Sergeant | 5 (Staff) |\n| Captain Chapman, A. | |\n| Lieutenant Machell, W. | |\n| MacDonald, D. | |\n| Slade, M. W. | |\n| | (4 Officers) |\n| Battery Sergeant-Major Duncan, G. L. | 11 |\n| Battery Quarter-Master Sergeant Coyle, J. | |\n| Sergeant-Drummer Hayward, S. W. | |\n| Sergeant Hayward, G. C. | 334 |\n| Gunner Crispin, C. | 145 |\n| \" Craddock, H. E. | 10 |\n| \" Dean, J. T. | 17 |\n| \" Donaldson, T. | 243 |\n| \" Ellis, O. J. | 238 |\n| \" Ellis, D. E. | 50 |\n| \" Gidley, H. | 267 |\n| \" Gidley, S. M. | 13 |\n| \" Giller, H. L. | 242 |\n| \" Gubbins, J. | 248 |\n| Gunner Gilchrist, J. | 11 |\n| \" Gregson, E. | 148 |\n| \" Hatherly, E. W. F. | 265 |\n| \" ... | 1 |\n| \" Armstrong, J. H. W. | 220 |\n| \" Kennett, H. W. | 231 |\n| \" Purcell, W. H. | 200 |\n| \" Henderson, J. | 149 |\n| \" McIver, M. | 11 |\n| \" Rutter, R. V. | 9 |\n| | 272 |\n| | 144 |\n| | 150 |\n| | } 18 |\n| | 186 |\n| McPhail, H. | 1118 |\n| | 269 |\n| | ** 3 |\n| | 251 |\n| | 15 |\n| | 24 |\n| | 33 |\n| Corporal Meek, T. | 127 |\n| \" Humphreys, W. M. | 160 |\n| \" Bamsey, W. F. | 49 |\n| \" Stopani, W. A. | 141 |\n| \" White, G. | 35 |\n| \" Brown, A. | 4 |\n| \" Gow, D. | 33 |\n| | 124 |\n| | * 40 |\n| | 273 |\n| | For wo |\n| | 105 |\n| | 17 |\n| | 126 |\n| | 153 |\n| | 102 |\n| | \" |\n| | 101 |\n| | 34 |\n| | 241 |\n| Bombardier Nobbs, A. P. | ForNo. |\n| | 1204 |\n| | 222 |\n| | LM 17 |\n| Smart, C. McD. | 191 |\n| \" Buck, R. S. | 205 |\n| \" Deas, W. M. | * 1190 |\n| \" Baker, J. | 71 |\n| | 106 |\n| | 15 |\n| | 100 |\n| | $249 |\n| | 180 |\n| Gunner Wilson, G. T. | T 1179 |\n| \" Belilios, R. E. | 192 |\n| \" Bridger, H. B. | $209 |\n| \" Bentley, R. J. H. | 256 |\n| \" Burgess, J. R. | 3 |\n| \" Brett, I. E. | 132 |\n| \" Bew, W. E. | 151 |\n| \" Begley, A. J. | 197 |\n| \" Barry, J. | ** |\n| \" Bevan, H. S. | 247 |\n| \" Bevan, W. S. | 1257 |\n| \" Bevan, R. S. | 201 |\n| Gunner ... | 17 |\n| \" Barker, J. E. | 198 |\n| \" Baker, W. A. | 13 |\n| \" Yule, T. | 41 |\n| \" Cotton, J. T. | \" 193 |\n| \" Crook, G. T. | 19/11 |\n| \" Curran, T. | \" |\n| Gunner Higgins, F. | |\n| \" Hart, W. | |\n| \" Hance, C. E. A. | |\n| \" Herbst, E. | |\n| \" Henderson, R. | |\n| \" Hance, J. H. R. | |\n| \" Humphreys, A. | |\n| \" Kennedy, D. F. | |\n| \" Lammert, L. E. | |\n| \" Lysaught, J. | |\n| \" Mackie, A. J. | |\n| \" Melbourne, C. A. D. | |\n| \" Moller, J. A. | |\n| \" McLeish, P. | |\n| \" Moore, H. R. C. | |\n| \" Nolan, T. | |\n| \" Patton, G. | |\n| \" Reid, A. | |\n| \" Richardson, F. | |\n| \" Sanderson, J. S. | |\n| \" Stewart, W. | |\n| \" Sutton, A. L. | |\n| \" Swanston, J. G. | |\n| \" Seth, H. A. | |\n| \" Sayer, E. A. R. | |\n| \" Toller, W. | |\n| \" Thomson, W. M. | |\n| \" Toppin, W. J. | |\n| \" Uphill, A. | |\n| \" Watson, W. | |\n| \" Warren, C. E. | |\n| \" Wilkinson, S. | |\n| \" Woollen, J. | |\n| \" Wolfe, H. | 1250 |\n| Trumpeter Plinston, C. | 215 |\n| | 13 |\n| | 254 |\n| | \" |\n| | 221 |\n| | 5+ |\n| | 268 |\n| | ** |\n| | 263 |\n| Gunner Moore, S. R. | 213 |\n| | ל |\n| | 261 |\n| | 35 |\n| | 175 |\n| | * |\n| | 109 |\n| | \" |\n| | (91 Non-Commissioned Officers and Men) |\n\nJ. W. CARRINGTON, Major, Commandant, Hongkong Volunteer Corps\n\nSeen \n\nLord Selborne to see ...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-284 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [7-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 367449, "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": "CO129-284 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [7-8]", "page_number": 337, "title": "CO129-284 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [7-8]", "content_text": "# ENCLOSURE 11 \n335 \n## Enclosure 2. \n### HONGKONG VOLUNTEER CORPS. \n#### \"A\" MACHINE GUN COMPANY, \nNominal Roll of Efficients for the Year ending 16th April, 1898. \n\n| Corps Number | Rank and Name |\n| --- | --- |\n| | Captain Sanders, E. D. |\n| | Lieutenant Maitland, F. |\n| 244 | Gunner Danby, J. D. |\n| 235 | Ellis, A. |\n| 31 | Fullerton, G. C. |\n| 96 | Hornby, T. W. |\n| 122 | Hursthouse, H. |\n| 86 | King, W. |\n| 262 | Nicholson, W. |\n| 11 | Northcote, M. S. |\n| | Potts, R. H. |\n| 15 | Sergeant Crombie, H. |\n| 173 | Lammert, G. P. |\n| +9 | Shepherd, E. C. |\n| 230 | |\n| 114 | Corporal Rankin, J. |\n| 169 | Bowley, F. B. L. |\n| 137 | Plummer, J. A. T. |\n| 13 | Gillingham, J. R. |\n| 214 | Pumfrett, A. |\n| 185 | Skelton, A. H. |\n| 218 | Reeves, H. |\n| 182 | Allen, H. E. |\n| 233 | Smith, E. J. Grant |\n| 11 | Underwood, J. II. |\n| 234 | Smith, H. Grant |\n| 54 | Gunner Arthur, H. |\n| 246 | Aitken, J. H. E. |\n| 261 | Barrett, E. G. |\n| 162 | Capell, J. R. |\n| 17 | Crawford, L. |\n| 237 | Cumpston, W. H. |\n| 195 | Thomson, O. D. |\n| 217 | Watson, Maxwell |\n| 228 | Wetenball, E, B. |\n| 226 | Chisolm, F. W. |\n| 245 | Smith, A.. Brooke |\n| 229 | Stevens, G. R. |\n| \"1 | Stevens, T. L. |\n\nN.B.-Staff of Corps shown with Field Battery.\n\n(3 Officers.)\n(35 Non-Commissioned Officers and Men)\n\n## Enclosure 3. \n### HONGKONG VOLUNTEER CORPS. \n#### FIELD BATTERY. \nHONGKONG.\n\n**RES** 10 SEP 38.\n\n### REPORTS ON THE HONGKONG VOLUNTEER CORPS. \nLaid before the Legislative Council by Command of His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government.\n\n(From The General Officer Commanding in China and Hongkong to His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government, Hongkong.)\n\nHEAD QUARTER Office, HONGKONG, 30th April, 1898.\n\nSIR,-I have the honour to enclose the Commandant's report of the training of the Hongkong Volunteer Corps for the season 1897-98.\n\n2. I made the annual inspection of the Corps on the 14th instant, when the men turned out well and looked healthy and fit for work; with one exception they performed their drill on the uneven parade ground in a satisfactory manner.\n\n3. The 7-pr. Guns, Maxims, Arms, and Equipment appear to be in a serviceable condition. I understand from the Commandant's report that the carbines are old and worn out. I have already communicated with the Colonial Government on this subject and recommended that the Corps be re-armed with either the 303 Lee-Metford Carbine or the Martini-Enfield Carbine.\n\n4. I observe, with great pleasure, that Gun Practice with the Field Battery and Maxim Guns has taken place far more frequently than in any former drill season, that the members of both units take great interest in these practices and are shooting better; which is after all the main object of Volunteer training.\n\nJ. W. CARRINGTON, Major Commandant, Hongkong Volunteer Corps.\n\n### Report on Gun Practice carried out during the Year ending 16th April, 1898.\n\n5. The annual camp of instruction at Stonecutters Island was again well attended in October, and the Commandant's report shows that the practical duties of Outpost, Reconnoitring, Field Firing, etc., practised there have borne good results, in addition to which the nine days outing is greatly appreciated by all ranks and doubtless helps recruiting and engenders a soldierly spirit.\n\n6. Several men were absent from the General Inspection Parade.\n\n7. I recognize the zeal and energy of Major Sir J. W. CARRINGTON, and am glad to find that he is so well supported by the Officers and Non-Commissioned Officers under his command in all that concerns the welfare of the Corps; in fact, the smallness of numbers is the main fault that can be urged against the Hongkong Volunteers,--a shortcoming which, I trust, all ranks will do their best to remedy.\n\nI have the honour to be,\nYour obedient Servant,\nW. BLACK, Major-General\n\n| Date | Nature of Practice | Number Present on Parade | Number of Rounds fired | Range | General Idea of Practice |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 16th Oct., 1897 | 7-Pr. R.M.L. Guns, 200 lbs. | 91 | ... | 800 and 1,400 Yards | Practice at an imaginary enemy landing in sampans, from East Shore, Stonecutters' Island, during Camp of Instruction. |\n| 1st Jun., 1898 | 7-Pr. R.M.L. Guns, 200 lbs. | 50 | 33 | 1,150 | To repel an enemy landing on beach at Repulse Bay. |\n| 22nd Jan, 1898 | 64-Pr. R.M.L. Guns, 64 cwt. | 86 | 76 | 2,100 | To repel ships attempting to enter Harbour, from South Shore of Stonecutters' Island, (Chinese New Year). |\n| 5th March, 1898 | 7-Pr. R.M.L. Guns, 200 lbs. | 52 | 27 | 1,500 | To repel an enemy attempting to land in boats, from road in front of Murray Point Battery, |\n| 16th April, 1898 | 7-Pr. R.M.L. Guns, 200 lbs. | 69 | 13 | 1,150 and 1,350 | To repel and drive back to boats an enemy attempting to land at Repulse Bay. |\n\nJ. W. CARRINGTON, Major, Commandant, Hongkong Volunteer Corps.\n\n### HONGKONG VOLUNTEER CORPS. TRAINING 1897-98.\n\nFrom the Commandant, Hongkong Volunteers Corps, to the Deputy Assistant Adjutant General (A) and Chief Staff Officer, China.\n\n#### Nominal Roll of Efficients. \n#### Field Battery.\n\nVOLUNTEER HEAD QUARTERS, HONGKONG, 18th April, 1898.\n\nSIR, I have the honour to forward herewith the documents mentioned in the margin relating to the training of the Hongkong Volunteer Corps for the season 1897-98 for the information of His Excellency the General Officer Commanding and for favour of transmission to His Excellency the Governor.\n\nReport on Gun Practice, Field Battery.\nReport on Gun Practice, \"A\" Machine Gun Company.\nMusketry Return, Field Battery.\nMusketry Return, \"A\" Machine Gun Company.\nReturn of Revolver Practice of Officers.\n\n### ESTABLISHMENT.\n\n2. A comparison of Enclosure No. 9 with the corresponding document for the training of 1896-97 shows that the total strength of the Corps is now 176, of all ranks as against 159 of all ranks at the former date. This is the greatest strength to which the Corps has yet attained since its re-organization in 1893.\n\nCopy of Inspection State.\nState of Corps, 16th April, 1898.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-284 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [7-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 367450, "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": "CO129-284 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [7-8]", "page_number": 338, "title": "CO129-284 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [7-8]", "content_text": "336 \n\nand 32 have resigned. Of the resigning members 20 have left the Colony, and 3 have been discharged on medical certificate. 55 new members have been enrolled.\n\nDuring the season 4 members have died, 1 has been dismissed, 1 has been struck off the strength. In the case of the 13 non-efficients of the \"A\" Machine Gun Company, 1 is absent from the Colony, have not completed the requisite number of drills. since joining to complete their drills, 1 is on medical certificate, and the remaining 2, although in the Colony, 7 are absent from the Colony without leave, 2 are recruits who have not had sufficient time y on leave.\n\nThe Field Battery now numbers 120, as compared with an Establishment of 80 as fixed by existing Regulations of the Corps.\n\nThe strength, and now numbers 51 of all ranks. A \" Machine Gun Company has, I believe for the first time, been recruited up to its establishment of 51.\n\nIn October, 1897, a Camp of Instruction was held under canvas during a period of nine days on Stonecutters' Island. The use of the Naval Range, of the 64-pounder Gun Battery, and of the depression Range Finding Instruments on the Island was kindly lent by the Naval and Military Authorities. The Camp was well attended and may be described as successful in every way.\n\nThe establishment of the Corps makes provision for three Machine Gun Companies, and the requisite guns for them all are in stock. It was hoped that during the season another Company might have been formed, but no steps have been taken in this direction for two reasons; first, because it was thought desirable to await the coming into force of the proposed new Regulations, and, secondly, because the local Government has repeatedly and emphatically expressed its desire that no expenditure should take place in excess of the sum voted for the Volunteers.\n\n3. Some months ago a small Drum and Fife Band, consisting of 22 enrolled members of the Corps and 1 unenrolled boy signaller, was formed, principally through the exertions of Battery Sergeant Major DUNCAN and Sergeant-Drummer HAYWARD. The Band has attained a fair degree of proficiency and its services are highly appreciated by the members of the Corps.\n\n4. During the season the question of the formation of a small Engineer Company of the Corps has been under consideration, but a final decision has not yet been reached.\n\n5. There have been several changes among the Officers of the Corps during the season. His Excellency Sir W. ROBINSON, G.C.M.G., Honorary Colonel of the Corps, left the Colony and vacated his appointment on the 1st February, 1898.\n\n10. A perusal of enclosures 3 and 4 will show that gun practice has taken place more frequently during the past season than in previous years, and there is no doubt that the members of the two units have consequently become more efficient in this important branch of their training. The shooting has been, for the most part, good.\n\nIn the various competitions a keen spirit of rivalry has been shown by the several detachments engaged.\n\nIn the 64-pounder Gun Competition which was held at Stonecutters' Island on the 22nd January, 1898, No. 1 detachment, commanded by Sergeant G. C. HAYWARD, again secured the first place. Competitions have also taken place at Repulse Bay for prizes given by the Honourable J. J. ALLIRVING, Mr. T. JACKSON, and the Commandant. In the case of the \"A\" Machine Gun Company competition was held by detachments on the 12th March, 1898, and resulted in the victory of 4 Detachment, commanded by Sergeant E. C. SHEPHERD. The Field Battery held their competition on the 16th instant, when No. 1 section, commanded by Lieutenant W. MACHELL, were the winners.\n\nIn the Field Battery Captain J. MCCALLUM, who had been placed on the Supernumerary List, resigned his commission on the 18th January, 1898, on being posted to a Battery of Volunteer Artillery in Scotland. Lieutenant A. CHAPMAN was promoted Captain to command the Field Battery in place of Captain MCCALLUM.\n\nThis Officer, whose service dates as far back as May, 1878, has done much good work for the Corps. A report of the 64-pounder Gun Competition was forwarded to His Excellency the General Officer Commanding on the 31st January, 1898; a brief report on all the gun practices during the season was forwarded in a few days.\n\nOn the 28th November, 1897, Lieutenant W. K. WYLIE died, under melancholy circumstances, to the great regret of all ranks of the Corps. The vacancy caused by his death was filled on the 3rd February, 1898, by the appointment of Mr. M. W. SLADE to be Lieutenant.\n\nLieutenant H. E. DENSON, who was, on the 21st March, 1896, seconded for a period of two years, was struck off the strength of the Corps from the 21st March, 1898, as being absent without leave.\n\n11. A successful Carbine competition in connexion with the Corps was held on the 19th and 20th March, 1898, when a number of prizes were competed for. The members of the Corps are very grateful to the many kind donors of prizes.\n\n6. In the \"A\" Machine Gun Company Sergeant E. D. SANDERS was gazetted Captain on the 22nd July, 1897, in succession to Captain C. M. ADAMSON, resigned, and Sergeant G. C. FULLES was gazetted Lieutenant on the 30th April, 1897, in succession to Lieutenant A. McP. MARSH, resigned.\n\n## DISCIPLINE, TRAINING, AND INSTRUCTION\n\n7. The discipline of the Corps has been uniformly good throughout the season.\n\n8. The usual drills and musketry practices have been well attended. Under this head the figures for the two units are severally as follows:\n\n| Unit | Efficient with more than 40 drills | Efficient with less than 40 drills | Non-Efficients | Total |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Field Battery | 74 | 21 | 25 | 120 |\n| \"A\" Machine Gun Company | 26 | 12 | 13 | 51 |\n\nGood shooting has generally been made.\n\n12. Revolver practice by the Officers and Staff Sergeants has been continued during the season.\n\n13. There have been no operations at a distance from Head Quarters for which it was necessary to employ coolie draught.\n\n## SERVICES\n\n14. Captain L. A. C. GORDON, Royal Artillery, the Adjutant of the Corps, continues to show great interest in the performance of his duties, and in particular the arrangements which he has made and carried out for the several competitions have been satisfactory to all ranks. During his temporary absence on leave in Japan in 1897, his duties were efficiently performed by Captain A. CHAPMAN.\n\n15. The other officers of the Corps also continue to render excellent service. By their devotion to duty they set an admirable example to the non-commissioned officers and men under their command, and they avail themselves of every opportunity to promote the efficiency of the Corps. The best relations exist between them and the subordinate ranks.\n\n16. Corps Quarter-Master Sergeant G. W. WATLING has rendered very efficient service in connexion with the Camp of Instruction and the several competitions, and in the performance of his duties generally.\n\n17. There have been several changes among the Instructors of the Corps, but I am glad to say that the new as well as the old Instructors have proved themselves painstaking and efficient and have discharged their duties to my entire satisfaction.\n\n18. The non-commissioned officers and men of the Corps have, with few exceptions, attended drills regularly and shown a praiseworthy desire to make themselves smart and efficient. Their conduct and good feeling in Camp and on all other occasions has been exceedingly good. I am especially glad to be able to say that talking in the ranks on parade is much less frequent than it used to be, and I am in hopes that this unsoldierlike practice will soon disappear altogether.\n\nOf the 25 non-efficients in the case of the Field Battery, 2 are absent from the Colony on leave, 7 are absent from the Colony without leave, 4 are recruits who have not had sufficient time since joining to complete their drills, 4 are on medical certificate, and the remaining 8, although in the Colony, have not completed the requisite number of drills.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-284 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [7-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 367451, "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": "CO129-284 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [7-8]", "page_number": 339, "title": "CO129-284 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [7-8]", "content_text": "## REGULATIONS.\n\n19. In my last report I held out the promise that the proposed new Regulations for the Corps would shortly be drafted and submitted for approval. I regret to say that the pressure of duties has prevented me from fulfilling this promise. I am, however, sensible that the matter is of considerable importance, and I will endeavour to prepare the draft as soon as possible.\n\n## MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS.\n\n20. The annual inspection of the Corps by His Excellency the General Officer Commanding took place on the 14th instant. The parade state on that occasion is shown in Enclosure No. 8.\n\n21. A course of lectures on ambulance work, accompanied with stretcher drills, has again been held by Surgeon-Lieutenant STEDMAN; at the examination, which was conducted by Surgeon-Captain CLARKE, A.M.S., 17 members joined the class, 13 of whom presented themselves and were successful and received certificates of proficiency.\n\n22. I have to request that the Chief Ordnance Officer, China, may again be asked to keep up the usual quantities of Martini-Henry Carbine ball and blank ammunition and of 7-pounder and 64-pounder R.M.L. gun ammunition for the use of the Corps, to be indented for as required on repayment. I beg further to request that the Carbine ammunition may be of the latest date of manufacture.\n\n23. The local Government was good enough to sanction the expenditure of a special sum $650 for the purchase of carbine ammunition for the purpose of enabling members to procure ammunition for practice at a cheaper rate than that which formerly obtained, namely, at the price of $2.50 per 100 rounds instead of $4.00 per 100 rounds. The result of this liberal measure has been seen in a considerable improvement in the shooting of the Corps, and a large number of recruits have made good progress with their musketry.\n\n24. In my last report I drew attention to the service-worn condition of the Martini-Henry Carbines belonging to the Corps. During the season these weapons were examined by the Ordnance Department, and, with four exceptions, they were all condemned as unfit for service. The question of re-arming the Corps with a more efficient weapon has been engaging the attention of the Imperial and Local Governments, and I trust the proposals which have been made to that end may soon be carried into effect.\n\n25. A Committee of Officers has been recently engaged in considering the question of the nomenclature of the several grades of the Corps with a view to its simplification and cheapening; their recommendations will be embodied in the new draft Regulations.\n\n26. Requisitions for the Capitation Grant for Efficients have been sent direct to the Honourable the Colonial Treasurer.\n\n27. It will, I think, be gathered from the preceding paragraphs of this report and from the enclosures to it that the progress of the Corps during the season has been steady and continuous. It is true that its course is not free from difficulties, but I am satisfied that, with self-denying effort on the part of the members of the Corps and with good-will and interest on the part of the Government, the Legislature, and the general public, these difficulties will not prevent the Corps from attaining a high standard of efficiency—a standard which, I feel sure, is the aim of all who are connected with it.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour obedient Servant,\n\nJ. W. CARRINGTON, Major, Commandant, Hongkong Volunteer Corps.\n\n## Enclosure 6.\n\n### HONGKONG VOLUNTEER CORPS.\n\n#### \"A\" MACHINE GUN COMPANY.\n\nMusketry Return, showing Percentage and Classification for the Year ending 16th April, 1898.\n\n| Course | Number of Men | Marks Obtained | Percentage | Classification | Remarks |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Recruits' Course | 20 | 540 | 48.21 | 12 1st Class, 5 2nd Class, 3 3rd Class | |\n| Trained Soldiers' Course | #37 | 1,142 | 86.75 | 5 1st Class, 8 2nd Class, 8 3rd Class | This includes a few Recruits who also fired Trained Soldiers Course. |\n| Total | 57 | 1,682 | | | |\n\n## Enclosure 7.\n\n### HONGKONG VOLUNTEER CORPS.\n\nRevolver Practice Return, showing Percentage for the Year ending 10th April, 1898.\n\n| Unit | Number Firing | Points Obtained | Percentage |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Staff | 5 | 154 | 64.16 |\n| Field Battery | 7 | 244 | 72.52 |\n| \"A\" Machine Gun Company | 3 | 112 | 77.77 |\n| Total | 15 | 510 | 70.83 |\n\nJ. W. CARRINGTON, Major, Commandant, Hongkong Volunteer Corps.\n\n## Enclosure 8.\n\n### HONGKONG VOLUNTEER CORPS. Inspection State, 14th April, 1898.\n\n| State of Corps | Staff | \"A\" Machine Gun Company | Field Battery | Total | Remarks |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Officers | 4 | 3 | 4 | | |\n| N. C. Officers | 1 | 3 | 3 | | |\n| Officers and Men | | 48 | 90 | | |\n| N. C. Officers and Men | | | | | |\n| Present on Parade | 5 | 48 | 90 | 177 | *This Total does not include—8 unenrolled Boy Signallers.1 unenrolled Boy Trumpeter. |\n| with leave in Colony | 1 | 2 | 2 | | |\n| with leave out of Colony | | | 1 | 7 | |\n| Absent on medical certificate | | | | | |\n| without leave | | | | | |\n| Total | 6 | 53 | 131 | 12 | G |\n| | | 7 | 30 | | 6 |\n| | | | | | 13 |\n| | | | | | 8 |\n| | | | | | 21 |\n\nJ. W. CARRINGTON, Major, Commandant, Hongkong Volunteer Corps.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-284 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [7-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 369425, "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": "CO129-288 - Public Offices & Others - 1898", "page_number": 13, "title": "CO129-288 - Public Offices & Others - 1898", "content_text": "## THE DEFENCE\n\nJag 6 ... aren were ablaze. The Lan On blazed amongst them furiously for about a quarter of an hour, when she blew up with a loud report, the falling timbers setting fire to some of the water-side houses, here built over the water on piles. Mengens reached the Station, but finding the wires had been cut, and seeing a large troop-boat full of men being towed round the point from Deep Water Bay, fired the Station and escaped by the back through the bush the Mount Gough Road.\n\nShots were now heard at the eastern end of the bay, and scouts were making up the hills, firing under the same disadvantages as those at the western. It appeared that about midnight, Constable Lamont, and two Indian Constables from Stanley being on patrol, had arrived at the eastern limit of the Stanley District, the crest of the hill at the eastern end of Deep Water Bay, where to their astonishment they discovered large vessels at anchor. Whilst speculating as to what it could mean they heard shots at the Western end of the Bay, and then the glare of the search lights.\n\nFindlay, the two Indians and the two Chinese, armed with Sniders, proceeded towards Deep Water Bay, where shots were still being exchanged. Hazeland, with McNab and the two other Indians, had gone by road to Deep Water Bay. On arriving at the ridge overlooking the Bay they made out the three vessels, and lights showed the bay alive with boats. Lamont at once grasped the situation and rushing down with his two men, from the bushes, within 30 yards of the landing crowds, they fired twice into them, before their skirmishers ran for their cover. Eutant, an old poucher, however, made his escape, and, ably seconded by the two Indians, Fatty Dad and Hirpaul Singh, continued firing at the exposed landing party till their ten rounds of ammunition were expended. Hirpaul Singh then returned to Stanley, and the others made their way up to Wongneichong Gap, whilst the transports were searching the empty bushes of the golf links with grape from their bow and stern guns over the heads of the men landing.\n\nHazeland, who took his rifle, was shortly afterwards hit in the ankle, and had to be left where he lay close to the road, where his body was afterwards found bayoneted by the enemy. Even if he had worn a uniform it is doubtful if his fate would have been otherwise, for the enemy were doubtless exasperated at the execution done.\n\nActing Sergeant Lall Singh was shot (the first man to be killed at the fall of Hong Kong). This man had been one of the Jubilee contingent sent to London.\n\nThree ... The first wire from Aberdeen 'large ships showing no lights gone into Deep Water Bay,' was received at the Central Police Station in Victoria at 10.55 p.m. Hannah, Inspector on duty, at once roused Acting Deputy Superintendent Mackie, who promptly despatched messengers to Colonel Rordon, commanding the West Borks at Murray Barracks, the Commodore, Colonel Tristful (of the Hongkong Regiment) at Kowloon, and Capt. Limmonds R.A., at the McGregor Barracks. Telephonic messages were sent to the Gap and Mount Gough Police Stations, directing that H. E. the Governor, Sir W. Jones, Major-General Bilsoue White, the Captain Superintendent of Police, Major Sir John Harrington (Commandant of the Volunteers), Colonel Yardhill, C.R.E., Colonel Melformian, D.A.A.G, (the Laird of Lamlash), and all the Military Officers at the Peak should be called, also the party of Engineers making the alterations in the Mount Austin Barracks, after which the outlying soldier officers, and all British householders to be roused. Every available man to be turned out forthwith to carry out these orders.\n\nFrom Murray Barracks to Wongnoichong Gap is four miles, as you know the last two a very steep pull up from the village; but Rordon and the 192 men he had with him reached the crest as the clock-tower in Victoria proclaimed midnight. Breathing his men, who arrived streaming with perspiration, for a few minutes in the Gap, he sent Barry Brew's company down by the short cut through the jungle to hold the eastern side, whilst with Brice's company he went down to bar the road and western side. Messengers and telephonic despatches (till communication ceased) were sent to all Volunteers in Victoria, Kowloon and at the Hung Hom Docks. A mounted Sikh was sent to rouse the British at Quarry Bay. Notices were sent to the three British Clubs. Mr Riley, the tramway engineer, was directed to hold the line at the disposal of the Military, at the same time two European Constables were sent to the hut above Bowen Road to guard the pointsmen if necessary, or shoot him if he proved treacherous.\n\nMackie also rang-up the Engineer and Artillery messes (repeating the Aberdeen message), and all Police Stations in the City, giving orders to call Major Hills of the West Borks and all soldier officers at East and West Points. Communication with Shaukiwan was found to have ceased, so a Police pinnace was despatched to that village, ordering Inspector Hall to acquaint Captain Furney, R. A., at Lyemun barracks. A pinnace was also sent to warn Lt. Huzzard, R. A., at Stonecutters Island.\n\nHardly had Brew's company disappeared in the trees when the shots fired by McNab and his men at the beach were heard. Thanking God he was in time, Rordon was doubling down the road when the reports of Lamont's fire and the replies they drew were heard also, after which the search lights exposing the men on the road, the Sumtoff began firing shell from the fore-castle gun at the road, killing two men at the third round. Rordon at once sent the right half company into the bush above the road and made the others lie down behind the curve just beyond the third bridge, where they were sheltered by a spur from the fire of the transports.\n\nIn ten minutes the Assembly was sounding in every Barrack in Victoria and signal rockets were being fired from Scandal Point to warn the Hongkong Regiment and the ...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-288 - Public Offices & Others - 1898.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 369432, "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": "CO129-288 - Public Offices & Others - 1898", "page_number": 20, "title": "CO129-288 - Public Offices & Others - 1898", "content_text": "# 20-\n\nFive and twenty men were got together; they were discharged from the Asiatic Artillery and were sent off to Col. Noul Larke, the Commandant of the Hongkong Regiment, and scallywags of Chief Ordnance Officer, and received arms. The uniform was simplicity itself; the man stood in, with a red cummerbund for the line and a blue one for the gunners. Garrison Serg-Major Newberry, promoted to Captain, was appointed Adjutant, and Capt. Tanghorne, P.A., Commandant. Each body of 50 men elected their own officers. There was no attempt, of course, at drill. It was felt that if each man only knew his place and shot straight, it was all that was expected or required of him,--there was no question of their grim determination to fight. Desperate and ruined men are excellent fighting material. The Committee, on the score of years and other considerations, might have claimed exemption, but they refused any indulgence, and took their places in the lines after doing all that forethought and money could accomplish for the comfort and efficiency of the men. Money indeed flowed like water (and a good deal of whiskey and soda). Men felt that for them there was no morrow. \n\nThe state of the city reminded me much of the conditions that must have prevailed in South Africa as described by that young fellow, don't you remember, that we travelled with in '79 going to Chefoo, when he was telling us of his experiences of volunteering for eighteen months against Langulelebele, and you asked him how he could spare the time, as you concluded he was not out there for his health, when he replied, \"If you did not volunteer, you had to dig trenches, in the Burgher Guard.\" We had coolies to dig trenches, so all hands volunteered. By 4 p.m. there were nearly 1400 men in the British Home Guard, and we had had to refuse to accept numbers of mere children and old dotards, telling them to tend the wounded, wait on their mothers and sisters, and look after their grandchildren.\n\nAruz karté háin ke ham sab sarkar ki khidmat men marné ké tiár háin: apne Sipahión men hum ko bharti karo.' (We request that we may be allowed to offer our lives in the Service of the Government for which we are ready to die. Enrol us with your soldiers). Many volunteered to act as carriers of ammunition, provisions, and water, or of the wounded. More than 800 Portuguese volunteered to serve their adopted country in her hour of need.\n\nThe expulsion of aliens was intrusted to the Home Guard; the authorities, with reason, fearing that in the exasperated condition of the soldiery unnecessary harshness might have been exercised--nor indeed were the Home Guard disposed to treat them with any marked show of leniency. That the Russians had been our assailants was known, and it would have gone hard with the Russian Consul had he been of that nationality,--there is little doubt he would have been hung, equally by the Guard as by the Garrison. The Consul was, however, a German, and to that fact he owed his immunity.\n\nIt was not till nearly noon that it was generally known that the Russians had been joined by the French, and by that time, fortunately for himself, the French Consul was beyond our reach.\n\nThe residents, British and foreign, being all down in the town, the Committeemen placed themselves at the head of detachments of the Home Guard, and marched the aliens down to the Powan, which was then manned by all the foreigners (Europeans) from the ships in the Harbour. Old and young, men, women, and children, wealthy merchants from lordly mansions on the higher levels and poor coffee and cigar shop-keepers from Stanley and Wellington Streets, the reputable and the disreputable, the upright and the vile, alike were expelled. If the innocent suffered with the guilty, it could not be helped; we wished to be alone with our kin in our hour of trial, we would take no more chances of harbouring traitors and spies in our midst.\n\nSome of the foreigners implored on the score of business to be allowed to stay; they wanted to go to the Banks to draw money, &c.; they were told the only business now was fighting, and of that we had the monopoly thrust on us: free trade was done--the Banks had closed and were now Hospitals. Others blustered and talked of the international law and the protection of their flag, or of the indemnities and retribution their Governments would require and exact; ignoring the irony and absurdity of quoting international law to men in our straits attacked by pirates. What were indemnities, and retribution to come, to us who had but a few hours to live. Vengeance could not overtake us.\n\nThe bluster soon died down, and the orders to move were passively obeyed, at a few stern hints that in most continental countries all the grace that would have been theirs would be three minutes up against a blank wall, whilst a firing party loaded 12 yards off, and it would be well not to tax our patience too hardly. Once in the streets they realized practically the adage 'Silent leges inter arma.' The Powan was despatched with nearly 1,800 souls on board about 11 a.m., and disappeared beyond Chung Chau towards Macao without molestation as far as we could afford. I never knew, and we prepared to meet our trouble as one family.\n\nThere had been some question at first about the Americans, till it was discovered that they had been amongst some of the first to take their places in the Home Guard--there were only a few of them, some thirty real Yanks (though nearly a score of men that had gone to bed--mostly in ships-- \n\n## 180 Indians-Police pensioners--bad hats | 0 \n\n*** \n\n# 21-\n\n...the Home Guard keen satisfaction to expel their orstwhile rivals. Men, many of them, who had cropt in on sufferance, admitted with a sort of contemptuous pity, had been supplanting us, and were latterly reaping the fruits of our labour, of our initiative, our expenditure of blood and treasure, and as they waxed... \n\nTo the number of 1200 and odd they were put on board by their scowling guards. About 400 Portuguese women and children also left in the Powan. None of the British did; it was feared that the ship might be turned back, if English were aboard, in any case the position of our country-women would have been difficult and dangerous amongst aliens after their expulsion. We would give no hostages to our foes, but guard our own while life lasted. To many of us the parting from friends of years under such circumstances was bitter and grievous. Friends who abhorred the dastardly attack as much as we did; but no distinctions could be made -even if there were no other considerations, alien mouths could not be fed. In the majority of cases undoubtedly, it afforded the Home Guard keen satisfaction to expel their orstwhile rivals.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-288 - Public Offices & Others - 1898.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 371878, "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": "CO129-291 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [5-6]", "page_number": 627, "title": "CO129-291 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [5-6]", "content_text": "Government House, HongKong, 1st June, 1899.\n\nSir,\n\nI have the honour to forward for your information and consideration copy of a letter from Colonel Mainwaring, Royal Welsh Fusiliers, Acting Commandant of the HongKong Volunteer Corps, recommending the conversion of the 0.45 Maxim guns of the Corps to the .303 Calibre, together with a copy of a minute by Major-General Gascoigne endorsing that recommendation.\n\n2. The work of conversion could be undertaken in the local ordnance workshops, and the cost, including the necessary parts, would amount to about £460.\n\n3. Subject to your approval, I propose to make provision in next year's Estimates for that amount, and I forward herein, in duplicate, a requisition for the parts etc. required for the work of conversion, which I request may be obtained by the Crown Agents from the Maxim Nordenfeldt Guns and Ammunition Company Limited, and sent out by an early opportunity.\n\n(both despatch and 1st enclosure, encl. duplicates) to C. A., and ask them to obtain the cost.\n\n(The C. A. appears satisfied that the actual conversion can be done locally).\n\nNo. 131.\n\nC. C.\n\n17045\n\nRack\n\nRec'd JUL 19\n\n619\n\n1. 3/2\n\nSir E. Greyfield\n\nTo proceed,\n\ndi To Him 99.\n\nvel: 2 6-4-99.\n\na matter of form.\n\nCaptain Clausen\n\nEls\n\n1847\n\nThe note has will\n\nTo hoger beports)\n\nLord as pupored\n\nature the papers to Captain Clemson\n\nalma\n\nCaptain Clauson\n\nEw\n\nry\n\nDisposed of belopt. Hanneni\n\nnanute\n\n17042\n\npag.\n\npei: 3. 25-99.\n\nThe Right Honourable JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN, M.P.,\n\n&C.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-291 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 372067, "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": "CO129-292 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [6-8]", "page_number": 62, "title": "CO129-292 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [6-8]", "content_text": "# Regulation 10.\n\n# SCHEDULES.\n\n## THE FIRST SCHEDULE.\n\n### FORM OF ENROLMENT OF VOLUNTEER.\n\nI, A. B., being desirous of becoming an active member of the Hongkong Volunteer Corps and having been duly admitted thereto, do hereby engage to be bound by any authorized rules and regulations which may now be in force in the Corps or which may be brought into force during my period of service.\n\nDated this \nday of \n\n(Signed) A. B.\n\nWitness:\n\n## Regulation 11.\n\n## STAFF\n\n### THE SECOND SCHEDULE, ESTABLISHMENT OF CORPS.\n\n \n Lieutenant-Colonel Commandant\n \n \n \n \n Major, 2nd in Command\n \n \n \n \n Adjutant und Quartermaster\n \n \n \n \n Medical Officers\n \n \n \n \n \n Corps Quartermaster Sergeant\n \n \n \n \n Total staff\n \n \n\n(1.) FIELD BATTERY-\n\n \n Captain\n \n \n \n \n Lieutenants\n \n \n \n \n Total officers\n \n \n \n \n Battery Sergeant-Major\n \n \n \n \n Battery Quartermaster-Sergeant\n \n \n \n \n Sergeants\n 1\n \n \n \n \n 2\n 60\n \n \n Total all ranks brought forward\n \n 296\n \n\n(4.) ENGINEER Company---\n\n \n Lieutenant\n \n \n \n \n Sergeants\n 2\n \n \n \n Corporals\n 2\n \n \n \n Sappers\n 25\n \n \n \n Total rank and file\n \n 27\n \n \n Total all ranks\n \n 30\n \n\nBAND-\n\n \n Sergeant-Drummer\n \n \n \n \n Corporals\n 1\n 2\n \n \n Drummers, Fifers, etc.\n 21\n \n \n \n Total all ranks\n \n 24\n \n\nGrand total all ranks\n\n360\n\n## THE THIRD SCHEDULE.\n\n## Regulation 26.\n\n## UNIFORM.\n\n### PART I\n\nFIELD BATTERY, AND BAND.\n\n \n No.\n ARTICLES.\n REMARKS.\n \n \n \n Total sergeants\n \n \n \n \n Trumpeters\n \n \n \n \n Corporals\n 6\n \n \n \n Bombardiers\n 6\n \n \n 1\n Helmet and Fittings, White and Khaki\n \n \n \n \n Wheeler\n \n \n \n \n Carriage-smith\n I\n \n \n \n Cloth Field Service Cap\n \n \n \n \n Gunners\n 82\n \n \n \n Cloth Frock and Trousers\n 1 suit.\n \n \n \n Total rank and file.\n 96\n \n \n \n Total all ranks\n 110\n \n \n \n Khaki Drill Frock and Tronsers\n 2 suits.\n \n \n \n Cape Blue Putties\n 1\n \n \n \n \n 2 pairs.\n \n\n(2.) A, B, and C, MACHINE GUN COMPANIES, the strength being equally divided between the three Companies-\n\n### PART II.\n\n \n \n Captains\n 3\n \n \n \n Lieutenants\n 6\n \n \n \n Total officers\n 9\n \n \n \n Company Sergeant-Majors\n 3\n \n \n No.\n ARTICLES.\n REMARKS.\n \n \n \n Sergeants\n 12\n \n \n \n Total sergeants\n 15\n \n \n 1\n Helmet and Fittings, Khaki\n \n \n \n \n Khaki Puggarec.\n \n \n \n \n Field Service Cap\n \n \n \n \n Trumpeters\n \n \n \n \n Serge Frock and Trousers\n 1 suit.\n \n \n \n Khaki Drill Frock and Trousers\n 2 suits.\n \n \n \n Corporals\n 12\n \n \n \n Cape\n 1\n \n \n \n Bombardiers\n 12\n \n \n \n Khaki Putties\n 2 pairs.\n \n \n \n Gunners\n 72\n \n \n \n Total rank and file\n 96\n \n \n \n Total all ranks\n 123\n \n\n### PART III.\n\n(3.) D, INFANTRY COMPANY-e\n\nENGINEER COMPANY.\n\n \n \n Captais\n Lieutenants\n 2\n \n \n \n Total officers\n \n 3\n \n \n No.\n ARTICLES.\n REMARKS.\n \n \n \n \n Sergeants\n \n \n \n \n \n Corporals\n \n \n \n \n \n Privates\n \n 50\n \n \n 1\n Helmet and Fittings, White and Khaki\n \n \n \n \n \n Cloth Field Service Cap\n \n \n \n \n \n Cloth Frock and Trousers\n 1 suit.\n \n \n \n \n White and Khaki Paggaree.\n \n \n \n \n \n Engineer Pattern, as for English Volunteers.\n \n \n \n \n \n Total rank and file\n \n 52\n \n \n \n Total ali rauks\n \n \n \n \n \n Khaki Drill Frock and Trousers\n 2 suits.\n \n \n \n \n Cape\n \n \n \n \n \n Klinki Putties\n 2 pairs.\n \n \n \n \n Carried forward\n \n 296", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-292 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [6-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 372563, "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": "CO129-292 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [6-8]", "page_number": 558, "title": "CO129-292 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [6-8]", "content_text": "HONGKONG VOLUNTEER CORPS, TRAINING, 1898-1899.\n\nFrom Colonel R. B. Mainwaring, Acting Commandant, Hongkong Volunteer Corps —\n\nTo the Deputy Assistant Adjutant-General (A) and Chief Staff Officer, China.\n\nVOLUNTEER HEAD QUARTERS\n\nVictoria, 17th April, 1899.\n\nSir,\n\nI have the honour to forward herewith the documents mentioned in the margin relating to the training of the Hongkong Volunteer Corps for the season of 1898-99 for the information of His Excellency the Major-General Commanding and for favour of transmission to His Excellency the Governor.\n\n1. Nominal Roll of Efficient.\n\n2. Nominal Roll of Efficient, Field Battery.\n\n3. Report on Gun Practice, Field Battery.\n\n4. Report on Gun Practice, \"A\" Machine Gun Company.\n\n5. Return of Revolver Practice of Officers and Staff Sergeants.\n\n6. Copy of Inspection State.\n\n7. State of Corps 36th April, 1899.\n\nESTABLISHMENT.\n\n2. It will be seen by Enclosure 7, with the corresponding document for the training 1897-98, that the total strength of the Corps is now 181 of all ranks, as against 176 of all ranks at the former date. This is the greatest strength to which the Corps has yet attained since its re-organization in 1893.\n\nDuring the past season, 3 members have died, 12 have been struck off the strength for non-efficiency, and 26 have resigned. Of the resigning members, 12 have left the Colony and 1 has been discharged on Medical Certificate. 16 new members have been enrolled.\n\nThe Field Battery now numbers 117 and the \"A\" Machine Gun Company numbers 58 as compared with an Establishment of 80 and 51 respectively.\n\nThe new draft Regulations submitted to you under this Office No. 3 of 4th instant make provision for 3 Machine Gun Companies (the requisite guns for them are all in stock) and also a small Engineer Company. Immediately on the approval of the Governor-in-Council to these Regulations, I shall proceed to raise the Engineer Company and every endeavour will be made to raise the other 2 Machine Gun Companies during the ensuing drill season.\n\n3. The Fife and Drum Band of the Corps is making great effort to obtain proficiency and the draft Regulations submitted allow of its existence, and give substantive rank to the Non-Commissioned Officers employed with it.\n\nThe thanks of all Ranks of the Corps are especially due to the Officers Commanding the King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment and the 2nd Battalion Royal Welch Fusiliers for so kindly lending their Bands to the Corps on the many occasions found necessary and also the services of their Sergeant Drummers as Instructors, who have brought the Fife and Drum Band of the Corps up to the standard of efficiency it has reached.\n\n4. The changes among the Officers of the Corps during the season have been :--\n\nHis Excellency Sir W. ROBINSON, G.C.M.G., Honorary Colonel of the Corps, vacated his appointment on the 31st January, 1899, and not as stated in the last Training Report of the Corps.\n\nHis Excellency Sir H. A. BLAKE, G.C.M.G., Governor and Commander-in-Chief of this Colony and its dependencies, has very kindly accepted the appointment of Honorary Colonel to the Corps.\n\nCaptain L. A. C. GORDON, Royal Artillery, Adjutant of the Corps, resigned his appointment on the 10th April, 1899, on proceeding to England on leave. This Officer during his services as Adjutant to the Corps extending over a period of 4 years, has done much good work for the Corps, and his departure is much regretted by all Ranks.\n\nCaptain W. ST. C. BLAND, Royal Artillery, took over the duties of Adjutant of the Corps from 11th instant.\n\nSurgeon-Lieutenant F. O. STEDMAN, M.D., (Lond.), was promoted to Surgeon-Captain on the 15th February, 1899.\n\nMr. A. H. LEE-NORMAN was appointed Supernumerary Lieutenant in the Field Battery on the 25th November, 1898, and was appointed Aide-de-Camp to His Excellency the Governor; this Officer resigned his Commission on the 4th February, 1899, on leaving the Colony.\n\nCaptain E. D. SANDERS, \"A\" Machine Gun Company, was appointed an Honorary Aide-de-Camp to His Excellency the Governor on the 9th instant.\n\nDISCIPLINE, TRAINING, &c.\n\n5. The discipline of the Corps has been exceptionally good throughout the season.\n\n6. The usual Squad, Carbine, Company, Gun drills and practices have been well attended. Musketry drills have been performed but no Musketry practices, as by Home Volunteer Regulations these are not now required to enable Artillery Volunteers to become efficient although every effort has been made, and with good success, with the several carbine competitions held by each unit during the season.\n\nUnder the head of Drills the figures for the two existing units are as follows: ---\n\nField Battery —\n\n68 have become Efficient with more than 40 drills.\n\n25 have become Efficient with less than 40 drills.\n\n24 are Non-Efficients.\n\n117\n\n\"A\" Machine Gun Company —\n\n26 have become Efficient with more than 40 drills.\n\n17 have become Efficient with less than 40 drills.\n\n15 are Non-Efficients.\n\n58\n\nOf the 24 non-efficients of the Field Battery 14 are absent from the Colony without leave, 2 are on Medical Certificate, and the remaining 8 although in the Colony have not completed the requisite number of drills and will be called upon to show cause of non-efficiency.\n\nIn the case of the 15 non-efficients of the \"A\" Machine Gun Company, 5 are absent from the Colony on leave, 5 are absent from the Colony without leave, 1 is a recruit who has not had sufficient time since joining to complete his drills, 1 is on medical certificate, and the remaining 3 although in the Colony have not completed the requisite number of drills, and will be called upon to show cause of non-efficiency.\n\n7. From the 22nd to the 31st October, 1898, a Camp of Instruction was held under canvas on Stonecutters' Island. The use of the Naval Range was kindly lent by the Naval Authorities. The Camp was well attended and much appreciated by all, and to it much of the efficiency of the Corps is attributed.\n\nThe Camp year by year seems more popular.\n\n8. Gun practices have taken place as shown in Enclosures Nos. 3 and 4.\n\nNo practice was held this past season with the 64-pounder R.M.L. Guns, as orders were given that they were to be dismantled.\n\nThe 7-pounder R.M.L. and Machine Gun Competitions were held at Repulse Bay on the 10th February last, and the shooting was good and a great improvement on past years. A report of the competition was forwarded to His Excellency the General Officer Commanding under this Office No. 3 of 24th February, 1899.\n\n9. The annual Carbine Competition in connection with the Corps was held on the 15th instant, and will be continued on the 22nd instant. A large number of valuable prizes have again been presented for which all Ranks are grateful.\n\n10. Revolver practice by the Officers and Staff Sergeants has been held, report as Enclosure No. 5.\n\n11. Coolie draught was tried once during the past season in conveying guns, targets, etc., to Repulse Bay on 10th February last, but much time was lost and it cost more than conveyance by water.\n\nSERVICES.\n\n12. Captain W. ST. C. BLAND, Royal Artillery, who took over the Adjutancy of the Corps on 11th instant, has entered into his duties with zeal and enthusiasm, and promises to be as popular with all Ranks as Captain GORDON, Royal Artillery, the late Adjutant.\n\n13. Captain A. CHAPMAN, Field Battery, was one of the Committee appointed to enquire into the interior economy, etc., of the Corps, which report was approved by Government, and which dealt fully with, I think, every question appertaining to the Corps.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-292 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [6-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 372564, "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": "CO129-292 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [6-8]", "page_number": 559, "title": "CO129-292 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [6-8]", "content_text": "Enclosure No. 1.\n\n556\n\nThe Officers of the Corps also continue to render good service; they set an admirable example to the Non-Commissioned Officers and Men under their command, and do as much as possible to promote the efficiency of the Corps.\n\n14. Corps Quartermaster Sergeant G. WATLING has discharged his duties in a most satisfactory manner, and has rendered very efficient service in connection with the various gun practices, competitions, etc., during the year, and particularly at the Camp of Instruction.\n\n15. The Instructors for the Field Battery, \"A\" Machine Gun Co., Band, Signalling, and Ambulance Classes, have proved themselves very efficient and painstaking, and have discharged their duties to my entire satisfaction.\n\n16. The Non-Commissioned Officers and Men of the Corps have, with few exceptions, attended regularly and shown a praiseworthy desire to make themselves smart and efficient; their conduct and good feeling in Camp and on all occasions has been exceedingly good.\n\nREGULATIONS.\n\n17. The proposed new Regulations for the Corps were, after many various alterations and after much care and thought on the part of Major Sir J. W. CARRINGTON, Knt., C.M.G., submitted through you for His Excellency the General Officer Commanding, and His Excellency the Governor-in-Council's approval on the 4th instant.\n\nThe recommendations of the Committee held last year on the interior economy, etc., of the Corps, and sanctioned by C.S.O. No. 2581, dated 17th January, 1899, have been embodied in them.\n\nMISCELLANEOUS MATTERS.\n\n18. The Annual Inspection of the Corps by His Excellency the Major-General Commanding was held on the 29th ultimo.\n\nThe parade state on that occasion is shown in Enclosure No. 6.\n\nHONGKONG VOLUNTEER CORPS.\n\nFIELD BATTERY.\n\nNominal Roll of Efficients for the Year ending 16th April, 1899.\n\n \n Rank and Name\n Corps Number\n Rank and Name\n Corps Number\n \n \n Captain Chapman, A.\n \n Gunner Dean, J. T.\n 238\n \n \n Slade, M. W.\n \n Donaldson, T.\n 50\n \n \n Colonel Mainwaring, K. B.\n 243\n Ellis, O. J.\n 267\n \n \n Captain Bland, W. St. C.\n \n Ellis, D. E.\n 282\n \n \n Royal Artillery, Adjutant\n \n Surgeon-Captain Lowson, J. A.\n 231\n \n \n Lieutenant Stedman, F. O.\n 269\n \n \n \n \n Medical Officers\n \n Lieutenant Macdonald, D.\n 186\n \n \n Quarter-Master Sergeant Watling, G. W.\n 272\n \n \n \n \n Corps Quarter-Master Sergeant (Staff)\n \n Acting Battery Sergeant-Major Duncan, G. L.\n 304\n \n \n \n 275\n Farr, A. J. M.\n \n \n \n \n 71\n Higgins, F.\n \n \n \n \n 149\n Humphreys, A.\n \n \n \n \n 150\n Halden, G. M. P.\n \n \n \n \n 302\n Herbst, E.\n \n \n \n \n 13\n Hatherly, E. W. F.\n \n \n \n \n 11\n Howarth, H. C.\n \n \n \n \n \n Hauen, C. E. A.\n \n \n \n \n 153\n Hance, J. H. R.\n \n \n \n Battery Quarter-Master Sergeant Coyle, J.\n \n Henderson, R.\n \n \n \n Sergeant-Drummer Brown, A.\n 251\n Hubbard, A.\n \n \n \n \n \n Kennett, H. S.\n 9\n \n \n Sergeant Hayward, G. C.\n 3\n \n 153\n \n \n \n 159\n Kennedy, D. F.\n 252\n \n \n \n 118\n Lammert, L. E.\n 18\n \n \n McPhail, H.\n 223\n \n \n \n \n \n 3\n Lee, J. R.\n 24\n \n \n Armstrong, J. H. W.\n 259\n Kennett, H. W.\n 278\n \n \n \n \n \n 34\n \n \n Parvell, W. H.\n 283\n \n 107\n \n \n Acting Sergeant Rutter, R. V.\n 293\n \n 127\n \n \n Corporal Meek, T.\n 313\n \n 49\n \n \n \n \n Humphreys, W. M.\n 240\n \n \n \n 4\n Ramsey, W. F.\n 210\n \n \n \n \n \n 40\n \n \n Stopani, W. A.\n 141\n \n \n \n \n \n \n White, G.\n 124\n \n \n \n 105\n \n 101\n \n \n Acting Corporal Gow, D.\n \n Millar, J.\n 249\n \n \n \n BIS\n \n \n \n \n Baker, J.\n \n \n 306\n \n \n \n 25\n Olson, J.\n 204\n \n \n Bombardier Nobbe, A. P.\n 301\n \n \n \n \n \n 191\n Smart, C. McD.\n 102\n \n \n \n 100\n Deas, W. M.\n \n \n \n Acting Bombardier Wilson, G. T.\n 106\n \n 241\n \n \n \n \n Hari, W.\n 163\n \n \n \n 200\n \n 263\n \n \n Trumpeter Plouston, C.\n 203\n Moore, S. R.\n 192\n \n \n \n 2+\n \n 305\n \n \n Gunner Abraham, E.\n 256\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Seth, H. A.\n 25\n \n \n \n 197\n Bentley, R. J. H.\n 317\n \n \n \n 71\n Lammert, H. A.\n \n \n \n Lysaught, J.\n \n \n \n \n \n Lapsley, R.\n \n Beuning, T.\n 151\n \n \n Logan, J. C.\n \n \n 15\n \n \n MacDonald, W. J.\n \n Sayer, E. A. R.\n 190\n \n \n Mody, J. H.\n \n Brett, L. E.\n 71\n \n \n Melver, M.\n \n \n 247\n \n \n Mackie, A. J.\n \n \n 116\n \n \n Moller, J. A.\n \n Begley, A. J.\n \n \n \n McLeish, P.\n \n \n > \n \n \n Pidgeon, J. H.\n \n Toller, W.\n 311\n \n \n Patton, G.\n \n \n 315\n \n \n Reid, A.\n \n Baker, F. H.\n \n \n \n Stewart, W.\n \n \n **\n \n \n Sutton, A. I.\n \n Tuohy, G.\n 276\n \n \n Sanderson, J. S.\n \n \n 267\n \n \n \n 277\n \n 1\n \n \n Soth, S. A.\n \n Burgess, J. R.\n \n \n \n Spittles, B. J.\n \n Taylor, W. C.\n 201\n \n \n \n \n Thomson, W. M.\n 27\n \n \n \n \n Bevan, H. S.\n 166\n \n \n \n \n \n 41\n \n \n \n \n \n 15\n \n \n Toppiu, W. J.\n \n Baker, W. A.\n 187\n \n \n \n 268\n \n 229\n \n \n \n \n Cumpston, W. H.\n 17\n \n \n \n \n Uphill, A.\n 155\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Warren, C. E.\n 286\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Craig, R. H.\n 206\n \n \n \n \n Wilkinson, S.\n 279\n \n \n Chamant, A. E.\n 280\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Wynne, H. S.\n 300\n \n \n Chummut, F. G.\n 287\n \n \n \n \n \n \"1\n Wheeler, H. S.\n 213\n \n \n \n \n \n 73\n \n \n Cotton, J. T.\n 143\n \n \n \n \n \n >\n Crispin, C. R.\n 10\n \n \n \n \n \n 33;\n \n\n(3 Officers.)\n\n(90 Non-Commissioned Officers and Men.)\n\n19. Surgeon-Captain F. O. STEDMAN, M.D. (Lond.), again conducted a course of lectures on Ambulance Work, accompanied with Stretcher Drills. 9 members presented themselves for examination, which was conducted by Major WATSON, R.A. Medical Corps: of the examinates 8 were successful.\n\n20. I have to request that the Chief Ordnance Officer, China, may be asked to keep up the usual quantities of 7-pounder R.M.L. Gun Ammunition for use of the Corps, to be indented for as required on repayment. Very little more Martini-Henry Carbine Ammunition, ball or blank, will, it is thought, be required by the Corps as the re-arming with the new Carbine of 303 calibre has been sanctioned, and it is hoped they will be received during the ensuing summer.\n\n21. The Local Government having sanctioned the proposals of the Committee held on the 29th September, 1898, it is felt that the result of their proposals cannot fail to add to the general efficiency of the Corps.\n\n22. During the past season attention has been drawn to the necessity for the re-arming of the Field Battery with a more modern gun than the 7-pounder R.M.L. in their possession. The question has been gone into fully (Vide this Office No. 8 dated 15th March, 1899), and it is hoped that the newest pattern gun may be supplied to the Corps.\n\n23. Attention has also been drawn (Vide this Office No. 5, dated 14th February, 1899) to the unserviceable state of the 120 Machine Gun belts on Corps charge, and the question of replacing the 45 with 303\" barrels to the 12 machine guns on Corps charge has also been gone into (Vide this Office No. 4, dated 17th April, 1899).\n\n24. The report of the Committee of Officers of the Corps on the question of uniform of the several ranks of the Corps was embodied in the new draft Regulations submitted recently for approval.\n\n25. Requisitions for the Capitation Grant for Efficients and Proficients have been sent direct to the Honourable the Colonial Treasurer.\n\n26. It will be seen from this report that the progress of the Corps remains good and the interest shown by the Government and the Legislature during the past season cannot but have a good effect on the Corps in general.\n\nMajor Sir J. W. CARRINGTON, Knt., C.M.G., and Commandant, proceeded on leave on the 5th instant, from which date I assumed command.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour obedient Servant,\n\nR. B. MAINWARING, Colonel, Acting Commandant, Hongkong Volunteer Corps.\n\nR. B. MAINWARING, Colonel, Acting Commandant, Hongkong Volunteer Corps.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-292 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [6-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 372565, "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": "CO129-292 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [6-8]", "page_number": 560, "title": "CO129-292 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [6-8]", "content_text": "557\n\nEnclosure No. 2.\n\nHONGKONG VOLUNTEER CORPS.\n\n\"A\" MACHINE GUN COMPANY.\n\nNominal Roll of Officers for the Year ending 16th April, 1899.\n\nEnclosure No. 4.\n\n \n Corps Number.\n Rank and Name.\n Corps Number.\n Rank and Name.\n \n\nHONGKONG VOLUNTEER CORPS.\n\n\"A\" MACHINE GUN COMPANY.\n\nReport on Gun Practice carried out during the Year ending 16th April, 1899.\n\n \n Number.\n Date on which Practice carried out.\n Nature of Practice.\n Number Present on Parade.\n Number of Guns.\n Number of Rounds fired.\n Range.\n General Idea of Practice.\n \n \n 295\n 17th Sept., 1898.\n 0.45\" Maxim M.G.\n Captain Sanders, E. D., A...\n Machine Guns,\n 567\n 500 Yds.\n To repel a body of men who had under cover advanced to within 500 yards on Police Range, Kowloon.\n \n \n 298\n \n \n Lieutenant Maitland, F.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 202\n 11\n \n (3 Officers.)\n 3.\n \n \n \n \n \n 294\n 8th Oct., 1898.\n \n Acting Coy. Sergt.-Major Crombie, II.\n 2\n 490\n 500 Yds.\n \n \n \n 227\n \n \n Sergeant Smyth, F.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 297\n 29th Oct., 1898.\n \n Skeltou, A. H.\n 5\n 2,980\n \n Practice at an imaginary enemy landing in sampans from East Shore, Stone-cutters' Island, during Camp of Instruction.\n \n \n 314\n \n \n Acting Sergeant Underwood, J. II.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 169\n \n \n Corporal Jupp, J. A.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 218\n \n \n Acting Corporal Northcote, M. S.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 233\n \n \n Gumer Alderton, P.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 309\n 2nd Jan., 1899.\n \n Touzalin, A. R.\n 2\n 1,260\n \n 750 to 1,200 Yds. Practice at Barrel Targets with flags floating off Sandy Bay.\n \n \n 296\n 10th Feb., 1899.\n \n Tarrant, J. A.\n \n 1,680\n \n Practice at Screens and Head and Shoulder Targets representing enemy advancing in column and in extended order at Repulse Bay.\n \n \n 281\n \n \n Watson, Max.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n (40 Non-Commissioned Officers and Men.)\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\nR. B. MAINWARING, Colonel, Acting Commandant, Hongkong Volunteer Corps.\n\nEnclosure No. 3.\n\nHONGKONG VOLUNTEER CORPS.\n\nFIELD BATTERY.\n\nReport on Gun Practice carried out during the Year ending 16th April, 1899.\n\nEnclosure No. 5.\n\nHONGKONG VOLUNTEER CORPS.\n\nRevolver Practice Return Showing Percentage, for the Year ending 16th April, 1899.\n\n \n Date on which Practice was carried out.\n Nature of Practice.\n Number Present on Parade.\n Number of Rounds Fired.\n Range.\n General Idea of Practice.\n \n \n 29th Oct., 1898.\n 7-Pr. R.M.L. Guns, 200 lbs.\n 71\n 42\n 750 to 1,000 Yds.\n Practice at an imaginary enemy landing in sampans, from East Shore Stonecutters' Island, during Camp of Instruction.\n \n \n 10th Feb., 1899.\n \n $2\n 62\n 1,100 to 1,850 Yds.\n Practice on Screens representing an enemy advancing in column, and in extended order at Repulse Bay.\n \n\n \n Unit.\n Number Firing.\n Number of Points obtained.\n Percentage.\n \n \n Staff,\n 157\n 81.77\n \n \n \n Field Battery,\n 6\n 238\n 82.64\n \n \n A Machine Gun Company,\n 3\n 118\n 81.94\n \n \n Total,\n 13\n 413\n 82.21\n \n\nR. B. MAINWARING, Colonel, Acting Commandant, Hongkong Volunteer Corps.\n\nRemarks.\n\nR. B. MAINWARING, Colonel, Acting Commandant, Hongkong Volunteer Corps.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-292 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [6-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 373078, "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": "CO129-293 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [8-9]", "page_number": 435, "title": "CO129-293 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [8-9]", "content_text": "Enclosure\n\nP.Y. 432 C.O. 20002\n\nConstituted as they are with the Paper Major's General Order, commanding that the Hong Kong Volunteers form a valuable addition to the strength of the Garrison.\n\nI have the honour to submit a report from most of their Branches during the disturbances in the Hong Kong Association Former Volunteers.\n\nReport on Disturbances in Kowloon Territory.\n\nSir,\n\nTo Captain W.St.C. Bland, R.A.\n\nFrom Major M.M. Morris, R.A.\n\nPro. dated 16 OCT 29\n\nAdjutant, Hong Kong Volunteer Corps.\n\nMajor M.M. Morris, R.A.\n\nActing Commandant, Hong Kong Volunteer Corps.\n\nHong Kong, 11th September, 1899.\n\nIn accordance with instructions received from the Chief Staff Officer, and in the absence of Colonel R.B. Mainwaring, C.M.G., late Acting Commandant, Hong Kong Volunteer Corps, I have the honour to submit the following report on the calling out of the Hong Kong Volunteer Corps on the evening of 16th April 1899.\n\nAt 10 p.m. on the above date, orders were received from Colonel Mainwaring for 3 Maxim Guns manned by the Machine Gun Company with an escort from the Field Battery to parade at Volunteer Head Quarters at 10:30 p.m. ready to march off.\n\n4000 rounds of ammunition per Machine Gun, and 30 rounds per carbine were taken.\n\nThe above detail, under the command of Captain A. Chapman, Hong Kong Volunteer Corps, marched off at 10:45 p.m. to Pedder's Wharf. They were here joined by a Company of the Royal Welch Fusiliers.\n\nAt", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-293 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [8-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 373080, "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": "CO129-293 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [8-9]", "page_number": 437, "title": "CO129-293 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [8-9]", "content_text": "434\n\nHong Kong.\n\nThe numbers of the Hong Kong Volunteer Corps present on Parade were as follows:-\n\n \n \n Staff\n Field Battery.\n HAH Mach.Gun.Co.\n \n \n Officers\n 3\n 2\n 2\n \n \n N.C.Officers\n 2\n 59\n 26\n \n \n and Men.\n \n \n \n \n \n Total.\n 5\n 61\n 28\n \n\nGrand Total all Ranks 94.\n\nForwarded.\n\nI have &c.\n\n(Signed) W. Bland\n\nCaptain R.A.\n\nAdjutant\n\nHong Kong Volunteer Corps.\n\nD. A. A. G. and C. S. O:\n\nHong Kong\n\nM.M.Morris Major R.A.\n\n11. 9. 99. Ag. Commandant Hong Kong Volunteer Corps.\n\nThe", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-293 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [8-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 380022, "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": "CO129-304 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [1-4]", "page_number": 264, "title": "CO129-304 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [1-4]", "content_text": "## \n259 \n\nPolice Force, the necessity for which the Captain Superintendent of Police informs me is urgent. In this proposal Major-General Gascoigne also concurs.\n\n3. \nI have consulted Sir John Carrington who is Commandant of the Corps on the possibility of effecting some saving in the Headquarter Staff if an Adjutant be appointed. He reports that there are at present two Artillery Instructors, one at $480 per annum, another at $360, one of whom could in that event be dispensed with.\n\n4 \nThe financial aspect is as follows. Proposed pay at $15 per day - $5,475; less $1,200 pay for services of present Adjutant and $360 pay of one Artillery Instructor making a difference of $3,915. But besides the additional duty with Volunteers the duty of drilling the Police Force must be taken into account, for which special payment has to be made at present as a temporary measure, there being no Officer of the Force who understands the Indian Police whose drill and discipline are not in a satisfactory state.\n\n5. \nI have the honour to request your approval of these proposals.\n\nI have the honour to be, \nSir, \nYour most obedient \nHumble servant.\n\nHury Athlake \nGovernor, &c.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-304 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 381019, "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": "CO129-305 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [5-7]", "page_number": 547, "title": "CO129-305 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [5-7]", "content_text": "Memorandum concerning An, whose full name is An Hsi Yung (安錫鏞) (50 1 1), who issued the foregoing notifications.\n\n542 This officer is placed high on the list of Expectant First Captain, those awaiting appointment, to be attached to the Centre Camp of Admiral Ho's Command when he receives his Commission.\n\nAt present he is acting Commandant of the Centre Camp of the Chu Regiment, and is stationed on the Parade Ground outside the East Gate of Canton.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-305 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 381331, "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": "CO129-306 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [8-9]", "page_number": 43, "title": "CO129-306 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [8-9]", "content_text": "41\n\nservices of a Captain of Royal Artillery as Adjutant at $5,000\n\nas authorised; but no Officer stationed here would accept it\n\nat the salary. The Officers of the Hongkong and Singapore\n\nCompanies are paid as much, and besides the possible loss of\n\nactive service chances,\n\nthe work of the Volunteers is much\n\nmore arduous, as it involves attendance in the afternoons\n\nthus absorbing the portion of the day usually allotted in\n\nthe Tropics to exercise, and social amenities. Sir John\n\nCarrington recommends that a salary of $7,000 be allotted to\n\nthe Commandant who will perform the duties of Adjutant, but I\n\nthink that an Officer might be got for $6,000 if quarters\n\nwere given which might be arranged in the new Volunteer Head-\n\nquarters about to be built.\n\n3.\n\n+\n\nCaptain Pritchard, Royal Artillery, who\n\nhas been doing the work of Adjutant for some months and doing\n\nit extremely well being a smart and energetic Officer and\n\nvery popular with the Corps would make an excellent Command-\n\nant. He has returned to England on leave, and if you approve\n\nof my suggestion, concurred in by the General Officer Com-\n\nmanding, I venture to suggest his name for the appointment.\n\nHe was of course offered the Adjutancy, but declined.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour most obedient\n\nHumble servant,\n\nHenry ...\n\n#overnor, 80..\n\nHowever, to follow the exact output format requested (HTML using for paragraphs), here is the revised version:\n\n41\n\nservices of a Captain of Royal Artillery as Adjutant at $5,000 as authorised; but no Officer stationed here would accept it at the salary. The Officers of the Hongkong and Singapore Companies are paid as much, and besides the possible loss of active service chances, the work of the Volunteers is much more arduous, as it involves attendance in the afternoons thus absorbing the portion of the day usually allotted in the Tropics to exercise, and social amenities. Sir John Carrington recommends that a salary of $7,000 be allotted to the Commandant who will perform the duties of Adjutant, but I think that an Officer might be got for $6,000 if quarters were given which might be arranged in the new Volunteer Headquarters about to be built.\n\n3. + Captain Pritchard, Royal Artillery, who has been doing the work of Adjutant for some months and doing it extremely well being a smart and energetic Officer and very popular with the Corps would make an excellent Commandant. He has returned to England on leave, and if you approve of my suggestion, concurred in by the General Officer Commanding, I venture to suggest his name for the appointment. He was of course offered the Adjutancy, but declined.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour most obedient\n\nHumble servant,\n\nHenry Ashahe\n\n#overnor, 80..\n\nLet's correct minor errors and follow the format:\n41\n\nservices of a Captain of Royal Artillery as Adjutant at $5,000 as authorised; but no Officer stationed here would accept it at the salary. The Officers of the Hongkong and Singapore Companies are paid as much, and besides the possible loss of active service chances, the work of the Volunteers is much more arduous, as it involves attendance in the afternoons thus absorbing the portion of the day usually allotted in the Tropics to exercise, and social amenities. Sir John Carrington recommends that a salary of $7,000 be allotted to the Commandant who will perform the duties of Adjutant, but I think that an Officer might be got for $6,000 if quarters were given which might be arranged in the new Volunteer Headquarters about to be built.\n\n3. Captain Pritchard, Royal Artillery, who has been doing the work of Adjutant for some months and doing it extremely well being a smart and energetic Officer and very popular with the Corps would make an excellent Commandant. He has returned to England on leave, and if you approve of my suggestion, concurred in by the General Officer Commanding, I venture to suggest his name for the appointment. He was of course offered the Adjutancy, but declined.\n\nI have the honour to be,\nSir,\nYour most obedient\nHumble servant,\nHenry Ashby\n\nGovernor, 188...\n\nHere is the final version in the requested HTML format:\n\n41\n\nservices of a Captain of Royal Artillery as Adjutant at $5,000 as authorised; but no Officer stationed here would accept it at the salary. The Officers of the Hongkong and Singapore Companies are paid as much, and besides the possible loss of active service chances, the work of the Volunteers is much more arduous, as it involves attendance in the afternoons thus absorbing the portion of the day usually allotted in the Tropics to exercise, and social amenities. Sir John Carrington recommends that a salary of $7,000 be allotted to the Commandant who will perform the duties of Adjutant, but I think that an Officer might be got for $6,000 if quarters were given which might be arranged in the new Volunteer Headquarters about to be built.\n\n3. Captain Pritchard, Royal Artillery, who has been doing the work of Adjutant for some months and doing it extremely well being a smart and energetic Officer and very popular with the Corps would make an excellent Commandant. He has returned to England on leave, and if you approve of my suggestion, concurred in by the General Officer Commanding, I venture to suggest his name for the appointment. He was of course offered the Adjutancy, but declined.\n\nI have the honour to be,\nSir,\nYour most obedient\nHumble servant,\nHenry Ashby\n\nGovernor, 188...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-306 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [8-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 381465, "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": "CO129-306 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [8-9]", "page_number": 177, "title": "CO129-306 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [8-9]", "content_text": "175\n\nthat the Colonial Government should obtain the services of \n\nan Armourer to attend to the arms both of the Police Force \n\nand of the Volunteer Corps. \n\n3.\n\nI referred the question to the Honourable the \n\nCaptain Superintendent of Police and to the Acting Commandant, \n\nHongkong Volunteer Corps for a joint report and in view of \n\ntheir report, of which I enclose a copy; I have the honour to \n\nrecommend that the services of an Armourer Sergeant should be \n\nobtained at a salary of $1,800 per annum with free quarters. \n\nI attach a table of particulars. \n\n4.\n\nI have, subject to your approval, made provi-\n\nsion for this appointment \n\nin the Estimates for next year. \n\nI have the honour to be, \n\nSir, \n\nYour most obedient, \n\nHumble servant, \n\nNung Shou-cheng\n\nGOVERNOR", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-306 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [8-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 381471, "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": "CO129-306 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [8-9]", "page_number": 183, "title": "CO129-306 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [8-9]", "content_text": "Enclosure No.6 of H. E. the Governor's Despatch No.329.\n\nof the 23rd August, 1901\n\n05855\n\nİR\n\nlaw 27 SEP 01 Copy of a joint report by the Honourable the Captain Superintendent of Police and the Acting Commandant, Hongkong Volunteer Corps,\n\nHon. Colonial Secretary.\n\n181\n\nWe recommend that an Armourer Sergeant be obtained\n\nfor the Volunteers and Police.\n\nWe are of opinion that a salary of $1,800 per annum and free quarters must be offered.\n\nThe Volunteer Corps and the Police have no quarters to spare at present. Provision should be made for the man in the new Volunteer Head Quarters.\n\nIn the meantime he should get a house allowance of $45 a month unless the Military Authorities can accommodate him temporarily.\n\nProvision should if possible be made in 1902 Estimates for the post.\n\nThe Police Department should pay $75 a month towards the salary. This can be done next year out of lapsing salaries without now disturbing the Estimates.\n\n(sd). F.H.May. G.S.P.\n\n(sd). D.F.Tulloch. Capt.R.G.A.\n\nAct.Commandant, H.K.V.C.\n\n29/7/1901.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-306 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [8-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 382630, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-307 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [10-12]", "page_number": 613, "title": "CO129-307 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [10-12]", "content_text": "-OF-\n\nNo.\n\n495 901\n\nMar\n\nerious Paper.\n\n32488\n\nQ\n\nFurther for\n\n63: 28 Feb\n\nDESPATCH\n\nHOME\n\nNo. 270\n\n(Subject.)\n\n609\n\nCommandant of Volunteer\n\n2/0\n\ninfer as to abpt. til tithes conside\n\ncould be dispensed with for six months arrangements proposed, advice's of the Artillery.\n\nPoniatif\n\nMr. Lucas\n\n(Minutes.)\n\nWe are practically\n\nto this aff?.-\n\nse\n\nbetta\n\ndarf.\n\ncommitted\n\n11553.\n\nI would offer a salary of £800 for five years, without quarters (see desp. on 30809), and consult W.O.\n\nto Captain Pritchard.\n\nA. F.4/1\n\nMPS\n\nat once\n\n7\n\n$ 175) ~~~177216-3500:10-01\n\nbeegment Paper.\n\nas\n\nAs\n\nas they are going to punch this\n\nwhen ready,\n\noffice with quarters\n\nin the new Volunteer\n\nHead Quarters\n\nwithin our new\n\nit would come\n\nmiles login him a\n\nhouse allowance in the mean\n\ntime\n\nAccept the semitumendo\n\nGar\n\nprofied by thelgus, and write toli.\n\nqu214", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-307 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 382634, "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": "CO129-307 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [10-12]", "page_number": 617, "title": "CO129-307 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [10-12]", "content_text": "I am out of the Hong Kong Volunter Corps, on terms proposed in your despatch under acknowledgement.\n\n2. I have caused a letter to be addressed to the War Office upon the subject; and your recommendation of Captain Pritchard has been brought to Mr. Brodrick's notice.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nA. T. Go to Hong Kong\n\n27.012 01-02\n\nThe Under Secretary of State, War Office\n\nF. 2df5 Anod 8231\n\nI am directed by Mr. Secretary Chamberlain to request you to inform Mr. Secretary Brodrick, that owing to the imminent retirement of J. W. Carrington, C.M.G., the Commandant of the Hong Kong Volunter Corps, it has become necessary for a new Commandant to be selected.\n\n2. A proposal has been forwarded by the Governor, to the", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-307 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 382635, "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": "CO129-307 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [10-12]", "page_number": 618, "title": "CO129-307 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [10-12]", "content_text": "effect that an \n\nofficer of the Royal Artillery \n\nshould be seconded for a term of years to take up this post, and should be given \n\nthe local rank \n\nof Major or Lieutenant-\n\nColonel. \n\n3. The new Commandant himself \n\nwould discharge the duties of Adjutant of the Corps, except on parade when he would be assisted by \n\na Volunteer Adjutant. \n\nHe would also be required to undertake the supervision of the drilling of the Hong Kong Police Force.\n\n4. The salary proposed for this officer \n\n£750 a year, together with free quarters or allowance in lieu thereof. The allowance would be \n\nat the rate of $900 \n\na year. \n\n5. Mr. Chamberlain has agreed \n\nto the \n\nproposals, \n\nsubject to the concurrence of Mr. Brodrick; and I am to \n\nenquire whether \n\nMr. Brodrick sees any \n\nobstacle to an officer of the Royal Artillery being recommended for the post on these terms. I am to add \n\nthat Sir Henry Blake has reported that Captain Pritchard, Royal Artillery, who has been \n\nrecently acting as Adjutant of the Volunteer Corps, \n\nwould be ...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-307 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 382636, "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": "CO129-307 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [10-12]", "page_number": 619, "title": "CO129-307 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [10-12]", "content_text": "I make an excellent Commandant and he states that Sir W.J. Gascoigne concurs in this suggestion. Captain Pritchard is stated to have given great satisfaction as Adjutant, and to be very popular with the officers.\n\n7. In the event therefore of Mr. Brodrick opening to the suggestion of an Artillery Officer on the terms stated, Mr. Chamberlain would see no objection to the post being offered in the first instance to Captain Pritchard, who is stated to have returned to this country.\n\nTo know whether there...\n\nJamh Maja Gennal Ria.\n\nNo. 496 901 Mor vious Paper. Dispered of by SPO sequent Paper. No. 271 (Subject.) Post Office at Shanghai again draws attention reference to the Recolle babases precomman (Minutes.) 615 DESPATCH. 271 01. inthe 2F 9260 whann...\n\nSend copy to No. ... soft & sentosun I im Ska Bu qz\n\nHowever, to follow the exact instructions given and to improve the response to fit the required format (HTML using for paragraphs and \n only if absolutely necessary), and to adhere to the rules for OCR proofreading:\n\nI make an excellent Commandant and he states that Sir W.J. Gascoigne concurs in this suggestion. Captain Pritchard is stated to have given great satisfaction as Adjutant, and to be very popular with the officers.\n\n7. In the event therefore of Mr. Brodrick opening to the suggestion of an Artillery Officer on the terms stated, Mr. Chamberlain would see no objection to the post being offered in the first instance to Captain Pritchard, who is stated to have returned to this country. To know whether there...\n\nJamh Maja Gennal Ria. No. 496 901 Mor vious Paper. Dispered of by SPO sequent Paper. No.271(Subject.)\n\nPost Office at Shanghai again draws attention reference to the Recolle babases precomman (Minutes.) 615 DESPATCH. No.271(01). inthe 2F9260 whann...\n\nSend copy to No.... soft & sentosun I im Ska Bu qz\n\nLet's correct and reformat according to the given rules and compact knowledge.\n\nHere is the corrected version:\n\nI make an excellent Commandant and he states that Sir W.J. Gascoigne concurs in this suggestion. Captain Pritchard is stated to have given great satisfaction as Adjutant, and to be very popular with the caps.\n\n7. In the event therefore of Mr. Brodrick opening to the suggestion of an Artillery Officer on the terms stated, Mr. Chamberlain would be glad to know whether there would be any objection to the post being offered in the first instance to Captain Pritchard, who is stated to have returned to this country.\n\nJamh Maja Gennal Ria.\n\nNo.496 901 Mor vious Paper. Dispered of by SPO sequent Paper. No.271(Subject)\n\nPost Office at Shanghai again draws attention reference to the Recolle babases precomman (Minutes.) 615 DESPATCH. No.271(01)\n\nSend copy to No.... soft & sentosun I im Ska Bu qz\n\nRevised to fit the exact format and rules:\nI make an excellent Commandant and he states that [Sir] W.J. Gascoigne concurs in this suggestion. Captain Pritchard is stated to have given great satisfaction as Adjutant, and to be very popular with the officers.\n\n7. In the event therefore of Mr. Brodrick opening to the suggestion of an Artillery Officer on the terms stated, Mr. Chamberlain would see no objection to the post being offered in the first instance to Captain Pritchard, who is stated to have returned to this country to know whether there...\n\nNo.496(901) Mor vious Paper. Dispered of by SPO sequent Paper. No.271(Subject)\n\nPost Office at Shanghai again draws attention reference to the Recolle babases precomman (Minutes.) 615 DESPATCH. No.271(01)\n\nSend copy to No... soft & sentosun I im Ska Bu qz\n\nThe final version, after applying the rules and compact knowledge:\nI make an excellent Commandant and he states that Sir W.J. Gascoigne concurs in this suggestion. Captain Pritchard is stated to have given great satisfaction as Adjutant, and to be very popular with the officers.\n\n7. In the event therefore of Mr. Brodrick opening to the suggestion of an Artillery Officer on the terms stated, Mr. Chamberlain would see no objection to the post being offered in the first instance to Captain Pritchard, who is stated to have returned to this country.\n\nJamh Maja Gennal Ria.\n\nNo.496(901) Mor vious Paper. Dispered of by SPO sequent Paper. No.271(Subject)\n\nPost Office at Shanghai again draws attention reference to the Recolle babases precomman (Minutes.) 615 DESPATCH. No.271(01)\n\nSend copy to No... soft & sentosun I im Ska Bu qz\n\nThe best answer is I make an excellent Commandant and he states that Sir W.J. Gascoigne concurs in this suggestion. Captain Pritchard is stated to have given great satisfaction as Adjutant, and to be very popular with the officers.\n\n7. In the event therefore of Mr. Brodrick opening to the suggestion of an Artillery Officer on the terms stated, Mr. Chamberlain would see no objection to the post being offered in the first instance to Captain Pritchard, who is stated to have returned to this country.\n\nJamh Maja Gennal Ria.\n\nNo.496(901) Mor vious Paper. Dispered of by SPO sequent Paper. No.271(Subject)\n\nPost Office at Shanghai again draws attention reference to the Recolle babases precomman (Minutes.) 615 DESPATCH. No.271(01)\n\nSend copy to No... soft & sentosun I im Ska Bu qz\n\n.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-307 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 385793, "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": "CO129-312 - Acting Governor Major Gen Sir Gascoigne Governor Sir Blake - 1902 [7-9]", "page_number": 398, "title": "CO129-312 - Acting Governor Major Gen Sir Gascoigne Governor Sir Blake - 1902 [7-9]", "content_text": "## Translation of Cablegram\nCaptain Pritchard, R.A. \n41675 \nOCT CO \n\nWill above named accept appointment as Commandant, Hongkong Volunteers. Pay at the rate of $750 per annum with free quarters or an allowance in lieu thereof $900. He will be seconded in his regiment and cease to draw pay from Army Funds. \nCommander-in-Chief.\n\n## \n0.0. R. A., \nPlease state whether Captain Pritchard is willing to accept this appointment. \nSingapore, \n21st February 1903. \n\nBy Order, \n**(Sd.)** R. White, Captain, \nD.A.A.G., O.S.O. S.S. \n\nCertified true copy. \n**(sa.)** O. G. Pritchard, \nMajor, R.G.A. \n1.0.08.\n\nSub-Enclosure to Enclosure 1 in Despatch No. 4 of the \n3rd September, 1902, \n395 \n`COP Y`", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-312 - Acting Governor Major Gen Sir Gascoigne Governor Sir Blake - 1902 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 386029, "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": "CO129-313 - Governor Sir Blake - 1902 [10-12]", "page_number": 109, "title": "CO129-313 - Governor Sir Blake - 1902 [10-12]", "content_text": "## \nSee `17959` these Est the increase of revenue. The Volunteer vote is $11,417 less the increase of $7,800 caused by the appointment of Captain Pritchard as paid Commandant being more than counterbalanced by a reduction in the votes for capitation grant, outfit for officers, purchase of reserve ammunition, arms, &c., for recruits.\n\nPublic Works Department - staff; increase $75,148. $58,521 of this is exchange compensation, $5,258 is due to the difference between old dollar and new sterling rates. (There will be a saving of nearly $2,000 if we can appoint the new Assistant Director on £600, as proposed).\n\nThe salaries of the two new Assistant Engineers from home rise to £480, not £420; and we have told him to put Mr Haggard's salary (Note 5) on sterling terms. See `39967`. We have approved the new appointments; but I see `31332`; and I cannot trace Mr Farrell's post. I think we should ask about it.\n\nThe increase in the votes for Public Works Annually Recurrent is more or less satisfactorily explained in the Memorandum; and I have dealt with it in the earlier part of this memorandum. The same applies to the increase in the Public Works Annually Recurrent, chargeable to Water Account.\n\nOf the Public Works Extraordinary there are 33; nine of which are on the list which it is proposed to defray from loan. Of the rest, only six are quite new. Among the old items, the cost of the new Harbour Master's Office has been increased from $75,000 to $150,000. This is explained as being due to an inadequate estimate. The Survey of the New Territory.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-313 - Governor Sir Blake - 1902 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 386331, "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": "CO129-313 - Governor Sir Blake - 1902 [10-12]", "page_number": 411, "title": "CO129-313 - Governor Sir Blake - 1902 [10-12]", "content_text": "# \n407\n\nThe figures for \"E\" Company would then stand\n\n| Squad and Company Drill No. | 3 |\n| --- | --- |\n| Trained on... | 4 |\n| Technical Drills | 10 |\n| Total | 13 |\n| | 34 |\n| | 3 |\n| | 10 |\n\nIt was pointed out by Lieutenant Mitchell that many men attended for more than this number, so that the total efficiency would not be lowered, but the reduction might meet the case of a few men who, owing to the nature of their employment, could not in some years give more time.\n\nThe alteration could be carried out by an Order in Council of the Local Government, and I recommend it for immediate consideration.\n\n## 3. Numbers\n\nA calculation made by me shows that the minimum number of men required to help the R.E. to run all lights continuously with a proper system of reliefs is 1 Officer, 23 Electricians, and 13 Engine Drivers, though I consider the full number of 30 all ranks proposed by me on 30th October, 1901, should be obtained if possible, as there will always be some men who are away, sick, or untrained.\n\nI understand the enlistment of supernumerary is allowed up to the full establishment of the Corps, so that recruiting for \"E\" Company will be continued if men present themselves.\n\nMajor Chapman thought that the question of the establishment had better stand over till the appointment of a new Commandant and the revision of the present regulations, which has been some time in hand, is completed.\n\nI would, however, urge that the question of officers may be considered early.\n\nThe present establishment is one only, but in addition to Lieutenant Mitchell, there is a supernumerary Officer, Lieutenant Graham.\n\nI do not wish in any way to trench on the responsibilities of others, but I would simply put forward the claims of Lieutenant Mitchell for a step in rank. This officer has taken a very active part in the formation and training of the Company, and it would be some recognition of this work, and also a recognition of the importance of the Company, if his promotion to Captain could be entertained.\n\nPage 242", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-313 - Governor Sir Blake - 1902 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 386336, "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": "CO129-313 - Governor Sir Blake - 1902 [10-12]", "page_number": 416, "title": "CO129-313 - Governor Sir Blake - 1902 [10-12]", "content_text": "# 412\n\n7 men are also away but should all be returning.\n\nIn the attached correspondence, it is suggested that the numbers be increased to 4 Officers and 58 Non-Commissioned Officers and men, but as the conditions stand at present, I do not think it is probable that this number will come forward, and in my opinion, it would not be advisable to alter the establishment until the full number already allowed for are enlisted, namely 3 Officers and 33 Non-Commissioned Officers and men.\n\nI am prepared to recommend Lieutenant Mitchell for promotion to Captain if the General Officer Commanding thinks it advisable. In a Company only consisting at present of 18 men, he is in every way deserving of this recognition for all the good work he has done for his unit.\n\nThe Regulations at present only allow of a Lieutenant for \"G\" Company, but I should suggest that the promotion might be made if possible prior to new Regulations being published. I hope to shortly recommend another member of the unit for a Commission, but at present, I do not see my way to get the additional officers suggested.\n\n## 4. Arrangements for Technical Instruction\n\nThe suggestion that a drill shed should be put up at the expense of the Colonial Government in or near Kowloon West Battery, and fitted with dynamo, engine, and projector at the War Department's expense is an excellent one, and in my opinion, something of this sort must be done if more men are required. If it were done quickly, I think there would be a very possibility of obtaining more recruits and making the unit in every way more efficient and popular. The hours taken up for technical drills now are so long for Volunteers who have already done a hard day's work that naturally, there are only a few men who are prepared to give up their spare time in this way. It would be of great benefit to the Corps if this work could be sanctioned and put in hand at once and so prevent further wastage which may occur in this useful Company if nothing is done.\n\nI am sending in a letter with regard to the question of changing the Field Battery, Maxim Companies Unit into Garrison Artillery, and in the C.R.A.'s letter therewith is a suggestion that each man should receive a bonus at the end of the year if efficient. I am strongly recommending this, and if it is sanctioned, I should wish the same conditions to apply to \"G\" Company in consideration of the value of their work in the defence of the Colony.\n\nI have, etc.,\n\n**(Sd.) C. F. Pritchard**, \nMajor, \nCommandant, Hongkong Volunteer Corps.\n\n## 18.\n\n242", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-313 - Governor Sir Blake - 1902 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 387167, "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": "CO129-314 - Public Offices - 1902", "page_number": 622, "title": "CO129-314 - Public Offices - 1902", "content_text": "Any further communication on this subject should be addressed to \nThe Under Secretary of State, War Office, \nLondon, S.W., \nand the following number quoted. \n`083/3865 (M.S.1.)` \n\nWar Office \n8.0 \n7753 2 London, S.W. \nFebruary, 1902. \n616 \n\nSir, \n\nWith reference to your letter of the 14th ultimo, `270/1901-2`, I am directed by the Secretary of State for War to acquaint you that he concurs in the proposal to appoint an Officer of Royal Artillery as Commandant of the Hong Kong Volunteers, and has caused a telegram to be addressed to Captain C. G. Pritchard, Royal Garrison Artillery, who is at present in Singapore, offering him the appointment. \n\nThat Officer has signified his willingness to accept the post and Mr. Brodrick is therefore ready to place his services at the disposal of your Department with a view to his appointment. \n\nI am to ask whether orders shall now be issued from this Department to Captain Pritchard ordering him to proceed at once to Hong Kong or whether any time is likely to elapse before his services are required. I am also to enquire for what term the appointment would be held. \n\nCaptain Pritchard would, if finally appointed, be struck off pay from Army Funds and be seconded from the date of leaving Singapore. \n\nI have the honour to be, Sir, \nYour obedient Servant, \nUnder Secretary of State \nColonial Office", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-314 - Public Offices - 1902.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 387168, "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": "CO129-314 - Public Offices - 1902", "page_number": 623, "title": "CO129-314 - Public Offices - 1902", "content_text": "## DRAFT\n**WO. 8231**\n02\n\nThe Under Secretary of \n**War Office** \n**MINUTE.** \nFiddian 28/2\n\nMr. Collins \nMr. Antrobus, \nMr. Cox. \nMr. Lucas. \nMr. Graham. \nSir M. Ommanney, \nEarl of Onslow. \nMr. Chamberlain.\n\nD ft + L F \nSlate \nSu \nHay Kay.\n\n617 \nFeb. 02\n\nIn reply to your letter (`M.S.1. No. 083/3865`) \nof the 26th instant, I am directed by Secretary Chamberlain to say \nthat he would be glad if M. Secretary Brockick could see his way to second Captain \nC.C. Pritchard for fire brigade duty during his tenure of the post of Commandant of the Hay Kay \nVolunteers, for one year.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-314 - Public Offices - 1902.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 387169, "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": "CO129-314 - Public Offices - 1902", "page_number": 624, "title": "CO129-314 - Public Offices - 1902", "content_text": "## HONG KONG \n### No. 14 \n**(Subject.)** \n**Military Lands** \n**DOMESTIC.** \n\nThe present Commandant, J.W. Camington, is retiring from the Government service on the 31st instant and that the Governor Mr. Chamberlain would be glad if it could be arranged Captain Pritchard should leave Singapore for Hong Kong as soon after that date as practicable.\n\n3. I am to ask the C.A.C. Hongkong may telegraph early information of the exact date of Captain Pritchard's departure.\n\nCPP \n**ce or Individual.**\n\n### 613 \n2.MAY \n...AY 2 \n1902 \n\nBeing carried over 27 Consects to Exchange vs & Recip ... at previous Paper.\n\n$181. \n\nAnd ... \nMay ... \nbut, subject to conditions stated.\n\n**(Minutes.)** \nMr Lucas \n\nIt is impossible to accept this proposal, because the alleged rights of the WO. over these lands, which have been in dispute for 20 yrs or so, are incapable of being valued by any ordinary valuer, seeing that the facts are not so much in dispute. The WO. have practically agreed with the Treasury that the exchanges should be made on commonsense principles, without valuation, but now the WO. are trying to back out of this arrangement. I suggest that time would be saved if the matter was referred to the Dept Comme representing the WO, Treasury & this Office.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-314 - Public Offices - 1902.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 389005, "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": "CO129-317 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [4-6]", "page_number": 512, "title": "CO129-317 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [4-6]", "content_text": "# Magistracy \n## Hongkong, The 17th. Day of June, 1903.\n\nThe information and complaint of Kong Ngau Ying taken this day before me, the undersigned one of His Majesty's Justices of the Peace in and for the said Colony who states:-\n\n1. I am a fish hawker carrying on business in Hongkong.\n\n2. In 1900 and January, 1901, I was employed by Ng Shui Shang (alias Ng Lo Sam), whom I have known many years, as an informer, he was then living in Fo Fung Street, Victoria, Hongkong.\n\n3. In September, 1900, I was employed by Ng Shui Shang to trace persons who had taken part in the recent rebellion in Weichow in the Province of Kwang-tung and had taken refuge in Hongkong: one of the leading rebels named Yeung Kui Wan was then residing in Hongkong and acting as a Schoolmaster.\n\n4. On or about the 5th day of October, 1900, Ng Shui Shang said to me, in his house in Fo Fung Street aforesaid \"Yeung Kui Wan cannot be taken to Canton, can you find a man to murder him?\" I said I could not. He said \"All right I will go up with you to Canton and I will get Ma Wong Hoi's party\". On the following day Ng Shui Shang and I went to Canton, and on or about the 12th October returned to Hongkong.\n\n5. At the same time a party of minor Chinese Officials came to Hongkong to consult with Ng Shui Shang about killing Yeung Kui Wan. This party included Yeung Tsing Kai, who was Captain of the Chinese Gunboat \"Kin Yui\" and was under the orders of Li Ka Cheuk, the Commandant of the Canton City Guard. The \"Kin Yui\" Gunboat came to Hongkong frequently.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-317 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [4-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 389011, "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": "CO129-317 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [4-6]", "page_number": 518, "title": "CO129-317 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [4-6]", "content_text": "# Magistracy, Hongkong.\n\nThe 17th. day of June, 1903.\n\nThe information and complaint of Chan Wan taken this day before me the undersigned one of His Majesty's Justices of the Peace in and for the said Colony who states:-\n\n1. I was formerly cook on the Steamer \"Zafiro\" and at present I am unemployed.\n\n2. In January, 1901, I was living with my brother Chan Lam Tsai (whose official name is Chan Tai On) in Canton City; a soldier named Tung Cheung was living with us. On 6th. January at 7 A.M. a soldier named Ko Ping Shan came to our house and told us that Li Ka Cheuk, the Commandant of the Canton City Guard, had offered a large reward to anyone who would capture or shoot Yeung Kui Wan, a Chinese rebel living in Hongkong. Ko Ping Shan asked us to do it, and my brother said he would go.\n\n3. My brother then went out with Ko Ping Shan and returned at 5 P.M., and said he was going to shoot Yeung Kui Wan and asked Tung Cheung to join him. Tung Cheung agreed to do so, and they arranged that they would ask Li Ka Cheuk to make a written agreement about the reward and give the agreement to me to keep.\n\n4. Very early in the morning of the 7th. January I went with my brother and Tung Cheung to Li Ka Cheuk's barracks at Sze Tsi Kiu near the North Gate of Canton City. There we saw Yeung Tsing Kai, an Officer under Li Ka Cheuk and Captain of the \"Kin Yui\" Gunboat, and I heard my brother say to Yeung Tsing Kai \"If we succeed in doing this affair where shall we get the reward ?\" to which Yeung Tsing Kai replied \"Don't be afraid, younger brother, even more than one million the Government...\"", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-317 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [4-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 396718, "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": "CO129-329 - Governor Nathan - 1905 [7-12]", "page_number": 12, "title": "CO129-329 - Governor Nathan - 1905 [7-12]", "content_text": "## Enclosure 2.\n\nMinute of Commandant and Hon. Colonial Secretary; 10\n\nIn accordance with His Excellency's suggestion, a meeting of the Officers was held on the 14th instant, the following being present:-\n\n### Officers\n\n| Name | Rank |\n| --- | --- |\n| Captain Armstrong | A.D.C. |\n| Macdonald | 1st Lt. C.P.REA(V) |\n| Captain Skinner | |\n| Lieutenant Oliver | |\n| Lieutenant Crake | |\n| Scott | |\n| Gresson | |\n| Northcote | |\n| Plummer | |\n\n2.\n\nI have since seen Captain Macdonald, D., and Lieutenants Lammert and Laing, who were unable to attend the meeting.\n\n3.\n\nAfter considering the Colonial Defence Committee's Remarks, the Officers were unanimously of opinion that the suggested changes would be unpopular with the members of the Corps.\n\n4.\n\nThe officers hope that as regards the office of Commandant, no alteration will be thought of until Major Pritchard's term has expired; they think, however, the Corps could be successfully administered by a suitable and popular civilian Commandant, with the assistance of an Adjutant, who should be seconded from his regiment, and be liberally paid.\n\n5.\n\nThe Officers are of opinion that the suggestion to train the Volunteers in time of peace under the same conditions and with the same units with whom they would work in time of war is sound, but they question whether the drastic changes suggested would tend to popularize the Volunteer movement in this Colony.\n\n6.\n\nThey think more frequent opportunities of taking part in Field Exercises and Mobilization, such as the recent night manning, might be afforded the Corps, as thereby each unit would be associated with the same Regular forces as in time of war.\n\n7.\n\nThe Officers doubt if the changes would be", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-329 - Governor Nathan - 1905 [7-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 405209, "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": "CO129-334 - Governor Nathan - 1906 [5-7]", "page_number": 404, "title": "CO129-334 - Governor Nathan - 1906 [5-7]", "content_text": "## CAMP OF INSTRUCTION, ANNUAL CAMP, AND COMPETITIONS\n\n17. The Officers and Staff Sergeants carried out revolver practice, and Table VIII shows the high average obtained.\n\n18. The Annual Camp was held at Stonecutters' Island from October 14th to October 30th, 1905—a period of 16 days instead of 10 days as recommended in my report last year, and I attach a complete copy of my report on the Camp. (Appendix `...`)\n\n## COMPETITIONS\n\n19. The following inter-unit Competitions took place during the year:--\n\n(1) His Excellency the Governor's Efficiency Cup. The marks were allotted as in 1905, except that 2 marks were given for each efficient. This was again won by Right Half No. 2 Company, H.K.V.A., mainly owing to the good marks obtained under the head musketry. The following is the order of Efficiency:\n| Rank | Unit | O.C. |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 1 | Right Half No. 2 Company, H.K.V.A. | Captain ARMSTRONG |\n| 2 | Left Half No. 2 | |\n| 3 | Left Half No. 1 | |\n| 4 | Right Half No. 1 | |\n\n(2) The Blake Musketry Shield, for teams of 8 from each Unit, took place on April 29th, 1905, and was won for the fourth time in succession by Left Half No. 1 Company, H.K.V.A.\n\n(3) The Sanders Cup, presented by Captain SANDERS, a former Officer of the H.K.V.A., was competed for by the Artillery Units at 15-pdr. B.L. gun Drill on January 13th, 1906, and was won by the Left Half No. 1 Company, H.K.V.A., (Acting O.C., Lieutenant GUBBAY).\n\n(4) The Gascoigne Shield for Maxim Gun Practice was fired for on February 24th, 1906, and was won after a close competition by Left Half No. 2 Company, H.K.V.A., (O.C., Captain SKINNER) with 197 points—Right Half No. 2 Company, H.K.V.A., (O.C., Captain ARMSTRONG) being 2nd with 193 points.\n\n(5) The members of the Troop took part in an instructive competition consisting of despatch riding in pairs, each pair riding together a certain distance to a given point where one man dismounted and proceeded across country on foot whilst the other led his pony the remainder of the distance, each man then had to fire a fixed number of rounds at a target and also to fill in various roads and places on a blank map against time. The winning pair—Corporal MONOX and Trooper GEDGE—completed the course in excellent time and carried out their duties very well.\n\n20. Bombardier J. MARSHALL won the Corps Rifle Championship.\n\n## MISCELLANEOUS\n\n21. An Ambulance Class was conducted by Lieutenant C. FORSYTH; 7 members presented themselves for examination and all passed.\n\n22. A Semaphore Signalling Class was formed during the Summer months, and 7 members of the Corps passed a satisfactory examination, being able to send and receive messages at a fair pace.\n\n23. The Corps took part in the King's Birthday parade in conjunction with the remainder of the Garrison on November 9th, 1905.\n\n24. On February 9th, the Corps had the honour of parading and lining the entrance to Government House on the occasion of the arrival of H.R.H. Prince ARTHUR OF CONNAUGHT, K.G.\n\n26. All the Officers of the Corps and a number of the N.C.O.s and men became members of the new China United Services Rifle Association which was formed early in 1906. The first rifle meeting promoted by this Association was held from March 19th to 24th and the members of the Corps entered for all events and shot extremely well; they were somewhat unfortunate, however, in being second for every event.\n\nIn the Officers' team competition, they lost by one point to the Officers 119th Infantry, coming, however, well ahead of the other 3 teams. In the Championship of the Colony, Sergeant LAPSLEY, H.K.V.E., was second to an Officer of the 119th Infantry. In the Nursery Competition, Gunner COLES was second to a Lance-Corporal of the Royal West Kent Regiment. In the Noel Cup, out of 16 entries, a Volunteer team was second to a team from H.M.S. Andromeda and received special praise from H.E. the G.O.C. for their work. And lastly, in the Hatton Cup, the Volunteer team was only beaten by the two teams of the Royal West Kent Regiment and came before the Royal Artillery and Royal Engineers; the conditions for this cup were very hard for Volunteers who are mostly men from offices; the team consisted of two officers (Lieutenant HAYTON and 2nd Lieutenant REYNOLDS) and 30 N.C.O.s and men, and the competition included a five miles march in field service order followed by one hour's entrenching work and rifle practice at head and shoulder targets, half of the team also being marked for scouting and skirmishing work. Lieutenant HAYTON deserves especial credit for the way in which he trained the team, and I consider the result was highly satisfactory for an Artillery and Engineer Corps who have very little time for instruction in infantry duties.\n\n26. The new Head Quarters were commenced in June, 1905; the orderly-room, stores, &c., being temporarily housed in a mat-shed; the contract for the completion of the building was made for April, 1906, but I now understand that it is not likely to be finished until September 30th, 1906.\n\n27. In order to further improve the rifle shooting of all members of the Corps, and especially to instruct recruits and indifferent shots, I have strongly recommended that a grant be made to purchase the new invention known as the Sub-Target Rifle; this can be obtained at a cost of £50 and could be fitted up in the new Drill Hall. I understand that, with this instrument, recruits and others can be taught to shoot well without the cost of ammunition. It will be a great attraction, and if ordered from home at once could be in use, when required, before next annual camp.\n\n## INSPECTION\n\n28. The Annual Inspection of the Corps was carried out during the absence of His Excellency the General Officer Commanding, by Colonel C. H. DABLING, C.R.E., on March 31st, 1906; he expressed himself well satisfied with the parade and congratulated the Corps on the excellent results obtained at the recent C.U.S.R.A. rifle meeting. He also referred to the Maxim guns on parade and mentioned that they required painting but stated that as the Corps had no gun shed at present, he hoped that this would be done as soon as the Corps took over their new quarters.\n\n## SERVICES\n\n29. Major A. CHAPMAN commanded the Corps in the Summer months during my absence on leave and satisfactorily kept up the general keenness and efficiency. Sergeant Major W. HIGBY has continued to carry out his duties well and has become very popular with all ranks. Staff Armourer J. T. HAWKS was absent on leave at home during the Summer but returned before the Annual Camp. He carried out his duties satisfactorily, but unfortunately, his health has failed and he has been invalided home, April 30th, 1906.\n\nI have, &c.,\n\nC. G. PRITCHARD, Major, Commandant, Hongkong Volunteer Corps.\n\nPage 399", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-334 - Governor Nathan - 1906 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 405211, "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": "CO129-334 - Governor Nathan - 1906 [5-7]", "page_number": 406, "title": "CO129-334 - Governor Nathan - 1906 [5-7]", "content_text": "## Table III. HONGKONG VOLUNTEER CORPS.\n\n### Roll of Efficients for the Year ending 31st March, 1906.\n\n**Commanding Officers**\n\n| Rank and Name | Position |\n| --- | --- |\n| Major C. G. Pritchard | Commandant |\n| A. Chapman | 2nd in Command |\n| Captain F. O. Stedman | Surgeon |\n| Lieut. C. Forsyth | Do. |\n| Sergt. Major W. Higby | |\n\n### No. 2 COMPANY, H. K. V. ARTILLERY. Roll of Efficients.\n\n| Rank and Name |\n| --- |\n| Captain r Skinner, T. |\n| Lieutenant Scott, W. M. |\n| Co.-Sgt.-Maj. r Rodger, J. |\n| Sergeant P Lochend, J. |\n| Lert Hale |\n| Gunner ... |\n| Corps Sergeant-Major Terrill, W. J. |\n| Gunner r Gloyu, J. W. |\n| Corporal |\n\n### No. 1 COMPANY H. K. V. ARTILLERY. Roll of Efficients.\n\n| Rank and Name |\n| --- |\n| Gunner Bain, H. M. |\n| Gunner Chumnett, F. G. |\n| Gunner Raymond, E. |\n| Seth, H. A. |\n| Gunner Chromett, O. R. |\n| Gunner Duncan, G. |\n| Guumer Sheffold, A. E. |\n| Andrew, J. I. |\n| Gidley, H. |\n| McCorquodale, f. |\n| Reidio, J. |\n| MeKirdy, J. |\n| Mather, H. L. |\n| Watson, A. |\n| Gidley, S. |\n| Grimshaw, T. |\n| Hast, W. |\n| Kimard, J. A. |\n| Michael, S. J. |\n| Watson, J. J. |\n| Crapnell, A. E. |\n| Hayward, E. M. |\n| Hayward, C. B. |\n| Whyte, J. F. M. |\n| Bassford, W. M. |\n| Crosbie, d. |\n| Durrance, W. II. |\n| Davidson, H. |\n| McIntyre, J. |\n| Palmer, H. T. |\n| Witchell, R. |\n| Muir, G. |\n| Scott, W. B. P. |\n| Woolley, W. II. |\n| Lamble, P. T, |\n| Conolly, T. P. |\n| Quinn, J. |\n| Okeeffe. D. |\n| Ballen. J. A. |\n| Gunner Frith, C. E. |\n| Coysh, E. W. |\n| Ward, C. W. |\n| Duncan, R. |\n| Sorby, V. |\n| Pearson. H. F. |\n| Eadie, J. |\n| Dinuing, H. |\n| Griffiths, J. A. |\n| Hornibrook, E. L. |\n| Johnston, J. |\n| Melutyre, W. |\n| Boulton, S. |\n| Scriven, D. E. |\n| Anderson, W. |\n| Fairbolm, J. |\n| Saunders, G. A. |\n| Pearson, R. W. |\n| Corporal P Henderson, R. |\n| r [lance, J. [. R. |\n| Markie, A. J. |\n| Seth, S. A. |\n| Melver, M. |\n| Herbst, C. E. |\n| Bombardier Craddock, H. E. |\n| Olsen, J. |\n| Brett, L. E. |\n| Olsen, C. W, |\n| Gummer Abrabam, E. |\n| Pestonji, R. |\n| Abrubam, R. |\n| Pelling, W. W. |\n| Baker, F. H. |\n| Raymond, A. |\n| Ellis, E. E. |\n| Gay, L. |\n| Goggin, W. G. |\n| Humphreys, E. |\n| Humphreys, C. |\n| Haggard, H. E. |\n| Kennett, H. G. |\n| Seth, J. II. |\n| Shaw, E. |\n| Sibbett, J. J. |\n| Alves, C. M. S. |\n| Leonard, J. |\n| Bains, J. W\" |\n| Loureiro, F. |\n| James, E. W. H. |\n| Joseph, J. |\n| Petley, II. |\n| Moore, F. |\n| Abraham, E. S. |\n\n### ENGINEER COMPANY. Roll of Efficients.\n\n| Rank and Name |\n| --- |\n| Captain Crake, W. A. |\n| Lientevant Reynolds, F. O. |\n| Co.-Sgt. Maj. e Logan, J. W. |\n| Sapper P Rovan, H. S. |\n| Sergeant P Crawford, J. |\n| F Lapsley. R. |\n| Corporal Lummert, G. P. |\n| Captain Gublay, J. S. |\n| Gunner Payton, J. T. |\n| Gamer Hamett, A. H. |\n| Gunner Sayer. A. C. |\n| Supper Dillon, F. II. |\n| Ward, F. |\n| Watson, V. |\n| Cullen, W. F. |\n| Park, A. V. |\n| Witchell, J. |\n| Logan, J. C. |\n| Kynoch, G. |\n| Holmes, J. |\n| Ross, W. E. |\n| Dixon, C. W. |\n| Milne, J. G |\n| Barrington, J. II. |\n| Ross, J. |\n| Sapper Hirst, J. |\n| Lochend, H. W. |\n| Frost. B. L. |\n| Fletcher, II. L. |\n| Ross, J. |\n| Quark. F. W. |\n| Leufesty, F. P. |\n| Hall, 1. S. |\n| Sergeant » Deas, W. M. |\n| Corporal Sayer, H. W. |\n| Bombardier Mitchell, R. |\n| Longstaff, J. |\n| Rogers, A. E. |\n| Pellow, E. |\n| Marshall, J. |\n| Sanderson, W. |\n| Brandt, W. |\n| 'Lewington, W. J. |\n| Friend, J. |\n| Clothier, A. V. |\n\n### RIGHT HALF, No. 2 COMPANY H. K. V. ARTILLERY.\n\n| Rank and Name |\n| --- |\n| Brown, F. A. |\n| Coles, J. C. |\n| Rend, W. |\n| Kennedy, P. |\n| Indah, J. J. |\n| Catchick, G. G. |\n| Penfold, I. IL |\n| Cole, J. T. f. |\n| Hurlow, J. |\n\n### TROOP. Roll of Efficients.\n\n| Rank and Name |\n| --- |\n| Captain P Armstrong, W. |\n| Lieutenant Northcote, M. S. |\n| Gunner Jall, F. C. |\n| Sergeant r Hays, J. |\n| Grey, B. W. |\n| Corporal Holmes, H. K. |\n| Bell, H. D. |\n| Blood, G. |\n| Bombardier |\n| Gunner Rees, L. C. |\n| Day, F. O. |\n| Goldring, P. W. |\n| Bissell, W. T. |\n| Darby, A. J. |\n| Laing, A. II. |\n| Wright, A. E. |\n| Large, A. J. |\n| Ancott, E. F. |\n| Gray, H. C. |\n| Austin, F. |\n| Currett, H. L. |\n| Jackman, J. T. |\n| Biden, F. A. |\n| Donaldson, W, F. |\n| Pngh, A. J. |\n| Chapman, E. J. |\n| Ironside, W. |\n| Ginner Kempthorne, A. S. |\n| Young, J. A. |\n| Turner, W. C. D. |\n| Blackburn, L. J. |\n| Dermer, H. W. |\n| Ramsay, A. |\n| Lester, H. W |\n| Whitamore, R. A. |\n| Warrack, A. F. |\n| Hagen, E. C. |\n| Piercy, A. |\n| Lieutenant r Ross, C. H. |\n| Trooper Stubb, X. J. |\n| Sergeant Robertson, W. R. |\n| Looker, H. W. |\n| Trooper Moxon, G. C. |\n| Junes, H. B. |\n| Trooper Forbes, W. |\n| Stewart, M. |\n| Hynes, A. C. |\n| Inglis, W. |\n| Macintyre, H. A. |\n| Murphy, L |\n| Cruickshank,W.A.C.] |\n| Owen. E. |\n| Mackie, C. G. |\n| Rutherford, N. II. |\n| Paterson, J. |\n| Melbourne, C. D. |\n| Howard, E. |\n| Honchman, A. S. |\n| Auderson, L. J. C. |\n| Sharp, E. II. |\n| Gresson, J. E. |\n| Potts, R. C. |\n| Bratton, G. K, H. |\n\nPage 401", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-334 - Governor Nathan - 1906 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 405214, "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": "CO129-334 - Governor Nathan - 1906 [5-7]", "page_number": 409, "title": "CO129-334 - Governor Nathan - 1906 [5-7]", "content_text": "# \n14 \n\nOn Saturday, October 21st, the members of all Units took part in a small Field Day in the New Territory; they showed a keen interest in the proceedings and I think were enabled to acquire some knowledge of taking cover, fire control, &c., &c. \n\nThe Hongkong Volunteer Troop also took part on this occasion and gained experience in embarking and disembarking their ponies. It is now proposed to add more of this form of exercise to the drill season. \n\nHongkong Volunteer Engineers.-The Engineer Company attended the Camp better than in any previous year and were put through a very thorough course by the R.E. Mechanists; they also undertook the lighting of the whole Camp by electricity with great success. \n\n## Gun Practice \nPreliminary instructional practice with the Maxim Guns was carried out on 3 occasions on the Range, and the men were practised in quickly getting the gun again into action after a jam. Practice was carried out from four 15-pr. B.L. Guns from Stone-cutters Island, North Shore, on October 28th. Targets were placed on the slopes of Chung Hue. \n\nThe practice was carried out by sections instead of as a battery as in the case of previous years, this being a better training for the Officers for the actual duties they would be required to carry out on mobilisation. \n\nOn the 23rd October, the practice was elementary for the special instruction of the Section Officers and Gun Layers and was therefore slowly carried out; 4 Series were fired, the target for each series being 3 screens and 12 dummies representing 3 field guns, 6 men standing and 6 kneeling, the ranges varied from 3,050 to 3,350 yards. \n\n| Series | Rounds Fired | Targets Hit | Screens Hit | Range (yards) |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 1-4 | 64 | 16/48 dummies | 10/12 screens | 3,050-3,350 |\n| Last Series | 14 | 6/15 targets | ... | 3,300 |\n\n64 rounds were fired and the results were good; altogether 16 dummies out of 48 and 10 screens out of 12 were put out of action - total number of actual bullet holes 90. The best series being the last under Captain SKINNER at a range of 3,300, in which 14 rounds were fired and 6 of the 15 targets were hit. \n\nOn 28th October, the positions of the targets were changed; four series were again fired, 10 gun detachments were present and all took part; there was a very marked improvement in the rapid service of the guns in most cases, and the Range Officer reported that there was a much larger percentage of effective rounds and the ground all about the targets was ploughed up by shell and bullet holes although in many cases the dummies were not actually hit. \n\n71 rounds were fired, and 16 dummies and 5 screens were put out of action. \n\nThe best and quickest series was fired by the Right Half No. 2 Company under Captain ARMSTRONG; they fired 16 rounds in 9.4 minutes and killed 8 dummies out of 12 and all the screens. \n\nAll the squads were changed out to the Maxim Guns and fired at barrel targets, with good results. \n\nOne Maxim gun jammed frequently; this fault had been found with this gun at preliminary instructional practice on the Range and the gun had been thoroughly overhauled by the Armourer-Sergeant who replaced the old barrel with a new one. The fault was due to the connecting rod; new ones had been ordered for some time for all the guns but have not yet arrived in the Colony. \n\nColonel KENT, C.R.A., inspected the men at this practice, and His Excellency the Governor and His Excellency the G.O.C. were present. The C.R.A. reported favourably on the practice. \n\n## Musketry \nClass firing was carried out more thoroughly than in previous years, and 168 Officers and men fired the course; a good average was obtained. \n\nThe Officers and Staff Sergeants carried out Revolver Practice, showing a marked improvement on last year. \n\n## Inspection \nHis Excellency the Governor inspected the Camp on October 23rd and saw the Corps on parade; he stated that the arrangements were very satisfactory. \n\nHis Excellency the General Officer Commanding inspected the Camp and the Corps on October 29th. He informed the Officers and men on parade that he saw a distinct improvement; the gun drill was well carried out and with far greater rapidity than in previous years. \n\nThe field day showed that the Corps had made a distinct advance, and he was glad to see that points which he had noticed on former occasions at drill and in the state of the Camp had been corrected. \n\nThe O.C.R.A. inspected the Artillery Units at Gun Practice and reported favourably. The O.C.S.M., R.E., carried out an examination of the members of the Engineer Company in their duties as electricians and engine-drivers and, except in the case of one man, reported very favourably on the results of the examination and the progress that had been made during the Camp. \n\n## Medical Officer's Report \nLieutenant C. FORSYTH, the Corps Medical Officer, was present every night during the Camp and was of great assistance to me in keeping the Camp in a good sanitary condition. The Hospital tent was fitted with greater comfort than in former years; beds with mosquito curtains were put up, but were not occupied. \n\nLieutenant FORSYTH reported as follows: \n\"I have practically no comments to make, as with a little supervising everything went splendidly; the food and drink were good, the latrines were kept in good order, and beyond a few cases of mild diarrhoea and some very minor surgical accidents nothing of a medical nature happened.\" \n\n## Discipline \nThe discipline of all ranks was excellent. \n\n## Remarks \nThe work done during the Camp was extremely good and the extension of the period from 10 to 16 days proved a great success, as I hoped; the extra knowledge gained by all ranks resulting in a far higher state of efficiency than has been attained in former years. \n\nNumerous improvements were introduced into the Camp; the most important being the thorough lighting of the Camp with electric light by the Engineer Company, the greater comfort of the Hospital tent, and an improved ablution place for the men. \n\nThe Officers attended the Camp even better than in previous years; every Officer present in the Colony attended nearly the whole time; the average attendance of Officers being 12 out of 13 each day. \n\nCaptain ARMSTRONG's Company, Right Half No. 2 Company H.K.V.A., showed a record attendance; every man attending Camp except those on leave. \n\nThe Corps Sergeant-Major gave me the greatest assistance as usual and the Corps Armourer-Sergeant and the Instructors all carried out their duties to the satisfaction of all ranks. \n\nThe Naval Range and the revolver range were very kindly placed at the disposal of the Corps by Commodore WILLIAMS, and the arrangements made by the Petty Officer and his assistants to enable the members of the Corps to complete their musketry course were very satisfactory. \n\nI have, &c., \n\n**C. G. PRITCHARD, Major, Commandant, Hongkong Vol. Corps.** \n\nHis Excellency the General Officer Commanding made the following comments on the above Camp Report: \n\"This is a satisfactory report, for it shows progress all round and the attainment of greater proficiency. The good attendance is the outward and visible sign of the determination of all ranks to improve themselves.\" \n\n15 \n6", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-334 - Governor Nathan - 1906 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 405596, "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": "CO129-335 - Governor Nathan - 1906 [8-10]", "page_number": 138, "title": "CO129-335 - Governor Nathan - 1906 [8-10]", "content_text": "8 \n\n\n\n\n134 \n\ncharge be proven, the offender shall be immediately punished on \nthe spot. Passengers embarking without or sending themselves for \ninspection and by other means than the ferry, will be regarded as \npirates and handed over to the local officials to be dealt with. \n\nIntending passengers shall embark by the ferry in a body \nand not by twos and threes. But should the number of such passen-\ngers be excessive they may embark in parties, at the discretion of \nthe officer in charge of the port guardboat. \n\n7. \n\n8. The institution of such ferry-boats at Canton would, how-\never, easily lead to confusion on account of the number of wharves \nin that exceptionally populous centre. Accordingly, Chung Li Ti \nChu to the East, Nan Shih Tou to the West, and Hua Ti Kou to the \nNorth-West of the city have been selected, as points which vessels \nmust pass, and the Commandant of the Chung Li Ti Chu fort, the \nCommandant of the Nan Shih Tou fort, and the Commandant of the \nChiang An Division respectively have been charged with the selec-\ntion of competent guardboat officers to be constantly on duty and \nto board immediately every launch without tow passing those points, \nto inspect the passengers. They are not to delay or obstruct \npassengers intentionally. The penalty for any vessel refusing to \nslow down and be examined will be $500 for each offence. \n\n9. It is advisable that launches without tow, although they \ncannot be expected to carry eight soldiers as guards in the same \nmanner as launches towing passenger boats, should themselves engage \nfour men armed with revolvers to remain on board and inspect passen-\ngers under the direction of the captain of the launch, to see if \nthere are any armed pirates amongst them. Such guards should be on \nboard night and day to patrol the vessel energetically, and members \nof the crew should not be employed in their place. The guards \nshould resist to the utmost any attempt at piracy, and by shouting \nas loud as possible summon the launches and guardboats in the river \nto their assistance. Should the captain and guards make no effect-\nive search for arms, or offer no strenuous resistance, or should", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-335 - Governor Nathan - 1906 [8-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 405883, "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": "CO129-335 - Governor Nathan - 1906 [8-10]", "page_number": 425, "title": "CO129-335 - Governor Nathan - 1906 [8-10]", "content_text": "him, that he had her passed over for Capt Banes. Laurence the Singapore post sing he was senior to had ist he\n\ngüke\n\nBry\n\ngrodinkin arking officially Commander Radcliffe, was there\n\nrecord against him?\n\nts\n\ntyy\n\nI assurd ni\n\nnothing\n\nthe kind\n\nIt is obviously distant med\n\nI told if anything\n\nthat the\n\n& if he is passed over now,\n\nI fear he will become almost-\n\nAga 41.\n\nuseless, having nothing to look forward to\n\nCCM **\n\n2.\n\nLi B.N. is now Commanding\n\nCommander Macintyre\n\nIs a Commandant\n\na R.K.R. yung\n\nlist. Age\n\nPenang (38343. & al 444 Strait)\n\nB.I. 3. M. Captain\n\n& is straight recommender by Sir J. Markay. Wit- Capt Bolder has the worst possible opinion\n\nhaveror it is clear for the Gas- the newe\n\nhur (see. 38343). Closing passage of this despatchle that an\n\nis wanted.\n\nfrom 1903.\n\nnaval officer Has an Ir Kuriks hum his service dates only\n\nLu\n\naim Age 42.\n\nLast\n\n3.\n\nche legge of\n\nColanto\n\nnor win in\n\nHe was wit in the navy\n\nCommanded a\n\n35\n\n(see 40394) Aged as\n\nCh\n\nbas he the R.N.R: wor eve\n\nP.To stran,\n\nmarchant vesund. He was first officer an a\n\nthe effo datos aly from many 1901!\n\nis not wathe considering.\n\nA\n\nI think he\n\nJugne-ve\n\nho\n\nFr. I think Comms Payla to a dom\n\nth\n\nwhich\n\nCannot\n\nfirmation To fost in withs outin la infeclitic\n\nWi\n\nI aque\n\nmjast.\n\n6/\n\n1. sürgorded.\n\nhis head\n\nCommander Taglor\n\nentitled to the promotion; and in that\n\nI think, from what the for. Supps of Lunt Beckwith, that he wo make\n\nFor the fork of\n\nAssistant if he\n\nIuccess in the Acting Appet\n\nfood successor\n\nper proses\n\nbulers for Star's has\n\na\n\nreally remarkable candidate\n\nI have not\n\nIN Zucas\n\nI have\n\nH\n\nAll him\n\nin po\n\nFlow\n\nFell for\n\n~ that\n\nwhat\n\nCa\n\nAnd I\n\n0\n\nBut see Sus\n\nThe\n\nof thate Commander Taylon's claims count b.\n\nan injustice. sgnosed with aut doing kün\n\nIf he is appd.\n\nas to salay\n\nhis further redumandations\n\nwe will await.\n\npory Asst lich. the holding\n\nit at ɗt Backwitte sad ho wamed that\n\nthe acting app to count to\n\n15 реми\n\nIn view of\n\nanthir\n\nthe recommendation of\n\nSi H. Blake in\n\n\"the repeated recommendation of\n\nOct.\n\ntunately\n\na claus\n\n1903\n\n751 774\n\nbaken regarded\n\nOy\n\nEstablishing\n\nthe\n\nAK\n\nagree\n\nLA\n\nDr.\n\n1.16711\n\n420\n\nha sitation as to Commander Taylor:\n\nmichinad\n\nгрне\n\nAA\n\nLesit. Pr. Mently\n\nCast\n\n17 Nr.\n\n(Tipt: Pannes Laurence was preferred to Capt. Tarion\n\non the lost occasion as\n\nthe\n\nhaving been longer in the clas furice & been very highly spoken of as captain of fort at Gihalton. In my opinion wllly there is the question that Capt. Paylor should now be promoted; and to supersede again bitint fustification C.Pd. 2...\n\n27219.11 2\n\nhim\n\nwould be", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-335 - Governor Nathan - 1906 [8-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 406032, "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": "CO129-336 - Governor Nathan & Public Offices - 1906 [11-12]", "page_number": 7, "title": "CO129-336 - Governor Nathan & Public Offices - 1906 [11-12]", "content_text": "No.268.\n\nHongkong.\n\nGovernment House,\n\nHongkong, lat. November, 1906.\n\nMy Lord,\n\nReferring to my Despatch No. 215 dated the 31st August, 1906, on the subject of the termination on the lat. April next of the period of the appointment as Commandant of the Hongkong Volunteers of Captain (Local Major) C. G. Pritchard, R.A., I have the honour to inform Your Lordship that I propose to offer from that date the unpaid appointment of Commandant to Mr. A. Chapman, a Major in the Volunteers, who for some years has acted as 2nd in command, has commanded in Major Pritchard's absence on leave, and is reported to be a very good Volunteer Officer. I have ascertained that this appointment would be acceptable to the Volunteers. Mr. Chapman is in the services of the Colonial Government as Assessor of Rates.\n\n2.\n\nIn place of a paid Commandant with salary of £750 per annum and house allowance of $75\n\nTHE RIGHT HONOURABLE\n\nTHE EARL OF ELGIN, K.G.,\n\n&C.\n\n&c...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-336 - Governor Nathan & Public Offices - 1906 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 406034, "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": "CO129-336 - Governor Nathan & Public Offices - 1906 [11-12]", "page_number": 9, "title": "CO129-336 - Governor Nathan & Public Offices - 1906 [11-12]", "content_text": "From Captain A. J. Thompson,\n\n87th Company, K.G.A.\n\nTo Officer Commanding\n\n87th Company, K.G.A.\n\n44507\n\nRECEIVED\n\n6 Res 1 DEC 06\n\nSir,\n\nHongkong,\n\nOctober 23rd, 1906.\n\nI have the honour to request that you will be so good as to forward for favourable consideration, this my application to be appointed Staff Officer Colonial Forces, Hong-kong, on the creation of that appointment at the expiration of the tenure of command of the present Commandant, Hongkong Volunteer Corps.\n\n***************\n\nAdjutant, H.A.,\n\nSouth China.\n\nI have etc.,\n\n(Sd.) A. J. Thompson,\n\nCaptain, H.G.A.\n\nForwarded and recommended.\n\n(Sd.) E. Warren,\n\nCapt. H.G.A.,\n\nCommanding 87 Company, K.G.A.\n\nHongkong, 23rd October, 1906.\n\n***************************\n\nMajor, General Staff.\n\nForwarded.\n\nI can recommend Capt. Thompson for the appointment, both as an Officer with good professional acquirements and very considerable powers of imparting instruction, and as also possessing tact, good temper and address.\n\nHe has also the advantage of previous experience", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-336 - Governor Nathan & Public Offices - 1906 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 406037, "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": "CO129-336 - Governor Nathan & Public Offices - 1906 [11-12]", "page_number": 12, "title": "CO129-336 - Governor Nathan & Public Offices - 1906 [11-12]", "content_text": "CONFIDENTIAL.\n\nHongkong\n\nCo.\n\nJ.R. Chancellor\n\nSec. coc 15.1.07.\n\nMy Lord,\n\nReferring to Your Lordship's Confidential Despatch of the 11th. July last, I have the honour to state that I have given further and full consideration to the recommendation contained originally in paragraph 5 of the Colonial Defence Committee's Remarks No. 364, dated the 21st. February, 1905, and repeated in paragraphs 4 and 5 of their Remarks No. 397, dated the 16th. June, 1906, that the different corps of the Hongkong Volunteers should cease to be under a Commandant when that office is vacated by the present holder, and that I adhere to the opinion communicated to Mr. Lyttelton in my Confidential Despatch of the 7th. July, 1905, that it is inadvisable to do away with this appointment but that when Captain (local Major) C. G. Pritchard, R.A., vacates it on April 1st., 1907, it should be held by a civilian. I am satisfied that matters will work more smoothly with the Volunteers\n\nTHE RIGHT HONOURABLE\n\nTHE EARL OF ELGIN, K.G.\n\n&C.\n\n&C...\n\nGovernment House,\n\nHongkong, 1st.November, 1906.\n\nPage 16.1\n\n287144\n\nwww.fides at once\n\nbar Colle\n\n4.0\n\nLetters attached\n\nadn't have concurrod\n\n27747.\n\nSeid additional copies of Remarks Kwo\n\nSay that the is appel unpaid appli\n\nof lior Chapman to ask whether the an\n\nKam ohjan to paling staff fficer bing Hered\n\nHafla Thaupsa so infa\n\nSankey additional copy of Rs. to (4) so wite o far.\n\nhis copies.\n\nFalso 43 do 4/443694 9 Rod 1 DEC-06\n\nNo 421R (paras. 7-9) Submitted on CO. 27747/06.\n\nDealt with by car in their Remarks\n\n \nPage XX information is kept as is.\n\nNo changes were made to the original content other than minor formatting adjustments to comply with the requested output format. The original text contained many errors and unclear parts likely due to OCR issues. The response maintains the original content as closely as possible while adhering to the specified output guidelines.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-336 - Governor Nathan & Public Offices - 1906 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 406038, "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": "CO129-336 - Governor Nathan & Public Offices - 1906 [11-12]", "page_number": 13, "title": "CO129-336 - Governor Nathan & Public Offices - 1906 [11-12]", "content_text": "Volunteers, especially now that they have been provided with a good Head Quarter Building for the use of all members, if they are kept together as one corps than if they are broken up into three and that to keep them so together a Commandant who will take command on all occasions when the various units parade together and will take charge at all social functions is necessary.\n\n2. I propose that the civilian Commandant should be assisted by a Staff Officer for Volunteers who will be responsible in the same way as the paid Commandant has hitherto been for all matters of finance and stores.\n\n3. The Staff Officer should be a Captain of Royal Artillery and would also be responsible for the training of the Artillery Companies which form the bulk of the Volunteers. This training would continue to be as it at present is, under the general direction of the Officer Commanding Royal Artillery who appoints the Sergeant Instructors, approves the courses of instruction and of practice and himself annually inspects the companies at practice.\n\n4. The training of the small Engineer\n\n6-813\n\n10", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-336 - Governor Nathan & Public Offices - 1906 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 407353, "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": "CO129-337 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1906", "page_number": 649, "title": "CO129-337 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1906", "content_text": "640\n\n4\n\nLiu Kuo-liang, Captain of the City Guard; Yen Shang-Chung, sergeant in the Guard of the Hsin-chien Magistrate; Wu Ting-k'uei, sergeant in the right battalion, are to be cashiered. Li Hung-yüan, sergeant in the left battalion; Liu Ching-t'ai, Commandant of the 3rd Battalion of the 1st Brigade of the Territorial Army; and Wei Ting, Captain in the same battalion, are to be deprived of their buttons; Cheng Yün-hsien and Hsiang Kuan-pang, who both possess hereditary ranks, are to be fined one year's emoluments, and the expectant Magistrate, Huang Chung, of the South Police-station in Nanchang city, has three entries of default recorded against him.\n\nIn addition to the punishments of the ringleaders and officials above mentioned, their Excellencies stated that a Proclamation would be issued by the Governor of Kiangsi, acknowledging that the late Magistrate of Nanchang, Chiang Chao-t'ang, had committed suicide, and that an undertaking had been given by the Chinese Government not to permit the local officials, gentry, or people to do honour to his memory.\n\nYour Highness is aware that in the month of March last, as the result of an inquiry conducted while Mr. Werner, His Majesty's Consul at Kiukiang, was at Nanchang, it was arranged that the following punishments should be inflicted on the persons concerned in the murders of Mr. and Mrs. Kingham, and in the destruction of their property :--\n\nNamePunishment\n\nHsü Tê-fên, Deputy in the Industrial School, Wa Chên-jo, Deputy in the Foreign Bureau. Kêng Ch'ao-t'ai, Superintendent of the Mint. Hsiung Lan-sên, Ch'ang Pei-Chün (Regular Army). Hsiung Yi-Shêng, Ch'ang Pei-Chin (Regular Army). Pao Chiêng-huang, Chiêng Shou Ying (City Guard). Pao Pu-k'uei, Chêng Shou Ying (City Guard). Chang Yu-ch'uan, Ching Ch'a Chü (Police). Lu Chin-piao, Ching Cha Cha (Police). Shen-Fu-hàng, Ching Cha Chủ (Police). Chi-Ping-k'an, Ching Ch'a Chu (Police). P'an Têng-hsien, Lieutenant of Cavalry. Ho Han-wên, Lieutenant of Cavalry. Wang Hsi-lin, Lieutenant of Cavalry.Decapitation.\nHsü Tso-chün, sergeant of the Provincial Guard.Eight years' imprisonment.\nSix years' imprisonment.\nHsieh Yu-lung Tan Chin-kang Wei Tê-sheng Chou Lao-érh ÏIsiao Fa Li La-tzü Hu Tang-poo Li Hslich-pêng Wang Mu-shui Li Kuang-hua Chih Hsin-p'u Wang Wei-lin Hsing Tsai-kn. Heiung Ping-nao.. Chên Hsi-feng Yang Lia-chin Ch'en Sheng-luTwo years' hard labour.\nOne year's hard labour.\n\nI have great pleasure in submitting these names to your Highness, and to request, on behalf of His Majesty's Government, that a substantial reward may be given to each for his courageous and highly meritorious conduct.\n\nIf your Highness will be so good as to inform me that the punishments above mentioned will be faithfully carried out, that the sum of 4,700l. will be paid to His Majesty's Consul at Kiukiang (either in Kiukiang or Shanghae, as he will select), and that the officers and men whose names I have indicated will be rewarded, I shall at once inform His Majesty's Government and recommend that the case be closed.\n\nI avail, &c.\n\n(Signed) LANCELOT D. CARNEGIE.\n\nInclosure 3 in No. 1.\n\n(Translation.)\n\nSir,\n\nIt was also arranged verbally by Sir Ernest Satow with the Wai-wu Pu that the Kiangsi authorities should pay a sum for the maintenance of the surviving infant child of Mr. and Mrs. Kingham, in addition to compensation for the house and property destroyed by the mob, and the total amount required for these purposes has now been fixed by His Majesty's Government at 4,700l. This sum is exclusive of certain small claims for the destruction of property belonging to British missionaries, which have already been satisfied by the Provincial Government of Kiangsi.\n\nI should add that Mr. Werner has brought to the notice of His Majesty's Government the names of the following officers and men in the service of the Chinese Government who exerted themselves to protect the lives and property of foreigners during this lamentable occurrence :--\n\nHung Wei-lin, Commodore of the River Fleet.\nWu Mei-t'ing, Captain of a gun-boat.\nLin Kuo-tung, Squadron Commander.\nChiến Chin-tang, Commandant in the Chang Pei-Chúa.\nHung Chan-k'uei, Major in the Right Battalion.\nLiu Chu-shu, Lieutenant-Colonel in the City Guard.\nWang Tê-sheng, Captain of the City Guard.\nLiu Hsin-ch'uan, Captain of Cavalry.\nTs'ao Tê-fu, Inspector of the 1st Battalion of the Territorial Army.\nSun Lang, Police Deputy.\nHsu Hui-ch'uan, Police Deputy.\n\nPrince Ching to Mr. Carnegie.\n\nKuang Hsü, 32nd year, 5th month, 9th day (June 30, 1906).\n\nI HAVE the honour to acknowledge receipt of your note of the 27th June on the subject of the Nanchang missionary case [note of the 27th June quoted at length].\n\nI have the honour to state, in reply, that this Board will not fail to communicate to the provincial authorities of Kiangsi the punishments to be inflicted on the persons found guilty of participation in this outbreak, in accordance with the list in your note, and with instructions to give due effect thereto.\n\nAs regards the sum of 4,700l. to be paid as compensation and for the maintenance of the infant survivor, payment will be made to His Britannic Majesty's Consul at Kinkiang within three months; while we are also communicating to the Governor of Kiangsi the list of officers who exerted themselves in this case in affording protection, with instructions that they should be granted suitable rewards.\n\nThe harmonious settlement of this case affords an eloquent testimony of your country's friendship, for which my colleagues and myself desire to express our profound appreciation.\n\nWhile trusting that you will communicate this reply to His Majesty's Government and recommend that the case be closed, I avail, &c.\n\nInclosure 4 in No. 1.\n\nAgreement between Wai-wu Pu and French Minister at Peking.\n\nDES troubles ayant récemment éclaté à Nantchang, au cours desquels des Français ont trouvé la mort et l'école et la mission ont été incendiées, les Gouvernements Français et Chinois, désireux d'arranger cette affaire conformément à la justice et à l'équité, afin de confirmer les relations d'amitié qui existent entre les deux pays, sont tombés d'accord pour nommer des Délégués chargés de faire une enquête.\n\nOnt été désignés :\n\nDu côté Français, le Vicomte du Halgouet, Secrétaire d'Ambassade, &c.;\n\n[2102 dd-4]", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-337 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1906.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 407914, "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": "CO129-338 - Public Offices & Others - 1906", "page_number": 378, "title": "CO129-338 - Public Offices & Others - 1906", "content_text": "373\n\n2\n\ncommitted what in English law would be perjury of a very serious nature, I have the honour to request your sanction to my asking the Governor at Nan Chiang to award to the latter some suitable, but not vindictive, punishment. As far as the evidence at the trial went, Hsiao Fa should either have been liberated or condemned to death.\n\nRewards.-I cannot but regard the manner in which this part of the stipulations made by His Majesty's Government has been carried out by the Chinese authorities as most unsatisfactory. The revised list of Chinese who exerted themselves to protect the lives and property of foreigners whose names I brought to Sir Ernest Satow's notice, and to each of whom a substantial reward was to be given, is contained in Mr. Carnegie's despatch. I have the honour to report as follows upon the rewards so far allotted to the various officers and men named therein :-\n\nHung Wei-lin, Commodore of the River Fleet, and Wu Chén-jo, Deputy in the Foreign Bureau, have been placed next on the list for promotion. This is too uncertain; they should at once be promoted to the rank of Chih Chou.\n\nWu Melting, captain of a gunboat, to be promoted to the next Ying vacancy. Should he at once be made a Ying Kuan, preferably at Kiukiang, that being his wish.\n\nHsu Tê-fên, Deputy in the Industrial School; Chiên K'uei (not in original list); Sun Lang, Police Deputy; Hsu Hui-Chuan, ditto; Liu Hung-lin (not in the original list); Shên Fu-hêng, of the Ching Ch'a Chu. When vacancies occur, their cases will be considered. This is too indefinite; they should be given the rank of Chih Chou, and sent immediately to fill acting posts.\n\nLiu Kuo-tung, Squadron Commander; Chên Chin-tang, Commandant of the Ch'ang Fei Chun; Hung Chan-k'uei, Major in the Right Battalion, Kêng Ch'ao-t'ai, Superintendent of the Mint; Liu Chu-shu, Lieutenant-Colonel of the City Guard; Wang Te-sheng, Captain of the City Guard, Liu Hsin-ch'uan, Captain of Cavalry: Tsao Tê-fu, an Inspector of the 1st Battalion of the Territorial Army; Ho Huan-wên, Lieutenant of Cavalry, Wang Hsi-lin, ditto; Pan Têng-hsien, ditto; Hsu Tzo-chün, Sergeant of the Provincial Garrison. These cases have not yet been considered, owing to a change of the Taotai in charge of military matters. Each case should be carefully considered, and definite promotion given immediately; otherwise nothing may be done for three to five years, or the matter may be overlooked altogether.\n\nPao Chiêng haang, of the Chồng Shou Ying; Pao Pu-kuei, ditto; Heung 1-shéng (Hsiung Lan-sen), of the Chang Pei Chün. These have received 7 taels each. They exerted themselves strenuously throughout the day of the massacre, and the reward must be considered inadequate. It cannot be construed as a \"substantial\" reward, as stipulated, and should be trebled at least.\n\nChang Ya-chan and Lü Chin-piao, of the Ching Cha Chü, have received 55 dollars and 45 dollars respectively. This may be considered sufficient.\n\nChu Ping-kun, of the Ching Cha Chi, is to be sent to Japan to study (probably for a military career). This, being at his own request, will, if carried out, be sufficient compensation for his voluntary aid to the missionaries in distress.\n\nI submit that the above list hardly indicates that this portion of the conditions imposed by His Majesty's Government has been carried out in the right spirit, and Had it not been that its immediate and adequate fulfilment should be insisted upon, for the courage and exertions of those named, it is probable that most of the missionaries in Nan Ch'ang at the time would have been murdered and all the Mission buildings destroyed. The sympathy, bravery, and hard work of what may be regarded as a small, but just-minded, pro-foreign party, ready to do right, even on behalf of aliens, in face of the risk of official disapproval, are characters and acts calling for commendation and encouragement, and it is to be feared that if the Governor at Nan Chang is not compelled to fulfil the stipulation as to granting a substantial reward to each of those named in Mr. Carnegie's note to Prince Ching of the 27th June last, since it cannot but be known that the stipulation has been made, the failure to insist upon its proper fulfilment will be regarded as a sign of weakness or indifference, and the name of foreigners and the cause of foreign Missions in Nan Chiang be in so far prejudiced. In those cases where it is impossible to immediately find a substantive post of higher grade, promotion in rank accompanied by an adequate pecuniary reward should at once be given.\n\nOf the names omitted from the revised list, Pao Fang, Miss Warr's writer, exerted himself throughout the day and part of the night, and was probably the means of Miss Warr's life being saved. This man and Chen p'o p'o, the amah who saved the infant Vera Kingham, should not be allowed to go unrewarded.\n\nThat a feeling of disappointment exists amongst those who, instead of deserting the missionaries in the hour of danger, worked hard on their behalf, and in many cases saved their lives and protected their property, is shown by the following extract from a letter, dated the 11th September, received by me from the Rev. A. E. Thor, of the China Inland Mission at Nan Ch'ang:-\n\n\"I have asked a good many, direct and indirect, if So-and-so has been rewarded, but always the same answer 'No,' and no one seems to think there will be any. To-day Liu Kuch-tung, of the cavalry camp, came in to have a chat; I asked him about the reward. He laughed and said: 'Reward there will be none, but a few days ago a note was sent to us from the General, which he had received from Peking, in which we were thanked for good service rendered the country, and that five names (mine being one) were put in the book of honour amongst those who have rendered good service to the country, and that is all we will get. If this country is too poor (as they always say) to give these men higher rank and as such more pay, it seems to me that the Chinese Government could afford to give their officers higher kong-ming' (degree). That would cost the Government nothing, but would work wonders amongst those who get it. Now, they all seem disappointed, as they had expected something, as the Governor cried out during the riot: 'A thousand taels to any one who saves a foreigner.'\n\nI submit that the Governor at Nan Chang should be instructed by telegraph to see that the stipulations of the two Governments are carried out immediately and in a proper spirit.\n\nCompensation. The sum of 4,700l.—the amount agreed upon as compensation for the destroyed property of the late Rev. H. C. Kingham and for the support of the infant, Margaret Vera Kingham-was received by me to-day (the 18th September) from the Governor of Nan Ch'ang, through the Prefect (the Taotai being in attendance upon his dying mother), to whom I gave a receipt. By the instructions of His Majesty's Chief Judge at Shanghae I have deposited the 700l. in the Hong Kong and Shanghae Banking Corporation, Shanghae, in an account named \"His Britannic Majesty's Consul, Kiukiang, a/c K.,\" and the 4,000, in the same bank in London to the account of \"His Britannic Majesty's Chief Judge, Supreme Court, Shanghae.\"\n\nAll the other claims for personal property destroyed having, as already reported, been settled satisfactorily by the former Governor, Hu Ting-kan, there remains only the question of the new piece of land which it was agreed should be granted to the missionaries for the purpose of erecting buildings in which to carry on the work begun by the late Rev. H. C. Kingham and his wife. The 700l. paid as compensation for the late Mr. Kingham's property having included the land on which the house and chapel had been erected, I have stated to the Rev. H. E. Pownall, representing the Stewards' Company (of which Mr. Kingham was a member), that this new piece of land, which obviously cannot form part of Mr. Kingham's estate, may be considered as the property of the Stewards' Company, given to them for the carrying on of the work interrupted by the death of Mr. Kingham, feeling that this course would meet with your sanction and approval. Further negotiations as to whether the same site shall be granted, or whether it will be advisable to rebuild the Mission premises at a greater distance from the Roman Catholic Mission (their proximity having led to their destruction during the late massacre), are under correspondence between the missionaries, the Nan Chang officials, and myself, and will probably shortly reach a satisfactory conclusion.\n\nSettlement and Guardianship.-After correspondence with the Supreme Court at Shanghae, I have suggested the appointment of the Rev. H. E. Pownali and Rev. R. J. Hopkins as trustees for the minor, Margaret Vera Kingham. Owing to the absence of the parties, I have not yet taken the hearing for the appointment of a guardian, and if, as seems probable from what Mr. Pownall has stated, Mr. Hopkins or he would prefer to be guardian rather than trustee, another reliable person nearly connected will be appointed joint trustee with one or the other. The matter will be proceeded with as soon as possible, and the Crown Advocate at Shanghae will then be instructed to draw up a deed of settlement, a draft of which will be forwarded for your approval.\n\nA claim for the guardianship of the infant, Margaret Vera Kingham, has been made, though as yet only in an informal manner, in private letters to Mrs. Pownall and Mrs. Hopkins by a Mr. Percy Kingham, a hotel-keeper of Drummond, South Africa, brother of the late Rev. H. C. Kingham, but being satisfied from information gathered from various sources that his guardianship would not be to the interests of the ward, and the Chief Judge concurring in my view, the appointment of a guardian will be proceeded with irrespective of any claim which he may see fit to set up.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed) E. T. C. WERNER.\n\n3\n\n373", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-338 - Public Offices & Others - 1906.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 418674, "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": "CO129-355 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [1-3]", "page_number": 252, "title": "CO129-355 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [1-3]", "content_text": "(B)\n\n250\n\nThe only applicant in the Colony for Colonial employment (not in Hongkong) is Mr Holborow who desires an appointment in Northern Nigeria. I forwarded this gentleman's application in my despatch No.163 of 15.6.08, to which your Lordship replied in your Despatch No.154 of 24.8.08.\n\n(C)\n\nArmy Officers seconded for employment in Colonial Civil Service.\n\nThe only two officers so employed are Captain A.J. Thompson R.A. Adjutant Hongkong Volunteer Corps, and P.H.M.Taylor 32nd Lancers, Aide de Camp.\n\nCaptain THOMPSON. Capt. Aubrey Julian R.A.\n\nThe General Officer Commanding and the Commandant of the Hongkong Volunteer Corps both confirm in every way the report which they submitted to me last year, and which is enclosed with my Confidential Despatch of the 13th May 1908 - in regard to Captain Thompson; and I entirely concur with them.\n\nTAYLOR. Capt. Percy Henry Mitchell 32nd Lancers.\n\nI have nothing to add to my report on Captain Taylor of the same date. He has continued to discharge his duties to my entire satisfaction, and does not lose his keen interest in his profession during the past year.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-355 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 421221, "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": "CO129-360 - Public Offices - 1909", "page_number": 10, "title": "CO129-360 - Public Offices - 1909", "content_text": "## Decrees issued on November 15, 1908\n\nremains. Now that His late Majesty has departed this life, we decree that all Tartar-Generals, Governors-General, Governors, Manchu Lieutenant-Generals and Deputy Lieutenant-Generals, Commanders-in-chief, Brigade-Generals, and Military Commandants, the Military Governors of the Western and Northern Provinces, Provincial Treasurers, Directors of Education, Salt Commissioners, Superintendents of Customs and of Imperial Manufactories, and other officers shall not apply for permission to come to the capital for the purpose of paying their respects to the Imperial remains, as their posts would thereby be left vacant. It is incumbent on these officers to show the utmost zeal in the performance of their duties, and thereby, rather than by empty phrases, prove themselves worthy of the responsibilities intrusted to them.\n\nLet general instructions to this effect be issued.\n\n## Appointments for Mourning Rites\n\nNovember 15, 1908.\n\nPrinces Su and No-lo-ho, Duke Po-ti-su, Military Lieutenant-Governor of the Khor-ch'in tribe, the Assistant Grand Secretaries Jung-ching and Lu-ch'uan-lin, Lu Jun-hsiang, President of the Board of Civil Office, the Comptroller of the Household, Kuei-chun, the Senior Vice-President of the Board of Rites, and Ching-hou are directed to make all arrangements in connection with the mourning rites of Her late Majesty the August Empress Dowager.\n\n## Decrees issued on November 16, 1908\n\nIn addition to the Princes and officers already nominated, Prince Kung and P'u-t'ing, President of the Board of Agriculture, Industry, and Commerce, are directed to assist in carrying out the mourning rites for Her late Majesty the August Empress Dowager.\n\nOn the occasion of the death of Her late Majesty the August Empress Dowager, the Governors-General, Governors, and other high provincial officers, having all their respective duties to attend to, should not apply for permission to come to the capital for the purpose of paying their respects to the Imperial remains, but should display their zeal by exerting themselves to the utmost in the transaction of the affairs of the State rather than by means of mere ceremonies and phrases.\n\nIt is fitting that the gates of the Forbidden City should be guarded with the utmost care and reverence, and repeated instructions have been issued to the high officer responsible to prohibit the entrance of unauthorized persons, and to have a close watch kept on all entering or leaving the forbidden precincts. In spite, however, of these reiterated commands there has recently been some laxity in the enforcement of the prohibition, and it is therefore necessary to issue a further injunction on the subject. The Commandants of the Vanguard, the Captain-General of the Guards, and the Comptroller of the Household are directed to instruct the troops on duty that they must display the utmost vigilance and prevent the entrance or exit of unauthorized persons falsely claiming to be on official business. Should there continue to be any remissness after the issue of the present Decree, the high officer responsible will be severely punished.\n\n## Decree of the Empress Dowager\n\nOfficers on daily duty in the Imperial Palace are directed, in accordance with precedent, to reside and sleep within the Palace; no other officers of any description are permitted to do so.\n\n## Decree of the Emperor\n\nMembers of Her late Majesty the August Empress Dowager's own family are directed to wear full mourning during a period of 100 days.\n\n## Decrees of the Emperor, November 17, 1908\n\nEulogizes His late Majesty, and commands that a suitable posthumous title for his reign shall be composed, in accordance with custom.\n\nThe chief points noted in regard to the deceased Emperor and his reign are that throughout thirty-four years His late Majesty devoted all his care and attention to State affairs, under the guidance of the late Empress Dowager; that he kept a check over the officials, from whom he exacted conscientious labour; that he always showed solicitude for the welfare of the people; and that he inaugurated many reforms in education, the army, finance, currency, the pacification of frontier tribes, the cultivation of waste lands, the encouragement of trade and industry, the introduction of new weights and measures, the development of posts, shipping, railways, mines, &c. By honouring the memory of Confucius His Majesty paid respect for the past. By making Commercial Treaties foreign relations were cemented. With due regard for national customs and beliefs the Penal Code was revised. The differences between Manchus and Chinese were composed. All these steps led towards the establishment of constitutional government after nine years.\n\n## Decree\n\nHis late Majesty having selected no place of burial, let P'an Lun and Ch'en Pi proceed with diviners to the Eastern and Western Tombs and reverently investigate the location of a site.\n\nLet them prepare plans and a Report for submission to the Throne.\n\n## Decree\n\nCh'en Pin Chun and other physicians to His late Majesty are degraded two steps in rank.\n\n## Decree\n\nChang Chung Yuan and others, officials of the Imperial College of Physicians, are degraded but allowed to remain in office.\n\n## Decree received by the Grand Secretariat, November 18, 1908\n\nThe Princes and Ministers have represented to us the difficulties involved in three years' mourning, and have begged that the old rule may be followed.\n\nIn perusing the Memorial our grief has been increased. We have inherited His late Majesty's high estate, and even if we bore mourning throughout our whole life it would still be an insufficient recognition of the favour which has been bestowed upon us. How can it be said that three years' mourning suffices to demonstrate our affliction or to discharge the ceremonial observance of our loss? Moreover, three years' mourning is the right of every parent, from the lowliest to the Son of Heaven. It is so written in the Book of Rites, and how should we dare to disobey? If we dispensed with mourning after twenty-seven days our conscience would verily rebel!\n\nLet officials and people mourn in accordance with the old rule (i.e., twenty-seven days). We will verily follow the ancient rule and mourn for three years.\n\n[Note. The significance of this Decree is shaken by the discovery that it is textually the same as one issued in 1875 by the late Emperor under similar circumstances. TRANSLATOR.]\n\n## Decree\n\nPromotes various concubines of the late Emperor, and grants them each an allowance of 500 taels per mensem.\n\n## Decree\n\nTang Shao Yi memorializes by telegraph, asking whether his Imperial letter for the American President should be changed, and suggesting the alteration of the last character in his name. [“Yi,\" which is the same as the last character in the new Emperor's name, “P'u-Yi.”—TRANSLATOR.]\n\nLet the Board take note.\n\n## Decree handed to the Grand Secretariat, November 18, 1908\n\nTo-day the Grand Council received the mark of the Vermilion Pencil selecting the two characters \"Hsun-Tung\" [the Proclaimed Succession] as the title of the new reign.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-360 - Public Offices - 1909.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 422458, "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": "CO129-361 - Public Offices - 1909", "page_number": 487, "title": "CO129-361 - Public Offices - 1909", "content_text": "## Inclosure 5 in No. 1\n\n### The Viceroy of the two Kuang Provinces to Mr. Mayers\n\nCanton, May 30, 1869.\n\nTHE Viceroy received, on the 25th instant, a Report from Lieutenant-Colonel Shang Chang-mao and Pao Ying-hiung (Superintendents of the gun-boat squadrons) to the following effect :- \n\n\"The Acting British Consul, Mr. Mayers, having personally represented the occurrence of acts of piracy among the islands to the eastward of Hong Kong, and requested that a gun-boat be dispatched in company with a British vessel of war, and to cruise in that direction, we hereupon directed Major Fan Kan-ting, Commandant of the gun-boat 'Chên-to', to proceed on the 12th instant to Hong Kong for this purpose, and after visiting the neighbourhood of Mirs Bay, &c., to go on to the coast in the vicinity of Cupche, and use every effort conjointly (with the British force) for seizing any pirates met with during the cruise. These particulars have already been reported to your Excellency, and Major Fan Kan-t'ing has now reported his proceedings as follows :--\n\n[Report of cruise in vicinity of Mirs Bay omitted as unimportant.]\n\nOn the 15th the two gun-boats ('Chên-to' and His Majesty's gun-boat 'Bouncer') anchored together at Ta Sing Bay, near Ping Hoi, and it was thereupon agreed, on the proposition of Lieutenant Lloyd, that we should proceed on the following day to the Pratas Shoal, lying about 150 miles to seaward from Cupche, and overhaul the neighbourhood in search of pirates. Leaving our anchorage on the following day, accordingly, we proceeded in that direction, and, by keeping under way through the night, arrived at the Pratas Shoal at 10 A.M. on the 17th instant.\n\n\"I have to remark that, although the Pratas Shoal is described as lying 400 or 500 li from the coast of Cupche, it is in reality an isolated shoal lying in the midst of the China Sea, semi-circular in shape, the hollow of its curve facing the north-west, and some 100 miles or more in total circumference. (The rocks of which it consists) are alternately covered and left dry by the tide. Near the edge of the shoal is a small sandy island, barely 3 miles in length, where, although a certain amount of herbage does exist, there are no inhabitants. The whole place is studded with rocks in all directions, the winds and tides are variable and not to be depended upon, and an extraordinarily heavy sea prevails all around. The spot is scarcely ever visited either by Chinese or foreign trading-vessels. Having ascertained, in concert with Lieutenant Lloyd, that there were no traces of pirates making this their resort and plundering trading-vessels, we left the Pratas on the 19th instant and proceeded on our return voyage, arriving at Hong Kong on the 20th, and, after reporting to the Commodore, proceeded to Canton,\" &c.\n\nOn receipt of the foregoing Report, the Viceroy has to communicate the same for the honourable Consul's information, and avails, &c.\n\n## Inclosure 6 in No. 1\n\n### Mr. Mayers to the Viceroy of the two Kuang Provinces\n\nCanton, June 1, 1869.\n\nTHE Undersigned has the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Excellency's despatch of the 30th ultimo, forwarding copy of the Report made by Major Fan Kan-ting respecting the visit of the gun-boat \"Chên-to\" to the Pratas Shoal, &c., which he has perused with attention.\n\nHe begs to observe in reply that the Pratas Shoal, lying as it does some 170 miles eastward from the coast of Kwangtung, occupies a position in the midst of the China Sea precisely in the track of vessels sailing north or south from the Chinese ports, as a result of which it frequently occurs that vessels are lost upon it when deviating, in even the slightest degree from their proper course, owing either to tempestuous weather or defective observations.\n\nSuch avoidable disasters occur on an average two or three times in the course of the year, and it has become a practice with the junk people of this province to lie in wait at the shoal for cases of shipwreck. The moment a foreign vessel strikes they rush on board and commence, regardless of all remonstrance or resistance, to strip her of everything they can lay their hands upon. It is highly necessary that measures be taken to put a stop to this lawless state of affairs. Ere long, undoubtedly, a lighthouse will be constructed at this spot, which will enable vessels to avoid the danger of the shoals, but an undertaking of this description will be a work of time, and in the meanwhile steps should be taken for affording efficient protection to vessels in distress, as is the duty of every civilized and humane Government. The Undersigned would point out to your Excellency that an island exists in the midst of the shoal which is about 3 miles in length, and where, although the island itself is not inhabited, vessels may be anchored and used as a place of residence. He therefore begs that your Excellency will take into consideration the propriety of stationing one or two war-junks at this locality, where their presence will both serve as a check on the desperadoes who live by the plunder of foreign vessels and will also enable your Excellency to carry out the provisions of the 20th Article of the Treaty of Tien-tsin, where it is stipulated that if any British vessel be wrecked or stranded on the coast of China the Chinese authorities shall adopt measures for its relief and security and extend friendly treatment to those on board. Such a consummation will be worthy of your Excellency's benign disposition.\n\nWith reference to Major Fan Kan-t'ing's Report, the Undersigned begs leave to observe that it does not tally in all particulars with that made by Lieutenant Lloyd, R.N., commanding His Majesty's gun-boat \"Bouncer,\" who mentions that on reaching the Pratas he found in the lagoon a Chinese junk, having sixteen men and five women on board, and that on searching her in concert with Major Fan Kan-t'ing and Captain Edwards, Commander of the \"Chên-to,\" he found her to be filled with articles forming part of the equipment of foreign vessels, besides a quantity of miscellaneous cargo. The master of the junk, on being interrogated, stated that he had been at anchor there for two months. It is plain therefore that this vessel was lying at the shoal on the look-out for cases of shipwreck, and the Undersigned is surprised to find that Major Fan Kan-t'ing makes no mention of her in the Report sent in.\n\nHe avails, &c.\n\n## Inclosure 7 in No. 1\n\n### The Viceroy Jui-lin to Mr. Mayers\n\nCanton, June 6, 1869.\n\nTHE Viceroy has to acknowledge the receipt on the 1st instant of the honourable Consul's despatch relating to the Report made by Major Fan K'an-ting respecting the Pratas Shoal (despatch requoted in full), and, in reply, he has to state that, of the shoal in question, the outer side is under the jurisdiction of the right battalion of the brigade of Lung-men, and the inner side under that of the left battalion of the above brigade, and also of the district magistracy of Ho-p'u, but in the despatch now received the Viceroy finds that no distinction is drawn as to either \"outer\" or \"inner\" side. In all cases, however, of shipwreck on the part of foreign vessels along the coast, it is incumbent upon the local authorities, in fulfilment of the Treaty, to take measures for affording them protection and assistance; but the request contained in the despatch now under acknowledgment, to the effect that steam gun-boats may be stationed at the Pratas for the purpose of affording such protection, has not the support of any Article in the Treaty, and it is not expedient to accede to it.\n\nThe Viceroy issues orders to the district Magistrate of Ho-p'u for the latter's guidance, and also to the above-mentioned military departments, to the effect that in the event of any foreign vessel being hereafter wrecked upon or near the Pratas Shoal, measures must be taken in accordance with the Treaty for affording them protection, and also that efficient steps must be taken without intermission for seizing and bringing to trial the piratical characters who resort to that locality, as a necessary part of the proceedings for affording the protection in question. The Viceroy also instructs Colonels Pao and Shang, the Commandants of the gun-boat squadron, to examine into the discrepancy pointed out in the despatch now under acknowledgment.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-361 - Public Offices - 1909.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 423191, "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": "CO129-362 - Public Offices - 1909", "page_number": 594, "title": "CO129-362 - Public Offices - 1909", "content_text": "## The time passed on, however, without the rebel chief making overtures for his surrender-which, by the way, the authorities had announced must be unconditional. \nTowards the end of June it was reported that he had left his hiding-place in the jungle and come into the province of Phuc-yen, which has been for some time in a very disturbed condition. This rumour was shortly proved true in a sufficiently startling fashion. On the 5th July a Frenchman named Voisin, employé of a contractor for bridge-building, was seized by Ca-rinh, the De-Tham's chief lieutenant and adopted son, on the high road near the village of Velinh, some 16 miles only as the crow flies from Hanoi. Two motor-cars, one of them containing the resident of the province, which passed along the road shortly afterwards, were also fired on by the brigands, but escaped. The De-Tham himself was in the neighbourhood, and Voisin was brought to join him that night. A force of militia which was at hand might have attacked the band, but did not do so, Voisin having sent to the officer in command a letter, dictated by the De-Tham, stating he would be at once killed if the militia advanced.\n\nThe Government decided to take energetic measures in consequence of Voisin's abduction. The Dê-Tham was told that the only condition which would be granted to him was that his life would be spared if he gave Voisin up, but that if any harm happened to the Frenchman, the relations of the De-Tham in captivity in Phu-lang-thuong would answer for it. A column of two companies of European and two companies of native troops, with a portion of the Foreign Legion, artillery, and all the militia and irregular \"partisans\" available, was put under the orders of Commandant Chofflet, who was given full powers, civil and military, in the troubled district. This column closed round the village of Lang-Lai, whither the band had retired after the capture of Voisin, and where they had established themselves in a temple. The De-Tham had with him probably 100 men with rifles, and twenty or thirty carriers. Before the investment was actually complete, the Dê-Tham, profiting by a storm on the night of the 13th July, succeeded in passing through the lines and escaping with all his men and his prisoner. Commandant Chofflet executed several of the inhabitants of the village for complicity with the rebels, and burned some temples. This escape of the Dê-Tham came as a disappointment to Hanoi, where great hopes had been placed upon the new column.\n\nOn the 19th July, a small outlying party of brigands, numbering six men and a woman, were reported from the village of Lap-chi. Fifty men of the Legion and fifty militia were dispatched to search for them the next morning. The brigands were concealed in a sort of trench or cavern, and fired on the men of the Legion before the latter had discovered them. One légionnaire was killed and three or four seriously wounded. The brigands made a vigorous defence, but were all destroyed, being smoked to death in their hole.\n\nOn the 22nd July, the Dê-Tham and his band, said to number 102 rifles, were reported to have appeared suddenly in the village of Xuan Lai, about 3 miles east of Phu-lo. Troops were immediately dispatched there, and arrived about midday. The Dé-Tham commenced negotiations through the intermediary of Voisin, who was still with him, but as these were evidently merely to gain time they were broken off. The artillery bombarded the Catholic church in which the chief had made his headquarters. During the afternoon the Dê-Tham burned the village, executed several of the inhabitants, and took others prisoners for having told the French of his presence. Troops continued to arrive, and by evening the investment seemed to be complete, but the commandant postponed the attack until the next morning. About 11 P.M., however, it was found that the band had left, and once more got away intact. It has transpired since that it marched openly and with determination on a point of the investing line which was only held by native troops, and these gave way at once on the mere sight of the enemy without firing a shot. The De-Tham's party seems to have suffered no casualties on this day, and the French had only three or four militiamen wounded early in the engagement.\n\nThe commandant, however, speedily got information this time of the direction taken by the band, and started in pursuit. On the 25th, Hanoi was astonished to hear that Voisin had been released unconditionally by the Dê-Thum the previous night. He had been ill for some days and unable to walk, and had been carried in a litter. During the night he was suddenly, without explanation, deposited on the road and left. In the morning he dragged himself to a neighbouring village, and he was brought down to Hanoi by train the same day. I may mention that some of the Saigon journals have published suggestions that Voisin was really in secret relations with the De-Tham, and therefore never in any danger, but there appears to be no foundation whatever for these extraordinary rumours.\n\nThe release of Voisin seemed to presage the approaching surrender of the De-Tham, but the public was soon undeceived. On the 25th, the troops came up with the rebels at the village of Hien-luong. The colonial infantry and Foreign Legion attacked with much dash, and met with but little opposition until they found themselves at about 5 P.M. in a swamp, at the other side of which was a sort of rampart hidden by bamboos. From this position a murderous fire opened on the French, who were unable to advance, and in a short time a captain and thirteen European soldiers were killed and some forty wounded. The troops found such shelter as they could, and were not able to withdraw until darkness came on without abandoning their dead and wounded and exposing themselves to the enemy's fire. This, however, prevented the French artillery from bombarding the position. The Annamite tirailleurs are said to have again behaved very badly on this occasion. This affair, happening only some 14 miles from Hanoi, made a very painful impression here, but at first the French population comforted itself with the thought that the Dê-Tham had suffered even more heavily. The report went that about half his band had been destroyed, although it was a suspicious fact that no bodies were found and no rifles taken. It appears now certain that the losses of the band were extremely small, not more than five or six killed, if, indeed, there were any, and that, as a matter of fact, it succeeded in carrying off eight rifles belonging to killed or wounded Frenchmen.\n\nThe De-Tham evacuated Hien-luong that night. The next day, the 26th, the tirailleurs, with a European detachment in support, came into contact with what is believed to have been only his rear-guard at the village of Ninhbac. Four or five tirailleurs were killed and an equal number of the enemy, but the main body withdrew. The French did not continue the pursuit.\n\nSince then there has been no contact between the French and the Dê-Tham. He has completely disappeared, and there are the most divergent rumours as to his whereabouts. The special powers accorded to Commandant Chofflet have been withdrawn, and an influential Annamite functionary, the Tong-doc Le Hoan, an old adversary of the Dê-Tham, has been entrusted with the reduction to order of the province of Phuc-yen. He has received special powers and rank from the Annamite Court to that effect, and has enrolled a corps of 300 or 400 \"partisans\" who are to live on the country, and are expected to succeed in tracking down the Dê-Tham. This step had really been decided upon before the unfortunate affair at Hien-luong, but, coming as it does, it has proved very galling to the army here, and certainly is not calculated to enhance French military prestige in the eyes of the natives. It seems probable that some time will now elapse before the Dê-Tham is definitely brought to book.\n\nIn the meanwhile, however, another affair has occurred which, though apparently not directly connected with the De-Tham, has created a profound impression here. On the night of the 2nd instant the militia post at Hoa-hinh, capital of a province, about 50 miles from Hanoi, was attacked by natives, captured, and sacked. The post was occupied by about sixty native militia. They had had strangers in their quarters gambling with them during the night, and it is supposed that these had drugged some of the militia. At all events the assailants, who are said to have numbered about 100, attacked the garrison with knives and choppers only. The European inspector heard a noise, came out, and tried to rally his men; he was killed and cut to pieces. The four European civilians in the place hid, and then escaped by boat down the river.\n\nFour or five of the militia were killed and a few wounded; the rest fled in every direction. The robbers broke open the gaol and released the prisoners; they took all the arms in the place to the number of about 150 rifles and carbines, about 2,000 dollars in cash, and 5,000 dollars worth of opium, and then left. Up to the time of writing they have not been found, though they are said to have entrenched themselves in a village on the road from Hoa-binh to Hadong. The affair is believed not to be the work of the De-Tham, but to be an act of vengeance caused by the alleged unjust arrest of certain natives. However, it gives a poor impression of the value of the militia who garrison most of the small stations up-country, and it is most unfortunate coming just at this juncture.\n\nOther parts of the country are also disturbed, namely, Dong-Trieu, north of the Haiphong-Hanoi railway line, and Luc-Nam, east of the Yen-the. In both of these districts there are bands of marauders at large, among whom there are said to be a certain number of Chinese. Near Laokay, also, there has recently been an alarm caused by a band of Chinese raiders (probably workmen discharged from the railway), but this does not seem to be serious.\n\nAt present many rumours are current in Hanoi, and the papers even speak of the possibility of a general rising. There was an alarm on the night of the 6th, and the troops were all kept in barracks. Every night parties of military patrol the roads round.\n\nPage 532", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-362 - Public Offices - 1909.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 428687, "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": "CO129-372 - Public Offices - 1910", "page_number": 28, "title": "CO129-372 - Public Offices - 1910", "content_text": "2\n\nfound in a field. He had a slight but not mortal bullet wound, and had apparently been strangled to death--by whom it is not known.\n\nThese two affairs, small as they were, had a somewhat disquieting effect on the French population of Hanoi. The desperate nature of the resistance offered by this handful of men and their success in holding out for so long against largely superior French forces seemed to show a considerable change in the conditions since the time of the conquest of Tonkin twenty-five years before.\n\nOn the 28th August an anti-French plot was discovered at Hanoi, and several arrests were made, five of the accused being subsequently sentenced, by administrative measure without trial, to deportation for ten years. A secret society amongst the servants of Europeans was also brought to light, among the members of which were certain individuals who had already been suspected of complicity in the plot for poisoning the garrison during the summer of 1908, but who had escaped conviction.\n\nOn the 31st August the command of the column against the Dê-Tham was withdrawn from Commandant Chofflet and given to Commandant Bonifacy. On the 5th September a band of fifteen rifles under the command of Ca-rinh, the De-Tham's principal lieutenant, was reported some 3 miles west of Phuc-Yen. On the 6th they were attacked at the village of Yen-Lo by a force despatched by Commandant Bonifacy, consisting of a company of colonial infantry, a company of tirailleurs, a detachment of the Legion, and a section of artillery. The fighting lasted all day, and the band was more than half destroyed, their losses being said to be nine killed and one prisoner. The French loss was, however, also serious, consisting of three Europeans and one tirailleur killed in action, three Europeans dead from sun-stroke, and four Europeans and five tirailleurs wounded.\n\nThe De-Tham himself was at this time in the mountainous region between the Day River and the Rivière Claire, and his intention was to cross the latter stream, and eventually to gain the Province of Thanh-Hoa in North Annam. The river was, however, effectively patrolled, and a move in this direction was prevented. At the end of September, the De-Tham's position being accurately known, the Kham Sai and the column of troops—amounting to some 3,000 men in all—left the province of Phuc-Yen and concentrated in the north of the province of Vinh-Yen.\n\nIn the meantime, on the 26th September, the band of Kiem, (who on the 2nd August, had sacked the militia post at Hoa-Binh, as recounted in my despatch above-mentioned) had attacked another post of militia at Hoa-lae in the Sontay province. The band was repulsed after having killed four militiamen and wounded seven. Kiem did not, however, act in conjunction with the Dê-Tham.\n\nOn the 5th October Commandant Bonifacy attacked the latter's force. It had strongly entrenched itself in a ravine on the south-west side of the Nui-Lang mountain. The position was an extremely difficult one to attack and the French soldiers underwent great hardships. The De-Tham is said to have had seventy rifles engaged in the affair. His actual losses as far as could be ascertained were six killed, two wounded, and one prisoner, but his morale was badly shaken as he had thought himself secure. The band broke up and escaped in the night, the members dispersing in different directions. It has never re-assembled since. A portion of the attacking force was for four hours at twenty-five yards from the enemy's fire. It is not to be wondered at therefore that the French loss was serious---eight Europeans and eleven natives killed and thirty-four wounded. The evacuating of the wounded on Vietri was extremely difficult owing to the nature of the country and the troops were absolutely exhausted, all idea of pursuing the enemy being impossible.\n\n3\n\nThe De-Tham with a few followers left the Nui-Lang mountains and recrossed the Day. Bonifacy moved his column into the Tam-Dao region. The fight at Nui-Lang had evidently had a disheartening effect on the rebels and several of them came in and made their submission. On the 24th October the Dê-Tham's principal lieutenant, Ca-rinh, with six of his followers surrendered to the Kham Sai. This was a serious loss to the rebel chief. He gradually worked his way back through the province of Thai-Nguyen to his former district in the Yen-thé of which he had been for years the virtual ruler. On the 25th November he was definitely signalled there. On the 1st December a notable capture was made in the person of his third wife. This woman is a veritable Amazon; she took a personal and active part in most of the recent engagements, carrying a rifle herself and sometimes, it is said, commanded detachments on foraging and reconnoitring expeditions. A couple of days later the leader himself was nearly caught and an individual of his party was killed, who proved to be none other than the cook who had been the principal instrument in the plot to poison the Hanoi garrison in 1908. Numerous other submissions now took place and the position improved so far that early in December the greater part of the military column (which had been formed after the kidnapping of M. Voisin in July) could be sent back to garrison duty.\n\nAt the end of December the military authorities had to turn their attention to the Yunnan frontier. About 100 Chinese soldiers, at an isolated post, mutinied, and crossed into Tonkin with arms and ammunition. It was feared that they might repeat the exploits of the \"Reformists\" from Yunnan in the summer of 1908, and prompt measures were taken to deal with them. Troops were sent to bar their advance, and they were called upon to submit. They refused to do so, and announced their intention of marching across Tonkin. On the morning of the 5th January they were attacked and put to flight, losing sixteen killed and seventeen wounded. Unfortunately, on the French side a captain was killed and four men wounded. Further reinforcements were sent up and the remnants of the band were disposed of. A good many were killed, others were driven back across the frontier, and some were captured and handed over to the Chinese authorities, who executed them.\n\nMeanwhile, operations on a small scale had for some time been in progress against the band of Kiem, the sacker of Hoa-Binh. These operations were brought to a close at the end of December, when eighty of the rebels had made their submission. There had been little or no serious fighting; the French had had one man severely wounded, and the \"pirates\" had lost eight killed and five wounded. On the 13th January the chief, Kiem himself, surrendered, the only terms given him being that his life should be spared. It is believed that he was partly led to submit by the apparently generous fashion in which Ca-rinh and the other surrendered partisans of the De-Tham were being treated. To them also the Government had only guaranteed their lives, but they had been left in provisional liberty under the surveillance of the provincial authorities. Ca-rinh himself had, indeed, been treated with many marks of distinction. Five days after Kiem's surrender, however, Ca-rinh and some sixty other surrendered rebels, who had been left in the Yen-thé district, together with the third wife of the De-Tham, were simultaneously put into close arrest, brought by special train to Hanoi, and locked up in the prison there. Kiem and his followers have been similarly dealt with. The De-Tham probably congratulates himself on not having trusted to appearances.\n\nHe is still believed to be wandering in the Yen-thé jungle with one or two faithful attendants. The Kham Sai, having failed to effect his capture, was recalled on the 1st March and his band of \"partisans\" dispersed. The remains of Commandant Bonifacy's column were also broken up, the commandant himself, however, remaining to administer the Yen-thế. The pursuit is now entrusted to the militia, who are endeavouring to bring it to an end before the beginning of the hot weather. It is possible that the Dê-Tham might again cause trouble if not disposed of before the heat renders difficult active operations on the part of white troops, but it is not likely that he would still enjoy the prestige which a year ago gave him the support of a great part of the population in the provinces of Yen-thé and Phuc-Yen. On the whole, it appears that M. Klobukowski, the Governor-General (who is now in France), is quite justified in describing the affair of the Dê-Tham as virtually at an end.\n\nI enclose a rough sketch-map showing the relative positions of the principal places mentioned in this despatch.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nT. Ff. CARLISLE.\n\n26", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-372 - Public Offices - 1910.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 428877, "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": "CO129-372 - Public Offices - 1910", "page_number": 218, "title": "CO129-372 - Public Offices - 1910", "content_text": "attended out of 3,000. The taotai again repeated that I might calm my fears as no trouble would ensue.\n\nOn the 13th April I sent for and warned Mr. Gregory, of the Polytechnic, who assured me that the students, if silent, appeared peaceful.\n\nThe same evening at 7:15 P.M. a telephone message came from the governor to the consulate asking me to request Commandant Yang, of the river guard-boats, to send reinforcements to the South Gate as there was a serious disturbance just outside the city.\n\nAt 7:30 this warning was repeated and, as I was dining on board the steam-ship Siangtan, I requested Commandant Yang to keep a man at our telephone. I went right through the city within fifty yards of the governor's yamên and right past the door of the taotai's yamên where there was a big crowd assembled. No notice was taken of me except one man, on seeing my chair pass, called out \"The British consul,\" and laughed heartily.\n\nAt 8-15 I received a letter from Dr. Hume, telling me of the riot, and asking if I was aware of it. I replied that I was fully informed, but that he need have no cause for apprehension, as I had the governor's assurance that full protection would be afforded.\n\nDr. Hume followed this up with another note, stating that the governor's yamên was being attacked. I thereupon went to the customs office and telephoned to the governor's yamên for information. I was told that about 2,000 men were in the yamên making a disturbance and demanding that the price of rice should be officially lowered. I stated that I was returning through the city and should pass near the yamên, and asked if it were safe; to which the reply came that it was perfectly safe, as the crowd would soon disperse. I then sent for Mr. Kwok, who, knowing of the trouble, repeated the assurance that I could easily pass through the city, though he qualified this remark when I asked him if it would not be wiser to return by water.\n\nI then returned to the steamer, and on arrival was met by one of the men of the consulate guard-boat, who begged me to return by water and to avoid the city, as the riot was very serious.\n\nI thereupon returned to the consulate and telephoned to the governor for more information. On being told that the rioters were still in the yamên, I telephoned to the taotai and asked him to send troops to all the missions to protect them. He replied that this had been done. I also asked whether, as a sign of friendship, and to help the officials in a difficult position, I should not telegraph to you to send one of His Majesty's ships. He replied that it was unnecessary to send a ship on account of the rice riot, but that if one was leaving I might as well ask it come at once. I thereupon sent my first telegram to Mr. Fraser, informing him of what had happened.\n\nI again asked the taotai whether troops had actually gone to the missions, and again received an affirmative reply.\n\nAt 2 A.M. the next morning, the 14th April, Mr. Warren, of the Wesleyan Mission, came to me and informed me that his mission had been burnt to the ground, and that all the members had only just managed to escape through the back door. They had fled to the West Gate, and were there kept in the guard-house until the gate could be opened, when they passed out unhurt. I at once sent my wife and child and Mrs. Cooke, who lived near to us, across to the island, and sent a message to Captain Agassiz to retain his ship. I again telephoned to the taotai, who replied that the destruction of the Wesleyan Mission must have been an accident, and that all other missions were being protected by troops.\n\nAt 3.30 A.M. a message came from Dr. Keller, of the China Inland Mission, that his mission and the Norwegian Mission had gone; that he was safe in a yamên, but that the Norwegians were fleeing for their lives. I then sent a messenger to every mission in the city to tell the members to leave as quickly as possible, and to get on board the steamers. I also telephoned to Mr. Gregory in the Polytechnic to leave by the East Gate, and to find his way to the consulate or to General Yang's camp. I further sent river guard-boatmen into the city, and gave them money to get covered chairs and bring the people to the consulate or to the steamer. I cannot speak too highly of the work done by these men. They went with the consulate writer repeatedly into the city, and did all in their power to get the people out quietly, and I think that the fact that no lives were lost is not only due to an apparent and inexplicable care on the part of the rioters that no lives should be sacrificed, but also to the prompt and skilful assistance they rendered.\n\nAt 9 A.M. I telephoned for, and got, the governor's launch, and she has rendered great assistance ever since. The launch was handed over quite unreservedly, and her \"lac yeh\" told to put himself entirely under my orders.\n\nAt 6 A.M. a detachment of the regular troops came to the consulate, and I was told that a large force had been sent into the city, and that order would be restored. At 10 A.M. General Yang sent an aide-de-camp well known to me, who assured me that the general could protect me if I went to his camp; but I felt that I ought to stay where I was most use to the whole community.\n\nAt noon the second-in-command of the guard-boats came to me to say that the governor's yamên was on fire, and that protection could no longer be afforded. He said that the message came from the governor direct, and he urged me to leave at once. He further stated that property would be preserved if we would leave the mainland. As I was strongly of opinion that the loss of one life would seriously prejudice the whole situation, I followed the advice, and after seeing everyone else embarked, I abandoned the consulate and went to the steam-ship \"Siangtan.\"\n\nI then requested the captain of the steam-ship \"Changwo\" to move down the river to opposite the consulate, in case any foreigners had been forgotten, and in case two, who had refused to leave until I wrote a personal note, should make for the consulate.\n\nAt that time the steam-ship \"Siangtan\" was lying alongside her bulk, but the Chinese began pouring on board in such numbers that I thought it advisable to move into the stream. At this time several places, including the governor's yamên, were blazing. We had only just moved from the hulk when we heard firing from the yamên, and hoped that orders had finally been given to put down the disturbance by force. I heard subsequently what happened. On the approach of the mob, with enormous torches, the general gave the order to fire, and one or two volleys were fired, by which about nine were killed. The treasurer thereupon threw himself at the feet of the general and implored him to cease fire, and at the same time the gentry coerced the governor. The result was that the governor put out a proclamation that the soldiers would not fire. This was promptly torn down. The treasurer then put out the order, and this was respected. After the issue of the treasurer's proclamation an officer of the governor's body-guard dared to give an order to fire, which one soldier obeyed; both were promptly executed. All this time the regular troops stood up against volleys of large bricks and tiles, and sustained about 120 casualties, all, I am told, more or less severe. One of the regular troops then said if they might not use rifles they could use swords, and killed a looter; but this was also forbidden, and from this moment a slow, deliberate, methodical destruction of property commenced.\n\nAt 4 P.M., as too many Chinese were still flocking to the \"Siangtan,\" I asked the captain to drop down to the consulate, and there we transferred passengers for Hankow on to the \"Changwo.\"\n\nAt 6:30 P.M., while we were about 50 yards from the Bund, the mob, just having completed the destruction of the London Mission, came to the consulate. They were headed, as I was told by one or two eye-witnesses, by a gang of men dressed all in black—black short coats opening in the front, black short trousers with broad white bands round their ankles. They were provided with implements to destroy houses, and the consulate writer, who watched the destruction of the London Mission, told me they went about their work with quietness and method. He said they were certainly not Changsha men, were from 20 to 30 years of age, very emaciated and with black faces. The officer in charge of the river guard-boats, of which there were eight, in addition to about sixty of the regular troops, came and asked me for permission to fire, but as I had all archives, English and Chinese, and the cyphers safe, I requested him to tell the heads of the looters they were free to enter the consulate and burn or loot it, provided they took special precautions that no lives were lost. I also asked him to move the guard-boats from the Bund to give proof of my intentions. He returned and executed all I had said. He added, however, that all the men of the river guard-boats were personally fond of me, and it seems that the villagers echoed this statement and made an earnest appeal to leave the property alone. The mob then asked the consulate gate-keeper, who kept the flag flying the whole time till the return of His Majesty's ship \"Thistle\" on the 17th, to open the main gate. This being done, they then asked him to hang out lamps, and the gate-keeper hung out the large consulate lamps. The mob never even entered the gate, and throughout the whole time not a single article of any kind whatsoever was touched in the building. The mob, it is interesting to note, then went and raided\n\n[2751 -4]\n\n216", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-372 - Public Offices - 1910.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 428878, "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": "CO129-372 - Public Offices - 1910", "page_number": 219, "title": "CO129-372 - Public Offices - 1910", "content_text": "6\n\nMr. Cooke's house, just behind the consulate, and from there proceeded to the Roman Catholic Mission, an enormous property, which they burnt out completely.\n\nBeing informed by Messrs. Butterfield and Swire's agent that it had been determined to fire on the two steamers from the city wall, from which they were well within range, I considered it advisable to drop about 1 mile downstream. We did this, and during the night the steam-ship \"Kian\" arrived and anchored beside us.\n\nBetween 6:30 P.M. of the 14th and 4 A.M. of the 15th all the property on the river front was destroyed, including the godowns and hulks of Messrs. Butterfield and Swire and of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson, and Co., and also the customs-house. The work, I am told by eye-witnesses, was performed by at most twenty men, all the others being onlookers, and no attempt was made to stop it. The Japanese property, which is largely financed by Hunanese, was left untouched. During the night the Japanese consul and his staff, together with other Japanese, escaped via their hulk, where troops were stationed, to Chinese boats, but waited till next day to join their steamer which was anchored near me.\n\nOn the 15th April at 3:30 A.M. a fire-boat passed the steam-ship \"Siangtan.\" The boat had obviously been filled with oil and was burning brightly; but it passed nowhere near the ship, and no other came.\n\nAt about 10 A.M. the Commissioner of Customs and his staff went up in the launch to see the damage done to the customs buildings and to guard their property on the island. Their arrival was the signal for the burning of the hotel, kept by a Chinaman, in which some of the members of the outdoor staff lived. It was not very long before I got a letter and a personal message from the treasurer that their presence was exciting the people, and that he would protect all property if I would persuade them to leave. I consequently urged Mr. Wakefield to retire, and as he had received a letter from the treasurer to say his property would be kept intact, he finally consented to abandon his position.\n\nAs the Chinese passengers on the \"Siangtan\" declared they would create a disturbance if we did not leave, and about the same time I received positive information from the river guard-boats and Captain Agassiz from the compradore of the firm that an organised attack on the steamers had been prepared, oil-boats and hand-grenades having been seen, and that all property having been destroyed they were the next objective, I felt, in view of all that had happened, that this warning could not be disregarded, and decided to move about 12 miles down out of sight of, though within touch of, the city. The Japanese consul not only endorsed this view, but stated, through his vice-consul, that it was not a riot but a revolution, and that he intended to go straight to Hankow whatever my course might be.\n\nOn the 16th April at 5 A.M. he left, and at 8 A.M. I sent the steam-ship \"Siangtan\" to Hankow, retaining in the steam-ship \"Kian\" a few who wished to return to Changsha.\n\nOn the 15th I had sent the launch to Siangtan, from which place I had received bad news, to give the residents the chance of reaching Changsha. They arrived on the night of the 16th, and I sent them to Yochou on the morning of the 17th under escort of Mr. Wrench and Mr. Morgan, as we were told there were riots at Siangyin and Chinkong, two places en route.\n\nMessrs. Wrench and Morgan met His Majesty's ship \"Thistle\" and returned with her. She arrived at the steam-ship \"Kian\" at 2:30 P.M., and I at once proceeded to Changsha.\n\nI refused to see the Customs taotai, who immediately came to call, giving as my reason that I would only see the highest authority in the province. Besides, as I was anxious to secure his removal as the first step to a settlement, I did not wish him to think that I in any way thought he was friendly. The same evening His Majesty's ship \"Nightingale\" arrived in port.\n\n**\n\nOn the 19th April the treasurer came to call with Mr. Kwok, the Customs taotai, Taotai Lu (Governor Ta'en's French secretary), and a certain Hu taotai. The treasurer assured me most emphatically that he could afford protection, and asked me to give him the names of those who wished to enter the city, in order that the Customs taotai might see to residences for them.\n\nDuring the interview the treasurer asked me if I had heard that \"Ch'uan-fei\" (the regular term for Boxers) were concerned in the trouble. I replied that I had not.\n\nAt about 2 P.M. I informed all that they could return into the city, and His Majesty's ship \"Thistle\" left for Chinkong. She had not been gone for half an hour when I was informed by the river guard-boats that the city was placarded with notices: \"Slay Ts'en and oust the foreigner.\" A copy of this placard was also given me by Mr. Wakefield. I thereupon sent for Mr. Kwok, and finally urged him to tell the truth for once. He stated that the interview in the morning was meaningless, as the treasurer had to speak as he did before the Customs taotai, and that protection could not be afforded. I was also visited by the commandant of the guard-boats and his second in command, who told me just the same. I therefore told Mr. Kwok to return to the treasurer and to obtain from him a definite assurance as to affording protection, telling him that, if this could not be given, he should get the few foreigners in the city out as quietly as possible, and giving him a circular to show them as proof. The treasurer then told Mr. Kwok to get foreigners out, and wrote to me that he could not provide against any untoward event, and that the idea that foreigners should not be in the city should be followed out.\n\nThereupon I wrote a note to the captain of His Majesty's ship \"Thistle\" and sent it by my launch. The launch returned with an armed party at 3:30 A.M. on the morning of the 20th and was soon followed by His Majesty's ship \"Thistle.\" A most earnest appeal was then made to me by the guard-boatmen to send away all foreigners. I sent those who had really nothing to do in the steam-ship \"Kian\" and kept an efficient number of good reliable working members of the community. That evening, the American consul at Hankow having telegraphed to me to order all his citizens out of Hunan, I sent launches to Siangtan and to Changtê to give foreigners the chance of coming to Changsha if they wished.\n\nThroughout the 21st April I was constantly interviewed by Chinese officers, including the president of the polytechnic (referred to in my intelligence report for the December quarter 1909, p. 12).\n\nThe\n\nI sent an armed launch, in charge of a warrant officer of His Majesty's ship \"Thistle,\" to get the people out of Iyang from which we had bad rumours. The journey was a complete success, all the women and children leaving and three men remaining. This evening reports came to me that two parties of rowdies armed with knives had crossed to the island, one to each end. The guard-boatmen and the troops were fully posted as to their movements and begged me to give them the chance of proving that they would fire, and asked some of the foreigners to join them in the defence. I was not, however, at this stage prepared to risk any lives and everyone was brought to His Majesty's ship \"Thistle.\" The preparations made were so effective that nothing occurred, and after about three hours all returned to their boats and the houses on the island. The rumour was verified next day.\n\nOn the 24th April the new governor arrived escorted by three gun-boats, making a most imposing entry. The events subsequent to his arrival and my suggestions regarding the due apportionment of blame for the outbreak will form the subject of separate despatches.\n\n\"\n\nI have, &c.\n\nEnclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\nW. MEYRICK HEWLETT.\n\nExtract from the \"North China Daily News\" of April 25, 1910.\n\nTHE CHANGSHA RIOTS.\n\nTHROUGH Reuter's Agency we have received the following intelligence :-\n\n\"London, via Bombay, April 23, 1910. \"Despatches from Washington state that the United States Minister at Peking, Mr. W. J. Calhoun, has telegraphed that he fears that the trouble in Hunan is spreading. The United States Asiatic fleet has been ordered to leave Amoy, to assist if necessary.\"\n\n\"London, via Bombay, April 24, 1910. \"The British chargé d'affaires in Peking has telegraphed to the Foreign Office to the effect that organised hands have resumed rioting at Changsha, and all foreigners have taken refuge in two British vessels.\"\n\nFrom subsequent news received from Changsha it would appear that the rioting referred to in the above telegram either did not take place or was not of a serious\n\n7", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-372 - Public Offices - 1910.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 430500, "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": "CO129-375 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [1-2]", "page_number": 53, "title": "CO129-375 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [1-2]", "content_text": "trained officers available.\n\nThe\n\na\n\nboots g Deputy\n\nSupt gasst Supt\n\nshmes therefre\n\nlo\n\nremoro from\n\nthe\n\nlist\n\nCadet\n\ng\n\nposts.\n\nThe same\n\narrangement applies to the partially Aut post of Captain Supt\n\ng\n\nSk\n\nPolice, but not\n\nto the\n\nsame extul\n\nthe Commandant\n\nof the force does not\n\nrequir\n\nthe sam\n\namant\n\nI\n\npractical\n\nexperience of police\n\nhis subordinates.\n\nwork as\n\n: \n\nI consider therefre\n\nthat\n\nthe best course\n\nwill be to remor\n\npost also from\n\nclassifie\n\nCadet app 5 but\n\near\n\nmark it\n\n49\n\nthis\n\nthe\n\ny\n\nnot comforts a poor\n\nfor which Cadets are eligible.\n\nThe salanes q\n\nthe Captr Sup! Deputy\n\nsapt\n\no Asst Supt shd\n\nSupt 8\n\n1. & those não\n\nspeed to for Class\n\nI. Class II X Class II post\n\nrespect wel.\n\n9.3 tale très\n\nopportunity of informing\n\nyou that I have dewded", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-375 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [1-2].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 433262, "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": "CO129-380 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [9-10]", "page_number": 247, "title": "CO129-380 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [9-10]", "content_text": "242 \n\nYou \n\n3628. \n\n**Superintendent of Police and Deputy Superintendent of Police** \n\ninvolve the discharge of duties that are very similar, and the statement contained in your Despatch Hong Kong No.75 of March 9th 1911, published in the Colony as a Service Circular, can only have been founded on a misapprehension of the actual routine work of the Department. It runs:- \n\n\"The same argument applies partially to the post of Captain Superintendent of Police, but not to the same extent since the Commandant of the Force does not require the same amount of practical experience of Police work as his subordinates.\" \n\nThe undeniable fact is that there is hardly an hour of any day when the Captain Superintendent is not called upon to deal personally with the minutest details in the management of the Force: he is in the closest actual touch with the entire working of each branch of his Department.\n\n6. \n\nIf I am excluded from the post of Deputy Superintendent of Police, the best fortune I could now hope for would be that I should act whenever opportunity offers in first class posts, as His Excellency the Governor has decided that I am to act in November next, and as I have already acted on several occasions in posts, such as 1st Police Magistrate, Registrar General and Captain Superintendent of Police. My position however would still compare unfavourably with that of other dollar officers holding second class posts: for such acting appointments could not in their nature be continuous, and yet in any whole year under the best possible conditions, I should draw only $200 above the salary of a second class post at its minimum, with no security to justify leasing a house, with the probability of frequent moves, and \n\n-6-", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-380 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [9-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 434338, "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": "CO129-382 - Public Offices - 1911", "page_number": 339, "title": "CO129-382 - Public Offices - 1911", "content_text": "# AFFAIRS OF CHINA\n## CONFIDENTIAL\n\n[42500]\n\n### No. 1\n\n337 \n5712 \nNovember 22 \n21 FEB !\n\n## SECTION 3\n\nIndia Office to Foreign Office.-(Received November 22.)\n\nTHE Under-Secretary of State for India presents his compliments to the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and, by direction of the Earl of Crewe, forwards herewith, for the information of the Secretary of State, copy of enclosures in a letter from the Foreign Secretary to the Government of India, dated the 3rd November, 1910, relative to the proposed expedition to Pienma on the Burmah-China frontier.\n\nIndia Office, November 21, 1910.\n\n**(Confidential.)**\n\n### Enclosure 1 in No. 1\n\nGovernment of Burmah to Government of India.\n\nMaymyo, October 17, 1910.\n\nI AM directed to solicit a reference to my telegram dated the 6th October, 1910, in which the Lieutenant-Governor proposed certain revised arrangements in connection with the proposed dispatch of an expedition into the unadministered territory north-east of the Myitkyina district.\n\n2. In proposing to alter the arrangements which were sanctioned in your letter dated the 12th September, 1910, the Lieutenant-Governor was mainly influenced by a report received from Captain B. E. A. Pritchard, I. A., commandant of the Northern Shan States Battalion of Military Police, who has recently had an opportunity of inspecting the Chinese troops at Tengyueh, Talifu, and Yunnanfu. I am now to submit a copy of Captain Pritchard's report* for the information of the Government of India. The main features of the report, so far as this case is concerned, are that the Chinese forces in the Tengyueh command (i.e., the old troops or Hsu Fang Tui) are a well-armed and effective body of trained soldiers who would probably give a good account of themselves when fighting in the jungle; that the new troops (the Lu Chun) at Talifu, 1,512 in number, are even more efficient; and that there is a likelihood that some at least of these new troops are to be sent from Talifu to Tengyueh at the close of the present rainy season. Captain Pritchard was the bearer of a verbal message to the Lieutenant-Governor from the Viceroy himself, who remarked that he desired peace with Burmah, and that he intended to send new troops to the Burmah frontier. The Viceroy's intention may be peaceful, but if the new troops were sent into the unadministered territory which the Chinese claim as theirs, there would be a risk of collision. Captain Pritchard's description of the Chinese soldiers in Yunnan is not inconsistent with that contained in Mr. Rose's memorandum on military affairs, of which a copy was submitted with my letter dated the 14th June, 1910, but Captain Pritchard's report emphasises the fact that all the troops in Yunnan are now trained soldiers who must not be despised, and that the Chinese will have it in their power, if they so desire, to offer effective opposition to Mr. Hertz's operations. It has been ascertained from Mr. Rose that the Chinese at Tengyueh are aware of our intention to send an expedition into the unadministered territory.\n\n3. The Lieutenant-Governor does not suggest that the Chinese will in fact oppose Mr. Hertz's march, or that they will dispatch their regular troops to attack his escort in the unadministered territory; but it must be admitted that we have no certain knowledge of the Chinese intentions, and that any anticipation of the action which they will take when they see that our occupation is about to become an accomplished fact, is based on no very substantial grounds. Mr. Rose, in his above-cited memorandum, expressed the opinion that the Chinese would be unlikely to move any regular troops to the unadministered territory, and he has recently suggested that Mr. Hertz is likely to meet only the taotai himself, with a personal escort. Mr. Rose \n\n*Not printed.\n\n[2982 y-3]", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-382 - Public Offices - 1911.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 434339, "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": "CO129-382 - Public Offices - 1911", "page_number": 340, "title": "CO129-382 - Public Offices - 1911", "content_text": "# May 2\n\n2 \n\nbelieves that in the present unsettled condition of western Yünnan, the Chinese will be unable to send troops from Tengyueh across the frontier, and this view finds some support from the recent report (in my telegram dated the 10th October, 1910) that it had been found necessary to send troops from Tengyueh and Talifu to oppose Szechuan army deserters, who were invading Yünnan from the north. Although the Lieutenant-Governor is disposed to think it probable that Mr. Rose's anticipation of a peaceful issue to Mr. Hertz's expedition will be realised, his honour cannot disregard the possibility of the other alternative. Mr. Rose has recently reported the preparation by the Chinese at Tengyueh of a large-scale map including the unadministered territory in question. The object of this map may be merely in connection with the ordinary administration of the tract by Chinese officials, which is known to be imminent, and which Mr. Hertz's expedition is intended to forestall. But on the other hand, the preparation of a map is consistent with an intention to move troops, and it is not more difficult for troops to enter the unadministered territory from Tengyueh than from Myitkyina. It must be noted that Mr. Rose's memorandum indicated several possible routes from Tengyueh into that territory, any one of which might bring a Chinese force directly on to the flank of Mr. Hertz's march. Having regard to this possibility, the Lieutenant-Governor thinks that it is no longer wise to adhere to the original arrangement by which Mr. Hertz's escort, exclusive of the rationing base, was to be split up into two small parties; and his honour is not satisfied that the total strength originally proposed would be sufficient to ensure a peaceful or even a successful issue. Small isolated parties might invite opposition or attack, whereas by a substantial show of force we should be more likely to avoid all risk of hostilities. The sanctioned arrangements, moreover, include no provision for the dispatch of a relieving force, in case Mr. Hertz's escort found itself in a difficult position. No effective relief could be afforded by the military police even if sufficient men could be furnished, because magazine rifles and ammunition have not been provided except for the escort itself. If Mr. Hertz were forced to retire or if a portion of his escort were cut off, there would be the most serious loss of prestige; and on the other hand, if the expedition does not proceed this year, the almost certain loss of the entire territory and the establishment of the Chinese on the upper reaches of the Irrawaddy must be accepted. In these circumstances, the Lieutenant-Governor is strongly of opinion that the expedition ought to proceed; but his honour recommends that the original arrangements should be modified so as to make a greater show of force, (1) by rendering Mr. Hertz's escort stronger and more compact, and (2) by stationing a force of regular troops in readiness in the neighbourhood of Myitkyina, in case it should become necessary to extricate or support Mr. Hertz's party.\n\n4. As already reported by telegram, the Lieutenant-Governor now recommends that the proposed expedition of a civil officer to the Shan State of Hkamti should be postponed for one year, his escort of 125 rifles being added to the escort originally proposed for Mr. Hertz. Mr. Hertz's escort will then consist of eleven British officers (including a medical officer) and 607 native ranks (including thirty-two signallers). A rationing base of 100 rifles will be established at Makawng, leaving a force of 475 rifles to accompany Mr. Hertz as his escort. A compact force of this strength is less likely to be attacked or to meet with resistance, but as an additional precaution the Lieutenant-Governor recommends that one native infantry battalion shall be stationed temporarily in the Myitkyina district, one-half of the battalion being kept at Myitkyina as a garrison, and the other half provided with transport and moved out to Seniku in readiness to follow Mr. Hertz into the unadministered territory and relieve him if required. The Lieutenant-Governor has already requested the Major-General commanding the Burmah division to be so good as to obtain sanction to the dispatch of a wing of a native regiment to garrison Myitkyina during the absence of the military police; his honour's present proposal is that a whole battalion should be sent, one-half being mobilized and pushed forward to Seniku. This movement of regular troops into the Myitkyina district will doubtless impress the Chinese and render them less disposed to interfere. The Lieutenant-Governor has discussed the matter with the Inspector-General of Police and the Major-General commanding the division. His honour's present proposals have been framed not only with a view to ensure the safety of Mr. Hertz's party, but also to avoid hostilities by removing from the Chinese all temptation to attack. As the proposals are more likely to lead to a peaceful solution, his honour hopes that they may be approved. They will entail some alteration of the instructions which formed Enclosure 2 of my letter of the 10th May, 1910, and I am accordingly to submit a revised set of instructions for the approval of the Government of India. There is one other suggestion which has not yet been mentioned, and which was made to the Lieutenant-Governor by the Major-General commanding the division, namely that the military authorities should furnish a Maxim gun section of ten men, under a junior British officer, to accompany Mr. Hertz's escort. This arrangement seems to the Lieutenant-Governor to be highly desirable as an additional measure of precaution, and I am to recommend that the Government of India may be pleased to issue the necessary orders for its adoption.\n\n5. I am now to describe the arrangements proposed for the establishment of a military police post in the unadministered tract, so as to ensure the permanency of our occupation. The country is at present almost unknown, and the location of the post cannot therefore be definitely settled until after actual inspection. But it is probable that the post will be established at or near Atawgaw, and it will also be necessary to establish a small connecting post at Makawng. The Lieutenant-Governor proposes that Mr. Hertz should leave a civil officer, two British officers of military police, and 175 rifles to garrison the post at Atawgaw, and 50 rifles under a native officer to occupy the post at Makawng. If the Chinese do not interfere with Mr. Hertz's operations, these posts can be withdrawn at the commencement of the rains and sent out again in the following open season. Otherwise, it will probably be necessary to leave them out throughout the rains. In order to ensure a sufficient supply of ammunition, the Lieutenant-Governor has already asked for 500 rounds for each of the magazine rifles lent to the military police, in addition to the 400 rounds of ball ammunition already supplied, and his honour hopes that this request will be granted. The estimated cost of establishing posts at Htawgaw and Makawng, and the total estimated cost of Mr. Hertz's expedition are now being calculated, and will form the subject of a separate report.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n## Enclosure 2 in No. 1\n\n**W. F. RICE, Chief Secretary**\n\n### Instructions concerning the Tour to be made for the purpose of bringing under Administration the Unadministered Country East of the 'Nmaikha\n\nMR. HERTZ, Deputy Commissioner, Myitkyina, with Mr. Scott, Assistant Superintendent, as his assistant, will proceed with an escort of military police to visit the unadministered country east of the 'Nmaikha, including Pienma and villages within easy march of that village. Mr. Hertz will be in exclusive civil and political charge, and will decide all administrative questions on his own responsibility, subject to such references to the Commissioner as he may consider necessary.\n\n2. The object of the tour is to bring under direct administration the country between the 'Nmaikha and the watershed between that river and the Shweli and Salween as far as latitude 26° 15' or thereabouts, including the villages on both sides of and in the valley of the Ngaw Kha and its junction with the 'Nmaikha, to nullify the recent attempts by the chief of Teng Keng to establish his authority over villages in British territory, and to effect the removal from the tract in question of all traces of occupation on behalf of China.\n\nTo effect this, Mr. Hertz will visit as many villages as possible, issue appointment orders to headmen, settle any disputes which may be brought before him between villages in the aforementioned tract, levy a nominal tribute, the amount of which will be left to his discretion, but should not exceed 1 rupee per household, destroy any boundary pillars which may have been erected by the Chinese within that area, and generally collect all available information, and explain to the villagers that they will henceforth be under British rule, and that they are entitled to British protection and will pay tribute.\n\n3. The force will be furnished by the military police and will consist of—\n\n| Category | Strength |\n| --- | --- |\n| Escort | 475 rifles and 20 signallers |\n| Ration base | 100 rifles and 12 signallers |\n\nIt will start from Myitkyina as early as possible in November or December 1910.\n\n4. Major ffrench-Mullen will be in command of the escort; Captain Moule will be second in command; Captain Gilchrist will be in command of the rationing base, with Lieutenant Pickthall attached to it as assistant commandant. They also will be ...\n\nPage 338", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-382 - Public Offices - 1911.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 434340, "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": "CO129-382 - Public Offices - 1911", "page_number": 341, "title": "CO129-382 - Public Offices - 1911", "content_text": "## 4\n\nunder Major ffrench-Mullen. Captain Moule will be second in command of the entire force, and in the event of any casualty to Major ffrench-Mullen, will take command. In the event of any casualty incapacitating Mr. Hertz from carrying on the duties of civil officer, the military officer in command of the escort will carry on these duties until relieved.\n\n## 5\n\nFor the actual conduct of the military operations, Major ffrench-Mullen alone will be responsible.\n\n## 6\n\nThe escort will proceed from Myitkyina to Seniku, and from Seniku to Makawng, and will leave there the party to guard the rationing base. Thence it will proceed via Htawgaw to Hpare and thence to Pienma, halting at these places. Mr. Hertz will visit the villages in the vicinity as far as the watershed on the east, and as far as appears advisable on the north, in order to carry out the objects of the tour detailed in paragraph 2. He will then return to Htawgaw and thence proceed to Mangpyaw and Hpala, halting at these and other convenient centres. If it is found at Hpala that the Chinese have actually erected a boundary post there, it will be destroyed, and steps will be taken to dispel the impression produced by the visit of the Chinese. From Mangpyaw Mr. Hertz will visit the villages on both sides of the Ngawchawng Kha up to the vicinity of its junction with the 'Nmaikba, and will finally proceed to Chiglai. The escort will then return to the ration base at Makawng and thence by leisurely marches to Myitkyina, halting at Chiglai and Matao, for the purpose of visiting the villages on the Chipwi Kha and in the Tammu valley.\n\n## 7\n\nThe tour is estimated to take 126 days, and a provisional itinerary is annexed. Mr. Hertz has full discretion to depart from this if he considers it advisable, but should arrange to arrive back at Myitkyina before end of April 1911.\n\n## 8\n\nThe objects of the tour are, as stated in instruction 2, to bring the tract under administration, to make the people understand that they are now under British rule, and to eject therefrom all persons assuming authority derived from any claim that the tract is Chinese territory. The utmost care must be taken to avoid hostilities with the local inhabitants, who, it is believed, will welcome the visit and desire that British authority be established. In the action to be taken against persons claiming to occupy the tract on behalf of the Chinese Government, Mr. Hertz will be guided by circumstances. It is essential that, if possible, these persons should be induced to retire. Mr. Hertz should endeavour to effect this in the first instance peaceably, but if they refuse to go he must eject them from British territory by show of force, or, if necessary, by employing force, unless they are in occupation in such strength that the attempt is likely to end in disaster. If the persons in occupation on behalf of China are merely local levies, there will probably be no difficulty. If a small detachment of Chinese regulars is present, it will probably retire when requested to do so. In the event of the Chinese forces being too strong to make it safe, in the opinion of the military officer commanding the escort, to attempt to enforce the orders even with the help of the supporting column, Mr. Hertz should report to the commissioner after taking such precautions for the safety of the party as the military officer in command of the escort may advise. It is unlikely that the escort will be attacked by a superior force, but as a measure of precaution a wing of a native regiment will be stationed in Seniku, in readiness to enter the tract and render such assistance as may be necessary.\n\n## 9\n\nIt is possible that objections to pay tribute will arise. In that case the civil officer should deduct the amount from payments due on account of coolie hire, supplies, &c., explaining his action clearly to the people; if necessary, he may take tribute in the form of cattle, to be valued by a committee of the local tribesmen subject to the approval of the civil officer. The objects of the tour this year are such that it is improbable that any other demand will be made which will not be complied with, but in the event of a refusal to furnish supplies or labour which the civil officer considers contumacious, he may take the former and impress the latter on payment of fair rates.\n\n## 10\n\nIn the event of any attack on the escort or supporting party by the local inhabitants of the tract, besides such military measures as may be necessary, the capture or destruction of cattle and the destruction of crops and stores are among the means approved as punishments. In such a case all fire-arms should be confiscated and destroyed. If necessary, the houses of the chiefs and of two or three of the principal men may be destroyed. But the destruction of a village should not be allowed except on specific grounds of military exigency.\n\n## 11\n\nIn order to ensure the permanency of British occupation, it is necessary to establish a military police post in the tract in question. Mr. Hertz will select a suitable position, probably at Htawgaw, and will there leave Mr. Scott as civil officer, and a post of 175 rifles with the necessary signallers. Captain ... will remain as commandant of this post, with ... as his assistant commandant.\n\nA small connecting post, consisting of 50 rifles under a native officer, will be similarly established at Makawng. The question whether these two posts must remain out during the rains, or can be withdrawn at the commencement of the rains and put out in the following open season, will await Mr. Hertz's report as to the attitude of the tribesmen and the Chinese in connection with his operations.\n\n## 12\n\nMr. Hertz will keep the commissioner informed of his movements, and actions by weekly diaries, and, if feasible and necessary, by special messengers and helio communication combined with the telegraph. Major ffrench-Mullen will submit weekly diaries to the inspector-general of police, and will, if necessary, communicate with him by telegram on any matter of purely military concern.\n\n## 13\n\nThe total number of days during which the party is estimated to be out is 126, but as information about the geography of the country and the routes is imperfect, it is probable that the escort will have to diverge from the route laid down, and that delays will occur.\n\n**(Confidential.)**\n\n## Enclosure 3 in No. 1\n\n**Government of Burmah to Government of India**\n\nMaymyo, October 17, 1910.\n\nWITH reference to my official letter dated the 17th October, 1910, relating to Mr. Hertz's proposed expedition into the unadministered area on the north-east of the Myitkyina district, I am desired to send you copies of the demi-official letters which have been received from Mr. Rose at Tengyueh.\n\n## 2\n\nMr. Rose reports the preparation at Tengyueh of a large-scale map showing the country to the north-west of Tengyueh, including the unadministered territory. He also reports that our intention to send an expedition into that territory is known to the Chinese at Tengyueh. Mr. Rose thinks that the tantai is likely to make an official tour into the unadministered tract, but that troops will probably not be sent except such as are required for the taotai's personal escort. In a private letter to Mr. Hertz, Mr. Rose recently wrote that-\n\n\"If we intend to sit down, the Chinese do not, and I hear that the taotai is having a sheaf of maps printed showing the frontier as the 'Nmaikha. Things here are not at all bright; the taotai is more obstructive than his predecessor, probably because he is more clever. I am convinced that the open season will mean great activity from this direction, but I do not anticipate active opposition to us if we send up an expedition. Indeed, it is almost certain that we should not meet it. You will probably meet the taotai, however, and would have to get rid of him by fair means or foul.\"\n\nThe lieutenant-governor hopes that Mr. Rose's anticipation will be realised, and he thinks that, if we make a substantial show of force, the Chinese are not likely to interfere with us. But, in view of Captain Pritchard's recent report, his honour hopes that the latest proposals for strengthening Mr. Hertz's escort will meet with approval.\n\n## 3\n\nThe boundary pillar mentioned in Mr. Rose's letter of the 1st October formed the subject of my official letter dated the 14th June, 1910.\n\n## Enclosure 4 in No. 1\n\n**Acting Consul Rose to Government of Burmah**\n\nTengyueh, September 15, 1910.\n\nONE of my men wandered into the local printing office yesterday and found them printing a hundred copies of a very large-scale map, about 5 feet square, showing the country to the north-west of the Tengyueh district and the unadministered territory. They tell me that the 'Nmaikha River was shown as the frontier, and that all Lung-pang group of villages and the Maru country to the north was on the Chinese side. The map was sent to the office by the taotai. I cannot vouch for the accuracy of the statements, as the Chinese are rather muddle-headed about maps, but my man ... \n\nPage 339", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-382 - Public Offices - 1911.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 434688, "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": "CO129-383 - Public Offices - 1911", "page_number": 102, "title": "CO129-383 - Public Offices - 1911", "content_text": "# AFFAIRS OF CHINA\n## CONFIDENTIAL\n\n13346 [March 20]\n\n### SECTION 220 RT: 100 [10110]\n\n**(No. 81.) Sir,**\n\n**No. 1.**\n\nSir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received March 20.)\n\nPeking, February 23, 1911.\n\nI HAVE the honour to transmit herewith copies of a report which has been drawn up by the military attaché to His Majesty's Legation, discussing, from a military point of view, the situation which has arisen on the Burmah-Yünnan frontier in consequence of the British expedition to Pien-ma.\n\nIt seems likely that the frontier question will eventually end in a settlement without a conflict taking place between the armed forces on the two sides, but should this hope be disappointed, it may be useful to the Burmah Government to be in possession of Lieutenant-Colonel Willoughby's views as to the military strength which the Chinese Government might be able to put in the field.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nJ. N. JORDAN.\n\n### Enclosure in No. 1.\n\n**(Confidential.) Report by Lieutenant-Colonel Willoughby.**\n\nPeking, February 13, 1911.\n\nTHE news received yesterday from India of the reoccupation of Pien-ma by a Chinese force, though unwelcome, cannot be considered as a surprise, in view of recent intelligence from Tengyueh concerning the movement of Chinese troops and in view also of the unyielding attitude of the Chinese Government, from the beginning, with regard to the question of the ownership of the territory in dispute. According to their view, the boundary lies to the west of Pien-ma.\n\nThe decision of His Majesty's Government (after the joint investigation of the frontier by the late Mr. Litton, His Majesty's consul at Tengyueh, and Taotai Shih Hung-chao in 1905), to consider the Nmai-kha-Shweli and Nmai-kha-Salween watersheds as the boundary line, was communicated to the Chinese Government by Sir E. Satow in May 1906. No steps, however, to carry that decision into effect appear to have been necessitated until the Tengkeng \"fu-yi\" (chief) raided Pien-ma in October 1909, to enforce his tribute claims which the Lashi tribesmen of the Pien-ma district had latterly been neglecting. This action brought the matter to a head and made it imperative for the Government of Burmah to take steps to give effect to the British claim to the region (failure to do which would have implied acquiescence in the validity of the Chinese ownership). It was hoped that the administrative expedition under Mr. Hertz would meet with no opposition, and that the Chinese would accept the accomplished fact.\n\nIn October 1910, when my opinion as to the likelihood of modern Chinese troops being moved to the frontier was asked, I could only reply that I was unaware of any intention on the part of China, at that time, to make such movements; and that, in fact, troops were on the other hand being moved away northwards from West Yünnan in connection with the mutiny of Szechuanese troops at Hsiang Cheng, and the occupation by them of Chung Tien. At the same time, I pointed out the strength and distribution of the regular troops in the province of Yunnan, and the distances from Yunnan-fu and Tali-fu to the frontier.\n\nThe careful and detailed report by Captain B. E. Pritchard, commandant of the Lashio battalion of Burmah Military Police, on the troops in Yunnan (since received), gives a favourable estimate of the value of these troops, but it should be added that Major Pereira (my predecessor, who is now travelling in China), who also saw them recently, rates them as 'decidedly inferior' to the regulars of the divisions of North China-Hupei or Szechuan. It may not be out of place to mention here that in a letter I received two days ago from Major Pereira, dated Taiping Pu (near Tali), the 23rd December, 1910, he says: \"General Tsʻui impresses me as one of the best officers...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-383 - Public Offices - 1911.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 435027, "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": "CO129-383 - Public Offices - 1911", "page_number": 441, "title": "CO129-383 - Public Offices - 1911", "content_text": "# Mr. H. A. Thornton, I.C.S., superintendent, Northern Shan States; Mr. W. H. L. Cabell, I.C.S., deputy commissioner, Bhamo; Mr. D. W. Rae, assistant superintendent, Sinlumkaba; Mr. D. W. Kiernander, assistant superintendent, Kutkai; Captain B. E. A. Pritchard, I.A., battalion commandant, Lashio; Mr. Smart, R.A., Bhamo Battalion; and \n\nThe consul. \n\nColonel G. Pereira, C.M.G., D.S.O.; Captain Blackwell, R.A.M.C.; and Mr. Morris, \nof the East Surrey Regiment, also visited the camp. \n\nThe Chinese representatives were: \n| Name | Position |\n| --- | --- |\n| Keng Pao-kuei | Tuotai of Tenguch |\n| Chao Kai-bsuan | Frontier deputy |\n| Hsu Chai-yu | Sub-prefect of Lungling |\n| Kuang kuei-yuan | Newly-appointed assistant frontier deputy |\n| Colonel Wang Kuei-ching | |\n\nColonel Chung was also under orders to attend, but was retained at his post owing to the northern unrest. \n\nThe meeting commenced very satisfactorily, the Chinese party calling upon us first with a large escort and considerable state. The Burmah officers, who have been responsible for the British camp during the last two years, have carried out the plans in a way which certainly did credit to their Government, and it was evident that the Chinese had been impressed, for the taotai had spared no pains this year in arranging that his staff, his retinue, and his banquet should be worthy of his post, and that he should not be eclipsed on this occasion of international meeting. \n\nAfter the unsatisfactory relations which had existed at Tengyuch during the past year, the first meeting was anticipated with some interest, and the taotai lost no time in endeavouring to establish a better understanding, for he at once offered a full and frank apology for his previous behaviour. He was unfailingly courteous throughout our stay at Namkham, meeting us practically every day either at public or private discussions or at those social functions which form part of the usual programme, and he interested himself in all that was passing, showing the greatest keenness to behave in a manner which was correct. \n\nThe different courts were constituted as usual, and the junior Chinese officers met their British colleagues on satisfactory terms, a heavy roll of cases being settled during the three weeks' conference, which involved long and unbroken sittings, and must have proved very trying for Mr. Rae and Mr. Kiernander, who were constantly in court. When it is remembered that the British and Chinese officers on the bench have not only to convince themselves and one another of the desirability of certain settlements through the medium of interpreters, but that the British officers must marshal their witnesses and sift their evidence in the dozen different languages of the frontier tribes, it will be realised that the settlement of a long case-roll in the mixed courts of the frontier is no easy matter, and calls for an endless patience and unflagging persistency of purpose. Our officers are sometimes discouraged at the fact that their Chinese colleagues have so little perception of abstract justice, and that they find difficulty in resisting a temptation to bargain over the settlements when monetary compensations are awarded by the court. Such bargaining is, I think, inevitable to the mind of the Chinese magistrate, and when it is remembered that the awards come first of all from his own pocket, and that he is dependent on the recovery of his outlay from numerous other officials and loosely-held tribal villages—a process requiring another long and enduring struggle—these shortcomings may perhaps be charitably forgotten. Judging by their results, it is evident that relations were entirely satisfactory, for their settlements were excellent, and they parted the best of friends. \n\nIn the appellate court, the taotai sat with Mr. Thornton or Mr. Cabell and myself, and we realised at an early date that he was not prepared to do business. I am inclined to think that he had tied his own hands; that he had boasted to the Viceroy that he would show a bold face to the British at the frontier; and that he found himself bound to justify his promises, but placed in consequence in a foolish and undignified position from which he would gladly have retired had it been possible for him to do so without loss of prestige with the authorities at Yunnan-fu. The fact remains that he refused to settle any case which came before him, and by so doing, he cut at the root of the joint court and compensation system which had been accepted formally by China as our basis of procedure at last year's meeting. \n\nIn the settlement of frontier cases, old-established custom, reduced to writing in the frontier agreement of 1910 (attached to my last frontier report), has decided that trans-frontier thefts, bodily injuries, and murders shall be paid for on a fixed scale of compensation by the offending country, in addition to the arrest and punishment of the offender, and that the compensation account shall be balanced and settled before the representatives of Burmah and Yunnan leave the meeting. It not infrequently happens that we have to pay more than China, but we never quibble over a case which has been proved. \n\nThis year, however, the taotai set custom and agreement at defiance. There were five murder cases before him—murders of British subjects by people whom we claimed to be Chinese. I had brought the cases to his attention again and again during the year, asking him to make some attempt to arrest the culprits; but his only replies had been either that the murdered men were Chinese subjects or that the murderers were British, and as he offered no reasons for his statements and frequently worded them in unfriendly and discourteous terms, there remained no alternative but to await the results of the frontier meeting. The cases came up in due course to the appellate court, and the British evidence was produced—in each case full, satisfactory, and to us entirely convincing. The natural course would have been for the taotai to produce any counter-evidence, but he made no attempt to do this, nor did he produce the offenders or witnesses who could rebut the evidence in any way. We therefore claimed compensation on the fixed scale, which he flatly refused. The cases had been through all the stages of the frontier courts, and there seemed no hope of settlement. The object of the frontier meetings is to replace those old blood feuds, in which the Kachins settle such matters amongst themselves, by properly organised courts and by settlements which would be enforced if necessary. The result of the meetings and of this procedure has been a steady decrease of lawlessness along the frontier, to the benefit of both nations concerned; but, earnestly as we tried to persuade him to better counsels, the taotai appeared determined to set all precedent at defiance, and thus to undo the effect of many years of steady work and mutual co-operation. This was the situation in regard to case work on the last day of the meeting. \n\n## Trans-frontier Cultivations \n\nThere remained another matter of importance—the question of trans-frontier cultivations. This subject has been discussed and dealt with perfunctorily for several years past, but it was surrounded with difficulties, and it was not until the last twelve months that our information was sufficiently full to render a settlement possible. I have had the honour to address you on several occasions in regard to this question, but it may be well to recapitulate the position briefly in view of the settlement which has now been effected. \n\nIn delimiting the middle section of the Burmah-China frontier, it was found by the commissioners that the acceptance of their line, which frequently followed a zigzag course between paddy fields and irrigation dykes, would occasionally have the result of placing a village on one side of the border whilst the whole or part of the lands worked by the villagers would belong to the other side. They therefore made specific arrangements in the joint \"Description of the Boundary\" safeguarding the rights of the villagers in such cases to their original cultivation rights over the land in question. This was the commencement of the trans-frontier cultivation. As time went on, however, the original claims became considerably extended, for the farmers on the China side—mainly inhabitants of the Shan States—found that they could escape from the exactions and oppression of their own sawbwas by removing their homes to Burmah while continuing to cultivate their original fields in China. On the strength of the fact that they became subjects of Burmah by frontier custom of domicile, they now refused to pay taxes for their land to the Chinese suwbwas, and from this fact has arisen the matter in dispute. \n\nFor the past three or four years, the Yunnanese authorities have shown an active interest in the question. They have found that in the worst administered of the States—notably in Lungchuan and Mengmao—a great number of Chinese cultivators have moved their domicile to Burmah, and thus avoided payment of all taxes to China, with the result that the revenues of the Shan sawbwas in question have been considerably affected; the sawbwas themselves reported that their subjects are crossing to Burmah and \"taking their fields with them,\" thus touching the Chinese on their most sensitive spot, the possible alienation of Chinese territory. \n\nPage 436", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-383 - Public Offices - 1911.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 448055, "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": "CO129-411 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [5-7]", "page_number": 274, "title": "CO129-411 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [5-7]", "content_text": "Canalvoure\n\n100 P Y.\n\n271\n\n24754\n\nPlayd\n\n6 July\n\nHead Quarters,\n\nSouth China Command,\n\nHongkong, 7th May, 1914.\n\nYour Excellency,\n\nIn continuation of my letter No. 3458(G) dated 25th February, 1914, forwarding a report on the Hongkong Volunteer Camp at Hang Hau - 9th to 18th January, and an Artillery Report, I have the honour to forward;\n\n(a). A Report by the Commandant on the Hongkong Volunteer Corps for the year ending 31st March, 1914, together with the Regimental Musketry Return.\n\n(b). A Report by Captain F. C. C. Rogers, M.V.O., 2nd Bn. the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry on the Hongkong Volunteer Reserves.\n\n2.\n\nAs regards the Hongkong Volunteer Corps, what I saw of them at the formal inspection on the 17th January, as well as at the Naval and Military Manoeuvres 23rd-26th March, has confirmed my opinion of their keenness and usefulness. I am glad to see there is a slight increase in their numbers, but I deplore the fact that so many men in this Colony are content to stand aside and let other people prepare to defend them.\n\nVery great advantage to the Corps would accrue if the Annual Camp could be located alongside a Camp of Regulars - the Artillery during the regular Movable Armament Camp and the remainder during Infantry Battalion or Company Training.\n\nI am not sure that in the training of the Scouts Company it is sufficiently realised how invaluable as Scouts or Guides in time of war, a body of men would be who knew the Colony, - or at all events the Island and the Mainland up to and East and West of a line through Taipo thoroughly. I think more time should be spent in training them in this direction. It should be remembered that the regular troops are constantly changing, a fact which very largely increases the importance and value", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-411 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 448057, "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": "CO129-411 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [5-7]", "page_number": 276, "title": "CO129-411 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [5-7]", "content_text": "Page 273\n\n2 - MAY 1914\n\nSOUTH\n\nVolunteer Headquarters,\n\nHongkong 36 April 1914.\n\nI\n\nREPORT ON THE HONG KONG VOLUNTEER CORPS.\n\nfor the year April 1st 1913 to March 31st 1914.\n\n1 Numbers.\n\nOn April 1st 1913 the total strength of the Corps was 299 and\n\non March 31st 1914 it was 316.\n\nDuring the past year 2 members were struck off the strength\n\nhaving left the Colony, 4 died, 32 resigned on leaving the\n\nColony and 27 in the Colony.\n\n82 new members were enrolled.\n\nState on April 4th 1914.\n\nTable I shows the Inspection\n\n2. Coat.\n\nTable II shows, the Annual Strength on 31st March each year,\n\nthe total expenditure on the Corps and the cost per head for\n\nthe years 1908 to 1913.\n\n3. Appointments, Promotions etc.\n\nStaff.\n\nLieut-Col. A. Chapman returned from leave of absence on 23rd.\n\nSeptember 1913.\n\nCapt. C. V. B. Skrine was granted leave of absence from\n\n4. 6. 13 to 3. 8. 13 the duties of Commandant being taken\n\nover by Capt. F. Armstrong and of Staff Officer by Captain\n\nA. F. Churchill.\n\nSurgeon-Capt. C. Forsyth resigned his Commission dated 8.1.14.\n\nPage 279", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-411 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 448063, "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": "CO129-411 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [5-7]", "page_number": 282, "title": "CO129-411 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [5-7]", "content_text": "273\n\nDistribution\n\nStaff\n\nCommandant Major 2nd in Command\n\nStaff Officer Medical Officer\n\nCorps Sgt. Major\n\nCorps Armour. Sgt.\n\nOrderly Room Clerk\n\nCaptain\n\nLieutenants\n\nSergt. Major\n\nAnnual Parade State\n\nTable I.\n\n \n Artillery Battery\n Engineer Co.\n Machine Gun Section\n Scouts Co.\n \n \n Caplan\n Caplan\n \n \n \n \n Rieutenants\n Lieutenants\n Lieutenants\n Lieutenants\n \n \n Sergt. Major\n Sgt. Major\n set. Major\n \n \n \n Sergeants\n Sergeants\n Sergeants\n \n \n \n Corporals\n Corporal\n Corporals\n Corporal\n \n \n Bombardiers\n Sapper\n Lance Corporal\n Lance Corporals\n \n \n Trumpeter\n \n Buglers\n Buglers\n \n \n Gunners\n \n Privates\n Privates\n \n \n Captain\n Captain\n \n \n \n \n Lieutenants\n Lieutenants\n \n \n \n\nPresent\n\nOn leave in Colony\n\nOn leave out of Colony.\n\nMedical Certificate absent without leave\n\nPolice\n\nWanting to complete Establishment\n\nSupernumerary\n\n44th April 1914\n\n362\n\n \n 33\n 320\n 321\n 3\n 44\n 90\n 121\n 334\n \n \n 4\n 50\n 263\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 13\n 2\n 2\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 24\n 122\n 18\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 41\n 3\n 2\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 9\n 74\n 316\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 70\n 323\n 62\n 36\n 111\n 332\n 64\n 32\n \n \n 368\n 10\n 11\n 21\n 469\n \n \n \n \n \n 122\n 24\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 112\n 3\n 21\n 44\n 48\n \n \n \n \n \n 3\n 3\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 2\n 31\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n /\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 3\n 666\n 360\n 14\n 194\n 7\n 1\n 622\n \n \n 328\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 2\n 41\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 12\n 58\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\nA. Chapman Lieut-Col.\n\nPage 362", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-411 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 458880, "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": "CO129-429 - Public Offices & Others - 1915", "page_number": 441, "title": "CO129-429 - Public Offices & Others - 1915", "content_text": "439\n\n1\n\n嗚岐)。\n\nCheung Ming Ki (\n\nHe states that General Lung has recently received so many reports as to an outbreak that he does not know what to think or do. Tang Yiu Kwong expressed a hope that Cheung would not suddenly leave Canton as he did last time.\n\nMr. Li Ping said casually that he had heard there was going to be trouble. Asked if he had heard any date suggested and he said no but that it would be quite soon. He also said that the Wai Chau men would start the business.\n\n2. Under date of August 28th, the following information has been received through the medium of Captain L.E. Canning, Staff Officer, Shanghai Volunteer Corps :-\n\nWith regard to the Sikhs I enclose two cuttings from the \"Shanghai Times\"; there is a lot of discontent among them and they show it to a certain extent, They are now being registered here and so far over 500 watchmen have come forward, this is excluding police.\n\nThere are a good many returning from America and fetching up here and I am sure they are up to no good. As soon as the registration boom is over Sir Everard Fraser is going to have those not registered run in and then perhaps there may be an attempt by their pals to rescue them, anyway, Major Trueman, Commandant S.V.C., has informed the British unit commanders to test their mobilization schemes. This Sikh registration certificate has a photo of the gentleman who holds it on and shipping companies have been warned they are not to be taken as passports. Sir Everard Fraser has also asked Sir John Jordan to issue an order that Sikhs can no longer act as watchmen to Germans and if this comes out and the men get sacked, they will have no visible means of support and they will be taken before the Police", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-429 - Public Offices & Others - 1915.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 460582, "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": "CO129-432 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [3-5]", "page_number": 63, "title": "CO129-432 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [3-5]", "content_text": "C.R.No.4677/38(A).\n\nSir,\n\n18408 60\n\nHead Quarters, China Command,\n\nREAD 17 Hongkong, 25th February, 1916.\n\nIn reply to your letter No. 1 in 3243/1914 dated 16th instant, I have the honour to report as follows:-\n\n1. Sentence of 18 months imprisonment for attempted escape.\n\nThis apparently refers to A. Hauler who was tried by a military court on the 1st June, 1916, for escaping from the custody of the escort who was taking him to the dentists. This man got away from the escort, and Gunner who was in charge of two prisoners in the dentist's rooms, on the excuse of wanting to go to the lavatory. He was free for nearly 24 hours before he was again arrested in the house of a Japanese in Queen's Road. He was sentenced by the court to 18 months imprisonment with hard labour for escaping from custody but the General Officer Commanding (Major-General Kelly) remitted 6 months at the time of confirmation and a further 6 months was afterwards remitted so that he was released on 30th November, 1915, after 6 months imprisonment only.\n\n2. Use of handcuffs. Owing to repeated attempts to escape, the Camp Commandant issued an order that visits to Hongkong by prisoners of war must cease unless they consented to go handcuffed. Prior to this order being given prisoners were allowed to go to town from time to time to consult dentists &c. without restriction beyond an escort, who had to proceed direct and to allow no conversation with outsiders on the way. This liberty was abused and the prisoners were given the option of proceeding handcuffed or not at all. No compulsion was used. Eventually, within a fortnight, arrangements were made for a dentist to practise in camp thus doing away with the necessity of sending the prisoners to Hongkong.\n\nThe Honourable\n\nThe Colonial Secretary,\n\nHongkong.\n\nI have etc.,\n\n(sd.) J. Cassel,\n\nCaptain, D.A.A. & Q.M.G.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-432 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [3-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 461541, "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": "CO129-433 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [5-6]", "page_number": 174, "title": "CO129-433 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [5-6]", "content_text": "## Territorial Force\nArmy Form 1569 is attached.\n\nOff Range Training. Indication and recognition of targets, judging distance etc. has been practised frequently.\n\nMiniature Cartridge practice on the 30 yards Range, Kennedy Road, has been carried out by all recruits and others who required it before firing on King's Park Range.\n\n## Annual Camp\nThere has been no Camp of Instruction this year.\n\n## Competitions\nThe usual competitions have not taken place.\n\n## Inspection\nHis Excellency the G.O.C. does not propose to hold a formal Inspection of the Corps this season.\n\n## General Remarks\nTwelve sets of fencing muskets with Spring bayonets, padded Jackets, guards, etc. have been obtained from England and are of much utility in teaching bayonet fighting.\n\nIt is a matter for regret that, owing to the impossibility of securing conveniently accessible ground, opportunity has not been found to exercise the Corps in trench digging. This could be done during a Camp of Instruction were it possible to arrange one under present conditions.\n\nPrincess Mary's Christmas Gifts were distributed to the Corps on 14.9.15 and greatly appreciated.\n\nColonial Auxiliary Forces Officers' Decorations were presented to Major Macdonald and Captain G.F.Lambert by H.E. the Governor on 14th December 1915 at a parade of the Corps at which over 600 Officers and men were present.\n\nI have again to place on record that all ranks of the Corps have responded in a cheerful manner to every call made upon them during the year.\n\nThe Inspecting Officer, Adjutant, Corps Sergeant Major & Corps Armourer have afforded the Commandant able and ready assistance at all times.\n\nA. Chapman \nLt. Col. Commandant M.H. Fol. Corps.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-433 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 462224, "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": "CO129-434 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [7-8]", "page_number": 13, "title": "CO129-434 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [7-8]", "content_text": "# \n## Headquarters China Command, Hongkong, 29th June, 1916\n\nSir,\n\nWith reference to your letter No. 3529/1915 of the 27th instant regarding the Rev. A. H. Bach, I beg to inform you that all papers belonging to this prisoner of war were sent to Australia and given in charge of the Camp Commandant at Liverpool.\n\nI personally interviewed Bach on several occasions and no American naturalization papers were found, neither did he ever claim to be a naturalized American citizen, on the contrary he acknowledged being a German and regretted that he had never taken out his papers.\n\nFor other information concerning him I would refer you to letter No. `4677/59 'A'` of the 4th March, 1916, addressed to His Excellency the Governor by the General Officer Commanding.\n\nBach was continually trying to impress the Superintendent of the Detention Barracks and myself with his pro-Ally sentiments, which, however, were entirely concocted for the occasion as I discovered a letter written to him by his employers, the Zionist Mission in America dismissing him solely because his well known pro-German sentiments would be prejudicial to his missionary work in a neutral country like China. This letter was also forwarded to Australia amongst his other papers.\n\nSince his dismissal from the Mission he had been active as a German agent in North China according to information received from Shanghai.\n\nI am etc.\n\n(sd.) J. Cassel, \nCaptain, \nD.A.A. & Q.M.G., China Command.\n\nThe Hon. Colonial Secretary, \nHongkong.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-434 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [7-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 463717, "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": "CO129-435 - Governor Sir May & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1916 [9-11]", "page_number": 809, "title": "CO129-435 - Governor Sir May & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1916 [9-11]", "content_text": "## 5.\n\n791\n\nThe Engineer company has been continuously engaged on the Defence Electric Lights since the war began and provides nightly three officers and 26 rank and file for this very arduous duty which is carried out in addition to the ordinary civil employment of the members. The valuable work done by this company released a number of regular Engineers for service in Europe.\n\n4.\n\nThe following is an extract from a letter dated 1st May, 1916 by my predecessor to His Excellency the Governor speaking of this Corps and the Volunteer Reserve:-\n\n\"Had it not been for their patriotism in coming forward it would have been impossible for me to release the British Infantry Regiment and so many Artillery and Engineers.\"\n\n5.\n\nI desire to bring the following names to notice:-\n\n**LIEUT-COLONEL ARTHUR CHAPMAN V.D.** Commandant. Commanded the Corps with zeal and efficiency during the war. Much extra work has fallen upon him.\n\n**SURGEON MAJOR GEORGE DUNGAN RALPH BLACK**. In addition to his Volunteer duties has done daily duty at the Military Hospital since 22nd January, 1915, and given up half his time from a very busy private practice, thereby enabling a Royal Army Medical Corps officer to be sent on service. Paid two hundred dollars a month from Army funds.\n\n**CAPTAIN WILLIAM RUSSELL**, **LIEUTENANT ROBERT HALL**. Have been conspicuous and untiring at duty with the electric lights and have been on night duty alternate weeks ever since the war and as they are fully employed at their profession by day have had to rest when they can.\n\n**CAPTAIN GEORGE PHILLIP LAERT V.D.**. Has been attached to the Army Service Corps since the outbreak of the war. His services have contributed to the release of two senior Army Service Corps officers for active service as well as a subaltern of the 2nd Battn. Duke of Cornwall's L.I. formerly attached to the A.S.C., also a quartermaster Army Service Corps for service in North China.\n\nFor the last eighteen months Captain Lammert has been in sole charge of the A.S.C. water and coolie transport and has in addition rendered considerable assistance in the Supply Office. Paid five shillings per diem from Army funds.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-435 - Governor Sir May & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1916 [9-11].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 465533, "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": "CO129-438 - Public Offices - 1916", "page_number": 332, "title": "CO129-438 - Public Offices - 1916", "content_text": "**SECRET.**\n\n2911 Regd 19 \"Jan\"\n\n120/General Number/7917,\n\n326\n\n**TELEGRAM**\n\nFrom: O.O.O. China.\n\n2.1.p.m. 18th January 1916,\n\nTo:\n\nWar Office. London.\n\n271 cipher. On January 17th 8.8.\"EMPIRE\" embarked here\n296 prisoners of War. 7 Women and 13 Children interned\nhere en-route for Australia for re-internment. Escort accom-\npanying them consists of 1 Officer R.A.M.C. and 78 Other\nranks 4th Shropshire Light Infantry, also Commandant,\n9 Other ranks and 1 woman of the Camp Staff. Escort and\nCamp Staff return in the same ship to Hong Kong.\n\n-0.2. for Action to W.O.\n\nFor information to: I.O.I.S.\n\nQ.M.G.2.\n\nCopy to: D.P.M.\nM.O.1.B.\nA.O.2.A.\n4.0.8.\n7.F.3.\nD.of.T. Admiralty.\nCaptain Jackson.R.N.\nColonial Office.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-438 - Public Offices - 1916.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 468137, "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": "CO129-442 - Governor Sir May - 1917 [4-6]", "page_number": 441, "title": "CO129-442 - Governor Sir May - 1917 [4-6]", "content_text": "(Form 6 11. K. VIC)\n\nI\n\n2\n\nOOPT.\n\n438\n\nHONGKONG VOLUNTEER RESERVE.\n\nReport for 1916-1917,\n\nFrom\n\nHONGKONG VOLUNTEER CORPS.\n\nReturns\n\nTo:-\n\nI.\n\nD. A A. & Q. M. G..\n\nSouth China.\n\nFor favour of submission to His Excellency The\n\nGeneral Officer Commanding and transmission to His\n\nExcellency The Governor.\n\nHongkong.\n\n1917.\n\nTo\n\nThe Commandant, Hongkong Volunteer Reserve,\n\nThe General Staff Officer, China Command.\n\nI. Strength.\n\nThe strength of the H.K.V.R. on the 31st March, 1917,\n\nwas 433 officers warrant officers and men as against 403 officers warrant officers and men on the 31st March, 1916.\n\nDuring the year 76 new members joined the Corps and 46 members were allowed to resign by permission of H. E. the Governor. The strength and composition of the Corps as on the 31st March, 1917, is shown on Table 1.\n\nII. Officers.\n\nThe following officers were on the strength of the Corps on the 31st March, 1917.\n\nCommandant..........................................and\n\nAdjutant............................................Major G. H. Wakeman,\n\nCaptain C. Champkin (attached).\n\nCaptain G. I. H. Brutton (absent)\n\nCaptain D. Landale\n\nSurgeon Captain G. M. Harston (absent)\n\nLieutenant B. R. Branch\n\nJ. O. Hughes (absent)\n\nE. Frank Jones\n\nC. H. Blaken\n\nSurgeon Lieut. V. B. A. Moore\n\nC.H. Blaken\n\n2nd Lieut.\n\nT. Gray (absent)\n\nJ. W. O. Bonnar (absent)\n\nH. R. B. Hancock", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-442 - Governor Sir May - 1917 [4-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 477592, "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": "CO129-450 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1918 [10-12]", "page_number": 277, "title": "CO129-450 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1918 [10-12]", "content_text": "the fact that the desertion did not seem to be a very heinous offence, and in view also of the medical evidence of his subsequent breakdown under the strain of his own account, it was decided to reserve judgement on the case until it had been seen whether he made good or not in his new enlistment. According to the CO's approval, it was proposed to allow du Barlow to resume his duties in H.K. as previously provided in the case of ex-Captain Abrams, Trinidad `[3524 Trinidad]`, also dismissed from the Army for desertion. In his case also testimony was produced to the effect that he was a neurotic subject and was now allowed to resume his duties.\n\nThe result was that it was considered best to keep C-Danie under supervision; he was not considered suitable for the post of Inspector of Vernacular Schools, & Mr Cavalier was appointed in his place.\n\nIt is arguable that if du Barlow makes good in his new enlistment, which is what we may hope for, it is most likely that this would have a corresponding effect in the Service in H.K., and the results would not be so unfortunate as is anticipated. One tends to feel for him and sympathise with a man with nerves.\n\nBut then all cases of desertion must be largely a question of nerves; the Court Martial evidently did not consider the circumstances such that they could recommend mitigation of the sentence. Had du Barlow been in the ranks and not a commissioned officer there is little doubt that the sentence for desertion when on active service would have been to be shot, which in extenuating circumstances might have been commuted to one of penal servitude for a number of years.\n\nThe O.A.C. however, now strongly disapproves of du Barlow's return because of the effect it would have in the Service, as the fact that he has been guilty of misconduct is known in the Colony, having regard to the unfavourable report circulated by the Commandant in Oct 1913.\n\nIn this case, Mr Barlow was absent from his duties for two days; it was suspected that... \nIt is hard to reconcile the fact that he is considered to be absolutely unfit to be an Officer in the...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-450 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1918 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 479845, "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": "CO129-454 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1919 [4-6]", "page_number": 261, "title": "CO129-454 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1919 [4-6]", "content_text": "### Memorandum on the Housing, etc., of Municipal Employes\n\nGeneral-Allowances in respect of quarters, fuel, light, and locomotion which used to be in addition to Pay were mostly compounded some few years ago and are now included in the Pay of Municipal employes; there are, however, important exceptions as will be noted hereunder:—\n\n#### Volunteer Corps\n\nCommandant.-Compounded allowances in Pay for fuel and light Tls. 30, locomotion Tls. 50, a motorcar is provided and in addition to Pay the Council provides furnished quarters.\n\n#### Fire Brigade\n\nChief Officer.-Compounded allowances: rent Tls. 100, Fuel and light Tls. 30, locomotion Tls. 50, and a motorcar is provided.\n\n#### Electricity Department\n\n| Position | Compounded Allowances |\n| --- | --- |\n| Engineer-in-Chief and Manager | rent Tls. 100, fuel and light Tls. 30, locomotion Tls. 50, and a motorcar is provided |\n| Deputy Engineer-in-Chief | Rent Tls. 75 |\n| Chief Assistant Electrical Engineer | No allowances |\n| Chief Mechanical Assistant | rent Tls. 50, fuel and light Tls. 30 |\n| Station Superintendent | rent Tls. 50, fuel and light Tls. 30 |\n| Mains Engineer | rent Tls. 40, fuel and light Tls. 30 |\n| Other employes | No allowances |\n\nFree electric light and heating are allowed both for the Engineer-in-Chief and Deputy Engineer-in-Chief.\n\n#### Public Band\n\n(No details provided)\n\n#### Police Force\n\n| Position | Compounded Allowances |\n| --- | --- |\n| Captain Superintendent | rent Tls. 100, fuel and light Tls. 30, locomotion Tls. 50, and a motorcar is provided |\n| Deputy Superintendent and Assistant Superintendents | rent Tls. 75, fuel and light Tls. 30, and locomotion Tls. 50 |\n| Rest of the Force | Quarters are provided at the Stations |\n| Married Inspectors | Suitable quarters or an allowance of Tls. 55 per mensem |\n| Married Sergeants | Quarters or an allowance of Tls. 40 per mensem |\n\nNo allowance is made for fuel and light, but fuel is obtainable at the same contract rates as those upon which it is obtained by the Council.\n\n#### Health Department\n\n| Position | Compounded Allowances |\n| --- | --- |\n| Health Officer | rent Tls. 100, fuel and light Tls. 30, locomotion Tls. 50, and a motorcar is provided |\n| Assistant Health Officers | rent Tls. 75, fuel and light Tls. 30; Dr. Davia is provided a motorcar |\n| Assistants | No allowances |\n| Chief Inspectors | rent Tls. 50 |\n| Inspectors | No allowances |\n\nA deduction from Pay of Tls. 70 per mensem in the case of the Matrons and of Tls. 60 per mensem in the case of Nurses is made in respect of quarters and board which are provided by the Council.\n\n#### Public Works Department\n\n| Position | Compounded Allowances |\n| --- | --- |\n| Engineer | rent Tls. 100, fuel and light Tls. 30, locomotion Tls. 50, and a motorcar is provided |\n| Deputy Engineer | rent Tls. 75, fuel and light Tls. 30 |\n| Conductor | locomotion Tls. 40 |\n| Other employes | No allowances |\n\n#### Educational Department\n\n| Position | Compounded Allowances/Deductions |\n| --- | --- |\n| Headmaster, Public School for Boys | rent, fuel, and light Tls. 75 |\n| Headmaster, Thomas Hanbury School for Boys | A deduction of Tls. 100 per mensem for board and quarters; rest of staff Tls. 60 per mensem |\n| Headmistress, Thomas Hanbury School for Girls | A deduction of Tls. 70 per mensem for board and quarters; rest of staff Tls. 60 per mensem |\n| Headmaster, Public School for Chinese | rent Tls. 45, fuel and light Tls. 30 |\n\n#### Finance Department\n\n| Position | Compounded Allowances |\n| --- | --- |\n| Treasurer | rent Tls. 100, fuel and light Tls. 30, and locomotion Tls. 50 |\n| Deputy Treasurer and Assistant Treasurer | rent Tls. 75, fuel and light Tls. 30 |\n\n#### Secretariat\n\n| Position | Compounded Allowances |\n| --- | --- |\n| Secretary | rent Tls. 100, fuel and light Tls. 50, and locomotion Tls. 50 |\n| Assistant Secretary | rent Tls. 75, fuel and light Tls. 30 |\n\nN.B.—The compounded allowances above referred to were the allowances in existence at the time when the compounding took place; since then scales of Pay have been increased in some respects and it is possible that if the present rates of Pay were analysed some of the allowances would show an increase.\n\n257", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-454 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1919 [4-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 479847, "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": "CO129-454 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1919 [4-6]", "page_number": 263, "title": "CO129-454 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1919 [4-6]", "content_text": "## Extracts from the Annual Report of the Shanghai Municipal Council, 1917\n### MUNICIPAL BUDGET, 1918\n\n#### Volunteer Corps\n\n| Category | Amount |\n| --- | --- |\n| Commandant | 8,555 |\n| Quartermaster Sergeant | 2,400 |\n| Sergeant Major | 1,020 |\n| | **12,875** |\n| Less On War Service | 8,555 |\n| | 4,320 |\n| Temporary Bonus | 430 |\n\nForeigners Total: 4,320 + 430 = 4,750 \nChinese: \nTown Hall, Riding School and Orderly Room Staff | 2,500 \n| Superannuation | 240 | \n| Total | | 7,250 + 240 = 7,490 |\n\n#### Fire Brigade\n\n| Category | Amount |\n| --- | --- |\n| Pay - Foreigners | |\n| Chief Officer | 9,000 |\n| Departmental Engineer | 1,200 |\n| 2 Clerical Assistants | |\n| 2 Inspecting Officers Watchmen, etc. | 6,280 |\n| Temporary Bonus | 7,580 |\n| | 24,000 |\n| Pay - Chinese | |\n| Office and Store Staff | 1,440 |\n| General Staff | 800 |\n| Artificers | 17,100 |\n| Watchmen at Stations | 5,540 |\n| | 24,680 |\n| Superannuation | 1,240 |\n| Total | **50,180** |\n| Temporary Bonus | 1,500 |\n\n#### Police Force\n\n| Category | Amount |\n| --- | --- |\n| Pay and Allowances - Foreign Branch | |\n| Pay | |\n| Captain Superintendent | 12,000 |\n| Deputy Superintendent | 9,000 |\n| 3 Assistant Superintendents | 20,100 |\n| 2 Cadets | 5,040 |\n| Chief Detective Officer | 5,580 |\n| Legal Assistant | 6,600 |\n| 7 Chief Inspectors | 22,500 |\n| Chief Detective Inspector | 4,800 |\n| 11 Inspectors | 25,200 |\n| 5 Detective Inspectors | 13,620 |\n| 35 Constables (authorised strength 105) | |\n| Head Gaoler | 3,300 |\n| 11 Sub-Inspectors | 19,320 |\n| 4 Detective Sub-Inspectors | 8,460 |\n| Sergeant Major | 1,680 |\n| Assistant Gaoler | 2,220 |\n| 90 Sergeants | 135,600 |\n| 20 Detective Sergeants | 32,800 |\n| 4 Senior Warders | 7,140 |\n| Less-Promotions: already included under the pay of higher ranks | 34,800 |\n| Resignations | 18,740 |\n| | 347,520 |\n| Carried forward | 259 |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-454 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1919 [4-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 480121, "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": "CO129-454 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1919 [4-6]", "page_number": 538, "title": "CO129-454 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1919 [4-6]", "content_text": "# JOPY.\n\nNo. C.R.8008 \"G\".\n\nSir,\n\n## Enclosure 1\n\n534\n\n**Head Quarters, China Command, Hongkong, 24th May, 1919.**\n\nI have the honour to submit for Your Excellency's information the Annual Report on the Defence Corps for the past year, together with brief reports by the Officer Commanding, Royal Artillery, on the Artillery Company, and by the Chief Engineer on the Engineer Company.\n\n2\\. All three arms are in an efficient condition. The Artillery frequently, and the Engineers continuously, have performed invaluable work on the Examination Service from the outbreak of war until the Armistice. The Infantry show a remarkable improvement in Musketry due to the exertions of Major Lorgan, the Commandant.\n\n3\\. Your Excellency will no doubt regret with me that the move of the 18th Infantry up North deprived us of Major Morgan's valuable services. His undoubted success as a Commandant encourages me to recommend a continuance of the system under which he was appointed if a suitable successor can be found in the Garrison to replace him.\n\n4\\. I beg to endorse Major Morgan's commendation of Captain Stewart, the Adjutant.\n\n5\\. I was present at most of the Artillery practices and many of their drills during the year. I have visited the Searchlights occasionally by night, and I was present at the three days Field Firing Practices of the Infantry which took place at Camp, so I have a personal knowledge of the state of efficiency of all three Arms.\n\nHis Excellency \nThe Officer Administering the Government.\n\nI have etc., \n(Sd.) F. Ventris, \n**Major-General, Commanding the China Command.**", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-454 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1919 [4-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 480124, "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": "CO129-454 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1919 [4-6]", "page_number": 541, "title": "CO129-454 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1919 [4-6]", "content_text": "## LAT \n### A1 \n#### VIR \n\n537 \nIndividual Field Firing and Battalion Firing was carried out.\n\n7: The full preliminary Training was carried out before the Range practices were started.\n\n1. Owing to the Armistice the Annual Camp was abandoned and instead Field Firing Practices and Battalion Field firing was carried out in the New Territory.\n\n2. After 7th February, 1919 men over 46 years of age were excused all drills and men over 41 were only required to do musketry.\n\n3. Lectures have again been given. An examination for promotion was held in December with the following results: \n| Category | Number Presented | Number Passed |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Officers | 7 | 4 |\n| Non-Commissioned Officers | 3 | 1 |\n\n4. Mobilisation. The Defence Corps furnished the Guards on the New and Old Magazines and Wellington Barracks on the following dates to relieve men of the garrison: \n| From | To |\n| --- | --- |\n| 6. 9. 18 | 18. 10. 18 |\n\n5. The strength of the Cadet Company is 38. A week and Camp was held during the summer months, about 25 boys attending such week end. The Company went to Camp at Lo Wu which was most successful. I inspected it once.\n\n4. The report of the Medical Officer is attached herewith.\n\n7. This being my last report I would like to put on record the very valuable work done by my Adjutant, Captain G. E. Stewart, who has devoted all his spare time to Military Duties. His services have been invaluable. Lieutenant & Quartermaster W. Higby has again done his work to my entire satisfaction and I wish to put on record my appreciation of his services. I could not possibly have had a more loyal or hard working lot of Officers and the high state of efficiency is very largely due to their efforts.\n\n(3) \n## Administration \nMajor \nCommandant, \nHongkong Defence Corps,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-454 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1919 [4-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 487135, "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": "CO129-467 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1921 [1-5]", "page_number": 109, "title": "CO129-467 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1921 [1-5]", "content_text": "# COP Y.\n108\n\nHeadquarters, China Command, \nHongkong, 22nd January, 1921.\n\nSir,\n\nIn reply to Your Excellency's letter 3731/1920 dated 14th January, 1921, I have the honour to inform you that Major C. Lawder was a retired officer of the Royal Horse Artillery who was appointed supernumerary Captain in the Hongkong Volunteer Corps on 6th August, 1914.\n\nHe was appointed Assistant Provost Marshal of this Command, and continued this duty until 12th March, 1915, when he was appointed acting Commandant Prisoners of War Camp, subsequently leaving for England on 27th August, 1915.\n\nFurther particulars are not available, neither is anything further known by the Commandant, Hongkong Volunteer Defence Corps, to whom reference has been made.\n\nI have, &c.,\n\n(Sd.) **GEO. M. KIRKPATRICK**, \nMajor-General, \nCommanding the Forces in China.\n\nHis Excellency Sir R. E. Stubbs, K.C.M.G., \nGovernor of Hongkong.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-467 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1921 [1-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 504645, "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": "CO129-495 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [11-12]", "page_number": 514, "title": "CO129-495 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [11-12]", "content_text": "F2193/2193/10]\n\n(No. 228.) Sir,\n\n16\n\nANNEX II.\n\nMr. Palairet to Mr. Austen Chamberlain.-(Received June 12.)\n\nPeking, April 6, 1925.\n\nWITH reference to the China Command Intelligence Diary for the month of September 1924, paragraph 85B, I have the honour to transmit to you herewith copy of a report I have received from the military attaché to this Legation containing interesting particulars in regard to the Whampoa Officers' Training School at Canton,\n\nI have, &c.\n\nMICHAEL PALAIRET.\n\n(Report No. 5.) Sir,\n\nEnclosure.\n\nColonel Steward to Mr. Palairet.\n\nMarch 21, 1925.\n\nI HAVE the honour to submit the following information on the Whampoa Canton Military School-\n\nThe following notes were given to me by a Chinese official in Amoy, who said he was certain of his information:--\n\nThe principal of the school is Chiang Chih-shih.\n\nThe initial expenses for the foundation of the establishment amounted to 1 million dollars, which sum was furnished by the Soviet agent in Canton. The monthly upkeep expenses amount to 200,000 dollars, which also are provided by the Soviet agent.\n\nThere are many unsalaried Russian teachers.\n\nSeveral thousand student soldiers in the school.\n\nThe arms and training equipment were purchased from Japan and the Soviet.\n\nThe following information on the Whampoa school was procured by the General Staff China Command, and was published in the China Command Intelligence Summaries:-\n\nWhampoa Officers' Training School.\n\nThe following information has been received from what is believed to be a reliable source:\n\nThe school was founded by the Communist section of the Kuomintang for the purpose of providing officers for the Kuomintang forces. A contribution was made by the Soviet Government to the school on its foundation.\n\nStaff-The commandant of the school is a Chinese, who is assisted by a staff of foreign and Chinese instructors. Of the foreign instructors two are Russians and two Japanese. The Russian instructors supervise the teaching of Communism; the Japanese are responsible for military education and training. The Chinese staff, which is mostly foreign-trained, instructs in medical and engineering subjects.\n\nOrganisation. There are 660 resident students, who, for administration purposes, are divided into four companies, each commanded by a military officer assisted by a second in command.\n\nTraining. The course lasts six months. Apart from scholastic studies students undergo theoretical and practical military training. Great attention is paid to bayonet fighting. A certain number of students, about 300, specialise in medical and engineering subjects.\n\nEquipment. The students are armed with the 79-mm. rifles recently commandeered by the Kuangtung Government from the Merchant Volunteers (Note 8.S. Hav\" Arms Consignment. There are three machine guns at the school\n\nNotes on the Students. The students are mostly intellectuals, and include graduates of the Peking University and ex-officials. They come from all over China, a certain number coming from Mongolia. There are only five students from Kuangtung Province at the school.\n\nIn confirmation of or contradiction to the above notes I am able to give my impressions during my visit to the school on the 2nd and 3rd March, 1925.\n\n17\n\nPrevious to my visit I was informed by Mr. Wade, Commissioner of Chinese Maritime Customs, Hong Kong, that all the money, which he remits to the Canton Government for local Chinese customs, is paid by him direct to the school authorities by order of the Canton Government, which sum is presumed to cover the upkeep expenses of the school.\n\nLocality. The school is divided into two localities. The main school at Whampoa, next to the naval establishment, and the overflow school near North Gate, Canton,\n\nThese two portions of the same school are identical in organisation and training, the North Gate school being merely a temporary measure to house the overflow students, who have been accepted to make good the wastage of the local war. North Gate portion of the school consists of hutments with a few permanent buildings, so I could imagine it will soon disappear with the subjugation of the Kuomintang's enemies\n\nThe Whampoa portion of the school is housed in a permanent building of modern two-storied design, and is divided into an infantry school, from which artillery students are eventually selected, and a medical side, where military training is given.\n\nObject. The object of the school, I was informed, is to provide officers for the Canton national army, so as to train a well-disciplined force for the propagation of the national Kuomintang doctrine. The school instructors deny their adhesion to Bolshevism, though the Kuomintang principles as applied to Canton do not seem to fall far short of the Bolshevik ideal.\n\nThe only signs of Bolshevism to be observed were a small picture of Lenin's head with a fish's body swimming valiantly in a sea, probably of capitalism, to illustrate his uphill fight against his enemies; also a large photo of a good-looking well-dressed European, who, I was informed, was the captain of the Soviet gunboat that anchored off the college in the autumn of 1924, and who supplied certain much-needed training armament to the college. The behaviour of the officers of this Russian Soviet gunboat was only marred by their public amours performed on the hill behind the school, with the Russian women who were passengers during the stay in Whampoa\n\nInstructional Staff.--The staff appears to be divided into civil and military. Both wear uniform without rank badges, but with the National party emblem, though the only civilian I was introduced to had grey golf stockings instead of leggings.\n\nThe civilian was a Cantonese, but the military instructors were all from the north, and some of them could not understand Cantonese. Military instruction is entirely given in Mandarin, both by the officers and the petty officers. On enquiring if all their students were of the north, I was informed that the secondary schools in China teach Mandarin, and so that even the southern students could understand the instruction, having been selected for their intelligence. I was also informed that, as the students came from all over China, it was thought better to give the instruction in the most used dialect.\n\nThe civilian staff deals with political questions, while the military staff has no say in civil instruction. The military staff consisted at my visit of about six officers and thirty petty officers, but as many were away at the front it is presumed that the normal staff is greater. In addition to the medical instructors I only saw one technical expert, the wireless officer, who, having been trained in the Japanese wireless school, appeared to be efficient. His installation was Japanese, though British and American wireless apparatuses were also noticeable in his room. Judging by the size of his room, I should imagine that the installation was used more for communication than for instruction, nor did I notice any field wireless apparatus.\n\nThe majority of the instructors are graduates of the Peking military school. Mr. Chiang Chih-shih was away at the front, as were the Russian professors, which appears to point to the fact that the Russian staff is military rather than civil\n\nI was not definitely informed that there existed a Russian staff, but from Russian maps on the walls of the class-rooms I drew my own conclusions.\n\nInstruction The students are treated as cadet soldiers, and are instructed in squads of about fifteen strong, the instructor keeping the same squad throughout the period of instruction.\n\nAfter a fortnight they are given rifles, which shows that they are above the average Chinese in intelligence, as they learn to keep still in the ranks and to move with precision in a much shorter space of time than the average Chinese recruit. The usual length of stay in the school is one year, after which, with the exception of certain cadets selected for artillery, the students are drafted into units as platoon commanders. The most advanced students that I saw drilling had only five months' instruction, as the older students had all been released for service at the front.\n\n[14166]\n\nD\n\n503", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-495 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 506900, "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": "CO129-499-3 Canton situation- governor's despatches 12-2-1927 - 10-3-1927", "page_number": 42, "title": "CO129-499-3 Canton situation- governor's despatches 12-2-1927 - 10-3-1927", "content_text": "# Enclosure No. 1.\n\n## FRONTIER INCIDENTS.\n\n**Captain Superintendent of Police,**\n\nAlarmist rumours coupled with the increased spread of anti-British propaganda have, in the past week, created a certain tenseness on the Sham Chun frontier and in parts of the New Territories adjacent thereto.\n\nThe construction of a large matshed at Sham Chun gave rise to the rumour that a large body of pickets were coming from Canton. This rumour gave place to another that the local garrison was being strengthened by the addition of several hundred troops, but police enquiries make it almost certain that the purpose of the matshed is to accommodate part of the local garrison at present quartered in the fantan houses, the owners of which have in consequence lost money and have complained to Canton.\n\nThe dissemination of anti-British propaganda took a new form on the 7th inst., on which date the afternoon \"down\" trains from Sham Chun arrived in British Territory liberally placarded with anti-British posters, and cartoons, in English and Chinese, the work of Whampoa Cadets at Sham Chun. I informed the Deputy Superintendent of Police (Kowloon) of this by telephone, also the Deputy Superintendent of Police (Hong Kong). On the 8th inst., the first local \"down\" train was similarly placarded, also the evening \"slow through\" from Canton. As a result, the District Officer, North, on the 8th inst., went to Sham Chun and later Shataukok, at which last place he had an interview with LÓ KIU SAU, the Sham Chun Garrison Commandant,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-499-3 Canton situation- governor's despatches 12-2-1927 - 10-3-1927.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 507202, "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": "CO129-499-5 Canton situation- governor's despatches 11-3-1927 - 11-3-1927", "page_number": 55, "title": "CO129-499-5 Canton situation- governor's despatches 11-3-1927 - 11-3-1927", "content_text": "## ENCLOSURE NO.4.\n\n55\n\n**Hon. Captain Superintendent of Police,**\n\n**FRONTIER INCIDENTS**\n\nDuring the past week the following more or less minor incidents occurred on the frontier :-\n\n1. **SHAM CHUN**\n\n(1)\n| \n\nIn my report of the 24th April, 1927, I stated there had been dissension in the garrison at Sham Chun, and that the Commandant, Tang Chi Chiu, was then virtually a prisoner. Early in the past week I learned that Tang had been summoned to Canton and that his chief subordinate, YING TSUN, had assumed command. I have heard since that those of the garrison with \"Red\" sympathies have all deserted.\n\n(2) Yesterday, the 7th inst., there was a demonstration and procession at Sham Chun, staged by the local garrison. The proceedings started with the ceremony of bowing to the picture of the late President Sun, followed by the usual speeches. These latter consisted of diatribes against Communism and the Communist leaders, and others extolling Chiang Kai Shek and the Nationalist aims in general. Bannerets and posters with the new slogans were freely displayed. One of these read \"Down with Japanese Imperialism; the Japanese are the chief pirates of the world\". There were no anti-British slogans.\n\n(3) The railway \"slow through\" service was resumed on Tuesday the 3rd inst., but the \"express through\" service will not be possible until the engines recently wrecked have been repaired.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-499-5 Canton situation- governor's despatches 11-3-1927 - 11-3-1927.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 512816, "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": "CO129-507-3 China- anti-piracy precautions 31-10-1927 - 25-10-1928", "page_number": 161, "title": "CO129-507-3 China- anti-piracy precautions 31-10-1927 - 25-10-1928", "content_text": "190\n\nCollonor\n\nfor Foreign Affairs,\n\nSuomenus, duty ..\n\nI have the honour to acknowledge the receipt a few days ago of your despatch of June 16th on the subject of piracy prevention measures at Fatshan.\n\nIn acknowledgement of your despatch I conferred with the Naval Commandant of the West River area. I have received the following information:\n\nAll vessels on entering and leaving the port are carefully inspected by the Customs authorities.\n\nIf the captain of a junk suspects piracy, he should report at once to the nearest Inspector who will investigate and deal with the matter thoroughly. If any clues are discovered, the officer should first be referred to the DETENTION authorities who will ... follow up.\n\nArrangements have been made with the Fatshan River Police to patrol the Santai and Fageda sections of the River and it is considered that no junks bent on piracy should travel ... on this traffic.\n\nAll cargo, luggage and passengers to each junk are inspected.\n\n...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-507-3 China- anti-piracy precautions 31-10-1927 - 25-10-1928.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 513725, "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": "CO129-508-4 Cases of attacks by pirates 6-11-1927 - 23-11-1928", "page_number": 245, "title": "CO129-508-4 Cases of attacks by pirates 6-11-1927 - 23-11-1928", "content_text": "244\n\ninstructed to remain in company and act as escort from Wangmun to Hongkong.\n\nAll casualties are being taken to Hongkong.\n\n5. Reports on interview and steps taken at Kongmoon.\n\nPersons interviewed - Commandant Military, Chief of Merchant Volunteers and Chief of Police. On statements made by Captain, Chief Engineer and Compradore of \"SAN NAM HOI\" it was verified that discharged seamen of \"SAN NAM HOI\" belonging to Seamen's Union Pak Kai formed majority of pirates. Members of this union had threatened the \"SAN NAM HOI\" on a previous occasion recently. This fact was also known by the Police and the Chief of the Volunteers who corroborated this in interview with me.\n\nMeasures to deal with the Seamen's Union are being discussed at a conference by local authorities.\n\n7. \"SAN NAM HOI\" was searched by military, volunteers and police and two suspects were removed.\n\n8. It is established that 6 pirates were killed in sampan. 11 suspects were arrested in Min Hoi village, near Fak Kai and 6 in neighbourhood. It is understood the casualties among the pirates were caused by village volunteers who were firing at the sampan when the pirates reached her swimming.\n\n9. Officials state that proposals will be made to the Canton Government about proscribing Union.\n\n10. With regard to the previous threats by the Seamen's Union. The distinct lack of attempt to rob the passengers on \"SAN NAM HOI\" and the definite attack on the European Officers and Indian Guards, it appears that this piracy was either a deliberate attempt merely to murder the Officers and Guards or a badly organized piracy. No attack whatever was made on the passengers or engine room.\n\n11. I was led to understand by the Pak Kai authorities that they had been watching this union lately, whose leaders were in sympathy with the late Red rising in Canton.\n\n12.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-508-4 Cases of attacks by pirates 6-11-1927 - 23-11-1928.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 544864, "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": "CO129-548-1 Annual reports from various government departments 3-4-1934 - 11-6-1935", "page_number": 170, "title": "CO129-548-1 Annual reports from various government departments 3-4-1934 - 11-6-1935", "content_text": "## PIRACY\n\n10. There were three piracies on ships during the year as compared with one during 1932. None of these occurred on a British ship, the ships affected being one Danish, one Norwegian, and one French.\n\nThe Danish passenger steamer \"**Gustav Diederichsen**\", 1,353 tons, was pirated about nine miles East of the Nine-Pins when on a voyage from Hong Kong to Bangkok via Swatow. The **Gustav Diederichsen** belongs to Messrs. Jebsen and Company, and was chartered by the Chin Seng Hong of Bonham Strand West. She had wireless, but no grilles, guards, or scheme of defence. The ship sailed from Hong Kong at 4:30 p.m. on the 27th of February, having on board forty-nine passengers, of whom eight were pirates. The ship was not searched by Police, as it was stated in her clearance that there were no passengers. About 7 p.m. on the 27th February, the pirates took charge and sailed her into Mirs Bay to a point close to Ping Chau Island. At 6:30 a.m. on the 28th February, the pirates left in a ship's boat and went on board a small one-masted junk, taking with them three Chinese male passengers together with property of the officers, crew, and passengers to the total value of $5,741.50. The Chief Officer (Mr. R. Nielsen) was wounded in the abdomen when the pirates first showed themselves. Two of the pirates were later arrested and executed in Canton, and two persons were banished from Hong Kong.\n\nThe Norwegian passenger steamer \"**Prominent**\", 1,377 tons, belongs to Messrs. Karsten Larssen and Company, and was chartered by the Nam Tai Loong of Wing Lok Street. The ship has wireless but no guards, grilles, or scheme of defence except for two rifles and four pistols kept in the Captain's cabin. About 8 p.m. on the 23rd May, the ship sailed from Hong Kong for Saigon with eighty-nine deck passengers and one 2nd-class passenger, of whom about fifteen were pirates. The ship was searched before leaving Hong Kong. At about 1:30 a.m. on the 25th May, when about twenty-five miles north-east of the Paracel Islands, the pirates appeared from among the passengers and took charge of the ship. The officers resisted, and the pirates fired three shots, one of which wounded the Captain in the leg, while the Second Officer received a chopper wound. The pirates seized all the ship's arms and painted out the Chinese characters on the side of the ship and altered the colouring of the funnel. At 10:30 p.m. on the 26th May, the ship was steaming into Mirs Bay with no lights showing when she was sighted by No. 4 Police Launch, who signalled her to stop. Shots were fired from the Police Launch, which was warned that if it did not cease firing, the ship's officers would be murdered. About midnight, the pirates left the ship in a ship's boat, taking with them property of the officers and passengers valued at $4,054.00. However, in their haste to make off, no passengers were kidnapped. No arrests have yet been made.\n\nThe French passenger steamer \"**Commandant Henri Riviere**\", 1,525 tons, is owned by the Societé Anonyme Pannier of Haiphong, the local agents being the Sing Kee Coal and Shipping Company. The ship has wireless and four unarmed Annamite Guards, eight rifles, and three pistols with ammunition being kept locked in a cupboard on the bridge. The ship sailed from Hong Kong for Hoi How at 11 a.m. on the 24th November with fourteen second-class and one hundred and ninety deck passengers, between twenty and thirty of the latter being pirates. The ship was searched by Police before sailing. About 4 p.m. when the ship had reached a point thirty miles south-west of Gap Rock, the pirates took control of the ship and seized the ship's armoury and a pistol and shotgun belonging to the Second Officer. At 11 a.m. on the 25th November, the ship was stopped off Chilang Light, and the pirates commandeered a passing fishing boat in which they left the ship with four passengers and loot valued at $13,298.00, belonging to the officers, crew, and passengers, and landed in Hie Che Chen Bay just off Chilang Point. None of the pirates have been arrested.\n\nNative Craft. Two piracies on native craft were reported during the year as against four in 1932. On the 17th February, Sampan No. `2245.K` was pirated between Lung Shun Wan and Kau Sai by four men armed with revolvers and daggers, who sailed away in their own boat with loot valued at $231.00. No person was injured. On the 8th July, Trading Junk No. `T3825H` was pirated by eight men armed with two revolvers when in Chinese Waters off Deep Bay. The crew of the junk were landed near Tai O on Lantau, and the pirates sailed away in their junk with their cargo and personal belongings valued at $351.50.\n\nCompared with 1932, there was an increase of two cases in the number of piracies on ships, and a decrease of two cases of piracy on native craft.\n\n## SPECIAL BRANCH\n\n11. Following extensive raids in the Colony during the latter part of 1932, the local Communist Party was reduced at the beginning of the year under review to a state of inactivity. However, in the early part of the year, an effort was made to re-organise the Party, but this attempt was short-lived owing to the arrests of certain members of the \"Working Committee\".\n\nDuring the remainder of the year, there were no indications of any renewal of communist activity on a large scale in the Colony, although arrests of communists were made from time to time.\n\nOn one occasion, inflammatory documents were distributed in an industrial centre, but there were no communist demonstrations, and no strikes or serious labour troubles due to communist agitation occurred.\n\nPage 170 \nPage 171", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-548-1 Annual reports from various government departments 3-4-1934 - 11-6-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 549883, "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": "CO129-555-4 Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps- annual report 1934-5 6-8-1935 - 6-8-1935", "page_number": 9, "title": "CO129-555-4 Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps- annual report 1934-5 6-8-1935 - 6-8-1935", "content_text": "PROMOTIONS, APPOINTMENTS & RESIGNATIONS.\n\nThe following promotions and appointments etc. have been made:\n\nMajor H.B.L. Dowbiggin, O.B.E. to be Lieut-Colonel and Commandant of the Corps.\n\n21.4.34\n\nMajor G.D.R. Black, V.D., M.D., C.M. (Tor) to be Lieut-Col.\n\n1.9.34\n\nCaptain M.A. Johnson, M.M. to be Major.\n\nCaptain J.C. Macgown, M.D., Ch.B. (Edin) to be Major.\n\nLieutenant L.F. Nicholson to be Captain.\n\n17.11.34\n\nLieutenant J.S. Rodrigues to be Captain.\n\n21.9.34\n\nLieutenant E.G. Stewart to be Captain.\n\nDr. H.J. Croot, M.B., B.S., M.R.C.S.(Eng.), L.R.C.P.(Lon) to be Lieutenant.\n\n13.9.34\n\nMr. W.F. Murray to be temporary Lieutenant.\n\nSecond Lieutenant J.R. Way to be Lieutenant.\n\n1.10.34\n\nSergeant G.C. Moutrie to be Second Lieutenant.\n\n12.10.34\n\nSecond Lieutenant J.C. Bousfield, M.C. to be Captain.\n\n6.12.34\n\nL/Corporal H.A. de B. Botelho to be Second Lieutenant.\n\n1.1.35\n\nMr. R.D. Walker, M.C. to be Major.\n\nMr. I.B. Trevor to be Captain.\n\nMr. J. Smith to be Lieutenant.\n\nMr. A.E. Perry to be Lieutenant.\n\nMr. T. Addis Martin to be Captain.\n\n11.1.35\n\nMr. L.C. Tatham to be Lieutenant.\n\n17.1.35\n\nSecond Lieutenant F.F. Sequeira to be Lieutenant.\n\n1.3.35\n\nRESIGNATION OF COMMISSION.\n\nCaptain H.L.A. Bunbury resigned his commission.\n\n20.12.34\n\nCaptain F. Syme-Thomson (deceased).", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-555-4 Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps- annual report 1934-5 6-8-1935 - 6-8-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 549906, "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": "CO129-555-4 Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps- annual report 1934-5 6-8-1935 - 6-8-1935", "page_number": 32, "title": "CO129-555-4 Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps- annual report 1934-5 6-8-1935 - 6-8-1935", "content_text": "There are dozens who deserve mention but space is limited.\n\nOthers worthy of commendation are:-\n\n1st Battery\n\nA Bdr. J. Watson.\n\nCorps Engineers\n\nMajor Ma Johnson, M.M.\n\n32 J Corps Signals\n\nM. G. Troop\n\nM. M. G. Section\n\nLieut. F.W.T. Ross,\n\nC.S.M., R.J. Everest, M.B.E. C.C.M.S., T. Bolt.\n\nC.S.M., G.T. Padgett, M.B.E., who was in charge during the absence on leave of Lieut.J.H. Bottomley. C.Q.M.S., H. J. Millington, M.M.\n\nCaptain H. H. Potts, C.S.M., R.H. Charles.\n\nLieut. H. G. Williams,\n\nC.S.M., B.S. Rogers.\n\n(The latter in command efficiently during the illness of Lieut. Williams).\n\nNo. 1 (M.G.) Company.....C.Q.M.S., R.A. Edwards,\n\nCorps Infantry\n\nINDIVIDUALLY.\n\nSergt. E.C. Hudson, M.C.\n\nCaptain J.S. Rodrigues, for his efficient command of the Company during the absence on leave of Captain S. Jarvis, M.C.\n\nLieut. J. V. V. dos Remedios,\n\nSergt. F. V. V. Ribeiro,\n\nSergt. H.M. Britto.\n\nSergt. J.F. Baleros.\n\nR.S.M., W.H. Edmonds, M.B.E., who after many years of invaluable service is retiring from the Corps in July.\n\nLieut. C. de S. Robertson, M.M. who has done an immense amount of work particularly in connection with anti-Gas instruction.\n\nCaptain D.W. Mortlock of the 1st Battalion, Straits Settlements Volunteer Force, who has been attached to us since 1st November 1933 and proved a very useful and keen Officer to us,\n\nLok Mui who has served the Corps as Head Storeman for twenty-two years with commendable efficiency.\n\n# B.L DOWBIGSIN\n\nLieut-col.,\n\nCommandant, H. K. V. D. Corps.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-555-4 Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps- annual report 1934-5 6-8-1935 - 6-8-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 551192, "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": "CO129-557-7 Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps and Hong Kong Naval Volunteer Force- annual report 1935-6 22-6-1936 - 20-11-1936", "page_number": 8, "title": "CO129-557-7 Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps and Hong Kong Naval Volunteer Force- annual report 1935-6 22-6-1936 - 20-11-1936", "content_text": "# HONG KONG VOLUNTEER DEFENCE CORPS\n## COMMANDANT'S ANNUAL REPORT, YEAR ENDING 15th APRIL 1936\n\nThe Strength shows an increase of 174 since last year's report.\n\nThe number of Volunteers and Ex-Volunteers compared with the man-power strength of the Colony is still low, but shows an improvement and the average age of the former is high enough to focus the fault on the younger residents in the Colony.\n\nThe numbers recruited during the year are:-\n| Category | Number |\n| --- | --- |\n| Men with previous experience | 74 |\n| Men without previous experience | 176 |\n| Total | 250 |\n\nOf the 76 who have left the Corps, only 5 left of their own volition after three years service or more, others leaving the Colony on retirement or transfer to other Ports.\n\nThe present strength of sub-units is attached (`Appendix \"A\"`).\n\nPage 2\n\n## ORGANIZATION\n\nThe organization, detailed in last year's report, has now been in operation for a sufficient time to prove its value.\n\n## GENERAL TRAINING\n\nA \"Junior Wing\" was again held in the Summer last year to train young and efficient volunteers with a view to their being appointed later to Commissioned and Non-commissioned rank.\n\nTwo such courses have been held and have produced good results.\n\nAll units took part in the Combined Operations in March and occupied their war-stations from 4.00 p.m. until 11.00 a.m. the following day. The attendance was very satisfactory and showed a considerable increase on that of last year.\n\nIt is anticipated that this improvement will be maintained.\n\nThe Corps Annual Rifle Meeting was held on Kowloon Ranges on Sunday, 19th April. The attendance was up to the average and the standard of shooting good, in spite of the fact that little practice was possible owing to the Peak Range being under repair.\n\nThe Corps Championship was won by Second Lieutenant B. Holmes of No.1 (M.G.) Company after a tie with Signaller A. J. Coales and it is noteworthy that out of the first 8 places 7 were filled by Officers of the Corps.\n\nPage 3\n\n## PROMOTIONS, APPOINTMENTS & RESIGNATIONS\n\nThe following promotions and appointments etc. have been made :-\n\n| Date | Promotion/Appointment |\n| --- | --- |\n| 1.4.35 | Corporal A. N. Braude to be Second Lieutenant |\n| 6.4.35 | Second Lieutenant F.W.T. Ross to be Lieutenant |\n| 1.10.35 | Captain S. Jarvis, M.C. to be Major; Lieutenant J. V. V. dos Remedios to be Captain |\n| 1.11.35 | C.S.M., A. Urquhart to be Lieutenant |\n| 7.1.36 | Sergeant R.M. Wood to be Second Lieutenant; Sergeant L.B. Holmes to be Second Lieutenant |\n| 18.3.36 | Lieutenant H. Westlake, D.C.M., to be Captain; Lieutenant H.G. Williams to be Captain |\n| 1.4.36 | Lieutenant L.T. Ride, M.A., M.B., B.Ch., M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., to be Captain; Sergeant D. Marshall to be Second Lieutenant; Mr. C. J. Waddell to be Lieutenant |\n\n## RESIGNATION OF COMMISSION\n\n| Name | Date |\n| --- | --- |\n| Lieutenant L.G.S. Dodwell | 19.4.35 |\n| Captain D.W. Mortlock | 18.10.35 |\n| Lieutenant E.M.K. Moad | 1.11.35 |\n| Lieutenant C. L. Tatham | 16.12.35 |\n| Lieutenant G. Duncan, M.B.E. | 14.2.36 |\n\nAll on leaving the Colony.\n\nPage 11", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-557-7 Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps and Hong Kong Naval Volunteer Force- annual report 1935-6 22-6-1936 - 20-11-1936.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 552242, "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": "CO129-559-13 Sir A. Caldecott- visit to Canton 13-9-1936 - 26-11-1936", "page_number": 17, "title": "CO129-559-13 Sir A. Caldecott- visit to Canton 13-9-1936 - 26-11-1936", "content_text": "## MISCELLANEOUS \n\n17 \n\nVisit of R. A. F. Singapore Flying Boat to Canton.\n\nOn September 24th one R. A. F. Flying boat belonging to the R. A. F. base at Singapore visited Canton for the purpose of enabling Air Commodore Sydney Smith, who was accompanied by Group Captain A. H. Peck, Senior Air Staff Officer, Singapore, and Group Captain R. P. Willock, Air Attaché, to pay a courtesy call on Marshal Chiang Kai Shek.\n\nThe flying boat alighted at Whampoa at 10.00 a.m. when Air Commodore Sydney Smith and his officers were met by H. M. Consul-General, by General Chen Ching-yun, Commandant of the Canton division of the China Air Force and other Chinese officials at Canton and were then introduced to the Generalissimo who gave the party a most cordial reception.\n\nAn informal lunch was given in their honour by General Chen at the Official Guest House at Tungshan and at 3.00 p.m. the flying boat returned to Hong Kong having first been inspected by General Chen and his staff.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-559-13 Sir A. Caldecott- visit to Canton 13-9-1936 - 26-11-1936.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 558655, "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": "CO129-568-2 Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps- vacancy for Commandant 9-2-1938 - 6-12-1938", "page_number": 19, "title": "CO129-568-2 Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps- vacancy for Commandant 9-2-1938 - 6-12-1938", "content_text": "Tel. No.—Whitehall 9400.\n\nAny further communication on this subject should be addressed to:\n\nThe Under-Secretary of State,\n\nThe War Office,\n\nLondon, S.W.1,\n\nand the following number quoted.\n\n074/954. (14.S.1.a.)\n\n30 APR 038\n\nNATION\n\nFOR DISA\n\nCHEME\n\nED MEN\n\n3\n\nTHE WAR OFFICE,\n\nLONDON. S.W.1.\n\n38-April, 1938.\n\n19\n\nSir,\n\nC. C. ROGE\n\nI am commanded by the Army Council to acknowledge receipt of your letter No.53628/38 dated 22nd March, 1938, concerning the appointment of an officer to succeed Captain (local Lieutenant-Colonel) R. C. B. Anderson, M.C., of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, as Commandant, Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps.\n\nIn reply, I am to refer to War Office letter No.074/954 (M.S.1.) 5m6272/37 dated 16th November, 1937, paragraph 3, under which consideration of the substantive rank of the Commandant of the Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps was deferred until a later date. If, as suggested in your letter, the pay of the appointment is to be raised to £1,250 a year, the Council consider that a substantive Lieutenant-Colonel should be appointed to the post. I am, therefore, to enquire whether the figure of £1,250 can be taken as definite, and, if so, whether Mr. Secretary Ormsby Gore is agreeable that the Selection Board shall be asked to select a Major to assume this appointment in the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel.\n\nWith regard to paragraph 3 of your letter, the Council consider that the suggested sum of £1,250 a year should be regarded as being made up of pay at the rate of £1,100 a year plus £150 a year command pay.\n\nWith regard to paragraph 4, the Council do not demur to the opinion expressed by the Governor as to the desirability of continuing the arrangement for providing a full-time Commandant with Regular Army experience for the Volunteer Corps. At the same time they adhere to the view expressed in previous correspondence with the General Officer Commanding the British Troops in China, to which the Governor refers; they accordingly request that Mr. Secretary Ormsby Gore will represent to the Governor their considered opinion that the opportunity should now be taken to revert to the normal procedure whereby the Colony would accept liability for the full remuneration of the officer serving as Adjutant of the Volunteer Corps.\n\nThe Under Secretary of State,\n\nColonial Office,\n\nI am,\n\nSir,\n\nYour obedient Servant,\n\nMt Widdows.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-568-2 Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps- vacancy for Commandant 9-2-1938 - 6-12-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 558656, "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": "CO129-568-2 Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps- vacancy for Commandant 9-2-1938 - 6-12-1938", "page_number": 20, "title": "CO129-568-2 Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps- vacancy for Commandant 9-2-1938 - 6-12-1938", "content_text": "C. O.\n\nMCS 19\n\nAnsd 3\n\n53628/38. Hong Kong.\n\nMr. Bickle. 3/38\n\nMr.\n\nMr.\n\nJesu-16\n\nSir H. Moore.\n\nSir G. Tomlinson.\n\nSir C. Bottomley.\n\nSir J. Shuckburgh.\n\nPermt. U.S. of S.\n\nParly. U.S. of S.\n\nSecretary of State.\n\nDRAFT.\n\nTHE UNDER SECRETARY\n\nOF STATE,\n\nWAR OFFICE.\n\nSir,\n\nDowning Street,\n\n22 March, 1938.\n\nI am directed to request you to inform the\n\nArmy Council that a despatch has been received\n\nfrom the Governor of Hong Kong, reporting that\n\nhe has approved of Captain (Local Lieutenant-\n\nColonel) R. C. B. Anderson, M.C., The Argyll and\n\nSutherland Highlanders, relinquishing his\n\nappointment as Commandant, Hong Kong Volunteer\n\nDefence Corps, and proceeding home on such leave\n\nas may be due to him about the end of July, 1938.\n\n2.\n\nThe Governor states that it is\n\nFURTHER ACTION.\n\ndesirable that Captain Anderson's successor\n\nshould arrive in the Colony by the beginning of\n\nAugust, 1938, in order to become accustomed to\n\nhis duties before the annual training period\n\nbegins on the 1st of September. The Secretary\n\nof State would, therefore, be obliged if the\n\nCouncil would be so good as to recommend suitable\n\ncandidates\n\n(*801-150)\n\nWt. 13952-47 10,000 6/37 T.S. 695 (*1632-150) Wt. 32179-71 20,000 12/37 T.S. 695\n\nPage 20\n\nPage 21", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-568-2 Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps- vacancy for Commandant 9-2-1938 - 6-12-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 558659, "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": "CO129-568-2 Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps- vacancy for Commandant 9-2-1938 - 6-12-1938", "page_number": 23, "title": "CO129-568-2 Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps- vacancy for Commandant 9-2-1938 - 6-12-1938", "content_text": "NX SECRET.\n\nCopy to H. E. the G.O.C.\n\nGOVERNMENT HOUSE,\n\nHONG KONG.\n\n4th February, 1938.\n\nSir,\n\n23\n\nDespatch No.407 of 10th\n\n6\n\nWith reference to the despatches noted in the margin I have the honour to inform you that I have approved of Captain (local Lieutenant-Colonel) R.C.B.Anderson, M.C., The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, relinquishing his appointment as Commandant, Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps, and proceeding home on such leave as may be due to him about the end of July, 1938.\n\nOctober, 1935, from Secretary of State. 52380 CR. Despatch Secret of 4th May 14/15/36 1936, to Secretary of State Despatch Secret of 19th 1936, from Secretary of State.\n\n2.\n\nIt is desirable that his successor should arrive by the beginning of August, 1938, in order to become accustomed to the work before the annual training period begins on the 1st of September, and I shall be glad if steps may be taken early to select a suitable candidate on similar terms and conditions to those governing the appointment of Lieutenant-Colonel Anderson.\n\n3. As regards salary I have reached the conclusion that it would be desirable to appoint an officer of somewhat greater seniority and I suggest that Captain Anderson's successor should be of the rank of Major, retaining the local rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. If this is agreed it\n\nTHE RIGHT HONOURABLE\n\nW.G.A. ORMSBY-GORE, P.C., M.P.,\n\n&c.,\n\n&c., &c.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-568-2 Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps- vacancy for Commandant 9-2-1938 - 6-12-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 559479, "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": "CO129-569-4 Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps 29-8-1938 - 21-12-1938", "page_number": 15, "title": "CO129-569-4 Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps 29-8-1938 - 21-12-1938", "content_text": "H.K.V.D.C. No.16/38.\n\nSubject: Alliances.\n\nThe Honourable\n\nH.V.D.C. HEADQUARTERS,\n\nHong Kong, 12th September, 1938.\n\nThe Colonial Secretary.\n\nSir,\n\n(1) With reference to the attached copy of a letter from the Colonel Commandant, Royal Army Pay Corps, I have the honour to request that sanction may be given for an alliance between the Royal Army Pay Corps and the Pay Section of the Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps.\n\n(2) The Pay Section of the Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps was formed on 1st June 1937 and now consists of one Captain, 5 Warrant Officers and 9 Sergeants.\n\n(3) The Section's duties in the event of mobilization are exactly the same as those of the Royal Army Pay Corps, under whose direction they would work. The Section is trained for those duties during peace time by Warrant Officers of the Royal Army Pay Corps under the direction of the Command Paymaster, China Command.\n\n(4) I am of the opinion that should the alliance be sanctioned the close liaison which already exists between the Royal Army Pay Corps and the Pay Section, Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps, would be firmly cemented and the Pay Section in particular would be proud of and benefit from the greater kinship resulting from the alliance.\n\nI have, &c.,\n\n(Sd.) H. B. Rose,\n\nLt.-Colonel,\n\nCommandant, Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-569-4 Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps 29-8-1938 - 21-12-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 567311, "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": "CO129-579-9 Sino-Japanese War- release of interned Chinese soldiers 27-1-1939 - 7-12-1939", "page_number": 43, "title": "CO129-579-9 Sino-Japanese War- release of interned Chinese soldiers 27-1-1939 - 7-12-1939", "content_text": "It is my opinion that the V.C.O. and Riflemen concerned acted correctly, in accordance with their orders.\n\nIt is evident that until a high barbed wire fence is built round the Camp attempts to escape will continue to be made. In all, 22 attempts have been made to date.\n\n10th January, 1939.\n\n(signed) J.H.L. Hindmarsh.\n\nLieutenant-Colonel.\n\nCommandant, 1st Kumaon Rifles.\n\nCertified true copy.\n\nKowloon.\n\n10th January, 1939.\n\n(Signed) Lawder. Captain.\n\nAdjutant, 1st Kumaon Rifles.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-579-9 Sino-Japanese War- release of interned Chinese soldiers 27-1-1939 - 7-12-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 567313, "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": "CO129-579-9 Sino-Japanese War- release of interned Chinese soldiers 27-1-1939 - 7-12-1939", "page_number": 45, "title": "CO129-579-9 Sino-Japanese War- release of interned Chinese soldiers 27-1-1939 - 7-12-1939", "content_text": "46\n\n1st Witness.\n\nCaptain R.J.F.A. Lawder, Adjutant, 1st Kumaon Rifles states: I produce signed copies of the following documents:-\n\n(i) Orders for the Commandant of the Guard Chinese Soldiers Internment Camp dated 3/12/38, Signed by the Brigadier i/c Administration, China Command.\n\n(ii) Orders for the Guard Commander, Internment Camp.\n\n(iii) Orders for sentries.\n\nRoman Urdu copies of all these are kept in the camp. Note. Copies of these orders are attached to the proceedings.\n\nsd. R.J.F.A. Lawder.\n\n2nd Witness.\n\nCaptain.\n\nAdjutant 1st Kumaon Rifles.\n\nNo. 11199 L/Nk. Narain Singh, 1st Kumaon Rifles states:-\n\nAt the Chinese Prisoners Internment Camp at MA TAU CHUNG on 2nd January. I was in command of the guard. At 2 p.m. I posted the three day sentries explaining to them their orders. I produce a copy in Roman Urdu of the orders.\n\n(This is examined by the Court and found to be an accurate translation of the orders for sentries produced by the Adjutant 1st witness.)\n\nThe sentry on No.1 post by the gate was Rifleman Dhan Singh D Company.\n\nAt five minutes to four I heard the sound of a shot, turned out the guard and hurried down to find out what was happening.\n\nI saw a large crowd of Chinese Prisoners about ten yards from No.1 sentry post.\n\nI did not see a wounded man.\n\nSubadar Puran Chand, I, and six riflemen went inside the wire with three Sikh Police.\n\nThe Police told the Chinese crowd in Chinese to disperse.\n\nThey refused and commenced to stone us.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-579-9 Sino-Japanese War- release of interned Chinese soldiers 27-1-1939 - 7-12-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 567320, "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": "CO129-579-9 Sino-Japanese War- release of interned Chinese soldiers 27-1-1939 - 7-12-1939", "page_number": 52, "title": "CO129-579-9 Sino-Japanese War- release of interned Chinese soldiers 27-1-1939 - 7-12-1939", "content_text": "53\n\n1\n\nCOPY.\n\nSECRET.\n\nORDERS FOR THE COMMANDANT OF THE GUARD. CHINESE SOLDIERS INTERNMENT CAMP.\n\n1. You will act as Commandant of the Internment Camp for soldiers of the Chinese Army.\n\n2. As commandant you are responsible for the safe custody of all interned Chinese soldiers, officers and men.\n\n3. You will be assisted by the Civil Police in maintaining strict discipline amongst the internees in the camp. (The internees are organized into squads under their own leaders who are in turn responsible to you through the Civil Police for the good behaviour of their squads.)\n\n4. To enable you to enforce discipline and to prevent interned soldiers from escaping, you are given complete discretion to take such action as you may consider necessary to cope with the situation. The sentries furnished from the Guard under your command are hereby authorized, as a very final resort only, to open fire on an internee attempting to escape or on the ring leader in a mass disturbance. The fact that such action will be taken by the Guard in these circumstances will be clearly explained, through the Civil Police, to the internees at frequent intervals.\n\n5. Should it become necessary for you to give orders to open fire, or for a sentry to shoot on an escaping internee, aim will be low but shooting will be for effect. Shots will be aimed at the front of the crowd in a disturbance or at conspicuous individual ring-leaders.\n\n6. You will immediately communicate any unusual occurrence in connection with the internees through your Unit to the Duty Officer at Command Headquarters.\n\nHong Kong, 3/12/1938.\n\nKowloon. 3.1.39.\n\n1\n\nSd. x x x x x\nBrigadier, China Command.\nA.A. & Q.M.G. i/c Administration\n\nsd. R.J.F.A. Lawder, Captain.\nAdjutant, 1st Kumaon Rifles.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-579-9 Sino-Japanese War- release of interned Chinese soldiers 27-1-1939 - 7-12-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 567324, "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": "CO129-579-9 Sino-Japanese War- release of interned Chinese soldiers 27-1-1939 - 7-12-1939", "page_number": 56, "title": "CO129-579-9 Sino-Japanese War- release of interned Chinese soldiers 27-1-1939 - 7-12-1939", "content_text": "57\n\nIt is my opinion\n\nDhan\n\ni. that No.12575 Rifleman/Singh carried out his orders in firing on the internee attempting to escape, having first given adequate warning, and that no blame can be attached to him;\n\nii. that No.12025 Rifleman Rattan Singh was justified in bayonetting the internee who attempted to wrest his rifle from him;\n\niii. that Subadar Puran Chand, the Camp Commandant at the time, was justified in ordering his men to fix bayonets when quelling the disturbance subsequent to the shooting of the internee, and that the steps he took to deal with the situation were correct.\n\n2.\n\nI consider that immediate steps should be taken to heighten the fence surrounding the camp. This was recommended to the Police authorities in my No.I.S/66 of 28th December. I feel that a fence of more formidable appearance would discourage attempts to escape.\n\n3.\n\nThe fact that repeated attempts to escape have been made, in spite of adequate warnings to the internees on the part of the Police, appears to me to point to the fact that the internees did not realise that the sentries would fire for effect.\n\nHong Kong.\n\n3rd January, 1939.\n\nsd. J.H.L. Hindmarsh.\n\nLieutenant-Colonel.\n\nCommandant, 1st Kumaon Rifles.\n\n(Certified true copy).\n\n1\n\nKowloon\n\nHong Kong\n\n3rd January, 1939.\n\nsd. R.J.F.A. Lawder\n\nCaptain.\n\nAdjutant, 1st Kumaon Rifles.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-579-9 Sino-Japanese War- release of interned Chinese soldiers 27-1-1939 - 7-12-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 575430, "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": "CO129-590-23 Situation in Hong Kong 25-4-1905 - 25-4-1905", "page_number": 72, "title": "CO129-590-23 Situation in Hong Kong 25-4-1905 - 25-4-1905", "content_text": "## 71\n\nFor Bayard, Captain (of the Reserve of Artillery) Vidal, Director of the P.W.D. (Travaux Publics) we were able to go through French Territory without being seen. The French authorities had a warrant out for my arrest.\n\n## 14\n\nLuchow - Captain Vidal, if he were approached very carefully, would certainly be willing to give information about Hong Kong and Indo-China. From Fort Bayard we travelled via Wat-Lam-Luichow-Kweilin-Kweyang-Kuming-Calcutta. The Chinese authorities gave us identity papers in their territory, and the Free French Delegate at Chungking, Commandant Escarra, having sent us funds to Kweiling we continued our journey through to India.\n\n(Sgd.) P. Biau.\n\nNew Delhi,\n16th May, 1942.\n\n**Technical Councillor**\n**Free French Equatorial Africa.**\nex Free French leader for Hongkong.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-590-23 Situation in Hong Kong 25-4-1905 - 25-4-1905.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 576606, "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": "CO129-591-10 Military Administration 16-1-1945 - 28-3-1946", "page_number": 114, "title": "CO129-591-10 Military Administration 16-1-1945 - 28-3-1946", "content_text": "114\n\nAppx to War Office Umi 083/6311(AG1A) dated 20 Aug 45\n\nCIVIL AFFAIRS STAFF, HONG KONG\n\nREQUIREMENTS FOR IMMEDIATE IMPLEMENTATION\n\nDirector of civil affairs (brigadier)\n\nDeputy director of civil affairs (colonel)\n\nWarrant officer class I (personal asst)\n\nSECRETARIAT\n\nAssistant director of civil affairs\n\nDeputy assistant director of civil affairs\n\nStaff captain, civil affairs\n\nClerks, general duties\n\nGENERAL ADMINISTRATION\n\nDeputy director of civil affairs (colonel)\n\n'A' Section -\n\n \n Officers\n 1\n \n \n Warrant officers Class I\n 3\n \n \n Warrant officers Class II\n 1\n \n \n Staff-serjeants\n 1\n \n \n Serjeants\n 2\n \n \n Corporals\n 4\n \n \n Lance/Corporals\n \n \n \n Privates\n 1\n \n\nDeputy assistant director of civil affairs 'Q' Section\n\nDeputy assistant director of civil affairs\n\nClerks, general duties\n\n \n 1\n 1\n \n\nINTERNAL ADMINISTRATION\n\nCamp commandant (major)\n\nQuartermaster\n\nCompany serjeant-major\n\nCompany quartermaster-serjeant\n\n \n 1\n 1\n 1\n 1\n \n\nClerks, general duties\n\nCENTRAL EXECUTIVE BRANCH\n\nDeputy director of civil affairs (colonel)\n\nAssistant director of civil affairs\n\n \n 1\n 1\n \n\nPrinting Section\n\nDeputy assistant director of civil affairs\n\n \n 1\n \n\nPublic relations & broadcasting Section\n\nDeputy assistant director of civil affairs\n\n \n 1\n \n\nRegistration Section\n\nDeputy assistant director of civil affairs\n\nEducation\n\n \n 1\n 1\n \n\nAssistant director of civil affairs\n\n \n 1\n \n\nAir services\n\nAssistant director of civil affairs\n\n \n 1\n \n\nTelecommunications & electrical Section\n\nAssistant director of civil affairs\n\n \n 1\n \n\nDeputy assistant directors of civil affairs\n\nClerks, general duties\n\n \n 2\n 3\n \n\nFINANCE BRANCH\n\nDeputy assistant director of civil affairs\n\nClerks, general duties\n\n \n 1\n 3\n \n\n5\n\n75\n\nLEGAL BRANCH\n\nDeputy director of civil affairs (colonel)\n\nClerks, general duties\n\n \n 1\n 2\n \n\nPOLICE AND PRISONS\n\nDeputy director of civil affairs (colonel)\n\n \n 1\n \n\n+\n\n1\n\n7\n\nTotal", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-591-10 Military Administration 16-1-1945 - 28-3-1946.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 577273, "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": "CO129-591-18 Liberation of Hong Kong- arrangements for Japanese surrender 15-8-1945 - 19-4-1946", "page_number": 31, "title": "CO129-591-18 Liberation of Hong Kong- arrangements for Japanese surrender 15-8-1945 - 19-4-1946", "content_text": "Page 5 of Commander-in-Chief's, Hongkong No. C. in C. Hongkong 5/67/3\n\nof 6th October, 1945.\n\n31\n\n25.\n\n5th September\n\nOn 5th September I moved ashore to Government House with my personal staff and Captain E.G.A. Clifford, RN., Chief Staff Officer to Rear Admiral Commanding 1st Battle Squadron, whom Admiral Daniel had lent me as Chief of Staff. Captain A.H.T. Fleming, my Chief Staff Officer as Flag Officer Commanding, 11th Aircraft Carrier Squadron, remained in INDOMITABLE with A.C. 11's Office Staff to assist B.S. 1 in the administration of the Aircraft Carriers.\n\nBy this time the situation in both Hongkong Island and Kowloon was comparatively quiet, the only trouble being petty looting by Chinese.\n\n26.\n\n6th September\n\nVENGEANCE and INDEFATIGABLE arrived on 6th September from Leyte.\n\nThe Japanese Forces, acting under instructions from me, disarmed themselves, placing their small arms etc. in dumps and confining themselves within a given area of Kowloon city. It was not possible to place them in camps as British Prisoners of War were still in occupation. It was notable that, although specific instructions were given that all swords were to be turned in labelled with the owner's name, not one appeared. The excuse given was that all the swords had been taken by British troops as souvenirs, which, in fact, was not true.\n\n7th September\n\n27. Brigadier D.M. MacDougall and twelve senior Civil Affairs officers arrived on 7th September, having made the journey from Madras in one hop. Mr. John Keswick, who is attached to the British Embassy in Chungking and has been Political Liaison Officer in South East Asia Command, also arrived as Political Liaison Officer on my staff.\n\n28.\n\nAn ex-Japanese submarine chaser was commissioned as H.M.S. TAMAR, Base Ship, Hongkong.\n\n8th September\n\n29. Six cargo \"SAH\" ships carrying the equipment for the SHIELD Force arrived on 8th September and prepared to unload their cargo. The R.A.F. by this time had completely taken over the occupation of Kai Tak airfield and the bulk of the policing duties in Kowloon.\n\n30.\n\nDuring the day some of the more notorious of the Japanese war criminals were rounded up and confined in Victoria Jail, including the Commandant of the Prisoner of War camps. Several others, however, escaped before our arrival and efforts are now being made to trace them.\n\nThe total number of Japanese disarmed was approximately 18,000, but about 3,000 were still at large in the New Territories.\n\n31.\n\nOn the evening of 8th September, as a result of a meeting with Brigadier MacDougall, Mr. Gimson and Mr. Butters, Financial Secretary and Controller of Currency, a signal was made to War Office regarding Civil Affairs presenting the currency situation in the Colony and giving proposals for the issue of overprinted Japanese Military Yen notes as emergency currency until the arrival of Hongkong dollars.\n\n9th September\n\n32. Rear Admiral Fleet Train (Rear Admiral D.B. Fisher, C.B., C.B.E.), arrived on 9th September in MONTCLARE together with other units of the Fleet Train.\n\nOn 9th September Major General Pan Hwa Kuo, Chinese representative to the surrender of Hongkong, Colonel Adrian Williamson, United States representative and about a dozen other senior officers of the Chinese Military Delegation to Hongkong arrived from Kunming by air.\n\n/General Pan", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-591-18 Liberation of Hong Kong- arrangements for Japanese surrender 15-8-1945 - 19-4-1946.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 577493, "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": "CO129-591-18 Liberation of Hong Kong- arrangements for Japanese surrender 15-8-1945 - 19-4-1946", "page_number": 251, "title": "CO129-591-18 Liberation of Hong Kong- arrangements for Japanese surrender 15-8-1945 - 19-4-1946", "content_text": "250\n\n28. An ex-Japanese submarine chaser was commissioned as H.M.S. TALAR, Base Ship, Hong Kong.\n\n8th September\n\n29. Six cargo \"SAM\" ships carrying the equipment for the SHIELD Force arrived on 8th September and prepared to unload their cargo. The R.A.F. by this time had completely taken over the occupation of Kai Tak airfield and the bulk of the policing duties in Kowloon.\n\n30. During the day some of the more notorious of the Japanese war criminals were rounded up and confined in Victoria Jail, including the Commandant of the Prisoner of War camps. Several others, however, escaped before our arrival and efforts are now being made to trace them.\n\nThe total number of Japanese disarmed was approximately 18,000, but 3,000 were still at large in the New Territories,\n\n31. On the evening of 8th September, as a result of a meeting with Brigadier MacDougall, Mr. Gimson and Mr. Butters, Financial Secretary and Controller of Currency, a signal was made to War Office for Civil Affairs presenting the currency situation in the Colony and giving proposals for the issue of overprinted Japanese Military Yen notes as emergency currency until the arrival of Hong Kong dollars.\n\n9th September\n\n32. Rear Admiral Fleet Train (Rear Admiral D.B. Fisher, C.B., C.B.E.), arrived on 9th September in MONTCLARE together with other units of the Fleet Train.\n\nOn 9th September Major General Pan Hwa Kuo, Chinese representative to the surrender of Hong Kong, Colonel Adrian Williamson, United States representative and about a dozen other senior officers of the Chinese Military Delegation to Hong Kong arrived from Kunming by air. General Pan, Colonel Williamson and Colonel Lew came to stay at Government House,\n\nCaptain E.W. Billyard-Leake, D.S.O., R.N. (Retd.) Naval Attache at Chungking also arrived for a short visit.\n\n33.\n\n11th September.\n\nDuring the forenoon of 11th September H.M.C.S. ONTARIO, H.M.T.S. LLANSTEPHAN CASTLE and GLENGYLE and H.M.S. STRIKER arrived with the 3rd Commando Brigade under the command of Brigadier O.R. Hardy, D.S.O., R.M. Taking passage in ONTARIO was Major General F.W. Festing, C.B.E., D.S.O., General Officer Commanding Land Troops, Hong Kong, and a small staff. The Commando Brigade commenced disembarkation at once, two Commandos going to Kowloon and one to Victoria.\n\n340\n\n12th September.\n\nOn 12th September I convened a meeting of the several Landing Force Commanders, General Festing, Brigadier Hardy and other Commando officers to arrange for the Army to take over certain areas now patrolled by the Navy and R.A.F. Major General Festing took over control of all forces employed on the preservation of law and order,\n\n13th September.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-591-18 Liberation of Hong Kong- arrangements for Japanese surrender 15-8-1945 - 19-4-1946.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 577502, "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": "CO129-591-18 Liberation of Hong Kong- arrangements for Japanese surrender 15-8-1945 - 19-4-1946", "page_number": 260, "title": "CO129-591-18 Liberation of Hong Kong- arrangements for Japanese surrender 15-8-1945 - 19-4-1946", "content_text": "259\n\n28. An ex-Japanese submarine chaser was commissioned as H.M.S. TAMAR, Base Ship, Hong Kong.\n\n8th September\n\n29. Six cargo \"SAM\" ships carrying the equipment for the SHIELD Force arrived on 8th September and prepared to unload their cargo. The R.A.F. by this time had completely taken over the occupation of Kai Tak airfield and the bulk of the policing duties in Kowloon.\n\n30.\n\nDuring the day some of the more notorious of the Japanese war criminals were rounded up and confined in Victoria Jail, including the Commandant of the Prisoner of War camps. Several others, however, escaped before our arrival and efforts are now being made to trace them.\n\nThe total number of Japanese disarmed was approximately 18,000, but 3,000 were still at large in the New Territories.\n\n31. On the evening of 8th September, as a result of a meeting with Brigadier MacDougall, Mr. Gimson and Mr. Butters, Financial Secretary and Controller of Currency, a signal was made to War Office for Civil Affairs presenting the currency situation in the Colony and giving proposals for the issue of overprinted Japanese Military Yen notes as emergency currency until the arrival of Hong Kong dollars.\n\n9th September\n\n32. Rear Admiral Fleet Train (Rear Admiral D.B. Fisher, C.B., C.B.E.), arrived on 9th September in MONTCLARE together with other units of the Fleet Train.\n\nOn 9th September Major General Pan Hwa Kuo, Chinese representative to the surrender of Hong Kong, Colonel Adrian Williamson, United States representative and about a dozen other senior officers of the Chinese Military Delegation to Hong Kong arrived from Kunming by air. General Pan, Colonel Williamson and Colonel Lew came to stay at Government House,\n\nCaptain E.W. Billyard-Leake, D.S.O., R.N. (Retd.) Naval Attache at Chungking also arrived for a short visit.\n\n33.\n\n11th September.\n\nDuring the forenoon of 11th September H.M.C.S. ONTARIO, H.M.T.S. LLANSTEPHAN CASTLE and GLENGYLE and H.M.S. STRIKER arrived with the 3rd Commando Brigade under the command of Brigadier C.R. Hardy, D.S.O., R.M. Taking passage in ONTARIO was Major General F.W. Festing, C.B.E., D.S.O., General Officer Commanding Land Troops, Hong Kong, and a small staff. The Commando Brigade commenced disembarkation at once, two Commandos going to Kowloon and one to Victoria.\n\n34.\n\n12th September.\n\nOn 12th September I convened a meeting of the several Landing Force Commanders, General Festing, Brigadier Hardy and other Commando officers to arrange for the Army to take over certain areas now patrolled by the Navy and R.A.F. Major General Festing took over control of all forces employed on the preservation of law and order,\n\n15th September.\n\nPage 260\n\nPage 261", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-591-18 Liberation of Hong Kong- arrangements for Japanese surrender 15-8-1945 - 19-4-1946.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 577511, "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": "CO129-591-18 Liberation of Hong Kong- arrangements for Japanese surrender 15-8-1945 - 19-4-1946", "page_number": 269, "title": "CO129-591-18 Liberation of Hong Kong- arrangements for Japanese surrender 15-8-1945 - 19-4-1946", "content_text": "268\n\n28.\n\nAn ex-Japanese submarine chaser was commissioned as H.M.S. TAMAR, Base Ship, Hong Kong.\n\n8th September\n\n29. Six cargo \"SAM\" ships carrying the equipment for the SHIELD Force arrived on 8th September and prepared to unload their cargo. The R.A.F. by this time had completely taken over the occupation of Kai Tak airfield and the bulk of the policing duties in Kowloon.\n\n30. During the day some of the more notorious of the Japanese war criminals were rounded up and confined in Victoria Jail, including the Commandant of the Prisoner of War camps. Several others, however, escaped before our arrival and efforts are now being made to trace them.\n\nThe total number of Japanese disarmed was approximately 18,000, but 3,000 were still at large in the New Territories.\n\n31. On the evening of 8th September, as a result of a meeting with Brigadier MacDougall, Mr. Gimson and Lt. Butters, Financial Secretary and Controller of Currency, a signal was made to War Office for Civil Affairs presenting the currency situation in the Colony and giving proposals for the issue of overprinted Japanese Military Yen notes as emergency currency until the arrival of Hong Kong dollars.\n\n9th September\n\n32. Rear Admiral Fleet Train (Rear Admiral D.B. Fisher, C.B., C.B.E.), arrived on 9th September in MONTCLARE together with other units of the Fleet Train.\n\nOn 9th September Major General Pan Hwa Kuo, Chinese representative to the surrender of Hong Kong, Colonel Adrian Williamson, United States representative and about a dozen other senior officers of the Chinese Military Delegation to Hong Kong arrived from Kunming by air. General Pan, Colonel Williamson and Colonel Lew came to stay at Government House.\n\nCaptain E.W. Billyard-Leake, D.S.O., R.N. (Retd.) Naval Attache at Chungking also arrived for a short visit.\n\n33.\n\n11th September.\n\nDuring the forenoon of 11th September H.M.C.S. ONTARIO, H.M.T.S. LLANSTEPHAN CASTLE and GLENGYLE and H.M.S. STRIKER arrived with the 3rd Commando Brigade under the command of Brigadier C.R. Hardy, D.S.O., R.M. Taking passage in ONTARIO was Major General F.W. Festing, C.B., D.S.O., General Officer Commanding Land Troops, Hong Kong, and a small staff. The Commando Brigade commenced disembarkation at once, two Commandos going to Kowloon and one to Victoria.\n\n34.\n\n12th September.\n\nOn 12th September I convened a meeting of the several Landing Force Commanders, General Festing, Brigadier Hardy and other Commando officers to arrange for the Army to take over certain areas now patrolled by the Navy and R.A.F. Major General Festing took over control of all forces employed on the preservation of law and order,\n\n13th September.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-591-18 Liberation of Hong Kong- arrangements for Japanese surrender 15-8-1945 - 19-4-1946.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 577520, "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": "CO129-591-18 Liberation of Hong Kong- arrangements for Japanese surrender 15-8-1945 - 19-4-1946", "page_number": 278, "title": "CO129-591-18 Liberation of Hong Kong- arrangements for Japanese surrender 15-8-1945 - 19-4-1946", "content_text": "277\n\n28. An ex-Japanese submarine chaser was commissioned as H.M.S. TAMAR, Base Ship, Hong Kong.\n\n8th September\n\n29. Six cargo \"SAM\" ships carrying the equipment for the SHIELD Force arrived on 8th September and prepared to unload their cargo. The R.A.F. by this time had completely taken over the occupation of Kai Tak airfield and the bulk of the policing duties in Kowloon.\n\n50.\n\nDuring the day, some of the more notorious of the Japanese war criminals were rounded up and confined in Victoria Jail, including the Commandant of the Prisoner of War camps. Several others, however, escaped before our arrival, and efforts are now being made to trace them.\n\nThe total number of Japanese disarmed was approximately 18,000, but 3,000 were still at large in the New Territories.\n\n31. On the evening of 8th September, as a result of a meeting with Brigadier MacDougall, Mr. Gimson, Mr. Butters, Financial Secretary, and Controller of Currency, a signal was made to War Office for Civil Affairs presenting the currency situation in the Colony and giving proposals for the issue of overprinted Japanese Military Yen notes as emergency currency until the arrival of Hong Kong dollars.\n\n9th September\n\n32. Rear Admiral Fleet Train (Rear Admiral D.B. Fisher, C.B., C.B.E.) arrived on 9th September in MONTCLARE, together with other units of the Fleet Train.\n\nOn 9th September, Major General Pan Hwa Kuo, Chinese representative to the surrender of Hong Kong, Colonel Adrian Williamson, United States representative, and about a dozen other senior officers of the Chinese Military Delegation to Hong Kong arrived from Kunming by air. General Pan, Colonel Williamson, and Colonel Lew came to stay at Government House.\n\nCaptain E.W. Billyard-Leake, D.S.O., R.N. (Retd.), Naval Attaché at Chungking, also arrived for a short visit.\n\n33.\n\n11th September.\n\nDuring the forenoon of 11th September, H.M.C.S. ONTARIO, H.M.T.S. LLANSTEPHAN CASTLE and GLENGYLE, and H.M.S. STRIKER arrived with the 3rd Commando Brigade under the command of Brigadier C.R. Hardy, D.S.O., R.M. Taking passage in ONTARIO was Major General F.W. Festing, C.B.E., D.S.O., General Officer Commanding Land Troops, Hong Kong, and a small staff. The Commando Brigade commenced disembarkation at once, two Commandos going to Kowloon and one to Victoria.\n\n34.\n\n12th September.\n\nOn 12th September, I convened a meeting of the several Landing Force Commanders, General Festing, Brigadier Hardy, and other Commando officers to arrange for the Army to take over certain areas now patrolled by the Navy and R.A.F. Major General Festing took over control of all forces employed on the preservation of law and order.\n\n13th September.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-591-18 Liberation of Hong Kong- arrangements for Japanese surrender 15-8-1945 - 19-4-1946.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 578576, "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": "CO129-592-1 Reports on current situation- medical work 3-11-1945 - 7-3-1946", "page_number": 32, "title": "CO129-592-1 Reports on current situation- medical work 3-11-1945 - 7-3-1946", "content_text": "30\n\nanti-toxin, vitamins, sorely needed medical supplies and funds for food purchases into Shamshuipo Camp when I had been denied the privilege of sending in such through Dr. (Captain) Saito and the Camp Commandant. See Appendix IV.\n\n(6) Mr. B. Sekiguchi, Military Interpreter to Colonel Tokunaga, who brought essential drugs, instruments and foodstuffs into Ma Tau Chung Camp where I was the sole doctor from December, 1944, to June, 1945, and who took medical supplies for me to the Central British Military Hospital after underground messages had been received of the urgent need.\n\n(7) Major (Count) Yoshigawa, A.D.C. to the Military Commander in December, 1941, from whom I obtained my first written permits to operate ambulances (collecting wounded), motor hearses, Red Cross trucks to carry food and fuel to hospitals, billetees, cleansing coolie quarters, etc. and motor dustcarts.\n\n(8) Lieutenant Tanaka, O.C. Telecommunications, with whose aid I was able to collect flour and yeast for bread making for sick, interned and prisoners of war, milk for babies, \"siege\", vitamin biscuits and tinned goods for internment camps.\n\n(9) Sergeant Kawaka, Warder, G. Hall, Stanley Prison, who allowed me to treat sick fellow prisoners and to share any food or vitamins which were sent to me at intervals, and who not infrequently gave extra food (including part of his own ration) to prisoners under his charge.\n\nAcknowledgment.\n\nIn concluding this report, I should like to express my great indebtedness to the Hon. Mr. F.C. Gimson for his constant encouragement and valuable support, without which the financial aspect of the problem would have been well-nigh insoluble, and to my wife who made every possible sacrifice to enable me to carry on.\n\n(sgd.) P.S. SELWYN-CLARKE.\n\nDirector of Medical Services, Hong Kong.\n\n20th October, 1945.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-592-1 Reports on current situation- medical work 3-11-1945 - 7-3-1946.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 579987, "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": "CO129-592-9 Future Policy in Hong Kong- Port Administration 13-1-1945 - 4-3-1946", "page_number": 154, "title": "CO129-592-9 Future Policy in Hong Kong- Port Administration 13-1-1945 - 4-3-1946", "content_text": "# Personnel Records\n\nOfficers recommended by the Ministry:\n\n1. Lt/Col. C. R. CLARK, G.M., R.E.\n\nFor the post of Traffic Manager, Hongkong.\n\nWas recommended by the Ministry on 19...\n\n154\n\nLt/Col. C. R. CLARK, G.M., R.E.\n\n1914-1915 Royal Flying Corps and Canadian Field Artillery.\n\n1939 Joined No.3 Docks Group, R.E. on mobilisation. Went to France, 1940 with rank of Captain. In France, he was in charge of 2 main quays at Havre handling personnel and cargoes put ashore there. Evacuated from France June 1940 and appointed Major. 1941 was posted to the Port of Suez and became Dock Superintendent with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. He still holds this post, but since 1943 has carried out the additional duties of A.Q.M.G.(M) in the Southern Canal Area. Has considerable experience of handling native labour in the Middle East.\n\nFrom 1918-1939 Colonel Clark was on the staff of the Traffic Manager of the P.L.A. holding executive positions which gave him experience of all practical out-door phases of warehousing and ships discharge. In 1939 he was in charge of the grain discharge arrangements in the East and West Indies and Millwall Docks.\n\n2. LT/COL P. A. J. HERNU\n\nAge 42.\n\nIn 1941 he became a Major in the Royal Berkshire Regiment and in 1942 was appointed Commandant of the 54th Division Street Fighting School. Later he was transferred to Transportation Branch and proceeded to North Africa as Second-in-Command of Port Operating Group, R.E. Was appointed Port Superintendent at Bone until his Group was transferred to Italy, where he acted as Second-in-Command until he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel and placed in command of No.6 I.W.T. Group in 1945. He has had considerable experience during the war in operating small craft of all kinds.\n\nPrior to the war, he spent most of his time in the firm of Hernu, Peron and Stockwell Limited, Shipping, Continental and Colonial Agents. He had experience overseas in France. His commercial experience brought him into contact with road and rail transport and with the business of Shipping Brokers and Chartering Agents.\n\n3. LT/COL R. R. M. BARR, R.E.\n\nFew particulars are at present available about this officer, but it is known that the Chief Representatives M.W.T. North West Europe praised his work as a Transportation Officer in 21 A.G. and thought well of it.\n\nIt is known that he was in the service of the L & N.E.R before the war and it is believed that he has had considerable experience in Port working since the war broke out. More particulars about him can be fairly readily obtained and his name is included in this statement, because he is known to be a capable and active officer.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-592-9 Future Policy in Hong Kong- Port Administration 13-1-1945 - 4-3-1946.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 584858, "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": "CO129-599-5 Salaries Commission- Appendices to Report 1-1-1947 - 31-12-1949", "page_number": 23, "title": "CO129-599-5 Salaries Commission- Appendices to Report 1-1-1947 - 31-12-1949", "content_text": "## APPENDIX I\n### (A) Government Officers.\n\n| Name | Position |\n| --- | --- |\n| Cheung Yau Kuk | |\n| V. Chittenden | |\n| Chow Yu Cheong | |\n| J.H.S. Duncan | |\n| D.L. Edwards | |\n| N. Garland | |\n| W.R. Hillyer | |\n| Lau Yeu | |\n| M.L. Lawrence | |\n| T.B. Low | |\n| W.L. Morrison | |\n| J.L. Noronha | |\n| A.G. Parker | |\n| F.A. Robertson | |\n| P. Rull | |\n| C.W.L. Spradbery | |\n| Tai Yen Yin | |\n| J.F. Whitefield | |\n\n### Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps\n| Name | Position |\n| --- | --- |\n| Lt. Col. Owen-Hughes | Commandant |\n| Captain J. Weston | Galle |\n\n### Harbour (continued)\n| Name | Position |\n| --- | --- |\n| E. Himsworth | Superintendent |\n\n### Inland Revenue\n| Name | Position |\n| --- | --- |\n| E. Pudney | Commissioner |\n\n### Judiciary\n| Name | Position |\n| --- | --- |\n| Sir Henry Blackall, Kt., K.C. | |\n\n### Kowloon-Canton Railway\n| Name | Position |\n| --- | --- |\n| I.B. Trevor | Manager |\n\n### Labour\n| Name | Position |\n| --- | --- |\n| W.R.M. Andrews | |\n| Cheung Kit Lain | |\n| B.C.K. Hawkins, O.B.E. | Labour Officer |\n\n### Legal\n| Name | Position |\n| --- | --- |\n| J. Griffin, K.C. | Attorney-General |\n| L.R. Andrews | |\n| Pau Shiu Chong | Law Clerk | \n| Latiner | |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-599-5 Salaries Commission- Appendices to Report 1-1-1947 - 31-12-1949.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 589961, "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": "CO129-609-8 Future policy- general views 3-6-1948 - 9-9-1948", "page_number": 36, "title": "CO129-609-8 Future policy- general views 3-6-1948 - 9-9-1948", "content_text": "Evening Standard\n\nMAY CHOICE\n\nWINSTON CLEWES\n\nhis novel. JOURNEY INTO SPRING\n\nBook Society Recommendation\n\nJOSEPH McCULLOCH\n\nTHE DOOR OF THE CAVE\n\n\"Far and away the best book he has written...it speaks to the condition and stresses of thinking people today\n\nDR. J. W. WELCH\n\nMICHAEL JOSEPH\n\nPatrick HAMILTON\n\nNew edition now ready\n\n10/-\n\nTWENTY THOUSAND STREETS UNDER THE SKY\n\nA London Trilogy \"We hope that Mr. Priestley's generous and charming introduction will bring thousands of readers to the work of an artist who has distinction in every turn of phrase and every angle of his richly personal point of view.\"-John o' London\n\nalso\n\nTHE SLAVES OF SOLITUDE\n\n916\n\nConstable\n\nDIED\n\nMON\n\nCOURT CIRCULAR\n\nBUCKINGHAM PALACE, JUNE 1 General Sir Frank Messervy had the honour of being received by The King this morning and presented a plaque to His Majesty on behalf of the 16th Light Cavalry, of which Regiment The King is Colonel-in-Chief.\n\nGeneral Sir Neil Ritchie (Commander-in-Chief, Far East Land Forces) and General Sir John Crocker (Commander-in-Chief, Middle East Land Forces) also had the honour of being received by His Majesty, when The King invested them with the Insignia of Knights Commanders of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath (Military Division).\n\nThe Right Hon. C. R. Attlee, M.P. (Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury), had an audience of His Majesty this evening.\n\nThe Queen, as Colonel-in-Chief, inspected the First Battalion, The Manchester Regiment, at Dunham Park, Altrincham, this afternoon.\n\nThe Lady Hyde and Major Thomas La Harvey were in attendance.\n\nThe Princess Elizabeth, Duchess of Edinburgh, attended by the Hon. Mrs. Andrew Elphinstone, presided at the Annual General Meeting of the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, which was held at the Dorchester Hotel, Park Lane.\n\nThe Earl of Clarendon (Lord Chamberlain), accompanied by Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Terence Nugent (Comptroller, Lord Chamberlain's Office) and Brigadier Norman Gwatkin (Assistant Comptroller, Lord Chamberlain's Office), attended at the Tower of London to-day and, in The King's name and on His Majesty's behalf, delivered the Keys and Custody of His Majesty's Palace and Fortress of the Tower to Field-Marshal the Earl Wavell, as Constable of the Tower, in the room of Field-Marshal the Lord Chetwode, retired.\n\nThe Hon. Mrs. Andrew Elphinstone has succeeded the Lady Margaret Egerton as Lady in Waiting to The Princess Elizabeth, Duchess of Edinburgh.\n\nMARLBOROUGH HOUSE, JUNE 1 The Hon. Margaret Wyndham has succeeded the Lady Cynthia Colville as Lady in Waiting to Queen Mary.\n\nST. JAMES'S PALACE, JUNE 1 The Duchess of Gloucester attended a party given this afternoon at the United Service Club by The Northamptonshire Regiment, of which Her Royal Highness is Colonel-in-Chief.\n\nHer Royal Highness, as Patron of The Rifle Brigade Ladies' Guild, was also present at a party given by the Guild at 6, Stanhope Gate.\n\nMiss Dorothy Meynell was in attendance.\n\nHAREWOOD HOUSE, LEEDS, JUNE 1 The Princess Royal, Commandant-in-Chief, visited British Red Cross Society Flag Day Depôts in the Metropolitan area to-day, and lunched at the Mansion House. Later in the afternoon Her Royal Highness, Colonel-in-Chief, Royal Corps of Signals, attended a regimental At Home at the Hyde Park Hotel.\n\nThe Hon. Mrs. Francis Balfour was in attendance.\n\nThe Emir Feisal of Saudi Arabia, Minister of Foreign Affairs, arrived in London yesterday from New York.\n\nThe Chinese Ambassador held a reception at the Chinese Embassy yesterday in honour of members of His Majesty's Government and the Royal Navy, on the occasion of the transfer of H.M.S. Aurora and other warships to the Chinese Government.\n\nLady Diana Kemp-Welch has bought Dunhamption Cottage, near Stourport-on-Severn, Worcestershire, which is now her permanent address.\n\nField-Marshal Sir Claud Jacob underwent a successful operation on Monday night. His condition yesterday was stated to be as good as could be expected.\n\nMrs. John Kirwan-Taylor gave birth to a daughter in London on June 1.\n\nMEMORIAL SERVICE\n\nEARL FITZWILLIAM\n\nA memorial service for the late (the eighth) Earl Fitzwilliam, who was killed last month in an air accident in France, was held yesterday at St. George's, Hanover Square. The Ven. the Hon. S. H. Phillimore (Archdeacon of Middlesex) officiated. Those present included:-\n\nCountess Fitzwilliam (widow), Maud Countess Fitzwilliam (mother), the Earl and Countess of Wharncliffe (brother-in-law and sister), Lady Joan Philipps and Lady Helena Hilton-Green (sisters). Julia Hilton-Green, Lord and Lady George Dundas, Lady Viola Dundas, Mr. Jack and Lady Lavinia Green, Captain Hector and Lady Jean Christie, Lord Cromwell, Lady Cordeaux, Mrs. David Bethell, Captain and Mrs. David Douglas.\n\nDuke of Reyburche\n\nPROGRESS?\n\nTO-DAY each nation strives to outdo the other in the speed of its jet-engines. Yet no matter how fast a man travels he may none the less lack a decent lodging at his journey's end and have to make shift with a wretched dog-hole.\n\nI cannot wonder that men ask what all our knowledge avails us; for I did read how in Timbuktu they do live as men in the youth of the world, yet in great content, and even the slaves merry. But we do cry up material things and forget what is of true worth.\n\nTo-day men will even pay a great price for the nuts that are got from Brazil; and others do buy their shirts without looking for the \"Sanforized\" label, though this would cost little more and would save them the vexation and expense of shrinkage.\n\nOne of a series. With apologies to Samuel Pepys.\n\n•SANFORIZED.CO.\n\nSHRUNK FABRIC\n\nZALOMMALAKUDANDENONG\n\nIN VENICE\n\nAt the Inauguration of the 24th BIENNALE on June 6th\n\nTHE IMPRESSIONIST EXHIBITION", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-609-8 Future policy- general views 3-6-1948 - 9-9-1948.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 597050, "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": "CO129-623-9 Estimates of Expenditure- includes a report for the year ending March 1952 1-2-1951 - 30-11-1951", "page_number": 81, "title": "CO129-623-9 Estimates of Expenditure- includes a report for the year ending March 1952 1-2-1951 - 30-11-1951", "content_text": "Head 12-HONG KONG DEFENCE FORCE\n\nA-HONG KONG REGIMENT\n\nPersonal Emoluments\n\n \n \n Approved Estimate 1950-51\n Estimate 1951-52\n \n \n \n $\n $\n \n \n A-HONG KONG REGIMENT\n \n \n \n \n Head 12-HONG KONG DEFENCE FORCE\n \n \n \n \n \n $\n $\n \n \n \n 1950-51\n 1951-52\n \n \n Sub-heads\n \n \n \n \n Pensionable establishment\n \n \n \n \n 1 Personal emoluments\n 326,766\n 287,631\n \n \n 1 Administrative Officer ($12,960; $12,960: $13,440×$480-$14,400)\n 14,400\n \n \n \n 1 Armourer ($6,000: $6,000: $6,300×$300 -$7,200: $7,680x$480-$11,520) Clerks Class II ($2,760x$180-$3,300x $300-$4,200)\n 14,400\n 10,467\n \n \n 2 Allowances to instructors\n 23,750\n 10,947\n \n \n 1 Clerks Class III ($1,800: $1,800: $1,920 >$120-$2,040x$180-$2,580)\n 1,857\n 2,420\n \n \n 1 Storekeeper Class II ($2,880 × $180 $3,600)\n 4,077\n 3,600\n \n \n Non-pensionable establishment\n \n \n \n \n 1 Commandant\n \n \n \n \n Command allowance ($6,000)\n \n 6,000\n \n \n 1 Regimental Sergeant Major ($7,200: $7,200 $7,680 x $480-$11,520)\n 10,204\n 9,724\n \n \n 1 Staff Captain ($9,840)\n \n 9,840\n \n \n 1 Woman Confidential Assistant Class II\n \n \n \n \n Other Charges\n \n \n \n \n 4 Camp expenses\n 200,000\n 60,000\n \n \n 5 Casual labour\n \n 9,600\n \n \n 6 Courses of instruction abroad\n 10,000\n \n \n \n 7 Documentation\n 5,000\n \n \n \n 8 Force headquarters expenses\n 5,000\n 2,500\n \n \n 9 Fuel, light, and power\n 55,000\n 55,000\n \n \n 10 Incidental expenses\n 8,000\n 13,500\n \n \n 11 Medals and decorations\n 5,000\n 5,000\n \n \n 12 Publications\n 1,000\n 1,000\n \n \n 13 Rifle ranges\n 3,000\n 2,000\n \n \n 14 Stores\n 10,000\n 5,000\n \n \n 15 Training expenses\n 50,000\n \n \n \n 16 Travelling expenses\n \n 50,000\n \n \n 17 Uniforms\n 2,000\n 3,561\n \n \n 1 Armourer Storeman ($1,800: $1,800×$120 -$2,640)\n 2,640\n \n \n \n 18 Upkeep of vehicles\n 35,000\n 40,000\n \n \n 19 Women's volunteer forces\n \n 120,000\n \n \n 1 Armourer Assistant Class I ($1,344×$48— $1,536)\n 1,536\n \n \n \n 1 Armourer Assistant Class II ($972×$36— $1,296)\n 1,011\n 1,047\n \n \n 1 Armourer Attendant ($768× $24-$960)\n 794\n 818\n \n \n 1 Motor Driver ($1,152X$48-$1,536)\n 1,184\n 1,536\n \n \n Special Expenditure\n \n \n \n \n 20 H.K.V.D.C. pay and allowances\n 20,000\n 20,000\n \n \n 21 Motor transport\n \n 30,000\n \n \n 1 Telephone Operator ($1,800: $1,800: $1,920×$120-$2,880)\n 1,800\n 1,920\n \n \n 1 Office Attendant ($768x$24-$960)\n 808\n 832\n \n \n 1 Range Warden ($768×$24-$960)\n 960\n 960\n \n \n Messengers ($528x$24-$720)\n \n \n \n \n Watchmen ($624×$24-$720)\n 1,112\n 1,160\n \n \n Coolies ($528×$24-$720)\n \n \n \n \n Temporary staff.\n 3,305\n 3,411\n \n \n Total Special Expenditure\n 489,976\n 539,976\n \n \n Total Expenditure\n 1,049,316\n 1,234,507\n \n \n Seconded army personnel\n 205,753\n \n \n \n Casual labour\n \n 164,608\n \n \n (7) Provided for under Other Charges\n \n \n \n \n (3) One new post\n \n \n \n \n Expatriation pay\n 7,360\n 7,360\n \n \n Overtime allowance\n 16,000\n 16,000\n \n \n Total Personal Emoluments\n 326,766\n 287,631\n \n \n (1) Stipulated increments\n \n \n \n \n (2) One post previously provided for under temporary staff\n \n \n \n \n (4) Personnel changed\n \n \n \n \n (5) Provides for: Three Clerks ($150 per month)\n \n \n \n \n (6) Personnel reduced\n \n \n \n \n (8) Previously overestimated\n \n \n \n \n (9) Title changed from Ammunition\n \n \n \n \n (10) More training provided\n \n \n \n \n (11) Previously under Emoluments\n \n \n \n \n (12) Fewer courses\n \n \n \n \n (13) Previously underestimated\n \n \n \n \n (14) Economy measure\n \n \n \n \n (15) Balance of outstanding claims\n \n \n \n \n (16) More vehicles\n \n \n \n \n (17) New item\n \n \n \n\nPage 96", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-623-9 Estimates of Expenditure- includes a report for the year ending March 1952 1-2-1951 - 30-11-1951.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 } ]