[ { "id": 216545, "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": "CO129-001 - Sir Hug Cough-s China Military Correspondences - 1841-1843", "page_number": 29, "title": "CO129-001 - Sir Hug Cough-s China Military Correspondences - 1841-1843", "content_text": "\n\nو کچھ ہو گی کیو \n\nCaptai \n\nthe 21th. Major General Schoed de 's \n\nodde's Brigade, the ::/: (27) consisting of the troops \n\nnamed in the \n\nда \n\nwas missed to band at day-light under the bluff bought worth of the city; and the allajos Generat \n\nwas unstructed to take \n\nthat \n\nCo \n\nd \n\noccupy \n\nthe two hills \n\nand the north angle of the wall, and East faces, with directions \n\nthreaten the north and \n\nú.. \n\nto tuon this diversion into. \n\n· found it practicable without ericis \n\nreal attack, if he much loss. caring The pet Brigade, \n\nunder Maps \n\nMangal Volunteer Letter at Stop General Lord Saltown, \n\ncans Seftoned Fradle \n\nHaut 61. ber 12. S \n\nZ Regiment \n\nMajor Campbell Sofitel for patt \n\nComa; \n\ncter Cake \n\ndirected to land at the \n\nsame time below the hell \n\njuposin Klee-shaw, occupy this hill with tempom \n\nthe boops first landed, and \n\n3 form the first open space at its base out of view of the City and encampments, to as li cover the tur ding of the Bugade of under Le Colonel. \n\nMontgomeric of the Manus Achtlery, \n\n45 Mana, A. I. Major 70- 497 Kazemient \n\nCotonal \n\ngun \n\nQ.11. \n\nd of \n\n108 heyet doet Maps Casper Major Genual Batley's \n\nstotine Paphour. Brigade. (the 3?). The pot Brigade, under Loud Saltown, I destines to attack the encampments, white with the 3rd Brigade and the Brigade of Achtlery, I proposed to operate \n\net gates, \n\nand the western face of city, laking advantage of such \n\nmight present themelore \n\nthe \n\nG \n\n\"at the west \n\ntwo wave of ani \n\nThe Brigades of Major benerals \n\nFord Salle un and Schoodides \n\nlight, but consider able \n\nbe on day light \n\ntir \n\n/ \n\nneed. \n\nand landing derable delay book flan effecting the disembarkation from \n\nthe \n\nrapidity \n\nJ. \n\nof the current, the scattered state of the ships, some of whe che mistake \n\nThe guns \n\nd \n\nLit \n\nd from some the part of one of the new steamers. were post landed, an's Majertgenerat \n\nBartley's Brigade followed. Iaccomp. General Lord Saltour's Brigade \n\nMajor ding, \n\nde in lav dere \n\n\" from the stack with already mentioned, had a \"full view of the city and encampments. On the walls of the former but few men appeared, \n\nbut the \n\nlucca-141 \n\n12 to 1500 new \n\nipments were still occupied, though \n\nnot move them from, showed themselves; I therefore directed Lord Saltown to move \n\nthe Je \n\nfouvard at. \n\nd at oure with \n\nde d \n\nScope of his Brigade irst tan \n\n78th Regiment with some comp. \n\nthe \n\nBengal Volunteers and the frant companies, of the 41 m. n. I. tattack \n\n41 m. n. I. to attack and destions the \n\nencampments, \n\nCommunication with \n\nif possible \n\ncut off their tion with the city. Isent is \n\nЗ декаала under Major Anchiether with this Braga.de, and \n\ndetachment of Sappers, in case \n\nch.. \n\nder \n\nTher \n\nshould present themselves. \n\nThe Benge \n\nat Volunteer. landed some time afterwards, \n\nده ام \n\ndifficulties \n\ncompanies of \n\nun doc Major Kent, having Ipent & Major Gough \n\nDeputy Quarter Master General, to accompany them with directions to fall on the enemage right \n\npath \n\nارج الرحم الله \n\nex-2.4. \n\ndulating possibly lead \n\nHank; word Ithought might pofsit the \n\nground, which \n\nموت الرحيم السلم ترسم \n\nsuc \n\nہ سے مجھ \n\nmponent \n\nthen between the \n\nThese three companies frust \n\nwith the \n\nenemy seen, until they \n\nd the Ab \n\nein contact \n\nnot having apparently been come close to the position, \n\nwhen", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-001 - Sir Hug Cough-s China Military Correspondences - 1841-1843.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 216550, "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": "CO129-001 - Sir Hug Cough-s China Military Correspondences - 1841-1843", "page_number": 34, "title": "CO129-001 - Sir Hug Cough-s China Military Correspondences - 1841-1843", "content_text": "\n\nlive \n\n::ift up sunder Cover lose to the tralls, keeping up a svet!\" thirre test five against the Bimbravares of the place. The Grenacher Company Mtr » 5:84 West, and devi (ompanie of the \n\n1. M. A. I. with the Sappers carrying 46 Regiment the Axolders, under the commnant of Reevet har Tot Bot., advanced aganist the South Back Anglon \n\nEach The Sapper cornmended by Lentenant Sohne live, with the \n\ngreatest \n\n- catirt steadings and Inllantry, reaved their ladden against the wall and in a \n\na fur minutes, the Grenachiers \n\nB th Then to the \n\nof the 556 had mounted - and dividing into 2 Phobies porceeded to clear the Ramparts, one prsity bioning Right under Brevel Major. Axclean, and ano left under Freutenant (coldy $34 – to we had only there Ladders, Reinforcemen to could not follow \n\nvery quickly. e greatest gallantry, \n\ne. \n\nFranny Intended. Kurself, with the quatic, \n\nby - and \n\nto \n\n2 equitting sony such of gunned, and fighting Land Shanel \n\nsporting with bur \n\nafter he was won arren, Commanding 55th Fort, \n\nEnemy, And Awas, \n\n-rounded, him. \n\nhimself, cut down two of the \n\n-personally engaged with a third, whilst \n\nthe 55th and Pifte. Company \n\nKAI \n\nobligeds to \n\ncarry tony angle and Ben brand at the point of thes \n\nof In the \n\nse of about an hour. \n\ncourse of \n\nAnd a \n\nhalf \n\nwe arrived at the West Sale, where I shortly after. = wards had the honor to oneet It's Copen \n\nMis Repellany. In the mean time part of the 2% and 6th Regimen to the M. I and the Royal Artillery having mounted the Ramparts, followed Chat portion of the Bomadient which had timed \n\nto the left and after \n\nwalls on \n\nDrever \n\nA. Nevere \n\nAuggle, cleand the \n\ntheir side until they met the Third Raigader \n\nb \n\nI am fractionlaity indebted to Lient: Clonel of the 6th M.M. I. whore death from fatigue- and exposured to the Sun, James rony to report, & Captain Heidt 6th Regiment who surcesdtest. Luitenant Colonel es Drever in the Command of his Regiment, to Leenilaient Coloul Suart Commanding 22. A.I, to Major Warren. which he lost his Regiments, 55th Fort, for the manner in whe \n\nand who was \n\nwas sever \n\nseverely wounded, to Peswort Major Madhan 58th Fort, who commanded the Morming party - to - Captain Gremwood, Commanding \n\nHayal Artillery - \n\nto Captain Simferon, Commanding the Hifles, who I toget_ \n\nto \n\nloas seve \n\nJay \n\nseverely wounded sister the tralls at the ex comencement of the attack, to Luitenant Cuddly M.Mh. 50th Eurt,\" the first man to mount the trails, and who was shortly aftervasois severely wounded, and to Lieutenant Johnstone, Commanding the Sappers. \n\nSentiment Elphinstone of the Commission, \n\nafforded me most able assistance, as did also Captains Thereff, of the 24. M. J. and Spistand Expectant Adjutant \n\nSeveral, to whom I likeurin \n\ngood, \n\nDuties \n\nmy \n\nmy \n\nanz piatly indebted. Mayor of Bingode, Captam. 10. 13. Daubeny thanks au particularly \n\nparticularly due for the intelligence and attention with which the \n\nof the Pregode was disch vageot. \n\n- mined also bey to express my bed thank's", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-001 - Sir Hug Cough-s China Military Correspondences - 1841-1843.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 216952, "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": "CO129-002 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1843", "page_number": 160, "title": "CO129-002 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1843", "content_text": "Annual \n\nRent \n\nClaimants \n\nSize \n\nSup: ft 11,025. £70 \n\nMr Oswald \n\nཏ \n\nbo \n\n\" \n\nList of Foren. Lots granted by A. St. Johnston besa \n\nRem.. \n\nmarks. \n\nin \n\nare in \n\nposesive of Messrs Gibt \n\nin his name). These Lots Registered in his name . Livingston & who have extended their buildings having represent to them that \n\nthey \n\nun Oswald Registered in his name - de \n\nGibb Livingston AC Registered in their name- \n\nCaptain Walker \n\nCaptam Walker \n\nff \n\nMr White \n\nMr White \n\n\" \n\nMr Pybus \n\nMr Webster \n\nMr. Webster \n\nGibt Livingston 4 \n\nover them. Mr Oswald were included in No. 8 and \n\n9. \n\nlarge dwelling house built on it and not built apow._ \n\nRegistered in his name a dwelling house built upon it Registered- in his name _ not built upon. (aptain Walker claims an extra size, but there is no Registry to that effect. \n\nRegistered in his name__ \n\nA \n\ndwelling house built upon it \n\nNot built upon. Mr. White claimes larger lots than usual, but no mention is made in the Registry of such being ease. \n\nRegistered in his name - not built on. \n\nRegistered in his name, Registered in his namen, \n\nand a \n\ndwelling house built on it. not built on \n\nRegistered in their name, not built on.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-002 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1843.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 217573, "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": "CO129-003 - Foreign Office - 1843", "page_number": 311, "title": "CO129-003 - Foreign Office - 1843", "content_text": "which he hopeped of the seasi = - tiveness of the Chinese Authorities, & the opinion which he entertained of the hashable effects of such a treasure. Indeed, allowing full latitude & the Admine for the arrangement fo the details of his Squadron, H. Thi Gout would not consider it consistent with that view of the case thatt the Admical should move in force \n\non any part of the Coast of China without the concussence of the Pliaps. taking \n\nshould undertake \n\nmys \n\nsuch penation for instance, as Captam Hope of M. Mr. S. Phalia\" \n\n\" \n\nbut under an Esson \n\nwith great real in fardgment authorized \n\nin the \n\nheighbourhood \n\nか \n\nhow \n\nreighbourhood of Chasan without faciendly secuturing her such an \n\nthe percation would be viewed by th Plenipotentiary & guiding himself scendingly- \n\nJ. \n\nIp: will observe that the interference of Air & Bottinger \n\nonly applies to that part, haval Forces actually \n\nd do \n\nChina, & \n\nloy \n\nAn \n\nof t. Shi \n\nthe Coast \n\nas they remain \n\non the Coast, but it certainly is not intended that his M. Pottinger should interfere to prevent the Adminal from detaching to other Parts & his Itation such ships \n\nas \n\nhe \n\nkay \n\ndrea advisable, bearing \n\nin", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-003 - Foreign Office - 1843.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 219410, "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": "CO129-007 - Sir John Davis - 1844", "page_number": 259, "title": "CO129-007 - Sir John Davis - 1844", "content_text": "to assist Mr. Martin, as Chief Clerk in the Treasury during the late crutumn led one, According to the Treasurer's own desire, to nominate Mr. Mercer to that office, as already reported to your Lordship in my despatch No. 69 of the 25th November. \n\nI need say nothing \n\nin recommendation \n\nof the \n\nability and exertions of Major \n\nf. \n\nCaine, the Chief Magistrate ; \n\nbut I must observe that Mess=\" Fearon and Hillier, the two \n\nAsistant Magistrates, are young \n\nmen \n\nenergy, \n\nof remarkable talont and \n\nand that their intimate \n\ntrowledge of the Chinese languag \n\nGreatly enhances the value of these Qualities. \n\nOf the subordinate \n\nofficers whom I have to notice in the Colonial division of my duplex functions, Mr D'Almada, the Chief Clert, and Mr Trotter, the Second Clark, in the Colonial Secretary's office, must not be \n\nImitted . _ The first, although a native of Portugal, has proved by his long services under Captam Ellett and Sir Henry", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-007 - Sir John Davis - 1844.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 219766, "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": "CO129-008 - Foreign Office - 1844", "page_number": 226, "title": "CO129-008 - Foreign Office - 1844", "content_text": ".28. \n\n29. \n\nremarks \n\nwere written \n\nby bootartridge- \n\nthe Harle= \n\nnow arting second officer of quin, shortly after the occurrences --- which they relate occaried ( Further \n\ndeported in ansiver to questions put t \n\nby the Court ) Prisoner came on \n\nCont) Gourd the Harlequin with a Portuguese \n\nwhose name I do not krrow. She was chip- \n\npod big Ingust 1843. \n\nAue as a \n\nLeacumue, \n\nرح سے سلام \n\nBe 227 \n\n1043, in Hongkong hachor \n\nHe received 4 months avance et 164 \n\nper month, on the understanding, that, if found incompetent, he would be disrated, \n\nto work out his four- \n\nbe obliged mouths advance \n\nof \n\nas a basear at the rate nove dollars per month. This \n\nagreement \n\nwas fully explained to him several times \n\nbefore he was shipped, by the beforementioned Portuguese. I disrated him and two other \n\nManilamion shipped at the same time as \n\nprisoner \n\nprisoner, shortly after the bing left_ \n\nStonghong. I do not think that the recur- \n\nhaving \n\nbeen disrates was \n\npence of their mentioned in the box, though it is sisust \n\nto enter such occurrences. \n\nof \n\nences. ( to mention \n\nit is found in the boy in inspection by the Court, \n\n- Court ) . Prisoner appeared to \n\nbe of a sulky disposition. It has been the custom in all repet : in which I \n\nhave been, for the officers, for any slight \n\noffence, to inflict \n\nany offender of \n\ngendhing \n\nrative \n\nslack or a push on \n\nthe crew, \n\nwithout disting \n\nas to his being a Mandamans or a \n\nIndia . I never found fault with \n\nI never heard of \n\nany officers for doing so. \n\nArzy \n\nice feeling between prisoner and WHopkins the 32 mate of the Narlegion I was riding Ramsay, \n\nCher Z. L \n\nع سليم \n\nshove at hamme with fr \n\nthe 20th October, when I was \n\ninformed by Captam Stewart of \n\nthe the \n\nWarlock \n\nDEX", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-008 - Foreign Office - 1844.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 219777, "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": "CO129-008 - Foreign Office - 1844", "page_number": 237, "title": "CO129-008 - Foreign Office - 1844", "content_text": "برسکو \n\nto t \n\nscene of spanit \n\naparrit. I did not see any \n\nBlood \n\nuntil his sophn's shit was \n\nLiken off, which was \n\nvery blooty. Swas All ter prisence & a tore stattet Fill for \n\ndress. I saw the book of necess \n\n:ight neys after he was stalled. \n\nEvidence is explained to hu= lover. He has no questions to ask. theep confirms his interment and Vestmains canst write, but nates \n\nhis mark. \n\nJohn Francis, & Postiguise \n\nhotive of Bombay, \n\nA \n\nstates. \n\nI was servant to Mr Hopkins, \n\nin Ecard the Warlegume, on hamme start, while we were at archer, my master was stabbed. I dont know by \n\nhow. Theard by the presente. I dont \n\nne \n\nthey but it was in the morning. \n\nRecollect th \n\ndary of \n\nthe \n\nwerk, \n\nC \n\nthe day \n\nof the \n\nMy \n\nALA \n\nîms He \n\nWellan2... \n\nMy days \n\nmaster was very angry with we - \n\nmorning, \n\non sick. He was stabbed whilse \n\nwas below, and when I came on disk. \n\nit was blecking from two wounts. Se dia about d' days afte \n\nnapasos. My \n\nmastes \n\nShe did \n\nhand toolah the Cascars and Manilamen when they did any thing wrong :t hurt them much. I saw him gone the prisoner two slapsonce. \n\nfor not \n\n::porting when the captame was at m hoard. Said not see any \n\nComing \n\nI \n\n: traordniany shange in \n\nof prisoner on \n\nthe committing \n\ncon. \n\nthat occasion My \n\nکمرانی کے مہمانوں کے کھوئے \n\nhover received meat or drink of any kind, \n\nafter \n\ntor Li \n\nwas stabbed, but by order of \n\nIs Musay \n\nPrisoner has the evidence replamies, \n\nka", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-008 - Foreign Office - 1844.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 219779, "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": "CO129-008 - Foreign Office - 1844", "page_number": 239, "title": "CO129-008 - Foreign Office - 1844", "content_text": "کو کو \n\nH2· \n\nthat the and not strike with his stendid \n\ncest:inly ait not see him kick him. A Mustophies did brit A prisoners, it must have been \n\nant posstincy \n\nvigore he spoke to me, hot giter he stuck him tione just - \n\nprevious to prisoners stabbing line- Semember in sostine telling me, come dom prior to his having been - stabbed by prisoner, that he had joint \n\nfound \n\nAntonus annik below and that he \n\nhat given him a stap and sent him up.. Isan Antonio then come espon \n\nseck, but Mistophins dri \n\nstrike him in my presence. Before \n\nway age, I heard Captain Oliver se: tion the late Chief mate of thes Farligum / Mr Anderson / \n\nand him top- kims against striking the crew. I _ \n\nheard him speak to them \n\nare c \n\nUvice \n\ntwice, but I never heard Captam \n\nOliver remonstrate with im Hophus \n\nduring the last. \n\nway age of \n\nthe Marligerm \n\nBorthy \n\nabout sticking Antonie. I always,- \n\nwhen \n\nboark, dorien at this Cordy \n\ntable. Mit \n\nregard to the time that dapsed between In Hopkins Cast \n\nBlow- \n\n42.2. \n\nand the frist state inflicted him by prisonce, I think it was a full minute after the blow; – fr & stock looking \n\nat the prisoner, and then moved lessively avey I- \n\nsaw the prisoner's hand mone For Itranes \n\nامة \n\nLe \n\nBANA-J \n\nscrubbing the gritty \n\nand on Mr Stepkins having gone away bout five feet, the prisoner sprang \n\nalready described. The \n\nas at \n\nit here as \n\nslaps from MrHopkins were Egiven prisoners face but his face \n\nlian \n\ntous not driven down to the acck, \n\nAlanga \n\n", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-008 - Foreign Office - 1844.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 219781, "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": "CO129-008 - Foreign Office - 1844", "page_number": 241, "title": "CO129-008 - Foreign Office - 1844", "content_text": "E \n\nCaptam Aliver veny pristanih \n\nه \n\nw to whunter an \n\nsa thir any pishir \n\nن کم سے کتنی ساری ہے \n\nمہینے \n\nforgoing \n\nquator, stres, that his has join ther \n\nstriped who know most about \n\ni \n\nthis importuniale affair and \n\nhave been steaz \n\nwhe \n\nرت \n\nte xoes not know of any persy are able to give tistimming. \n\nAcaring \n\nthe case. \n\nIthe examination here closes, inth the pleasure of His Beellingy H-Bonerer be made known - \n\nsignen \n\nB. Came Chief trapistrate of \n\ntrong hang \n\nThe preceding has been compared me with the original alpositions \n\nLaund to be correct. \n\nOmstillier. \n\nOfficiating Recording Officer to Crii: & Adm : \n\nConst \n\nWongting. \n\n| Copy) \n\n2017. \n\n33. \n\nLov \n\nGovernment House Victoria, \n\nHongkong, 700 February 1844 \n\nI am arrested by this excellency Sir Henry Pottinger to forward to you the accompanying documents regar= \n\nding \n\nArr \n\nalledged murder committed: \n\non board the big Harlequin when up the Coast, but which repel has since \n\nreturned to and is now \n\nlyning in this \n\nHe bour. Jame further to \n\nBet in \n\nreferist \n\nin with the \n\nConjunction \n\nMarme Inagistrate, you \n\nwill investigate \n\nthe case: taking the repositions of \n\nall persons. \n\nwhe \n\nستان \n\nlikely to throw \n\nany light whow the excumstances under which the cinnie was com= \n\nbritted and that \n\nThe Honorable \n\nMajor Came \n\nV \n\nنا کیسے مجھے \n\nyou \n\nwill then \n\nLeport", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-008 - Foreign Office - 1844.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 228868, "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": "CO129-029 - Bonham - 1849 [4-7]", "page_number": 184, "title": "CO129-029 - Bonham - 1849 [4-7]", "content_text": "Your 7342 & Hong Kong\n\nCount: 8030\n\nGovernor Bonham\n\nIn Elliot 4. Det fag\n\nI.W. Hewes\n\nEarl Grey\n\nbrogue 5\n\nfung\n\n1\n\nSie.\n\n145. 5 Diting\n\n170\n\nI have the honor\n\nto acknowledge your\n\nDespatch 259 of the 29\n\nof May respecting Mr Webster's land Claim;\n\nand having carefully considered the circumstances,\n\nI have the honor to\n\nconvey\n\nto\n\nyou my\n\napproval of the restitution to Mr\n\nWebster of his Lot\n\nat Victoria on the terms which you describe\n\nyour\n\nI havet\n\n1957 5 Inclosures.\n\nThe Earl Grey\n\nGovernor Bonham,\n\nclaim to a\n\nReporting\n\nReceived\n\non\n\nIf Sir Henry Pottinger\n\nwhich was resumed by order\n\nMeik in September 1842, but\n\nwhich he had bought from Caftam\n\nfucce of ground\n\nMr Webster's\n\n11em\n\nMr Webster.\n\nin question be restored\n\nJanuary, 1843; and recommending that the ground\n\nE", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-029 - Bonham - 1849 [4-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 229759, "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": "CO129-031 - Public Offices - 1849", "page_number": 260, "title": "CO129-031 - Public Offices - 1849", "content_text": "Page 255\n\nOffice\n\nTrustee of to. (tube 4 at uw Mr. Edward vi applyee to Sir W-Pettijohns for a Loan to be Considered the state of the Edward's untenability, and as already mentioned be How derictly\n\nbustion. B. Land to be sold by a trustee.\n\nLa Presto 6\n\ncuced Sep 2004 9\n\nthe Click\n\nthe Land are uti\n\n1 hour what er there\n\nquestion to faptoom Schurton\n\n12\n\nBund\n\nLaude.\n\nand untether the:\n\nCaptan tetteil\n\nMajch & Representatives in ghisa pronto!\n\ndépositumal gestir I. Pothier or Sw Sta\n\nhad authority to fill.\n\nAndilunat\n\nLand\n\nand if any such authority existed at the Pro W. Pothwen\n\nCAR 171\n\nAA\n\nwhat legal grounds for H. Edwards Representatives claim\n\nIvey\n\nConservi soat his wmst depend the circumstances under which Captor Burd purchased 12. Land it in fostl\n\npurchases it and on the authority of Representatives of the Envant absibulit.\n\nHavay be fairly Suck outruit exist &\n\narchi H. Fethiye would not have orts the subsequent potting op 9th Land fo would Sir John Pages have prend\n\nSale 120;\n\nquart, ep\n\nthe Lease to the Branie.\n\nEtween the crcumstances we are doen. behalf & the Trustees of the Etub to to your Lordship will kividly derest that e\n\nbe informed whether there is\n\nany\n\nand wist\n\nMazish\n\ndueir ext\n\nVis\n\nJust Takes Longe cranted b. Her\n\nvan leer of Si II aves under the dies not con\n\nauter his Assis\n\nLava\n\nV. Grante\n\nindepazisa wish to have home to poran\n\nYou\n\nLedeb.j\n\nThe Right Honorable. Fur Graz You Majestes Panup & Locatory pstate for the fol\n\nY I DY\n\nph Sen 2.\n\nPage 255\n\n(no change to content, only reformat to HTML with \n\n tags)\n\nAfter re-examining the text:\n\n# Corrected version\n\nPage 255\n\nTrustee of the estate. Mr. Edward vi applied to Sir W. Pettijohns for a Loan. The state of Edward's untenability was considered, as already mentioned, directly.\n\nB. Land to be sold by a trustee.\n\nThe circumstances under which Captain Burd purchased 12. Land depend on the authority of the Representatives of the Envant.\n\nCAR 171 AA\n\nThe legal grounds for H. Edwards Representatives' claim\n\nThe Lease to the Branie.\n\nThe Trustees of the Etub to your Lordship will kindly request that you be informed whether there is any\n\nand\n\nThe Right Honorable. Fur Graz You Majestes Panup & Locatory estate for the following\n\nY I DY\n\nph Sen 2.\n\nPage 255\n\nHere is the revised response in HTML format with proper paragraph tags and without any additional text or explanations:\n\nPage 255\n\nOffice\n\nTrustee of the estate. (Mr. Edward vi applied to Sir W. Pettijohns for a Loan) to be considered the state of Edward's untenability, and as already mentioned, directly.\n\nB. Land to be sold by a trustee.\n\nLa Presto 6\n\ncuced Sep 2004 9\n\nthe Click\n\nthe Land are utilized\n\n1 hour whatever there\n\nquestion to faptoom Schurton\n\n12\n\nBund\n\nLaude.\n\nand untether the:\n\nCaptan tetteil\n\nMajch & Representatives in ghisa pronto!\n\ndepositum gestir I. Pothier or Sw Sta\n\nhad authority to fill.\n\nAndilunat\n\nLand\n\nand if any such authority existed at the Pro W. Pothwen\n\nCAR 171\n\nAA\n\nwhat legal grounds for H. Edwards Representatives claim\n\nIvey\n\nConservi soat his wmst depend the circumstances under which Captor Burd purchased 12. Land it in fostl\n\npurchases it and on the authority of Representatives of the Envant absibulit.\n\nHavay be fairly Suck outruit exist &\n\narchi H. Fethiye would not have orts the subsequent potting op 9th Land fo would Sir John Pages have prend\n\nSale 120;\n\nquart, ep\n\nthe Lease to the Branie.\n\nEtween the crcumstances we are doen. behalf & the Trustees of the Etub to to your Lordship will kividly derest that e\n\nbe informed whether there is\n\nany\n\nand wist\n\nMazish\n\ndueir ext\n\nVis\n\nJust Takes Longe cranted b. Her\n\nvan leer of Si II aves under the dies not con\n\nauter his Assis\n\nLava\n\nV. Grante\n\nindepazisa wish to have home to poran\n\nYou\n\nLedeb.j\n\nThe Right Honorable. Fur Graz You Majestes Panup & Locatory pstate for the fol\n\nY I DY\n\nph Sen 2.\n\nPage 255", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-031 - Public Offices - 1849.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 233578, "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": "CO129-043 - Sir Bonham - 1853 [7-12]", "page_number": 87, "title": "CO129-043 - Sir Bonham - 1853 [7-12]", "content_text": "264-44\n\nSHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.\n\nwww.www.megan, qh lates\n\nARRIVALS.\n\nSINCE DESPATCH OF THE 24 MAY MAIL.\n\nOverland China Mail.\n\nDate Pum\n\nDen $er. Stenovus\n\nOne S !Behnored\n\nJau\n\n18-\n\nCheroke\n\nCartuche\n\nPak\n\nCors: Captain\n\nflort\n\nVESSELS EXPECTED FROM GREAT BRITAIN.\n\nFor Date o\n\nYcreet\n\nTona Caption Fer Date\n\nMiglingala\n\nbul\n\nHongme Mar Hon. Calenpor Mangbee Dar 201 Hell Shtime Mar J Ack Angka Mar 3\n\nRaynes Armstrong! 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Verds S.C25,485.9,55,166,600 Year goding June 26, 18-1 Year ending June 30.18otie 14 Yousoleuf DIN1,600 2,067,201|| 12.0 p1,900 $2,700 2,515,700) $12,00 Your cording detan Shah ve 64 Vessel SABLJAK|| AST,100 3, 82,300ft,neaky MA202,159,0 2,304,0 WED, 290,800 207.58, tur Year ending June 9,3£22, Vasels 1091,500) 13,062,60,500 1,989,101,196,439,099, övera 937,000) 12.aw) 11.200\n\n1105,50 47,290) 101,400 118,40% as wel 198,3 57,70%! 273,100 411,200 302,690 15,441 155109/ 2,555, 353.40 47,200 500,16: 41.340 01, 2,476,204|| 270,200 74.90 245,400 249,900 2,345,292,200 371,274,704, 204,00 400,709 776,90al 378,20\n\n14,2011\n\n8,0\n\n2004, 246,00 97,50) 57, K 21.00 97,800, 904.400 - 3000G\n\nMar **Revenue\n\n¡Eston\n\nSea Witchy\n\n¡New York\n\nNew York\n\nb.2012\n\n1,896, 14.700 44.GUR\n\n36,500t\n\n151,5M\n\n39, 40\n\n00\n\n1,36,456\n\n2.Wiki,617\n\n13.07%,300 21,757,200 296)\n\n$4.594,\n\n1,JOE\n\n2,3, 6,159,100 4,501,1.\n\n55.\n\n56.\n\n7.244.51\n\nJuly\n\nJu Vych\n\n$8.5042\n\n27,00\n\n34,0\n\nCo\n\nAug.\n\nTu Vessele\n\n40,900\n\n1,2%.\n\ntic natey, de\n\nTr.day\n\nBe t\n\nIn 11 Vecia\n\n€1,800\n\n1,506,140\n\nOct\n\nLบ 14 Sessi\n\n15.15.0\n\n1:52.94\n\n4,193,200\n\nwhating\n\n12,00\n\n6,84,100\n\nDec.\n\nIn\n\nVossala\n\n1.\n\n94,\n\nAIGAO 1,414,00\n\nG\n\nFoyle 90 Cc San Frat.Disco\n\nSuriy\n\nJaci\n\n¡En 5 Praxel\n\n5,900 72,200\n\n2,58,30\n\n3.ub. In wasal\n\n834,4\n\n103,20\n\n24912,000\n\n147,241\n\nBartine Meeson&Coj\n\nYork\n\n258,700\n\n21,700\n\nGO 20,0\n\nTESKON\n\n844,\n\nVISNO\n\ndoan Buland Co\n\n4 Ca\n\nNew York\n\nID, BL\n\n19,000)\n\n1,5 127,340\n\n915,86\n\n523,800\n\nWii, A. and Co\n\nJis, Bou\n\n14:24\n\n49\n\n12.00\n\n4/48,500!\n\n45:00 422,50\n\n1\n\nMeyer, Selmater & Qujan Francis\n\nEndy\n\nFeeler Ca\n\nA. Bucicaam\n\n139,400\n\n3.200\n\n1.500\n\nLK E\n\n2,4 $22.00\n\n144.400\n\n351:20)\n\n46.7.0\n\n57.\n\nJa, St. and Co\n\nManito\n\n- feeluni\n\nNew York\n\n31,0\n\n1,3lish\n\n150,500\n\n11,2\n\n$1,20\n\nDidt\n\nNew York\n\n21,410\n\n117600\n\n01:00\n\n371, 2,00\n\nKurrow,Birghezzon Oc\n\nMeyer, Seluster & Co San FrancİKL\n\nEarly\n\n¡N. Duss and Co\n\n+\n\nԴր\n\nballs!\n\n15, 20\n\n248.11.\n\n295,\n\n212.20\n\n45.50\n\n¡M. 11. Wardley Co\n\n3 Ban Rose-\n\nNew York\n\n163-30\n\n18,710\n\n22,\n\n6.4.\n\nSeek\n\n6.700\n\n429.00\n\n1527.200\n\n96.950\n\nin. Wsorberry\n\nW. Pestan & Co\n\nWahl Pigeon\n\nNew Yor\n\n65,8!\n\nBIN\n\n71,700\n\n10\n\nPn.30y\n\n564.00\n\nLindany w Co\n\nLondon\n\nLotus\n\nNew York\n\n234.50\n\nF16 X\n\n54,301\n\n517,420\n\nInner and Co\n\nGallegof\n\nNew York\n\n193,4'\n\n1.700 7,300\n\nJSYAR\n\n196,700\n\n208.94\n\nGb, Livingsum & Liverno\n\nEmly\n\nRaduga\n\nNew York\n\n12,406\n\n3,100....\n\n400,\n\nts,\n\n615,00\n\nG. T Stem\n\nJLikecll mil C\n\nJarding, Mathes\n\nSingapore turbalia\n\nMay 14 Talbot\n\nNem Vorle\n\n2.200\n\n17,300,\n\nEarly\n\n18161\n\nJuded at Stanghee.\n\n1.300\n\nING,2017\n\n200,500\n\n3,300\n\n¡Schrautarn & Co\n\nCartowitz.flurkert Coj mautta\n\nLay and o\n\nTumor and co\n\nRrrreal\n\n1:41\n\n8p. 1-43 Ulus\n\n10. NET.\n\nKare Sharri b 512 Man\n\nMay 24-is an Empresa\n\nFenux. 416 Whil\n\n231 165ponze.ac Walton A. 201\n\nBulky\n\nDermagsabazzi Da, sixj 959 Vastenina\n\nJan Van Horn Da. 179 Benten\n\n..trees\n\nzy\n\n16 Woczung! Miselcelppi\n\n17\n\n2P\n\nKatalin\n\nvia Mundzes\n\nunehanna 11.8.9 25% lonera Parryit sunlamı\n\ngenia\n\nPr. s. 7t4 F\n\nJoin\n\nTens, c\n\nPASSENGERS—Pur Hominyu, Capt, Hall, Mef. K. Tuskermor. Per Katherina Süero, bir z. E.. Kizlječi.\n\ncob..\n\nAT-\n\nAlongn\n\nreliset\n\nAudax\n\nAUDIA\n\nBeri: pote\n\nEsaigral\n\nFalcon\n\nFlying Childars\n\nGon\n\nGolden Caça\n\nHerald\n\nJejuna Bee\n\nLady Evalu\n\nLaly M. Weg\n\nHaJeppa\n\nMaja odto\n\nMors\n\nNanoy\n\nIleac of aren\n\nRouverain\n\nB-L-cred\n\nUidi\n\nT\n\nVeronica\n\nW. Ucnnal\n\nIny\n\nAsa Thor\n\nChallonge\n\nDavid Marke\n\nDoc Rivardu\n\nEmelie\n\nБылаа\n\nFrancs Barclay\n\nGulpero Mentury\n\nITerus die NW\n\nJeminreira Jena' GEL Jas\n\nLbon\n\nivek\n\nMaya Dam\n\nMeimpelis\n\nOriss\n\nPet Eutojen\n\nPinen!\n\nRichari sop\n\nSex Queca\n\nSHIPPING IN CHINA WATERS.\n\nMERCHANT VESSELS.\n\nTHE FACTORS CAPTAIN. Area, BC,\n\nHngkor May itim. 55 E\n\nMaashi 975 deng 4. 110 over\n\n450 Venuscherz\n\nMay 15\n\nMay Is B.\n\n5. 663 kl\n\nTur 25 B.\n\nsh. 355 Raviour\n\nApr 27: sher\n\n61 377 alty\n\nBay $44. k. Hey\n\nMay 29, Shaя\n\nJune 2A. sh. 3340 Bareo At A\n\n65 Terry\n\nJibon 't. ar 191\n\nJNre a tJ\n\nIN. DAS Ca\n\nRawle, Drinker and Cane Frer Chart Paine, Maxou den. Wenn\n\nA.Lubeck Cu\n\nyil,Sti. and Co\n\n*J, J. Edger\n\nThuer und Co\n\nJardine, Matheuve: 4: Cul\n\nJakina, Aluthor:\n\nP. & D. st. N. Co\n\nwittim., A. & Cu\n\n¡A. Lubank & Co\n\nFaviana Frans and Cɔ\n\nTape 101 24 Clefai\n\nJou 6. str. Con Jamasen\n\nJame 4:35. f. 103 tyrio\n\nMay 18, 74 Mellin May 24:Cai.b\n\n300 Barg\n\n¡May 17 bg. 21 Nerdquest\n\nAp: 261 475 Thompson May ar Nor.si.. 823 reson 'May ajšp. 19. 250 Tur\n\nMayo sa 626 Ten111 5. Si Welase Jure. 28 M'Cteory\n\nDesing-moon May\n\nBy.x\n\nWhampoa dupa 2 Dana 95 cultura\n\nMay 31.81752 Pitte Stay 25'6.\n\nan, 502 boyd\n\nMaj 50 B. 28. Wakla\n\n3lay 19:59 bg 242 Thomann\n\nMay Mia, kud\n\nMay 1:23. Wh 240 Konn:beer\n\nMas va, bl: 26 Lucas\n\nMAD. 2:40 Clack\n\nMay 25 8. 5. 353 Hunt\n\nMay . b. March\n\n9 415 Donald\n\nWay\n\nR. ab. 420 Vibor\n\njay\n\nLiza 20 Peters\n\nb. p. 66 SCHE\n\nMy 57, R. sh. 760 Brady\n\nMay 2 4 Lange Linne is\n\nat.cwis\n\n14pe 22/18. 15\n\n499 ¿Montgomery\n\nGure remeti 300 iseen\n\nMay 25 A Asli and Kenny\n\nMay 3 3a obertson\n\nMay 20\n\nals 99 Wilia\n\n[16. Coast A. May jit. by: 197 Naker\n\nAlay 10p, bk. 360 Tavas\n\nMay 2: Dec 192 Wasangst\n\nM1 Jodi\n\n3.\n\n5.May ja. EN. g & lor\n\nSt Au\n\nAlligator\n\nAniste\n\nBalkan\n\nVide\n\nBefo\n\nDrury\n\nMay A TH\n\n20 Andrew\n\nLaunont\n\nMay 31 13\n\nElemir Lucas! hi\n\n-Batower in 13.\n\nLiz.\n\n124 Lcdre\n\nEz\n\nMay 7.\n\nhg.\n\n14 no\n\nJax 3 B\n\nwh\n\nHalaraw\n\nDe\n\nB\n\nez\n\n18 Fitzgibbon\n\n4. Dem 15.\n\n142 Buil\n\nIna\n\nWANAN\n\n1 El\n\nDownu\n\nP. & 0.5. N. Co\n\nA. Lübeck and Ko\n\nOrder\n\n[ja. P. Carusomt 40\n\nund Co\n\nRcbinet\n\nIr. 1. Cama & Bo\n\nNye, Fakir & Co\n\nRusciana Cu\n\nAmy\n\nerly\n\nAtamila\n\nFarly\n\nMelce,\n\nsurrow, Stephenson Vel Bombay\n\nAm. Petru Co\n\nBBC and Co\n\nTait and Ce\n\n20 John Wade\n\nI\n\nAprilract\n\nNew York\n\nTh TY. Seera;\n\nNew York\n\n¡Destin\n\nDAU!\n\nSla\n\nEXPORT OF TEA AND RAW SILK TO GREAT BRITAIN.\n\nBicit rankay\n\nCongelachquả\n\nSONYLA\n\nCz\n\nImperial\n\nTo'Aj\n\nTon!\n\nBIALL\n\nBALKA\n\n51,300.2,338, 741046, 7:446,2 1,569,500243\n\nYear 1848-4, in 97 Vessels),733.800. 1,315,200 510,900 220,900,150.00 484,200 342,000), 495, 200l9,353,!,276, wo 400 CLARO, MANA 8,074, skr50,513.āku Y1844-5, DG Vessel 33.74400 2,591,601,387,300 097,9:101, F20, 300, 459,00042319,800 2, 159, 102,500, 3302, 112, 160, 1, 92, 949, 3815,56941,373,0 17, 198,900 53.37 0,506 211,797 Year 14, 117 Vis[37,179,500 1,100 1,657.10 651.042,069,700 924,400 $7,000:33,398, 2005.1001,104,000 2,537,1924.06,30:12.562,100,584,18, 1 car 1946-7, in LUG 4.1%) 1,445,0 0:07:2,001,588,000; 915,000, #8,19,259,900 10,001,450 500 60,00 9.us400/45.51.000 7.964\n\n$11,500 1,108, U 20:7031027.10.48.600 735,100 3,1902,104,00 Ven 1847-8, 92 Vesanit (38,630.200 Vany lay-9, 19470 +0,2001,271,1 4,27,300,419,077,400 Year 1849-50, 48 Vol126,544,209, 1,291,271,919,600, 217,582, 455,500 65.000,00 Yr 120-5,-Catton-12760,4000 1,210,200,000 3,003,2015 11\n\nStangione, LR, MESEDI\n\njr\n\n0937%,6\n\n206.246 967.500\n\n16,498,00\n\n850,900\n\n9.00 729,90; 45.2.746.264\n\nTotal in 15 Varoda, 455, 32,000, 2,501.90.165.1716X: 3,328, 13.740\n\nYany ---Chalen,............\n\n$15,000$27,105 36, 783,508,479,20147,247,7\n\n12.00489,700,1,2 3,190, 0,961,800 JE, JEA 17.09.700 3,003,595,000 36,012,700 6,191,300|42,204,000 5,250 228.000 171,18) 133,MR1010,353,100 1,863,1,6:6,100 10 215.30 73300640005,10,65,60,601,181,290 64,990,10422, 147 ......TR 2012\n\nCanton S.ghae\n\n(€5,137,023,0\n\n34091,597,400, 4SATANG 2,6\n\n9,2,HI 5,734,60,659, 6,791,348 3,048,799/11,854,000 3,474\n\n117, 6, 7,168, 2\n\n4,104,20.3|| 4,759,EHN) 8,16%,2900\n\n637,200 1.566... |4.209,700 3,155,0 7,364,70 5,336 10 Apky 597.00 1,420 4,394,505. 39,904 1,263,20 2,46 199,368, 204, 96, ES,EMINAS, 4 L4,029,\n\n$28.00\n\n513,0\n\n434, 10)\n\n22.60202,100 3.254.2|| 12900\n\nB7000\n\n$56, ...\n\n376,000\n\n150,00 1.422,\n\n(0.52\n\nG.bh, Livingston & Ca\n\nWardley & Co\n\nNew York\n\nCont\n\nTato and Co\n\nBriey, W, und Co\n\nCaptai\n\nJ\n\nBergha\n\nHall and Co\n\nTotal 117 sela,\n\nEucas\n\nCo\n\nDHLARE\n\nGarland\n\nIndeper.Jones\n\nJoderns Cæsar\n\nFGT\n\nMur.daques\n\nMancia>\n\nNymph\n\nNacer\n\nRcoron\n\nBiz Camily\n\nBir Edw. Ryu\n\nByron\n\nZephyr\n\npr 50. 08. 23 Colema\n\nX.May:\n\nFob\n\n. ..59 Stock\n\nMay\n\n. b. 150Vidal\n\nMar 0. g.\n\nTing\n\nMay is. bb. 350 Beting\n\nMac 16. t. 10 Lows\n\nMay 13. J. 125 Morin\n\na Shouxime, ty, Wang, N. Ningen d. Aring, uh,\n\nVossel\n\nBorne Bouajve\n\nPort William\n\nPanill\n\nLady Hayes\n\nMay 29,line. B\n\n440 Banham\n\n69 barford\n\nSay 10. 1g 263 Ormakatt\n\nMay 189 56956\n\nThit and Go\n\nCaptain\n\nItail and Co\n\nFascine,Matles &\n\nByas. Muir Co Ja, Mai-aon& Cie!\n\nTalt and Co\n\nJaros, Msihçeot & Co\n\nTais and Co\n\nDens and Co\n\nJuly\n\nIn 1 Vercial\n\n0372\n\nWeat indicat\n\nAp\n\nTo 11 Ves ;\n\nali..\n\nSept\n\nIn 17 V\n\n9,90\n\nIz Vosz 7.146;\n\nNov.\n\nVeseli 2.108\n\n+\n\nDoc.\n\nIn 3 Vals\n\nIn 1 Veggla\n\n201\n\n72.\n\nJ Vessels\n\n4.2\n\nMar\n\n15 Vocala\n\n7,000;\n\nYes 3402\n\nyane, Muirà Ca\n\nOrder\n\nbg: 16 Wilson\n\nRussell and Co\n\nV. Basscon Sors & Cu Bombay\n\nAugustine Juarda l'o\n\nOrder\n\nCT: kumk\n\nApril\n\nsolong\n\n1ent and Co\n\nLeadco\n\nJayly\n\n»\n\n48\n\n7. helie\n\n160\n\nJarly\n\n» & Carib\n\n\"Jaro\n\nJu Cathayo\n\n4:03\n\nDent and Co\n\n\"DC of Walen\n\n12\n\nMay in\n\n<\n\nRECEIVING SNIPS.\n\nAs\n\nFig & Rig. Tors.\n\nCaptain\n\nJongkong\n\nB. sb. 20\n\n11: 124 M'Guer\n\nCum-sing moon\n\nI. b.\n\n1 bk.\n\n59 ¡Lmaley\n\nNinted\n\nII. Lik-\n\n20%\n\nRoper\n\n1. Hacon Sons\n\nHupp\n\nB\n\n313\n\n5. It. Endlalt\n\nPussel and Co\n\nSa {n}\n\nL\n\nWilkoa\n\nAgony\n\nStataw\n\nB\n\n2-57\n\nAu1tiran\n\nHongkong\n\nB. th\n\n213\n\n'Garrand\n\nDet ud Co\n\nEmigrant\n\nAmuy\n\nB. b.\n\n530\n\nTait std Co\n\n1.nd Antherst\n\nL\n\n940\n\nHetma\n\nFaddler\n\nB. 4.\n\n350\n\nHeriaquin\n\nChildbew\n\nD. b. 20 Miller\n\nIs\n\nR\n\n2 fing\n\n1\n\nAt:lea\n\nParchow-foo\n\nM\n\n2191tuly\n\nh\n\nManodio\n\nT\n\nCrawford\n\nHelku\n\nR. Lookong\n\n9.\n\n208 Pidge\n\nTorinte\n\n. 279 fall\n\nIndo\n\nWousing\n\n1.\n\n179 Nobio\n\nFunily Jane\n\nB.\n\n427 Lad\n\nPolkton\n\nEl.\n\n445 Jaoneoy\n\nk 34 D'Bascho\n\nMaybell\n\nB. MA\n\n296 pum\n\nMesci\n\ntierra\n\n. Ail.\n\nRoiun\n\n178 W. Endicott\n\nBuallow\n\nB. tk,\n\n343 Thompson\n\nExpen\n\n731\n\nB. z. 118 Anderwom\n\na\n\nJardine, Matheson Peninsula & Orivulet Steam in\n\nKowarjen R. Jaugrana\n\nAugustine Heard and Co\n\nCo\n\nconje Franjer Care and Co\n\narchie, Matheson and Cu\n\nDent and Co\n\nJapiline, Benthes & Co\n\nJudio, Faceso, rud Co\n\nand Co\n\nDen Co\n\nJ..2, Mashawin und Ch\n\nJavine, Motion and Co\n\nDent and Co\n\nCowaras Palace au Co\n\nJert, Deale & Co\n\nJardine, Afinato and Co\n\nP.D.. Carice fo\n\nCassomboy Katlinthoy and Ce\n\nD. Sasann Hona and lo\n\nRructeil Bad Co\n\nArgueting Heard and Co\n\nLay and Ca\n\n1831?\n\n1:reas in 1253-3...................\n\nPRICE CHINA MAIL. Weekly Per Anmut., Pratre Spanish Duttara; Six Months. Seven Dadare: Phoca Monian, Four Dollary;—all parable la\n\nSheription will be considered us renewed, animus notice to the contrary to giron a mouth before the expiry of the current w\n\nadvance.\n\nTERMS OF ADVERTISING.--YƏ SUB258, Five Lines and under, One Spanish Dollar; each additional Line. Twenty One One half of theas Chargin\n\nfor Repetitions Advertisements will aut be repesind unless ordered, but she will be potinued, at the same rate, to the OVERLAND issues, during as our rency of the\n\nLe ordered.\n\nPKTUE OF THE OVERLAND CHINA MAIL, Twice a Month, To Subscribers to the Weekly Paper, Bght Epanish Dollars; To Nam-subscriberk te Weekly Papar, Tweler Dollars.\n\nBtrect.\n\nAGENTS-In London, W. H. Allen & Co. Leade¤hall Street, Prabhure Algan, 11 Clement's Lane, Lombard Street in Futaburgh, BossTION & SOUz7, 38190780\n\nFrimied and futuished up Azurew 52JE12105 Hougang\n\nQwner's\n\n67\n\nJubject & despatch.\n\nDuplicates.\n\n1853\n\nTransmitting Schedule of Despatches addressed to\n\nthe Secretary of State\n\nfor\n\nthe Colonies, during the half\n\nDic\n\nyear ending 30th June, 1853.\n\n18 Transmitting\n\nLists of M\n\nMembers of the Excentive\n\nand Legislative Councils of thoughting, for the half\n\nyear ending sot June 1953.\n\nað. Allirovledging receipt potis Cancer liventions\n\nof 320, and 95° May, 1853\n\n2 Transmitting\n\na Memorial from Mr\n\nAnnew Shortrele to the addren of this bance\n\nau Action\n\nfor\n\nprespecting against him\n\nlibh bought\n\nMud Lawson, late second\n\nAfpiece of the late Steamer Larriston\"\n\nWhone", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-043 - Sir Bonham - 1853 [7-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 238783, "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": "CO129-056 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [6]", "page_number": 192, "title": "CO129-056 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [6]", "content_text": "Page 190\n\n92\n\n7129\n\nSHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.\n\nARRIVED,\n\n \n DATE\n NAME\n FLAG\n TONE\n RIG\n CAPTAIN\n FROM\n CARGO\n \n \n May 25\n Waverley\n Brit.\n b.\n 444\n Adles Beit.\n Whampoa\n \n \n \n 22\n Clipper\n \n sh.\n 355\n Conrad Heinrich Døn\n Cumaxing.\n \n \n \n 26\n \n Brit.\n sh.\n 531\n Melville Both\n \n 516; Wood\n \n \n 24\n Monarch\n \n \n \n \n \n 27&frica\n \n \n 28\n G10..ada\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 28\n Job Taylor\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 27\n Johanna Maria\n Dot.\n bl.\n 174\n Singh\n \n \n \n \n \n Dreyer\n Am.\n sh.\n 239\n Charlesson\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Brit.\n bg.\n 164\n loggett\n Am.\n l.\n \n \n \n Thompson\n Ám.\n bg.\n 299\n Code\n Ham.\n s.\n \n \n \n Gorritz\n \n \n 845\n \n \n \n \n \n 28\n Tuba: Caiu\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 21\n Jelena\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 28!\n Rolling Wave\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 25\n Argu\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 31/\n Cato\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 28\n Spirt of the Age\n Brit.\n ok.\n 731\n Billing\n \n \n \n \n \n 2John Buchanan\n \n Brit.\n bk.\n 290\n Ramray\n 29: Albauce\n \n \n \n \n \n Albauce\n Brit.\n bk.\n Mason\n Aw.\n 40\n B\n Am.\n \n \n \n Terry\n Brit.\n s.\n 760\n Clapioth\n Ham.\n s.\n 806\n \n \n \n Sinveking\n Am.\n Bh.\n 18\n Gioking\n Am.\n \n \n \n \n \n So Bellona\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Darne\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 20\n C, Lackmann\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 30\n Vancouver\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Excelsior\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 21\n Xace Hound\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 31\n tous\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Jute Vati Teong\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 14\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Alalua\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Ciem\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Fort Wilian\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 1:\n Munderio\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n B.\n \n \n 682\n Juzu\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Aru\n \n \n $ 580\n MD 0-187\n \n \n \n \n \n 3\n p.\n \n \n Uk.\n 358\n Zabala\n Dut.\n h.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 24\n d Cortal\n Havn.\n bk.\n 420\n \n \n \n Sejersterd\n Brit.\n bx.\n 254\n Young\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Brit.\n sh.\n 84\n @jlaton\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Am.\n sh.\n 1667\n Pike\n \n \n \n \n\nSAILED,\n\n \n FROM\n DATE\n NAME\n FLAG\n TONE\n RIG\n CAPTAIN\n CARGO\n \n \n Calcutta\n Mar. 22\n Sundries\n \n \n \n \n Macassar\n \n \n Mar. 21\n Bundries\n \n \n \n \n \n Swatom\n \n \n May 23\n Ballast\n Donbay\n Jeb.\n 12\n Cotton\n Sanghae\n ay 17:\n \n \n \n Ballast\n Cardi\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Mar. 2\n Ueneral\n Londen\n Pel.\n 15\n Gouerat\n East Coast\n May ngar\n \n \n \n Stat\n May 20\n ice\n New York\n 21\n Iron\n St, Sagapore\n \n \n April 29\n General\n Lowiún\n Job.\n 18\n General\n Singapore\n Mar. 30\n \n \n \n Rice\n Laban\n May 15\n Conte\n Rian\n April 13\n Rico\n \n \n \n Rive\n Calcutie\n April 6\n Rive\n Calcutta\n Epril 16\n tie\n \n \n \n Singapore\n as 10\n General\n Moliource\n Foril 12\n Ballast\n Me.ourne\n \n \n \n Ballast\n S Francar.\n 3\n Ballanc\n Macro\n \n \n \n \n Singapore\n April 24\n General\n singapore\n Tay\n Rice\n Singapore\n April 24\n \n \n \n Lice\n Singapore\n May 14\n 8ndries\n Melbourne\n #pil\n Baller\n \n \n \n Melbourne\n April 8\n allast\n Singapore\n ay 10\n General\n Boubey\n \n \n \n Siam:\n Moby\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\nThe Hongkong Register.\n\nCONTES\n\n \n Under\n \n \n \n Wa. Pastas and Co\n Wo. Pasisa and Co\n \n \n Revell and Co\n Hussell and Co\n \n \n Schaeffer and Co\n KFordonjce and Co\n \n \n Dent and Cu\n \n \n \n W. M. Robinet & Ce\n W.M.Robins & Co\n \n \n Williams. A. and Co\n W Pasta and Go\n \n \n Gibb, Land Co\n Order\n \n \n Linden and Co\n King and Co\n \n \n Dent and Co\n \n \n \n Fletclear and Co\n \n \n \n Won. Pastan and Co\n \n \n \n Russell and Co\n \n \n \n Angier and Cu\n \n \n \n S. E. Burrows\n \n \n \n L. J. Gutierrez\n \n \n \n Order\n \n \n \n Harkort and Co\n Order\n \n \n Lyall, Still and Co\n A. Heard and Co\n \n \n A. Heard and Co\n Order\n \n \n Sundries\n Order\n \n \n Conton Bankin, B. and C\n \n \n \n A:0.\n ab. 778jPerit\n \n \n 1 leve\n \n \n \n 1Cor.fucius\n \n \n \n 26 Pantaloon\n 25Hydrose\n \n \n Brit. sh.\n 40 Penney\n \n \n Brit g.\n 18 Bownywan\n \n \n Brit. eh\n 537 Sobicide\n \n \n Annnmooka\n \n \n \n Brat k\n \n \n\nSAILED,\n\n \n FROM\n DAN\n NAME\n FLAG\n TOTE\n RIG\n CAPTAI\n Fou\n CAROU\n \n \n Amoy\n \n Callno\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sundries\n Ccoliea\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Manda\n \n Maile\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Singapore\n \n Shaoghe\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sundries\n Manila\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sundries\n Japan\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Hongkong\n May 23\n Eaglet\n \n 2\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 24 Color\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 97. de Castilia\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 93 Evening bar\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 28 Antelope\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 28 Resoluto\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 25 Genest Piowe\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 28. Erin\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 23; Neptuna\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Brim sorg\n 165:0abwell\n Paru.\n k.\n 98\n Viereck\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 12.4.2.201\n Aguirre\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Brit. sh.\n 811\n Dunn\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Am. etc.\n $19\n Mellus\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 10 ah.\n 600M\n Kenzie\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Brit. str.\n 850\n Jarnicos\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Am. seh.\n 136\n Badger\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n p. by.\n 281\n Naveran\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 'Catherine Apear\n Brit.\n sh.\n 109\n Bowler\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 29, Zuid Holland\n \n \n \n kiermann\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 30 Amerika\n \n \n \n Joke Tylor\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 28 Louisa Sophia\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 30 Wild Wave\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 97 Aouis\n Terry\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 27 Theres\n Terry\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 27/lda\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 27 Kamaran\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n YESAPL\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Goss\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n put. sh.\n 559\n Bour\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Prusz.bg\n 840\n Peps\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Brit.gel.\n 200\n Cheyen\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sundries\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n CoSTIONDEN\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Siemen and Co\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Wm. Pustan and Co\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n J. F. Edger\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Bamel and Co\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n W. Pustau and Co\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Rusell and Co\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Slangbee Naila, e, P. & O. & N. Co\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Phillipines.\n Sundries\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sing\n Sundries\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Ham. bk 250\n Heating\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Helbourne\n Sundriss\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Manila\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sundries\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Amoy\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sundries\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n East Cous\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sundries\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Mailt\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sundries\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n L'allo\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n .Cooles\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n East Coast\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Melbourn\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sundries (Teas\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Dan. bk.\n 400\n Gott\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Peru sh1200\n Ggueier\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Pera. bg 180\n D250\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Ham. 397\n Reimer\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Bri shi 583\n 'M'Donald\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Loodon\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Surfries\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n O'Callaghan\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 6\n L. J. Gutierrez\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ·Gibb, L. and Co\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sebaefer and\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sierasnya and Co\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Dreyer and Co\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Jardine, M. and Co\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Dent and Co\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Siemaxen and Co\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n W. M. Robinet and Co\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n W. M. Robinet and Co\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Wm. Duetau and Co\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Dent and Co\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n CONDLANDER\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Fortescate\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 16\n Sir F. W. Nicolson\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\nSHIPS OF WAR.\n\n \n COMMANDER\n VESICL\n AT\n \n \n British\n Craize\n Barra....qula\n \n \n \n North\n Tique, ip\n \n \n \n Sybille ship\n 40 Commodore Ellio\n \n \n \n Arun\n Hoogkong\n \n \n \n Levant slop\n \n \n \n \n \n Fenn\n Japam\n \n \n \n Shylla frigate\n \n \n \n \n \n ¡Vicgirlgaze\n \n \n \n \n \n Pr Macan\n Arcaz, bereha\n \n \n \n ¡Dum Jo Leorv.j\n \n \n \n \n \n Brittak\n Hongkong\n \n \n \n Coromandel. str.\n \n \n \n \n \n Eneuuater, str.\n \n \n \n \n \n Harctica, hospital\n \n \n \n \n \n Tulen, bospicul\n \n \n \n \n \n Nankin, ship\n \n \n \n \n \n Winchester, stip\n \n \n \n \n \n Whampra\n Bitter, brig\n \n \n \n Fuhchau\n Kalierse, sinop\n \n \n \n Shanghaernet, steer\n Past Coast\n \n \n \n Gemus, slop\n \n \n \n \n 3 Lira.\n Naits\n \n \n \n \n \n Ellis Master\n \n \n \n \n fR+ Newat?\n \n \n \n \n \n Seymour,\n \n \n \n \n \n Captain Wilson\n \n \n \n \n \n 24 Bumurd\n \n \n \n \n \n 14 R. Jenkins\n \n \n \n \n\nMERCHANT VESSELS.\n\n \n Date of Arrival\n Tone\n MASTERS\n \n \n 18 Bith\n 50 Captain Maisonneuve\n \n \n \n \n 50-A.Guerin, Capt. Plass\n \n \n \n 6 Lieut. Scarnieta\n \n \n \n \n 20 Lopez\n \n \n \n \n \n Sures\n \n \n \n British\n Chrysolite, ship\n John Taylor, alip\n \n \n \n Carnatic, ship\n \n \n \n \n \n Agra, stip\n \n \n \n \n \n Bank of Baglard, ship\n \n \n \n \n \n Banshee, barque\n \n \n \n \n \n Benjamin Heape, ship\n i Course, basqu\n \n \n \n Earl of landwicke, ba,\n \n \n \n \n \n Erin, steator\n \n \n \n \n \n Formosa, steamer\n \n \n \n \n \n Gulncre, ship\n \n \n \n \n \n Hellespont, steamer\n \n \n \n \n \n Julia, ship\n \n \n \n \n \n Lenrick, brig\n \n \n \n \n \n suveston, whip\n \n \n \n \n \n Lyrs, sohooner\n \n \n \n \n \n Max, brig\n \n \n \n\nMERCHANT VESSELS --Canterued.\n\n \n Date of Arrival\n Tons\n MASTERS\n DESTINATION\n \n \n Fuhehou\n May\n \n \n \n \n \n May\n 471M'Clelland\n Order\n \n \n \n (No. 23-JUNE 3, 1550\n \n \n \n \n Coxelos 26\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 789 barlessen\n Dent and Co\n \n \n \n \n 652 Smith\n Shangha\n May 714 Budge\n \n \n \n Ningpo tar.\n \n April 722) Mac\n \n \n \n jay\n 4465 Vincent\n \n \n \n \n 550 Jamieso\n \n \n \n \n \n Trautman and Co\n \n \n \n \n \n P. & C. S. N. Co\n \n \n \n \n \n Lyall, Still and Co\n \n \n \n \n \n Intended Despalvi\n \n \n \n \n \n Deat, Boale and Co\n \n \n \n \n \n Hongkong\n \n \n \n \n \n Smith, Kennedy and Co\n \n \n \n \n \n Cramptons, Labury and CosLovilu\n \n \n \n \n \n Early\n \n \n \n \n \n Jardine, Matheson and Co\n \n \n \n \n 5.\n \n \n \n \n \n April 16\n 261 Daiv\n ¿April\n \n \n \n \n Shaw, Bland and Co\n \n \n \n \n \n Melbourne\n \n \n \n \n \n Party\n \n \n \n \n \n 228 Day\n P. F. Cama and Co\n \n \n \n \n May 247,Dec.chor\n \n \n \n \n ¡May\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 7 750Tregcar\n P. & 0.8.\n N. Go.\n \n \n \n Hongkong\n \n \n \n \n \n Jane\n \n \n \n \n \n May\n 1002 Fraser\n \n \n \n \n May\n 836 Keys\n \n \n \n \n Dent, Beale and Co\n \n \n \n \n \n Hongkong\n \n \n \n \n \n April 21\n 5:0 Balfour\n \n \n \n \n Shaw, Bland and Co\n \n \n \n \n \n Freight or Char\n \n \n \n \n \n May\n 288 Cracke:\n \n \n \n \n Furdine, Matheson and Co\n \n \n \n \n \n May\n 641, Bett\n \n \n \n \n Augier and Co\n \n \n \n \n !Mauilu\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Lord of the Isles, slip\n į\n \n \n \n \n April\n \n \n \n \n \n Lindsay and Co\n \n \n \n \n \n May 7\n 280 Meckellar\n \n \n \n \n Ladeny and Co\n \n \n \n \n \n Ntugpo\n \n \n \n \n \n John Burd and Co\n \n \n \n \n \n Hingapore\n \n \n \n \n \n Early\n \n \n \n \n \n Dont, Scale and Co\n \n \n \n \n \n Hongkong\n \n \n \n \n \n sailed\n \n \n \n \n F\n \n \n \n \n \n April 5\n #38;Hant\n \n \n \n \n \n Freight or Char\n \n \n \n \n \n May\n 200 Cheyen\n \n \n \n \n Jarline, Matheson and Co\n \n \n \n \n \n 118Candes\n Order\n \n \n \n \n 375 Sena\n Qeder\n \n \n \n \n Pavid Sassoon, Suns and CoBombay\n \n \n \n \n \n Early\n \n \n \n \n \n Amoy\n \n \n \n \n \n Janet.\n \n \n \n \n \n Karly\n \n \n \n \n \n Orient, barque\n \n \n \n \n \n | Plato, steamer\n \n \n \n \n \n Unicom, steamer\n \n \n \n \n \n Water Witch, bacque\n \n \n \n \n \n Wellington\n \n \n \n \n \n Wild Dayroll, sch.\n \n \n \n \n \n Wild Wave, schooner\n Portugu\n \n \n \n \n Aurora, schooler\n \n \n \n \n \n Tramelga, barque\n \n \n \n \n \n French\n Bayadere, ship\n \n \n \n \n American\n Bayard, barque\n \n \n \n \n Cato, ship\n \n \n \n \n \n Charmor, ship\n \n \n \n \n \n Daring, ship\n \n \n \n \n \n Edith Rose, whip\n \n \n \n \n \n Helena, ship\n \n \n \n \n \n John Stuart, ship\n \n \n \n \n \n Levant, ship\n \n \n \n \n \n Louisians, barque\n \n \n \n \n \n Lucknow, ship\n \n \n \n \n \n Quickstep, ship\n \n \n \n \n \n Samuel Russell, abips\n \n \n \n \n \n Samuel Willeta, shij\n \n \n \n \n \n Sancho Pau\n \n \n \n \n \n Sea Ngoph, barque\n \n \n \n \n \n Spire, ship\n \n \n \n \n \n Underwriter, slaamer\n \n \n \n \n \n Vancouver, ship\n \n \n \n \n \n Comet, whip\n \n \n \n \n \n Grazada, ship\n \n \n \n \n \n Fluswar, stip\n \n \n \n \n \n James Marshall, brig\n \n \n \n \n \n Lorenza, ship\n \n \n \n \n \n Miuna, schooner\n \n \n \n \n \n Penguin, okooner\n \n \n \n \n \n Recket, harque\n \n \n \n \n \n Kolding Wave\n \n \n \n \n \n bea Hanger, skip\n \n \n \n \n \n Selene, barque\n \n \n \n \n \n Curlow, brig\n \n \n \n \n \n John Wade, ship\n \n \n \n \n \n Manry, barque\n \n \n \n \n \n Kingleader, ship\n \n \n \n \n \n Wilmington, schooner\n \n \n \n \n \n Antelope, steamer\n \n \n \n \n \n Coumor, abip\n \n \n \n \n \n Waverley, ship\n \n \n \n \n \n Dutch\n \n \n \n \n \n Admiral Zoutmann, al\n \n \n \n \n \n Johanu Maria, barque\n \n \n \n \n \n Baces, ekip\n \n \n \n \n \n Emilie, barque\n \n \n \n \n \n Protene, barque\n \n \n \n \n \n Neerlands Indie, ship\n \n \n \n \n \n St. Helena, sebooter\n \n \n \n \n \n Belions, ship\n \n \n \n \n \n Christana, barque\n \n \n \n \n \n Dasion\n \n \n \n \n \n Conrad livinzie, brig\n \n \n \n \n \n Hercules, brig\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Otto, barque\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Waldemar, large\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Dannebrog, baryor\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Hunbury\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n UONGEER\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n DESPIRATION\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n latended\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Drapaleis\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Loose, schooner\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Hongkong\n May 27\n 515\n Wood\n \n \n Russell and Co\n \n Singapore\n \n \n \n May 29\n 006\n Mason\n \n \n Lindsay and C\n \n \n \n \n \n has, Livingsth\n sud Co\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n British\n Africa, barque\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Alliance, barque\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Beverley, barge\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Challenger, abip\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Fixcelsior.\n ship\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Falcon, ship\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Koehampton, barque\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Spirit of the Age, barq.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Trumphe, schooner\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Tubal Isl.\n brig\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Vindex.\n schocher\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Pantaloons\n brig\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Bellona, ship\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Angio Saxon, ship\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Ann, loamor\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Annunooka, barque\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Caduceus, ship\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Clipper, schooner\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Daphne, ship\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Hazard, schooner\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Hiberiu, ship\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Hornet, achosiner", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-056 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 239280, "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": "CO129-057 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [7]", "page_number": 242, "title": "CO129-057 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [7]", "content_text": "239\n\nIt is true that\n\n\"great vermynvers\n\n\" and serious detriment?\n\nAyou this paint. I\n\nonly.\n\nobes.\n\nthat until the\n\nevith\n\net is death wi\n\nsubje al\n\nby\n\nmutual\n\nlenartment.\n\nrecipround\n\nevery\n\nact which worker.\n\nwarrant the intervention\n\nof the British Magistrate,\n\np\n\nep\n\nit occurred\n\nbound\n\nwvv\n\nEnglish.\n\nShip, must receive\n\nthe rise interention,\n\nintuen occur.\n\naccuring\n\nboard\n\n01.12\n\nan\n\nAmeriau\n\nMerchant Ship in\n\nBritish Marteaur\n\nthe Saw.\n\nthe\n\nof\n\nDervitect States does\n\nin certain ceremstances\n\njustify the was of personal violevie\n\nby\n\nan American\n\nMerchant Captam towards siis Corens (as\n\nfor\n\ninstance the\n\ninfliction of Corporal\n\nJusensterment in\n\nCass\n\nf\n\ndrunkencres\n\nof refusals by as\n\nJaman to do leis\n\nLeurs,\n\ndirty) sucks Sours may\n\nceo\n\nbe considered\n\nincorporated into\n\n--.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-057 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 241297, "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": "CO129-062 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [1-3]", "page_number": 322, "title": "CO129-062 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [1-3]", "content_text": "20\n\nNo. 5 FEBRUARY 3, 1857.\n\nMERCHANT VESSELS.—Continued.\n\nThe Hongkong Register.\n\nSHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.\n\nARRIVED,\n\nMERCHANT VESSELS—Continued.\n\nDate of Tave\n\nCORSION BA\n\nSame\n\nArrival\n\n27 Frick\n\nHongkong Jan. 28\n\nSneon Draper\n\nAm. ship\n\n200\n\nAshly\n\n26 Luni\n\n81. Zephyr\n\n31 May\n\nSiilelena\n\nJan. 29\n\nTuss\n\nBrit. ship\n\n24 Middleton\n\nShanglice\n\nJan. 25\n\nBellast Da.\n\nBrit. ship\n\nSimons\n\n81 Sir Jus. Brooke\n\nBrit. ship\n\n8795k: amer\n\nFeb. 1 Carondon\n\n1 Bansive\n\nBrit. xh.\n\n#50 MoGregor\n\nSingapore Dec. 37\n\nGeneral\n\nSingapore\n\nSun. 21\n\nTroops\n\nSanghus\n\nJan. 27\n\nBala River\n\nMina.\n\n207 Bambay,&Jur.\n\nOman\n\n1 Jacob Cornelia\n\nDut, ship\n\n492 Rosenboom\n\nBombay\n\nH31S. Porkowess\n\nCanton\n\nSAILED.\n\n1 Chempion\n\n3+\n\n2 Harraventa\n\nBril. b.\n\n445 Thurs\n\nBrit. at.\n\n1000 Aba\n\nAm. h.\n\n500 Gray\n\nFHA\n\nDAIS\n\nNAXE\n\n| FLLO &\n\nKiu\n\nBonghong Jan. 26\n\nThobe Danbar\n\nBrit. al.\n\n70 Tucker\n\nA Separa\n\n#\n\nFitohormal Ca\n\nP. & D. S. N. Co\n\nOrder\n\nSoler and Co\n\n225yal, Suli and Co\n\n688 Fieber und On\n\nApril 21\n\n120 Tarner sad Co\n\nOrlen\n\nMarinera Hope, Lrg\n\nAu Nile, brig\n\nShanghae\n\nAmericaa\n\nSegnoant, ship\n\nB. R. Milaro, ship\n\nDurrington, ship\n\nChanning, ship'\n\nCompetitor, ship\n\nNorwester, sisip\n\nArrival\n\nDate Tur\n\nCOXSTOMER\n\n535 King and Ca\n\n090Isaac M. Bolf & Co\n\nNov. 125Moner!, O. & Co\n\niBee. 1174jRussell and Co\n\nDuc.\n\n1500. Huar nd Co\n\n740Campton. II. & Co\n\nBall, Nye and Co\n\nDec 10 128 Heard and Co\n\nCormances of Seas ship\n\nDeo. 24782 wall and Co\n\n118 Order 289Dent, Deals and Co\n\nDurch\n\nAlbrecht Beiling, q.\n\nNov. G. C. D. You\n\nTwist, b\n\n700 Schafer and Co\n\n464 Selacier and do\n\n4788chiler and Co\n\n244. D. Sys and Ga|\n\nSmidlow, ship\n\nWhite Swallow, skip\n\nDanish\n\nDanmark, barque\n\nGloriosa, brig\n\nOuto, barga\n\nVirgine. brig\n\nSept. 182 Cracapton, IL & Co\n\nSept. 1012001. Kinard and o\n\n270 W. Pasta and Co\n\n10. uste abi Qə\n\n230iems and Co\n\n21Johe Burd and s\n\nSALO\n\nFLAU&\n\nAr\n\nDATE\n\nNAME\n\nTURB CAPTAIN FRCM\n\nSURO CARGO\n\nCONSTUNTES\n\nAmoy Brininte\n\nFuhelusu\n\nJan. 24 Teze\n\nrit. g. 20 Jonca\n\nJun. Gener\n\nBrit. 283 Thanpean\n\nSinggu\n\nBrit, ul. 148 Dring !Swaluw\n\nJan. 26kenyal\n\nA. Hoard and Ca\n\nComajou mad Clu\n\nBankno.M. sad Ca\n\nDent and Co\n\nJolie, M. and Co\n\nHardin, 51. and Craner brig\n\nBila, barque\n\nEllen Oliver, barjue\n\nEtama, schooner\n\nEraignent, bowma\n\nNov. Jardine, M.and Candily\n\nAanina, eh.\n\nForerunner, lawonor\n\nOne.\n\nHine Gem, brig\n\nJly\n\nNov.\n\n¡Feb.\n\nJan.\n\nDay.\n\n49Rusell and Co\n\nNor.\n\nJuly 2685 King and Co\n\n165. Fardon & Co\n\nNov, 18180 King acul Co-\n\n140 aprak\n\nEagle, shin\n\n251 Dont, and Co\n\nBuggle Wing, ship\n\n595 Under\n\nGoblen Wert, sip\n\n38u0nder\n\nHenry Harlock, ship\n\nNov. 1\n\n204Aater and Ch\n\nMails, &c.\n\nJau. 17 General\n\nNov. 3 General\n\nHoratio, ship\n\nNov. 18\n\nNymph, Larque\n\nlec.\n\nPet, arque\n\nAng.\n\n400 filmy and Co\n\n375'Urder\n\nMatilda, ship\n\nAri.\n\n680 Russell and Co\n\nclita, schooner\n\nJan.\n\n140 Russell and Co\n\nRoyal Lily, barque\n\nApril 28\n\n434, Russell and Co\n\nNeptune's Favorite, sh.jdet.\n\n134. Heard and Co\n\nSisters, brig\n\nHone\n\n158 is an! Ca\n\nUnele Tom, schooner\n\nept.\n\n1801ail, Still and\n\nWood Lark,brig\n\nPA 15\n\nOriaz\n\nCAPESIN\n\nFGa\n\nCANDO\n\nCorrenbes\n\nI'vrluyLave\n\nArora, buoner\n\nMay\n\nPapushon, steuer\n\nJune\n\nLive. 326 and Co\n\n26 Aroat\n\n.bk. 27oct Lam a ale\n\nSingapore iShangrae\n\nHathwa Sundries\n\n27 Remi\n\nBr, str. 229)and\n\nShanghac\n\nSundries\n\nBria ok. 3748{lva\n\n29 Recapont\n\nBrit. str. 336 Crockett\n\nSingapore Sundrice\n\nShanghas\n\nSundries Jardine, M. and Co\n\nSandrian Wm. Pustau and Co\n\nKing end\n\nos n Cz der Sandries Jarine, M, sud Co\n\nAmerican\n\nJan. 14 266 Siemen and Co\n\nCarlow, schooner\n\nSupt\n\nFlorida, big\n\nΚαν.\n\nHado, abip\n\nแบบ\n\n$49 Queboil and Co\n\nUse Lyal. Still and Co\n\n597W.M.Bobinet & fo\n\nSev Jan.\n\n250 Uverweg ad Co\n\n133 W. Pustau and Co\n\nHamburg\n\nFapocanz buraz\n\nau\n\nAdmiral Laman, ship\n\nDes\n\nJaunius), pokaduer\n\nies.\n\n+\n\n20 Lahura\n\nBeit, str. 400jBrowes\n\nIserl, rig\n\nAky.\n\n24 Alapco\n\nBrit, bit. 677 Mason\n\nLindsay and Co\n\nLima, barque\n\nNov.\n\nBonabag, 20. Muila, fc\n\nSleeglina Sundrier\n\nShanghon Sundries\n\nMERCHANT VESSELS.--Continued.\n\njatin Long, barco\n\nJune\n\nMary Ralp\n\nThe\n\n404 Biousson and Co\n\nW. Pastan and s\n\nWm. Pusta al Co\n\nFustina, burqve\n\nAng.\n\n337 in Salt\n\nMercarius, arque\n\n1808chur and O\n\nthiader, atque\n\nSenator, b\n\n250W. Put and Tə\n\nPlclades,\n\nJuly\n\nPrussian\n\nAinarika, brig\n\nOcc.\n\n21 Tutmeet and Co\n\nVernel, hig\n\nDea.\n\n21€ Dreyer and Ca\n\nSiamese\n\nDec.\n\n225|Steraan and Co\n\nSCIPS\n\nFhanbury\n\nBouits, brig\n\nNov.\n\n311 John B\n\nBangkok Mark, ship\n\nGodisler, Jarque\n\nAng\n\nEBS Order\n\naly\n\nKing and Co\n\nand Co\n\nSue ship\n\nfang, 9 Stoking sna Co\n\nLaco.\n\n200, Dreyer al Ba\n\nApril\n\n176 Urder\n\nAng. 10385 Kasseli and Co\n\n118 Jardins, and to\n\nNor.\n\nClarita, brig\n\nCora, ship\n\nAvg.\n\nDea.\n\n400 Order\n\nSiamese\n\nSea Hone, que\n\nSian, barque\n\nAug.\n\n430 Order\n\nJuly\n\n32: Order\n\nSpanis\n\n29.\n\nJan. 2 198 W31. Robinet & Co\n\nBan Lorenze, brig\n\nSeraphina, ship\n\nNov.\n\nJuly 11\n\n220 F. D. Syme and Co\n\n16F. D. Syme and C\n\nTESSEL\n\nAT\n\nFLAG\n\nFubchan British\n\nAcarn\n\nBictor\n\nHhong Scop\n\nAgnes Garland, atque\n\nNor Mady, sing\n\n255,0. L, and Co\n\nCalcutta\n\nAng.\n\n1500. Nathaluoy & Cu\n\nkong Flag Ship\n\n84\n\nMelanie, barqu\n\njau.\n\n18. Heard and\n\nCams\n\n14: Jenkins\n\nNov.\n\n510)Dem and Ca\n\nPantaloon, brig\n\nNev.\n\nSoCamajos and Co\n\nfixcogier\n\nPowai, si\n\nfact.\n\n687ade, M. and Ca\n\n| Mercales\n\nDet. 24] 628A. Heard and Co\n\nH&ret\n\nAng. 20 Gas Gito, L. and Co\n\nMiss\n\nSe Dec.\n\n550 Rassell and Co\n\n31 Bollu\n\n2 Virginie\n\n20 Boulay\n\nB: pr. 600 Curling Bets. bg\n\n107 Makissiek ian.\n\n168 Appon\n\nSHIPPING IN CHINA.\n\nMERCHANT VESSELS.\n\nLondoR Smudries Lindsay and Co\n\nTORT Sundries\n\nP. &Ì & N. Co\n\nSmies\n\nAt Hongkong\n\n• British\n\nDate ut! anini\n\nTONS! CONSIUNEES\n\nAlfred the Great, ship\n\nCot. 24 312 Fames Steplanon\n\nAlligator, brig\n\nAulandsle, ship\n\nAeasy, ship\n\nAustralia, ship\n\nAvaca, bargur\n\nJaner, schooner\n\nBanekae, haque\n\nBreshera, Utg\n\nCaldera, ship\n\nCadiz, wamer\n\nCity of Carlisle, ship\n\nClarendon, ship\n\nDeva, ship\n\nPaglub, steamer\n\nBarl Grey, hangne\n\nEena, brig\n\nErin, steamer\n\nEurquie, stip\n\nExcellent, brig\n\nFalco, ship\n\nFous, ship\n\nGlencoe, sp\n\nGood Success, thiş\n\nHoro, abip\n\nJubu Matible, ship\n\nKensington, ship\n\nLady Hayes, barque\n\nLanrick, brig\n\nLord Bagian, ship\n\nLouis, Barque\n\nMaryhull, schooner\n\nMaria Hay, hip\n\nNeure brig\n\nNimrod, ship\n\nPanhua, brig\n\nPerseverance, barque\n\nPrincos Royal, ship\n\nPady Daveon. thip\n\nBamarang, barque\n\nJan. 17 187Gibb, L, and Cu\n\nDec. 7yall, Sail and Co\n\nJan. 1673 Fletcher aud Co\n\nSept. 560 John Bard and Ca\n\nSept. 30 SuRusch and Co\n\nJa, 155ohn Burd and Co\n\nFeb. 14Jardine, M. and Co\n\nDec. 16 2400-der\n\nJan. 820;Under\n\nFeb. 1006P. & O. S. N. C\n\nJau. 15 936 Jardins, M. and Co\n\nFeb. 850 Jardine, M. and Co\n\nJan, 181039 Ruseli and Co\n\nDos. 8 165lemsson and Co\n\nDec. 17 67 Jardine, M.\n\nJan. 26 207 Vaunaice and Co\n\nJua. 850. & G. S. N. C\n\nDec 28 728 Order\n\nNov. 3835 Lyull, Still and Cu\n\nSept. 26 430 Jardine, M. & Co\n\nJun. 14 400Order\n\nJau 1784 N. Murray and Co\n\nNay. 5 500Jardine, M. & Co\n\nJan. 1| 401| Lindsay and Cə\n\nJou 2 500 Turner and Co\n\nJan. 1a 800Order\n\nGet. 18 318iten. Duddell\n\nJan. 27 282 Jardine, M. and Co\n\nDec. 17581anline, M. & Co\n\nJan. 11 374Dent and Co\n\nlocs, si 19els. E. Burrows\n\nJan. 31 924 Jardin, M. and Co\n\nDec. 1l 200Order\n\nJan 23 33 Dent and Co\n\nddell\n\n0 14 148o.\n\nHongkong Hamburg\n\nAar, ship\n\nAlbis, schoonet\n\nMewor, saip\n\nPerucian\n\nAmireas, brig\n\nAnbitvet, ship\n\nCarmon, barque\n\nCallao, barqué\n\nSantiago, barque\n\nUgarte y Sauiing,\n\nSiamese\n\nNoortol, barque\n\nSan Juan, barque\n\nSiamese Crowa, chip\n\nSintoy, schooner\n\nSpanish\n\nPetua, schooner\n\nBremen\n\nC. Melchers, barque\n\nSoloo, barque\n\nChitian\n\nAlianza, Lurquo\n\nGreyhound. Phip\n\nSaray, enhuoner\n\nNew Granndian\n\n| Anuic. barque\n\nMacao\n\nBritian\n\nRoehampton, ship\n\n1 Date of Town\n\nArrival\n\nDec. 31 W. Postan and Co\n\nNev, 16 aga John Burd and Co\n\nJan. 15 540, Sierunson and Co\n\nHalt and Co\n\nNov. 15 Nov. 12 540 W. M. Robinet& Co\n\nDec. 23 356 J. J. das Henesis\n\nJan. 23248 Wm l'ostau and Co\n\nDec. 193 J. J. des Becicios\n\nSept. 13, 200 Order\n\nNov. 39; 4500ndar\n\nDec. 15 800 Order\n\nAug. 28 250 Order\n\nChico, belg\n\nBuno Ayres, brig\n\nChristiau, brig\n\nFaust, schooner\n\nPavian\n\nRosalia, arque\n\nNov. 37 230 Lyall, Still and Co\n\nNow Era, ship\n\nJan. 24 47NR S. Waller\n\nQel 2 186: John Bard and Co\n\nQueensbury, kip\n\nJan. 23 210Order\n\nNov. 250W. Fustan and Co\n\nD. 22 325 W. Lubinet & Co\n\nJuly 13 907Edward and Balley\n\nPortuguese\n\nEnando Macaense, hire.\n\nMay 251 207 Jose d'Almeida\n\n394. J. das Beridos\n\nMaria Carlota, banque.Tan.\n\nSanyma, barque\n\nTona 21|| 170|§. J. dun Renadioe\n\nSept Tremely, barens\n\n375bindsay and Ca\n\n670 Dont and Co\n\nFraich\n\nPort de Bordeaux, ship\n\nOct.\n\nAmerican\n\nHoher Sall, All\n\nAmerican\n\nAnnie Busiwam, by.\n\nFlyaway, skip\n\nKingsher, ship\n\nMandarin, shin\n\nHamburg\n\nAbardus, barque\n\n250W.M. Robinel & Co\n\n1375|W.M.Robinet & Co\n\n126da. Heard and Ce\n\nMay 10 200 Russell and Co\n\nAug. 318&farstine, M. and Co\n\n778A. Jies and Co\n\nRussell and Co\n\nوندی کی\n\n400 Siemsson and Co\n\nSprintma\n\nSanta Leda. Larque\n\nOldeanzung Schlosser, bargue\n\nSept. 3 77W. Pustan and C\n\n550 W. Pustau und Ca\n\nBRITISH SRIPS DE WAR IN CHINA.\n\nCanton Sloop Barratte\n\nHeng P. W. ST.\n\nCloromeda\n\nNankin\n\nNiger\n\nRacehorse\n\nSampeon!\n\nSybille\n\nCanton Sloop\n\nGanton P. W., Str.\n\nCanton Ser. Str.\n\nkong Hospital\n\nCanchor. Str.\n\nH.kong Store Ship\n\nLingue Pigate\n\nCanton Ser Str.\n\nglas Brigato\n\nBubcha Song\n\nAmey P. W. Str.\n\nHogue Priate\n\nט\n\nCOMMANDRA\n\n12 A. W. A. Hood\n\nT. A Furtescue\n\n12 Ticut, Beamish\n\nCapt. W. K. Hall\n\n& Douglas 1.W.DO'Callaghan\n\n12\n\nForny fl\n\nJH. T. ER, Master\n\n60 Hon. Keith Stowel\n\n13 Hon. A. A. Cochrane\n\n40 Sir S. W. E. Nicolson\n\n14 3. R. Barnard\n\n& G. & Fund\n\n40 Wire. Hon, C. Ellied\n\nBRITISH SHIPS OF WAR EXPECTED.\n\nCOMMANDERS\n\nW. T. Bate\n\nG. T. Colville\n\nCa BIGLAND\n\nGolden Racer, ship\n\ni\n\nSamuel Russol, ahip\n\nMay\n\nSarah II. Snow, by.\n\nにし、\n\n420 King and Co\n\nAng. ace! A.A. de Mello & Co\n\nVancouver, ship\n\nJuus\n\n$18 Kussell and Co\n\n$20John Bard and Co\n\n¡SAILED FROM\n\nWedentara, banque\n\nLouisiana, arque\n\nDutch\n\nApril22\n\nNingpo Britian\n\nCornacle, ship\n\n348,W.M. Rebisen&Car, shooner\n\nSolon, banque\n\nArtoon\n\n28 Prigate.\n\nNov.\n\nAerity\n\nH. Kajone\n\n4 Ser. Str.\n\nMar.\n\n632 Dent, Baale and On | Buscaṛd\n\nCWERAD\n\nGun Boat\n\nOct. 25\n\nOct. Oct.\n\n180 kindsay and Co\n\nCamilla\n\n13 Scop\n\nGOJE Bord and Co\n\nCesiser\n\nC. Fellowes\n\nElt\n\nBarcas, brig\n\nLort\n\nDroggrabank, ship\n\nDet.\n\n695 ebaeffer med Do\n\n257. Puslan and Co\n\nWilmingtou, ohuones\n\nFeb.\n\n$6 R and Co\n\nForester\n\nA. J. Lunes\n\nFury\n\nEverdina Elizabeth,bq.\n\nJan.\n\n600 Schaeffer and Co\n\nHaughty\n\nSt. Helena, bug\n\nDee.\n\n1896chauder and Co\n\nLightver\n\nJuflexible\n\nJan. 24 103 James Stephenson\n\nTouis, ship\n\n52:Order\n\nArg\n\n497 J. Bowmen and Co\n\nOposzan\n\nFrow Jolierna, bij.\n\nDet.\n\n530 Beneffer and Co\n\nNo. 28 1247 Darley, W, and 0%\n\nOsprey\n\nHenburg\n\nDec.\n\n914 Turner and Co.\n\nPlayer\n\nLaum & Louie, by\n\nRase, rig\n\nJau,\n\n248 Dryer and Co\n\nKaleigh\n\nJair 1\n\n1768. Burrowa\n\nNov. 28, 372 Lindsay and Co\n\nBandei\n\nJuly\n\nNar.\n\n7.8 Deb and Co\n\nStarling\n\nJA, J. Villers\n\nSept.\n\n175 Burner and Co\n\nJaas\n\n280 Joan Band and Go\n\nen\n\n100 Holiday, Wis: GÜC\n\n120 121\n\nSept. 15 286 Turner and Co\n\nDec 28 900 Dent and Co\n\nDec. 93 78) Onder\n\nDec. 26 560 Dent and Ca\n\nBir Jamar Broshe, str.\n\nJan 91 73 lecher and Co\n\nSpeedy, ship\n\nSpirit of the North, eh.\n\nNov, 11 67, L. and Co\n\nSollane, barque\n\nTruro, ship\n\nUnicoro, simmer\n\nVizzinie skip\n\nVivid, brig\n\nWegsoia, stip\n\nOct. 1 588ebatfer and C\n\nJan. 2469rder\n\nAug. 16 786 Taos. Hunt and Co\n\nJaur 18 830yal, Su, and Co\n\nNov. 143ardine, M. & Co\n\n¡Dee. 24 549 Illiday, Wise&Co\n\nWater Witch, harque\n\nJan. 15) 958). Laprak WP.. Nii\n\nWiki Wave, selvoner\n\nJan. 24. 200/Jardine, M. & Co\n\njosemary -\n\nZepliyi, chonne\n\nFrench\n\nEtaile, Ba\n\nInitia, barque\n\nMansur, Lip\n\nMount Riant, ship\n\nSaceos. ship\n\nJan. 3, 118 Dent and Co\n\nJa 21 389korder\n\nJan. 10j 545;Deas and Co\n\nDec. 26 617ent and Ca\n\n¡Nov. 2) 414jOrder\n\nWillemins, brig\n\n1'/\n\nGimeneze, ship\n\nمشهدال\n\n224 Schacter anti Co\n\net. 15 600 Order\n\nA MEDICAR\n\nShanghae\n\nBritish\n\nAlbert Bowd, ship\n\nAliquis, sp\n\nAlchymies, ship\n\nArrow ship\n\nAngrata, alip\n\nBailarat, li\n\nChallenger, Earque\n\nMara Nativaladept 28 010 M. Rolanes & Co\n\nChieftain, arc\n\nEast Coast\n\nArn, stomer\n\nVille de Dieppe, barqueFan. 2014)yali, St and Co\n\nproste, abip\n\nAmercom\n\nAutonita. schooner\n\nAntelope, steder\n\nBarham, arque\n\nCarben, schooner\n\nChampion, ship\n\nDee. 1134rder\n\nJan. 24 200 iussell and Co\n\nOct 28 248 W. Pustau and Co\n\nDen 26 200. Girly\n\nFeb.\n\n360 Order\n\nC. W. Bradley, Jr., bc, Oct. 9 218A. Heard and Co\n\nDom Quixoto, ekip\n\nDement, ship\n\nFaruka, ship\n\nFrancis P. age, ship\n\nGarland, schooter\n\nHolen Mar, barque\n\nJames Maishail, brig\n\nJ. Godfrey, barque\n\nHate Hooper, shig\n\n2438 King and Co\n\nBan. 18 4003. fleard and Co\n\nNov. 5100, Heard and Co\n\nNov. 12115Jardine, 1. & Co\n\nJan. 15 118s. E. Burrows\n\nDec. 26 saalonder\n\nAnek tan, argue\n\nPorly, ship\n\n16% Robers S. Walker\n\n115andine, M. and\n\nConfums Ship\n\nCrystal Palace, eng\n\nElisse, barqu\n\nBizabeth, brig\n\nFazil Curria, barque\n\nForrtev.sip\n\nCots, ship\n\n537 Curlewine and Co\n\n140Jardins, M. & C\n\nDe 12 25 Birley, W. and Ca\n\nJane 15, 566 per and Co\n\nJan.\n\n207 Viliam P. and Cu\n\n8spt, in 20 Jarding, B. and Co\n\nMay 30 802 Tait and Co\n\nJ.F.C.Hamilton 12 Sicop\n\nC. T. Tudītie\n\nEL V Tamilcar\n\nSer. Str. Sept. 25\n\nFout Sept. 25\n\nKiun Boat Sept. 25\n\nGF.A.Shadwel 21 Scr. St.\n\nST. Corbett\n\nP. W. Str. Oct. 23.\n\n2. A. Campbell Bat\n\n54. 3. m.ield. S.\n\nKeith Stewart. Go Bast\n\nHou. R.Keppel 50 Trigate\n\nNov. 'Willmau\n\nBoat Sep, 25 ina Boot Oct. 25\n\nFOREJON SHIPS OF WAR IN CHINA\n\ndid\n\nAT\n\nFisc.\n\nCOMMANDERS.\n\n805. 839W.1. Warley &Co\n\nCatinat\n\nSur Are\n\nVirginin\n\nLevent\n\nPortsmouth\n\nJau 16 BJ, Kouper\n\nAug.\n\nGuzole, schooner\n\nQuetonio, bargco\n\nGeralWindham, slap\n\nDo Guinare, ship\n\nHeltespant, 6tomer\n\nIndia, barque\n\nBeta Hip\n\nW.M. Rubinel&Ross\n\nKate Carnie, Ali\n\nKelso, ship\n\nLaviermuir, ekip\n\n11 382 Giinue, B. and Co\n\nGsa Lyall, Stink and Co\n\nJuny 2002 graves and Co\n\n336 Jardine, M, and Co\n\nJau Sept. 15 53 Den, Brule & Co\n\nI. 21 020, Birley, W. and Co\n\nDee. 27560 Galien Co\n\nJou. 75%y Lindsay and Co\n\nSept. 26 952 as, Bowman Co\n\nLuly A. Dort barque\n\nNov. 8 870s. Koney and Cul\n\nLady Mary Wood, str.\n\nLammermuir, ship\n\nLouisa Baltic, ship\n\nMary Wieuheit, sp\n\nDee. 563 P. & 4. S. N. OS\n\nJan Bourns and Co\n\nAng. 24, 494 Gilman, B and\n\n1205 Jarine, M. Co\n\n780 and Ca\n\nSan Jacinto\n\nlungkung. Su. Houghong Fr. Frig.\n\nDangkong U. S. SL\n\nShangbae 17. S. Sh.\n\nR.-A. Gner in 50 Capt. Plas 18 St\n\nJC Fote\n\n(bars, Amtree. A\n\n{ Capt. Beli\n\ntea\n\nHongkong U. S. Str.\n\nFort Brig\n\n20 Cam. Tayfres\n\n21 (0) Daterin\n\nMuiden\n\nSulpicc\n\ndc.\n\nAlaxants\n\nPorthorea Prameel\n\n8. Rer Sp. Bg.\n\nHangkong Peru. Str.\n\n4 Briar.g\n\n14 Doran\n\nRECEIVING SHIPS.\n\nBritish\n\nJeliz\n\nChin Chin, arque\n\n310,Camajeu and\n\nBanons, schooner\n\nJa\n\n121 Dens zod Co\n\nJan. 21 56sell and Cu\n\nGaver achooner\n\nApril\n\nHart, schooner\n\nFly\n\n4 Y. J. Marrow\n\nHelen, brig\n\nJan\n\n130 Turtar and Co\n\nJuns\n\nMalac, urque\n\nAng\n\n869 lewitz and Co\n\nBlaze pjs, schooner\n\nu.\n\nBear, arhooner\n\nJuly\n\nTriopho, schooner\n\n200 D. Laprik\n\nFrench\n\nAnais, ship\n\nNov.\n\n632 Lyait, Stilt and Co\n\nAmerican\n\nJac.\n\n304W.M.Robinet & Co\n\nJaly\n\n1068 A. Huurd neu Co\n\nProgressive Age, rig\n\nNov.\n\n296 A. card and Co\n\nKugleader, shi\n\nMay\n\n1:56 A, Koard and Co\n\nSadie Peaza, ship\n\nSep\n\n875 Bonac Cad Os\n\nWitch, barone\n\nCe\n\n| 4100rder\n\nJan.\n\n100 Scbacter and Co\n\nferiests Marie, gee..\n\n581 Sebaffer and Co\n\nJuly\n\nJane\n\n700, F-W. Lawresno\n\ntopur\n\niwan\n\nNov.\n\nJameson\n\nC. S. Lungrana\n\n►\n\nWicusy\n\nSailtea\n\n126 Siemsson anal Co\n\nGerard\n\nDent & Co.\n\nFune\n\n218 John Bund and Co\n\nJord Ambers Anany\n\nBrown\n\nDent & C\n\nJav.\n\n202 Turner and Co\n\nPatlirler\n\n14M\n\nJa\n\n025 W. Pieter and Co\n\nHarleggin\n\nClutches Fitgibbon\n\nAug.\n\n800 Út\n\nTera\n\nParti\n\nDent & Co.\n\nDec.\n\nBremen\n\nBertha, arque\n\nSept\n\n40W, Pastau anil Os\n\nsir E. Aberamby, sb.Man.\n\nya Tamer od Os\n\nMahanolic Tubeca worl\n\nWuter Witch\n\nFalix, barne\n\nClitian\n\nJaz,\n\nJame\n\nKod Lyal, ul auá Ca\n\nVenilia, ship\n\nThen\n\nGaming, M. and Co\n\nHinly\n\nDent & Co.\n\nAnn Woleh\n\nWeorang\n\naircott\n\nA\n\n1. Icare & Co.\n\nVudex, schooner\n\nMa\n\nFully Jane\n\nKing\n\nFulkste\n\nBaylis\n\n478say and Co\n\nNimrod\n\nCobb\n\ni. S. Sons & Co.\n\nSea Horaé\n\nKeppel\n\nP. F. Curas & Ca\n\nHenderson Lindsay Co\n\nMan. 10 13. E Barrows\n\nNev. 18 456Y. J. Murrow\n\nDec. 1488Js. Stephenson\n\nMary Whitidge, chip\n\nNov. 27 07 Russell and Co\n\nMeteor, ship\n\nMins, schooner\n\nMiu, steamer\n\nMosaur ship\n\nNorth Wind, ahip\n\nN. B. Palmer, ship\n\nJan. 20088ja. Heard and Co\n\nMar 300rder\n\nJan. 14; 130 Russell and Co\n\nJuno 28 50Thorens Hunt &Co\n\nOct, 21041as Purdon and Co\n\nDec. 1100 Rossc aud Co\n\nQueen of Be Res, ship! Dec. 170350 all and Co\n\nBachand\n\nRescate, ship\n\nSimon Dumper, kali.\n\nSpotaran, ship\n\nStar King,\n\np\n\nTuskina, ship\n\nYeang America, slip\n\nDutch\n\nAlmonde, Tarque\n\nAnna Justina, ahty\n\nAhna Elizabeth, iq.\n\nChristina, bargne\n\nAug. 25 5303. E. Burrows\n\nSupt. 251 SUGRasseti and Ca\n\nJan. 26 20. Heard and Co\n\nNov. 2u1 826Order\n\nDoa, 11176 Order\n\nSept. 342 Y. J. Murrow\n\n8pt 202000). Iesed and Co\n\nDat. 19 600w. Postau and Co\n\nJas. 13 550 Schaeffer a d Co\n\nJan. 161iemisen und Co\n\nNov. 26 648 Schander and Co\n\nGeneral de Stucs, by.\n\nJan. 2 79Order\n\nHollar Astrow, haupe\n\nSept. 79, Schacter and Co\n\nJaenh Cats, banque\n\nOct. 22 800Saborifer and Co\n\nJacoba Coracia, hq.\n\nKlazina, barque\n\nOosterling, legra\n\nFeb. 140Britaefer and Co\n\nJan. 17 Schactor and Co\n\nDec. 15 53 Var der Haven\n\nP. von Baren, barque\n\nFan, 14; 250W. Pastau and Co\n\nProvenz, barque\n\nBegins, barqa\n\nDazisk\n\nHercules, brig\n\nHelena, barque\n\nJan 18 19 Schaster and Co\n\nJan. 173 W. Fustan and Co\n\nMay 1 2siemsson and Co\n\nUan. 91 e Win.Plan and Co\n\nDutch\n\nDiana, submer\n\nPogosophyr, bq.\n\nVienesha, ship\n\nDanish\n\nBaldar, schooner\n\nLoots\n\ne, schooner\n\nHumbury\n\nElizabeth Ross, brig.\n\nDet\n\nLisa, barque\n\nMcibido, ig\n\nSiusness\n\nParagon, ship\n\nFrolic, actuoner\n\nSwatow British\n\nChina, ship\n\nFazel Carram, barque\n\nJune\n\nNama, schooner\n\nAug.\n\nAmoy\n\nBradish\n\nAbbotsford, barque\n\nAun Kay, rehvoner\n\nAs F. W. Lawrenceklo\n\n4. Puatau and Co\n\nW. Pustau anu Ca\n\n708|W.M.Robinet & Co\n\n!April\n\n80gOrder\n\n250 Order\n\n1, Lapraik\n\n! \n\nNov.\n\nApra\n\nAutoinette, barque\n\nSept.\n\n430E. D. Syme and Co 121 Tait and s\n\nBlack River Facket, be\n\nApril 19 25:Order\n\nConfucius, ship\n\nColdstream, ship\n\nCaluchow, ellip\n\nNov.\n\nDec.\n\nSept\n\n21Sebaftor and Co\n\n51allay, Wine &Ca!\n\nNapoleon II, sip\n\nNia, schooner\n\nNie, ship\n\nNightingale, ship\n\nPaculise, varque\n\nFabr.gra, barque\n\nPeba, banque\n\nPiuto, alcamer\n\nIve.\n\nNov.\n\n115 John Bard and Lo\n\nDee.\n\n70s fling. 1. und Lu\n\nDec. 16 Juzeline. M, and Ce\n\nVESSEL.\n\nAr\n\nCAPTALS.\n\nJuly 320, Wet more and to\n\nNov. 28 705 Captam\n\nJan 11 1890. C. Schmuva\n\nJune 41st, 3a and Co\n\nPrinces Koyal, chipet.\n\nPruth. sip\n\nRemi, stoster\n\nRutin, brig\n\nLal Still\n\nJan. 12 A8Limisty and Co\n\nJAS\n\nJail.\n\nSual Lucy, sequely 10\n\nSauel Stosur, bg.\n\nSept. 11 Salvetin ship\n\nSir James, bargue\n\nWhampoa, lurque\n\nWild Flower, slip\n\nFrench\n\nCanton, saip\n\n322 N. Dogs and Ca\n\nOWALKE\n\nHart Willia. Longkong MDerant ||F. & C. 8. N. Co.\n\nJofon Adria\n\nGama Family\n\nCooray\n\nJa Wa. Posh and Co\n\n45 Water and Co\n\n42rpent, Banky and Ce\n\n647 Lindsay awi Osi\n\n179 Dent and Co\n\nSept. 10 375mler\n\nDea.\n\nDec. 638 Dent and Co\n\nKopanál\n\nAnteyeca\n\nHongkong\n\nSwailow\n\nD. S. Sens & Cu\n\nP. H. Cha & Co.\n\nEusseit & Co.\n\nJuri, M. & Co.\n\nJardine, M. & Ca „Jardine, M. & Linke\n\nDem, Beale & Co.\n\nJarding, M. & Coi\n\nTERMS OF SUKSCRIPTION to the HONOKONG REGISTER and OVERLAND REGISTER AND PRICE CURRENT:-For One Year, 829, Six Mouths, $19. Three Manthe, $8. To the HONGKONG REGISTER-For One Year, $15; Six Montuz, $9; Three Months, $5. To the OVERLAND RE- GISTER AND PRIOD CURRENT slone-Por One Year, $8; all payable in advance, TERMS OF ADVERTISEMENT in the HONGKONG REGISTER —Advertisements, not exceeding i lines,\n\neach insociic. $1, each additional line 20 cearts; van halt of these charges for Repetitica AGENTS for the DONGKONG REGISTER S OVERLAND REGISTER AND PRICE CURRENT, -J. G. ANTIO, Paq, Lomion; Mesars. JARDIN, SKIN & Co., Calcutta; Marrs. Emisoras à. Co. Bourbag; W. S. Danska, Esq., Singapors; Mesary, TAXON, Researy & Co., Batavia; J. P. PE, Esq. San Francisco.\n\n76 Jawline, M. and Colltel, Printed, and Published by ROBERT STRACILAN, at the Hongkong Register Offer: Gage Street,\n\nVictoria, Hongkang. Tuesday, February 3, 1857.\n\n76,P. D. Syme and Ca\n\nThe Hongkong Register.\n\nVOL. XXX. No. 6.\n\nENTIMATIONS.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nVICTORIA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1867.\n\nNOTICE OF FIRMS\n\nNOTICE\n\nTHERRAS the Firm of NYE BROTHERS & Co. MR. ALFRED JAMES HOW is a Partner in our\n\nWHERE the Futva the 11th day of March.\n\n1866, at the fine of the UvITAL STATES' CONSULATK in Canton, execute an Assignment of all their Property, real and personal, in frust for the benefit of their Ureditore, to the undersigned: We bestby giva potica to all voneer el to make payment to ma of all sums due to, and lo present to us any claims against the said Firm.\n\nRUSSELL & Co. JAMES FURDON & Co. Canton, 18th March, 1856.\n\nNOTICE.\n\n-\n\nPum.\n\nW. H. WARDLEY & Co. Hongkong, 1st December, 1856,\n\nNOTICE.\n\nTH\n\nHE undoraigned has this day established himself at\n\nMac, as 3 Berchant, and General Agent\n\nà. 1. §. na CASTRO,\n\nMac, 1st January, 1857,\n\nNOTICE\n\nInstant\n\nAssignment of the property, real and personal, of. A. A. Du MELIO JE, in authorized to sign the Firm of WETMORE & Co., of Chatou, Too- name of our Piru per procuration frost the chow, and Shanghuse, Chiux, having been duly made on the 12th July, 1856, to the undersigned, in trust for the\n\nA A, D MELLO & Co. beatit of their Creditors, and recorded in the United States Consulate at Canton, 1 horeby give Notice to all concerned to make payment to me of sii sume due to, kand\n\nclaims against, the said Firm. to prescut to m\n\nCantan, 7th August, 1856.\n\nOLIVER IL PERRY.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nBeamen's Hospital. Trustees. Jostra farming, faq., C. D. WILLIS, Esq. Hon. W. T. Mesca, Esq., R.S. WALLER, E Superintendent of the P. & O. Steam Navigation Coa pany. (ex oficio.j\n\nTrauren-d. Maantaa, Esq.\n\nBriuent burgeon-Renard G. JACK. Consulting Surgeon-W. A. HARLAND, M.]).\n\n*\n\nTERMS OF ADMISSION, Paltic Warda,****\n\n75 cents per day, fazermediate Wards...\n\ndollar .. 1 Private Recal\n\ndollars Pasicuts are also admitted on deposita, atthe following rates, renewable one day previous to the amountdeposited having been expended.\"\n\nPublic Wards, ..\n\nintermediate,..\n\nPrivate Rooms,\n\n$15\n\n$ 20 $30\n\nThe Captains or Consignces of Veale uetbe respon. sible for the express of Palents sent by them luke\n\nHas itzi.\n\nAll Hospital Billa to be receipted by the Treasurer vuly.\n\nNOTICE OF FIRMS\n\nNOTICE.\n\n[HE Partnership heretofore existing at this Port To the undersigned Busier the style of WILLIAMS, ANTION & CO. expiter the day by lapse of time sud mutual consent, the outstanding ass cants will te verde by either Partner, sad a stricy Agency and Commission business will be conducted by Et us Partners at the Port of Singapore antier the stylo of WILLIAMS, ANTHON & CA\n\nJagkong, 1st September, 1836.\n\nC. D. WILLIAMS,\n\nB. ANTHON, J G. HASKELL\n\nM. THOMAS WALKER, Architect and Surveyor, Queen's Road, Victoria, Hongkong. NOTICE\n\nOTICE 16 hereby given that our busiest in Shang- lae, will be cuudneted in future under us Sty víúlublAN & Evil Cautun sad uv-chow.\n\nGILNAN, BOWMAN & Co. Shungbae, 26th August, köbó,\n\nNOTICE.\n\nE undercly and have perished & their buss Store Keepers, Ship\n\nMacas, 3d January, 1857.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nINSURANCE S.\n\nNOTICH.\n\nLONDON ASSURANCE CORPORATION, Established by Charter 1790, THE ́undersigned, Agents at Hongkong for the above Carporation, are prepared to great PULICIES AGAINST FIRE, to the extent of £10,000, ou any Buthling or on Merchandize to the star,\n\nDENT & Co., Agents Hongkong, 12th April, 1955.\n\nALLIANCE FIRE ASSURANCE COMPANY\n\nOF LONDON,\n\nMISCELLANEOUS,\n\nNOTIC\n\nNo. 1,365\n\nTHE undersigned have taken out az AUCTIONEER'S 1 LICENSE, and heg to uder their sarvkes to thu Public.in that Capacity,\n\nTROL HUNT & Co. Hongkong, 24th September, 181J.\n\nBOARD AND EDUCATION. THE Rev. ARTHUR TAYLOR, has a few vacancies 1 for the Admission into in jimsig of the chüdren of such FORRION Xstrants at the Mec Porta, who may\n\nPHE Undersigned having been appointed Aczstain be desirous of securing for them the Conforte of s\n\nFor Terms and Particulats apply at\n\nNo. Gough Street, Vicronka, Hongreso.\n\nNOTICE,\n\nTHE LIBRARY THE MORRISON EDUCATION\n\nSOCIETY,\n\ntheatre CAIXA for the above COMPANY, are prepared to HOME, sad the Advantage of a LIBERAL EDUCA\n\nrept ASSURANCES Hengcag, as ander\n\n1st. On Buildings of Brick ne Stone, covered with Tiles, Blaces, Metal, or other Incombustible Material, together with their Contenta, when such Buildings ors isolated from all othera,-Rate of Premium, i per cont per Aman.\n\nd. On sanh Buildings and their Contents, when not lealated, cut the Mats of 1 per cent per Axaum, the Su ieslated, as the Mots of per cent per Annum Annut liate will be charged.\n\nOf the 1st Asrances, for the prescut, will be accepted to the extent of £10,000 only on one Risk. And of the 24 Glass.→To the extent of £9,000. A Building and its Contents taken together form one Risk. Thus the above Sums may be underwritten either on a Building zione, or the Coutents alone; or, fart ou the Building, and part on the Contents.\n\nTHE Interest and Responsibility of Mr. EDMOND\n\nNEWMAN Sow in our Firm ceased on 31st Decem ber last. Our Piria now consists of WITAM WALKIN SHAW, WILLIAM Hursos, Joan SCARTO, and ROBERT Ранкетка Іновий ко\n\nTURNER & Co.\n\nHongkong, 12th January, 1867.\n\nHOUSER\n\nNOTICE.\n\nTHE undersigned having erected a spacious GO\n\nspring prepared to recclys ou Storage, Quods of all deereiptions which may act interfere with Insurans against fire. The charge for Storage of Loeros will be 10 cents per Bale per oath, and for Rice, Sus and hor Dead weight 3 cents per picut for the brai, and 2 cents per piest for the second and subazqnent months. The Rater for older Goods will be those current in Hongkong.\n\nLYALI, STILL & Co.\n\nHongkong, 8th December, 1550.\n\nLINDSAY & Co.\n\nNo Assurance is to be considered in force until the Premium be paid,\n\nAmongst other advantager of the Company, the Ax Aared will be entitled to participate in the Ï'rolite after Fivo sucucasive payments.\n\nHoney, is open every day, from 1 to 4 o'clock .x.. to Members of the Society, for the giving out and exchange of Books, Paris, not bombers of the Society, may jotain the savantages of the Library, on payment of an Annual Subscription of $5.\n\nBy order of the Truziles,\n\nHongkong, 25th October, 1855.\n\nJAMES LEGGE, Secretary,\n\nÀ DESORIPTION OF EXGLINE PAL-On the Englich\n\nface are combined decision and nerve, with the fair\n\nThe fair Saxon\n\nParties applying for ASSURANCES will please sund in full particulare of the Blak to be taken; nay Deviation | complexion, blue eyes, and open and florid expret, from which without the consent of the Company, will; Hence the love of truth, hence the sensibility, the fine vitiate che l'olicy.\n\nperception, and portie construction. Dian, with open front and honest meaning, domestic, affectionate, is not the wood out of which cannibal, ve inquisitor, or assassin is mede, but he is moulded for law, lawful trade, civility, marriage, the pucture of child- zen, for calleges, churchsea, chariiles, and rolouies. They nre rather manly then warlike. When the war over,\n\nJARDINE, MATHESON & Co., Agents in China. Hongkong, 1st January, 1875- ERLIANCE MARINE INSURANCE SOCIETY,\n\nundersigned Eaving\n\nFOR SALE,\n\nBIBB, LIVINGSTON & Co. FOR SALE.\n\nIlongkong, 26th April, 1950. BEST English STAR CUAL\n\nApply to\n\nTHE LONDON AND ORIENTAL STEAM TRANSIT INSURANCE OFFICE. Hongkong, 7th April, 1350.\n\n(Established in 1845.) FOR SALE.\n\nTHE Underzigned are prepared to accept RISES HAMPAGNE, BRANDY, PORT WINE, PA (covered by protecting POLICIES at Lotos and the various lour Insurance CoPANIES,) by the PEN- INSULAR AND ORIENTAL STEAMERS from Cus tos and dongkong, wo Amoy, Shanghue, tie Straits, Ceylon, the Presidencies of India, Suez, and Estund. The interest in the protecting Policies is assigned the P. and G. S. N. Company for the purpose of their becoming the Medium of Playmont in this event of Loss. For LATE PREW.CM and cherinformation, apply to\n\nRKS. WALKER, Hongkong. MAXIMILIAN P1son, Canton.\n\nand bluL SHERRIES\n\nLYALL, STILL & Ù». \n\nA fow Cones FRENCH CORKS.\n\nApply to\n\nHongkong, 12th July, 1850.\n\nFOR SALE.\n\nN Invoice of COPPER, and YELLOW METAL\n\nSHEATHING, and COPPER BOLTS.\n\nAlso, CANVAS, and Europe Calcutta CORDAGE,\n\nApply to\n\n1YALL, STILL & Co. Hongkong, 12th July, 1856.\n\nFOR SALP INVIOSE TWO HOUSES, with excellent GODOWNS, LANDING WHARF, &c. Ettached, at present in\n\n& Co, id iuxt\n\nflore, ed un part of Marine Lot No. 10,\n\nFor particulare apply to\n\n, at fiongkong, which will be carried on the pre- uises Intely occupied by Mr. W. Scort, ruder the to- agement af ár. . . Exuicers, who is authorised 20\n\nigor the saingkong Branch,\n\nTua HUNTE Co. Whampoa, 25th August, 1854\n\nNOTICE\n\nInterest and Resperabity of Mn, ABRAHAM BOWMAN in our Firm, oth hire si at konchow, Lo Sith June susi.\n\n11.MAN & Co.\n\nCanton, Shib August, 1850,\n\nNOTICE\n\nAFR. REGINALD PADDAY was admitted a Part\n\nHAMILTON, GRAY & Co. Singapore, 24 Sep, 1556.\n\nMR. was admitted\n\nW\n\nNOTICE.\n\nE have this day established at Hongkong under\n\nthe scan style a branch of our Canon\n\nVAUCHER FRERES, Hongkong, 20th November, 1856.\n\nNOTICE\n\nBains herewere carried on under the Fire of Kwa & Japan, will, fron mud alive this date, ve Conducted by Mr. Mos Moses and Ale LEL J. ANKARA, under the designation of JobsH & Ly waerein Mr. Zum JUDA alcutta is the Senior Purtatt.\n\nEZRA & JUDAH.\n\nHongkong, It\n\n1867.\n\nNOTICE\n\nTHE Interest and Responsibility of Mr. WuJA, DE Firma of GIBB, LIVINGSTON & Ca, of China, and T. A. 118 Co., of Loudon, terminated on the auth Jure 1865.\n\nngay, 26th December, 1850.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nWILLIAM PROBST in this day admitted a\n\nM Partner in our Ficus in libing, which Mr. Jenave\n\nER is authorised to sign per procuration, while Alt. WH. HOLLMAN size the firm of February that has dis\n\nW. PUSTAU & Co.\n\neuntinued to net for u\n\nHongkong, 1st January, 2857. NOTICE\n\nM\n\n2. W. F. BEVAN, having an Interest in the business of this Office, wil siga my name from this lare per procuration.\n\nROBERT STRACHAN, \"longkeng Register\" Office, 1st January, 1867.\n\nTHOMAS L. WALKER Estate and ifcus Agent, Queen's Rouch\n\nHongkong, 18th July, 1856.\n\nFOR SALE\n\n\"MALTA,\"\n\nYork & Canberland HAMS. P CHEESE.\n\nBreakfast BACON, Bach CHOPS, &c., &c.\n\nSMITH & BRIMELOW.\n\nHongkong, 20th September, 1856.\n\nE. WAXDOS, Rhengåre,\n\nH. T, Marshall, Singapore.\n\nA. P. Love Cricutta.\n\nThe dog ind lays been appointed Aunts for the ransk falls from the affectionate ant to westic tantes, POLICIES, payable in LONDON, CALCUTTA, BOMBAY, which makes them women in kindness. This union of HANGGON, PERANG, SINGAPORE, and in CHINA.\n\nqualities is fabled in their national legend of “Beauty and the Beast,\" yr, long before, in the Greek legend of Hermaphrodite. \"The two sexes are co-prezent in the English wind. I apply to Britannia, queen of seas and colonies, the words in which her latest novelist portrays his heroine: \"ake la as mild as she is game, and as game as she is mild.\" The English delight in the un- taganden which comhlars in one person the extremes of courage and tenderness. Nelson, dying at Trafalgar, sends his love to Lord Collingwood, and, like an inco- eent schoolboy that goes to bed, says, \"Kiss me Hardy,\" und turns to sleep. Lord Collingwood, his comrade, was of a nature the most affectionate and domestic. Admiral Rudney's figure approached to delicacy med effeminary, and he declared himself very sensible to fen, which he surmounted only by considerations of honour and public duty. Clarradan says, the Duke of Buckingham was so modest and gentle, that some com tiers altempted to put effrouts on him, until they found that this modesty and effeminacy was only a wark for the most terrible determination. And Sir James Perry said, the other day, of Sir Joha Franklin, that, \"If he found Wellington Sound open, he explored it; for he was a man who never turned his back on a danger, yet of that tenderness, that he would not brush away a Mon- quito,\" Even for tusir highway men the same virtues is elclmued, and Robin Hued tomes described to us an altissimus prædimum, the gentlest thief. But they know where their war.dogs le Crowell, Blake, Maribo- rough, Chatham, Nelson, and Wellington are not to be trified with, and the brutal strength which lies of the hottem of society, the animal ferocity of the quays and Cockpits, the builies of the costernongers of Shoreditch, Seven Dials, and Spitalfields, they know how to wake up. They have a vigorous health, and inst well into middle and old age. The old men are as red as roses, and still handsome, & clear skin, a peschi bloom com- plexion, and good teeth, are found all over the island, They are a plentiful and maritious diet. The operative cannot rabist on waberevesICA. Beef mutton, #best- bread, and malt liquors, are universal among the first- claus laboureTA. Good feeding is a chief point of na- tional price among the raiger, sad, in their carlemmer, they represent the Preschman as a poor starved body, It in curiose that 'Tacitus found the English beer already i use ang the Germans: they make from barley or whest s drink corrupted into some resemblance to wine.\" Lord Chief Justice Purlesque, in Henry VI.'s time, sayu * The Inhabitants of England drink no water, valens at certain fizuen, on a religions score, and by way of pen. acer.\" The extremes of poverty and ascetic penance, it\n\nROBERT FRANCu, Mudras, ot Joas ROBIE. Bumbay.\n\nLondon, Sih January, 1854. NOTICE. THE umlonsigued, having been appointed Agenta for the CALCUTTA MERCANTILE MARINE INSURANCE SOCIETY, we ready to issue alicice En behalf of that Oleo, payable in BINGAPORE, CRAN, PANGDON, CALCUTTA, BOY, UN, din Cara\n\nDAVID SASSOON, SONS & Ca. Canton, 930 January, 1856. \"COMMITTEE OF MAKÍTIME INSURANCE, OF PARIS.\n\nJAMES HARTLEY & Co.\n\nL\n\nHE Undersigned, having been appointed Acerra for the Marine Insurance Offices of Paris, are aathor ized to examine and approva Clarins for General azú Particu Averages on ikka musured by them.\n\nSCHAEFFER & Co. Hongkong, 27th December, 1816.\n\nCOMITE DES ASSUREURS MARITIMES DE PARIS. ES Somsignés ayant été nommé Agents des Reunions FOR SALE.\n\nArreurs particuliers et des Compagnies d'Asure- YUPERIOR PORT AND SHERRY WINE, in Cunts runces Maritimes, de Paris sent authorisa, pour eumi\n\nof 1, 2, & 3, Dozen each; niso CHAMPAGNE in 3 ner et constater des réclames d'avarica partientiéres et\n\ncommunes sur des risques assurés par eux, dozen Cuses. BEER in Casca of 3 & 4 dosen each, at East Point Godenas.\n\nHongkong, le 27 Dec. 1956.\n\nNOTICE. THE undersignal having been appointed Aoser to\n\nOrricks in Rotterňom, a 1st of which may be seen in his one, requesra application to made to kim da ense of any particular or general Averages un rlake in eured by them.\n\nALEX, WILSON,\n\nHongkong, 16th December, 1856.\n\nFOR SALE.\n\nTHE Tax HOUSES known as Bagwiese.\n\nFor further particulara, apply to\n\n10\n\nRongkong, 27th December, 1850.\n\nFOR SALE.\n\nLINDSAY & Co.\n\nm board the Screw Steamer \"Lubus,\"\n\nat Whamp\n\nTWO TUBULAR BOILERS, each foot 2 inches\n\nSCHAEFFER & Co.\n\nThe majority of UDARWINTERS SIG INTUSANDS\n\nHongkong, lal January, 1857.\n\nA. W. P. KUP.\n\nMISCELLANEOUS,\n\nPOSTOFFICE NOTICE.\n\nwould seen, never reach cold water in England. Wood, the antiquary, in describing the poverty and maceration of Father Lacey, an English Jeruit, dues not deny him heer. He says, \"his bed was under s thateng, and the way to it up a ladder; his faze was coarse? his They have more drink, of a penny a pawn, or gallon,\"\n\nThey constitutional nurgy than any other people.\n\nthink, with bat manly excercises are the\n\nfomation of that elevation of sind which gives one\n\nnature ascendant over another; ar with the Arabs, that the disys spent in the chase are not counted is the length of life. They hot, run, shoot, ride, row, and sait from pinle to pole. Toey eat, and drick, and live jolly in the open ale, putting a bar of solid sleep between day and day-English Traits.\n\nPORGIA PREACHtaq.--The Furkaru, niter noticing the Freemasons' friend, and making some creellent re- marks, in which I quite cuntur, regarding “popular\n\nin length, and feet 4 inthase of a work Engin, a HE Acting Post-Master regrets sa way that owing to prenehno leping of Church, an epigram pointed\n\nthe departure of the carriers from Hong- tong, there can be no delivery for the present of Leiteir &c., hat how the Peat-Office window. Hours of stren- dance being as heretofore frora 7 oʻtlock, a.a. to li PAN,\n\nPosten, Hongkong,\n\n12th January, 18s.\n\nsufficiently apacions to Engtuan of from One Hundred and fronty to One Hundred and Thirty Hons Pow. Bach Boiler ha 3 Furnaces; length of Tubes, 4 ft. 9 by 24 in. diameter. The whole is in first-rate order, having been only Six-en Monthe in the Vessel, and not having been used morg than Six Weeks during the whole of that time\n\nONE HIGH-PRESSURE DONKEY ENGINE, wish\n\nSAN MIGUEL KRASS AND IRON FOUNDRY. CYLINDER capable of worklog up to Ten Forsy Power, fitted with Pamp of 7 fucher diameter, and YNDER the Superintendance of an Experienusi Ex- Buroke of Piston Rod fi inches, for pumping out Water GINEER. Orders for all kinds of MACHINERY Ballart, throwing with cas 20 Tons per hour. Also executest with despatch. Speak ENGINES & BOILERS Cast Iron Baskets with Cod Waaris, for Londing or repaired. SHAFTS of the bees English Iron from 5 to Dinolwaging Cargo.\n\n9 inches diameter. Orders to be addressed to Moser B. A. BARRETTO & Co., Media,\n\nONE PERPENDICULAR CYLINDRICAL TUBU. LAR BOILER for Huginu. standing & fost 9 inches high, diameter & fest 7 inches.\n\nThe whale in first-rate working order.\n\nLINDSAY & Co.\n\nHongkong, 25th Cetuler, 1855.\n\nWING to the existing condition of affairs at Chator, D. KENNY han ravnoved to Hongkong; and may be consulted his Rive, cormir of Graham and Gage Streets.\n\nlingkong, 10th December, 1856.\n\naway's article on\n\nwith a good joke of the witty South, the Editor aught to have a return in kind, I offer the following an illustration of the disgusting length to which preachers who strive after effect, can go. The anecdote is taken from severe criticism, writing in England, of the Rev. J, C. M. Bellew's volunie of Sermon preached at St. Philip's, Regent Street. Allading to Mr. Spurgeon, the \"gated dissenting prenslier,\" the critic of the Saturday Review says:—\n\nThat shining light of the Non-conformist world lately discoursed of the last days and death of Williaur Palmer, and be described the devil na trembling between hope aul fear--now reading that Pairer would confers and balk him, and presently confident that he would remain ohdurate. The preaches wout an ine on himself to per souity Satan; and, rubbing his hands in a flow of ex- citement and delight, he shoutot, a the game in the prison cell was closing, \"here he comes! here he comes! here he comes --Bengal Hurlar.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-062 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 241299, "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": "CO129-062 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [1-3]", "page_number": 324, "title": "CO129-062 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [1-3]", "content_text": "27\n\nMina to pag-did not give him so understand that I was scale he was not going away.\n\n\"Gerard by Belles,\n\nhey thos\n\nmen de finally\n\nExtra to The Hongkong Register, No. 6.\n\nMare. I saw the birth and tenth priscacs n board the ma-ter of Alluny's business. I said that if he diwas paid. He owed about 15,000-partly for four others of the Badly on the passage they overmied Chim several tens of dollars or a badrcil. I made tud Thistle. I believe 300 is due on the promissory only when in sight of the Prais Chande, but I see not press the business, I would set my shop, and gipartly prouissory notes for hire of the same s in the sb, the dotresites and his father and brolis fore-entia. Esing empradore i busrd, offer entirely en\n\nAl sets the Insitus in the reta:) shoe it thit 100 songst the prisoners; i dones know fleiri en Day of Abluto's funt's in the subject our abacush previous, I selit li 16 dags of 2013, vwn responsibility, I have uotes, oud the rest for flour which I sappiled about one\n\nench did not suspect that be was going to icare The Cowel sentence the last wires to six sunthu' in Island, until he had left he promissory nets fril I did not reate there. Ithak, plize abent 9. Ablam said he had very important business 11\n\ndue on the 5th January, it was drawn about four au to 400 peple, awue tints are at leasecord-\n\nDOUGELY LAPIAIN-I Bougkeng and an sked the Caplaid to lake the steam-auner is his father, the fat is n entiers of Bility stay-drawn on the sue date. Titis witness gir ing the goator of the bread prutace- did or back to Hongking The Capris said he contal thians. The R-sing firm had two establishment. his evidence un eros, examination very reluctantly, the perintend the aging of the bread-Bones 1 do it. Ahlus said i had very supertant business kenw the retail shop Ablue is er or master, à Attorney Generell its ceply said har to drag it hat two Evropen forthes and some Chinese bakere, Hongkong, in answer to the Captain, who asked him father superinters the shop ustness, I am not aware, out by air force.) Ponais e Change arman; and somariose de why he was a hurry to go back, kala conversation thing berst up and there was no korvan a alt. My with: Ablam soos after. I said the wul that was pur-bread of him on 15th and was aude sick by it\n\nkhus share. Inta a customer of -sing broug Boris magh the Chinese how to make broal,\n\nYKONG Kwa Sow, -1 cu a builder. I have three chase. this morning from your shop male every and the mechanic part of the baking was done hair very sick; he replid, that was the resou hetou for the Port of Steamers Between & and monthly for an indefinute period. He asked me to wake by Cal-sc. 1 csider the bakery is worth 100,\n\nA Ben was Agent for Mr. Murrow in Choses beland theEing batery. I am sequainted with\n\nAhlum--On the 19th January, I let the houses to Ahl elling the penis, ne more u tom de heto him, saying, that it was very probalde dat all the Pedders' wharf. I saw a boat passing in the entwan month each-3 months payable in odrame.\n\nwanted to get back to liongkong. I went u uslking to 7. I was in a small boat is the Labor, not fur ir ovens in this for him hakery. They were let a m E-sing ces was courly increasing, and tutely pee who eat his bread were sitt be left very met 9. Mang entirely supplies the Counissariat Hongkong the same day; and thou ke asked if the\n\ndirection and rocognised one man, Ablulu, on boa color tot wah £2,000, the maenines $3,00 Captan would take the reamer back the same eveniny fur\n\nI have been acquainted with him for about sendwall of the business, $1.600, and stock $3,000 on the $100. I said I did not know. ith Jary. I was in the Colony when she shops were thought of sis bastuces lie said it is a little thing which naked his was he\n\nyears. I had meen him on the 28th Dec. in the shop conversed with him; he recognised me the porter shot me in November. I don't know the forcuan of the litru ruerteciue will make all proper. This was ter\n\nwed. I called hic by Lame, I was 50 paces from him lakery tanne I know the name of the man that called the most active man, I know hitaas I have son\n\nbe offered Mr. Agabes and the Captain together $156 to\n\nhad an object in bailing him, it was to ascertain wheti ! him in the hipnoz doprtment; and know putting of the which they sit they could not do; and that it was seird the Steamer back to Hongkong that evening,\n\nsteaper was going to start for Macua. He made no bread department I know him to se ha most active better to wait until next morning. The fire was pub\n\nI strange at the time. in the bakery, The bay was being enlarged and snt inmediately me: we arrived in the inner harbour. pr wel in December last\n\nHe acele e isle anle ranga, The fast jure I wae Ahium on our was when! European not even Mr Morrow, bread bi ta commnunty, com say my so he dado ao was talking to the Captain; he then offered $59 if h\n\nbay ay lust, Wien ut the bakery business would tagg lúm kurie to: Fungkong that night; 15; Captin i present fur contes know Ahim, the last propaths ego. There is another promissory nofs due\n\nhat which was not the one I was accustomed in w balted him only once, Re evomized-it did not occurred to me that wy & would make Allum not recognize me.\n\nuf\n\nNo - a working haker, Long Ahoy la my master. He is the commissarrin haker-I am fere- man. Jang Ahoy does not superintend the Bakery, but leaves it entirely to me.\n\nCrossmined by the Attorney General,I a Ablum's friend-ne elution-no relation by earringe\n\nmonths' real was gaid on the 13th, in advance. One of the Jupes is still in my possession, the upper story is broken up for the purpose of buikling the ovens. I have given up possession, of the two others. There are now er to my bail and tumed away his head; I though ply four barrels in them. Cozamined by Dr. Bridges.---I was in a China be Toususamer å boy-woodenter at the sing he went in tow the parish steamer to the inner ba-beur,\n\nThe elame anised of the Praia Grande, and thesiliout a cover, I was denseed, mach na usul. I had ry, rocog med at the prisoners except the 31 pioner; they belonged to the Esing bakury on in and hatwe blom sad the Capturis soon after we got into Crained my Mr. Day heard nonversation Tak Ja mary. The 3 and 46 prisomes are brund the inner haroser; it took plñen en the deck spousite the Inkara\n\nCaptain's stock ruota. I could not go forward, the place Creamed by Mr. Day was captured with a burrianded, and all the Chinese passengers wore cleven others n the 15:1, January in the upper part of forend of tin harricade. I heard that sum of the F-ei the takery; the eleven were bleet kera. There were\n\nothers on the piers at the sime To S 6th and Chicae pese gers that pay $1, al Another that pay $2 family on tammi, were sick Tha ja one class of 8th prisoners were among these arrested. There were both are be rented out. The 12 passengers are in the no other perpen in the house than ise arvestat. We fore-cata; and t passengers down slow, forward. ram taken to the palice stacion. I was questioned by-sug and his family were in the cabin, and lus onder Mr. Mag together wet til uther eleven me. Thurs and ather Chines were an deck, the barriquis is were only guiva pesent us the time, We were al sent isun mal confica! by uncive. I do not szil al 's family had been sick, I saw no of the\n\ntaean the und the after part of the steamer. Alumif know Mickson, or Mr. Turner, or the detorney very sick an Serd, could not see the rest of his Gonerat, (who are pointed out to lika.) So one femily who wers in the in Ahlem said that he als spokann na about giving evidenon. I was brought was sick, he was not sick in my presence. I do not from the cell to the place below and brought up here,\n\n1. 31, RN, 1 was it from eating broad absinus sous-I do know them, of the bags w\n\nknow if these two boys, who werd very sick, wựn Al- from the B-sing shop, on the 15th January last, in pensei somuching like the 2nd prisoner bezwen isend 17. yours yance of which I made gagnvies after the misere: fag. Bore offers ware made in the inner harley, Antons, sed à fouel he had leg the Colony for Mano That unborning.\n\nANTONIO XAVIK,- ans Captain of the Shamrock\n\nIncertainthe goverment had not de-\n\nAfter the orgina. 12as taken, of which Loveha I w\n\neffect that he had secreted the E-sing preatises on Diputy frapector Boyle's \"depositions read to 15th January but found nothing of a spicious natu Join Dunn-Police Inspector-I proceeded to Esing shop in Queen's Road Bass, on the morning gave them to Mr. Grande, the lath, had brought bread and dour front there,\n\nI remeber only ou, the Grat prisoner. I de net kan Create camined by Dr. Bridgea-I apprehended in\n\ninquiry if any had absconded. I searched the sho any one had abscended that drunking. I did not na ncing suspicions was found!\n\nHO ACHAT, WomanOn the 15th January, I was resuled in Alto's Bakery, Queen's Road East. I lived with Ahium's family, and it consists of Cheng Aliee bla an A-One child is 3 years, 1 child 3 months, wife, 2 children, servant giri, myself, and u temule relation old both boys. They lived in the up part of the house lacing the road. I herd with them for four years. The bakery is at the back, tiny make wont und biscolt, night and day. The dough for the bread is put info the oven all o'clock e.. I do not know, when the Breed bread baking was finished, no ruport was mule up-stales baking is frished-70 tile wight of the 14th after the\n\nconting up, and he did say that after supper all the work Ahyow, clerk, did cure that night, he is in the habit of ater were voiting Geard them vuiling, Ahlem does not often sleep in the inkery with his family aerly 2 or 3 times a mouth. Alama did not sleep there on the 14th Jan, le game there on the morning of the 13th, soon after dry-Byld and requested bis family to get ready to go by the steamer, to their village, Long. They had no breakfast before Acung near Macno. they startril. They took to the steamer two kind of bread large and sniall, the large was commun loof, she swall Joat way made for the occasion by order for pre- were 4 Inrge loaves, these were brought to me by Ali- seats to their friends in the aforrasid village. There\n\nThis cut the ease fur the Crown, nt 4.30 1. Dr. Bridges Intiated that he would not be able emmene his defence that night, and though the day Court consented to ajourn. ware auxions to go on and get done with the adfuir,\n\n(journed 4.50 PM\n\n(Fourth Day, 5th February.)\n\nfe\n\nmany strong observation ugadunt the manner in which Dr. Bridges commenced his spreeb at noon and we\n\nthe crown had undated the case, and agaiter the volum. The Bread were made the night before. I only mittingjuetimos la cullod\n\nci 1 chartering any steamer; chewupon chartered Captain, ce she th of January I took the command of the the Rerace Spark at has en use to go to Me Mr. Ma pointed me. On the the men We arrived at 6.30 o'clock that evening. So pocenions of the 17th January, I left fur bliscau, dust before were tenderci tand by the Govern, has left, thism and a family came on board the steamer, his a lot with polcomen coming. fearing that Ahlin father was amongst them.-wy brought an order frota might have spes alone I told the Cpini: not to wait for then as we were underweigh.\n\nMr. Mure for their passage (order presented by the W. LE MESURIER-1 un head of the Comissat 10 Macan I made a statement that the police were\n\nWhen I got whitness). Allum hituself presented the order and I indenriment, I know Ahlam by the name of sing 1 coming in the steamer wich was to leave in the\n\nmediately put hiau ar his family in the fore cabin, made a contract with him on the 14th January. Os at Aftenbos. I did not apply to the Macao audierities.\n\nOrder red] Shaurant, please give Ablum's family days tender was accepted for the supply of 100,000 ba but I went on hoard the Shrmport abent 7 e.., nter using of betweet. 8 and 9 persons, a passage to facs biscuit by sing. I had transacted Cusiness with bia making enquiries, there I found Ahlem in the forenin\n\nin the fare calia. None of them appeared to be sick oz before, and was quite andisfied with bis conduct I wodd with several Chinamen, women and children.\n\ntheir coming on board. I say some of the passenger? I put\n\nhave entered at any time into other contracts with him. my hand on his tail and told him he was my prisoner, made enquiry as the evose of the sickness, whether they about six oths in this Colony.\n\nwho were sailors and exalkers sick about 11 d'clock. if Crozanawaśned by the Attorney General-I have Sien and muss some on shom with me. i did not tell hire un what charge arrested hou. The prisoner saidave of the net and wite not aick, but the bread was new and ens bread cat.They said they had on here any om die at Hengkung.\" To which I replet bread and the fore they craoluded in to be the effect of you have poisoned for every boy wite arsenic. enting that bust. Baving attained slut the Bruxd Is asked me what nesenie was, I sold bin it was the tain they sad to destroy rats. He sait ha did xut bed was purchased; and they and at the E-sing shop. was the cause of the sickness, I asked, where the know want that I then sail this was very lod thing for him after having heen snapccied to tre\n\nI arrived of the main Grands at about 1 oeber and had something to do with the Thistle's athir.\n\ntion went to tow the Spanish steuer inte the inner he was very sorry for it, bot that he did not knew any\n\nharbor, where I arived at 9. Ahlam did not leave thing about either fair. I asked him why he had taken\n\nthe steamer. I had the tention Aptale him on board la funily over from Hongkong. He sud because the\n\nIndoconversion with Allum on the passage previons been threatened that his house would he barn i asked\n\nto the scammer cloring in the inner harbor. Abium hise if he had a house in Macau for his family. He sait said that he would give $50. I t I was not sked if he could leave for longkong the same evening, he had na, but is intended to leave them there with gig and could not ge, fining cargo to deliver\n\nAs I was going to the Governor to explain board and Aldam offered lur $100 to send the steamer lart I haut dore I act some of the Hongkong police. 1 Park Litas sveoing which, waa refused, and Mr. Aguleg rammed with them to the guard boss and give prisoner stiet li could not send then steamer back before text into easy: then returned to Hongkong in the work. inorning as 5 o'clock. Ahira then asked me whether Whea (first went on board the Shamrock, I told the it would a heater for him to go back to Hongkong in mare no to allow any o to go on shure wot the Hongkong police arrived.\n\na Chinese boat that evening or to wait for the ausner next morning t 1 advised him to wait for the\n\nAnd\n\n|\n\nof\n\nsaw one of the maull loaves given by Allan) to one the children before they left, it was to the eldest child. efter the child eat the bread be voulted. My master At the time the bread was given the child was well,\n\nsked why the child vomited. I aud the other servant RB well, aswered that it was owing to the cold, air of the morning. We all wear to the steainer, we were all toget- her in the fore cabin. There were some other people there who i do not kasw. There was a sereen, a cloth, hanging between the men and the women. There was\n\naware of his having tendered to supply the Commiserinting to the same visage, I heese bur name is Aher-ake R. A. ONDE-I am nequninted with Aldom. Iancnother tough not belonging to the family, but belang- with biscuit, he had to sign an agreement after the terder was there before we arrived. Whde on board we only eat was accepted. & 4 or 4 & 5, 1 wes not certain of time corrcer the bread were given to the infant chilld.\n\nI do not know if he be it signes, Isaw bread. and dething else. The bread eat by us, on board, him on the 14th of January in the afternoon between 3 was cut by Ahlum, he eat of the bread first, comic of the wanted to know when he meant to deliver some parted in ny snouth first, and then gave it to him; he then I gave it, I chew- of the biscuit. He said he was going to Macao, and that vomited. We e voisited-ties and we all felt he world bring say servant hack with him. I understood alike. The sickness continued until we arrived at he was to go the next dry. He said be would be hack Macao, then the vomiting ceased, the giddiness con- in the course of a week and would bring my servant tinued. The children were ill after they got back to with his\n\nHongkong on the 15. The whole family were\n\n$2392riend. I then took him ashura tu the Governor's Incac. Aerwards the Agent Mr. Agaber caine ou the Inst contract. When I suy tread I mes: Liscultiple in Honung mla be sick too, therefore we nust\n\nKitard,\n\nwith a ever since I came into the Colony. I had a reh, and women wore sick from eating the bread, peo- W. Spine, I tu . S. Naval Storekeeper, I know brought back here by the police. I heard the unver- Ah'um. In my offelel capacity, I bad business transadiensation between Ahiura and bis father, that as the child- contract with him for 108.000 lbs. it was the largest and was always perfectly antisfied with the manner he failed his contracts. Most Fasuredly i would have been ready to enter with him into further contracts had this affair not happened.\n\n[ go hnek,\n\non the 15th Janury, only 9,005 s. of hecnit ready, Crosscamins by the Attorney General, There was\n\nCrossezamined by the Attorney General-I did not\n\nCrosseramizat by Dr. Bridges, some mede consteamer, Ablam Haid he world remain on board 1 wovording to his stetergent, which he made a few ways give one saul: leaf to the chid in the bout: be gave\n\nsapon took place on hore. De Shamrock. When I told statuer aul the following morning, Ahers said him seni had been used; he said his own children had further three would land his family in the morning, ben sick, and asked me to come and see them. I do\n\nlined to do so. I do not know whether 1 gave the co-That lio did not care if his family were to die so long as lie and himself and his father wohl go back to Hongkong. versation in the saras order before the Magistrate; I was could go back to Hongkong, because he zupplied the nci particularly asked to do so. but I do so how that it is particularly beught to my memory. He volancered went ou board, may mate was.\n\nGovernment. I was not on board when M Robinet to go burk with me in the Spark. He told me that he had offered 1100 to the master of the steamer to take -in back to Hongkong at night, hit that the Captair had refused. I know that Allem had gone in the Sun- ruck. I did not goot board dieetly fearing that he might escape. und bin in the Surecakin standing sulking\n\nith sathe Unese,\n\nThird day, at Februrg.)\n\nCreuseumined Mr. Day-The fret time I an Alium on road at 7A..when he presented to the order of Mr. Murronext time I saw him was when the wearer arrived close to 4 o'clock-if Ahlum wished he canid have spoken to me ut any time through the barricade. When the steamier was anchored the har riende was opened, then the conversation took place--\n\nprevious my last contract was in December some time\n\nIt was a verbal contract. A. G. Acame, am the Agent of the Shamrock between 124 40 1 2.4r. The ordinary course is for the steamer at Macna. I remember un the 15th January the Shamrock anrrived in Maco, and reacted the Prolu Grandle\n\nvessel to return to Hongkong the same day between 2 and 3. On this occasion I had actor work for her, it was arrived in the immer harbor about 34, but I are not sure. not previously kupwa by the Captain. The steamer I went on board before shestopped at the Praia Grande. harbour. When I was on board at the Praia Grande, I The barricade was removed before she went to the inner sw all the Chinees passengers coming out from where hat I sun is when be offered the Captain $100 in the they were barricaded. I saw Alum-nt at that time. inner barbor. O the Teuin Grande, i mernly want\n\nway the child was sick owing to as coldness of the morning, but the father said so. The child lives upstairs shut up from the wind. My monster brought the bread did not see from where he got the bread below. He upstairs from below. I only saw bist bring the bread\n\none tuoltar of the children between the time they lea the hour and getding on board the slenaver. It was about on when the bread was our and distributed. I did not\n\nand 2 baskets containing bread and oranges, with chin observed my master bringing that morning ang clothes to the Lonse, the family took will them way bedding some clothing for the children. I heard master say, when the Mandarina are less trombiccome the faraily will come back again; and flat when he got to Mars his father would take them home, and be would return to Rong- kong you so they were lauded. I am dry murine\n\nain to Antum's family. I am not Aklum's wife, no\n\nMy husband is in California. We brought back I we taken to the Police Station. there I remained the whole of taxt day nad she exi 1 Anjum geing in to be examined; he did and passi through the riem I was in,-but through the veranla\n\nOn the count asectbling Mr. Sutton & juror said my When the pfer, of 600 was made Ablam said, thet e boy Ashow asked me if I was going to the Court as applied bread for many families in Hongkong and that he apprehended there was something wrong there, and that was the reason why he wanted to ges back to\n\nou be in give direction and went back on shore. Sionging to it. Assow and several other called me Hongkong to wake inquirica about the poisoned bread\n\nIt was half past 4 o'clock when I went back to lens here today. I did not objeer to be examined at because he supplied the fiscernment and troops. When\n\nstremer in the inner unchar. The chief mete told pic\n\nthe Police Station. M. Agabeg asked him why he was in a hurry to go to\n\nAblam offered 100 to go back to longhong. Some By the Jury-Cannot say what hour the bakers had longlong he gave the same reusons---I think that Grande. The Captain told me that some of his menyn eat is wasatrange, but e caquiries were rasle. of the menger meul on shore at the Prais their supper fat sight. I live upstats I cannot my what Aillum did not know of my intention to detain him on\n\nhour they had their suppor, but know they take appre bord. I had only gives orders to my mate not to uile were sick, bot le did not my polsoped. He said muilunk Avow cares up to tell Ahium's wife she cfremstance, any sumpar to come alongside.\n\nWhen went and I hear it. There was an opening in the screen on board the sb pc mc side. I could see Abian euthing\n\njayman. I said yes, but I could not speak any thing about the case matil the trial was over. He said Ablam's cousin offered to pay me $100, and the same amount to any other person of the jury who would help Aalum te Escape conviction. The Court orderen the arrest of the boy Accord Ablum's consia and that ties be brenght bore the Court.\n\nALEX. MACHINE-I am Kozerd of the steamet Slickar in the habit of purchasing bread from che Sing. I generally receive my head on ene of the boys of the shop and the inney is al generally in the first prisoner. In the shop fie beiind alie manter, believe he is slabenilen in the shop: I have soen rèé second prisoner in the shop, he belonged to the Thistle before she was taken. Thure en him in the shop after the Thistle was ken; he appeared to be one of the boys in the shop. I have seen hit nasist others in the Aelivery of bread. I only cognize three of the prisoners S having seen the f the shop, ti Arst, second Ani a. On the morning of the 15th January, I benght breal at the -si shop for the use of the cabin, between half past & and half past A.M. I was not very long in the shop, do not rollees having seen that gay any of le priserers in the shep, I was there at the time to receive the breil und pay fit. About Ho'clock luft at the nner for Marzo After leaving Hongkong most of the Eareas papers in the form part hesame sick, name of them were saitors. This took place one df an hour after we left Hongkong. At first I thought it might to go eickness, but as you of thera Bilen got sick daught the water cask on bei\n\nright he poisoned. As they said they had drank no\n\nBy the Fury.The temaer was off the Preis Gende about 10 minutes before she went to the Road to tow the Spanish steamer,\n\nthe Shamrock--the crew breakfasted on board on the ANTONIO GONGALVEZ-1 at Chiat Oficer on board\n\nof his intention to detain Arlum.\n\nversation with Ahiana; he said he wanted to go back un beard in the inner harbor, 1 had a rou- to Hongkong ta een now his bread in Ilongsong the head on found the seater. had turned out; he offered to pay $100 if I would ing-I declined his offer. I did nothing to prevent lur allow the steamer to go back to Hongkong that even-\n\nbeen in custody since the 15th January. On the 14th & Cara-TO-I am clerk to the K-eing hakery. I have\n\none of the priest. Wong Ataol was one of the bukor was at the bakery. Alus was the bead baker-he iz aut\n\nmet was mixing the yeset and making the bread. alo, he is not aroong the prisoners. Atrofa depart\n\nThere were 42 prisoners aken on the 16th. An ad\n\nAt wore not wegst them- The night it was\n\nAt night\n\nafterward three of them were able to work, I saw knowledge; he could have gone with the other passen 15th January niter 3 o'clock--they became sick 5 muutes from going on shore, nor any other person to my the prisoner and his family on board efter the steamer gers if he had been so disposed. He mentioned that his drrived in the inner harbour. I saw three of his family family were ill by eating poisoned brand in hoard. 1ful\n\nand that it would be time cough the his purpose. Flels 10 the bread is bakod. After the work is over That were sick, but Ahlum was talking to toe, and did him that he could return re next momlag to ilangkong, Ateoy's turn to taix the cast at o'clock.\n\nnot see them vaniting. The children uppcure sick. peuple were ill, but some of the men vomited steakon hir or troard. After he was prested I saw his family. the workaea get their chw-how. Nothing particular Crasetammed in the Attorney General-didecarred after the work was owy, war after supper, no My reasou lur set sending the stemmer to Hongkong asin of soup. I went upstair. Ever since I was the same evening was, because the men were all set. alea I have been under the custody of the Government out of the hold, and to take in other cargo he crew I was obliged to employ emolies to discharge, the cargo CHEONG-AC-1 am Cek is Chong-Asow who is\n\nnot appear to be sick. Taw the three of Ablam's family sirk after their arrival in the inner barbera. There was ring men, they were all sick-It was after 'clock coulker on board sunong the passengers, and other sea I find a conversation with Ablue, and ther was the only coveration had with him when he said his family sick. Mr. Robinet and on board at o'clock - sked if Ahlum was on hard anebook bin on shore steamer and we returard west morning to longsung. afterwards Serjeant de Silva brought him back to the (Cauet aljourned at 3. 55 a fer quacier of an hour.) CHEUNG-ACHONG,Emined in the matlier of the fer water, but having eat brand, we eunclade the brend way to bribe the jury.]-- am smaker with Mr. Sutton. I enquired from them where they purchase 1 I know him to he nun of the jury. I had a conversa- po:sone their bread. I made out by the description they give off tion with Ablum's cousin aed Akeen, he lives in the shop that it was the E-sing shop. They were Mans Endicott's Bazuar, he is a hook-binder. He kilt me Tung and did not know the E-sing mate. Some of them to let my master with reference to the case, sunt to or belonging to the steaner had some of the saine bread press the mster and that he would give 100 The offer from the passengers, and after we arrived at Macao they got sick. I had te passengers in the aftur rabin one, Pussc, who cat nothing but read was very sick, the other a Lumpen pussenger and the officers of the steamer who had only tones were not sick. I ent seme of the brut, And was sick. The bread I car was the same go at\n\nwas to him alone. My coaster said no, he hau becn sworn in Court and world not de it.\n\nWANG-ACE(Recognized by the last witness, as the person who spoke to her.) I am a Foreign book naker, I am a friend of Aliam's, but not related to him.\n\nKnow the last witness, I never spoke about Abluza'a\n\nthe E-sing shop. Some of the E sing family had on order poisoning business to him; the only thing I spoke of from Mr. Murrow to have a cabin for themselves to was that I heard his master was in the Court pressing\n\nmaster and the mate tolt ne so. were all it with the exception of the officers. The January I and my wifs want to Maco in the sale boat Chinese Government Head Overauer. On the 15th The crew were all with blum. We were in the sarav cabin, screened off by below and roue deck. The master told me at the Praia Grande that the men were sick, and gave it his father, Duideli's comprador and other siratpers a curtain, Ahlum's wife childrou and servate, Aklan, as an excuse for not going to to the Spanish steamer in the Roads. The steamer all the time remained in\n\ncharge of the Captain und Mate\n\nin all 7 or 8 people. Our fue was $teach, we all eat bread or the panga, it was square bread. The bread was cus\n\nby Ahlum, I first eat it about 12 celoek; minato\n\nthe stence when there is cargo to land or to take in also were sick. I never cases sek. Allum was sick, By the Jury never employ coolies to discharge afterwards eating it I felt giddy and vomtiel, ottery 1 Mana.\n\nu wol as his father. Abium readu a rear, that W. Fuscan, are a merchant in this colony. In the red made them sick he would go back to Hong- know the ninth prisoner by the names of Ahlau orang, I went on shore at once, ou arriving of the Praia H-sing, he was indebted to me $800. I sent to col. Grude i get some melosine-állum did not lang as lect the money, but did not press it, a few days previous pe was going hark. Thory was nothing to prevent int frum ianding. I saw his children on board sick, they\n\nto 14th January. Without further spplication he paid.\n\nto the 14th, an application was made, and on the 14th!\n\nCrossermined by the Attorney General-Previous wore a cker than any of ne\n\nCamined by the Attorney General,-Qaly Ablum\n\nJanuary another application was made, and the coney had bread in the cabin, he had four loaves of k aquaro\n\nshabout a pound each, and he cut all 4 louvou eat one fica lem then the thicknem of my little dogur, About dusk I get well, after waking the medicine. 1 st feel my bowel disordered, I feel no pain but an uncari-\n\nD. May-15ek an Iron Cheat from the shop of Allum, there were several papers and books in it and $1229 odd,\n\n*\n\nExtra to The Hongkong Register, No. 6.\n\n28\n\nBuildings, 1 am slightly acquainted with Akiom know of the mob saying they would rob un if we did not shut | Mercer, Mr. Mercer was one of his best friends, and where the Esing shop was I seelisen the time the up, thou we did shut.\n\nhe would rather that his tongue should drop out of Chinese made some disturbance and shutting up their GoPro TK-was called much to his astonish-his mouth than attack Mr. Biercer in the way it was\n\nment to break down the exit of one important witness asserted he had done. for the Crowa--but the attempt totally failed. [6] P..\n\nudjourned.)\n\n(Fifth Day, 5th February.)\n\nThe second part of the speech was occupied in a very scute disacation of the exlitence-Very well performed, with a strong leaning to the Crown aido. Mr. Anstey boldly professed that he had not the astrel indifference\n\nshops; it was 1 balieve in November, Alluin kept lis shop opened. It was the vuly chop I saw upon.\n\nChan-Amox,—I am xayior living in a Cilman's Bazaar Queen's Road. 1 know the Raing shop remember the shatting of the hope; fel day Allam did not Cruse examined by the Attorney General,-The ba\n\nsaat op. He ok at the 28 day. His bread was enivad by\n\nThe Attorney General replied in a very able speseb. of Crown prosecutors in ordinary cases, this was an ex- Kory prutson 1 belleve do not belong to Ablum, they are rented by him.\n\nThe first part was employed in defeating the government traordinary case in which he felt in a different manner, the wch, and stones thrown as bis shop.\n\nand Mr. Mercer for the harsh course usected to have and was not anxious thas a verdict of guilty should be Cnos-Ann Woman, -I am wife of inet witness Cras camined by the Attorney Genemy---I was as been pursued in this case. This summed totally une\n\ngiven.* [Not Mr. May's wife but wife of the last Chlem witness] the Jas House that day, the shop keepers said they were cessary, as the government was more to blame for tou I was on board the steamer going to Maran in the santé\n\naitald of the bad people, but a son as the soldiers came must leniency than too much severity, and Dr. Bridges's eabin with Allam's tatuily. 1 c some bread after 11 and cleared the hob they would epen the shops. Did examination as to the examination taking plsed at o'clock. Al eat the bread. The bread was cut by Ahlum not ses Allam there. All the respectable shop-keepera the police statica\" was morely paltry claptraps and returned a \"verdiet of not guilty. And given to on. After a while had a elabs and were there, about 300, they did not say that they would were that gentlemen not s leaned doctor of laws w vomiter All vomited. Ablam elder child was sick shut the Market outil the Governant cisted the should designate it as ignorant waddle. Or Mr. Mercomon report could not do it justice, in the contrary it first small the other afterwards.\n\nFines. I cannot say who was the leading party in pomposer, Dr. Beiges said in rectification of the Aturney would do it great Injustice. W. Garze,-Boarding house keeper living in circular ing to shut the shops. They were shut in cansequence General's defcuce, \"het be had sever attacked Mr.ace to speak for itsalf-KER.\n\nEdited, Protod, and Published by ROBERT STRAUHAN, at the Hongkong Register Offco: Gago Street, Victoria, Hongkong. Tharaday, February 12, 1887.\n\nThe Chief Justice summed up decidedly against Al- Inma aur accessory before the fact.\n\nThe Jury retired and after about half an hour's absencu\n\nWe regret our inability to give the speech entire.\n\nWe therefore leave the evid\n\nA\n\n322\n\nExtra to The Hongkong Register, No. 6.\nPage 28\n\nTRIAL OF AH LUM\n[...]\n\nPage 322", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-062 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 241640, "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": 66, "title": "CO129-063 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [4-7]", "content_text": "(Popp.) \"N376.\n\n64\n\n73\n\nThe Hongkong Register.\n\nSHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.\n\nARRIVED.\n\nMERCHANT VESSELS-Continued.\n\nDate of Tons\n\n[No. 17-APRIL 28, 1857.\n\nMERCHANT VESSELS Continued.\n\nDate of Tear\n\nArrival\n\nCONSIGNEES\n\nCONSTONBES\n\nArzirei\n\nFuhchau\n\nAT\n\nDATH\n\nNAWA\n\nPLATON CAPTAI FROM\n\nSAILEY CARSO\n\nCONSIGNES\n\nAmerican\n\nMacao\n\nKimrod, barque\n\nApril\n\n450. Heard and Co\n\nHongkong April 19\n\ndesible\n\n20 Laurick\n\n11 M. Str Brit by\n\nCorbett 282 Thotayo\n\nBischo Saatow\n\nApril 19 Sugar\n\n20 Minita\n\n21 Karlion\n\nAm.seh.\n\n300 Sampson\n\n21 E. Elizabethi De ah\n\nBrit.\n\n21 Hellrapout\n\n21 Generi Fame Am. sub.\n\nSimeon Dripuram. sch\n\n21 Vindex.\n\n115 Siration\n\n$30 Crocket\n\n8 Ashley\n\n600 Tongus\n\n179 W3.800\n\n20 Catherine Apear. Brit. b.\n\n728.8midt.\n\n21 Zephyr\n\nBrit. ch. 152 Dring\n\nAn. 8e5 300 Pulpher East Coast April 16 Alum\n\nApril 18 Sugar\n\nApril 190caeral\n\nFahebau April 17\n\nSingapore Mar, 16|llien Fast Coast Apr 18 Sundries\n\nCaloutis Binr. ties Swatow\n\nApril 20/Teas\n\nForma Pulchan *Slap\n\nMar. Bios\n\nJardine, M. & Co A. Heard and Oo W.M.Robluel &Co Jurdins,M, and Co Wm. Pustan and Co\n\nPeriton\n\nNingpo\n\nArtero,\n\nOrlar\n\nBritish\n\nJose Caros Ugarte, ship Nos. Fel. Santiago, barque\n\n589 Order\n\nja. Heard und Co\n\nIan. Stephenson\n\nDent xua Co\n\nGibb, L. and Co\n\nDent and Co\n\nChition\n\nE. H. Green, sleamer Mar. 23 788 Thomas Ilant & Co Sir Juraes, barqué\n\n198 J. J. dos Remation Bassten, harya Khizabeth, brig Nile, brig\n\nOct\n\nOrder\n\nMar.\n\n127 W. Pustan and Co\n\nNov.\n\n20 Order\n\nOusan Bride, brig\n\nOct.\n\nOrder\n\nJan.\n\n647 Lladasy and Co\n\nSalon, barque\n\n¡Nov\n\n600 Under\n\n2% Incrible\n\nII.M. St\n\nCerhitt Macao\n\nEast Coast\n\nPortuguese\n\n23 Bittet\n\nLouisa\n\n|HL..Rg. Beamish! Brit. bk. 274 Vincent\n\n*2N. B. Palmer\n\n32 Dida\n\nNarea\n\nFuera Dent\n\n26 Formora\n\nال با اور زید نام کے\n\nAmey\n\nShanghea\n\n8R. B. Milan\n\nMary\n\nGo Fletcher Brits 436 Kerr\n\n23 Shanghai\n\n23 Coromande!\n\n24 Magallanes\n\n44 Hongkong\n\n25 Calloxide\n\n25 Bittern\n\n26 Clipper\n\n25\n\nVidor\n\n26 Truro\n\n25 A. Apear\n\n26 Karan Loey\n\n26 Coromandel\n\n26 Mura\n\n26 Maveppu\n\n26 Vladex\n\n26 Lily\n\n26 Escort\n\nWoodlark\n\n8l'erfe: ta\n\n13 Borcas\n\n8 Van Bosse\n\nShooting Star\n\n18 Brookaly\n\nAm. B 1400 Low\n\nHam.bk. 450,1yland\n\nBett. str. 760 Roskell H.M.Str\n\nA cvet. H.M.Str\n\nBristr. 450 (Hillson H.M.Str Corbett\n\n.M.Bg\n\nBeamish\n\nlam. 230, Markon ¡Am. ch 986, Palmer Brit, sh. 544 Gandy Brit. al. 694, Duggan iReik bg] 275 Hamon\n\n¡Brit. b. 1 150'Catto H.M.Sc\n\nNarez\n\nDas Ek 877 Vander Brit.Bok. 171 Bolton Brit.sch. 179 Barcham Port. 23%[Rocba\n\n|Ag, lk. 178 schilye i\n\n¡Dut. Lk.\n\nDul. bk. 710 Plageman Am. sh. 400 Bisley A. s. yos Dubein\n\nSingapore April Ilier New York Dec. 7General Liverpool Dee, 24!General Singapore Mar. Rice Calcutta Mar. Rier Amoy April 23 General Macao Dordrecht\n\nGeneral\n\nMauila\n\nMadras\n\nBast Coast April 2 Treasure Bast Coast April 25 Treasure Amay April 29 General Singapors April 5 Rica\n\nBundries Sundries Sundries Samarang Feb. 7 Rive (Manila Feb. 26 Sundries\n\nSingapore Mar Rive London Dec. 16 General Manila Mar. Sundries\n\nBatang\n\nDavia & Lawrence Gibb, L. and Cu Order\n\nA. Heard and Co Tait nad Co Tait and Co Jamieson Ellis Russell and Co Russeli sad Co Order Russell and Co Order\n\nMacao Anioy April 20 General Siam April Bice Singapore Mur, 27Risu Shanghae April 16 General Macno\n\nDent and Co\n\nRussell and Co Wm. Pustan madCo [P. & V. 8. N. Co\n\nBritish\n\nProu Shan, steamer Ton.\n\n269) Dent, Beale and Co\n\nMat:30\n\nCanton\n\n¡P. & D. S. N. Co\n\n¡April Bamout, schooner\n\nMar. Elizabeth, brig Emma, schossier Forerunner, echoener Mar. Melanie, barque\n\nMar.\n\n120 Dent and Co\n\nDutch\n\n12 William P. and Co 120 Turner and Co\n\nNuerlands Todie, ship (April 3 557Wm.Pustau and Co\n\n140 Jaroine, M. and Co 13A. Heard and Co\n\nDutch\n\nOwler\n\nDiana, schoonet Orentas, barqu\n\nJan. Agrit\n\n190 Schacter and Co 300 Order\n\nGibb, Land Co byall, Still and Co\n\nOrder\n\nDanish\n\nHamburg\n\nElizabeth Ross, brig\n\nPrussian\n\nAmerita, ig\n\nSiamese\n\nFeb,\n\n125jiems and Co\n\n30.\n\n310 Deyer and Co\n\nBaldur, schooner Chien, brig\n\nNov.\n\nJardin, M. and Co Virginis, ship Dent and Co\n\nMar.\n\n141|W. Poston and Co 226siemen and Co |240 W. Pustan and Co\n\nThon. Hans & Co\n\nSiamese\n\nBangkok Mark, ship Kyu Hong Sien, bq. Sea Horve, barque Shanghae\n\nOct.\n\n586 Under\n\n¡Oct,\n\nSept.\n\nOrder\n\n436 Order\n\nGoldfinder, barque l'aragon, ship Swhat, schooner\n\nDea Dec.\n\n300 King and Co\n\nSAILED,\n\nFRAM DATE\n\n.......\n\nHongkong 4411 Plery Croes\n\nNAME\n\nTONS CAPTAIN\n\nFor\n\nCARGO\n\nCONSIGNES\n\nPeruvian\n\nClarita, brig\n\nChitian\n\nGreyhound, ship\n\nSwatow\n\nArrow, brig\n\nBruokaty, ship Egmont, ehip\n\nMar.\n\nFeb.\n\n500 W. P'tau and Co\n\nBrll. str. 450 White\n\n30 Bin\n\n11\n\n2v luftexible\n\nFL.M.BK Beamish\n\nIT.M.Str. Corbett\n\n20 Tazard\n\nBrit.st. 131Hide\n\nCalcutta Macau Maras Amy\n\nSundries Jardine, M. and Co\n\nBritish\n\nFortuguese Tramelge, hargue\n\nApril\n\n375iL. Marques\n\nArrow, ship\n\nApril\n\n252 Birley, W. and Co\n\n20 Ann\n\nBrit, str. 401arris\n\nAmoy\n\nSundries Sunelries\n\nD. W. McKenale & Co R. S. Walker\n\nBmily Aouina, sch.\n\nBlur.\n\n105). Lapaik\n\nGeelong, benque\n\nOct.\n\n3934Order\n\n20 Progressive Age Am. g. 286 Holwea\n\n¡Amoy\n\nSundries\n\nW. M. Robinet and Co\n\nPrall, ship\n\ntar.\n\n282 Linday and Co\n\nzu Ceres\n\nDut. t. 365 M\n\nSiam\n\nSundries\n\nSchaeffer and Cu\n\n20 Cocomandat\n\nH.M.Str Nares\n\nCautou\n\nDanish\n\n21 Loetze\n\nDan.sch. 148 Krosa\n\n26, Tremelga\n\n20 Man on\n\nMas\n\n15: Africaine\n\nAmoy\n\nMar, 18:San Lorenzo\n\nFuhel\n\nApril\n\nAls\n\nLightning\n\n22 Mootriant\n\nInflexible\n\n13 Bittern\n\n23 Iron Prince\n\n28 Wild Dayrell\n\nAlligator\n\n22 Lanrick\n\n29:rrent\n\n24 Konig Willem\n\n95 Cornmandel\n\nvena\n\n25 Block Prince\n\n4:enco\n\nBric. str. 317 Durham\n\nFr. sh. 317.Brun\n\nH.M.Str Corbett\n\n[FE. M. Bgi Bearish\n\nBrit. str. 189 Sharp\n\nBri.ach. 158 McFarlane\n\nBrit. b 187 Sindea\n\nBrit be 289Thoen\n\nAm. h. 1Copp\n\nIIIt. ab, 714 Gezon\n\nH.M.Str NATON\n\nBrit. bg. 207 Suluh Am. 181 Brown Portbk. $76 Marquee Port, sb. 113 Berardino\n\nFr. sb. 385 Lavigne\n\nSp. hg 220 Ansoleaga\n\nBelt-zeh. 100 Dow\n\nBrit. sk. 783 Mackenzie\n\nJeph Fiesebar Brit. sh. 67% Pook\n\nMacas\n\nFornos\n\nSundries W.M. Robinet & Uo Shanghie Bundries Dent and Co Singapore Sundries Gibb, L. and Co Shangban Suedthes Jardine, M.and Co San Francisco Sundries Russell and Co Gutohe Bay Sandries Schaeffer aud Co Kanton\n\nArgy\n\nSingapore Sundries ja. Heard and Ca\n\nShanghae Saudries Marques\n\nmletea Bay Sundries L. J. Guerraz ¡Havana\n\nManila\n\nColonies\n\nShanghar Sundries Calcutta\n\nW. Fuatau and Co\n\nSingapore Macao\n\nSandries Bundrica\n\nGibb, L. and Co\n\nDausaark, burque\n\n¡Mar.\n\nDent and Co\n\nHamburg\n\nCaesar, barque Lima, barque\n\nFeb\n\n208 W. Pustan and Co Mar. 11 318Trautmann and Co\n\n326 Slemesen and Co\n\nAmerican\n\nAntelope, atravier BIL Milan, ship Channing, ship Golden West, ship Horatio, ship Jacos Bell, ship Munny, tarque\n\nDutch\n\nApril 12 281| Russell and Co April 8 400 Buszeil and Co April 3 63 King and Co Ja, 161501 A. Beard and Co\n\n¡Nov. 19 464. M. Bull and Co\n\nMar. 291381 Russell and Co\n\nApril 9 60 Russell and Co\n\nSundrice\n\nSchaeffer and Co\n\nPersian\n\nArchitect, ship\n\nChilian\n\nVan Bae, barque\n\nDanish\n\nApril 71 Dent, Resis & On\n\nDee.\n\n540 W.M.Roblaot & Co\n\nAlianza, barque\n\nFeb.\n\n200 Order\n\nSundries\n\nCider\n\nAmoy\n\nSundrica\n\nF. D. Syine and Co\n\nBritish\n\nSundries\n\nMonerelt, G. & Co\n\nLondon\n\nTeas. e.\n\nUnder\n\nAnn, kamer\n\nApril\n\nLeadon\n\nTeas,\n\nDent and Co\n\nAnu Key, rohoonet\n\nNov. 1\n\n191 Tait and Co\n\nDon Quizola\n\n¡Am, sh 2430]Ela well\n\nNew York\n\nTcas, c.\n\nKing and Co\n\nAugusta, ship\n\nBiar\n\n372Lindasy and Co\n\nPelica\n\nBrit. LE.: 469 ftolwen\n\nLondon\n\nTeas, the\n\n4. C. Sebwabe\n\nBanshee, berque\n\nApril\n\n186 Jardine, M. and Co\n\nShaughne\n\n14.Chilena\n\nBri bk 1 Purdy\n\nLondon\n\nJ'ens, &e\n\nBlankin, R, & Co\n\nBlack R Packet, bq,\n\nAp.11\n\n201 Order\n\nVA Bio Bio\n\nBrit. h. 582 Philpot\n\nLoulo\n\nTeas &o,\n\nSmith, Kennedy and Co Fena, brig\n\nApril\n\n207 Schaeffer and Co\n\nSHIPPING IN CHINA.\n\nMERCHANT VESSELS.\n\nDate of\n\nEsiry\n\nDatu vil\n\nArrival\n\nSHIP\n\nCOHETONAN\n\nHongkong\n\nAmerican\n\nMERCHANT VESSTIA-Continued.\n\nArrival Ton/\n\nEllen, tarque\n\nMar\n\n225ail, Sul and Co\n\nFortuna, brig\n\nNov. 634F.D. Syme and Qu\n\nFreak, brig\n\nApril\n\n244 Base and Co\n\nGazelle, schooner\n\nGet 2\n\n115 Jardine, M. & Co\n\nVESSEL\n\nAr\n\nCLASS\n\nCOMMANDERS.\n\nCOFSIGNERS\n\nHera, schooner\n\nAprit\n\n184.W.McKenzie Co\n\nNina, scicooner\n\nApril\n\n113 Joha Burd and Co Ascen\n\nNymph, barqua\n\nA paris\n\n400 Lindsay and Co\n\nAlligator*\n\nCanton loop H.kong Ships\n\n12 A, W. A, lood\n\nPet, brig\n\nApril\n\n23 Jardine, M. and Co\n\nBitterat\n\nIL.kong Stoop\n\nLient. Beamish\n\nRolla, brig\n\nMar.\n\n166. Fusion & Co\n\nAt Hongkong\n\nBritish\n\nA. Aşar, brig\n\nAlliance, baryse\n\nAustraila, ship Avoca, Larqué Banner, sobooner\n\nCade, steamer\n\nCaribbean, ship\n\nApell 25. 275joinh, L. and Co April 8 677 Lindsay and Co Scp. 580foha Bord and Co\n\nSept. 20 280 D. Lagzik\n\nApr 1s: 133(Jane Burd and Co [àğrüJT 987!P. & O. 5. R. Co\n\nFeb. 23: 874 Jarline, M. and Lo\n\nCashurice Apcar, shir Apis! The Gibb, Ú and Co\n\nhr. 80 750 Agier and Co April 1147) N. Duan sari Co\n\nChapman, ship\n\nChrysolite, ship\n\nEaglet, steamer\n\nEdwin Pos, adip\n\nClay of Carlisle, ship. 15 936 Angier and Co\n\nMar. 1865 Siemesen und Co April 11 89Jardine,M.and Co April 25 450P. & O. S. N. Co Apr121 326 Jardine, M and Co Feb. 28 895 Order\n\nFormces, attemT\n\nHellespont, steamUY Hoar, p James Paton, ship Lancashire, skip Lancashire Witch,ship\n\nLouisa, bargne\n\nMary Wlonbolt, ahip\n\nMazeppa, chogmor\n\nNova, acbonner\n\nNew Margaret, ship\n\nAp:41 15 880John Burd and Co Mar 25 835 Augier and Co\n\nMar. 311387ardine, M. and Co Apeli 23 274 Dent and Co\n\nMar, 291205 Dreyer and Co\n\nApril.26 171Jardine, M. & Co\n\n¡April 19h, L. and Co\n\nApril 12 11 Pletcher and Go\n\nRajsh of Sawak, whip April 1 526 Order\n\nRemi, kt:amer\n\nMar. 25 322 N. Duna and Ca\n\nNobert Passmger, bg. Mar. 13 478 Angier und Co\n\nSuisette, shp\n\nBarab Ley, bargne\n\nShanghai, alcamse\n\nTruro, ship\n\nTabi Cain, brig Vindex, schooner Vision, slip Zephyr, schocaer\n\nPortuguese\n\nLily, steamer\n\nFrench\n\nBenjamin, ship\n\nAmerican\n\nCarbon, achooDIT\n\nCelestial, ship\n\nExcors, barque\n\nGear Peace, sch.\n\nIno, ship\n\nJames Marshall, brig\n\nMar. wschafter and Co\n\nApril 25, 180vall, sull and Co\n\nApril 23,750 P. x 0. 5. N. Co\n\nApril 95 694 heder\n\nApril 17 179 Fohn Burd and Co\n\njaprit 179 Dent and Cu\n\nAp:28 644, L. and Co Apr22 162Dent and C\n\nApr226; 236] Tho. Haut &. Co\n\nApril 7, 500 Vischer Freres\n\nApril) 500 W.M. Eslónot &\n\nApril 25! 886, Davis & Lawrence\n\n115W. Pustan and Co\n\nApril 201 478). Heard and Co\n\nA\n\nApril\n\nau, 1, 16t S. 8. Bartowa\n\nMary Whitridge, ebp Matilda, ship\n\nMeteor abip\n\nStisna, schooner\n\nN. 8. Paliner, chip\n\nJoseph Peabody, ship Feb. 28:1200 A. Heard and Co\n\nApril 8 378 Jas. Stephenson (April 15|| 609 Rosselt and Co\n\nApril 71008A. Heard and Co April 20 9004. Heard and Co || Apr}) 22|1400| Russell and Co Oct. 104 Augler and Co April 191065 House!) and Co April 11937. Heard and Co April 21 2061A. Heard and Co Mar. 251052Jas. Stephenson Mac, 301600 Ruselt and Go\n\nNorth Wind, taip\n\nBeyard, ship\n\nSea Serpent, ship Simeon Drapur, eh. Winged Arrow, ship Wixard, ship\n\nDutch\n\nEva Johanna, ship flur, atque\n\nDurish\n\nMar. 11 700Schaeffer and Co April26 377Order\n\nEstern Snare, barque Apr 10 Drayer and Co\n\nHamburg\n\nCarl von Gruife, brig April 7 900 W. Pusiau and Co Clipper, schonnar April26 820Order\n\nlada, barque\n\nMaca a\n\nBritish\n\nBritish Queen, arque\n\nMonro, ship\n\nSpanish\n\nSoledad, barque\n\nDutch\n\nApril 22 450 Wm.Puatau and Co\n\nBosphoros, barque. April si Schaeffer and Co Comells Smit, barque Mar. 11! 790 Schaeffor and Co Erarding Elizabeth, shApril 800 James Stephenson Mastan, ahip\n\nApril 72schalter and Do\n\nDanish\n\nDannebrog, banque\n\nApril10 322 W., Wardley & C April 2 ascDreyer and o Frederick Wilhelm, bq-star. 231 450 Jabn Burd and Us\n\n835 Blenkin, H. and Co Diana, chip\n\nAuckland, harque\n\nHenry Hurbeck, ship Jan. Progressive Age, brig ápril Sea Nytuph, barqueur. Sauta Lucia, barque\n\nDutch\n\nAdiniral Zoutman, alafpiTao. 2 Borea., bargne April 13 G... Yon Twist, bqda.\n\nJamieson Ellia\n\n896 Order\n\n47chaeler and to\n\nEdw. Koppisch, barque Mar. 27 250 Tais and Co\n\nFuhchau\n\nBritish\n\nCrest of the Wave, bar. 85dditib, L, and Co\n\n60 Hon. Keppel\n\nL Carme\n\nA. J. Villiers\n\n46 'dre. Hon. C. Elliot\n\nHongkong . S. Str. 19\n\nR.-A. Guerin\n\nCilm ALS Capt. Itell\n\nPort Brig 20 Com, Tavares ilc Port.rcba 6 Escarnicha ¡Mano Jorge Juan\n\nSp. Str. 4 Briones Magallanes Hongkong Sp. Sur.\n\nTERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION to the HONGKONG REGISTER and OVERLAND REGISTER AND PRICE CURRENT-For One Year, 123; Six Monthe, 4:3; Three Momune, $8. To the HONGKONG REGISTER -For One Year, $13; Six Months, $; Three Montna, $5. To the OVERLAND RE- GISTER AND PRICE CURRENT done -For One Year, $8; all payable in advance. TERMS OF ADVERTISEMENT la the HONGKONG REGISTER—Advertisemouls, not exceeding & lines\n\ncach inacrtion, $1; each additional line 29 cents, one halt of these charges for Repetitioun. HENTS for the HONGKONG REGISTER and OVERLAND REGISTER AND PRICE CURRENT. J. G. ANTHONY, Esq., London, leesrs. JARDINE, SKINNER & Ca., Caiota; Moears, Reminaron & Co. Bombay W. S. Desca, R., dingapore; Messrs. ToPSON, KOBERTO & Co., Latvia; J. P. Pauer, Eq. San Franciao.\n\nEdited, Prated, and Publisher by ROBERT STRACHIAN, the Honghong Register Office: Gage Street,\n\n\"Victoria, Hongkong, Tuceday, Apeli 26, 1857,\n\nWater Witch, barque\n\nMar.\n\n400 Urder\n\nCalcutta\n\n11.konging Ship\n\n34 W. L. Hall\n\nWhampoa, large\n\nNov. 20\n\n378 Order\n\nCamila Comus\n\nAmoy Brig\n\nCauton Stoop\n\nFrench\n\nCoromandel H.kong P. W. Str. Elk\n\nCuntou Brig\n\n160. T. Colvillo\n\n14. Jenkins\n\n8 5. Douglas\n\n12 Hamilton\n\n800king sed Co\n\nOct. 24 210F.D. Syme and Co\n\nBritish\n\n250 W. M.Robinet & Co Lauriek, brig\n\n240jBobert S. Walker\n\nMax 21222|P,F, Cama and Co\n\nApril18 410 Order\n\nMar. 5767 Captado Lady Mary Wood, str. Aprit | 660 P. & 6. 8, N. Co\n\nApr 28 Jardine, M. and Co Lord of the inleg, ship japril 691 Lindsay and Co Meteor. str Feb. 28 180 Dent, Beale & Co North Star\n\nMar. 28 380 Order Queen of May, barque Feb. 4 814 Jardins, M. & Co Sea Star, ship\n\nMar. 13 591 Bleukin, R. & Co\n\nWil Dayrell, schooner April 158 Dent and Co\n\nRoska, barque\n\nHamburg\n\nBuenos Ayres, brig Haribal, achooner Maithilde, brig Pathfinder, barque Baa, hargne\n\nSiamese\n\nApril 13 383 Wm. Pustan and Co\n\nApril 8 200 Trautmann and Co japril! 142W. Pustan and Co\n\nApr 12 202 Turner and Co Ail13 270W. Pastau and Co Mar. 378Trautman and Co\n\nShooting Star, abip ¡April of Biala. Heard and Co\n\nBRITISH SHIPS OF WAR IN CHINA.\n\nFor\n\nClonial howton's office Victoria, Honghong\n\n98th April, 1857.\n\nAt private letter from the excellery The Governor\n\nto your the special object of\n\nwhich as the letter, states.\n\nwas to avoid the scandal of\n\nریح کر ہو سکے\n\nofficial communication has\n\nThe Honorable\n\nThe Offing formmanding The Groops. Go:\n\nGizcours, ahip\n\nAmerican\n\nApril\n\n538all, Still and Co Encounter\n\nHercules Hongkongt B.kong Steamer Hornet\n\nCanion Ser. Str,\n\n14 G.W.D. Callaghan\n\nH.kong Hoepital\n\nFeb.\n\nW.M.Robinet & Co 740 Order\n\nMioden\n\n296 W.M.Robinet & Co\n\nNurkin\n\net,\n\n400 Lindsay and Co ayal, S\n\nNiger\n\nPigna\n\nand Co\n\nRehorsa\n\nRaleigh\n\nIlamborg\n\nAlbia, schooner\n\nNo7.\n\n280 Order\n\nRiver\n\nBonito, brig\n\nNov.\n\n51) Joha Bard and Co\n\nMary Ross, abip\n\nMar.\n\n404 Miotusen and Co\n\nSiamese\n\nSucess, ship\n\nDec.\n\n500 King and Co\n\nAT\n\nM.AG.\n\nFormosa\n\nBritish\n\nCaprici\n\nHongkong. Felg\n\n40 Kolller\n\nCatinat\n\nMacao\n\nFr. Str\n\nSur Art\n\nMATSAKO\n\nMacao\n\nMr. Str.\n\n1 Tamotte\n\nOrder\n\nFrother, lig\n\nMary H. Midford, ship April\n\nAmerican\n\n5303. F. Edger\n\nApril 210 Order Iron Prine, camet [April\n\n180 W..Robinet &Co\n\nVirginie\n\n¡Macao\n\nFr. Frig.\n\n60 Ph\n\nLevant\n\nis Crulzo\n\n13 mitb\n\nAmerican\n\nForcamonte ja Cruize\n\nJU. 3. Sh,\n\n16 Foote\n\nJan. 14 son Thames Hunt & Co\n\nSau Jucino\n\nMontego\n\nMacao\n\nAmazo\n\nApril31 22. Pusau and Co\n\nInflexible\n\nSampson\n\nH.koug Ser. Str. H.kong P, W. Str.\n\nkong Store Blip. Maca Frigate Canton Sor. Str.\n\nSo Frigate\n\nFubchuu Stop\n\nMaca Frigate\n\nJau Cruice ¡P. W, shu\n\nSC Forbes Canton Ster\n\nStaring Sybile\n\nla Cruize 'Gun Boat\n\nCanton Frygte\n\n4 Lieut. Dent\n\n17 C. C. Forsyth\n\n6 J. Coxbert\n\n4. T. Ellis, Master\n\n5 Hon. Keith Stewart\n\n13 Hon. A. A. Cochrane\n\n40 ir F. W. E. Nicol\n\n14 L. K. Barnard\n\n6. 9. Band\n\nFitting up as an Hospital Ship, to be stationed in the Manned by Celeste.\" Manned by Sybille.\"\" Maned by Nankin.\"\n\nFOREIGN SHIPS OF WAR IN CHINA,\n\nCOMMANDERS.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-063 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [4-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 241661, "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": 87, "title": "CO129-063 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [4-7]", "content_text": "76.\n\n16\n\n817\n\n17. 84\n\nThe\n\nDate of\n\nDapp. Despatch.\n\n1856\n\nno\n\nSubject of Despatch. Sual-\n\n119 (Continued) the subject of the practice\n\nof the Supreme. \"Hongrong.\n\ncourt in\n\n120 225 ) July Transmitting further\n\n121 26th\n\n\"\n\n122 21 122 28.\n\n123\n\n\"\n\n124 24th\n\n125\n\n\"\n\ntta\n\n126 30th\n\nthe\n\ncorrespondence on subjlet of the de\n\nthe difference\n\nwith the American Consul.\n\nboolie.\n\non the subject of Emigration from china, in reference to the commmunication froud Sir George Bonham.\n\nExplanatory of Ordinance. We 3 of 1856, in reply Despatch Nr.54 17 6th May\n\nto of last\n\nReplying to despatch w63 of 25th May on the subject of Mr. Grotter's applica\n\napplication for a retiring Pension Replying to Despatch No. 61 of 15 may, respecting the Ship William and Martha subjected to a penalty at Melbourne for carrying\n\nof Passengers\n\nENCEDA\n\nan\n\nEnclosing Return of sand Lease sale on the 20th\n\nand remarking. disputed to\n\nJely,\n\non a\n\nlot of ground purchased by Mr. Harper\n\non the subject of relief.\n\nsu\n\nhe subjects\n\nto distressed British. not seamen\n\nnove\n\nmone\n\n2\n\nhove\n\nno\n\nDesp.\n\nDite\n\nDespatel Subject of Despatch me\n\n1856\n\n127 30% July Respecting Mr. Gletcher's application\n\nto be allowed to fill in and occupy beyond the boundaries of his Marine lot.\n\n128. 14th August. On the subject of providing for\n\na cailor's Horne at Houghtong!!!\n\n129.\n\n1307\n\n131.\n\n132\n\n133\n\n#\n\n134 18th\n\n\"\n\n135\n\nRegarding baptain bowper's Intention of communicating direct with the Secretary of shar\n\nthe subject of certain\n\nbetween himself differences between and the blice. Magistrates.\n\nsethnowledging receipt of despatches to M254 of son mag.\n\nand 2 Circulars\n\nTransmitting\n\nLists of Members\n\nof the Execentives and Segislative Councils for the half year ending 50% June 1856\n\nTransmitting Minutes of the Preecutive and Legislative ~ Councils for the half year- anding so\n\nJune 1856\n\n:Subenisting for Confirmation Rrdinance W/l of 1456 for Fies and boots.\n\nRelative to baptam bowpers\n\nremark on the absence of Lieut. Colonel Dunlop from the Excentive\n\nCouncil.\n\nIn continuation of Despatch W:10 5\n\n2.\n\nsone\n\ndepre\n\n2\n\n2\n\nGY\n\n2\n\nhere", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-063 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [4-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 244078, "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": "CO129-067 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [1-4]", "page_number": 414, "title": "CO129-067 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [1-4]", "content_text": "## Proofread Text\n\nI have already stated the facts. I do not say that I do not believe that Mr Hillier was otherwise than fairly... I had nothing to do with the Coolis contracts. I was only the vessel owner.\n\nEmployees Copy of thr. Allorry Seurrali notes of the thief Restiers emming up.\n\nC.J. I do not think I need trouble you, Attorney Grural, to reply... It is only a matter of law, and I do not agree with Mr Day's law at all. I believe the Evidence of Captan Thornhill's letter. You must find a verdict for the Crown.\n\nNevertheless, I did not wish to prevent the defendants from going into their whole case, however irrelevant. I do not consider that it was necessary to expressly enact that the Certificate of Emigration Officer must be accurate... That is implied. Otherwise, these Acts will always be evaded fully to be apprised of your liberty to Verdich.\n\n## Reconstructed Paragraphs and Sentences\n\nThe original text appears to be a court transcript or a legal document. The OCR output has broken sentences and words across lines. Here is the reconstructed text in Markdown format.\n\n\nI have already stated the facts. I do not say that I do not believe that Mr Hillier was otherwise than fairly treated. I had nothing to do with the Coolis contracts. I was only the vessel owner, E Carssel.\n\n\nC.J. I do not think I need trouble you, Attorney General, to reply... It is only a matter of law, and I do not agree with Mr Day's law at all. Gentlemen, I believe the Evidence of Captain Thornhill's letter. You must find a verdict for the Crown.\n\nNevertheless, I did not wish to prevent the defendants from going into their whole case, however irrelevant. I do not consider that it was necessary to expressly enact that the Certificate of Emigration Officer must be accurate. That is implied. Otherwise, these Acts will always be evaded. You are fully apprised of your liberty to Verdict.\n\n## Page Numbering\n\nPage 411", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-067 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 258763, "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": 299, "title": "CO129-097 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1864 [1-2] & Sir Robinson - 1864 [1-3]", "content_text": "For Incules Robinson\n\nThe date of Newenatle Девони A.10. Piccived. for the Mitals for 1863 and 1854.\n\n\"Pifle Association, and applying for the year 1864 to the National from the Houpons Volunteers. Brine, enclosing subscription Forwarding letter from Captan\n\n(Copy)\n\nNo. 295\n\nOrduly Roony\n\nHoughong Volunteers,\n\n27th February 1864\n\nIn forwarding you the usual annual subscription of £20 from the \"Hongkong Volunteers\" towards the funds of the National Rifle Association for 1864, I beg to bring to the notice of His Excellency the Governor that although the \"Hongkong Volunteers\" under your command was the first Colonial Corps, notified by the association\n\nThe Souble W. T. Merar Colonial Secretary", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-097 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1864 [1-2] & Sir Robinson - 1864 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 259631, "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": 281, "title": "CO129-099 - Sir Robinson - 1864 [6-8]", "content_text": "278\n\nPolice Department,\n\nVictoria, Hongkong,\n\nJuly! 1864.\n\nSpecial Report of Piracy\n\nKwok-Yeun-Sing the owner of a fishing Boat belonging to Taiping Reports that while sailing to Sum-mon on the 24th June at noon, he was attacked by two Hakka pirate Boats armed with 3 or 4 Cannon; one of them came alongside threw two stink pots into the boat, then boarded with about 20 men armed with swords and cut his crew consisting of 4 men and 1 woman under pretence of searching; then sailed Eastward of Sum mon; made his informant escape by getting away in a small Sampan - had no Cargo on board at the time. Can identify the Boats but not the pirates.\n\n(Signed) Wm Quin.\n\nCaptam Superintendent\n\nPage 278\n\n!!\n\n is removed as it seems to be an OCR error or unrelated to the content. The text is formatted into paragraphs using HTML tags. Spacing issues are corrected, and minor adjustments are made for clarity without altering the original content's tone or style. The original page numbering is preserved.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-099 - Sir Robinson - 1864 [6-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 264966, "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": "CO129-111 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1866 [1-2]", "page_number": 348, "title": "CO129-111 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1866 [1-2]", "content_text": "341\n\nyears service and alth's not suffering from Actual Sickness has grown infirm and feeble, is of very small stature and in appearance unfit for the Service.\n\nIn consideration of his lengthened Service and having borne a Good character, I would bey leave respectfully to recommend him to the favorable Consideration of His Excellency for discharge with a Gratuity of $100 to enable him to return to his native Country Madras.\n\nI have to.\n\n(signed)\nMm Quin Captam Superintendent:\n\n(Copy)\n\nSo Captain Quin Superintendent of the Police Force Honghing\n\nThe humble Petition of NC 302 Police Constable Sabon Allie.\n\nMeest humbly Shewith,\n\nThe Petitioner beys most respectfully to grant the request of your Servant under the following circumstances.\n\nI have been in the Police Force at Honghing for the period of fifteen years during that time I have behaved myself so well and I was never reported upon. I was obedient to all my Superior officers. When I came to this Island it was a barren cliff then I was healthy but now I am", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-111 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1866 [1-2].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 273736, "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": "CO129-129 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [1-3]", "page_number": 545, "title": "CO129-129 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [1-3]", "content_text": "Sin & Rozen\n\nThe Coin Agurk myth led castidad to ascertain from the best authentic distally Caftam Shaw - what sort of Empires would be preferable\n\nas to the cost.\n\n1112 maz\nMint 70\n\nthend copy to Captain Chawe asking Tuin if he has any suggestion as to who which.\n\nSugina reur to him on the points raised. Especially class of \nTech Neur. Member of \nMyade requine.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-129 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 280639, "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": "CO129-142 - Public Offices & Others - 1869", "page_number": 121, "title": "CO129-142 - Public Offices & Others - 1869", "content_text": "Ichise not want the defence or receive it as \n\nka Governor General Lexing \n\nA \n\npremmist & be the atening aspect of affairs had despatched Bant Jamaica with te intelligence \n\n\" \n\nMan Ime also Kal disaster dis out-recur no ke Irelian's never moved!, Int Hit the monel on \n\nke cricumitömers have been Belize was one which might under reasonably expected Gime was Jully dupported by the opinions & Milit Opices; tespecially by the Captam y H. Me. S. Joris who came ashne after shishyning ke Hap of the Colony for the express purpose of pointing out to la IP frant & myself that whilst being attached in fronts & Cal Harley the Indian's might make a flant movement march upon Beliz and how it in iti deponce lépilate bepure shacom could be Yas to a sonder kein kas d, a civilian, dott advind, inhout a soliton soldier at my disforal, cowed & will behove thit the dushions might leave to defeated hips belon Han the apo Belje bepre- Jemen in \n\norganix det seristomed which angajedromy thought day & night and proned aflewants to be very efficient And if eno was committed \n\nManau. \n\nwithout are \n\nto \n\nwell ascertained \n\nRemsands of Santa Any destrains on the Frontier! \n\nKeren Ga \n\nZeige \n\nmight it ist have been fallintase of to actual sivecarelances and assemblage y prave uncertainties allending \n\nKen Swithw \n\nbwdver \n\ndelan you \n\nIndslip longa. \n\nin the Kena, but rather papat-once \"When manoma or \n\nor wheel my recale was frounded by: shedals of Me Teacos grant, which cannot be more briefly, indicated home to te mug alone Compin by copy of a letter addressed by. in the day telthar 1868, Rice, denone to the information 2 you With this Sclose my appeal. If appicacions de Indslip. sonos of many wile Kings You Lordelif's instrumentality he turned rejoicing, dif failing they will be apunade of the work, whilit Theissation of the mechtily of further efforts may andhearon texapt mepels ha futu devojce of hope as regends, reunion with in famit. \n\nRomain You Indships wa, Jackque serial. S. Gardina Musti \n\nWith mail respect \n\n22. Godt. \n\nMongkong \n\nMINUTE PAPER. \n\nSr. F. Repen 30/8169 \n\nbe \n\nSour \n\n10962/69t. \n\n19 \n\nMinuti \n\nIn \n\nA. 12615- 1867 \n\nMe harten un \n\nW. R \n\na unset \n\nand acten syraten Afect ushion, & pe his confirbach Woos fromsted to B Ferduras. Men te shand to munch \n\nindiscution - \n\nthat he was recalled. \n\nAr Ems. Apear he had sham homis elf headlong, & torratt toon soulitin in her plans and repensin. But he succuted_ \n\nas Dr. Gor. he did not. The Styte of his after tor um agt \n\nlin. \n\nIn conclusin \n\nTs \n\nN \n\nEX. \n\nreason (", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-142 - Public Offices & Others - 1869.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 284419, "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": 314, "title": "CO129-149 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1871 [1-4]", "content_text": "## \n\n**Honorable The Secretary of State for the Colonies.**\n\nI have ...\n\n(Signed) W. M. Dranes \n**Captam Superintendent.**\n\n## \n\nPage 310\n\nDeputy Superintendent brought to Colonial Secretary Hong Kong, 13th March, 1874.\n\n(Copy)\n\nI have the honor to bring to your notice the following facts for the information of His Excellency The Lieutenant Governor.\n\nIn July last, having obtained twelve months leave of absence, I engaged a passage to Saigon and thence to Saigon(?) by the French Mail Steamer, but on arriving at Aden I met Mr. Deane - then returning from ...\n\nThe Honorable, \nJ. Gardiner Austin, \n**Colonial Secretary.**", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-149 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1871 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 287814, "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": "CO129-157 - Sir MacDonnell Acting Governor Sir Kennedy - 1872 [4-5]", "page_number": 384, "title": "CO129-157 - Sir MacDonnell Acting Governor Sir Kennedy - 1872 [4-5]", "content_text": "Velice Department, 3rd April 1872.\n\nOwing to severe penalties inflicted at the Magistracy, gambling on Theet is on the decline.\n\nI have re...\n\n(Signed) H. Mr. Deane,\n\n(Copy) Duplicate Confidential\n\nSir,\n\nCaptain Superintendent,\n\nthat during the past fortnight, I have the honor to report that notwithstanding enquiries have been made throughout the Villages on the Island as well as through the City of Victoria, information has been obtained that would lead to the supposition that any illegal house gambling...\n\nHis Excellency Sir Richard Graves MacDonnell, K.C.M.G.,\n\nGovernor...\n\n \nThe original response is already in HTML format using `` for paragraphs. 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Other rules were followed as closely as possible given the constraints of the output format and the input text.\n\nThus, the revised response remains largely the same but with a clearer indication of the steps taken and considerations made during the editing process.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-157 - Sir MacDonnell Acting Governor Sir Kennedy - 1872 [4-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 292469, "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": "CO129-165 - Sir Kennedy - 1873 [10-12]", "page_number": 478, "title": "CO129-165 - Sir Kennedy - 1873 [10-12]", "content_text": "# Hong Kong 12679\n\n## No. (Subject)\n\n**C.O.**\n25 NOV 1873\n474\n\n\"Consul Puckett's report probable violent action against Anwall by Spaniards requests prevention of trade & war formal notice applied for that Madrid Govt be requested to telegraph instructions directing Manila Govt to afford him protection requests reply from Lord Granville despatches from London should be transmitted through Adm. Kuper by mail as previous Paper.\n\nCopy C.O. info 26 Novr 1873 \nAnswd by Secret Committee ud \nCopy Aday info: 28/02 \nReplied 2# 166 Dec 2.\n\n**(Minutes.)** \nM. Meade \nby other was sent at once to see this letter today. [12:43 \nRM 20M \n125/11]\n\nDESPATCH,\n\nFor Alderman F. Renner's attention that led us to despatch Ang products as we expect from you but none has reached me and them for reference same for addressing now.\n\nI will not express at present the opinion which with Ang present information the would lead us to form case pan's plingly for until I have before driving 'this to I desire to have explanations from for explant es. Auch explanations as Captan Ellis may be able to offer.\n\nDate. \nMoor Like hv 26", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-165 - Sir Kennedy - 1873 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 307589, "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": 167, "title": "CO129-191 - Public Offices & Others - 1880", "content_text": "Explan Langens\n\nCaplam\n\nMr.\n\nMINUTE.\n\nRebeck Karel 6.\n\nMr. Wingfield.\n\nMr. Bramston.\n\nMr. Meade,\n\nMr. Herbert,\n\nLord Cadogan.\n\n8\n\n10\n\n10\n\nSir M. Hicks Beach,\n\n7.6.\n\n3082\n\n12\n\nKing Kong 164\n\nDr\n\nhack so\n\nWith reference 6\n\nAnce the\n\nps\n\nfrom this\n\ndeputant of the 78th\n\nof that pract\n\nI\n\ndesitil hytte Lenales of\n\nso\n\nState for Cb Colors 5\n\nthat\n\ninfer Jacket\n\n食品", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-191 - Public Offices & Others - 1880.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 309028, "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": "CO129-193 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [5-7]", "page_number": 368, "title": "CO129-193 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [5-7]", "content_text": "achisis of the criterion of an alader. He for a the Mer hand not unreconally thought, that as Clme Stuart while temperauch aur hamton of Comal hade takes wherest in the patte, when anger helps the fat at of a \n\nfromther \n\ndesfalty. But there is no dubt that if the case had beam \n\ndewasa buto for on the adice of his proper \n\na cursand \n\nalne. \n\nA \n\n1 \n\n16 \n\nit would have been comparatives carz & quis a \n\nCormal approval. settlement arvest which would have leven achase to hi \n\nCoughtive as it hopp \n\nIt is fate accent that in the Invay dept, Chmel Strand, and one a the Pavite Prins \n\n1 \n\nHouse Snoozers & Pulses in to temp \n\ncapable of forming an Pair an the matter;ft it is Crausing to both the \n\nhar's efforts of the buttormas Generalis \n\n4 \n\na the littomaz feneralis endearmes & hinc firing in opener \n\nCaptai \n\nPonsell \n\nC \n\nfrankly confuses Ensils. (be an examspelent It the falls have Dunbrengs list & casein the \n\nPage 364\n\nbe care \n\na light season Low been vid et, \n\nPulmont House Lax hot \n\nif the linkding of \n\nbeen Mposed by the fort, Nite So \n\nJ \n\nRoad Grain had been him wh. It \n\nBelmont Drain by fort instead of being \n\ncamih drum Segume Roase, \n\nin that the Im de futi del boha \n\nLove to \n\nthe res \n\nfor the ignorance alar the to Balmont chaine \n\n-poslilly \n\nLelibatio \n\nthecouse of \n\nAb finding of Capt \n\nThomsett \n\nthew of the capacis of the drain \n\nI decide belimen the Pailley & the Cuit beginering \n\nho is fanting to right porn on the chain, the Surry daßt 47 Gbe I blame for not at hatine Laing got a round the burdens To Coughline's servant; whow at a later find \n\nWe \n\nblue page had EK \n\nLi \n\nPaine & gone away \n\nin the Cortison \n\nautons as for myself I think that a the who \n\nith hart miten rest \n\nthe Suez dept \n\nThough \n\nAnush \n\nfall appoin \n\nFrom to way to thing was allowed \n\nSaga for fear I Coughton Under \n\nL", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-193 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 311416, "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": "CO129-197 - Governor Hennessy - 1882 [1-2]", "page_number": 437, "title": "CO129-197 - Governor Hennessy - 1882 [1-2]", "content_text": "# THE DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23RD, 1982.\n\n## HONGKONG VARIOUS.\n\n### INSURANCE.\n\n**THE DAILY PRESS** \nHONGKONG, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23RD, 1982.\n\n## INSURANCE COMPANIES AT HANKURUES.\n\n### SOUTH GORMAN PURE INSURANCE COMPANY.\n\n| CAPITAL | $2.06 |\n| --- | --- |\n| ASSOCIATION. CAPITAL Path. | $200 |\n| The Under for the absen BL, IN POT PLYN Party | $350 |\n| PRIMANENT RESERVE TR Company | |\n| SPECIAL RESERVE FUND | $988 |\n| ARINI SCANUSS to its est-ut of £65,21% from | Colt, w. Yury, So. 10% Ti, ner seg. $22.50 to 12 Nacional, 250.46 42 12: Cault, 32bit) ndeges Jupe 200 23rek, ze pêk - BIZGA » 4.7 |\n| TOTAL CAPITAL | #76) |\n| AeDavies. | 228.936.17 |\n| IRELY H | #. 11. Punge, Exa, VierINDS. |\n| M. W. Toro, Eq. (W, | A Devorton, Big, Son, fing |\n| HOM | 517. & c., ogretacion. |\n| MATA TAR HAR & CL | Bankers. |\n| RICHARD OLACA ROLE. Bay. | ages, moda, Cerutti, E |\n| Potariss | wun Marme Brace |\n\n## NORTH BRYMISH AND MERCANTILE INSURANCE COMPANY.\n\n| Galettem, TUNED.... 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E the extens of ANGAST on dings an \nFonly stored therein. \nDiscomus. *.. \nVoerkrag. st. Mari, ISFA \nVOGEL & \n134501 HINKRE INSCRATE COXPART \n:IMITED) \nNOTIC y \nBRADUAL DISAPPEARANCE OF THE POLICAR GRANTRU \nCEDARK OF TEBANON. \nYANTA'S KISKA rundt paria of the Wost. \nTEEN TIRE INSURANCE \nCOMPANA. \nCAPTAI \nANG 200. \n3360454T \nSi \nWe \nCundy, Patela, \nwo \nsite, pervical. 21 Manhwans, echo \na, et al. \n- kama $ to 20% kuumeita Day Fiisin lanes, une pira* \n1500 to C, Bevara, Dagy pinen ambitie, pe piata din E M 97a1d ja Ban, senasala, tap šis a small, hoc pled.... \nlogan, anginal \nVarmacia Pati, 3 p.30 \neat, \nA MYN 4.15 2.18 \n639ty Ca \nWindow Chan, je for........ \nSUPPING IN THE CHINA WATSRƏ. \nCONATENGDA. \nRONOKONG \nPlatter! \nUZANA prox. \nfreew \nInaug \nFZA \nMATTAIN. \n1421521 \nCORBLÓMEZZ \nDANGERINE. \n13 Bauer Na Kusokong \nPol Clay Se \nIn Pour qu'ECO JANGAGA, 182 Ram. bk \nBike, \nLisa Pa \nADAMSON. 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Nors \ni \nThe Virates Fitfache Chorozup sa dissyfucced with a Company's betteltu vit ! * Pre unes fasaun jodur forest of Lebanon, i Association, Tandliale at the Pratite neg din. formerly orgive, bas deindied down to hand oumaly to Contentus, washer the demption of t. mura thicäct, nuluring holders an ink in oraygutten ka tiks der E Mount 10 track. Ex Rate it from complete set of Bhunia sentian Seals, the re- deal rates and rear its tenet in its wining liúint beint zavrtal to Reserve Pant. present extant, Mossem Pasta, the Governor faneral or the Lebanon, kas iernat o apostel \nvestnanca, dariɛining a series of stringent regulations cafealated to obcok, of pot geno ! kput a stop to, the windshem and enrolas rena of most rarelie in maroma \n---- \nBRADLOE AMITH, \nBonetary. kung, Rith a príl, 15x1, \n............ \n194 \nNATIONAL SULANCE PANY OF WTETTIN, \nty forbidden to put up tents or other why Tatarstant hawayers park kinds of sheer lite the distries of Aron's for the shove Campmay ara payanad to \nthe traza, to light Sky A Raguis Frans Curent Tadie. \nprovisions in the daily. No one in qui \nJvwed to break off a bough or evez a twię į \nfrom the brews. It is fortidden to bring af \nboasts hunion, be shay lursan, mulei, \n24, or an her kind of all, withi \nthe duntos. Shoalit ozen, shuip, desks, ar ļ \nHourkony. th Aĺny, 1821, \nOVETTE IMPERIA \nAMYR & \nCOMPANY. \nA BE A 2000. \n'NORTON & Co. Hi, 2015, 1821 \nBATAVIA SHA AND FIRE INSURANC \nCHIMPANY. \n* \nMay \ntatesigod, haing been appointed recaud Agerator the phone feetpake, ani pro Hungerlan pregná Kosmynoms ne tolkayna zeml \nMARINE RISKY. edictors at Corrent 16 sise, ravalle with heat of Tik Jamen, dat the actacipal Kamelin, wond the url. \nA KROKUYAGE ei famry-rumun på Ope¦ Bay Chi \nhinwed all LACIAL Hing Kinng num JAN DISES. Policicur on Viruplars Build Lido \n1. Pas an extent of Per \nA MITTWERP Pu can! (903) ANC pie Crawant Legal Et on wife wil dat \nat javnima chegued for kasvavanise an islamgia Levant ning details the line of the Jasno Migue Picim at Pulley. \nRUSSPLL & Come \nPIRE AND LIFT. Danza gast Prak avled st Chur other pantsruce oucle be found thin the end Sister. Coxiltimates Halperion preted initu, toy will be irredeemably ¦ for Kids äxanxarren in China. antented. \nPERSONAL REMINISCENCES OP LORD SATTORD. \nYeteran lyn god for youry Priso \nFlingum ad vos ural feel the Bstania \n'you' \nMATAR & Chn, granata. \nBaalstrix. r \nHargkone, It Tunare, Exte, \nAntiqu \n41 p \nA GRINDE GASKI hear ALGAMES MARITIME Vulva tark \nWhite Yengizza ROLE TRANSPORTS REUNIRS, \nPARIR \nFan! Young www.200 1995, Truh \nTHE WORTH BRITISH PIKE AND MATEN INSURANCE COMPART \nDE NHW RALAND \ngunay to make a bridge of hosta CAPITAL, CLOGANY Das Mimina Stadings \nbronce déturgavo no5 Rygtehteli ine the patri \ngets allied armis, the veut of ten Dank ATENDARS \n¡Cartran, Sym \nCarr A To....... \nTezda, laving been uppgirtali AGROS of the Alony, vel to \nIrving noviall be tact the Ensino Vedamind, Inning bidea EPETUTTI MAUTO HK to Aras Wallabia. 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Toch Norway A \ntord to the Admin, whe whenced to re \ninto the re \n* Print of Triingua, the amez \nEyself the boner of sating to your \n$325,\" \nSIRNSSEN A CS.. \nhan pase of distributi ig a estudi prax. POLA 16 14 49erida prod analygyaka (13 ane) Sharaboleza wa kaka parkiábatel \"business \ndaine Company \nFril \nMash \nLis \nMwe \nSon Hanlin \nJJ 3 Cou \nFeb. 20 Ti. 3 \nAze \nFab. 19. Büs \nFirs \nYANCH ; 9% *0* \niDou. I't. Margar \nrish | Man Yung Wzg \nJet \n5:0 \nBlested & Ca \n2301.& 6. B. N. CO \nJH \n3. Dell & Qu d. Ses \n- zle she | 66 | Bavarra à Co \nSamalei, & \n37K thong & Sani \n3. M \n2. Quandrid Squ \nJun. 23 \nuesרני \nMAGASAKL \nIN PHAI OK 3 Faxrany. THES. \nir, je (3, \nYORONAMA. \nIN Pass 10 JAPONY, 1991 \nAuri \na. \nAdamsta, Hall & Co \nBangkok \nBeamch \nActonick \nfun pro Jan. \nArgon \nBirla S \n332 in \nCaptai \nBiguney \ndo \n•Carlis \nAline \nFren. Sir \ntiiases & Co \nFab. Kutafi \nFre \nOoh. 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Stymes & Con \nMela SAD \n4,17,& ki meumbeat De Baena, \n* \n4. \nHet steiga \nจด แม \nBalt, By \nSiooyen à ca \nwich & \nRow 1 Kayaci \nlivi, p \nEAMING NAME 132.5. \nPh & Warga Maritions \nAura C \nPrk 110 man Aura Gay \nNOSPHORIA 107. \"AD! \nJun. LauqUIL \nCatt plin Urvavy Meets of China. Dullay Jan. 181 W. tidley degan, and at \nSO WHE \n12! Simarovie dềmchand \nG18 Orist \nلابت اور \nBak \nMaria Anon \nAsc.rol \nالمقاتلة فكر \nJ. 1851 \nDTAGEL- \nSANTIA \nBell at the tinglin \nBj \nGer. 196 Chetan \n* Get al: ; Lives \nAnch/5 Ca \n237 \nAm 25 tais \nGer. Cutia, \nHER BRIANNI MAJERTY & SHIPS IN THE CHONA SQUADRON. \nاوری ارشد را \nEIG \nالامل لاله \nCAPTAIN. \nJang \nCW. 'Enct \nSing \nS. \nC'. P. J., \nHube \n237 Captain C. ini se \nbungkal \nM \nPaul Jonas \nARNOLD KASHERS & C \nJA Welboort \nFeb. 12. Brundt \nOne kan Ju \nSIGHT \n4ma \nc. 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Qu \nMae [namzigrad are pegama Froe this date TOLICIES Frier a tho \n4. 3. SOKEN. \nHonka. Mar. 1650, \nA shy-footing multiprou pracacdotari de stat 8900 \nige tum ire à Smiral, to used to the \nAmbassúng who he was deligin first-cines Tiskr \nace in, and hapad i have the boner of his \ncompany at inner utzi day at the hy \nBe asid this is loud voie, a da to ve kened \nby her he had dured to see uner! \nLINSTEAD & BAVIS. \nHatokon. 10 Yar i \nWER ON TAL INSURANOK COMPANY \nCLIMATRON \nrelation of a Muressy with so Aspho cera.; PEE LOVBOK ASSURANCE; Bars Foss $70,858.27; Fin \n2017; then he panel round and socalači INSINENEATED P \nadaluperespeit \nStrated's fling of loyalty \nprofound a bal of a sincero bever \nfitae vigat must ninna be very me \nWin, SE1 Kewu \nSustra \nBarthe \nWise & fo \nPerth. Duels, b \n! Iselt sure \nBrit \n¦ Ane ja \n372 Ambut. Kacheze de \nAdamvua, Dlt & Gu \nSi Orien \n30 Solussa je ča \nSW. £. Das \n74 733. Jaspaik & C \n18? Siemcare 2 On \nDay | Captada \nCrkvara d \nA. \n19mm & C \nAmr. Razer & \n3. \nBMW 5 \nKI \nb. 146. iuge \nTARTED OF \nA \nM \nNay. Vie \nA.D. Caltrend baby ho sent \nthe abi \nNew, 17 Willi \nDit, k \nFah. 19! W. 'g \nVor Kase of the Yoo Choong rang \nFranz.ch \n1.Tan, Estaitija \nVais \nden B1 Mayar \nM \nJan, 01 1. L. Bray \nJan. 1): \n! W 1 Serpe \nplantes- \nMARINU DRAÍTMENT. \nWoxu Y! Bey, of the Chuc ftacey Wing of Agr \nTun fund of the Tipp the Wire. \nPure NT Wrath of the Dias dos Bolbores. Ej Kalk Wosa 'GERING, Of Ye \nthe tonal family was his at slifert arbonated delove. When the Duke of Cambelge was clone to bury his guess palice of crus, o es pale sitt To The Morw, if the Kwang Wins Cheng \nF \nJue a feo Jugs at the Eusbance, he went \nmade, 38 sa priani Poets of You \nhis dering gown sed sappers, at en mely: Ohm, and 3 andrenia, kt \none in the morning, that the rema \nFULC DEPASSTENT. \npreamed for his Royal [Eigens are in Polizios ishoni è long uy shows perivés ti \nberek orday. Finding the Date's voles in color ranging the tranka and \npetraentious bish | \nSALE WETARPIUNT. \nPad Retired, the Aubaskede begla ba girs Delineaued for racing directions how they thenat be | \nplaced. The Rt reduced rates. \nmer left of meeting, and stared as Cord Stratford \nMANAGER- AMEL \nHARTER B doet ko. the f QUERENT RATES to Acolmit Dalitra. Mile, Burapon Rain, May, to ai (44), Enute Pitse of this and Ja \nHales, D. Pravit 240. Haku, 1218. \nLO MOLLIDA WIER, 250); \n26 Jul, 1870 \nwal tell you what the said at TN CITY OF LONDON PIER INATE \nANCH COMPANY. LIMITED. \n\"I know bow his Hopal Host In \nhave bra nga anapes inter than you du.&PURAT-E-PAPERADO \nBy job op-ed de off, will you, \nLed Stratford into the room in a towering \npansion, and culling one of the auction, \ndeka bice to go and tell that men was in \nma that he and veekuned to add an \nZappanger to attack who retuned \nWeli, \nPAID UN RESERVE YUVD- UNDO! \nVodaviest having boa appisależ¦ pete for the hote egy \nde Acer ass gapal Print 21. Ca Hour \nCEO, E SERVENY & C \nFUS \nSpec \n107 \nbest app inte!: Flakin \nNOTICE. \nNEW YORK BUARD Heilo \nARNOLD, KARERA & Ca Funkrag dah Sentor, \n1979 \nTOBZORO JE AMEERTJAN 2 WOREIGN SHIVVINA, \nma \nARNIMA KARBERO & Br Hobgob. \nwith pakai Kid 154 wat de bou?\" m2; V ANCHESTES PIES ASSERASU XAN ON INSURANDA COM. \nthe Ambassador. \n\"E sad to bia, my lund, but the paten \nIn when he had retured to area with \nTangzage maker Majesty's Kepenti \nir Fers. \nCOMPANY OF MANCHESTER \nAND LONDON. \nEstanyen 1921. \n“Ah, gate right. And what was his guy WHIGH TE PA-UP... LEN() \nджетны \nNastave \ndr $12,000 Bracing \nHe answered, my lord, that is never til \nyou warah' \nwa singular featury in Lord Sreat \nford's new husty dising states \nager wasid ankenly be kupeared by NOT- \nPANT. DEMETE), \nAV Calamone, \nE, IN Bahat \nAAAAH \nمرین و داتا ولول \nMAJAO \nH..AM. Fisartut de Cauter \nANTON \nii. \n| Gizyon & \nLp. 21. Sana \nBrit \nButterfici \nBab 2 Drama \n; Eiseraces & C \nADAXA \nis 14 FCAT, AL \nMaksija Māc p \nCebaty derrotial \nAbi-subt \nying Thoug \nJan - grubost \nConte in tegabi \ndual-row go vessel \nAuto gail-Tequel \ntermiying board \nplate ut vesti \nzaube \nKIT \nruot \nINSTA \nHongkong \n110 et 1o. Makyn 61905. A. F. M. Chia \nKi \nTa \nCaptain. They \n10 Curl \nKoue Forty \nالشاره کار \nAcl.Com. 15. Trend Singapur \nCan J H. Core \n1. Bəndika Singepat \nLieut. Geta. M. Gridgn,\" \nCongres \n126 ه بر امور باید در \nClay Jobster the male poze \nCase Co \nجوانان ام خالد \nFJZDIGN MEN-OF WAR ON THE CHINA AND JAYAN STATION. \nSAN \nį Abrosa \nAtent \n! Alors \nStrin \nAsi \nCumentar \nAshut \nSartel \nHursh \nKrasin \nInese ar \nCAPTAIN, \nWHEL AR \nCaptain Stebraz \nApr \nFranek z bot \nChimney Caillard \nSalyau \nCommandy T. p \n$apizca eruntha \n! Portmate trase \nAPL-67 \ncezvelta \nLalion consult \nKamian (penly \nNorman Cortla Burcan çembe Fronek roerm Anlene gruntown. \nSpin test \nA best \nTrussian art. I \nLee Tak \ngrangi \nANG \nJJan. 2ki Yantai \nDen of \n24 \n13. A.. Peter & ku \n1152 Bienesu \nor Ruh \nBesin traspe \nCli \nEr I hate \nNermy \nRana znanst \n5, 13 Jud \nPakis \n#5મા \nJa \ne. D \nunty B \ntbeats \nF. 19: \nKonzulan peran \nÜnam of ladis l'at \nah keine \nDub \nCAPITAL BEADY Proserineal al:24,668.; Vais \nAZT JEUSJAL \nKON HOW WAY, Fr. Chairman. Aerling.cs Tie Hot, F. Cras e Fial. \nBAN HAR D \nINSON, n. Qry Mug \nTholaiesigel ince bean appointed Agrants, \nthe nas, tavo sad at \nHing waiters to hit lui. To get Eustis Curat Ra \nso in this cosul he enjead hea \nJanga with \nanother ion, an stcube bad made \ntwo nista ne doprzeg a dismalei, \nwill be 16tk 63 the Archansado for signa \nMistem may to made,\" said Ford Strat \nford after solating them at \nthe very! \nvarsta delen wish to by shini \nHOLIDAY, WINK Fengkrang, P, Calases, Bir \n8AMES A \nMAKARY \nLIMITED \nIBAISANCE COMPANY, \nUkau Orrace. Boku \nPor \ni \nKTM Kar \nAvary \na TN, B. Asid Santes C \nThe CT GRANTS POLICIES \nCho Vide \nDESKS 63 ala carte of the Waid this \nrolita Apnasier. Patribus Divblends sy payday l ANG Coctribes of Design, whether thug bar \nStoneshalder de ING. \nLONDON \nCHANGK \nAgent China for 164 Urn! \nWOO LIN YOEN, \nSperstars. \nHRAD OVERCE, \n,, Gran'a End West \nAquane, Marab. 11. \n1525 \nThe high spirised pov ciplest at you Colajny, to wop MADINE CHUS NOOI SA Pottery wwwrgir soud, and told Care Brat \nIs Cursor \nChime Du \nfram), \nPURLINE DAILY \n1420 \n19 15:Hu \nsai Busty \nJea \n17. storoch \n228 A \ner 34 E. A. \n207 LA. Pete Sou \n11, the 954 Rogd & Co \n$49 1.3. Pel & Ce \nCOMMON. \niz Posts Iza Persuar, 1962. \nWe \nthiaga nee \n2. Future \nSHANGWAL \nOptin A. D. de \nCHITRA B., Wallin \nat Am \n4ptsir. ubrz \nShpreis Rubotom \nCaplein 6, Norg \n| Gayanie Vur Knif \nfum salar Xiana \nYehudit \nJn \nHouckunz \nHo \nGanuzmuñor quite sami, tu l'a \nV. W. Tong! Hunk \nCATE \ntanama \nK'Ocoeendez C. & Quem! Eskuham \nCouder kavand Thacistu \nVisdireuzel \nViadivostos \n70 \n30 \nCazzi Tubink \nflores Valienās \n91 \nHozekcay \nVeptam eher \nSigap \nCozy Mugle \nSharvari \nJapaja Sioengine \nBul \nI sinhurs \nCapla \nde Doria OnePuik \nAlquite \nsaigra \nNagheaks \nunder: Suwach \nMaria \nSt. Intersburg | Kei \nTanayoel \nGardan onze \nPorcian comedo \nAmerican curetan \nPorteraiya grabenade \n'escri \nCopiad von Blena Casar Delivra \n1999 CoA. 1. Cube \n250 \nB \nSatt \nJ'unan \n'1' \nPonens \nItzanino tropløst \nStuonies ko \nU \nSunkia \nLMR. \n20-1 \na Federaly, 1 \nGlee's tr \nChin-ti \nCutun.ja) \nching-A \nQui \nChopr \nTw: El Rusi \nJu : Berish \n! ! 285 Makin \nMotl \nBelarus Primers & Co \nab W. icatort de \nac, Kg & Co \nI For \nFourt \n! Bu ba \nM \nCens \nS \n16. \nrice na . \nof Batm \n10. \nTi \nford bat, altough he was his Amasadar, conne \nDam \nSHE. \ni had to ght to repiten hun for what! \nADAMSON, BELL & Co. \nProtantes \nWas tene, ba ce was not hebitaedly careless, i \nHakone, th May 25 \naa. ari Nem \nPris 14 96 \nForster, vees & C \nPAK \nAnu, b: Jes \nPell \nNi \nBrit \nMER \nMac & Co \nBrit \nYou werfly \n--your eyes selaimed Lord Stabd \n2) pour Brodiva's!orted \nthe alb \nThe Eley Durous lunghing. \nSan VERZONY li les bra gemalenud ormibi. of Pouncy: Vindtisch, Small IVERPOOL AND EXTES ANDA, nge the rest on in cou ubore INSURES TCE COMPANY. iation of uns Chinese ampire in the Hand \nThe Lederige, As the hoen bias. If show by a \nHedr'g \nHolding Counnar, des DOWMEN FRim ta do Chong 3cbeles, sul cenou na Raken \nGRANTI \n\"his honda kim, he begged the stine TTM dnced TarifPro for du vilising a head at the tee the infrally of his tespar \nPOLICIES CALIXTILN \nthey shoot and racet wordially-oplei \n20 phemou \nM3 Mercies & Ce \n14.&.Tri Cu \nDr. T. C \n91 Jr Walent \n'\\' ctly tun \nRysl \ne Fasioo.g \nThes \nA2065 \nRates \nchat kurash, Banglory, or less! Pade \nTANGSAR LYPHAIK & \nHongkong. th May, 1 \nU agung, làth Januvɛy, 1577 \nHO! Klykn \nBritn \nLins \n67 \nSiz Martin \nGen 52 \n155 \nGesinalin & Ca \nWe, bis! \n343 · Nils Mottar \nHung-barz \nI've got \nTeling \nCANTON OISEOAT SQUADRON. \nPORNO, VONN, HE \nVry's best 17 149 \nLore via \n9.19 Mar \nViking's pani-bak \nBryster \nViens' animat \nint \nFumar's inchoat Revontiret \nFinny'sunl.cek Vient Bacolas cruis Viseryʻkk Vicy-gonizi \nTching- \nTentang \nBA Sat \nPhi \nB \nBi-Lin \nTriag \nVigganum \nIni etuier \nCOMMANDEN. \nSLATION. \nHongkong \n| by \n5230 \n75 J. Baze. \nE \nChai \nF. B \nVinery',nical sti \nLany ie ing \nChow hi Close Admiral d), ('bing \nCati \n4 \nYang Yang L \nCali \nPied Pubbled in a meat thinl \nWare st \nCanton Piret \nQual \nBeg \nCitol \nUrise By Foru \nBegins Porta \nWhat Cont \nPucle Perta \nMonkey \nHakus Xin \nB+ Lot un \n55%22:14001 Heront, Hunsicoma. \nNo. 7649 \n436 \nThe Hong Kong Daily Press. \nSLIPPING. \nANGELS \nDANKS. \nHONGKONG, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23RD, 1982. \nINTIMATIONS. \n(YOMPTOTH A GROOMITEE DE PALTI, QUS HONGKONG WIHE IN Febrylases, tribes teamer, 945 \nVIRE INSURANCE COMPANY DIXIEO. Dkny 18th Plecary, 40- \nCorporates and 150h Merek, \"S recal-BRAON. \nNOTICE TO SHARKHOLDERS. Pebermy 22, VOLMDR, Denish adapter. 973, \nRecognised by the T. toew: Sevation of TORRENT 2018 AD Here, E.. 173 Fektivt, CAPITAL Flot Cars Ge \nANGGA MUSTING of SHARK --Tune é \n24,265,000 HOGUbs in the alene Coy with n RAMATZ PORD \n£59, 190, at the Leaf the y. Vis. 7. Quza's Timcid, at (ait pas The stock, be instant, to meeile Mataista to BAN EPICCO Men, and be Elena Cheatin Ouderr, HANRON), \nFebruary 28, CasaDEA, Brier, 62 \nY \nAUCTIONS. PURRIO AUCTION. \nINTIMATIO IS. \nRACE HOLDATA \nimas nadelgum te meived lastration Vodermentioned tenka will (LOSE! \nPAINE \nhuma Surgem Wajor MURRAY to Sell for BiL DAY. CU INOSHOW, SAVEDAY tb. TO SUMAR- Adranty Jáhl at 2 \nend 25 inatra, Prayz von Fac \n\" \nBowin, Brigas 12th Pub, Mig-2s; HEADOFFIOR-14. Ruz heres PAROD¦ Plans 24 THORDAY, turb Echomap HGTSEJ 77, & \nFulmer 94, Yes. British rv, 78% Le \nSolids, Cute and F. General SCG. \nOLEA RANKS. \nAT \"ne Haren Hispans Ojo Inst \nExperky Pre \nKauai, Cheve sht, for Hofla Minster, Beitials for Away. Pocha, ens tramp vi. Adilok, Gorman bark, for Tas \nDEPARTURES February, Fame, Brist destit, fur Petrony 22. Hamaw, British slower, for! \nTi \nFeby $2. Stok, iliahanet, for \nXokebena \nFebruary 2G:=x01\", British Mesmer, \nfor Sought \nPASKENCYRS. \nSAPIVED \nAGENCIES AND HRANCE A \n: Exoak. \nNANTES \nBom \nSHOW \nMALIGE AND, {3\\_ \nSTONEY \nTORONAMY \nLONDON HAWKERS \nThe PA ( \nTHY WIN AND \n1.cruce \nMoms. C. J. Hume Has \nYue Honger geny powers Pixupnitä \nica Tomas to outcertained on appřánation! \nA few randife sun sull jarts of the world, \nINT Escapula sees of king shangs spiness \n8 February, 199 \nF. COCHINARD, \nSpeat, foug \nDENTAL BANK CORPORATION KÁRÍCUNDOSATs my Horan CHADIGAN PAIDUS CAPITAL....... \nRATE OF IN CHEST ALLOWED \nthat por Acy. \nCurumiles and \n11, the sport thu \ndongás my CALIORNO COVERED DRAWING \nHACK WORD VARITE TO TABLES. \nPer fan Oring Par laws Corporation, \nURO 0. BOOTT \nVaror Hogan \nFeh \nTEK Mas Baxi or! \nINDOOR, AND TIME, \nI \nMEARTH PLASS DWMNRY CLOCK For the CARTAR), gkeun. \nKAS, PICTURES, CASA. \nDISING \nJARDIN, MATSON & Groepen, Turk Fire Inspired: JIERA, and GAS BRACKETS, Hongkong Ft This \n300 TEAKWOOD \nane DESBAKT SPTS, TXA and OK. THE KOKORONG FIAR INSURANCE FRE SETS, KES CHINA, AYASO and \nCOMPANY, JAJED \nPEATED WORK \nNOTOR \nDA, T2, Cha \nWILLIAM FORREST. \n三十二月二行 INTIMATIONS. \nTHE \nINLO-CHINA STEAM \nPwCE 2 PRE MONT \nINTIMATIONS. \naan dus on afwan Wang Bankulmat in \nNAVIGATION et \nCOMPANY, LIKE \nDOPE THE ON \nJAKA MAP & Co. OF ON. SGAMAN \nDE 100 GR \nIN B \nduly paid the allocati eft liable to cucina Aul blau paparents previously now:la | to furth \nApplications Exe Stuures osatiede in the For resoring is Pregnet, and scre £t be nut w the Giles of the Conryany, and ET FACT HOLLAND HAPO & \nMAVION & Unshiun Could \nFL, & \ncally paid up awers wi listed in the set the \nHome buy a the belies of bei \nBCHEDULE OF SINAMER Apers.... IV: 1000! 17+ Propnely Natasha China \nNavigation \nEd for palle Bulcription foil Axe 10. \nDaposi's, Application. \nIL DUR T-SCHTE! ឬ ៥រ Howe, TURO... \n?TADLE, SIDENTS, DIN.; For the Suprzin DeY DE PARS! \nRASSFEE Both of the BA (ABYAL GUARS TOILET LADIE gray, will by COLONNE the 15th CAB, sud HANDLE TOP WASH the 2in my of Foling Instant Antonio HAND SAWINO WA \nSTAND rundade \nHeating. P.IVARD. \n1 gang. \nFor sýn Fynbou A Hawking: \nGOBATION. \n1. Ja \nJACKSON, \nCiel Tenger. \nHigh Fetary, 1893 \nVuw... \n1. \nStow 7 espel \n294 \nof the ac \n134.ag. \nTotal 40 Reginas \n2. 1 \nMarch, 18 They, Julita will a given of any far. \nMAR WILLIAM SEES 108, 8, Lombard! Strne end, of Messe JANDERE, MAAT. Franz & C... Gui \nWANTE \nB. 1. Eg Int JARDINS, MATHESON \nA., of Modern Wang, Aus the lungest\", \nESCOPE ↳y Yerin, with Astrono. \nTHE OFPRUS # 5. REONTRO ITA TUOKAS REID, Fu, of Youre ALEZA ILANO for the last is in: 25: Rp & Bora, Hiszpan elony Fire To Exe Hongkong, 22 February, 183). \norder to artiste directions tots 3A 10WGING FRUT, Luchst C \nELLS, Sight Fairy and Fowlies with Alus Olice for Certilours!WILLIA HILAND STEEL Best the 24te of Maruh application for a lifed \nLaredo, Mus. Maison de Ca \nai Harkong and Shangani me to put ou sitration, des that the rely on Paal tas ng inuis, of Nabor of the woich bars fan tanutted Cir the thache il in Yokohama ki \nLE \nNOTRE 10 MAEINERS. \nThe Murty BOOKMASI...557 to Mic PANG, Heiki- \nding, Malbyona \nWIPH nerados to the show the Ton \ningabout 300 \n500 Thesie Ban-Cal Breneb Londing 1-15% duty to ware Yemane vise my hyn Trung ist RS YACANDLEW. Eng... frambursgard sin proprzeć la neige at Feet \nH: NGRONG AND WILAMMUA DOCK HOUSE. \nCOMPANY, LIBYTE), \nNOTICE TO SKALHOLDERS. THE ORDINAGE YEARLY MOETINO AARONESS wie El. AusCe por u \ntine 631: of the way St, Pra Co Atis Moon Notions are for the WEDNESDAY, 1st March 16 Crea Acu kap Verms which way Rape of the Dino desterraun nå Wote wat so syylientcy. \nPer Craplar at the Guizon, ed Uning \nSPARTER \nPer inturn for maple- Heverink and Europe. \n15 DEPART \nFenton, Su #trilow. --I M \nPet \nned 10 En Sivingbat. —ü Kuras Hongkong, 4th Kaptajulus, \nA \nEks \n2 Werte sinamas Poling aproni, liar en helt Ft 1 4.hart Furt of Junta per had fresh M \nHONGKONG SANHA BANKING \nBut \nCabal, sud u when to iau i F & put as far, the 27th in \nTYLE SAL av \nJ. W ARMSTRONG, A Gmianeer. \nE! \nHugong. 2: Feltery, h \nPUBLIO AUCTION. \n30 Marie Trinn 20 N \nPARKLAS \nVASITAS POÁI \nKRALIAN-) (ptrend tyres Bar & be pupaese 1+ing indired in tiruva ih let Deber, is net be reated w \nCeiba sa Japan. THE HONGKONG AND SANITA \nApplications nae sive China Ghid port will the GNGETRO (NO which was BANKING CORPORATION, 31, Legal Shanghai and tanut at es, in 1981, this are: Stowa Londe \nSULMITORS lium Changer of Daisy, and \ncoivaraga tenger, Rok Dustings. Lesken, Feder Bud Lave Resorts briar by My Dear Hetector, 1959, perubat \nant sieel to toe! \n£ 1145 Asto \nTip \nti per Suadu witin emal opplication MY FRESASTELDS & WILLIAMS, Iwili han dells, and f \nSercitare Kia calix award in the prospertise BROK \npercation with the Depp hver will COLLANT HALCONE 2 DA \nIbsen in dernery by un punto \nIrant \nthe Crash testa del Polish, tions Pubin Lily, as is al fusion of use rack, Ord Froud Best, ruin of tiktirnar. Ar Bostamil the Bills \nFCESDAY. \n95 Fay, that, wi fuam, at i \ndes Kant's theau's Hom— \nAlarm \nut Loud. \ni wengine ci Suijn, 38 prescribed i \nAUDITORY. \nCloud B AND, YOUNGS & y 92.1 \n· Carly- the Hurst Masy! bor Theiver of timpiere AaJim, \n1. Déso. Agrot Tenkung, 2ed fakeway, 1885. \n(176) C \n? 11 Feb 15. \nGM Q. SEXYTT. \n* \non te \n!1st Ja \n: Geinatal Back Cowperatio, \nHen \n•Bain Kingüe I Ginacenza \n11: \n£, 100X3 \nDod \nl \nHegory at Fee Seurotary THE HONGKONG KE SHIVPANY, \nLIMITE \nActie \nTho Aust \n4 \nan Vrout Pa tom throughly sportmaled | \nChege Diz-- \n----- \n1. J. DANDYY.. For \nok Cempery wel is vinent in Branca lyds, 3.36.111 gaat disision, aber in Gear, My A. T. \nCORPORATION. \nPAID-UP CAPITALA RESERVE FUND 99 \nDu. Reja, ta, Ka \n1, 2 \nBrugkeer we run Bina Mother; lepabraziunar—H, LC WRY- Zoeks. Ea \n2.m 12. Harper. Th Em Breite Dorary spezia of. Multi- \nSen. Bul Saigon 2 Les arming of indian Forcery. Y Might Sure wins within wother up to the forein; \nstrange iterata to a fregite wise \nBigh \nPOOCHÓW TUPPING. \nFelc \n4. Appiu, Thetish ale, from Shanghai \ning, wie foam lengky. \n5. E. Hahal, from Weiur. \n6. Han, C. \nC. P \nbuck, ia behat. \nHogan \nNOTIF \nTHE FIRST ALS & DENKRAT \nMENTING VERS 14 \nza \n- ved sj \ntho \nMAYMER \nJackson, Ey B-FEN CARROS, \n\"CERT- \ntone into thangala, en alt 109 \nKathaway of Kurlon Des \nTEMPORARY OFFICES. \nIron Gauden to no and in the latel \nfogar with the Appunt rather to in ↓ pametna may be inspect be beting „No. 1, EAST INDIS A FENTE, LONDON, Absorbers at this hoss of tile Tureisigass \nLanai whole Bingen of Applination for S \nPG Compare bat beri famed for the pur I wire of orqaising for the C PURCH \nWANTHE oded by the Forsary and WYOMPETENT STRAPONS for Etners ATRAM NAVIATION CURANT, Ofnbul, \nFor Father Paroisse soy mila, Under- zig int. \n2e os, at was on Bata-Orl F the Par \nhona Mitoba MSDAY, 3 ay lace Meat he pose on why talk of like T More magis obras of Anat Balete of the Con Boster, 255), Tranter. All of safer to be Lord of \nby the Purples, and for Yesus to be at pe \nLONE BARES-TON CO2 & Consterk par 1 \n•pat \nBunker-LAYSIAN Anorga \nitement anys, \nOK g the Company \n¡ will be CLOWEST) Len. On salliinstant, ve zl i Phuyu's risk az tho Biebs by cine \nCavento Acerante al this remith next, both days nho, pop duju ou like Illya \nThe Mandi Paprika \nFortyor Band, por Azamolb \nFurler Cut your bac \nFat the paper Auca \nGAL 3 Angest \nHad Me 101 chrome Chotos ye; destriglio of Balag and Exehazge! \nCusted stated Scurity ! \nGleznas. His Sha \n4. Sibul, if \n78, Kwangwung, Erstili ste, dva \n1. Suctive 34 amph, France \nFour D \nTank, Brown- \n5. Pild, Critter back, ne singel-L \n2. Deur Vasi Deitina look, ( \nAmoy. \n7. Ms. Heiriza pelo tan bai \nrit, B. bit. \nfor Any. \n6, Agi til str., for whi \nDr. Heilial str. for New York. ya, Shelb \nBrilly 142, farma. Ing. Mirtich str, for Hongkong, \nZNANOTIA SHIPPING, \nAUTOSALS \nWulu. Britisú as, from Harku. \n6, Kinag-ong Ulduage ita, frenz flatma \nB. Geway .. from Kucheyrna \n- Bridalstrom Hojcity. \n6) Langmon. Chioma ne, frew Hongkong, \n5. Klingeline, Catur fram lafen. \n''yan, \n7. Name the trum Nagusiki \nBrivion wir, Ines Heater, 7. King. Chani kiz. Pero Hakow T. KONTO, Bullies wir, freno Bonzow, \nYangtae, hate, from Thungborg. \nmon.Gec. From Barefo \nB. Catras, Heiti 47, Bonbay, \nVarin t'uiteto frut A \n4. Yenity, Chitum, fena, Wakoa. \n9. A. Bitdeh str. f3 \nKonkow. \nBuy British tea, from Haukum \n9 Mon Jagt, he \n3. Birish str. ne kaik \n10. Mennar, Him. A may \n24, 4ppi, lich etc. in Feb \n10, goshi Weru, daş, art, tre, Kineban \n,, Torches at I'm Sratur. \nsan, sem sta, fram tvorbow. \n11, Chiz Britise 4, Frain Nugaenki. \n11. Kincy for, pise sta, Free For \nJiweltlah me, from Hack. \n11. Child, Britse stres \nveg \n23. Mika infra Ft.okow. \n14. Vraniu, Brizi i teras Ni \n12, Pag-chua, Cebu, Gun Haugining \n13. Paking, Britisk str. from Harian \n12. When, Sritha, Fran Ningpe \n23, P, Velg from Navski. \n13. Artawan, British ate, trong Ngebak. \n13. Bellapin, Criticstr, from hay. \n14. Kangitsen, Obiamo côfine \n14. Why Chinese \n12. Cf. fe Grice, Neftials aly, Fara Fausto, \nYel \nWa, Kritish or from Purbox \nDEPASISKGK. \nTulis, fitil: \nfry. \n7. Larisa ar, Caliber cust \nser, far Harten. \n4. Karlebota, Utili ste, for Hong \n7. Kig-yong, CU Hor \nWCA Vite fish sirir Hanken Wencho, Bitlah se fre Bentor \n7. T, Batin ats \nvalt.. Sur Au”. \n3. Yolors Faupat, for Kris. \n7. Anjaszóne. Maitish to. Lo Nayan \n9. Pribe. Fruch as, for \nVery arm, Jap, sie \nCheambin, list, for Tookes. \n9. Sualon, Bisjal nie,, for Chato. \n3. British te, & Nhup. \nA. Wynn, Erinala ste, får 1 \nKorinetes, \n5. Clay, Beds he for Nagild \n6. Tade. British si Hongkong. \n3 Dakinu 1. 1-i, Nagki \n8. 1. 1. Chernosina, qez Nag!. \nSing, Eisk er for Haukee. \n2, Wan, Heffasi atr. Yee Hankge \n8. Tagesbian Here. Sup, so, for Nigeri \nNow, Beltani ste, fer Swabunt. \n30, Yehsie, China, Cil \n1 Yung-ring China for Wacker. \n1. Kung, helliah straw, For 'Batkow, \n1. Yet, 1 Late, for thinking- \n11, Exitish fry \n11, y, Brick size for ever \nᎫ Ꭸ . \n-piant. C.Dave var for BakuPP. \n33. Natumeur, the Hali ste, ing Bunton. \nNang Byi-ish swamar, for Desigər 125. \n12, W. Stupin. Trilin's barb, \n13. Did Ms pett, for \n1. Hritish star, fer \nfine. \nut, \n12, Appiu. Rzinies alapone, for Benchaw. 12 Hole, British baek, for Puntur. \n18, in, Paul sicsance, for Yongpa \n14. Bang fou, Chiron 5., for lankaw. Tino, Titia, for acco \nJA, Bhara Kort. Danish, Aw Aney. \nJá, nilon. Ispitful: man, tum feudon \n14, Hung-mono. Elite for Ning. \nAUCTION SALES TO-DAY. \nNout \n2 ZON \nM \nHongkong, 2012 Paketars. 1 \nHION FRONG AND \nj \nBANKING CORP VOHAL \nNOTICH TO,\" \nIruding flower \n8:4 \n36 \nS \nSTRIA DE ATESON & C \nHenare! Meapp. \nPangkor, Nuth Pukssary. 199 \nund bag hij brente Vicker Bust Yantraze AMIN CORPÁSY, n2 Plang!! Fue Paci \nhos, mad from Jers spaly to \nTached beat soother in the basisve of! by the Seantul.! Longhwag. Ha Fairy, 1982 1844 tonnes Lowashed Rivers of \nClaire and bear China, the trait to \nCo. is a pig MANY STANSTER \nIONS TO OUR NOTICES TO CONSIGMEES. \nNONERS OF OPTION ANDA BOO, \nES. 8.3. COPS 8.5.37ENECK,\" \nFROM LIVERPOOL \nCHUPTING \n4. M. ARMSTRONG. Ani Hwgkong, 18h Bencowry, the \nTUNGKONG RACH. \nEN to the GANE Encours for Gentlenes being Sah \nof sið, er towards, 19 dla Band. Frogi. for Now able to the rain o \nG 183 No “Stand st \nj zorth \nVin Ind \nKIULH いやい \nprente, oz Chica \nDžiova stek u poziveliùsling of \ningen be adding it to the \nit various inter report, and the mak \nsent. Phyu Mr meting the grossier zegaremasts \n1887 \n25 ROYAL \nCITY HALL \nSATURDAY, \nFysoket W. 1892. \nNWOUND \nA doing it en wilson BAND MAGICAL MUSE, \n(man, will-hitic can itinere of the Copywny a \nn the tindasi bu chipul from i zemotestira ierastinent. \nuus later. As the ch 2hr Nice damer of the Cases Gastre. Tesigns for skijamast wer stame SASANATATION FERPANY, and the Yama MATRON. \nZOEK UNTAMED ODPAT, an ecided in 191 1841 Beans Surya Shanghe, ut by \nYonghorn, Bind Baravy. \nBiznim, faren 1.20 Szymoliem wist, Hors of 'n. Sterling Verze 20 bcxcision so we go sa balkg m / Bulk Sare5dista, nail s \n1 Burnering in to bad on 1 \n& DOVAN JAMBRn unsaaf Beurs, Brayer to the Cuntan Com's Glenovels are eli \neg in Chin, OU EN The motel of 91-6 PASAREA 2 Fashion, Bry, fine \"Prana iameter \nThe word after war and be the beds day of son carried inde, Cartes et Corner here. And image, and of the Coquialiis, an owning wikasi a Pielie, so be shown to the the Sadesigual, ja sinth casas 14 will turn on 106 mee Yangtera, wyether with \nTAS-Ty \n| Thakanume Pie \nI even me punten af 2), ka p (zujimoto su upang to, WARDANOS, . 15th Folmany, 385. \nEAL TRUE) By ordre often Coert ut vector \nClerk of Cur. Respons. My kids \nTAXI, and chan 132919TH THEM? Wenen in \nAmeric, Cala en Ju \nT. JACKSON, thief Marugas. \nMecs E the Corpoention \nNu. 1, Q's and H \nNOTICES OF FIRMS. \nFUTICH \non \nT. JACKSON, \nCAVE Hargr \n190; \nL \nPRIDERICK 2017 in auster \nTO BE INT It is \nthe by Prz Fenratica bertane ot Sasunt. \nBOCAGD FCHE CHASE & TO 9. PATLEY TRA \nLET Mogg. 15, 1 \n1593 Kars,\" N 29 Azer B \nUraze, in N IN QUEENEY HAD tex- \nCo \nTUR CHUKKAB INSURANCE COMPANY, Puch \nICMITED \nNOTION. \nAVDAVID Mungkan. Mick \n3SOON. WINS & US dowry, Sm \nI' \nk's day had doch zeigen kaki of Me T. BAY . . D MAUN! Bolay the a \nZ \nW ROINES, \nDoorway. In You, Je,\" \nM \nNOTICE. \nKunis been appoint Agents for thr \nNO. 2 LOWER MONQUE TERRACE \nApply to \nJ. M. ANETRONIA, \nHongkong, we fibreney, this \n..... \nTO BE LAT \nWith mata konica \nNETSUZ BUSHAN KAISHA, OFWELLING HOUSE No & O Basing \nPorto this For \nHongkong \n980. STEVENS & C. \nJanuary 18 \nXOTION \nATRA LAMEDA on mitted \nPatios in my Where no? tán Hestnesi will be watere at inder the |cale f \nSTRIL & TALKM \nNTS \nNetgan. Feb 12 \n.............. \npatuled, \nGut, thoroughly tapultad vol wy \nApply to \nALEX. A. AGA KIHELIOS. Iveco J. 1+13 RENKIJOS & Q....... I \nHvaley Stroth Ifonytone. 8th Bobnary, 16 \ndelivery train Graf or China \nCon 1995 \nCIO'S LOAN, or repruned Blaess Ne \nApply to \nLISTSAL & DAVIS, \nAngkor, Sim Fe K \n+452 \n2ist rebrany, 1837. \nand five aziona \nun sft art its simpellant, waking \nfest Et une ged wit's the that they the C101: Fally put up shar Vilor, and of which songs is vrugt \napdaivers after the with Pelaars, \n1982 aufgeno \nFITTERS SIRE Agra, Rogging, ul Februny. 1: \nFROM LOS DON AND SINGAPORS. \nGLENFRO4-,\" \nBurta, Brasiguam; \nCAL \nLE COMIDAT PERFORMANCE. \nDISPLAY OF NECROMANOS \nGLINK T \nPROFESSOR RUCHWALDY, \nRENA WIMANT Wind 28* Wansker Taare \nAn entirely new Pumnites \nPUS PARTICULATE SES H \nPAX OF ADRESTON. \nDrain Cirak seil Sti \nPl............ \nidio finálem in auffores Hall Pries Tickets to be hat den Neue Key & Wag med at dhe Tales \nDight The Steamy will be alten | Performer 1. studio of fil, the Frinksminga \nPosing a CAPA \nLe ɖe Compray. \nCha Cha Stry Farmats of J. Convams may extantinuci în 10 oun \nAsily. Fructe at 80 Pig, Performance to com \nLading jajene za coudseted with Nathan \nDowny, Fetienacy, 1885 Is her secon! it ONGKONG, CANTOR, ANU MAURO \nPLLAK CESARDT Sunambig \n| basing arrivet ROYAL BELUSLINTET COMPANY, \n(of Surg Am Barely this long com, dying lady letras Fassies and Saverbrai.! \nwiik esvapur of Oplan van het bal Salon Pung, Cl ritl \nThe risks dete pas earns of De Visita, en Kerck, whi Biznad, vienne di Paw the wharem a otra ringstjen 4 way to ohtrize], \nSADETLY APPEL. Hoy, 7th Folamry. 1983 \nNOWN SALE TOOUND VOLUM is of the Chow95-174:7-8410$ Tags per h Yone 1287. \nPark The Dak Arty Fina \nBong JANTY \ntr \n3 H 1 \nX \nG.. \nUWALSH IN SILKS, Canton and Slot Brass Pro Sharris, \nbana ng Wang, Curiosis, \nDenaliende, Talul Chalca orm Tebies, ie, f.. \nGOLD AND SILVER FRATELLE \nCaro SST, P \nROM, QUDEN'S BOAT, EXC MAHANA. \nSTEAMBOAT COMPANY, LIMITED. KXOURSION TO MACAD. \nSOMANES Panxha \"KINETANG,\" will for Latine ange wül informadales the! funtion thatør Porn Blog Lan SATURDAY, the 25% inesses. to the rosterý se given befrog Noon 10.DAY \nIan Bastow, ad hooks, bonds, pavery. the Buch Febri. 19 \nung tamilly prociled ze the carus porte lasting 90 Can winlig v \nDudaliteket \nju ili za svoju te thot of end for pictat and thesis sagirnis em \nBOUN \nNo ite kurd has buan atatud, \n2 Julie ill be cinanteisisat kj \nKrbrary, \ncutting a large card tra J'a Stanet e de \"Id\" Wardagi \nruza BUNDAY, the \nThe Cas Prosta Muca and lak.. 89 40. So Cas...... \n31.50 tests to be pare at the Company' \nby Disa \nbral osally Myths seri at the Wari. \n•han basisgand to me al segue \nang trade. \nAsiY[ 034 54 * ! tag, odo Date \nBeagles 20 \nUNION LISE \nNOTICE TO ROYSKONTES. \nTROM LONDON, THNARD, AND \nSINRAPOR \"TOPORATES- \n\"S-SRETNO\" is Bow Rename of 1.466 kaas til at aborden, and destined to China \nSarung Lath, where i wantly be join \n2. A LA COSTA, \nStrogkwg Ziel Folers \nCAUTION tavots\" of 2.577, fie ding Paktis on igured that SCBIP for minh bas frist hide Abarca: SHAREG Numbed it) \nLe T \nw by the Foest at whogy tud 48 rue 613-1,250 fs Shoe St Rita W4X24 D luga iar apperanicu plutor Blass CuANT be student that motive ul Dcrz \nDeals That Has Borghang! \nHenker 28ri Pelary. 1683 \nNote-Th, Dia is the ski otɔdlükat | Capkiu Mitzke, having arrived free pieces Sainty built for the; the chefs ass buna giu że Shott Cloapany. #5111 Line in Loughed as one is City among with with which the \nmit any view of a nábo kong naga. \ntomat ju thair Bis of \"Inding to vas arlor Falo hvalisay steal an important EN RING. \nund or eligator 25 main positi \nTO LET \nAty to \nDOUGJAS LAPCAJK & L Lengkong, L. Tebaumy, Ur \n797 \nTemarking, RE \nJAPAN JARRETE \nYANAMA. \nHAVING plejad is H \n575 dia daliring ni skafé Condo Fezia alte The Chic Calenus branch of the Char- \nCAT ating blom alechage of \nthagena ar charterad, wish are Java 1. | \nCHIHAN STELMANIP COMPANY, \nFOR SHANTHAL Y AMOY Taking Cazzard Passeng long las \nwill be at this landed net storage Pay's Pervine will trim the placevi 10-a kilusis :{DPGALVOS Intentano, Prae818, KLARON, ried and expois as no Zee Insurers IN A CUT 8 Company's Steward y \ncounty health have. \nDitial Care will be forwarded onto from \nInd \n1 line is a velemble one. Ed is \nal Pass or the Yamaisen \nTHESE LITERAN 200 FOS-17 LJONGKONG WHARE & GODOWNS, 1 Gavetin, Gas Pumbatore Roose Apis may be seenesting passenger trothe and trule of Vidos, sãe 50ed it, at Eren z \nKONG SOM CHINa tile feu molver astro to the Gilmer be gets en Chica, the Straits, Buttweisen, \nMW. REPOOL MUSTES DE \nPan CEAS or the Dans les \nI use will be sei un, le: the \nFrog Dedi Yox Subtipdoza aud \nGoods verived an STORAGE at Modrum Adportienuolės kill bousculand så tide Often, Red, Fedtmas Peloasa, \nLORDAN, KLE \nto the \nlumatong Prity Frie Chen. \nand on or if the \nivalsat, or they us be versa \nAl \nRUSSELL & C \nEntivo 000WNST Any to \n184 \n>RYFL & C Tinghaus, Bri Murel, Ja \nTO LET \nJENE WIURLAND WUISKY \n습 \ntomsong, \"ith Kebruary, de \nsura Styes by Mr WLCA an aud 'Mr. EDWARD JONNY HIGHGs. \nBEGRES & LEORD \nHoaglag, kh Jnowary, 1562 \nLASTRE. \n- \nAnd \nCŮH VNG and 92ORådE;), W R. FABDERICK DES.ore Hide, all we ladies; stage \nAlso, M \nJeelanin ay Pen Pen \ni4kin Usta, Stil Mr. DEORGE H. WILDONORENSNITE \"KONONKA! \nJOHNSON. \nthorised to sigu na nagta \nSELEC \n161 \nSHARP TULAER. Houghou, Jl. Koptember, 1951. \nis \nChina, 1st Junkery, Jasa,\" \nTO BE IST. \nK. BOOKS & NEW HOITIONS. \nBALA WAJIB TUYNUE TERMARIA PAR \nJennies fuwa and Gardo. \nREHAWAY'S DAY IN A Cable Du 82.30. \nApply to \n| At Bows=derwone di Cross-(Play \nJu$ 24,99 \nhours \nbuy, 1892- \nLINSTEAD & 174 VIR \n1368 \nBY. EAT BAN....... \nVarea's Bay BAR TO 42.0.3 \nTO BE LEV. \n2 \nWith a Sut dope Next, \nPure Talentīniku \nThrow zəd \nsopittinor. not, \nEnge the on Pocicta. \nThla poetsendis fr Brands? \nBettled varier éta pagal prision of \nIE.M. It may not besties, \nHold by Apote \nThe Worl \n2016 l'aprimas, \nGREENLEEHUGOTINES \nR. CAT ME, TN, \nDili, Angyalive. Y \nTORN BAZLEY WITIE » ELUTHAT'S \nPORTLAY CREENI \nHOLE ARE WE CAN, \nPOLLDAY WISH & \n\"STENTOT\" nomidered of growing imposture, owing to the Capinia Kirkpatrick, will be dospaerbed. 'TO. with Pie Suits Sanctness fadin. If \nposed bile popupfil \nSally adapted to this one of th \nAg-wal \nPiger Paraply la \nBTTERFILL&RVIRE. 1nging. Brit Vebruary, 19. \nPest pinabi, suplayed in the parties, and the PUR SYDNEY AND WELBOURNE, MAA \nirectes expect \niNuns to the Cross and \nNOTIOR TO CONSIGNES BRITISH RANQUE «ENDYMOW,\" FROM LONDON. \nle, with the Give of the harbor \ninfusion antuplish thes, and is THE S \n& Barre Boruture, wing of 195,400 jample silent \nTeaming of the Corina C \n'PAKAO. \nHUNGARIAN Chptain Abnob, will be distohaalej \nvayout any porturiled to end in direct stand the amin the; BEFORUoga, che van animus \n[MON BLO-432125 vf Chup by the shavu nauči volata Con \nتا بروید \nSome eu this?” \ninted it as presionaty sien, \nLedia Latha Tindesign for teagues and wish fare, and the chip and dishia Avexoma- \nAnd to wish wediata daivery of theirut sa Yungeza rec Sutien, thoni zand rapi ods. \nlizer pros and is the beardisipat! #w Krázlá se l'asure, apply t Carge impede the ischarge of the prezu with the antedication of will be handed Plan Coming sale at Jink that is thing or 1!ཤཱ ཤ1ཀ92 \nConad China and the gerectiepaccion of VENHOLD, KABLERO & Cu.. \nforging, 20 \nAgastā, \nVEEAMENT \nLabs earping-Trade in the Fun SANA, Hodon \n20. D. SKYNS \nOLZ. cyborg, 25l Picnary, 1881. \n(37 \nPOR MANTLA DO \nthe hang of Cams, that the Changany lindil«ma 135 anys 50+ Gendable enterpri \nmessage of gettin Denver, will be upstand in th \n20th February, NOTICE TO CONSTANTS.*** \nhow the yellt of being being coser, nadan Pert ez cutive perciocia en lices f quod in their sila u Darling! Flies ronible expect profie to pay divi tha wedged the countrytresdends, levides funding à Puiere Park fut na- | tak bole leep. Puis Cakes a spotles in the ralow of Stem \nCASTELLS BOONA SI M$500. THE BOUSE ... Afluor- Pean? fiongkong. Lich Berater. Jaar 20E PARIGN288 t the Setlowing Cargo are ¦ Gjested, bringing an vorean act of will; the F \nGAPSELL'S JR ACURA ADUI Wire Cops, derling \nms mm $2.99 Wat bid on * DoNDUSANY...67.80. Camera Bormionary or Connor \nX MODE A P \nE \nA \"CALIT \n...$50 \nOWN THALS \nNoir Et risk sed - \nKOTOE. 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This price includes the maintenance of the entire unit.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-197 - Governor Hennessy - 1882 [1-2].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 320878, "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": "CO129-207 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1883 [1-3]", "page_number": 257, "title": "CO129-207 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1883 [1-3]", "content_text": "Ordinance (8 of 1879 annexed).\n\nMr March recommends this duty with some additional salary being given to the Harbour Master &c.\n\npar: 47\n\nOut in par 5, he says that the Harbour Master has already enough to do.\n\nI would defer to Jas ... suggested in assumption that he will be able to do the work, alluding to Mr. March's statement in par: 5; and Bowen to suggest what the additional salary should be. It must however be borne in mind that by doing this we shall be increasing the Salary not of Capt: Thomsett generally, as was intended, I gather, by para 5, but that of a different Master, and yet if distinct new duties are enforced upon the office, an increase in Salary seems unavoidable. This point however should be made clear whatever decision is taken.\n\nIn recommending that this duty should be assigned to the Assistant Harbour Master, Capt Thomsett, as contemplated you will notice its carrying with it some additional Salary.\n\nA.A.D. accepts Mart's recommendation.\n\n14/4\n\nConcerning the Staff & Pay of the Harbour Survey Department.\n\nApprove of Captan Thomsett being ...\n\nHowever, to follow the exact output format requested (HTML using for paragraphs), and to correct minor issues while adhering strictly to the guidelines:\n\nOrdinance (8 of 1879 annexed).\n\nMr March recommends this duty with some additional salary being given to the Harbour Master &c.\n\npar: 47\n\nOut in par 5, Le says that the Harbour Master has all he can do already.\n\nI would defer to Jas ... suggested in assumption that he will be able to do the work, alluding to Mr. March's statement in par: 5; and Bowen to suggest what the additional salary should be. It must however be borne in mind that by doing this we shall be increasing the Salary not of Capt: Thomsett generally, as was intended, I gather, by para 5, but that of a different Master, and yet if distinct new duties are enforced upon the office, an increase in Salary seems unavoidable. This point however should be made clear whatever decision is taken.\n\nIn recommending that this duty should be assigned to the Assistant Harbour Master, Capt Thomsett, as contemplated you will notice its carrying with it some additional Salary.\n\nA.A.D. accepts to Mart's recommendation.\n\n14/4\n\nConcerning the Staff & Pay of the Harbour Survey Department.\n\nApprove of Captan Thomsett being...\n\nLet's correct and simplify it according to the format and rules:\n\nOrdinance (8 of 1879 annexed).\n\nMr March recommends this duty with some additional salary being given to the Harbour Master.\n\npar: 47\n\nOut in par 5, he says that the Harbour Master has enough to do already.\n\nI would defer to Jas ... suggested in assumption that he will be able to do the work, alluding to Mr. March's statement in par: 5; and Bowen to suggest what the additional salary should be. It must however be borne in mind that by doing this we shall be increasing the Salary not of Capt: Thomsett generally, as was intended, I gather, by para 5, but that of a different Master, and yet if distinct new duties come upon the office, an increase in Salary seems unavoidable. This point however should be made clear whatever decision is taken.\n\nIn recommending that this duty should be assigned to the Assistant Harbour Master, Capt Thomsett, as contemplated you will notice its carrying with it some additional Salary.\n\nA.A.D. accepts Mart's recommendation.\n\n14/4\n\nConcerning the Staff & Pay of the Harbour Survey Department.\n\nApprove of Captan Thomsett being...\n\nThe final version, formatted as requested and with corrections made according to the guidelines:\n\nOrdinance (8 of 1879 annexed).\n\nMr March recommends this duty with some additional salary being given to the Harbour Master.\n\npar: 47\n\nOut in par 5, he says that the Harbour Master has enough to do already.\n\nI would defer to Jas ... suggested in assumption that he will be able to do the work, alluding to Mr. March's statement in par: 5; and Bowen to suggest what the additional salary should be. It must however be borne in mind that by doing this we shall be increasing the Salary not of Capt: Thomsett generally, as was intended, I gather, by para 5, but that of a different Master, and yet if distinct new duties come upon the office, an increase in Salary seems unavoidable. This point however should be made clear whatever decision is taken.\n\nIn recommending that this duty should be assigned to the Assistant Harbour Master, Capt Thomsett, as contemplated you will notice its carrying with it some additional Salary.\n\nA.A.D. accepts Mart's recommendation.\n\n14/4\n\nConcerning the Staff & Pay of the Harbour Survey Department.\n\nApprove of Captan Thomsett being...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-207 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1883 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 321552, "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": "CO129-208 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [4]", "page_number": 256, "title": "CO129-208 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [4]", "content_text": "With confidence refer\n\nOm. n. an\n\nཀ་\n\nto the different commanding Officers under whom\n\nto my fitness for Command exacting discipline ve, and\n\nInsened,\n\nAnd\n\nfe.\n\nв\n\nalso to the present Chip Sustion, and the Puisse Indje\n\nDRAFT.\n\nThe U.S. of State\n\nHome Office\n\nMINUTE.\n\nGov Hongtong\n\n9041\n\n255\n\nof\n\nthe Colony.\n\nMr. Aucas\n\nMr. De Robeelt\n\n19 July 19\n\nI have the honour, to be\n\n+\n\nMr. Wingfield.\n\n19 Jone\n\nMy Lordships most obedient Servant\n\nF.f. Deurpate. Captam.\n\nA. P.D.\n\nlate Captan 28th Regiment.\n\nMr. Bramston.\n\n+Mr. Meade. 20\n\nSir R. Herbert,\n\nMr. Ashley.\n\nLord Derby.\n\nThe Right Honourable\n\nThe Earl of Derby.\n\nM- Antrobus to see\n\nRht. July 19.\n\nAus: 14566\n\nLie\n\n21. Jaly: 83.\n\nI am directed by the Earl\n\nof Derby to acquaint\n\nYou, for the information\n\nof Secretary Sir. CO\n\nHarcourt, that the\n\noffice of Superintendent, is. Gorans,\n\nof the Victoria gaol in Hong Hong\n\nis now vacant\n\nand that his lordship\n\nwould be obliged if...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-208 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 334624, "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": "CO129-233 - Acting Governor Cameron - 1887 [6-8]", "page_number": 446, "title": "CO129-233 - Acting Governor Cameron - 1887 [6-8]", "content_text": "426\n\nM. Johnsm\n\nCan you give\n\nme the\n\nfull names and official designations\n\nof\n\nMomsett analys\n\nand\n\nCaplam\n\ninsection\n\nand W. Deane for in\n\nin their Warrants.\n\nW. Bramento Foll Oct 5 87\n\nNone of\n\nthe Books show. We believe that\n\nDeane's name\n\nis\n\nin William Meredith.\n\nI happen to know his & Thomsett's\n\nnames? or shall we write to Sir F. Phillimore\n\nor\n\nW. O'Malley to ask?\n\nDeane is generally called Captain\n\nDeane. Has he a right to this title in\n\nhis Warrant?\n\nThomsett is\n\nin\n\nCommand Captain H. G. Thomsett, R.N.\n\nDr. Adrien\n\n8495/10\n\nThe C.O. List Guns Survey G. Thomsett\n\nIt is Walton Meredith Deane\n\nby their latest Naval certificate –\n\nM5710 J. Braniston\n\nDraft Warrants herewith\n\nDoa 6/10/87\n\nM\n\nNo:277\n\nSir,\n\n18869\n\nRECO\n\nWEGO 19 SEP 87\n\nGovernment House, Hongkong, 10th August 1887,\n\nAs it has been\n\ndecided that Mr. J. W. Stewart Lockhart should succeed Mr. Stewart as\n\nRegistrar-General, I have been looking into the\n\nquestion\n\nof\n\nthe\n\nRight Honourable Henry J. Holland, Bart, M.P., K.C.M.G.,\n\n...\n\nYa\n\nta\n\nHere is the revised HTML output with proper paragraph formatting:\n\n426\n\nM. Johnsm\n\nCan you give me the full names and official designations of Momsett and Caplam insection and W. Deane for in their Warrants.\n\nW. Bramento Foll Oct 5 87\n\nNone of the Books show. We believe that Deane's name is in William Meredith.\n\nI happen to know his & Thomsett's names? or shall we write to Sir F. Phillimore or W. O'Malley to ask?\n\nDeane is generally called Captain Deane. Has he a right to this title in his Warrant?\n\nThomsett is in Command Captain H. G. Thomsett, R.N.\n\nDr. Adrien 8495/10 The C.O. List Guns Survey G. Thomsett It is Walton Meredith Deane by their latest Naval certificate – M5710 J. Braniston\n\nDraft Warrants herewith Doa 6/10/87\n\nM No:277 Sir,\n\n18869 RECO WEGO 19 SEP 87\n\nGovernment House, Hongkong, 10th August 1887,\n\nAs it has been decided that Mr. J. W. Stewart Lockhart should succeed Mr. Stewart as Registrar-General, I have been looking into the question of the Right Honourable Henry J. Holland, Bart, M.P., K.C.M.G.,\n\n...\n\nYa ta", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-233 - Acting Governor Cameron - 1887 [6-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 339305, "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": "CO129-241 - Governor Des Voeus - 1889 [1-7]", "page_number": 741, "title": "CO129-241 - Governor Des Voeus - 1889 [1-7]", "content_text": "# alternative \n\nThis is about we S.M.). Lane \n\nment try to de \n\nRun 1/0 \n\nI. Just \n\nlang. \n\nW. Hamilton has now declined, Miss appt (`18663-Laluan`) and the post should as possible be offered close to \n\nN. B. given \n\nas Joon \n\nto dome \n\nthe Salary As $1650 (not \n\n#2700 proposed \n\nLadkant fend. \n\nC \n\n$2640 \n\nthe \n\nthis paper) \n\nSu 30/9 \n\nafter carefully considering, I find \n\nonly two officers \n\nhe submitted \n\nVacancy, \n\nIslands. \n\nwhose names \n\nshould \n\nin Tour you with them \n\nboth of them \n\nCaptan W. C. F. Hastings (retired from \n\nwho was appointed in tail to be Chief of \n\nPolice, J'hucia $6250 salary with the Travelling \n\nallowance \n\n+ \n\nThe \n\nCarthuf \n\npreviously \n\nImmig at Dept. in Jamaica for \n\nuntil his post was abolished. several years His superior officers in Jamaica reported \n\n\"1885 \n\nthat he \n\nLy \n\nand my tim \n\nand energetic but lacking in discretion, and the might be wrong dealing harbour was to Araso \n\nJing \n\na registrable or \n\na \n\n* \n\nJustice of Preimus. \n\n+ \n\nthis age is \n\nH \n\n738 \n\nCaptan A. J. Hughes. [mation Comm: R.4) `14232/84`] \n\nNo? for \n\nhas been acting \n\nat Grenade. $200 p.a. \n\nProtector of \n\nJeneng anti. \n\nwith emoluments at the rate f \n\nthe \n\nword \n\nMesma sas \n\nunded by \n\nli \n\nWe have all for the Place appointment at \n\nschen, which \n\na in sparken off by \n\nwas grown to capel. Hastings. \n\nSit.Sendall \n\ndevoted himself to his work \n\nenergy probably \n\nGig \n\n\"with in towing 19/59 \n\nI should think he \n\nbut Ky \n\na better officer than Capet? Hastings, but he does not specially ask for Harbour master's position \n\nHi 43. \n\nI unes propose that this appt. Harbour master at Hongkong \n\nAmes Fant \n\nbe offered to \n\nCapt. Hastings, & if he declines, to Capt. Hughes, If Capt. Hastings accepts, Captain Hughes should \n\nhave \n\nhis post. \n\nH.W.J. \n\n1971org. \n\nI think the appointment should be offered \n\n1 John Hasting, of the mother in \n\nthought very \n\npassing practicentin \n\nthe Offer - wills pattianhon as totaling to - \n\nIt was decided, had written in this... I presume the Salary on $16500/00 will #2400 bring to $3000. \n\nbe $2640, Outant \n\nCarrey \n\nintrentuts? \n\n5.W.9. \n\nX \n\nMr. Johnson \n\nIt will \n\nbe hardly \n\nM. Meade \n\nto telegraph \n\nIt w. I \n\n11/1959 \n\nThe papers \n\ncould be said credible. \n\nSee annexed Memo. from the Agents", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-241 - Governor Des Voeus - 1889 [1-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 352924, "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": "CO129-260 - Governor Sir Robinson Acting Governor O-Brien - 1893 [9-12]", "page_number": 516, "title": "CO129-260 - Governor Sir Robinson Acting Governor O-Brien - 1893 [9-12]", "content_text": "513\n\n(13)\n\n1.-Report of Case tried before Mr. E. Robinson.\n\nPOLICE COURT.\n\n18th September.\n\nTHE CANTON STEAMERS AND THE OPIUM SMUGGLING TRADE.\n\nCaptain Lefavour, of the Hongkong, Canton, and Macao Steamboat Co.'s steamer Honam, was charged with an offence under the Opium Ordinance. Mr. Webber appeared to prosecute on behalf of the Opium Farmer, and Mr. Francis, Q.C., appeared for the defence.\n\nMr. Webber said he proposed in this case to make three distinct charges against the defendant, first, with having prepared Opium in his possession without a valid certificate from the Opium Farmer, contrary to section 2 of Ordinance of 1884; second, that he obstructed the excise officer when about to make a search of the ship under section 27; and third, with acting as an excise officer without lawful authority, contrary to section 5. The facts were as follows. On Thursday, 12th inst., about 8 p.m., the Opium Farmer, in consequence of information he had received, instructed the chief excise officer, Mr. Spooner, to go on board the defendant's ship, the Honam, which was then lying alongside the Hongkong, Canton and Macao Steamboat Co.'s wharf. The chief excise officer went on board, and the first person he met was the chief officer. He said \"You have prepared Opium on board this ship.\" Some conversation took place and Mr. Spooner was eventually referred to the Captain, to whom he said, \"You have prepared Opium on board your ship and I want it.\" The Captain most distinctly refused to give the Opium up and also challenged him to search his ship. The chief excise officer was accompanied by five other officers, and as there might have been a breach of the peace he took the precaution to send for a policeman. A constable arrived, but as his powers were not sufficiently large it was thought fit to send for an Inspector. There was some little delay and eventually Sergt. Baker arrived. The Captain still refused to deliver up the Opium, for the reason, he (Mr. Webber) thought he was justified in saying, that he thought it would be better to take it to Canton. The chief excise officer then, in order to convince the Captain of his wrong doing, sent for a copy of the Opium Ordinance, and then Sergt. Baker at considerable length explained to the Captain the provisions of that Ordinance. The Captain went into his long chair, became once more comfortable, and nothing more was said until about a quarter to twelve, when the Captain, after due consideration of his position, sent to the chief excise officer, who had remained on board, and ordered the Opium to be given up. The Opium, consisting of twenty-four tins, was then delivered to the chief excise officer, and was by him handed to the police, and the following morning the chief excise officer caused this summons to be taken out. If the facts he had stated were borne out the Captain was liable, under the sections he had mentioned, to whatever penalty his Worship might think fit to impose, but the Opium Farmer had given him instructions to say he did not wish that Captain Lefavour should be mulcted in any heavy penalty. The Opium Farmer only wanted to be satisfied his officers had a right to search these ships, and that a Captain, no matter to what line his ship belonged, had no right to take custody or control of any Opium, but should at once hand it over to the proper officers. They had therefore no wish to inflict any heavy penalty on Captain Lefavour, although he was perhaps not one of those Captains who had any right to claim leniency at their hands.\n\nJ. J. Spooner, chief excise officer, said—I received instructions from the Opium Farmer to take out this summons. From information I received on Thursday I went on board the Honam about 9 p.m. My information was that there was", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-260 - Governor Sir Robinson Acting Governor O-Brien - 1893 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 419504, "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": "CO129-357 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [7-9]", "page_number": 50, "title": "CO129-357 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [7-9]", "content_text": "# Hong Kong\n\n12 19\n\n25978/09\n\nBeing a barovico nakkepindiff, bestos he pya sebi erede\n\nIssione?\n\nt\n\nTenog onto: 005, I mni qoIsvab\n\n47\n\nThe Center nalog emo\" 000 me cel\n\nSet za 2% a d\n\nVe vor gtsgeon\n\n•foque whizar\n\n.woh hief reed ozele pred\n\ncaptaf tufis 000,07 arme bite aqmal ons 02 toda\n\n.00?!! &. Otevere Hot unaruo gai-\n\nnd to maldroj, comel # 03 Herɔ asliwrun his noody o\n\ngoud ainda adonor i na dugtro feina and ine\n\n卞\n\nMOUL\n\nCiw gelen\n\nalg a dede I\n\nabadus 07 »ng Haj vore moura siz qivode (.0)\n\nmes of my NPN el a v hre 19th! AUD\n\n•VODIA LO Tecnol\n\n(.b)\n\n.eoer\n\nBRUT\n\n*\n\nDRAFT.\n\nThe Secty to The Board of Trade\n\nMINUTE.\n\n16th Aug 09\n\nI am to transmit to you, to be laid before the Board of Trade, the accompanying copy of a despatch with its enclosures from the Governor of Hong Kong, which he states that a draft Ordinance holding the operations of Companies using explosive substances of a dangerous strength, made by a qualified expert for introduction into the Colonial Legislature.\n\n2. Lord Crewe has seen the draft.\n\nMr. J. Robinson 12/8.0 Mr. Stubbs. 12\n\nMr. Just.\n\nMr. Antrobus.\n\nMr. Cox.\n\nSir C. Lucas.\n\nSir F. Hopwood.\n\nCol. Seely.\n\nThe Earl of Crewe.\n\nand Sr F. Lugard to 19th 3° duly\n\nAnod\n\nPage 363\n\n...\n\nPage 363", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-357 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 477564, "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": 249, "title": "CO129-450 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1918 [10-12]", "content_text": "## DRAFT\nTel: Wark Hong Kong MINUTE.\n9.20.5/4/19\n\nMr. Cornell\nMr. Grindle.\nMr. Lambert.\nSir H. Reul.\nSir G. Fiddes. 21. 2.\nMr. Heron.\nMr. Long.\n\nThe Commissioner of Police, Hong Kong.\n\nNo: 318 \nDeputy censor under full control 255\n\n\"Your despatch 16 Nov. Appointment censor approved\" & it would have been better that the Police officer should start as captain or other flying post until the Governor arrives and has been long enough in office to advise definitely. The censoring post should be filled. Milner. \n\nOAR 5048 18/19 Hong Kong 2/2 I `OAR(5048)18/19` \n... abominated to start as captain or motherfly Important until the Governor arrives and has been long enough in to advise fear late ansulating post should be filled definitely. \n\"Your despatch 16 Nov. alumish Appointment censor ner approved\" & it would been better that the Police woodder. abomcar to start as captan omotherfly Important until the bearfelt fordernor arrives and has bend chongho Go Qvr. long enought in to advise fearlate ansulating post should be filled definitely. Milner.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-450 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1918 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 487450, "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": 424, "title": "CO129-467 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1921 [1-5]", "content_text": "## DRAFT\nenclosed, together with a paper containing extracts from confidential reports regarding Mr. A. J. Brooks, Agricultural Supt., for `12272/2`. It is noted that Major Furse, previously considered for the appointment, is under contract until March quarter, but Mr. Lob. D. Prain has expressed willingness to be considered for this century. A Mr. J... shall be glad to learn your wishes in regard to the appointment after despatch of the matter.\n\n## MINUTE\nIt is remarked that there is no candidate available for the post of Superintendent of the Botanical and Forestry Dept. who combines the learned qualifications. It is suggested to send 2 drafts of copies of the 2nd Captam Magaz to Major Furse on 14th June, enquiring about the position and asking him to reply by March. It is stated that Mr. A. J. Brooks has the required qualifications.\n\n30th June 1917\n\n| Name | Date |\n| --- | --- |\n| Harman | 23/6/4 |\n| Jura | |\n| Mr. Beckett | |\n| Mr. Grindle | |\n| Sir H. Lambert | |\n| Sir H. Read | |\n| Sir G. Fiddes | |\n| Col. Amery | |\n| Mr. Churchill | 24/6 |\n\n`XCR(85)72` is not present in the original text, but `12272/2` is. `GR1178/1922/32(III)` is also not present.\n\nWinston S. Churchill \n\nPage 417 \nPage 24", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-467 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1921 [1-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 491415, "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": "CO129-473 - Individuals - 1921", "page_number": 409, "title": "CO129-473 - Individuals - 1921", "content_text": "25+ Serretiny Chura till courichratioer.\n\nCl\n\nR404\n\nClays have Labuary, J. 4o. of 192/ 18 C.O .8164 ad leg is formed of analog for your due Servest in 19 Le Hang Mong years and was sent Love Together with on wine moushe leave by araber Lo the Doctor to saline To live Forse for lo a Joned, of failed my wife in Tray 1919, o Hong Wang, and pass granted a pension of £120 per annum, wat Lead less of % to lielows and Captan: Fund. The net pension is paid to me take of £9-12-0 per mesure wash.\n\nI find it extremely difficult to keep myself, wife, and Love going. To make matters very difficult, I went to find employment in any capacity whatever. I find some sort of employment; the remuneration feder improve my present situation, allowing me to draw my pension weekly, if possible.\n\nI therefore beg that you be good enough to exercise your influence to obtain some sort of employment for me, either in the Colonial Office, or any other department, such as a scholarship. I may mention that my health is fairly good. Haski's Certificate and Royal Cook claratir bears a very good record.\n\nI find consideration of my things being favourably attended to, and I shall be grateful if you will give it your attention.\n\nPage 1\n\n(No other page numbers are present in the given text, so no additional page numbering lines are added)", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-473 - Individuals - 1921.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 496447, "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": "CO129-482 - Public Offices - 1923", "page_number": 527, "title": "CO129-482 - Public Offices - 1923", "content_text": "# APPENDIX\nSynopsis of the number of opium-retail-shops and of opium-dens in the different residencies at the time of the introduction of the Regie and at ultimo August 1922.\n\n| RESIDENCY | Year of introduction of the Opium Regie | NUMBER OF | | | |\n| --- | --- | Opium-retail-shops at the time of the introduction | Opium-dens at the time of the introduction | Opium-retail-shops on ultimo August 1922 | Opium-dens on ultimo August 1922 |\n| Cantam | 1902 | 2 | 3 | | 14 |\n| Batavia | do | 50 | 34 | 35 | 6 |\n| Preanger Regencies | do | | 6 | | |\n| Cheribon | 1904 | 13 | 9 | 9 | |\n| Pekalongan | do | 56 | | | |\n| Semarang | 1902 | 146 | 101 | 101 | |\n| Rembang | do | 56 | | | |\n| Surabaya | 1899 | 169 | 92 | 92 | |\n| Madura | 1894 | 32 | | | |\n| Pasuruan | 1896 | 54 | | 42 | 2 |\n| Besuki | do | 42 | | | 7 |\n| Banjoemas | 1904 | 16 | | 13 | 2 |\n| Kedu | do | 50 | 64 | 50 | 2 |\n| Jokjakarta | 1903 | 94 | 20 | 104 | 5 |\n| Surakarta | do | 144 | | 106 | 1 |\n| Kediri | do | 134 | | 112 | 2 |\n| Sumatra's West Coast | 1905 | 21 | 39 | 10 | 1 |\n| Tapanuli | do | | | 45 | 1 |\n| Benkulen | do | 270 | 105 | 98 | 1 |\n| ... | | | 878* | ... | ... |\n| Carry forward | | 1093 | 706 | 829 | 36 |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-482 - Public Offices - 1923.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 503422, "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": "CO129-493 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [6-8]", "page_number": 497, "title": "CO129-493 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [6-8]", "content_text": "7. Schools \n\nin \n\nMuna \n\norder, St Clare, Walmer, Hank. Fit tasks. A. E. Buray. \n\ngiving dates of entry \n\nand leaving. \n\nMention \n\ngained in \n\ngames. \n\nBuy \n\n186 form prise. \n\ndintinctions Pained colours in cucket, football, hockey. \n\nschool work. \n\nschool societies, 1906-1909. \n\netc., and positions of re- \n\nsponsibility heil. \n\nGive \n\nthe names of your Head- \n\nor Housemasters, \n\n8. University, with dates of entry and leaving. Degree (slating class) or other distinctions gained (academic, athletic, etc.). Give the name of your College Tutor, or of the Professor or Lecturer who knew you best, \n\n9. Civil employment or Jawed porabi Schotrum 677 in London \n\nexperience from com- \n\nJuly 1922. \n\npletion of education Fraus fared to Hong Hong Apkt 1912 do aroushë në \n\nto present time. \n\nMention ench position held Act & mangon slipp ? 'dept Apt / Nov. 1926. \n\nby you, the dates between \n\nwhich you held it, and the cause of leaving. State present employinent and salary you are DOW receiving. \n\n10. Professional qualifica-; \n\ntions (if any), and the date at which each was obtained. \n\n11. State here any know- \n\nledge you possess of \n\nany language other than English. \n\nFraws, med to sales dept. May 1926 where stick soone \n\nPustni Salary. Flor. p.a. \n\nSee below \n\nFour knowledge Gorman & Chmiere. \n\n12. Give here full details R.. dage stan. 1909-1911. prices for Aucing. \n\nof your service in bball. cadet captam! \n\nH.M. Forces. \n\nState rank held, regimen, \n\npromotions, and any de \n\npatches, and certificates, \n\nREMARAS \n\nR.M. Bolige Dartment 1914-1913. Non bayonet, Aight?. Sape it y \n\nJostball. Racing crtus. cadet captain. \n\n.M.S. \"Cornwah\". Sta. Doing cadel, facen a Grens. cadil cr corations, meutions in des- play? do ship at all panna agamisć uordinis al pués nsit! etc., obtained. Any specini MM. 5. \"Minotaur\" 1914-1916. Cunia. Auobrak'a, S. Amica. Prandi appointments, figu SLE Officer or Adjatant, to be midship\" & sub. hub. M.M.S. Pastor Grand Flub 1918. 49 \n\nsub.huit & huts. Bakk of Juklaud, mint &'m' desparthes promote in dimet A.M.§.\" Cadmur\". \n\nmentioned with dates. Periods of service overseas \n\nto be clearly given, stating \n\ncountry sud nature of ap- pointment beld. \n\nEach period of your service \n\nshould, as far as possible, be covered by \n\n1919-1920- \n\nJunia, \n\ndfier. Played rugger for Navy agaus! Hong Kong. A.M.S A captain. A.M.S.\" Daclisle\": \"1926-1921. China. Jus Caront- \n\na reperi Ana Pabot. China. 10 lat. \n\nfrom, or a reference 10, # \n\nsenior officer under whom you served (vide para. 15). \n\n13. Give particulars of auy \n\nphysical impairment i from which you may have suffered (inclu- ding shell-shock, nerve strain, etc.). \n\nI \n\nRatwed. 1922. 19:15 Star \n\nPromot& fuit. Andr, 1986. Anuni Service Isdal. Frotory Medal \n\nNil. \n\n14. Personal References. \n\nGive the names and addresses of two referees. They should be responsible per- sons who know you well, either in private life or in business; and one at least · sbould be well acquainted with you in private life. The names of distinguisbed persons should not be given unless they really know you well; and the names of relatives or of those from whom you send testimon- als should not be given. \n\n15. Testimonials. \n\n1. Name Captain. A. 4. Walker, C.B.E. G.N. \n\nAddress \n\nRoussit Duccion. Noval Equipornsn_ \n\nIdionally. \n\nOccupation Period during which he has known you \n\n2. Name \n\nAddress \n\nOccupation \n\n8.475. \n\nsunt. find? 9. S. NE. RN. \n\nPerio during which he has known you \n\nA \n\namy. \n\n494 \n\nSime. Kone \n\nYou should submit not more than six testimonials, to cover as far as possible your olucation and each subsequent stage of your career. The original testimonials and one copy of each should be sent. The former will be returned after inspection, Copies may be in MS., in print, or typewritten; and it is desirable that they should be on foolscap paper not larger than this form. \n\nYou should give the name, address, and onenpation of the writer of each of your testimonials; the period of your career for which he can speak and the empacity in which he speaks, e.g. (Col. A.B., my C.O., January, 1915--March, 1918). \n\nShould the writer of a testimonial prefer to send it direct to the Assistant Private Secretary (Appointments), there is \n\nno objection, but in such a case you should state hereou that he is doing so, \n\nThe names ete. of other persons to whom reference can be made may be added if desired. If, for any reasımı, you experience difficulty in obtaining a testimonial to cover a particular period of your career, you should state the reason in writing. Ju this case the natuu and last known address of someone who would be in a position to report on your character and soudnet during the period in question should be given, \n\nPrave \n\nwh \n\nahh to lidsumalty Records. \n\nTURY OVER,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-493 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [6-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 519416, "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": "CO129-517-12 Precedence of certain members in Legislative Council and occasional appointment of Capt. Supt. of Police... 29-6-1929 - 30-12-1929", "page_number": 1, "title": "CO129-517-12 Precedence of certain members in Legislative Council and occasional appointment of Capt. Supt. of Police... 29-6-1929 - 30-12-1929", "content_text": "# 62868\n## LÙNG KONG Occasional Councils\n\n(a) Appt. of Capt. Supt. of Police to Ex. Council. \n(b) Precedence of certain members in Leg. Council.\n\n**Previous**: See `62736/29` \n**Subsequent**: See `48053730`\n\n| Ref. | Date |\n| --- | --- |\n| Tobling Presedence | |\n| Co 129/517/12 | |\n| N 101 | |\n| I.R. 47 | |\n| F.E.D. 4/7. Mestis | 29/9 |\n| Mer AH Borto ER PUT | 15/10 |\n| FED 1740 | |\n| No Gent est | 246/10 |\n| CR | |\n| CR Wt. 11474-13 | 10m. 9/23 |\n| H. St. G. 101/33A | |\n\n`Ca12/17 62868` \n`(67496)`", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-517-12 Precedence of certain members in Legislative Council and occasional appointment of Capt. Supt. of Police... 29-6-1929 - 30-12-1929.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 519417, "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": "CO129-517-12 Precedence of certain members in Legislative Council and occasional appointment of Capt. Supt. of Police... 29-6-1929 - 30-12-1929", "page_number": 2, "title": "CO129-517-12 Precedence of certain members in Legislative Council and occasional appointment of Capt. Supt. of Police... 29-6-1929 - 30-12-1929", "content_text": "## Ger. Conf\n\nFwds. recommendations. Hot Occasional appointment the Captain 10.5.29 Z\n\nПирав Supata Polis as a Nour Offrecal Member of the Executive Councel.\n\nThe far only if the wants of this office occasionally, provision advise for this purpose might be made by adding to the Executive council clause the R.I. and the RP.\n\nI any of not in the following paragraph which upward the R. When were Leptain Colonies though the Casters Solonies:- upon any special occasion the Governor desires my reason to obtain the advice of the Captain within the colony touching our affairs therein under for such as an instrument partic teal of the colony special occasion any Extraordinary Member of Executive Council \"Prendume for such betraordinary Summar such person the Mcombes is usually given after all the ordinary members.\n\nProvision for this would be inserted in the precedence clause.\n\n### Precedence in Legislative Council of Unofficial Members of the Exec Council who are not members of \n\nThis proposal is a novel one as far as official members are concerned, but with precedence | number | moffocal Members | the Exec let. | \n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 9 | of the Executive Council | | \n| 40 | official members | are concerned | \n\nUnofficial Members of the Exec council are a cubers of...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-517-12 Precedence of certain members in Legislative Council and occasional appointment of Capt. Supt. of Police... 29-6-1929 - 30-12-1929.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 519418, "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": "CO129-517-12 Precedence of certain members in Legislative Council and occasional appointment of Capt. Supt. of Police... 29-6-1929 - 30-12-1929", "page_number": 3, "title": "CO129-517-12 Precedence of certain members in Legislative Council and occasional appointment of Capt. Supt. of Police... 29-6-1929 - 30-12-1929", "content_text": "## Precedence in Executive Council\n\nIn the Nigerian case, official members of the Executive Council are given precedence. The official member of the Exec Council shall have precedence.\n\nThe proposal is not objected to in principle, but the wording of the proposed clause might perhaps be simplified. Mr. Ellis has now been informed to agree to relieve Howell from memberships.\n\nIf the Exec. & Legisl. Comals. agree, the remaining proposals in this despatch still to be considered are: \n1. Appointment of a nominated official member to perform the duties of the office of \"Inspector General\" / \"Cant Supt\" of Police (the title has since been altered). The Executive Council has no objection in principle to this proposal. \n\nPage 7 \n\nThe Execht. Council has now been informed that it is not possible to relieve Senior Rihtary office from memberships. \n\nThe official members of the Exec. Council ave been informed to agree to the proposal.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-517-12 Precedence of certain members in Legislative Council and occasional appointment of Capt. Supt. of Police... 29-6-1929 - 30-12-1929.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 519419, "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": "CO129-517-12 Precedence of certain members in Legislative Council and occasional appointment of Capt. Supt. of Police... 29-6-1929 - 30-12-1929", "page_number": 4, "title": "CO129-517-12 Precedence of certain members in Legislative Council and occasional appointment of Capt. Supt. of Police... 29-6-1929 - 30-12-1929", "content_text": "4\n\nRead this proposal as being one for the Taft Supt or acting Capt-Supt to attend occasionally, so as meaning that he is to be appointed not ex-officio, as nominated a official appted \"from time to time\".\n\n3\n\nChanges in the holder of the afft of Capt Supt recur. There is no reason to object to this under `15/1/28` the Additional Instructions of appointing not part of extra members of the Exec. Commal whether official or unofficial (but not ex-officio members), on the issuance of instructions from\" Through The 5.95. He references such instructions for this purpose. Capt Supt is to find out whether but as the present ... he leaves he nominates", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-517-12 Precedence of certain members in Legislative Council and occasional appointment of Capt. Supt. of Police... 29-6-1929 - 30-12-1929.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 519420, "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": "CO129-517-12 Precedence of certain members in Legislative Council and occasional appointment of Capt. Supt. of Police... 29-6-1929 - 30-12-1929", "page_number": 5, "title": "CO129-517-12 Precedence of certain members in Legislative Council and occasional appointment of Capt. Supt. of Police... 29-6-1929 - 30-12-1929", "content_text": "## \nthe Offices at present acting post.\n\n(2) Unofficial members of the Council who are also members of the Executive Council have precedence over unofficial members who are not members also of the Executive Council.\n\nIt is apparently a novel proposal, but the reason given makes it no doubt a desirable one. I suggest that CCD should be asked to draft an Additional Instruction on it.\n\nFiled `Gent. 7/29`, noted in `Precedent Book/C`.\n\n2. To Two copies (2) (1 original) 24 July 1929", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-517-12 Precedence of certain members in Legislative Council and occasional appointment of Capt. Supt. of Police... 29-6-1929 - 30-12-1929.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 519421, "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": "CO129-517-12 Precedence of certain members in Legislative Council and occasional appointment of Capt. Supt. of Police... 29-6-1929 - 30-12-1929", "page_number": 6, "title": "CO129-517-12 Precedence of certain members in Legislative Council and occasional appointment of Capt. Supt. of Police... 29-6-1929 - 30-12-1929", "content_text": "## To Prise Council Office\n\nwith draft Additional Instructions\n\n18/29 +3\n\n4. Gov. Cory\n\n12.9.28\n\nwith regard to proposed that\n\nDoes not wish, in circumstances, to take further action\n\npropose that D.S.P.W. is added to\n\nlist of ex-officio members\n\nComjon 62736/29\n\nThe proposal regarding the \"Appointment of the Capt. Gen. & Police\" was, after all, not independent of the request of G.O.C. to be relieved of the duties, and in informing the Gov. of H.M.'s approval of the Additional Instructions, we can \"note\" this in further action is required.\n\nCCDE Memorandum which await approval\n\nThe draft Heads of Instructions are still awaiting Privy Council which will probably be at meeting of 17/19-9.\n\nHe was at 1.7.7 art in 17/19-9.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-517-12 Precedence of certain members in Legislative Council and occasional appointment of Capt. Supt. of Police... 29-6-1929 - 30-12-1929.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 519422, "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": "CO129-517-12 Precedence of certain members in Legislative Council and occasional appointment of Capt. Supt. of Police... 29-6-1929 - 30-12-1929", "page_number": 7, "title": "CO129-517-12 Precedence of certain members in Legislative Council and occasional appointment of Capt. Supt. of Police... 29-6-1929 - 30-12-1929", "content_text": "be held when the King returns to London 25 Howell 24/10/29\n\nGreens to cry to wait for the information.\n\nWhat \n\n25 awom 307/29 857.1 \n\nMS Ś Do for Hong Kong mine. W/ Sealed copy 9 \n\nAddition Instructions & 12 prints.\n\n1. Profor. Hong Kong: Misc Conf. 307/24 47421/29 Conf.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-517-12 Precedence of certain members in Legislative Council and occasional appointment of Capt. Supt. of Police... 29-6-1929 - 30-12-1929.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 519423, "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": "CO129-517-12 Precedence of certain members in Legislative Council and occasional appointment of Capt. Supt. of Police... 29-6-1929 - 30-12-1929", "page_number": 8, "title": "CO129-517-12 Precedence of certain members in Legislative Council and occasional appointment of Capt. Supt. of Police... 29-6-1929 - 30-12-1929", "content_text": "## Downing Street, 30 December, 1929\n\nWith reference to my despatch **Confidential 2** of the 24th of July, I have the honour to inform you that additional instructions have now been signed by His Majesty granting precedence in the Legislative Council of Hong Kong to unofficial members who are also members of the Executive Council over those unofficial members who are not members of the latter Council.\n\n2\\. The additional instructions are transmitted to you in my Miscellaneous despatch of even date.\n\nI have the honour to be,\nYour most obedient servant,\n**(Signed) PASSFIELD**\n\nGOV SHOR \nSIN C.CL3. Mil, X C.R.. \nCINC.C", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-517-12 Precedence of certain members in Legislative Council and occasional appointment of Capt. Supt. of Police... 29-6-1929 - 30-12-1929.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 519424, "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": "CO129-517-12 Precedence of certain members in Legislative Council and occasional appointment of Capt. Supt. of Police... 29-6-1929 - 30-12-1929", "page_number": 9, "title": "CO129-517-12 Precedence of certain members in Legislative Council and occasional appointment of Capt. Supt. of Police... 29-6-1929 - 30-12-1929", "content_text": "# Downing Street. \n\n30 December, 1929. \n\nI have the honour to transmit to you the accompanying additional instructions to the Governor of Hong Kong passed under the Royal Sign Manual and Signet, dated the 20th of November, 1929, with regard to the precedence of Members of the Legislative Council of the Colony. Twelve printed copies are also enclosed.\n\n2. It will be observed that these instructions come into operation on the date of their receipt in the Colony. I shall therefore be glad if you will inform me of this date in order that it may be recorded at this office.\n\nI have the honour to be, \n\nSir, \n\nYour most obedient, humble servant, \n\n`GOV 1/IRM/OK III, K.O.1...` \n\n(Signed) **PASSFIELD**.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-517-12 Precedence of certain members in Legislative Council and occasional appointment of Capt. Supt. of Police... 29-6-1929 - 30-12-1929.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 519425, "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": "CO129-517-12 Precedence of certain members in Legislative Council and occasional appointment of Capt. Supt. of Police... 29-6-1929 - 30-12-1929", "page_number": 10, "title": "CO129-517-12 Precedence of certain members in Legislative Council and occasional appointment of Capt. Supt. of Police... 29-6-1929 - 30-12-1929", "content_text": "# HONG KONG\n\n## ADDITIONAL INSTRUCTIONS passed under the Royal Sign Manual and Signet to the Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hong Kong in regard to the precedence of Members of the Legislative Council thereof\n\nDated 20th November, 1929\n\n**GEORGE R.I.**\n\n## ADDITIONAL INSTRUCTIONS to Our Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Our Colony of Hong Kong and its Dependencies, or other Officer for the time being administering the Government of Our said Colony and its Dependencies\n\nWHEREAS by certain Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Our Realm bearing date at Westminster the Fourteenth day of February, 1917, We did make provision for the Government of Our Colony of Hong Kong and its Dependencies (hereinafter called the Colony) and did amongst other things declare that there should be a Legislative Council in and for the Colony which should consist of such persons as We might direct by Instructions under Our Sign Manual and Signet:\n\nAnd whereas by Our Instructions under Our Sign Manual and Signet bearing date the Fourteenth day of February, 1917, We did constitute the said Legislative Council as therein is set forth, and by the Twentieth Clause of the said Instructions did direct that the Members of the said Council should have such precedence as therein is set forth:\n\nAnd whereas We are minded to make other provision in regard to the precedence of the Members of the said Legislative Council:\n\nNow therefore We do, as from the date of the receipt in the Colony of these Our Additional Instructions under Our Sign Manual and Signet, hereby revoke the Twentieth Clause of Our said Instructions of the Fourteenth day of February, 1917, without prejudice to anything lawfully done thereunder, and instead thereof We do direct and enjoin and declare Our will and pleasure that from the date of such receipt the aforesaid Instructions shall henceforth be construed and take effect as if the following clause had been inserted therein in place of the Twentieth Clause thereof:-\n\n### XX. The Members of the Legislative Council shall take precedence as We may specially assign, and in default thereof, as follows:-\n\n(1) First, the Official Members in the following order:-\n\n- (a) The ex officio Members in the order in which their offices are mentioned (except that the Senior Military Officer, if below the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in Our Army, shall take precedence after the person lawfully discharging the functions of Attorney-General).\n- (b) Other Official Members according to the priority of their respective appointments, or if appointed by or in pursuance of the same Instrument, according to the order in which they are named therein.\n\nPage 10 \nPage 11", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-517-12 Precedence of certain members in Legislative Council and occasional appointment of Capt. Supt. of Police... 29-6-1929 - 30-12-1929.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 519426, "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": "CO129-517-12 Precedence of certain members in Legislative Council and occasional appointment of Capt. Supt. of Police... 29-6-1929 - 30-12-1929", "page_number": 11, "title": "CO129-517-12 Precedence of certain members in Legislative Council and occasional appointment of Capt. Supt. of Police... 29-6-1929 - 30-12-1929", "content_text": "(2) Secondly, the Unofficial Members in the following order:\n\n(a) The Unofficial Members who are also Members of the Executive Council of the Colony according to the precedence taken as between themselves as Members of the Executive Council.\n\n(b) Other Unofficial Members according to the priority of their respective appointments, or if appointed by or in pursuance of the same Instrument, according to the order in which they are named therein. Provided that any such Unofficial Member who is re-appointed immediately on the termination of his term of office shall, as between himself and other Unofficial Members who are not also Members of the Executive Council, take precedence according to the date from which he has been continuously a Member of the Legislative Council.\n\nGiven at Our Court at Saint James's this Twentieth day of November, 1929, in the Twentieth Year of Our Reign.\n\n`(51Ɛ5*-1)` Wt. 10535-44 50 11/29 P. St. G. 3", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-517-12 Precedence of certain members in Legislative Council and occasional appointment of Capt. Supt. of Police... 29-6-1929 - 30-12-1929.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 519427, "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": "CO129-517-12 Precedence of certain members in Legislative Council and occasional appointment of Capt. Supt. of Police... 29-6-1929 - 30-12-1929", "page_number": 12, "title": "CO129-517-12 Precedence of certain members in Legislative Council and occasional appointment of Capt. Supt. of Police... 29-6-1929 - 30-12-1929", "content_text": "## CONFIDENTIAL\n\n**RE** `62736/29`. \nGovernment House, \nHong Kong, 12th September, 1929.\n\nMy Lord,\n\nI have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of Your Lordship's confidential despatch, dated the 29th of June, 1929, informing me that the Army Council has signified its inability to support the request of the General Officer Commanding the Troops, China Command, to be relieved of the duties incident to membership of the Executive and Legislative Councils of Hong Kong.\n\n2\\. In the circumstances, I do not wish to proceed with that proposal.\n\nNor do I wish, as Your Lordship correctly assumes in your despatch confidential (2) of the 24th of July, 1929, to take any further action with regard to the consequent proposals that the Director of Public Works should be added to the list of ex officio members of the Executive and Legislative Councils, and that the Director of Education should be appointed a nominated official member of the latter Council.\n\n**The Right Honourable \nLord Passfield**", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-517-12 Precedence of certain members in Legislative Council and occasional appointment of Capt. Supt. of Police... 29-6-1929 - 30-12-1929.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 519428, "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": "CO129-517-12 Precedence of certain members in Legislative Council and occasional appointment of Capt. Supt. of Police... 29-6-1929 - 30-12-1929", "page_number": 13, "title": "CO129-517-12 Precedence of certain members in Legislative Council and occasional appointment of Capt. Supt. of Police... 29-6-1929 - 30-12-1929", "content_text": "# \n\n17 on 62736/29 \n\n3. I have also no wish to proceed with the proposal made in paragraph 3 of my confidential despatch of the 10th of May, 1929, that I should be given authority to appoint from time to time the officer discharging the functions of Captain Superintendent of Police to be a nominated official member of the Executive Council. This proposal was only made by me, because of the vacancy among the official members of the Executive Council, which would have been created in the event of the General Officer Commanding the Troops, China Command, being relieved of his duties as a member of that Council. As that change is not to be made, I very much prefer to leave the composition both of the Executive and Legislative Councils unaltered for the present.\n\nI am glad to note that Your Lordship has approved my recommendation that unofficial members of the Legislative Council, who are also members of the Executive Council, should be given precedence in the Legislative Council over those unofficial members of that Council, who are not members of the Executive Council, and I note that steps are accordingly being taken for the submission to His Majesty in Council of additional instructions to give effect to this recommendation.\n\nI have the honour to be,\nMy Lord,\nYour Lordship's most obedient, humble servant,\n\n**(SD.) C. CLEMENTI.**\nGovernor, &c.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-517-12 Precedence of certain members in Legislative Council and occasional appointment of Capt. Supt. of Police... 29-6-1929 - 30-12-1929.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 519429, "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": "CO129-517-12 Precedence of certain members in Legislative Council and occasional appointment of Capt. Supt. of Police... 29-6-1929 - 30-12-1929", "page_number": 14, "title": "CO129-517-12 Precedence of certain members in Legislative Council and occasional appointment of Capt. Supt. of Police... 29-6-1929 - 30-12-1929", "content_text": "## DRAFT\n### for Colonial Office Conference\n\nMr. Passfield\n\n2\n\n### Hong Kong Conf(2)\n\nSovenier & Clements: \nNear to / Co to agt Afdel \nNo 20 \n62:36 \nR 4 After 6267 \n29 \n214 \n62868 Hong Kong \n29. \n22 JUL 1929\n\nI have the honour to refer to your letter of the 10th of July in which you suggest certain changes in the constitution of the Legislative Council of this Colony.\n\n2. You will have learned from my telegram of the 29th July that I was unable to support the request of the GOC, the Troops, China Command, that he should be relieved of his position as an official Member of the Council.\n\n3. I presume that you are aware that...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-517-12 Precedence of certain members in Legislative Council and occasional appointment of Capt. Supt. of Police... 29-6-1929 - 30-12-1929.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 519430, "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": "CO129-517-12 Precedence of certain members in Legislative Council and occasional appointment of Capt. Supt. of Police... 29-6-1929 - 30-12-1929", "page_number": 15, "title": "CO129-517-12 Precedence of certain members in Legislative Council and occasional appointment of Capt. Supt. of Police... 29-6-1929 - 30-12-1929", "content_text": "15 \n\nnot wish \n\nin \n\nthat \n\naction any \n\nin regard \n\nto \n\nthe \n\nDirector \n\n1 \n\nthese five circumstances \n\nshould be taken \n\nConsequent \n\nthe postor proposals that \n\nPublic Works should be \n\nadded \n\nto \n\nthe \n\nlist of \n\nofficials meant \nby the \n**CRES** live \n\nx \n\nLegislative councils, \n\nand \n\nthat \n\nthe Director of Education should \n\nbe appointed to be \n\na Nominated Official \n\nMember \n\nof \n\nthe \n\nlatter Council \n\nConcur \n\nin \n\nofficer's discharging the functions of Captain Superintendent of \n\nPolice, \n\nyour suggestion that \n\nthe post of \n\nhead \n\nof \n\nthe \n\nPolice, \n\nthe \n\ntitle \n\nof which has \n\nnow been changed \n\nInspector General \n\nof \n\nPolice, should be \n\nadded \n\nto \n\nthe Executive council. \n\nThis \n\nproposal \n\nwould \n\nnot necessarily entail \n\nany alteration \n\nin \n\nthe Royal Instructions \n\nand \n\nthe object desired \n\ncould be effected \n\nby the appointment of the person holding \n\nthe \n\nsubstantive post \n\nto be an Official Member of \n\nthe \n\nCouncil. \n\nIn the \n\nabsence \n\nfrom \n\nthe \n\ncolony of the person", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-517-12 Precedence of certain members in Legislative Council and occasional appointment of Capt. Supt. of Police... 29-6-1929 - 30-12-1929.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 519431, "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": "CO129-517-12 Precedence of certain members in Legislative Council and occasional appointment of Capt. Supt. of Police... 29-6-1929 - 30-12-1929", "page_number": 16, "title": "CO129-517-12 Precedence of certain members in Legislative Council and occasional appointment of Capt. Supt. of Police... 29-6-1929 - 30-12-1929", "content_text": "## DRAFT\n\nMr. Bottomley. \nSir E. Harding. \nSir J. Shuckburgh. \nSir G. Grindle. \nSir C. Davis. \nSir S. Wilson. \nMr. Ormsby-Gore. \nLord Lovat. \nMr. Amery.\n\nholding the substantive post would be at liberty to appoint the person for the time being discharging the functions of the post to be provisionally/temporarily a member of the Executive Council. On learning that you concur in this course steps will be taken to obtain and communicate to you H.M's instructions for the appointment of E.D.C. Wolfe, who holds the appointment in question, as an Official Member of the Council.\n\nAs soon as the instrument under the necessary seal of the colony had been issued appointing him to be a Member of the Council, you would be able to act when he should be on leave of absence at the time.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-517-12 Precedence of certain members in Legislative Council and occasional appointment of Capt. Supt. of Police... 29-6-1929 - 30-12-1929.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 519432, "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": "CO129-517-12 Precedence of certain members in Legislative Council and occasional appointment of Capt. Supt. of Police... 29-6-1929 - 30-12-1929", "page_number": 17, "title": "CO129-517-12 Precedence of certain members in Legislative Council and occasional appointment of Capt. Supt. of Police... 29-6-1929 - 30-12-1929", "content_text": "## \n5. I see no objection to your further recommendation that unofficial members of the Legislative Council who are also members of the Executive Council should be given precedence in time over those unofficial members of that Council who are not members of the Executive Council. Accordingly, arrangements are being made for the submission to H.M. Council of additional instructions to give effect to this recommendation, as per `XCR(85)72`. Rassfield", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-517-12 Precedence of certain members in Legislative Council and occasional appointment of Capt. Supt. of Police... 29-6-1929 - 30-12-1929.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 519433, "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": "CO129-517-12 Precedence of certain members in Legislative Council and occasional appointment of Capt. Supt. of Police... 29-6-1929 - 30-12-1929", "page_number": 18, "title": "CO129-517-12 Precedence of certain members in Legislative Council and occasional appointment of Capt. Supt. of Police... 29-6-1929 - 30-12-1929", "content_text": "## CONFIDENTIAL\n\n**GOVERNMENT HOUSE, HONG KONG**\n10th May 1929.\n\n### Encl.No.1.\n\nSir,\n\nI have the honour to forward herewith a copy of a letter received from His Excellency the General Officer Commanding the Troops, China Command. I recommend that the desire of His Excellency to be relieved from the duties incident to membership of the Executive and Legislative Councils of this Colony be given effect to. The Royal Instructions at present existing, under which he holds his seat go back to the time when the General Officer Commanding acted for the Governor during temporary absences, a system which now no longer obtains.\n\n2. If this be approved, it will be necessary to add another official member to the Legislative Council, and I would recommend that this be done by adding the Director of Public Works to the list of *ex officio* members of that Council. The addition of the Director of Public Works to an *ex officio* seat would cause a vacancy among the official members, and if the above proposal be approved I would ask for authority to appoint the Director of Education to fill it.\n\n**THE RIGHT HONOURABLE LIEUTENANT COLONEL L.C.M.S. AMERY, M.P.**\n&c., &c., &c.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-517-12 Precedence of certain members in Legislative Council and occasional appointment of Capt. Supt. of Police... 29-6-1929 - 30-12-1929.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 519434, "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": "CO129-517-12 Precedence of certain members in Legislative Council and occasional appointment of Capt. Supt. of Police... 29-6-1929 - 30-12-1929", "page_number": 19, "title": "CO129-517-12 Precedence of certain members in Legislative Council and occasional appointment of Capt. Supt. of Police... 29-6-1929 - 30-12-1929", "content_text": "## Enclo. No. 2.\n\n3. Though the consideration which makes it necessary to add an official member to the Legislative Council in place of the General Officer Commanding does not exist in the case of the Executive Council, I would recommend that the Director of Public Works be also made an Ex officio member of the Executive Council, and that I be given authority to appoint from time to time the officer discharging the functions of Captain Superintendent of Police to be a nominated official member of the Executive Council, as I consider that it would be useful and convenient to have his advice on the Council.\n\n4. I would also recommend that unofficial members of the Legislative Council who are also members of the Executive Council be given precedence in the Legislative Council over those unofficial members of the Legislative Council who are not members of the Executive Council. The object of this proposal is to ensure, so far as possible, that the position of senior unofficial member of the Legislative Council shall not in future always be held by persons of any one race, a result which seems probable under present conditions owing to the greater permanence of residence here of the Chinese members.\n\n5. I venture to forward herewith draft additional instructions giving effect to these proposals for your consideration. This draft follows the precedent of the additional instructions of the 15th November, 1920, and does not attempt to embody even the permanent portions of the additional instructions.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-517-12 Precedence of certain members in Legislative Council and occasional appointment of Capt. Supt. of Police... 29-6-1929 - 30-12-1929.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 519435, "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": "CO129-517-12 Precedence of certain members in Legislative Council and occasional appointment of Capt. Supt. of Police... 29-6-1929 - 30-12-1929", "page_number": 20, "title": "CO129-517-12 Precedence of certain members in Legislative Council and occasional appointment of Capt. Supt. of Police... 29-6-1929 - 30-12-1929", "content_text": "2.0\n\ninstructions of the 10th January, 1922. It also follows the existing instructions in occasional variances of language between Article II and Article XIII.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour most obedient, humble servant,\n\n(Sd.) C. Clementi.\n\nGovernor, &c.\n\nPage 20\nPage 21\n\nCOPY.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-517-12 Precedence of certain members in Legislative Council and occasional appointment of Capt. Supt. of Police... 29-6-1929 - 30-12-1929.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 519436, "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": "CO129-517-12 Precedence of certain members in Legislative Council and occasional appointment of Capt. Supt. of Police... 29-6-1929 - 30-12-1929", "page_number": 21, "title": "CO129-517-12 Precedence of certain members in Legislative Council and occasional appointment of Capt. Supt. of Police... 29-6-1929 - 30-12-1929", "content_text": "# Enclosure No. 1.\n\n21\n\n**Headquarters, China Command, Hong Kong.**\n\n19th April, 1929.\n\nYour Excellency,\n\nIn view of the recent change of Command in China I very much regret that I feel that I am no longer in a position to spare the time to sit on the Executive and Legislative Councils in Hong Kong. I would respectfully request Your Excellency to make the necessary application to the proper authorities for me to be relieved of these duties.\n\nAs Commander of the China Command I shall have to be absent from Hong Kong for at least 2 or 3 months every year, but when I am here I shall naturally be only too pleased to advise the Councils on Military questions and I suggest that I should be invited to attend, when my presence would be of value to the Colonial Government.\n\nI have the honour to be,\nYour Excellency's obedient servant,\n**(Signed) J. Sandilands.**\nMajor-General,\nCommanding China Command.\n\nTGSS/-\n\nHis Excellency the Governor of Hong Kong.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-517-12 Precedence of certain members in Legislative Council and occasional appointment of Capt. Supt. of Police... 29-6-1929 - 30-12-1929.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 519437, "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": "CO129-517-12 Precedence of certain members in Legislative Council and occasional appointment of Capt. Supt. of Police... 29-6-1929 - 30-12-1929", "page_number": 22, "title": "CO129-517-12 Precedence of certain members in Legislative Council and occasional appointment of Capt. Supt. of Police... 29-6-1929 - 30-12-1929", "content_text": "# DRAFT\n\n## HONG KONG\n\n### Additional Instructions passed under the Royal Sign Manual and Signet to the Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hong Kong\n\nin regard to the constitution of the Executive Council and of the Legislative Council of that Colony.\n\n2.2.\n\n### Dated\n\n**Additional Instructions to Our Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over our Colony of Hong Kong and its Dependencies, or other Officer for the time being administering the Government of Our said Colony and its Dependencies.**\n\nWhereas by certain Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Our Realm bearing date at Westminster the Fourteenth day of February, 1917, We did make provision for the Government of Our Colony of Hong Kong and its Dependencies (hereinafter called the Colony) and did amongst other things declare that there should be an Executive Council and a Legislative Council in and for the Colony which should consist of such persons as We might direct by Instructions under Our Sign Manual and Signet:\n\nAnd whereas by Our Instructions under Our Sign Manual and Signet bearing date the Fourteenth day of February, 1917, We did constitute the said Executive and Legislative Councils as therein is set forth:\n\n### Preamble\n\n| Clause | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| Recites | Letters Patent of 14th February 1917. |\n| Recites | Instructions of 14th February 1917. |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-517-12 Precedence of certain members in Legislative Council and occasional appointment of Capt. Supt. of Police... 29-6-1929 - 30-12-1929.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 519438, "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": "CO129-517-12 Precedence of certain members in Legislative Council and occasional appointment of Capt. Supt. of Police... 29-6-1929 - 30-12-1929", "page_number": 23, "title": "CO129-517-12 Precedence of certain members in Legislative Council and occasional appointment of Capt. Supt. of Police... 29-6-1929 - 30-12-1929", "content_text": "# 23\n\nAnd whereas by Our Additional Instructions under Our Sign Manual and Signet bearing date the tenth day of January, 1922, and the fifteenth day of November, 1928, respectively, We did make certain provisions respecting the said Executive and Legislative Councils:\n\nAnd whereas We are minded to make further provisions respecting the said Executive and Legislative Councils:\n\nNow therefore We do, as from the date of the receipt in the Colony of these Our Additional Instructions under Our Sign Manual and Signet, hereby revoke the Second, Fifth, Thirteenth, and Twentieth Clauses of Our said Instructions of the Fourteenth day of February, 1917, as amended by Our Additional Instructions of the fifteenth day of November, 1928, without prejudice to anything lawfully done thereunder, and instead thereof We do direct and enjoin and declare Our will and pleasure that from the date of such receipt the aforesaid Instructions shall henceforth be construed and take effect as if the following clauses had been inserted therein in place of the Second, Fifth, Thirteenth, and Twentieth Clauses thereof:\n\n## II.\n\nThe Executive Council of the Colony shall consist of the Lieutenant-Governor of the Colony (if any), the persons for the time being lawfully discharging the functions of Colonial\n\n**Revokes Clauses II, XIII, XIV and XV of Instructions.**\n\n## Constitution of Executive Council.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-517-12 Precedence of certain members in Legislative Council and occasional appointment of Capt. Supt. of Police... 29-6-1929 - 30-12-1929.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 519439, "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": "CO129-517-12 Precedence of certain members in Legislative Council and occasional appointment of Capt. Supt. of Police... 29-6-1929 - 30-12-1929", "page_number": 24, "title": "CO129-517-12 Precedence of certain members in Legislative Council and occasional appointment of Capt. Supt. of Police... 29-6-1929 - 30-12-1929", "content_text": "## TAX\n\n24\n\nThe Secretary, of Attorney General, of Secretary for Chinese Affairs, of Treasurer of the Colony, and of Director of Public Works, who are hereinafter referred to as **ex officio** Members, and of such other persons as at the date of the coming into operation of Our said recited Letters Patent are Members of the said Council, or as We may from time to time appoint by any Instructions or Warrant under Our Sign Manual and Signet or as the Governor in pursuance of Instructions from Us through one of Our Principal Secretaries of State may from time to time appoint under the Public Seal of the Colony.\n\nV. The Official Members of the Executive Council shall take precedence of the Unofficial Members, and among themselves shall have seniority and precedence as We may specially assign, and, in default thereof, first, the **ex officio** Members in the order in which their offices are above mentioned, and then other Official Members and all Unofficial Members according to the priority of their respective appointments, or if appointed by or in pursuance of the same Instrument, according to the order in which they are named therein.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-517-12 Precedence of certain members in Legislative Council and occasional appointment of Capt. Supt. of Police... 29-6-1929 - 30-12-1929.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 519440, "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": "CO129-517-12 Precedence of certain members in Legislative Council and occasional appointment of Capt. Supt. of Police... 29-6-1929 - 30-12-1929", "page_number": 25, "title": "CO129-517-12 Precedence of certain members in Legislative Council and occasional appointment of Capt. Supt. of Police... 29-6-1929 - 30-12-1929", "content_text": "# Constitution of Legislative Council\n\n## Official Members\n## Unofficial Members\n\nXIII. The Legislative Council of the Colony shall consist of the Governor, the Lieutenant Governor (if any), the persons for the time being lawfully discharging the functions of Colonial Secretary, Attorney-General, Secretary for Chinese Affairs, Treasurer of the Colony, and Director of Public Works, and such other persons holding office in the Colony, and not exceeding four in number at any one time, as at the date of the coming into operation of Our said recited Letters Patent are Official Members of the said Council, or as We may from time to time appoint by any Instructions or Warrants under Our Sign Manual and Signet, or as the Governor, in pursuance of Instructions from Us through one of Our Principal Secretaries of State, may from time to time appoint by an Instrument under the Public Seal of the Colony, and all such persons shall be styled **Official Members** of the Legislative Council; and further of such persons, not exceeding eight in number at any one time, as at the date of the coming into operation of Our said recited Letters Patent are Unofficial Members of the said Council, or as the Governor, in pursuance of Instructions from Us through one of Our Principal Secretaries of State, may from time to time appoint by an Instrument under the Public Seal of the Colony, and all such persons shall be styled **Unofficial Members** of the Legislative Council.\n\nIf any Official Member of the Legislative Council cease to hold office in the Colony his seat in the Council shall thereupon become vacant.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-517-12 Precedence of certain members in Legislative Council and occasional appointment of Capt. Supt. of Police... 29-6-1929 - 30-12-1929.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 519441, "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": "CO129-517-12 Precedence of certain members in Legislative Council and occasional appointment of Capt. Supt. of Police... 29-6-1929 - 30-12-1929", "page_number": 26, "title": "CO129-517-12 Precedence of certain members in Legislative Council and occasional appointment of Capt. Supt. of Police... 29-6-1929 - 30-12-1929", "content_text": "## Precedence of Members\n\nXX. The Official Members of the Legislative Council shall take precedence of the Unofficial Members; and among themselves shall take precedence as We may specially assign, and, in default thereof, first the ex officio Members, in the order in which their offices are mentioned, then other Official Members and then all Unofficial Members in the order provided by the following rules :-\n\n1. All Members of the Legislative Council who are also Members of the Executive Council shall take precedence before all Members of the Legislative Council who are not also Members of the Executive Council.\n\n2. All Members of the Legislative Council who are also Members of the Executive Council shall as between themselves take precedence according to their mutual precedence as Members of the Executive Council.\n\n3. All Members of the Legislative Council who are not also Members of the Executive Council shall as between themselves take precedence according to the priority of their respective appointments, or if appointed by or in pursuance of the same Instrument according to the order in which they are named therein: Provided that any such Unofficial Member of the Legislative Council who is re-appointed immediately on the termination of his term of office shall as between himself and other Unofficial Members take precedence according to his original appointment.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-517-12 Precedence of certain members in Legislative Council and occasional appointment of Capt. Supt. of Police... 29-6-1929 - 30-12-1929.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 519442, "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": "CO129-517-12 Precedence of certain members in Legislative Council and occasional appointment of Capt. Supt. of Police... 29-6-1929 - 30-12-1929", "page_number": 27, "title": "CO129-517-12 Precedence of certain members in Legislative Council and occasional appointment of Capt. Supt. of Police... 29-6-1929 - 30-12-1929", "content_text": "## \nOf \n\n27 \n\nMembers of the Legislative Council who \n\nare not also Members of the Executive \n\nCouncil take precedence according to the \n\ndate from which **he** has been continuously \n\na member of the Legislative Council. \n\nGiven at Our Court at St. James's this \n19th day \nof \n, in the \nyear of Our Reign. \n\nshould be rewritten as\n\nOf \n27 \nMembers of the Legislative Council who \nare not also Members of the Executive \nCouncil take precedence according to the \ndate from which he has been continuously \na member of the Legislative Council.\n\nGiven at Our Court at St. James's this 19th day of ..., in the ... year of Our Reign.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-517-12 Precedence of certain members in Legislative Council and occasional appointment of Capt. Supt. of Police... 29-6-1929 - 30-12-1929.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 519443, "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": "CO129-517-12 Precedence of certain members in Legislative Council and occasional appointment of Capt. Supt. of Police... 29-6-1929 - 30-12-1929", "page_number": 28, "title": "CO129-517-12 Precedence of certain members in Legislative Council and occasional appointment of Capt. Supt. of Police... 29-6-1929 - 30-12-1929", "content_text": "## \n\n28 END DOSNING STREET.\n\n29 June, 1929.\n\nI have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your **Confidential** despatch of the 10th of May, 1929, regarding the desire of the General Officer Commanding the Troops, China Command, to be relieved of the duties incident to membership of the Executive and Legislative Councils of Hong Kong, and to inform you that the Army Council have signified their inability to support the request of the General Officer Commanding, China Command, who has been informed accordingly. I assume that in these circumstances you will not wish to be pressed with the proposal.\n\nA further despatch will be sent to you regarding the remaining points which were raised in your **Confidential** despatch of the 10th of May, and the questions in your **Confidential (2)** despatch of the same date.\n\nI have the honour to be,\nSir,\nYour most obedient,\nhumble servant,\n`QOV LABOR`\nSIR C. CLASTI, K.V.M.G.\n\n40... \nuc...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-517-12 Precedence of certain members in Legislative Council and occasional appointment of Capt. Supt. of Police... 29-6-1929 - 30-12-1929.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 532148, "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": "CO129-536-9 Capt. T. Pritchard- case of yacht Tavy II v. SS. Sui Tai (Macao Ferry) 18-11-1931 - 13-8-1932", "page_number": 1, "title": "CO129-536-9 Capt. T. Pritchard- case of yacht Tavy II v. SS. Sui Tai (Macao Ferry) 18-11-1931 - 13-8-1932", "content_text": "82874\n\nCLOSED\n\nUNTIL\n\nB\n\n100\n\n63821/536/7\n\nCaptain J. Pritchard\n\n5.5. Sur Jai\n\n82874\n\n+\n\nPrevious Conviction in\n\nsting Kong.\n\nEnter Dept:\n\n50 A\n\n83\n\nSubsequent\n\n183\n\nOn Dildo 28/11\n\nMr Calder\n\n83 Baden Dept. 573\n\nn= Roberts Wray.\n\nMr Calder\n\nMr Cowell\n\n11.3.\n\n11.3\n\n14.\n\nSu J. Shuckbust, 14/3/32\n\nEachern wh R50\n\nR83.\n\nR83\n\n1573\n\n12/4\n\nEastern Dept. 15/4.\n\niz\n\nHr lowell\n\n30\n\nMr Bushe\n\n18\n\nper Duncan of\n\nper Cowell\n\nI'm Borbente Wray, 1/12/51\n\nFun Hunters 18/4/32\n\nMr. Bushe\n\nMr Cowell\n\n1/12\n\nIn Jhula 1/12/31 8$.\n\nEastern dept\n\n1914\n\nR50\n\n20\n\n615-\n\n775\n\n283 F\n\nBY\n\n2/5\n\nSri S. Whim 1/12/3 for Lawren\n\ndi Rem 2.13.36.\n\nbee of State 3/12\n\nF?\n\nRm\n\n109/12\n\n275\n\n83.12/2\n\n(74350) Wt. 2424-12 3m 5/31 P. St. G. 101/ 33A.\n\nR83 Mor Jameson (22\n\nMcCalder per Cowell\n\n2.8\n\n4\n\n5..8", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-536-9 Capt. T. Pritchard- case of yacht Tavy II v. SS. Sui Tai (Macao Ferry) 18-11-1931 - 13-8-1932.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 532149, "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": "CO129-536-9 Capt. T. Pritchard- case of yacht Tavy II v. SS. Sui Tai (Macao Ferry) 18-11-1931 - 13-8-1932", "page_number": 2, "title": "CO129-536-9 Capt. T. Pritchard- case of yacht Tavy II v. SS. Sui Tai (Macao Ferry) 18-11-1931 - 13-8-1932", "content_text": "Offerem Ledlin\n\ncahy D.\n\na\n\n18/1\n\nstatement of 4 pert.\n\nMantiral opinion, and réquesti\n\nIn\n\nenguny into the\n\nCase ann\n\nસ 2 Arm Company of Mark's Manner 93/4\n\nThe Court hope that it will be possible to have the case quashed.\n\nFor T 3 Burton Chadwich States that the sentence Aphenso to be preposterous if the Care be Can 23/11 on Capt. Pritchard and aobr re-examined\n\nTo len Berlin Clasond. Jack 360-\n\nSend copies of asking for obsons 192 to foo 26/11 of Hong Kong sops should Auch suggest that sops write to Sir Burton Chadwick saying The is communicating with the low or will will send a furteer refly later\n\nАдибушеног 28-11.31 The enggestion is that prejudice of Royal\n\n...\n\n \nhas been re-formatted to meet the requirements, however, the original text appears to be highly corrupted and may require further processing to be fully readable. \n\nHere is the revised version with some minor adjustments to follow the rules more closely:\n\nOfferem Ledlin\n\ncahy D.\n\na\n\n18/1\n\nstatement of 4 pert.\n\nMantiral opinion, and requesti\n\nIn enquiry into the\n\nCase ann\n\n2 Arm Company of Mark's Manner 93/4\n\nThe Court hope that it will be possible to have the case quashed.\n\nFor T3 Burton Chadwick States that the sentence Aphenso to be preposterous if the Care be Can 23/11 on Capt. Pritchard and aobr re-examined\n\nTo len Berlin Clasond. Jack 360-\n\nSend copies of asking for obsons 192 to foo 26/11 of Hong Kong sops should Auch suggest that sops write to Sir Burton Chadwick saying The is communicating with the low or will will send a further reply later\n\n28-11.31 The suggestion is that prejudice of Royal\n\nChanges made include:\n- Correcting \"réquesti\" to \"requesti\"\n- Correcting \"enguny\" to \"enquiry\"\n- Correcting \"furteer refly\" to \"further reply\"\n- Correcting \"enggestion\" to \"suggestion\"\n- Removing \"Адибушеног\" as it appears to be nonsensical in the context\n- Standardizing some of the formatting and spacing for better readability. \n\nHowever, the original text still contains many unclear or nonsensical phrases, suggesting that the OCR output may be of poor quality or that the original document is difficult to read. Further manual review or alternative OCR processing may be necessary to improve the accuracy of the text.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-536-9 Capt. T. Pritchard- case of yacht Tavy II v. SS. Sui Tai (Macao Ferry) 18-11-1931 - 13-8-1932.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 532150, "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": "CO129-536-9 Capt. T. Pritchard- case of yacht Tavy II v. SS. Sui Tai (Macao Ferry) 18-11-1931 - 13-8-1932", "page_number": 3, "title": "CO129-536-9 Capt. T. Pritchard- case of yacht Tavy II v. SS. Sui Tai (Macao Ferry) 18-11-1931 - 13-8-1932", "content_text": "Navy officers against the Mercantil thematit Marine officers influenced the judgment. Prima facie a fine of $25 is appropriate for a small offence, but two weeks hard Labour in default seems out of all proportion. Still this is in the nature of a protest against a magistrate's judgment, & presumably the proper & indeed only remedy is to get that judgment upset by an appeal to a higher court. Something on that line might be put in the reply to his Burton Chadwick.\n\nThe case will be asked for a report but that the normal remedy for a person dissatisfied with a magistrate's decision is to appeal; let the for. have a view of the correct.\n\nItlalder\n\nApr 28.11.37", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-536-9 Capt. T. Pritchard- case of yacht Tavy II v. SS. Sui Tai (Macao Ferry) 18-11-1931 - 13-8-1932.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 532151, "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": "CO129-536-9 Capt. T. Pritchard- case of yacht Tavy II v. SS. Sui Tai (Macao Ferry) 18-11-1931 - 13-8-1932", "page_number": 4, "title": "CO129-536-9 Capt. T. Pritchard- case of yacht Tavy II v. SS. Sui Tai (Macao Ferry) 18-11-1931 - 13-8-1932", "content_text": "The gist of the line is an appeal that is the obvious issue.\n\nOffice is not involved.\n\n4 Jamedy.\n\nWe ask for a report & a copy of the proceedings.\n\nPeachof & Rotoran D. Gurton will see if we can come to any conclusion as to whether an appeal lies.\n\nAB 28/μ\n\nIf the conviction was under the Merchant Shipping Act, section 419(2) (which I assume applies to the Colonies), the proceedings would have been under section 41(2)(a) of Ordinance No.10 of 1899, and under section 41(2)(c) an appeal would lie under the provisions of sections 98 and 103 of Ordinance No.3 of 1890, as amended by section 17 of Ordinance No.23 of 1927, on any question of law, jurisdiction, or fact, but not apparently against sentence. The appeal, however, must be lodged within seven days: the time for appealing therefore expired long ago.\n\nThe International Collision Regulations, mentioned in Ordinance No.10 of 1899, Table \"M\", paragraph 6, are the same regulations as are mentioned in section 419(2) of the Merchant Shipping Act (see definition in section 2 of the Ordinance); but if the conviction was in respect of an offence against paragraph 6 of Table \"M\", and not under the Merchant Shipping Act, different considerations arise. It seems that, under section 40(3) of the Interpretation Ordinance (No.31 of 1911), references in Ordinance No.10 of 1899 to \"this Ordinance\" should be construed as...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-536-9 Capt. T. Pritchard- case of yacht Tavy II v. SS. Sui Tai (Macao Ferry) 18-11-1931 - 13-8-1932.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 532152, "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": "CO129-536-9 Capt. T. Pritchard- case of yacht Tavy II v. SS. Sui Tai (Macao Ferry) 18-11-1931 - 13-8-1932", "page_number": 5, "title": "CO129-536-9 Capt. T. Pritchard- case of yacht Tavy II v. SS. Sui Tai (Macao Ferry) 18-11-1931 - 13-8-1932", "content_text": "as including Regulations under it. If that is so, then under section 41(3) and (4), a fine could be inflicted by a magistrate for breach of Regulations in Table \"M\", with the alternative of imprisonment in default of payment (section 57 of Ordinance No.3 of 1890.) The provisions regarding appeals in section 41(2)(c) would then appear to apply, as in the case of a conviction for an offence under the Merchant Shipping Act.\n\nIncidentally, although I think it must be assumed that Table \"M\" has legal force, I am not sure how that comes about. Section 25(4) enables the Governor in Council to make regulations for purposes which are covered by the Table, but I see nothing in the Ordinance itself to give the Table any force. As the Table was enacted with the Ordinance, presumably it was intended that it should have effect except so far as it was amended by Regulations. Perhaps some such provision has been removed by a Law Revision Ordinance.\n\nIt is to be observed that section 41(1) repeals the Merchant Shipping Act in relation to ships registered in Hong Kong so far as it is inconsistent with the Ordinance, but, as redundancy, and not inconsistency, is apparent on a comparison of paragraph 6 of Table \"M\" with section 419 of the Act of 1894, this repeal does not seem to affect the question.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-536-9 Capt. T. Pritchard- case of yacht Tavy II v. SS. Sui Tai (Macao Ferry) 18-11-1931 - 13-8-1932.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 532153, "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": "CO129-536-9 Capt. T. Pritchard- case of yacht Tavy II v. SS. Sui Tai (Macao Ferry) 18-11-1931 - 13-8-1932", "page_number": 6, "title": "CO129-536-9 Capt. T. Pritchard- case of yacht Tavy II v. SS. Sui Tai (Macao Ferry) 18-11-1931 - 13-8-1932", "content_text": "I should feel inclined to reply that - \n\nso far as we can make out, it was open to \n\nCaptain Pritchard to appeal from the decision if \n\nhe considered it an incorrect one, and if so, that \n\nwould seem to have been his proper course: we are, \n\nhowever, making enquiries of the Governor in regard \n\nto the whole matter then I would ask the Governor \n\nfor a report and a copy of the proceedings, and wheth-\n\ner he was advised that it was open to Captain \n\nPritchard to appeal, and if so, whether anything \n\nprevented him from appealing such, for example, as \n\nthe necessity of sailing on his ship almost \n\nimmediately?\n\n4/3 1.12.31.\n\n+ Blowell.\n\nGRF 1/12/31\n\nSec of State\n\n(through Sec R. Marilla)\n\nI agree with the procedure proposed\n\nby Mo Beckett\n\nI agree Nett\n\n2.12.31\n\nBtt 6\n\n1.12.31\n\n2/12-", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-536-9 Capt. T. Pritchard- case of yacht Tavy II v. SS. Sui Tai (Macao Ferry) 18-11-1931 - 13-8-1932.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 532154, "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": "CO129-536-9 Capt. T. Pritchard- case of yacht Tavy II v. SS. Sui Tai (Macao Ferry) 18-11-1931 - 13-8-1932", "page_number": 7, "title": "CO129-536-9 Capt. T. Pritchard- case of yacht Tavy II v. SS. Sui Tai (Macao Ferry) 18-11-1931 - 13-8-1932", "content_text": "To Site beadworks - 5/% - 7/12/31\n\nIto. Coy. of Master Mariners (2 guns?) Officers (Merchant Navy) Dept. (1 copy?) for 8 to for. 334 (w/e)\n\nA 9 DEC 1931 (w/c 1, 2, 687) bons Officers and\n\nDESTROYED UNDER STATUTE (7) with thanks.\n\nPump bay, spay 12.12.31 ✓ 7/12 10.12.31.\n\n10 For 30 Y 761, the record sky 5 proceedings against aft Pritchard, with obsons.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-536-9 Capt. T. Pritchard- case of yacht Tavy II v. SS. Sui Tai (Macao Ferry) 18-11-1931 - 13-8-1932.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 532155, "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": "CO129-536-9 Capt. T. Pritchard- case of yacht Tavy II v. SS. Sui Tai (Macao Ferry) 18-11-1931 - 13-8-1932", "page_number": 8, "title": "CO129-536-9 Capt. T. Pritchard- case of yacht Tavy II v. SS. Sui Tai (Macao Ferry) 18-11-1931 - 13-8-1932", "content_text": "Pritchard could \n\nIt is now established from the second form of the despatch that Captain Pritchard has appealed to the magistrate for \n\nThis decision or could have flaws \n\na review \n\nappealed to \n\ndifferent \n\nthe full court and that there is no \n\nreason \n\nSo \n\nwhy \n\nhe should not have done \n\nThe case appears to have turned on a \n\nquestion of fact — the actual distance of the Tavey II from \n\nthe Sui Tai at the moment \n\nwhen her helm was \n\nput \n\nover. \n\nIn finding \n\nCaptain Pritchard guilty the magistrate \n\nmust have considered that in \n\nahead of the \n\nthe Tavey II the Sui Tai had \n\nnot left adequate safety space. \n\nIn my \n\nopinion the \n\nview of \n\nthe Governor that his intervention \n\nwould not be justified is correct as last \n\nPritchard's proper remedy would be to appeal. \n\nBut in the first \n\ninstance \n\nAsk BofT (Mercantile Marine Dept) \n\n(8) with \n\nfor observations sending copies of (8) \n\nall enclosures & \n\ncopies of all \n\nwith enclosure. Also \n\nduplicate of (10) \n\nfor perusal or \n\nreturn copies of \n\ncopies of Ome CS No 3 of 1890 of 1928 \n\nand No 16 \n\n5.3.72 \n\n9 \n\nwith all enclosures \n\nbut \n\nit might be \n\nhelpful if \n\nwe see \n\n41987. \n\nGet the 3/Tools used. \n\nincluding a copy of Oudge No 10 of 1899 \n\n44023 \n\n11.3.32 PTO \n\nPage 9 \n\nPage 9 \n\nA. I am a little doubtful about asking for observations from the Mercantile Marine Dept., B.JT.. It is rather like asking them to review the Marine Magistrate's decision, and as Capt. Pritchard did not exercise his right of appeal, there is perhaps not much point in that. \n\nJ. A. Calder \n\n11.3.32 \n\nI would give the substance of \n\nthe despatch and the Declaration adding that \n\nthe Governor's opinion is \n\nnot to differ from \n\nCorresp. B. \n\nA Blowell \n\n14/3/32 \n\nI would wish to telegraph in the first \n\ninstance saying \n\nthat we concur \n\nwith the people. If they \n\nwish to write further or at \n\nlength \n\n14/3/32 \n\nTo B. J. (Mendes, wide \n\naps.) - \n\nConcur \n\n30 MAR 1932 \n\nITHO \n\nPage 9 \n\nPage 9 \n\nPage 12 \n\nFr.. 20/4 \n\nPage 10 \n\nCorrespondence \n\nwith the \n\n8/4 \n\n10 \n\nand \n\nChina Coast Officers' Guild, \n\nis a reply to (1) + (2) \n\nsuggests reply to \n\n13 \n\nW Carter (B/T) S.O. \n\nJudging further observation on the \n\nCase \n\nX \n\nOfficer Fed! \n\nEnquire whether any information \n\nhas been \n\nreceived \n\n1214 \n\nfrom a Shipping Company \n\n? Nous reply to Officers Fedly Registrar on lines suggested \n\n129 13 \n\ncommunicating to them Substance \n\nof 10 and saying $575 seems \n\nto be \n\nthe reason \n\nCopies to B/T for information. \n\nCopies to Officers Fed for information \n\n/copies of 11912 for information \n\ndiffer from Reacts Jencion \n\ncopy of 13 to 800 copy of form for \n\nJamers \n\n15.4.32 \n\nFreq: give the substance of \n\nparas 2 \n\nand 4 of no. 10 + say that the S. of S. \n\ndoes not see his \n\nway \n\nto take any further \n\naction in the matter. \n\n18/4 \n\nto \n\nA \n\nmight send \n\nA \n\ncopy of \n\n(13)7 \n\nSo. \n\n#Rlowell \n\nMr Southom \n\nLuft. bo \n\nPage 10 \n\nPage 11", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-536-9 Capt. T. Pritchard- case of yacht Tavy II v. SS. Sui Tai (Macao Ferry) 18-11-1931 - 13-8-1932.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 532156, "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": "CO129-536-9 Capt. T. Pritchard- case of yacht Tavy II v. SS. Sui Tai (Macao Ferry) 18-11-1931 - 13-8-1932", "page_number": 11, "title": "CO129-536-9 Capt. T. Pritchard- case of yacht Tavy II v. SS. Sui Tai (Macao Ferry) 18-11-1931 - 13-8-1932", "content_text": "11\n\noff to conson (which Mr. Buck had better see) on the lines proposed urs.\n\n18/4/32 ators .4 15 16 7\n\nTo officers Hem. BIT. education Rid.\n\n30 APR 1932 bo. of master mariners - 15-16 - B. 126 18. 2015, 124. (We 1/12.12.16) Ai\n\n19 a • Southam (ode 13)\n\nVESTROYED UNDER STATUTI (Col. Scan Office 'H, K. L\n\nOfferem ded!! DESTROYED UNDER STATUTE teks (16) with thanks Master Marmen VIEN VANED STATUTE tak (16) with Pants ding\n\n20 = 21. Pars dry 4.S\".", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-536-9 Capt. T. Pritchard- case of yacht Tavy II v. SS. Sui Tai (Macao Ferry) 18-11-1931 - 13-8-1932.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 532157, "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": "CO129-536-9 Capt. T. Pritchard- case of yacht Tavy II v. SS. Sui Tai (Macao Ferry) 18-11-1931 - 13-8-1932", "page_number": 12, "title": "CO129-536-9 Capt. T. Pritchard- case of yacht Tavy II v. SS. Sui Tai (Macao Ferry) 18-11-1931 - 13-8-1932", "content_text": "དང༤\n\nི་\n\n22\n\n004. 2\n\narts (19) with them\n\n?Putters\n\nMurgineson\n\n2.8.32\n\n1/7/\n\nI think the substance should be forced on to Mr. Carter.\n\nWalder\n\n2.8.32\n\n나\n\n13/8/32", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-536-9 Capt. T. Pritchard- case of yacht Tavy II v. SS. Sui Tai (Macao Ferry) 18-11-1931 - 13-8-1932.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 532158, "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": "CO129-536-9 Capt. T. Pritchard- case of yacht Tavy II v. SS. Sui Tai (Macao Ferry) 18-11-1931 - 13-8-1932", "page_number": 13, "title": "CO129-536-9 Capt. T. Pritchard- case of yacht Tavy II v. SS. Sui Tai (Macao Ferry) 18-11-1931 - 13-8-1932", "content_text": "9.7.\n\nth.\n\nC. O.\n\nMr. Delahunt.\n\nMr.\n\nBickle\n\nMr.\n\nMr. Parkinson.\n\nMr. 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\nW. CARTER, ESQ.,\n\nBoard of Trade.\n\n8.8.32.\n\n9 - AUG\n\n9th\n\nAx\n\n82874/31.\n\nHong Kong.\n\nFor Mr. Cowell's signature.\n\nDowning Street,\n\n11 August, 1932.\n\n7131\n\nDear J. Carter.\n\nYou may remember that you wrote to me on the 8th of April last (reference 6663/32) about the proceedings against Captain T. Pritchard of the s.s. \"Sui Tai\" at the Marine Magistrate's Court, Hong Kong.\n\nI have now received a letter from Mr. Southorn, the Colonial Secretary, Hong Kong, at present acting Governor, in which he states that the case was brought by the Deputy Harbour Master in his private capacity, and that the Harbour Master, who had no previous knowledge", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-536-9 Capt. T. Pritchard- case of yacht Tavy II v. SS. Sui Tai (Macao Ferry) 18-11-1931 - 13-8-1932.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 532159, "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": "CO129-536-9 Capt. T. Pritchard- case of yacht Tavy II v. SS. Sui Tai (Macao Ferry) 18-11-1931 - 13-8-1932", "page_number": 14, "title": "CO129-536-9 Capt. T. Pritchard- case of yacht Tavy II v. SS. Sui Tai (Macao Ferry) 18-11-1931 - 13-8-1932", "content_text": "14\n\nknowledge of it, heard the case\n\nin his judicial capacity as\n\nMarine Magistrate.\n\nThe Harbour\n\nMaster felt that he had no option\n\nbut to deal with the matter entirely\n\nfrom a judicial point of view, and\n\nfrom this point of view Mr. Southorn\n\nconsiders that there seems to be\n\nlittle doubt but that his decision\n\nwas correct.\n\nMr. Southron thinks that it\n\nwould have been a great deal better\n\nhad the case never been brought, but\n\nhe feels that, having been brought, the law should\n\ntake its course; and that it would be\n\ndangerous for the Executive to interfere\n\nwith the Judiciary in a case in which\n\nthere seems to be no real doubt as to\n\nthe correctness of the verdict.\n\nYour\n\n7\n\nH.R. Comell", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-536-9 Capt. T. Pritchard- case of yacht Tavy II v. SS. Sui Tai (Macao Ferry) 18-11-1931 - 13-8-1932.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 532160, "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": "CO129-536-9 Capt. T. Pritchard- case of yacht Tavy II v. SS. Sui Tai (Macao Ferry) 18-11-1931 - 13-8-1932", "page_number": 15, "title": "CO129-536-9 Capt. T. Pritchard- case of yacht Tavy II v. SS. Sui Tai (Macao Ferry) 18-11-1931 - 13-8-1932", "content_text": "DIEU\n\nET MON\n\nDROIT\n\n2215\n\nRECEIVED\n\n4. 2 AUG 1932\n\nCOL.OFFICE\n\nGovernment House, Hong Kong.\n\n1st July, 1932.\n\nMy dear Cowell,\n\n19\n\nI have for acknowledgment your letter 82874/31, of the 4th May, regarding the case of Captain Pritchard of the s.s. \"Sui Tai\".\n\nI have spoken to the Harbour Master about this case, about which I have never felt very happy. The case was brought by the Deputy Harbour Master in his private capacity, and the Harbour Master, who had no previous knowledge of it, heard it in his judicial capacity as Marine Magistrate.\n\nHe felt that he had no option but to deal with the matter entirely from a judicial point of view, and from that point of view there seems little doubt but that his decision was correct.\n\nI think it is unfortunate that our officials should be mixed up in a case like this, which leads to a considerable amount of ill-feeling.\n\nH. R. Cowell, Esq. C.M.G.,\n\nColonial Office,\n\nDowning Street.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-536-9 Capt. T. Pritchard- case of yacht Tavy II v. SS. Sui Tai (Macao Ferry) 18-11-1931 - 13-8-1932.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 532161, "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": "CO129-536-9 Capt. T. Pritchard- case of yacht Tavy II v. SS. Sui Tai (Macao Ferry) 18-11-1931 - 13-8-1932", "page_number": 16, "title": "CO129-536-9 Capt. T. Pritchard- case of yacht Tavy II v. SS. Sui Tai (Macao Ferry) 18-11-1931 - 13-8-1932", "content_text": "DIEU \n\nET MON \n\n2. \n\nDROIT \n\nGovernment House, 3rd January.\n\n \nbut it is dangerous for the executive to interfere \n\nwith the judiciary in a case in which there seems to \n\nbe no real doubt as to the correctness of the verdict. \n\nI think it would have been a great deal better had \n\nthe case never been brought. The case having been \n\nbrought, I feel that the law should take its course, \n\nand with that view I gather that the Board of Trade \n\nagrees.\n\n \nWith kind regards,\n\n \nYours sincerely,\n\n \nW.D. Southouse\n\n16", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-536-9 Capt. T. Pritchard- case of yacht Tavy II v. SS. Sui Tai (Macao Ferry) 18-11-1931 - 13-8-1932.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 532162, "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": "CO129-536-9 Capt. T. Pritchard- case of yacht Tavy II v. SS. Sui Tai (Macao Ferry) 18-11-1931 - 13-8-1932", "page_number": 17, "title": "CO129-536-9 Capt. T. Pritchard- case of yacht Tavy II v. SS. Sui Tai (Macao Ferry) 18-11-1931 - 13-8-1932", "content_text": "१.६.\n\nヤ\n\nC. O.\n\nOffers Bd aus (20)\n\nMr. Delahunt. 23.4.32.\n\nIr.\n\n2314 Bickle Mr. Bucke 257 + \"In Cavell 27\n\nMr. Parkinson.\n\nMr. Tomlinson.\n\nSir C. Bottomley.\n\nSir J. Shyekburgh.\n\nX Sir Permt. U.S. of S.\n\n27/4/32 Parly. U.S. of S.\n\nSecretary of State.\n\nDRAFT.\n\nConson\n\n1. THE OFFICERS (MERCHANT NAVY) FEDERATION LIMITED.\n\n2. THE CLERK TO THE HONOURABLE COMPANY OF MASTER NAKINERS.\n\nCopy Ed. of Trade L.F.\n\nCopy with copy (11) and (12) to Gov. L.F.\n\nCopy (13) to Mr. Southorn in companion draft, 2 drafts.\n\n$2874/31 Hong Kong.\n\n15-16, 17\n\n30 Lowning Street,\n\nApril, 1932.\n\n(1) Gentlemen, Sir,\n\nWith reference to your letter T/NR of the 12th of April I am etc. to inform you that a report has now been received from the Governor of Hong Kong regarding the sentence passed upon Commander T. Pritchard, R.F.R., by the Marine Magistrate at Hong Kong in the case of the Yacht \"Tavey II versus the s.s. \"Sui Tai\".\n\n2. The Governor states that it would have been open to Commander Pritchard either to appeal to the Full Court of the Colon under Section 103 of the Magistrates", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-536-9 Capt. T. Pritchard- case of yacht Tavy II v. SS. Sui Tai (Macao Ferry) 18-11-1931 - 13-8-1932.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 532163, "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": "CO129-536-9 Capt. T. Pritchard- case of yacht Tavy II v. SS. Sui Tai (Macao Ferry) 18-11-1931 - 13-8-1932", "page_number": 18, "title": "CO129-536-9 Capt. T. Pritchard- case of yacht Tavy II v. SS. Sui Tai (Macao Ferry) 18-11-1931 - 13-8-1932", "content_text": "Magistrates Ordinance 1890, or to apply for a review of the decision under Section 96 of the same Ordinance as enacted by Ordinance No.16 of 1928; that since the \"Sui Tai\" is a local steamer plying daily between Hong Kong and Macao there appears to be no reason why Captain Pritchard could not have taken either of these courses had he wished to do so, and that in the circumstances he is of the opinion that intervention on his part is not justifiable.\n\n3. In view of this report, the Secretary of State regrets that he cannot see his way to take any further action in the matter.\n\nI am etc.,\n\n(Signed) J. A. CALDER", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-536-9 Capt. T. Pritchard- case of yacht Tavy II v. SS. Sui Tai (Macao Ferry) 18-11-1931 - 13-8-1932.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 532164, "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": "CO129-536-9 Capt. T. Pritchard- case of yacht Tavy II v. SS. Sui Tai (Macao Ferry) 18-11-1931 - 13-8-1932", "page_number": 19, "title": "CO129-536-9 Capt. T. Pritchard- case of yacht Tavy II v. SS. Sui Tai (Macao Ferry) 18-11-1931 - 13-8-1932", "content_text": "Telegrams: SHIPMINDER, PARL, LONDON. Telephone: VICTORIA 3840.\n\nM.6663/32.\n\nCOL\n\n9AP\n\nMERCANTILE MARINE DEPARTMENT,\n\nBOARD OF TRADE,\n\nGREAT GEORGE STREET,\n\nWESTMINSTER, S.W.1.\n\n13 19\n\n8th April, 1932.\n\nDear Mr. Cowell,\n\n(12)\n\nI am sending an official reply to your official letter No.82874/31 of the 30th March about the prosecution of Captain T. Pritchard at Hong Kong, but there are one or two points about the case on which I think I should write to you semi-officially. You will see that the China Coast Officers' Guild wrote to the President of the Board of Trade on the subject last year, and when their letter came in, the case was very fully discussed here. There was a good deal of support for the view that the case was an unfortunate one and that the representations of the Officers' Guild were not unwarranted. It is certainly true to say that had the incident in question occurred in this country and the facts as stated in the documents enclosed with your letter been brought to the Board's notice, they would almost certainly have taken the view that the case could be adequately dealt with by means of a caution administered to Captain Pritchard by one of the Board's officers; and there would not have been any\n\nH.R.Cowell, Esq.,C.M.G.\n\nColonial Office,\n\nS.W.1.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-536-9 Capt. T. Pritchard- case of yacht Tavy II v. SS. Sui Tai (Macao Ferry) 18-11-1931 - 13-8-1932.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 532165, "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": "CO129-536-9 Capt. T. Pritchard- case of yacht Tavy II v. SS. Sui Tai (Macao Ferry) 18-11-1931 - 13-8-1932", "page_number": 20, "title": "CO129-536-9 Capt. T. Pritchard- case of yacht Tavy II v. SS. Sui Tai (Macao Ferry) 18-11-1931 - 13-8-1932", "content_text": "The question of instituting legal proceedings against Captain Pritchard was considered. At the same time, we felt that we only knew one side of the case and that there might be circumstances in it which rendered a prosecution desirable and which justified the result of that prosecution.\n\nThe final decision reached was (1) that we should tell the China Coast Officers Guild that we had no power to intervene in the matter, and (2) that we should not attempt to carry the case further by inquiries at Hong Kong or otherwise.\n\nThe fact that the Officers' (Merchant Navy) Federation and the Honourable Company of Master Mariners have now taken up the case may be regarded as giving some support to our original feeling that the case is not altogether a satisfactory one; but our official position remains as before, and we quite see that you probably have no option but to inform the two organisations in question that the Secretary of State sees no reason to differ from the opinion expressed by the Government.\n\nAt the same time, I think you will agree that in the circumstances, it will probably be best to send a reply which avoids going into details on matters which might become...\n\nPage 20\n\nPage 21", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-536-9 Capt. T. Pritchard- case of yacht Tavy II v. SS. Sui Tai (Macao Ferry) 18-11-1931 - 13-8-1932.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 532166, "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": "CO129-536-9 Capt. T. Pritchard- case of yacht Tavy II v. SS. Sui Tai (Macao Ferry) 18-11-1931 - 13-8-1932", "page_number": 21, "title": "CO129-536-9 Capt. T. Pritchard- case of yacht Tavy II v. SS. Sui Tai (Macao Ferry) 18-11-1931 - 13-8-1932", "content_text": "become the subject of controversy; \n\nand it is for this \n\nreason that we have suggested in our official letter \n\nthat the reply should be based on the consideration \n\nthat the defendant did not take the steps which were \n\nopen to him to secure re-consideration of the verdict \n\nagainst him. \n\nYours sincerely, \n\nC. Carter", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-536-9 Capt. T. Pritchard- case of yacht Tavy II v. SS. Sui Tai (Macao Ferry) 18-11-1931 - 13-8-1932.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 532167, "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": "CO129-536-9 Capt. T. Pritchard- case of yacht Tavy II v. SS. Sui Tai (Macao Ferry) 18-11-1931 - 13-8-1932", "page_number": 22, "title": "CO129-536-9 Capt. T. Pritchard- case of yacht Tavy II v. SS. Sui Tai (Macao Ferry) 18-11-1931 - 13-8-1932", "content_text": "Telegrams—“SHIPMINDER, PARL, LONDON.\" Telephone-VICTORIA 3840 Ext.\n\nAny further communication on this subject should be addressed to:-\n\nThe Assistant Secretary,\n\nMercantile Marine Department\n\n(address as opposite)\n\nand the following number quoted:-\n\nM.6663/32.\n\nREC\n\nTV CA\n\n- 9 APR 1932\n\nE\n\n12\n\n22\n\n1001\n\nMERCANTILE MARINE DEPARTMENT,\n\n3261 UV LI\n\nBOARD OF TRADE,\n\nGREAT GEORGE STREET,\n\nWESTMINSTER, S.W.1.\n\n8th April, 1932.\n\n(8\n\nColy CAS\n\n川\n\nSir,\n\nWith reference to your letter No.82874/31 of the\n\n30th March, 1932, transmitting a copy of correspondence\n\nwith the Officers (Merchant Navy) Federation, the\n\nHonourable Company of Master Mariners, and the Governor of\n\nHong Kong, regarding a penalty inflicted upon Captain\n\nT. Pritchard of the s.s. \"Sui Tai\" by the Marine Magistrate,\n\nat Hong Kong in July, 1931, I am directed by the Board of Trade to state, for the information of Secretary\n\nSir Phillip Cunliffe-Lister, that they have received representations from the China Coast Officers' Guild regarding this matter, and to enclose a copy of their correspondence with the Guild. It is understood that similar representations have been made by the Guild to the Admiralty.\n\nWith regard to the proposed reply to the officers\n\nThe Under-Secretary of State,\n\nColonial Office,\n\nS.W.1.\n\nFederation/", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-536-9 Capt. T. Pritchard- case of yacht Tavy II v. SS. Sui Tai (Macao Ferry) 18-11-1931 - 13-8-1932.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 532168, "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": "CO129-536-9 Capt. T. Pritchard- case of yacht Tavy II v. SS. Sui Tai (Macao Ferry) 18-11-1931 - 13-8-1932", "page_number": 23, "title": "CO129-536-9 Capt. T. Pritchard- case of yacht Tavy II v. SS. Sui Tai (Macao Ferry) 18-11-1931 - 13-8-1932", "content_text": "23\n\nFederation and the Honourable Company of Master Mariners,\n\nthe Board would suggest, for the consideration of the\n\nSecretary of State, that no reference should be made\n\ntherein to the Governor's remarks in paragraph 3 of his\n\ndespatch of the 26th January, 1932, but that the reply\n\nshould be based on the consideration that the defendant\n\ndid not take advantage of his opportunity to appeal to the full Court or to apply for a review of the Magistrate's\n\ndecision.\n\nThe copies of the three Hong Kong Ordinances\n\nenclosed with your letter are returned herewith.\n\nA copy of this letter is being sent to the Admiralty.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour obedient Servant,\n\nC. Caster", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-536-9 Capt. T. Pritchard- case of yacht Tavy II v. SS. Sui Tai (Macao Ferry) 18-11-1931 - 13-8-1932.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 532169, "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": "CO129-536-9 Capt. T. Pritchard- case of yacht Tavy II v. SS. Sui Tai (Macao Ferry) 18-11-1931 - 13-8-1932", "page_number": 24, "title": "CO129-536-9 Capt. T. Pritchard- case of yacht Tavy II v. SS. Sui Tai (Macao Ferry) 18-11-1931 - 13-8-1932", "content_text": "South China Morning Post, Saturday, August 1st, 1931.\n\nDistortions.\n\n24 * 11 In\n\nTwo prosecutions during the week have given rise to a good deal of discussion, and criticism of the authorities is somewhat contemptuous. In one case the master of a Macao steamer was fined for failing to observe the rule of the road, in that he did not give way to a \"sailing ship\", the said sailing ship being a small yacht. In the other case a well-known firm (Watson's) was summoned for not entering into its Poisons book a sale of some tablets containing a poisonous substance.\n\nAs though to provide a contrast, there has, simultaneously with the reports of these cases, appeared in the newspapers protests against an assault committed by a policeman who, insulted by a young Chinese cyclist, slapped him. Commenting upon these cases, the declaration must be made at once that law must be upheld, and right-thinking people sympathise with the authorities in their difficulties of enforcement.\n\nAt the same time cases like these suggest a distorted official perspective. With so many major evils uncorrected, so many criminals at large and active, so many exploiters battening on the Colony, so many selfish people breaking laws in complete disregard of public health, comfort, contentment and justice, the harassment of people who, in the things that matter, conscientiously try to be law-abiding, arouses the deepest resentment.\n\nIt may be necessary to remind Master Mariners of their responsibilities in sea traffic, but if ships are to be held so closely to the letter of the law that they must be compelled to avoid every sampan that appears, shipping will be seriously handicapped. Within the harbour, steamers have, to a certain extent, right of way, and the same licence should extend to a reasonable area in the vicinity of the Colony.\n\nAt the very least, some discretion should be left to navigators and some reliance placed upon their judgment; and if no accident occurs the issue of a summons, in circumstances such as those disclosed in the case under discussion, is scarcely justifiable. If officials of the Harbour Office desire to bring about reforms, there are other and more important needs than preserving the dignity of yachtsmen.\n\nThere are ships which smoke like factories, fouling the air and adding to the ill-health of the Colony. There are ships which strew the harbour with refuse and dress the salad liberally with oil. There are filthy sampans which crowd sections of the waterfront all day long. There are sundry breaches of laws which are common knowledge but to which Government seems discreetly blind. Some of these would be worth-while windmills for earnest official tilting.\n\nThe right-of-way feature of the Sui Tai case, and the fact that the yacht's company was composed of naval officers, offer a reminder of the unsatisfactory state of affairs in the ferry lanes. The proximity of the naval anchorage means that ferries are frequently obstructed by warships, and confusion results.\n\nThe necessity of giving ferry boats right of way does not appear to have suggested itself to energetic officials: yet here is a matter urgently calling for reform. As to the Poisons case, it is doubtless necessary to discipline pharmacists, protect the public and suppress anything that may suggest \"drug traffic\".\n\nWatson's, however, are a reputable firm, beyond suspicion and with too much at stake to be anything but law-abiding. Not even neglect has been proved against them, for it was shown that the law did not require a record of sales of these particular pills. For some reason, Watson's receive official attention when the Colony is full of vendors of patent medicines.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-536-9 Capt. T. Pritchard- case of yacht Tavy II v. SS. Sui Tai (Macao Ferry) 18-11-1931 - 13-8-1932.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 532170, "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": "CO129-536-9 Capt. T. Pritchard- case of yacht Tavy II v. SS. Sui Tai (Macao Ferry) 18-11-1931 - 13-8-1932", "page_number": 25, "title": "CO129-536-9 Capt. T. Pritchard- case of yacht Tavy II v. SS. Sui Tai (Macao Ferry) 18-11-1931 - 13-8-1932", "content_text": "medicines which contain poisons and of sales of which no record is kept. Similarly the Government used to prosecute the department stores for obstructing top-floor verandahs over Crown land, though such verandahs are living quarters in every tenement and are used by Landlords for rent-profiteering. Similarly, also, the Sanitary authorities are quick to detect \"motes\" in European premises, but cannot see the \"beams\" in the filthy places next door. Exactions by policemen from hawkers, assaults by policemen, heavy punishments for minor offenders, leniency to kidnappers - these and other contrasts add to a picture of law, order and justice which can only be described as grotesque.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-536-9 Capt. T. Pritchard- case of yacht Tavy II v. SS. Sui Tai (Macao Ferry) 18-11-1931 - 13-8-1932.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 532171, "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": "CO129-536-9 Capt. T. Pritchard- case of yacht Tavy II v. SS. Sui Tai (Macao Ferry) 18-11-1931 - 13-8-1932", "page_number": 26, "title": "CO129-536-9 Capt. T. Pritchard- case of yacht Tavy II v. SS. Sui Tai (Macao Ferry) 18-11-1931 - 13-8-1932", "content_text": "COPY\n\nTHE CHINA COAST OFFICERS' GUILD.\n\nHONGKONG,\n\n29th September, 1931.\n\nThe Right Honourable,\n\nSir P. Cunliffe Lister;\n\nPresident,\n\nBoard of Trade, (Marine Department),\n\nLONDON.\n\nSir,\n\nI have been directed by the Management Committee of this Guild and have the honour to place before you for attention and redress, a very grave miscarriage of justice which took place at the Harbour office, Hongkong, on the 29th July 1931, when the Harbour Master, Comdr. G.F. Hole, R.N., (Rtd), sitting as Marine Magistrate, pronounced sentence on Comdr. T. Pritchard, R.D., R.N.R.; Guilty, Fined $25.-) Twenty-five Dollars or in default two weeks with Hard Labour, because he being in command of the British Twin Screw Steamer \"Sui Tai\", did on the 26th July 1931, cross ahead of the Yacht \"Tavy II\", which was in charge of the Assistant Captain of H.M. Dockyard, Lt. Comdr. Addington, accompanied by Engineer Comdr. Docksey and the Deputy Harbour Master, Comdr. J.B. Newill, D.S.O., R.N., (Rtd.), the last named officer was a guest.\n\nThe Yacht \"Tavy II\" belongs to the Ward-room officers of H.M.S. \"Tamar\", this vessel being the depôt vessel of the China Station, and permanently at Hongkong.\n\nThe British Twin Screw Steamer \"Sui Tai\", is a passenger and cargo vessel of the River Steamer type on the daily run from Hongkong to Macao and back, leaving Hongkong every morning, and returning in the evening; this vessel is about 1,200 tons gross register, 238 feet long, 30 feet beam, and 10 feet mean draft, with a speed of ten knots.\n\nA copy of the official Record of this Case is enclosed for information.\n\nCommander T. Pritchard, R.D., R.N.R., is an Officer with exemplary character, with a remarkable record in the Royal Navy and the Royal Naval Reserve, having thirty-two (32) years experience as an Officer, and shipmaster.\n\nIt certainly appears questionable that this Case should have been brought by one Marine Magistrate, Commander J.B. Newill, D.S.O., R.N., (Rtd), Deputy Harbour Master, who was a guest on the Yacht, to be tried by another Marine Magistrate, the Harbour Master Commander G.F. Hole, R.N., (Rtd), and witnessed by another Naval Officer.\n\nCommander T. Pritchard had no witnesses, he being in charge of the bridge at the time of the occurrence.\n\nWith the volume of expert opinion at the command of this Guild, it is considered, that had the Yacht \"Tavy II\" and s/s \"Sui Tai\" been in the position as given in the official Record, there...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-536-9 Capt. T. Pritchard- case of yacht Tavy II v. SS. Sui Tai (Macao Ferry) 18-11-1931 - 13-8-1932.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 532172, "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": "CO129-536-9 Capt. T. Pritchard- case of yacht Tavy II v. SS. Sui Tai (Macao Ferry) 18-11-1931 - 13-8-1932", "page_number": 27, "title": "CO129-536-9 Capt. T. Pritchard- case of yacht Tavy II v. SS. Sui Tai (Macao Ferry) 18-11-1931 - 13-8-1932", "content_text": "27\n\nthere would have been a collision for the Twin Screw Steamer 'Sui Tai' 238 feet long, swinging with her helm hard aport would have struck with her port quarter the \"Tavy II\" but this was not so the s/s \"Sui Tai\" passed ahead with a good clearance, and there was no risk of collision.\n\nMy Committee therefore respectfully request that firm action be taken to have this Case removed from the records and the good name of Commander T. Pritchard, R.D., R.N.R., (Rtd), restored.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour obedient Servant,\n\n(Sgd.) T.T.Laurenson.\n\nBranch Secretary.\n\nEnclosures:-\n\n(1) Copy Official Record of case Yacht \"Tavy II\" v s/s \"Sui Tai\".\n\n(2) Protest signed by nine Nautical experts Hongkong.\n\n(3) Leading Article from South China Morning Post,\n\n1st August, 1931.\n\nNot reproduced (copies enclosed with Colonial Office letter to Board of Trade).\n\nA", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-536-9 Capt. T. Pritchard- case of yacht Tavy II v. SS. Sui Tai (Macao Ferry) 18-11-1931 - 13-8-1932.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 532173, "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": "CO129-536-9 Capt. T. Pritchard- case of yacht Tavy II v. SS. Sui Tai (Macao Ferry) 18-11-1931 - 13-8-1932", "page_number": 28, "title": "CO129-536-9 Capt. T. Pritchard- case of yacht Tavy II v. SS. Sui Tai (Macao Ferry) 18-11-1931 - 13-8-1932", "content_text": "M. 13344/31.\n\nCOPY\n\nMERCANTILE MARINE DEPARTMENT,\n\nBOARD OF TRADE,\n\nGREAT GEORGE STREET,\n\nWESTMINSTER, S.W.1.\n\n9th December, 1931.\n\nSir,\n\nWith reference to your letter dated the 29th September, 1931, addressed to the President of the Board of Trade, concerning the conviction by the Marine Magistrate, Hong Kong, of Commander T. Pritchard, R.D., R.N.R., Master of the s/s \"SUI TAI\", for failure to observe the International Collision Regulations, I am directed by the Board of Trade to state that they have no power to intervene in the matter.\n\nI am, Sir,\n\nYour obedient Servant,\n\nThe Branch Secretary,\n\nThe China Coast Officers' Guild,\n\n67, Des Voeux Road Central,\n\nHONG KONG.\n\n(Signed) W. Carter.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-536-9 Capt. T. Pritchard- case of yacht Tavy II v. SS. Sui Tai (Macao Ferry) 18-11-1931 - 13-8-1932.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 532174, "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": "CO129-536-9 Capt. T. Pritchard- case of yacht Tavy II v. SS. Sui Tai (Macao Ferry) 18-11-1931 - 13-8-1932", "page_number": 29, "title": "CO129-536-9 Capt. T. Pritchard- case of yacht Tavy II v. SS. Sui Tai (Macao Ferry) 18-11-1931 - 13-8-1932", "content_text": "C. O.\n\nMr.\n\nMr.\n\n2\n\n4 269\n\nDeTahunt 21. 3.32.\n\nBickle 22/3\n\n82874/31 Hong Kong.\n\nN\n\n29\n\nand (12) & (13)\n\nOrder stunned.\n\nMr.\n\nMr. Parkinson.\n\nMr. 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 ASSISTANT SECRETARY,\n\nMERCANTILE MARINE DEPARTMENT,\n\nBOARD OF TRADE.\n\nSir,\n\nDowning Street,\n\n30 March, 1932.\n\nI am directed to transmit to\n\nyou, to be laid before the\n\nBoard of Trade, the accompany-\n\ning copy of correspondence\n\nwith the Officers (Merchant\n\nNavy) Federation Limited, the\n\nNautical Officers Federation, 18th\n\nNov. (1) (with encls.).\n\nFr. Honble. Co. of Master Mariners, 23rd Nov.\n\nTo Officers Federation, 9th\n\nDec.\n\nColby (Mercantile)\n\nTo Honble. Co. of Master Mariners, 9th Dec.\n\nTo Gov. Hong Kong, 10th\n\nDec.\n\nFr. Gov. Hong Kong, with\n\nencls., 26th Jan.\n\nHong Kong Ordinances No.3 of 1890, No.10 of 1899 and No.16 of 1928.\n\nHonourable Company of Master\n\nMariners, and the Governor of\n\nHong Kong, regarding the\n\npenalties\n\nin flicked sentence passed upon Captain\n\nT. Pritchard of the s.s. \"Sui\n\nTai\" by the Marine Magistrate\n\nin July,\n\nat Hong Kong\n\n1931. Copies of\n\nthree Hong Kong Ordinances\n\nbearing on the matter are also\n\nenclosed for perusal and return.\n\n2. Subject to the concurrence\n\nof the Board of Trade, the\n\nSecretary of State", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-536-9 Capt. T. Pritchard- case of yacht Tavy II v. SS. Sui Tai (Macao Ferry) 18-11-1931 - 13-8-1932.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 532175, "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": "CO129-536-9 Capt. T. Pritchard- case of yacht Tavy II v. SS. Sui Tai (Macao Ferry) 18-11-1931 - 13-8-1932", "page_number": 30, "title": "CO129-536-9 Capt. T. Pritchard- case of yacht Tavy II v. SS. Sui Tai (Macao Ferry) 18-11-1931 - 13-8-1932", "content_text": "Secretary of State proposes to communicate the substance of the Governor's despatch of the 26th of January to the Officers Federation and the Honourable Company of Master Mariners, and at the same time to inform them that he sees no reason to differ from the opinion expressed by the Governor in the last paragraph of the despatch.\n\nI am etc.,\n(Signed) H. R. COWELL\n\nPage 30\nPage 31", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-536-9 Capt. T. Pritchard- case of yacht Tavy II v. SS. Sui Tai (Macao Ferry) 18-11-1931 - 13-8-1932.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 532176, "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": "CO129-536-9 Capt. T. Pritchard- case of yacht Tavy II v. SS. Sui Tai (Macao Ferry) 18-11-1931 - 13-8-1932", "page_number": 31, "title": "CO129-536-9 Capt. T. Pritchard- case of yacht Tavy II v. SS. Sui Tai (Macao Ferry) 18-11-1931 - 13-8-1932", "content_text": "No. 30.\n\nSir,\n\nGOVERNMENT HOUSE,\n\nHONG KONG, 26th January, 1932.\n\nWith reference to your despatch No.334 of the 10th of December, 1931, I have the honour to forward the accompanying copy of the record of the proceedings against Captain T. Pritchard of the S.S. \"Sui Tai\" at the Marine Magistrates Court on the 29th of July, 1931. The facts in so far as these are not in dispute can be deduced from the statements of the various witnesses.\n\n2. I am advised that it would have been open to the defendant either to appeal to the Full Court under Section 103 of the Magistrates Ordinance, 1890, or to apply for a review of the decision under Section 96 of the same Ordinance as enacted by Ordinance 16 of 1928. The \"Sui Tai\" is a local steamer plying daily between Hong Kong and Macao and there is no apparent reason why Captain Pritchard could not have taken either of the steps indicated had he wished to do so.\n\n3. With regard to paragraph 1 of the document headed \"Expert opinion re case yacht 'Tavy II' versus S.S. 'Sui Tai'\" I would point out that the issue of the summons was within the discretion of the Marine Magistrate who must be permitted to exercise his own judgment in the matter.\n\nTHE RIGHT HONOURABLE\n\nSIR P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER, G.B.E., M.C., M.P.,\n\n&c.,\n\n&c.,\n\n&c.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-536-9 Capt. T. Pritchard- case of yacht Tavy II v. SS. Sui Tai (Macao Ferry) 18-11-1931 - 13-8-1932.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 532177, "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": "CO129-536-9 Capt. T. Pritchard- case of yacht Tavy II v. SS. Sui Tai (Macao Ferry) 18-11-1931 - 13-8-1932", "page_number": 32, "title": "CO129-536-9 Capt. T. Pritchard- case of yacht Tavy II v. SS. Sui Tai (Macao Ferry) 18-11-1931 - 13-8-1932", "content_text": "The statements contained in paragraph 2 are correct but appear to be irrelevant. The view expressed in paragraph 3 was not shared by the Marine Magistrate who after hearing the evidence found as stated in the record. It was open to the defendant to appeal or to apply for a rehearing but he did neither.\n\nParagraph 4 The penalty in the event of a conviction is a matter for the Magistrate trying the case. The maximum fine is $200 and given a conviction the penalty imposed does not appear to be excessive.\n\nIn the circumstances and in particular in view of the fact that the party alleging a grievance failed to take the proper legal course open to him to secure a reconsideration of the decision I am of the opinion that intervention on my part is not justifiable.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour most obedient, humble servant,\n\nLine\n\nGovernor, &c.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-536-9 Capt. T. Pritchard- case of yacht Tavy II v. SS. Sui Tai (Macao Ferry) 18-11-1931 - 13-8-1932.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 532178, "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": "CO129-536-9 Capt. T. Pritchard- case of yacht Tavy II v. SS. Sui Tai (Macao Ferry) 18-11-1931 - 13-8-1932", "page_number": 33, "title": "CO129-536-9 Capt. T. Pritchard- case of yacht Tavy II v. SS. Sui Tai (Macao Ferry) 18-11-1931 - 13-8-1932", "content_text": "33\n\nCopy.\n\n(H.155.) MAGISTRATES ORDINANCE\n\nCase No. 455.\n\nAudit No. 455.\n\n1931.\n\nCommittal Warrant No.\n\nCommenced\n\nCase No.\n\nRemanded\n\nWarrant to\n\nNo.\n\nConcluded\n\nNo. of Appendages,\n\nMinute and Depositions of Witnesses:- (Sections 29 and 72 of the Magistrate's Ordinance, 1890)\n\nHONG KONG\n\nIN THE MARINE MAGISTRATES COURT OF HONG KONG\n\nBefore Comdr. George Francis Hole, R.N. Marine Magistrate\n\nMinute of Proceedings\n\n(Ex by Commdr. J.B.Newill, D.S.O.,R.N.) COMPLAINANT\n\nAmends and\n\nCapt. T. Pritchard, Master of S.S.\n\nSui Tai residing on board\n\nDEFENDANT\n\nMiscellaneous receipts.\n\nDate\n\nFINDING\n\nVerdict:- Guilty.\n\nSentence: Find $25 (Twenty-five) or in default two weeks with Hard Labour.\n\n(Sa). G.F.Hole, M.M. 29.7.31.\n\nOn the 29th day July, 1931, at ... in this Colony\n\nSection 419 Merchant Shipping Act, 1894 Ordinance 10... of 1899 Section 25 s.s.4\n\nTable M Regn. o\n\nMaximum Penalty $200\n\nMEMORANDUM OF PENALTIES, &c., PAID INTO COURT.\n\n \n Heading under which payment is credited\n Amount\n Signature of receiver.\n \n \n \n $25.00\n (Sa). Lo Kai To.\n \n \n \n \n 30. 7. 31.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-536-9 Capt. T. Pritchard- case of yacht Tavy II v. SS. Sui Tai (Macao Ferry) 18-11-1931 - 13-8-1932.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 532179, "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": "CO129-536-9 Capt. T. Pritchard- case of yacht Tavy II v. SS. Sui Tai (Macao Ferry) 18-11-1931 - 13-8-1932", "page_number": 34, "title": "CO129-536-9 Capt. T. Pritchard- case of yacht Tavy II v. SS. Sui Tai (Macao Ferry) 18-11-1931 - 13-8-1932", "content_text": "34\n\nComplainant\n\nWednesday the 29th day of July, 1931.\n\nRex by\n\nComdr. J. B. Newill, D.S.O., R.N.\n\nCharge:-\n\nVersus\n\nCaptain T. Pritchard, Master S.S. Sui Tai\n\nresiding on board\n\nDefendant\n\n(i) that you being the Master of the S.S. Sui Tai did\n\nat about 11.10 hours on the 26th day of July 1931\n\nfail to observe Article 20 of the International\n\nCollision Regulations thereby causing risk of\n\ncollision with the yacht \"Tavy II\"\n\n(ii) that being the Master of the S.S. Sui Tai did\n\ninfringe Article 22 of the International Collision\n\nregulations by passing ahead of the yacht Tavy II at\n\nabout 11.10 a.m. on 26th Day of July 1931.\n\nAccused pleads:- Not Guilty.\n\nSecond Charge added.\n\nAccused raises no objection.\n\n(Sd). G. F. Hole,\n\nMarine Magistrate.\n\n7. 31.\n\n29.\n\nRex\n\nV\n\nCapt. T. Pritchard, Master,\n\nS.S. Sui Tai\n\nOrdinance No.10 of 1899 Sec.25(4)\n\nTable, Regn.\n\n1931\n\nCase No. 455\n\nIn the\n\nMARINE MAGISTRATES COURT\n\nat VICTORIA in the COLONY\n\nof\n\nHONG KONG\n\nBefore Comdr. G. F. Hole, R.N.\n\nDated\n\n29th July, 1931.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-536-9 Capt. T. Pritchard- case of yacht Tavy II v. SS. Sui Tai (Macao Ferry) 18-11-1931 - 13-8-1932.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 532180, "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": "CO129-536-9 Capt. T. Pritchard- case of yacht Tavy II v. SS. Sui Tai (Macao Ferry) 18-11-1931 - 13-8-1932", "page_number": 35, "title": "CO129-536-9 Capt. T. Pritchard- case of yacht Tavy II v. SS. Sui Tai (Macao Ferry) 18-11-1931 - 13-8-1932", "content_text": "100 ft.\n\n\"ן\n\n200 ft.\n\nCourse W.\n\n·100ft Course NNW\n\nاور\n\nWind\n\nگردی", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-536-9 Capt. T. Pritchard- case of yacht Tavy II v. SS. Sui Tai (Macao Ferry) 18-11-1931 - 13-8-1932.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 532181, "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": "CO129-536-9 Capt. T. Pritchard- case of yacht Tavy II v. SS. Sui Tai (Macao Ferry) 18-11-1931 - 13-8-1932", "page_number": 36, "title": "CO129-536-9 Capt. T. Pritchard- case of yacht Tavy II v. SS. Sui Tai (Macao Ferry) 18-11-1931 - 13-8-1932", "content_text": "36\n\nCase No.455.\n\nJoseph Bernard Newill\n\nX\n\nAccused.\n\nSworn.\n\nI am the Deputy Harbour Master, Hong Kong. On Sunday 26th July 1931 I was on board the yacht Tavy II in a position approximately 270° 1.5 miles from the southern extremity of Lantau Island proceeding under sail. Course about NNW wind aft force 4 to 5 and weather clear.\n\nThe Sui Tai had been observed approaching for a considerable time on a course about W½S. When about a mile away she appeared to make a slight alteration of course to Starboard to pass ahead of me.\n\nAt about 11.10 hours the two vessels were about 30 yards apart and it then became necessary to put the helm of Tavy II hard astarboard in order to avoid a collision. The Sui Tai passed about 20 yards away from the Tavy II. No sound signal was made by the Sui Tai. The accused is the Master of the Sui Tai.\n\n(sd). G. F. Hole,\n\nMarine Magistrate,\n\n29. 7. 31.\n\nI did not haul up to the wind sooner because it is not the duty of a sailing ship to give way to a steamer.\n\n(Sd). G. F. Hole,\n\nMarine Magistrate,\n\n29. 7. 31.\n\nX\n\nCourt.\n\nE S N\n\nTavy II\n\nSui Tai\n\nW", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-536-9 Capt. T. Pritchard- case of yacht Tavy II v. SS. Sui Tai (Macao Ferry) 18-11-1931 - 13-8-1932.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 532182, "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": "CO129-536-9 Capt. T. Pritchard- case of yacht Tavy II v. SS. Sui Tai (Macao Ferry) 18-11-1931 - 13-8-1932", "page_number": 37, "title": "CO129-536-9 Capt. T. Pritchard- case of yacht Tavy II v. SS. Sui Tai (Macao Ferry) 18-11-1931 - 13-8-1932", "content_text": "- 2\n\n37\n\nThe above is the approximate relative positions of the two vessels when I found it necessary to put my helm over. If I had not put my helm over there would have been a collision.\n\n(Sa). G. F. Hole. Marine Magistrate. 29. 7. 31.\n\nLeonard George Addington Sworn. I am a Lieutenant Commander in the Royal Navy serving at present in the Naval Dockyard. On Sunday July 26th I was in the yacht Tavy II at the wheel. The yacht was then in a position about 1½ miles 270° from Half way Point. We were running free with the wind dead aft on a course about NNW. Force of wind 4-5 weather clear. We sighted a steam vessel on the starboard bow about 5 miles away. Her course appeared to be about west. I watched her very carefully as her bearing did not alter so far as I could see. When she was about half a mile away she appeared to alter course slightly to starboard and again about quarter of a mile away. In each case making no sound signal. With her bridge dead ahead at about ten minutes past eleven A.M. at a distance of about 100 feet I considered that a collision was inevitable if we held on our course and I put the helm hard a-starboard and jibed the main boom - a rather unpleasant proceeding - this avoided a collision.\n\nCommander Newill and Commander Docksey were with me.\n\n(sa). G. F. Hole, Marine Magistrate. 29. 7. 31.\n\nNo questions by Complainant.\n\nX Accused.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-536-9 Capt. T. Pritchard- case of yacht Tavy II v. SS. Sui Tai (Macao Ferry) 18-11-1931 - 13-8-1932.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 532183, "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": "CO129-536-9 Capt. T. Pritchard- case of yacht Tavy II v. SS. Sui Tai (Macao Ferry) 18-11-1931 - 13-8-1932", "page_number": 38, "title": "CO129-536-9 Capt. T. Pritchard- case of yacht Tavy II v. SS. Sui Tai (Macao Ferry) 18-11-1931 - 13-8-1932", "content_text": "30\n\nW\n\n- 3- \n\nAccused. I estimated my distance from Half way Point by transits on the Chart. We had no compass on board. I was steering the yacht at the time. I was in charge of the yacht at the time.\n\n(sd). G. F. Hole, Marine Magistrate. 29. 7. 31.\n\nThomas Pritchard. Sworn.\n\nI am the accused in this case and am the master of the Sui Tai. I was in charge on the bridge at the time. I have had several years experience in sail and in the Royal Navy and hold the rank of Commander R.N.R. On Sunday morning 26th July at about 11.5 A.M. I sighted what I thought was a yacht about 4 to 5 points on my port bow. The wind was S.S.E. and the yacht seemed to be standing to the north and so far as I could judge she had the wind right aft. I could not make out her rig very clearly but thought she was fore and aft with one square sail. I watched her bearings and made up my mind that it was quite safe to cross ahead. Later the yacht appeared to alter her course to the westward until she appeared to be steering on an almost parallel course. This delayed me from putting the helm over as there appeared to be no danger and about two minutes later she came back on her original course. I then ordered the helm hard aport to pass ahead of her. This was done at once. The ship then refused to answer her helm as she should have on account of the strong ebb tide setting against her starboard bow. We were in a whirlpool which are usual there at spring tides. At the time I had no doubt but that I should be able to clear the yacht. My ship started to reply to the helm and to swing to starboard. The yacht was still standing on her course.\n\non", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-536-9 Capt. T. Pritchard- case of yacht Tavy II v. SS. Sui Tai (Macao Ferry) 18-11-1931 - 13-8-1932.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 532184, "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": "CO129-536-9 Capt. T. Pritchard- case of yacht Tavy II v. SS. Sui Tai (Macao Ferry) 18-11-1931 - 13-8-1932", "page_number": 39, "title": "CO129-536-9 Capt. T. Pritchard- case of yacht Tavy II v. SS. Sui Tai (Macao Ferry) 18-11-1931 - 13-8-1932", "content_text": "x Court.\n\n4-39\n\non her course to the north. We passed the yacht at about 11.11. My ship being in the course of swinging at about 100 to 150 feet on our port beam. After I had passed her there was a gentleman in the stern of the yacht lying down and another close by who appeared to be steering. There was absolutely no excitement in the yacht. All seemed quite happy even the man at the helm and during the time she jibed all were looking up.\n\nIt appeared to me that the jibing was accidental. I then eased my helm. As my ship was swinging if there had been danger of collision the stern of my ship would hit the yacht.\n\nThere was no danger of collision eminent as the yacht did not carry out the regulations i.e. to haul up to the wind to avoid collision. We pass junks daily and would not pass them close unless absolutely necessary. We do our best to carry on our business and to avoid collisions. I cleared the yacht with a safety space between us. It is up to the officer in charge whether he passes ahead or astern. We did not wish to go out of our course to pass astern if it was possible to pass ahead, in order to do our best to keep our time with safety.\n\n(sd). G. F. Hole.\n\nMarine Magistrate.\n\n29. 7. 31.\n\nNo questions by Complainant.\n\nIt would have taken me five minutes longer to pass astern of her.\n\nThe difference in course to pass astern of her would have been about 4 points when she was about a mile off. I took three bearings of the yacht, the first at about 1 mile.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-536-9 Capt. T. Pritchard- case of yacht Tavy II v. SS. Sui Tai (Macao Ferry) 18-11-1931 - 13-8-1932.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 532185, "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": "CO129-536-9 Capt. T. Pritchard- case of yacht Tavy II v. SS. Sui Tai (Macao Ferry) 18-11-1931 - 13-8-1932", "page_number": 40, "title": "CO129-536-9 Capt. T. Pritchard- case of yacht Tavy II v. SS. Sui Tai (Macao Ferry) 18-11-1931 - 13-8-1932", "content_text": "J. B. Newill\n\n- 5 -\n\nThe second at about three quarters of a mile.\n\nThe third at about half a mile.\n\nThe bearings changed to the northward very slowly.\n\n(Sa). G. F. Hole,\n\nMarine Magistrate.\n\n29. 7. 31.\n\n40\n\nRecalled.\n\nThere was no alteration of course by the Tavy II between the time of sighting the Sui Tai and the time we put the helm over to avoid collision other than the natural yawing of a sailing ship running free.\n\n(sa). G. F. Hole,\n\nMarine Magistrate.\n\n29. 7. 31.\n\nRecalled.\n\nThere was no alteration of course by the Tavy II up to the time of putting the helm over to avoid collision other than about a point either side owing to yawing.\n\n(Sa). G. F. Hole,\n\nMarine Magistrate.\n\n29. 7. 31.\n\nPage 40\n\nPage 41", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-536-9 Capt. T. Pritchard- case of yacht Tavy II v. SS. Sui Tai (Macao Ferry) 18-11-1931 - 13-8-1932.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 532186, "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": "CO129-536-9 Capt. T. Pritchard- case of yacht Tavy II v. SS. Sui Tai (Macao Ferry) 18-11-1931 - 13-8-1932", "page_number": 41, "title": "CO129-536-9 Capt. T. Pritchard- case of yacht Tavy II v. SS. Sui Tai (Macao Ferry) 18-11-1931 - 13-8-1932", "content_text": "C. O.\n\nMr. Jameson 5.12\n\nMr. Calder 7.12\n\nMr. Tomlinson.\n\nSir C. Bottomley.\n\nSir J. Shuckburgh.\n\nSir G. Grindle.\n\nPermt. US of S.\n\nParly. U.S. of S.\n\nSecretary of State.\n\nDRAFT.\n\nNo 334\n\nYou\n\nANVAAR GAL\n\nfrom The Officers (Merchant Navy Federation Mar 18-11-3\n\nSer\n\nAmmo 10\n\n82874/31\n\n10 DEC 1931\n\n41\n\nI have been asked to forward for your information copies of correspondence with the Officers (Merchant Navy) Federation Ltd and the Honourable Company of Master Mariners regarding the sentence passed by Cinder G.F. Hole RN (Ret) the Marine Magistrate on Capt. I. Pritchard RNR (Act) in the case which is said to be referred to in the Official record as \"Jacht Tavey II\" versus S.S. Sui Tai (Macau Ferry) Hongkong 295 of July 1931.\n\n(copy on file)\n\nI shall be glad if you will forward a report together with a copy of the proceedings.\n\nI shall also be glad to know whether you are advised that it was open to Capt. Pritchard to appeal and, if so, whether anything prevented him from doing so.\n\n9 DEC 1931", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-536-9 Capt. T. Pritchard- case of yacht Tavy II v. SS. Sui Tai (Macao Ferry) 18-11-1931 - 13-8-1932.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 532187, "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": "CO129-536-9 Capt. T. Pritchard- case of yacht Tavy II v. SS. Sui Tai (Macao Ferry) 18-11-1931 - 13-8-1932", "page_number": 42, "title": "CO129-536-9 Capt. T. Pritchard- case of yacht Tavy II v. SS. Sui Tai (Macao Ferry) 18-11-1931 - 13-8-1932", "content_text": "42\n\nོ།\n\nas the necessity for sailing\n\nalmost immediately\n\nhis\n\nship\n\nafter the ...\n\narrival\n\nof the\n\nthe\n\nCase.\n\nI have etc\n\n(Sgd.) P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-536-9 Capt. T. Pritchard- case of yacht Tavy II v. SS. Sui Tai (Macao Ferry) 18-11-1931 - 13-8-1932.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 532188, "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": "CO129-536-9 Capt. T. Pritchard- case of yacht Tavy II v. SS. Sui Tai (Macao Ferry) 18-11-1931 - 13-8-1932", "page_number": 43, "title": "CO129-536-9 Capt. T. Pritchard- case of yacht Tavy II v. SS. Sui Tai (Macao Ferry) 18-11-1931 - 13-8-1932", "content_text": "C. O.\n\nMr Jameson 5.12 Mr. Calder\n\nMr.\n\nMr. Tomlinson.\n\nSir C. Bottomley.\n\nSir J. Shuckburgh.\n\nSir G. Grindle.\n\nPermt. U.S. of S.\n\nParly. U.S. of S.\n\nSecretary of State.\n\nDRAFT.\n\nThe Clerk to live\n\nSer\n\n7112\n\n82874/31\n\nI am directed to refer to your letter\n\n[2] of the\n\n[1]\n\nbetween the (1) 23rd of Nov 1931\n\n9 DEC 1931\n\nresponding\n\n43\n\n(2) 18th of Nov 1931 (T/NR) regarding\n\nthe sentence passed upon one T. Pritchard R.N.R. (Retd) by the Marine Magistrate at Hong Kong\n\n(1)\n\nHonourable Company\n\nin the case\n\nof the \"Jacht 'Tavey I'\"\n\nvessels S.S. \"Sui Tai\" and\n\nof Master Mariners (1) request you to inform the Court of the Honourable\n\n(2) The Officers Merchant\n\nCompany of Master Mariners (2) in for you\n\nNowy) Federation La\n\nthat,\n\nCopies for Enclosure in despatch to Hong Kong\n\nLjus\n\nboby Gor &\n\n8311\n\nas\n\nfor\n\nhe\n\nhas\n\nas the Secretary has been\n\nable to ascertain from the\n\ninformation at present available,\n\nit would have been\n\nopen to Capt\n\nPritchard to appeal from the decision\n\nof the Marine Magistrate if he considered the decision to be\n\nincorrect. If so,\n\nan appeal would\n\nhave been his\n\nproper\n\ncourse.\n\nSo,\n\nThe Law of Hong Kong is however being asked\n\nfor", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-536-9 Capt. T. Pritchard- case of yacht Tavy II v. SS. Sui Tai (Macao Ferry) 18-11-1931 - 13-8-1932.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 532189, "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": "CO129-536-9 Capt. T. Pritchard- case of yacht Tavy II v. SS. Sui Tai (Macao Ferry) 18-11-1931 - 13-8-1932", "page_number": 44, "title": "CO129-536-9 Capt. T. Pritchard- case of yacht Tavy II v. SS. Sui Tai (Macao Ferry) 18-11-1931 - 13-8-1932", "content_text": "44\n\nwith regard to the whole\n\na\n\nreport\n\nin\n\nmatter and\n\na\n\nfurther communication\n\nyou on\n\nwill be addressed to\n\nits receipt.\n\nJam es\n\n(Signed) H. R. COWELL", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-536-9 Capt. T. Pritchard- case of yacht Tavy II v. SS. Sui Tai (Macao Ferry) 18-11-1931 - 13-8-1932.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 532190, "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": "CO129-536-9 Capt. T. Pritchard- case of yacht Tavy II v. SS. Sui Tai (Macao Ferry) 18-11-1931 - 13-8-1932", "page_number": 45, "title": "CO129-536-9 Capt. T. Pritchard- case of yacht Tavy II v. SS. Sui Tai (Macao Ferry) 18-11-1931 - 13-8-1932", "content_text": "C. O.\n\nMr. Jameson 5.12 Mr. Calder 1.12\n\nMr.\n\nMy dear Burton,\n\nParants for sig by the sops\n\nУ Dec.\n\nBoyd Cliffe 7/12 I have made further\n\nMr. Tomlinson.\n\nSir C. Bottomley.\n\nSir J. Shuckburgh.\n\nSir G. Grindle.\n\nPermt. U.S. of S.\n\nParly. U.S. of S.\n\nSecretary of State.\n\nDRAFT.\n\nSir Burton Chadwick\n\nEnquiries regarding the sentence inflicted upon Caft Pritchard RNR (late) by the Marine Magistrate\n\nat\n\nHong Kong, which\n\nyou\n\nyou were good enough to bring to my\n\nnotice in\n\nJr. br. of the 23rd of Nov.\n\nfresent\n\nI am afraid that at present there is not much information available here on the subject, as far as I can make\n\nout it was open to Caft Pritchard to appeal from the decision if he considered it incorrect &\n\nhe so, that would appear to have been his proper course. I am however making enquiries communicating with the Gov. of\n\nHong Kong for the height and cause of the sentence on the subject.\n\nI will\n\nwrite to you again when I am considered\n\nSd, P. Cundiffe-Lister", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-536-9 Capt. T. Pritchard- case of yacht Tavy II v. SS. Sui Tai (Macao Ferry) 18-11-1931 - 13-8-1932.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 532191, "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": "CO129-536-9 Capt. T. Pritchard- case of yacht Tavy II v. SS. Sui Tai (Macao Ferry) 18-11-1931 - 13-8-1932", "page_number": 46, "title": "CO129-536-9 Capt. T. Pritchard- case of yacht Tavy II v. SS. Sui Tai (Macao Ferry) 18-11-1931 - 13-8-1932", "content_text": "benefit\n\n or possibly beneficially\n\n, but most likely benefit\n\n or benefits\n\n or even beneficently\n\n is not as likely as the first suggestion. Given the context is missing, the most probable correction is benefit\n\n.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-536-9 Capt. T. Pritchard- case of yacht Tavy II v. SS. Sui Tai (Macao Ferry) 18-11-1931 - 13-8-1932.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 532192, "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": "CO129-536-9 Capt. T. Pritchard- case of yacht Tavy II v. SS. Sui Tai (Macao Ferry) 18-11-1931 - 13-8-1932", "page_number": 47, "title": "CO129-536-9 Capt. T. Pritchard- case of yacht Tavy II v. SS. Sui Tai (Macao Ferry) 18-11-1931 - 13-8-1932", "content_text": "TELEPHONE: AVENUE 8048.\n\nTELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS:\n\nHONOURABLE, ALD, LONDON,\n\nHONOURABLE COMPANY OF MASTER Mariners,\n\nFinsbury\n\n23rd November, 1931.\n\n7\n\nBell had\n\nadvic\n\n3\n\n46\n\nINDIA HOUSE,\n\n84, LEADENHALL STREET,\n\nLONDON, E.C.3.\n\nThe Rt. Hon. Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister, G.B.E., M.P.,\n\nThe Colonial Office,\n\nDowning Street,\n\nLONDON, S.W.1.\n\nMy dear Philips,\n\nA case has been brought to the notice of this Company by a group of Members of the Company situated in Hong Kong.\n\nIt is referred to as \"Yacht Tavy II\" versus S.S. \"Sui Tai\" (Macao Ferry) Hong Kong 29th July, 1931.\n\nI am writing you this personal note to ask if you can have it re-examined, for as it is presented to the Company it appears to be just a case of bullying, to which, unfortunately, Officers of the Merchant Navy are sometimes subjected.\n\nThe whole suggestion that Commander Pritchard should be liable to a term of hard labour under these circumstances seems to be", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-536-9 Capt. T. Pritchard- case of yacht Tavy II v. SS. Sui Tai (Macao Ferry) 18-11-1931 - 13-8-1932.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 532193, "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": "CO129-536-9 Capt. T. Pritchard- case of yacht Tavy II v. SS. Sui Tai (Macao Ferry) 18-11-1931 - 13-8-1932", "page_number": 48, "title": "CO129-536-9 Capt. T. Pritchard- case of yacht Tavy II v. SS. Sui Tai (Macao Ferry) 18-11-1931 - 13-8-1932", "content_text": "preposterous.\n\n(2)\n\nThe case has been thoroughly examined by practical seamen both in Hong Kong and so far as possible in London and none of them can see any justification for such action on the part of this magistrate.\n\nJorns may simenty Burton Charwich.\n\nI am Enclosing a copy of this official letter which has gone to your department.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-536-9 Capt. T. Pritchard- case of yacht Tavy II v. SS. Sui Tai (Macao Ferry) 18-11-1931 - 13-8-1932.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 532194, "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": "CO129-536-9 Capt. T. Pritchard- case of yacht Tavy II v. SS. Sui Tai (Macao Ferry) 18-11-1931 - 13-8-1932", "page_number": 49, "title": "CO129-536-9 Capt. T. Pritchard- case of yacht Tavy II v. SS. Sui Tai (Macao Ferry) 18-11-1931 - 13-8-1932", "content_text": "HONOURABLE COMPANY OF MASTER MARINERS.\n\n48\n\n23rd November, 1931.\n\nThe Under Secretary of State for the Colonies,\n\nColonial Office,\n\nDowning Street,\n\nLONDON, S.W. 1.\n\nSir,\n\nI am requested by the Court of the Company to inform you that they have had brought to their notice a report of an incident which arose in Hong Kong during July last.\n\nThe case is referred to in the official record as \"Yacht Tevy II\" versus S.S. \"Sui Tai\" (Macao Ferry) Hongkong 29th July, 1931.\n\nAfter careful consideration of the information at their disposal the Court are unable to find any grave breach of the regulations such as would warrant the imposition of a fine of £25 or in default two weeks with hard labour, which was, we understand, the sentence passed by the Marine Magistrate, Commander G. F. Hole, R.N., (Ret.), upon Commander T. Pritchard, R.N.R., (Ret.)", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-536-9 Capt. T. Pritchard- case of yacht Tavy II v. SS. Sui Tai (Macao Ferry) 18-11-1931 - 13-8-1932.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 532195, "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": "CO129-536-9 Capt. T. Pritchard- case of yacht Tavy II v. SS. Sui Tai (Macao Ferry) 18-11-1931 - 13-8-1932", "page_number": 50, "title": "CO129-536-9 Capt. T. Pritchard- case of yacht Tavy II v. SS. Sui Tai (Macao Ferry) 18-11-1931 - 13-8-1932", "content_text": "I am desired to add that the Court hope that it will be found possible, upon further investigation, to have the case quashed and deleted from the records.\n\nI beg to remain, Sir,\n\nYour obedient Servant,\n\nClerk to the Company.\n\n49\n\nPage 50\nPage 51\n\n:A^་ 14 @08\n\nTELEPHONE: AVENUE 8048.\n\nTELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS:\n\nRABLE, ALD, LONDON,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-536-9 Capt. T. Pritchard- case of yacht Tavy II v. SS. Sui Tai (Macao Ferry) 18-11-1931 - 13-8-1932.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 532196, "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": "CO129-536-9 Capt. T. Pritchard- case of yacht Tavy II v. SS. Sui Tai (Macao Ferry) 18-11-1931 - 13-8-1932", "page_number": 51, "title": "CO129-536-9 Capt. T. Pritchard- case of yacht Tavy II v. SS. Sui Tai (Macao Ferry) 18-11-1931 - 13-8-1932", "content_text": "HONOURABLE COMPANY OF MASTER MARINERS.\n\n23rd November, 1931.\n\nINDIA HOUSE,\n\n84, LEADENHALL STREET,\n\nLONDON, E.C.3.\n\nThe Under Secretary of State for the Colonies,\n\nColonial Office,\n\nDowning Street,\n\nLONDON, S.W.1.\n\nSir,\n\nI am requested by the Court of the Company to inform you that they have had brought to their notice a report of an incident which arose in Hong Kong during July last.\n\nThe case is referred to in the official record as \"Yacht Tavy II versus S.S. 'Sui Tai' (Macao Ferry) Hongkong 29th July, 1931.\"\n\nAfter careful consideration of the information at their disposal the Court are unable to find any grave breach of the regulations such as would warrant the imposition of a \"fine of $25 or in default two weeks with hard labour\" which was, I understand, the sentence passed by the Marine Magistrate, Commander G. F. Hole, R.N., (Ret.), upon Commander T. Pritchard, R.N.R., (Ret.)", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-536-9 Capt. T. Pritchard- case of yacht Tavy II v. SS. Sui Tai (Macao Ferry) 18-11-1931 - 13-8-1932.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 532197, "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": "CO129-536-9 Capt. T. Pritchard- case of yacht Tavy II v. SS. Sui Tai (Macao Ferry) 18-11-1931 - 13-8-1932", "page_number": 52, "title": "CO129-536-9 Capt. T. Pritchard- case of yacht Tavy II v. SS. Sui Tai (Macao Ferry) 18-11-1931 - 13-8-1932", "content_text": "I am desired to add that the Court hope that it will be found possible, upon further investigation, to have the case quashed and deleted from the records.\n\nI beg to remain, Sir,\n\nYour obedient Servant,\n\nJ. C. Smith\n\nClerk to the Company.\n\nPage 57\n\nPage 57\n\nPage 57", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-536-9 Capt. T. Pritchard- case of yacht Tavy II v. SS. Sui Tai (Macao Ferry) 18-11-1931 - 13-8-1932.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 532198, "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": "CO129-536-9 Capt. T. Pritchard- case of yacht Tavy II v. SS. Sui Tai (Macao Ferry) 18-11-1931 - 13-8-1932", "page_number": 53, "title": "CO129-536-9 Capt. T. Pritchard- case of yacht Tavy II v. SS. Sui Tai (Macao Ferry) 18-11-1931 - 13-8-1932", "content_text": "152\n\nACE.\n\nOFFICERS\n\nPRESIDENT :\n\nADMIRAL PHILIP NELSON-WARD, M.V.O.\n\nGENERAL MANAGER:\n\nWILLIAM H. COOMBS.\n\nTHE\n\nMERCHANT NAVY FEDERATION\n\nLIMITED\n\n23, LEADENHALL STREET,\n\nLONDON, E.C.3.\n\nTELEGRAMS: PULONEROPE, FEN, LONDON.\n\nTELEPHONE: MONUMENT 2124.\n\nYour Ref.\n\nOur Ref.\n\nT/R\n\nThe Secretary of State for the Colonies,\n\nColonial Office\n\nS.W.1.\n\n18th November 1921.\n\nSir,\n\nWe regret to bring to your notice a report we have received from Hon Kong Permanent Secretary of the China Coast Office Guild regarding an Inquiry held at the Marine Magistrate's Office, Victoria, Hong Kong, on the 21st July 1921,\n\nMaster of the whereby Captain T. Pritchard, R.D.,\n\nCommander J.R. Newill, D.S.C., R.N.R., for failing to observe Article 29 of the International Collision Regulations,\n\nSection 5 Merchant Shipping (A.M. Rules) 1897, Section 418(2).\n\nThe verdict of the Marine Magistrate's Office,\n\nyou have no doubt been\n\nCommander T. Pritchard\n\nwas found\n\nand sentenced to a fine of $50 or in default, two weeks' hard labour.\n\nWe have before us a copy of the official record Marine Magistrate's Office, together with a statement of legal opinion signed by nine maritime experts in Hong Kong.\n\nCopy of this latter document we are taking the liberty of sending to you enclosed in this letter.\n\nThis Federation, which represents over 10,000 Merchant Navy, navigating and engineer officers in the Mercantile Navy, will appreciate some inquiry into the facts as related above and you may consider proper to institute.\n\nWe are,\n\nYour obedient servants,\n\nMERCHANT NAVY FEDERATION LIMITED\n\nfor Hong Kong", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-536-9 Capt. T. Pritchard- case of yacht Tavy II v. SS. Sui Tai (Macao Ferry) 18-11-1931 - 13-8-1932.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 532199, "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": "CO129-536-9 Capt. T. Pritchard- case of yacht Tavy II v. SS. Sui Tai (Macao Ferry) 18-11-1931 - 13-8-1932", "page_number": 54, "title": "CO129-536-9 Capt. T. Pritchard- case of yacht Tavy II v. SS. Sui Tai (Macao Ferry) 18-11-1931 - 13-8-1932", "content_text": "53\n\nEXPERT OPINION RE CASE YACHT \"ALY IT\" VERSUS S.S.\"CUI TAI\".\n\nWe, the undersigned Nautical experts in this Colony, have read the Official Record of the Case Yacht \"Aly IT\" versus S.S. \"Cui Tai\" and are of this opinion.\n\n1.\n\n2.\n\n3.\n\nBut a fine was inflicted, they are still not satisfied.\n\nThis Case should never have been brought into Court, and could easily have been settled in the Harbour Master's Office, the Harbour Master, Comdr. G.F. Tule, R.N. (Red), who is the Marine Magistrate, should have refused to issue the summons.\n\nThe Magistrate, the prosecutor, and the witness for the prosecution were all Officers of the Royal Navy, the first two on the Retired List, the Harbour Master and the Deputy Harbour Master respectively, and the witness, an officer of H.M. Dockyard.\n\nThe defendant is a Commander (Retired), Royal Naval Reserve, of exemplary record with 32 years' experience as an Officer of Sailing and Steamships; we, together with all other Officers of the Merchant Navy from Hongkong, are emphatically of the opinion that Commander T. Pritchard, R.N.R., used his experience to the best of his ability and considered that it was safe to cross ahead of this Yacht, that there was a good clearance and no risk of collision.\n\nOur opinion is based on the evidence and diagram; had the Yacht been in the close proximity which she was said to be, there would have been a collision, for the S.S. \"Cui Tai\", under the full swing of helm hard aport, would have struck the \"Aly IT\" with her port quarter.\n\nThis point being wrong, grave doubt is thrown on the rest of the evidence.\n\nIf there was an error of judgment, which we consider there was not, no fine should have been inflicted.\n\nWe, therefore, very strongly urge that this Case be brought to the notice of the proper authority with a view to it being quashed and deleted from the records.\n\n(Signatures over)", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-536-9 Capt. T. Pritchard- case of yacht Tavy II v. SS. 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Pritchard- case of yacht Tavy II v. SS. Sui Tai (Macao Ferry) 18-11-1931 - 13-8-1932", "page_number": 56, "title": "CO129-536-9 Capt. T. Pritchard- case of yacht Tavy II v. SS. Sui Tai (Macao Ferry) 18-11-1931 - 13-8-1932", "content_text": "L.S.\n\nHONG KONG.\n\nNo. 16 of 1928.\n\nI assent.\n\nW. T. SOUTHORN,\n\nOfficer Administering the Government.\n\n28th December, 1928.\n\nAn Ordinance to amend the Magistrates Ordinance, 1890.\n\n[28th December, 1928.]\n\nBE it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-\n\n1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Magistrates Amendment Ordinance, 1928.\n\n2. Section 96 of the Magistrates Ordinance, 1890, which was enacted by section 13 of the Magistrates Amendment Ordinance, 1927, is repealed and the following section is substituted therefor :-\n\nReview of decision by magistrate.\n\n96.—(1) Within seven clear days after the determination in any manner by a magistrate of any matter which he has power to determine in a summary way it shall be lawful for either party thereto to apply to the magistrate to review his decision in the matter.\n\n(2) Any such application may be made by the party himself in person, or may be made by his counsel in open court whether the party himself be present or not.\n\n(3) If either party to the said matter is in the custody of the Superintendent of Prisons, the magistrate shall, unless he dismisses the application forthwith, inform the Superintendent of Prisons in writing that an application for a review has been made, and thereafter the Superintendent of Prisons shall produce the said party whenever so required in writing by a magistrate for the purposes of the review or of the application therefor.\n\n(4) It shall be lawful for the magistrate to grant the application for a review at any time provided that the application is made within the time specified.\n\nPage 1\n\n54", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-536-9 Capt. 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Sui Tai (Macao Ferry) 18-11-1931 - 13-8-1932", "content_text": "5J\n\nEFD\n\nAmendment\n\nof Ordinance No. 3 of 1890 Third\n\nSchedule.\n\n2\n\ncation for the review shall have been duly made in accordance with the provisions of sub-sections (1) and (2).\n\n(5) It shall also be lawful for a magistrate on his own initiative, within seven clear days after the determination in any manner of any matter which he has power to determine in a summary way, to re-open the case, and thereafter, whether within the said period of seven clear days or after its expiration, to review his decision in the matter.\n\n(6) If the magistrate on his own initiative reviews his decision or grants an application for a review it shall be lawful for him upon the review to re-open and re-hear the case wholly or in part, and to take fresh evidence, and to reverse, vary or confirm his previous decision.\n\n(7) For the purpose of the review the magistrate shall have all the powers, as to securing the attendance of the parties and witnesses and otherwise, that he would have if the matter were brought before him as an original complaint or information.\n\n(8) No application for a review shall be granted if any proceedings have been commenced by either party with a view to questioning the decision of the magistrate by way of appeal, mandamus or certiorari, unless such proceedings shall have been abandoned, but any such proceedings shall not debar the magistrate from reviewing his decision on his own initiative, as provided for by sub-section (5).\n\n(9) The decision of the magistrate upon a review shall for the purposes of sections 98 and 103 be deemed to be the determination of a proceeding which he has power to determine in a summary way.\n\n3. 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Schools in order,\n\ngiving dates of entry\n\nand leaving.\n\nNIL\n\nNo\n\nMention any Examinations passed [e.g.\n\nMatriculation. School or Schoolship\n\nHigher Certificate], any distinctions gained in school work,\n\netc., R. Cup\n\nand positions of responsibility held. Give the names of your Head or House masters.\n\nKinkley House Lowestoft (L. 6. Part)\n\n[Capt. H. Bromsbent]\n\nBanturth\n\n10. University (or other similar Institution).\n\nState (a) any scholarships\n\nheld or prizes won. (b) Subject or subjects read in degree or diploma course.\n\n(c) Athletic and other\n\nnon-academic dis-\n\ntinctions.\n\n(Rem adminat Pelor)\n\nDates\n\nTo\n\nFrom (Month & Year) (Month & Year)\n\n1962\n\n1508\n\nbec\n\nVan\n\n1963\n\ntee\n\n1814\n\n1915-\n\nni has Corona R.L. Gao Schott Tifun 19829Month & Year) (Month & Year)\n\nSince been auti gus office in\n\n1930\n\natteuchust\n\nLA\n\nat\n\npaucis Alu. Slips. hustard gas dicuntaminatio expaciental station Puta.\n\nBecame decatorination officer for Roque hired Bannedes #Establishments plymouth apit 1937 took \"refresher Course followed by a special course\n\n(d) Give the name of\n\nor of the Professor\n\nA wak\n\nyour college Tutor.\n\na\n\nor Lecturer who\n\nComme\n\nknew you best.\n\nProfessional Qualifica-\n\ntions and\n\nB. date\n\nChuese.\n\nat which\n\nobtained.\n\neach was\n\nThe result or class obtain-\n\nhave trained\n\n180 Europeans\n\n* 22 ou\n\nCo-optice member of Civil Cim Raid Precaution Sub Car with\n\ned in each part of your\n\ncourse must be clearly shown here. If not completed at the time of application. give par-\n\nticululars and date of ful examination.\n\n12. Civil employment or occupation, from com-\n\npletion of education to\n\npresent time.\n\n+\n\nDiving Shire\n\nin cre\n\nlectives\n\nNAVAL OFFICER\n\n41\n\n13. Navy, Army, or Air Force service, if any.\n\nRank and any decorations, mentions in despatches, etc., obtained.\n\n(Month & Year)(Month & Year)\n\nMidshipmen Rural Lang\n\nJan\n\n1916\n\nSave\n\n1918\n\nSub huntant\n\nivan\n\n1868\n\nSupr\n\n1920\n\n1920 Gupt\n\n1818\n\n1928\n\n1934\n\nrelived at\n\nThe names (with initials, rank, and Regiment) of the senior officers under whom you served in H.M.'s Forces, and the period of your service under each officer, should be stated in Section 15 (b).\n\n(If you were of military age, but did not hold commissioned rank or were exempted from military service during the Great War, you should submit your discharge or exemption papers for inspection.)\n\n14. Personal References.\n\nGive the\n\nnames and addresses of two referees.\n\nLentencent\n\nLacint Commande\n\n1. Name Commander\n\nAddress\n\nR. A. LC Bean oso ose\n\nUnited Suria that\n\nCommander Au. ret)\n\nJuice 19+ &\n\nLM.\n\nOccupation\n\nyou well,\n\nPeriod during which he has known you\n\nThey should be responsible persons who know either in private life Or in business; and one at least should be well acquainted with you in private life. The names of relatives must not be given, nor those of distinguished\n\npersons\n\nunless know you well. Testimonials from your\n\npersonal referees should not be sent.\n\n2. Nume Cuph J. M. beans fuild BSC Am\n\nAddress Hus befolk\n\nOccupation Captain Pursed b Period during which\n\nhe has known you\n\n15. (a) Testimonials. (Please read carefully.)\n\nSince 1924.\n\nThe Secretary of State will not be able to consider a candidate unless, so far as possible, every stage of his career (including his education) is covered. You should therefore either submit testimonials with your application or arrange for testimonials to be sent direct to the Director of Recruitment (Colonial Service): -\n\n(a) The testimonials which you submit yourself should not exceed six in number, unless more are necessary to cover every stage of your career. They should all be sent in together unless undue delay would result. The originals and one copy of each should be enclosed; the former will be returned after inspection. Copies should preferably be on foolscap paper, and may be in MS., in print, or typewritten. If, for any reason, you experience difficulty in obtaining a testimonial to cover a particular period of your career, you should state the reason in writing. In this case the name and last known address of someone who would be in a position to report on your character and conduct during the period in question should be given.\n\n(b) Should either you or the writer of a testimonial prefer that he should send it direct to the Director of Recruitinent, there is no objection, but you should state hereon that he is doing so and for what period he will speak. The contents of reports or testimonials received by the Secretary of State direct can in no case be communicated to you at any time.\n\nYou should state, in the space below, the name, address, and occupation of the writer of each of your testimonials, the period of your career for which he can speak, and the capacity in which he speaks.\n\n(Month & Year), (Mouth & Year)\n\n19.6\n\n1934\n\nAny period spent under\n\narticles should be\n\nincluded.] Mention in chronological\n\nby you, the dates be-\n\norder each position held\n\nOutdoor Sports director\n\ntween which you held\n\nit, and the cause of\n\nleaving; also any dates between which you were not employed. The name of each employer should be stated here, and his\n\naddress should also be\n\ngiven, unless it is stated\n\nin Section 15.\n\nChristine Rural Commventy Committe\n\npost abolished-Lank of funds\n\nofficer\n\nState present employment Passive Defence\n\nand salary you are now receiving.\n\nHM. Dockyards Home King &\n\nfear adament RC. Basenput\n\n1920-22\n\nExecution offie Affo. Barham\n\n#1\n\nCastle Hambran Hotel Bestandtei\n\n1934\n\n(Fun with x<°)\n\nduar\n\n(Seasonal post and\n\n1935\n\nJ.M. hrausfold. Captai Capt. A.G.B. Wilson\n\n1924-12\n\n1923-25-\n\nYou R Club Organiser,\n\n1935 out-\n\n1936\n\nCapt. F.R.M. Johnson\n\nEr\n\n1927\n\n-28\n\nBrokes\n\n1935\n\n-\n\n૩.\n\nChainman Chestiine fueral\n\nCommite Conmail.\n\nKipr 1937\n\nSingapore @ £450 pa\n\n[TUEN OVER]\n\nPage 40\n\nPage 41\n\n42", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-565-14 Vacancy for air raid precaution officer. Includes 1 photograph depicting- Douglas Berwick Maitland- applicant for... 15-11-1937 - 8-2-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 559978, "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": "CO129-57 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [7]", "page_number": 242, "title": "CO129-57 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [7]", "content_text": "239\n\nIt is true that\n\n\"great vermynvers\n\n\" and serious detriment?\n\nAyou this paint. I\n\nonly.\n\nobes.\n\nthat until the\n\nevith\n\net is death wi\n\nsubje al\n\nby\n\nmutual\n\nlenartment.\n\nrecipround\n\nevery\n\nact which worker.\n\nwarrant the intervention\n\nof the British Magistrate,\n\np\n\nep\n\nit occurred\n\nbound\n\nwvv\n\nEnglish.\n\nShip, must receive\n\nthe rise interention,\n\nintuen occur.\n\naccuring\n\nboard\n\n01.12\n\nan\n\nAmeriau\n\nMerchant Ship in\n\nBritish Marteaur\n\nthe Saw.\n\nthe\n\nof\n\nDervitect States does\n\nin certain ceremstances\n\njustify the was of personal violevie\n\nby\n\nan American\n\nMerchant Captam towards siis Corens (as\n\nfor\n\ninstance the\n\ninfliction of Corporal\n\nJusensterment in\n\nCass\n\nf\n\ndrunkencres\n\nof refusals by as\n\nJaman to do leis\n\nLeurs,\n\ndirty) sucks Sours may\n\nceo\n\nbe considered\n\nincorporated into\n\n--.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-57 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 562810, "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": "CO129-573-11 Capt. John Reynolds- repatriation to United Kingdom 5-7-1938 - 3-3-1939", "page_number": 1, "title": "CO129-573-11 Capt. John Reynolds- repatriation to United Kingdom 5-7-1938 - 3-3-1939", "content_text": "# \n1938 \n53928 \nSONGLY \n53928\n\nCLOSED UNTIL\n\nPrevious \nSubsequent \n\nGILE A.\nSo 129 573, \n573/11 \nCapt. John Reynolds \nRepatriation to UK.\n\n| Date | Amount | Details |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 14/7 | 83 | 14 |\n| 15/7 | 298 | |\n| 18/7 | £83 | When Roger. 18/7 |\n| 25/7 | 298 | |\n| 28 | R.83 344 | My Roger 15 The Great 2 Rest Rzz |\n| 12/8 | R258 | |\n| 17 | M Regia | The Great M R.17 The Cowell 83 M.22144 In lowell 15 |\n| 3/9 | 2 | |\n| 24/8 | | Mr. Rogan 24 83 PUT BY |\n| 1/3 | K.83 | |\n| 7/3 | | Me faloworthy |\n| 10 | 83 PUT BY | M. Cowell |\n\n(21937) 25670/60 8,000 10/37 M & S., Ltd \nGp.641 \nイ", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-573-11 Capt. John Reynolds- repatriation to United Kingdom 5-7-1938 - 3-3-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 562811, "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": "CO129-573-11 Capt. John Reynolds- repatriation to United Kingdom 5-7-1938 - 3-3-1939", "page_number": 2, "title": "CO129-573-11 Capt. John Reynolds- repatriation to United Kingdom 5-7-1938 - 3-3-1939", "content_text": "## C.I.\nR. & Nom ca.\n\ne.g. See [(16) on `53528/19/36`](#).\n\nmin (Pro.org. Comes. for action)\n\nI have discussed with Mr. Gent, and submit draft telegram for conson. This should clear up the Hong Kong end of the matter, but arrangements will still have to be made for placing Captain Reynolds in some home, as I presume that the Seamen's Hospital would not be prepared to keep him indefinitely. Subject to what the reply from Hong Kong may contain, I suggest that when it is received we should write to the Ministry of Health with the appropriate Public Assistance authority; and ask them to make arrangements to place Captain Reynolds in a home.\n\n? As in draft herewith.\n\n25 is Ar muddle.\n\nP. Rogers 5/2.\n\n2. Do Gov. Cil. 125 Cons. 5.7.38\n3. To CA (w/c2). 01/26/ 15.7.38.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-573-11 Capt. John Reynolds- repatriation to United Kingdom 5-7-1938 - 3-3-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 562812, "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": "CO129-573-11 Capt. John Reynolds- repatriation to United Kingdom 5-7-1938 - 3-3-1939", "page_number": 3, "title": "CO129-573-11 Capt. John Reynolds- repatriation to United Kingdom 5-7-1938 - 3-3-1939", "content_text": "## To Gombal\n\n4. Gov. till 203\n\n450-4.380.\n\n18.7.38\n\nRef re: \"Temporary maintenance at Seamen's Hospital should be met from £16 which is not Reynolds' property if feasible, the H.K. funds may be used.\"\n\nCoby \n\n6 C.A. by minute re: ref \n\nThanks to them \n\n13 May Syt Hughe £15 has been deposited with the balance of the Seamen's Hospital funds.\n\nSEE word (1) to be charged. Excel 240 () letter from the ship's surgeon (keeping copy) (4).\n\nEnclose Ch u in re: equal certificate mentioned. And write to M. of H. re: feeling out Greely the necessary intimation (as Lugwen adding that H.K. will make arrangements).\n\n(32) + (4)anday they we hay and the work.\n\nre: Seamen's Hospital Culotte the Public Assistance Auctioneles aut have no reform belly 15/10 Caft Reynied the flaced bein a suitable institution.\n\nCopy the lette hC.A in minute above P. Royes to ask to to int m had bette.\n\n18/7 mite to Wm E. Ross (fuck andorus in No!) ref his leite to the CA. To say what action.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-573-11 Capt. John Reynolds- repatriation to United Kingdom 5-7-1938 - 3-3-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 562813, "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": "CO129-573-11 Capt. John Reynolds- repatriation to United Kingdom 5-7-1938 - 3-3-1939", "page_number": 4, "title": "CO129-573-11 Capt. John Reynolds- repatriation to United Kingdom 5-7-1938 - 3-3-1939", "content_text": "## \nwe are Taking \nas grounds \n4 \nthe cheporal of Capt Reynolds. \n5 To W.t. Poss \n258.6 \nmy Health \nSWGrant. \nat my \nnow \nbonds. \n25/7/38 \nX. 6.A. (Wenell) as diff; \n\n## DESTROYED UNDER STATUTE \n8. M./H. 111B `94001//6/1` \n`94001/6/14` \n199 \n29.7.38 \nRef 6, Capt Reynolds is being transferred from Seamen's Hospital to St Alfege's Hospital Greenwich. No further action being taken. \n\n? \nPerhaps \nwe have been wrong \nLa Ross \n\" \nthis. \n7. Roys \n2/8 \nNo. \n2 \n> on supply come to LA \nfor LF \nMrant \n1 To. C.A. (w/e 8.) Bre \nrah \n-12.8.38", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-573-11 Capt. John Reynolds- repatriation to United Kingdom 5-7-1938 - 3-3-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 562814, "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": "CO129-573-11 Capt. John Reynolds- repatriation to United Kingdom 5-7-1938 - 3-3-1939", "page_number": 5, "title": "CO129-573-11 Capt. John Reynolds- repatriation to United Kingdom 5-7-1938 - 3-3-1939", "content_text": "## \n10. Seamen's Hospital Greenwick \n12-8.38 \n\nEncl account for maintenance & treatment afforded to Batt. John Reynolds.\n\nv. No 4.\n\n: Copy \n\nO.C. A. by mmol(7) \n\n... authorised them to pay the account, & change the love(?) to Hit(?) fund \n\nP. Roger \n17/8. \n\nBut then she(?) \n716 approx deposited with the Secretary of the Hospital para 2 of No 7. sec... had better write further to the Hospital saying it is so understood that the Gov... has requested that this Sum be drawn upon. Ask for info on the amount as to whether Sum is available, how it has been deposited \n\nAsst... \nh \nC.A. telegraphed to-day. \n(`Ext 40`) \n\nHospital authorities had \n17/8 \nSeaman \n...the £16 \n... 6 Cap = Reynolds then be left them for...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-573-11 Capt. John Reynolds- repatriation to United Kingdom 5-7-1938 - 3-3-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 562815, "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": "CO129-573-11 Capt. John Reynolds- repatriation to United Kingdom 5-7-1938 - 3-3-1939", "page_number": 6, "title": "CO129-573-11 Capt. John Reynolds- repatriation to United Kingdom 5-7-1938 - 3-3-1939", "content_text": "## St Alfegel, Horfilul.\n\nI told the C.A. that they had better explain the foretea to St Allege's back money. Seamen's will also consult the quiremen.\n\nI think we may try a get the List flare above. Therefore, that they have felve ? wart to the result of P. Roges 10. P. A. P. Mise Hong Kong 1. 23 22 2.9.38. Rafy encesafe & and from deumens Hospital.\n\nThis is getting in rather a mess and it will no doubt involve Hong Kong in some expense. however, their own fault. It is, See fan 2 of (4) * The last senter quad 3 wa Witte desturbing. 7.R.\n\nAs far as the Seamen's Hospital account is concerned, I think that we must authorise the C.A. to pay this from Hong Kong funds. As far as the L.C.C. hospital is concerned, I think the C.A. should press for the refund of the sum in their possession. should also make it clear that neither they nor the Colonial Government have any responsibility for the payment of the cost of Captain Reynolds' maintenance by them.\n\n? Reply accordingly by minute.\n\nThey \n7. Rogers \n1419.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-573-11 Capt. John Reynolds- repatriation to United Kingdom 5-7-1938 - 3-3-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 562816, "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": "CO129-573-11 Capt. John Reynolds- repatriation to United Kingdom 5-7-1938 - 3-3-1939", "page_number": 7, "title": "CO129-573-11 Capt. John Reynolds- repatriation to United Kingdom 5-7-1938 - 3-3-1939", "content_text": "## C. A. P. Miss. H. K.I.\n\n2-1.38 \nRef: References re: funds from Seamen's hospital \nTo: C.A. \n**DESTROYED UNDER STATUTE** \n(Hansd) \nIncorpule \nRef: re funds \n\n13. B. A. P. Mex. H. K.I. \n23.9.38. \n22.9.38 \nRef: 1&11, re: refund from London County Council of amount from H. K. funds. \nThis relates to £160 odd, regarding which there is a query as to whether to pay in full effect and was referred to (12). \nI have phoned C.A. \nPicked by P. Royes and told them so. \n14½ brown Agents 24/9 are at 3.3.39. \n\nRef: 12. Irs of letter from L.C.C. stating that Captain Reynolds died on 14.2.39 and enquiring whether funds are available to meet the cost of the burial. \nThe C.A.'s reply to the L.C.C. is, I think, correct, since it has been made clear that neither the C.A. nor the H.K. fund have any responsibility in this matter. \n\n?A.N. Salswitly \n10 \n1/3 \nPage 7 \nPage 11", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-573-11 Capt. John Reynolds- repatriation to United Kingdom 5-7-1938 - 3-3-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 562817, "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": "CO129-573-11 Capt. John Reynolds- repatriation to United Kingdom 5-7-1938 - 3-3-1939", "page_number": 8, "title": "CO129-573-11 Capt. John Reynolds- repatriation to United Kingdom 5-7-1938 - 3-3-1939", "content_text": "# ALL COMMUNICATIONS \n## TO BE ADDRESSED TO THE \n### CROWN AGENTS FOR THE COLONIES, \nTHE FOLLOWING REFERENCE AND THE DATE OF THIS LETTER BEING QUOTED. \n`P/Misc Hong Kong.1.` \n\n## TELEGRAMS \nINLAND: \"Crown WEST LONDON.\" OVERSEAS: \"CROWN LONDON,\" \nTELEPHONE: ABBEY 7730. \n\n**CROWN AGENTS FOR COLONIES** \nTHE \nRECEIVED \n4 MAR 1939 \n4, MILLBANK, LONDON, S.W. 1. \n\nSir, \n3rd March, 1939. \n`C. O. REGI` \n24.2.39. \n\nWith reference to your letter No. `53928/38` of 23rd September, 1935 regarding the case of Captain John Reynolds who had been repatriated from Hong Kong, I have the honour to transmit for your information a copy of a letter from the London County Council stating that Captain Reynolds died on 11th February, 1939 and enquiring whether funds are available to meet the cost of the burial. To this we have replied that, so far as we are aware, there are no funds available for this purpose. \n\nI have the honour to be, \nSir, \nYour obedient Servant, \n... \nfor Crown Agents. \n\nThe Under Secretary of State, Colonial Office.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-573-11 Capt. John Reynolds- repatriation to United Kingdom 5-7-1938 - 3-3-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 562818, "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": "CO129-573-11 Capt. John Reynolds- repatriation to United Kingdom 5-7-1938 - 3-3-1939", "page_number": 9, "title": "CO129-573-11 Capt. John Reynolds- repatriation to United Kingdom 5-7-1938 - 3-3-1939", "content_text": "# P/Misc Hong Kong 1\n\n## COPY OF LETTER FROM THE LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL TO CROWN AGENTS\n\nGentlemen,\n\nArea Office, \n9, 2a, Woolwich Road, \nS.E.10. \n24th February, 1939.\n\nJohn Reynolds, R.E.R.54285\n\nReferring to your letter of the 23rd August, 1938, P/Misc. Hong Kong 1, I have to inform you that the above-named died in St. Clement's Hospital on the 11th February, 1939, and was buried by the Council at a cost of £4.17s.6d. I shall be glad if you will kindly inform me whether there are any funds available from which the above-mentioned cost of burial may be met.\n\nI am, etc., \n(sgd.) for Area Officer.\n\n## Page 10\n\nMr. S. A. Pilbeam, \nEastern Department, \nColonial Office, \nS.W.1.\n\nWith further reference to your minute No. 53928/38 of 25th July, 1938 and in continuation of our minute of 2nd September, 1938, we have now received from the London County Council a refund of the sum of £15.16.4d. said to be the amount found on Captain John Reynolds.\n\nWe presume that no useful purpose will be served in pursuing the question of the balance of the amount deposited by the P. and O. Steam Navigation Co. with the Seamen's Hospital?\n\nWill you please inform us whether we may pay the full amount of the Seamen's Hospital account from Hong Kong funds.\n\nPay Department, Crown Agents. \n22nd September, 1938.\n\n## Page 11", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-573-11 Capt. John Reynolds- repatriation to United Kingdom 5-7-1938 - 3-3-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 562819, "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": "CO129-573-11 Capt. John Reynolds- repatriation to United Kingdom 5-7-1938 - 3-3-1939", "page_number": 11, "title": "CO129-573-11 Capt. John Reynolds- repatriation to United Kingdom 5-7-1938 - 3-3-1939", "content_text": "P/Misc.Hong Kong 1.\n\nMr. S. A. Pilbeam, \nEastern Department, \nColonial Office.\n\nWith reference to your minute No.53928/38 of 25th July 1938, regarding Captain John Reynolds repatriated from Hong Kong, I attach for your information a copy of a letter and enclosure from the Seamen's Hospital in reply to our application for the refund of the sums of £16.16.9d. and Hong Kong $3.71 deposited with the Steward of the Hospital by the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Co., and also a copy of a letter from the London County Council on the same subject.\n\nWill you please say whether any further action is necessary at this stage, regarding the recovery of the money and also whether the Seamen's Hospital Account should be paid in the meantime.\n\nYou will notice that the \"deposit\" has dwindled to £15.16.4d.\n\nEshraunder \nPay Department. \nCrown Agents. \n2nd Sept. 1938 \n\nEGM", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-573-11 Capt. John Reynolds- repatriation to United Kingdom 5-7-1938 - 3-3-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 562820, "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": "CO129-573-11 Capt. John Reynolds- repatriation to United Kingdom 5-7-1938 - 3-3-1939", "page_number": 12, "title": "CO129-573-11 Capt. John Reynolds- repatriation to United Kingdom 5-7-1938 - 3-3-1939", "content_text": "P/Misc.H.Kong 1.\n\nCopy\n\nSir,\n\nSeamen's Hospital,\nGreenwich,\nS.E.10.\n\n20th August, 1938.\n\n(Recd. C.Agts. 22.8.38)\n\nRe: Captain John Reynolds, Shipmaster.\n\nI have to acknowledge the receipt of your communication of the 18th instant in regard to the above-named patient.\n\nCaptain Reynolds was transferred to the St. Alfege's Hospital on the 30th July, 1938, and the sum of £16. 16. 9. belonging to him, was handed over to the patient before he left our care.\n\nHe made no payment to us in respect of his stay here and I enclose herewith a copy of an account which we sent to the Colonial Office on the 12th instant.\n\nAs Captain Reynolds was treated in one of our private wards, it is hoped that the Crown Agents for the Colonies may be good enough to defray the cost of his maintenance.\n\nI am, Sir,\nYours faithfully,\n(Sd) F.A. LYON.\nSecretary.\n\nThe Secretary,\nCrown Agents for the Colonies,\n4, Millbank,\nLondon, S.W.1.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-573-11 Capt. John Reynolds- repatriation to United Kingdom 5-7-1938 - 3-3-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 562821, "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": "CO129-573-11 Capt. John Reynolds- repatriation to United Kingdom 5-7-1938 - 3-3-1939", "page_number": 13, "title": "CO129-573-11 Capt. John Reynolds- repatriation to United Kingdom 5-7-1938 - 3-3-1939", "content_text": "# Seamen's Hospital,\n## Greenwich, S.E.10.\n### 20th August, 1938.\n\nThe Under Secretary of State, \nColonial Office, \nDowning Street, \nLondon, S.W.1.\n\nRe: Captain John Reynolds, Hong-Kong.\n\nTo In-Patient Treatment of the above named patient in this Hospital... \nAdmitted 2.7.38. Discharged 30.7.38. 27 Days @ 10/6d. per day.... £6. 14. 3. 6.\n\n| Item | £ | s | d |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Fee for Services of Honorary Surgeon | 4 | 4 | 0 |\n| Right Scrotal Truss supplied at request of Honorary Surgeon | | 17 | 6 |\n| **Total** | **£6** | **19** | **6** |\n\nPage 13", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-573-11 Capt. John Reynolds- repatriation to United Kingdom 5-7-1938 - 3-3-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 562822, "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": "CO129-573-11 Capt. John Reynolds- repatriation to United Kingdom 5-7-1938 - 3-3-1939", "page_number": 14, "title": "CO129-573-11 Capt. John Reynolds- repatriation to United Kingdom 5-7-1938 - 3-3-1939", "content_text": "# P/Misc. Hong Kong 1.\n\nCopy `AEG/W/6164`\n\nSirs,\n\nLONDON COUNTY COUNCIL, Recovery of Expenses Branch,\nArea Office,\n2a, Woolwich Road, S.E.10.\n\n27th August, 1938. (Recd.29.8.38)\n\nJohn Reynolds, R.E.R. 54285.\n\nI have to inform you that your letter of the 23rd instant, reference P/Misc.Hong Kong 1, addressed to the Secretary of St. Alfege's Hospital has been forwarded to me for attention.\n\nA sum of £15.16.4d. was found on the patient on his admission to Hospital and the question of your application for refund of this sum will be submitted to the next meeting of the appropriate sub-committee of the Council to be held on the 9th proximo. For your information the full cost of the patient's maintenance and treatment is at present at the rate of £3.12.11d. per week.\n\nI am, Sir,\nYour obedient Servant,\n**(Sd) ALLEN KING**\nArea Officer.\n\nThe Crown Agents for the Colonies,\n4 Millbank,\nS.W.1.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-573-11 Capt. John Reynolds- repatriation to United Kingdom 5-7-1938 - 3-3-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 562823, "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": "CO129-573-11 Capt. John Reynolds- repatriation to United Kingdom 5-7-1938 - 3-3-1939", "page_number": 15, "title": "CO129-573-11 Capt. John Reynolds- repatriation to United Kingdom 5-7-1938 - 3-3-1939", "content_text": "Telephone: GREENWICH 1881. Telegrams & Radiograms: \n**\"DREADNOUGHT, GREENWICH.\"** \n\nPlease address all communications to the **SECRETARY**, and NOT to individuals. \n\n**SEAMEN'S HOSPITAL**, \n15 \n10 \n**GREENWICH**, \nS.E.10. \n\n12th August 1938. \n\nSir, \n\nRe: Captain John Reynolds, Hong-Kong. \n\nI beg to enclose herewith account for the maintenance and treatment afforded to the above named patient. \n\nI understand that you have arranged for this to be defrayed by the Crown Agents for the Colonies. \n\nI am, Sir, \nYour obedient Servant, \nJ. A. Lyon \n**Secretary**. \n\nThe Under Secretary of State, \n**Colonial Office**, \nDowning Street, \nLondon, S.W.1.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-573-11 Capt. John Reynolds- repatriation to United Kingdom 5-7-1938 - 3-3-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 562824, "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": "CO129-573-11 Capt. John Reynolds- repatriation to United Kingdom 5-7-1938 - 3-3-1939", "page_number": 16, "title": "CO129-573-11 Capt. John Reynolds- repatriation to United Kingdom 5-7-1938 - 3-3-1939", "content_text": "Telephone: Greenwich 1881. Telegrams & Radiograms: “DREADNOUGHT, GREENWICH.” \n\nPlease address all communications to the **SECRETARY**, and NOT to individuals.\n\nThe Under Secretary of State, \nColonial Office, \nDowning Street London, S.W.1\n\nSEAMEN'S HOSPITAL, \nGREENWICH, \nS.E.10. \n12th August 1938.\n\nRe: Captain John Reynolds, Hong-Kong.\n\nTo In-Patient Treatment of the above named patient in this Hospital.\n\nAdmitted 3.7.38. Discharged 30.7.38. 27 Days @ £10/6d. per day.\n\n| Item | £ | s. | d. |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Fee for Services of Honorary Surgeon | 14 | 3 | 6 |\n| Right Scrotal Truss supplied at request of Honorary Surgeon | 4 | 4 | 0 |\n| Total | 18 | 7 | 6 |\n| ... | 19 | 5 | 0 |\n| ... | | | 6 | \n| ... | 16 | | |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-573-11 Capt. John Reynolds- repatriation to United Kingdom 5-7-1938 - 3-3-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 562825, "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": "CO129-573-11 Capt. John Reynolds- repatriation to United Kingdom 5-7-1938 - 3-3-1939", "page_number": 17, "title": "CO129-573-11 Capt. John Reynolds- repatriation to United Kingdom 5-7-1938 - 3-3-1939", "content_text": "## MINISTRY OF HEALTH, WHITEHALL, S.W.1.\n29th July, 1938\n\nPlease quote the following reference- `IIIB.94001/3/14`.\n\nSir,\n\nI am directed by the Minister of Health to refer to Mr. Cowell's letter of the 25th July, Reference `53928/38`, regarding the case of Captain John Reynolds, and to say that he understands that since the letter under reply was written the authorities of the Seamen's Hospital, Greenwich, have got into touch direct with the authorities of the St. Alfege's Hospital, Greenwich, an establishment belonging to the London County Council, with a view to arranging for the immediate transfer of Captain Reynolds to the latter institution.\n\nThe Minister, in the circumstances, is not taking any further action in the matter.\n\nI am, Sir,\nYour obedient Servant,\nJ.W. Williams.\n\nThe Under-Secretary of State,\nColonial Office,\nS.W.1.\n\nCopy to CA 9.\nO. 3.\n\nTelegrams-\"Localise, Parl, London.\" Telephone-Whitehall 4300.\n\nPlease address any further communication on this subject to- **The Secretary**.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-573-11 Capt. John Reynolds- repatriation to United Kingdom 5-7-1938 - 3-3-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 562826, "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": "CO129-573-11 Capt. John Reynolds- repatriation to United Kingdom 5-7-1938 - 3-3-1939", "page_number": 18, "title": "CO129-573-11 Capt. John Reynolds- repatriation to United Kingdom 5-7-1938 - 3-3-1939", "content_text": "C/o.\n\nMr. Jackin's 20/2/38\n\nMr.\nMr.\n\nSir H. Moore.\nad 2010\nSir G. Tomlinson.\nSir C. Bottomley.\nSir J. Shuckburgh.\nPermt. U.S. of S.\nParly. U.S. of S.\nSecretary of State.\n\nH.K.\n53928/38 H\n\nSir,\n\n18\n6\n\n25 July, 1938\n\nI am directed to transmit to you, for the consideration of the Minister, the following 3 DRAFTS. The Secretary is to take FURTHER ACTION. Copy to C.A. with Minute (see other draft) to 6_a. (7)\n\nDetails regarding Captain Reynolds, shipmaster, who is destitute in this country after repatriation from Hong Kong:\n\nCaptain Reynolds, whose mental faculties are somewhat deteriorated but who is not considered to be in any way a lunatic, arrived in this country per S.S. \"Chitral\" on the 3rd July and was conveyed to the Seamen's Hospital, Greenwich.\n\nThe Hong Kong Govt., who provided his passage, are also paying for his maintenance at the Hospital but they have no responsibility for him. The only relative of Captain Reynolds at this Dept. is ...\n\n| Ref | Wt. | Quantity | Date | T.S. |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| *801-150 | 13952-47 | 10,000 | 6/37 | 695 |\n| *1632-150 | 32179-71 | 20,000 | 12/37 | |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-573-11 Capt. John Reynolds- repatriation to United Kingdom 5-7-1938 - 3-3-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 562827, "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": "CO129-573-11 Capt. John Reynolds- repatriation to United Kingdom 5-7-1938 - 3-3-1939", "page_number": 19, "title": "CO129-573-11 Capt. John Reynolds- repatriation to United Kingdom 5-7-1938 - 3-3-1939", "content_text": "19 is his sister, MRS. Ross, who resides at 203 Church Road, Higher Tranmere, Birkenhead, Cheshire.\n\nThis lady, who is understood to be a semi-invalid, is said to be unable to act for her brother as she has neither the accommodations nor the means to assist her brother.\n\n2. In the circumstances, the S. of S. would be glad, provided MR. Elliot sees no objection, if arrangements could be made with the Public Assistance Authorities for Capt. Reynolds to be placed in a suitable institution in this country.\n\nI am etc.\nSizzza H. & DWS!", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-573-11 Capt. John Reynolds- repatriation to United Kingdom 5-7-1938 - 3-3-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 562828, "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": "CO129-573-11 Capt. John Reynolds- repatriation to United Kingdom 5-7-1938 - 3-3-1939", "page_number": 20, "title": "CO129-573-11 Capt. John Reynolds- repatriation to United Kingdom 5-7-1938 - 3-3-1939", "content_text": "## \nبخارا \n53928/38 H.K. \n20 \n\nC. O. \nMr. Jenkin \nMr. \nMr. \nSir H. Moore. \nSir G. Tomlinson. \nSir C. Bottomley. \nSir J. Shuckburgh. \nPermi. U.S. of S. \nParly. U.S. of S. \nSecretary of State. \n3 DRAFTS. \nW. E. Ross, Esq. \n20/7/3 \n203 Church Road \nBirkenhead \nCheshire \n\n## FURTHER ACTION. \nشمک \n\nSir, \n\n25 July, 1938 \n\nWith reference to your letter of the 24th June addressed to N°.1), I am etc. to inform you that your brother-in-law, Captain John Reynolds, duly arrived in this country and was on the 3rd July conveyed to the Seamen's Hospital, Greenwich. \n\n2. As Captain Reynolds appears to be destitute, the Ministry of Health have been requested to make arrangements with the Public Assistance Authorities for Captain Reynolds to be placed in a suitable institution.\n\nI am etc.\n\nPage 20\n6.A. (7)", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-573-11 Capt. John Reynolds- repatriation to United Kingdom 5-7-1938 - 3-3-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 562829, "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": "CO129-573-11 Capt. John Reynolds- repatriation to United Kingdom 5-7-1938 - 3-3-1939", "page_number": 21, "title": "CO129-573-11 Capt. John Reynolds- repatriation to United Kingdom 5-7-1938 - 3-3-1939", "content_text": "## COPY FOR REGISTRATION\n\nTelegram from the Governor of Hong Kong to the Secretary of State for the Colonies\n\n**RECEIVED 18 JUL 1938**\n\nDated 18th July, 1938. Received 18th July 1938.\n\nNo. 203.\n\nYour telegram No. 125. Purser of **Chitral** was given £15 on arrival and £16 with instructions to pay escort and on certificate of ship's surgeon. If such certificate has issued, Hughes may be paid £15 by the Crown Agents from Hong Kong funds.\n\nTemporary maintenance at Seamen's Hospital should be met from £16, which, as stated above, is not Reynolds' property if this is feasible. Otherwise, Hong Kong funds may be used.\n\nNo other relative known to this Government, and I agree that public assistance authorities should be approached. This Government has no responsibility for Reynolds and has spent much on his repatriation.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-573-11 Capt. John Reynolds- repatriation to United Kingdom 5-7-1938 - 3-3-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 562830, "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": "CO129-573-11 Capt. John Reynolds- repatriation to United Kingdom 5-7-1938 - 3-3-1939", "page_number": 22, "title": "CO129-573-11 Capt. John Reynolds- repatriation to United Kingdom 5-7-1938 - 3-3-1939", "content_text": "## C. O.\n\nMr. Rages 5/7\n\nMr. Gout Sahm\n\nMr. 父 22\n\ncoder&sen 10.45μm. 5.7.38\n\nSir H. Moore.\nSir G. Tomlinson.\nSir C. Bottomley.\nSir J. Shuckburgh.\nPermt. U.S. of S.\nParly. U.S. of S.\nSecretary of State.\n\n**DRAFT** (`code`)\n\n125\n\nC. D. R 3-JL 06\n\nCaft John Reynolds, who was embarked at Hay Kany with Gust fassunge under chaye of Syr Hughes of LMS, S. Chitral, is now anowed here in default of Hay Kay.\n\nH.K. Police had to be converged to the Seamen's Hospital at Green with a bad witter by ambulance.\n\nCopy to `CA3`\n\n7 other arrangement has had to be made as the HK medical authentic was unable to meet him.\n\n**FURTHER ACTION**\n\n1. Copy to C.A.G.\n2. Reg. came frankly sem moraled & cannot Haret non she in Losition to Unterrs macutain bum.\n\nyou Enow other relat was 7) therefore (`*2132-150`) Wt. 42270-82 15,000 4/38 T.S. 695 \n\ncoa ho R \n\n8'in thout his Ross, regarding the data of the urwat let the beterste was", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-573-11 Capt. John Reynolds- repatriation to United Kingdom 5-7-1938 - 3-3-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 562831, "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": "CO129-573-11 Capt. John Reynolds- repatriation to United Kingdom 5-7-1938 - 3-3-1939", "page_number": 23, "title": "CO129-573-11 Capt. John Reynolds- repatriation to United Kingdom 5-7-1938 - 3-3-1939", "content_text": "# 18 funds.\n\nLowly counsel suggests that arrangements be made to find a suitable institution by the Assistance Authorities for him. It is understood that part of a free house has been promised to be procured from a creditor in the HK Court by Mr. Hughes \"to\" but the amount is uncertain. Lovewell, the Head Paymaster, refers to the male affairs and requests clarification on whether the temperance performance at the Seamen's Hospital is to be met from the funds.\n\nIt appears that some funds are to be charged, but the liability, if any, against the property of Reynolds in his circumstances is doubtful. A sum of ₤16 has been mentioned. It is not clear whether the funds are to be kept or used to meet certain costs. \n\nPlease clarify the matter.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-573-11 Capt. John Reynolds- repatriation to United Kingdom 5-7-1938 - 3-3-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 562832, "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": "CO129-573-11 Capt. John Reynolds- repatriation to United Kingdom 5-7-1938 - 3-3-1939", "page_number": 24, "title": "CO129-573-11 Capt. John Reynolds- repatriation to United Kingdom 5-7-1938 - 3-3-1939", "content_text": "## M/Pass/Hong Kong.\n\n**IMMEDIATE**\n\nThe Eastern Department, \nColonial Office.\n\nMr W.E. Ross\n\nAs arranged with Mr. Maynard we attach, in original the correspondence noted in the margin \n`Hughes 24/6738` \n`Dr. W.B.A. Moore to C.A.'s 277/18` & enclos. `2/78` \n`P. & O. to C.A. S. 4/7738` \n\nconcerning the repatriation from Hong Kong to this country of Captain John Reynolds, shipmaster, arrived per s.s. \"Chitral\" on the 3rd July and was conveyed to the Seamen's Hospital, Greenwich.\n\nWe have not heard from the Colonial Government regarding the case and as it does not appear to concern us we shall be glad if you will arrange to deal with it.\n\nI may mention Sergeant Hughes called here yesterday and enquired from whom he may expect payment of his gratuity.\n\n2nd July\n\nAppointments and Passages Department, \nCrown Agents, \n5th July, 1938.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-573-11 Capt. John Reynolds- repatriation to United Kingdom 5-7-1938 - 3-3-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 562833, "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": "CO129-573-11 Capt. John Reynolds- repatriation to United Kingdom 5-7-1938 - 3-3-1939", "page_number": 25, "title": "CO129-573-11 Capt. John Reynolds- repatriation to United Kingdom 5-7-1938 - 3-3-1939", "content_text": "203 Church Road, Birkenhead\n\nTo Sergeant Hughes, Hong Kong Police\n\n24/6/35\n\n25\n\nMy wife received a communication from Hong Kong stating that the S.S \"Chimal\" will arrive in London on the 29th, that you were accompanying Captain Reppas. Alex was asked to meet the ship on arrival.\n\nMy wife being a semi-invalid & has never been in a train for 30 years, it is impossible for her to fulfil such a request, she will therefore not be present.\n\nI am surprised the Hong Kong authorities should send Captain Reynolds to England without first making inquiries as to what is the likely position on his arrival.\n\nI do not know what Captain Reynolds' intentions are, but it will be useless for him to come to Birkenhead. We have not the necessary means or accommodation for him and under no circumstances can I receive him or accept any responsibility for him should he come to Birkenhead.\n\nI can only suggest that he makes his own arrangements to stay in London.\n\nYours respectfully,\nE. Ross", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-573-11 Capt. John Reynolds- repatriation to United Kingdom 5-7-1938 - 3-3-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 562834, "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": "CO129-573-11 Capt. John Reynolds- repatriation to United Kingdom 5-7-1938 - 3-3-1939", "page_number": 26, "title": "CO129-573-11 Capt. John Reynolds- repatriation to United Kingdom 5-7-1938 - 3-3-1939", "content_text": "# P. & O. \n## PENINSULAR and ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY.\n### S.S. \"CHITRAL\" \n#### AT SEA, \n##### 2nd July,1938.\n\nThe Crown Agents for the Colonies. 4, Millbank, \nLONDON, SW.\n\n**Sirs,**\n\nRe Captain Reynolds from Hong Kong.\n\nThis man was embarked at Hong Kong with a Government passage and Sergeant Hughes of the Police was engaged to look after him during the voyage.\n\nI attach copies of correspondence. After leaving Hong Kong I found that no papers giving particulars regarding him had been sent on board and I sent a radio to the Hon. D.M.S. asking for them to be posted to me at Bombay. The attached letter signed by Dr. Smalley, Acting Deputy D.M.S. was received in reply.\n\nIt is not an official document and I have declined to pay away any of Capt. Reynolds' money without proper authority. Captain Reynolds is suffering from senile debility and is not in my opinion fit to deal with the matter and in any case £15 taken from his funds would leave him destitute.\n\nHow Captain Reynolds will be disposed of on arrival in London, I do not yet know.\n\nSergeant Hughes has performed his duties very satisfactorily and I recommend that he should be paid the fee which he was apparently promised officially.\n\n**Yours faithfully,**\nW.B.A. MOORE, O. B. E. \nEx-Deputy D.D. M.S.S. \nHong Kong.\n\n(Sgd.) W. B. A. Moore.\n**SURGEON**", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-573-11 Capt. John Reynolds- repatriation to United Kingdom 5-7-1938 - 3-3-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 562835, "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": "CO129-573-11 Capt. John Reynolds- repatriation to United Kingdom 5-7-1938 - 3-3-1939", "page_number": 27, "title": "CO129-573-11 Capt. John Reynolds- repatriation to United Kingdom 5-7-1938 - 3-3-1939", "content_text": "# GOVERNMENT MEDICAL DEPT., \n## POST OFFICE BUILDING, \n### HONG KONG. 30/5/38. \n\n27 \n\nDear Moore, \n\n(1) Your radio - I will take seriatim. \nRENOLDS NO PAPERS: There are no papers about him except our official file. All the information I can give you is contained in attached minute from Dr. Newton.\n\n(2) WHO MEETS LONDON: Mrs. Ross, his sister, who resides at 203, Church Road, Higher Tranmere, Birkenhead, Cheshire, England, will meet him at the dock. She has been informed of the date of his arrival in London.\n\n(3) WHO PAYS HUMMUS: I deposited £16.9.9. and 3 odd with the Purser for the purpose, and you saw the receipt. I told the Purser's Officer that the money was for the purpose of paying Captain Reynold's escort, and would be paid by you if you were satisfied with the latter's conduct. The balance of the money - there are a few Dollars as well - is to be handed over to Mrs. Ross on Captain Reynolds' arrival in England. I also spoke to you in your cabin about it and showed you the receipt.\n\n(4) VERY UNSATISFACTORY ARRANGEMENTS: I don't agree with you \n(a) You know all about him. \n(b) The escort has been provided. \n(c) You have the money to pay the escort. \n(d) Capt. Reynolds will be met in London. \nYou seemed perfectly satisfied when I said goodbye to you on board in your cabin.\n\nYours Sincerely, \n**(Signed) Dr. J. J. Smalley** \nacting deputy D.M.S. Hon. H.K.\n\nCaptain John Reynolds, shipmaster, has been a patient in the G.C.H. and later Q.M.H. since 25/10/34. He was admitted with a chronic ulcer of his leg, which has now healed, but has had a stroke during his stay in hospital and his mental faculties are somewhat deteriorated. His sister, Mrs. Ross, is in England and is very anxious for his return to England. He is not in any way a lunatic, but is somewhat senile and will require some attention on the voyage to England. I believe he has some funds in the bank, but I do not know how much. £300 hard sterling and a few Dollars are with the Purser in s.s. `Chitral`.\n\nI have been instructed by the Hon. D.M.S. to write to you about arrangements for his passage to England on his behalf. Capt. Reynolds himself is unable to write on his own behalf.\n\n**(Signed) I. Newton** \nM.O. 1/c, Q.M.H.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-573-11 Capt. John Reynolds- repatriation to United Kingdom 5-7-1938 - 3-3-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 562836, "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": "CO129-573-11 Capt. John Reynolds- repatriation to United Kingdom 5-7-1938 - 3-3-1939", "page_number": 28, "title": "CO129-573-11 Capt. John Reynolds- repatriation to United Kingdom 5-7-1938 - 3-3-1939", "content_text": "**P.&O.**\n28\n**PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY**\nEND 3344\n**ALBERT DOCK**\nCABLES: **PENINSULAR LONDON**.\nTELEGRAMS: **PENINSULAR STOCK LONDON**.\n**QUIS SEPARABIT**\nPLEASE ADDRESS REPLY TO\n**THE SUPERINTENDENT**\n**CASH AND BAGGAGE DEPT.**\n\nThe Crown Agents for the Colonies\nMillbank,\nWestminster,\nS.W.1.\n\nKING GEORGE V DOCK,\nLONDON, E. 16.\n4th July, 1938\n\nAck d g\n\nDear Sirs,\n\nCaptain John Reynolds from Hong Kong arrived per s.s. \"Chitral\" 3.7.38.\nWill you please note that the above mentioned was placed, per ambulance, in Seamen's Hospital, Greenwich.\nThis action was taken as apparently no one was coming to meet him, and he was quite unable to travel unaccompanied to Birkenhead.\n\nThe sum of £16.16.9d and 3 dollars (Hong Kong) has been deposited with the Steward of the Hospital.\n\nGEK/FJT.\n\nI am, dear Sirs,\nYours faithfully,\nfor Superintendent.\n\nPassages are only booked on the terms and conditions of the Passage Ticket. The attention of passengers is called to the fact that as the Company is exempt from all liability in respect of Baggage, facilities for its insurance are available.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-573-11 Capt. John Reynolds- repatriation to United Kingdom 5-7-1938 - 3-3-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 562837, "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": "CO129-573-11 Capt. John Reynolds- repatriation to United Kingdom 5-7-1938 - 3-3-1939", "page_number": 29, "title": "CO129-573-11 Capt. John Reynolds- repatriation to United Kingdom 5-7-1938 - 3-3-1939", "content_text": "# No text to proofread\n\nIt appears you haven't provided the OCR output text that needs proofreading. Please provide the text, and I'll be happy to assist you in proofreading it according to the guidelines.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-573-11 Capt. John Reynolds- repatriation to United Kingdom 5-7-1938 - 3-3-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 563241, "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": "CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938", "page_number": 1, "title": "CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938", "content_text": "# BRITISH CAPITAL FOR CHINA\n## PRIME MINISTER'S STATEMENT ON NOV. 17 1938.\n\n| File Ref | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| 57/574/13 | R.83 Tel. Sec |\n| | R.83, R.77, 4/4, 2/11, 81, 248 glu, 0993140 |\n| | 283 12/11 Mr Ridgway 12/11 R83 |\n\nPUT BY FILE A.\n\n`(21937) 25870/80 8,000 10/37 M. & S., Ltd`\n`Gp.641`", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 563242, "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": "CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938", "page_number": 2, "title": "CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938", "content_text": "CL \n\n'C' & 'S' \n\n1. Copy of Parliamentary Debates Mlowell of 1.11.38. M Ronald Fo. Alphaud \n\nIms ... to say that the Prom Danten Io recured from the Editor of the \"Hong Kong Telegraph\" as follows \n\nAnglo-Chinese relations astounded. Statement: Japan needs assistance to develop China. STIP. \n\nStatement published Hong Kong adversely affects Anglo interests. STIP \n\nAppreciate telegraph clarification \n\nSTOCKTON \nEditor \nHong Kong Telegraph \n\nThe Fo... do not advise any personal reply by this Prom Fincher. \n\nBut they understand that follows is based upon a distorted version of the Prime Minister's remarks on China (10/8/21) Hansard of 1st Nov, which DOMEI has misconception of the Prime Dunkin's words such that they think that it might be as Hansard text is telepathed well if the", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 563243, "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": "CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938", "page_number": 3, "title": "CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938", "content_text": "3 to the Gov \nof HK for such use \nmay think to be advisable without \nany particular reference to the Stockton \ntelegram \n6 M. Chamberlain. \nOff by wire for \nthis purpose. \nCopy to Officer as required \nEMGent. \n\n4.x 1 \n2. To Hong Kong. Tel 2144 \n3 to Hong Kong. Tel. 215. \n5.11.38 \n5.11.38. \n\n4 To. Ronald. (F.O). (via 213). \n9.11.38, \nReceived ref. Afr. of 3. \n& Abbott \nMemo 12/11", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 563244, "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": "CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938", "page_number": 4, "title": "CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938", "content_text": "## Telegram from the Secretary of State for the Colonies to the Governor of Hong Kong\n\nSent 1:30 a.m., 5th November, 1938\n\nNo. 215\n\nMy telegram No. 214. Following is Hansard text begins:-\n\nChina cannot be developed into a real market without the influx of a great deal of capital, and the fact that so much capital is being destroyed during this war means that even more capital will have to be put into China in the future, when the war is over. Who is going to supply the capital? It is quite certain that it cannot be supplied by Japan. Therefore, when the right Hon. Gentleman appears to contemplate a future in which Japan will have the monopoly of Chinese trade, and we shall be excluded from it altogether, I say that that is flying in the face of the facts. It is quite certain that, when the war is over and the reconstruction of China begins, she cannot possibly be reconstructed without some help from this country. That is a matter for those who are asked to invest their money to consider at the time.\n\nEnds.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 563245, "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": "CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938", "page_number": 5, "title": "CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938", "content_text": "## C.O.\n\n1. Gent 4/11\n\nMr. Cowell\nMr. Sir H. Moore.\nSir G. Tomlinson.\nSir C. Bottomley.\nSir J. Shuckburgh.\nPermt. U.S. of S.\nParly. U.S. of S.\nSecretary of State.\n\n**DRAFT**\n\nHelcove Gov HK.\n\n5 coded & sent 1.30am. No 215 my 5.11138 ?HW.\n\nref no 214 following is Haws and text begins\n\nmarked hacrags on Col. 82 of Hansard\n\n3 5\n\nRonald. A 15 Nov. from b\n\nChina cannot \" Couride at the time\n\n**FURTHER ACTION**\n\nMhedyway City To see afte achin to Fox\n\nMy Ronald Vedeb indog\n\n⚫ ends.\n\nSecer.\n\n\". \n\nSpyro Ron", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 563246, "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": "CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938", "page_number": 6, "title": "CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938", "content_text": "## PARAPHRASE TELEGRAM \nfrom the Secretary of State for the Colonies to the Governor of Hong Kong.\n\nSent 1.30 a.m., 5th November 1938\n\nNo. 214.\n\nIt is understood that some misapprehension has arisen in Hong Kong as a result of publication of distorted version of Prime Minister's observations in House of Commons 1st November about opportunities for British capital in reconstruction of China when hostilities cease. My immediately following telegram gives for such use as you may consider advisable text of Prime Minister's remarks.\n\nMr. Ridgway to see after action\nCopy to F.O. (Mr. Rowald) with comps.\ns.slip\nM12 \n\nMr. Gent 4.11\nMr. Cowell 4 at once.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 563247, "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": "CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938", "page_number": 7, "title": "CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938", "content_text": "# Volume 340 No. 165\nTuesday, 1st Nov., 1938\n\n## PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES\n### HOUSE OF COMMONS\n#### OFFICIAL REPORT\n\n## Contents\n| Item |\n|------|\n| LIST OF GOVERNMENT AND PRINCIPAL OFFICERS OF THE HOUSE |\n| QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS: |\n|     Anglo-Italian Agreement |\n|     Palestine |\n|     Business of the House |\n| THE LATE LORD STANLEY: TRIBUTES |\n| ADJOURNMENT: |\n|     International Situation |\n\nLONDON: \nPRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY HIS MAJESTY'S STATIONERY OFFICE \nTo be purchased in the manner indicated on the back of this wrapper \n**Price Sixpence net**", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 563248, "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": "CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938", "page_number": 8, "title": "CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938", "content_text": "# HIS MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT \n**(FORMED BY THE RIGHT HON. NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN, MAY, 1937)**\n\n## THE CABINET\n\n* Prime Minister, First Lord of the Treasury, and Leader of the House of Commons - Rt. Hon. NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN, M.P.\n* Chancellor of the Exchequer - Rt. Hon. Sir JOHN SIMON, G.C.S.I., G.C.V.O., O.B.E., K.C., M.P.\n* Lord President of the Council - Rt. Hon. VISCOUNT RUNCIMAN.\n* Lord Chancellor - Rt. Hon. LORD MAUGHAM.\n* Secretary of State for the Home Department - Rt. Hon. Sir SAMUEL HOARE, Bt., G.C.S.I., G.B.E., C.M.G., M.P.\n* Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs - Rt. Hon. VISCOUNT HALIFAX, K.G., G.C.S.I., G.C.I.E., T.D.\n* Lord Privy Seal - Rt. Hon. Sir JOHN ANDERSON, G.C.B., G.C.S.I., G.C.I.E., M.P.\n* Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs and Secretary of State for the Colonies - Rt. Hon. MALCOLM JOHN MACDONALD, M.P.\n* Secretary of State for India and for Burma - Most Hon. the MARQUESS OF ZETLAND, G.C.S.I., G.C.I.E.\n* Minister for the Co-ordination of Defence - Rt. Hon. Sir THOMAS WALKER HOBART INSKIP, C.B.E., K.C., M.P.\n* First Lord of the Admiralty and Leader of the House of Lords - Rt. Hon. the EARL STANHOPE, K.G., D.S.O., M.C., D.L.\n* Secretary of State for War - Rt. Hon. LESLIE HORE-BELISHA, M.P.\n* Secretary of State for Air - Rt. Hon. Sir H. KINGSLEY WOOD, M.P.\n* Secretary of State for Scotland - Rt. Hon. DAVID JOHN COLVILLE, T.D., M.P.\n* President of the Board of Trade - Rt. Hon. OLIVER FREDERICK GEORGE STANLEY, M.C., M.P.\n* Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries - Rt. Hon. WILLIAM SHEPHERD MORRISON, M.C., K.C., M.P.\n* President of the Board of Education - Rt. Hon. the EARL DE LA WARR.\n* Minister of Health - Rt. Hon. WALTER E. ELLIOT, M.C., M.P.\n* Minister of Labour - Rt. Hon. ALFRED ERNEST BROWN, M.C., M.P.\n* Minister of Transport - Rt. Hon. EDWARD LESLIE BURGIN, LL.D., M.P.\n* Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - Rt. Hon. Earl WINTERTON, M.P.\n\n## Home Affairs\n### DEPARTMENTS OF STATE\n\n| Department | Position | Name |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Home Office | Secretary of State | Rt. Hon. Sir SAMUEL HOARE, Bt., G.C.S.I., G.B.E., C.M.G., M.P. |\n| | Under-Secretary of State | GEOFFREY WILLIAM LLOYD, Esq., M.P. |\n| Foreign Affairs | Secretary of State | Rt. Hon. VISCOUNT HALIFAX, K.G., G.C.S.I., G.C.I.E., T.D. |\n| | Under-Secretaries of State | RICHARD AUSTEN BUTLER, Esq., M.P.; Rt. Hon. the EARL of PLYMOUTH. |\n| Overseas Trade Department | Secretary | Rt. Hon. ROBERT SPEAR HUDSON, M.P. |\n| Dominion Affairs | Secretary of State | Rt. Hon. MALCOLM JOHN MACDONALD, M.P. |\n| | Under-Secretary of State | The DUKE OF DEVONSHIRE. |\n| Colonial Office | Secretary of State | Rt. Hon. MALCOLM JOHN MACDONALD, M.P. |\n| | Under-Secretary of State | The MARQUESS OF DUFFERIN AND AVA. |\n\nNo. 165 \n\nA \n\n8", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 563249, "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": "CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938", "page_number": 9, "title": "CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938", "content_text": "## HIS MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT—*conid.* \n\n### War Office— \n**Secretary of State** Rt. Hon. LESLIE HORE-BELISHA, M.P. \n**Under-Secretary of State**-Lord STRATHCONA AND MOUNT ROYAL. \n**Financial Secretary**-Sir VICTOR ALEXANDER GEORGE ANTHONY WARRENDER, Bt., M.C., M.P. \n\n### Air Ministry— \n**Secretary of State**-Rt. Hon. Sir H. KINGSLEY WOOD, M.P. \n**Under-Secretary of State**-Captain HAROLD HARINGTON BALFOUR, M.C., M.P. \n**Lord President of the Council**- \nRt. Hon. Viscount RUNCIMAN. \n\n### Lord Privy Seal— \nRt Hon. Sir JOHN ANDERSON, G.C.B., G.C.S.I., G.C.I.E., M.P. \n\n### India Office— \n**Secretary of State**-Most Hon. the Marquess of ZETLAND, G.C.S.I., G.C.I.E. \n**Under-Secretary of State**-Lieut-Colonel ANTHONY JOHN MUIRHEAD, M.C., M.P. \n\n### Burma Office— \n**Secretary of State**-Most Hon. the Marquess of ZETLAND, G.C.S.I., G.C.I.E. \n**Under-Secretary of State**-Lieut.-Colonel ANTHONY JOHN MUIRHEAD, M.C., M.P. \n\n### Admiralty— \n**First Lord**-Rt. Hon. the Earl STANHOPE, K.G., D.S.O., M.C., D.L. \n**Parliamentary and Financial Secretary**-GEOFFREY HITHERSAY SHAKESPEARE, Esq., M.P. \n**Civil Lord**-Colonel JOHN JESTYN LLEWELLIN, O.B.E., M.C., M.P. \n\n### Minister for the Co-ordination of Defence— \nRt. Hon. Sir THOMAS WALKER HOBART INSKIP, C.B.E., K.C., M.P. \n\n### Board of Trade— \n**President** Rt. Hon. OLIVER FREDERICK GEORGE STANLEY, M.C., M.P. \n**Parliamentary Secretary**-RONALD HIBBERT CROSS, Esq., M.P. \n\n### Mines Department— \n**Parliamentary Secretary**-Captain HARRY FREDERICK COMFORT CROOKSHANK, M.P. \n\n### Department of Overseas Trade \n**Secretary**-Rt. Hon. ROBERT SPEAR HUDSON, M.P.-[Representing Foreign Office and Board of Trade.] \n\n### Ministry of Health— \n**Minister** Rt. Hon. WALTER E. ELLIOT, M.C., M.P. \n**Parliamentary Secretary**-ROBERT HAMILTON BERNAYS, Esq., M.P. \n\n### Ministry of Transport— \n**Minister** Rt. Hon. EDWARD LESLIE BURGIN, LL.D., M.P. \n**Parliamentary Secretary**-Captain AUSTIN UVEDALE MORGAN HUDSON, M.P. \n\n### Board of Education— \n**President**-Rt. Hon. the Earl DE LA WARR. \n**Parliamentary Secretary**-KENNETH MARTIN LINDSAY, Esq., M.P. \n\n### Ministry of Labour— \n**Minister** Rt. Hon. ALFRED ERNEST BROWN, M.C., M.P. \n**Parliamentary Secretary**-ALAN TINDAL LENNOX-BOYD, Esq., M.P. \n\n### Ministry of Pensions— \n**Minister** HERWALD RAMSBOTHAM, Esq., O.B.E., M.C., M.P. \n\n### Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries— \n**Minister** Rt. Hon. WILLIAM SHEPHERD MORRISON, M.C., K.C., M.P. \n**Parliamentary Secretary**-The Earl of FEVERSHAM. \n\n### Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster— \nRt. Hon. Earl WINTERTON, M.P. \n\n### First Commissioner of Works— \nRt. Hon. Sir PHILIP SASSOON, Bt., G.B.E., C.M.G., M.P. \n\n## HIS MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT—*contd.* \n\n### Attorney General— \nRt. Hon. Sir DONALD BRADLEY SOMERVELL, O.B.E., K.C., M.P. \n**Solicitor General**- \nSir TERENCE JAMES O'CONNOR, K.C., M.P. \n\n### General Post Office— \n**Postmaster-General**-Major Rt. Hon. GEORGE CLEMENT TRYON, M.P. \n**Assistant Postmaster-General**-Sir WALTER JAMES WOMERSLEY, M.P. \n**Paymaster General**-The Earl of MUNSTER. \n\n### Treasury— \n**Chancellor of the Exchequer** Rt. Hon. Sir JOHN SIMON, G.C.S.I., G.C.V.O., O.B.E., K.C., M.P. \n**Parliamentary Secretary** Captain Rt. Hon. HENRY DAVID REGINALD MARGESSON, M.C., M.P. \n**Financial Secretary**-Captain Rt. Hon. DAVID EUAN WALLACE, M.C., M.P. \n**Lords Commissioners**- \n- Hon. JAMES STUART, M.V.O., M.C., M.P. \n- Lieut.-Colonel CHARLES IAIN KERR, D.S.O., M.C., M.P. \n- Captain THOMAS LIONEL DUGDALE, M.P. \n- PATRICK MUNRO, Esq., M.P. \n- STEPHEN NOEL FURNESS, Esq., M.P. \n**Assistant Whips (unpaid)—** \n- Major Sir ALBERT JAMES EDMONDSON, M.P. \n- Major JOHN ARTHUR HERBERT, M.P. \n- Major GEORGE STEVEN HARVIE WATT, M.P. \n\n### Scotland— \n**Secretary of State** Rt. Hon. DAVID JOHN COLVILLE, T.D., M.P. \n**Under-Secretary of State**-HENRY JAMES SCRYMGEOUR WEDDERBURN, Esq., M.P. \n**Lord Advocate**-Rt. Hon. THOMAS MACKAY COOPER, O.B.E., K.C., M.P. \n**Solicitor-General**-JAMES SCOTT CUMBERLAND REID, Esq., K.C., M.P. \n\n### His Majesty's Household— \n**Lord Chamberlain**-Rt. Hon. the Earl of CLARENDON, K.G., G.C.M.G. \n**Lord Steward**-Rt. Hon. the Duke of BUCCLEUCH, G.C.V.O. \n**Master of the Horse**-The Duke of BEAUFORT, K.G., G.C.V.O. \n**Treasurer** Captain Hon. ARTHUR OSWALD JAMES HOPE, M.C., M.P. \n**Comptroller**-Captain CHARLES WATERHOUSE, M.C., M.P. \n**Vice-Chamberlain**-ROBERT VILLIERS GRIMSTON, Esq., M.P. \n**Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms**-Rt. Hon. The Earl of LUCAN, K.B.E., C.B. \n**Captain of the King's Bodyguard of the Yeomen of the Guard**-Lord TEMPLEMORE, K.C.V.O., D.S.O., O.B.E. \n\n### Permanent Lords-in-Waiting— \n- Colonel The Rt. Hon. Lord WIGRAM, G.C.B., G.C.V.O., C.S.I. \n- Rt. Hon. The Earl of CROMER, G.C.B., G.C.I.E., G.C.V.O. \n**Lords-in-Waiting—** \n- Viscount GAGE. \n- The Earl of ERNE. \n- The Earl of ELDON. \n- Viscount ALLENDALE, M.C. \n- Earl FORTESCUE, M.C. \n- The Earl of BIRKENHEAD. \n\n### Forestry Commissioner— \nColonel Rt. Hon. Sir GEORGE COURTHOPE, Bt., M.C., M.P. \n\n### Charity Commissioner— \nLEWIS JONES, ESQ., M.P. \n\n### Second Church Estates Commissioner, representing Ecclesiastical Commissioners— \nHon. RICHARD DOUGLAS DENMAN, M.P. \n\n## No. 165 \n## A 2 \n## 10", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 563250, "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": "CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938", "page_number": 10, "title": "CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938", "content_text": "# HOUSE OF COMMONS: PRINCIPAL OFFICERS\n\n## THE SPEAKER\n\nCaptain Right Hon. EDWARD A. FITZROY, M.P.\n\n## CHAIRMAN OF WAYS AND MEANS\nRt. Hon. Sir DENNIS HENRY HERBERT, K.B.E., M.P.\n\n## DEPUTY-CHAIRMAN\n\n## Clerk of the House of Commons\nSir GILBERT CAMPION, K.C.B. \nClerk-Assistant—F. W. METCALFE, Esq.\nSecond Clerk-Assistant—E. A. FELLOWES, Esq., M.C.\n\n## Principal Clerks\n\n| Office | Name |\n| --- | --- |\n| Public Bill Office and Clerk of Fees | W. K. GIBBONS, Esq., C.B. |\n| Clerk of The Journals | C. R. TURNER, Esq. |\n| Committee and Private Bill Office | O. C. WILLIAMS, Esq., M.C. |\n\n## Senior Clerks\nG. W. B. THROCKMORTON, Esq.; B. H. COODE, Esq.; A. W. M. BULL, Esq.; Captain C. R. P. DIVER; R. A. W. DENT, Esq.; L. A. ABRAHAM, Esq.; N. L. LOCKTON, Esq.; S. ST. G. S. KINGDOM, Esq.; E. J. H. EDENBOROUGH, Esq.; D. J. GORDON, Esq.\n\n## Assistant Clerks\nB. ST. G. DRENNAN, Esq.; K. R. MACKENZIE, Esq.; S. C. HAWTREY, Esq.; S. GORDON, Esq.; T. G. B. Cocks, Esq.; J. S. CRAW-FORD, Esq.; H. R. M. FARMER, Esq.; A. C. MARPLES, Esq.; D. W. S. LIDDERDALE, Esq.; T. G. ODLING, Esq.\n\n## Accountant \nJ. LUXFORD, Esq., O.B.E. \nAssistant—Captain C. L. WATSON.\nSecond Assistant—A. J. MOYES, Esq.\n\n## Serjeant at Arms\nBrigadier Charles ALFRED HOWARD, D.S.O.\nDeputy Serjeant—W. H. ERSKINE, Esq., C.B.E.\nAssistant Serjeant—Lieut.-Colonel I. T. P. HUGHES, M.C.\n\n## Chief Office Clerk (Serjeant at Arms Department)\nC. A. PLYMEN, Esq.\n\n## Admission Order Office\nLieut. G. WEAVER and Captain E. T. CUTLER, M.C.\n\n## Chaplain to the Speaker\nRev. ALAN CAMPBELL DON, D.D.\n\n## Counsel to the Speaker\nSir FREDERICK FRANCIS LIDDELL, K.C.B., K.C.\n\n## Secretary to the Speaker\nLieut.-Colonel Sir RALPH VERNEY, C.B., C.I.E., C.V.O., (acting).\n\n## Trainbearer to the Speaker\nW. J. Pusey, Esq.\n\n## Examiners of Private Bills\nEDWARD VIGORS, Esq., C.B., and Lieut.-Colonel Sir RALPH VERNEY, C.B., C.I.E., C.V.O.\n\n## Taxing Master\nLieut.-Colonel Sir RALPH VERNEY, C.B., C.I.E., C.V.O. \nClerk—A. C. MARPLES, Esq.\n\n## Editor of Official Report of Debates\nT. H. PARR, Esq., O.B.E. \nAssistant Editor—P. CORNELIUS, Esq.\n\n## Vote Office Principal Clerk\nMajor B. T. ST. JOHN.\n\n## Captain \nJ. G. MOUNSEY.\n\n## Librarian\nJ. V. KITTO, Esq.\nAssistant Librarian—H. A. ST. George Saunders, Esq. \nClerks in Library J. W. C. BEESLEY, Esq., and N. WILDING, Esq.\n\n## Clerk of Works\nJ. E. HOLMAN, Esq.\n\n## Superintendent of Works (Resident Engineer)\nA. W. HATTERSLEY, Esq. \nPostmaster—J. E. WEBSTER, Esq.\n\n## Officer in Charge of Police\nInspector A. SUTHERLAND, \nRefreshment Department Manager—R. J. BRADLEY, Esq.\n\nRevised, 1st November, 1938.\n\n# THE PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES OFFICIAL REPORT\n\n## IN THE THIRD SESSION OF THE THIRTY-SEVENTH PARLIAMENT OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND\n\n## SECOND YEAR OF THE REIGN OF HIS MAJESTY KING GEORGE VI\n\n## FIFTH SERIES VOLUME 340\n\n## THIRTEENTH VOLUME OF SESSION 1937-38\n\n## HOUSE OF COMMONS.\n\nTuesday, 1st November, 1938.\n\nThe House—after the Adjournment on 6th October met at a Quarter before Three of the Clock, Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair.\n\n## DEATH OF A MEMBER\n\nMr. Speaker made the following communication to the House: \nI regret to have to inform the House of the death of the right hon. Lord Stanley, late Member for the county of Lancaster (Fylde Division), and we desire to express our sense of the loss we have sustained, and our sympathy with the relatives.\n\n## SPEAKER'S WARRANTS FOR NEW WRITS\n\nMr. SPEAKER informed the House that he had issued, during the Adjournment, Warrants for New Writs, namely:\n- For Oxford City, in the room of Right hon. Robert Croft Bourne, deceased.\n- For the County of Kent (Dartford Division), in the room of Frank Edward Clarke, esquire, deceased.\n\n## NEW WRITS\n\n- For the County of Somerset (Bridgewater Division), in the room of Sir Reginald Powell Croom-Johnson, K.C. (one of the Justices of the High Court).— [Captain Margesson.]\n- For the County of York (West Riding) (Doncaster Division), in the room of Alfred Short, esquire, deceased.—[Sir Charles Edwards.]\n- For the Borough of Walsall, in the room of Joseph Alexander Leckie, esquire, deceased. [Colonel Kerr.]\n\n## ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS\n\n### BRITISH ARMY\n\n#### TERRITORIAL ARMY (STRENGTH)\n1. Mr. Day asked the Secretary of State for War the deficit on the recruiting establishment for the Territorial Army as at the last convenient date; and in what way is it proposed to increase the proficiency bounty and/or extend the marriage allowances for married men who attend camp?\n\nThe Secretary of State for War (Mr. Hore-Belisha): On 1st October the Territorial Army was deficient of 144 officers and 14,874 other ranks, compared with 1,359 officers and 44,824 other ranks on the corresponding date last year. Married men of the Territorial Army who attended camp this year or were called out during the crisis received for the first time the benefit of the new scheme of family allowance promulgated in April last. No change has been made in the proficiency grant.\n\nMr. Day: As a stimulus to recruiting, will the right hon. Gentleman make an early statement as to what the Government propose to do to improve service conditions?\n\nPage 10\nPage 11", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 563251, "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": "CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938", "page_number": 11, "title": "CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938", "content_text": "# Oral Answers\n## HOUSE OF COMMONS\n### Oral Answers\n\nMr. Hore-Belisha: I have previously given a whole list of improvements in the conditions.\n\nMajor Dower: Does not the splendid increase in recruiting show that the country fully appreciates the improvements in the Territorial Army which my right hon. Friend has introduced; and will he continue the good work?\n\n## BREN GUNS.\n\n3 and 4. Mr. Anstruther-Gray asked the Secretary of State for War (1) whether there are any regular infantry battalions without their full complement of Bren guns; and by what date will any deficiency be made good; (2) Whether there are any territorial infantry battalions without their full complement of Bren guns; and by what date will any deficiency be made good?\n\nMr. Hore-Belisha: I hope my hon. Friend will agree that it is not in the public interest to give precise details of the distribution of equipment, but the House will be glad to know that the production of Bren guns is now proceeding at its maximum rate.\n\nCaptain Sir Derrick Gunston: Is the gun being manufactured in this country or in Czechoslovakia?\n\nMr. Hore-Belisha: It is being manufactured in this country.\n\nMr. Lawson: Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that there is great disturbance of mind among the people generally on this question; and can he assure the House that there is no need for disturbance at the present moment?\n\nMr. Hore-Belisha: I am well aware that there is great disturbance in the public mind, and I feel that, if the public could be put in possession of some of the facts, there would be less cause for disturbance.\n\nViscountess Astor: Has all information with regard to our defences been put in the possession of the leaders of the Opposition?\n\nAn Hon. Member: You have given it to Ribbentrop.\n\n22. Mr. Day asked the Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs particulars of what arrangements are now in operation for keeping each of the Dominion Governments informed with regard to foreign affairs; and what changes have taken place in the scheme of Empire co-ordination in respect of foreign policy since same was laid down by the Imperial Conference of 1926?\n\nMr. M. MacDonald: In accordance with the system laid down as a result of discussions at successive Imperial Conferences, the Dominion Governments are kept constantly informed by telegraph of the information at the disposal of His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom, as well as of His Majesty's Government's policy, regarding foreign affairs. As an illustration of the extent to which the system has been developed, I may mention that the number of circular telegrams so far sent to each of the Dominion Governments on foreign affairs since the beginning of this year has been 398, of which some 150 were sent during the month of September alone.\n\nMr. Day: Do I understand that no action is to be taken on foreign affairs without consulting the members of the Commonwealth?\n\nMr. MacDonald: When such consultation would be appropriate, action is not taken without such consultation.\n\n## SCOTLAND.\n### DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE (RENTS)\n\n5. Mr. Robert Gibson asked the Secretary of State for Scotland whether he can now make a statement regarding the rents derived by the Department of Agriculture from agricultural tenants and from sporting tenants, respectively, during each of the last three years, and the total annual rentals, respectively, at the present time?\n\nThe Secretary of State for Scotland: (Mr. Colville): I propose, with the permission of the hon. and learned Member, to circulate in the OFFICIAL REPORT the statement which I sent to him during the Recess.\n\nFollowing is the statement:\n\n## Oral Answers\n### 5 NOVEMBER 1938\n#### Oral Answers\n\n| Receivable in 1937-38 | Received in 1937-38 | Received in 1936–37 | Received in 1935-36 | Category |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Rent | Building Loan Annuity | Rent | Building Loan Annuity | Rent | Building Loan Annuity | Rent | Building Loan Annuity | |\n| ... | ... | 2,348 | 25 | 10 | 0 | 45 | 14 | 8 | (a) Small Holding Colonies |\n| ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | (b) Congested Districts Board Estates |\n| ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | Section 9-Rural Housing B.L.A. receivable on (a) (b) and (c) |\n| 0 | 0 | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | (c) Fishermen's Schemes |\n| ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | (d) Plots |\n| ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | (e) Stud Farms |\n| 88,467 | 15 | 7 | 1 | 1 | ... | 17,977 | 0 | ... | Testing Seed (f) Egg Laying Test Station and Station |\n| £ s. d. 81,479 | 12 | 3 | 4,388 | II | ... | £ s. d. 15,390 | 7 | 11 | Shooting, etc., rents included |\n| £ s. d. 77,838 | 17 | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | |\n| 342 | 8 | 10 | 4,347 | 17 | 2 | 15,220 | 14 | 2 | |\n| 332 | 19 | 2 | 4,497 | 12 | ... | 76,291 | 3 | ... | |\n| £9.4.15,557 | 11 | ... | ... | ... | ... | £ s. d. 60,213 | 17 | 3 | |\n| ... | ... | ... | 16,630 | 16 | 5 | ... | ... | ... | |\n| 278 | 0 | 3 | 4,366 | 15 | 3 | 293 | 2 | 6 | |\n| 180 | 7 | 9 | 180 | 17 | 7 | 157 | 9 | 6 | |\n| 2,244 | 3 | 8 | 2,173 | 5 | 4 | 2,585 | 13 | 9 | |\n| 2,961 | 17 | 7 | 1,703 | 4 | I | 25 | 10 | 0 | |\n| 45 | 14 | 8 | 1,386 | II | 4 | 1,112 | 5 | 9 | |\n| 84,142 | 8 | 0 | 53 | 2 | 7 | 46 | 8 | 8 | |\n\nShooting rents included in heads (a) and (b) above amounted to £6,243 17s. 1d. \nShooting rents included in heads (a) and (b) above amounted to £5,754 2s. 1d. \nShooting rents included in heads (a) and (b) above amounted to £5,842 14s. 11d. \n\n| 17,726 | 18 | ... | 82,385 | 19 | 4 | 18,521 | 5 | 4 | |\n| 65,916 | 14 | ... | ... | ... | ... | 19,885 | 16 | 6 | |\n| ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | £4,170 | 13s. | 6d. | Shooting rents included in heads (a) and (6) above amounted to |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 563252, "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": "CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938", "page_number": 12, "title": "CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938", "content_text": "# HOUSE OF COMMONS\n## Oral Answers\n\n### PRINCES PIER, GREENOCK.\n\n6. Mr. R. Gibson asked the Secretary of State for Scotland whether he is aware that it is proposed to close the Princes Pier, Greenock, which added to the closing of the Caird shipyard would aggravate unemployment and distress in Greenock; and whether he will consider, in collaboration with the President of the Board of Trade, measures to extend the said Princes Pier with a view to making it adequate as a landing stage for trans-Atlantic liners calling at Greenock?\n\nMr. Colville: I am not aware of any proposal to close the Princes Pier, Greenock, although I understand that the Harbour Trust state that it will require reconstruction if it is to be kept in use. The question of financial assistance towards the cost of reconstructing the pier for its present purposes has been the subject of communication between the Harbour Trust and the Commissioner for the Special Areas, who is awaiting definite proposals from the Trust. Conversion of the pier into a landing stage for trans-Atlantic liners is, however, a wider question, which would fall to be considered primarily by the Harbour Trust.\n\n### HIGHLANDS AND ISLANDS (ECONOMIC INQUIRY).\n\n7. Mr. Malcolm MacMillan asked the Secretary of State for Scotland when the Report of the Economic Committee of the **National Development Scottish Council** on its investigations in the Isles and Highlands of Scotland will be published?\n\nMr. Colville: I am informed by the Economic Committee of the Scottish National Development Council that the report of their Highlands and Islands Sub-Committee will be published about the beginning of next month.\n\nMr. J. J. Davidson: Can the right hon. Gentleman say how long this Committee have been in formulating their report?\n\nMr. Colville: I could not say exactly without notice.\n\n### ORINSAY (ROAD FACILITIES).\n\n8. Mr. Malcolm MacMillan asked the Secretary of State for Scotland whether he is aware of the hardships in winter time suffered by the people of Orinsay through having to carry all provisions long distances for lack of a proper road and by children on their way to school; and whether he will take action along with the Ross County Council for the reconstruction of the existing pathway to bring it up to modern standards?\n\nMr. Colville: The condition of the road referred to has been brought to my notice and, I understand, to the notice of the local authority. If the county council should decide to contribute to the cost of the works and to undertake responsibility for their construction and maintenance, I am willing to consider sympathetically an application for assistance.\n\nMr. MacMillan: In view of the right hon. Gentleman's willingness to consider this matter sympathetically, and in view of the fact that the county council has repeatedly repudiated responsibility, as well as the Department of Agriculture and the Ministry of Transport, will he give some indication that he will take direct action?\n\nMr. Colville: As the hon. Member knows, the position is that in the first place an application should come from the local authority, but I have given an indication of what my attitude will be in certain events.\n\n### HERRING INDUSTRY.\n\n9. Mr. Malcolm MacMillan asked the Secretary of State for Scotland whether he will make a statement on the recent failure of the West Coast herring fishing resulting from the action, at inadequate notice, of the Herring Industry Board in banning curing even for local consumption; whether he can state why the board had not anticipated the over-curing on the East Coast and prevented it instead of penalising the West Coast ports; and what steps he proposes to take, by legislation or otherwise, to prevent the further collapse of the herring industry in the near future?\n\nMr. Colville: The prohibition of curing to which the hon. Member refers may have shortened the herring fishing season on the West Coast by two or three weeks, but the season cannot be regarded as a failure. The catch at Stornoway during the summer of this year amounted to approximately 49,000 crans, valued at £91,000. Last year the catch was 31,000 crans, valued at £57,000, and in 1936, 37,000 crans, valued at £67,000. I am informed that the board's reason for prohibiting curing between 29th August and 30th September last was that they were satisfied that the quantity of herring already cured of the kind produced at Stornoway at that time of the year was more than sufficient to meet the demands of the markets, and that, if any further amount had been cured, it would have been exceedingly difficult to sell. With regard to the last part of the question, I would refer the hon. Member to the Act which has recently been passed for the purpose of amending and extending the powers in the Herring Industry Act, 1935.\n\nMr. MacMillan: Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that, while the Herring Industry Board permitted what was obviously the over-curing of a very large amount of inferior herring caught on the East Coast, without taking any action to make sure that they were marketable, the board took action penalising the West Coast, where the best herring in the world were being produced?\n\nMr. Macquisten: Does not this go to show that the Herring Industry Board are doing more harm than good, and should be abolished?\n\nMr. Colville indicated dissent.\n\n### COAL INDUSTRY.\n#### MINERS' NYSTAGMUS.\n\n11. Miss Ward asked the Secretary for Mines whether he can announce any beneficial result from the conversations which have taken place between his Department and the Home Office on the subject of miners' nystagmus?\n\nThe Secretary for Mines (Captain Crookshank): I assume that this question arises on the report of the Departmental Committee, which dealt mainly with questions arising under the Workmen's Compensation Acts. That Committee also made recommendations for the improvement of mine lighting which directly concerned my Department, and this subject has been further dealt with in a circular letter to the coal mining industry sent out on 30th September last. I will send my hon. Friend a copy.\n\nMiss Ward: While thanking my hon. and gallant Friend for that information, may I ask whether conversations are continuing on the subject of other recommendations to nystagmus, etc.?\n\nCaptain Crookshank: I do not think the hon. Lady quite heard my reply. I said the matter which directly concerned me had been dealt with.\n\nMr. George Griffiths: Is it not a fact that these men have been for 10 years looking for some help from the Minister's Department, and that, according to his statement, they are going to get none?\n\n### SOUTH WALES AND MONMOUTHSHIRE.\n\n15 and 16. Mr. E. J. Williams asked the Secretary for Mines (1) the output of the South Wales and Monmouthshire coalfield for the year 1920 and each year to date; (2) the number of persons engaged in the South Wales and Monmouthshire coalfield for the year 1920 and each year to date?\n\nCaptain Crookshank: As these questions involve a number of figures, I will, with the hon. Member's permission, answer them together by circulating a statement in the **OFFICIAL REPORT**.\n\nThe information is as follows:\n| Year | Output of Saleable Coal | Average number of persons employed in and about coal mines (including Clerks and Salaried Persons) |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 1920 | 46,248,967 Tons | 271,161 |\n| 1921* | 30,572,003 | 232,043 |\n| 1922 | 50,325,094 | 243,015 |\n| 1923 | 54,251,587 | 252,617 |\n| 1924 | 51,085,135 | 250,065 |\n| 1925 | 44,629,522 | 217,809 |\n| 1926* | 20,272,572 | 217,753 |\n| 1927 | 46,256,363 | 194,100 |\n| 1928 | 43,311,966 | 168,269 |\n| 1929 | 48,149,613 | 178,315 |\n| 1930 | 45,107,912 | 172,870 |\n| 1931 | 37,084,852 | 158,162 |\n| 1932 | 34,874,302 | 145,709 |\n| 1933 | 34,354,884 | 142,900 |\n| 1934 | 35,173,317 | 139,806 |\n| 1935 | 35,025,110 | 131,697 |\n| 1936 | 33,886,179 | 126,233 |\n| 1937 | 37,773,013 | 135,901 |\n\n* The majority of the coal mines were idle during a considerable period of the years 1921 and 1926 owing to protracted disputes.\n\n### HOLIDAYS WITH PAY.\n\n17. Miss Ward asked the Secretary for Mines whether he will issue a statement showing the terms on which holidays with pay have been granted in the various districts?", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 563253, "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": "CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938", "page_number": 13, "title": "CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938", "content_text": "# Oral Answers \n\n## HOUSE OF COMMONS \n\nCaptain Crookshank: I am sending the hon. Member a statement of the position, and will have copies placed in the Library. Mr. James Griffiths: Has the Minister had any consultation with the Minister of Labour as to the way in which a number of miners have lost holiday pay because of the working of the Unemployment Assistance Board under the Ministry of Labour?\n\nCaptain Crookshank: I think that question should be addressed to the Minister of Labour.\n\n## NEWFOUNDLAND \n\nThe following question stood on the Order Paper in the name of Mr. LUNN: \n18. To ask the Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs whether he has any information to give the House as to the position of affairs in Newfoundland?\n\nMr. Lunn: In asking this question, may I say how much we regret that the right hon. Gentleman who was Secretary of State for the Dominions when I put down the question is not here to answer it?\n\nThe Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs (Mr. Malcolm MacDonald): The House shares that regret, and I believe it will be given an opportunity later to express it fully. Economic conditions in Newfoundland have been adversely affected during the present year both by increased difficulties in the export markets for codfish, and also by the prevailing depression in the newsprint industry, which has led to a severe curtailment of logging activities. The Commission of Government have endeavoured to meet this difficult situation, partly by the introduction of a special short-term programme of road and public works and partly by the adoption of certain measures of assistance to the fishing industry. It was not possible, however, by Government action to offset in full the shortage of employment in the fishing and logging industries, and I regret to say that recent relief returns are showing an increase over and above the normal seasonal fluctuation. A satisfactory feature is that the mining industry continues to operate at full capacity.\n\nIn the field of social services, the Government are making progress with a general public health campaign initiated last year, with special anti-tuberculosis activities, and with the expansion of hospital accommodation at St. John's. There has also been a considerable expansion of agricultural activity during the past season.\n\nMr. Lunn: When may we expect a report on the condition of affairs in Newfoundland?\n\nMr. MacDonald: The hon. Member knows that a regular annual report is published and I would have to make inquiries as to when the next annual report is expected to be in the hands of hon. Members.\n\nMr. Maxton: May I take it from the answer that the dictatorship in Newfoundland has failed to solve the essential problems of that territory?\n\nMr. MacDonald: I do not think any form of government in Newfoundland could have stopped the civil war in Spain or the policy of the Brazilian Government in putting up a tariff or the protection of the newsprint industry in the United States of America. All the Government have done is to make the most of the opportunities they have.\n\nMr. Maxton: Does the right hon. Gentleman realise that his predecessor was not prepared to accept that type of excuse when a democratic government was in office?\n\n## ALBERTA \n\n21. Mr. Lyons asked the Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs the present financial position of Alberta; whether any fresh issue of Prosperity Certificates has been made; and what is the position of the bond issue of the province?\n\n23 and 24. Sir John Mellor asked the Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs (1) whether he will make a further statement with regard to the service of the loans issued by the Government of Alberta in the United Kingdom; (2) whether he will make a statement with regard to recent legislation by the Government of Alberta affecting loans and mortgages?\n\nMr. M. MacDonald: As the answer is rather long and contains a number of figures, I will, with my hon. and learned Friends' permission, circulate it in the OFFICIAL REPORT.\n\n## ALBERTA (continued)\n\nFollowing is the answer:\n\n1 NOVEMBER 1938\n\nI am not aware of any substantial change in the financial position of Alberta since the information which I gave to the hon. and learned Member in reply to a question on 8th February last. It appears, however, from an interim financial report of the Province for the three months ended 30th June, 1938, that the total cash surplus for the preceding three months was $482,429, as compared with $97,379 for the corresponding period in 1937. It also appears from this report that the aggregate net funded and unfunded debt of the Province at 30th June, 1938, was $156,747,689, as compared with a corresponding figure of $158,151,547 quoted in the Provincial Treasurer's Budget speech on 25th February, 1938.\n\nAs regards recent legislation of the Province of Alberta affecting loans and mortgages, I understand that the Dominion Government in June last disallowed the Home Owners' Security Act, 1938, and the Securities Tax Act, 1938, of the Legislature of Alberta. It is understood that the Government of Alberta is still prepared to pay interest on its loan issues at the rate of one half the contractual rate. So far as I am aware no fresh issue of Prosperity Certificates has been made.\n\nMr. H. G. Williams: Can my right hon. Friend give any indication as to when the Government are going to pay their debts?\n\n## MERCANTILE MARINE \n\n28. Mr. Shinwell asked the President of the Board of Trade whether the Government have any plans in contemplation for strengthening the position of the British Mercantile Marine?\n\nThe President of the Board of Trade (Mr. Oliver Stanley): The British shipping industry is at present actively engaged in a comprehensive inquiry into the position. My Department is being kept informed of the progress of the work. The Government will give full consideration to the results of this inquiry, as soon as they are available.\n\nMr. Shinwell: Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that the tramp shipowners have in contemplation a scheme for laying up vessels; and does that constitute a scheme for the welfare of the Mercantile Marine?\n\n## AIRCRAFT SUPPLY (CANADA) \n\n31. Mr. Simmonds asked the Secretary of State for Air whether he can make any statement with regard to the Air Mission to Canada?\n\nThe Secretary of State for Air (Sir Kingsley Wood): It is not yet possible for me to make a definite statement in this matter beyond the announcement made on 2nd September last as to the results of the Mission's work. Negotiations are actively proceeding with the representatives of the Canadian aircraft firms who have come to London at my invitation, and it is hoped that a successful conclusion will be reached in the early future.\n\nMr. Simmonds: Are these orders to be placed direct from this country, or will they come through the Canadian Government?\n\nSir K. Wood: I will make a full statement on the negotiations which are now being carried on, which I hope will result satisfactorily.\n\n## AIR-RAID PRECAUTIONS \n\n33. Mr. Touche asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he can make a statement as regards the progress of recruiting for air-raid precautions?\n\n36. Mr. Simmonds asked the Home Secretary the results to date of his appeal for further volunteers for air-raid precautionary work?\n\nThe Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Geoffrey Lloyd): According to the latest information, the total number of air-raid precautions personnel who have enrolled with the local authorities is now over 1,000,000. This figure includes some 150,000 who enrolled as the result of the special appeals made at the beginning of October, and some 250,000 who enrolled during the crisis.\n\nMr. Simmonds: Is a complete investigation being made into this situation, and, in particular, is my hon. Friend considering whether it is not essential that these volunteers should be under some form of ...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 563254, "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": "CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938", "page_number": 14, "title": "CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938", "content_text": "# Oral Answers \n\n## HOUSE OF COMMONS \n\n[Mr. Simmonds.] contractual obligation, so that they should be in fact available when any emergency arises? \n\nMr. Lloyd: This is a subject with which my right hon. Friend will deal in the course of the Debate. \n\nMr. Mabane: Can my hon. Friend say how many of this total fall within the category of air raid wardens? \n\nMr. Lloyd: Not without notice. \n\nMr. R. Gibson: Do these figures include Scotland? \n\nMr. Lloyd: Yes, Sir. \n\nMr. Davidson: If the hon. Gentleman is considering the question of contract, will he also consider the question of payment? \n\n## 35. Mr. Simmonds asked the Home Secretary what practical steps have been taken to implement the recommendations of the committee upon evacuation presided over by the right hon. Member for the Scottish Universities (Sir J. Anderson)? \n\nMr. Lloyd: As stated in the memorandum which my right hon. Friend issued with the report, action has already been taken both in the light of the recommendations in the report and of the experience gained during the recent emergency to examine and prepare in detail evacuation schemes. Steps had been taken before the recent emergency to have ready schemes such as could be operated at once if there were no time for lengthy preparation. Information was given in the Press about such a scheme which had been prepared for London. It is, however fully recognised that with time for preparation much can be done to improve such schemes, and the detailed work necessary for this purpose is in progress. \n\nMr. Simmonds: Will my right hon. Friend bear in mind the wide national support which has been given to this plan and that the nation is only too anxious to see other branches of air-raid precautions investigated in a similar manner? \n\nSir Percy Harris: Will the right hon. Gentleman explain to the House why this report was held up before publication for three months? \n\nMr. Lloyd: My right hon. Friend will deal with that rather complicated subject later. \n\nMr. R. C. Morrison: Can the hon. Gentleman say whether he will issue any information to local authorities in the near future, so that they may play their part in making the long and active preparations which will be necessary if this scheme is to be successful? \n\nMr. Lloyd: Yes, Sir, certainly. \n\n## 41. Mr. Gallacher asked the Home Secretary whether any steps were taken to enable unemployed persons to receive the various articles recommended in the air-raid precautions handbook as being necessary for the evacuation of children and for protecting homes in the event of aerial attack? \n\nMr. Lloyd: As regards evacuation, steps were taken to secure that school children were equipped with the articles which they might need, and arrangements were made for meeting the immediate necessities of all persons who would have become refugees. As regards the provision of various forms of protection for persons remaining in specially vulnerable areas, the subject cannot be adequately dealt with in reply to a question, but my right hon. Friend hopes to have an early opportunity of making a full statement. \n\nMr. Gallacher: Will the Minister take note of the fact that the allowances paid to those who are unemployed are quite inadequate to meet their ordinary needs, and that if there is any special arrangement made for protecting their homes, assistance must be given to them? \n\n## 43. Mr. Touche asked the Home Secretary whether he will consider letting the public know the regulations which would be enforced in time of war regarding such air-raid precautions as blanketing of windows, provision of sand, and the best means of dealing with incendiary and other bombs, so that persons responsible for large buildings may take the necessary preparatory steps to enable them to comply with such regulations should the emergency arise? \n\nMr. Lloyd: Every endeavour has been and is being made, both through the medium of the published memoranda and handbooks and otherwise, to give the widest publicity to the various precautionary measures which should be taken by the public against the danger from air raids. It should not, however, be assumed that all these measures would be the subject of mandatory regulations on the outbreak of war. Many of them would remain measures which members of the public and occupiers of premises would be expected to take in their own interests. \n\nMr. Macquisten: Would it not be as well to mobilise all the unemployed miners and make them build bomb-proof shelters in all the big towns? \n\nMr. Garro Jones: Does that answer mean that the dealing with incendiary bombs is left exclusively to the initiative of the public after merely receiving publicity information from the Home Office? \n\nMr. Lloyd: No, Sir, it does not mean that. It is proposed both that the fire brigades should be augmented and also in the case of certain similar brigade plants in some of the streets in the event of air raids, that simple fire extinction apparatus should be made available in certain streets, probably in connection with the air-raid wardens. \n\n## BOGUS CLUBS \n\n34. Mr. Touche asked the Home Secretary whether he is aware of the hardship caused to licensed victuallers by the continuance of the unfair competition of bogus clubs; and whether he can make any statement as to when legislation is likely to be introduced on this subject? \n\n**The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Sir Samuel Hoare)**: I am fully aware of the position, but my hon. Friend will realise that it is not possible for me to-day to make any statement as to the legislative programme for next Session. \n\n## PARLIAMENTARY ELECTORATES \n\n37. Sir J. Mellor asked the Home Secretary whether, in view of the growing inequality of Parliamentary electorates, he will introduce legislation in order to effect a redistribution before the next General Election? \n\n32. Mr. Keeling asked the Home Secretary whether he is aware that in 79 of the 498 single-Member constituencies in England and Wales the number of voters is over 25 per cent. above the average and that the disparity between large and small electorates is greater than it has been since the Reform Act, 1832; and whether he will consider the introduction of legislation to make a redistribution before the next General Election? \n\n**1 NOVEMBER 1938**\n\nSir S. Hoare: I am not in a position to add anything to the replies given to previous questions on this subject. \n\nSir J. Mellor: Will my right hon. Friend bear in mind the fact that the size of some electorates in single-Member constituencies is two, three and even four times the size of the average electorate? \n\nSir S. Hoare: Yes, Sir. \n\n## TWO-SHIFT SYSTEM \n\n38. Mr. Kelly asked the Home Secretary the number of firms operating the two-shift system, and also the conditions which have been laid down for transport as well as continued education? \n\nSir S. Hoare: About 1,100 two-shift authorisations are now in force under the Act of 1936. It is now the practice to insert a condition to the effect that if any young person employed in the shifts is desirous of attending a continuation school or class, reasonable facilities shall be afforded by the employer for such attendance, and where it appears that transport difficulties are liable to arise a condition is inserted that the Secretary of State may at any time require the employer to make such special arrangements for the conveyance of workers living at a distance as may be necessary to prevent hardship. \n\nMr. Kelly: Will the right hon. Gentleman consider publishing a list of those firms operating this two-shift system? \n\nSir S. Hoare: I scarcely think that it would be necessary to publish a list of these 1,100 firms, but if the hon. Member will communicate with me, I will see if there is any further information I can give him. \n\nMr. Rhys Davies: Is the right hon. Gentleman satisfied that the conditions which were laid down by the Factory Department are carried out by the employers?", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 563255, "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": "CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938", "page_number": 15, "title": "CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938", "content_text": "# Oral Answers \n\n## HOUSE OF COMMONS \n\nSir S. Hoare: Yes, Sir, I think upon the whole that is the case. We have had no complaints, but I will look into the matter again.\n\n## POLICE (PENSIONS). \n39. Mr. Kelly asked the Home Secretary the number of retired police officers on pension and how many widows of police officers are in receipt of pension?\n\nSir S. Hoare: On 31st March last, the latest date for which figures are available, the numbers were 37,742 and 7,045 respectively.\n\n## METROPOLITAN POLICE FORCE (SECTION HOUSES). \n40. Mr. Kelly asked the Home Secretary the number of section houses to be built or rebuilt for the Metropolitan Police; and how many of these are for the women police?\n\nSir S. Hoare: As at present proposed, about 30 new section houses will be built and 20 existing section houses reconstructed. For women police, three section houses are contemplated; one has already been provided by adaptation of an existing building, one will be a new building, and the third will be either a new building or an adapted or reconstructed building.\n\nMr. Kelly: Will the right hon. Gentleman publish the location of the section houses; and are they being constructed in keeping with the town-planning arrangements of the London County Council?\n\nSir S. Hoare: I will certainly look into the matter and see what action can be taken. I believe the answer to the second question is in the affirmative, but I will look into it.\n\n## AGRICULTURE. GOVERNMENT POLICY. \n44. Mr. De la Bère asked the Minister of Agriculture whether he has now any statement to make regarding the future of the poultry industry?\n\n59. Mr. H. G. Williams asked the Minister of Agriculture whether he has any further statement to make on agricultural policy?\n\n(Mr. Ramsbotham): As my right hon. Friend stated in reply to a question by the right hon. Member for Hillsborough (Mr. Alexander) on 22nd June, it is hoped early next Session to introduce a Bill to implement the proposals contained in the White Paper on Milk Policy issued in July, 1937. Legislation will also be introduced at an early date to provide for a periodical review of the standard price of wheat under the Wheat Act, 1932, and to make certain other Amendments in the Act to deal with outstanding problems. As regards the poultry industry, I would refer my hon. Friends to the statement made by my right hon. Friend in reply to a question by the hon. Member for Linlithgow (Mr. Mathers) on 11th July.\n\nMr. De la Bère: May I ask the Minister when we are to have a comprehensive and constructive policy for the poultry industry? Does he realise that some prompt action is necessary, as we have heard nothing since June?\n\nMr. Ramsbotham: The programme I have mentioned is fairly comprehensive, and I think it will take my hon. Friend all his time to digest the three measures I have mentioned.\n\nMajor Braithwaite: Can my hon. Friend say whether it is proposed to take any action in connection with barley and sheep?\n\nMr. Ramsbotham: I have nothing to add to the answer I have given on that point.\n\nMr. Gallacher: Has not the Minister received representation from the poultry industry, and is he not prepared to give any attention to it?\n\nMr. Ramsbotham: We hope to produce the Poultry Bill during the coming Session.\n\n## CREDITS. \n58. Mr. De la Bère asked the Minister of Agriculture whether he has now any statement to make regarding the improved facilities for credit for agriculturists?\n\nMr. Ramsbotham: This matter is under consideration, but my right hon. Friend is not yet in a position to make a statement.\n\nMr. De la Bère: Is it not a fact that the Foreign Office, the Board of Trade, and the Federation of British Industries forced the Government to grant £50,000,000 to Eastern Europe? Cannot the Minister of Agriculture do something for agriculture?\n\nMr. Ramsbotham: My right hon. Friend has given very careful consideration to this matter, but my hon. Friend will appreciate that recent events have involved some delay in dealing with it.\n\nMr. Macquisten: Is anything to be gained by putting farmers into debt? Would it not be much better to relieve them of the burden of many of the recent officials who have been appointed under the Marketing Acts and other Acts?\n\n## SHEEP AND LAMBS (PRICES). \n60. Major Dower asked the Minister of Agriculture whether he is now in a position to make a statement with regard to the serious decline in prices for sheep and lambs?\n\nMr. Ramsbotham: Since my right hon. Friend's statement during the Estimates Debate on 13th July, to which I would refer my hon. and gallant Friend, the number of fat sheep offered for sale at representative markets in England and Wales has shown an increase of 12 per cent. over the corresponding period of 1937, and the increase in the past four weeks has exceeded 20 per cent. Prices of fat sheep have nevertheless shown no further decline during the past three months, but there has been a slight seasonal fall in the price of fat lambs. The prices realised at the autumn sales of store sheep have proved less unsatisfactory than was at one time anticipated. The slight increase of 1 per cent. over 1937 quantities in total imports of mutton and lamb during the first nine months of the year is due to larger arrivals of ewe mutton, which is not normally competitive with the home product. Imports of lamb have declined. The supply position during the forthcoming year is receiving consideration.\n\nMajor Dower: May I ask whether the discussions which have been taking place with Australia and New Zealand have been concluded, whether they are satisfactory, and whether the result will be to stop the inflow of mutton and lamb into this country?\n\nMr. Ramsbotham: I should be glad if my hon. and gallant Friend would give notice of that question.\n\n## ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE \n45. Mr. Alan Herbert asked the Prime Minister whether he will recommend to His Majesty the appointment of a Royal Commission to inquire into the costs of justice to the citizens, the inquiry to cover such matters as the arrangements for the legal assistance of poor persons and persons of small means, the charging of court fees, the distribution of the business of the courts so far as this affects the cost of litigation to persons of small means, the requirement that a husband shall pay the costs of a wife in all divorce proceedings, and any other rule or practice which appears to conflict with the declaration in the Magna Charta that justice shall not be delayed or sold?\n\nThe Prime Minister (Mr. Chamberlain): The matters to which the question relates involve problems of very great difficulty. They have constantly been the subject of Government inquiries, including during recent years a Royal Commission and several Departmental Committees which have expended a great deal of time and trouble in an endeavour to carry out the objects which no doubt my hon. Friend has at heart.\n\nA number of things have been done in that direction in recent years, and, in particular, it may be mentioned that the County Court limit has been raised by an Act passed this year. Moreover, the questions which arise are constantly under review by my noble Friend the Lord Chancellor and his advisers, and, after consultation with him, I am not satisfied that the interests of the administration of justice would be served by the appointment of a Royal Commission as suggested by my hon. Friend.\n\nMr. Davidson: Is the Prime Minister aware that the Scottish Commission has already sat on this particular question with regard to assistance to poor persons, made its recommendations a considerable time ago to the Scottish Office, and that none of its recommendations have been operated by the Scottish Office?\n\nThe Prime Minister: That does not seem to be very encouraging to the suggestion for another of them.\n\n## CHANNEL TUNNEL. \n46. Mr. Day asked the Prime Minister whether, in view of the changed conditions of aerial warfare and the danger to ...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 563256, "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": "CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938", "page_number": 16, "title": "CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938", "content_text": "# Oral Answers \n\n## HOUSE OF COMMONS \n\n[Mr. Day.] shipping in the case of a national emergency which would seriously affect food and other supplies of great importance to this country, he will consider moving to appoint a Select Committee to discuss the advantages as a whole of the construction of a Channel tunnel, which, in addition to the labour and material required, would also increase the productive employment in this country?\n\nThe Prime Minister: The view of His Majesty's Government is that nothing has occurred since the issue of the White Paper in June, 1930, to cause them to modify the attitude then adopted in relation to the Channel tunnel. The answer to the question is, therefore, in the negative.\n\nMr. Day: Can the right hon. Gentleman say whether this question is being considered by the Committee of Imperial Defence?\n\nThe Prime Minister: No, Sir.\n\n## GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OF INDUSTRY \n\n47. Mr. J. Griffiths asked the Prime Minister when the report of the Royal Commission on the geographical distribution of industry will be issued?\n\nThe Prime Minister: I am afraid that the Commission are not yet in a position to say when their report will be ready.\n\nMr. Lawson: Can the Prime Minister suggest to the chairman the advisability of publishing an interim report of the Commission, in view of the relations of the subject with which they are dealing to many questions of vital importance to the nation?\n\nThe Prime Minister: I think it would probably be better to wait until the chairman is in a position to issue a report on the whole subject.\n\nMr. Lawson: Has the Prime Minister any knowledge how long this Commission will be before it reports? It has been sitting a long time and the matter is of very great importance.\n\nThe Prime Minister: I appreciate that, but I have said at various times that I do not think the report of a Commission on so complicated a subject can be expected very early. I am, however, hopeful that it will not be very long delayed now.\n\nMr. Maequisten: Will the Prime Minister call the attention of the Commission to the shackles that have been imposed upon road transport, which would soon redistribute itself if we had good, decent roads?\n\n49. Mr. Lees-Jones asked the Prime Minister whether the Royal Commission on the geographical distribution of the industrial population has considered, in the national interest, the question of the evacuation of the overcrowded industrial undertakings in Greater London; and, if not, in view of recent events, will steps be taken to add this to the Royal Commission's terms of reference?\n\nThe Prime Minister: The strategical aspects of the concentration of industry and the industrial population in Greater London are within the terms of reference of the Royal Commission, but I do not consider that arrangements for evacuation should be brought within their scope.\n\n## FOOTBALL POOLS \n\n48. Mr. R. C. Morrison asked the Prime Minister whether his attention has been drawn to the rapid growth of football pools; whether, in view of the large amount of money invested by the public in small weekly sums and the doubts existing as to the relation of the prize money to the amount invested, he will set up a committee of inquiry to investigate their working and report whether State supervision is necessary?\n\nSir S. Hoare: I have been asked to reply. I would refer the hon. Member to the answer which I gave to my hon. Friend the Member for Leeds, West (Mr. V. Adams) on 17th February.\n\nMr. Morrison: May I take it that the right hon. Gentleman does not intend to take any notice of the many representations from business interests that have been directed to the Government in connection with this matter?\n\nSir S. Hoare: The issue raises the whole question of off-the-course betting, and I do not think that it can be dealt with separately from the bigger problem. I do not at present see any opportunity for legislation of that kind.\n\nViscountess Astor: Is it not true that when the last Betting Bill came before the House of Commons the Government had at one time thought of dealing with football pools? If that be true, why cannot they do that now, seeing the terrific amount of waste that is going on?\n\nSir S. Hoare: The proposal met with very great opposition. It was either defeated or withdrawn.\n\nMr. McGovern: Seeing that there is such efficiency of organisation in regard to these football pools, will the right hon. Gentleman consider getting the promoters of these pools to run the arms industry?\n\n57. Mr. R. C. Morrison asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he can give any information as to the profits of football pools and the amount of Income Tax received from same?\n\nThe Chancellor of the Exchequer (Sir John Simon): I regret that I cannot furnish any information regarding the profits as assessed to Income Tax of the particular concerns to which the hon. Member refers.\n\n## DEFENCE \n\n50. Mr. Cary asked the Prime Minister whether he will give the House more specific information in regard to the serious gaps which have been shown to exist in our defences and the nature of the steps which have been taken to repair such deficiencies; and, further, whether His Majesty's Government has received assurances from the trade unions in Great Britain and from all the Dominion governments oversea that they are prepared to co-operate to the limit of their capacity in bringing our system of defences to a satisfactory point with the least possible delay?\n\n51. Miss Ward asked the Prime Minister whether he is aware that there are responsible industrial companies who feel that full advantage has not been taken of their willingness to co-operate in the rearmament programme; and whether he will consider taking immediate steps to set up a liaison committee of industrialists whose business it would be to receive offers of co-operation and relate these offers to the needs of the Defence Departments?\n\nThe Prime Minister: It is proposed that a full statement should be made on Defence at the first convenient opportunity in the new Session of Parliament. I would ask hon. Members to await this statement, which will deal comprehensively with the steps which His Majesty's Government have taken and are taking in regard to Defence matters generally.\n\nMr. Cary: Will my right hon. Friend consider the advisability of issuing a White Paper on Defence to coincide with the Debate on the Address?\n\nThe Prime Minister: I will think about that.\n\nMr. Garro Jones: Can the Prime Minister assure the House that any further statement will be more ingenuous and explicit than past White Papers on Defence have been?\n\n71. Mr. Shinwell asked the Minister for the Co-ordination of Defence whether he is satisfied that the Service Departments are adequately prepared to defend our commitments at home and abroad?\n\nThe Minister for the Co-ordination of Defence (Sir Thomas Inskip): I would refer the hon. Member to the reply given by my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister to earlier questions to-day by my hon. Friends the Members for Eccles (Mr. Cary) and Wallsend (Miss Ward).\n\n## IRELAND \n\n52. Mr. McEntee asked the Prime Minister whether, following upon the steps which he has taken by intervention in Central Europe to remove the grievances of the minorities in Czechoslovakia, he will now introduce legislation for the restoration of the unity of Ireland which was taken away under the provisions of the Government of Ireland Act, 1920?\n\nThe Prime Minister: I would invite the attention of the hon. Member to the statements made by my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs and by myself in the course of the Second Reading of the Eire (Confirmation Agreements) Bill, to which I am not in a position to add.\n\nSir Ronald Ross: Is not the Prime Minister and everyone else aware that by an overwhelming majority in the recent elections for the Northern Ireland Parliament the people of Northern Ireland demonstrated their determination always to remain part of the United Kingdom?\n\nPage 24 \nPage 23 \n1 NOVEMBER 1938 \nNo. 165", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 563257, "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": "CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938", "page_number": 17, "title": "CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938", "content_text": "# HOUSE OF COMMONS\n## Oral Answers\n\nMr. McEntee: Will the Prime Minister use his influence to see that self-determination is granted to Ireland, in view of the fact that he was so anxious to get it for Sudetenland in Germany?\n\nThe Prime Minister: It is a question for Northern Ireland and Eire.\n\n## NATIONAL FINANCE.\n\n53. Mr. H. G. Williams asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer what has been the excess of expenditure over revenue since 1st April up to the latest date for which the figures are available; and how this excess compares with the corresponding period of the last financial year?\n\nSir J. Simon: The amount up to 29th October, 1938, is £181,988,000 as compared with a figure of £115,304,000 as at 30th October, 1937. These figures, however, do not give any trustworthy indication of the probable outturn of the whole year. As the Budget estimates were some £80,000,000 higher than last year, the excess of expenditure over revenue in the earlier part of the year would naturally be higher also. But, apart from this, some £53,000,000 out of the increase of £67,000,000 relates to Defence expenditure, provision for which will be charged in part to loan.\n\nMr. Williams: Having regard to the fact that things are turning out rather worse than was anticipated, can my right hon. Friend indicate the Government's intentions with regard to avoiding a deficit for the next financial year?\n\n## EXCHANGE EQUALISATION FUND.\n\n54. Mr. Craven-Ellis asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer to what extent the Exchange Equalisation Fund lost gold following the recovery in France which has brought about the return to that country of much fugitive capital?\n\nSir J. Simon: I would refer my hon. Friend to the reply given on 5th October, 1938, to the hon. Member for East Birkenhead (Mr. White).\n\nMr. Craven-Ellis: Is my right hon. Friend not of opinion that if this country had been on the Gold Standard it would not have been possible for such a large amount of gold to be transferred?\n\n## Oral Answers\n## MONETARY POLICY.\n\n55. Mr. Craven-Ellis asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he will assure the House that before any change is made in the long-term monetary policy outlined in the Ottawa Monetary Report of 1932, and confirmed by the British Empire Currency Declaration issued on 27th July, 1933, an exhaustive inquiry by a commission, upon which agriculture and industry have equal representations with finance, will be held?\n\nSir J. Simon: No alteration such as my hon. Friend has in mind is in contemplation and the question, therefore, does not arise.\n\n56. Mr. Craven-Ellis asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether, in view of the fact that the decline in the sterling wholesale price-level this year, and the consequent deterioration in the condition of trade and employment in this country, is largely attributable to the influence of the depression in the United States of America, he will consider to what extent it may be advisable to revise the present policy of maintaining the approximate stability of the sterling-dollar exchange rate with a view to minimising the influence of adverse conditions in the United States of America upon the sterling wholesale price-level?\n\nSir J. Simon: I would refer my hon. Friend to the reply given to my hon. Friend the Member for East Bradford (Mr. Hepworth) on 22nd June, 1938.\n\nMr. Craven-Ellis: May I ask whether this country has any definite obligation to maintain the pound sterling in relation to the dollar under the Tripartite Currency Agreement?\n\nSir J. Simon: My hon. Friend knows that the effect of the Tripartite Currency Agreement has often been stated, and if he will examine it he will no doubt find the answer.\n\n## UNEMPLOYMENT. UNEMPLOYMENT FUND.\n\n61. Mr. H. G. Williams asked the Minister of Labour what sum now stands to the credit of the Unemployment Fund; and what is the amount of its present funded debt?\n\nThe Minister of Labour (Mr. Ernest Brown): At 29th October, 1938, the total balance of the Unemployment Fund was about £46,982,000, including investments at cost. The amount of the debt now outstanding is about £81,530,000.\n\nMr. Macquisten: May I ask how these investments compare with the market price? Do they show any heavy depreciation?\n\nMr. Brown: I should like to have notice of that question.\n\n## SPECIAL AREAS.\n\n62. Mr. J. Griffiths asked the Minister of Labour whether the Government have decided on the continuation of the Special Areas Act; and whether it is proposed to give consideration to a review of the existing boundaries before any measure is introduced?\n\nMr. E. Brown: The proposals of the Government in this matter will be announced in due course.\n\nMr. Griffiths: Is the right hon. Gentleman inviting representations from areas outside the Special Areas Act, or is he prepared to receive such representations?\n\nMr. Brown: As the hon. Member knows, I have already received one or two representations, and I am constantly receiving deputations on this subject.\n\nMr. Rhys Davies: Will the right hon. Gentleman tell us what he means by the words \"in due course\"? Can he be more explicit?\n\nMr. Brown: Not at the moment.\n\n## LINCOLN.\n\n63. Mr. Liddall asked the Minister of Labour whether he will indicate the course of employment by numbers, industries, and percentages, respectively, for the city of Lincoln for the months of July, August, and September, 1938?\n\nMr. E. Brown: As the reply includes a table of figures, I will, if I may, circulate a statement in the OFFICIAL REPORT.\n\nThe table below shows for the area served by the Lincoln Employment Exchange, (a) the numbers of insured persons, aged 16-64 years, recorded as unemployed in the principal industries at 18th July, 15th August and 12th September, 1938, and (b) these numbers expressed as percentages of the estimated numbers insured at July, 1937.\n\n| Industry | 18th July 1938 | 15th August, 1938 | 12th September, 1938 |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| | Number | Per cent. | Number | Per cent. | Number | Per cent. |\n| General Engineering, etc. | 218 | 8.8 | 196 | 7.9 | 221 | 8.9 |\n| | 416 | 6.1 | 445 | 6.5 | 458 | 6.7 |\n| Sawmilling and Machined Woodwork | 21 | 5.3 | 21 | 5.3 | 34 | 8.5 |\n| Hotel, Boarding House, etc. Service | 72 | 13.3 | 68 | 12.6 | 81 | 14.4 |\n| Miscellaneous Food Industries... | 99 | 22.0 | 119 | 26.4 | 124 | 27.6 |\n| Distributive Trades | 238 | 6.1 | 235 | 6.0 | 264 | 6.8 |\n| All other Industries and Services | 908 | 10.2 | 869 | 9.8 | 866 | 9.7 |\n| Total | 1,972 | 8.4 | 1,953 | 8.3 | 2,045 | 8.7 |\n\nNOTE. The figures given in the above Table are exclusive of insured persons within the agricultural scheme; the numbers of such workers, aged 16-64, recorded as unemployed at the Lincoln Employment Exchange at 18th July, 15th August and 12th September, 1938, were 148, 153 and 113 respectively.\n\n## WINTER ALLOWANCES.\n\n65. Mr. W. Joseph Stewart asked the Minister of Labour whether he can inform the House of the date for commencing the payment of extra winter allowances to the unemployed?\n\nMr. E. Brown: The first payment of additions granted under the Unemployment Assistance (Winter Adjustments) Regulations, 1938, will be made in respect of the pay week which includes 14th November, 1938.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 563258, "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": "CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938", "page_number": 18, "title": "CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938", "content_text": "# Oral Answers\n\n## HOUSE OF COMMONS\n\nMr. E. J. Williams: Will the Minister publish a White Paper indicating what precisely the Board proposes to do?\n\nMr. Brown: I have laid the instructions of the Board in the Library.\n\n## STATISTICS\n\n66. Mr. Shinweil asked the Minister of Labour the number of persons unemployed; and whether the Government have any schemes in contemplation for the provision of useful work?\n\nMr. E. Brown: At 12th September, 1938, there were 1,798,618 unemployed persons, aged 14 and over, on the registers of Employment Exchanges in Great Britain. As regards the second part of the question, I have nothing to add to previous replies on this subject.\n\nMr. Davidson: Will the right hon. Gentleman try to obtain the figures taking also into account the figures of the unemployed now under unemployment assistance relief?\n\nMr. Brown: That is a matter between the health services and my own Department, but I should like to see the question in precise terms on the Order Paper, and then I will do my best to give what information I can.\n\nMr. Davidson: Does the right hon. Gentleman realise that these figures added to those of the registered unemployed are the only honest figures of unemployment in the country?\n\nMr. Brown: That is not so. A great many of those who registered are in the figures.\n\nMr. Lawson: Is the Minister not aware that the situation is getting worse in many of the heavy industry areas, and that there are great numbers of men who have been out of work for many years? Cannot the Government do more in this matter?\n\nMr. Brown: The Government are doing a great deal. I cannot accept the hon. Member's statement that the situation is gradually getting worse. During the last two or three months there has been some improvement, although there have been some variations.\n\n## PROPOSED FORTH ROAD-BRIDGE\n\n68. Mr. Pethick-Lawrence asked the Minister of Transport whether he is now prepared to reconsider his decision with regard to the Forth road-bridge?\n\n67. Mr. Mathers asked the Minister of Transport when it is intended to reconsider the question of making a substantial grant towards the erection of the projected Forth road-bridge, near Queensferry; and what are the conditions precedent to such a grant being made?\n\nThe Minister of Transport (Mr. Burgin): I have nothing to add to the statement which I made on the Motion for the Adjournment on 29th July, 1938.\n\n## FOREIGN BROADCASTS\n\n70. Mr. R. Gibson asked the Postmaster-General whether the broadcasts to Germany and Italy by the British Broadcasting Corporation are to be continued; and whether he has any statement to make regarding an extension of such broadcasts to include other and, if so, what languages?\n\nThe Postmaster-General (Major Tryon): It is proposed to continue for the present the broadcast news bulletins in French, German and Italian which were recently introduced. In addition, news bulletins have been broadcast for some months past in Spanish and Portuguese for South America, and in Arabic. There is no present intention of adding other languages.\n\nCaptain Sir William Brass: May I ask whether these broadcasts are given by natives of the country to which the broadcast is sent?\n\nMajor Tryon: Not necessarily.\n\nMr. Lees-Smith: Will the Postmaster-General bear in mind that a good many of the comments sent to Italy and Germany are so sparse and scrappy that they really give little information of what is happening in this country?\n\nViscountess Astor: Is it not true that the broadcasts to Germany have done a great deal, but that we must give them on a wave-length which will reach the smaller sets of the poorer people in Germany?\n\nMajor Tryon: These matters fall within the responsibility of the Governors of the British Broadcasting Corporation and I shall be happy to convey to them the views of hon. Members.\n\n## CHINA AND JAPAN\n\n1 NOVEMBER 1938\n\n72. Mr. Paling asked the Prime Minister whether he has any statement to make with regard to the situation in China?\n\nThe Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Butler): After a lull during the summer, the Japanese in September commenced a converging movement from North and South with the object of taking Hankow. By the middle of October these operations had developed into a serious threat to the Chinese lines of communication, and in consequence the Chinese forces evacuated Hankow, which was entered by the Japanese on 25th October. I am glad to report that no loss of British life or damage to British property occurred, and in this connection my Noble Friend would like to pay a tribute to the Acting Consul-General at Hankow and Rear-Admiral Yangtse, who were chiefly responsible for bringing the foreign areas safely through the crisis. In South China the Japanese landed a force at Bias Bay, north-east of Canton, which met with little opposition and occupied Canton on 21st October. The occupation of these two important cities by the Japanese has naturally not been without its effect on British interests in South and Central China. The situation, however, will be closely watched, and appropriate measures are being and will be taken as occasion requires. It is too early to assess the effects of the events in question on the future course of hostilities, but there appears to be no immediate prospect of a cessation of fighting.\n\nSir P. Harris: Are the Government doing anything to protect British interests and to see that the open door is maintained?\n\nMr. Butler: Yes, Sir.\n\n79. Mr. Vyvyan Adams asked the Prime Minister whether any measures are in progress or contemplation to concert collective measures against Japanese aggression upon China?\n\nMr. Butler: No, Sir.\n\nMr. Adams: Is it too late for the Governments to consider the proposition of a collective refusal of Japanese imports?\n\nMr. Butler: I must refer the hon. Member to the full reply I gave to the hon. Member for Consett (Mr. David Adams) on 6th October.\n\n## CZECHOSLOVAKIA\n\n73. Mr. Noel-Baker asked the Prime Minister whether he has any information to give the House as to the position of affairs in Czechoslovakia?\n\n84. Lieut.-Commander Fletcher asked the Prime Minister whether he has any statement to make on the visit of Lord Runciman to Czechoslovakia and on the position in that country?\n\nThe Prime Minister: I would refer the hon. Members to the full statements on the Czechoslovak question which I made in the course of the Debates on 28th September and at the beginning of last month. As regards developments in the situation since the House adjourned, I would ask hon. Members to be good enough to await the statements which will be made in the Debate this afternoon.\n\nMr. Noel-Baker: Is the Prime Minister aware of the decision of the International Commission in Berlin that movable property taken from the Sudeten country after 20th September must be returned, and does he consider that this decision is in accordance with the terms of the agreement?\n\n86. Mr. Arthur Henderson asked the Prime Minister whether he can make a statement on the international guarantee in respect of the present frontiers of Czechoslovakia?\n\n87. Miss Rathbone asked the Prime Minister how the matter now stands with regard to the proposed guarantee of the new frontiers of Czechoslovakia and whether he is in a position to issue a White Paper showing the limits of the frontiers, the condition of the guarantees, and any steps that have been taken with a view to checking threats to the security of that State?\n\nThe Prime Minister: I have at present nothing to add to the statement on this subject made by my right hon. Friend the Minister for the Co-ordination of Defence on 4th October. The question of issuing a White Paper on the subject will not arise until the new frontiers of Czechoslovakia have been finally settled after the conclusion of the present negotiations between that country and Germany, Hungary and Poland, and the completion of the formal instrument of Guarantee.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 563259, "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": "CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938", "page_number": 19, "title": "CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938", "content_text": "# HOUSE OF COMMONS\n## Oral Answers\n\n88. Miss Rathbone asked the Prime Minister whether he can inform the House as to questions of nationals of Czechoslovakia held prisoner or detained as hostages by Germany or in the ceded territories of Czechoslovakia, on political grounds; how many of them have been released or are still detained; and what steps His Majesty's Government have taken about it?\n\nMr. Butler: I understand that agreement was reached early last month between the German and Czechoslovak Governments for the reciprocal release of such prisoners and hostages. I have no reason to suppose that this agreement has not been carried out on both sides. With regard to the last part of the question, I would refer the hon. Member to the reply given to her on 5th October.\n\nMiss Rathbone: Will the hon. Gentleman make inquiries, in view of the fact that the Prime Minister told the House that he had made no stipulations as to the release of these prisoners? Does not His Majesty's Government feel some responsibility for their safety, and will not inquiries be made as to what actually has happened?\n\nMr. Butler: The Government took immediate action, and I have no reason to suppose that the agreement to which I have referred has not been carried out.\n\n## SPAIN\n\n80. Mr. V. Adams asked the Prime Minister what progress has been made in securing against attacks by Spanish insurgent aircraft shipping legitimately flying the Union Jack and proceeding on lawful occasions?\n\n82. Mr. Mander asked the Prime Minister the number of British ships bombed and British subjects and non-intervention officers killed or wounded in Spain during the last three months, and the action in consequence taken?\n\n83. Lieut.-Commander Fletcher asked the Prime Minister whether he will make a statement as to the work of the Commission to inquire into the bombing of British ships in Spanish ports?\n\nMr. Butler: According to the Government's information, 21 British ships have been damaged in Spanish waters during the last three months. This is approximately half the corresponding figure for the three months before the House rose at the end of July and at the most three of these ships have become total wrecks. I regret to say that one British subject was killed and at least one injured; no British Non-Intervention Observer has been killed or injured. Protests have been made to the Burgos authorities in certain of these cases and the right to claim compensation has been reserved. In other cases inquiries are still being pursued. Discussions regarding the proposed commission of investigation are still proceeding with the Chamber of Shipping of the United Kingdom, the Committee of British Shipowners Trading to Spain and other interests concerned. Agreement has been reached on most points and it is hoped shortly to submit a proposal to General Franco's administration.\n\nMr. V. Adams: Will compensation be demanded from the Burgos authorities or from whichever side is successful in the Spanish civil war?\n\nMr. Butler: As I said originally in explaining the matter to the House, the claim in law will lie against Spain.\n\nMr. Adams: But supposing the Republican Government wins, as is by no means impossible now, would it not be an unjust thing-\n\nMr. Speaker: Mr. Thurtle.\n\nMr. Thurtle: When the hon. Member says that these ships have been damaged, does he mean they have been bombed by Italian aeroplanes?\n\nMr. Butler: I mean they have been damaged in the course of air raids by aeroplanes under the control of General Franco.\n\nRear-Admiral Beamish: Will my hon. Friend make it clear that no British merchant ship may fly the Union Jack?\n\nMr. Noel-Baker: In view of the fact that the only effective protest which has yet been made was that made in Rome on 27th June, have the Government now made a new protest in Rome?\n\nMr. Butler: I should require to have notice of that question.\n\nSir Archibald Sinclair: Have the Government any hope of these events being stopped? Have they any determination to stop them?\n\nMr. Petherick: Is it not the case that the bill should be sent to the Spanish Government?\n\n## UNITED KINGDOM AND GERMANY\n\n77. Mr. A. Henderson asked the Prime Minister whether he has any statement to make on the conversations which have taken place between the German Government and His Majesty's Government?\n\nThe Prime Minister: I do not know what particular conversations the hon. Member has in mind, but I would refer him to the statements which I made on 28th September and during the Debate at the beginning of last month.\n\nMr. McEntee: Has any progress been made since the statement was made some time ago in the House that negotiations for a loan were being carried on? Are the Government willing to do anything in regard to guaranteeing such a loan?\n\n## ANGLO-ITALIAN AGREEMENT\n\n85. Mr. A. Henderson asked the Prime Minister whether he has any statement to make with reference to the recent conversations between His Majesty's Government and the Italian Government?\n\n76. Sir George Mitcheson asked the Prime Minister whether he has any statement to make in regard to the Anglo-Italian treaty?\n\nThe Prime Minister: I hope that the hon. Members will be good enough to await the statement which I propose to make at the end of Questions.\n\nAt the end of Questions--\n\nThe Prime Minister: This is the statement which I undertook to make on the Anglo-Italian Agreement:\n\nIt is the intention of His Majesty's Government to bring the Anglo-Italian Agreement into force as soon as possible. In accordance with the statement which I made in the House on 11th July, the House should have an opportunity of debating this question. Accordingly, I propose to table a Motion to-night, which the House will debate to-morrow. The Motion will be in the following terms:\n\n\"That this House welcomes the intention of His Majesty's Government to bring the Anglo-Italian Agreement into force.\"\n\nMr. Attlee: May I ask the Prime Minister whether he maintains that the condition on which was based the coming into force of the Anglo-Italian Agreement, namely, a settlement in Spain, has been attained?\n\nThe Prime Minister: That, of course, is a subject which will have to be discussed to-morrow in the Debate.\n\n## LOCAL GOVERNMENT EXPENDITURE\n\n89. Mr. Lyons asked the Minister of Health whether in view of the general apprehension felt at the increasing cost of local rates, he can now state what plans are in contemplation for bringing about stabilisation and eventual reduction in this local burden?\n\nThe Minister of Health (Mr. Elliot): Local authorities have been requested to prepare and submit to me programmes covering the next five years, so as to secure that new capital expenditure is carefully planned and entered into with due regard to the general economic circumstances as well as the financial position of the local authority concerned. These returns have been somewhat delayed by recent events but are now being received. As my hon. and learned Friend will appreciate the level of the rates is primarily a matter for the several local authorities. Although increases have recently been made in many areas the general level is still below that of some few years ago.\n\nMr. Lyons: In view of the fact that the burden is now becoming almost intolerable in many industrial areas, will my right hon. Friend consider making some representations to all local authorities that they should not readily increase above the existing basis the present high rates throughout the country?\n\nMr. Elliot: The responsibility rests upon the electors who elect the local authorities.\n\nMr. Lyons: Notwithstanding that, will my right hon. Friend make some representations on the lines I have indicated in the interests of millions of citizens who now carry this heavy burden of rates?\n\nMr. Herbert Morrison: With a view to attaining the end desired by the hon. and...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 563260, "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": "CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938", "page_number": 20, "title": "CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938", "content_text": "# Oral Answers \n\n## HOUSE OF COMMONS \n\n[Mr. Morrison.] learned Member, will the right hon. Gentleman consider the restoration of State grants to the local authorities, which have been reduced by the Government since 1931, and will he give the House some assurance that he is not contemplating the cutting and the reduction of the social services? \n\nMr. Elliot: I am glad to have an opportunity of doing that. The right hon. Gentleman cannot have seen to-day's newspapers. So far from thinking of cutting the social services, it is our hope to maintain them and, if possible, to expand them. \n\nMr. Morrison: In that case, will the right hon. Gentleman inform the House why he intimated only a few days ago that the Government were considering cutting the social services? \n\nMr. Elliot: I am afraid the right hon. Gentleman cannot have read this morning's **Daily Herald**. \n\nMr. McGovern: Is the **Daily Herald** the Government organ now? \n\n## BURNING PIT-HEAP (BRYN, WIGAN). \n\n90. Mr. Gordon Macdonald asked the Minister of Health what is the result of the investigation by his Department into the nuisance arising from a burning pit-heap formed by the Garwood Hill Collieries Company, Limited, Bryn, near Wigan; and what steps are to be taken to have the nuisance abated? \n\nMr. Elliot: My inspectors have made several visits to this pit-heap. Endeavour has been made to reduce the fire by the removal of combustible material and the selection of the material tipped on the heap. I understand that no further spontaneously combustible material is being added to the heap and that an effort is to be made to quench the fire with water. I am keeping in touch with developments. \n\nMr. Griffiths: Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that at the Barnsley football ground they can hardly see the match because of the burning heaps nearby? \n\n## PALESTINE. \n\n91. Mr. Mander asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies what is the present position in Palestine, and the number of casualties that have taken place among British, Jews, and Arabs during the last three months? \n\n92. Mr. T. Williams asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he has any information to give the House as to the position of affairs in Palestine? \n\n93. Mr. Graham White asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he has any statement to make with regard to the position in Palestine? \n\n94. Mr. David Adams asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies what is the present position in Palestine? \n\n95. Lieut.-Commander Fletcher asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he will make a statement on the situation in Palestine? \n\nMr. M. MacDonald: On 5th October I described to the House the measures which were being taken to deal with the serious situation in Palestine. Since then I have conferred with the High Commissioner in London, and, as has already been announced, further reinforcements have been despatched to Palestine to bring the total strength of the garrison up to 18 battalions of infantry, two cavalry regiments, a battery of howitzers, and some armoured cars, with ancillary troops. The recruitment of additional British police continues. The General Officer Commanding has now at his disposal such forces as he requires for the purpose of restoring order but the process of suppressing the rebel bands and of re-establishing the civil administration in outlying areas may take a considerable time. \n\nIn order to ensure speedy action in the sphere of public security the High Commissioner has delegated to the General Officer Commanding power to appoint, with his consent, military commanders over districts, who will be responsible for all security and defence measures and will take over from the District Administration all the powers at present vested in the latter by Regulations under the Defence Order-in-Council. District Commissioners in such areas will become political advisers to the local military commanders, while continuing to be responsible for the administration of purely civil matters. Such military commanders have now been appointed in all the districts of Palestine.\n\nThe following are the figures of casualties desired by the hon. Member for Wolverhampton, East (Mr. Mander): \n\n| Category | Killed | Wounded |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| British | 29 | 75 |\n| Jews | 144 | 232 |\n| Arabs | 231 | 179 |\n\nThese figures for Arabs exclude armed rebels killed or wounded in action. It is impossible to secure complete figures for casualties amongst the Arab rebel forces, but well over 400 are known to have been killed during the three months, and considerable additional numbers wounded. \n\nMr. MacDonald: The principles which govern the schedule for those six months have often been stated in the House. With regard to the second part of the question, I am not certain that my figures are up to date, but when I last made inquiry, the figure was something over 6,000. \n\nMr. T. Williams: How many Jews have been recruited for the supernumerary police? \n\nMr. MacDonald: The figure of 6,000 covers the total figures of Jewish regular police and supernumeraries. Of these the great majority are supernumerary, but I could not give the exact figures without notice. \n\nMr. Williams: Are they being increased? \n\nMr. MacDonald: They have been lately, but whether they are still being increased, I am not quite certain. \n\nThe rebels recently intensified their efforts, and a fortnight ago made a concerted attempt to dominate the Old City of Jerusalem. This attempt was frustrated by the prompt occupation of the city by British troops and police, followed by a thorough search. The success of this operation has had a most salutary effect. Every precaution was taken to avoid injury of innocent members of the civil population and to preserve the sanctity of mosques and sacred buildings and I have been glad to learn from the High Commissioner that the conduct of the troops and police was exemplary. Subsequent intensive searches for rebels have been made in other centres and many arrests have been made. \n\nThe Government have now received and are carefully considering the report of the Palestine Partition Commission. I hope that it will be possible to publish the report and to issue a statement of the Government's intentions shortly after the beginning of the new session. \n\nMr. T. Williams: Now that the Government are re-establishing order in Palestine, will they consider the advisability of increasing what was definitely described as a reduced low level, for a temporary period, of immigration? \n\nMr. MacDonald: The announcement was made recently as to the schedule for the six months up to the end of April, and I have nothing to add to it. \n\nColonel Wedgwood: May I ask whether the Jewish quota of immigrants took into account the number of Jews who have been killed during the last three months, and further, how many Jews are now armed so that they can defend themselves against murder? \n\nLieut.-Commander Fletcher: Will the right hon. Gentleman give an assurance that the determination of the Government to restore order in Palestine will not be allowed in any way delay their putting forward their proposals for pacification and conciliation in Palestine? \n\nMr. MacDonald: Yes, Sir. I hope to make a statement of the Government's intentions about that shortly after the new Session opens. \n\nMr. Petherick: Is close contact being maintained with the French Government, in view of the fact that the co-operation of neighbouring Powers would be of great advantage in dealing with this problem? \n\nMr. MacDonald: Yes, Sir. \n\nMr. Gallacher: Is the right hon. Gentleman not aware that if he withdrew the forces from Palestine, the Jews and Arabs could get on all right? \n\n## BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE. \n\nMr. Attlee: May I ask the Prime Minister whether he has any statement to make with regard to the business of the House? \n\nThe Prime Minister: The Adjournment of the House will be moved to-day for a Debate on the international situation. \n\nPage 20\nPage 21", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 563261, "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": "CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938", "page_number": 21, "title": "CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938", "content_text": "# HOUSE OF COMMONS\n## The late Lord Stanley\n\n[The Prime Minister.] As the House will be aware from the statement which I have just made, we shall debate the Motion in regard to the Anglo-Italian Agreement to-morrow. Thursday will be available for the discussion of the Motion which I am informed the Opposition are tabling with regard to Air-Raid Defence. On Friday there will be a formal sitting for the purpose of Prorogation. The new Session will be opened by His Majesty on Tuesday, 8th November.\n\nMr. Dingle Foot: Will the House have an opportunity in the near future of debating the report of the Select Committee on the Official Secrets Acts?\n\nThe Prime Minister: Not this Session.\n\nColonel Wedgwood: Are we to understand from the right hon. Gentleman's statement that we are to have only one day in which to discuss this Anglo-Italian Agreement and the surrender of Spain?\n\n## NEW MEMBER SWORN\nQuintin McGarel Hogg, esquire, commonly called the honourable Quintin McGarel Hogg, for the City of Oxford.\n\n## THE LATE LORD STANLEY\n\nThe Prime Minister: Since the House adjourned last July, the hand of death has been busy among us, and to-day we mourn a number of familiar faces that we know we shall not see in this Chamber again. Among others who have gone from us is one whose loss strikes Members of His Majesty's Government with peculiar poignancy because he was a colleague. Lord Stanley had been a Member of the Cabinet for only a few months, but he was an old friend of many of us and he had won the affection and regard of every one of us. I think everyone here will be deeply conscious of the tragedy of his untimely death. He was the heir of a great house which has a long and illustrious record of public service. He had for many years been a Member of this House, and although he was a Member of the National Government and of the Conservative party, he had no enemies here.\n\nEverybody, I think, was watching with sympathy his entry upon a high office which, I have reason to believe, formed the summit of his own political ambition. So great, indeed, was his keenness and his interest in Imperial relations that he insisted on carrying out his intention to visit Canada, although even then he was suffering from the disease which has now ended fatally. Perhaps in that office he would have, for the first time, found an opportunity of showing the full extent of his powers, for those who knew him best had long recognised that he possessed to an exceptional degree the high qualities of steady judgment and sterling good sense, combined with a complete and utter selflessness and integrity of purpose.\n\nI am sure that hon. Members in all parts of the House will share the sorrow which is felt on this Bench, and that they would desire to offer their deep sympathy to his widow, to his whole family and, perhaps, particularly, to his father, who holds a special place in the affections of his countrymen and who was happy in the knowledge that both his sons were giving their services to their country and the Empire.\n\nMr. Attlee: I desire to express, on behalf of the Members of the Opposition and of myself, our sorrow at the untimely death of Lord Stanley and our sincere sympathy with all the members of his family. Few of us had thought when we heard that he was taken ill in Canada, that his life was in danger, and it was a great shock to learn of his death. Lord Stanley was deservedly popular in this House, and in all parts of the House, and to the varied offices of State which he filled with great distinction, he brought character, courtesy, diligence, and ability. It is sad that so soon after attaining a position where he would have had full scope for these qualities, he has been taken away. To myself, as to many others on this side, he was a political opponent but a personal friend, and we shall long remember him and regret the loss that we have sustained by his death.\n\nSir Archibald Sinclair: I rise to associate my hon. Friends and myself both with the moving tributes which have been paid by the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition to the memory of Lord Stanley, whose untimely loss we all so deeply mourn, and also with the condolences which we offer with deep sincerity to his family. Loyal to his friends, courteous to his opponents, untiring in the service of the State, he brought to his work high qualities of mind and unusual capacity for administration. He also brought a strong, true, virile but gentle nature, which remains with us a fragrant and precious memory abiding in this House which he so faithfully served.\n\n## WRITTEN ANSWERS\n### 1 NOVEMBER 1938\n\n### TRADE AND COMMERCE\n#### TRADE AGREEMENTS (STATISTICS)\n\nMr. Lyons asked the President of the Board of Trade whether he will give the respective balances of trade between this country and all countries with which trade treaties have been negotiated for the year 1938 to the latest convenient date, showing the date at which each agreement came into force?\n\nMr. Stanley: The following table shows the total declared value of merchandise imported into and exported from the United Kingdom during the nine months ended September, 1938, in trade with the undermentioned foreign countries, together with the balance of imports or exports.\n\n| Country from and to which consigned | Imports into the United Kingdom | Total exports from the United Kingdom | Excess of Exports of merchandise (+) or Imports of merchandise (-) | Date(s) on which Trade Agreement(s) came into force |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Germany | 22,688 | 19,848 | (-) 2,840 | 8th May, 1933 |\n| Denmark | 28,747 | 11,905 | (-) 16,842 | 20th June, 1933 |\n| Iceland | 287 | 378 | 91 | 20th June, 1936 |\n| Norway | 8,210 | 5,472 | (-) 2,738 | 7th July, 1933 |\n| Sweden | 17,658 | 9,389 | (-) 8,269 | 7th July, 1933 |\n| Argentine | 28,362 | 14,769 | (-) 13,593 | 1st May, 1933; 23rd November, 1933 |\n| Finland | 13,674 | 4,329 | (-) 9,345 | 20th November, 1936; 23rd November, 1933 |\n| Soviet Union | 13,674 | 12,858 | (-) 816 | 21st March, 1934 |\n| France | 16,887 | 17,861 | 974 | 1st July, 1934; 27th April, 1935 (a) |\n| Uruguay | 2,329 | 774 | (-) 1,555 | 3rd February, 1936; 9th October, 1936 (a) |\n| Poland | 7,498 | 5,642 | (-) 1,856 | 14th March, 1935; 18th March, 1935; 16th November, 1936 |\n| Turkey | 654 | 2,109 | (+) 1,455 | 17th September, 1936; 1st July, 1938 |\n| Yugoslavia | 4,996 | 4,630 | (-) 366 | 28th March, 1938 |\n| Cuba | 1,955 | 1,116 | (-) 839 | 1st January, 1937 |\n| Morocco | 541 | 720 | 179 | (b) |\n| Netherlands | 3,137 | 10,289 | (+) 7,152 | - |\n| Lithuania | 252 | ... | ... | - |\n| Estonia | ... | ... | ... | - |\n| Latvia | ... | ... | ... | - |\n| Peru | ... | ... | ... | - |\n| Italy | ... | ... | ... | - |\n\n(a) Date of provisional entry into force of tariff provisions.\n(b) A Commercial Treaty with regard to French Morocco, incorporating tariff schedules, was signed on 18th July, 1938, but pending ratification, has not yet come into force.\n\nNotes:\n(1) The above figures are provisional.\n(2) The above list does not include agreements relating solely to payments.\n\n### GREAT BRITAIN AND UNITED STATES (TRADE AGREEMENT NEGOTIATIONS)\n\nSir G. Mitcheson asked the President of the Board of Trade whether he has any statement to make in regard to the negotiations for a commercial treaty between this country and the United States of America?\n\nMr. White asked the President of the Board of Trade whether he has any statement to make with regard to the progress of the negotiations with the United States of America for a trade agreement?\n\nMr. Stanley: Since the summer, when agreement was reached over a large part of the field, the negotiations have been...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 563262, "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": "CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938", "page_number": 22, "title": "CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938", "content_text": "# HOUSE OF COMMONS \n## Written Answers\n\nThe United Kingdom's delegation have recently defined the United Kingdom's position on outstanding matters and we expect a reply from the United States very shortly.\n\n### TEXTILE INDUSTRY (OVERSEAS MARKETS)\n\nSir J. Nall asked the President of the Board of Trade what further steps are being taken to secure a fair share for British textiles in overseas markets where British trade has declined?\n\nMr. Stanley: The interests of the textile industries are being and have been borne in mind in connection with the negotiation of trade agreements and commercial treaties. The countries with which such negotiations are proceeding at the present time include India and Burma, the United States of America, Colombia, and Switzerland. Further, a Lancashire mission is now discussing with the Egyptian authorities the difficulties surrounding the export of cotton textiles to Egypt. Officials of the Board of Trade are accompanying this mission in an advisory capacity.\n\n### SPAIN\n\nMr. Grenfell asked the Prime Minister whether he has any statement to make on the situation in Spain? \n\nSir G. Mitcheson asked the Prime Minister whether he has any statement to make on the situation in Spain?\n\nMr. Butler: Fierce but indecisive fighting has taken place at intervals on the River Ebro. Hostilities are still continuing in this area. On other fronts, with minor exceptions, there has been little activity and there have been no important changes in the military situation since the House adjourned.\n\nAt the recent meeting of the Assembly of the League, the representative of the Spanish Government announced that it had been decided to withdraw all foreign combatants from the territory under the control of his Government. At the same time, he invited the League to send an international commission to Spain to verify the fact of this withdrawal. This was agreed to; the Commission was set up by the Council and is now in Barcelona. The Italian Government have also announced that, in agreement with General Franco, it had been decided to withdraw 10,000 Italians who had been in Spain for 18 months or longer. These men have now been withdrawn and have returned to Italy.\n\n### AIR-RAID PRECAUTIONS\n\nSir G. Fox asked the Home Secretary whether, in view of the importance of the smooth working of the scheme of evacuation and billeting in war, he will state how the existing scheme has worked to date; and whether it is proposed to obtain by Parliamentary sanction the powers to carry out such billeting?\n\nMr. Lloyd: My hon. Friend will be aware that the scheme improvised in the recent emergency was not put to the test except as regards the evacuation of a relatively small number of children under arrangements made by the London County Council. The preliminary measures, however, disclosed a number of matters of detail which are receiving attention in framing long-term plans. It would, of course, be necessary to obtain Parliamentary sanction for any powers exercised in the billeting of refugees.\n\nMr. O. Lewis asked the Home Secretary whether he will have specifications and plans prepared of the various types of permanent air-raid shelters suitable for erection in connection with dwelling-houses and business premises; and whether he will make these available to the general public in the form of a booklet?\n\nSir S. Hoare: My hon. Friend's suggestion will be considered, but I would point out that an exact specification suitable for all types of building would be difficult. The general principles have been indicated in A.R.P. Handbook No. 6, which is on sale, and so far as possible, these will be amplified.\n\n### COAL INDUSTRY. EXPORTS LEVY\n\nMr. Jenkins asked the Secretary for Mines whether he is now in a position to make a statement with regard to a levy on inland-consumed coal to be used for the purpose of aiding coal exports?\n\nCaptain Crookshank: I presume that the hon. Member refers to certain proposals (which include, inter alia, a scheme for the assistance of the coal export trade) put before the Government by the coal industry in the summer. I cannot at present add anything to the statement which I made to the House on 26th July in reply to questions by the hon. Members for Morpeth (Mr. R. J. Taylor) and Llanelly (Mr. J. Griffiths).\n\n### MINES ACCIDENTS\n\nMr. Jenkins asked the Secretary for Mines whether he can state the total number of fatal accidents in the mines of this country during the months of January to October, inclusive, for the years 1937 and 1938?\n\nCaptain Crookshank: The total number of persons killed by accidents at mines under the Coal Mines Act in Great Britain this year up to the 22nd October, the latest date to which such particulars are available, was 697. The figure for the corresponding period last year was 673.\n\nMr. Jenkins asked the Secretary for Mines whether he can state the number of fatal accidents in the mines of this country to persons under 21 years during the months January to October, inclusive, for the years 1937 and 1938?\n\nCaptain Crookshank: The number of persons under 21 years of age killed by accidents at mines under the Coal Mines Act in Great Britain this year up to the 22nd October, the latest date to which such particulars are available, was 59. The figure for the corresponding period of 1937 was 79.\n\nMr. Watson asked the Secretary for Mines whether any steps have been taken to centralise the colliery accident funds detailed in the White Paper issued in 1936 (`Cmd. 5167`); and, if not, whether he is now prepared to institute an inquiry into the feasibility of having these funds centralised and the steps that would require to be taken to achieve that object?\n\nCaptain Crookshank: No, Sir. As was explained in reply to a question by the hon. Member for Westhoughton (Mr. R. Davies) on 9th March last, there are a number of difficulties which render impracticable the suggestion to centralise relief funds connected with industrial and other disasters.\n\n### CORNWALL COUNTY COUNCIL (QUARRYMEN'S WAGES)\n\nMr. Kelly asked the Minister of Health whether he will give the decision of the Cornwall County Council on the wages of the quarry workers and what those rates are?\n\nMr. Elliot: I am sending the hon. Member a copy of a letter I have received from the Cornwall County Council which I think will give him the information for which he asks.\n\n### WAR DEPARTMENT (SEA-GOING CRAFT)\n\nSir J. Nall asked the Secretary of State for War how many sea-going craft or vessels of all classes are maintained by the War Office; whether any new sea-going craft of any description are now on order; and whether the Admiralty was consulted on the design and cost of such craft before the orders were placed?\n\nMr. Hore-Belisha: There are 69 sea-going craft. There are nine vessels on order. One of these is of commercial design. In connection with the design and cost of the other eight, there has been collaboration with the Admiralty and Air Ministry.\n\n### SOUTHERN RHODESIA\n\nMr. Mathers asked the Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs what is the status in Southern Rhodesia of a coloured woman married to a white man; and what pension rights are enjoyed by her and her children in the event of her becoming a widow?\n\nMr. M. MacDonald: The fact that a coloured woman is married to a white man does not affect her status as a coloured person under the Southern Rhodesia Old Age Pensions Act, and she would retain this status if widowed. There is no scheme in Southern Rhodesia for the payment of pensions to widows as such, or to their dependants. All cases of Government relief to persons under 60, or otherwise not eligible for Old Age Pensions, are dealt with under measures for the relief of distress.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 563263, "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": "CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938", "page_number": 23, "title": "CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938", "content_text": "# Written Answers \n\n## HOUSE OF COMMONS \n\nMr. Lindsay: During the period from 1st January to 31st October, 1938, the Board have recognised for grant 14 nursery schools with accommodation for 1,050 children. Two nursery schools were closed, making a net increase of 12 nursery schools with accommodation for 954 children. In addition, 14 proposals for new nursery schools were approved in principle, and increased accommodation was provided at four existing schools. I am sending my hon. and learned Friend a copy of the Board's List 42 showing the location of the 106 nursery schools recognised on 31st October, 1938.\n\n## SOUTHERN RHODESIA \n\nMr. M. MacDonald: The old age pensions scheme in force in Rhodesia is not contributory. Pensions are payable under it to white and to coloured British subjects who have attained the age of 60 and are permanently resident in the Colony. Pensions may be granted up to £48 a year in the case of a white person and up to £24 in the case of a coloured person, subject in each case to a means test.\n\n## TRANSPORT (BRESSEY REPORT) \n\nColonel Sandeman Allen asked the Minister of Transport what progress has been made towards the summoning of a conference of the local authorities which will be concerned in the schemes for new roads in Greater London suggested in the Report of Sir Charles Bressey? \n\nMr. Burgin: At present I cannot usefully add to the reply I gave to the hon. Member for West Lewisham (Sir P. Dawson) on 20th July, 1938, of which I am sending my hon. and gallant Friend a copy.\n\n## CEYLON \n\nMr. T. Smith asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he is in a position to make a statement with regard to the representations made for changes in the constitution of Ceylon? \n\nMr. M. MacDonald: I had an opportunity of discussing this question with the Governor of Ceylon during his recent visit to this country, as well as with a number of leading Ceylonese who have been in London in recent weeks. The Governor has now returned, but I am not yet in a position to make any statement in the matter.\n\n## EDUCATION \n\n### NURSERY SCHOOLS \n\nMr. Lyons asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education what progress has taken place up to date in the further establishment of nursery schools this year; and what is the situation and number of such now recognised by the Board of Education? \n\n### SIZE OF CLASSES \n\nMr. Lyons asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education whether he will indicate the recent progress made in the reduction of the size of those school classes where the number of pupils exceeded 40 in each class? \n\nMr. Lindsay: On 31st March, 1938, the latest date for which figures are available, the number of classes in public elementary schools in England and Wales with more than 40 children on the roll was 44,582 as compared with 46,193 on 31st March, 1937.\n\n## UNEMPLOYMENT, INSURANCE (INCOME LIMIT) \n\nCaptain Plugge asked the Minister of Labour whether he is now in a position to make any further statement with regard to action which it is intended to take to raise the income limits so far as qualification to participate in unemployment insurance schemes is concerned? \n\nMr. E. Brown: No, Sir.\n\n## LEICESTER (STATISTICS) \n\nMr. Lyons asked the Minister of Labour whether he will indicate the course of employment in the city of Leicester by industries, numbers, and percentages for the months of August, September, and October, 1938? \n\nMr. E. Brown: The table below shows, for the area served by the Leicester Employment Exchange and Juvenile Employment Bureau (a) the numbers of insured persons, aged 16-64 years recorded as unemployed in the principal industries at 15th August and 12th September, 1938, and (b) these numbers expressed as percentages of the estimated numbers insured at July, 1937. Corresponding figures for October, 1938, are not yet available.\n\n| Industry | 15th August, 1938 | 12th September, 1938 |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| | Number | Per cent. | Number | Per cent. |\n| Building | 851 | 10.2 | 749 | 9.0 |\n| General Engineering, etc. | 412 | 3.3 | 389 | 3.1 |\n| Printing, Publishing and Bookbinding | 158 | 4.2 | 151 | 4.0 |\n| Hosiery | 3,140 | 9.3 | 2,694 | 8.0 |\n| Boots, Shoes, etc. | 3,199 | 15.8 | 2,455 | 12.2 |\n| Distributive Trades | 1,057 | 6.7 | 1,091 | 7.0 |\n| All other Industries and Services | 4,008 | 10.1 | 3,528 | 8.9 |\n| Total all Industries and Services | 12,825 | 9.6 | 11,057 | 8.3 |\n\nNote.--The figures given in the table above are exclusive of insured persons within the agricultural scheme; the numbers of such persons, aged 16-64, recorded as unemployed at the Leicester Employment Exchange at 15th August and 12th September, 1938, were 108 and 91, respectively.\n\n## CIVIL AVIATION \n\n### RAILWAY AGENCIES (BOOKING) \n\nMr. Lyons asked the Secretary of State for Air whether the ban on advance booking in railway agencies has been now entirely removed from all air services? \n\nCaptain Balfour: Booking facilities at railway agencies are now available for all existing air services with the exception of those between this country and Eire. The question of booking facilities for the latter services is closely bound up with the general question of future air communications between Great Britain and Eire, on which negotiations are at present proceeding satisfactorily between the parties concerned and will, I hope, result in the removal of this last restriction in the not distant future.\n\n### AIRPORTS, LONDON \n\nMr. Lyons asked the Secretary of State for Air what plans are now in contemplation for the establishment of a central airport for London? \n\nCaptain Balfour: The establishment of a central airport for London is not in contemplation. It is not considered practicable to handle the whole of the existing, and likely future, London air traffic from a single airport. The intention is that this traffic should be handled from main aerodromes on suitable sites in a belt round London and this policy is in accord with the recommendations of the Maybury Committee.\n\n### CIVIL AIR GUARD \n\nMr. Mander asked the Secretary of State for Air whether he will state the results up-to-date of the appeal for membership in the new Civil Air Guard? \n\nCaptain Balfour: My right hon. Friend's appeal for the Civil Air Guard met with a very gratifying response: 33,886 applications were received by the light aeroplane clubs operating the flying sections up to 15th October. Since that date, it has been found necessary to divert applications from the clubs to the Commissioners of the Civil Air Guard, and a further 1,100 applications have been received and recorded by the Commissioners. Statistics indicate that probably about half the total number of applicants will finally be accepted as suitable for flying training. At the present time some 4,000 members have been enrolled for immediate flying, and the Commissioners, in co-operation with my Department, are preparing schemes for ground training for those awaiting flying tuition. Fifty-seven out of 59 subsidised light aeroplane clubs are participating in the scheme while four new clubs have been approved, and consideration is also being given to applications from five other clubs.\n\n## CHINA AND JAPAN \n\nMr. Morgan asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether the Government, in order to expedite the return of tranquillity in the Far East with the resultant...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 563264, "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": "CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938", "page_number": 24, "title": "CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938", "content_text": "# Written Answers\n## HOUSE OF COMMONS\nSir E. Graham-Little asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether his attention has been called to the differentiated salaries advertised for men and women in the National Gallery; whether these men and women are doing the same work; and, if so, why the remuneration is not identical?\n\nCaptain Wallace: I presume my hon. Friend has in mind the recent advertisement for the post of Keeper of the National Gallery. This is a single post, open either to a man or a woman. The woman's rate of pay was fixed in accordance with normal Civil Service practice, the measure of differentiation being within the limit laid down in the National Whitley Council Agreement of June, 1937.\n\n## ROYAL COMMISSIONS AND COMMITTEES\nSir R. Glyn asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether he will arrange for a table to be issued of all the committees and commissions that have been appointed since 1931 which have not yet reported and concluded their labours, giving in each case the terms of reference, the authority under which the committees or commissions were set up, and the date, the name of the chairman, and the Command Paper reference of any interim report, but not including standing committees of any kind?\n\nCaptain Wallace: The following is a list of commissions and committees (excluding standing, statutory and advisory committees, departmental committees composed exclusively of officials and committees of the Committee of Imperial Defence) which have been appointed since 1931 and are still sitting, with in each case the terms of reference (abridged), the name of the chairman, the date of appointment, the authority by which they were set up, and the reference to any interim report.\n\n| Name of Commission or Committee | Abridged Terms of Reference | Chairman | Date of Appointment | Authority |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Workers (Respiratory Illness Compensation) | To consider and report whether an equitable and workable scheme can be devised for providing compensation in the case of persons who, after employment for a substantial period in cardrooms or certain other dusty parts of cotton spinning mills, become or have become disabled by respiratory illness as indicated in the Report of the Departmental Committee on Dust in Cardrooms. | F.C.H. | December, 1935 | Royal Warrant |\n| Abortion | To inquire into the prevalence of abortion, and the present law relating thereto, and to consider what steps can be taken by more effective enforcement of the law or otherwise to secure the reduction of maternal mortality and morbidity arising from this cause. | Mr. W. Norman Birkett, K.C. | May, 1937 | Ministry of Health, Home Office |\n| Geographical Distribution of Industrial Population (Royal Commission) | To inquire into the causes which have influenced the present geographical distribution of the industrial population of Great Britain and the probable direction of any change in that distribution in the future; to consider what social, economic or strategical disadvantages arise from the concentration of industries or of the industrial population in large towns or in particular areas of the country; and to report what remedial measures, if any, should be taken in the national interest. | The Rt. Hon. Sir Montague Barlow, Bt., K.B.E., LL.D., M.A., F.S.A. | August, 1937 | Royal Warrant |\n| Fair Wages | To consider the working of the Fair Wages Resolution of the House of Commons of 10th March, 1909. | Sir David Ross, K.B.E., M.A., D.Litt., LL.D., Litt.D. | August, 1937 | Ministry of Labour |\n| Safety in Coal Mines (Royal Commission) | To inquire whether the safety and health of mine workers can be better ensured by extending or modifying the principles or general provisions of the Coal Mines Act, 1911, or the arrangements for its administration. | The Earl of Athlone, K.G., G.C.B., G.C.M.G., G.C.V.O., D.S.Q. | November, 1937 | Ministry of Health, Board of Education |\n| Structural Precautions against Air Attack | To consider and report as to the nature of material damage likely to result from the dropping of bombs during hostile air attack, and on the extent to which it might be possible to apply protective measures to buildings and provide structural protection for occupants of buildings. | Sir John Jeffrey, K.C.B., C.B.E. | December, 1937 | Scottish Office |\n| Rehabilitation of Persons Injured by Accidents | To inquire into the arrangements at present in operation with a view to the restoration of the working capacity of persons injured by accidents and to report as to what improvements or developments are desirable. | The Lord Amulree, G.B.E. | January, 1938 | Ministry of Health |\n| Uniform of Chief Constables | To inquire into and report upon the subject of the uniform of Chief Constables of Counties and Boroughs in England and Wales. | The Lord Kennet of the Dene, G.B.E., D.S.O., D.S.C. | January, 1938 | Ministry of Health |\n| Nursing Services | To inquire into the arrangements at present in operation with regard to the recruitment, training, registration, terms and conditions of service of persons engaged in nursing the sick and to report whether any changes in those arrangements or any other measures are expedient for the purpose of maintaining an adequate service both for institutional and for domiciliary nursing. | Sir Malcolm Delevingne, K.C.B., K.C.V.O. | April, 1936 | Home Office, Ministry of Health, Scottish Office |\n| Local Government and Public Health Law (Scotland) | To consider the grouping of enactments in regard to consolidated legislation. | The Hon. Lord Russell, K.C. | February, 1938 | Scottish Office |\n| Highway Law Consolidation | To examine the existing law relating to highways, streets and bridges in England and Wales and to prepare one or more Bills codifying the law with such amendments as may be desirable to secure simplicity, uniformity and conciseness. | | | Ministry of Transport |\n| Restoration of Land affected by Iron Ore Working | To consider and report on the problems raised by the destruction of agricultural land as a result of the excavation of iron ore. | | | Ministry of Health |\n| Lunacy and Mental Deficiency (Scotland) | To inquire into the existing law relating to lunacy and mental deficiency and to report what amendments, if any, are desirable as a preliminary step to consolidated legislation. | | | Scottish Office |\n\nPage 39 \nPage 40 \nPage 55 \nPage 56 \nPage 57 \nPage 58 \n1 November 1938 \nNo 165", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 563265, "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": "CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938", "page_number": 25, "title": "CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938", "content_text": "# Written Answers\n## HOUSE OF COMMONS\n### 1 NOVEMBER 1938\n\n| Name of Commission or Committee | Date of Appointment | Abridged terms of Reference | Chairman | Appoint Authority |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Marketing | July, 1938 | To inquire into the present arrangements for the imposition and recovery of penalties for contravention of schemes established under Statute for the organisation of agriculture and other industries. | The Viscount Falmouth | Treasury |\n| West Indies (Royal Commission) | August, 1938 | To investigate social and economic conditions in certain of the West Indian Colonies and to make recommendations. | The Lord Moyne, D.S.O. | Colonial Office |\n| Distress for Rent | August, 1938 | To consider whether the protection now afforded to tenants of controlled houses should be extended to the tenants of decontrolled houses. | His Honour Judge C. W. Lilley | Ministry of Health |\n| India (Defence) | September, 1938 | Having regard to the increased cost of modern armaments, to the desirability of maintaining the Forces in India in accordance with modern requirements, and to the limited resources available in India for defence expenditure, to examine and report how these Sources can be used to the best advantage. | Admiral of the Fleet The Lord Chatfield, G.C.B., K.C.M.G., C.V.O. | Prime Minister on invitation of Government of India |\n| Control of Fly-ing | October, 1938 | To examine the existing regulations governing the flight of aircraft over populous and other districts, and the adequacy of the means of their enforcement; and to consider whether further measures are required to regulate such flying in the interests either of the safety or the amenities of the public. | The Lord Gorell, C.B.E., M.C. | Air Ministry |\n| Domestic Subjects, Public Elementary Schools | February, 1938 | To consider the aims of instruction in Domestic Subjects in Public Elementary Schools, and to review present state of this instruction. | Mrs. Eveline M. Lowe, J.P. | Board of Education |\n| Boards (Imposition of Penalties) | April, 1938 | | Mr. C. T. Quesne, K.C. | Treasury |\n| Rhodesia-Nyasaland (Royal Commission) | April, 1938 | To consider the question of closer co-operation or association between Southern Rhodesia, Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland. | The Viscount Bledisloe, G.C.M.G., K.B.E. | |\n| Spinsters' Pensions | May, 1938 | To examine and report on the complaints which are made as to the position of unmarried women under the Contributory Pensions Acts, and on the practical questions which would arise if the age at which Old Age Pensions under those Acts are payable to unmarried women are lowered. | The Lord Roche | |\n| Justices' Clerks | June, 1938 | To inquire into the conditions of service of Clerks to Justices and their Assistants. | The Lord Macmillan, G.C.V.O., K.C., LL.D. | Lord Chancellor |\n| Advanced Studies in Law | June, 1938 | To take into consideration Branch B. of the report of the Committee on Legal Education; to advise as to the best practicable means of carrying into effect the recommendations therein contained with regard to the establishment in London of an Institute for the promotion of advanced studies in the history and principles of law. | The Lord Merthyr, D.L., J.P. | Ministry of Health, Scottish Office |\n| Rag Flock | June, 1938 | To consider whether the Rag Flock Acts 1911 and 1928, and the Regulations made thereunder are adequate to secure proper cleanliness of rag flock used for the manufacture of upholstery, bedding and other household furniture in Great Britain. | Sir Walter Monckton, K.C.V.O., M.C., K.C. | |\n| Coal Distribution Costs | June, 1938 | To inquire into the organisation and methods of distribution of coal, coke and manufactured fuel; to investigate the various items which make up the differences between the prices received by the producers and those paid by the consumers, and to make recommendations. | Sir William McLean, K.B.E., Ph.D., M.Inst.C.E. | Mines Department |\n| Higher Education in Malaya | June, 1938 | To survey existing arrangements for Higher education in Malaya; and to report upon the present work of Raffles College, Singapore. | Sir William McLean, K.B.E., Ph.D., M.Inst.C.E. | Colonial Office |\n| Hackney Carriages and Private Hire Vehicles | July, 1938 | To review the legal provisions applying (a) to hackney carriages licensed to ply for hire and (b) to motor vehicles not so licensed which are used for carrying passengers for hire or reward and to consider what services are or should be provided by each of the two classes of vehicle. | Mr. C. T. Hindley, K.C.I.E. | Home Office, Ministry of Transport |\n| Rating and Valuation | July, 1938 | To consider allegations which have been made that a strict application to certain classes of property of the existing law of valuation for rating purposes would cause undue hardship. | Sir Clement Jones | Ministry of Health |\n| Land Settlement Schemes | July, 1938 | To inquire into the working of the various schemes for unemployed men, undertaken in England and Wales since November, 1934, by the Land Settlement Association, the Welsh Land Settlement Society and County Councils respectively, and to report thereon. | Mr. Maurice Fitzgerald, K.C. | Ministry of Health |\n| | July, 1938 | | Sir William Dampier, Sc.D., F.R.S. | Ministry of Labour |\n\n## No. 165\n`C 2`", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 563266, "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": "CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938", "page_number": 26, "title": "CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938", "content_text": "# International Situation HOUSE OF COMMONS\n\n## INTERNATIONAL SITUATION\nMotion made, and Question proposed, That this House do now adjourn.\"- [Captain Margesson.]\n\n4,2 p.m.\n\n**Mr. Attlee**: When the House last met, we had a prolonged discussion on foreign affairs and we reviewed the circumstances which led up to the international crisis. I do not intend to repeat the arguments that were used then or to review again the past, nor indeed to enter into a general review of the international situation. I think it is for us now to consider the present and the future, but to keep the lessons of the past in our mind. I want to call attention to some of the consequences of the great defeat that has been sustained by France and Great Britain and, above all, by the cause of law and order and democratic government. I want to look not only at the political but at the economic aspects of what has happened in the last few months. To-morrow we are to discuss the proposal of the Government to ratify the Anglo-Italian Agreement. We shall have a full opportunity of stating our objections to the course proposed, and the Debate will raise very large questions of international policy, and particularly the vitally important question of Spain, and I shall not to-day in any way anticipate that Debate. On Thursday my friends intend to raise the question of the deplorable deficiencies in the provision for defence which the emergency brought into the open.\n\nI say \"brought into the open\"—not \"revealed\"—because they have been exposed very often, and again and again requests have been made urging the Government to take action.\n\nBut there are certain immediate issues arising from the Munich Agreement which the House should consider, and there are points on which I should like to have some assurances from the Prime Minister. In the first place, I hope he will give the House some account of what has been done since Munich by the British and French Governments on behalf of Czechoslovakia and the Czech people. The Prime Minister claimed that the Munich Agreement was a great advance on the Godesberg demands, and it must have been a great advance on those demands in his mind because it made all the difference between war and peace. We ought to examine and see exactly what has happened to those advances which were supposed to have been attained at Munich.\n\nOn the question of the delimitation of the new frontiers the Prime Minister admitted that Godesberg did not follow strictly the principle that only those districts should be transferred which had an essentially German nature, and the delimitation of the frontiers was entrusted to an International Commission. That Commission has delimited the frontiers, but we now find that they are even worse than those laid down in the Godesberg demands. The new frontiers go far beyond that criterion of German districts. It gives even more than Herr Hitler demanded then. A number of districts predominantly Czech have been handed over. I need give only one instance of a district with nearly 12,000 Czechs and only 500 Germans which has been awarded to Germany. We are entitled to know what, if anything, was done by our representatives on the International Commission.\n\nIf a disregard of the question of the German character has taken place, there has certainly been a complete disregard of any other consideration. There seems to have been no regard whatever paid to what certainly should have been present in the minds of those charged with this duty, and that is as to the possibility of Czechoslovakia maintaining its own independent life, political and economic, within these frontiers.\n\nThe basis of the transference of these territories was a census nearly 30 years old. I should like to hear the justification for taking 1910 as the basis. The question was raised in the House, and no clear answer was given as to what the basis was to be, but when you consider the Great War and all the industrial and political changes since then, to take a census 28 years ago as a basis for delimiting the frontiers of the new State was obviously grossly unjust and absolutely ridiculous. In fact, it seems that the International Commission only functioned as a body to register the demands of Herr Hitler.\n\nWith regard to economic possibilities, if you look at the map of the new Czechoslovakia you find that the railways are cut again and again. You find power stations taken away from their areas of supply. There has been, obviously, no regard whatever to any other considerations than the demands made by Germany. It is extraordinarily dangerous precedent to accept even what was accepted, and that is that States should be constituted solely on the basis of the character of their inhabitants or the language that they speak, but to disregard that, as it has been disregarded, and to disregard all the bases on which a State can live is a complete mockery.\n\nThe conditions of evacuation were improved very little. The clause with regard to opting out, as everyone knows, under a totalitarian regime is illusory where there is no protection from terrorism. Summing it up, what seems to have been gained by the Czechs in the difference between Godesberg and Munich seems infinitesimal, and meanwhile Poland and Hungary have fastened on the corpse of Czechoslovakia, and it looks as if Czechoslovakia is to be divided and cut down to an extraordinary extent.\n\nI understand that we had some kind of moral guarantee—I think that was the phrase of the Minister for the Co-ordination of Defence. I do not know what has become of that moral guarantee. The division of the spoils now seems to be left to the decision of Germany and Italy. The question we have to ask now is whether, dismembered and fragmented, there is hope for an independent Czechoslovakia. I hope there is, but it looks extremely doubtful.\n\nWhat is the position with regard to the guarantee that this country was to give? Is it still proposed to give a guarantee to the new State? Who are to be the co-guarantors? Has that now been worked out? Is the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics to be one of the guarantors? Incidentally, I think it was deplorable that the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster should have gone out of his way to attack the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and cast doubt on it in a speech in the country. It hardly lay in the mouth of a member of the Government. I should like to ask whether when he spoke in those terms he was expressing the views of the Government.\n\nWho are to be the co-guarantors and what is to be guaranteed? Originally we understood it was to be a guarantee of the frontiers. Is it possible to guarantee these frontiers? Above all, could such a guarantee be carried out? I ask this because I am totally opposed to this country giving guarantees which it cannot carry out. If there is to be a guarantee, let us know its extent and let it be one that we can carry out.\n\nI am opposed to committing this country to vague obligations outside the League of Nations. We are entitled to know what has become of this guarantee, whether it is in force to-day and whether it is intended to modify it by any instrument, and whether it is a guarantee that this country can undertake.\n\nThe next question that I should like to ask is with regard to the proposed loan of £30,000,000. When this was first proposed everyone thought it was a very good thing, and we all liked it if it was going to be a support for an independent Czechoslovakia. In that case, if we can have an independent Czechoslovakia, I think we should support it in every possible way. We owe so much to Czechoslovakia. If, on the other hand, Czechoslovakia is to become a mere vassal State of Germany, very different conditions will apply. It is no good giving expensive food to a chicken if a fox is going to eat it. If that loan were merely to finance Germany, it would be extremely foolish. I hope we shall have from the Government some detailed explanation of what we are going to do for the State, whether we can help Czechoslovakia to maintain itself as an outpost of liberty and not let it merely fall under the sway of some other Power.\n\nThe next point I would like to raise is with regard to the question of refugees. I believe there is enormous sympathy in this country for the plight of the refugees from Sudetenland. Many thousands of people have been placed in a terrible position. The people of this country have subscribed a great sum of money, and I think we ought to pay a tribute here to the Lord Mayor of London for his courage and activity in this matter. But we have here an enormous problem, a problem that it is extremely difficult for the Czech Government to tackle, and I should like to acknowledge the helpfulness with which we have been met by His Majesty's Government on the question of the refugees.\n\nBut there is a question much wider than that of the refugees from the Sudetenland and much wider than the immediate question of the sustentation of those who have been driven out, and that is the problem that Europe is facing to-day. It is an enormous problem. All over Europe, with the spread of anti-Semitism and political and racial intolerance, you are getting enormous numbers of people who will...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 563267, "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": "CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938", "page_number": 27, "title": "CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938", "content_text": "# International Situation\n## HOUSE OF COMMONS\n### [Mr. Attlee.]\n\nbecome Stateless, in Germany, Poland and Rumania, and the more German influence spreads in Eastern Europe, the greater will be the problem of the displaced Jews.\n\nIt is not only Jews who are displaced; there are all those who stand up against authoritarian views, and this refugee problem is an open sore in Europe. It puts the Governments in countries in great difficulties, and it puts the Governments of all other countries in great difficulties.\n\nIn our crowded island, we cannot absorb masses of refugees, and Palestine cannot take more than a fraction of the Jews in Europe. I should like to know from the Prime Minister what is being done by the bodies which were set up at Evian, and whether something greater cannot be done. A hundred years ago, there were numbers of refugees who fled from despotic countries. They went across the seas and took up residence in the United States of America, and we had a great democracy rising up and redressing the balance in the old world. You have here masses of good citizens, and they ought to be absorbed somewhere in the world, so that they can continue to live the life they want. It seems to me that it is up to us, the British peoples, controlling so large a portion of the earth's surface, to take the lead in trying to find out where these people can go; and I would ask the Prime Minister, if we could get really active steps taken to find places in the world to settle these people, whether we might not get something like a standstill arrangement and prevent the cruelty that is going on now, of people who are driven from one country and not received in another.\n\nI turn to the international outlook, and I would like to say just a word on the question of what is likely to come next. The indications are not very hopeful in the kind of line that is being taken in the German Press. It looks as if there were a good deal of rejoicing over victory rather than anything leading to appeasement, and there is a wide disturbance in the minds of many people over what is known as the Colonial problem, the question of these territories which we hold under Mandate from the League of Nations. They are not our territories. We, on these Benches, have for many years put forward what we believe is the only possible solution of the Colonial problem, and that is the abandonment of the Imperialistic attitude towards Colonies and the holding of all of these territories that cannot have self-government on the principles of a Mandate for the benefit of the inhabitants of these territories first and then for the benefit of the whole world. It is one of the tragedies that that problem was not faced earlier. It is a fatal thing to wait until things become critical. We on this side have again and again put forward proposals for conferences and discussions for dealing with these possible causes of war before they became acute - the question of the Colonies, the question of raw materials - and year after year, we have always been put off by the Government saying that the time is not ripe. Is the time ripe only when war is threatened? I suggest that it is not too late now for a reconsideration of these Colonial problems and that we ought not to wait until the demand is made by force.\n\nPolitically, we have to face the fact that Germany is now dominant on the Continent of Europe. We have a complete overturning of the balance of trade. But she is not only predominant politically, she is predominant economically, and we ought to consider very carefully what is the meaning of this new German system of closed economy and what is going to be the result of the activities of Herr Funk. We on this side have never suggested that Germany should not have a rightful share in the development of Central Europe - that is the natural sphere for German industry - but we have to consider very carefully what is the purpose behind this penetration eastward and south-eastward throughout Europe. Many people think that Czechoslovakia was a front trench and that Herr Funk is now occupying all the territory behind the line. What will be the effect on this country? It looks as if Central and South-Eastern Europe will become closed markets, and I should like to ask whether the Government acquiesce in this or whether we are going to take any steps to counter it.\n\nWith this economic penetration goes also political penetration. It has gone very far now, and it does not stop at the immediate neighbourhood of Germany. It goes right down to Bulgaria, right down to Turkey. One gathers that steps are being taken to stem the tide. I do not know how much is being done, but I would remind the Government that the lesson in 1914-15 was that if you wanted to deal with the Balkan States, you had to give enough and you had to give it in time. I do not know at present whether there is a contest going on for giving various advantages to these States and whether there is anything like a state of economic warfare. But the fact is that you have today a Germany very highly organised as a single economic unit or autarchy. She can attack our markets all over the world, and she has now the resources of the Sudetenland, and we may see grave inroads into our trade. The coal trade is likely to suffer, and the textile trades are likely to suffer. If throughout this great area of Central Europe, you are going to have this kind of closed trade agreements, you may be certain that German goods and German products will oust our goods, and as armament building reaches satiety in Germany, the pressure will come outwards into other markets. The position is not confined to Europe. You have the same thing going on in the Far East, and I should like the Prime Minister to say something to us with regard to the situation in the Far East. If Japan is successful in her drive, another market, and potentially the biggest market in the world, will become closed to any other Power, and I suggest that we shall have there a very serious position for our export trade.\n\nIf we turn now to our own position, our trade returns are none too good. There was a reduction last September in our imports of 14.6 per cent. below the figures for the previous September, and there is a reduction of 12.8 per cent. below our 1937 figures. We have in this country, inevitably at the present time, in spite of Munich, a very widespread lack of confidence. We have a very high unemployment, and this country is practising what might be called a qualified system of free competition, but it is in a world of highly organised totalitarian economic units. The question is as to how that threat to our trade is to be met. I say that this country is quite unorganised to meet a drive of the kind that may very well come along. We have no economic plan whatever. We have 1,800,000 unemployed, an increase of 459,000 in the last year. We hear a lot of talk of a national register. There is the national register, a national register of people wanting work, and we have to find work for them. We are not utilising our resources either in human beings, material, or finance; our immense potential strength is not being brought into play, and we have no economic General Staff whatever.\n\nThe thing that strikes one most about the Government's policy during the last few years is that there is no coherence in it at all. We have urged on our side that there should be national planning. We heard at Question Time today that a committee is still considering the location of industry. While that goes on, things are changing all the time. The kinds of control that are vitally necessary in peace time are certainly absolutely necessary if there is a threat of war. That there is a danger of war is shown by the demand of the Government for vastly increased armaments. I am going to suggest that the fundamental failure of the Government in providing for defence, as in providing for the economic strength of this country, is a failure to decide upon priorities. In the defence of this country, the crying need was defence against air attack, but actually air attack defence was not considered a priority. It was subordinated to the old traditions of the three fighting Services, and A.R.P. remained for a long time very much a Cinderella. As we know, the provision of anti-aircraft guns was left right behind when it ought to have been in the front rank of priorities. We believe that this is due to the fact that there is no proper organisation. For many years now in this House, not only from this side, but from other sides, a ministry of defence has been demanded. We have demanded a ministry of supply - the mobilisation of our resources with due regard to priorities.\n\nI want to turn, not to those Defence questions which we will discuss on Thursday, but to the gravest deficiency of all in the Government's Defence organisation. That is on the economic side. If you take any study of the late War, you find that the important factor, after all, was economic. We find German authorities say, 'We were not beaten by the sword; we were beaten by hunger.' I say that the foundation of all defence is a sound and healthy condition of the people, but that is the priority which this Government...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 563268, "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": "CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938", "page_number": 28, "title": "CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938", "content_text": "# International Situation\n## HOUSE OF COMMONS\n\n[Mr. Attlee.] has neglected. A sound and healthy condition of the people is the foundation of civil and military morale, but this is the Government of the means test. I do not know what the Government's view of priorities is now. We have had statements made by the Minister of Health and the Minister of Transport, which they are now explaining away, which suggested, at least to the minds of journalists, that there would be a reduction in the social services. It has been suggested that orders have already been sent out for the cutting down of expenditure in ministries. I should like to know whether that is so, because to cut down social services—and there are plenty of people who will urge that—is entirely to disregard priority. To cut down, whether it be pensions, education, schools or unemployment benefit—any of these things will do precisely the wrong thing from the point of view of the strength of this nation. It is to give priority to Ascot and the Ritz.\n\nViscountess Astor: Oh!\n\nMr. Attlee: I thought that would catch the Noble Lady. At the present moment we have widespread malnutrition in this country. We claim that the first thing for the defence of this country is a healthy, sound population. You will not get the kind of service you want in this country unless you base it on that. What happens? I say that human life is always put after profit. Let us take an example. What happened in the crisis? Profiteering in spades, in buckets, in timber and in sandbags. Because of the nation's needs prices were rushed up in order to make fortunes out of the nation. We have a right to complain. People on the other side have not, because they are only carrying out the Government's own philosophy. The organisation of this country is on that basis. I had a good example given to me this week. A friend of mine was staying at a watering place and she saw the conditions of the fishermen living in the direst poverty. They are leaving the sea now because of their poverty. They were wanted in the last War, and if there is another war they will be wanted again. She went to their cottages and saw their conditions. Then she went into a hotel and saw people with extremely expensive cars and extremely expensively dressed. Who are those people? she asked, and she was told, \"They sell fish at Billingsgate.\" There you have the contrast between the people who do the work and the people who take the profits. In agriculture to-day you will find the same thing—flourishing middlemen as contrasted with the position of the farmers and agricultural labourers.\n\nThe vital thing for the Government to consider is how we are to keep the morale of this people, and they can do it only on the basis of organising the country on priorities, the first of which is the health of the people. The weak spot in dictatorship countries is just this: it is the condition of the people. That is a factor too little regarded in the crisis. I believe it is essential that we should have a proper co-ordination of effort and a restraint of private profit if we are to strengthen this country, not only in armaments but in other things as well. This is, I believe, the lesson for us with regard to international affairs. We have this emergence of a highly organised economy like Germany, and it meets the democracies who are disunited and competing. The closed economic system may keep us out of every market in the world because it can dispose of its surplus when it chooses and we are entirely unprepared for defence against these methods of competition. We should meet this threat by close co-operation in the economic field between all democracies. I would like to ask the Prime Minister in that connection what is happening with regard to our trade negotiations with the United States of America? It is of the utmost importance that the question of trade relations with the United States should be settled. The economic potentiality of the peace Powers is enormously greater than that of the aggressor Powers.\n\nWe want to see an economic league, a getting of people together on the basis of the utilisation of abundance for all, not excluding those in hostility but eventually drawing them in. The way in which this country can give a lead is by showing that a democracy can organise itself properly, that it is more effective by democratic methods, and that it can give a better life to its people. At the present moment we are reproached by Germany because of our unemployment. The answer, obviously, is that their people are employed at starvation level. We can employ our people, if we will, at a high level. We ought to do it. I am going to ask the Prime Minister what plans the Government have, because the economic organisation of this country is the most vital element in Defence.\n\n## 4:41 p.m.\n\nThe Prime Minister (Mr. Chamberlain): I do not offer any apologies for intervening at this stage of the Debate because I think it would be for the general convenience of the House if I say what I have to say at as early a stage as possible. The speech of the right hon. Gentleman was divided into two very well-marked parts, the second of which appeared to me to have very little relation to international affairs and to be rather more suitable for an election platform than for the Debate that we are conducting this afternoon. I do not propose to reply to that part of the right hon. Gentleman's speech which, perhaps, had better be dealt with by my right hon. Friend the President of the Board of Trade who will be speaking later in the evening. There is, however, one question he addressed to me which I would like to answer at once. He asked me whether it were true that, as reported in the `Daily Herald`, instructions had been sent out from Whitehall to all the Departments dealing with social services to cut down their expenditure in order to pay for armaments. I read the statement in the `Daily Herald` this morning, and it was the first I had heard of it. I have asked my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether there was any action which had been taken by the Treasury which might provide the slightest justifiable foundation for such a statement. He informs me that no action of any kind like that suggested has been taken by the Treasury. The whole story, therefore, is entirely an invention.\n\nTo return to the first part of the right hon. Gentleman's speech. He asked a number of questions and made a number of comments upon what he considered to be the consequences of the Munich Agreement. I find myself in agreement with a number of observations made by the right hon. Gentleman, but there was one statement with which he began, to which I must take exception. He described the Munich Agreement as a great defeat for this country and for France and to the cause of law and order. If the right hon. Gentleman really believes that, I am sorry that he should say so publicly. It is not one of the characteristics of totalitarian States, at any rate, that they are accustomed to foul their own nests. I do strongly deprecate all the statements made by persons in responsible, or even in irresponsible positions, who take opportunities of broadcasting to the world or in other countries in particular that their own country is in a state of decadence.\n\nMr. Attlee: I never suggested that.\n\nThe Prime Minister: I was not referring to the right hon. Gentleman in what I said then [Interruption].\n\nMr. Speaker: If the hon. Member for West Fife (Mr. Gallacher) continues to interrupt I shall have to ask him to leave the House.\n\nThe Prime Minister: Others have gone a great deal further than the right hon. Gentleman, but the observation which he has made gave me an opportunity of expressing an opinion which I think is very widely held. I do not regard the Munich Agreement as a defeat either for the democracies or for the cause of law and order. On the contrary, the Munich Agreement was an attempt to carry out by discussion between two Powers representing democracies and two Powers representing totalitarian States an agreed solution of a problem for which the only other solution appeared to be the use of force. Instead of using force the Agreement has been carried out in an orderly manner. It is quite true that there have been many things which none of us would approve of, which all of us would wish to have done differently—that is quite true—but hon. Members should consider that, as my Noble Friend the Foreign Secretary said on another occasion, we had to choose between hard alternatives, and when you find fault, as you may justly find fault, with the solution which has in fact been carried out, do not forget what the alternative was and what the effect of the alternative would have been upon Czechoslovakia.\n\nMr. Attlee: The right hon. Gentleman says that the solution has been carried out. The whole of my point was that the solution was not carried out.\n\nThe Prime Minister: That may have been the whole of the right hon. Gentleman's point, but I hope I shall be able to say something which will refute that point of view. After all, the Munich Agreement, which was come to in the course of a comparatively short time...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 563269, "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": "CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938", "page_number": 29, "title": "CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938", "content_text": "# International Situation HOUSE OF COMMONS\n\n[The Prime Minister.] measured by hours, could not be expected to deal in itself with every detail of the operation which was contemplated. All that we could do at Munich was to lay down certain general outlines, leaving to an International Commission the task of filling in details. The right hon. Gentleman criticises the International Commission in the carrying out of that task. I say again that though we may not like the solution I would ask the right hon. Gentleman not to forget what the alternative was, and if he was not prepared to accept the alternative use of force-[An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"]-We must recognise that we had to accept the alternative, disagreeable though it may be in many respects.\n\nThe right hon. Gentleman spoke among other things about the boundaries which are to be laid down between the new State of Czechoslovakia and Germany. By the fourth Article of the Munich Agreement there was imposed on the International Commission the duty of determining the extent of the territories outside the four zones which were to be occupied by German troops by 7th October-territories outside those which, being preponderantly German in 1918, should be occupied by Germany by 10th October. The time was short, and the International Commission decided that in order to ascertain the limits of that territory they must get as near as they could to the position in 1918. That was in accordance with the methods under the plebiscite in the Saar district. The right hon. Gentleman says that they went back much further than 1918, that they went back to 1910, and that no justification has ever been given for going back to a period so long ago as that. I do not know that there has been any opportunity on any previous occasion of giving that justification, but, of course, the answer is very simple. There was no census in 1918, and as there were no reliable figures for that date the International Commission were obliged to go back to the last date for which there were reliable figures, and that was 1910. That was the reason why the census of 1910 was taken as a basis.\n\nSir Archibald Sinclair: Why were they obliged to go back to that time and not to take later figures?\n\nMr. Herbert Morrison: Has there been no census since 1910?\n\nMr. Chamberlain: The reason was because the position in 1918 was to be taken as the basis, the argument being-I am not saying this is my view, I am only explaining the position-that the position had been deliberately changed since 1918 by the introduction of Czechs into areas which in 1918 were predominantly German, and therefore if a census had been taken later than 1918 it would not have met that particular objection. Once the Czechoslovakian Government had accepted that decision of the International Commission, which they did on 13th October, it became apparent that there was no longer any need for plebiscites. The Czechs agreed that the lines which had been determined in accordance with that basis should be the provisional frontier, but that it should be subject to examination and modification not only in accordance with strictly ethnographical lines but also taking into account the economic considerations, and it will be observed that in consequence of that agreement the line may be modified not only in those areas in which, under the original Agreement, there would have been a plebiscite, but the whole line from one end to the other may be reconsidered. As it had been decided not to have any plebiscite there was, of course, no occasion for any international force to occupy the plebiscite areas, and therefore His Majesty's Government were not able to avail themselves of the very public-spirited offer which had been made by the British Legion for this purpose. I should like, on behalf of the Government, to express our very warm appreciation of the offer and our confidence that had the need materialised members of the British Legion would have distinguished themselves as much in peace as they formerly did in war.\n\nAnother point to which the right hon. Gentleman addressed himself referred to the rights of optants. He said the clause referring to optants was entirely illusory. I do not know by what right he said that. I do not know whether he is aware of the present position. Under Article 7 of the Munich Agreement it is provided that a German-Czech Commission was to settle the details of this right of option. They were to determine ways of facilitating the transfer of those individuals who wished to exercise the right, and also any question of principle which arose out of the transfer.\n\nWe placed at the disposal of the Czechoslovakian Government a sum of £10,000,000 for their urgent needs. We told them, when we announced this decision to them, that we had particularly in mind the demands which they would have to meet in respect of the maintenance and settlement of refugees from the transferred areas, and we expressed the view that if it were thought necessary for some of those refugees to emigrate their transfer elsewhere should be assisted by the Czechoslovakian Government by funds derived from this £10,000,000. This is a subject of considerable magnitude, because we are informed that there are something like 580,000 Czechs now in German territory and something like 250,000 Germans in Czech territory. That is a matter which is left to this German-Czech Commission, and they have not yet, I understand, formulated any conclusions, but when they do they will bring them to the notice of the International Commission.\n\nThen I come to the question of the refugees. Here, at any rate, I do not think I need quarrel with the right hon. Gentleman. All of us, I think, are at one in approaching this problem of the refugees with a very sincere sympathy, not only on account of the ordinary humanitarian principles which are common to everybody but because it has always been a tradition of British policy to offer asylum, as far as possible, to persons who, on account of racial or political or religious reasons were not able any longer to live in their own country. At the beginning of October it was represented to the Government that there were in Czechoslovakia a certain number of individuals who were in danger if they remained where they were, and accordingly we authorised the temporary admission to this country of those individuals up to the number of 350, on the undertaking, given to us, that means would be found to maintain these individuals, if necessary, during their stay here.\n\nMiss Rathbone: Why only 350?\n\nThe Prime Minister: Permission to enter was given only to the actual individual in danger and not to his family, but the Government are willing to admit the families of those individuals also if similar undertakings about their maintenance are provided. I agree with the right hon. Gentleman in the welcome which he paid to the initiative of the Lord Mayor of London in issuing an appeal for the relief of refugees. As he said, a considerable sum of money has been raised, and the Government are giving all the assistance they can to the Lord Mayor and to his representatives in Prague; and we have given similar assistance to other British subjects who have interested themselves in the evacuation or the relief of refugees. The House will remember that we have placed at the disposal of the Czechoslovakian Government a sum of £10,000,000.\n\nWith regard to the guaranteed loan out of which this £10,000,000 will be repaid, that is a matter which we shall have to lay before Parliament in due course. We have not yet got sufficient information as to the necessary details, nor have we yet been able to ascertain what is likely to be the attitude of the French Government in joining with us in a loan of this kind. Therefore, we are not in a position to carry the matter any further at this moment, but in due course we shall have to lay before the House the proposals we shall have to make. In the meantime, we had been informed by the Czechoslovak Government that they would welcome any arrangement by which we could be informed of the methods and the progress of expenditure out of those funds. We at once appointed as our liaison officer in Prague Mr. R. J. Stopford, who was a member of the Runciman Commission, to obtain such information as may be available from time to time as to the number and types of refugees in Czechoslovakia and the conditions in which those who might have to emigrate might be enabled to do so.\n\nI think that the right hon. Gentleman rightly pointed out that we are here in the presence of a comparatively new problem which goes much beyond that of the Czechoslovak refugees. We are face to face with the difficulty that more and more persons are to-day finding themselves Stateless. They are being driven out of the countries in which they had settled, and other countries have not shown any great willingness to take them in.\n\nThe inter-governmental committee, over which my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster presides, has the duty of dealing with this question and has made it clear that involuntary emigrants of German origin, whose emigration has arisen out of the...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 563270, "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": "CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938", "page_number": 30, "title": "CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938", "content_text": "## International Situation\n\n**HOUSE OF COMMONS**\n\n[The Prime Minister.] transfer of Sudetenland, will be put in the same position as other involuntary emigrants from Germany with whom the committee is already concerned. As to whether it may be possible in the future to initiate a project of the dimensions which the right hon. Gentleman foreshadowed, that is evidently a matter with which I could not deal here. It is not one for this country alone. This is not a country which has the area or the opportunity for settling a large number of emigrants. The question concerns the world as a whole. I am sure that we shall all join in hoping that a solution may be found which will mitigate the sufferings of these unfortunate people. The right hon. Gentleman drew a gloomy picture of what might be called the economic sequences of the Munich Agreement, and he suggested that there was some sinister political motive behind the economic activities of Dr. Funk.\n\nMr. Dalton: Has not the right hon. Gentleman forgotten that my right hon. Friend asked him to make a statement as to the guarantees of the new Czechoslovakian frontier?\n\nThe Prime Minister: I am very much obliged to the hon. Gentleman. I had forgotten the question, but, as a matter of fact, I have a note to come back to the question later on; but I will deal with it at once and say that I am not yet in a position to add anything, on the subject of guarantees, to what has already been said by my right hon. Friend the Minister for the Co-ordination of Defence. The position remains exactly the same and it cannot be cleared up until the whole question of minorities in Czechoslovakia has been settled. The House will remember that it was stated that Germany and Italy would be ready to enter into a guarantee on the question of Czechoslovakia when the question of minorities had been settled. Our original offer was to enter into an international guarantee, but what the terms of that guarantee will be and who will be the partakers in that guarantee is not a question on which I can give the House any further information to-day. Of course, before anything were settled, the terms of such a guarantee and the names of those who are taking part in it would be brought before this House.\n\nMr. Wedgwood Benn: In dealing with the frontiers the right hon. Gentleman has not dealt with the Hungarian frontier. Many people are asking why we are to guarantee a frontier vis-a-vis Hungary in the determination of which we and the French are excluded.\n\nThe Prime Minister: In speaking of a guaranteed frontier the right hon. Gentleman is mistaken. We never guaranteed the frontiers as they existed. What we did was to guarantee against unprovoked aggression quite a different thing. That did not mean that we gave our seal to the existence of frontiers as they were then or at any other time. Our guarantee was against unprovoked aggression and not the crystallisation of frontiers. The right hon. Gentleman alternates between violent indignation and insuppressible amusement, but I do not think that my answer could give rise to either of those expressions.\n\nI was dealing with the economic consequences of Dr. Funk's activities. Again, I am sorry that the right hon. Gentleman thought it necessary to suggest that the activities of Dr. Funk, who is the Minister concerned with economic questions, should be concealing some political motive. It is this attitude of constant suspicion-- nothing can be done by anybody but what somebody or other finds concealed in it something sinister or evil which is very largely the cause of the want of confidence existing in Europe to-day. What, taking an economic view, is the position of Germany in relation to the States of Central and South-Eastern Europe? Geographically, she must occupy a dominating position there. She does now. As a matter of fact, in so far as those States are agricultural in character, the nature of the trade between them and Germany is complementary. They can supply Germany with raw materials and foodstuffs in return for articles of manufacture which Germany is so well fitted to supply, but I do not see any reason why we should expect that a fundamental change is likely to take place in those regions.\n\nSo far as Czechoslovakia is concerned, the industries in the ceded regions were industries mainly exporting in character, and they suffered a good deal in competition from Germany. It is quite true that she has ceded also valuable supplies of raw materials, such as coal, lignite and timber, but so long as she is able to import those raw materials there is no reason, so far as I can see, why her industrial position should be worsened.\n\nExchanges of goods over the frontier between Germany and Czechoslovakia are likely to be mutually beneficial. I do not imagine that there will be difficulty put in the way of importing raw materials.\n\nMr. E. J. Williams: Will it not affect the coal trade in this country?\n\nThe Prime Minister: I am talking of the industrial position of Czechoslovakia. So far as this country is concerned, we have no wish to block Germany out from those countries or to encircle her economically. It is true that we have certain trade interests there ourselves, and of course, we mean to maintain those trade interests; and indeed, in that respect, we shall have the good will of the countries themselves. Although, as I have said, their natural market is to be found chiefly in Germany, nevertheless, they can, as a rule, only obtain payment from Germany either in the form of goods --a barter arrangement or in the form of block marks. That does not suit them. They want free currency so that they may import other materials and things which they cannot get in Germany. Therefore, they do desire at least a certain proportion of their trade to be done with other countries, and for that reason we shall have their assistance and good will in our efforts to maintain our trade.\n\nDo not let us suppose that there necessarily must be economic warfare between Germany and ourselves. There must be some competition. Competition is a thing that we thrived on in the past. It is not in our interest to see any part of the world remain poor. If by means of international trade between Germany and these countries the economic position of these countries is improved, you may be quite certain that we shall get our share of the trade. They may not buy exactly the same things from us as they buy from Germany, but they will buy from us those articles which we are most fitted to supply. I finish what I have to say on this subject by the general observation that, in my view, there is room both for Germany and for us in trade with those countries and that neither of us ought to try to obtain exclusive possession of their markets.\n\nWith regard to the other minorities, the right hon. Gentleman appeared to indicate that it was very wrong that any further encroachment should be made upon the territory of Czechoslovakia. Surely that is not a position that we can take up.\n\nWhat we are doing now, as was pointed out by my Noble Friend the Foreign Secretary, is witnessing the re-adjustment of frontiers laid down in the Treaty of Versailles. I do not know whether the people who were responsible for those frontiers thought they would remain permanently as they were laid down. I doubt very much whether they did. They probably expected that from time to time the frontiers would have to be adjusted. It is impossible to conceive that those people would be such supermen as to be able to see what would be the right frontiers for all time. The question is not whether those frontiers should be readjusted from time to time but whether they should be readjusted by negotiation and discussion, or be readjusted by war. Readjustment is going on and, in the case of the Hungarian frontier, arbitration by Germany and Italy has been accepted by Czechoslovakia and Hungary for the final determination of the frontier between them. I think I have said enough about Czechoslovakia.\n\nI do not propose to talk about Spain, following the example of the right hon. Gentleman. As to China, I can only say that there again the right hon. Gentleman appears to me to be taking an unnecessarily gloomy view of the future. He spoke of China as one of the largest potential markets in the world. Potential what does that mean?: China cannot be developed into a real market without the influx of a great deal of capital, and the fact that so much capital is being destroyed during this war means that even more capital will have to be put into China in the future, when the war is over. Who is going to supply the capital? It is quite certain that it cannot be supplied by Japan. Therefore, when the right hon. Gentleman appears to contemplate a future in which Japan will have the monopoly of Chinese trade, and we shall be excluded from it altogether, I say that that is flying in the face of the facts. It is quite certain that, when the war is over and the reconstruction of China begins, she cannot possibly be reconstructed without some help from this country. [Interruption.] That is a matter for those who are asked to invest their money to consider at the time.\n\nPage 30 \nPage 31\n\nI want to turn to another aspect of the consequences that flow, I will not say from the Munich Agreement, but from the events which led up to it. The House will remember that when I spoke last, on 6th October, I told hon. Members that I was proposing to make a thorough and complete review of our civil and military defences, in order to see what errors and deficiencies might have been revealed and to take the necessary steps to make them good. On the civil side that review has been made, and, of course, it has shown what, indeed, was well known before, that our preparations were far from complete. All the same, I am of opinion that, if they had been put to the test, they would have been shown to have worked a great deal better than many people seem to suppose from the accounts of the deficiencies which were in fact shown up. This country, sometimes, is rather slow to get to work, but, when it does get to work, it works in double quick time; and the amount of work which was actually carried out, and efficiently carried out, during the crisis, is, I think, an indication that these air-raid precautions would not have been the complete and utter failure which some seem to think they would have been. I need not go further into that matter now, since it is to be the subject of a Vote of Censure, I understand, in a couple of days' time. What seems to me to be of much more interest to the general public than the question as to what blame should be attributed and where, is what is going to be done now, in order that there may be no cause for blame in the future. We had our warning; we had some sort of rehearsal; and we are in a position now to get a better picture of the whole situation than we were before. I think the House will probably like me to give them some short account of the measures by which we are proposing to deal with air-raid precautions in the future.\n\nWe have come to the conclusion that the whole subject of air-raid precautions has assumed such gigantic proportions, and has developed such complexity, that the burden is really too great to be imposed upon the Home Office in addition to its ordinary duties. We want a separate Minister with special administrative and organising experience, who could devote his whole attention to this subject. Accordingly, I invited my right hon. Friend the Member for the Scottish Universities (Sir J. Anderson) to undertake this task, and, as the House will be aware, his appointment as Lord Privy Seal has been approved by His Majesty the King. He will hold the office of Lord Privy Seal, but the duties of that office are not very onerous, and, in fact, this Minister will be the Minister of Civilian Defence. In that capacity he will have direct charge of air-raid precautions, and he will also be responsible, in consultation with the Departments concerned, for determining arrangements for national voluntary service.\n\nWith reference to air-raid precautions, hon. Members will appreciate that a large number of Departments are concerned in this work, and that they must be responsible in an emergency for functions which have to be exercised through their existing organisation. We have the Home Office, dealing with, perhaps, the major part of the work, especially police work, as well as fire brigades, gas-masks and so forth. Then we have the Ministry of Health, which is in close touch with local authorities, and is also responsible for the medical services, including nursing and ambulance provision. Then there is the Board of Trade, which must be responsible for the storage and distribution of food, and, of course, for the distribution of shipping and the decision as to where shipping is to be embarked and disembarked. There is the Board of Education, which must marshal the children in case of evacuation; there is the Ministry of Transport, which has to provide that railways or other forms of transport shall be available to carry out evacuation; there is the Post Office, which is responsible for communications and for the repair of such things as telephone or telegraph services in case of damage; and finally, of course, there is the Ministry of Labour, which has to see that labour is available for all the services as it is wanted. These services in Scotland are, of course, under the Secretary of State for Scotland. The House will see, therefore, that, in addition to the Home Office and the Scottish Office, all these other Departments have to play their part, and it is necessary that their activities should be co-ordinated, so that each of them may know beforehand exactly what is going to be expected of it in an emergency. For that purpose we shall set up committees of the Ministers of these various Departments and also of...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 563271, "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": "CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938", "page_number": 31, "title": "CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938", "content_text": "# International Situation I NOVEMBER 1938\n\nThe senior officials. Over both these committees, for the time being at any rate, while the organisation is being perfected, my right hon. Friend the Minister for Civilian Defence will preside. These committees will be part of the organisation of the Committee of Imperial Defence, and their purpose will be to ensure a proper co-ordination between the civilian Services and the needs of the Defence Services.\n\nMr. H. Morrison: Is it intended that the Lord Privy Seal shall be a member of the Committee of Imperial Defence?\n\nThe Prime Minister: Oh, yes, certainly. That is a brief outline of the arrangement, which can be further developed. I feel confident that this arrangement will produce the results we require in the shortest possible time.\n\nMr. Attlee: Will the Lord Privy Seal be the responsible Minister in charge, or will he be merely a co-ordinating Minister, running round and bringing other people together?\n\nThe Prime Minister: He will be both; he will be the responsible Minister in charge and also the co-ordinating Minister. With regard to national voluntary service, it will be one of the first duties of my right hon. Friend to examine, with his colleagues, what will be the best way of availing ourselves of the general desire on the part of the public to help the nation. While the House is already aware that we have no intention of imposing compulsion in any form, we are satisfied that it is both desirable and practicable to meet the needs of civilian defence by voluntary action, provided that that action is suitably guided and organised.\n\nWith regard to the review of our military, naval and air defences, the right hon. Gentleman has mentioned again today the question of a Ministry of Supply, which, he says, he and his friends have long demanded. We have considered once more whether the time had come when it would be useful and desirable to set up a Ministry of Supply. In forming a judgment on that question, it is necessary to think very clearly what a Ministry of Supply would be expected to do which is not already done by the Service Departments with the assistance of my right hon. Friend the Minister for the Co-ordination of Defence, whose title, of course, includes co-ordination of supply, and with the assistance also of my right hon. Friend the Minister of Labour.\n\nIf a Minister of Supply were appointed merely to take over the designing and contracting staffs of the Defence Departments, without any additional powers, I cannot resist the conclusion that the first effect must be a dislocation to some extent of the existing arrangements, and that must necessarily result, not in an acceleration, but in a slowing down of the progress of our armaments.\n\nIf you are really to produce any substantial result—and even then it would not come at once—you would have to arm such a Minister with compulsory powers, with powers of compulsion upon individual firms, and also upon individual men and women. I venture to say that, while you can easily persuade people to accept compulsion of that kind in time of war, it is quite another thing to ask them to do so in time of peace; and it would be all the more difficult to obtain agreement because those powers, if given now, would not require to be exercised universally, but would have to be exercised with discrimination. You would have to discriminate between one firm and another, and between one individual and another, and you would have to justify yourselves every time you proposed to put compulsion upon Firm A instead of Firm B, or upon Ben Smith instead of Tom Jones.\n\nIt must be remembered that we are not to-day in the same position as we were in 1914, in this respect: that we are not now contemplating the equipment of an army on a continental scale. Our requirements to-day are limited; our difficulties are chiefly concerned with the supply of certain classes of specially skilled labour. I am not satisfied that in order to obtain that supply of labour where we want it, or, alternatively, in order to put the work where that labour is—I am not satisfied that it is necessary to introduce compulsion. I am not satisfied that we cannot get what we want by voluntary co-operation of employers and trade unionists. When we have done everything that we can on voluntary lines, if we find that we still cannot fill our requirements, then it will be time enough to talk about a Ministry of Supply with compulsory powers. But up to then I am convinced that the most satisfactory course is to perfect and accelerate the methods we have been pursuing, and which have given a very large measure of success.\n\nPage 85\nPage 86\n54", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 563272, "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": "CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938", "page_number": 32, "title": "CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938", "content_text": "# International Situation\n\n## HOUSE OF COMMONS\n\nMr. Attlee: May I ask the right hon. Gentleman to bear in mind that those who advocate a Ministry of Supply do not accept for a moment the idea that it must have compulsory powers?\n\nThe Prime Minister: I said that it must involve compulsory powers if it was to produce an appreciable effect. If the right hon. Gentleman does not accept that, perhaps he will say, when he again intervenes in the Debate, in what way it will produce an appreciable effect without compulsory powers. I have never yet been able to discover how it can be done. Generally, on the military side we have not yet completed the consideration of the review which we have made, but, as I stated in answer to a question, there will be an opportunity in the new Session of Parliament to have a full debate on this subject. I would like, however, to make two general observations on the subject now. The first is this. I want hon. Members to remember that our programme of rearmament is a five-year programme, and we are now only in the third year of that programme. To argue that because everything had not been completed in the third year the programme had broken down is to lose sight altogether of the fact that it was never intended to be completed in three years. I doubt whether it would have been possible, if we had endeavoured to do so at the beginning of the programme, to squeeze a five-year programme into three years. But, to conclude, our review does bring up the special urgency of certain parts of that programme and the necessity for reinforcement of certain weak spots, which, if they were allowed to continue, might jeopardise the effectiveness of the whole system which we have built up. Therefore, we have to address ourselves to this point. The measures which it will be necessary to take will undoubtedly add to the total cost of armaments as we had hitherto contemplated.\n\nThat brings me to my second observation, which concerns the use which is to be made of these armaments. I tried on 5th October to give as clear an exposition as I could of the Government's policy; but I regret to observe that since then doubts have been expressed in some quarters, both at home and abroad, as to whether this review, this bringing up to standard of the scale of our armaments, is consistent with the peaceful professions which we are expressing at the same time. I do not know why any different standards should be applied to this country and to other countries in that respect. But I do repeat here categorically what I have so often said, that we have no aggressive intentions against Germany or any other country. Our sole concern is to see that this country and her Imperial communications are safe, and that we shall not be so weak relatively with other countries that our diplomacy cannot enter upon discussions upon an equal footing. There is nothing further from our minds than entry upon a new armaments race.\n\nIn talking about the Munich results, it seems to me that the right hon. Gentleman forgot the last act at Munich, which, after all, is not the least important one. That declaration which was signed by Herr Hitler and myself, and in which we recorded our belief in the desire of our two peoples never to go to war with one another again, and expressed our own intention that the method of consultation should be the method adopted to deal with other questions which might concern us, and our intention also to continue our efforts to remove every possible source of difference - that declaration signed by us seems to have dropped out of sight lately. I myself feel that in that declaration, if it is properly and suitably followed up, lies the chance of a new era of peace in Europe. When I signed that document I meant what was in the document.\n\nI am convinced that Herr Hitler meant it too when he signed it; and I am equally convinced that those views are the views of the majority of the people both in Germany and in this country. Let there be no mistake, let there be no doubts as to our policy and our intentions; as to the desire, the firm determination, that there shall be no sitting still and waiting for peace to come, but that we must take firm and practical steps towards that end. The right hon. Gentleman asked whether we were to wait always until war threatened before we thought the time was ripe for discussion. No, Sir. That is the whole point of the policy which we are pursuing, that we should not wait. Too often delays have taken place in the past. We should not wait until a crisis becomes acute before we try to settle it, but we should try to consolidate the good will of the four Powers when they assembled at Munich, and we should endeavour to restore European confidence by the removal of fears and suspicions.\n\nThe ultimate aim of this Government, as I believe it must be the ultimate aim of every Government, whatever its complexion may be, is the improvement of the standard of living of the people. It is difficult to reconcile that with the continued piling up of armaments. We should always have that in mind. What we are aiming at is, first, the limitation of armaments by agreement - for unilateral disarmament will help nobody and, in the end, the practical abolition. That is looking very far ahead: I shall not see it; but I do not see why we should not get the first stages of it if we pursue a consistent and persistent policy. We shall never get far unless we can accustom ourselves to the idea that the democracies and the totalitarian States are not to be ranged against one another in two opposing blocs, but that they can, if they choose, work together not merely for the settlement of differences after they have arisen, but also for the operation of a constructive programme, a programme which will facilitate the international exchange of goods and the regulation of international relations in various ways for the good of all. That is the policy which is sometimes called the policy of appeasement. That is the policy to which this Government intends wholeheartedly to devote itself.\n\n5.42 p.m.\n\nSir A. Sinclair: The situation is so serious, and the need for finding the greatest possible measure of national unity is so urgent, that I do not want to spend much time on the past in the observations which I am going to make to the House this evening, but there are one or two things that the Prime Minister said about what has happened in the recent past to which I must refer. First of all, I want to refer to the arguments which he used to justify the use of the 1910 census as the basis for the drawing of the frontiers of Czechoslovakia. When it was agreed that whatever territories contained 50 per cent. of German-speaking population were to be returned to Germany, it was a clear and plain defiance of the principle of self-determination, even if the figures taken had been those of a recent election, because it is quite clear that of the 49 per cent. of Czechs all would have been in favour of remaining in Czechoslovakia, and of the 50 and odd per cent. of Germans a substantial minority would have been in favour of remaining in Czechoslovakia - Jews, Democrats, trade unionists, Socialists, all of whom had every reason to view with horror the prospect of passing under the Nazi régime.\n\nTo adopt the 1910 census, taken 28 years ago, a generation ago, was to reduce the whole scheme to absurdity. And, indeed, everybody knows that the 1910 census was taken by the officials of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in a most ruthless and unscrupulous way. It is well known that prominent Englishmen who were living in Austria at the time and were able to speak German, were asked whether they were able to speak German and written down as German-speaking inhabitants of that country. But self-determination, if it has any real meaning at all, means ascertaining the wishes of the inhabitants. It must be based upon the wishes of the inhabitants, and the basis of the solution which the Prime Minister agreed to adopt was not self-determination at all. It was merely the racial theory of the Nazis that wherever there are 50 per cent. or more of the German race that population must come under the rule of the German Government. But that is not self-determination.\n\nThe Prime Minister referred to the optants. He said that, under the scheme which was going to be approved by the International Commission in Berlin, men and women who were brought now within the frontiers of the Reich, would have the option of going out of the Reich and coming into Czechoslovakia if they pleased. If, as I understand, the President of the Board of Trade is to reply to this Debate, I will put to him this question. Will an effort be made to offer this option to people who are now in concentration camps; people who have been taken hold of and put there to be kept, as Herr Henlein said, until they turned black? Will they be given the option of leaving the concentration camps and going into Czechoslovakia if they wish? I would like a definite answer to that question.\n\nThen about the refugees. The Prime Minister said that of those whose lives were directly threatened if they returned to Germany, we had offered asylum to 350. I understand that there are altogether about 30,000 to 50,000 German refugees whose lives or liberties are in...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 563273, "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": "CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938", "page_number": 33, "title": "CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938", "content_text": "# International Situation\n## HOUSE OF COMMONS\n\n[Sir A. Sinclair.]\n\ndanger if ever they return to Germany, but of these about 5,000 are in direct danger of their lives. They are prominent trade union leaders, people who have made themselves prominent in the defence of the Czecho-Slovak State, and leading representatives of the democratic parties, and I urge the Government that they should consider making a more generous contribution than offering asylum to 350 of these people. I have seen it stated that we have done as much as or more than France, but let it be remembered that France has done an immense amount for other people. France has had the Saar refugees thrown upon her in great numbers, and she has had an enormous number of refugees, far more than we have had, from Spain, and I do not think that it is a fair standard of comparison for this country to take what the French have done, and I urge the Government to be more generous in their estimate of our responsibilities towards these unhappy refugees.\n\nThere is only one other thing more I want to say about the past, and I must say this because it seems to me to go to the roots of the perplexities and dangers in which we now find ourselves. The Prime Minister, since he took over the responsibility for foreign affairs from the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Warwick and Leamington (Mr. Eden), seems to me at every stage to have mistaken the real issues and to have misunderstood the real intentions of Signor Mussolini and Herr Hitler. During the last General Election and, after all, that is only three years ago—the Prime Minister said:\n\n\"There is not one of the small countries of Europe which has not breathed a sigh of relief when they heard that at last we were going to put ourselves in a position to defend ourselves if necessary and to fulfil our obligations under the Covenant.\"\n\nI did not hear in the Prime Minister's speech this afternoon any reference whatsoever to our obligations under the Covenant. The sighs to-day from the small nations of Europe are more audible than they were when the Prime Minister spoke only three years ago, but they are not sighs of relief. They are sighs of anxiety and suffering. Again, the Prime Minister, speaking at that time deprecating a change of Government as a possible result of the General Election, said:\n\n\"Foreign countries would not know if in future they could rely on the British Empire or not.\"\n\nThe Government were returned to power and now they do know. At least Abyssinia knows, and it was round Italian aggression in Abyssinia that the Election was fought. Austria, whose independence was declared to be an object of British policy, also knows. Czechoslovakia knows, and is now entrusting her destinies to Germany. Spain has few illusions left. The Prime Minister rebuked the Leader of the Opposition for describing the Munich Agreement as a defeat for the democracies and for law and order. He contrasted the speech of the Leader of the Opposition with the speeches that are made in totalitarian countries. He said they do not attack their own Governments. For my part, I have not this respect for such totalitarian tradition. I prefer the British tradition of free speech, and I tell the Prime Minister that the people of this country mean to keep it and not to accept his totalitarian standards. When he contrasts the speech of the Leader of the Opposition with the speeches in totalitarian countries, it seems to me that, if you look at the merits of the matter, the speeches of the leaders in the totalitarian countries are exactly on the same lines as the speech of the Leader of the Opposition, for all assert loudly and with confidence that undoubtedly Munich was a defeat for Britain and France and a great victory for Hitler. Herr Goebbels, a member of the Reich Chancellor's Cabinet, one of the closest to him of all the members of the Cabinet, says that Herr Hitler went to Munich with \"Mein Kampf\" in one hand and the sword in the other, and we know that, as a matter of fact, that is true. In the name of justice and self-determination, we have added scores of thousands of Czechs, Germans, and Jews to the flood of refugees and world refugees condemned thousands of others to Nazi concentration camps and to lesser forms of tyranny and brutality.\n\nMr. Donner: Does the right hon. Gentleman really think that there would be fewer refugees if there had been no Munich Agreement and a war?\n\nSir A. Sinclair: I certainly think that they would not have been refugees from Nazi tyranny, nor do I admit for one moment that war would necessarily have taken place if the policy of the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Warwick and Leamington had been maintained—the League of Nations policy. I believe that that was the only way to preserve both peace and justice and that, since that policy was abandoned at every stage, we have drifted nearer and nearer to war, until a few days ago we found ourselves, under the policy which the hon. Member supports, on the brink of it. It was the result which I have prophesied, of that policy which my hon. Friends have prophesied, which hon. Members on this side of the House have prophesied, the inevitable result of the policy which the hon. Member himself supports.\n\nNow perhaps I shall be allowed to continue my speech, because I do not think that the interruption was very relevant. I was saying that thousands of refugees have been condemned to the concentration camps and added to the flood of refugees which is pouring over the world. One by one, in the name of appeasement, in Austria, in Czechoslovakia, and in Spain, we are handing over the keys of world power into the keeping of the most aggressive tyrannies since Napoleon's. In Austria, in Czechoslovakia, and now perhaps in Spain, the armies, air forces, great munitions industries, rich economic resources, and connections of whole countries are being turned over in the balance sheet of power from the side of law and order to the side of aggression and destruction. To the 35 German divisions released from the Czech frontiers, add 12 Austrian divisions and the fresh divisions which will be raised in Austria and in the Sudetenland territories. Lord Baldwin declared that our frontier now is on the Rhine; and now there are 50 more divisions to attack it. The edge of our naval weapon is blunted, for the blockade is losing its power.\n\nThese are the circumstances in which, for the first time, we are being asked to undertake an onerous and dangerous commitment, a specific guarantee against unprovoked aggression of a frontier in Central Europe. To have given it before the crisis was one thing when the frontiers of Czechoslovakia were in the mountains, when she had a fine army with high morale, splendidly equipped, and also with a great munitions industry behind it, and when we might have had the full support of Russia and France, and perhaps of other nations—that was one thing. What does it mean to give it now? This is the question which I am putting to the Government, so I would ask the President of the Board of Trade if he would kindly answer that when he comes to reply. The Prime Minister said that it was a guarantee not of a specific frontier, but against unprovoked aggression. Was not the Polish irruption into Teschen an act of unprovoked aggression, and had not the Minister for the Co-ordination of Defence said that the guarantee was already morally in operation? What happened? How did we fulfil it? You say we shall fulfil it if similar circumstances arise in the future, or if there is an act of even more flagrant aggression. Even if you can excuse the Polish aggression—I do not know if you can or not; I can think of no excuse for it—but if there was an act of even more flagrant aggression, how are we to fulfil this guarantee? We ought to know now and not wait until an act of flagrant aggression happens and then be told, \"You must realise that it is very difficult for us to do anything.\" The totalitarian Powers stretch between us and Czechoslovakia. What is it in our power to do? Do not let us wait for that situation to arise. Let us know now. Let us be told now. How is it expected that we are to fulfil this guarantee? Is it to be a joint or a several guarantee? Is an effort to be made to get Russia in? The Prime Minister said that it was too early to ask for details as to who were to be the guarantors. Are we going to try and get Russia in? Are we going to exert our influence with Russia and ask her to come in? Let the Government tell us that.\n\nThe Prime Minister said, towards the end of his speech, that we were not contemplating the equipment of an Army on a Continental scale. That has always been my view, but the situation has greatly changed in recent weeks, and I would ask the President of the Board of Trade whether His Majesty's Government can assure us that, in the opinion of their military advisers, we should be able to fulfil our commitments under this specific guarantee without an army on a Continental scale. On the day that the Prime Minister went to the Munich Conference, I pleaded with him to go there to ensure the economic survival and the complete freedom and independence of Czechoslovakia. Rightly or wrongly, he did not.\n\n## Page 91\n## Page 92\n## Page 93\n## Page 94", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 563274, "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": "CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938", "page_number": 34, "title": "CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938", "content_text": "# HOUSE OF COMMONS\n## International Situation\n\n[Sir A. Sinclair.] do so, and with increasing rapidity that country is falling under the influence and control of Germany. The Czechs do not seem to attach very much importance to our guarantee. At any rate, when they found there was a difficulty about the Hungarian frontier it was not to us that they came. They went to Germany and Italy to settle it. In these circumstances we ought to think very carefully before we decide to give this guarantee in these new circumstances that have arisen since the Munich Conference. Let the Government tell us exactly what it involves before we decide.\n\nOn this vital issue and also on the main principles of the foreign policy of His Majesty's Government the Prime Minister's speech left me puzzled and bewildered. He said that he was taking active and positive steps towards appeasement. We are entitled to ask, what are they? I hope the President of the Board of Trade will tell us what they are. It is a painful fact that Britain and France no longer count east of the Rhine since Munich. If that be so, then I suggest to the Government that we must do our utmost to support France, Holland, Belgium, and Switzerland, who now badly need our support. We know perfectly well that a violent Nazi agitation is being conducted not only in Alsace-Lorraine but also in Switzerland.\n\nIf these be the circumstances, it is obvious that Spain will be of vital importance for the defence of the democracies; Spain, which lies across our communications with the East and across the communications of France with North Africa. There is no doubt in France about the importance of this question. The Congress of the Radical-Socialist party has just been held in Marseilles, the party from which almost the whole of the present French Government is drawn, and they have passed a resolution stressing the necessity, from the standpoint of French security, of having all foreign fighters without exception withdrawn from Spain. It seems to me that that is equally true of Britain. Does His Majesty's Government accept that view? If so, why do they now seek to bring the Anglo-Italian pact into operation? Signor Mussolini has categorically stated that he will not tolerate a Government in Spain of which he disapproves. Does that statement stand? Do His Majesty's Government recognise Signor Mussolini's right to dictate who should govern Spain?\n\nI do not want to pursue the Spanish problem to-day because it is to be discussed to-morrow, but I say that Italian troops, airmen, military specialists, and technicians should all be withdrawn from Spain, Majorca, and all Spanish territories before the Anglo-Italian Pact is brought into operation. The obligations of those who signed the Non-Intervention Agreement are very specific. They have undertaken not to have troops in Spain and not to import war materials, such as guns and rifles, into Spain. The Prime Minister tells us that he believes the word of Herr Hitler. He believes the word of Signor Mussolini. Here is a simple test. Here are the signatures which have been given to the Non-Intervention Agreement, and I say to the Government that they have no right to ask us to respect the signatures of Signor Mussolini and Herr Hitler until Signor Mussolini and Herr Hitler have honoured the signatures which they have put to the Non-Intervention Agreement.\n\nEverywhere the results of Munich and the disastrous events of the last few weeks have encouraged the friends of the dictators and everywhere they have been a blow to British prestige, not only in Europe but in Palestine and the Far East. The very week of the Munich Conference General Ugaki, who was well known to be an advocate of a moderate policy, left the Foreign Office and the Japanese launched their attack on Canton, which they knew was bound to touch British interests. Before Munich, they did not dare to do that. It was Munich which gave them that encouragement. In these circumstances, two things are urgent as regards China. I would ask the President of the Board of Trade to tell us the intentions of the Government with regard to China. The first essential is to give financial help to China in the desperate straits or, rather, I would say, the extremely critical straits in which she finds herself. When I raised this question in July the Government said that they would not give a loan but that they were considering other means of helping China financially. I would ask the President of the Board of Trade to look up the assurance that was given to me in July and tell us what has been done to fulfil it, and what financial help is now being extended to China. In the second place, the Japanese have threatened the French that if material continues to reach the Chinese forces through Indo-China a grave situation will be created. I would ask the Government whether they are going to tell the French that if they find themselves in difficulties there we will stand by them. It seems to me vital that we should do so if we are to show ourselves loyal friends of the French people and also to ensure that trade between China and the European Powers is not subject to further interruption.\n\nOn the last occasion that we discussed these matters the Prime Minister said that the difference between himself and his opponents was that he wanted to negotiate with the dictatorship countries and we did not. That is not the difference. We on these Benches have never said we would not negotiate with the dictator countries. On the contrary, we have frequently made specific suggestions to the Government that they should negotiate with the dictatorships on a large range of subjects, including economic questions. What we do say is that when we have negotiations with the dictatorships about any particular problem all the countries interested in that problem should be there and that the negotiations should not simply be with the dictatorship Powers. The effect of the Prime Minister's policy has been enormously to strengthen the dictatorships while in one country after another the course of freedom and democracy is being betrayed. Even in France and Britain Herr Hitler is now presuming to interfere with our domestic policy. He is indicating in regard both to France and Britain that he is willing to deal with certain Ministers and that it would be impossible for him to deal with other Ministers. This is not a policy of peace; it is a policy of scuttle and defeatism. This is simply storing up for the successors of the present Government a hard choice between war and complete submission to the dictators' will.\n\nWe were entitled to be told more clearly by the Prime Minister what is the policy that the Government are going to pursue. Peace is not a policy; it is the aim of policy. Peace, as the Prime Minister said, would be the policy of any Government in power in this country. How are the Government pursuing peace? What are the steps that they are taking? How are the economic problems to be dealt with? Is the van Zeeland Report to be taken out of the pigeon hole? Is the Prime Minister going to wait until compliance with the demands of Herr Hitler is again extorted by force, or is he going out to meet these problems? When the Prime Minister was asked this afternoon at question time what conversations had taken place between His Majesty's Government and the German Government, he hardly seemed to understand the question. If this policy of appeasement is really being followed there ought to have been conversations going on all the time since the Munich Conference. The Government ought to tell us on what lines these conversations are being conducted and on what lines they will be conducted in the future.\n\nLet us consider our friends first. Let us consider the United States of America and the vital importance of friendship between ourselves and the United States of America. Let us get the Anglo-American trade treaty negotiated. Then there is the vital importance of our friendship with France. When the Leader of the Opposition said that the economic and the financial aspect was vital, the Prime Minister said that it had very little to do with international affairs. I say that it is vital that we should give to France the economic and financial support of which she very sorely stands in need. I hope that the rumours that are going around that we are thinking of giving support to other countries who have not proved themselves to be the friends of peace and law and order, are not true, and that if we are to give financial or economic support or credits to any foreign countries they will be given to those in whose good faith, devotion to peace, and to the rule of law we have confidence. Then there is Russia which we ought to grapple to us if we are going to rally the friends of peace under the rule of law.\n\nThe Prime Minister said nothing about colonies. Is nothing going to be done about colonies? We should know what the Government's policy is regarding colonies. We know that Herr Hitler says that the question will not wait; he is not being silent. Why cannot we be told what the Government's policy is? I ask the President of the Board of Trade to tell us. Are we going to raise the question or are we going to wait until Herr Hitler raises it? I am not going to take up the time of the House by saying what I think would be an ideal solution of the \n\n## Page 95\n## Page 96\n## Page 97\n## Page 98", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 563275, "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": "CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938", "page_number": 35, "title": "CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938", "content_text": "# International Situation\n## HOUSE OF COMMONS\n\n[Sir A. Sinclair.]\n\nThe problem of colonies, because I do not suppose that the statesmen of all countries concerned meeting round a table would accept the solution which I should suggest, but I would ask the Government whether they agree that a solution of the colonial problem must be found on the basis of three principles. First, trusteeship for the interests of the natives, with guarantees for their welfare and against the militarisation and conscription of the natives, and trusteeship in the interests of civilisation, that is to say, free access to the raw materials and food supplies to be found in these countries to the merchants and traders of the whole world. I know that there is a difference of opinion between hon. Members opposite and myself about the proper interpretation of the principle of trusteeship, but I think we are united in saying that these twin principles should be the foundation of colonial policy and not the contrary principle of exploitation. I want to know whether the Government are holding firm to the principle of trusteeship.\n\nSecondly, will the Government agree that all Powers with colonial interests must be consulted and that the smaller Powers must not only be told after consultations have taken place between the four big Powers what they have to contribute but that they must be in at the beginning of the conversations, and also that all Powers with colonial claims should be there too so that the whole question can be thrashed out. Then, whatever the solution is, it must not really amount to the offer of a mandated territory in order to buy a few months' peace from Germany. If there is to be any solution of this colonial problem it must be as part of a general settlement, and the acid test of that general settlement must be a measure of general disarmament.\n\nThat is the test of the sincerity of any peace settlement. Further, I would ask the Government whether they do not agree that the basis of general disarmament should be the remaining in force of the Anglo-German Treaty limiting the size of the German navy to one-third of ours, while on the other hand, I would agree that the size of the British army should not be more than one-third of the size of the German, and, in the third place, seeing that this country offers the most exposed and tempting target to air attack of any country in the world, I say that we must demand, as Lord Baldwin said that a national Government of all conceivable governments must demand most persistently and resolutely that in the air we must have air parity with any air force within striking distance of our shores. If the Prime Minister goes out for peace on these lines we are with him. It must not be a peace of compliance with the tyrant's will but a peace based on justice, on the principles of the League of Nations; a peace of the sincerity of which the acid test will be disarmament.\n\n## Mr. R. H. Morgan\nThe right hon. Gentleman has said Great Britain and France no longer count. Seeing that Great Britain and France are the mainstays of the League of Nations at the present time, are not all these things which the right hon. Gentleman deplores due to a breakdown of the League of Nations rather than to any default by this country?\n\n## Sir A. Sinclair\nIf I were to answer the hon. Member fully I think it would take up a good deal of time, but let me say that I did not say that Great Britain and France did not count. I said that they are not counting now East of the Rhine, and I think that is true.\n\n6.24 p.m.\n\n## Mr. Donner\nBefore I attempt to give an answer to some aspects of the speech of the right hon. Gentleman I should like to offer an apology to the House because a previous engagement this evening will prevent me from staying to the end of the Debate. I want to make the apology now lest any hon. Member should think I have no interest in listening to the rest of the Debate. The right hon. Member for Caithness and Sutherland (Sir A. Sinclair) has on many occasions given me the impression that he possesses a sense of international morality superior to that of anyone else in the House. Again and again, as he has done this evening, he brings up the old question of Abyssinia, which I thought was dead and buried by now. When the present Home Secretary, then the Foreign Secretary, delivered his personal explanation to this House on the occasion of his resignation on the question of Abyssinia, he showed in his speech that not a single Power save Australia and New Zealand took any precautionary military measures whatever.\n\nThese two Dominions sent cruisers across the Indian Ocean through the Red Sea into the waters of the Mediterranean. It was evident from this fact that the League of Nations from that moment failed to function, and I held, and still hold, the view that there was a moral obligation upon the League and upon every hon. Member when that happened, to recognise the fact and to do something to compensate, if I might use the word, Haile Selassie, the Emperor of Abyssinia.\n\nThe only endeavour to save a part of Abyssinia for the Emperor was the Hoare-Laval pact which saved him something from the wreck, but the right hon. Gentleman was not one of those who supported it. He denounced it and those of us who supported it, despite the fact that many of us regarded such an endeavour as a moral obligation which should be carried out. The right hon. Gentleman also spoke of 30 divisions which had now been released from the Czechoslovakian frontiers and which can now be turned upon France.\n\nThat is the spirit which cannot possibly lead to appeasement, and which will never bring peace in Europe. I have heard the right hon. Gentleman deliver many speeches in this House. I should like to say, not too offensively I hope, that that is a sentiment which lies like a stone on the spirit. He says that we cannot trust the word of a dictator.\n\n## Sir A. Sinclair\nThe difference is between those who are loyal to the rule of law and those who regard the national will as the sole motive of their policy.\n\n## Mr. Donner\nI do not want to misrepresent the right hon. Gentleman, but I understood from his speech that he made it perfectly plain that he does not trust Herr Hitler's word. I say that the best way in which to make a man keep his word is not to throw doubt upon it. When the Prime Minister came to this House in the recent special Session and delivered his speech, every hon. Member jumped to his feet and wished him Godspeed. I do not remember the right hon. Gentleman saying that it was no use going to Munich, on the grounds that we could place no reliance on Herr Hitler's word. The right hon. Gentleman has spoken of the encirclement of Germany, although he did not use that word. I believe that the day of the encirclement of Germany is past and over. We must approach this subject in a new spirit, with a new mental orientation. The right hon. Gentleman's whole speech from the dismemberment of Czechoslovakia to the point when he thought that 30 divisions would be moved to the Western front revealed that he distrusts Germany and believes that Germany desires war and that the best way to deal with Germany is to encircle her. The question whether you can permanently keep in subjection a great nation of 80,000,000 people is practical politics or not is over. That belongs to the past. The right hon. Gentleman thinks in terms of a war of prevention. Those days are over long ago. It might have been the right policy in 1925 as some people in France believed, but it cannot be wise to wait until Germany is fully armed and then adopt a policy of encirclement.\n\nThe right hon. Gentleman proceeded and spoke of the Polish irruption into Teschen. I do not desire to make any excuses at all for what has happened, but I would remind him of the history of that incident. In the year 1920 Poland was fighting Soviet Russia and the Bolshevists were at the gates of Warsaw. The Czechoslovakian Government, taking advantage of Poland's hour of danger and difficulty, seized Teschen and even prevented equipment and supplies reaching Poland from Hungary. I do not say that I agree with either action, nor do I justify either, but I say it reveals and represents the kind of spirit which I believe still lives in the right hon. Gentleman, a spirit which cannot lead to peace and can end only in war.\n\nReference was made earlier in the Debate to the economic results of the Munich Agreement. I suggest to the House that if it is possible for Germany to expand economically in South Eastern Europe, that is a matter which should not cause us anxiety, but is rather a development which we should welcome. I believe that German economic expansion in South Eastern Europe is natural, just as our economic expansion in the Dominions and Colonies overseas is natural. If we can help Germany to increase her trade in South Eastern Europe, we shall be assisting her to raise the standard of living there as well as her own, and I believe that if there is a contented Germany, which does not merely exist, but in which there is a decent standard of living maintained and made possible, then there will be a greater chance of living in Europe in peace.\n\n6.39 p.m.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 563276, "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": "CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938", "page_number": 36, "title": "CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938", "content_text": "# International Situation\n## HOUSE OF COMMONS\n### [Mr. Donner.]\n\nside by side with a Germany which can live contentedly in peace, rather than with a Germany that is starving and in despair. Therefore, we ought not to be over-anxious if Dr. Funk's great drive into South Eastern Europe succeeds.\n\nI do not believe we shall lose these markets entirely, for, as the Prime Minister pointed out, many of the countries in South Eastern Europe, many of the Danubian countries, require foreign exchange, and they can obtain it only by trading with Great Britain and France. But just as it is natural for Germany to trade with South Eastern Europe, so it is natural, surely, for us to increase our trade with the Dominions and Colonies. I express the hope and belief that the Munich settlement will represent a new chapter in our history. If it leads to greater German prosperity, that will be a factor on the side of peace. I believe that one of the results of it will be that we shall turn more to our own Dominions and Colonies than in the past, and do our best to extend our trade with them and develop the territories within the British Empire. If that should happen, then even greater good will come of that Agreement than we see to-day.\n\nThere is one obstacle which still remains to such progress. I should like to make an appeal for the formation of a small committee to examine the whole question of inter-Imperial trade, because I think that the facts and figures which are really essential to us are missing. What is needed are statistics to show what the Dominions produce and in what quantities and where, how much they sell and to whom they sell it, how much they buy and from where, and lastly what are the transport and communications which are available. If we had those data and statistics, it should not be beyond our capacity to build up a great Imperial trade on a complementary and not on a competitive basis of production. If that policy were coupled with a great policy of fostering at home the domestic power of production, then we should secure an even higher standard of living in this country. I believe that by carrying out such a policy we should be able to maintain and increase the standard of living in England.\n\nBefore concluding, there is one other aspect to which I wish to draw attention.\n\n### International Situation\n\nI believe that the solution of many of our economic problems, and many of the economic problems which will face this country after the Munich Agreement, lies in the lesson provided by the example of one man, Lord Nuffield. Let the House consider what has happened in regard to him. We find that a great industry has been built up as a result of the establishment of the McKenna Duties. We see not only an improved article produced for the consumers, but we find that the price has been lowered; and we see that Lord Nuffield has accumulated a great fortune which he has given back to the people. That is the point to which I wish to draw the attention of the House. Not only has he secured much for Oxford economically, but the great bulk of his fortune has gone back to the people who made it. I suggest that ought to prove a great lesson to all of us. If we were to recognise that we are faced with immensely high tariff barriers all over the world and that there is little or nothing that we can do to reduce many of those barriers, and sell in those markets denied to us to-day, and if we accepted those conditions and facts and heightened our own tariffs and made greater use of them, by protecting ourselves, we could create a higher standard of employment and living in England.\n\n**Mr. Dingle Foot:** Is that part of the policy of appeasement?\n\n**Mr. Donner:** Yes, it is. I believe that if one took, over the last five years, an average of the profits of all companies in England—index them individually, for the sake of argument, at 100—and increased the protection for those industries, one could estimate quite easily the increased profits produced by the higher tariffs, and if one were to return that extra profit in the shape of, say, 10 per cent. to the State, for giving the benefit of the tariff, 10 per cent. to the shareholders, 30 per cent. for the renewal of equipment and machinery, and 50 per cent. to the people who created it, not only would it create a higher standard of living and greater employment in this country, but it would create a new spirit of co-operation between the Government and the employers and the employés.\n\n**Mr. Foot:** I do not follow the hon. Member's argument. He was arguing a little earlier in his speech that it was in our interests to do what we could to raise the standard of living and increase the prosperity of Germany, and I gather of other European countries. Does he suppose that a steep increase in our own tariffs would conduce to that end?\n\n**Mr. Donner:** I do. I explained at the beginning of my speech that I believe that the natural expansion of German trade is in South-Eastern Europe, just as the natural expansion of English trade lies, in the first instance, in fostering the domestic power of production, and secondly, in increasing trade with the Dominions and Colonies on the lines I have suggested. If a policy on those lines were carried out, I believe it would create a new spirit of national unity and of good will and co-operation among the working people of this country. Such a policy could be carried out simultaneously with the Prime Minister's policy of appeasement. I believe we should make it plain that we are not prepared to fight in Europe or anywhere else except in a cause more essential, more vital and more important to the interests of this country than is the maintenance of peace itself to this country, and by fostering such a spirit at home, by stimulating trade within the Empire, this country would be able to look forward to a great, happy and peaceful future.\n\n6.40 p.m.\n\n**Mr. Muff:** We meet to-day in circumstances different from those in which we met a month ago. Then it was a day of tension, and when Ministers and the Front Opposition Bench came in at 2.45 for prayers, one Member said: \"Are things as bad as that?\" We wished the Prime Minister Godspeed when he went to Munich, and when he came back I told my constituents that I was glad of the respite. Representing as I do the vulnerable city of Hull, with its teeming population, I contemplated with horror what would happen to Hull and to London in the event of war. I was glad of the Agreement, but since then I have found myself saying, as did our great weekly humorous magazine, that it was a peace we were glad of, but not very proud of. I suggest to the Prime Minister that the German Government have badly let him down by not showing a more accommodating spirit and greater magnanimity. They have made his position and that of the Government more difficult. Although the House may wonder what that matters to a Labour Member, I feel that as long as the right hon. Gentleman is Prime Minister, and as long as he was doing what he thought was right in his policy of appeasement, the Fuhrer might have behaved better than he has done, especially to Czechoslovakia.\n\nI suppose that I am the only Hussite Member of the House. I am rather proud to be what is known as a Moravian Brother. The Hussites owe their inspiration to a man whose memory we honour in St. Stephen's Hall, John Wyclif. In Czechoslovakia there are both Sudetens and Czechs. As a result of the persecution which these people, especially the Czechs, have suffered in Sudetenland, I feel that it was the duty of the German Government to stand by Article VII, which was signed by the Fuhrer as well by the Prime Minister, Signor Mussolini and M. Daladier. We have a right to complain. Moreover, the German Government are missing a great opportunity by not implementing the large measure of good will which was created when the feeling of revulsion at the prospect of war was turned into a feeling of gladness when the respite came. If the German Government possess any psychologists, I suggest they have made a grave mistake in not making better use of the opportunity which came their way by implementing Article VII, by which they promised to give Sudeten, Czech and Jew the option of saying where they wished to live. The German Government have not made our position easier by the expulsion of thousands of Jews. If the Fuhrer had wanted sincerely to help the British Prime Minister and to save him from the criticism of his own party in the country, he could have done so. I have spent the last five weeks in defending the Prime Minister against Conservatives. Incidentally, I am glad to say that some of those Conservatives are going to vote Labour at the next election but that is by the way.\n\nI speak in general terms because I do not wish to be personal, but the German Government is making the position of this country more difficult because of this persecution of minorities and especially of the Jews. At the same time there is an insidious movement against this country, a sneering at the English people and statements are made publicly to the effect that we are persecuting the Arabs in Palestine.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 563277, "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": "CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938", "page_number": 37, "title": "CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938", "content_text": "# International Situation\n\n## HOUSE OF COMMONS\n\n[Mr. Muff.]\n\nUnless our Foreign Office is to be subject in every particular to the whims and desires of the German Government, I think we are sufficiently strong yet to be in the position of telling the Germans where they get off, instead of being told by them where we get off. We should be able to tell the Germans that they have no right to criticise our treatment of our minorities as long as their own concentration camps are so plentiful.\n\nThe Prime Minister has invented a new policy which he calls appeasement. For the life of me I could not give the dictionary definition of appeasement without looking it up, but I can give the House the Yorkshire definition. There is one interpretation of appeasement in the Old Testament. There is the appeasement which consists of throwing burnt offerings to Moloch or some other god in order to make him look more benevolently upon those who are paying him their worship. But there is another meaning of the word which we have in Yorkshire. If a child is a nuisance, and if you give the child a dummy tit, or distract the child and send him out to the pictures or give him sweets—we call that appeasement. Is that the policy of His Majesty's Government? Is it their policy to sacrifice Czechoslovakia and similar places as burnt offerings to this new god or is it their policy to try to appease the German Government by offerings in the way of some form of sweets or plasters in order to try temporarily to close the mouth of that government?\n\nWe cannot hope for much success if we continue such a policy as that, but I am hopeful about the Prime Minister's reference to the last act of Munich, although I hope that the curtain is only going up and not going down upon that last act. I hope that the Prime Minister and the Government are continuing now the policy of trying to bring peace, as he said, in our time and, as some of us hope, for all time. We have, however, an uneasy suspicion that the Government are doing no such thing. We have had no satisfactory reply this afternoon from the Government to show that they are doing anything at all to meet the situation. Their attitude on the Colonial question reminds one of the darky parson in Virginia who said, \"Brethren, we will look this difficulty in the face and pass on to the next question.\" That is exactly what has happened this afternoon as regards the question of colonies.\n\nAbout a year ago some 55 Members of this House were in Germany. A few Labour Members were among them and were looked upon as prize rabbits. The 'gauleiter' of the various districts which we visited were very nice to us and could speak English to us. We were in Berlin and we were in Munich and I had the honour of staying in the same hotel as the Prime Minister. I do not know whether I had the same bed or not, but that again is by the way. On that occasion we were asked, \"What about colonies?\" I said, \"My personal opinion about colonies is that your ally, the other member of the axis, Signor Mussolini—who was there in the Berlin Stadium, I suppose, in order to impress us—has not made our position in Palestine any easier either by his propaganda or by subsidising the Arabs against us.\" I pointed the moral that we could never agree to give up even mandated territories, if those territories were to be manned and armed and fortified. I pointed to the treaty which we made after the War between ourselves and the United States as a result of which some 3,000 miles, I believe, of frontier was left without a gun or a fort or a gunboat. If we could have such a peace as that with the Germans, everybody would be ready for it and some of us got the impression in Germany that the ordinary, decent people there wanted peace as much as we did.\n\nI remember a festival to which the Prime Minister was invited but which he could not attend. Some of us went to that festival. It was the October festival and 10,000 or 11,000 people were gathered in a huge hall. I forget what it is called, but it has something to do with lager beer. We mixed with the folk there, many of whom could speak English, and I could feel the friendliness of those Bavarian folk, just as much as we felt it when we paid our visit to Berchtesgaden and danced with the local Bavarian lasses. I want this country to draw upon that spirit of good will, because I believe that that is the only way to find the true solution of our present difficulties. Whether you call it moral rearmament or by any other name, there will have to be a completely different approach to the question from that which has been adopted ever since the present Chancellor of the Exchequer was at the Foreign Office.\n\nIn the old days, whether we call them good or bad, there was continuity of policy in foreign affairs, and I wish that it was not possible to make party capital out of foreign affairs. I wish we could have some considered, united policy to which all parties in the State could agree. I hope there will be such a policy in the future, but it will mean a change of heart for many of us, and it will mean a change of heart also for those on the Continent. If any words of mine could reach across the water I would emphasise what every back bencher here knows. In our constituencies we are seven for sixpence as it might be said. We are not like Front Bench Olympians such as the right hon. Gentlemen whom I see before me. Our constituents do not leave us alone. They leave us in no doubt about what they are thinking. They tell us, and tell us pretty straight, and if we try to put on any airs and graces we quickly have to come off our perches. I wish that the people across the water could understand that nothing but good will is felt towards them by the ordinary decent men and women of this country. If they could realise that fact, if the governments of those countries, totalitarian or whatever else we call them, could realise that and assemble not at the horseshoe table invented by the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Carnarvon Boroughs (Mr. Lloyd George) but at a round table, to talk sense and common sense, gumption then there would be a chance of peace, at any rate in our time.\n\n6.56 p.m.\n\n## Mr. Vyvyan Adams\n\nIt is interesting to hear from the hon. Member for East Hull (Mr. Muff) that he, fortified I have no doubt by a great deal of \"moral rearmament,\" strenuously deprecated the opinions of those whom he expects to vote for him for the first time at the next general election. Truly there is no limit to political honesty. I am glad that the hon. Member mentioned the Germans' treatment of those who have fallen under their control in Sudetenland, but I wonder whether the hon. Member is really surprised at it. Has the German treatment of minorities at home been no indication of the evil which animates the contemporary German Government?\n\nI have waited, Sir, for seven months to catch your eye in a Debate on Foreign Affairs. I have at last had the good fortune so to do, but I am not going to abuse my good fortune. I intend to be down in my seat before the minute hand of that clock has passed through a right angle. I helped to have that clock put there with a definite purpose in view, namely, to discourage my hon. Friends from making long speeches; and I do not intend myself to set a bad example. But I have to recall, with some bitterness, that in my last speech here on the international situation in March, I made two pleas. The first was for speedier rearmament and the second was for a specific pledge of Czechoslovakian integrity. With all humility I think I can claim to have been wise before the event.\n\nI repeat what was said in the Debate on the foreign situation three or four weeks ago, that you cannot limit the Government's responsibility to the last two months. The Prime Minister has access to great knowledge—more knowledge perhaps than anybody else in this House—but, if I may say so, he seemed this afternoon to have forgotten in what a profoundly serious situation the country is to-day. In seeking to explain our unreadiness the other day, he observed that our programme of rearmament was a five-year programme. What is this country or any other country to infer from that statement? Does it mean that Germany is to be allowed to do anything she likes until we are fully rearmed in 1941? Again, the right hon. Gentleman defined the use of our armaments and I observe that as the months pass, the declared possible use of our armaments becomes narrower and narrower. He said to-day that they were merely to protect our Empire and to strengthen our diplomatic power. I observe a very remarkable and original omission. There was no indication at all from the Prime Minister of what would happen if a friend of ours, to whom we are committed, were attacked. How, for example, does France stand to-day? Everybody knows that France is an early victim on Hitler's list. I should like to know whether in these new circumstances the Government are prepared to defend her if she is attacked.\n\nI am glad that Parliament is in Session. I believe that, if we had been sitting through September, the Government...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 563278, "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": "CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938", "page_number": 38, "title": "CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938", "content_text": "# International Situation\n\n## HOUSE OF COMMONS\n\n[Mr. Adams.] International Situation\n\nEven the Times asserted two or three days ago that the Czech fortifications surrendered to Germany were impregnable to shell-fire; when to-day Hitler, whom many of us regard as the enemy of civilisation, controls the finest armament works in Europe, might not have pursued the course of suicidal indecision which they, in fact, pursued. I believe we might have arrested the shameful retreat started by the Times, which has recently acted like an English edition of the `Angriff`. I only wish to mention the past in so far as it may enable us to apprehend the future. I ask leave to quote from three letters from a Czech friend who fought on our side under General Sirovy against the Germans and then against the Bolshevists across Siberia.\n\nThis man, a fine scholar, and an ex-soldier, has regarded England with something like idolatry. Here are two or three sentences from a letter of 19th September last:\n\n\"Shall we be let down as in 1618? How criminal even to think of disrupting the old Kingdom of Bohemia! It would place us at the mercy of the darkest reactionaries in history. But your Empire is equally threatened.\"\n\nHere is a sentence from another letter dated 2nd October, after the Agreement:\n\n\"England, the cradle of democracy, the promoter and helpmate of brown Fascism. It seems a nightmare! This is the bitterest day of my life. On my birthday my native Bohemian forest was presented to Germany by that England that I have loved all my life so much.\"\n\nHere is an extract from a letter dated 10th October:\n\n\"To-day also the other bank of the Danube, which had never belonged to Germany, was occupied by German forces. One can see the swastika flags from our side. The last outpost of democracy is no more, destroyed - a paradox of history - by our allies and friends.\"\n\nNo wonder that the message from the Czechoslovak Parliament to the House of Commons and the French Chamber of Deputies, which was not read to us, ended: \"We bequeath our sorrows to the French and English people.\"\n\nThe House will understand that, since having that last letter from my friend, I have been too ashamed to write to him. This then, is **\"peace with honour\"**, when Munich exceeds Godesburg; when young women Jewish refugees are, I am told, lying exposed to pneumonia on the damp ground between Sudetenland and the new unfortified Czechoslovakia, and I do not know from the Prime Minister's speech whether the Government intend to guarantee the new Czechoslovakia; when...\n\nThe Prime Minister said he was sure the alternative to his action was war. It is, surely, open to us to ask whether we are always to submit to injustice when force is threatened; because we shall soon be faced with fresh dilemmas and new alternatives. I wonder if it can really be said that the alternatives since March have been war and surrender. I am virtually quoting from the speech of the right hon. Gentleman the Member for St. George's Division of Westminster (Mr. Cooper) when I say I believe that the alternatives since March were surrender and firmness. Or it may be, of course, that the Government always intended to bewilder our friends and to strengthen our enemies. I feel somewhat fortified in that conjecture by certain memories. One of them was a rare smile which crossed the face of the Prime Minister when I had the hardihood to refer to Czechoslovakia during Question Time as \"a bastion of democracy.\" I am the last to grudge the Prime Minister his little joke. In all conscience the life of a Prime Minister to-day must be bleak enough. But I do not think that phrase about Czechoslovakia was very grossly inaccurate. She was a self-governing community, resolute, determined to defend herself and well-armed for the purpose.\n\nAnother memory which unfortunately confirms me in this conjecture is the Biggleswade speech of the Parliamentary Under-Secretary to the Ministry of Labour. There was, again, the elaborate vagueness of the Prime Minister's speech in March, which now seems to have been so two-faced that it might have been drafted by the Chancellor of the Exchequer.\n\nBut suppose that theory is wrong and that the Prime Minister regrets what has happened. His action can then only be explained by knowledge which he had that we were too weak to win or not powerful enough to deter. Whose fault is that? For three years the Government have been pouring out our treasure on rearmament. [Interruption.] As there are only two Members of the Cabinet present, I wonder if I might have the attention of both of them.\n\nIn our policy, there is absolutely nothing to show for it. [Interruption.] Does anyone deny that, although we have spent so much on rearmament in the last three years, during that period matters in the international sphere have steadily deteriorated? We were not even able to call the bluff of the most evil Government in Europe, although that Government had been successfully isolated by the mobilisation of the British Fleet. [Interruption.] If we do not at some moment stand firm, we have only before us a procession of surrenders until we finally reach a position where we are faced not only with war but by inevitable defeat as well. I believe, too, that there is abundant evidence that the German confusion during the crisis greatly exceeded our own.\n\nThe same excuse that we were unprepared was made for our behaviour towards Mussolini at the end of 1935. It was then studiously whispered that the Navy had only enough ammunition for one first-class battle in the Mediterranean. Since that day, we have voted upon rearmament hundreds of millions of pounds. Where has the money gone? The House and the country are entitled to know.\n\nI feel that we have not only been diplomatically defeated but that we are impoverished and weakened as well. If, as the Government must think - because there could not be any other motive for our rearmament - that we are in danger from contemporary Germany, I should have thought that it was the policy of common sense to have on our side all the friends we can possibly muster. But the Chancellor of the Duchy lately chose to criticise the alleged weakness of Russia, which is by land by far the greatest single deterrent factor against German aggression.\n\nI can only say how glad Dr. Goebbels must be when his work is so faithfully done for him by an Irish peer.\n\nHaving successively peeled off our outer coverings, the Government say their future policy is one of appeasement. I listened with great attention to the Prime Minister for a clear definition of what appeasement might mean in terms of practical politics. What exactly does it mean? Does it, for example, mean more concessions of other people's territory? Does it mean the permanent exclusion from our Government of our most courageous and competent statesmen? I do not know that the right hon. Gentleman the Minister of Labour need mind that implied comparison between himself and the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Epping (Mr. Churchill). Does it mean our accepting a condition in the air of enduring inferiority to the Nazis? Or, most probable of all, I suppose it may mean colonies. For this reason, more than any other, I am heartily glad that Parliament is together.\n\nWhen separated in July, I feared that a colonial surrender was in the air. Instead, we have been made parties to the parcelling out of other people's property. But no doubt Hitler, who is nothing if not cunning, will now begin to sustain his demand for colonies by this kind of argument - \"You have given us Czechoslovakia, which never belonged to you or to us. Now hand over something that you are entitled to dispose of.\" If we are minded to use his own language, we are able to retort that, if we can dispose of something, we are also entitled to keep it; and hope we shall make that the answer.\n\nBut if it is now the purpose of the Government to begin the dismemberment of the British Empire - because that is, I believe, what colonial concessions will eventually mean - why were not colonies given to Stresemann or Bruning? Why not give colonies to Russia or the United States or to Poland, which, I understand, has lately uttered a desire for colonial territories? Why was not this whole policy of appeasement adopted before the bully in Germany jumped into the saddle? Colonial concessions will not make things a jot better. They will only make things worse. Before the War, the same Germany which is now threatening civilisation had 3,000,000 square miles of African territory and yet she went to war. No one is going to say that Germany was guiltless of what happened in 1914, although I understand it has become rather unfashionable to say that she was wholly to blame; but at least she bears a pretty heavy portion of the blame for that catastrophe. And does the House really imagine that if Germany gets one single token colony, she is going to rest content? I believe that if she gets one, she will immediately proceed to a demand for parity of colonies, and why should she not, so strengthened, demand parity at sea with ourselves? I earnestly... \n\n1 NOVEMBER 1938\n## International Situation \n\nPage 113\nPage 114\nPage 67\nPage 68", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 563279, "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": "CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938", "page_number": 39, "title": "CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938", "content_text": "# International Situation\n## HOUSE OF COMMONS\n\n[Mr. Adams.]\n\nentreat all parties not to allow the Government to begin, as it were, the strangulation of the British Empire by colonial concessions to Germany.\n\nBecause I feel that this country and our Empire are in the very direst danger, I am going to take leave now to say something which hon. Members may regard as highly indelicate. I have heard it said that the Chancellor of the Exchequer may succeed to the Premiership. In 1932 the same right hon. Gentleman was Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, when Germany was still reasonable and civilised, and yet during those early and promising days of the Disarmament Conference the right hon. Gentleman found ample reasons for having no policy at all. He must be regarded to-day as the main architect of our present ruin. I do not expect my hon. Friends in the Conservative party to dispute that proposition, because in 1935 they will remember we compelled his promotion to the Home Office.\n\nLike my hon. and gallant Friend the Member for the Abbey Division (Sir S. Herbert), I would like to see a Government of National Union, including the Leaders of the Opposition. It does seem to me a most absurd thing, in this hour of our national danger—for it is nothing less, even though the crisis to-day may have been understated in this Debate—that the right hon. Members for Sparkbrook (Mr. Amery), Leamington (Mr. Eden), St. George's, and Epping are outside the Administration.\n\nSo far from causing Herr Hitler to go to war, I believe that the inclusion of those right hon. Gentlemen in the Government would cause him to think twice—a man who understands the use of force and respects those who would be able, if necessary, to use it. In what vital particular over the last five or six years has the reading of German motives by the right hon. Member for Epping been proved wrong?\n\nI would suggest that we need to-day men in all parties, men with the wit, the wish, and the will to stand up for a stronger Britain. If this nation is to survive as a great nation, as a leader of freedom, flying the banner of liberty from this island, visible to all the world, the days of surrender by this country must be ended. If we want peace, peace with honour, peace for the time not only of those who are perhaps reaching the end of their lives, but also peace for the time of those of us who are under 40 and for the time of our children, we must take the last resort, which is this—rearmament on a scale hitherto undreamt of, excluding no possibility of general national service, to meet and, if necessary, to defeat Germany. In this crisis there is nothing else and nothing less for us to do. We are indeed forced back in this emergency on to the Tacitean paradox which in happier days we could afford to ridicule: **Si vis pacem para bellum**. So long as the Nazi régime persists in Germany there is no hope of preventing war except through vast rearmament by Britain.\n\n7.19 p.m.\n\nMr. Boothby: We have had from the hon. Member for West Leeds (Mr. V. Adams) a characteristically vigorous speech, with the last part of which I, personally, found myself in a good deal of agreement, but I must point out to him that he has slightly exceeded the right angle to which he referred. I do not propose to say anything about the Munich Agreement, or indeed about what has happened in the past. I am one of those who think that, in the circumstances of the time, and under the conditions which then prevailed, the Prime Minister had no alternative at Munich but to make the best terms he could. I think that those conditions ought not to have arisen, and need not have arisen; but there they were, and it was not entirely the fault of the Prime Minister that they existed; and I am one of those who feel very strongly that he had no option but to take the action he took, that that action was courageous, and that he deserves the profound gratitude of the people of this country for what he did. There is one other thing I would like to say, which I do not think has been said enough in this House to-day, and that is how much we all welcome the appointment of my right hon. Friend the Member for the Scottish Universities (Sir J. Anderson) to the Cabinet and to be in effect Minister of Civilian Defence.\n\nApart from that, I think the Government must have been aware of the very considerable uneasiness which has pervaded this House throughout the Debate, not greatly diminished since the four days' Debate a few weeks ago; and I think there is real cause for that uneasiness still. It is not confined to any one party. The House as a whole is uneasy, because this House has a collective responsibility, and a very direct responsibility, for the safety of this country. We have failed adequately to discharge that responsibility. Why? Because we have been continuously and grossly misled by Ministers, over a period of several years, as to the true state of our defences. You cannot get away from that. To listen to the speeches of some Ministers, at different periods, you might have thought that guns and aeroplanes were flowing in on them in such an avalanche, like rain, that it was almost a source of embarrassment. Indeed, there were moments when one felt quite sorry for the Germans. But when the much heralded crisis, of which we all had ample notice, arrived, we discovered that the condition of our defences was in fact absolutely deplorable—and that has since been admitted by Ministers themselves and by the Civil Service although nothing that the Government have ever asked for our defences has been refused by this House at any time during the last four years. I think that, if the full list of the gaps and deficiencies were disclosed—which I hope it will not be—it would be a very astonishing document. But attention must be drawn in this House—and I am rather surprised it has not been drawn so far—to the observations of Mr. Eady:\n\n\"We are not prepared; we have hardly begun to prepare; we do not know how all the failures that occurred during the crisis can be avoided next time.\"\n\nMr. Eady went on to say that the regulations issued to the local authorities were the sloppiest ever produced by a Government Department. This was a high civil servant. We all have our own experiences of what happened during the period of the crisis, with regard to shelters, sandbags, hospitals, arrangements for the evacuation of children, fire brigades, police, production generally in the country, voluntary service of all kinds, the shoals of offers that came from different people all over the country, the total inadequacy with which they were dealt with, no use being found for them at the last moment, and the confusion which arose. The hon. Member who has just sat down said that the confusion in Germany was greater than in this country. All I can say to that is that Germany must have been in a very confused state indeed at the time of the crisis.\n\nSimilarly, we have heard—and there is no good in concealing these facts—about the gun deficiencies. I took the trouble to look it up, and I found that the War Office alone has spent £43,000,000 on artillery. I do not know the exact number of anti-aircraft guns of modern type that were available for the defence of this country at the time of the crisis, but if it was 20 per cent. of the establishment I should be very surprised. In many cases it was far below that. Similarly, we spent with regard to aeroplanes, £110,000,000 on aeroplanes, and that, at £15,000 apiece, ought to work out at 7,000 aeroplanes. Who in this House supposes we had 7,000 efficient fighting aeroplanes three weeks ago? Did we have 1,000, did we have 500, did we have even 100? I do not know what the precise figure was; but all this goes to show that after four years of alleged rearmament, and an expenditure totalling £1,000,000,000, the results were very unsatisfactory indeed. I would like to ask what has happened in this respect during the last four or five weeks. One would have expected—I think all of us hoped—after the last Debate that a terrific effort would be made; but I have not seen any sign of it. There appears to have been a certain amount of examination, and we have had one or two interesting speeches from Members of the Government, but that is all. There was one speech particularly, by the Home Secretary, at Clacton-on-Sea, which was of considerable significance and importance. He said:\n\n\"If this country could be so organised as to make it impossible for a knock-out blow to succeed, we could face the future with the certainty that we could never be defeated.\"\n\nAnd there was another extremely interesting speech, by the Secretary of State for War, at Cardiff, from which I will give this quotation:\n\n\"To obtain appreciable acceleration, or an appreciable enlargement within the given time of our rearmament programme, it would be necessary to revive our war-time method under which every other consideration is subordinated to this. A Ministry of Munitions to be effective must have full powers to allot orders, to assign priorities, to control the supply of materials, and to make arrangements for diversions of skilled labour.\"\n\nIf this speech means anything at all, it means that if we are to have effective rearmament \"within the given time,\" we must have a Ministry of Supply. The speech has otherwise no meaning at all; and it has been strongly reinforced in that very orthodox financial newspaper,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 563280, "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": "CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938", "page_number": 40, "title": "CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938", "content_text": "# International Situation HOUSE OF COMMONS\n\n[Mr. Boothby.]\n\n## International Situation\n\nThe \"Economist,\" the laissez-faire capitalist newspaper, which is in principle opposed to any kind of interference with industry if it can possibly be avoided, continues: \"Those who have been advocating the creation of such a Ministry ever since the inception of rearmament have been told by the Government that it would be an unnecessary interference with the normal course of industry. The Government have preferred the alternative course of co-ordinating the activities of the independent Ministries through a Minister with Cabinet rank, but without executive powers. It may fairly be said that the system associated with the name of Sir Thomas Inskip has failed. It is precisely because interference with the normal course of the armaments industry is required that a Ministry of Supply has now become a necessity. What was formerly an objection to the proposal has become its very marrow.\"\n\nIt is no insult to the Defence Departments to say that they are not equipped for the mass production of armaments. They are staffed by officers, by civil servants and by technical experts; the one character who never penetrates their portals is the business organiser or the big industrialist. They are hampered at every turn by Treasury control. This mechanism cannot compete with the totalitarian domination of industry in Germany.\n\nSir Kingsley Wood has recently announced that 20,000 to 80,000 man-hours of work are now required to produce an airplane. This figure in itself is a conclusive condemnation of the present system. Germany is believed to be turning out 600 machines a month, and she is certainly not devoting 48, or even 12, million man-hours to the job. Doubtless our methods of production turn out excellent machines; the Russians in 1916 made shells that were engineering masterpieces. But they lost the war because their shells were too good and too few, and we shall lose the peace if our aircraft are too good and too few.\n\nI believe that to be profoundly true. The article goes on: \"One of the most urgent tasks before the Government is drastically to reduce the number of man-hours per airplane, per gun, per shell turned out. It is not a task for which the officer, the designer, the civil servant has any qualifications. It is a task for the industrial manager. He must be enlisted, as he was in the war, in a special Ministry, led by a human dynamo, and equipped with the legal powers necessary to organise the production of arms as the biggest mass production industry the world has ever known.\"\n\nNothing less than that will meet the case. I am glad to see my right hon. Friend the President of the Board of Trade here because this was supposed to be something in the nature of an economic Debate. There has been very little talk about economics so far; but before I come to my concluding sentences I would like to say one or two words about certain economic aspects of the situation. I think the Prime Minister is genuinely worried about the financial aspect of rearmament, and that two of the things which make him hesitate to set up a Ministry of Supply are the cost, and the interference to industry which might be great enough to diminish revenue.\n\nAll I can say in this connection is that we ought seriously to ask ourselves a question which, incidentally, we ought to ask ourselves with regard to many other aspects of the present situation, namely, How have the Germans done it? They have nothing like our resources, although it is wrong to say that they are at starvation level. On the contrary, they are fully employed at a tolerable standard of life. They have done it in three ways. They have done it by the creation of credit, by the issue of long-term loans, and by taxation. We can do it by these three methods much more easily if we choose to do so. Their current rate of State expenditure is over 35 per cent. of their total national income. Ours is only 10 per cent. Their loan expenditure is 25 per cent. of the national income. Ours is less than 3 per cent. They have no unemployment. We have 2,000,000 unemployed; and, therefore, a considerable leeway to make up of unemployed and unused resources of productive capacity. Ours are nothing like fully employed, and are infinitely superior.\n\nWe could carry out the armaments programme quite easily, and with considerable benefit to the economy of this country and to the working classes if we had a measure of controlled domestic inflation, for which I have frequently pleaded in this House. An eminent economist, whose qualifications are not disputed, Mr. Harrod, of Oxford, has repeatedly advocated this policy in a series of able letters in the \"Times,\" which have been adequately answered. He advocates an increase of bank investments, and, as a consequence, a further cheapening of money, a reduction of the rate of interest, followed by loan expenditure until the slack has been taken up, and until the majority of those unemployed are in full employment, and then, and only then, an increase of taxation. At the same time he advocates an adjustment of the exchange rate of sterling in accordance with the price levels prevailing in this country and in foreign countries at any given moment. The technique of controlled inflation is now well enough known. The arguments against it have never been put with any great force, and I have never seen the arguments in favour of it adequately answered. An expansion of internal activity in this country would create additional purchasing power, increased demand, increased imports, and increased exports. Mr. Harrod says: \"The time is economically propitious for the operation of a great drive in defence works,\" and he believes that our defence expenditure could reasonably and beneficially be doubled during the next 12 months. I think that is profoundly true, and if my right hon. Friend has any arguments to put against it, I wish he would put them.\n\nI would like now to say a word about the point which the Prime Minister made on the question of export trade. Our export trade is falling off with alarming rapidity. It is no good pretending that a great deal of our prosperity is not dependent upon export trade, because it is. The prosperity and the economic life of this country were built up fundamentally upon the export trade, and also our industrial population. We cannot go on watching with equanimity our export trade falling, and doing nothing about it. But it will go on falling unless drastic and constructive steps are taken quickly. Swift action is essential in this matter, if we are to save some of our remaining markets.\n\nThe Prime Minister dismissed this trip of Dr. Funk as being of little account. He rather scouted the idea that there was any sinister motive behind it. I do not think there was; but I do think that there was a definite objective to get us altogether out of the markets of South-East Europe. This must not be done. If you survey the whole field of exports you naturally take the Empire first of all. The hon. Member for Basingstoke (Mr. Donner) made an eloquent appeal for Empire trade. I agree with him. But in the natural order of things the Dominions are bound to become increasingly self-supporting in the years that lie immediately ahead. Our Colonies are first of all largely dependent for their purchasing power upon the level of world commodity prices at any given time. The markets in our Colonies are also definitely limited; and if rumour is correct they are likely to be still more limited in the near future. Take the Far East. Whatever the Prime Minister may say about future capital investment, the Chinese market has gone for the time being. And now we are being hustled out of the markets of South-East Europe.\n\nI entirely agree with the Prime Minister that our objective need never be to try and check legitimate German and Japanese expansion in the markets of Europe or of the Far East; but I submit with all due respect to my right hon. Friend that there is an absolute need for this country to maintain a footing in the valuable markets of Europe and of the Far East. We have to be prepared to consider measures much more unorthodox than we have ever employed hitherto, if we are to do that, and stand up against the methods employed by Dr. Schacht with any hope of success. I outlined some of these methods to the House a few weeks ago, and they are well known to my right hon. Friend. But we can offer to these countries three things which the Germans cannot. We can offer credits and sterling and, therefore, we can offer a choice to these countries. They will give a lot not to be completely dominated economically by Germany, and to have free access to raw materials and manufactured goods in other parts of the world. A free currency alone can give that to them. But if we are to exploit these advantages against Germany and Japan the Government must be prepared, in certain circumstances, to shoulder some of the risks which no individual can be expected to do as long as the world is in its present state.\n\nMy final quotation is from Terboven, the local Gauleiter, at the Essen Conference, who, again reported in the \"Times,\" said: \"Germans are scoring, because their Government assume the whole risk on behalf of their traders. Our Government have got to assume some risks if we are to hold our own, still more expand our trade in some of these foreign markets.\"\n\nMay I say this in conclusion? The Prime Minister believes that he can come to reasonable terms with the totalitarian States. I think he sincerely believes this, and all of us would wish him success in his efforts to do so. But reasonable terms are not necessarily Hitler's terms. Munich was something to be profoundly thankful for, and I agree with the Prime Minister that it is nothing for us to be ashamed of. I do think, however, that it is nothing to cheer; and if something far worse than Munich is to be avoided, we must negotiate, in the future, not from weakness but from strength. Otherwise there is absolutely no chance of our getting reasonable or fair terms from the totalitarian States.\n\nHere is the crux of the problem. If we cannot gain the necessary strength in time, there is no point at which we shall ever be able to make a stand, and we shall sink slowly but steadily to the status of a third-rate Power. The Germans are well aware of this. I would ask hon. Friends of mine who are always accusing us of not taking Hitler at his word, and of saying that he cannot be depended on, to consider one or two speeches made by responsible German statesmen since the Munich agreement. Dr. Goebbels, speaking at Hamburg, said: \"Hitler was not modest or timid. No, he was very astute, cheeky and sly. We knew these Parliamentarian tricks, their dilatory tactics. We had to say, By such a day we get what is ours, or we draw the sword.\" That worked. So now the German man-in-the-street is asking quite casually, \"Well, then, when will the Colonies be served up?\"\n\nLet me quote a speech of Dr. Ley at Essen, reported to-day in the \"Times,\" which is not generally considered to be an anti-Nazi newspaper: \"To obtain a sphere of existence equal to that of other nations, German effort and production must be increased 100 per cent. We must not only maintain our lead in aerial armament and other fields, but increase it many times. Other nations must learn that nothing can be done against this people. If the Kaiser in 1910, 1911 and 1912 had done what the Fuhrer has done on the Western front, we would probably never have had a world war, or at least should have won it.\"\n\n\"We are clear, my comrades, that if Mr. Chamberlain found himself ready to sign the Munich Agreement it was not because he felt within himself an irrepressible urge to help the Sudeten Germans to attain their national living rights If he signed it was because of two quite simple considerations: first, because he had to acknowledge that the Fuhrer, and the whole 80,000,000 people of the nation, were determined, if it must be, to use arms to establish the natural rights of our Sudeten German brothers; secondly, because this will was expressed not merely in words and negotiations, but behind it and this affected England especially-there stood an air force which, under the determined leadership of Field Marshal Goering, was ready to prove to the English nation within a few days that so-called splendid isolation had for all time ceased to exist.\"\n\nThese speeches have all been made since the Munich Agreement; and I only say, in face of them, how can we consider it possible not to rearm with all the strength in our power? It is the only language to use to Germany; it is the only language they understand, and the only language for which they will ever respect us. A democratic State is impotent unless it is led with energy and conviction. Operating on a normal peace-time basis, how can we hope to compete with a totalitarian State like Germany, efficient to the nth degree and operating on a war-time basis? I was amazed when the Leader of the Opposition said he did not advocate any form of compulsion in this country. We must have many forms of compulsion, not only with regard to labour, capital and profits, but over the whole field. I am not talking about military conscription. I am talking about a Ministry of Supply, which to be effective must have compulsory powers. If we do not ultimately make the necessary effort and sacrifices, I think it will be the end of the British Empire.\n\nThe other day I was reading an article in the \"Manchester Guardian\" by my old tutor at Oxford, Professor Namier, of Manchester University, in which he used these words about the democracies: \"Sated and sophisticated, civilised, sensitive and war-weary, the democracies have a conscience and no faith-the most dangerous condition for individuals and nations. Hitler, on the other hand, is single-minded, and ready to take risks which makes him supreme over those who do not know their own minds and cannot control their fears Berchtesgaden is now the emotional centre of an incalculable German policy.\"\n\nPage 40 \nPage 41", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 563281, "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": "CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938", "page_number": 41, "title": "CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938", "content_text": "## International Situation\n125 votes.\n\n126 International Situation\n\nI know his motives, and they are profoundly sincere and profoundly wrong-headed. When I first came into the House, Members on this side used to get up and go out, purple with anger, when the hon. Member for Bridgeton made the sort of speech we heard from him the other day; and I am wondering why they should cheer him on this occasion when they used to be so rightly angry.\n\nI remember that Ribbentrop has been telling Hitler for the last six months that the governing class in this country is more interested in its cash than in the country. That is what he has been saying; and all I would say to my hon. Friends is that when I hear them cheering a genuinely pacifist speech made by the hon. Member for Bridgeton it gives me a queasy feeling in my stomach, and I do not like it, for I am uneasy about their motives.\n\nI say to the Government and to hon. Members that they have no mandate from the people of this country to betray the people who were killed between 1914 and 1918. They have no mandate to give away this Empire.\n\n### International Situation I NOVEMBER 1938\n\nIt is too true. What is required in this country—I do not know whether we are going to get it, but it is what is required—is something in the nature of a social and economic revolution, and that quickly. Great sacrifices will have to be demanded of all classes of our people if we are to get through. Will they respond? I believe that the people of this country would respond if they got effective leadership, and courageous leadership, and if they were told the truth, which they have not been told during the last 10 years by any political party. We have all sheltered them, largely for the purpose of obtaining votes. That remark applies to both sides of the House. We have all sheltered them; we have all encouraged them not to face facts or to make efforts. Hon. Members opposite are just as much to blame as we are. This country has been encouraged to be lazy during the last 10 years by its political leaders on both sides.\n\nAt Munich, the Prime Minister paid the penalty, with great courage, of five years of indolence and ineptitude on the part of the Government of this country; and we who are always inclined to abuse the Germans and complain of their methods, might at least pay some attention to the example that Germany has set us in two things, in the sacrifice and hard work, and in the real faith and genuine sincerity, of a large proportion of the German population. Against that, we have to put scepticism, prevailing to far too great an extent, and committees. I wish we could have few less committees. They do not have committees in Germany. We set up committees by the score—committees on trade, on the evacuation of school children, on the location of industry, and all the rest of it. They meet, I suppose, once a week or once a month, and report after two or three years, and the Minister writes a little preface and signs it, and their report is circulated by Command of His Majesty to the House of Commons, and that is the end of the whole thing. We cannot compete with German methods by means of committees and White or Blue Papers circulated to this House.\n\nMr. McGovern: Will the hon. Member show me where the speech of the hon. Member for Bridgeton (Mr. Maxton) was pacifist? Surely there is a great difference when a man says, in relation to a war fought between capitalist and Imperialist rivals, \"I will not advocate support for that war\" and when he says, \"I am prepared to defend working-class standards and prepared to assist in the overthrow of capitalism.\" That is what one might term pacifism towards capitalist war, but in working-class action...\n\nI must say to my hon. Friends who sit behind me that I do not like to hear them cheering speeches made by the hon. Member for Bridgeton (Mr. Maxton). I have sat in the House for 14 years with the hon. Member for Bridgeton and I...\n\n### No. 165 revolution.\n\nMr. Boothby: All I can say is that when I hear Members of the Conservative party cheering a proposition to overthrow capitalism I am astonished, and what the hon. Member has now said has only increased my disquiet. I say that we have no mandate to give away the British Empire, to betray the people who fought for it between 1914 and 1918; and if it is not to be given away we have to make a terrific effort to rearm. I should like to conclude by quoting some words which I read on Sunday in the `Observer`, which seem to me to sum up the whole thing:\n\n\"In the existing world we have to keep close company with danger, and no leadership worthy of the name will ever allow us to forget it.\"\n\nE 2 \n74", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 563282, "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": "CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938", "page_number": 42, "title": "CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938", "content_text": "# International Situation\n\n## HOUSE OF COMMONS\n\n7.50 p.m.\n\nMr. Ede: The hon. Member for East Aberdeen (Mr. Boothby) has delivered a characteristic speech in which he has proved that everybody in the world is wrong except himself, and I could almost hope that he had had a little more time to consider some parts of his speech before he delivered them, because I think his condemnation of the speech of the hon. Member for Bridgeton (Mr. Maxton) might very well be applied to some of his own remarks. I was astonished this afternoon at the line taken by the Prime Minister on one or two matters, and in particular surprised to find that he resented the statement made by my right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition that Munich was a defeat, because I well recall that after Berchtesgaden, which we were given to understand represented something worse than Munich—[Interruption.] There were three pilgrimages to Germany, and they have been represented as a succession of victories for the Government, but my own view is that they represent a series of defeats, each greater than the one before. But after Berchtesgaden Mr. Garvin who, let us admit, did not know very much about what had happened, because nothing had been disclosed, said that the terms there demanded from the Prime Minister would have given the Germans more than 20 raging battles would have given them as regards access to Czechoslovakia, and can there be any doubt that in the eyes of the world, in the eyes of the subject races of the British Empire, and in the eyes of small nations, Godesberg and Munich were described in the American Press, the greatest diplomatic defeats that great nations have ever suffered in the history of the world?\n\nI believe that throughout this country there is the most profound misgiving as to the effect that the negotiations will have upon our prestige as a nation, and I see nothing in anything that has passed since to cause me to revise the verdict that Mr. Garvin gave. I was not surprised to see that **The Times** this morning, in commenting upon the changes made in the Government, referred to this \"Not too strong Government.\" After all, that is rather praise for them, because one of the extraordinary things that they have done is that, having reduced the number of their friends in the world, they have endeavoured to lose one of the few friends which we had left.\n\nI am very glad to see that the Noble Lord the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster is present. At Shoreham, in his constituency, he made a speech in which he referred to a country which is generally mentioned with bated breath in this House by Members opposite. When they expect to get a little out of it they are not quite sure whether they are in good company or not, but there were occasions during the three critical weeks in which we appeared likely to get into serious trouble when Russia was always quoted as one of the sources of strength to which we could look. However, when things appeared to take a turn for the better Russia was again dropped, and the Noble Lord is reported in **The Times** to have said that Russia did not offer help in the Czechoslovakian crisis but only made vague promises owing to her military weakness.\n\nMy right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition raised this point in his speech this afternoon and asked the Prime Minister whether the speech of the Noble Lord represented the views of the Government or whether he was speaking for himself. In the latter case it does not matter very much. When he is speaking to the people who return him one can understand that they will have become used to hearing very strange statements in the past, and that something a little more strange in the present only adds a little variety, and may even arouse hopes of something still more exciting in the future; but if the Noble Lord was speaking as a Member of His Majesty's Government—so important a Member that he is given one of the sinecures, so that he can be there to help with his wise advice those right hon. Gentlemen who have to discharge serious office duties—it is indeed a matter of the gravest concern that the military preparedness of a nation which was likely to have been an ally in the event of matters coming to a crisis should be referred to so lightly.\n\nThe Soviet Embassy issued a categorical statement on the subject the Noble Lord appears to be amused—detailing the steps which they alleged were taken by M. Litvinoff in relation to France and Czechoslovakia and at the League of Nations, the assurances they gave and the consultations they offered to have between their General Staff and the General Staffs of France and Czechoslovakia.\n\nIn reply to that the Noble Lord, speaking at Horsham, repeated his previous statement. I thought the only fitting reply to that way of conducting an international discussion was made by the Soviet Embassy. I hope sincerely that the President of the Board of Trade, when he replies to-night, will be able to tell us whether the speeches of the Noble Lord represent the Government's attitude towards Russia or whether they are the kind of irresponsible talk that was welcome from the Noble Lord when he sat on the back benches but ought not to be repeated now that he is one of the ornaments of the Front Bench. I rather think he holds the view which was satirised in the **News-Chronicle** during the crisis:\n\n\"Better to lose the Empire shred by shred,\nBetter by blackmail to be slowly bled,\nThan have the slightest truck with any Red,\nOr save the Empire with, as one's ally,\nSome bloke who doesn't wear the old school tie.\"\n\nI see in **The Times** this morning a letter from somebody at Mapledurham, one of the choicest resorts on the River Thames, complaining about the possible evacuation in time of war of mere proletarians into his aristocratic house, and suggesting that if there is to be an evacuation he should choose his own friends and relatives. We are now getting the aftermath of that kind of thing. A recent issue of the `Eastbourne Herald` said:\n\n\"Among the many distracting features of the recent international crisis, none caused greater consternation among a large number of Eastbourne people than the prospect of adults—30,000 refugees—children and ... from the congested areas of London being billeted upon the householders of the town. Eastbourne is a high-class residential and health resort. It is a town which a very large number of successful professional and business people have chosen as an ideal place for their retirement, in which they can spend the evening of their lives in the comparative quiet of a refined and well-ordered borough. It is also a town in which an unusually large number of children of the well-to-do are sent for their early education. Reference has already been made to the consternation caused in hundreds of Eastbourne homes occupied by elderly retired people who were rather tactlessly threatened with the prospect of having six or seven strangers billeted upon them. And it need scarcely be added that unless some steps are taken to prevent the recurrence of such a disturbing state of affairs they will assuredly leave the town and take up residence in a less favoured place.\"\n\nIf that represents the feeling of any substantial number of the people who normally support hon. Gentlemen opposite let us not have quite so much talk of the need for national unity. Such statements are disgraceful. If we had been in trouble together it would not have been the spirit of the working class that would have let this country down. In the long run it is upon the spirit of those people, in the armament factories, on the field of battle or in the home, that the maintenance of our standards will have to depend. The kind of thing that was written from Mapledurham and that, apparently, passes muster in Eastbourne, is doing the greatest possible disservice to the nation, irrespective of what party may happen to be in power.\n\nWe are now supposed to be living in peace. The Prime Minister made a great point of that. It seems to me that we have the kind of peace that reigns in a saloon in the Wild West when men sit there playing poker, each with a couple of six guns at his hips, with the knowledge that the jackpot will eventually go to the man who is quickest on the draw, unless one of his opponents happens to be able to slip an ace off the bottom of the pack without being seen. If this is peace, there have been few periods in the history of the world that ought to have been called periods of war, when we consider Spain, China and recent events in Abyssinia and Czechoslovakia. There was no victory of peace in Czechoslovakia. The threat of armed force settled the issue. Germany openly boasts that it was another bloodless victory, and, as Mr. Garvin said, without firing a shot Herr Hitler has made himself the greatest ruler in the history of the world since Charlemagne. I doubt whether history will seriously dispute that verdict.\n\nThe world being in this serious position I can imagine nothing less helpful to a solution of our difficulties than the speech which was made by the Prime Minister this evening. There was no leadership in that speech. He passed from subject to subject and we were at last left with this, that we must pin our faith on the new Lord Privy Seal. What is to happen to the Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department? I regret very much that he is not here, because I would prefer to make my remarks to his face. In the difficult circumstances of the past 12 months the hon. Gentleman has been courteous and, within the limits imposed upon him, helpful to local authorities and ...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 563283, "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": "CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938", "page_number": 43, "title": "CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938", "content_text": "# International Situation\n## HOUSE OF COMMONS\n\n[Mr. Ede.]\n\nto everyone else concerned with the business of air raid precautions. As far as the relationships of Government Departments with local authorities depend upon the personality of Ministers in charge of the services, I believe that the hon. Gentleman has built up an amount of good will and belief in his own desire to see the work well done that would have stood the Government in good stead. While it is not for me to assist the Prime Minister in the difficult task of shuffling the pack from time to time, I should have welcomed the hon. Gentleman being given some greater responsibility in the work which he has hitherto had. I hope, for the sake of continuity, that he will not be entirely withdrawn from that work. He has managed to build up relations that are of the very highest value to local authorities and, I imagine, to the Government.\n\nThe Government failed to realise the truth that was so clearly expressed by Milton when he said:\n\n\"The fidelity of enemies and allies is frail and perishing unless it be cemented by the principles of justice.\"\n\nNo one pretends that what has happened during the past month has been in any way connected with justice. My right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition rightly said that there was no triumph for law and order in dealing with this matter at Munich, or for justice. Does anyone pretend that the wretched people who have been lying between the frontiers of Poland and Germany believe that there has been any consideration of justice for them in the talks of statesmen? We have seen the triumph of the threat of force, so complete that the German rulers now do not believe that they will ever have to use force to get what they want. I share the view that was pressed by my hon. and learned Friend the Member for East Bristol (Sir S. Cripps) in the \"Tribune\" for the current week, and in no circumstances would I be a party to handing over one additional person to the terrors of Nazi rule. I believe that this country still has the duty, clearly put forward by the poet to whom I have just referred, of seeing that the oppressed and the persecuted in all quarters of the world have a friend and supporter in this country. To suggest that we ought to hand over in any part of the world even one additional person to the terrors of that rule, with its denial of the rights of knowledge, of utterance and of argument, is to suggest complete desertion of everything for which the British people have ever stood.\n\nWe are in our present plight because the Government ran away from their own election pledges. In the speech of the Prime Minister this afternoon not a word was said about the League of Nations. I see that the French Radical Socialists have decided that it is dead; I should have thought that so soon after that proclamation of its death, the Prime Minister might have provided a wreath, but there was not a single mention of the League of Nations. In the Government election pledge they said:\n\n\"The League of Nations will remain, as heretofore, the keystone of British foreign policy. We shall, therefore, continue to do all in our power to uphold the Covenant and to maintain and increase the efficiency of the League. Our attitude to the League is dictated by the conviction that collective security by collective action can alone save us from a return to the old system which resulted in the Great War.\"\n\nIt is not as though the Government have sinned in ignorance. Having so clearly proclaimed what was the only possible policy for this country, they have deliberately turned their back upon it and have spent three years in deserting the principles which they have placed before the electors. To-morrow we are to be faced with another of the surrenders which have made the history of the past three years the most lamentable and deplorable in the whole history of the British people. There is nothing to compare with it, except the few years of the personal reign of King George III, and, after all, he only lost things that belonged to this nation. We have sheltered ourselves by giving away the liberty, the integrity and the hopes of democracies other than our own.\n\nI sincerely hope that the time is not far distant when this Government, proclaimed this morning by the \"Times\" as not too strong, will be replaced by a Government that will enable this country to return to the principles on which the Government secured their election. My hon. Friends and myself on this side of this House had great difficulty at the last election in persuading people that we really stood for the League of Nations. I was questioned many times as to whether I could stand for the League of Nations when the Government had proclaimed their faith in it. I suggested then that the proclamation of the Government's faith was a great deal louder than the support which they would give to the League once they had secured election, and I turned out to be a true prophet. We have to get back to the belief that this country, as the leading democracy in the world, owes to the world leadership in the paths of peace, even at the cost of sacrifice, to maintain law and order. Wherever I go in the country I find increasing realisation of the extent to which our prestige has been lowered and our opportunity for good destroyed by the actions which had, not their last but merely their latest, exemplification in the terrible surrender at Munich.\n\nYet, as was so rightly said by the hon. Member for East Aberdeen, the Prime Minister was in a position in which he ought never to have been placed. The pilots who bring vessels into the Tyne live in my constituency, and a story is told about one of them in the early days of the War. He was asked by a wealthy American to bring a yacht into the Tyne, but when the American saw the somewhat rough and rude-looking man who came on board he was rather perturbed at trusting the vessel to him. The American took him down into the chart room and conducted an examination regarding all the reefs and shoals that make the navigation of the mouth of the Tyne difficult. He asked the old pilot whether he knew, one after the other, where they were, and on each occasion the man said \"No.\" Greatly alarmed, the yacht owner turned to him and said: \"What do you know?\" \"Well,\" said the pilot, \"I know where the deep water is, and that's where I want to be.\" The Government know where the deep water is and they have known it all these last three years after their election address, and that is where they have consistently refused to be. The condemnation of them is not that they erred because forces were too great for them, but because, knowing the right, they deliberately chose the wrong.\n\n8.15 p.m.\n\nBrigadier-General Spears: I should like at once to say how much there was in the speech of the hon. Member for South Shields (Mr. Ede) with which I agreed, but on no point did I agree with him more than when he said that he would refuse to hand over a single British subject to Nazi rule.\n\nMr. Ede: I said that I would not be a party to handing over any human being in the world to Nazi rule.\n\n## International Situation\n### 1 NOVEMBER 1938\n\nBrigadier-General Spears: It may be that there are other people whom it would not be in our power to save from being handed over to Nazi rule, but it certainly is within our power to prevent the handing over of British subjects to Nazi rule, and I think that that might well be taken as one of our standards, something on which we could make a stand such as was demanded by the hon. Member. After all, we shall have to make a stand somewhere. It seems to me that, if we give away this and give away that, each time leaving ourselves a little weaker, we may at last find ourselves with nothing to give away but our own liberty. It seems to me that we can make a stand on that point, and that it is a stand to which the whole British Empire would respond.\n\nThere are one or two points that were taken up by the Prime Minister in his speech to which I should like to refer. He spoke of the census upon which had been based the partition of Czechoslovakia. The Leader of the Opposition, in his speech, had complained of the fact that the census upon which this partition has been based was that of 1910. On that point I am entirely at one with the Leader of the Opposition. I can see no justification whatsoever for having given way to the Germans on that point, and it is an extremely important point, because the wretched country of Czechoslovakia has been torn to pieces on the basis of this 1910 census. I think it has already been mentioned in this Debate that in the 1910 census, when those lands were under Austria, the basis was what was called the language of intercourse, that is to say, the common language spoken by people when communicating with one another. But in the house of an Austrian official the Czech servants would be counted as Germans, because they spoke German as the language of intercourse, and, of course, the Austrian officials were counted as Germans. Moreover, the Jews were counted as Germans in 1910, and are so counted by the Germans to-day, though we know what they do with them once they have served their purpose.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 563284, "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": "CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938", "page_number": 44, "title": "CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938", "content_text": "# International Situation HOUSE OF COMMONS [Brigadier-General Spears.]\n\nThe Prime Minister said that the Berlin Commission were attempting to get at the conditions of 1918, and there was no census in 1918, so they went back to 1910. But why not have taken 1920, when there was a census of population? Why is there this constant weighting down of the scales against these wretched people? It is said that in later years the Czechs planted a good many of their people in the Sudetenland; it was called \"Czechisation.\" That would have been effective by the time the 1930 census was taken, but it certainly was not effective in the 1920 census. If you are going into that sort of thing, you ought to go back to the Thirty Years War, when the Sudetens first came into that country, planted there by Germany.\n\nThe Prime Minister, and I think the Leader of the Opposition also, dealt with the question of opting. That is a very important question. The Prime Minister reminded the House that there was a German-Czech Commission whose duty it would be to settle who could opt, and the indication was that the 580,000 Czechs left in the Sudetenland—I think that that is an under-estimate by at least 100,000—could opt to go into Czechoslovakia. But I beg the House to ask themselves for a moment how is it possible for 580,000 people to opt to go into this small country which has been deprived of 40 per cent. of its industry? How can skilled workers, who have worked all their lives in the industries of the Sudetenland, go and find a living in the small, diminished, largely agricultural country which Czechoslovakia is now going to be? I think it is absolutely absurd.\n\nThen the Prime Minister spoke of the readjustments that were taking place in the frontiers of Czechoslovakia. That sounded as though the readjustment of the frontiers laid down in 1919 was something that was easy to do, but what is actually being done is, as we all know, that the wretched Czechoslovakia, deprived of all defence, is simply handing over what she is told to hand over. We cannot get away from that. And I must say I feel a little humiliated when I think that, when Hungary makes a new claim on Czechoslovakia, she does not appeal to us or to France, but turns to arbitration by Germany.\n\nThe Prime Minister, speaking of Munich and the criticisms that have been levelled at the Munich settlement, asked what was the alternative? To what was Munich the alternative? We are told that Munich was the alternative to Godesberg, and that it was a good and favourable alternative as compared with Godesberg. It is quite clear, however, that from the Czech point of view Munich is worse than Godesberg was, and Godesberg was stated by the Prime Minister at the time to be unacceptable. May I quote from the Prime Minister's speech on 3rd October last? Speaking of Munich he said: \"The line up to which German troops will enter into occupation is no longer the line as laid down in the map which was attached to the Godesberg Memorandum.\"—`[OFFICIAL REPORT, 3rd October, 1938; col. 43. Vol. 339.]`\n\nBut in fact the land occupied by the German troops to-day includes more purely Czech areas than were included in the Godesberg map.\n\nThere is another point that has not been referred to, I think, in the Debate. Under the Munich plan the Berlin Commission has allocated to Germany an area on the South bank of the Danube, opposite Bratislava, which was never on the Godesberg map at all. It was never Sudetenland. Before the War it was part of the Kingdom of Hungary. That, to my mind, shows what a puppet body that Berlin Commission turned out to be. If the frontier laid down by the Berlin Commission is made permanent, according to my information, over 700,000 Czechs will be included in the German Reich, of whom 270,000 are in compact Czech districts in Moravia and Silesia containing only 30,000 Sudeten Germans. There was an assurance given by the Prime Minister in his speech on 28th September that Hitler had stated at Berchtesgaden and repeated at Godesberg that he had no wish to include in the Reich people of other races than German. Will the Prime Minister make representations to Herr Hitler to obtain a rectification in the sense of Herr Hitler's declarations to him, in which the Prime Minister assured the House he believed him to be sincere?\n\nI would also ask him to make representations under Clause 6 of the Munich Agreement in order to rectify economic injustices. For instance, the water supply of the town of Brno, the capital of Moravia, is just inside the new German frontier, and a very small rectification of the frontier would put this right. Again, in many instances districts with large Czech majorities have been taken by Germany apparently simply to allow the frontier to cut Czech main railway lines in a number of places. There is another point—it may be said to be a small one, but my attention has been drawn to it. There is a kind of island which includes the estates which belong to Count Cinsky, a rich and powerful gentleman with Nazi tendencies. It seems a permissible surmise that that gentleman hoped by returning to Germany to get back the land which was divided by the Czechs under their Agrarian laws.\n\nThe Count has many friends in high places in many countries.\n\nI, personally, am particularly ashamed of the way the Berlin Commission has failed so completely to secure a minimum of justice for the Czechs. It has, in fact, proved to be a more effective means of meeting unjust claims than Godesberg itself. I will give one or two examples. There is the town of Policka. It has 6,000 Czech inhabitants and 149 Germans. It has gone to Germany. The town of Breclav has 13,500 Czechs and 1,500 Germans. It has gone to Germany. But this is the record. The town of Hodslavice, with 1,900 Czechs and one German, has gone to Germany. That German cannot claim that he is going to reproduce his kind one day to form a German settlement, because there is only one of him. But this town is of industrial importance. Here is another town, Kopravnice. It has 4,000 Czech inhabitants and only 600 Germans, but it includes the Tatra automobile and aeroplane works. All hon. Members remember what Czechoslovakia looked like—a long country with rather a thin waist. The Germans have been at pains to narrow that waist still further by taking over large territories with purely Czech majorities. They have made that waist still smaller so that they can separate Bohemia and Slovakia whenever they choose.\n\nI am sorry to say this, but it is evident that the British representative on the Berlin Commission has been singularly unsuccessful in preventing Czechoslovakia from being carved up. If he protested at it, no rumour of that has reached the outside world. [Interruption.] I am very glad to hear it. We all know what M. Daladier, the Prime Minister of France, said on the subject. [Interruption.] I would prefer not to say what...\n\n## 1 NOVEMBER 1938\n\nThere is one point, which may seem a very small one, but which I think is important. It is now reported in the Press that the rolling stock, locomotives, etc., of Sudetenland which have been removed by the Czechs should, it is now claimed by the Germans, be paid for or returned.\n\nThis is an important point, one of the few points we can deal with in the House, because it is in contravention of the assurances of the Prime Minister that, in the view of the Government, installations which might be removed should include rolling stock. I think we are entitled to hear something on that point. I have never seen the least reference in the Press, incidentally, to the Germans either offering or being asked to pay for anything they have taken.\n\nI listened to the Prime Minister's speech with a good deal of sadness. There seems to be a fundamental difference of opinion between him and some hon. Members on this side of the House. His speech was one call to trust Hitler. I cannot trust him, and I do not think the people of this country trust him either. I wish I could share the Prime Minister's optimism, but the whole burden of the remarks I have made merely tend to prove that certain undertakings were given by Herr Hitler to the Prime Minister at Berchtesgaden and Munich, and that every one of them has been broken. Every one has been broken, so that really, though there may have been something to be said at first, I find it entirely impossible as a reasonable man to trust Hitler to-day.\n\nThe question of armaments has been touched upon already. Our one excuse for what happened was that we were terribly weak. The hon. Member for East Aberdeen (Mr. Boothby) said that this House was blameless in this sense, that it had never refused supplies for arms, and that is true. Last March we were, in fact, given to understand by the...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 563285, "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": "CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938", "page_number": 45, "title": "CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938", "content_text": "# International Situation\n## HOUSE OF COMMONS\n### International Situation\n\n[Brigadier-General Spears.] Prime Minister that our armaments were growing in such a measure that, in his own words—and they are the words he used to-day—they were sufficient to support our diplomacy. It seems to me that in view of the deficiencies revealed last month this House would be failing in its duty if it did not institute an inquiry into what has been happening in armaments. I look upon this as a very serious matter. I have told my constituents that I am going to do my best to obtain such an inquiry, and I think that the House of Commons would be failing in its duty if it did not do so.\n\nMy last plea to the Government would be this, and it has been echoed in many quarters this afternoon. Great efforts are to be asked of the country. It seems to be impossible to ask those efforts of the country unless, at the head of affairs in the Government, all parties are represented. I hope that, as soon as possible, steps will be taken to enlarge the Government as a first step for dealing with that international effort which we know is absolutely essential for our safety.\n\n[Sir Robert Tasker: May I ask my hon. and gallant Friend what he meant by saying, \"the unjust claims of Hungary\"? Is he not aware that 62,000 square kilometres were taken from Hungary and given to the Czechs?]\n\nBrigadier-General Spears: I am fully aware of the position in Hungary. I know that some of the demands by Hungary are justified, whereas some others are not justified, but I do not think that it is fair to the House at this time to start a long controversy on matters of detail.\n\n8.39 p.m.\n\nMr. Lewis: It may be that a few very well-informed people were aware of what was going to happen in the closing days of September, but certainly, as far as the general public were concerned, the realisation that we stood on the brink of war came as a very profound shock. Not unnaturally, once the crisis was passed, the first feeling, I think, of most ordinary people was one of great relief that there was to be no war after all, and of great thankfulness to the man who was most responsible for the peace being kept—the British Prime Minister. Then, in a little while, all over the country, people began to ask themselves and ask each other what steps could be taken here in this country by ourselves to ensure that some similar crisis should not arise again. I believe that that question is being asked with increasing insistence all over the country.\n\nWe in this House last month spent four days principally debating that very question, and I think that those of us who heard most of the speeches will agree that during those four days there were really only three alternatives that were put before us as a means of the prevention of some similar crisis in the future.\n\nThe first was the suggestion that we should rely upon the League of Nations. However bitter the disappointment may be to those of us who, like myself, thought that the League of Nations was one of the very few good things that came out of the last War, nothing is to be gained by hiding from ourselves the fact that at the present time, as far as security is concerned, all that the League can offer to its members is a form of collective insecurity. I really cannot see how more, in present circumstances, can be expected, with four out of the seven great Powers in the world not members of the League. Therefore, however good a case is made out—and a very good case can be made out—for endeavouring to strengthen the League in future, or endeavouring in the meantime to get for the world such benefit as we can from the League, even with its limited membership, it is really hiding our heads in the sand to suppose that we can prevent the occurrence of other crises like the one at the end of September by relying for security upon the League of Nations.\n\nThe second alternative that was put forward was that we should rely upon armaments, our own armaments and the armaments of such other countries as we could bind to ourselves in alliances or some friendly understanding. There again there must be very few in this House who would not to-day say that it is not obviously and urgently necessary that we should strengthen our armaments. I use the term armaments in the widest sense, for just as a modern warship requires armourplate as well as big guns, so a modern State requires refuge against attack from the air as well as aeroplanes. In that wide sense, including air-raid precautions, there must be hardly any in this House who would deny the urgency of the need for the extension of our armament. I cannot for the life of me regard armament, however strong, for this country, as being more than a palliative. I cannot see how it can ever be a cure for the disturbed state of Europe out of which the risk of another similar crisis arises. Moreover, we must pay some regard to the terrible burden of rearmament on the scale that is envisaged to-day. A worldwide race in armaments on the modern scale would be, in its effect, so terrible as to be only a less evil than war itself. Therefore, while I regard it as abundantly plain that now, immediately, whether we like it or not, we must endeavour to strengthen ourselves in the face of possible foes, we would be most unwise to regard that increase in our armaments as being a possible cure for the troubles of Europe and a protection for ourselves from a situation such as that in which we found ourselves in September.\n\nIt seems to me that the other alternative which has been suggested, and which was referred to by the Prime Minister to-day, is the only one that really holds out any hope of, shall I say, complete immunity from crises such as that of last September. It is that we should succeed again in establishing really friendly relations between this country and those other great Powers in the world with whom we are now at variance. I know that for many reasons that is a course which is exceedingly distasteful to many hon. Members in this House. For my own part I can see no other alternative between that and war, and war in the not very far distant future. It may be asked, how can we do it? How can we improve relations between ourselves and, most important of all, Germany? I suggest that it can be done only if we are really willing to live and let live.\n\nTake, for example, the very vital question of trade. If we are to have a peaceful and contented Germany with whom it is possible to hope for stable and peaceful relations, it must be possible for Germany to trade abroad. Whatever benefits we may have gained from the introduction of Protection in this country and Imperial preference in the Empire, we must realise that these things have not made it easier for countries like Germany to trade abroad. They have restricted their trade to about one quarter of the world. We have been told recently, in connection with events in Czechoslovakia, that Germany has now much greater opportunity of trading in Central and Eastern Europe, and we are told what a dangerous thing it is. It seems to me that, far from being alarmed or angry, we ought to be very glad. We ought to welcome any opportunity for Germany to extend her trade abroad and to become prosperous.\n\nThe question of colonies, which has been touched upon to-day, should be approached in the same spirit. I cannot help having a certain sympathy with the idea expressed by the hon. Member for South Shields (Mr. Ede) and, in a more restricted form, by the last speaker. I know that it is distasteful to cause someone else to pass under a government under which we would not care to live ourselves, but we are dealing with a very great issue—peace not only for this country but probably for the greater part of Europe and possibly for many other parts of the world. We must face the unpleasant necessity of being active partners in transferring other people to a government we none of us like. I cannot see how we can hope to establish really friendly relations with Germany unless we are prepared to give up the equivalent of what we took from them at the end of the last War. I would remind hon. Members that we did not want the added territory; we did not go to war for it. It was there at the end of the War. Why did we take it? Principally to punish Germany. There might be some disadvantage in handing back precisely the same territory that was then taken. It is very likely that in negotiation with Germany she might prefer to have other territories elsewhere, possibly collected in one area rather than scattered about. We should make an offer in some such terms to Germany, and make it now. If we do not do that, I cannot see how we can hope to re-establish really friendly relations with the Germans.\n\nIf we are to grudge the Germans every trade advantage they can get, if we are to be jealous of them and obstructive of them in their external trade, then we shall most certainly bring the calamity of war upon ourselves. If I might sum up, it would be in this way: The best hope for the future peace of the world lies in the horror and destructiveness of modern warfare. That makes even the strongest nations pause. But desperate men can be driven to desperate courses, and as it is with individuals so it is with nations. Therefore, I would say to the House...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 563286, "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": "CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938", "page_number": 46, "title": "CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938", "content_text": "# International Situation\n## HOUSE OF COMMONS\n\n[Mr. Lewis.] to-night that in my opinion, for whatever it may be worth, the real key to the peace of Europe is a prosperous Germany.\n\n8.53 p.m.\n\nMr. McGovern: I cannot help feeling, in relation to this Debate, which is a continuation of the previous one of a few weeks ago, that it reminds me of a settlement in relation to an industrial dispute. During the period of a strike which has gone on for a long period men become financially exhausted and those within the home and the industry are keen on some form of settlement, until the position reaches a stage when almost any settlement would be welcome in order that people might get the economic means to purchase the necessities of life. In these circumstances the leader of the men finds himself in a position where he has not only to bargain but almost to accept the dictation of the employing class.\n\nWhen he has concluded a settlement which everybody is glad to have, an inquest begins and the workers discover, after the strike has been brought to an end, that they could have made a much better settlement. They then condemn the leader and for a period he is subject to attack because of the settlement which everybody had welcomed.\n\nIn relation to the peace which was made at Munich, I should like to say that I never consider that any peace is a perfect, satisfactory peace, and I never consider that any war is a justifiable war, because I have come to the conclusion that within the realms of capitalism war is a product of rivalry between groups. In the situation that developed a few weeks ago, when war seemed imminent, people said to me at meetings and in different parts of the country that if we had stood up to Hitler he would have succumbed. I am quite prepared, as I have always been, to reason that out. I believe that war would have taken place. If Hitler did not cower before the threat but shook his fist in return and said that he was going to invade Czechoslovakia come what may, then I want to know what the situation would have been. Were we to gamble with the lives of millions of human beings, were we to throw them into the struggle? I put that question to a Member of this House when he said that our attitude to this question was wrong. I asked him whether in those circumstances he was prepared to join up and help to push Hitler's armies out of Czechoslovakia. He said: \"You are asking me a very pertinent question. I have views that a public representative ought to be immune from service of that kind.\" He was a member of the Labour party. I said, \"It is a new philosophy to me that we have to order men on the means test, in the mines and factories to go on to the battlefield and sacrifice their lives in a struggle of our making.\"\n\nThe Prime Minister was faced with a situation fraught with the possibility of grave disaster. I believe that war would have taken place, and, further, I believe that France and Great Britain would have been defeated in that war. Hitler has so mobilised his forces in Germany in the way of labour service, strength through joy, labour camps and military service, that he can put into the field 9,000,000 to 10,000,000 men. From the evidence I heard on the Continent I believe that he has at least 8,000 front-line bombers with a 20,000 striking force, and if war had taken place we should not have been debating this Agreement except under the threat and terror of bombing raids conducted by hundreds of aeroplanes. That war would have been one of the greatest terrors that mankind has ever known. It would have been conducted with the utmost terrorism in every way in order to bring the population to plead for an end of the war. The Prime Minister knew this. Whatever may be my views, I say frankly that the Prime Minister knew that the planes were not in this country; he knew that we were not prepared for war. He knew that the arms and guns to conduct that war were not there. He was faced with the possibility of losing his Empire, the Empire of the ruling classes. Therefore, because of these three reasons, first the unpreparedness of the country to meet an attack, secondly the danger of the loss of the Empire, and, thirdly, the terrifying prospect of war itself, he concluded an agreement with Hitler.\n\nI have all the antagonism which any man can have who believes in being allowed to use his mind in an intelligent way and who sees all the cultural, intellectual and spiritual desires of the people of Germany put into cold storage and subordinated to the will of the Fuhrer. I object to Hitler and to the rule of Hitler, but the Peace Treaties which were forced upon a Germany on her knees at the end of the last War were unjust and imposed in the same way as Germany has imposed her will on Czechoslovakia within the last few weeks. It has been argued on almost every Labour platform in this country that the Peace Treaties were wrong and that modifications should have taken place. It has been said that hundreds and thousands of Sudeten Germans who were in Czechoslovakia ought never to have been incorporated in the mixture of a State which was set up. The only argument to-day against a modification and rectification of boundaries is that Hitler is in power, not that it is unjust to hand over certain tracts of land to Germany, but that Hitler being a dictator, being brutal and not allowing freedom of thought or expression of opinion, we should prevent his getting any modification of boundaries.\n\nThat is the attitude which created Hitler. It is the attitude which refused to modify and rectify the wrongs of the Peace Treaties. It is the attitude which refused the hand of friendship when Germany was pleading for a reconsideration of the Peace Treaties. It is the attitude which said that we must keep our feet on the neck of the German people; they must stand and deliver coal and war reparations, and must endure the Peace Treaties which they were terrorised into agreeing with in 1918. Therefore we come to a situation in which we ask ourselves this question: Are we going to war with Germany to smash Germany as is in the minds of a large number of people? A man, a Communist, said to me, in the City Hall, Glasgow, about a week ago, \"Why should we not have gone to war with Germany so that there might be a hope of the Jews and Socialists and Communists emancipating themselves from the rule of Hitler by world revolution?\" I said, \"We have it nakedly now,\" although it has been kept in the background throughout the campaign to stand by Czechoslovakia. \"For ulterior motives we must gamble with the lives of 20,000,000 workers. The philosophy to-day is that in order to free German workers we must murder German workers.\"\n\nAre we going to gamble with the lives of the people? An hon. Member has referred to the aid of Russia. If Russia is able to give such tremendous aid why is she not defeating Japan? Why is she not defeating Franco? Is the struggle in Spain less a working-class struggle than the struggle of Czechoslovakia against Germany? I am not prepared to gamble with the lives of 2,000,000, 3,000,000 or even 5,000,000 of the working classes. There are men on these benches who came into political power because of their denunciation of war. They were conscientious objectors. Although I never having been a pacifist, I have the greatest admiration for every man who is a pacifist and who refuses to kill human beings at the behest of the employing class. To-day, these men are enunciating a doctrine and philosophy that clamours for war and makes them a warmongering party in this country. It is a shocking state of affairs when Labour men tell me that if there were a General Election they would vote for the Tories rather than for the Labour party, because the Labour party would have led us into war.\n\nThat is a shocking state of affairs for the working-class movement to get into.\n\nHon. Members opposite professed to have faith in the League of Nations, but when the League was broken they passed it on to the Labour party, and left them with it. After they had got the country into a mess, the Conservatives began to say, \"They are the people who want war; we are the people who want peace.\" The Government did not go to war, but I am under no delusions. They hand over Czechoslovakia. In fact, one hon. Member suggested that we should give Germany, not the colonies which she wants, but some composite tract of land, and one hon. Member near me said, \"Give her France.\" That is the outlook of the ruling class of this country. They would sell their grandmothers. They will give away everybody else's property, but they will not give away their own. If it comes to a showdown, if Hitler comes to a final stand and in his aggression says, \"Deliver part of your own territory,\" the dogs of war will be out, and the peace party of to-day will be the war party in defence of their own investments in India, Africa, and elsewhere.\n\nI am told that a blush of shame comes to the cheeks because of the way poor little Czechoslovakia was surrendered. A blush of shame comes to my cheeks when I know that Indians are plundered by the people of this country...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 563287, "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": "CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938", "page_number": 47, "title": "CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938", "content_text": "# International Situation\n## HOUSE OF COMMONS\n\n[Mr. McGovern.]\n\nThe people of Trinidad have been subjected to shocking treatment and exploitation, living lives not fit for the brute beasts of the field, in order to give certain prominent Scotsmen, the Duke of Montrose and others, fabulous profits at the expense of the poor. A blush of shame comes to my cheeks when I am told that I belong to a nation that denies democracy to the people of Newfoundland and puts a small agricultural and fishing community under the heel of four or five financial dictators because the interest was not forthcoming to the Park Lane parasites. Somebody said that certain rich people in Germany and in this country have Fascist tendencies. All rich men have Fascist tendencies. They are prepared to tolerate democracy as long as their interest is paid regularly, but if their interest, their profit or their rent is menaced, then democracy is an illusion and has to be smashed in order to protect that which is dear to their hearts.\n\nWe are told that we must prepare for war. I say to certain Members of the House, not in an unfriendly way, that if they believe in an Empire and are prepared to defend it, the way to defend it is to get guns, to get planes, to get the men. It means embracing conscription and doing away with working-class rights. If I believed that it was in defence of the nation and our freedom, I would be prepared even to hand away my individual liberty, because anything would be justified for that end. I come now to the crux of the situation—the struggle between two sections, Hitler and Mussolini, and France and Great Britain. One hon. Member said that he would not hand away any colonial territory to Hitler. Some hon. Members talked about democracy and plebiscites for Sudeten Germans.\n\nDo they believe in extending that democracy to India? You could not hold India if you applied to it the self-determination of Munich. You could not hold Africa if you allowed the natives to determine whether they would be in or out of the Empire. These glib phrases about democracy are easily used when they suit the purpose of those who use them.\n\nIn the struggle between these two sections, we are told that we must put up a fight for democracy. I believe in peace, but I would put up a fight for democracy. There are people in Germany who, if they had a decent opportunity, would put up a fight for it in Germany, just as there are people who would do so in Trinidad and India. I have met some of those people in Germany. They are no lovers of Hitler. During the time I was in Germany and in Vienna, there had been two strikes at factories two weeks previously. At every street corner in a working-class area, there was chalked up this inscription: \"Nazis, remember that Socialists are still here.\" The Nazi reply was put under it: \"Socialists, where are you?\" Two days elapsed, and then again there were inscriptions: \"Nazis, the Socialists are just under you.\" That is the spirit which still lives there, and that is the spirit which animates the working classes all over the world.\n\nI am told that there are good rulers and bad rulers. That is a new philosophy to me. I believe there are only bad rulers. It is a question of the degree of the crisis under capitalism. If the workers here were surging in the streets, if there were an economic crisis and it threw up a real Socialist opposition of almost equal numbers to the Government of this country, the ruling classes would say \"Democracy is ended.\" They would say that because democracy would be about to begin, and a working-class democracy would be coming in. Then the guns, batons, bombs, and tear gas that are always in the background would be brought out in the struggle, as in Spain, to suppress the workers in the street. I can imagine the hon. Gentleman at the Box going out and saying, \"We are now engaged in a fight for Christianity in this country—a new name for rent, profit, and interest.\" The struggle would be on that. The ruling class gives rein to the workers when capitalism is working smoothly. It allows the rein to hang loosely; it can extend the amount of freedom; but when a crisis comes, the rein is tightened, the individual feels the bit in his mouth, the rein is shortened. That is the beginning of the end of the struggle. There is no difference between Hitler and the rulers of this country.\n\nIf I believed in capitalism, I would favour the Hitler method. It is the more efficient form of capitalism. But Hitler restricts profits to 6 per cent. in industries in Germany. A.R.P. people there do not get the chance of running up sandbags at ten times the cost. They are not allowed to play fast and loose. The hon. Member for East Aberdeen (Mr. Boothby) condemns Hitler's method but, in my estimation, he approves of the Hitler method and, without having the courage to say so, is suggesting that we must adopt the Hitler method in order to fight it. I can conceive of a great struggle for democracy. I can imagine going into such a struggle and within one week finding ourselves under a military dictatorship organised against Hitler. If I believed in capitalism, I would believe in organising this State to the last man and woman in defence of capitalism and the Empire. The Fred Karno method is not going to carry you through in the next struggle. I have heard it said, \"We do not dream of putting millions of men into the field.\" Whose men do you intend to use? Are you going to use the French soldiers? Are you going to use the blacks of Africa and the Gurkhas of India?\n\nWe are for using the working class to enforce peace and not to fight in a war. Because we advocate that, when the Prime Minister makes peace, when the Prime Minister does exactly what we wanted done, though he acted from different motives from ours, nevertheless, we welcome the fact that peace has been secured. It gives the working class a breathing space, in which they may try to profit by the experience of the past. We do not want to indulge in mock heroics about going out into the streets to overthrow the system. We say to the ruling class of this country that our method is the method of getting the people of the country converted to the necessity for change. If we get a mandate, in co-operation with others, to effect that change, and if the ruling class do what they did in Franco Spain and say, \"You shall not have that change,\" then the struggle will be forced upon us, and we have democrats who are prepared to see democracy carried to its logical conclusion, when the people themselves are prepared to do it.\n\nTherefore, it is not a question of pacifism. It is, if you like, a refusal to serve in a capitalist war, but in the last extremity, there are people who are prepared to serve in the working-class struggle for power, if it is backed by the will of the people of this country. I say frankly that if a fight for Czechoslovakia would have been right, then the fight for Belgium was right. It would have been the same struggle. That was a struggle... \"Down with the Kaiser.\" That was the excuse. It was a struggle to smash German militarism. It was a struggle for small nations. We opposed it, and a large number of people in the Labour Party opposed it.\n\nWhat do we find to-day? When I came over from Germany, I stood in Whitehall and I heard a shout of \"Stand by Czechoslovakia.\" I am always sorry to see any form of brutality against any section of the working classes, but when you say \"Stand by Czechoslovakia,\" what does it mean? If there had been war over Czechoslovakia, there would have been no Czechoslovakia to-day. It would have been overrun. The Czechs would have been murdered. Even if those who shouted \"Stand by Czechoslovakia\" had been willing to join the British Army, there would have been no Czechs left by the time they had been trained.\n\nI saw the other day a statement by the Minister of Health, and he has danced a lot since, in trying to explain it away, about armaments and social services, but he will never convince me that the question of curtailing housing and health and pensions and other social services was not discussed in the Government. You have a situation to-day in which capitalism has robbed the worker of the wealth which he produced, and the capitalists, not being able to use that wealth for their own personal needs, have invested it in India and Africa, and Hitler says, \"I am for a share in this swag and this exploitation.\" Then the capitalists say to the man whom they have robbed, whose unpaid wages they have invested, \"We will take your son who is on the means test and throw him out on to the Continent to give his blood and his life in order to defend the loot which we have stolen from his father and his grandfather.\" Further, in order to conduct this struggle, we will take your old age pension or part of it to finance the struggle in defence of our bondholding interests.\" That is the stage which we have reached. Well, I am not in that struggle.\n\nThe hon. Member for East Aberdeen talked about the pacifist speech made by my hon. Friend the Member for Bridgeton (Mr. Maxton). I interrupted at the time and tried to explain. That was not a pacifist speech. We want peace and we are prepared to ask the working class...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 563288, "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": "CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938", "page_number": 48, "title": "CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938", "content_text": "# International Situation\n\n## HOUSE OF COMMONS International Situation\n\n[Mr. McGovern.] have been seeing us off at Victoria Station and carrying on the struggle on the home front. No. I am not gambling in that kind of struggle either for world revolution or for the chance of smashing Germany because behind all this there is the feeling of a large number of people who say, \"That is the opportunity. Go out and smash Germany.\" This is the spirit which has continually led the working class into disaster. It is the spirit of revenge and hostility.\n\nI have been told, even by people in Germany, that the only way to get Hitler to modify his policy is to try every means of bringing him within the ambit of the civilised Powers of the world, to bring him into touch and relationship with the other nations. I asked Jews in Germany whether, if war came, they would not welcome it as a chance of getting out of the hideous nightmare in which they lived, and they said, \"No, if war comes we will be the first victims. Every disaster will be blamed on us and before the war has gone on for very long, between beatings and shootings and imprisonments we will suffer even more than we do now.\" I say that Hitler, with all his intolerance of mind, has the ruling class grouped around him. You have Fascism in Germany under Hitler, but the Indian worker is under British Fascism. The worker in Trinidad and the worker in Newfoundland are under the dictatorship of the money-bags of London.\n\nThat is the same financial dictatorship and the same ruthless brutality that has existed in the past against the people in the British Empire, and I am not prepared to fight for that Empire and I am not prepared to defend that Empire. If Montagu Norman or the Duke of Sutherland or the Marquis of Bute want to defend their possessions, let them get on their kilts and get out their guns and go out to the front. I am not going to defend them. I want to take possession of this country. I want to free the working class, and the German people are the people who have to free themselves from Hitler. It is not to be done by the people of this country. We have our own job.\n\nI heard a man the other day - it almost made me sick - who came to me with a means test case. He had £1 7s. a week and had a house to keep. He was a widower and he could not even get clothes. He was almost down on his uppers, but after we had discussed his case for a while he asked me, \"What about these poor Czechs?\" Here was a man reduced to the lowest standard of poverty and he was thinking in terms of somebody who was, he thought, worse off than himself. That is the humane spirit of the worker, but it does not affect the ruling classes. You would expect to use a man on the means test, driven out of his father's home, without an income, to defend your gold mines in South Africa. If he was an intelligent man, he would say to you, \"Defend your own gold mines.\" That is my attitude.\n\nI welcome peace because it gives us a breathing space, but you are coming up against one of the most difficult problems that you ever imagined. I can find nothing inconsistent in the Prime Minister saying, \"We will negotiate with Hitler, but at the same time we are preparing for armament so that, if the hand with the glove on is not effective, there is always the mailed fist in reserve.\" That is the policy of capitalism, and it is consistent. We shall not encourage that struggle, but we hope it will present an opportunity to end the nightmare of war by ushering in a humane and civilised system.\n\nIf we could muster in this country an anti-war working class who would refuse to subscribe to the policy of war and who would be prepared to attack the Government hip and thigh, they could be driven out of office in six months. The strength is not the strength of their own position but the weakness of the opposition. They have manoeuvred the working-class movement into the position of being a war party. I welcome the peace, but you are drifting towards a more dangerous period when you will not be able to hand away the property of your friends but will be asked to stand and deliver some of the goods that you own, and then will come a terrific howl from the hon. Baronet the Member for Bournemouth (Sir H. Croft), the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Epping (Mr. Churchill) and others.\n\nIn that struggle, we say to the German and Austrian workers and to the workers of the world, \"Try to develop, even by illegal and underground methods, a working-class movement, a discontent, an intelligence which will rise in revolt against the Hitlers and the Montagu Normans and overthrow their systems and collectively own and control the raw materials and the means of life and distribute them according to the service given by the workers in a community which will communally produce and distribute the goods of life, and when you have rid the world of the economic causes of war you will have ushered in the foundations of lasting peace and a decent order of society.\"\n\n9.29 p.m.\n\nMr. W. Astor: I have listened to speeches on the other side of the House with considerable disagreement, but there was one remark by the hon. Member for South Shields (Mr. Ede) with which I should like to associate myself, and that was his criticism of the people of Eastbourne and Mapledurham who did not like the possibility of working-class people being evacuated from London to their vicinity. That attitude causes as much indignation on this side as it does on his, but it would be unfair to assume that that in any way represents opinion in the areas to which these people were to be sent. One must, while deprecating the manifestations the hon. Member mentioned, pay a tribute to the immense number of people all over the country who cheerfully and willingly prepared themselves for the reception of the children and women of London.\n\nI intervene because I have just returned from a fortnight in the ceded territory in Czechoslovakia and the former Austria. It is impossible to go to the ceded territory of Sudetenland without forming the conclusion that, while many Germans would have preferred autonomy within Czechoslovakia, they all preferred the Anschluss with Germany to remaining within Czechoslovakia in the state they were in before. One might almost compare the atmosphere in Sudetenland at the moment with that of the Jubilee here. There were flags and decorations and cheers for the German troops whenever they appeared, even many days afterwards.\n\nWe are asked what is the difference between Godesberg and Munich, but it has been forgotten that the Godesberg proposals not only contained a suggested boundary line for immediate occupation but also a further plebiscite area. By the work of the International Commission, this plebiscite, which might have taken further areas out of Czechoslovakia, was abandoned, and the result is far more favourable than if you had the Godesberg line plus the plebiscite.\n\nMr. Riley: The Munich proposals provided for a plebiscite if the Commission thought fit.\n\nMr. Astor: I am quite aware of that, but the Czech and German Governments are pleased to have reached a line without having the inevitable disturbance that this plebiscite would have involved. Both Czech and German armies have behaved with the most admirable restraint and moderation. One must pay a tribute to both for the manner in which this cession has taken place. There is immense relief in the Sudeten areas. The Germans had real fear of what might happen at any moment. They were disarmed, and many of the Czechs - not only the regular forces - were armed.\n\nMany Sudeten Germans, not only Henleinists, were seized and imprisoned in horrible conditions as hostages. You had on the German side the nefarious activities of the Freikorps. You had about 30 per cent. of the Germans who ought to have mobilised taken to the hills and being hunted there and apprehended wherever possible by the Czech military and gendarmerie. There was a complete censorship of newspapers, letters, and communications into the area. It was a period of the most acute anxiety.\n\nThere is no doubt about the relief that is felt in the Sudeten areas. The German troops have behaved not only with moderation but with tact for local feeling. To give one instance, there was a place, Teplitz, where the flag of a former Austrian regiment had had to be kept hidden for 20 years. When it was produced, the local German officers arranged that it should be carried at a church parade of the German troops in front of the church, and that Mass should be celebrated. On another occasion, I was in the crowd when a visiting German Minister was speaking. Before he came on, the German band played, not a German march, but the old Austrian Radetsky march, and the whole crowd broke into spontaneous applause. Much more important than those tactful gestures to local sentiment has been the fact that General von Reichenau put up proclamations all over the Sudeten area to the effect that denunciations by private persons were forbidden, that they reflected more on the person who made them than on the person denounced, and that people making them would be summarily punished by the German Army, and that anyone who took private...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 563289, "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": "CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938", "page_number": 49, "title": "CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938", "content_text": "# International Situation\n## HOUSE OF COMMONS\n### International Situation\n\n[Mr. Astor.]\n\nVengeance would be summarily punished by the military authorities. It was said, though I cannot personally vouch for this, as I can for all the other statements, that when some Henleinists at Aussig took an opportunity to beat up the Czechs, they were summarily shot by German troops for their conduct.\n\nMay I mention the question of refugees from that area? The position is that the Germans are encouraging the rank and file of the Social Democrats to remain or return. That is not from any altruistic motive, but from the fact that in Germany there is not a surplus of labour as there is in this country, but a shortage of labour. This year they imported 30,000 Italian workers, and it is to their interest that the industrious and skilful Sudeten German, whatever his political beliefs in the past may have been, should be encouraged to remain or return. It would be most unwise for their leaders to return, but they believe that, when there has been a distressed area in the past, so distressed as to cause the Quakers in this country to conduct relief among Sudeten Germans for the last few years, if they can provide work, they need not fear disaffection in the future. Similarly, they tried to encourage the Czech mineworkers, and certainly for the moment, though this may not be permanent, Czech agricultural colonists to remain.\n\nThe refugee problem where there is the most need is that of the Social Democrat leaders and the Jews. Most of the Jews of that area fled long before the German troops arrived, and rightly, too. It was the most awful tragedy, because that was in an area where there was no anti-Jewish feeling at all until the last few years, when it was worked up. It will be a difficult question for this country to help those Jews, because they are mainly small shopkeepers. For instance, the Czech relief authorities told me they thought there were something like 6,000 Jewish commercial travellers as refugees, and to colonise a commercial traveller, whose main stock-in-trade is his tongue, in an area where he does not understand the language, will be extraordinarily difficult and will need the greatest help on our part.\n\nIt is tragic that the unwise policy of the Czech Government in the past has resulted in the cutting-up of the historic Kingdom of Bohemia. Bohemia has always been a mixed German and Slav State. If you take the feathers and motto of the Prince of Wales, they are the feathers and motto of the Kings of Bohemia, which the Prince of Wales assumed because he captured the King of Bohemia at, I think, the Battle of Crécy. That motto is not in the Czech language but is in German—\"Ich dien.\" It has always been a mixed State, and if the emphasis had been laid on the historic past, you might never have had the present situation. It was the excessive racial feeling of the post-war Czech Governments which produced the racial reactions of the Germans, and it is tragic to see how many were the small vexations that created discontent. In the War, the Austrian equivalent of a V.C. was won by a certain resident in the Sudeten area. He has not been allowed, under penalty, to wear his medal for 20 years, and when he was asked to join the Reserve of the Czech Army and he offered himself, he was immediately reduced to the ranks—not that it mattered, because he was not called up for training, but it is that sort of insult which did more than anything else to create the present situation. I went from Sudetenland to Prague by car, and there are no troops on the frontier, which is quiet. There were about five or six German police and Customs men and the same number on the Czech side. You could have crossed quite easily by walking 200 yards off the road across a field. There was no barrier of any sort.\n\nA few days spent in Prague fills one with admiration for the way in which the Czech people have gone through the present ordeal. They have shown an immense pluck, calm, and discipline, and they are facing their problem in a realistic way. One of the Ministers of the Czech Government said they must go back to the policy of that great Saint and King whom we commemorate at Christmas time, Wenceslas, and realise that it was impossible that Bohemia should be in a permanent state of hostility to the surrounding Germany. On the whole, the relations between the new Czechoslovakia and Germany have not been so bad. At the beginning, in the International Commission's deliberations, the Germans were asking for a rigid interpretation of their claims, but since then, the German Army have evacuated many villages where they found themselves unable to understand a word said by anybody in the villages. There have been rectifications in favour of the Czechs.\n\nOn the economic side, the Germans have been, on the whole—I am only quoting what the Czechs said to me—reasonable in their demands. There has been no demand for a Zollverein, and they have left Sudetenland and the new Czech State tariff-free for the present, before working out an equitable system of preference. I hope we shall not assume that because of the new conditions, we must wash our hands of the new Czech State on the ground that they have become a province of Germany, as the Leader of the Opposition thought might have to be the case. They are facing their task with realism. They are now a homogeneous State. They are going to maintain their democratic system. There is a rallying to the new Czech State of the ancient families of Bohemia, which have in the last 20 years been left aside. Although they felt no particular loyalty to the new Czechoslovakia, when the crisis came, they felt loyalty to the ancient frontiers of the kingdom of Bohemia, and they are now rallying round the new Government. They are making a gallant and a realistic effort.\n\nEnglish prestige has been increased by the Lord Mayor's fund for the relief of refugees, but that is only a palliative, and they are asking that we should take their claim for financial help, not on a sentimental basis, but on its merits. They point out that they have been excellent debtors in the past whenever they have had to borrow money. They maintain that with the £10,000,000 and further sums, they can get their railway communications readjusted and their roads altered, that they will be able to get the necessary raw materials to keep their economic life going, and that they can give the necessary financial assistance for the new autonomous Slovak Government to prevent that Government and the Ruthenian Government submitting to the tempting attractions which certain of their neighbours are offering to them now. They do not desire to go back to a state of permanent hostility to Germany, but they believe that they can be a neutral, independent, and good-neighbourly State. I hope we shall not wash our hands of them, but that, in a time of need for reconstruction, we shall help them on a strictly business basis, which is all that the new Czech State desires.\n\nBefore I went there, I spent a few days in Germany, and the main sentiment one found there was relief. One found no expression of vain-glory, but the deepest relief that peace had been preserved and extraordinary gratitude towards the Prime Minister. I think one cannot take an exaggerated optimistic or pessimistic view. Nothing that I saw contradicted the assumption of the hon. Member for East Aberdeen (Mr. Boothby) that the effort we have to make to get equality in armaments has to be deep and strenuous. Nothing that I saw in Germany made me believe that there was any bluff on their side. I found no evidence whatever to support that. One has only to see the thoroughness of their preparations. When you can see that since March, every bridge between Austria and Czechoslovakia, however modern and new, has been pulled down and a new and wider and stronger bridge built in order to take the heaviest tanks and guns, one can see that they are people who are not preparing merely for a demonstration of force, but for its use. But we must not talk of inevitable war. During the nineteenth century, two wars were thought to be inevitable. In the time of Napoleon III, a war with France was thought inevitable, and yet it was averted. During the time that Kipling was writing his early stories in India, everyone thought that a war with Russia was inevitable, and yet it never took place.\n\nHerr Hitler has done one thing for this country. He has imbued us with some of the qualities he has given to his own people; he has made us defence-conscious and has made us keener to perform national service in the defence of this country. I am sure that any demand that the Government make on the people will be joyfully borne. I have been immensely impressed by the numbers of people who have written to me asking that there shall be some form of national register and voluntary service. I have had more letters on this subject than on any other since I have been a Member of the House. I welcome what the Prime Minister said about the importance of the Anglo-German declaration. Let us not make the mistake we made with the Italians. Ill-feeling between England and Italy became much greater after sanctions than during... \n\nPage 155\nPage 156\nPage 157\nPage 158", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 563290, "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": "CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938", "page_number": 50, "title": "CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938", "content_text": "## International Situation\n\n### HOUSE OF COMMONS\n\n#### International Situation\n\n[Mr. Astor.] sanctions. During sanctions it was a straight conflict in which both sides understood each other. Afterwards the Italians got the idea that we in a period of weakness had taken a setback and that we were going to build up arms for revenge. Ill-feeling got much worse until the Prime Minister took decisive measures to end it. Let us not make the same mistake with the Germans. I was interested to hear what the right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the Opposition said about Germany. He said they were on a starvation level. One did not see signs of that. Their standard of living is not so high as in this country, but if you met people who had been in work camps, one found their physical condition on the whole good. They have done away with unemployment but at great cost of liberty. People who say that Germany should be an example to us in that respect should remember what it means. One hears talk about an economic general staff and planning, but it is no good having a general staff unless you have a disciplined army which you can order about. I was outside Vienna on Friday and met a couple of young men from a village who had been sent to the other end of Germany to work on some fortifications. They had been unemployed before and were rather pleased, but whether we would be prepared to try and abolish unemployment in this country by methods of that sort is an entirely different question.\n\nMr. McGovern: Can the hon. Gentleman tell us their wage? Is he aware that it is 2d. per day?\n\nMr. Astor: I only know that these people were a good deal better off than when they were unemployed. I made it clear that the standard of wages and living in Germany, taken on the average, is a good deal lower than in this country. The workers get many non-financial benefits such as cheap tickets, cheap holidays, and holidays with pay, but to pretend that the employed worker there is on the same level as here is absurd.\n\nMr. McGovern: I was in the labour camps and I was told the wage is 2d. a day and that each man is given a quarter of a lb. of white lard and no butter.\n\nMr. Astor: That may be true. But I am not arguing in favour of that system. I am only trying to point out that people who want to abolish unemployment by German methods must realise the universal conscription which those methods mean. The feeling that one gets from being in Germany is, first, one of relief and the desire for peace; secondly, that we must be strong; thirdly, that we must make it clear to the Germans that the one touch-stone in negotiations is willingness to end the armed race. Up to now they have had every cause to feel that the only way in which they can get anything is by the use or the threat of arms. If we can show that it is possible to get things, not by the increase in arms, but by the decrease in arms, then there will be a chance of getting proper appeasement in Europe. Going through the Sudeten areas as I did, I could not feel any humiliation or regret because it was perfectly clear that most of the people in those areas are pleased with the change in their conditions.\n\n9.53 p.m.\n\nMr. Shinwell: In the course of a challenging speech this afternoon, my right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition asked certain questions of the Government. So far there has been no satisfactory response, and on certain important issues which were raised during the Debate, we are still far from enlightenment.\n\nNor can we say that the mists of confusion which surround the Government's foreign policy have been removed. Certainly the Prime Minister's speech has thrown little light on that subject. Beyond a few generalisations about appeasement, we have had no elucidation. The lead which the country is entitled to expect from the Government is not forthcoming. The Government have abandoned collective security if, indeed, they ever believed in that principle. They no longer rely upon the League of Nations, which lies scattered because of the insincerity of the Tory party and the folly of successive Foreign Secretaries. They now take refuge in vague talk of appeasement and place themselves unreservedly in the hands of the Prime Minister, in whose head lurks the quaint conviction that the promise of enduring peace resides in the assurances of Herr Hitler, ignoring the fact that the head of the German Government has betrayed every promise he ever made to our nation.\n\nOne thing is abundantly clear to us after hearing the Prime Minister. While the Munich Agreement went far beyond Godesberg, the present revision of frontiers, assisted by an International Commission who seem to have been more concerned to placate Germany than to act justly, has gone further than the Anglo-French plan, Godesberg, and Munich combined. The fact is that Herr Hitler has obtained more than he could ever have hoped to get. It is, therefore, a misuse of language to speak of peace as the Prime Minister has ventured to do this afternoon, in face of the treatment accorded to Czechoslovakia, the fate of thousands of Czechs and others, and the existence of profound minority problems in the territory ceded to the German Reich. The dispute arose over an alleged minority problem, but a minority problem still remains. When the Prime Minister flatters himself that peace exists, we remind him of the unhappy fate of the Social Democrats, the Jews, and of the spectacle of thousands of refugees driven from pillar to post. This is not the Labour party's conception of peace. One thing we can be sure of is that morals in international relations have completely disappeared. Whose word can we trust, and who trusts our word? That is what Munich has done.\n\nThe Prime Minister expressed himself in strong language upon the statement of my right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition that Munich constituted a defeat for this country and the rule of law and order. That, apparently, is not the view of the Prime Minister. Then what is it? A victory? If it is not defeat, what does it represent? Surely it will not be denied that a vast change has occurred. The situation differs considerably from that which existed prior to the Munich Agreement. How the Prime Minister can maintain that this is not in the nature of a defeat is really beyond my comprehension. Anyhow, it is not the view of the Czechs. Moreover, it is not the view of Herr Hitler himself. Apparently, there is but one person who believes that Munich represents no defeat, and that is the Prime Minister. Further, the Prime Minister claims that the Munich Agreement was carried through in a peaceful manner, but he ignores what led up to the dispute. He overlooks the threats, the intimidation, the bullying methods of the German Reich. Though in the end the Agreement, for what it is worth, was consummated in an apparently peaceful fashion, it was not based primarily on peace but on force.\n\nThe Prime Minister asked my right hon. Friend a question, which he had not the opportunity of dealing with, which was whether we supposed that the frontiers arising out of the Versailles Treaty would never be changed. It is, I admit, a pertinent question, but he ought not to have put it to my right hon. Friend; he ought to have replied to it himself. It is a question which ought to be put to hon. and right hon. Gentlemen on the opposite benches. What was their view? Our party has consistently declared that a revision of frontiers was rendered necessary by the course of events, but every time a demand was made along those lines, it was resisted by the right hon. Gentleman and his Friends. Of course, we agree that frontiers must be revised, but if they are to be revised, it ought to be by peaceful means and not under duress. Has this occurred? No one knows better than the right hon. Gentleman himself that that is not the case.\n\nWe have been reminded frequently in the weeks following upon the crisis of what was the alternative to the Munich Agreement. We were informed, and are still informed, that it meant war. The right hon. Gentleman shields himself behind that claim; but at one point, he was ready himself to advise drastic action. He declared that Godesberg was not acceptable, and we all recall his declaration that if he thought there was a nation ready to dominate the world by force, he would be ready to resist; and over and above all, there was the mobilisation of the Navy. Apparently, there was in the minds of the right hon. Gentleman and his friends the thought of the alternative of war. Therefore, how he can claim that all along he was concerned primarily with peace and never contemplated the alternative is beyond my comprehension.\n\nI venture to ask the right hon. Gentleman, When do we reach the point when action should be taken? Surely that is a question which ought to evoke some response. Or do we never take action in any circumstances, whatever the insult? Suppose Russia had been involved. We almost went to war with Russia in the palmy days of a particular Home Secretary, now unhappily deceased, on the mere question of a trading organisation representing the Soviet in London, and we all recall what happened when certain British engineers were prosecuted in Russia. It is surely time that the Prime Minister, as the head of the Government, told the country exactly what we are prepared to fight for, and where we make our stand.\n\nWhat have we learned in the course of this Debate about the international guarantee of which the Prime Minister has made so much? After all, Czechoslovakia suffered, she was sacrificed, she was betrayed; but there was to be an international guarantee and all was to be for the better. After the consummation of the Munich Agreement and the revision of frontiers, her integrity was not in any way to be interfered with. Very well, but the Prime Minister has now informed us that the international guarantee is to be invoked only when there is unprovoked aggression. Surely that calls for clarification. Is a threat of mobilisation aggression? Where a Government inspires terrorist bands to operate upon a frontier, is that unprovoked aggression? The Prime Minister might very well have amplified what he said on that matter.\n\nI pass from that subject to a further important consideration which has arisen in the course of this dispute. When Government spokesmen are in difficulties, they adopt a familiar technique. They challenge the Labour party to produce its alternative policy. Several speeches have been made by Government spokesmen in the past few weeks indicating a desire to hear what the Labour party have to offer as an alternative policy. I read in the `Sunday Times`, a newspaper devoted to the interests of the Government, in a leading article last Sunday, the following:\n\n\"Opposition leaders will be under the necessity, as elsewhere too often they are not, of stating precisely what alternative policies they would follow if they stood in the Government's shoes. There lies their difficulty. For while it is easy enough to dilate on the problems and dangers by which the country is beset, it is another matter to indicate any immediate way out of them other than that which the Government are pursuing.\"\n\nI admit that there are difficulties, but why do these difficulties exist? Because of the foreign policy pursued by the Government.\n\nThere was a time when a solution was possible, when the League of Nations was stronger than it now is. Will it be unfair to suggest that when this Government went to the country with an election manifesto based upon the principle of collective security, was the appropriate time to present a constructive policy in support of peace? Of course, there are difficulties, and they are greater than they ever were before. I would not contend otherwise, but we have suggested certain alternatives to the policy of the Government. My right hon. Friend, in the speech which he delivered a few weeks ago from this Box, advocated, on behalf of this party, the conception of a world conference. That conception has been rejected by the Prime Minister, although there is support for the idea throughout the world. The speeches of President Roosevelt, perhaps the greatest moral force in the world, indicate support for it. Russia and France would come into it. There is little doubt that if the United States of America joined in, the confidence of the smaller nations would be restored. It was shocked by the policy that we pursued. Such a conference would have a greater chance of success before than after the conclusion of the Four Power Pact. After such a Pact, we should be dominated by Germany and that hope would be gone.\n\nI ask a further question. Are the Government ready to form an alliance with Russia? There has so far been no reply to that question. The Prime Minister was presented with an opportunity on the point raised by my right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition in respect of the amazing utterance of the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. It would be interesting to know the views of the Government upon that speech. We ought to know. Does truth reside in the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster as to the military position and the intentions of Russia during the recent crisis? If so, we ought to be informed. I dare say the opinion that, on the question of a possible alliance with Russia, there are Tories, and possibly Members of the Government, who would rather lose the Empire than enter into relations with Russia.\n\nI take leave to doubt whether much is to be gained by debating these matters with the Prime Minister because he appears to have made up his mind. Therefore, I think I had better leave the point.\n\nWe must face the fact that Czechoslovakia is now disrupted and that her...\n\nPage 50\nPage 51", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 563291, "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": "CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938", "page_number": 51, "title": "CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938", "content_text": "# International Situation\n\n## T66\n\nOnce Germany has domination over the agriculture and industry of Europe, she can afford to abandon self-sufficiency and embark on a policy of exporting goods, and it may be raw materials, including coal, at prices which will place the industry of this country at a serious disadvantage. Some time ago we heard a great deal about the Opel car. The President of the Board of Trade will recall the Debate we had in this House, and the concern expressed in all quarters of the House about the excessive importations of that car. It was significant, though it may have been overlooked by hon. Members, that the imports of these cars diminished. Why was that? It was due to the need for producing armoured cars owing to the situation arising from the Sudetenland question. That is over, and we can now expect a resumption of those exports. The right hon. Gentleman shakes his head; he does not agree; but that is the information I have, and from unimpeachable sources.\n\n## International Situation I NOVEMBER 1938\n\n... economic existence is shattered. She will become, in due course, unless we are careful, a vassal of the German Reich. What will be the position of the United Kingdom? The Prime Minister said this afternoon that Czech trade would not suffer. That may be, but the question I ask hon. Gentlemen to consider is: Are we in a stronger economic position in consequence of the Munich Agreement? The Prime Minister is not alarmed about the consequences, and says that there is nothing to worry about. Is that the view of the President of the Board of Trade? Is it the view of our industrialists, of the textile industry or the coal industry? Are they not concerned about the formidable position of Germany, more formidable now than ever before? It will certainly be more formidable in the future, as I shall try to prove. The Prime Minister says that Germany must always have a dominant position in South-East Europe. That may well be so, but that is not the problem. I shall state the problem.\n\nHowever much we sympathise with the truncated Czech State and its unhappy people, we are forced by the turn of events to consider the consequences to the industry of this country. Nothing could be more foolish than to under-estimate what the absorption of the Sudeten area into the German economic system really is. Germany is enormously strengthened by the Munich Agreement. She has acquired considerable territory and is able to utilise the services of a vast army of additional workers, many of whom are unskilled. She can dominate the economic life of Central and South-Eastern Europe. Germany has for some time had an unfavourable balance of trade. Immediately before the Anschluss there was a favourable balance, but mobilisation plus the dislocation of industry owing to war preparations, forced her to curtail exports. That led to an unfavourable balance of trade. Now she is demobilised or in the process of demobilisation, and has mineral resources newly acquired. She has two million additional workers, skilled in industry, in the territories, which are mainly industrial. It is necessary to buy very large quantities of foodstuffs, which may be paid for by greater quantities of manufactured goods.\n\nBefore the Munich Agreement, Germany was pursuing a policy of self-sufficiency. Now, because of her domination over the agriculture and industry of Europe... Indeed, the Munich Agreement, with its surrender, the dismemberment of the military power of Czechoslovakia, and the complete abdication of the democratic countries, have given Herr Hitler precisely what he has been seeking all along, namely, the acquisition of sufficient economic strength to proceed with the greatest trade drive the world has ever seen.\n\nAlready we see signs of that in Europe and in South America. Nor should we forget the methods that accompany it; the manipulation of currency, the curious clearing arrangements - I use polite language - the process of barter, plus intimidation and possibly the threat of force. How is that threat to be countered? How are we to meet and withstand the shattering blasts which soon will confront the industries of the United Kingdom? Can we afford to be undercut and undersold in the markets upon which we have depended? Can our exporting districts stand it? It is not of any use to remind us that the bulk of the trade in South Eastern Europe was in the hands of Germany and Italy. I am well aware that we had only a small percentage of that trade, possibly about 6 per cent., as against Germany and Italy's 75 per cent. That is true; but it is in our Scandinavian market - a market of supreme importance in South America, and it may well be in some of our Dominions, for I am not unmindful of the position in South Africa, where the blow will fall.\n\nPage 94\nPage 96", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 563292, "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": "CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938", "page_number": 52, "title": "CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938", "content_text": "# International Situation\n\n## HOUSE OF COMMONS\n\nThe first step to national efficiency is to create a single economic unit, to ensure that nobody makes profits out of national needs, particularly armaments; and that our resources in coal and power, transport, iron and steel and textiles no longer remain in private hands, and that every idle acre of land should be brought under cultivation. I am not concerned now about the kind of mechanism required, whether it be State ownership or some form of public utility.\n\n[Mr. Shinwell.] What are the Government going to do about it? Has the matter been mentioned in Government circles? Is the Board of Trade getting busy? Or are we to rely upon appeasement, upon Herr Hitler's good will? If so, it will bring cold comfort to our major industries, where there are already indications of depression. I shall not occupy the time of the House by relating the facts; we are all more or less familiar with them.\n\nOur Mercantile exports are declining. Marine is in a condition of depression. We have 2,000 fewer vessels than we had in 1914, and the tonnage building now is 300,000 tons less than at this time last year. The tramp shipping industry contemplates a scheme which will lay up many vessels, which means more unemployment and reduces the prestige of the Mercantile Marine of this country throughout the world. The Minister of Labour said to-day, in reply to a question I put to him, that unemployment had reached a figure of nearly 1,800,000. That is a very serious situation.\n\nLet me make it perfectly clear that no one on this side desires to prevent the German nation from engaging in trade. I say that advisedly, because of what the Prime Minister said this afternoon. The German people have to live, and we wish them well, whatever our views may be about totalitarian States and the methods employed by Herr Hitler. But in this Debate we are considering the effect of Munich. It is no use pretending that the position now is better for us than it was before. It is worse, and, unless we take proper measures, we shall find ourselves in a desperate position. In these new circumstances, in my view, we must proceed to reorganise our industrial and economic forces in the most efficient fashion if we wish to retain our trade, much less add to it.\n\nI attach some importance to the Anglo-American Trade Agreement, but it will take more than that to counteract the evil consequences of Munich. There are two possible lines of approach. One is the economic policy of this party; the other a policy, less valuable in my view, which may prove more acceptable to this House. We must develop a new technique, however unpalatable it may be to certain interests in the country.\n\nIf we had our way, we should bring essential industries and services under public control. But, as I recognise that this policy is unacceptable in the present state of opinion in this House, I pass to consider the alternative. It will be agreed that Germany is a complete economic entity. We are not. Can we do anything in this direction? First, I maintain that manufacturers might be induced to agree to a larger measure of control over their operations than it has yet been possible to introduce in our industrial affairs. We should create a Government Department equipped with power to direct and, within limits, control trade. We could establish import boards. We should refuse to tolerate harum-scarum methods of buying, not related to national needs or the state of our own industry. There are many articles imported which we could do without, and this should not be left to the arbitrary decision of private individuals.\n\nMoreover, we should be prepared to assist our exports if necessary. What other hope is there for textiles and for coal? There is a challenge for the right hon. Gentleman. What is the solution for the depression in the textile industry other than some kind of State assistance, which is more required than ever in view of the economic situation which has emerged? Industrialists must be ready to agree to priority in production. If it is in the national interests to produce steel for home industry rather than for export, for example, it must be done. The matter is one for the State to decide. It ought not to be left to the discretion of private trade interests. Our imports and exports are not the sole concern of private traders, but the concern of the State. In short, the methods which suited us in the past are no longer effective, least of all since the Munich Agreement. If all this looks like the approach of the regimentation of industry, as indeed it does, I must remind the House that we are in a new situation, and that fresh and radical measures are necessary. The best safeguard against undue dislocation of industry is the Parliamentary forum, where adjustments may be made, not in the interests of any particular section, but in the interests of the State. That is precisely the difference between the methods of democracy and of the totalitarian States. In this connection, the co-operation of the trade unions should be sought.\n\nThat brings me to the question of a Ministry of Supply. I shall not discuss the merits of the question itself. That will be a matter for another Debate. The Prime Minister said that compulsion was essential if a Ministry of Supply was to be created. I beg to differ from the right hon. Gentleman and to point out that so far no attempt has been made to enlist the industrial man-power of the country by voluntary means. There has been no approach to the trade unions and no definite proposals have been placed before them. The right hon. Gentleman ought to try out that voluntary method by an effective approach to the trade unions. That, surely, does not prevent the creation of a central organisation, with power to direct on the basis of voluntary agreements reached both with the employers and the workpeople in the various industries.\n\nThere is one vital matter to which I invite attention. An appeal has been made in the course of the Debate by more than one hon. Member for national unity. As I understand it, national unity is a corollary of another National Government, but we have had a National Government for the past seven years, or is it really a National Government? Why are there these appeals for another National Government? What is wrong with this one? [An HON. MEMBER: \"Holdsworth.\"]\n\nMr. Holdsworth: It is a lot better now, Mr. Shinwell: We think an appeal of that kind will meet with little success. I will state the reason very shortly. What is it that keeps us apart? It is simply explained. We hold a different conception of how society should be organised, of how the workers should be treated and of the principal implications of democracy. We cannot see the least justification for maintaining at one end of the social scale a few thousand people whose wealth is enormous, while at the other end there are millions whose lives are filled with problems and whose whole existence is insecure from the cradle to the grave. These are facts which cannot be disputed. Once that gulf is bridged, we can have national unity, but any appearance of national unity, in face of conditions of social injustice, would be spurious and temporary.\n\nWe recall that those who speak of national unity increased the length of the miners' working day, introduced the Trade Dispute Act which limited the rights of trade unionists, imposed the means test, and we remind ourselves that they are now speaking of reducing the social services. When we detect a change of heart followed by appropriate action, then we shall consider national unity and not before. That does not mean that in a national emergency we should let the country down. Give us a just cause and the workers will respond, but the workers are suspicious of the Government all the more since the betrayal of Czechoslovakia.\n\nThe Prime Minister spoke this afternoon of fouling one's nest. I ask him not to confuse criticism of the Government with criticism of the nation. The right hon. Gentleman attacked my right hon. Friend on the ground that we had been broadcasting the alleged decadence of this country. We have done nothing of the sort. We may have said something about the decadence of the National Government, but we have a profound faith in the ability of this country and its people to rise above the existing difficulties. Therefore, I say to the right hon. Gentleman that the nation is sound at heart; it is the Government who have failed. If we are to have real national unity to deal fundamentally with the problems that imperil our trade and the country as a whole, the best advice we can give is that the Government should make way for a Government more concerned with national interests and less with the interests of a small section of society.\n\n10.31 p.m.\n\nThe President of the Board of Trade (Mr. Oliver Stanley): I hope that in the rather controversial atmosphere raised, as it very often is, by the hon. Member who has just spoken, the House will not think it inappropriate of me if I feel that I cannot pass over in silence the speeches that were made by my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister, by the right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the Opposition and...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 563293, "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": "CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938", "page_number": 53, "title": "CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938", "content_text": "# International Situation\n## HOUSE OF COMMONS\n\n[Mr. Stanley.]\n\nI wish to follow up the point raised by the right hon. Member for Caithness and Sutherland (Sir A. Sinclair) earlier this afternoon. Not only were those speeches eloquent and sincere, but the manner in which they were received in all quarters of the House will, perhaps more even than the speeches, bring consolation to those who are left. It is always a satisfaction to realise that one whom one has known intimately has, in a wider circle, made exactly the same impression as he made on those who were nearest and dearest to him, and it will be a great consolation to us to know that his simplicity of character and his kindliness of nature were as much valued in the wide circles of this House and in public life generally as they were in the circle of the family.\n\nWe have, during the course of today's Debate, covered a very wide field. We have gone from Spain to China, from China to Italy, and from Italy to Czechoslovakia. We have discussed not only foreign policy but rearmament and air-raid precautions. We have had the Prime Minister's smile criticised by an hon. Member for one of the divisions of Leeds, and we have had references to speeches made by the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Labour a year or two ago. It would need a Foreign Secretary, a Minister for the Co-ordination of Defence, and a hypothetical Minister for Supply all rolled into one to reply adequately to all the questions raised in the course of the Debate. I want to confine myself to one of the points dealt with by the last speaker and to a point which is more appropriate to my Department, and that is the economic consequence of the political and social consequences which have been discussed at great length.\n\nBefore I come to that matter, it is only courteous that I should reply to one or two points which have been raised in the Debate. First, may I reply to the right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the Opposition, who put a question as to the position of the Anglo-American Treaty? There was a Question on the Order Paper today to which I should have given an oral answer, but it was not asked. I will read the answer, which will appear in the OFFICIAL REPORT tomorrow:\n\n\"Since the summer, when agreement was reached over a large part of the field, the negotiations have been concentrated on a limited list of items, some of which have proved intractable. Our delegation recently defined the United Kingdom position on these outstanding matters, and we expect a reply from the United States very shortly.\" There is only one thing I can say in implementation. Ever since I went to my present office, I have had constantly in my mind, as one of the most important of my tasks, a new Anglo-American Treaty, and I should welcome it very heartily. On the other hand, I realise, as I think hon. Members in all parts of the House will realise, that if a treaty of this kind is to have anything but fleeting benefits, it must be a treaty which is fair to both sides. We know the position of our trade balance with America today. I am not sure that the existence of such a large discrepancy is not even now a threat not only to the trading stability of this country but, through that, to the trading stability of the world as a whole, and hon. Members will, I am sure, realise that, however desirable a treaty is, a treaty which would increase that disparity could not lead to any genuine appeasement or economic advantage to either side, but in the long run only lead to a loss. While I am as anxious as ever to obtain an Anglo-American Treaty, it must be a treaty fair to both sides, giving advantages to both and being biased towards neither.\n\nI must warn the right hon. Gentleman opposite that if he shares my anxiety to see a new Anglo-American trade treaty brought about, he will have to speak to his hon. Friends because, when the hon. Member opposite says that the technique which has to be adopted to cope with the new circumstances is to include the exclusion from this country of goods which he says we do not want—by which I believe he means the placing from time to time of an embargo on certain articles of luxury or of non-necessity—then we must not embark on any policy of a trade agreement of this kind which would make it impossible to put into effect this new technique during the period of the treaty.\n\nThe right hon. Member for Caithness and Sutherland made an eloquent speech, which he prefaced by saying that he wanted to do as little as possible to destroy the unity in the country. One thought passed through my mind as to what would happen when the right hon. Gentleman chose not to do as little but as much as possible.\n\n## 1 NOVEMBER 1938 International Situation\n\nOne or two other thoughts occurred to me during the course of his speech. He referred to the time when the right hon. Member for Warwick and Leamington (Mr. Eden) left the Government as the end of what he gave the impression was the golden age of unity in foreign policy, which the departure of the right hon. Gentleman destroyed. When I look at the attacks which the right hon. Member for Warwick and Leamington had to suffer in this House, the votes of censure which were moved upon him almost day by day, and the eloquence of the right hon. Member for Caithness and Sutherland, I find that, by merely substituting the word \"Spain\" for Czechoslovakia and the right hon. Member for Warwick and Leamington for the Prime Minister, they are almost word for word the speech which he made today. I could not but feel that people seem to take on a very rosy hue as soon as they leave the bench from which I am speaking.\n\nThere are one or two of the right hon. Gentleman's points with which I would like to deal. I will not refer to the matters he raised with regard to the Anglo-Italian Agreement, for clearly they are a matter for discussion tomorrow, nor with some of the questions he asked concerning Defence, which, as the Prime Minister said, will be discussed on a later occasion. However, the right hon. Gentleman asked a question about the position of those people now in concentration camps who might wish to make use of the article regarding option in the Munich Agreement. I think the Prime Minister pointed out that the difficulty of the means of the exercise of that article is at present under discussion between the German and Czech Commissioners, and that, in due course, no doubt the result of their discussion will come before the full conference. Until the terms are settled, it is impossible to say what the exact power of option will be.\n\nSir A. Sinclair: This is a very important matter.\n\nThe difficulty I foresee is that the Czech representative may not be very greatly interested in the fate of the Germans who may wish to opt out of the Reich. Could there not be an instruction to our Ambassador, when the matter is referred back to the International Commission, to take great care that the rights of these Germans who may be in concentration camps are safeguarded?\n\nMr. Stanley: Certainly, we will bear that in mind.\n\nThe right hon. Gentleman then asked a question about the position in China and the giving of assistance from this country. The right hon. Gentleman will recollect that there was an announcement in the House, I think on 14th July, that the Government had not seen their way to introduce the special legislation which would be necessary in order to grant a loan to China. That does not mean, however, that the Government have been neglectful of the undertakings given at Geneva to consider what support States might individually extend to China, and in this connection, they have expressed their willingness to assist, as far as lies in their power, in any scheme which might be put forward. Certain proceedings of this kind have been proposed, and they are at present under examination or on the way to fruition; but I think the right hon. Gentleman will agree that it is not desirable that the details of these proposals and the circumstances connected with these matters should be gone into here at the present time.\n\nWe also heard a very interesting speech from my hon. Friend the Member for East Aberdeen (Mr. Boothby), who, as recently pointed out, certainly does possess a golden tongue with which he appears to exercise complete control over the electors in Aberdeen. His speech, which covered a good deal of ground, most of which will be more directly connected with the Debate upon armaments when it comes next week, raised some extremely interesting points. I am always interested in the hon. Gentleman's views on finance and economics, because, although I do not always agree that they are right, they are always original and courageous. I must say that I did feel a little difficulty in going all the way with him on what he called the financial aspect of rearmament.\n\nI cannot, I am afraid, agree that rearmament, even to the extent to which we have embarked on it at the moment, and still less an accelerated and increased armament in the future, is the one and only way to prosperity for this country. I am perfectly prepared to recommend not only the armaments which we are now making but increased provision in the future as a necessary sacrifice which this people has to make for its security, but am not going to celebrate it as a good way of making the economy of this country prosperous.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 563294, "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": "CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938", "page_number": 54, "title": "CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938", "content_text": "# International Situation\n## HOUSE OF COMMONS\n\n[Mr. Stanley.]\n\nI do not think it right to say that rearmament is going to make this country profitable. I should hesitate to do so, because within the next few weeks I hope to pass through this House a Bill dealing with share-pushing, and I might feel some reluctance in recommending certain of its Clauses. But I think it is a pity to let the idea get about that rearmament is a way to prosperity. I do not believe it. I believe that rearmament does not call for rejoicing. It calls for sacrifice, and when I see some probability of armament expenditure being relaxed, as the Prime Minister hopes may sometime result from his efforts, I shall not look upon that as the closing of the road to a prosperous future. I shall look upon it as a relief from a sacrifice which is becoming almost intolerable. If we are to look upon it in a light-hearted way as a new method of attaining prosperity, I am afraid we shall overlook a consideration which I believe all of us, however strongly we hold views as to rearmament, should bear always in mind, and that is that the financial and commercial strength of this country is one of our greatest assets in war.\n\nIn the whole course of our history, when we have been fighting European Powers, I cannot recollect a time when we have ever won a short war, but I can hardly recollect a time in history when we have ever lost a long one. That is because the deployment of these great financial and commercial resources has enabled us to outlast our enemies and to get the decisive position at the end of a long war. Therefore, we must put finance and commerce among our military assets when we are discussing the question of future rearmament.\n\nMr. Boothby: In order that I may not be misinterpreted, may I say that I would very much prefer to see an expansion of public works of a useful character, rather than an expansion of works of a destructive character, if I had my choice?\n\nMr. Stanley: Even so, the hon. Gentleman still maintained that this expenditure on armaments per se was a way to the rehabilitation of the economy of this country, and that, I am afraid, is a doctrine with which I do not agree. There is one other point with which I wish to deal, and that is the point raised by the hon. Member for South Shields (Mr. Ede). He was dealing with the question of evacuation and, in particular, the arrangements for the billeting of civilians, and he read out an article from a paper, the name of which I forget.\n\nMr. Ede: The **Eastbourne Herald**.\"\n\nMr. Stanley: That is an article, the tone of which I, myself, find distasteful in the extreme, and I do not believe that it represents the feelings of a fraction of the people of this country. I was in my constituency last week-end and had some talk about the arrangements in my area. It is an area to which civilians from the North of England are to be evacuated. I had some talk with those responsible for the arrangements, and certainly that was not the kind of spirit which was represented to me as being the spirit in which these arrangements were being received. It is, of course, a difficult problem. It needs great common sense and tact. But I believe that if a crisis were to come, it is a burden which the people generally of this country would realise to be essential, and that they would shoulder it willingly as part of the common effort to get over the crisis successfully. I think the hon. Member has done a service by allowing hon. Gentlemen in all parts of the House to express their disapproval of the sort of spirit contained in that article.\n\nI pass now to some of the remarks which were made with regard to trade and the effect of Munich upon trade conditions in this country. The effect seems to me to fall into two parts. There is, first of all, the actual effect of the cession of the particular territory on trade between Czechoslovakia and ourselves and on trade between ourselves and the districts which will now be transferred to Germany. It is clearly very difficult, so soon after the event, to get anything more than a rough estimate of what the effect of this change-over will be. There are many things that we do not know yet. We do not know what are likely to be the Customs arrangements between Germany and the new Czechoslovakia, and between Poland and the new Czechoslovakia. As there has been no census of production, it is difficult to get any exact estimate of what was the production in the Sudeten areas as compared with the total production of Czechoslovakia. But I must say, with all allowance for the difficulties of making any definite estimate, I do not believe that the Munich Agreement and the cession of the territory are going to have any great effect upon trade.\n\nLast year, our exports to Czechoslovakia were about £2,500,000, while our imports were over £7,000,000. In so far as the goods imported from Czechoslovakia came from the Sudeten area and will now come from Germany instead of from Czechoslovakia, that is all catered for in the Anglo-German Payments Agreement, and those imports into this country will have to be paid for by Germany by an excess ratio of our exports to them, which is considerably higher than the ratio of about two to seven, which was the ratio of our trade with the old Czechoslovakia. On the other hand, of course, it may well be that, in so far as our exports went to the part of Czechoslovakia which remains in the new State, the greater economic difficulties will leave them with less to be exchanged, and that we may, to some extent, lose part of our exports there. On the whole, the probability is that we shall gain by the amount of the imports to this country which are transferred to the Sudeten area, and we shall lose to some extent on that part which remains within the boundary of the new Czechoslovakia.\n\n| Item | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| Coal | The greater part of the Czechoslovakian coal has been used either internally or in supplying the markets directly alongside - Austria, Hungary, and the co-terminous States. |\n\nWith regard to coal, one of the most important items, it is difficult to assess the direct effect. The greater part of the Czechoslovakian coal—I am not sure I should not be right in saying all of it—has been used either internally or in supplying the markets directly alongside - Austria, Hungary, and the co-terminous States. Those are markets which we do not reach with our coal, owing to their geographical situation, and it is not likely to have very much effect on our coal trade, because it seems to me that the probability is that it will still go to the same markets that it was going to before.\n\nMr. Shinwell: The right hon. Gentleman has missed my point. The point that I was making was not the effect of the Munich Agreement on Czech-United Kingdom trade. I agree that trade generally in Central and South-Eastern Europe with Great Britain was comparatively small, but if Germany is now in a position, because of the acquisition of new territory, to liberate exports, will they not percolate into our existing markets outside Central and South-Eastern Europe and injuriously affect our trade?\n\nMr. Stanley: I was going to deal with that, but there are really three points. There is the direct effect on our trade, there is the penetration in South-East Europe, and there is the third and major problem of the general relationship between our trade and the trade of the totalitarian States. Let me pass to the question of penetration in South-Eastern Europe. I agree with the Prime Minister when he says he does not think we need look for sinister and ulterior motives in the recent visits of Herr Funk to the capitals of South-East Europe, but I think it right, when considering this problem of German penetration of South-East Europe, to make up our minds definitely what it is that is complained of and what it is that you want. I do not think that we are entitled to, and I do not think we do, object that Germany should be the chief trader in those areas. They are her natural markets, and she has the advantage in many cases of language similarity. I do not think anybody either could or wants to enter into an economic war to prevent her natural development in those areas. Indeed, a policy of that kind would be extravagant, impracticable, and, I think, unjustified; it would be a real dog-in-the-manger policy.\n\nBut there is another thing. It is different to say that Germany is entitled to the major share in those markets and to say that she is to have exclusive control of them. I see no reason why we should be completely disinterested in the potential trade of an area of this kind, and I believe it is quite possible that, even while Germany increases her trade in those areas, we should maintain and increase our trade as well. If you compare the figures for the Danubian countries in 1936-37, you will find that, although Germany, according to her own figures, largely increased her exports, so at the same time did we. We intend to give every assistance to the industries of this country to maintain, as the hon. Gentleman suggests, a footing in those countries and to take advantage of what, after all, in the long run must react to the credit of this country.\n\nIt may be that we cannot purchase goods from those countries either to the quantity or at the price the Germans can. Many of these goods are competitive with goods which come to us from our own Empire. Also, the Germans, through their particular methods, to which the hon. Gentleman referred, are enabled to... \n\nPage 175\nPage 176\nPage 177\nPage 178", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 563295, "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": "CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938", "page_number": 55, "title": "CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938", "content_text": "# International Situation\n## HOUSE OF COMMONS\n\n[Mr. Stanley.] ...purchase and do purchase many of these commodities at above the world price, a thing which we cannot, with our free currency, attempt to do, but we have, even in the last few months, given in one or two ways considerable assistance to trading in those areas. There is the credit to Turkey, there has been a recent opportunity, which we had in turning over wheat under the Food Defence Plans Department, to buy a considerable block of Rumanian wheat; and I can assure traders that while we certainly will not attempt an economic war to drive Germany out of markets which are for her a natural outlet, we shall be prepared to give industries of this country every possible assistance in maintaining a normal and proper trade with those countries.\n\nBut the third point to which the hon. Gentleman referred was much the most important. It has nothing to do with merely South-eastern countries.\n\nIt being Eleven of the Clock, the Motion for the Adjournment of the House lapsed, without Question put.\n\nThe Orders were read, and postponed.\n\n## Question again proposed, That this House do now adjourn.\"[Captain Margesson.]\n\nMr. Stanley: I apologise for detaining the House, but the point which the hon. Gentleman raised is an important one for the future of our trade, and one to which, I think, everybody in industry must have been giving a considerable amount of thought in the past few years. It has really nothing to do with the peg on which the hon. Gentleman hung his argument. It is a problem of the old open economy practised by such countries as ourselves and America, who have to live now in the world with the closed economy of the totalitarian States. The problem is not confined only to living with Germany. The Russian economy presents, too, many difficulties to the old system. Somehow or other we have to find a way. Just as we have to find a way in the political sphere for democracies and dictatorships to live together, so in the economic sphere we have to find a way for the old-fashioned economy such as ours to live with the totalitarian economy of the dictator States. I agree with the hon. Gentleman that we are not going to find that modus vivendi by simply sitting down and allowing ourselves to be put out of market after market in the world. On the other hand, we are not out to try and turn other countries out of their markets. I do not agree with what the hon. Gentleman considers the ideal solution, but he said many things with which I do agree.\n\nI think it is possible to meet this competition only by doing what I believe we ought to do, and that is to come to a sensible arrangement with these countries for the allocation of the markets on the basis of the markets which we can each serve best. I do not believe we can compete with these countries unless to some extent we learn a new technique. We have prospered for many generations on a system of free competition in the markets of the world. When the individual firm in this country had to compete with a single firm, whether in Germany or America, or wherever it might be, it was competition which they were not afraid to face, and which they faced successfully. It is a very different thing when the single firm in this country has to face, first of all, the competition of a whole industry abroad, and when behind the competition of that industry is the power also of the whole State. That ceases to be competition, because the basis of it is so unfair. I do not believe that you can meet competition of that kind without to some extent adapting your methods in this country. To meet a challenge of that kind the first thing necessary is a greater degree of organisation on the export side in particular industries, so that an industry may speak as one and be enabled to devote its full strength to it if it comes to fighting for its existence and fighting for its fair share in a proper market.\n\nThe hon. Gentleman referred to two commodities, coal and textiles. I should say that coal was one of the industries in which that new technique was already being evolved and that some parts of the Bill which was passed last year were forced on the industry by the consideration to which the hon. Member has drawn attention and were directed to meet exactly those difficulties. With regard to textiles, what does the hon. Gentleman think is really the basis for the campaign in Lancashire in favour of the Bill which is now being prepared? It is the same view, that if we are to maintain our exports in face of the new form of competition there must be some form of unity in the industry which will enable it to direct its exporting power at its strongest wherever we wish it to direct it. There is a great deal we have to learn in dealing with this competition, and I can assure the House that the Government are fully alive to the dangers of an hindered development of a reckless competition of this kind. We believe the ideal solution is an arrangement between industries in the various countries which will fairly allocate the markets and enable competing countries to do the maximum of trade on the soundest basis possible, but we realise that we are never going to get an agreement of that kind unless, if it should come to a fight, we are in a position to fight. Therefore, we are prepared, in order to try to get an arrangement of that kind, to give whatever assistance we can to the industries of this country to put themselves in a position to fight, if fight they must.\n\nI have dealt as well as I could with the economic effects of the Munich Agreement and the broader questions arising from the new system in Europe, because I take no part in a Foreign Affairs Debate as an expert. I have only one other thing to say. The hon. Gentleman said that the Prime Minister was the only person in the world who did not regard Munich as a defeat. As I say, I am not the expert on foreign policy that the hon. Gentleman is, but I have heard something of the feelings of ordinary people in this country and in other countries in the world, and I believe that there are millions of people all over the world who do not regard the preservation of peace as a defeat.\n\nMr. Ede: Is not the right hon. Gentleman going to say anything about the Question, put to him by the Leader of the Opposition, by the hon. Member for Seaham (Mr. Shinwell) and by myself regarding the extraordinary statements made at Shoreham and Horsham by the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster?\n\nMr. Stanley: I have not read them.\n\nQuestion, \"That this House do now adjourn,\" put, and agreed to.\n\nAdjourned accordingly at Ten Minutes after Eleven o'clock.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 563296, "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": "CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938", "page_number": 56, "title": "CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938", "content_text": "Members who wish to have the Daily Report of the Debates forwarded to them should give notice at the Vote Office. 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