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        "document_key": "CO129-002 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1843",
        "page_number": 114,
        "title": "CO129-002 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1843",
        "content_text": "Abish to the payment \n\nwhat off the same Rentas \"ther Lots of the Fame desciftion \n\nWhile on this subjects Sung take recados to letter notice that in \n\nin gu \n\nof the 26 fhing. 1042 you granted. For \n\nwanted Mr. Johnston \n\nleave to Selech two Loto \n\nof Land, \n\nQue \n\nonlach \n\nLide of the Island; & that we ce Actum f punts made by h Whiston there affears a Suberben Lot fu himself. Spevanne \n\nthat this is chan Additional Lot, but me \n\nof the tos sanctioned. \n\nThe Action \n\nGyone with as changed \n\nmentions \n\nwith a Rench of t to like \n\nother \n\nother hubneben Lotr. andras unimproved. \n\nShouly Umain \n\nto Mustice the frent \n\nвнем \n\nMan of the Towner refuted al disorders The Land Officer \n\nwhich bubject \n\ndecision referling the \n\ndefences Conveyed togas disf: of the 15 \n\nmy Wells will have whieved \n\nMe from all difficulty. \n\nJobserve fun fordon's lefort that the misstances of missing and of Keeping Copiller fun as practicable different Clapes of Brieldings, \n\nRo \n\nthat the \n\nrescire do for Cammene chuch interfecint \n\nthe facts of the Four \n\nIntended",
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        "document_key": "CO129-018 - Others - 1846",
        "page_number": 614,
        "title": "CO129-018 - Others - 1846",
        "content_text": "AUG 15\n\n1623 tháng đầu\n\n607\n\n37 Wathorus Renace, Hyde Fash\n\nAugust 18, 1846.\n\nto the Interview with which you honoured\n\nLide W-1545.\n\nWith reference\n\nyou\n\nme at the Colonial Office\n\nchain\n\nfu\n\nthe 5th instant, on the\n\nsubject of a claim upon the Government of Hong Kong\n\nmy\n\nby\n\nfor Compensation for the injury I experienced\n\nin respect of\n\ncertain piece\n\nof\n\nLand on\n\nin that Island, I now proceed to\n\ndesire that I should forward to you\n\na revised statement in writing\n\nof the facts connected with the\n\nclaim. On the 30th August\n\nI plain, which I consider entitles it to the equitable consideration\n\nof Her Majesty's Government; and I think I shall best\n\ndo so, in the first place, by shortly re-stating the chief\n\nparticulars of the case.\n\nThis piece of ground\n\nwas granted, in May 1842,\n\nby Harry Pottinger, then acting as Land Officer;\n\nshortly after which Henry Pottinger left Hong Kong to join\n\nthe Expedition North\n\nin charge of\n\nthe truth, leaving the Government of the Island\n\nin the hands of A. R. Johnston, Esq.\n\nBefore his departure\n\nwere sound instructions to the Land Officer, of date May 27th\n\n(published in the Hong Kong Gazette)\n\nregarding any further\n\nB. P. Hawes, Esq., M.P.\n\nUnder Secretary of State\n\n[Sunday] of date",
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        "document_key": "CO129-056 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [6]",
        "page_number": 190,
        "title": "CO129-056 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [6]",
        "content_text": "SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.\n\nThe Hongkong Register.\n\nFLAS & AR\n\nLATE NAVS\n\n4 st Sp.\n\nHongkong (Mar. 25)\n\nMacau\n\nWhang\n\n25 Concis\n\nFROM TO CAPTAIN\n\nARRIVED,\n\nSAYLKU CAHLO\n\nMar, 22\n\nMartice\n\n10p¡ Welsit Formnes\n\n¡Mantl bgi Sarria 35 Tubal Cais B. Le 147 Sloggett\n\ng. 4Dencher\n\n25 Sarah Armitage Brit. sc. 185 Wooden\n\nTim and 208Kie\n\n23. LackroaND [ g. 400 Stereking\n\nH. 202 Broken\n\nSp. al. Caldin\n\nE of landwicke Brit\n\n26 Mathilde\n\n26 Scrutina\n\n27 Nankin\n\nri, se 8.\n\nSemut\n\n28 Leopard\n\nBrit. ek.\n\n206 Richards\n\n28 Ragla\n\nra\n\n25 Vanuetrop\n\nZai Lootse\n\n27\n\n291ADIN Suenam\n\n30 Fiery Cross\n\n30 June\n\n30 Rochapter\n\n30 Lanek\n\n30 Encounter\n\nBrit. Mr. 1832jCaldwell\n\ncmus\n\nShangbai\n\nArany\n\nMar. 15 Rico\n\nMar. 120eneral\n\nM 20 Rice Niakpo Man 143mdeles Caletta Jan. 30 Rice, 8cc. Nugpo Bar Sandria Bluniis\n\nSingapore\n\nRico\n\nBio 11\n\nMar. 16 Rico\n\nCONSIGN BEN\n\nRobert S. Walker J. sierre Williama, A. Ch Jardine. M. and Co Jobu Bu and Co John Bard and Co W. Pozlan and Co Turner and Co Orler\n\nLiverpool Der. 288ondries, Wise and Co. Christ\n\nDan. Uk, 291 Simes. Siugpo\n\nBan.sch. 149Kess\n\nVingpa\n\nHam, k, 216 Christiansen Nigo Brit. bk.! 472 Amirew\n\nBeit. stri 444 Watte\n\nHaro. 288 Joyan Jam,bk. 199 Bradshaw Brit. g. 265 Crocket ET M.S\n\n30 Queen Margarnt Belo, bk, 524 Spmano\n\n36 Madra\n\n30 Berwickshire\n\nso Tiger\n\n30 Courser\n\n27 Yocana\n\n27 Safelito\n\n¡Brat. str. 1250 Down\n\n118!!\n\nBelt. g. 142 Wohnenn\n\nBril. bk. 225 Day\n\nSiam\n\nMar. 15 Suuddeles Mar. 16 General De: 31Sundries Caleutia N160pium S.Francisco Zel Baftast Calestra an. 29Cotton Shanghuse Mer, sisilk Caletta\n\nM\n\nNingpo Ma 19 Rico Barabay,&\n\nShangae Nr. 24undries\n\nBombay\n\nIsitmssen and Co\n\nJohn Burd and Co jim. Eustan and Co John Burd and Co A. Head and Co Jardine, E. sai Co Wm. Pusau and Co\n\nxder\n\nJardine, M. and C5\n\nJardins, M. and Co\n\nSECT\n\nErition\n\nMariner's Hope, brig Hencius, sligi Mix, brig\n\nPrinces, ship\n\nRoyal Jaly, barque Sex Witeb, barque Star of the Hast, ship Terror, becqno Unicorn, steamer Water Witch. barqua\n\nPortuguese Clara, beig Laba barga Emigreto, ship Ensaio Make, barg, Sophis, arque Syenu, barne Tremeiga. barque\n\nFranch Joaquim, atı\n\nAmps Buckan, ship Benjamin Blorgan, ship Black Warrior, ship Golden West, silip\n\nP. & 0.8. N. Co.ussar, shrp Order\n\nWilliams, A. and Oo\n\nGibb, J. and Co\n\nBonnay\n\n24 Cotton\n\nDe Cation\n\n3. 20 Rice\n\nM16 Bice\n\nCotton Rive\n\nTail and Co\n\nSp. g. Pempreco Sual\n\nSp. ch. 89Govorda ¡Manila\n\n360 Mackozaic Caleutia\n\n41\n\n25 ('earl\n\nApar\n\nDarie\n\n15\n\nb\n\n4. Gscreta\n\n¡¡, Guita\n\nBrandan raul Co\n\n¡Msaila\n\nSAILED.\n\nFun\n\nDat%\n\nNAMA\n\nFLAG &\n\nCAPTAIN\n\nFor\n\nCARGO\n\nCONSIGNEES\n\n10\n\nSchaefer and C's\n\nHongkong Mar. 254 Jacoba Coruchia\n\n25 Banxhoo\n\n25 Marra\n\nJJ\n\nH\n\narty Hayes\n\n26 Kuterne\n\n20, Faust\n\n26 Amistad\n\n2 netinu\n\n27ly M. Wood\n\n27 Mor\n\nDut. bk.\n\n492 Rosenboom Be hk. $35, Vincent Rria. arh. 139 Dokon Brisk 284 Walliamson Dot. bk. 403 Kuipers\n\nlau.sc 143 Subberg\n\nbg. 205 Domingues\n\nDut. bk. a Lewis\n\nBrit. 3. 655 Callesk Brit. g. 179\n\n27 Waldemar Dan. k. 261chmidt\n\nCanton Packet m bk. Berden\n\nDu bk 607 Weber\n\n271 rouw Johanna hk. 520 urriaanse\n\n26 Argo\n\n28 St. Helena\n\n28-Juno\n\n29 Aar\n\nzy rota\n\n30 City of Sydney\n\nWasimpo tel. 7\n\nMar. 22Chia Chin\n\n231.4 Houriah Jari. Confucius Feb. 22Santa Lucia\n\nSwator Aməy\n\nHELL\n\n40ces Queen\n\nJ\n\nShangli\n\n7azy! Carim\n\nHope\n\namict\n\nDutch Testarkenburg\n\nDat k 441 Klant Bril. Nr. 210 Welsh\n\nBrit. g. 203 Taloy\n\nBrit. bg. Idenersu\n\ne:100 McCaus\n\nBrit. k. 310 Cairns\n\nBM. bk, 536 Uklejama\n\nBeit. b. 175 Peny\n\np. 335 Arrigoitia\n\nsi. sh. 500 Coniers\n\nBrit. E\n\nBrit. al 10 Dewar\n\nBrit. bl. 42% Young 15. Marquard Brit. eh. 209(Calling\n\n15 Singapore Bets 74May 12Aug. Melino ¡Bro. 5k. 306Luebko\n\nLinde Jucaries Edel Coari Sundries 3. Stations\n\nSundries\n\nPart Philip Sundries Adelaide\n\nاهان را این بردار\n\nSundries Sundries\n\nMaula Sand:ins Amay Sundries Calcutta Sundries Stangliae Suudries\n\nShangha\n\njoxotk\n\nSundries\n\nBallant\n\nBandries\n\nSundries\n\nAinoy\n\niSundries\n\nEast Coast\n\n¡Sundries\n\nAdolside\n\nFat Cowet\n\nWalparden\n\nSundries\n\nThas\n\nAustralla\n\nNew York\n\nSundries\n\nHan org\n\nSingapore\n\nFuntries\n\nSundries\n\nJurdina, M. and On\n\nHardin, M. and Co 'G. Daddell\n\nSheaffer and Co\n\nWm. Pasta Gd Co\n\nW. M. Robinet and Co\n\nF. Edger\n\nP. & 0, S. N C\n\nJohn Bord and So\n\n¡Dryer and Co\n\nOrder\n\n¡Y. J. Murrow\n\nOrlan\n\nik S. Walker ¡Y, J. Murrow\n\nt. Walker\n\nA. Berenbari\n\nJardinc, M. and Co.\n\nNye Brothers and Co\n\nP. F. Cama au Co\n\nDreyer and Co\n\nnlries Order\n\nSonides. F. Syme and Co\n\nSundries\n\nManila\n\nSa\n\nSingapore\n\nSundriss\n\nSantries\n\nSingapore\n\nandries\n\nMontal\n\nTaga\n\nMERCHANT VESSELS.\n\nSusp\n\nAn\n\nDuto of Arrival\n\nTONS MARTENS\n\nFeb. 57Ball\n\nFea\n\nP. O. Sync and Co\n\nTait and Co\n\nF. D. Syme and Co\n\nandersion and Co\n\nSanderthau and Co Mait and Ca Wm. Pusiau and Co\n\nJamestown, ship\n\nKit Carson, elig\n\nLucknow, ship\n\nSarah Warren, barque\n\nSirovcu, chip\n\nBray Hound, ship\n\nStarr King, ship\n\nTatar, ehin\n\nTuakina, ship\n\nArgonaut, ship\n\nBayard, barque\n\nBarrida Brothers, ship\n\nLuniest, ship\n\nHound, ship\n\nJames Marshall, brig\n\nLemisiana, kargus\n\nMaria, arque Metro, Larque Mic scener\n\nPenguin, weloener\n\nSes Nymph, berquo\n\nFiorid, ship\n\nMERCHANT VESSELS. -Contiennent.\n\n[No. 14-APRIL 1, 1855.\n\nShanghae Feb. 10 280gers\n\nDate ut\n\nAT\n\nAriva MARELAS\n\nCONSIGNEXY\n\nUJESTINATION\n\nIntended Dumpat-ly\n\nJA. Connolly\n\nSwatow\n\nFarly\n\nShaw, Blant and Uu\n\nJader\n\nLiverpool\n\nEarly\n\nLoudon\n\nEarly\n\nSwatow\n\nEwatow\n\nFly\n\n!London\n\nEarly\n\nEyduey\n\nFor Sute\n\n2\n\nFeb. 10 310 Quirk Mar. 178 Cav\n\nMu, 19 154 Trocar FU, 21 464 3hrewbery POL, 2400 Peutruath Web. 81291 Christian Fol. 26 377 M Far. 10 786 Brown Feb. 28 263 Lewis\n\nHongkong Feb. 22 294\n\nFeb 8 520Ch Macao far. 703 Guterres\n\nMacao Fou. 11 277 Luz Mar 240, L-z\n\nDunt, Beale and Co Rasselt und Co\n\nJames Bowman and o G, Livingston and Co Bella Co\n\nDent, Bible and Co\n\nBrawlao aul Co\n\nJames Stephensca J.V. Jarge\n\nA. A, de Mello and Co\n\nadoro d'Almeida\n\nJayah. Still and Cu\n\n4.\n\nGlan 18 2721) Agalia\n\n376 Marve\n\nL. Harones\n\nWhampoa Mar.\n\n606 Delhomme Wm. Fusta and Co\n\nlongkong Feb. 17 530Smith\n\nMar 30, 468 Killing atar. 151900Murphy Mus500Tatusan Mar. 6 720 Wingar Fel, 14113 Canjage Bet. 111,20 Cowell\n\nMax 89 Paner\n\nMer 11 340 Gore\n\nMar 7570 Mix\n\nSept. 842Jones\n\nWhaipos de 25 175 ale\n\n+\n\nAmoy\n\nGeneral Piern, ech.\n\nSnute\n\nWaverley, ag\n\nWar flawk, ship\n\nCautan, ship\n\nScience, Lonyes\n\nAntelope, satorer\n\nAriel, ship\n\nfebn Wade, ship.\n\nWilmington, honner\n\nCarlow, brig\n\nMoury, bagre\n\nN. B. Palmer, ship\n\nDutch\n\nAlbaneerwaard, barque Boilers, chip\n\nCristina, barque\n\n3. Elizabeth, barque\n\nJan Hendrik, barque\n\nMar. 13 180 Peete\n\nFab.\n\nlan.\n\n1100 rewater\n\nStar. € 713 Stevens\n\nKussell and Co Order\n\nRussell and Co Rose Go Russell and Ca Russell and Co Jane Steplu rson\n\nAdel&Philtill\n\nSingapore\n\nSingapore\n\nInd.\n\nWheming\n\nPeight ur Char!\n\nSan Francisco April 10\n\nAdel. & Mel. 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Co\n\nJarl, Mathos and Co\n\nwitanie, Anthen and\n\nFlescher and Co\n\nRaseuli and Co\n\nardine, Mathagon and Co\n\nP. & S. N. Co\n\nosvenor and de Siemsson and Co\n\nOrder\n\norlowitz and Cə\n\nder\n\nNathaly and Co\n\nJohn Burd at\n\nBrandao antil Ca\n\ndarling, tiles and Co\n\nTurner and Co\n\nJ. C. Confor\n\nMarine, Mathew, and Co\n\nDent and Co\n\nJamine, Matheson and Co\n\nDent and Co\n\nOrder\n\nZephyr, schooner\n\nAmin, staler\n\n\"\n\nDas.\n\nFeb.\n\n\"\n\n346\n\nEited up\n\nisitangha\n\npore and Cal, and.\n\nLes Imm\n\nFreighbor Char\n\nCelibri, big\n\nLima, bargre Mathilde, brig\n\nNicoline, whip Quaries Ross, banyoo Qusmine Lac\n\nEnterprise, schooner\n\nPodveta, quo Crnar, barne Hularich Gustav, brig Handilai, sek\n\nFARME\n\nLevaut, xhip General laro, ship En ship\n\nL'erviun\n\nJose C. Ugarte, ship Petion, barque Carinen, barye\n\nLinin, skip\n\nMicano, banque\n\nUgaris y Santiago,\n\nCriani, dig\n\nCatalin, ship\n\nRasita, scrooner\n\nAutenia Terry, hip\n\nJ. Terry, ship\n\nAANIGRA\n\nGelender, baryas\n\nSpesiali\n\nCosta, tig\n\nDenia, echuuler\n\nScratina, sup\n\nby.\n\nV. Kinavia, bug\n\nNarciss. brig\n\nReculito, souber\n\nYlesno, trig\n\nNeptus, rig\n\nSalve, brig\n\nDurdo, brig\n\nMar\n\nKar.\n\n1 609 Wagner\n\n1780mvei\n\n507 Mubar\n\n472fheon\n\n292day\n\npar: 221 70uillardsk\n\nEnst Coast Mar.\n\n600; Weber\n\nSupt. 8 401 Thamns\n\n14\n\nMar.\n\nAmoy ¡Mar\n\nMac.\n\nד'\n\nWm. Pastu aid to\n\nJLunes Stephenson\n\nSchoofter and 6\n\nSchaefer and Co\n\nOrder\n\nHungkung\n\nNpo & 'kong Perly New York\n\nAustralia\n\nSai: Francisco\n\n1.d.\n\nSydney & Melbmd. Shanghe\n\nLord\n\nAdol&P.Phillipmd.\n\nEast Coast\n\nardino, Malleson and Co Batavia\n\nOrder\n\nOrder\n\n8 Starkenburg Order\n\n234 Lewis\n\nFeb. 21 324 kút\n\nSwating Mac\n\nOrder\n\nOrder\n\n50Jurriaanse Order\n\nSnimith Oxier\n\nFvb-chan Pah. 425 Bonderkiak'Order\n\nShangban Feb. 30 411 Verachoor Deal, Beals and Co\n\n15\n\nFeb. 28 582 Boar\n\nHongkong Mar. 22 410 Sir Ben\n\nMar. 29 180 Krase\n\n31\n\n36ar. 13 33olgensen\n\nBaal Coast Mar.\n\nShanghae Web. 10 339 Thiessen\n\nMar. Mar\n\nW sau and Co\n\nTuhchac ¡Bvalow\n\nInd Early\n\nJohn Burd sei c\n\nJardine, acheson and Co κέλτικες\n\nCowes\n\nEarly\n\nWm. I'usiau and Co\n\nWm, Ruslan and Co\n\nikeres not Co\n\nCarlowitz and Co\n\n300 Allebar\n\n264 Salmidt\n\nCharler\n\nHongkong Mar. 25 200 Kier\n\nMar\n\nJohn Burd and Co\n\n18 Christiansen John Burd and Co\n\nMar 28 202 Broken\n\nFeb. 9; 162 Wallenen Whampoa Fah. 22 230|lie Fol\n\n400 thieveking Mar. M137 Uulivenda East Coast Peh 440 Jessen\n\nMac Pcb\n\nSwator Mar\n\nMac Sanghan Mar\n\nHer and Co\n\nWin. Pusa and fa Siemasza and Co Win. l'estes and Co Wm. Pastau and Co Augustino leard and Co 148 Suhit erg Win. Pustan and Co 450ngsiboch der 238 verge Drier\n\nal Ca Lindsay at Co\n\n160 Kreutzfeldtems 110 Reiner\n\nHongkong Mar. 1 283 Couper\n\nMacao M\n\nMax.\n\nHongkong Nos. 14 589anama\n\nArmstrong and Lawrance\n\nSan Francisco\n\nHamburg\n\nส\n\nUnder seinare\n\n450 Gill\n\nAsatrug and Lawrence\n\nAustralia\n\njlund.\n\n8 244: Defervari 35oj Baker\n\nVardine, Matheson and De jamay W. M. Rubinst and Cɔ\n\nNov. 13 250 Barry\n\n21\n\nW. M. Robinet and Co Under\n\nEast Coast\n\nFeb. 16' 199!Arnie\n\nItepairing\n\nMar.\n\nWhampoa Mar.\n\nMar. 10 29Mazeres\n\nPast Const Mar\n\nSwarow\n\nDec\n\nFul-chan Mar.\n\nAugustine Heal and Co\n\nRobinct and Co 21Savason. M. Cobinet a Co\n\n600 Wilso\n\nOrder 201,Juder word, Augustin? Heard and Co\n\nShanghae Pen $2200 Giganter Russell and Co\n\nJau 1004 Cortina\n\nHongkong Feb. 17340) Hongkong dar. 25 140 Sarria\n\nStr. 225kil Mar. 28 415adiz Mar. 126arcia\n\nMaceo\n\nMar 19 150luma Mar. 13srors\n\n11 27 46empere\n\nWampon Ma Sel-Suveven\n\nW. M. Roisina 20:4 Co\n\nUnder\n\nJ. V. Torge\n\nOrder\n\nHongkong\n\nBangkok\n\nEarly\n\n!L. J. Gulierenz\n\nvall, St and Co\n\nRail\n\nR. Garreta\n\nKantla\n\nGarreta\n\nYiocos\n\norder\n\nManila\n\nTait and Co\n\nVider\n\nJ. V. Jorge\n\nMar 15 131 Summers Kinder Amoy Mar 7\n\nMar.\n\nBest Coast Mar.\n\n240 Welsh\n\n¡P. D. Syme and Co\n\nMar\n\n465 Vineent\n\nMar\n\n274jitall\n\nSwarow\n\nJan,\n\n29 Fice\n\nMar\n\n149 Mooney\n\nOrder\n\nマジョル\n\n952 Raver\n\nOrder\n\nWaton and Co\n\nShanglue\n\nder\n\naddine, Math and Co\n\nUnder\n\nOnder\n\nShangbas\n\nRussell and Co\n\nAugustine Flourd and Ca\n\nadine, Matlicon and Co Wetnore and\n\nAustralia\n\nExcu\n\nJarlie, Matheson and Co Dant and Ca\n\nSwith. Keanely and Co\n\nFreight or Char\n\n10100, Livingsted and Ch\n\nEarly\n\nEast Cuasi Fol\n\n148 Prowes\n\nReis and Co\n\n226, alerte\n\nOrder\n\nShanghe ar\n\nit. & 0. 8. X. Ch\n\nShaw, Bland and Co\n\nAustralia\n\nEarly\n\nLizzie Jarvis, ship\n\nWhan pos Mar. 11\n\nIng Crosby\n\n550 Set, www\n\nde Burcowa\n\nSyviuey\n\nChinese\n\nPretighter Char\n\nlenkin, Faraon and Co\n\nLondon\n\nsealed\n\nBaty\n\nCoz facing, steamer\n\nWan, Pustuu and Co\n\nS. E. Inerows\n\ntient, Beale and Co\n\nTotdea\n\nal\n\nBause arque\n\nLouisa, harqe\n\nCity of London, bq.\n\nForerunner, selcounter Dealong, barque Sarah Lucy, ebiy\n\nFortas, brig\n\nAt Key, Behconer\n\nEllou Oliver, barque\n\nGazelle, seboouer\n\nWhampica, barguo\n\nExcellent, brig\n\nAfrica, are\n\nAntipodes, arquc\n\nJane. Mishall, slip\n\nKolt-on, up\n\nSex, ship\n\nWild Darrell, cl\n\nAgra, ship\n\nBlenheim, ship\n\nDuck, sclismer\n\nEllen, barque\n\nErin, steamer\n\nFormass, ship\n\nHistle, Ach.\n\nJane Maria, orig\n\nLady kingson, ab.\n\nLord of the lea. ship:\n\nMori, plep\n\nJan.\n\n450 Day\n\nChinniew Jan. 28orst\n\nAmey Mar 5 121 Wilson\n\nTait and Go\n\n083 Henderson Fisicher and Co\n\n11 Fax\n\nFeb. 17 876 Gale Ningpo Feb. 335 Curtis Ful-chau Mar. 615 Woot\n\nFeb. 24, 420 Turboil Yor.\n\n98% Young\n\nFeb. 11 846 Pant\n\nFeb. 16 D Seal\n\nWonging Mar. 190 Farlane\n\nShanghac Feb. 23 714 Bulgo\n\nFeb. 24 300 Walker\n\nEeb. 22 809iSanks\n\nMar\n\n$59 Jamieson\n\nJan. 25 40 Rollason\n\nFor 11 50Cces\n\nFair. 25 226 Bovey\n\nFch. 81200 Wilson\n\nMar. 13 sataxi Peb.\n\npremier\n\nLindras and Co.\n\nDent, Beale and C\n\nAnn, ship\n\nfar\n\nFe.\n\nMarine. Matheson and Co Lendon\n\nella Co\n\nSwedish Chieftain, burque\n\nKramn Augusto, brig\n\nChilias Frolic, hin\n\nOudenbury Schlosser, barque\n\nNew Grenadian\n\nWhatupo Mar 1 298 gera\n\nWhempos Mar. 20 250 Hasselhoff Dreyer and Co\n\nOrder\n\nShaughse Mar. 430 Gough\n\nEdited, Printed, sud Published by ROBERT STRACHAN, at the longlowy Register Office: Dage Ste\n\nVictoria, Hongkuag. Tuesday, April 1. 1889.\n\n188\n\nThe Hongkong Register.\n\nVol. XXIX. Na. 23.\n\nINTIMATIONS.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nATHEREAS the Firm of NYE BROTHERS & ..\n\nWo Cuntat, Chica, did, on the 11th day of March,\n\nVICTORIA, TUESDAY, JUNE 3, 1856.\n\nNOTICES OF FIRMS.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nE have established at Hongkong, under the same\n\nstyle, a branch of our business. MR. LUDWIG WIESE is admitted a Partuer in our\n\n1866, at the Office of the United States Cosmulate in tlanton, execute an Assignment of all their Property, real¦ Firm. and personal, in trust for the benefit of their Creditors, to the undersigned: We hereby give notice to all cuncorn ed to make payment to us of all uns de te, and to present to us any claims against the arid Firm.\n\nRUSSELL & 670.\n\nCanton, 18th March, 1556.\n\nJAMES PURDON & O»,\n\nNOTICE\n\nSeamen's Hospital.\n\nTrustees JARDINE, Esq., C. D. WILLIAMS,\n\nSIEMSSEN & Ca,\n\nCanton, 31st March, 1855.\n\nNOTICE MRJ MACKRILL SMITH is authorised to Sign the\n\nKING & Co.\n\nMane of our Firms in China per peenrastin,\n\nCanton, 13th March, 1856.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nKey. Hon. W. T. Maxes, Fag., R.S. WALKER, E. Ma\n\nSuperintendent of the P. & U. Steam Navigation Com pany, (ex officio)\n\nPreueurer, MANIAC, Esq.\n\nBaristent Surgeon-RARD, JAOX.\n\nConsulting Surgeon W. A. HARLAND, M.D.\n\n75 cents per day.\n\ndoilar\n\nTERMS OF ADMISSION.\n\nPublic Warda,...\n\nIntermediate Wards,\n\nPrivate Rooms,..\n\n2 dullars\n\nPatients are also admitted on deposits, at the following rates, renewable one day previour to the amount depozited baving been expended,\n\nPublic Wards,\n\nintermediate,..\n\nPrivate Rooms,\n\n$15\n\n$20\n\n$30\n\nThe Captains or Consignees of Vessels must be respon sible for the expense of Patients sont by them to the Hospital.\n\nMB-A Hospital Bills to be reneipted by the Erasurer only.\n\nTHE\n\nSHIPPING.\n\nERPULAR\n\nSTEAM COMMUNICATION\n\nLytworn\n\nHONGKONG AND CANTON.\n\nTHE WILLAMETTE, Captain W. Conss.\n\nFrum Honyhang to Canton,\n\nwary MONDAY & THURSDAY, at è s'elock s.M. From Canton a laughong,\n\nevery TUESDAY & FRIDAY, at 10 o'clock a.m. For further particulars, apply to the Agents,\n\nROBERT S. WALKER, Hongkony, MAXIMILIAN FISCHER, Canton. Hongkong, 20th May, 1856.\n\nREGULAR\n\nSTEAM COMMUNICATION batwest\n\nHONGKONG AND CANTÓN.\n\nLE SIN CHARLES FORBES,\n\nTHE\n\nFrom Mongkong in Ornton,\n\nOVORY FUSSDAY and FRIDAY, at Pelock ..\n\nfrom Canton w Hongkong,\n\nevery WEDNESDAY and SATURDAY at 8 o'clock ..\n\nFo further particulers, apply to the Agents,\n\nROBERT S. WALKER, Hangbong, K.ROTTUNJKE & Co., Canë\n\nHongkong, 20th May, 1856.\n\nNOTICES OF FIRMS.\n\nNOTICE\n\nHE interest and responsibility of Mr. J. F. B. TRAUTMANN Firm ceased by his retire- iment therefrom on His March fast, and our Business will be sonducted nonauforward under the maponsibility of the remaining Partuen Mx. G. C. SCHWADE and M. FREDNIK BOWER\n\nShanghu, 10th May, 1850.\n\nM\n\nG. C. SCHWABE & Co.\n\nTHOMAS 1 WALKER.\n\nArchitect and Surveyor,\n\nQueen's Road, Victoria, Hongkong.\n\nNOTICE\n\nE undersigned have established themselves as Mer\n\nchures üşü Ayenis in this place, je Copartnership, Wider the style and Firm of FRAMJEE BOMANJEÉ CAMA & Gill,\n\nBOMANJEE FRAMJEE CAMA. FRAMJKE EDULINE.\n\nCanton, 1st May, 1836.\n\nNOTICE\n\nJAMES CROSSLEY saved to be a partner in\n\nMore on its dugast lost, on which date his\n\nJuverest and responsibility termuntert,\n\nG. C. SCHWARE & Co. Shanglue, 27th March, 1856.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nTHE Business of the late MR. JOZE VICENTE\n\nJORGE will from this riste de encried on by the undemned under the name of JUZE JUROE & Co. All outstanding accounts of the Estate will be received aud settled by the new firm.\n\nR. N. WEISMANN, in this day admitted a Pattuor\n\nin our Pure in Chius.\n\nREISS and Cu.\n\nCanton, 1st May, 1885.\n\nNOTICE\n\nTR. LUGH BOLD GIBB sa admitted a Partner\n\nGIBB, LIVINGSTON & Co.\n\nMin our Firma ou let Jetz. 1855.\n\nHongkong, 27th July, 1855.\n\nHOUSES.\n\nTO BE SOLD OR LET.\n\nITE imodisto passession, as SHANGHAE, The DWELLING Ilouse and BUSINESS PRE- MISES of the undersigned, together with the adjoining LAN in the roar of the Godowna, situated in a most con bral position, and fronting the River.\n\nApply to\n\nDIRON, GRAY & Co. Shaughse, 16th February, 1855.\n\nFOR SALE. HOSE Two HOUSES, with excellent Crowns, LAND- Wawel, as present in the op- tion of Messrs. LVAL, SL & Co. and símated on part of Marine Lot No. 10.\n\nFor particulars apply to\n\nJARDINE, MATHESON & Co.\n\nHongkong, 7th March 1855.\n\nFOR SALE.\n\nFOR SALE.\n\nUST received by the undersigned, ---- 100 Barrels Hall FLOUR.\n\n1,000 51th-bags Chili\n\n6,000\n\nRAISINS.\n\nAles, on hand,-\n\nINSURANCES,\n\nUNIVERSAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY. ESTARIISAB 18 LONDON AND Calcutta, 1834. CONFIRMED BY SPECIAL ACT OF PARIJAMENT\n\n-\n\n6 William VI. Chap. 54. Invested Capital, B HUNDRED & FIFTY THOUSAND Pounds Sterling, of which Fry Lacs of Rupers are held by the Tian Branch,\n\nLondon Offics, No. 1, King William Street.\n\nChairman,\n\nSIR RENAY WILLO, KLS.\n\nINDIAN BRANCH, Directors,\n\nCHARLES R. PRINGLE, FL ALEXANDER WALLAGA, DE,\n\nWILLIAM B. SHOUL, E\n\nGEORGE BARZON Esq.,\n\nE. MACDONALD STEPHENACY, Esq.\n\nPhysician,\n\nAWAN WEEB, Bag, M.D.\n\nAgents and Sereiaris, M. BRADDON & Co\n\nMadras Agents,\n\nMessi BAINURADOK & Co.\n\nBombay Agents, Mears. LECSIR & Co.\n\n1. The marked success which has attended the opera tions of this society, justits the Directors in calling the ottention of the Public to the peruliar advantages held oul by this Luutitution to sil clag-en desirous of effecting\n\nBUTANCE Apor lives.\n\n2. The Tabies of Premium have been framed with the greadust cars. Toone applicable to India Eves have been Especially prepared from the experience of Indian mortal ity, and from the records of the Bast Indian Govern sent, and are an poderate as is deemed oonsistent with perfosi security.\n\n3. Proposals are received for Insuranets for the whale term of Life, either on a participating scale or ou & TUR parte puting scale at a lower rate of premium. Also for short perivda varying from one to seven years on very modcrate terms,\n\n4. An Annual division is made of One-fifth of the ascertained profits of the five preceding years, the other Pensfifth being set upart to enter into the average of of acreeding years.\n\n5. Of the gura annually divisible, heventy-five per cent\n\nINSURANCES.\n\nNo. 1,329\n\nRELIANCE MARINE INSURANCE SOCIETY. THE undersigned having been appointel Agonie Š\n\nPOLICIES, payable in loNDON, CALCUTTA, BOMBAY, KANGOON, PENAS, and SINGAPORK.\n\nCIBB, LIVINGSTON & Co. Hongkong, 26th April, 1856\n\nTHE LONDON AND ORIENTAL STEAM TRANSIT INSURANCE OFFICE 1 Established in 1849.,\n\nTHE findersigned are prepared to accept RISKS (covered by protecting POLICIES at bors and the varigan LoNON INUAR COMPANIES, by the PEN. INSULAR AND ORIENTAL STEAMERS from Can con und Bangkung, u Amoy, Shungiae, the Straits, Ceylon, the Prendencies of Iulia, Sues, and England.\n\nThe interest in the protecting Pocies is aseigned to be P. and 0. 5. N. Company for the purpose of their becoming the Medium of Paytast in the event of 1,000, For RATA OF PERICH and other information, apply fo\n\nROBERT & WADAs, Bmyksng.\n\nMATHILIAN FIS, C\n\nK. WABLES, Shangkur.\n\nH. T. Mansa, Singapore.\n\nA. P. LOVELL, Calcura.\n\nHORT FRANK, Madras, or\n\nJONN RI, Banbay.\n\nJAMES HARTLEY & Co.\n\nLondon, Bih January, 1851.\n\nALLIANER FIRE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF LONDON.\n\nTHE Undersigned having hotel uzat\n\nCure for the above COMPANY, are prepared to aucept ASSURANORS at Hongkong, as under\n\n1st-On Buildinga ot Brick or Stune, covered with Tiler, States, Metal, or other combustible Material, together with their Contents, when such Buildings are isolated from all others,-Kute of Pranium, per vend per Annua\n\nad-on ench Buildings and their Contents, when not so isolated, at the Rate of 1 per cent per Atore.\n\nAuces for 5 Months, and for 3 Mouths, of the Awal date will be churyou.\n\nOf the 1st Class-Assurances, for the present, will be accepted to the extent of £13,000 only vn og Risk. And of the 26 Class-To the extent of £8,500. A Building and its Contents taken together form oue Risk. Thus the above Smas may be udurwritten either on a Building alone, or the Contents alone; or, part on the Building, and part on the Contenta.\n\nNo Arazce is to be considered a force until the Premium be paid.\n\nAmongst other advantages of the Company, the As- eured will be natitled to participate in the Fronts alter Five successive payments.\n\nParties applying for ASSURANCES will please send\n\nis apportiosed to polley holders on the participating in full particulers of the Rish to be taken; any Deviation scale, we have paid six annual premiuus, and thans from which is one of the Company, wi profie can be applied either in reduction of subsequent visate the Policy. 40,000 Frach-baked NAVY BISCUIT, made of Chiti premiums, or usa Bouse to the original amount of the Flock, and guaranteed to keep weli.\n\nHongkong, 7th May, 1850.\n\nFOR SALE,\n\nESING\n\npolicy.\n\n3. The Annual redustion has averaged considerably | above 40 per cent, and in no one year as Ellen below\n\nthat sonnt\n\n7. The following table will shew the result of the last\n\nDORT WINE in Botle, SHEKEY in Bottle and Wood, divisita of profits as declared on the 9th May, 1855, at\n\naud BEER in Bottle.\n\ntan rate of 40 per cent, on the original manual premium:—\n\nReduced Original!\n\nAnnual Reduction. Annual Prynism\n\nApply\n\nALEX. WILSON. El Polar Godowns, 15th april, 1856.\n\nFOR SALE\n\nApply to\n\nBRST AN COAL\n\nHongkong, 7th April, 1855.\n\nFOR SALE.\n\nAge.\n\nDate of Sam As\n\nPolicy.\n\nsurof.\n\nPresi\n\n30\n\nOu cr\n\n10,000\n\n120\n\nCold Ro It-\n\n30\n\nbefore\n\nLINDSAY & Co.\n\n40\n\nthe 9th\n\n10.020\n\n590\n\nC\n\nMay,\n\n10.000\n\n150)\n\n10,000\n\n740 1,000\n\nREST Labuan STEAM COAL. PRICE, &350 per Ton.\n\nApply to\n\nHongkong, 7th April, 185tì.\n\nTRENCH CORKS.\n\nFOR SALE\n\nLINDSAY & Co.\n\nCHAMPAGNE, BRANDY, PORT WINE, PALE ¦and Gezper SHERRIES.\n\nCLARETS of Superior quailty. Chaters. Maxg 2, Moviny, St. Cslepke, St. Julien, and Lesviite.\n\nApply in HongKong and CANTON to\n\nLYALL, STILL & Co. flongkong, 7ih September, 1855.\n\nFOR SALE. CUPERIOR MADEIRA in Pipes, Half and Quarter?\n\nPipes, apply to\n\nALEX. WILSON, Menar. Jannis, Mayurson & Co.\n\nGallorans. East Point, 31st October, 1853.\n\nINSURANCES,\n\nNOTICK\n\nLONDON & ORIENTAL STEAM TRANSIT INSURANCE OFFICE, undersigned has received authority by the last bail to make all LOSSES ON POLICIES issued JOZE JORGE.\n\nhere by tbo above filice, payable in THREE MONTHS ZIDURO ANTONIO DE ALMEIDA. after oties, in place of six Months Macao, 3d April, 1956,\n\nROB. 3. WALKER, Agrante\n\nM\n\nNOTICE.\n\nFR JAMES McCORMICK is authorised to sigu vut\n\nFm per procuration.\n\nALVORD & Co.\n\nCanton, 12th Jannary, 1856.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nFR. THOMAS D. BOYU is authorized to sign our Mr Ficto\n\nP. D. SYME & C\n\nAmoy, 12th May. 1855.\n\nMR\n\nNOTICE.\n\nR. GRAHAM ANDERSON foinet me as a Partner on the 1st of January lušt. The buginese will be cried an in the base of D. W. MACKENZIE & Co.\n\nD. W. MACKENZIE.\n\nCanton, 5th Muralt, 1860.\n\nM. JAMES BROWN, Notary Public, MESURS, GASKELL & BROWN, Solicitora, Notaries Public, de\n\nQueen's Road, Victoria.\n\nHongkong. 6th Jan, 1855\n\nheretofore.\n\nNOTICE. LONDON ASSURANCE CORPORATION, Established by Charter 1720. E undersigned, Agouts at Hongkong for the above Corporation, Are prepared to grant POLICIES AGAINST FIRE, to the extent of £10,000, on any Huilding or Murthandize in the same.\n\nDENT & Co.. dynie\n\nIlangkung, 12th Aprit, 1855.\n\n------\n\nLONDON AND ORIENTAL STEAM TRANSIT\n\nINSURANCE OFFICE. and after this way, ir. MAXIMIZA FISCHER of and after this waves det sks\n\nof this Office.\n\nBOBERT S. WALKER,\n\nHongkong, 3 March 1854.\n\nAgent.\n\nof\n\n25%-0\n\n459 9?-> 298-0 296-0 851-0 444-C\n\n26-18\n\n112 0 618-0\n\na. Following in an Extract of the rates of Precium\n\nAnnual Premium for an Assurance on Rs 1,000.\n\n8858 1 Feer.\n\n98% 3 Fears.\n\nCIVIL\n\n128823\n\n*R\n\npete Profs.\n\n22\n\nના\n\nMr.\n\nEnglish\n\nJitter\n\n£ 18 %\n\nAge. 1 Year 3 Years5 Fears 7 Faith with life with-\n\n32588+\n\n38899\n\n45\n\nJARDINE, MATHESON & Co., Agema in Chron.\n\nHongkong, 1st January, 1845.\n\nMISCELLANEOUS.\n\nBREAD AND BISCUIT BAKERY, SINO, Bread and Biscuit Baker, and General Store Leper, bega to intimate, that he has consented arogiments to establish a Branch of his House at CANTON, in New French Hong, sud will be happy to supply Ladies and Gentlemen of the latter plac with that great Gesideralno-z superior article of Bread He Daltora Linsel that, from his long experience in sale, siness, and trom the facilities he posts of procuring, Et all times at finest brand of American Flour, viz., Gallego, he will be able to give a better article to int | furuishod by any rival establish uc\n\nBar wo keep constantly on hand, an assort ment of the best WINES, LIQUORS, BEER, sud PORTER in Quars and Pinda, OHMAN'S STORES, PERFUMERY, and STATIONERY, K., &c.\n\nHongkong, 1st May, 1956.\n\nSAN MIGUEL BRASS AND IRON FOUNDRY.\n\n\"NDER the Superlateniques of an Experiched Ba\n\nGILEER Orlere for all kinds of MACHINERY exented with despatch. Erxam ENGINES & BOILERS repaired. SHAFTS of the best Englen Tron from 5 to Orders to be aduresed Mussre. 9 inches diameter. 3. A. BARRETTO & Co., Maurier.\n\nA Cuniors LOT ATPAL-Dr. Wallis, while re siding near the Mississippi, married his landlady, an intercating young woman, aged twenty-sighs; after which he sled in Washington, a short distance from Columbia, where he enjoyed all the happiness that a worried man could desire.\n\n38\n\nBut his happiness was to be of short duration. Une morning a middle-aged ma waited upon him, and after some questions upon ja.\n\nPrijes.\n\n27\n\n28\n\n17\n\n33\n\n34\n\n40\n\n**\n\n55\n\n48\n\n13\n\n64\n\nJ5\n\n-------\n\n45\n\nIf that\n\ndifferent matters, he axited him he was married? The doctor replied \"yes\" \"And to a lady of colour 9. On return of Aesuere to Eatope for a permanent residing foredly in a town on the Mississippi\"\n\n\"Yea. Well that is my slave, and, although she is residence, their Premiums are immediately reduced to\n\nworth 2.000 dollars, I will only ask 300 for her, the English rate, hath on the participating and ou\n\nsum he not paid within an hour, I will advertise her as participating scales. If the Policy be according to the\n\nTUNAWAY. During the tour, the husband asked his participating scale, the reduction arising from profine ja allowed on the English race, thus admitting of a con-\n\nwife if she were a slave, and the property of the man tinuance of the Asserance in Europe on most moderate who had just left the buse?\" Yes,\" replied the wife, while teurs rulled down her cheeks; \"I am a slave, thus\n\nLerms.\n\n10. Military Officers holding Civil appointments are property of that man, who is my father.\" The busland allowed to subscribe at the Civil rates of Premium.\n\nkissed har, wiped away her tears, forgare the deception the bad practiced, to which love had instigated her, and then paid the required sun which made her his für life.\n\n11. Premiuma are payable citberannually. hall yearly, or quarterly, or monthly, and a guare of 28 days in allow- ed for such payment.\n\n12. Melical referees se renerated by the Society.\n\n---\n\nA SHORT PARLIAMENT.-The shortest parliament an\n\n13. At she period of last annual valuation, the Aseta record was that of 1390, which had but one session of\n\nof this Society were ascertained to be upwards of £550,000. a single day, and during that short space contrived to The amount of Potieres in force about £2,003,000 and upset one king and set up another.\n\nthe annual income arising frora przesiums thereon 200,099, exclusive of Interest ou the invested Capital.\n\nTables of ales, forma and instructions for cffecting Assuraneva, can be obtained un application to the Secre torics, or to\n\nROBERT S. WALKER,\n\nAceni.\n\nHangkong, 20th March, 1866.\n\nNOTICE\n\nHe undersigned, having heen appointed Agents for the CALCUTTA MERCANTILE MARINE INSURANCE SOCIETY, aro zady to save Policies in behalf of that Orbice, payahie in SINDACH, Penang, RANGOON, CALCUTTA, BONDAY, LORDON, and in CHINA.\n\nDAVID SASSOON, SONS & Co.\n\nCanton, 231 Jannury, 1856.\n\nMYSTICAL POLYGAMY.-The King of the Ashantees is allowed by law 3333 wives-at being the precise mystical number on which, it is said, the prosperity of the native depends.\n\nTRE\" AULING Passion.\"-On his death-bed a dia. tinguished humorist requested that no one might be Javited to his funeral, \"because,\" gasperl out the dying man, it is a civility I can never repay.\"\"\n\ndefire that officers of the Lavy should not wear bearda An admiralty circular may :-\"It is their furdships'\n\nof moustaches on board Her Majesty's ships.\n\nIn consequence of the probability of peace, an order\n\nhar beco already sed prohibiting nsval otcets from wearing moustaches while on full pay.",
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        "content_text": "324\n\n25\n\nAr\n\nDATE\n\nFRAM\n\nDara\n\n[NO. 6. FEBRUARY 10, 7\n\nMERCHANT VESSEL&-Continual.\n\nJune 29 117 Dent, Beale and Co\n\nJan. 12 962 Lindsay and Co\n\nJan. 29 2, Duus and Co Jan 19 7 W. Husband Co July 14 50 Watson, aud Co\n\n925 W. Pustau and Co\n\nSHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.\n\nARRIVED,\n\nThe Wongkong Register.\n\nMERCHANT VESSELS-Continued,\n\nSarre\n\nArrival\n\nDate of\n\nTime\n\nDate of\n\nCOMSJONKER\n\nSups\n\nArrivTOMA\n\nConsta\n\nNAMR\n\nFLAG\n\nPOSH CAPTAIN\n\nRio\n\nFRUM\n\nBAILED\n\nCanco\n\nCONTIGNER.\n\nFast Coast\n\nDuich\n\nShanghae British\n\n2. Christian\n\nglsamstra\n\n4 Auckland\n\nBercha\n\n4 Mazeppa\n\nAn\n\n8 Vecilia\n\n23 Archer\n\nHongkong Feb. Leon\n\nדן\n\nDut. 764 ric\n\nEarl of Windeer Brit. sh. 1000\n\nkrawa 3JArcher\n\nAm. sh.160\n\nagond\n\nTime & Truth Brit. bk 670 Dod\n\nAuckland\n\n$Queen Phangnze Jau. 23 Maria Hay\n\nAm. hk 204 Nelson\n\nBrisach. 140\n\nBolton Brit str. 103 Harris\n\nDrát, s 200 steary Dri sh. 924 Middleton Aan. a. 1280 Osgood\n\nBordcan Sept. 10\n\neucral Sonrabara Jan. 2 Rico Calcutta Nov. 23 Kiar Bombay Dec. 30 General Shanghae Jan. 30 Ballnat Melbourne Doe, 1 Ballast\n\nGeneral Formosa Feb. Nineus FP Sundries\n\nAmoy\n\nBrat Cess Peb\n\n2 Treasure\n\nGenerat Amoy Peb. Ballast Bingapore Jan. 28\n\nAmunition Singapurs Dec. 24\n\nilico Meller Sov. 26 Baline 3. Francisc\n\nDiana. sebouer\n\nJan.\n\n100 Schaefer and Co\n\nFr. Lk. 406 Oreg Hara, bg. 260 Bigcon\n\nOrdar\n\nWat.l'ostaw andCo Schaefer and Co Lindsay and Co Order\n\nHenrietta Maris, bq. Due. Pagan Zephyr, ba July Vrieadshop, chip jJune\n\nDanish\n\n581 Schaeffer anil Co Jady A. Duff, barque 952. W. LawrenogaĈo Lady Mary Wood, c. Dec. 700 F. W. Lawrence Co Laalmenntir, ship\n\nLoulan Baillte, ship\n\nKelso, ship\n\nJan. *: 589 Ladway and Ca\n\nNov.\n\n$ 3709, Kennedy and Co\n\n509.&O. 8. S. N. G\n\nJan.\n\n7 8529, Bawinan and Co\n\nAng. 24 49man, B. and Co\n\nOrder\n\nBre. bk. Suo Klamp\n\nFeb.\n\nBrits 674 Tage\n\nA. Catr. 945 Drought\n\n.M. Robinet & Cy Wu. Pastau and Co Jardine. M. and Co 1. Walker Jardine, and Co\n\nHaldur, sehooner Lootse, schooner\n\nHamburg\n\nNov.\n\n14: W. Pustau and Cu\n\nMary Wionholt, ship\n\nJa\n\n1205ardino, M. & Co\n\nJav.\n\n160 W. Tustau and Co\n\nNapoleon HI, abip\n\nDec\n\n760 Busaeil and Cu\n\nElizabeth Rose, brig Lima, barque Mathilde, brig\n\nOct\n\n123 Siemsson and Ca\n\nJune\n\n919John Bard and Co\n\nKau.\n\n202 Turner and Ca\n\nNina, schooner File, ship Nightingale, ship Parade, qua Palmyra, harjua\n\nNov.\n\n115 John Burd and Co\n\nDoe\n\n708 Jardino, M. and Co\n\nHee. 1404Jardine, M. and Co\n\nbraly\n\n62 Welters and Co\n\nNov. 28 708 Captain\n\nBadast\n\nAugier and Cu Jardino, J. & Co tugwell and Cu\n\nParagon, skip\n\nBremon\n\nAug.\n\n800 Order\n\nPelican, barque\n\n2. 144. C. Schwabe\n\nPluto, stenmer\n\nFelis, arqu\n\nJan,\n\nbeefyall, Stiil and Co\n\nPruth, ship\n\nSAILED.\n\nChilian Frolle, schooner\n\nRemi, atenmer\n\nJape\n\n166W.M.Robinet & Ve\n\nRolls, lig\n\nGreyhound, ship\n\nFeb.\n\n500W. Pustau and\n\nCedarsh Lacy, barque\n\nNAMS\n\nRo\n\nTexs\n\nCAPTAIN\n\nFor\n\nCono\n\nCONNORRST\n\nSwntow Britisk\n\nSamuel Studdart, bg, Salmatle, ship\n\nSept. 1 451 Dent, Beale at Co\n\nالواد\n\nSir James, bang\n\nDec.\n\n7 Lindsay and Co\n\nHongkong Feh. No\n\n3 Alligator\n\n3 Magallanes\n\n3 Nimrod\n\n4 Waroola\n\n3.Scipion\n\n8 Baria\n\n19 Crisis\n\n4P. Van Burco\n\nWild Wave\n\nBrit bg 200 Boyh Brit. bg 1078tudes Sp. str.\n\nBrit. sh. 820arg\n\nBrit. ah 54 Alien Brit, sch. 200 Cheyn\n\nLaughing Water Brit, hk. 404 Omut\n\n6 Montriant\n\nChampion\n\n7 Si James Brooke Brit. str. 973 Skioner\n\n7 Dygden\n\nSw. ab. 240 Patterson\n\n7 Anos Justina Dut. sb. 500 Budeaburg 7J. Godfrey\n\nAm. t 486jGrant\n\nAlfred the Great Brit ] 640 Melutyro Grayhoaud\n\nSwatow Jan. 20 Anais\n\nAmoy Dec. 29 Tariew Fuhchau Nov. 21 Queensbury\n\nDec 8Folmala\n\n15 Agnes Garland\n\nShanghae Jan. 198chiamer\n\n12 Prince Royal 19,Sallow\n\n15 White Swallow\n\n20 Kate Carnie\n\nFr. sh. 82|Carignac\n\nAna sch. 240 Gregory Brit sh. 680 Casaldy Belk all asrisulte Brit. bk. 265 Thompso old. bk. 550 Schwarz\n\nBrit. sh. 502 Hamilton\n\nBrit. sh. 1293 Tucker\n\nAm. sh. 1200 Brown\n\nBrit, h, 401 Black.\n\nSHIPPING IN CHINA.\n\nMERCHANT VISELS.\n\nLondon\n\nNew York\n\nSiam\n\nSundries\n\nOnder\n\nChina, whip\n\nApril\n\n300 Order\n\nSu R. Abercromby, si. Jan.\n\n743 Tammer and Co\n\nSheagha\n\nSundries\n\nGibb, L. and Co\n\nFazal Cerian, burqno Juue\n\n250 Order\n\nVindex, actioner\n\nJon.\n\n179 Dent and Ce\n\nBoern\n\nManila\n\nNantos, schoober\n\nAug.\n\n150 D, Laprak\n\nWhampoa, barque\n\nSept. 30\n\n378 Under\n\nWild Mower, ship\n\nfec.\n\nSingapore\n\nSandries\n\n175 Lindany and Co\n\nDent and Co\n\nTht. bk. 250 Yeaser\n\nButaris ¡Sundries\n\nWm. Pustan and Co\n\nAmey\n\nFrench\n\nSingapor\n\nSundries\n\nHolliday, Wise and Ce\n\nBritish\n\nCanton, ship\n\nDea\n\n435 Deal and Co\n\nMeltwuns\n\nSundries Jardine, M, and Ge\n\nAbbotsford, barquo\n\nNov.\n\n425 F. D. SyDia and Co\n\n| Montrlant, ship\n\nFab,\n\n917ent and Co\n\nAkyalı\n\nSp.bg\n\nMaulls Duran\n\nSundnes\n\nSundries\n\nhilpa, Moore and Co\n\nAnn Key, schoenen\n\nApril\n\n121 Tait and fa\n\nAmerican\n\nAntoinette, barque\n\nSøpt\n\nBrit. str. 850 Payley\n\nStangha\n\nSandrite ], & 28, N. Ca\n\nBlack River Packet, bq. April 19,\n\n219 Scharffor and Co 205 Order\n\nArgonaut, ship\n\nJa.\n\n586 King and Co\n\nFr. sh. 91 Brun\n\nStangha\n\nSundries\n\nDent and Co\n\nConfucina, ship\n\nNov.\n\nAm. sh. 360 Gray\n\nForth Seas\n\nSundries\n\nUrder\n\nColdstream, ship\n\nDee.\n\nSingaport\n\nSundries\n\nFletcher and Co\n\nChinchew, ship\n\nSept\n\nShaug\n\nBuutirios\n\nWzz. Pastau and Co\n\nRangoon\n\nSundries\n\nTurner and Ca\n\nEllen, barque\n\nOliver, bargce\n\nNos.\n\nPeb\n\nSan Fransisco Sundries\n\nOrder\n\nEmma, scheuer\n\n511 Holliday, Wise &Co 764adine, M. and Co\n\n785. D. Sype and Co\n\n226 Lya, Stil! and Co 688 Platcher and Co April 21; 120 Curner and Co\n\nMilam, ship Carrington, ship Channing, ship Competitor, siy Eagle, ekip\n\nEagle Wing, ship\n\nGolden Weat, ably\n\nB.\n\nDec.\n\n49% Raspell and Co\n\nNOF.\n\n100 aac M. Buli & Co\n\nJuly $556 King and Co\n\nNov, 101000 King and Co\n\n1174 Russell and Co\n\n1500 A. Heard and Co\n\nMelbourne\n\n¡Buodtles\n\nJamca StephoneNA\n\nEmigrant, baryas\n\nChi ah. 506/Smith\n\nBest Coun\n\nBundries Won. Pratâd and Ca\n\nEmily Annina, neh,\n\nAug. 19 Nov.\n\nOrder\n\nHenry Harback, ship\n\nNov. 16 740 Crampton, H. & Co\n\n165 Purlagjes & Co | Horsilo, ship\n\nNov. 18\n\ntall, Nya and Co\n\nHavant\n\nSuadrien\n\nOrder\n\nForerunner, schooner\n\nDea\n\n140 D. faprak\n\nMatilda, ship\n\nSingapor\n\nSandrica\n\nLondon\n\nTait and Co\n\nTena, &c. Heard and Co\n\nGom, brly\n\nJane\n\n254 Dent ausl Co\n\nMelita, schooner\n\nJuu. J\n\n689 Rosell and Co\n\n140 Kassell and Co\n\nHomer brig\n\nJals\n\n595 Order\n\nTeas, &c.\n\nLiverpool Teas, c. Cows, der Sundries\n\nJardino, M. and Co\n\nOrder\n\nMariner's Hope, brig\n\nApril\n\n250 Order\n\nNile, hrig\n\nJuas\n\nEid Angier and Ca\n\nRomances of Sons ship! Dos.\n\nEundou Teas, &c, Upadi\n\nWth. Paste and Lo Blenkin, R. and Co\n\nNymph, barqne\n\nDec.\n\n400 Liadeay and Ca\n\nNeptune's Favorite, sh. Det. 81846|A, Heard and Co Norwester, ship\n\nDanish\n\nDec. 101287 A. Heard and Co\n\n241782 Ruwell and Co\n\nPet, barque\n\nAag\n\n375 Under\n\nDanmark, arque\n\nTeas, c Tens, &c.\n\nGrampton, H. and Co\n\nRoyal Lily, barque\n\nApril 28\n\n404 Lunevil and Co\n\nGlucions, brig\n\nLiverpool\n\nBrit, sh. 580|Rodger\n\nToas, e Sundrios\n\nKingsport\n\nMERCHANT VKSELS—Continued.\n\nA. Heard and Dent, Beale and Ca Gilian and Co\n\nBisters, brig\n\nJune\n\n182 Tail sud Co\n\nDee 330 Sterosen and Co Fan. 14 268Siemssen and Co Nov\n\n360 Overweg aud to\n\nUncle Tom, schooner\n\nSept\n\nWood Lark,brig\n\nDet. 12\n\nto ruil, Still and Co\n\nUnder\n\nJan.\n\n188 W. Pustan and Co\n\nNoringaese\n\nJATH\n\n270 W. Pustau and Co\n\nAurora, schooner\n\nMay\n\n128 Order\n\n140 W. Puatau and Co\n\nPostum, steac\n\nJune\n\n236 Simen and Ca\n\nAmericum\n\nNov.\n\n210 Joan Burl and Co\n\nSAIZS\n\n!Data of Tou\n\nMorida, ship\n\nCONFIGNERS\n\nHelcus, ship\n\nNov. Junt\n\nDec.\n\n404 Squeer and Co\n\nโมน\n\n25 W. Postan and Co\n\nDate of Inors\n\nCommons\n\n{Arrival |\n\nSept.\n\n277W. Pustan and Co\n\nHongkong\n\nOct.\n\n340 Trautmann and Co\n\nAlmonde, banq\n\nAug.\n\n589Order\n\nJustina, barque\n\njAug\n\nMercurius, barque Fielades,\n\nJuly\n\nDec,\n\n230|Dreyer und Vo\n\nDen.\n\n225 Biomes and Co\n\nLygdon, shig\n\nHambary\n\nBonito, brig\n\n¡Nov,\n\n31 John Burd and Cal\n\nBuenos Ayua, brig\n\nDed.\n\n200 Dreger and Co\n\nChristinu, brig Puel, choomer\n\nApril\n\n170rder\n\nDew\n\n148 Jardine, M. and Co\n\nPeruvian\n\n250W.M. Robinet & Co\n\nAug.\n\n175W.M.Robinet & Co\n\nDeo.\n\n400 Order\n\nLug\n\n9 430 Order\n\nAourn Barrabout Butts.n\n\nJuly\n\n3240;der\n\nCalcutta\n\nNov.\n\n220. 1. Syaru and Co\n\ny 11 4168.0. Syme and Ce\n\nConn\n\nJuly\n\n325 King and Co\n\nAng, 25 500 King and Co\n\nAag, 10 985 Russell and Co\n\nFab\n\n216|W. Puetae and Co\n\nSabu\n\nAt Hongkong} British Anandale, ship And, steamer Anaye, ship Australia, chip Avon, Lacque Banner, schooner\n\nGaneber, barque Brothers, brig Caldera, ship\n\nCadiz, steamer\n\nArrival:\n\n8759 Lyall, Sul and Co J Feb. 5 163 Robert 9. Walker Jan. 13 878 Fletcher and Co Sept. 5 580 John Bardd and Co Sep. 39 280 Bus and Co Jan. 188ohn Burd and Co\n\nPet 485 Jardiue, St. and Co\n\nDec. 15 2400rder\n\nJan. 8 225 Order\n\nFeb, 13000 P. & 0.9. N. Cu\n\nCity of Carlisle, ships. 15 996Jardine, 3 and Cu\n\nClarendon, satp\n\nDeva, ship\n\nSinglet, sleemer\n\nEarl Grey, barque\n\nEarl of Windsor ship\n\nBena, brig\n\nBuranic ship Excellent, brig Falcon, ship Formosa, ship\n\nGleus, ahip\n\nGod Succe, sip\n\nHero, ship\n\nKensington ship\n\nLady Hayce, barque\n\nLaurick, brig\n\nLord Raglan. ship Tani, barque\n\nNarshall, Buhooner Maria Hay, ship Mazepps, schooner Pacifico, brig\n\nFeb. 1 850Jarding, M. and Co Jan. 18:1030 Russell and Co\n\nDoc 8 1888tomssen und Co Dec. 17 8737ardine, M.\n\nDiter\n\nAdmiral Zoutman, shipDec.\n\nAlbrecht Belling, bq.Nov.\n\nG. G. D. Von Twist, hq,fian. Oct. 10 300W. Postau and Coatic Liong, bargus ne Jaa. 18 3685iomsten and Co Nov. 28, 8438,Senseffer and Co\n\nAnon Elizabet,bą. Chriatias, leque General de Stiles, hop. Jan. 2 798|Under Hollandetrow, hargas Jacot. Lima, barke Jacoba Cornella, pq. Klazina, darus\n\nOosterling, harg Proteos, barque Regina, arqu Sumatra, aliip Danish\n\nSept. 10 799 chaster and Co OL 32 800 Schaeffer and Cu Feb. 192chaser and Co Jan. 17 charler and Co Dee. 13 363 Van der Haven Jan 18 443ucer and Co Jan. 473 W. Punta and Co Feb. 278445obacter and Co\n\nMay 10 Siemmen and\n\nIfercuian, brig Helena\n\nJau. 31\n\nCo\n\nHanbury\n\nAar, ship\n\nAlbin, schooner Christian, belg\n\nDec. y Nov. 16 Feb.\n\n260\n\nFab 21 Lindas and Co\n\nJan. 26) 207 Camajce and Co\n\nDec. 26 728 Order\n\nNov. 385 Lyail, Still and Co\n\nSept. 26 430Jardine, M. & Lin\n\nJan. 14 406 Order\n\nLau. 16 784. Murray and Co\n\nNov. 600 Jardine, M. & Co\n\nJan. 1 404 Lindsey and Co\n\nJan. 13 scoileder\n\n0 15 848 Geo. Duddell\n\nJan. 27 28Ajardine, M. and Co\n\nDec. 17 766 Jardine, M. & Cn\n\nJan. 12 274 Dent and Co\n\nDet.\n\n8 1988. K. Burrow\n\nJan. 31 994 Janline, M. and Co\n\nFeh. 4140anline, M. & Co Oct. 14] 146Deo. Dúddell T'aranverance, Largna Sept. 18 2Turner and Ca Princess Reval, supDec, 28; 900 Dent aud Co\n\n(Doc. 25 781onser\n\nQueen, brig Samarang, banque\n\nApoctly, ship\n\nFeb. 8 ĐuôiAngier and Ca\n\nDes. 25 5801Dent and Co\n\nJau 241031 Jamaa Stephenson\n\nSpirit of the North, ah. Kov, 11) 671jtibb, L. and Co Sultans, barque Oct 10 588schaeffer and e\n\nTime & Truth, bargde Teh. 3 578 Orlar\n\nUnion, leamer\n\nTruro, ship\n\nFenilia, ship\n\nVirginia alip\n\nVivid, brig\n\nWater Witch, barque\n\nWild Daynell, ach. Zephyr, schooner\n\nFrench\n\nEtoile, ship\n\nIndia, barqu\n\nLeon, harqua\n\nMaarl, ship\n\nSucces, ship\n\nVille de Dieppe, barque\n\nAnter\n\nAntonita, schwoner Antelope, T Archer, whip Auckland, barque\n\nBurnham, barque\n\nCarbon, shooner\n\nJan. 24 695 Order\n\nAng. 16 786 Thon. Husband Co Feb. 8 674 Jardine, Al, sad Co June 18 830 Lyall, Still and Cộ Nov. 8 143ardine. M. & Co Jau. 15 253 D. Lapaik\n\nJan. 156 Deat and Co\n\nJun. 31 148Dcut and Co\n\nJan. 24 539 Order\n\nfan. 18 615 Dent and Co\n\nFalk 2405,Order\n\nJan 24 156 Russell and Co\n\nNov. 14mier\n\nno. 221014 gail, Sul and Co\n\nDec. 3 112Order\n\nJan. 24200 Kussell and Co\n\nTeb. 31460 Roswell and Co\n\nFeb. 209.M.Robinet & Co\n\nOct. 28 245 W. Pulau and Co\n\nDue 26 300 K. Crashy\n\nCW. Bradley, j, bq. Oct. 9 218 A. Heard and Co\n\nDon Quixote, ship\n\nKtement, ship\n\nEureka, ship\n\nFrancis P. Sage, ship\n\n• Garland, schooner\n\nHelgu Mar, bergun\n\nJanes Marshall, big Kate Hooper, shig Mary Whitridge, ship\n\nMatcor, ekip\n\nMiana, schooner\n\nMin, geamur\n\nMonsoon, ship\n\nNorth Wind, ship\n\nN. B. Palmer, Jip\n\nDen 91438 King and Co\n\nJAN 33 400A. Heard and Co\n\nNov. 51100A. Heard and Co\n\nNov, 191146 Jardine, M. & Co\n\nJan. 151138. R. Barrows\n\nDec. 26 560 Order\n\nJan. 16 1865. K. Darrows\n\nDec, 281488 Jne. Stephenson\n\nNov. 27 978 Kuseli aud Co\n\nao. 201088, Heard and Co May 306Order\n\nJ. 14 101 Bu-sell and Co\n\nJane 28 506 Thomas Hunt &Co Oct.\n\n81041 Jaa. Purdon and Co\n\nDec. 1400 Russell and Co\n\nQueen of the Seas, spec. 17185Rll and Co\n\nRacebound\n\nRealute, ship\n\nShane Draper, sch.\n\nSportsman, shiy\n\nStar King, sly\n\nTuskina, ship\n\nYoung America, wip\n\nAug. 28 580. E. Barrows\n\nSept. 25 801 Russell and Ca\n\nHai, 26 206 A. Heard and Co\n\nNov. 20 626 Unter\n\nDec. 14177nder\n\nSept. 342 Y. J. Murrow\n\nSept 202000. Heard and Co\n\nMeteos, ship\n\nPeruvian\n\nAndreas, orig Architect, ship Carica, arqua L'allau, barque\n\nSantiago, banne Ugarte y Santiage,\n\nSMAR\n\nNoortol, banque\n\nSan Juan, barquə\n\nhq.\n\nSiamese Crow, stalp\n\nSintoy, schooner\n\nSpar\n\nDenia, schooner Bremen\n\nBertha, barque\n\nC. Metabets, you Solon, hanger\n\nChition\n\nAllanza, barque Spray, schooner\n\nNess Crans dinn Annie, barque\n\nMacao British\n\nW. Pustan and Co\n\n510 W. Puszu and Co\n\nJohn Bard sad Co Wm.Fustat and Co Jan. 15 540 die aussen end to\n\nTait and C\n\nNov. 16\n\nNov. 12 540. M. Rabinet& Co\n\nDar. 28 3505. J. das Remedios\n\nTall, 231 218 and\n\nJ.\n\nAcmel, brig Chico, brig\n\nClarita, brig Cara, skip\n\nkesits toge\n\nSiamese\n\nSea Horse, hocqus\n\nSiam, que\n\nSpanish\n\nSan Lorenzo, brig\n\nSeraphina, ship\n\nFubebau\n\nDritish\n\nCo\n\nMaste, bri\n\nDee & 9p. dos Remedios\n\nJan. 195. Robinet & Co\n\nSept. 15j 200 Order\n\nNav. 19 160 Order\n\nDee, 15 300inder\n\nAug. 26 250 under\n\nNov. Zayall, Still and Co\n\n1400W. Duxted and Co\n\nJan. 24 4702. S. Walker\n\nDet. 22 48fuhn Bond and Co Jan. 29 270/Onder\n\nDec. 220W.M. Robines & Co\n\nJuly 1307 Edward and Bailey\n\nJehn Macthic, ekip Feb. Rochampton, shijs Ang\n\nPortugues\n\nMetasje, barque\n\nNew Era, khij\n\nGaiden Raer, ship\n\nKingfisher, ship\n\nMandarin, ship\n\nSamuel Ronsell, ship\n\nSarah H. Snow, Ivy, Vancouver, ship\n\nHambog\n\nAtlas, barne\n\nSa Dent, Beate and Co\n\n289 fyn, Stilt end Co\n\n597 1..Robinct & Co\n\nTou Scimeter and Co 1543chaetler and Co 478sohaefer and Co 2448. D. Syme and Go 237 Adam Scott 190Schelfer and Co 424\n\n10. Nathabloy & Co\n\nOtto, barque\n\nVirginie, brig\n\nHamburg\n\nEsperanza, harqne Hannibal, schooner\n\n| fverbrook, brig\n\nLima, barque\n\nMary Boar, ship Pathfinder, barque Senatur, barque Pramin Amerika, belg\n\nSiamete\n\nBangkok Mark, ship Golffinder, baqme Sueroan, ship\n\nSparsh\n\nSanta Lucts, banque\n\nSwedish\n\nNov. 181296 Moncreiff, G. & Co Dea ¡Dec.\n\nBRITISH SHIPS OF WAR IN CHINA.\n\nمات قلات کا\n\nCLASS\n\nAv\n\nCanton Stoop\n\ni,kong !. W. Str. JiLong Sloop\n\nILong Flag Ship\n\nCanton loop\n\nCuroaandel Canton P. W. Br. Vatcounter anto\n\nHoteles\n\nHornet\n\nMam\n\n! Nakist\n\nNiger\n\n632 Dent, Dotle stud Co Elk\n\n600 John Herd and Go | Fary\n\nser. St. (kang Hospital Canto Ber. Sw. H.kongoro Ship\n\nFrigate\n\nPanton Bar Sta\n\nCOHKANDERS.\n\n12A, W. A. Haud\n\n8T. D. A. Fortescu 12 Licut. Beamish\n\n(lour Ad.\n\nCapt. W. K. Hall\n\n14. Jenkins 35 Doorglas HG.W.D.O'Callaghan\n\n17 C. C. Forsyth\n\nH. T. Fla, Muater\n\n60 H Keith Stewart 19H, A. A. Cochrane 408FW.F. Nicolson\n\n14. Barnard\n\n49. 9. Hand\n\n40 Cdre. m, Ú. Elliot\n\nBRITISH SHIPS OF WAR EXPECTED.\n\nCONDEAND\n\n.ALEN\n\nÜs..\n\nENGLAND\n\nza Frigate\n\nRav.\n\nW. 7. Bate\n\n11. Macendie. Str,\n\nKit Boater, 26\n\n11\n\n136A. Hearl wait Co\n\nNov.\n\n9191ent and Co\n\nPastalcon, brig\n\nNov.\n\n200 Cantujee and Co\n\nPique\n\nSgus Frigars\n\nKol: Small, ship\n\nAug. 29\n\n663 Gibu, L. and Co\n\nKenos\n\nPibehta Bloop\n\nRempaon\n\nAmor P. W. Str.\n\nAmerican\n\nAnnie Buoknax, 1.\n\nSept.\n\n530 Russell and C\n\nSybille\n\nHogue Frigate\n\nMay 16\n\n800 Russell and Co\n\nAug.\n\n1288ardine, M. and Co\n\nJune\n\n78. lead and Oə\n\n¿Mag\n\n94 Russell and Co\n\nDo.\n\n420|Klug and Go\n\nJune\n\n518 Bus and Co\n\nOut\n\n420John Burd and Co\n\nWienu, Larque\n\nJuct.\n\n490Biomes ami Us\n\nActoun\n\nAlseri\n\nNingpo British\n\nCullou\n\nCamila\n\nkt. T. Calville\n\nSlop\n\nCruizer\n\n17 ber. Str. Sept. 25\n\nCarnulle. ship Lyra, Belovner\n\n15. Hot\n\n120 Lindy and Co Forestr\n\nA. J. Innes\n\nidun Beat Sept. 20\n\nSolon, barane\n\n6\n\n560 Turner and Uo 469 A.A.de Mello & Co\n\naughty\n\nGan Beat Sept 25\n\nWilminginn, schooner Feb.\n\n196 Bell and Co\n\nHüchilyor\n\nInflexibla\n\nr. Vorhert\n\nAL\n\nOsprey\n\nAlbert Edward, ship\n\nBritisk\n\nang.\n\n497. Bowman and Coh\n\nNov,\n\nAliyals, ship\n\nNov. 20 1247 Biriey, W, and Co\n\nStaunch\n\n1. Wildonan\n\nAlchemist, ship\n\nDe\n\n914 Turner and Co.\n\nStarling\n\nA. 1 Villiers\n\njun Boat Sept. 25 Gun Boat Ool. 23\n\nAlligator, brig\n\nb.\n\n19710166, Land Co\n\nAugusts, ship\n\nNov. 23 372 Lindmy and Go\n\nBallarat, ship\n\nNov.\n\n719 Dent ad Co\n\nChallenger, barque\n\nSeph\n\n175 Turner and Co\n\nChieftain, barque\n\nJan.\n\n20John Burd and Co\n\nCo..lucius, ship\n\nThee.\n\n400 Holliday, Wine & Co\n\nVESSEL\n\nAr\n\nFLAQ\n\nCOMMANDERL\n\nDec. 19\n\nJune 15 566 Turner and Lo\n\nJan.\n\n127 William I. and Co\n\nCetinnt\n\nHongkong Fr. Str.\n\nSur Are\n\nL'et\n\n8501 & 0.2. F. Co\n\nSupt. 10 240 Jardine, M. and Co\n\nVirginie\n\nHongkong Fr. Frig\n\nCape, Plan\n\nForest Queen, ship\n\nNov.\n\n839 W.H. Wardley Co\n\nLevant\n\n18 Smith\n\nPortsmouth\n\nEassio Manens, barq. May 25 297 Jou d'Abreide Waris Carlota, Iryusi Jan. $30 J. J. don Rmuelion Slavina, banque\n\nTremelga, barqua\n\nFreach\n\n13ane 211 1705. 3. dos Ramedice\n\nSept.\n\nPort de Bordeaux, ship Oct.\n\nAmerican\n\nLorisiana, barq\n\nDeich\n\nBerena, rig\n\nDoggershank, skip\n\n3751 inday and Co\n\n816Dent and Co\n\nShanghae\n\n249W.M. Robinet &Co Arrow, ship\n\n237W. Pustuu and Co\n\nApril 22\n\nOct.\n\nDet\n\nBebehneller and Co\n\nEverdina izabeth, og Jan\n\n600 Schneer and Co\n\nDee,\n\n189 Schaefer and Co\n\nFra\n\n753 Order\n\nJuct.\n\n530 Schaeffer and Co\n\nJAR.\n\nSt. Heleon, brig\n\nTonia, ship\n\nVrow Jobunag\n\nHamburg\n\nLaura & Fonis, big,\n\nKose, brig\n\nWillewina, brig\n\nPeruvian\n\nGrimeness, chip\n\n243jDrayer and Co\n\nJuly 14, 1769. M. Burrows\n\nJuly\n\n224 Schaeffer and Co\n\nOct. 15: 50 Order\n\nCrystal Palace, ship\n\nKila Jane, barque\n\nElizabeth, brig\n\nHein, steamer\n\nFazli Corrim, barque\n\nFrances, ship\n\nGazelle, schooner\n\nGeelong, barque\n\nDec. 125 Birley. W. and Co\n\nWaton and Co\n\nMay 30 302 Tail and Co\n\nJan 15 212 Hooper\n\nAug. 11 3420ma, B. and Ca 651 gal. Stiti and Co\n\nMaria Natividad ship Sept. 18 610w.. Robins & Co General Windham, ship.\n\nEast Coast British\n\nChin Chin, harque Eamont, schonbur Gazelle, schoenor\n\nHazard, schooner\n\nHelen, brig\n\nion.\n\n316 Camajarse Co\n\nJan.\n\n121 Dent and Co\n\nGulnare, ship Hellespont, steamer Tuchinnan, arque Just\n\nBat, ship\n\nApril\n\n15Jardine, M. And Co\n\nJuly\n\n144 Y. J. Mucrow\n\nJan.\n\n180Turner and Co\n\nHydronce, ship\n\nJane\n\n137 Carlowitz and Co\n\nMalacca, barque\n\nAug\n\n089 Carlowitz and Co\n\nPearl, schooner\n\niJuly\n\nW.M. Reniunt & Lo\n\nTrumpu. schooner\n\nMay\n\n300jD. Laprak\n\nAntican\n\nDerby, ship\n\nJuly\n\n1098A. Heard sad Co\n\nProgressive Age, brig\n\nNov\n\n296A. Heard and Co\n\nRinglorier, ship\n\nMay\n\n2156 A, Heard and Co\n\nSancho Pans, ship\n\nSept\n\n875 Russell and Co\n\nWitw, la ver\n\nUst\n\n$10Kinder\n\nFra 2002 Hargreaves and Co\n\nJan. 886Fadine. M. and Co Sept. 1 265 Deus, Buaie y Co Dec. 241 8201Birley, W. and Co\n\nC. Reilowas\n\nJ.F.C.Hanitou 12 loop\n\nC. T. Lackie\n\nA. V. Hamilto\n\nC.F.A,Shadwell 21 Ser. Str.\n\nC Campbell\n\n6 P. W. Str. Oct, 25\n\n(Gan Bost\n\n21. J. Bomalieid 4 Ser. Str.\n\nKith Stewart !\n\nGu Buat\n\nHos, H.Keppel 60 Frigata\n\nFOREIGN MIPS OF WAR IN CHINA.\n\nSan Jacinto\n\nHongrong U. &. SI.\n\nStaigas U. S. Sh.\n\nFR-A. Guerla\n\n16 Fonta\n\nƒ m. A POOR Capt. Bell\n\nHongkong U. S. Sir.\n\nMandura\n\nMacao\n\nFort. Reig.\n\n90 Com. Tavara\n\nAmazona\n\nB+\n\nPurt.lorsha 6 Earnichs\n\nJorge Just\n\ndu.\n\nSelpion\n\ndr.\n\nSp. Ser.\n\nBg.\n\n4Brinnes\n\nAnies Ba\n\n14 Duran\n\nHongkongora Sv. 20 Capt, Boturin\n\nTERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION to the HONGRONG REGISTER and OVERLAND REGISTER AND PRICE CURRENT-For One Year, $25; 9 Months, $13; Three Mouths, $8. To the HONGKONG REGISTER For One Year, $15, Six Months, $2, Three Months, $5. To the OVERLAND RE- OISTER AND PRICE CURRENT' alone:--For One Year, $3; all payable in advanUSB, TERMS OF ADVERTISEMENT in the HONGKONG REGISTER-Advertscments, not exceeding 5 lines,\n\nesch insertion, $1; cach additional line 20 conts; une balf of these charges for Repetitions AGENTS for the HONGKONG REGISTER and GVERLAND REGISTER AND PRICE GUERENT J. G. APIHOur, Rey, London, Mars, Jant, steak & Co, Cricuta: Mesars. Binaton & Co. Bombay W. S. Donos, Faq., Singapore, Messrs. Thorson, Ronkers & Ur, Batavia, J. P. Pzabek, Boy. San Francisco.\n\nEdited, Printed, and Published by ROBERT STRACHAN, at the Hongkung Register Ofice: Gage Street\n\nVictoria, Hongkong. Tuesday, February 10, 1857.\n\nThe China Mail Extra.\n\nHONGKONG, SATURDAY, 7TH FEBRUARY, 1857.\n\n“Chino Muit\" Office, Feb. 7, 1857- thon to the unsatisfactory state of his toast, my wife remarked she felt giddy and sick, him; he pretended to be overlooking the business the investigation as Superintendent of Police, the A man can overlook his business while walking affair being then eurelaped in mystery; and I imagine\n\nThe Criminal Sessions of the Supreme fairs, which had be shewn to be the We let the room after 3, she immediately felt sick\n\nshop\n\nthat the first instanco Mr Mercer acted as Culo- Court the most exciting that have occur reverse of is a fouriebing condition, his and smiled, I thought nothing of it at the time, but about the e\n\nwalked was to the verandah to light a chemot, when Aaxx, cock to The Herland,On the 15th January, eial decrewry-in fact it was an investigation into rel since the settlement of the colony-debts to one firm alone amounting to nearly in the wor af gtating the elgar I suddenly felt sick\n\nthe morning, got bread from the Esing shoes don't the case genotally. I usually, in cases requiring commenced on Thursday, and closed last $15,000. He spoke of the temptation and vomited. Thinking no more about it, I went know the peron-thes was generally brings it, he particular forestigation, maka peliminary acquiry sight. The case of most interest-the bold out to Alum, of averting the pantah in my hair to the Folke Hospital, but when Tranches is not one of the prisoners; this was about half-past 7- before sending them up to the Magistrate. It was trial of Cheong Alum and nine others, on ment with which he had been threatened the entraner leading up to the fif, I was again sick; \n\nAtoy, coolie to be Hachand, Saw Esing's people not my original intention to make a magisterial and when I got clues to St Paul's College, was age\n\nmyrassine's house on the marning of investigation in the present instance; I merely aga.a bring bread a charge of dilempt to poison-lasted fee by the mandarins, by the commission was aide off and on, up to a quarter to 10. the 15th January; they are not among the priscoera. wished to yet an insight into the case as Superit daye, and ended in a verdict of Not guilty, would be considered a highly meritoriona was sick 19 or vlock that night. Next habit of getting bread from the Esing shop the was a very singalar case, I propound we should sit of an atrocious crime, but yet ar net which The romiting was very violent. Mrs Dengr W. A. HARLAND, M.,Was I believe, in the tundent of Police. but her two hours or so, as it\n\nto 1.\n\ntime.\n\nars from that shog-down to the morning of the 16th as Magistrate, and we then commented to take do We are sorry we are unable to give the one by the Chinese authorities, deserving day I tapponed to enter the Police Office, where en eloquent addresace of the Counsel on buth of commendation and reward, instead of vision was going forward, and promised then fancy inclusive I are a mail piece of the bread paltional,\n\nto send some of the bread to Dr Harland for analy. that morning, Dr Chaldecott and Dr Hat.ca alo Next, bo\n\nSANDWITH DAINKED-Am in business in the sides, but must content ourselves with the punishment, at their harde. \n\nzation; did that night. [Cross-conmiasi by partook of it. About an hour afterwards fe faint sity, and live in the wee house with Captain Endi- De Brive,I did not take the bread myself to Dr and aíck, and incised to veuit, and within a few mere heads of the points dwolt upon; and referred to the departure of Alam and \n\nnott Faing enpplicà me with bread on the 15th minutes ufteur wande vomited slightly, and fole a pain January-I partook of the bread and was very ill- even these, we fear, will prove very io his father from the colony on the very Herland. I know caly the Sih prisoner (Alum) na \n\nworning the criminal set was wusumnat belong ag to the Eving shop. I kept the balled the Beach. I then took an emotis, which made at the inmates of the house whe ate of the bread perfect. \n\nup in my own room until I sent it to Dr Harland.me veil a bitła man, and for a little time alter felt ed; and commented strongly on the suspi \n\nwere Hi-I have not perfectly recovered up to this Of the opening speech by the Hųn. T. \n\nIn consequence cf my laers, I delivered the cious manner in which this was managed. By the ATTORNEY Uraat.]-Don't know the 10thy, but shortly afterwards was able to attend to \n\nprisoner, never mw him before at all. sent the same people who can to she house sick. About to remainder of the breast Mr May at the Ptice lice C. Anstey, the Attorney General, wo \n\nWith regard to the sickness of his family \n\nbread a ten minutes past to Dr Harland, by a hours afterwards the pain in the stomach returned, this was on the evening of the 16th-Dr Badland have no notes whatever. He dwelt, how on board the steamer-this was easily and coalie named Attal. \n\nbut I could not vomit. I bai diethms during the I think was presos 1 lave had many dealings with ever, on the atrociousness of the attempt naturally to be imputed to sea-sickness; ATIAL METAL to Dr Dempeter--On the 16th night, and next day a violent headache, wakacss of the Esing abug in the bakery business -I know the made upon the community, and the utter for there were no proofs of them aftor January, escried a paper parcel from Dr Dampster to the jibs, and xansea, Dr Iamos got sick sooner 9th and 10th prisoners to belong to the duche than I did; but I did ont see him, as he had gone 10th I are always understood to be the father of Faing impossibility in such cases of producing sufferings which the medical evidence had Dr Harland, Do not know what was in it, but ir \n\nwas given me by my master. \n\nca Dr Chaldecots, hearing of people being sick, Alum), he was always in the shop, and when the direct testimony against the parties accus- abawo were the invariable effects of argo- ACHING, servant to Dr Dempster-om the 15th took an emetic, as he had ate more bread than any was cut of the sloop, I have left by neders with him od. The evidence in this, as in avery nic, and under which the foreigner who January, received rome bread at may master's day of on Before I had filed breakfast, a Parsee ger Orn about the 24 ur 3d of January, our he made similar case, tour therefore be entirely cir- had partaken of the bread in the present from two men from Esing; they are not at the bar. teman aliud. 20 mil the inam of his house were a contract with Alura fura supply of breuis for the cumstantial; but he would adduce sich a \n\nThis was about 7 wack gars the bend to my sick, and blamed the bread as being the cause of it; I Russian curvest On the Mih I went over to the instance had laboured. He also spoke of \n\nmaaler to estipul it up the breakfast table. \n\nlef my breakfast to go and see them, and it was on \n\nEwing how to apeak to Alure about the contract, Oa TARRANT, Editor of the Friend of my return I first felt sick myself. Both Dr Chalecoss the morning of the 13th, the shop bep called our art jury, as he felt assured must to a certainty and Agent of the steamer to retura to the N indelibly the stain of crime apon the Hongkong that night, as a ruse on his my bread from the Haing shop, dawn to the 13 several days séta, attending to people who were black lettres out in frens of his door sunt him user prisonem at the bar, and draw forth au \n\npart, when be found his hopes of escape January, inclusiva-row the 1st, 3d, and the staffering from eating the bread; the Parses had to ascertain its pats, and in consequent of what unanimona verdict of guilty. \n\nthe boy told us, I had the conversation with hiari on frustrated, and that the poison had not had and 10th prisoners to belong to the shop-the 1st taken only band and a cup of tea-they had all been \n\nI believe to be general assistant and Collector of sick, I adviced them to take emetica. Some of thus the 14th. I teid hum the boy haul informed us that Dr Bridges comarcal his defence by the fatal effets intended had his efforts balls; the 3d I have known in two capaction in con- we axtended effured much more everely than schare the chop said he intended to leave the iny, and remarking that, the case was remark succeeded, the result would have been nection with Exing shop, the inst was as breme-de-bes all had similar syroptatns. From the symptotes wished to sell out. He admitted the chup did say ablo from the atrocity of the attempted another frightful tragedy like that of the liverer; the 9th believe to be the head of the in my own case, and of others who came to be. I felt but said that it was not his intention to leave, but he crime; admitting most fully that there had unfortunate Thistle. He noted the contra- Eing the 19th is I believe the father he ais? i ere what arannic had been administered in the bread, Lad put out the notice for the purpose of deceiving be an attempt to destroy the community dictious in Alam's statements about the have knows in two capacities—one as general assist- I haght down a piece of bread from the Parets, and the Mandarine, who had been traping him a great ant of the Taing shop I have ren bien, 2 ay may kept the remnant of our own. I had alan overal deal told him that would not antinfy one had by poison, but denying that the guilt of poison to the various witnesses and frequently. I saw the 1st prisver five or air day specimens, from Dr Dempster, Captain Paints, and deceived me in a former contract, and I would not yest such an attempt was in any way hrought finally wound up with a confident aanr-before the 15th, ou my ectering my printing offit, othere, and two savea from Mr GrandPre, which he unsil I saw that the bieenit was in the drying lots - bone to the prisoners at the bar. Extra- ance on his part of a verdict against all the he was sitting there, and presentat me a hill from hia took from the Eving shop and gare ints my uwa he most go with me and show in that the bread wa ordinary, be said, bad been the display of prisoners. \n\nsaster. I told him I was then rather busy, and sa bas.d. Ir Deropster's and Captain Endicott's I re- there. Its went with me in my boat to the bakery the mercy and goodness of God, in not a His Lordship the Chief Justice then the bill was not recripted, if he would leave it with ceived on the tin. So let the first alarm, I in the Ila-wen, and on the page down we had a me, I would Inok at it and have it settled. He then endeavoured to ascertain in a busty way what was in conversation on various matters. I had him if he single instance of death having cocurred addressed the jury,-directing them to said in master intended to have the colony-replied the bread, and Ur Bradford curing in, be and I from the attempt. He sormented strongly card from their wouls everything they in rather an impartiment way, and marle a motion to \n\nad bi kamily in Hongkong? La replied he had. I satisfied ourselves it was anovic... Néxt day, at the sard, having his fatally bore, he had better remén on the singularity of the course adopted might have rend or heard about the case it down again and not to go away until he got paid. request of the Colonial Secretary, we made s moral the end of the war no one could supply to by goveraronut in departing from the ordi- nut-of-doors, and to couline theneelves Seeing he was disposed to be saucy, I took him by the crest analysis of each piece of bread separately, cuit so walk-te would make a good thing of it, and nary course of conducting criminal inves outinely to the evidence. As regarded nine coline, said he and his master might go to the devil if and found they all indicated the presence of arsenin. Le protected. He said it was not his wish to go, but they phased, and told him to go ont. The Ed prisoner 1 The analysis for Ascoctaining the yountity tank he had heen threatent, and there were at that time tigations, and still more strongly on the of the prisoners, the jury would probably have a good way times, but the seas. 1 up place entaequently, and we found that one pasad 88 Mandarins in Hongkong in disguise. I told mode in which the Attorney General had agree with him in thinking the evidence pore you (the Alterary General) referto, was eu an in- loaf of bread contained nearly a drms of armenia, B0 \n\nbim if he world report them to the police office, bo conducted the cause, by displaying personal against them was very slight, amounting quest on the 38 January, upon a body that was found grains to the diant commit while arsenic. The \n\nwould be protected. His answer was, that on bis animosity against the prisoners, and making indeed solely to their connection with the board the Thiste, on which occasion be described br I ate was brown, the uther specimens were arrival at the bakery, he would convince me that he \n\nwhite-both kinda contained ausanie; much been the quotatione from trial which had taken Esing Bakery. With respect to Alura, bebimself as Parare Mate on card the steamer, To \n\nhad a large amount of property at stake-that it was the best of my knowledge und belief, the 9th prisoner ivai contined aufficient cause deart. I also, on not bis desire to leave, and a thought he would take place in the worst periode of English ori-was alewn to have been at the bakery on the (Am) was the charterer of the steamer at the time the alterion of the 15th, had two jars brought me my advice and reusia. When we tired at the minal law; and lastly, wornarked on the afternoon of the 14th January, when tho she was destroyed. In consegaenen of the way the d by a pokocurau-one containing yet used on the bakery, the people appeared to be mixing water and pancity of the evidence brought forward dongh was making; and if the jury thought prisoner gave his evidence at the inquest, I objected to night of the lash, the other the materials for making dough in dimus ms in the plass. After visiting for the proscention-which, he said, ovea that he mixed the arsenie with the bread, is bringing bad es my bowo objected on the yat, together with me foar and some pastry from \n\nthe drying room, and when leaving the bakehouse, 15th January between Gand? in the morning, when if there had been to defenes to offer, would or ordered it to be so toixed, tuy weak aw him delving it. A man war with bin ear \n\nthe bakery-pasta scraped from the table, and some \n\nexported Alum would go back with me, and offered pastry in tin moulds, I found no trace of arsenic or him a passage in the heat, but he said he bad some net buvo warranted a conviction on the \n\nfind him guilty; or if they were of opinion rying cau basketa-prisoner took the bread out of other meallic poi in any of the materials. The business to attend to, and would walk bot part of the jury. Ha divided the evi- that he consulted with the forumon Alun the Easkew and put them into my base. I said to analysia was fade in the presenes of Dra Bradford, was between 3 and 4 in the aftermon. They dence for the prosecution into three classes and Atmoi on the subject, Le would be him \"Da my ine fellow, you deliver cay bread, ús Kenky, Watson, and Elspeter. \n\nwere mixing our and water in two ho 1st, those especially connected with the accessory before the fact; but if they were \n\nyou \"He made no response, but yard a kind of A. HAND-PRE, Assistaus Superintendant of Police, showed me a room he said was the brand bakery, gistrod outside the door, saw the bread handed Hava baard D: Harland's evidence-i tak lie fact of the poisoning; 2dly, them wit- \n\nnot perfectly assured in their own minds of in, and immediately after went in and ordered my board to him from the Eaing shop on the morning of supplied 400 families with bread this was told re and they were mixing duugh theve te told me ha nesses who detailet facts connected with Aluni's connection with, and cognizance Comprador to anale Raing's bill, and not to take any the 16th--was promet at the Cowai Station, whey, by him in evidence of the husless he was doing, and Alom before his departure; adly, the of, the attempt to poison, they would return more bread from him, as I was afraid he would the yeast and others things found in the bakery bis eonarquent disinclination to leave. day statement class who described his conduct on board a verdict of acquittal. His Lordship after-puss \n\nI and a servant girl partusck of the were sent to De Harland Tent thera. (Oroei- made by him that be bad sold his business to me la false. the steamer and on the way to Macao. wards, in reading over the evidence, called bread that morning she ate a little left on my plate. questioned by Dr Batmaks.]—I was acquainted with I was asked by MeMncow, anice my first examination, All that evidence he examined in detail; the attention of the jury to the facts of pent to my room, and there folt a sensation of flatu shop on the Queen's Road, and the bakery at the About five minutes alcer leaving the breakfast table, the Esing abop perious to this affair-1 know the then stated what evidence be intended to Alo's own furally being sick from par-toucy-sit1 had been eating wow at first wok Seng Gardens be the plows from which the bring forward in defence; and wound up taking of the bread, and to his offera of to notice of is, but eat down on my chair, looking at trend is carried to the shop there was formerly a with 3 general comparison of the whole 450 and $100 to Captain Xavier to return me papers, as the boy handed them to the the papers bakery about two years ago-attanited in the shop in the 19th, when the evidence I gave was rond over to evidence, and a confident averment of his to Hongkong that night, as rims facin were for the Yoss-offe, and the hot was landing the Queen's Road. The distance betwixt the shop him, he wished me to think if he had aut said he bound three up to as team tho ilone, when I suddenly bohat the jury would acquit all the proofs of his inuocance; but the jury vomited over him. Shortly afterwards two friends \n\nand Jokery in shout one mails. I was nogcainted bean aid there were 59 mandarina I call the place with Alnu, the 9th prisoner, before the 15th-have Queen's Roud the shop; I never wow the th Poy the charge, as affecting the nino consider them merely as clever ruses on called, and I told them I was sick-they said a great soon his very clices; he was always said to be the prisoner in the bakery. The contest was for 27,000 apuially, depending altogether upon their the part of a guilty man is dread of us many people were sick-I said I might be poised, master of the Eng shop. I don't know if he had anyar 28,000b of biscuit the bargain wet in writing. employment by Alam. \n\npision, and if so, would treat them ac- and had better take an omeric, and got up to get on, parts he was reputed sole owner. There were a hot made with Alur personally. I never made a but again vomited violently for about ten minutes good aber arrested on account of the affair contract with the 10th prisoner should never hate On the conclusion of the evidence for cordingly. \n\nwas frequently sick during the day, and bave con- the defence, the Attorney General rose, The jury retired for about half-an-hour, dinner to suffer from it to this time. [Cross-ques were all taken in eustody to the Pelice Stachnasa, nnd of Alum as the principal. My visit to about 20 in the shop-about 50 altogether they thought of doing so always looked opon him as an and after a long and very unnecessary and on their return, brought in, ng above- tioned by Mr DAY,--Don't know that Bing has they were taken before a Justien of the Peace-Mr the shop were always on matters of business on a orga (the Chief Justice thought) defence of the mentioned, a verdict of Nor GUILTY 5 to 1; more than one shop in Hongkongate swam be Chades May: no examination was held till år \n\nale, and were not very frequent. Sometimes, when conduct of the government, and more ez- \n\ncarried on the businem of a Liker have beard be -a conclusion in which, on regards the evi- has a bakery elsewhere--laays been for the shop also everal other J.P.- Mr Gibb, Mr Gray; and unetines sold him large lots si suur would William Thomas Merter, another J.P., was presented at, I dropped in three or four times a week, pecially of Mr Mercer, in this affair-Mr dence, we extirely coincide; though we are Queen's Road West, but an not aware of baking duct know it the latter and gentleman were sit Mercer's conduct never having been im- by no means satisfied of the primouere being carried on there I durt speak preitiselying Justices. When the two bust pristners were would not comes with him: I do not think the Teava ray rouage with the 10th prismer for Almu, but pagned, though the irregularity of the especially of Alum'a-mucence; sud to having en baking golog on nt bis shop, but beigh the Attorney finest was present. The 10th prisoner panas Erglist-the conversation was proooadings of the committing Justines bad would much rather, as we feel assured this I re-i think i have seen an oven there. Cus.al Pelice Station 1 not the usual place for carried on, I think, through one of the pureers in the beon commented upov by Dr Bridges would the inry themselves. that the Eu- Bring has carried on the bakery business tere for £utigation to take place, last 1 have sent them shop. I understood, when Alam talked of troubles I have bean resident to the feland sinne 1897. proceeded to au analytics of the evilmen,glish law had permitted them to return of te don't know, in my eagarity of Editer of lose wegs the learned Attorney General, Mr Mereer, it was er dorost of his haking bread for Phratyn \n\nthere. In the Nuisances investigation, for the dorim, that he meant thata-he said. which he performed in a very able manor, a verdict of not proven. But we shall the Friend of Chan, or otherwise, whether Baing has and Mr May. Mr May is also Superintendent of Pa- laying before the jury in the clourist recur to this subject in our weekly issue. a bakery near the Americe Naval Stores. Ilave ice-end that is the proper place for Lan to be Mr the time the disturbance wok place in November. light the strong points of cash witaees's Du leaving the Court after being dis-frequently been to the Ering shop-especially sons for May was not present when the two last prisoners: As we were going down to the bakery, we mea fire months ago, when I performed some arbitration were bought apen the day of then activel for a boat, and he asked me to pull up to it, as he wished testimony as bearing against the prisonera charged, the prisoners were reapprehended business for Abas. When I have called, I have such amiation. I do not recollect any Justices of the He commenced with the proofs of poison- und conveyed to jail under warrant issued him in the shop, but do not know what he was about \n\nto ask the price of it, and buy it if possible-1 A ing, as testified to by the medical witnesses by order of H. E. the Governor with As for the 21 prisoner, my knowledge of him on tigation of a criminal charge. The Chief Magis for $1; he mid it was for his bakery-and on my Penetting it the Police Salons before, on the in- EQ --he afterwards said he had purchased at at 14 picul then to the identification of the prisoners what intention we are not advised. a brand-deliverer is evnfined to the one occasion trate, I believe, was sitting at his usual post at the remaking it was very den, be sie it was dry wood, with the bakery whence the poisoned bread \n\non the 16th January. The father he served me in Pusa Cour, while this examination was going for and particularly witable for hia bakery; I afterward the slip, but I do not know him otherwise than se was issued, two as the proprietors, others \n\nward at the Poilue Sation-Justices of the Peace the wood discharging on the whart [Hty tha an sasiu do not know his to barn an interest were atting as this time at the Police Court trying ATTORNEY UNERAL-The episods of the boat sa bakers, and the rest as distributors of \n\nIn the businem. \n\ncase, Mr May having been relieved from bin dutes curred alter the conversation about il coming here, the brood; and maintained that if the \n\nJOHN GREIG, Mewart of the dulluna, 1 am so Asistant Magistrale, bis presence being ra and bad expressed doubts of his doing so 3 the coa- guilt of mixing the arsenic with the Hong, \n\nquainted with two last prisoners (9th and 10th) ị quire for the Police forca. It is the invariable versation between the hout-man and Alumi was in er of directing ita admixture, wore brought \n\nsaw them in Esing shep- \n\nthe rim tongue; I saw no money pass hetwoen at that shop. A little Magistrate's Court the Inspector on duty enters Eome to the principal prisoner Alum, there \n\nbefore 7 on the 15th January, I was in the shop, sand \n\nthe parties in payment of Lise wood, could be no doubt that those who assisted \n\nbught me loaf, Saw he let prisoner, the 9th and Court. Uf 50 (or thereabouts) prisoners first talien, uti With gard to the poisoning of the bread, them on the charge shoot, and sends them up to the CHEUNG-ALCMC staten ent]cing duly caution- fu moulding the poisoned bread, or in die- \n\ntheth, they protended to be running abousin a in custody than not here are mill detained in the he is entirely ignorant-that the bread is made in one great hurry, out I would not see they were doing any Cross-road Sumiva at the foot of Wellington Street, part of the town, and he lives in souther-he never had tributing it among the community, monet! have a guilty knowledge of the affair: he \n\nthing particular, Could not see what they were oppraits Gith, Livingston & Co.'s godown-they sy id of doing such a thing. He first came to the doing, but they appeared to be attending to the dwelt strongly on the fact that no less a \n\nbusireas of the shop. Did not romak anything par \n\nhave been there sine their first examination on the Colony at unly 18 years of age-ie was first ext quantity than Tea Pounds of arsenic must \n\ntieula: about the prisoners; e 9th was weighing \n\n15th January. The Attorney and was present played by Mr Higham, who afterwarde went to when the best tre primers Prese asumined, but dolla, and the 10th was waiking about all three don't know if he took part is the investigation. \n\nCalifornia; after that by Mr Franklyn; then by have been put into the dough-toɔ large a \n\nMarrow, Stephenson & Co.; then by Mr Do Seer, parcel to be easily concealed from the \n\nwem attending to the buriness of the shop. (Explsina \n\nཚ་ CHARLES MAY, Superintendent of Police, Haut for when he made hisenite, a well as did other that the shopmen, not the prisoners were running heard the evidence of Dr Elarland as to the analysis of business. persons employed in the bakery. He \n\nabout.) 1 seat the load off to the Satana, Afterwards the yeaat, e, found at the bakery. There were machine for making biscuit, and then another from Mr He some time afterwards purchase a next referred to Alam's presence at the very time the dough was being made J. C. DEMPSTER, Colonial Surgeon-Have been [Cross-examined by Dr Bass]-Often went to the iraking the bread The audement is perfectly cur- be purchased another from America, wich has ales yeusi, samples of dough, flour, and the water use for Duddeil, for $1,800; and as these were insufficient, then to him and is father being in the in the habit before the 15th of getting bread from the Exing shop to buy a loaf. Wes in the shop two or cock, Cross-questioned by D BRIDGE)-Have arrived. He is supplied the Nars with it. \n\nKaing shop belenging to the 9th and 10th primer tre minutes on the 14th. Don't know anything alun beard Mr Grand-Pre's statement. Is ehop at the very time the bread was being chlained based from the shep that morning, not with about the 16th man, except that I saw bar in the \n\nat with \n\nan only lately be has repaired the premises, and set sold to the customers-nuxt of his express- \n\nMe Merter on the evening of the 15th to conduct the three machines at work. Liam is here reminded uy only partook of it, sheus baif-paat 7 or 8 lock, shop have frequently seen him thera-he was walk- ed intention of learing the colony-and | at breakfasi. After eating a small portion of the ing about the shop. I tou ao particular native of came in about 2, and we sat till 8. Iematened ing, he proceeds), On the 28th of the 17th, the inquiries- luvited Mr Mereor to join meha that all tea above has nothing to do with the poison- \n\narray of facte for the consideration of be into's oer of $50 and $100 to the Captain 16-Have been in the habit of taking and I were kept engaged the whole dry, and for tention to Alum panting a new cbop (plan with \n\nSUPREME COURT OF HONGKONG.\n\nCRIMINAL NENOMINAL\n\nMonday, 24 Febrnavy.) THE POISONING CASE\n\nJarp-Menara M. A. MACLEOD, W. H. Strms, Jour LMON, W. A. BOWKA, E T. DONGANDO, \n\nand GEORGE WALL\n\nCHEONG ARAW, Chrono Aurap, Chaco Aco, OM ARON, TAM ALEEN, FONG ANDER CHENG Amus, Pura AcuUT, CHNCHO ALU and Cuong Wyr Kox-4dministering Poles will intent, \n\nFor the Prosecution,-The Hon. To Anstav, diternay General; Ma HCR, Crom Sulicor, assisted by Mr 3, C. TURNER, \n\nPor the Defens-Dr Daines and Mr DAY, Gunel Mersta GAFELL & BROWN, and Mr H. J. 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        "content_text": "## THE FRIEND OF CHINA AND HONGKONG GAZETTE.\n\n### VICTORIA, SATURDAY, JULY 6, 1857.\n\n**Chinese Calendar, Hà Moon, 5th Day: DIARY. MEMORANDA**\n\n| Day | Astronomical Data |\n| --- | --- |\n| Sunday,... | H❘ Sets 4. P.M. 5,37 634 |\n| Monday,... | 11.16! 1,01 |\n| Tuesday,... | 5.27 6.34 1: |\n| Wednesday,... | 1,564 632 2.5% 30$ |\n| Thursday,.. | 28 Ted |\n\n**VINE SERVICES SUNDAY**\n- St. John's Cathedral-6.45 and 11a, M. and Gr.\n- Union Chapel-63d 7? P. M.\n- Beamers Chapel--1 \n\n## SUPPLEMENTARY SHIPPING LIST\n\n### ARRIVALS AT HONGKONG\n\n- July 24, 11 M. Sir. Fury, Com. Leckie, from Canton\n- July 24, Fr. Gun-boat Drogenos, Co Berry, from Lantao.\n\n### DEPARTURES FROM HONGKONG\n\n- July 24, Nova, Porter, Shanghai.\n- July 24, Clipper (Hong). Marxen, East Coast\n- July 25, H. Mail, towed by the Coromandel for the river.\n\n### POSTAL OPPORTUNITIES.\n- For Macao: Monday, per Feina at Noon; Tuesday, per Willamette at Noon, and per Spark at Ten.\n- For Indian England: per Shanghai to-morrow at 8. Supplementary mail closes at 7.30.\n\nIn the Estate of HENRY DAVIS, of Victoria, Hongkong, Merchant, deceased,\nAre from ZIND SOZAMING and Natives \nA DREYER & Co. \nFreight and Back Vans, \nHongkong, 1st April, 1857.\n\n## FOR SALE.\n- CLARE CHAMPAGNE, BRANDY, and French PRESERVES.\n- VAUCHER FRERES. Hongkong, 6th April, 1857.\n\nFROM NEW YORK DIRECT Received per \"Iotspur,\" and for Sale by the undersigned,\n- 100 Boxes Family Soap,\n- 100 Boxes Scented Water Soap,\n- 50 Tins Corn Meal,\n- 50 Boxes Spero Candies,\n- Baker's Buns \n- 5 Cons Superior White Lead,\n- 20 Half barrels White Beans,\n- 20 do. Split Peas,\n- 50 do. Crushed Sugar,\n- 2600 lbs. Sill's Butter in 16 lbs. Kegs,\n- 50 feet Oakum,\n- 100 Tins Black Varnish,\n- Marlinspikes, Caulking Irons and Mallets,\n- Axes, large and small, Paint, Tar and White-wash Brushes,\n- 20 Entire American Cider Vinegar,\n- Pump and Harness Leather, Cotton Canvas,\n- And from Manila: 500 Coils Steam and Manila Rope,\n\nTHOMAS HUNT & Co \nHongkong, 1st July, 1857.\n\n## JUST RECEIVED\n- PATENT Water Cements,\n- Fresh Prunes in Gums, Fresh Raisins in and boxes.\n\nTUOS HUNT & Co. \nHongkong, 20th June, 1857.\n\n## FOR SALE\n- TWO Second-rate FIRE ENGINES complete, from London, ON VIEW NEAR MAG EWEN & Co.'s \nHongkong, 15th July, 1857.\n\n## NOTICE.\nAll Persons having Claims against, or being Indebted to, the late Estate, are requested to forward particulars of the same to the undersigned forthwith \nHENRY RUTTER Administrator.\n\nHongkong, 17th March, 1857.\n\nIn the matter of the Estate of the late MR JAMES SMITH of the Firm of Smith & BLAW, of Victoria, deceased.\n\nNOTICE-All Persons having Claims on the said Estate are requested to forward particulars of the same to M. JAMES W. BRIMELOW, But all Persons indebted to the said Estate, are requested to pay the respective amounts thereto to the said James W. Brimelow,\n\nD. LAPRAIK \nARD. S. DIXSON \nExecutors.\n\n承辦人得忌時麗 \n北力晏度路士吉德 \n士布林羅收入是荷 \n兩亦如嫩交還與未 \n人欠到達士銀 \n朱士布林羅處或各 \n各人債目祈送到 \n·士藏身故如有欠到 \n羅公司之未士朗時 \n廠者未士氏蹲布林 \n\n## NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.\n\n### NOTICE.\n\nQUOTATIONS. \nEXCHANGE AND BULLION. \nHongkong Bank Corporation on \nLondon, 4, 1, Truliai - Gold to Sycee, outis-Date Sycee, Nominal! Pres Laves 24 335.36 per Tael and at at 319 821 d. Canton...\n\nIt is now upwards of a month since we furnished the public with a report of the trial of Tan cute of Tarrant v. Ah Lum the poisoner. The Jury, a special one, awarded the Plaintiff $1,010, it will be remembered, subject to the Judge's decision on the low point raised by Defendant's Counsel; and our readers, no doubt, are desirous of knowing what has been the result of the matter, and how the disputed point has been arranged. But though, as we have remarked, it is upwards of a month since the trial was reported, from that day to the present we have not heard a word of the threatened kroviment;---so, as the time allowed for the mo time was for some time expired, the verdict of the Jury stands. So much for the verdict whether the award will be forthcoming, or whether we shall obtain even a refund of the costs out of pocket \"are problems the solution of which has yet to be told of \n\nThe Editor of the China Mail, in strictures exhibiting the most extraordinary feeling of sympathy for a suspicious character it has ever been our lot to read, has told the world that, owing to the unjust confinement to which Ah Lum has been subjected, being unable personally to look after his office--he, Ah Lum, is now declared to have become Bankrupt and will have to pass through the Insolvent Court\" and, adds the Editor with an evident hug of gratulation, there will possibly (the italics are ours) be some \"difficulty in recovering the amount of damages.\" Possibly there may--but, at all events, we are placed, by the verdict of one of the most respectable juries ever empanelled in this Colony, in a position to challenge the Insolvent's Balance sheet; and should it be, as we shall not be surprised to find, that Ah Lum's bankruptcy is due as much to his very proper stoppage at business here as to some astounding malversation in the shape of lawyer's fees, or payment of hireling scribes the facts will duly be made patent to the public, and, it will be hoped, produce a salutary effect that the Jury's award will not be altogether lost \n\nThe arrival of the mail prevented the intention of noticing in our last issue a very interesting letter in the Hongkong Register of Tuesday, signed a Catholic Missionary, and of which the intelligent Redacteur of that paper thus remarks.--- \n\nWe publish better from a Roman Catholic Missionary. in reply to some observations by a contemporary as to what ought to be the course of the French in China in his opinion. We don't of course agree with the remarks of our contemporary but we entirely agree with the letter which we publish. Neither the fact nor the spirit are in good taste, and an easy answer could be time to both were worth while which is not. \n\nWhether the letter in question is a reply to our observations--whether it is \"bad taste\" (as one reverend Father disclaims it)--or whether the subject is worth while to notice are all points on which we shall leave our readers to form their own opinions. Here is a translation of such parts of the letter necessary to an understanding of it, and appended is an extract from the speech of His Lordship the Bishop of Victoria, on the 5th of May last, the spirit of which, it rejoices us to find, is entirely in consonance with the honestionsa which May last, the spirit of which, it rejoices us to find, is not our contemporary does not think it worth while to notice. \n\nTranslation, \n\nReferring to the Anglo-French alliance on the China question--the author of the article accuses the French of a desire to impose their religion on Canton by means of bayonets, amusing it (religion) to serve their ambition.\"This alliance so surely desired by Great Britain rests, it is true, on different interests. Now, as well as in 1841, one noble neighbours are pressing the granting of their commerce. Now, as well as in 1841, France defends is the cause of humanity and \n\nas fafmontas nigha 50 - Fella 24 y. \n\nSHANGHA 15th July -On London 7, The-On Calcutta Theme dava sight Rs. per 1 Palnation, which is only possible on religious principles. de-Draft on Hongkong 29 porced sc. MANILA, 5th June - London, da iglu 4,3 -day sigur 4.9-On Hongkong and carest submit in this country to many obstacles--that Before 1841 the commerce of England had to premium golden Siang 50 pre eit pra \n\ndo-Spa isa and Mexican chopped dollars per \n\nOPIUM, \n\nRosatoma, 5th July, Palan 5520, New Para $590, New Bennes $575, Mal $515, \nMacao, 6th July New Itna $545. Old Patna $525, New Bars $575, \nGames-No Market. \n\nSHANGAR, 1 July--Malwa 400 Trots, New Patna, A Tacle \n\n### FREIGHTS AND TONNAGE.\n\n- CANTON-SHANGHAE, £3, the Tea, a £6.6 for Silk--To New York, 10 per ton of 40 cunt.\n- Also London, Sugar, £3,10, Hemp £4,10 To United States Arabia 23,,10 \n\n### HONGKONG-THE FIRE\n\nFour days after the Fireman's report of the conflagration on Wednesday last--it commenced a little before eight, in or outside the easternmost of Lane dare storici houses in a detached block between the Taipingshan Temple on Hollywood \n\nintroduction at some merchant like being altogether repelled by the Chinese authorities--the pino inspired by the English power has been, it is true, to cause of the war of 1841 The result of the treaty \n\ngive an entire sanction, at all events to make trade more free. is for the benefit of all nations, and to deliver trade from all obstacles, that England presses herself forward with such insisting force most noble is her project and ardently do we desire success to the undertaking, \n\nLong before 1841 your illustrious ancestors were halflence to the successor of Saint Peter--and Quitted to us in the same faith, and by a common wish with us they defended the Liberty of conscience of their brethren in the east against the ferocious despotism of musselmon persecutors, there were even then Catholics in China; and in alternate peace and persecution their numbers have successively multiplied. \n\nIn France profited by the fact of England's acting, though timidly, under similar circumstances \n\nEDWARD WEB has this day been admitted Partner in our Firm \nDENT, BEALE & Co. \nShanghai, 1st July, 1857.\n\nNo. 20 Rua Campo, Macao. \nSHAW'S HOTEL Board and Accommodation, Billiards. \nBy M Il saaw. \n\nThe lower part obtained was rendered inst by mason of the stone formations known as Bridges's folly. The lower part of the house loyally destroyed was a carpenter's shop, and it was from the large and valuable pute of China pine square in the yard adjoining the shop, that the flames were continued wall between nine and ten o'clock. How the fire originated, no one has yet discovered it is singular that it should have occurred within a few yards of the last fire, and in a carpenter's timber yard again. The value of the property destroyed will be about a thousand pounds sterling, and it is said an old man perished by suffocation in one of the \n\nFrom 1841 to the present time, imprisonment and torture have not ceased be the lot of Christians (in China) and area their blood has been spilt and it is for that blood France comes and demands reparation to prevent a repetition of past horrors, And the more extended freedom of conscience en-\n\nWe have heard doubts expressed of the truth of the story told of that gentleman's in miles. The tale, it is said, has never been properly authenticated. - F. C. \n\nThe writer of one of the letters to which we have referred says,--- \n\nand your gracious Queen and our beloved Emperor have thought to unite their endeavours in order to a \n\nI am told that the Chusan Mandarin which Sorira told greater chance of success to their (general) establishment a pier, has era on board his in in such loose con \n\nGarment figs (England, par U.M.O, epizm-France \n\nthe last faar mancha tha to snout naw 80 his font or legs\"--and he slit, antur at the 4:5, I saw the To impose cur religion, cramming). \n\nMantarım yestoniy, He says that Zaring los contoamgut religion by means of the bayonet is out of the or bord le ha 99 ext 20 men cited and focio question, and the honourable author of the article book about $7900 in Cash. Bu on occasion his fricade publ need not be alarmed. \n\nOn our side we Mal0 to have him released, bat Sostro took the money and \n\nLed.\" are far from being alarmed about the Missionaries \n\nof the religion founded by Fancy the eighth and In addition to their ambroglio with the Perin Elizabeth on the contrary, the zeal will exclleguese, the French have a sinal fate with tho ours. Perhaps, indeed, they will be the first ab noted Apak. appears, the nature of which har jects of our zeal perhaps they will become our over, we have yet to hear This is all the Herald brothers by the faith, as they are alresly by feel tel's of it: - ings of regard, respect, and charity.\" \n\nAt the 58th Anniversary Meeting of the Church Missionary Society, held in Exeter Hall on the Morning of Wednesday, the 5th of May 1857, the President, the Earl of Caichesser, in the Chair; the first Resolution having been moved by the Lord Bishop of London, and seconded by the Dean of Carlisle, the second Resolution was moved by the Lord Bishop of Victoria; and the Bishop spoke as follows- \n\n\"Now, My Lord, what is the reason that I have dwelt so much on these encouraging features of the \"Chesping ove ment? It is not, of course, that I wish the assembly to carry away with them the first notion that I look upon this body of men is, in any kind sense of the word, Christian. I know the vague screw, the wina jasjsącko, with which the term \"region\" Christianity\" apst be applied to see a system as I have been referring ( I have no confidence in the personal boaters eftlus rebellion; but I cannot help thinking that God, who in His providence has permitted a may want containing within it so many elements of exerbal truth, mus necs invenit to accomplish indinvely, by means of the The pin Rey lotion, so.he great and mercatene wis Sa China. Its act. \n\nA pak's finct of Wank roast hoals are lying off the sol zato, aqua the lacteria, blockade by 17. I. Corete La Ca pricieuse. They have taken several of their gate ashore, and threaten to take the city of Ningpo, and hadre French men of war attack them. 41 Montes, the Porteced Consul has demode) indemnity from the Chinese nothontie waved as the Intendat, Aigners, exco Portuganun, were 11-ing in parket \n\nThe Earl of Elgin and suite left this port in the Shannon on the 16th instant--the flarer Master reporting Calcutta as the vessel's destination. Quid meant General believes that the Shannon is gone to Peking, and gives as his reason for believing this, the fact of Mr Wade, Chinese Secretary Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary, being ordered to be very diplomatic when embarking, and by no means to let it be known when he was bound to or when he would be back, Mr Wade is the gentleman sent by Sir John Bowring to Cochin-China in 1855 will be remembered, and who was left by the Raider without even a servant on the bank of the River below Hue, where he remained, recognized by the Cochin-Chinese government, until the Radler came back for him Should it really be that the Shannon has gone direct to the Pelbo, better selection for letter carrying in the Svenson's barge could not have been made, and we congratulate His Excellency the Ambassador on the possession of such an able instrument. Mr Wade's experience as a Chinese Custom house officer will not be lost in negotiations at the North. \n\nPROVINCIAL.\n\nThe great apesaluter Tuksen it is said is convonal in the Commissioner's enquiry.— Ibid. \n\n### PEKING.\n\nThe Peking Gazette have reached us up to June 15th, but contain nothing of special interest. The business of the Empire seems to go on as quietly and regularly as ever, but the state of the finances continues to be the absorbing topic at head quarters. Contributions are proposed on all hands, and in places where the accounts have been left in disorder by previous officials of 1855, a minute investigation is insisted on, and deficiencies are to be made up within a stated time. -- \n\nLord Canning has justified the belief which we have been induced to form of him. He lives in days which have more significance than years in the career of many of his predecessors and all his acts are momentous. Since he took the conduct of affairs into his own hands, criticism has been disarmed. All the resources of the country have been gathered up and made the most of, and every corner of the Empire within and without has been ransacked to furnish aid in India's great extremity. No means have been left untried to satisfy the hungry soldiery, and to keep the rebels without a shadow of \n\nThe 79 Native of hry presented an arze, praying that they might be permitted to march to the North West to shore in the lafore and Dulate the loyalty of the Europeans, and within a very few hours his Lordship made his appearance at Barrackpore harangued the troops drawn out to receive him, and did more good perhaps by the utterance of a few single phrases fresh from the heart, and clothed with the authority of his high station, than would have been expected from the reigation of a score of General Orders which but few read and lower still autoreland.. \n\nA Rent Fortune has kindly sent us a copy \nYau's organization of a squadron at Faishan, to of his new work' —Fortune's residence among the Chinese-inland, on the corest, and at sea, \n\nof the 18th instant\" We now learn that, under the being a narrative of scenes and giventures \n\nrenowned chief Le, the rebels gave battle to the \"during a third visit sa Cuius, from 1983 to \n\nImperialists under General Kwin nea: Sewking, * 1856--inclu hag wations of many untional and gained a complete victory--only three boats \n\nproductions and works of art, the callure of \n\nscoping to Canton to tell the result, of carrying Silk & with suggestions on the present \n\nLe's bravado challenge to Yah to come on again \n\n• war.” A book of 450 pages netava. —we have soon as it could get couly. Le's force is stid to not as yet had sufficient space time to give auber 100,000 fighting mon, and 1,000 war ves more than a cursory glance at its roulents; suf- seis, and His Excellency Le's bead quarters aro Betear, however, to enable us to ratify the trail-i now at the district city of Bet. The first class city \n\nof Secking is in very straitened eramstances. faless of the very able review of it in the Mone News at the 10di ult. To residents in Shanghae and Ningpo the work will be peculiarly and men, bae ked a hard batte with Imperialist necepeptable--most of the locities describd woops from Tw-chow, and having gained the vic being those which juries troat those places tory 11. E. e compelling the whole of the surround- are now been aing ordery occurrruos Eng cuantry people to sabm to his rule. Fearing and encompassing the use of car British alat men in colowing is an abstract of the country travelled for the provincial city itse, Yeh is calling in a the Tauschow men, and has stational a thousand of over by Mr Fortune during the perid of the \n\nthem in the South eastern suburbs. The lendore of story. \n\nthe Ninety six villages 150, base bed to send their Chapter I gives the voyage from Hongkong to Shanghae in the Steamer Ganges, -II, the quota of armed men--between two and three to Shanghae to Ningp by boat, and thence \n\nBanner-men, Manchus, and the Lieutenant Gover- to Yuhang on the eastern side of the Yang \n\nnor's guards, altogether about three thousand, ace woopad on the heights beyond the northern wolf. Kiang (the over skirting Ningpe) a distance \n\nThe Hak has of Ko ineng and Six other dis of Bome forty miles by boat and chair--back to Ningpo, and on to the old city ut Traken, tricts have united, and are burning and destroying abontwelve miles from Ningpo, on the branch wherever they go. Canton is the great point to escaps Lo, and there the poor starving wroches of the river conning to the northward. Horn-\n\nA Ningpo in his boat, in Casper VI. we \n\nThousands, wäinen and childen Temporary A letter in the Penang Gazette says - Almat Gad Mr Fortune at Teung, the celebrated \n\nrunt sheds have been erected for them at Chefing 1,000 to 1,500 Chicamen lure had their heads monastery ab at a dog in unites from the Yu. \n\non the south of the river, and them are daily take off by the Dynks who are in arms in all bang spoken of in Chauer Hero ur \n\ndalinge out of congee and rice, supplied by the directions. The Chinese had hald' possession of For was laid up with fever, and bad tɔ sự - aut \n\nauthorities, in gasathies just suficient to ward off the town for about two days, befare the mermer öü cure. to Chine-e medheal treatidens Dr \n\ndisentation. The City is divided into five grand Jantes Brooke arrived, and wern in the fires and Chapter Vils of a return to 8 g divisions, and those agin into sections, within about the town. The Bret shot from the wormerly which ehe bodied tour patrol night and day long 18 pounder cleared the fort, and in a short time. The fear of a rising within the walls to vary they were all swarning out of the town, the steam- great--each en draade his neighbour, ander at the time hard at work with gun such rifies, every ermutenanes is depressed. Few says which did considerable execution. Every day br the icporter can rentize their sad position with- loads of hatuls were arriving Sock, Drak \n\nout being in like predicament. On one hand they were flocking to in Qarsunds and eating the Chin \"feat the approach of the western barbarians name in all directions. They are all cleared not \"on the other the northern and western rebels and of the Sarawak territory, only 150 ne so en DỀ added to both is treachery at home\" Truly some 2,000 to 3,500 having recaped. All th \n\npursued this line of argueal; int I have dve up this foster because I view with considorable apprehension the fature corse of British and French diplomace, the Bast There are very resultar angers now environing the path \n\nnexion with Chan, In China, we who at a distanca e46- tarsly watched the progress of Live gerat European WAY İN which our counter bua been recently engagent, coad with a great degree of satisfaction of the Anglo-French allowe We porused with the keepest colorant the inteliigance luxught by mal anal of the rivalum nad lenda of a couturies being buries in the tombe of the heroes who fel at Alma and In- kermann; and I certainly would not now say one word in depreciation of the character of that able z in who sways the destinies and wichts the trapetisi sceptro of Prano. Baltas will any, test it in davio to my aan mini that the French have a large foot in the Bash; that thng baye no roumawiał interests to vota mer and fister in those masteroms, and that their time too often serval as a kind of rovarg s pred Musinnary phion over the broad waters of the Faci fic, iving en layout to at, at Tahiti, the dip.ad eba Kolla aastat ja redressing the inaainy grievances of the Jeans propagandists thoughout the west. And when I re- member that the Romish propagandi-ts in Chian have always viewed the Tae-ping Revolution via peraline slicka nad Me like-when i renninber that in the early stages af din renale lion linge native Reteruses, ju neging than iloitars, and not yet being skilled in tar den of making a disuneti n with- \n\n### FRENCH PORTUGUESE.\n\nThe Atten by the Portuguese orcha me at Nagpo monopoliza the boat traffic between that port and Shanghae, resulting in an armed collision with one Frenchoren, was told of in one of car numbers some two or three months ago, the 2qbble being referral to the high authorities of the respective nations at Macan. \n\nFrom the proceedings of the French War Ves- sele Marceau and La Capricesse since, it would now appear that the Governor of Marni hat nu thorized the seizure of certain vessels wherever found, and in porsaance of the resolve we ern freas the North-Chisa Herald of the 4th and ch instant that first the Schooner Aurora was taken, and then the Tarcbas 166 and 44. The Chinese portions of the crews of there vessels, with the usal humanity, were instantly handed over by the French to the tender arcles of the Sergh Menilarius,and were soon disposed of, of course. The Portuguese are still in eustody and will be brought to Mucas for trial in uil due time we suppose. \n\nby leters of a week's later date than the infantion reported in the Herald, we find that \n\non called Seiro, spoken of as a great deg peraio, gave himself up to the Freach on the 13th instant, and that thrun of his comrades, hid in the fee houses on the banks of the river, were also caught the sun day. Sonire it appears had been carrying 9 Mandarin about with hire that he had \n\n### Chapter XIII.\n- takes the reader from Tez-tsing to the village of Pururchse and on into the Quartz valley and Temple, 2000 teet alus tar level of the son, where, in the month of October, before the Hongkong summer is well over, the air is \"piercingly sild.\" The same chapior describes a boat voyage of some peril from Ning to Shanghae. \n\n### FOOCHOW.\n\nIt was rumored abroad somewhat extensively that he founded on the arrival of the Lieutenant Governor to Jeeva for the upper provinces, but Fes story had no foundation. The Goverant Gentral is now in his pe par place, and we hope that the may continue to fill and a loze it. \n\n### Friend of India Jane A \n\nit is vary sad. Oh, Sử Jaha Bowring--Sir Chinese women went over safe, about 200; and of all the bool they got in Sarawak, the pasere John Bowring--what an amount of misery ban tkou to answer for ' \n\nvery litla now,\" One of the rusas of trying to get quit of the Dyaks ws to throw money he g The The Chinese were macahing in body of about 2000, eluding 700 women and childies, and the Dyeks hovering stout them, nerasionally making a dash at a corner, det iching 40 a 50 from the main body, and whipping nineir heads with great seal. The Chinese have had t terte lesson En Satown. Their inawer of going ab eat it won to take held of a Chimwatan by his vel, nad whip off bis hand with great dexterity'; one blow suffired, I hardly expect the slaughter will scop here; the Dyaks, having their blood up and expecting the \n\nWe have been favoured with the perusal of a letter from this port dated 7h uirino, received per averiand courier. From it we learn that a man- darin of high rank has arrived there from Palting on his way to Canton where it is ranured he is to \n\nCe left the capital 2. be second in rank to Yeh. \n\nout a man is left.\"--Dady News, June; 10. \n\nQ \n\nor 3 months since, but had made a siren tous route in consequence of the troubled state of the country. Es proceeds in Arany on his way to the South. \n\nThe rebels have retired near to the borders of Chapter XIV. takes Me Fortune back to Tse-\n\nthe province. hey are reported to be quiet, attire to trave a deal of booty, parave them sill kee again, and narrates abe partientors of a jar. Suoma \n\nSmall supplies of Ton from distant dis ney from Ningpo to Sletoghar by the infultricts had arrived and to reso had gone up to par- \n\nThe Duren in Jaray —The nėščiai įvursal of te via Ya-yar, Noskalon, Tiyenin. chrce, but as the season i'r the first chep had pa99- \n\nthe Hague of the 5th casains a long tepat to ne aland that for the se oud was far advanced, few Kanpoo, Yedhow, Chapes and Ping-hoe. Shanghee in the Silk country, by Carim, \n\nChapter XVI. spus with journey for fine toux were expected and not a large younity of King Halland from Myer, Minister of Cole medium xds, the second crop being 1 sjured from is, and M. Gevers. Minister of Pareiga A Forte, zolucive to Japanese affairs, and his Majesty has Page, Nantsing and Houchowfoo. Lo Chup the fact of the first faves por having been gathered. ter XVIII, Mr (ortane runebes be greated From the ear districts ton hd cute in more free-approved of Annexed to the report are fee distance inland, viz the town of Marcoee,ly since the dispersion of the rebels. \n\nsome orty miles west fira Hoochosloo, and the same chapter gives his return to Shanghae, Chapter XXI contains the last of theur. neyings, was winding up business tour to Nings po, the valley of the Nine stones, and Tras Asing again--finally, a return to fonghong and voyage to Calcutio \n\nMexican dollars were a 10 per cent disconat There was nothin, doing la Opkom sture the tax of 20 per chest and brand-China Herald, July, 11. \n\nThe Cairngoras was to leave on the 4th instant,pa Rad to!load, concluded on the 30th of Jan \n\nary, 1896. Three articles, amongst other things, a futt ship, having 1,000 tons of new you on board. She would be the first away--two or thre, ather Slipmats that the Dutch shit be allowed to excreike their worship tronly, and that they shall no longer yeable ware wearly laden- \n\nRico centinued dear bat'the weather was favora- \nbe subjected to the impious cartas of trampling ble for crops. \n\nunder got the image of our Saviour on the croes, They aleo eunal that the Dutch shall be permitted to trade in the open ports, and to get to and parsip ee from Japanese traders. Also to take her wives and children to the wil perts The trucks funter. declare that the importation of foreign and the ex portation of Japanese money shall be allowed; that the Japanese government may levy madarité im. pon, Trungit, and export duties; and, betly, that The Dutch it Nangas ke any misintan free relations with foreigners, both on board veganf• and at Deco \n\nThe report adds, that the Japanese green en has declared asel\" resdy to raciale vrea tea with all foreign governments that may wish top them--Avid. \n\nSo innch for an answer 10 the question which will be added by Chua Residents of \"where dad Me Fortune go to when fast here ?\" In our j next paper we shal: furnish some illustrationsį of the notices\" mentioned on sho ate pagod \n\n(From our Overland Nlition of to day.) From the official announcement in our last that there would be no second Mail Seaner from China this month, Subscribers to tlus journal will not have expected their customary paper. Mr Wal ker the ... Co's. Superintendent, however, with a consideration for pulite interests deservist Gach commandation, promptly chartered the Grsi vanbie Steamer to bundthe Road jun away from the heaving down huik-which he has placa on the Shanghae ins; aking thence tho Shang Adi; mud that vasset, deep as she can swim with alk, now goes to Gaile with the muit. May cephyr smooth as be glossy cargo speed her way through tive most dangeroza period of the year in lue China Sea. We pray this under some nusideration for the interests of underwriters. \n\n## SHANGHAE\n\nAn Imperial Commnissioner named Warg, triv \nhers (Saanghae) on the 7th instans quite unex- pected by the dohorities. \n\nis said he has corng to examine into hn causes of the low state of the public trensary funds, and to tnvestigate certain disbursensule made en ac count of purchases of rice fur the govern went some moatas back, -ay well as to squeeze the marchana and the Toatai ton, to raise fimis to help the pa sing exigences of the looper al Government. We! hear 50,000 weis was demanded from each of tha \n\nmeharts doing the largest business, and that it will probably be compromised for The 5,000 \n\nIt is rumored that Ho Kweling, the fately ap pointed Govarour-general of the Two Keang, is the originator of the present enquiry, on proteaze of not being satisfied with the manner the prisent Intendant, B. E. Las, has been performing tha functions of his post. We have no doubt, Theres fore, that it wit be eney for the Emperial Commis elouer, if his instructions are to that eflist, to tay of sone hold weak poll in the multifarious trans risgrace. We should, however, regret much, sho actions of flis Excellency Lan to bring him into that be the result of the investigation, both for the \n\nThus the despatch of the last mail, military there appears reason für believing that balure we operations about Canton have bem and \n\nCatcmpt possesion of the walls, the rebels will \n\nhave concladed the business for 13. Our Prurin interests of foreign merchants end the Clainese. cial reporter's news it will be seen are alarming. i \n\nFu has been fourteen years a man-larin \n\n### THOUGHT.\n\nThere is a luxury in earnest thought The unthinkang kaka dream of floppy har Who, holding sweet cornuates will himseti, Roving the fèlie ofiscality, \n\nFees het sa labelincas, though ali stEYA, Ngreaves at etalless avai jinde of looke \n\nDoes has lotless med. The daisied eid, The garden of the wood, alike shall be Fer dina struly ; everything aro \n\nThe flower, the tree; the titing, the running brooks,— Aure to bin asterials for clight, AB curists a pure veliges to atm, \n\nYea, nevor fi ing pleasure. Grieť may ce Deal's cold echipe conceal his fail-erfed jar, Rickness may pale uus e vak, lone plach this pace, Be thought tall be fat luns on Ristie Tomas of earth's disygietrose a chara Te all the hatefulensing to sleep \n\nAnd lighten evʼn the heaviest (sail afilis. \n\nUpwards and Quinards. By & W. PARTRIDGE,",
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        "content_text": "## THE FRIEND OF CHINA AND HONGKONG GAZETTE.\n\n### VICTORIA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 24th, 1857.\n\n#### LATEST DATES\nEng Nov. 19; San Francisco, Dec. 21; Singapore, Jan. 13; Manilla, Nov. 13; Jan. 14\n\n#### CHINESE CHANTUNG\n11 Muia, Gish Days\n\nAs soon as each division of the city is closed, and gates are set up, appointing a man to keep the gate, examining those who are passing and reporting should anything fearful occur, let the gates be shut and lugs to prevent thieves from doing mischief.\n\nAgain, in the several divisions of the city let a strict examination be made, and in every row where disorderly women live let them be shut in all defences; and when they have suspicious strangers, weapons, and other instruments, as ferrets, let them be searched for daily.\n\nTowards the Wells—in each division of the Town where there are wells, let a watchman be appointed by night and day to watch it, some person reputed or recommended by some one who knows his faithfulness, in order to guard against the treacherous putting in poison; opening at six o'clock in the morning and closing at six in the evening. Let the owners of water pay 3 cash per load for the water man's wages.\n\nFire—Hongkong ought to put up a reward or prize for any who shall seize a water or miscreant in any Mandarine's employment; and when masters of these shall be convicted under evidence, let a reward of hundred dollars be given to the informer.\n\nAlso, should any shop or dwelling house for want of care allow fire to kindle, let the offender be taken up and receive a thrashing of one hundred blows, made to carry it for three months correction, for not being careful against fire and the sin of involving others. Thus by the establishment of such a rule, men would certainly be careful against the grievous accident with catching animosity.\n\nBarbarians—At present the Mandarines of China have laid an embargo on Hongkong—prohibiting intercourse. Vessels going and passing boats from the neighboring places around perhaps come, perhaps not; perhaps several unite in coming together, to guard against the sea pirates they thus unite. Now the Mandarines have put out a proclamation prohibiting the Chinese from coming to Hongkong, but permitting their return home. We hear it stated that the Mandarines have thus fixed the time to the 1st month of next year—February 1857—before which none are to go or come; if they do they are to be seized as transgressors, and dealt with accordingly. Now although the hoted time has not arrived, still all the vessels that arrive at Hongkong, whether from city or village, should be carefully examined by some trusty conductor of a government boat, as to their business, whence from, name and surname, their age and appearance, and where they intended going in Hongkong; of which write in a book by which there will be a means of examining into the matter. Also, let each vessel examined for soldiers, implements of war, or other suspicious instruments. Examine the oven on board, whether they have anything suspicious in their appearance, and search their persons to see if they have any daggers about them, or any traitorous letters or clues of wicked devices, instantly examining everything on board, after which allow them to go on shore. As the present is a time of war, if there are traitors among the people of Hongkong, many of them rebels taking refuge; besides the men without employment will be many, poor and it is difficult for these to accept to any other occupation. The thieves, though numerous, will be found willing to observe the Laws, and will certainly not be the disturbers of the peace. Their machinations are at war, and it will be found exceeding difficult to effect a translation—apparently the subtle proclamation broadcast over the English were to select a crew of sturdy lads among those who frequent the brothels dispersed over the City. These are principally boasted above spies. Whichever is virtuous, without reference to his claracter, enrolling him as an assistant with $7, $5, $3, implements, the patriotic and bold, and act in unison leader, as actor, may take lodgings in them. No. suppose at and finds; for certain there are such among these, the same time was set above state everywhere capable of leading forward the past to the conquest where there are prostitutes, as the sign. If the foreigners, to destroy the convention, officers, specify and rising of the idea confusion. To disquiet the people, and graciously requite the good—less atrocious should be carefully guarded against. Recently Dying had planned trend been shut the city, been pleased intercourse, Tell the officials of the English by respectfully writing them to warn again pointing being foreigners, and perhaps, ad agato traži; and trade. into the wells of Hongkong. Suppose the Mandarines and gentry should secretly and in concert at a given time to set fire to the prostitutes' houses, poison the wells, and make an united attack both from the kind and out.\n\nMoreover, they would break the Embargo, placed on Hongkong and also in cutting off supplies, we fear all the dire that like an hell become a reality.\n\n| Jan. P. M. | 6,10 | 6,45 | 1,51 | 2,17 |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n|  | 6.15 | 2.41 |  |  |\n|  | 3.43 |  |  |  |\n|  | 6,39 | 1,93 | 6,51 |  |\n\nTuesday, \n5, 1 Adown—First quarter on the 2nd proximos\n3.57 .. \n\n#### SUPPLEMENTARY SHIPPING LIST.\n\nJun. \nARRIVALS AT MONTTONIA, 31, 8. Sir James Brooke, Skinner, from Singapore.\n\n#### QUOTATIONS\nEXCHANGE, AND BULLION.\nHongkong 19th January, —12—latest at Bush Corporation Bank at 6 month's sight. 18. 14 India Úlög Ra....... No, Nous Duty Byer, Nammal-- Bills un Lambs at 6 months' sight\nAg \n-On Lucía 246 9. \nBuvom, Both Jammary --4do London, 6,,8—India Three days' sight 300 lhs per 10. Diats av Ofnban misi ilong- Long 3 per cent discount, \nMANILA, D, London, 6 months' sight 4, 30 days sight §,, -On Cratoa and kangkong ter ent protoinOn âme 1842eecent psikism-Biver Dollate. Spanish and Spath Auchan, daalused, 13 par ceni prasian \n\n#### OPIUM.\nHoxokong, 31 January, -Paina $115 a 1430 Boawes $1 alwal Nominal.\nMaeso, at January.--Parna $ildo $125, Benares 8115. CANTUN,-X Mackol \nSeasons 20th January---Malwn 367 369. Thule, Patos Sia 323 Triz.\n\n#### FREIGHTS AND TONNAGE.\nCANTOR,--Nong, \nSaia can. -De Lon los £!..10 a £3 for Ten, amil.€5 We 9- New York, 55, une fart. \nTo Lelen 10 Sugar, Hemp ko. €3,10 \nTo Unito Stow $59-To Aural (all ch \n\n#### \"REGISTER\" WARNINGS.\nWaxing \nDear Mr Register, let's have a word \nOr two, with you, on things of late transpired; \nWhereby it seems, by that which you are Jos, \nYour Indignation has been greatly fired. \nAt last you have a cracked, and trembling note,. \nA continubulation of strained vines; \nAnd you epiza fruen your harmonious jurat, \nTechaunt us cadences, ur, alias grang. \nIt seems you do not like the tato restrictions \npored on war crkwiat neighbours--why! Har never yet appeared to our nonvictions, \nBut post you will in fəran qe by atat kym \nfe, do nel like their wandering af sight, \nJaws and carves, Sir John, will tell yon na-- \nAnd held your own important soif inclina \nBeyou that livo: to take a chair-why go \nAnd visit your contributors or friends \nBut dont ugal the pass from the othicial; \nAnd if you are a lasting man, \nJust take it with you-wili be beneficialy \nwww.wx \nOr if a GENTLEMAN of gh degre \nTho' uut of pare Casian blood. neglect \nTo carry with bin hat the laws decree \nIn the of warfare-what can you expect? \nBut, that a citizen of earnest seal, \nplein \nAril hanest purpose past your en Shonid chose to challenge tür our mutna \nThe cause of two chair-oitus late detension \n-J \nAnd on the showing of their vindication \nBy this great gentle of puntic blood, \nYou strive to ensure one, whose pledged vacation, \nI to a crime, in bluason, or in \nPause Mr Register, and do not wokY \nFor but of too wild a fight-tis like \nThat you have seen, and y le taught to fol \nLow soon the Begle way the quarry strike \n\n#### SUPREME COURT.\n98th January, 1857.\nThe Queen. The Punnvers. Dr. Bridges, supported by Messrs Gisket and Bowa, and by Mr H.J. Turin, moved on behalf of the Prisoner Alum of the Esing shop, that the Sheriff, Mr May, be ordered to pay over unto the said Prisoner Alum, the sum of $1225, being monies seized by the Sheriff on the premises under The trial of the Esing prisoners will not come on Monday next, as the case commenced earlier than was likely to trench deep—firm and of Mr Tarea, stated their belief to be likely on the bowels of the night. The long this annoy was scary to caulio the p. i- kg Register will not ad id fit vero of the Zomer to prepara lus delence, asseron tout Alain and his fanife werdetin The Chi Ja tien avid that the objection to this existed on board the Shava onk und the Hongkong Police arrived; and the Chem Mach, also in-drecting the errar goes just as faz wrong in \n\n#### CHINESE LAW:\nand the five Mandarimen embarked with them. On their way up they were met by the Cantonese full, who burn one, destroying one thousand men. The other was ran on alore, N. J and the five Mandarimen with about two thousand men narrowly escaping back to Chinkeng. Finally, they built a small boat, ten men volunteering to attempt to reach Nankin in her. It was arranged if they succeeded, All persons rearing mountains, pretending poison—RSI they were so throw large quantities of charcoal into the river. The man at Chinkiang keeping all those who are guilty of afaming in death with violent watch for its floating past with the constant ebb, threats, in order to accomplish an object criminal and unlawful. pusdicine, who pennisters drug perforations with after this a-kang cut his way through with thirty prat Naakin and Chinkeing fu, which they noticed folicult, stall safer deaths—An cekilful practaloner or far days after the boat left. When about a week the ponding needle, contrary to the tablebed rules and hand bringing provisions and relief in the practice, and thereby thungh without any design to injure, kila the patient, shall be had to even hotf from the garrison—Since then they have hul abondanco of panialent of hamile, but shall be obliged to quit kia pro-visions. The morong we passed Tomson the sun or ever, it shaft anper, bewever, that he intentionreb is were engaging the inperiniiats, and we were ally devices from the established rules and gradu, and he enre, and the patient dina, the money shal! then I con \n\n#### CHINKEANG AND NANKING.\nOrigin Narrative, \nComcted from N, page 23. \ntold they had been alt engaged the day before, \nAll the time we were at Ching krang and Nonkin, \nand they appeared q te ignorant of what nu iven going on here. At the lone we left they lik \"wet board of the movements at Canton, \nA Cintonese \nwomen mentioned something about Cautos, which we did not onderzland. We were never askıd \n\n#### ADVERTISEMENTS.\n\n**WORCESTERSHIRE SAUCE.**\nLEA & PERRINS \nat their SALUK which \nsatened in India, \nby \nBay, noe Tat Joanable wo well she LA BANTA Chan \n. والكتير هز \nWORCESTERSHIRE SAUCE. \nPERRINA \nyaz, and riker Out \ndily by far gymploye dealers in Sau Or the 2003 ore 224 K \nKenchaista Linivan \nFOR SALE.\n\nTHE HOUSE GROUND on Inland LOT \nNr. 306-comer of Hollywood Roni and Cir alar Busitings. The House is well brill, with Five Large Reons, The Godowns adapted for the storage of Dry Goods. For full particulars, apply in CHUN APNG, at the Feessa Hong, Botha's Strand or by later, addressed \"C.,\" at the China Mail Oce. \nHongkong 15th November, 1856.\n\nJUST RECEIVED. \n散芳園 \n大水坑口 \n兹者上海 \nmud for Sale by the undersigned, \n120 Tins Warm CRACKERS. \nTHOMAS HUNT & OL Hongkong, 2nd January, 1857.\n\nRECEIVED per Arganout,” and for Salo by \nthe undersignal, 600 Barrels Fresh Gallego FLOUR. \nTHOMAS HUNT & Co. Hongkong, 20th January, 1957.\n\nDECEIVED per late nerival, and For Sale by \nthe undersigand,—- \n109 Packages American PORK. \n150 Banels Gallego FLOUR 1000 Bags California to \nTUOMAS HENT & Co. \nHongkong, fih January, 1857.\n\n**CIRCULAR.**\nTHE undersigned, Proprietor of the FRENCH BREAD COMPANY, respectfully gives notice to the community of Victoria, that ho has engaged an ExorsAN BAK, and is consequence of the Bligh wages, and dearness of Flour, will ↑ Charge, from this date, TWELVE CENTS per four. \nN. BOULLE. Hengitong, 24th January, 1857.\n\n**ADVERTISEMENT.**\nA Respectable Chinese, having his family in the Colony, is desirous of otiring cimployment at a Comprador, or Office Copyist. Apply at this \nHongkong, 10th January, 1857, \nObce.\n\n**NOTICE.**\nwater, this would become heurt aortow and should be carefully guarded aguest. In curefully coming here; there are the means of preventing the guarding, tho treimenos mest in hindered fron evt. I have thus respeedfully laid this part of may views before you for consideration; \nSending so many slits from your honorable country such a distance across the steep, or, Now, when without soutiers sufficient, they would be rady at hand,-when without supplier, -supplies would be sent is. Chinn for several years in succession has been engaged in internal warfare the power of the country has become vitiated, and done away. Beyond the court the officers are with rat wbility; in the cabinet, there are no good and faithful misters; and this is the time for one of \nbeild up his fortune with true abilities not a pro- per feeling. Let such receive the teselligent with generosity and sincerity, treating them with respect; en there would be a general collecting to such as to a lender, like the water running down to the art. Where woult grief arise for is want of meri torious succes in the acquisition of territory la He teratasi \n\nPass & System Let there be an intelligen bes palice man in each divlaim of this city, tune with the Tuga in ezinining every Frange, has many oths, what age, and appeatability improve the opportunity to make bis Jack ance, writing it in n book, auf on the paza clarly etning the carer's height in feet and meter, his When going out and in, tot hus spend his pare appearance, oxide and surname, and residence. up his collar button; that it may at all times on exensoution be ascertained whether the proper pereus beurs it, in order to prasibu traitoreas en Seamen's Hospital.\n\n**SEAMEN'S HOSPITAL.**\nResident Surgen-RUNARD G. JACK, Esq. Consulting Surgeon-W. A. HARLAND, Esy., .. \"Tems & Aimsion. \nPublic Wards, -75 Cente per day, Intermediate Wands Dollar, Private Rooms 2 \nPatients are also admitted on Pepsi, at the \nfollowing rates, renewable une day previous to 10 \namcant deposited having been expended. \nPublic Warda - Intermo/tips-. \nPrivate Roms.. \nW15 \n- $20 630 \nThe Captains or Consignees of Vessel mnat ba sponsible for the expenses of Patients sent by thear so the Flaspiiri. \nNBA Hospital Bills to ho receipted by the Treasurer only.\n\n**WANTED.**\nin SH1 procending is SGAPORE \nroom at a cheap rate for fra Que to Five Finated Tons of Daal weight, consisting of foot square genio blocks froin Four in Six feet in length, which will be placed on board and taken out free of opens to the Ship. \nApply to \nWH. TARRANT. Hongkong, 27th January, 1857.\n\n**PUBLIO AUCTION.**\nTHE undersigned with call by Puncu Averian, \non \nMONDAY, \nthe 2nd day of February, 1857, \nat Noon, from the Godowns of Messia Scuserz3R \nectient locality. For particulars address Medicus&Co, for account of what it may concern, the fol Office of the Chins Mail.\" \nHanghong, 19th November, 1856.\n\n**STORAGE.**\nen moderate this, on board the \nHalk \" Ernan,\" lying of West Point Apply to the Proprietor \nTHOMAS ROBERTS. \nHongkong, 29th November, 1866.\n\n**A CARD.**\nF. FLACKHEAD, \nHONGKCAS. \nShip Chan-lice, Sailmaker and Qeneral Agent, \nCopper, Yellow Metal, and Zine Sheathing, always on hand. \nflongkong, 6th November, 1856.\n\n**NOTICE OF REMOVAL.**\nTHE undersigned begs to notify his friends and Captains in this Harbour that (on account of the dangers at Whampoa) he has removed his \nShip Chandlery Establishment to this Place, \nin the bay of Spring Gardens, and by strict attention to business hopes to obtain a share of the public patronage. \nF. BLACKBEAD. \nHongkong, 31st December, 1856.\n\n**SPRING GARDENS.**\nTHE undersigned have established themselves in \nHongkong as CARPENTERS and Shipwrights \nand are ready to undertake Work of every description. They have also on hand a large supply of MATERIAL for the Building and Repair of Ships; Likewise Sails of all sizes. \nBUYERS & Co. Hongkong, 1st January, 1857.\n\n**BROWN, JONES & Co.**\nUndertakers. \nMONUMENTS AND HEAD STONES, made in the best style, at the lowest possible charges. Apply to \nthe Sexton at the Courthouse.\n\n**ORIENTAL HOTEL.**\nN. E. on Praya Grande, Macao. THE WIDOW of FatosRICK Denver, begs to inform the community of Macao, Hongkong and the Consular Powers, that it is her intention carry on the business of her late Husband as heretofore, and she hopes that, with the best servants procurable at usual moderate charges, every satisfaction will be given to those honouring her establishment with their patronage. \nMacao, 24th January, 1857.\n\n**NEW ADVERTISEMENT.**\n**WANTED.**\nSECRETARY for the HONGKONG CLUB. Apply by letter directed to the General Committee. \nBy order, \nR. 1. CARVALHO, \nSecretary \nHongkong, 29th January, 1857.\n\n### Page 210\nPage 211",
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        "content_text": "# \n410 \n\nsie in Ms. \n\nS. \n\n8 \n\nWei-nan has been here, suggesting that if, while our purpose is in so far changed, the stoppage of supplies be rigorously enforced, it will cow the rebellious barbarians, and so far furnish us with a means of keeping them well in hand. This measure, therefore, must not be discontinued. \n\nCompliments, &c. \n\n(Translation.) \n\n## Inclosure 11. \n\nChan-tsze-tin to Chan-kwei-tsih. \n\nMarch 4. \n\nI HAVE the honour to state that I have received your commands of the 28th February. Regarding the proposition that I should head the subscription to provide funds to remunerate (the captors of) devils' beads, I immediately applied to my teacher Kang (qy. Su-ting-kwei). He says, that the Ruler of the rebels has written back, blaming the military head of the devils altogether for commencing the disturbance of last year, and that the Governor-General (Yeh) has issued orders to the different train-bands to suspend offensive operations for the present, and if these are to be deferred, it is clear that the (taking of) heads is a measure that may be even yet more deferred. As regards the head now in custody, when this is forwarded to Canton, it had better be stated in the memorandum forwarded with it, that it was taken by my relation Cheung-chan-mei (that he may get the credit of it). The amount to be paid in reward can be carried to the last year's account of money lent between you and myself. If this, however, is any great trouble to you, there is no occasion to press it. Cheung-king-san (a Mandarin distinguished in Kwang-si three or four years ago) has already had the kindness to recommend my relation Cheung, and if this instance be added to the former, his credit will be increased. \n\nIn addition to the payment made by me on the 13th February into the District City Fund, for the support of the braves, I made a further payment of 2,000 dollars on the 24th February, and another of 1,000 dollars on the 2nd March. \n\n(Translation.) \n\n## Inclosure 12. \n\nChan-tsze-tin to Chun-kwei-tsih. \n\nMarch 7, night. \n\nI SENT Man-tsap-shin to you to-day at noon. At 6 this evening, I sent a man to Victoria to spy: he has returned with information that Duddell's store, in the Ha-wan, had been burned with upwards of 1,000 peculs of flour therein, several score of casks of biscuits, twenty or thirty barrels of spirits, and other articles of consumption. A devil was burned to death in this fire, which is not yet extinguished. There was so much flour that it was difficult to get the flames under. As soon as the fire broke out, the English devils fired some guns, and knocked down the Christian church by the side (of the bakery). The barracks to the left of it, and the powder magazine, were guarded by several hundred devil soldiers, who planted cannon for their protection. (The spy) saw with his own eyes that the building burned was Duddell's store and not the great devil building (Government House or the offices). Ever since the closing of the Heung-shan man, Cheung-alum's bread-shop, the greater portion of the devils soldiers' rations have been ordered of Duddell. This is why he had so much flour in store. The burning of supplies as on this occasion is a more successful measure than the interdict itself. \n\nIt is said that a few days ago three devil men-of-war came in with 1,000 and odd English (red-haired) devil soldiers on board, and that yesterday arms were issued to them. I have not ascertained whether there is any devil design (in this) or not. Wang-sui-shang's undertaking on the night of the 5th March failed, and being discovered, two of his underlings were seized. \n\nThe rest escaped to Cowloon. It is a great pity that this enterprise should have failed, as it has, through the dilatoriness of Wang-sui-shang. \n\n9 \n\nYesterday a spy reported that supplies are privily sent from Shui-chun-chung, on account of Ho-tsai-luk of Hong Kong, who has a boat armed with four muskets. He makes ordinarily 100 dollars on a run to or fro, by the carriage of bullocks and poultry. His run to and fro now stands him in 120 taels ready money. \n\nHo-tsai-luk is the head of the villains. The way to take him would be to send people to lie in wait at the water-side, until his vessel came out; success would then be certain, and were this man taken, the supplies would be cut off, without any interdict being necessary. However, I do not venture to undertake this on my own responsibility, or until I have represented its expediency. The supply of provisions from the Sha-yu-chung (Shark's Bay) is increasing. I am going to detach a vessel from Sha-tin, to cruize off the place. There are some water-braves in my camp, whom I can detach without inconvenience to Ch.-k-chow. It is also a place inland (within my range). \n\n(Application for powder, &c.) \n\n(Translation.) \n\n## Inclosure 13. \n\nChan-kwei-tsih to Chan-tsze-tin. \n\nMorning of the 21st February. \nTHE proposal respecting the gunpowder* (poison) is very important. A reward of from 500 to 600 dollars may be given. Three days will be the time allowed, and notice is to be given beforehand. If the introduction of the powder (poison) is successful, it will be rewarded. \n\nThe lists of the train-bands of the six wards and the nine wards (or confederacies) have been forwarded by the hand of Yu-ke-nin. Every camp or station having now its full complement, a hundred or more, there is no vacancy to be filled up. I will write to you separately regarding the proposed reduction of the braves, and you can act accordingly. \n\nI hear that the rebellious barbarians are spreading a report that between the 28th of this moon and the 2nd of next (22nd to 25th February), they will attack the District City, and I am making arrangements for its defence. \n\n### Postscript 1. \nThe banners for the train-bands, and the circular badges for their dresses, will be finished in a few days, and shall be sent. \n\n### Postscript 2. \nI send a jar of rice and one of powder. \n\n### Postscript 3. \nIf among the fifty-six volunteers you propose to disband, there be any available men, the propriety of retaining some ten or so may be taken into consideration. \n\n## Inclosure 14. \n\nTan-chin-yung (supposed to be a Pa-tsung, or Ensign, of the Cowloon establishment) to Chan-han-tsun (supposed to be Chan-tsze-tin). \n\n(Translation.) \nCompliments. \n\nMarch (?). \nWITH reference to the affair which was to have come off yesterday, they (the parties) were to have set to work on the 10th (5th March ?), but there are five barbarians belonging to the steamer; and on the evening in question, the servants (or persons concerned), after giving them their tea, had gone ashore in different parties, and having obtained the powder, were approaching the vessel, when one of the barbarians who was reading in the cabin, and had not drunk his tea, hearing the boat coming, fired upon her. 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        "content_text": "316 \n\n11 \n\n30 \n\nEnclosure marked A.\n\n**WILLIAM TARRANT Esq.,**\n\nSIR,-I have received your letter dated the 19th, and I have perused it with attention.\n\nAs to your understanding in relation to the matter regarding which Mr. Caldwell came to Macao in 1860, I find the great part of your remarks correct. I am,\n\nYour obedient Servant,\n\nsigned, **L. MARQUIS,**\n\nProcurador.\n\nThe above is appended to a copy of the letter, and sealed with wax and official stamp.\n\nTrue copy\n\n**W. TARRANT.**\n\nEnclosure marked B.\n\nMacao 19th February 1862.\n\n**L. Marquis Esq., Procurador.**\n\nSIR,-Having reference to the various enquiries which I have made at your office lately, and of yourself on the subject of the narrative which you sent to the Editor of the Daily Press on the 5th March 1860, and, as I have shown you, bound up in an appendix to Minutes of enquiry into Civil service abuses before the Executive Council of the Hongkong Government; and more particularly regarding Mr. Caldwell's reply to your letter of the 29th of February, of date the 10th of March 1860, bound up in the same volume, I shall feel obliged if you will append to this letter (which I send in duplicate) a certificate of your appreciation of my having correctly understood your and the other statements.\n\nCommencing with the 10th printed paragraph of the letter, on the 35th page of the appendix-you say that you deny that it was proved to you that the five men whom Mr. Caldwell relieved from their contracts were kidnapped. When the men found that by saying they did not want to go they could be released, they said so; and you opine that every contract coolie in Macao would make a similar statement, though that would not prove that they were kidnapped.\n\nAs to para 12 on the same page,-Had the informer pointed your attention at the time to the man whom he said was one of the brokers that came from Hongkong with the 45 Coolees, you would have apprehended him-But neither did he then nor subsequently; and when you found that the informer was an impostor, you came to the conclusion that his assertion of having seen such a person at all was of a piece with the rest of his conduct.\n\nAs regards paras 15 and 16 on page 30, in which Mr. Caldwell speaks of inaccuracies on your part in the statement of what he told you when he first came over regarding the Coolees,-while adhering to your impression on the subject, and now believing that you were intentionally misled, you say that it matters not whether the informer were or were not a policeman after he reached Hongkong from Macao. What was clear to you was that the informer lied when he said that he had been confined in the Sun-fook-tie hong, and that he was one of three that had escaped in the month of December. The names of the men who so escaped, as shown by the Register of coolees who had signed contracts, and were intended to go in the Emilie Pireire, were Leon Ao-an of Hoi-ping, Le Ahee of Chau-choon, and Sun Acum of Fu-yen. These men were received in October, and escaped on the first of December; whereas the informer called himself Asoong, and to have been one of the 45 from Hongkong for whom Mr. Caldwell affected to seek, could not have been in the Hong at the date of the escape in question; the said 45, according to the story, only reaching Macao on the 27th of December.\n\nAs to para 18 on the same page, you adhere to your statement that the informer said four of his companions were at the Barracoon at St. Antonio.\n\nAs regards para 21 on the 36th page, touching the Coolee brought from the St. Lourenço barracoon and released by Mr. Caldwell, you say this man was undoubtedly an impostor, for the contract which he had signed bears date the 6th of December; and you supply me with an attested copy of this contract viz No. 154, between Chong Afa and Messrs. Morales & Co. You also furnish to me attested copies of the contracts of the four others released by Mr. Caldwell; and you notice that Kwon-sun-Kwan who corroborated Asoong's evidence at the Supreme Court on the trial of Shum Ahing, is not the name of either of the five men taken from Macao by Mr. Caldwell.\n\nAs to para 22 on the same page, in which Mr. Caldwell speaks of the consistency of the statements of the Coolees so brought to you with that of the informer, who Mr. Caldwell said had had no possible means of concerting with the others to make up the story, you point out that, as it is proved by the evidence of J. Fernandes, of D. Xavier, of F. B. da Luz, of C. G. da Silva, of Cheang Achan and of others, that the informer was a Coolee broker on his own admission, the supposition that the story could not have been concerted fails; for, as a broker, Asoong had free access to all the barracoons, going in and out whenever he pleased;",
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        "content_text": "## \n17 \n5 \n\nOn the 30th December 1839, \nNo. 233-Char Arat, \nOn the 31st December 1859, \nNo. 346-Hip Atun, \n347-Tan Ahi, 348-Chao Apoo, \n1 \n18,, Ton-cun. \n51 \n30 Tim-pac. 32 Lo-chan. 30 Hunchin. \n313 \n11 \n349--Chao Apat, \n30 \n350-Choi Asan, \n30 \n1: \n351-Lopien bien, \n35 \n352-Choi Apuu, \n25 \n353-Tom Atun, \n32 \n354-Chou Aquae, \nPe \nFF \n355-Tu Apun \n32 \n356-Pau A bun, \n33 \nid. Lan-chao. \nTim pac. \nLan chao. \nTim-pac. Hun-chin. \nTim pac. Hua-chio. \n357-Chau Apau, \n28 \n358--Chon Achim, \n22 \nTim pas. 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On the day preceding I received from the said San-qui one--On the 27th of the same month seven, and on the 24th-two. \n\nBut of the thirty five here specified I can state of my own knowledge that not one was of the 45 brought from Hongkong before referred to. \n\nAnd I further solemnly declare and state that some time in the said month of December 1859, being in Hongkong, I heard that over a hundred men were in a hong on the sea side at the west of Victoria, and thinking that these men might be desirous of entering into a labour contract to go to Havana, I called at the said Hong and found 40 or 50 Coolees, who one and all declined, through the Interpreter with me, to go to Havana. Shortly afterwards I heard, in Macau, that these coolees had come to Macao when I again enquired if they would go to Havana, and was then told that some of them had gone to the hong of Mr. Beuzant, but none of them were engaged for me to go in the Emilie Pireire or any other ship under my agency. And the names and native places of the coolees supplied to me by Sam-qui from the Sun fook tie hong aforesaid, on the days mentioned were as follow:-all of the said places from which these coolees came being on the west coast of China, or here about,--not on the East coast according to what would be correct descriptions of places about Kap-chee. \n\n### Names and native places of certain coolees received from Sam-qui, for the Emilie Pireire.— \n\n| Date | No. | Name | Age | Native Place |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 24th December 1859 | 230 | Lun A sam | 30 | Chan-sian |\n| 24th December 1859 | 231 | Siu A foo | 22 | Pun-hy |\n| 27th December 1859 | 232 | Chuo Ajom | 24 | Ton-cun |\n| 31st December 1859 | 346 | Hip Atun |  |  |\n| 31st December 1859 | 347 | Tan Ahi |  |  |\n| 31st December 1859 | 348 | Chao Apoo | 1 | Ton-cun |\n| 31st December 1859 | 349 | Chao Apat | 30 | Tim-pac |\n| 31st December 1859 | 350 | Choi Asan | 30 |  |\n| 31st December 1859 | 351 | Lopien bien | 35 |  |\n| 31st December 1859 | 352 | Choi Apuu | 25 |  |\n| 31st December 1859 | 353 | Tom Atun | 32 |  |\n| 31st December 1859 | 354 | Chou Aquae |  |  |\n| 31st December 1859 | 355 | Tu Apun | 32 | Tim pac. Hua-chio |\n| 31st December 1859 | 356 | Pau A bun | 33 | Lan chao |\n| 31st December 1859 | 357 | Chau Apau | 28 | Tim-pac |\n| 31st December 1859 | 358 | Chon Achim | 22 | Tim pas. 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        "content_text": "# \n63 \n\n! \n\n3- \n\nsubditos gosarão igualmente, nos dominios das Altas Partes Contractantes da mais completa e decidida protecção para com as suas pessoas e propriedades.\n\n## ARTIGO II\n\nÉ inteiramente annullado e tido como nunca existente por este Tratado tudo o que até hoje, em qualquer lugar ou epocha, possa haver sido escripto, ou impresso, ou verbalmente convencionado com respeito ás relações entre Portugal e o Imperio da China e entre o Governo da cidade de Macau (antes na provincia de Cantão) e as Auctoridades chinezas:—visto que d'ora em diante servirá de unico regulamento válido para as mesmas relações o presente Tratado, concluido e assignado pelos Plenipotenciarios dos dois Estados, devidamente munidos das suas respectivas credenciaes.\n\n## ARTIGO III\n\nO Governador Geral de Macau, na sua qualidade de Plenipotenciario de Sua Magestade Fidelissima na China, poderá vir á Corte de Pekim todos os annos, quando importantes negocios lh'o exijam.\n\nSe no futuro o Governo de Sua Magestade o Imperador da China dér faculdade para residir permanentemente em Pekim ao Plenipotenciario de qualquer outra nação extrangeira alem das que já hoje ali teem Representantes, o Enviado de Sua Magestade Fidelissima poderá considerar essa permissão como sendo-lhe extensiva e aproveitar-se d'ella, se o julgar conveniente.\n\n## ARTIGO IV\n\nOs Agentes diplomaticos gosarão nos lugares das suas residencias de todos os privilegios e immunidades que lhes concede o direito das gentes: isto é, as suas pessoas, as suas familias, as suas cazas e as suas correspondencias serão inviolaveis.\n\n## ARTIGO V\n\nAs despezas das Missões diplomaticas de Portugal na China serão pagas pelo Governo Portuguez. Os Agentes diplomaticos que Sua Magestade o Imperador da China se dignar acreditar junto á Corte de Sua Magestade El-Rei de Portugal, serão recebidos com todas as honras e prerogativas de que gosarem todos os mais Agentes diplomaticos extrangeiros d'igual gerarchia, acreditados n'aquella Córte.\n\n## ARTIGO VI\n\nAs correspondencias officiaes, enviadas pelas Auctoridades Portuguezas ás Auctoridades Chinezas, serão escriptas em portuguez e acompanhadas da traducção chineza.\n\nDo mesmo modo será o presente Tratado escripto em portuguez e chineza depois de confrontado devidamente, e servirá de documento a cada Nação a versão escripta na sua propria lingua.\n\n## ARTIGO VII\n\nAs formulas das correspondencias officiaes entre as Auctoridades portuguezas e chinezas serão reguladas pelas gerarchias e posições respectivas, tendo por base a mais completa reciprocidade. Entre os altos funccionarios portuguezes e os altos funccionarios chinezes, na capital ou em qualquer outro lugar, estas correspondencias terão a forma de officio ou communicação: entre os funccionarios portuguezes subordinados e as primeiras Auctoridades de provincia usar-se-ha, para aquelles a forma de exposição (Chau-Hoei) e para estas a de declaração (Xen-Cheu); e os officiaes subordinados de ambas as nações deverão corresponder-se em termos de perfeita igualdade.\n\nOs negociantes, e geralmente todos os individuos não investidos de caracter official, seguirão para com as Auctoridades a formula de representação (Pin-Cheng). Quando qualquer subdito portuguez tiver de representar á Auctoridade chineza do districto, deverá primeiramente levar a sua representação ao Consul, que, não a achando inconveniente, a fará entregar, e no cazo contrario mandará escreve-l'a n'outros termos, ou recusará transmitti-l'a. Igualmente quando um subdito chinez haja de representar ao Consul de Portugal, só poderá faze-l'o por via da Auctoridade chineza, que procederá da mesma forma.\n\n## ARTIGO VIII\n\nEm todos os pórtos da China abertos ao commercio poderá Sua Magestade El-Rei de Portugal estabelecer Consules para tratarem dos negocios commerciaes e vigiarem pela observancia de todos os artigos d'este Tratado.\n\nOs Consules e as Auctoridades locaes deverão tratar-se reciprocamente com polidez e corresponder-se em termos de perfeita igualdade.\n\nOs Consules e Consules interinos terão honras de Tau-tai, e os Vice-Consules, Agentes Consulares e Interpretes traductores as de Perfeito. Os seus poderes serão iguaes aos das Auctoridades consulares das demais nações.\n\nEstes funccionarios deverão ser verdadeiros agentes do Governo portuguez, e não commerciantes. O Governo chinez nenhuma objecção fará porem a que Portugal, não julgando necessario enviar um verdadeiro Consul para qualquer dos pórtos, encarregue interinamente o seu Consulado n'esse porto a um Consul de outra nação.\n\n## ARTIGO IX\n\nSua Magestade El-Rei de Portugal e Sua Magestade o Imperador da China, desejando manifestar as suas amigaveis intenções reciprocas, concordam expressamente no seguinte:\n\nTodos os subditos dos dois Estados, em qualquer parte do territorio portuguez ou chinez, serão sempre tratados reciprocamente como amigos.\n\nSua Magestade El-Rei de Portugal ordenará ao Governador de Macau que preste a mais decidida coadjuvação a evitar tudo o que, n'aquelle ponto, se possa tornar prejudicial aos interesses do Imperio Chinez.\n\nSua Magestade o Imperador da China poderá nomear pois, se lhe convier, um agente para residir em Macau, e ali tratar dos negocios commerciaes e vigiar pela observancia dos regulamentos. Este agente porem, deverá ser Manchú ou China, e ter a graduação de quarta ou quinta ordem. Os seus poderes serão iguaes aos dos Consules de França, Inglaterra, America, ou d'outras nações, que residem em Macau e Hongkong e ali tratam dos seus negocios publicos, arvorando a bandeira nacional.\n\n## ARTIGO X\n\nÉ permittido a todos os subditos portuguezes e ás suas familias habitarem ou frequentarem os pórtos e cidades de Kuang-tchou (Cantão),--Chan-chou (Suatau), Amoy, Fu-chau-Ning-po,--Shang-hai, Chen-kiang, Kien-kiang, e Han-kau (no rio Yang-tsi)—Tăng chou, Tientsin, Neu-choang—Tan-shoei e Tai-van (na ilha Formosa),-e Kinng-chou (na ilha de Hai-nan), e ali commerciarem ou empregarem-se livremente. 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        "document_key": "CO129-145 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1870 [6-9]",
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        "title": "CO129-145 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1870 [6-9]",
        "content_text": "{ \n\n100 \n\nthe pay \n\nthis, I find, \n\nwas rather more \n\nto \n\nthan $100, and I have, therefore, \n\nadvise that $800 \n\nloss \n\nthat sum, \n\n· given to him in full payment \n\n$700, be given \n\nthe sum claimed. \n\nRegarding \n\nConveying \n\nthe claim made for the crews from the Paracels \n\nto Hainan it appears that arrangements \n\nwere made with the Masters of \n\nWhence fishing \n\nboats, to whom $1000 was to be paid. Of this sum, as Reported \n\n$525 \n\nwas \n\npaid \n\non the spot, \n\nand the \n\nremainder #680 is still due. \n\nLi-Gat-Fu, Master of one of \n\nengaged, has \n\nThe Fishing Boats \n\narrived to claim the payment \n\n× Note $300 was paid on the spot, and $20 subsequently given \n\nto the same parties for food. \n\n(Degree) 6.6. \n\npromised to himself and his fellow fishermen \n\nHe states that in his boat 8 men \n\nwere \n\nconveyed to Hainan, and that the other \n\nboats carried 10 and 9 men \n\nrespectively. \n\nthe \n\nman is identified by \"the Stancy\", \n\nGrenner of the \n\nbut as the master \n\nof the Junk who brought \n\nher \n\nstates that he is working on behalf of the \n\nacting \n\nthree fishing boats, and further \n\nthat \n\nhe is apparently a respectable person, known to certain shopkeepers here, \n\nI would recommend that \n\nThe \n\nfisherman, Li-Gat-Fu, is willing, The whole sum granted, \n\nsum granted for the services rendered be handed to the former Chinese (Chan-Sai-Ting) on his \n\nentering \n\ninto a bond with valid \n\nG.",
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        "title": "CO129-145 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1870 [6-9]",
        "content_text": "# Stations & texts length\n\nAt present they have reached one of Suck Martin Some Station near the Bogue & couple me have been made to pay $400 soo-fu ir body $500-fu kuars what The Garden Committee with four members appointing in a Sokolame then't written Las been worked. it was a continual battle behind to the General ourselves. We walk the things with be disallowed, & would do nothing following some definite plan Gibb dechmed & act, so Hayler & S & bak. lifter an fish report to the becantika twold be proper doing we first, the months (I think) Repard Eve received any reply Ah wisher, or going which I work were at last compelled to report 2 opinion that as to Committee did not on order & sel tee selon poses the hearted and thing & plan, the Public shall be mitich Send in plaus herein for any Aut afted \n\nDr Mason was for laying and th by fecernend withat any General dirige, we did not foren It shigthit faith in chilif & do this, & build ball Y as The General ordered Lodge fille Hange 34 la Pohan Station ! Jarley have shred. Y BL Air andy Cours \n\nArticles, bott be A any thi a that his hand eu others whit they may chan Z repal the I get the in ctn be the in fort t bet the it in con ch asp \n\nbaths, when we could not get any design,",
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        "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案",
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        "document_key": "CO129-147 - Public Offices - 1870",
        "page_number": 441,
        "title": "CO129-147 - Public Offices - 1870",
        "content_text": "to great embarrassment and trouble from the cognizance and interference of Her Majesty's Consul and the Vice Roy questions of importance affecting general interests.\n\nunscrupulous \n\nAn astute and unscrupulous Chinese Officer like Yung Yuk would, for the time being, find in it ample room for the exercise of his talents, and the Colonial Government would soon find itself in a position of difficulty of a very grave character.\n\n(Signed) \nD.R. Robertson, \nBritish Consulate, \nCanton, 28th December, 1869.\n\n## Copy \n439 \n\nWith reference to direct Communication between the Colonial and Chinese Authorities at How Soon:\n\nBritish Consulate, \nCanton, 15 August, 1869.\n\nI have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your Despatches Nos 93 and 34 with their respective enclosures having reference to direct communication between the Authorities of the Colony of Hong Kong and those of the Chinese at the city of Hau-chan (Hainan was likely but not certain; however \"Hau-chow\" or \"Hainan\" are not the only possibilities; the most likely is \"Hau-chan\" or some other place name starting with \"Hau\") is not certain; the text is referring to a place near Hong Kong, a likely candidate is \"Hau-chow-fu\" or simply a mispocition/OCR error for \"Hoi-how-fu\" or more likely \"Hau-chan\" being an alternative romanization for a Cantonese place name. However the original text is \"Hawlarn\".\n \nHis Excellency \nSir Rutherford Alcock, K.C.B., Her Majesty's Minister, \nPeking.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-161 - Public Offices - 1872",
        "page_number": 84,
        "title": "CO129-161 - Public Offices - 1872",
        "content_text": "Y, NOVEMBER 20, 1872.\n\nONIYA.\n\n(PRIVILEGE IN SOULS'IONAL PROHRLATONDANT.)\n\nla paraushee L↑\n\nwork. Oodermso was that complaint on behalf of, better organization of the winis syatym, the reig I was about to inspout their work this aujant a joint Convention was ultimately entered into Mr. Tug third me unt to end 1 cafe by the British and French expremutatives at Pekin willa wyer theived, the bailing the fiarwoment of China, by which susteased arcuits was\n\nd park of the offer. Purlaub stated\n\nvaled contexture. d that ly was not in work giren for the shipment of auch routier only as were willing to our weak in the matung aus 1 tb Audley with a tilt beominigo or the cuditioão só vécér coczīves pigh wrist. Ale further sted blint he wand to receive 2 a day withratung for their other trement on the visum and a p\n\nzayn rect\n\n. In consequenes of the again from the Clues 37.\n\nof the Preach powers, can fund it would interface\n\nit alone the only freight by ever in Chi\n\nin the sport of the live esagors, both the British and Prenat Dovernalent fred so fasily the Contention. ite Chiba, huggi ut et grossná, karo ever eine refered\n\ns\n\nSHANGHAI, SEPT. fi.an putly than be The verdict of the Cears of lequiry contunel to investigate throustices aliudng the hos of the Pacific Map Company Estestacé „Anterica declares that the day was canad ith a state if suey Enil any priesandte, it I told the tars pavage at the end of the yencs, the long inne ut by mpendiaties, but unless threes the other aridance rate that they should have dominanses within servitude being haiked to shas period. This later mainly then what is published before the Court is vasma charge for the slingelt agaaulty computillest them. I was the provston oidectod ko by the plantere in their owa defect la understand how this ecclesive as swded Alz, Abel, Mr. Fray and undersign to the interest on grantly femening, the organan of the imunteme ricet al, for the story on sharp with of the dry, det prose before the deseriert asics to it appar at Daniel's low G Men, told that an American ship was to be hajat 11 weitve, to a shages and got the a tagat is quite iwadimit, and, uzdur top di Pay probed to sc. Errying was fully ezert constantes itaching to timu etavot, sareely to who coalies by xn jasentaand insigrues vilet Malaren,\n\nwerd infy the wrath about worth inquiring inti. No se asems to know how the accident capazred, but a nigamblu\n\nWhen ? arrivod at 'she Cou? Honas the soad mar diled un thrown among She bay wald be quite munisient m far as i could sewish soulies are with badkhe slicks, le strike one three provisioco, and the sealer bare seant for it. Nordous the investigation establish the tours, was ihale eptue (born in Rugludi u Repunge of migration for the Demeen parte, But Mhat any attempt was made by the officuts or moue CSA f Parigiel, Sowser, andersingi was; bet tram Farm or Hongkong, med slefuing la ke to repres the panic which naturally arces among the ila chen sinon fu logs and data in territory under Portage and end Bleds [Chan passengers, or provent the merawat dapp. Arse derests we is and fra so disregard adi Chouka Kiction\n\nRețeudaca. The case of Fartanın ngaiget Sextorsingh was ing of the gangway and companion ladders, which we sino, much the complainané dit jos rate for The jar of Wewe anaias there has huch n iled to the lamentable Jors of həy attending the Dr. Ne of my morphic anning in the icicas of sha | wwerrono la vâu referims trade and wash year Frona It appears shut the expiatu sat offers devoted prottes, I out any interpooter our among that crend, wedi 16,000 is 9456, enfucturate Culness take their deportes, rodamole with the American energy and comagenuen barzana ski fung Your way waiting to the Bush you, fan, pan show pandlela tu thu herwan to the peak of combating the lanes, it satis inely in the treat overes, in Gate Marsa ve Perk, in\n\nis sovnetti with thuit vasc Justed of romavels they lately plant and the the repoer.bility whion in a Bagi abip\n\nThe sugtige mais lend pivots, beat tusiz shiuksi they would love felt attaching to thera in re- Hoon. Arbon provided to take upon vatia the studenout | banding whip with the basher Luitened lines by the garn of theiz pasangers, athing seems to be as the let it crew. Bad from Hoses, notenturing số the\n\n|oit, Abei dar mai thai be pad assaulted cur conide ; und a best attempted in the way of acquiring the que no\n\nronal destalite ang Pemeng keid\n\nfisini sinta. (but robesduty engganti base the harbour. Ingly under\n\nita this\n\nbut with equally obranucaristia d'greyn Dər, sud volied as shay lit the vibuty of tue venyt | which we whale living cargo vas left to port in a\n\nthe kallas mut of irgbtquoi Căimucus By rostech Just an actory Hola zavoriter has uning fellatio 10 henry the\n\nThe amictal, to presend to the panntation, and is redi-\n\nrenied that my is ourselves\n\nʼn American wikusal, injetnosć by the recling that ¦ want Mr. Igaza dobb informed me that the confitiuus of fail and spus aduulated tu ilave thuis safety\n\nmeu art, mifer all eternals sus capable of harron to Javorire une wo the voyage, il auyzet ig sa of thuselves, the captain and officers are, who were heard for open to grava sushi, on this path of the Cuiness that wa rightly some, but had it perusted with followed, When i reived a Petraglin Castly, abo cnouaregem ikada curtain mention to the chipmat eto ati vonalt som remaris weddin\n\n1 olives, the interpreter od I got cat al my wrzjum. 1 fro: Torlugnare colony la might, no muitful in ten- lucked for with regard to absence any\n\nkad great sliktoky, in gelding a mask mati un buit me gedia and revelsteg crackie, en aning that co went suures for having the fangers, very hard, and I prended it underlies who loves are praction under our orn eroi fratlara\n\nive at sympling with the cofagatts\"\n\nJuss the the thin bold savansion, pertepe), ie the tin au crisp, d Jaza of these moci augeikeant rest, and res\n\nmed at armed with Luckh, azlyną, which they adopted\n\ngibst war, and this and would in a Rehme në per privilege, to renvers p14 dny to det for tho Jossos sustumed by the odioms and crew,\n\nrible maavar. Twenty dan asard police and shume un¦ Buy anulia emigration leder conditions tartuntiy diy pproved appear to inter muscadogt nil altempts to wraied van inoru ap atas yanta in frent of the by the Chiens Government, clone subjecte ti oli\n\nLee, wat miti, mit we have eaty of amity aral evt. Pelz-and wako?\n\n• seal siasta i sheir vibrts to save theatre\n\nAs to the provising of a return pudingo and a limitation\n\nabet dive deelorneo is madawa of theinadoquary; sistem maè ut\n\n19 20 we interpreter te ti tu ieri to u walls a cunila ay tumaning of bus demostracions They And of the muguraiment that passengers should lean at pay their unywele y avian w ulemps of tive years for khu turn af sorrowers the coolin\n\nfor themselv\n\nKHUSE PLA\n\nAn ecinotaures which Letnjami ritsender. Etten for a few midus thins) use of his own free will to engage 102 - AppDad\n\npo ally of the your wore scor Furby! an hoovi sulty Aineen verrals for a tale to us will try Lewis vach was bord we are seeded in the plater were slaba to in the seat joyou Dost Poutil sem spreading, and then that are to bake crece but 10 wery (we Frost China. But, on the other hand, the dame Perpe\n\n•Your pay, no és size price worth their whole, to have bec\n\nThey und wire, der ho volition, it geval, Vincolili wamilies in L. 1201220 tisic i tu solcher rent a fun scouted tipbé an fare por such sol Stuga kecies of Reiniks for looses had thom I CHE I CAN WAS untro: o: A hii uria i thy dink it nevensky, there is siery in Pexia Germ, h may not bends would be lavt if very wint quietly, he w\n\ntemarkable hot epicicu among all we dicectly internetod în there is show tub it could ajak\n\nghably be Zellowej icy dis dsgrafiation bei poa. Į šiml jwau duìed by Xan, azil vitet feesten iles: the wapicy mechď azok laivost, altu baring had abondant\n\nutter ram. Nothing could here Jingposes i sad shay: Ray rigist. The inapind par\n\nfortunately for fin. Puse feeling is mantra to do the after and provisist, bonerty earsed ont, here is practically an the rain sopportatif judging on the spot, tist vitunut this Em him. Cold and rojabeat, his ability and\n\nwould to: no foch: that the Que was ferons in same between vorlja lahmut Water ney are alone rast i rad kept him in :ws there, I azil this quer's in a Morga new, and if Heure deleres, as it appost 1 ret-red yil us whats the peine wern. The ones for touger terms and with p. facilities of t\n\nca and her repre audio da egaitus bine, it is doobfolut til: no parte bed acuture to socla exricuments bestder the Governmen of als web haen the\n\nincanta live bed Sunt athula. Tremont, and shy. There at ; the Lars for Kripp's gras aci a large organized neimos linger in tam were slowly Zonzing patre pisina, qui have souril upon 24, in this matter of aly remaining atasalin maintain alas, wis raged the parts of rar\n\nsout alter\n\nju u were down from Pelin son the Aions. I leging way thing was de cuite craigention. Great Arts and Fame, as lisey Questine, at less any there is a musayed the attut, and the pretraite une year 1, tore to Goavaliers the widest of are that the French are papucifer since, and cooked with *Good vare the trans out territoring for teens of labour in Réunion, Seiscented was for word combat which wez to prende Fraud mpg aliona shunte niy to pass, but to enfursa thest dupesa, sweetplined the pancio, and bad the first was piguet at Paris Jay 23, 455 In this is and Cinese tour the most series of an leser Wear itu au des provided by Acrete that the colis to be entered boats and other war vessels madera p\n\nugh the urgear, to the at the Minister in his designs. As there aryaste heye, the au dispersed by ferre, and the siegte with the lastaava shali mais atleting for the\n\npartient for the third bent alter per to the casi todas espiacon of whini ineistant his receive is su\n\ntype. Dering the war minutes that of the engegedans eut to sa Armresturs, 49\n\nrecest scopes\n\nyear, \"at the\n\naghly rouses, and as the douds with pacelsum)\n\ntree was to on, interactions suggest he glug, khore movie every pommunity of the lave deterrect efter on the evnice. It Ju being gely tiled, ami grey ne dis mi\n\nsault, they seemad noua irauter Basor: YLE H\n\nI love the vacato niti ng that there is best trent deal of anna• } pubzo find us the ecoclamation bang • nggement.\" Is is faber alipotucel that \"the sight of bounty, will his ogui to u maura passage as the expinion of me\n\nte tutibty of opposing forssauth misma to Danilo bistinn regantęs į Pa-sags, so Iudithe of the Frozen Corment\n\nbother shout a practically valcerva enaces but there is no s stance of an cosidasia\n\n7 lax or ranger on plan or the outer side\n\nly complicasing aut\n\nI was afer with the interfeber richa\n\nto the thus of coolies was told Men i extol upon them the agent la seduru pange extea is to his wife town of the eo for the lat w 10 jispose and his chistes lo quieres Indie vader the sze quetty has newty linda alt hat alegres, and of tow yet, weil as those in the colch. bows force would be necessary to tuotsin the law. Try In a recoat Copycation betwe\n\ntren waned the most threaching and sit apud\n\nsign an avancing ppreciation of the teet, tul used in tacka castle to the migration of insurers in Inuia to the Gutes a respubitities the local flower was my step, and listave Inept afer Fananie spinged ala at Paris, day 1. 19, the are cauling a commissioner urer to Japan in vid as he owns at ali na tangloater bure prinoties are readiture, and sider shiptune gels the case of the Maria La Peruvian, who wish tears flow is it posle that owu at the remas tipas\n\nThe state a gas of a portrayinin ya es ler's Paties Is the aby, which has been detained by urcighs ether audits of chine wafermed\n\nacernaan puading the comanation of the bite of outer legs Bal\n\nof the evaliselerdi, bath Obettajan, the vare representing\n\n-ra ta blair wileged un siltingues do spriznate nytalana, ku sutkiemiy requier ali to Wel, to that the Prolomant kill mud to citry that Benas: kiluo\n\ne-trement they are reesivel on board,\n\nels myssi is you\n\ntatian!\n\ner the naal as rogants thespcial cam, ili u to get Hospitality; deter wel, plür digging two such Conventiang with tub albes,\n\npeuter Takyone wout and we we\n\ny fue bar, if possible, to art lie grase, the to part of the Chinese Gover This reps your printe altesty kuww, from the servant ex\n\nhonda right to stipelan for simitus yarising for the pro craudoni da tary faut luttes. It is clear there was civi: the relea and yesple think of tas loveprat vations than wome lectice of tazit awa vidjecu? sae what mas cer Chitose\n\nstory to see the Cluse awakening to the that inaliers bagend thar en boundaries do! anja or less condem\n\nWe are visted this moroing by a catheke, bus no damage is reported, although the shock was teemably der indeed, in a deep silterial deposit lite has which forms Shanghai wi earthquake lies very little chance, and we scarcely, as a rete, teal the periosteal shock the Japan vs.\n\nCOOLIE IMMIGRATION,\n\nTO TUE LITTOR OF TUS TIMus.\n\nSin, I have read by the West Indu, from\n\nbecause all 3. gran disbausting themselves with og measure of\n\npaint but necessary duty; the polis fithout eaders.js fra tins fation and the far tire Chiems\n\nlt-ieter, we are overeted by the ingool. Hier tertaibe en mil) annab any twell wo cight to he\n\nEu rayure the pallis cuiston of this contry ones\n\nand get lightened as the true is with noves edice che surge properly calls \"unifando\" of the Wess Indie Charmstvo, wala, re,red to as envelopes the systan in act with comitia acesty on cobaltosey in mar dealings alley stay of a civilland oation, if no cant for no acabar, a 20, si ibe način Pantern Ios los as at least sluta to get moder lavet lente, to penat one is a party and up as bantiniens, antistol with at purrush cutico bur airua ly been waevised to yeo with a ca\n\nto put down slavery, whatever speious form it may tabs.\n\ndock Su the treator of the whole anjos, su porali ke tu\n\nspy & faw words to popla\n\nLet es, abuse, resin lo decimina as pule meetups with\n\n| Ms. Loughrab, siis magistrate present we the truguay on He. iviera's batter Joacala tip web-out fach with deleguout thetoric au the boctors of a train carson under\n\nthe estate of 14aine Unite in betapcho, British be and livery boys gived as a 23, Udern capital. Soch is the state of talugs in the Crafticis woont of the peace of the dose cal; I shot out how her. Geen & South Sad the Clitewed als; week, with light\n\nor you can by Britial gruts and with the aid ori ingeat, fuginas is a mangistrare incely apport, va Instalean, who, as I know, was not with, auder the ses of his friend detur dubion\n\nalsaved the system in the best coalie-workeri calesy in the tushändin ja mier partivulur, has beck the wave Luicy to dacharge ki. Ridicats dalies in thelogy interleut «ri kalbini way. Artist realing the jaily Astúcia mabed bian to five apos tt's long series of sELTE ONLY TO have ut just beer stre\n\ntrade of Eastern Africa, Lut the sofa Odinga bugil to ey, intoned the atter to your pouch latin we the planters of its datos Way have all these boned at Li-\n\ndats, tot in Loughena spposte aus sulp to be the morphoth sad The gentlemen who -90 | Frau biame, bus to have, wlad with equal santon dc pludible profesion of a fee or d starrer beer allowed to routinen year after a. The subject les incast I long careers the Coralized ice to put step to effectuslis us by a tailed year without ang real or Lenoit offri da ti pact of elvie ci El own at net sub of the moleculect cirouette di atas footing with this master-autic are the sed ut racy in see se it was filed\n\nwish Laters, anil puc sapere soves, le unes not setupy Tube Te imenient and Teguise to\n\nKeeper wil wees wority of the 2 \" as th\n\nfranager ut even sier, I lost Mr. Alzitoryo 3!s. (bloca and a white W2 12:15 Coa. Tutus in fare Las perued to vay, \"A\n\nCastic. He sipped my wagg, Tassice ve disprove this ansattiva, When Er. Oilsens de ant pred for sine warfalls Past strie coins whclares that the sper wally listen the ayaka Sith Meie ten craterless best tote in theat aurelit te wach, and Matigued bin with new wistent, should he be know who meanlly of his rated to stop the rule is an intern has bs! Yule I was way chilly shoes ning peremptory malca Frun wing strel (Seph 13 187) ter se taas mil tag\n\nhy and under every info, itt a hand berug and derivati\n\nie vorme 03:\n\nTeen by so\n\nmor the\n\nTHE TED Court say, te ngrew\n\n10 Zeturtun hues, using Esah Lai Sakion, i u\n\nferng and so the work as eyes and looks the\n\nother way, while the au who h\n\na bad fallen wenig Thieve\n\n* Lake, Who 2507 sed in the WOW of the Versa. i Elise vatirely in asturiase wall: PU MAZIAN WES allowed to postal is Mre cast will,\n\n6 afalien und interconte e vity upon him ami rone to inny cof\n\nRare Case \"unla dah Station, singur age Government, he eave mezzare of inasongat bady; tal sed ea val, ut the bis While to fit is takes any step to work this page p though DD 214 ited art of Auteris fire, 581apted to stop item, tue mit fårek Is | Lizzy Bealeys that Iar diúfety” da, te they plan the tation crore to fingjalah via treding įtaka\n\nMUL. You sti 4:3ar than he tok an interzausor with\n\nproval by penitus i ic of Cirsa Haking it resul Jdener to carry any dierel Calvare bar the flag. Alors For Bettisesti esiliit\n\nand a wart putyn the cearty of us are gli\n\nWant step.\n\net salire under contract\n\ninterior2a: a 36. Toggster Tieflin way usully unpiady to this of Sabay stund Heyy drem Great Britain ass toler & Row an exce e and nag Fiend thave, secse of the spend the relied Al Esity will kelpappere? Were were to\n\nBacalo ke woeld drive out so suddle a A toserosing to set up sour intere key got that what they strongly seemeeuol i Tirate & Gottur bhail heat into the early it favertine packeratina ut iis Coat He map of them sunt cvital for\n\nI wildly, they did eo in 3 coment expectatios tust as the spareting of a fer aupres Powers to join it a From Hongkong, we might then with ten bande reck\n\nto speak zu Kyses. In sudies See the wages, Colors would rudover time 14 teed kumar hat so time on effort to Kingsta repgri\n\nalber, we are luce fruit into pasangan bey would aeritudy\n\nDusterece the apoteku is what operate to mate with s\n\nin pars at etion of the countless we can see laver de condie slip would bu\n\nSusie white's\n\nhy (ting sil skigu face! cazand was the las\n\nin the can pirster, Cut the thealing are place\n\npies fate a pirate. I'hea, ant not beten, it wid Se Vonate Thether by sauce sucita\n\ntás ragùng along the stats mani, nod tej than it\n\nول لا Tarealizeri تارا باریان درست\n\nI wanted, and where they sell 28 mal vázy tracts of a very sezulur vntere, vỹ Nht Tony R. HEELFicy would you DO LACE for fun cent\n\nbor to are the ever, he west to cart year it hasty to spe\n\nbe; that the longer des list with, bere per\n\nuf eine has tubule intour palies by nautic tuo,\n\na) thali kariz wages were insulinst. I told them than de hay try my be to Bara fat that cay get\n\nnature engel beside here without lag ples of hour, and the curious as\n\nhung Ho's the gauza balcony one to the trio of the in\n\nme, and i would justica en servant of souls is my duty to stat et que delays ara\n\nBu pingued, or it\n\nOLD\n\ndirt tabur mareets of the Enat lo\n\nBol nemely divaghed\n\nShe fertile incris Wet det from art with caet't I helier pan of emp tiru culte sa organizes to coll i eunicial r with fee, on nous, of the a\n\n(Quesa, ali 20s of tim pesters, and toys of I wazo lile Dye Reaganen in the way caverant offer gw make jursesh 12 citization wherever it Se\n\nlanter: eu le kuthor w\n\npiù le aone to clear; the fam By Way\n\nrecre to the mute; wit 60 ahow the likt\n\n• 15 na tha ghabre I would strend pro Paing as a Devonshire Charles Lula an in gaier nu le\n\nSome of the ampered willing to play be, at the\n\ninut tas ties to 10 wipes the cortice of cabinet-trois end, at the drive twis\n\nthe Connoissthan impact reputed, see may be dienst, but poe cudition, far Vaiko ge butun lutem pultet, see that they graingo to Bride G\n\nSaso\n\nvar gavo nebuniuatior the Colealul One is wac\n\nListed us in ensive Lecrations\n\nby bad frum- dice tram: oferie (not exame live se tue faute, nought the pupported by the pile and a ton Splafon it Buysend\n\nWhegration from carmed onto this is, zith adagen merity fuc jy diet. After leat sigy tab uno\n\nelves, they read to to to its too with red rose fat supervision,\n\nare the maid that, withio prope facias, far god treatment, the would within a very 41 Nespetur er to write immigratione de molimo cut be undo fruthful en gaad, what\n\nin your in a weak up kidaning to w szurdy at lubaar un në\n\nengustelid, on sustape wither stages of this platters theserves; their mealtives, who have been stolently or readily at th Ja tent the runy thesis of ho ier that u pube splay of torne und in de. Tuis air feritalulity at criticis, an option in were saved u celnen with the annulat\n\nAngel-rated labor, ad arved noe skoa!? D'une sastavay it but exist where I have so them with my own eyes ies\n\nservats of\n\nof Weir trestimmt her disaat mig\n\n[ting assage to doeie for wi 269097 g that is it at pwez un finally or woubt it is the outs 5.5\"\"\" old vmpity, mid\n\nTaskN WITH US\n\nIto et sort's Townng the i\n\nin\n\nried out by Mr. Ingetar Gridlu. 107sel reforms. I luas yoṇāžendo 22 € za shu zasta boźlis Bakanker they had benne real, the icely wool\n\nwilber\n\n3 prozristy ei vannlag for the dam Flackbeard of them with you eats leant žul be for the bere berg and of izlection, pot of search, tod\n\nلونا\n\nether to my boud wast bining to Austin, The locals of says ces precies that has bes fuc\n\nby all the ture besnic teste fierteste wel\n\navese-Wien tek\n\nugh the, at i us out of a pan and win. The way to raish the pantry strat parts of the golfest of Callfun, and inter of to The section were extremely excited and\n\nGouna receive Cevi Kimberley's was to hold a wet- ing to den is very ochibong dari\n\nAuto, Sir, yet v Erlap,\n\nIney draenied repgrcher du ile monger, Me. trag wil bad toned to win her of the Louis Lencaning $1,493 1 zld Areop Mr. She and stone\n\nErvas previously. 1 gear eifendy bything of the ad, and if he hat he wond be suit\n\nfini: 1 ! I nafeted The Bee umro L\n\nSprint\n\n, and brong thure of the right use from All order to the gates or to god\n\nting the HHUANG Rgwint Att. 2haw with\n\nuitee,\n\nENKINS.\n\nL\n\nhilla, came to Ingameraity kawo in China, and ships le\n\nbarof stage with a beanwhich EDWARD\n\nthe Cities Leactors of in-chan jalá Zihej rere tit. inu, gifsing was we pas sher TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES,\n\ngalle velas, noe deeds, but thegods, wire .. Uno, sauery to the Wet us Conte lug, before toere was 5 esti o gold. ,-lethas of the 72 wat, s letar appeared the age to tipe distant wnd knowled willing to veure iùey liking put th\n\nCelia Imigrasi,\" in which felong for youton past the overlin og ey are at the wild guit He Shaw, I visited mean to ever res\n\ning papalition of the ones on the I four an und begs rely on urlops -\n\n*The Base of Chet elgration in 18 mayor in to Australasch of\n\nSerails and peoplz the slote Archlying truai ing by a ner of cuti quas tus enke hospital.\n\nwief explanation, the end is read Not evan the piece is the the hail two stress bruises on his lock of his binil, a tea\n\nJov tuliow in pezzanou, we was dented fisted in de kanst visat antepressive Purses tut Thesis severely get the body. Formed me that leased to post twin provisions which was wave clouists tum lading their WAY\n\nwith the treatment of the migrantz, bulbs it was astralia and (72liferais me euslead to dater proo hal presove by pulling revolver ons of his grrutig incomed the expenst of the unmigestion.' pucket and pay the quizen away with it until a\n\ned him. Definburg\n\nIt is to be regrettni but the Mens Caitlen in\n\n10th Airdis, reuse not pinola hefticies* le show that a rebuerative Cell for labourse the only getting forth the statement, did bet mangiare the infucinroses pery to Letire the tener supply 11. Dad in few dotizan the grass plot in front 21 the aftermid og telugu \"orzsama peak out appears in Chian bushe\n\nyruly erased the the very, Tideare, and dishonesty of the orig ampanyen? The gate obalac.s bus le\n\n2.\n\nLail\n\nધન ર\n\nat Devabels at tal-\n\n' he was used with con General conditoza were vehicul w\n\nA and lut toug\n\n* your desi si locs\n\nthe\n\nLabour\n\n(buila vampirist Folk Whore I was there was 1 pcuse of the insigentio,, in order these night juga ¦ true wgnovies, nad the vilepas of the nuties 10xhauste\n\n1) tid tar that any whether the provisos input Bele souls and just get in voorlea by the pitsi ofi\n\nHonesty acid a\n\nacid veally in sus, as yet suora, tete\n\nthe alleged or relate starwatt Free only surethattung I but you wild silver jete to entopinte far aldrup kittense why hall to cleare in staigiate at all If wine wit the labis where was sitting, Faraz w were by the addition of the fullowing facts,\n\nalled the W. & hus Eldey, she\n\n1127th, ie it best 7\n\nwould not whos\n\nLes tom solusy: while the potior wel op\n\n19, in being wasior of interlety that the exulations to define principles as only as it due re\n\ngiva i anarge for lands tictus colleure shqyed lottard le tee saputality astring any adequate a\n\nAdded surged the exeling interferid Ja\n\ntok-sp\n\nقد المي dino\n\nwas bust on, and stalag\n\ncontuent and adfuorutiinudu did dive to querenty of mixer: sy webich rutine bead the apolon asruliad Nicewise by the Seal telesuan, called darker-Buried on cater foreign is witch we ngly seeds, spas infecter les stabla to defend the shares brute from Mood where is the China bring reiting run all civiliasi nasioua for the hours permitted stach. After a crear tuaa ade vi diagno, bagations were red into at Pekin agave the euperior force ai Lugeda,\n\ntader their respective tag, and the wrongs so pestantly Complaint where fue illicenty of wages to aburet by the British and Frecek Gosentants with a view to the \"da\n\nVERITAS",
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        "content_text": "To thi Ru 全永梁 李耀記 Leong Wing cham 揚仕莫 Mack Sa Ying 蔡赞 Chry 彭 Chan Pong tim 明禮 Meng Lai 益記 YER A 同德棧 Tiny Take Chain 祥和 邏後 Cheong Wi to chan 周永 興記 Chan Wang 招成林 Chin Teng Lam. 崔子熙 Chey Chi thee 陸夢松 Weng 藥晴村 Ku off theng Chin 譚寬 J'am Imm 余富庭 锌 Lock Ming Yu For Fu\n\n173",
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        "content_text": "Hoi thwan's duties - As this paper also contains information in reference to what may be called exactions, I forward a translation of it as Enclosure 4.\n\n11. An abridged list of export duties payable at Whampoa and &c., with remarks to Chan Fu. On oil, sugar, and certain other regulations for payment of duties at Huangpu, an interesting and instructive document, is the subject of Enclosure 5, and it forms...\n\nThe provision made for competing with the Macao Ilations is quite characteristic. The next Enclosure is a translation of a \"abridged return of duties collected at the Tung Kun in the Chane tu\" by the Prefect of that Place. Both these were handed to me by the Comprador, and said to be made out from Actual Experience of Traders.\n\nEnclosure 6 is made up from Chinese documents furnished by the Comprador, and is a comparative statement showing the likin, war tax, and the duties paid to the Prefect and the Hoppo on the shipment of different commodities from various places in the adjoining prefecture to Canton, and also to Whampoa and Macao. It also shows the duties payable on piece goods chiefly to Canton.\n\nPage 426",
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        "content_text": "Ground nuts refuse. as manure) \n\nPayable at Shui Jung\". per picul.) J. M. C. h \n\nat large scale abort. \n\n0. \n\n0.9.0. \n\non goods imported to Kong \"múw\". \n\nTrays \n\n458 \n\nfee of about \n\n9 \n\nCandareens per picul \n\nand other \n\nin lesser of Council \n\n& for cancellation, tonnage dues, \n\ncharges - as per weight on grand Chop - \n\nWhite Sugar of which each bag was takers no 65 \n\ncatties in the Grand Chop Certificate \n\npays \n\n5. Candaruns for each bag for cancellation. \n\nLeKin Brown Sugar. pays the same \n\nC. L. Oil per picul \n\n0. \n\n6.9. \n\nYellow Sugar \n\n0. 4. 0. \n\nWhite Sugar- of which each 100 catties per bag \n\n0. \n\n0. \n\n5.0. \n\nGround nuts refuse. per picul - 0.0.3.2. \n\nGeneral Fees payable for cancellations \n\nof Grand Chop Certificate rerred \n\nfor goods imported. \n\nto Kong múw\". \n\nGoods of every kind \n\nin arrival at this port \n\nfrom Ko Chai In, kuchan In, Lim Chan. \n\nFú or King chan Fu, pay for anchorage \n\ndues - or cancellation fees to this charges. \n\na sum of about Eight candareens every \n\npicule according to the weight entered on the Grand Chop. \n\nBut recently Oil weighed by the standard of the dio and khi prefectures at 125 cattus per picul \n\non the Grand Chap \n\nand entered \n\nwas taken \n\nas 55 catties and which was weighed. \"Thin Jung\" with large scale of 130 cattics per picul pays about 6 candareens per picul for cancellation. And those from \"When Stam\" and Leung Ka Jan. \n\none picul is with 40 taels- scale. therefore 2/2. \n\npays \n\n2 candareens per picul - \n\nweighing \n\nground nuts refuse- pays about 3 candareens \n\nper picul by the last scale - \n\nThe foregoing \n\nbut in the case of a \n\nof goods \n\nappears \n\nis a general statement, \n\nCargo of one kind or mixed Cargo \n\nif what \n\nin the grand chop is heavier or \n\nlighter (than the standard weights) corrections will be made and the extra duties leviable be charged; also the cancellation fees. \n\nSegerszeg annyin 25. \n\npays \n\nRules",
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        "content_text": "166\n\nOriginal Offence.\n\n1876.\n\n29th February,\n\n2nd March,\n\nChan-Ming, Wong-Son\n\n15th March,\n\n3 Wong-Kwai,\n\nUnlawful Possession, Larceny, Rogue and Vagabond,\n\n16th April, 1873, 8th January, 1872,\n\nDeported for 5 Years, 20th January, 1876.\n\n71\n\n26th June, 1872,\n\n4th April,\n\n4 Cheung-Alai\n\nalias\n\nKwok-a-Lok,\n\nKwok-a-Sing,\n\n30th May, 1876,\n\nCheung-a-Kin\n\nHo-a-Yau, ...\n\n9th April,\n\n5 Leung-a-Fu\n\nUnlawful Possession,\n\n27th July, 1871,\n\n25th April,\n\n6 Chan-Choi\n\n0th April.\n\n7 Lan-Fuk-Loi,\n\n4th May,\n\n7th May,\n\nLarceny,\n\nSelling Spirits.\n\nU-a-Toong, ... Rogue and Vagabond,\n\n9 Chan-Yat-Fo,\n\n30th May, 1874,\n\n24th April, 1871,\n\n71\n\n21st May, 1868,\n\n12th August, 1870,\n\n14th November, 1870.\n\n13th May,\n\n30 Yenng-a-Ho.\n\n16th June,\n\n11 Chan-a-Yan,\n\n18th June,\n\n12 Ho-Yuk alias\n\n3rd July, 13 Ho-Yung, ... Li-Sam,\n\n14\n\nAssault,\n\nLarceny,\n\nBurglary,\n\n24th May, 1878,\n\n30th June, 1874.\n\n11th June, 1875. 18th April, 1874.\n\n2nd September, 1875,\n\n11th November, 1875.\n\n15th November, 1875,\n\n20th February, 1873. 14th July, 1874.\n\nJames Dodds, ... fumes Youngsou, Douall Thomsou, J. B. Cameron..\n\nJohn Mathieson... Alexander Mackie, John Lindsay, John Fleming, John Swanston.... Donald Bremner, J. C. Graut....... William Gauld, Robert Taylor.... John Gordon,.....\n\nJohn Harper, Adam Hogg,\n\nTABLE D.\n\nLIST of CRIMINALS found at large in the Colony after Deportation, with Dates of their Sentences and Offences.\n\nDate of Arrest. No. Names.\n\nTABLE F.\n\nRETURN of MEN enlisted in SCOTLAND and ENGLAND for the HONGKONG POLICE, with the present State of such Enlistments.\n\nSCOTCH CONTINGENT.\n\nNames.\n\nDate Enlisted.\n\nRank Last Held,\n\nDate of First Sentence.\n\nHow Pardoned,\n\nWhen Deported.\n\nW. T. Gair,\n\n25th January, 1872,\n\n12th February, 1872,\n\n3rd Class Inspector,\n\n2nd Class Inspector; 3rd Class Inspector,\n\n25th January, 1872.\n\n12th February, 1872, Acting Inspector of Nuisances,\n\nSergeant,\n\nGeneral Remarks.\n\nAppointed 3rd Master Government Central School, 1st May, 1874.\n\nDied, 20th November, 1876. Died, 23rd October, 1876.\n\nT. Sangster,\n\n11\n\n21st November, 1867,\n\n29th May, 1868.\n\nGeorge Ross,\n\n13th February, 1872.\n\nLeaves on completion of 5 years' Service.\n\n18th April, 1868,\n\nGeorge Rae,\n\n12th February, 1872,\n\n11\n\nJames Ballonr,\n\nLeaves on completion of 5 years' Service.\n\nWong-Fuk, ... Wong-Fuk, ... Wong-See,\n\nLarceny,\n\n13th September, 14 Leung-a-Chi, Receiving stolen property, 16th September, 15 Chau-On..\n\n9th November, 16 Li-a-Tak, 16th November, 17 Chan-Sing.\n\n24th November, 18 Sham-Katalias\n\n9th December, 10 28th December, 20\n\n9th January, 22nd January,\n\n21 22 Leung-Fuk\n\n(female),...\n\nChan-Fuk,\n\n24th January, 23 Wong-a-San 26th February, Bà Chan Chai 18th September, 25 Tse-a-Chong, 18th September, 26 Chan-a-Kwong, 14th November, 27 Chan-I-Tak...\n\nPiracy and endangering Life,\n\n17th November, 1874,\n\n25th March, 1876.\n\nJames Maver,\n\n20th November, 1863,\n\n23rd December, 1874,\n\n11\n\nLarceny.\n\n21st January, 1874,\n\n12th July, 1876.\n\nNeil McKay... P. McFarlano.\n\n14\n\n25th January, 1872,\n\n22nd February, 1875,\n\n4th December, 1871,\n\n21\n\nPocket Picking,\n\nRobbery in a Dwelling House.\n\n3rd September, 1868,\n\n1st February, 1868,\n\n11th July, 1871,\n\nPiracy and Robbery, Larceny, Burglary and Larceny with Violence, Larceny,\n\n18th May, 1861, 24th October, 1873,\n\nPardoned conditionally,\n\n18th October, 1870,\n\n21\n\n12th December, 1868, 18th June, 1867,\n\nRogue and Vagabond.\n\n18th August, 1873,\n\n26th April, 1873. 15th February, 1878. 30th November, 1869. 16th October, 1878.\n\n18th July, 1871,\n\nW. M. DEANE,\n\nCaptain Superintendent of Police,\n\nCentral Police Station, 31st January, 1877.\n\n2nd May, 1876. 9th November, 1872.\n\n30th April, 1874. 15th August, 1876. 12th August, 1876. 12th August, 1869. 18th June, 1875,\n\n27th January, 1874.\n\nRobert Jardine, George Hay, Wm. Abernethy, Andrew Mackay, Peter Mitchell, John McKay... Angus McKenzie........ David Markie... Robert Porter, Benjamin Miller, George Milne Charles Smith. John Meldrum,\n\nJames Duncan.. Alexander Camming, Win. Templeton, 4 Wm. McClinton,\n\nAlexander Bow, R. McDonald. James Frazer,\n\nT. McConville,\n\n12th February, 1872,\n\n25th January, 1872,\n\n1\n\n12th February, 1872,\n\n26th January, 1872, 12th February, 1872,\n\n25th January, 1872, 12th February, 1872, 25th January, 1872,\n\n1st Class Constable,\n\n51\n\nDisd, for drunkenness, on 9th Sept., 1873. Absconded, 12th September, 1873.\n\nDisd. for making a false report, 28th Oct., 1873. Dismissed for drunkenness, 28th Nov., 1873. Died, 14th December, 1873,\n\nDismissed for drunkenness, 8th Feb., 1874. Died, 3rd July, 1874.\n\nDismissed for drunkenness, 20th July, 1874. Invalided, sent home, 15th October, 1874.\n\nAbsconded, 21st November, 1874. Absconded, 30th December, 1874. Dismissed, unfit for Service, 5th March, 1875,\n\nafterwards sent home.\n\nDied, 25th October, 1875.\n\nDied, 23rd November, 1875.\n\nDismissed for misconduct 29th March, 1876. Dismissed for neglect of duty, 20th Nov., 1876. Leaves on completion of 5 years' Service.\n\nEnlisted.\n\nNow in Force.\n\nDied.\n\nDismissed.\n\nAbsconded.\n\nInvalided.\n\nTime Expired.\n\nTransferred.\n\n3\n\n3\n\n10\n\n2\n\n45\n\nTABLE E\n\nCASUALTIES in the POLICE Force during 1876.\n\n14\n\n6\n\n7\n\nLONDON CONTINGENT.\n\nNames.\n\nDate Enlisted.\n\nRank Last Held.\n\nJoseph Corcoran,\n\n(2 John Cleaver,\n\nNicholas Perry,\n\nJoseph Flym....\n\n6 William Stanton,.\n\n10th March, 1873,\n\n51\n\nActing Inspector, Inspector of Nuisances, Sergeant,\n\nActing Sergeant,\n\n1st Class Constable,\n\nGeneral Remarks.\n\n6 George Henessy,..\n\nForce.\n\nDeath.\n\nResignation through Sickness.\n\nResignation\n\n7 William Baker,\n\nthrough Expiry of\n\nDismissal.\n\nService or other\n\nPension.\n\nDesertion.\n\nTotal.\n\n8 John Mackay....\n\n9 Peter Jones,\n\nCauses.\n\nJames Pent,\n\nSeptimas Westron,\n\n1\n\n12 George Briarly,\n\nEuropean,\n\n4\n\n1\n\n4\n\n10\n\n1\n\nIndia,\n\n4\n\n5\n\n9\n\n1\n\nChinese,\n\n2\n\n10\n\n18\n\n22\n\n13\n\n3\n\n888\n\n18 Frederick Hooper.\n\n20\n\n14 James Harvey,\n\n11\n\n25\n\n1:\n\n1\n\n20\n\n15 John Costello,...\n\n68\n\n16 Jacob Smith,\n\nW. A. Wastbrook,\n\nTotal,\n\n7\n\n15\n\n27\n\n41\n\n15\n\n3\n\n108\n\n18 Maurice Sullivan,..\n\nSergeant,\n\n19 George Saddler,\n\n20 Thomas Blake,.\n\nCentral Police Station, 31st January, 1877.\n\nW. M. DEANE,\n\nCaptain Superintendent of Police.\n\n20\n\nEnlisted.\n\nNow in Force.\n\nInvalided.\n\nDismissed.\n\nAbsconded.\n\n1st Class Constable,\n\nDisd., 4th April, 1873, for insubordination.\n\nFined $100, or 3 months hard labour, and dismissed for insubordination. Absconded, 12th July, 1875.\n\nPurchased discharge, 26th October, 1875. Resigned on private affairs, 31st Jan, 1876. Invalided, sent home, 7th February, 1876. Dismissed for drunkenness, 5th Oct., 1876.\n\nTransferred.\n\nDismissed, 8th Oct., 1873, for insubordination.\n\nResigned.\n\n10\n\n1\n\n5\n\nI\n\n2\n\nCentral Police Barracks, Hongkong, 31st January, 1877.\n\nW. M. DEANE, Captain Superintendent of Police.",
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        "content_text": "48 \n\nHakka, Sai Ying Pun Punti, Shan Shui Wan, Shek O, Thek Song Tsui, \nTsing Yi Pen, Hakka, Tai \n\nSheung Wan, Stanley, Jai Tong Kiang, Chiang \n\nLung Chan Hakka, Tung Chung Chau Punti, Ian Tsai, Tong Hoi Chung, Yau Ma Ti), and there Government Schools which are only \n\naided (by a \ncontribution of $5 per month \nfor each school) viz.:- Ap Lei Chau, Shek \nPin, Hung Hom, Little Hong Kong, Ma Tau Chung, Ma Tau Wai, Mong Kok, Pok Fu Lam, Tai Wan, Jai Kok Tsui, To Kwa Wan Hakka, To Tin Wan Hoklo, Teak ...  -  Preci). It was however distinctly \nunderstood that in the district school the teaching of English should remain excluded, and further that the aided \nGovernment School, although they \nhave much \nyield a priority of claim to these Schools which are in \nentirely supported by Government, English is eventually to be taught in all of them, or at any rate \nthat such should be the aim to be kept \nin view.\n\n5. The actual introduction of English teaching in the schools wholly supported by Government must of necessity depend upon circumstances, upon vacancies occurring in the staff, and to \nsome extent \nupon the wishes of the \npeople. When I took office as Acting Inspector of Schools, His Excellency the Governor distinctly told me that no \nteacher was to be dismissed to make \nroom for teachers able to teach both \nEnglish.",
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        "content_text": "unable to do so, yet it was and were not intended to subject them in all cases to banishment, and the intention was rather to extend the powers given to the magistrates in Ordinance 10 of 1844 to cases in which persons were suspected only, which was done by calling upon them to find security or in default leaving it optional with the Government to either deport the man or make him serve out the time in Gaol for which he had been ordered to find security. In the present case it was recommended that the prisoner be not deported and that he be instead detained in gaol until the expiration of the three months after which he would be released.\n\n* \n207\n\n\"The following papers are laid pro formâ upon the table\n\n| Ser | Deportation Warrants |\n| --- | --- |\n| C.S.O.110. 1811 | Wong A Tuk, five years |\n| 1971 | Han α Fu, two years |\n| 1934 | Ching A Kit | \n| 1935 | Lai Chat Jai | To remain in Gaol during the period for which they were to find security |\n| 1936 | Chan A Chi |",
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        "content_text": "# Houstony \n-4:17. \n8th February 1880. \n\n**Governor** \nJohn Pope Hennessy C.M.G. \n\nThe Right Honorable \nSir Michael Hicks Beach \nBt M. P. \n\nTransmitting proceedings of Prize distribution of the 29 Government Schools outside the Central School and drawing attention to Inspector's remarks on English teaching.\n\nIn continuation of Governor Pope Hennessy's Despatch N. 74 8th February 1880.\n\n## GOVERNMENT EDUCATION, HONGKONG.\n\n### PRIZE DISTRIBUTION AT GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS, AND A GRANT-IN-AID SCHOOL, 5TH AND 7TH FEBRUARY, 1880.\n\nThe following is extracted from the Local Papers.\n\nHis Excellency Governor HENNESSY, C.M.G., went on the 5th instant, to the Government School at Wan-tsai, to give away the rewards and prizes for the Masters and Pupils of the Government Schools (outside the Central School) in this Colony. The building was filled to overflowing, many of the Chinese inhabitants of the neighbourhood being present.\n\nHis Excellency arrived at 3 P.M., when some 200 boys, representing the prize boys of 29 different Government Schools, were in waiting, together with their Masters. When the Governor had taken his seat, the Inspector of Schools, Dr. EITEL, addressed His Excellency as follows:\n\nMay it please Your Excellency, The Masters and pupils of the Government Schools of this Colony, outside the Central School, are here assembled to-day to receive the rewards and prizes allotted to them for the year 1879. The rewards to be given to the Masters are grants of $25 and $15 which have been sanctioned, since the year 1877, by the Secretary of State for annual distribution among those Masters of Government Schools whose schools are classed for the year as \"very good\" or as \"good\" respectively. In the present case I have, on the basis of my periodical inspections and of the annual examinations, determined upon the following classification.\n\n#### I. ANGLO-CHINESE SCHOOLS.\n\n| Classification | School | Master |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 1. Very good. | Sai-ying-pin | Mr. Fung Fú |\n| 2. Good. | Wong-nai-ch'ung | Mr. Ch'an Man-kwong |\n|  | Wan-tsai | Mr. Lo Si-ling |\n\n#### II. CHINESE SCHOOLS.\n\n| Classification | School | Master |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 1. Very good. | Sheung-wán | Mr. Lan Sui-shang |\n|  | Stanley, Girls School | Mr. Ng Chéuk-ts'ün, M. Léung King-hám |\n| 2. Good. | Há wán | Mr. Leung Tsản chi |\n|  | Tang-lung-chau, Punti | Mr. Wong Kon-t'ing |\n|  | Tang-lung-chan, Hakka | Mr. Tsang Wai-hing |\n|  | Shau-ki-wán | the late Mr. Shing Nghang |\n|  | Yau-ma-ti | Mr. Ch'an I-hing |\n|  | Sai-ying-p'ún, Hakka | Mr. Ip Ch'éung-shin |\n\nYour Excellency is aware that since your arrival in the Colony three schools for English teaching have been added to the one school, that of Aberdeen, previously existing. We have therefore now four schools, outside the Central School, in which English is being taught by the Government. Taking these Anglo-Chinese Schools first, I found that the English School kept by Mr. FUNG FU in Third Street, Sai-ying-pún, had to be classed as the best school. I am sure that the results which the examination of this school disclosed are fully equal to the results of teaching given at the Central School in corresponding classes. But I must explain that this school was at work all the year on the optional principle which, with Your Excellency's permission, I applied to this school as an experiment, that the school was opened at the beginning of 1879 with some 61 pupils, that at first the parents of...",
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        "content_text": "# 173\n\n15 pupils declared their wish that their children should be taught both English and Chinese, whilst the remainder declared for English teaching only, and that after a few months, however, with one solitary exception, all the parents declared for exclusively English teaching. I examined the children in accordance with the Standards of the Grant-in-aid Schedule, and I was surprised by the exceedingly high results they obtained, although I was aware that Mr. FUNG Fu, the master, who has had a Collegiate education in America, was a thoroughly competent teacher. The next best Anglo-Chinese School I found to be that of Wong-nai-ch'ung under Mr. CHAN MAN KWONG, who, in accordance with the wishes of the parents, has all the year through been teaching both English and Chinese to the same boys. It is satisfactory to know that the enlightened inhabitants of that little hamlet, who first stipulated for the introduction of English teaching in their school, continue to pay one-fourth of the teacher's salary into the Colonial Treasury with never-failing regularity. I would have recommended the master's promotion to Yau-ma-ti, but the villagers were loth to part with him as he has gained their entire confidence.\n\nI regret to say the Wantsai Anglo-Chinese School was not found equal in the results of the year's work to the other two schools which fully deserved to be classed as \"very good,\" but I could conscientiously class it as \"good.\" In the Aberdeen Anglo-Chinese School, I am sorry to say, the results which the examination yielded were such that the school could not even be classed as \"fair.\" The Master, however, can scarcely be blamed, as intermittent fever seriously interfered with his health and that of the school children, few of whom ventured to remain in school until the close of summer, when the Master, after having lost his wife, his brother and two servants within four months through fever, had to be sent to Hospital, and the school to be closed for six weeks. The school-house was condemned, soon after, by the Colonial Surgeon and Surveyor General as unfit for a dwelling place, and rooms were hired in an adjoining house where the school was subsequently re-opened, and no more trouble has since been caused on the score of health.\n\nThese four schools are the only Government Schools, outside the Central School, in which English has been taught in 1879. I have been watching these schools with a view to form an opinion as to the comparative results of the optional and compulsory systems. I am not fully prepared to pronounce a definite opinion at present, but of this I am convinced, both from what I observed in the Central School in 1878 and in these schools in 1879,--that when both English and Chinese are taught side by side, the results are poor with the best teachers, and that when English is taught in a school to the exclusion of Chinese, or Chinese is taught to the exclusion of English, the results are fairly proportionate to the efficiency of the teacher. In other words, when both the English and Chinese languages are taught side by side in the same class, the children learn neither English properly nor Chinese satisfactorily. In learning the Chinese language mere proficiency in reading and writing requires nearly ten years exclusive teaching. The children in these schools all speak Chinese without exception; they are all or nearly all born here and therefore British subjects; their own interests as well as the interests of the Government dictate that they should learn English, and they might learn it, one and all, in six years tolerably well, if their time and strength were not wasted on the bootless attempt to learn the two languages at the same time. As the decision of the Secretary of State refers only, as I understand it, to the introduction of the optional system into the Central School and not to the outside schools, I am inclined to recommend that all these outside schools be kept open for all who come to learn, but that no boy be compelled to try and do the impossible, whilst English be taught to those who wish to learn English, and Chinese to those who wish to learn Chinese, with a view rather to make the boys learn one language properly than to make them smatterers in two.\n\nAs regards the purely Chinese Schools, the schools at Sheung-wán, Stanley, and the Girl School had to be classed as \"very good,\" the schools at Há-wán, Tang-lung-chau, Yau-má-ti and Sai-ying-p'ún as \"good,\" and the remainder as \"fair,\" with the exception of the schools at Mong-kok and Little Hongkong, which were conducted so badly that, unless speedy improvement takes place, serious measures will be necessary. I regret to have also to mention that I had to exclude two schools, that of Shau-ki-wan and that of Tai-tam-tuk, from the benefit of prizes, because, on two separate occasions, when I paid a surprise visit to these places lately, I found one school shut up and the other without scholars, at a time when both ought to have been at work.\n\nHis Excellency then distributed the rewards to the teachers, and, after putting the pupils who had been learning English through a little vivâ voce examination in spelling and reading, he distributed the prizes to the boys.\n\n## THE GOVERNOR then said,\n\nI am glad to have the opportunity of meeting here the representatives of the 29 Government Schools, exclusive of the Central School,-26 masters of those schools being present. It is satisfactory to see such a large assembly of school-boys, more than one hundred of whom have been learning English, whilst all; or nearly all, of these boys were born in this Colony, and therefore British subjects. No doubt you are all aware that, apart from the moral effects of education on habit and character, the high-road to worldly prosperity, to social rank and position in this Colony lies in the direction of English knowledge. I am glad, therefore, to be able to say that in addition to the four English Government Schools, outside the Central School, at present existing in the Colony, two more will be opened for English teaching after the Chinese New Year. Furthermore, Sir MICHAEL HICKS-BEACH has sanctioned the building of five new schools at a cost of $10,000, and in these schools also English will be taught.\n\nFrom what the Inspector has just said, it is manifest that the Chinese residents of the Colony appreciate the advantages now offered to them by the Government in acquiring a knowledge of English. This is indeed most satisfactory, as it is clearly desirable to see from year to year an Anglo-Chinese Community rising up in this Colony, Chinese in manners and customs, but English in law-abiding devotion to Her Majesty the Queen under whose rule you are living here in security and comfort.\n\nI am aware that much is to be learned in Chinese books that is not perhaps inculcated now-a-days to the same extent in Western literature, as, for instance, filial piety, gentleness of conduct, and the formal restrictions of social etiquette. But there need be no difficulty in combining these lessons of a Chinese education with a thorough study of the English language. Nor, in doing so, need there be any departure from the ancient modes and forms of Chinese school life.\n\nYou have an example of what can be done in this way in the Chinese residents of another British Colony not far off, Singapore and the Straits Settlements, where many of the Chinese, without forsaking their Chinese customs and manners, make the English language their own. There is nothing to prevent the acquisition of a good knowledge of English by any Chinese youth in the Colony who may be really anxious to learn English; and no prize of material prosperity, social rank, or office so high that is not open to a British subject in this Colony, possessed of a thorough knowledge of English. I never make any distinction in giving away an office except that I seek for the man best fitted by education, talent and character, be he of Chinese or Foreign extraction. Let the Masters therefore do their duty by those willing and anxious to be taught, and let the pupils take heart, face the difficulties of the English language and strive to gain for themselves a worthy position in this Anglo-Chinese community of Hongkong,-a community which whilst thoroughly Chinese in family feeling and character, in sobriety and industry, and a credit to the ancient civilizations of China, will be obedient to English law and staunch in sincere loyalty to Her Majesty the Queen-Empress.\n\nThe proceedings then terminated.",
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        "content_text": "0102848\n\nEnclosure in Governor Dis John Pope Hennessy's Desh: M1190 of 18th November 1880.\n\nJ...\n\nfor the Chimes in fnct it as thor: erg fars flety unlans Phys like to take the Hon. W. £- deng\n\nJoy boa friend waid but the Past so grot fancy buying the metalusion sam už llezzy) trace wehretde of the Qring or a whole there toom Suppum, and regalities Ace note ordnina of Piskup Bonda. But the greeter op 2 BORLING-Taky je fit, vistament\n\nLaved\n\nwith the wrap time we are takse, and 7 Xuveetcarries thas perfonis Fabulae, n he wild at that the catapupunast be cubens where so protects are ment to contributo tu them into thin Nam m her cute. Materi\n\nsung na samo 100-\n\nPat, in a time vil eg - may see at: ay then we sulibanaleringen to me!\n\npromociīnu of the expenses stimuly\n\nBettie P\n\nWREN\n\nice-liste\n\nthe post sectary in two and of the latter, basso col pent\n\ntive of Valer of state I\n\nThat the motards the ali iure m\n\ntin mesoud.ajenty paisal and these of\n\nCORRESPONDENCE.\n\nexposer Concept;\n\nWATER\n\nwat penin-will see e-filios bus be stores to\".'s newlyria\n\nTHE DAILY PETS, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 11TH, 15\n\nFire!mory sturen, to wild will-dressed wid] wara Grimons, druritus, ce \"rition semireli, & to to th\n\n9 BSDICTC LA Dean Haroon A day in tres the- minutan at arisan out of the to the Trot of the Thru His name it That is We do pet bailouteelee-tegematele se itse og ann bengit of Be C855 Hail C\n\nMin Late strane THE MEN serve thal Asia ber my kayfreedano: 1:1parti, aná, v Hie Marsileasy as Rounders of Stuse was that He Malas the In 1 KESWICE-I lund by 97ention goes on the Dolby. thie Gevt. SPESUSilve, ntā pagr Exgnilatie's vises nova rejared vid faith 4 wes Where I say, it is n the Brush Plans (latang 3 THE COTTOR OF THE \"GLY \"E\"\n\naz te geat of pvull eraðs, most put tevis ; mona vele ver has a place. Pies; tidered eat, its fall relic of this stins | Ganer bat saived thu sidress • gratis. First Contr. Recio! aveur, Horanles invos, but no tam | pintaci su pizan be nou. Vertinacy, and one fonate fieldzy. Now, with regard ta ble ears-i pase sad Dime, or that class ivel'ng bova 228 for frma a well in frang Batman's, pat. Ti-That že o priven meget tlus Conry. taro anation Prep, tek bid! get hatimay sakeney and the City: 2005 on youthly that bez bandi anzf Porbes, Kumping, no! Buttonjto are numeste ledicine water, allow as 67 kek live wit\n\n¡ xxl7—7'5« Cibinasa par A permet, of Gia, firths ALTE IN PARUM. In in for 13E DOULACityrinu of expeting and principle is open to bang ezized, sad liths malým should make chaß in poor toma's and she smu 2.8. pilti, bu grifiadors Tauve gira sabut\n\ntial recaps why the Coairal 9-heal, bo i friand ven reply sitowards anail if britan they say about 150 que\n\n4 is Canali) y parties at Ying Tante, and stiles to which Le nifay a pevale kraedem, which hit says is retiembly for (trave I anu padmašnu iu i anticster which thought\n\nis all ing wall that\n\nTeal esasen ing my 'ansiaty in arcqualatt bobalf of the City\n\nwhat I vil tidy serata sulge, Ba\n\nI have cored to deal with wind any hum\n\nfriend all the uremica in the matas before\n\nFr. WX WEE FRELLENT\n\nmiter\n\nille\n\ncwla proradiva co6 JAN\n\nb. then whys bales foeling and use if evil in unaniment by hygienia 7 200 this vejrt a l'erfiandra and spot as talla ng car des Count the site due. I a\n\nof Hot Pure Wicole to gun cursed Hon W. KRANICK-Went has this opinion, an lbs lour of yea that there is the water figny, be. fi cu baial\n\nFlow bright appears to infial: ore 20 psules go for : Hon. W. KER-CR-The states made a una nithecol?,\n\nofil er i live polition you belief in eet Beet as fad Free rifi ple for shut, and whe the: she clerk save la pet. This is I this it sunds that\n\ncesto mezip such eat, Flank through this drownin, und is aptly. That mowing as one we had in\n\nHier hour mara manger to lussophathing boltes cology distration it is whatever as reps the faid or is it al prepakot potatale nitawaja 19\n\nis abújh she (ovnemurit par forward as one whja ļesi\n\nbio of the propis\n\n•jakich zonifů ananmune âute the w7\n\nIt is • admitted hall by en lys that the l eratis\n\nWas the\n\nin Ruening an agilise as by the Areas of any\n\nstreet parpaces, angane paliely p\n\nde of stone on the lieuter. But theer ARMAG. 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Now when thin grein air where purfeet freston asosan pe primera intalni sen of very littla volte\n\nbut which ku ketdi mustining na gortinasi, buka publikagiberent,sualizing the war, wing theisere instag was 35\n\nhis son. & also, is only\n\nas rrrded in the achives of\n\n$10 is an vtis.len in the immatra sé thế | cada tetang kia Anteract on behalf of tuni grant was while at Brast shoa 1-1 will pay relatiations asco barn 10 boss Jenk at tais docugans I Suì il vento! Bishop : perfect place of sting, Brandi and - shan Tefcool loss gut and wred abnet Qzava,sni itu City Hat Domaine Nut beits in chiron. But is to th; thus Chiume shocfai tan fesole siittist for Bandos, who knows in crazies of the peopy. £zi way is that petition was aldriand' I saw New, how done it rat pose that he has provats ascertaganto, it is safercad en by Ni! 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When i wnded to the noto, Íses has buy to mala the remarks by hul huiendly in ths Lenoiry 12upply articka ut sa-\n\nThis portioner ting Chau ceguity, it fata un interest, so saberis, to write Shop with hand ishong, for being it at might without a f\n\nms with the Gay Bellmuntik nat be worthy ni kios atam le petuniaj ti ha terast. We a misty bonis Tuen was moet satz, nie aan, who thecongbly under New spil\n\n21 Snomitis W they refeed in avonds to did but eps at in what to cured be be a pamphlet published and the e way his deal it is unha prisala peps kibein tube init they wore to consider sansiling jiliin ang sedan a pubi, progr\n\nwaterped to which the suplast the icons, V. BENTER-- Wax Club Kant, stich\n\no Tha!? Chin, qui tim who to Tony Crem-It was with\n\nwhen sh\n\nBanctus leva je 12 angling sterg Berpart ned i the evani should be wholman. À leirs majesty of whom are B, W. Kravy's--is tem imel tong tatic. Al stop psttleman wout away frots the it is smster Nonfading\n\n(thirty mass of hazine, hank macaquer, badingjieskruplines as 26 jantjazd 1\n\n11th 3, 1960.\n\nE\n\n0. MarissiOS. that cl\n\nLive F\n\nthe poetic, and of the Chinese the\n\nPOLICE GOURF.\n\nSimpú zalogs.\n\nBETX Hos., PRAMOZILY.\n\nLAUNEINYERS.\n\n↑\n\nbriel.\n\n■sy right\n\nBACALMOE.\n\nMaria Corte, residing at No. 55. Hully d moned fri ning baland in\n\nBook Gill, og vraneh..... .... ikk Bunk Bista, at taget sight...9/9\n\nBeur Bills, at 4 months' sylt 9:95 Credis, add-ondas' sight Diary B\n\n97%\n\nsight 8/95\n\n|Hongkong vad Ahenghai Han's Sheros--56 car\n\nnent, pralaim.\n\n$1.1.\n\nBesk Company'\n\n467\n\nthe tab of the Guts of the day, string se sul way wow saght hand others to use it in the rate at ng Lag et Avids. Benno da janel Antler Ilanted para say. Applause, the und into a cage finne des Er is fed an AENKY-LENAL-Your Exoticusy. Insa seu de Le Cutudy were luvitaż to set the sick, wirrty beach of the man\n\nwernlar of this unit is th will not glue in say ar: She ass, Cafe, and seruit, wit aigle bave stunt on the 7th lastan, Cartons of radice, su apkalatty is others. I was reed we the armies of the Unser Jurijn 33s sys: Cealth gets set for 2001 Buddar so far Regaiglad with time History, view is en we eater which would want the tie the compliant spared and alert to\n\ncundusly of it, baxing bad mary of the papery nangutan ainm and at the wine line paseret mer khu suoras defendant, bad propriend j kso bat & Blazer and your reactor Woll weyuser, and Sir Richari Mahio- tione 1 varennstrinn, P. The letter of Siriona i Coluty, thus I think i was la aule Lộ đay chemistivation inday interlod, 11 west meat diy.! s Worskin olized tito paraisses tɔ bu wish. fa City Hall Gogiste hane 3 max belle minute si Fane there a horror tend this was the first atter A commicio, was mide 16 that the rules orai yotropical and Shingve with into my co sina bare home to sender and aging. As why we at 18 fr nuusy bun any more.\n\njen lúc tatan G. Weil on earning, an ear, the candituunt is regularizam. To thun Ist es im that key bace hangat befe day.inters to the curtain and spent may and a\n\nEmali Oner, TE, the queda as St Ste on there and grinte tought to Anyon with biok me down,\n\nMNYA WIC), AUSTRATION OF A SAMPAN. by a wild, the anals frate. Il for in the Katie theatre, which has been atenek unë do see the friends wunursened that meating will be see\n\ngifter boʻp thinking Katte the regen premuted i grank dual si túinn 14 weakhey the mamus pēcini Chay Agau, axrani, ploy. waz olmarged Tuin Lubrano, Society of Canton $6,100 jueve To sheedacta parmoor of the army to 15¢ Treta, 15% olardil ka suk lezh sgoi starter the suutition i sa the shenai mesiñe gå väsyabulčera ülves are in thermoirs, and I zazpot ezvecdingly that with berg in cuswiel petion of gains Taulers' Cucuruno Cuszany's SEAT- Inriana po deam that this graph of dwa 19 best by Me. Heuris\n\ngiven the Crown on ende naudition\n\nCAMPER & -rise theiz uzike i ouersze fonince which mak patically gone Relay be intends tooling inte\n\n$14 per abara Mobay aguroval. Wade manor of leases the master Joh fire se audit Patent Wondag afsmann las inmigte in que SAVED LEUS the mtupushin' tab 28 $2,000 vistas de avviser so long the many tom kritisi bien ager tu --¿ni, Est na part, grad uliarita Doe 12 Horn Resti tahang: Chions are zorgs fent qzdira» fi pra WOPE HO Meh 24, 16 ahoy, 25 hour after-vatls it who? Yanga: takuragar Amrint fou-128 750 Ft that the Gorerane who put an Bhan 1 od not only acting on the way the forsrities pats gandaren al trono protquity as I have à era 2015, fi ha tine has an autistry. The pubers of was made tot along life the wail th towerth Chius Lesarwasy-El 1911 per dra ferat fur ton pay of the cursor. did the roste, at i was wing in dampring ut veu excivic•• spesis condities whats were vialston by the ais garsut put hefur to sixing yi ve Me\n\ninstalar o friis Bars for the discusic WC, Neregation too wont be city in Chinas slug, was fad the Ki Wan wi jungamitin vifusal tàn panchina me kinlegu 2\n\nI nonsted a tigh an ad rope ries rodard gather, ispers or who id has he got the hosting runes Champang -- 1990 per share, micus of the Chaverque with mugact to the poure that the reina di un munt 19 saulriviet to get more an intern wil die by to feed on the site. Kg Cheyyained at Tang Long Chua,\n\nlat the Exptira. Now, to begin with nary in us to see the ancey was to be paid. As E cavortbekeskust 1. rebede binaries we formed in a fry tally. But fury ibaonde beardon and other plac\n\nHarpley Vice Tearance Voupery'e naro Finas, ideatons month's wagesansare satin Company's Stare→→ 200\n\ner here. dau. Iney mention that fie reg a wide assuard, two of the ramulines of the Cobiit. 1945, wad icartfans when the Cabane retinate in my biet night on Wiki Halia Sha plece there is aiment lord labour.\n\nlt in my hand...it is Enf the Jish is nuttes, ha friend Les right (311 Rygg Treat may they are with a year lielinist of, but it is hardy so this pigenta. A Jay hon. Criar as wat lawan budaya, Ilagued his old Plate in a do pur. This goes gemi of pile your time it was fall me bail to take fra kāņu vee-\n\nDr Hox. Me Chor, As it all Crisis. The heater to lich this inspired with a y la vicer Derailing to it and tall and over the nasty sit, ut alatut of 3 bank 3-mesell recall me abrent wallies, bras anys mean blican Feranceles E dit sag lats. The gastants are perils Me. Egri haid Mr. Na hry has got his is a altes in the two item was partly TELAMPUL M.0% YALOGERY. Charali Dek aripany-ur (norára?).\n\nThey by and) de All Euls was perff, and who sang outed any level.\n\nDe Karikh Theg attained the joblie pagers\" centers to face gardenias Thu var khe Executing and wider grouse d' gigs | inter eordnete uslove instilation sensotul\n\nhather sunry to pullen pering the rate is in line at if the weared of race avionics, than to weben, fully go into bus and we would as the time and three teal mydia tieners far as the City to the Joy. Now, the popsite mall No eder facing this thesewing clan that instant.\n\n*** were front of us at wretcon junghusgatina Domupaus-Tis. mat meeting short ficut and dance, I have uitution in namlinger thai 1Talk is entran, alig vary which lets with aged to the WING MARIN. Now, the Hapins, le Furius and M. Ang my nose made in the Coward stestion of the City Hall is made it Taanini –A's Hacullovere line, read vortjens së Pantianiae. Duijoms at 11a ameling at waren hatalm og hours vidaselbringe at the time, Pioner 2019 points out, persky a zmesiden eritte Cir is reallway would til hot lo duke labo tu ŝinaos Man, aut i\n\nPha by casting expersitas i rams of han did, which ten te and the tests the division took plway and mad pengesai lenne in che nicest taxy, M. ii Hino's my fat way it is a visit the wordby eling be bad paren\n\nto porta budding to her as a City to lacus with the Ouseetan ajaratha fost ittla stol of jualance in the dion pply of precise com, utista (be City Hall al, latin of the and same triail torfes majority of us, my hon. Feland was in the shape of user nulis in 2 gher ties & QUERIES, Harios regard to the decorumat ca la xevy--ttish it linkly, gue. Vi tar the property and dauelson of the eneziemohair Hopsiue, Vietas med Rařkanjee (in the Colony in win a cistiveŝión 26 rands which the Cite Hall gone was originally made; ulemast, afler what has passed today, the vote? in prisoner duabargod, and the ser ach is dead. Under · dusi pro voting against Kosen yriados. Nes betwest Chinase and Malinuall, and Arin Now T. And, referring and the auto. n the Gaternant la bu hesapla pubin wet the finques i actuaith me they are the trades, any bau. Inud Yr. Ryse.\n\nkud, fogonsh, it by rublish a passo matraci or a sinh vreg te dent thu maghty packs than to setarent wirk kara lakove, in the papers, of whics wil nie wat mitted by his bat ires end, for the into suster; puid fe greater be, as mejority, stille of fritt. that whether in te thela heilbar 2014 hare Tud vt riría pallic merding • fo Codicem se ajay's resin ett forish and a hig\n\nlegal interactatiow to be put by the sepotin. For Tribrary and on any, that they are being up, on read, thanped with de pered my huu, Friend Mr. Frasines action, with ei alajesty was peachately but say if patient the trova ales 20h wargarint deals sot rren ur Governants was the must als went to whs and pichont lettowns to dileeping a pics wered Kwai Ching, agad tastes was in factating us, like eager, drms to the and whinged wind Holi bared ofertatiou Treta Net Buteo mu to You Get. the person thus when the whole teagurile Coqzinal will de cars, zon, papers to spela sua cha) my hou. Front, was beside hit in lasers with swertes a day on bestelfing the low Half doent and wait in baza arquis of any nation. From the action de base ceart it appancs WHY ECOD. nd that he alize toplumeninostics of tain kad ne Cracnes's indong 630.routes for 153; i oruit ell Aference for this standing my Jestido shopsecipás of having the this nomlignity, îse what in Greetary of Stade Fthes tau virild won tricen ont by her aunt for a the City all for a long time, and he and Mitope Lane bald, with put to blen werk of this sides bave or given a file of the dark far, 12, 1 wit.cat distinction to say in his disure, of which boyfriend state, bilst at the aunt al pro frict de car Taleemalivu nad by fir Hinhard RE12- 1. the tation of the Privy. Po papers to which paneles per Majesty's rublote in this coling, mas é thuhet Me Bewick Westem Markest and\n\nfor a cat siderable garini. Now, want ¦ Construct inserrate to reby!! tabia y 'anit, fcrowd bad na opportuzity ! sweptat. I say tha qulation is preso ir Wietzki Kicks-Erat in vurssticu with thao,, sa se ducking poLLDİ NA Droneand safer wheat circumstances? His set of Enerpeun Lith estimateds, mas belong. Parika ärst 11162 11907, MA Aria! Para zmoc faith, a yelise it may be called straite COMELE\n\nperodus then its now the Mad gan fuith. Parikat it is a gasulica of gelosipis I am hot were far met joub Scout the war tius, was walkiay\n\nMy h\n\nthere. Share 1 povab\n\nWomen Laai, nenudin, and Pho kyk, a booty) Langhong, Quaten, and Kana Mesimbrat. Cole\n\nang par skuro premium,\n\nSANTO por shpen (wominali, The prisoner said he and boral the anand China Const Stean Narization Company--Ile.\n\nword en wand this boat wis\n\nat wisse be hired it., Jongtong Gas Company's Shoes-5 pmr The escond palconer said he picked oy that Ebare\n\nHongkong Hotal Company's Shar--98 par\n\npoliwral posing\n\n1 Sennaš pri. ·\n\n·legal induía, vatnik in Mestra. Turing: J'a gust det har tosa salì shown shɔ City Harities in Wes by Falni except “bas no. 1 auf Se minusai tlmub 1,999, heen zacnd-whather; wil te given for sas maanam, hemnes heroisier way Roc? P, to default úr pos impri-Caius Suey Robning Curosz. Limited-\n\njazled me mada kaolu tu nur dianliline ar \"extriona\n\n(not almu buludivad uz muski kishile.\n\nALLHORN SITE.\n\nCute Begar aing Campany (Webenturea)\n\nWong Akın and Cher Ano, zarried more.\n\nHUNTERONG TAMPERATURA\n\nwalk about six cielook on the muralty of the 8th\n\n&ia 920.\n\nCound the chill was gone. A Teleklayer, how\n\nBeri silmate in aligned to Me Austin, Colectial Serdars. He wil\n\nbe which won ma in Ribe \"fout the the sight wearing is ces policy, what of airius China abfente of a vingin print. But at the nutrita bestaan or the Frags Central anat Ja. Aust that hafas the Petí. malay pro khely covet it ought his parib for Mr. Majerly destaces that Fam vanderat tanen. I have bem baby adfere the pahie.\n\nthe Majsely to equal rlyžis lu Ibis part ca dej my hot. friend Mr. Ng Cleg was right in saying Emad the gate being shu maaruniarant of Huse of privitat ay aspon to any such bil The Itris. 1. Kes\n\nsilach, pes\n\nthe City Tale ale cums for getting a sound weekeyal actmunizsina and Fetal fndru tanu give i tu pogand, vot cut:any only, I am; alandy's karainions mth them fler Man-hat theyla masia it is a point ci penat toorts.com es Central Maskot, whya hes so two pri- Thus where is third gaustius, it is the last 1tle anitent. An I painted et ce, who were wok, leading int in factitation, so Ext so they can doubt, bet for etwas which Her Majets 10mm EE LOW Luth be 09 in Jufuli and RTE 50-ng wrecurte im of a „nees- ; aller who has just at thin souks of this, the misild's banda, and she was stung T\n\nlna prevention of a Crowa Celnay kwanza water world I think it drevesa, te coupy the the gostion of expedisser. Now, I observa lånat ja distinction of varionality. And alien the best. the old hermann Coum, auth parleg hold Na abge.\n\na por acauled with lio Queen's saving thorougkäy viższatand that you bass sout, has\n\nMasnim d Ibarge, may be halal 1\n\nJURY NEW skorši ie ci sparated an encaseandonleges of the Chevanoriuendad Score flash the peper stars as they Bestard for which may laid by tuja oonruiter of 200; subglos first hingeloon be statimeLigocina / Brirkiovur esperting bice was wron\n\n#bikinis case iter. The Walsalle en lagd floruer when boas separa i-tes are put u fm tally as reper; vf the evans at that weting, besing negara awli\n\nrolls to a grant iroņi tüm colony, Longkong long | Tas it to Said Mr. Esquide, and Mr. Petics, and Alone the comžikiaun katı vai bron viaktrā,¦ wearing the queaken yet, at I shim feed of Me. Kokkajan maarafareed to, is prbanose to the Taf Wenz mmple, Warchi\n\nSeber. 15%\n\n6.6.201\n\nBamandel oli Tokaday regi\n\nCao Amyrna, *ALLONES Y 99% Ilazerst\n\nSo.....\n\nbaplomberib.\n\n101-...\n\nCHINA COANT MEVROROLOGICAL\n\nJACONSEG\n\n12\n\nREGISTER.\n\ndini A\n\nHoga.\n\nMTANK\n\n***\n\nKy\n\nturn to Jr, Rounds, and he so beinet of the conditices irvaad by a Governor and fuąca: shear and valid Andres, and in rules are map. Ser her! is 1. 186 Easy thu 15. Jer #62 felgrote so wire nomresies.property of oto Tang Abing, aswriter, the Pornostar grly! PA)) $4.3 15.1 R2!\n\nWUTA\n\npart in\n\nwat)owing\n\natan Sets Tail in white sareipim with those aropen and Urines, this boy,low them to the Tunde Gonced, shu kid wil hundor of the hiszen, which are, it will training ma tamat banyo had. Now the itayatan do 1. sanghariali as she press elves the pups of diseasting the action leich des matury was at trait i chudu sat down on the suddette in\n\nwould seatud tank ikusion deter insolens asthanhief quits of the consorcida ir, neelave 0 nith the statuente mire the Cnted destice shop acute reformy price. We wry, that they quinyo tas ber bank\n\nAny y fretter. Bank pilsynets fuld thu eklid unt The haze Bro:\n\n• Must be fib, heeger, drift. Die!\n\nCerita dia sedan hon the\n\n*-jaatioman, and by Mr Porben\n\nbet mother, wwi ghoshall have riay ko sat. Tus razer with Yehog wire wire Site, which is wasting moldly.\n\n•SUR ACRILICIS HAS E TEM auding beacon the sumpta vi the gosti a exted thu li For Major me to fled the gul up and portug I wearing a bele day pobant finds to souble a bież po that sundlifen, mus ense affert,doortor die Bisbard Thung the the Issues eins, The sunding is raid to deny revizor an addres frah the Chinesstrand. The keyer she told a lakang sil In a Library fee by Wah, menaged or in cash edition be impayad ng the Commuterascos or these begli, doute discon le all the soulags, shepherpes of Fourkoglu that is the bed stan and heat, and they both bailonal a saduroy day tha Ananto a clone of the netractione I have read, here you as we then, the public, psy, have not say all chefonda at the kom, madlange, al griteten story tow\n\nthren, by were wetend, Ma ght Jalild to the community dr. Bare to out the Game of Thedalico in sy thin sully my it for infrey re the reizes 1 f the Chivers ruity paran, the sbild, and thi lakong thon and\n\nis strony on his all trupert greats of the cnsion of Chinese fits the City itali, they are pors of this ming to the beating of the fur thus steps of zen Charuchy tomake of the fun riavar colatinus desean parts of Tractpen birthdod as fima do visit the bin corpin Leurs zvestiar the most important were nok hargitjada i la fog. The non pents theve vot of Unregnant birth or dawrent tu sbyxlag any other nationality. 198 Engrosh avs cia be mentine; odvrsive, fun muere of the dis. Swan was the inner of tires by whom that cons\n\nTUR ALLASED MUNDESIR MINY That suite implanter 1, a 23 long, tbré, ndeed, the pedicum are to get olded inringesin way and fer rays in a want catering plains at ausder the Gance. Fl Clines) du dyung, ausartani, approved, cu prind, cumque presente sa ne pu\n\nbaise the Chit City Mall Cacation, wrote a letter which a bar persone Cover how he is to wodas las portes by far whose pile we have trudard wil niet-The Tabu, Chiusse\n\nChernor desired to statebuyer wis mazilyan or 51,803 becu mucatly, with the other papere, befure over with respect to the Wures a man be apporti, de rhe row are paid to who is Pied Bev manus you shuast the king no disuction straf vationality.\n\nthe cowplainneren of Wind the City Hall Concil. the bafeen the Chant. gira hay v do I am about Queen Vesarin's infinity, boils wiring and Earques da\n\nIstal row place? Perisur Mr. Hoppšie 1937 sar. \"Lat? be in ureets with the engattomalts it ing! Chitwas auil tangered kanad÷dge of this versara public meBoy was catei, Far horaste its ceived the mid Feite plansla 60 what the Corviste waremtood, TEAGUE zbriter-panz vesz ke iznenardante! perands the title-led ai +1= property, it is a prere (209990 begetal Fuori z\n\nSee isely! Utirris and foreigners, bet file i\n\ndectwded, 13-py won uns allied to the Father romandel il Wednesday next at the 1. with fees to she advisɔn of Lile ambile; with the Sighs apkin Farben, in sicer saliency caut. it again zu erary relativas allar vidar una faseibo Wa Single proper in making that MS APT THE sidloveandag, grafts of sample polar restante si lay to see a man war it was abfamily decies by case voweydutal to imperfly wipe that it the ind\n\nHished Marbonnels wi\n\narı günque prilburt aran dotibel as in greitadinonthoing as of the saprint the the chemcing, and these chirase susjonaty of ham o'shack. pennial frenzy, which no pas in gain think wait to glade i Grind. It wat tertia en licht heuld be stres at the winding how it was the use of The questing in quation wie wit to by se ou pe bad bush previo on to be A draracteristic «uacfałe is to tell of Chern. Ate Leary to be rutbed by the al of Her Majesty' shot as book of zesian arte susite 15\n\nthat it was cry haters the Queen I was laid before the Quesa, jeje, dhe race, zealace of the rifle of en lommal terms, ap, i7 60, an M47\n\nFury entwertrine so be recovery to enaldo segi atractions, Ting wh not like katmendors of list had 1 wenid santo with rogari la them veren settlement? Wat was the spared uribols? censoren pilo. Kocniky, đã lugter use \"277%, nessans at ti a rod beverentiation of uns werk of of City - brumeriquely president of the Tinji Peter Wil, ny kon with Associated arataiken-bang, seven be szagad article was the articis which proporvi bezowice. A po 1 Molution charging the fe coghing and during il 16 two act. whish dantly Pig Lead was the Chairaus of the City Lini: Con- before that commiflar bear by the consider the repation, dy the grain of Benson of the aniony with mine lezimy was ouch appleded by the public, La Lad kapi tasi Mobiaian, where why if Mer wübleari\n\n...te naudot say that that it is unk, tlovkrantenatal. De Compatike duly sunadiared¦ quod fascia. Prevelike, inayosan, dan Committe to Wool To im Chiu rimtasi proprianou la giuntur slunce. This third so f 11 godoy GT AT reporterà trece pan panca. 5. Askotations as the mosul J• few to sit the world? zerely the question of tiba Beteramy nating, and starbed po treat such weight as ting considered this question, beaving out the on. Pip ses caution was awed by fli. Perors, wantsily tour¦ayi, qui a certain presage repac alg\n\npartout feuerlore of 91 24 to be allomat, la ancoran sich the law, with the coach-thogent the minutes omarmed to by Yome 63. Senden Plotleg kyny were requlug gel and what did say? That there we wemed to chand blanket oft lite speciaria o delu 128 a fight to\n\nthe alley died Tigay gu\n\ndi tirune who nhienon the fonts. Well or sny bar any oh-nge is the bar and police then the aid meeden, to the maminkomaat of bis 18-201 kaple of the Wh 9 Dutcher, f\n\nSMC Cleary, That is dured Be Ontran and Site only gu What about a vatermace jam mu nesto vractical mer ven for a tine, graissat by sa doseman wzali ke in much | the only revity dete.nl puixes. And Mr. ; ceviky like blust dnu fucked cus of them. “I\n\nf the City Plan L'acato, title, the serie Sermons of Wise What Doest dati je le arconlucre with the best the war festion than the salties were atrunjen propuned the shied cantation in obald dare leaght it wwa one of imponeret wide hondes Comictal\n\nLady STATES OF The pale Way it buy buen zmesed by the Chrystals is a\n\nverbeza provokings in napest of the exter'tine, izgored thin anzeznu, with gaveita moïveté, \" don' Back in den bag baina er niveis fel, miley. I don's believe that to the dielny of. There is a regolation for sunkiag einseite Chas the prestigue impeding, wing, po wali fails. That es day in 1978. Whether so tune if I did vol explapl it he might! Raja - Cargar mai dat die previene il le mu je zelo but sinar bever hea. Italien, been pay tinaght of Hongkong any hole of grilema;. Locher they tinc asafol As în fun Belowaty, Shade la ang in deurial distety na which to found a jądgment: inatamente af de tinge trord right or wrong-- Faibly eat it ou\n\nperlinge\n\nMulder.\n\nple, where to be tha matekoligny P $trings Soid go ự his prekerswad tiká reṣait was su albamution it the cales sal the patio. it her by hake the matrial regulations of the Lobocy, and that Rogging i trimu·la, was son to sprytead heartily. Thyon :\n\n6. Maste\n\nWeiber\n\nChepanekens, Paint-bat degrees and init, kept as lon\n\n1. shade\n\nof Mr. Reinis sevī tu♬ ärved Mr. Byrie.\n\nthat were suggesting of the Secrets of Bide, and the nanofonizettistite ice of event.\n\ngedal. Passes in ¦ when King Ware Bullet open zu denk with:\n\nTerave the spell file and in pred us what he culled the Ocultast : the whole para.\" Yon illot,\" and info na sred\n\nindia be",
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        "content_text": "## 46 \n2. \n## 44 \n### Intimations. \n**THE CHINA VIEW.** \nChowder was claved tho putti! \n### Visitors' Column. \n**THE CHINA MAIL.** \n### Hongkong Rates of Postage. \n(via June 26, 1889) \nLal Parki Yest \n1. Small Parodia to seat by Port because any of the Fest Calle Chips We have instituted sa na experiment or Japan, as well 10 Mac VAITATS COLs, which we trust In the fallowing Statements and Tables boi, papi, Peus Ma widely-express gret at this dis will prove succesfe, and be found use the Ratas are given in sends, sal ww, for anal not excel the falieving doo \n\n1 wat rond 1 fotoop, izuno of Notes nervul. To it will be legsted fruta time Lettere, per half cher, for Book ads, & foot meg, nor web us than is plage is fumuaporation to tre such itsuse of information, fists, Pavere, por tres cuces. \n\nNewspapers o \na over four modes in weight wil be 20 cele per, which wel indude Bilar in objout and style, bob slightly tables and other intelligence is ec \n### Registration \nThe parcele s bully modified in wartado detail. \nsuured likely to prove vaatle to per charged as doubla, teable, ✯e, az i some taxing through the City, and cave map bo, but eveli papers or pacicate or ne say be rout at Book Rats. Two in euoneetion wiza we bave opered | Snappere arust not be folded together as Horn. AND BUSES, norunything whatever beismerted SELECT Damron, applicatos for enrolment sacept koná sice Epplements. \ner of this \n**THE CHINA REVIEW OF Roles and cries on the Far East, ia auded at fu tervals of two mumus, each numbar ou taining about 60 ev \net 60 nav pages, all cated with lible, photos, wonderia, be, bead the papare pubished demand, and the insulation justify, Jaiza Ditter. \nsuberitiva la vixed at $16.50 p \nd \nPrintad \nto which we are now ready to secure, der say, bowser, bo endload, if the wind be paid at Pack Kate. Price Cur rent may be paid either as Navapapam or List of Public Buildings. \npaid per san payable by on-residents Governant House, North of Public in Hinges, half-pearly in naprawne. \nThe patristica indledes papers riginal and selected inpun dia Arts and Seisces, Snogy, Folklore, Deugrupiy, History, Ilustre les Man Anu Cus- ton, Natural \nKeligion, do, C., \n### Gardens \nCits find. Library (8,000 volumes) and \nMuse-Free. \nPublic Gedens, a bontifully picturesque \nretreat and of great interest. \nBuake. \nComp by do not bear Pique annity, aos prone bough \nclosed it day bear this spook! accores. \n27, PADE, OTANING TO Luman, but \nany parzel was ered by danion of the Possier tiesā. \n2. The following went be mated Patcula insasiuni, packed as paciented, or liable to be \nGlass, Teguida, \nazglasite butee Matchca, Ladigo, u 10, Kent, \ndegrees to des Fish, Game, Fruit, Vestby to - Helyi bo \nthe up rectar of an actual or pramazal sorteo fire or injet i trans spousal, ach tha deeds, copied music, e. The obarge on Si \n### No. 5892,- (CTOBER 21, 1880. \n**Merchant Vessels in HongCong Harbour** \nExcburies of cats Arrivals and Departures reported lo-lay, \nTorillaz fading the position of 207 renal in the Harbour, the Anchorage is divided inte sigal Boetius, vammancing at (trend Indai. Vasole neuer the Hongkong shere are marked A, use the Kowing shore k., azri those in the body of the Shipping or midway between each shore to masked c., in conjunction wild the Sguroa denoting the mentions. \n2. From Gas Works to the Novelty Iron Worke \n### Section \nB. From P. and D. Co.'s Office to Peddar's Wharf. \n7. Feur Nare! Yard to the Fiez. \nbox \n### RC 20957. \n1. From Great island to the Gas Worka \n6. From Fadder's Wharf to the Naval Yard \nFrom Novelty Iron Works to the Harbour dater's Dœfice. From Earbuds Master's to the P. and 0. Ou.'s Ģice. \n8. From Pitta East Prist. \n---- \n### Captain. \nStig and Date of \nVoices or ease. \nDestination \nHig. \nArrival \n8. E'stonls will as a general rela be for aided by Ferate Ship not by Coutras Mall Packet. The Port Ofs coserves se umelon, and it clearing devory in caves! tight of electing shopperty for tran tiles tumber of parcela is spel as to retard Esceipsatser correspondens. My responsi \nthan \nfor backs, but, whatever the weight of packet contafting ay parally witte of Chen Jesus, Mungulia, Tibet, the Tue Clock Tower, Queens Road Cen-pap, it will wet be charged fo Easter Anipeg and the \"Her set. \" tral, in be with Pedder's Whis \nThe sender of Rey Recieved generally, we defaike list of abjects General Fost Office, Hoaghong Chung it alt a Row \npon which coexitations we oogmcılalış \n### German Club, Spreme Court, de, invite is ismægurated, \nwww.bor. \nwillia a stone's throw Chinese Ladin. Grigal contributions in French, Get parish, Italian Tor Lagitan Club and hazy, Sbellay St. tugasza, are sourschi Bednars freveramets Offices, the Sacrorerint, &o., \nnear the holic Gorders. \nare as to premat a rohtut \nthat of the most rout \nwere bearing on Chine ccatism, fines \non paying an extra fea of o cente. \nbacopted with regard to any fartel, bet the Region wil see the The limit of weight to Books and Com reial Pages to Foreigu Foes basical any bat a very reale per- 61ba Pallares for web offices are limited tablity of lon to sed must uns exced these \nubevenue: 3 inch by itches by \n### St. Jou's Cathedral (Anglia), \nzun J'orade Gromm sidention is plac paid to ibu Review Roman Catholic Caredral, Welling \nSweet. \ndepartures \nther as \"Nous\" head reinross being \n### Notes and Bepiter \nclamited tegen Church, Higin Street. given, when furnished, so previous Nožni B1. Peter's Neuenburch, West Print or Carles, as are also close queries which St. Joseph's (KC) Char), Ganian though any for Informativas, furolabı, aven Road, Bear Kenney for \nor orphed details reneeming the at-Tapetance Hull, erisly adapted for \nb. It le sirable to make his Questo proper as brist and as mnoh to the possiblə \n| \n### The China Beine \nkm July and August, 1876, is band. Is anys the forty-two anya wary acut into uosipato for the best pap on the advantages of Curiality ter \ndavelopment of Sale All car lesen ed preistes khoi là entenciou to this svorkuly enterprising Revie. It is a sig pagod, bi-menthly, repertory of watch low are sestaining shoot China *IN incture of hiero Ponizy in vaja volumen is sure workh the pries of the žievis, kūr dress China Now, Hongnny-Northern | Ürisian únicate (U.B.) \nber \nanen, Qusar's Load Eust \n301- West B \nພະນ \n### R. E. A. and Chiny Colegraph Co., and \nthe Great Northe Pergraph to,, Marion Hose, Gong's Hand.\" tascais hall, Zedand Street. \n### Victoria Recreation Cank---Bath house! \nsea last-wuse, ke,-Praya, beyond the Gecket Ground, beside the \"City fie!! \nhe Baracke and Narat med Military \n### Store \nparkerenk Je to the wird, and cover a koga area. \n### Stores, Books, &c. \nincles. \n.. means No Registration, \n### Countries of the Pata! \nUnion, The Union may be taken to conspelar Keops, net foreign passione in Ama, Japan, W. Africa, Harpt, Mauritius, all \nN. Amenca, Mexic, aleator, Caři, \nVal' Nas \n4. The public re cantined at tu persaud \nfound the facts with a Period Hurope, d, which dres not exist \nthe Bochung \nbabe Java \nHout countries to which Hongkong wards Carespondenou Laylax juin Gerd Fodic or ng \nbeat to du so, it resory that the Kang-bhi ..... following lost nicely \n...Wooney \n... Rondeli \n### 3 Wantry Amal, 5079 |CM. \n«Oschen ... Brit. \n### Betmarks \nK'leon Dout Fontan lo \n6. Poincisosh Leat \n502 Sept \n### BiB \nskr. 1700 k. \nJaGibb, Livlegatoa de Ca 20e, M. 3. A. Da \n### Apertalian Porta \nJardine, Matteson & Co. \n21 Russel & Co. \n2. \n19 \n18th Hang SIA Dat 1512 Oct \nstr. 137.5.& po Dock Un \n231 Octo \n843 e 140. 31. Co. \n1057 Ooi. 23 Gae. P. Starons à . \ndewchang Holhor, & \n### E-MITTIT \nat daylight \n¡Holbow, An, \nShanghai \nCo-murtos \n¡Tag Prive \nSAM1979 \nAversich \nDiGlavo \nUhy of Tokia. \n8 citurroy Brit. \n6 h Hall. \nBrit. \n### Deronsite.....n an \nF \nHot... \n5 baner \nPolesen.....Chi \n2 bittidor ...Onwlo \nlamer. \nDutch est. \nChola uch \netr. \n### JOEL \n74 Opt. Wildongian Lapralk & Cu \nKumes Porta \nloon Desk \n*Path, dayligas \nne Deck \nMarvelja \n. Maasz \n7 Romedios & Co, \n¡Manila \nPo-day \nJBut \n741 Dot, \n21 Samen & Co. \nthaoghal \nSenhue. \n„ider. \n69 Oct \n14:3bsamaau & Ca \n298 Oct. \n2020, M. 8. N. 06 \nShanghai \nBrit. \n65% O \n2030, R. Bierros & Co. \n933 Out \n18 Koan Fat Hong \nBangkok \n23rd inel \nair. \n48 Mar. \n24 China Traders unorance Co. \nate. 1039 Chut. \n17P. 20. 8. N. Cn. \nki Yokohama \n80 ct \nrides, R. Sisroun de Cu. \nJaustralian Porte \n24th fant \nstr. 388 Oct \nKinging. \n1. No Letter Facket, whether to Young... Brit. \ncan be said! \nFrail, forn, Vesiesals, 21 Argentine registered or \nRepabli, da bilan, with all jewels, precies tee, or a thing ticking Hondure, Bermuda, Disa, Fren, Netherlands, Portuguese peroral ya, is hakka to C4 l'acker \nTrakia, Guiana, ¦ for Postmeni: ABERYS Palicum \nsuŭ Spanish Colonies. \n### Countries or 13 the Union-The chair? \ncountries kod in the Caion are the AP tralasian Greop \n### Postage to Vaior Countries. \nGeneral, by any mouku some \nLuton, \n30 cents per or conis cal \n10 cents. \nZacuta cact \n2 suis par Scu \nation, Post Carda, east-wpens \nBooka, Paikuras and i \nCom Papare, There is no ekarzome restrauted erro. apadne wishin the Petal Taka. \n### J'idge to No Union Countries. \nHawaiian Kingdom \n### Omeral Gutter \nHesier, Tailor, \nSebata orientai tiacural contains the fol- lowing notice of the Chius Fuziotela \nthe title of a puestion, \nly reached as from Boug.-T. N. Discoll, dû and 47, 1ks lately 2 kang, whers has been set on fuck an in Quears Road, by special appeiztruant sen.8 zenperea cartingallon of Sous and to E. Ma Limeriu on China and Japan, the extinction \naf which chefui saxial a year de kwu sgu kak \nand segraded in Europe as well \nEn China Thmpresest publisation, judging, \nby the river now tntire us, la intended to! \n### Cleozomerers, Watches, Jowellery, \nLestor \nBordo Patt \n### Nore. \n+ \ndisps and Chr. FALCONELLO, West Judice (Non Unit, Burias, Queen's itoad Control. \n### Costa Rica, Grenc, Now Graula, Nicaragua, 'ze, Paragliay¶. \nItegistration, Newspape \n### American and Buglich Stores, Books, \nscopy & positian, as tegendu Chitand send speeindly selected Cigars-Mac Deighbouring countricovnat elmila \nto that which has keen fed in Tadis by the \nCatania Niet ut proat dayrus of ut \nEF, FRICKEL & Co. \n### Aerial Newers and cheng Ra-Book \ndi fattura, \nOF \nFue. \n10 \njuline, \nFeride!! \n2. This Regulaties panjabies the condit¦ Sea Gu of Excieraz of dutiable setincs, unless this Sunda quantity one best small na to make the Tiales \nample of no valge. \n### Wolle........ \nê. The firoits of reight alumed are si \n### Budowa -- \nBook and Papem to Britan úton | \n5 s; to the Cortinant, Au, Patton to Britist, Offer, Slox if wit \n### Bailing Vosk \nSbEepkias B \nHajdoná \nVincar.......... jammander \nAgnes Mair's Love ...........Br. \nsh \n458 Bapt. 190. M. 5. N. Co \n851 8epk, \n200. M. & N. Oo \n131ayar U. \n27 Carlowite & Co. \nout intrinsic value; to the Chularity flee Book Servier. ! 14284z. 27! Vezel & Co. \nda, 8 OF. \n3 kidones ..........Port. sh, 602 July Ale H. Safthe Packer Amur, sh \n### Sidemcy \nfor the loss of a legineral Letto Apala \nThomsen alt 3:0.50. fazer umaśžer, bgę, „skátamora......Amer. Contabriacal! \nAmer faulsen Dan. \n### The Post Offint \nta noy legally naposafts | Che Bitte for the wife delity of Regatora cress Camere \nunderco, has benyoforth it elit to prCurs pared to make gooch the acabaria of Dagmar \nwo lost while eng lash Do ina-wners of 319, în vari Kami. --------------- \n### Florum Alghingale \nà adolulɲin .............. Falt bye. Ford \n2 Borgwards.. \nC, Rovided \n1. That lies daly observed at the condivista në Registration requir \n2. has the fat is securely welos \nia Numably by <zveiopa \n3. That application we made to Pomnator Ger \ngang i \nof \n### France \ntes Great Adaira \ndental W. Ingley Johann lentich \nW \nbye. \nEradno & Co. \n1487 Repi. 199. &0. S. X. \n210 Dok. 30eur & Co. \n896 at 11aler (5. \n✡o. \n990 Sept 20, Arnhold, Karbery & Ou. \nJul Aug. 20 Arabolt, Karry \n### Euvre \nand Humihang \n(New York \nSa Franciao \nCa. \nNew York \nbe 222 1000 17 Arnhold, Kurberg & Co. 20 apt. 18, anhold, Karberg Un \nEduard Schelbase & Co. 464 Opt. Amhald, Karberg & Co. Cine,bletiza 252 let. 3Barlowits de Ou Kanto Fch, bat.. $0 Sept 20 Lardstelu à Ca Tompson. 1676 Sept 18 & Co Dadless, brie. 1098 c. 811Adamron, Bell & Ca \ntiaram. Jej 411 18jahod, Karberg & Co. .............................................♣ kobieciaker, Sm. so. 245 Saph 14daari Sabalias & Co. Mgails ............$ Ünumer. Ger b 521 pm & Co. \n..............2 Pelierma... Stat. Leja. નામ ચિન \n### Bust \n...........for. bre. t. 20 Captada Sath Jumeries.ok Kawwht. Amer. . 2262 et 17 Roll & Co. Sparta 18 Vincent...... \n81 Aug 27W. B. Bay \nged that the loss of while the Serastesi \nThas the Prator Coasalan B. All4kitidredgewer. bga 636 Sept powderor was in the lefody of the Betti Portal administration in Chine, that it not assed by any faul on the past of t sender, by destruction by few, or shipwra: ae by the digno or cegligence of a person in ply of \nį medļatuly tho Jeza m \nrausing that er een bestowed of its your prints, do, cholos Teixete and Digans. Azzahralia, New Zealand, Tanaris, zać upon the regation of it literature,' VABLETY STORY, 40, mist. vix Torres Brash, Lotters, 19; 20 eppolops being invariably and Macar antiquities, and ordial develop to any Queen's Road. nothing of ionisatie, have id to tas \ngistration, it; Norte, Books Rail Pattatre, 4: Piu a Lettera, ; e- \n### Belation \nof inspottant force of inform Watches Jewelles, Charte, Bingen-gration. 10; Neespapers, 2; Bookt aan ation, romāneizg zare sur chansi of pub las, Optically, Murdan's Pattern, Ecity as is now previdad extremely dimir Pencil-exes, &- Nosch, agent. able and contribution of web Inistro & Zaobu. \nmay fairly be looked for from the azalers i \nof the foreign consular services, the Ukinena \nSabal, the Lage, St. Helery and sea mno, in Aden, Lettore, 25: fagetration, \nGuus, Kides. Parde, Ammunition,10; Nowspapers, \"; docks sal Pattern, 5. \n### Chalu \ncorps, and the misionary body, and Sportsons's test all descrip \nneng wham bigh degree of Chinese tione.-W SCRDY & Co., \ndubai a nes nauidwoly cultivated here, at Hoof Begoonsfield \nwad who freeverally represented rubbe sigui q \nLuraber of the dining by yes. bighly rurulé \nantijs at C. Legguise manager wet pot fire. \nHa7. E. J. Zital, in which the piano al \nhabourdonvášky girnil, da ozsoklons | \npresental of the chronykɔgat i \nproblems and a agamenta involved in cordato Taker or FaZNE FOB CIKAIRE, \nhexion with this important work. Some trusinisce feus Okiama Levels and playe \nmarked by both secrecy and freshness \nđ style; and an account is the vacuna of \nthe Chinese poet-statesman of xbo elernɔiù entury, Sn Fung-plo, by Mr. E. C. Bowza, le mot only historiusally valuable, but is also distinguished by its literary grize Bonds nokioen rẩ new books relating to Ühine and the East, which will be a useful fensum of \nthe Neview, if carried out with, punctuality \nani \nwe are glad to note that \n### Arsi \n\"Queries” sir dantlusă în \n### ÚHA \nKAREES, AND BEATS, \nAN 288 COLANT OF HOSAKOND. \n### Quadra \nmå fordinary Pulierny Bosto \nHalf hour,....10 st.. | Hour,... 20 ot. \nThree hours...50 ot.. | Six hoary,...70ah, \nDay (from C), One Dollar, \nTo Vicenza Pe% \nbrad a place in in pages also. It is to be Four Curling \nPop at this cig le contributions Three Cli \nen China about may evolua aiTİLAY \ndegree of cesary mai to shat which won i \n### Tiro \nCuties, \nPingle Trige, \n$1.00 \n0.88 \n£0.70) \n...$1.50 \n1.20 \n... 1.00 \n### Band \nor by Prà fuo lum). \ndisplayed during the lifetime ut ita prefe-Four Candies, \nres the Belo,and ibal tius na Fierce \nmay re the support zoomacy to izme \n### Thres \nCaulics, \nJe continance. The publication is later. The Candies,... \ned to wopcer avery two months, sud vili \nform a mistenklai osteso mag \n**THE CUINÈGE MAIL.** \nTo Vannia Cat fte kaval oF EMPRESA \nThis paper is usual evary Four Coolina \nGay. The ausription he fed at For The Colin, Bullare your anama deifvened to Hog Two Coles, by Ken Doliers Fifty Conde in- \nauding p pohugs to Coat porta, \nis the frest Chines Nunapaper wer woved under pursy nice nation The albef eupport of the paper is a derived trop the nails couly, og whom and to be found a yusutom se ouetes novary phace tiene bustave andlega footing. \n• The projectors, hating their catastes \nupon the ces reliable information fera \n### FRA) \n### Siuple \nTrip \nRaam (Zirut or op. Hod-for-lume.) \n$1.60 \nG.00 \n2).40 \n### Foar \nConli AA11.00 The Cooli \nTwo tholes,... \n...... 0.70 \nThe Return Face crebraces a trip of ot more thou thres hone \nFor every bow part of an hour Abere three hours, tack Coshio will be entitled to \n### si \nvarton Fork in Chi and Jays-Day \nfrom Austria, California, Singapore, \nPoong, Budget, deler places roque \nby the China, tunelu \njankind to garatuz are altimate \ncitati u berwena pol \ncon The savantagea cinted to advar \nfitonal pay of b cent \n### Trip \nPeatu.75 each \nlie. \n2 hours) tiap20) sack coito. \n### Limes \nOras (sessih). \nHour, \n...10 \nquie \nDall day, \nZY eenin \ntire are therefore unasunily j \n### Bayr \nle foreign ennenails gegarails w \nLind \nto their interest to pull themselves of \nthis \n### DUST \n262 900LIK BIAR. \nThe fold men toe oper of shis descrip \nstun gundasted hy native offerta, but 1 Classes Dont 17 % at 900 \nprogresive and sati-obstructiys in tone- \nxmont 1t we then cars board; Lot Class Cargo Bost of \nsamwanda \nbudet and laterat ; \nwhile on the other deserves svet ald that our bu \nto it by intuigueza, \n### Lake \nFagin jouet entries Edittain \nwith Trand, Shipping and Commercial \nNous am RYELINATED \n3thanription \nabove zay be sent to \nfor etter of this \n### CEO. MURRAY BAUN, \nChina al disa \nFREDERIC ALCAR, COLONIAL, NEWSPAPER & COMMIS- \nSION AGENT, \n11, L'anest's Lons, Lombari Brest, \nJORDUR. \n182 Coloma Press sapplied se New- paper, Hooke, Typia Juk, Press, Papers, Correspovirus, Letters, sad any Super Gake on dan ter \n### AOTION \nTO SUIFPERS. \nColonial Fampspær exsoirul at the of Adverse and the Hakka \nare regalarly al for the inzetlen \nand is good 600 \n$1.00 \nad Clue Carys Host - Boat of 500 \njo, \nUgo Bolo 17-ax Best of 2011 \npicula, Hald Ding, \nAmoxil axton charge to mite un dels 'ir Hegiralicu to ritish \nHeydd Facton The Ban \nmax, 1 wate \n• CREAM DE SAFe vin San Froito \n### LOOAL \nPOSTAGE \nF \nid) No Parent Post \n### Local \nDenver. \nGard Now! \n1. All corespondenæ jvataí beluso 13.01 on any wook day for adiramar în Vistoria will be delivered the day, \nand genomally whhin two hours, unless the \ney should be sobered by this Contract \n### Invitations, \nde, can veterally be delivered within Victoria at the privati anuses of the addresses rather \nt \npiazem of blinder, it wish to that effect \nsuch application unless I aino la inel. \nbond book, wh which reach their destiamion, althoighà | a broken or deteriorated edition. \n### Forber \n### Money \nOrder Regulations. L--Most Ordian ang exchanged wiù e United Kingdom, New \nwalu Qusariand, South Australis and Darvin, the Strata Settlements, Warto Australia, and forcept at Shanghai) uzd the Jam ropite. Hongkong z bens cris ca Shanghai, uzd vice verad \n### Email \nsame may be tedid between the other Fort by ame of Puss Stamps, subject to change of ons per cunt. It owling them, \n### 740 Cak \nrisun \n..................Taliem. Gu. \nbqo \n550 10st \n### ULAZION \nDrew \nat Yak \n--Mary Mom Ondert are supplied residente af the avaler Ports in this way. Fly \nAn application for an orisalted up, Tang Yong \n### South \nSea Islanda \nPiontula \nSand Feanalizo \nLuntia \nHer York \nHavre and Hamburg \n16 Bong Song Woo \nGülows & Cu \nMeyer & Co \nLoutco \n19 \n743 Dat \n40,00. B. Bivens \n### Man-of-war \nin Hongkong Harbour. \n480 \n### REFF \nK'loan be \nYasa Wun Tex \nSisphope Grov \nJans 21 \n### Reph \n22 \n### Commander. \nCom. Klas \nJ. Farrow \nB. U. Naplor \nComedore Smith John G. JoDHE \nOct \n### Date \nof \n### Forsels \nNawa, \nHlay, \nClass. \nTora Gune. \nH. P. \nJingl \n41. \nC. I \n### COZMAN \nAnde \nMAD-OF-WAT \nOct. \nSuntint \nBut vol \nKD. Chinno \nPeronne prakser \n354 \nBritish \ngao rekl \n- \n184 \nLa 31 \nKritish \nmilhar doepitai \n3091 \nBritish \nganhout \n1:00 \nKetah \nJotama-tore's flagship 2087 \nBritish \ntorrat-ship \n304 \nJave 2 \nAs Canton \nChinese \nzenbort \nexcit frigate \nand is ezciated with a stage, directe, Magus... \nand unsealed scvelops in the Postuwster | sne \nthe wastest issuer offen The application Midge \nst be sampanied with the tail regatta Road, (incrading commuwen) in ebegns, paelage Wi \nstein, or other guivalent of cash, and ni \nfittin margin about bu left for variatious | \nof mathsage. The Praiaster in the Hal King \nender, suede o in the envelope, and Kargualun \nreturns the change, if any, by teal eppar \nhunity, with a Meslpt for the letter, if i \nget to las registered, as it always single \nb. Oare should be taken to me te \npplication Nma, the Muney Order Ollies close me zure before the depar \nIberoo of the windm \n4-No order must exserd 418, at £50, will 27 include any fraction of a pony, vor more than two such orders honed to the se person, in favour of the same page. by the authe mail. Ordere will be drawn \nat the creat rata of the day and paid t the rate of the day when the advios uzivud, \n### The \nmission is as followe>-- \n### Orders \non the United Kingdom, \nUp to 18 ent \nיז \nار \nM54 \n£).......... \n72 \n### Land \nIntercamslal Ordan. \nUp to $5 or A...... \ni \ntor 10....50 \n- of Money Draer Offces in th \nUnited Kingdom may be unsalted ar \nbe exprezed by the der, here all longkong Shangh \nceraspondanes is invclubly deliver m 6.Names must be given in full (except \nLa metre plans of babes. \nwhen there is more than we \n### Boxholders \nwho desire e tu mad Cizen- | \nbe given if the order be rosed (a 26, Dividend Warts, Inexations, Cards, but the anal the Pago el t \n### Lobaques \ndew, all of time acme weight, to address are rose). It can then be paid, Hong, Bangkok, or the Furia of Chirs through Bank, and may afterwards in! and Japan, may sliver them in the Postpally crossed in ang Bank. Office stamped, the postage bring then \n### batch \nmust constat of at least ten \n### Fach \nhas signed it in the proper plans. \n### Buzholders \nmay also woad Vatterordor en be traced in anus \n### HONGKONG, MAULU \nAND CANTON RIVER \n### STEAMERS. \n### Nama \nTONE Captois \nJohaug \n760 Ogatun \nKiu Bhan \n40% \nKia Ki \n61 \nHentai, \nHayiand \nKlong-ping \nB Indu \nPovah \n1500 Carg \n110 \nLatovener \nSir J. Jaejoption! 154 \nSpark \nTong Ting \nWhile Gland \n314 Depre \nLiners \nB \nEw Bok Tong \n1200 \n250 \nM. Marble \n### CHINESE \nQUN-VESSELS \nIN CANTON WATERS, &C \n### Naste \nTrace Aus \nH. r. \n### An-lau \nChuu- \nDalterfold and Swira Cbro-ko \nK., D. & M. B-boat Co. Obing-ou T., C. & M. & string p \nC. M. & & Co. \n### Chau-tong \n5., UM, 6-bout Co.-le \nK. Acheng & Sonz \nE., C. & M. & boat (to \nC. M. 8. 7, Qu \n### Peng-chou-ba! \nQUAD2.06 Shum-i \n20 Benog, A. H. Q. & M. 8.bast Ce. 50-ang \n180 BE \nYOUSO NEIPPING IN PORT, \n### She \nanes places in the mane way. Eu-ok pasment of s additional comedia. Pater \n### In \ncase of low of an order, pesadly for Symphe \nvelopes vcntaining Patterns may be wholis i stopping Pade to the Br \ncloned if the nature of the contents be fast \nw tho like, Sheldraks \nfor Timasto Geriam brig \n### VSN-UPAWASH \nK. Achwong & Su \nKing-kw \nKinogahow \nLin-yen \nTalag \nChioge \nBritish \nFroueb \n| 2829898398889 \n### Commander \nJ. Godsli \nSlewati \nA. Walker \nChirrem Admini \nA. Gercenta \nChae A' Ho \nO. 1 Falaser \nPing Tre \nJ. H. Wade \nJ. B. Marry \nChing \nErd \n### MUNONANT \nHALLĀKU PANİKES \n### Blue \nJacket \nProcura \nForward Flo Fodvig \nKir \nMary \nMattie Macleay \nPaul Jooen \nSin of the North \nD. Maria de Molna \nGarooding Motate Nanacacy \nAroedown l \nfor Mauila \nBritish hargne \nSauce brig Brilled bacque Hele bu Brabr Slam \nbrig \nfor New York \na kerge Jock \njarital brig Bettiah barte \nSuanish cncratite Runboat 1. M. correcta \nV. A surefte \nHustlar marty \nM. axrette \nPranol frigate \n### patals, \nger Day, \npats, yer Lead, \n900 \n### MERⱭJANI \nSTRANKSA, \n-- \n### ival, \npor Day, \nfed \nplums, par Law, \nand Base Cage of 100 \n1. \n### Oct. \n9, 1880, HERCHANI STAMBULA. \n### Bankow \nBellish \n*Addits \nBrisb \nBrown Brothers \nAlso Can \ntor Shanghal \nClfaca \nCart Ludvig \ncle, per Day, \n### Class \nCarge Rosa - \n7.71 \n### Sost \nof ou \n1.60 \n| charged to the sender's servant. \n7.--No order can be paad till the Payon Nation \nfor Bongbong \nKiang-plan \nChiness \nP \nKrilish \n### MENBOLANT \nVALMINU VRANDON. \nLy \nGarsau sobeiner \nKung Wo \nburttioh \n1,34 \nMavico \nArvaria \nEritish \n50 \nProlong \nguaboat \nBloch \nfor Laden, da \n### SHIPPING \nIN SHANGHAI HARBOUR, \nBritish \nPell \nTaks \nReikish \nBЯKish \nCutrone \nOkin-tong \nBettioh \nfor Jcndum, ?ro, \nTeb-ata \nDatoare \n! Teritora Mari \nup.maste \nVidoratio \n### WALLING \nYARALA. \nFute mhiru Glamis Castle Gleneagles \nAdranus \nSkozesu bary EG \nNayanth \nBilish \nAzbasador \nFeghous \nfor London, a. \nBenjamin Aymar \nThemales \nVigilant \nH. M. de vossel \nChinese \n- \n### Bog \nOns \nor Pulizway BORIA, HON \n+7 \n6. 10 \nled or stated to the Postmaster \nshould \nbe may cowokery, and Order Ofice for instruction. \n$1.00 approved by him. Prated Cleoutar may be inserted in anob Fattom Packer. \n&- the order be nat presented within \nsix months an additoral commission will \nhe charged if not within twelve months, \n### Past \nThe public in retailed that, the money will be forfeited. When the \nNothing in Shin Sonlosteronta private sycəm\" \" share la se auch thing a Pamel Post order in oues paid no ipreter sinim cars buiomed \n\" \n### STREET \nDONE. \n### Sale \nof Hire for stint Ocalier. \n19 \n### DUG \nDay.......0$ 0, \n### One \nout,NATES \nKit \nthe boys bale in Fact pricala \nto Auro de Math rombie and dis entertaina \nprinterent sta danand by pazeistent attoripis i Hoarder dan be paid until she advice Fei Yuen \nto soud amali valuabin for through the relation to it has been eautyed. \n### Fancy \nWork, and similar preunia are con \n### Pat \nFast Carion Artiolar of Drew, \nfinaly wing refuse, the sandam having \noften spent more in Portage us \navo veil the traight by seamer. \n• Made out ou s printed fora which is zroglind¦ Bue-Jun \ncowbio. \n### Harding \nNot Local Oudere un Shanghat are draws at 2 put \nrefond can be unde an auch parcels of the vale of Stamps abliterated before tho nors of the coutente was discovered. \ni dor \n- nice to pile, d \nla cate for Arening z the tested Ning- \n### Ani \nin er et hanghai. \n### On \n14, 1880. \n**MEJUKANT ETRAMNER** \n### American \nVazion \n#Slut Left park oz andved at HauzkoHR \n### Printed \nand prebilahed by Gao, Muanat Baig, at the China Mail Olian, Na 2, Wyndham First, Hangkeng. \n### Excentive \nCouncil \n### Present \nFriday, \n122nd October, 18 \n1880. \n### this \nExcellency. Governor Sir John Pope theverry : 2CM tj. The Honorable Is Acting bestowish hentary Dr Sudrick Stewart: The Honourable The Attorney General Edward Houghton Ornellay \n### The \nHonourable Johor Macrails. Bios. \ntheent. \n### His \nExcellency Major General. Emraison-Courseranding Troops. \n### The \nCouncil meets this \n### Summons. \n### The \nMinutes \nSeptember \nday \nat 5 Rite. by special \n### Council \nheld + \nthe 18th \nELL \nare read and confirmed). \n### The \nfollowing letter from major General Bousoon!",
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        "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.... VRIGA 270 | Cozz (244. \"I tenant, DOT 1950 Ale 2010 to Bin Salgon, 120.00 DAZAL 231 |\n| --- | --- |\n| 112017, Noser Buil$15k Lind INSURANCE COMPANY. | Ilgari Primaran mudah me, get $329 to 5.45 ng Bed Ascorbit, or giant |\n| Crusaders 190, ame vine: 41, Mas, for Wa Yew uphoriena V SRD | Amish Talks, 30 pelan, per de$150 to the dou292\"%T! #93, vor gael.... $272 0.27 FAME NAMES IN 3241 1759' 18ine, Sod Pot. Farr dapa... 14 1.37 |\n| Faction dells, 15 Bar, par gun 3 2050 | Blasba, Vienkin, por pini 1170 a 176, motra, pa prank ... MORTALS. |\n| 4. 1730 Sel, et per at God. p. Natod, spy penali $2.50 | 4331 That its 100 2.51dun derby, Alman Women, a pre ple |\n| TUE masashgust, Apenas : | agatud |\n\n## STAFFORDSHIRE INSURANCE COMPANY.\n\n**LIMITED**  \nSTANDARD FIRE FE, LONDON,  \nCAPITAL TILOSS FILULING,  \nThe Und-acticing speist  \n18÷LT  \nThe Undervignat aver mai  \nreving From Tits at Spice  \n462919 to the stars enquiry at this Port, are prarado BANT POLICI Sagainst Fires. 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. REEL & C  \nAgants,  \nHazlerne, Auprat, 1864–  \nNOW HO  \nAsia A  \nRats 241 Djeran  \nWan, Hir  \nFR Stamps & 120  \nPalom  \n34. 27 Pivl  \nFe 143 POR  \nGur. she  \nBossen & the  \n(Mar. 27) Guldberg  \nMalinzčan  \nJan Allama  \nBut ser  \n909  \nSimon & Th  \nBangkok  \nSubarusana  \nSink 20  \nChunk  \nSat. 25, Prouenitos  \nthen r  \n3127  \nMiles  \nFin Che Sau Supt.  \nClich  \nRulles  \nPos To! Pingager  \n3  \nRowe Dea  \nBipi  \n9.  \n1  \nFeb 22 Roma  \nRei  \nPuar Yuen Co  \nSea  \nSAL  \nP  \nBelt,  \nElab  \nNov. 27 bias  \nHip-  \nChir  \n1 Bulaos  \n6 at Ashanus & Muda  \nSator  \njous 24 Canges  \n33:7  \nPek Kon  \nity of Teko  \nam nu 50 MASC  \nDeut  \nNov, 2 g  \nAae. ses! Code  \nE  \nPosit  \n:25h 101 Petaryen  \n1 ofer  \nReb  \nThe islamiza, Asats for the refrants iny, s prepren to AGERT BISKS  \nFB-ness per Ce. 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. The it time I had fonts for the lace Clayang, are pronamed in all para of the Woll 4 Pelaw Leicnger wo when I want one: ACCEPT FICE A MAGNE EIŠKA K  \nli, Iard Stintfand to dies with Carvers Bates, allowing im nota.  \nAdmiral Sir James Daedale this bird the  \nBritaux. O renting the ship, we heard!  \nGRO. D. STEVENS & C  \nfrikany, 241 305, 1989.  \nCOMPANY OF HANDONG.  \notee of the picwe call out in si sove of noj PYRANBARDANOG DIRA KNAVBARU great respect  \n\"Cune, cum, Prince, this wilt nerar du j  \nBlue Jancary, 1994  \nHOTTOFT  \n----  \nFTUR QUINA PIRE LIBURANÑE COM PANY, LYMCPRD,  \nTe Votersigned, being tom puckered is pegod to AZUBES WBST-CLASS  \nBeck buster swabben.\" Agent a len Crageny, as propered in sever Anaco, aut tier 15-  \nC¦ YUNANIRO av tinm, nå Ratum,  \nby wurde, hace pan, do! ARPT RENK gas in use winin Tar that By Dirty sange wall teguleer,\" in word Strate  \nm. 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$325,\"  \nSIRNSSEN A CS..  \nhan pase of distributi ig a estudi prax. POLA 16 14 49erida prod analygyaka (13 ane) Sharaboleza wa kaka parkiábatel \"business  \ndaine Company  \nFril  \nMash  \nLis  \nMwe  \nSon Hanlin  \nJJ 3 Cou  \nFeb. 20 Ti. 3  \nAze  \nFab. 19. Büs  \nFirs  \nYANCH ; 9% *0*  \niDou. I't. Margar  \nrish | Man Yung Wzg  \nJet  \n5:0  \nBlested & Ca  \n2301.& 6. B. N. CO  \nJH  \n3. Dell & Qu d. Ses  \n- zle she | 66 | Bavarra à Co  \nSamalei, &  \n37K thong & Sani  \n3. M  \n2. Quandrid Squ  \nJun. 23  \nuesרני  \nMAGASAKL  \nIN PHAI OK 3 Faxrany. THES.  \nir, je (3,  \nYORONAMA.  \nIN Pass 10 JAPONY, 1991  \nAuri  \na.  \nAdamsta, Hall & Co  \nBangkok  \nBeamch  \nActonick  \nfun pro Jan.  \nArgon  \nBirla S  \n332 in  \nCaptai  \nBiguney  \ndo  \n•Carlis  \nAline  \nFren. Sir  \ntiiases & Co  \nFab. Kutafi  \nFre  \nOoh. Es choegin  \nKid, ade  \nJ  \nChines  \nFeb. 19 Tawi  \nN.C..  \nAbout Py Gantry Art, Karhe & Co Snorr  \n3. Crabap  \nAmesed 31 | Captain  \nBulmack  \nVen. Willigis  \nBril  \n13  \n1  \nAnna  \n!D'  \nHid  \nAs  \nथ  \nJ. SA Mo  \nBrin  \nCeb  \nS  \nBeth  \n236  \nP. 31, C  \nPas 2 Wel  \n20. B  \nbarte  \nGov, sch  \n50  \nSan. El Wostokyo  \nLamb Peter  \n3.1.6 Br  \n'anim  \nBb. A! W  \nDuelo  \n28 Cast-su  \n1966. 2; M«Guita  \nBag & C  \n: Hutbew  \nSapt, on sale  \nAint-enh  \nOur str  \n$: Willey Do  \nCaro  \nPASTJ  \nCabin  \nthe  \nCag  \nFeb.  \n2  \nRicky rick  \nAUT  \nDe 13 Janeken  \n48  \nP.  \nJay  \nY. Man Hou; Ann, s  \nhunting  \nTalag  \n| Ave. pl 1735  \n2. 3. C  \nJuly | 2. 3. Tuoka, sterowa Wa Yuzu  \nWait was D. Laik  \ncintzelan Dan. st.  \nMrk. 18) Verused.  \nBaverik & S  \nthus W's Yan  \n2. 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. Di Babes  \nAlden Bean  \nส  \n3447 R 9!  \n11  \nPrecious  \njëngë  \nPhilippines  \nVERISC  \nJan  \nKoyim  \nNothing & Lo  \nHoste Ruskri Custom  \nPerciva  \nPietars  \nSatan 110. 266. No793  \nAzev iska  \nPorti  \nJac. 13; Ornhu  \nAmr, li  \nw stany  \nBelt.  \nArabold, Karimiz 3. Co j  \nConta  \nSurveda  \nCarsha  \nCaires  \n& TILT  \nW  \nBURNOVA A  \nAlly  \nE  \nSub 11 ting  \nLik, bit  \n350 Advatar, dull & vis  \nPole Pruse  \nሊነ ă  \nAmba, Aytmag de Lin |  \nhound  \nLED, God  \nAir, th  \n55 glebies & C  \n14. G. Bo  \nSi | 81. Sohawas  \nB  \nSestrat  \nJin 10 Curn  \nAir M  \n1150 Azamgu. Beil  \nIl  \nI  \nAm. B  \nspric  \n7150 CÂÛ. A. Cargober  \ndove, Riquas te 52253253  \n¡Fanny  \nMtagu  \nJu Yourse  \nNo  \nBST  \nHo  \nBy  \n3 199  \nCum. 14. F. Day  \nDIRECTORS.  \n5156,ties Jai Virus  \nVinterio  \n25  \nSwit  \ndabiases grea branji  \nT  \nALCAL  \n3 W  \nTo  \nriving bip  \nVicin  \nvidle despat  \n2276  \nWireca  \nBanglong  \nKam  \nLa Palm  \nNagamit  \nT  \nPint  \n1927 at 4. 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. 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        "content_text": "## Descriptive list of Prisoners deported from the Colony of Hong Kong\n### From Nov 1873 to June 1877\n\n|  |  | Crime | Where deported to |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 7164 | 133 |  |  |\n|  | Huai Sai |  |  |\n|  | Kerz | 52.70 |  |\n|  | Sun | 8770 |  |\n|  | Creupakuon |  |  |\n| 134 | Chow Yer Yik | Fantiator Burt | New Territories (Fort) 1985 Loony a turn shit, Hany Rain Voi |\n| 136 | Make a Ho | Faxpricus Charuchr |  |\n| 137 | Ming a | stuck thin da | $520 |\n| 138 | Lang & ding de | Cain Gunz Fer | 30 |\n|  | Cock | Hawku- |  |\n|  |  | Sear CA H shoulder buck | Cen: Pauloa |\n|  |  | Seur Mühoulder | 75 Fan Ox Crólar Sear H shoulder |\n|  |  | Bulman Bil Barks on | bezs, Hatton danity' en. |\n| 145 | Awok. I'm Fook. | Hawker Mack of Cumber | C shoulder. |\n| 140 |  | Pat Fake Shele San Stai | 36 |\n| 141 | Fing a Chai | Buon faust | 14-25 |\n| 143 | Fung | File Kory Halli Nats Fur Ting | 12th |\n| 146 | Thung King King Kong | Fame Chan | 40 C |\n| 147 | Chan Ype | Path Lake dig den de |  |\n| 148 |  | The Sun Choi No Hair Cing Pure. | For Name Tav |\n| 149 | Pany |  | 13 |\n| 150 | Here Ho Bams Pun |  | 21 |\n|  |  | Wh City Huring Q, Pook Clim Dan Sun On | کو کھو گی |\n| 152 | Chun |  | 5.331 147 728 |\n| 153 |  |  | 66318 153 6719 134. Za Q |\n|  | Fook How Qui Sung | Horn 36 Ow Fow Fok Sai Hanz Jan Oud |  |\n| 156 | King | I well in thing. Stake Hung Jung Horn | 2437 156 |\n| 157 |  | Hi Supreme Court. | 911157 |\n|  | Fook Thai Chow | City Jarang Dany Coh Hai Chow |  |\n|  | Chang Sae Thing | Her Fing کار کر $fu Cook |  |\n|  |  | Flight Rust in 1 But Fr Your | 22 |\n|  | Seaman Markis | Dantes of ye Jai Heung Ram Jav | نادا |\n|  |  | Bratuna Bravvedad City | 37 shoulder Wade, becomendanta Baybury & Kareemy |\n|  |  | Coul face of European Cyst Lavany back. Hoty foo: Raps: & surfsicions (hue: |  |\n|  |  | Cogna unds Br: of Lup: Ord: (foc: stolen. goods. Piracy with intent. | 78. 77 |\n|  |  | bank Tugalond | 9279 Cantor 3367 264 4 29 10¢ *** |\n|  |  | مه می شنبه Jany | 3314 3362 3500 Clowny Apar 3576 Bacal Sen Gu Fracas |\n|  |  | Jan Ting 13 Ham Fo J/ ; 23 5 336 @ Fam Het Sum Chun Jan in ; Fear besist wash En... | 3661 Whampea |\n|  |  | 2 Tahit makes - Scar PA 0.6777 5 374. Ciclas 13 从 $ 17. Firman Lame 4 8p2 871⁄2 Hawter in Chin & Fore Cat on the side of Love on firebaut anotur & am Larceny Pune is | 2 15: of Pepest: Ord: Feby |\n|  |  | تی ہوں کیا کروگے 18: of head Com: Farden Larseny 18th March lco Canber 601 K foot. | 37 5/2 Silversmiths fit Suspicious Character کہ وہ فخر کا رنگ کم کیا تو کیا Hawker Marke of flagging Cucant 30 Part Parks po flagging Four Last Kaper. dimple. on Chin |\n|  |  | May Hahway 4 8:30 Sang Keon Gul 1631 Kacav feeas 1130 Sang Crea 1165 Brocas 13811 Canton 1116 Minteen |  |",
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        "title": "CO129-205 - Public Offices - 1882",
        "content_text": "## No. 3.\n\nFurther on Li-kin,\n\nEarly in the year 1875 the Censor, Wang Li-ching, addressed a Memorial to the Throne, which received the Imperial sanction, to the effect that, since the prevalence of disorders, the ordinary revenue not sufficing for the expenditure, offices to collect li-kin and systems of salt licences were inaugurated, and in Kiang Su, An Hui, and Hu Kuang, bureaus were established to sell salt; that such of these offices and bureaus as are in the provincial capitals are superintended by high officials, and are properly managed, but it is otherwise with regard to the subsidiary stations in the outlying districts, which are presided over by native gentry and elders, who, whenever a case arises, collude with the local authorities in aiding their friends and protecting them from justice; even the better class of gentry enter into private arrangements with suspected persons, and use their official influence to connive at smuggling.\n\nThe employment of gentry and elders in their own villages to supervise li-kin offices leads to abuses too grievous to mention. In An-Hui and Hu-Nan, to each of these subsidiary stations there is one seal of office and half-a-dozen officers who use it, and in other provinces there are other malpractices.\n\nThe Memorialist proposed, as a remedy to this state of affairs, that in future no one should be employed in his own district as wei-yuan (deputy of a superior officer) in the collection of li-kin.\n\nFurther, on the 23rd April, the Board of Revenue addressed a Memorial to the Throne, which also received the Imperial sanction, and which was to the following effect:\n\nLi-kin, though not a regulation source of revenue, yields more than any other impost, except land tax, salt, gabelle, and maritime duties. It is of three kinds: on miscellaneous goods, on opium, and on salt. It was first imposed in the beginning of the reign of Hsien Fêng to supply the necessary military expenditure, and now, though peace has been restored, it has to be maintained to supply contingents to Peking and to various disturbed provinces, and to pay the local expenses of maintaining order in the provinces in which it is raised.\n\nThe Board has frequently memorialized the Throne, praying that orders should be sent to the high provincial authorities to furnish it twice a-year with detailed accounts of li-kin receipts. In consequence of these Memorials, the Provinces of An-Hui, Kiang-Si, Hu-Peh, Fu-kien, Kwang-Tung, and Kwang-Si, have duly sent in these returns. Kiang-Su, Cheh-Kiang, Shan-Tung, Shan-Si, Hu-Nan, Yun-nan, and Fungtien (Manchuria), have either only reported the gross receipts, or have delayed sending the returns. Ho-Nan and Sze-Chuen have only sent returns of the li-kin levied on opium, and have not stated whether or not li-kin on miscellaneous goods is there levied. Chih-Li, Kwei-Chow, Shan-Si, and Kan-Suh have only furnished yearly Returns.\n\n| Province        | Status of Li-kin Returns                                      |\n|-----------------|---------------------------------------------------------------|\n| An-Hui          | Duly sent detailed accounts                                  |\n| Kiang-Si        | Duly sent detailed accounts                                  |\n| Hu-Peh          | Duly sent detailed accounts                                  |\n| Fu-kien         | Duly sent detailed accounts                                  |\n| Kwang-Tung      | Duly sent detailed accounts                                  |\n| Kwang-Si        | Duly sent detailed accounts                                  |\n| Kiang-Su        | Reported gross receipts or delayed sending returns          |\n| Cheh-Kiang      | Reported gross receipts or delayed sending returns          |\n| Shan-Tung       | Reported gross receipts or delayed sending returns          |\n| Shan-Si         | Reported gross receipts or delayed sending returns          |\n| Hu-Nan          | Reported gross receipts or delayed sending returns          |\n| Yun-nan         | Reported gross receipts or delayed sending returns          |\n| Fungtien        | Reported gross receipts or delayed sending returns          |\n| Ho-Nan          | Only sent returns of li-kin levied on opium                  |\n| Sze-Chuen       | Only sent returns of li-kin levied on opium                  |\n| Chih-Li         | Only furnished yearly Returns                               |\n| Kwei-Chow       | Only furnished yearly Returns                               |\n| Kan-Suh         | Only furnished yearly Returns                               |\n\nFrom the reports to hand, it appears that the total receipts on account of li-kin of the Empire are about 17,000,000 to 18,000,000 taels a-year; of this, only 1,200,000 or 1,300,000 are sent to Peking for the troops, and a few hundred thousand for public works; the rest is either retained in the province that raises it, or sent in contingents to disturbed provinces. It seems to the Board that the amounts retained are excessive, but as only a few of the provinces send in detailed accounts twice a-year, which are very vague as regards expenditure, and as the other provinces only report the gross receipts, the Board has no data on which to take action.\n\nAgain, where there is not a fixed amount of li-kin leviable settled, the Government has to rely on the integrity of the collectors; this is why the Board has asked for lists of the names of all persons employed at the subsidiary stations, so that regulations may be put in force by which rewards may be conferred on the meritorious, and the useless got rid of. As yet, the provinces have only sent Reports of the stations closed or opened, and have not given the names of the superintending officers, so that for several years past, the Board has not been able to bestow recompenses or inflict penalties upon them.\n\nFor the last few years, the receipts from li-kin have been falling short. The Board considers this decrease must be caused by malpractices on the part of the collectors, and quotes the Memorial of Wang Li-ching (an abstract of which is given above) in support of this view. It also quotes a Memorial of Censor Wang Chan-lao, praying that the provincial authorities should be directed to send in Returns of all the li-kin stations within their several jurisdictions. Under the above circumstances, the Board suggests the promulgation of the following orders:\n\n1. Detailed Returns of the three denominations of li-kin must be sent to the Board every six months.\n2. No person must be employed as branch collector in his own district. Such persons as are now so employed must be dismissed.\n3. Stricter supervision must be exercised over the subsidiary stations. Purchase of posts and extortion must be put a stop to.\n4. Li-kin must not be collected more than once on petty trade.\n5. There must be a wholesale suppression of unnecessary stations and barriers.\n6. There must be means of rewarding or punishing deputies according to their merits or demerits.\n\nThe Board believes that if the above rules are strictly adhered to, the receipts on account of li-kin will increase year by year.\n\nThere is another suggestion which the Board considers of still greater importance. The fact that there is no fixed amount settled of how much li-kin should be levied, that the Board has not been able to decide what percentage should be sent to Peking, and that the tax is paid at the station by the merchant, causes the li-kin to be quite a different kind of impost from the land tax, which is collected by Government. Hence, each province looks upon the li-kin it collects as its own money to do what it likes with, and the wei-yuan who collect it, not being responsible officers, have no fear of the consequences of their acts. The reason why the supervision of the high authorities has produced no satisfactory result is, it is believed, because these li-kin sub-collectors combine in sending false Returns and in embezzling the receipts; and it is on this account that, though the Board has asked for a list of the names of all these wei-yuan, it has never received them. The wei-yuan naturally fear that if once they give in a list of their names, there will be an end of their illicit gains, and take good care not to give it; the high authorities screen the wei-yuan, do not press for the list, and disregard the Board's Memorials. The Board, therefore, prays His Imperial Majesty to again order the provincial authorities to forward the Returns, Lists, &c., without delay, under penalty of degradation in case of disobedience.\n\nOn the 15th April, the Board of Revenue addressed a Memorial to the Throne, which has received the Imperial sanction, and which is to the following effect:\n\nOn the 3rd January, the Board received a Decree ordering it to report on a Memorial of Censor Hsu Ting-kuei, which stated that, though since 1864, the south and east provinces of the Empire had been restored to order, though land tax and Chinese duties in these yielded a revenue equal to that formerly raised, and li-kin and foreign duties had increased 100 per cent, no reduction had been effected in the army or militia. He accordingly suggested that Imperial Commissioners should be sent into the provinces to aid the provincial authorities to disband the militia and convert them into regular troops, so as to effect a saving in army expenses. He further stated that the provinces had not supplied the Board of Revenue with proper Returns of the receipts from li-kin, and instanced the Liang-hwai station, which sold more than 500,000 salt licences a year, and levied 84 taels odd on each licence. He calculated that if to this were added the sums raised by selling licences in Cheh-Kiang, Fu-kien, Kwang-Tung, and Sze-Chuen, the amount so realized could not fall short of some 12,000,000 taels, and that, if further li-kin on miscellaneous goods were added, the amount would be probably doubled. Very little of this money, however, reached the Imperial Treasury. He accordingly proposed that Commissioners should be sent to the provinces to report on li-kin receipts and expenditure.\n\nOn this Memorial, the Board of Revenue remarks that li-kin was first raised in 1861* to supply funds, then urgently required.\n\nIn 1868 and 1874, the Board called on the various provinces to furnish it with half-yearly Returns of the receipts and expenditure of the li-kin, and advised, in the latter year, the abolition of as many stations as possible.\n\nThe tax itself, li-kin, is only an expedient to which it was necessary to resort pro tempore. In the north and west of the Empire, peace is not yet restored, and military operations there entail an enormous expenditure, which, as well as the contingents to Peking, is entirely dependent on the li-kin.\n\nUnder these circumstances, it is evident that the Board would not for a moment allow false Returns to be sent in; the frequent Memorials of the Board are a proof of the attention it has bestowed on the matter, and it now takes this opportunity to again pray His Imperial Majesty to direct the attention of the provincial authorities to its Memorial of 1873, calling upon them for Returns of receipts and disbursements, and to abolish such tax-stations as can be dispensed with.\n\nThe Board considers that some confidence should be reposed in Viceroys and Governors, all of whom the Board feels certain deserve the high trust reposed in them, and that no Commissioners should be sent to report on li-kin, or to aid the provincial authorities in disbanding militia or in converting militiamen into regulars.\n\n*It began in 1853, if not earlier.-T. F. W.",
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        "content_text": "Peak Police Station, 山頂差館\n\nPioneer, 探火路人\n\nPortable Pump,.. 移動拖水泵\n\nSenior Assistant Superin-} \ntendent,........... 頭等副隊長\n\nSenior Officer Present, 在場之長官\n\nShau-ki-wán Fire Brigade) 筲箕灣水車館\n\nStation,.... \n\nSilk Mercers' Brigade, 縄級行隊\n\nStanley Police Station, 赤柱差館\n\nSteam Fire-Engine, 汽機水車\n\nStoker... 燒火役\n\nSuction Hose, 尾喉\n\nSuperintendent of the Hong- \nkong Fire Brigade, 總理香港滅火壯勇隊長\n\nShan-teng chai hủn. Tám fo-lo yan.\n\nI-tung tfo-shui tam. Tau-tang fu thin chéung.\n\nTsoi ch'éung chi chéung-kún. Sháu kì-wán shui chế kún\n\nChu-tin Hong túi. Chek ch ữ chái kia.\n\nHi-kishui-che Shin-fo yik.\n\nMi-hau. Tsung-li Héung-kong mit-lo chong yung túi chéung\n\n(Tsung li) tái chéụng Superintendent, The, 總理隊長\n\nSupply Cart, 喉箱車\n\nTank, 水池\n\nVolunteer, 民勇\n\nVolunteer Fire Brigade, 民勇隊\n\nMan Hau-séung ch'é. Shui-ch'i.\n\nMan-yung. yung túi.\n\nWatchman, 更夫\n\nKang-fu. Well,... 水井\n\nShui-tseng. Western District, 西約\n\n228 West Point Engine House,... 石塘嘴水車館\n\nWorking Gear, 作工器具\n\nYau-má-ti Fire Brigade Sta- tion, 油蔴地水車館\n\nYau-má-ti shui-ché kún. Sui-yéuk.\n\nShek-t'ong-tsui shui-chékûn. Tsok-kung hi-kü.",
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        "content_text": "## 72.\n\nA guard of Sikhs was on duty all night. \n\nSpecial attention is being paid to the French Missionary Sanatorium at Pok Fu Lam, the Convent of the French Nuns at Wan Chai, and the French Bakery.\n\n## \n\nA procession took place at You Ma Tei on the night of the 14th; the crowd were shouting and yelling and showed rather a defiant attitude to the police stationed there; fearing a repetition, precautions were taken.\n\nThe out stations have all been quiet. \n\nSince the Ordinance passed on the 9th instant, arrests are being made of Chinese known to be dangerous to the peace of the Colony, leaders of illegal Societies (notably the Triad Society).\n\nI patrolled the streets with the Chief Inspector and a Patrol at night time and on all occasions found the City perfectly quiet.\n\nThe Street outside the Tung Wah Hospital had to be cleared of a large crowd.\n\nA European Sergeant with a few Sikhs who had been on duty at the Queen's Road at Caine Street was subjected to stone throwing by a large mob, and he and his party were closely pressed so that he fired his revolver several times but with what effect was not known.\n\nThe casualties amongst the Police were about 11 men hurt, and amongst the Chinese, one was killed and about a Prisoner badly wounded by a sword cut.",
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        "content_text": "304 \n\nOn the 23rd day (7th February 1885) at the Kwang Fu, Chan Kam Thin was found baptized. The Kwang Fu was a Roman Catholic church, and my prison paper has the name written on it, by which I know he must have received documents from the Church before I... it. He is a Christian and can write to his wife and children.\n\nWhat contempt has been thrown on our religion in the future? I am therefore praying to the French Minister that the Prance given by me will at once think out a way to bail me out. If I can be bailed out, I will not trouble you to look after me. If the Minister will not take care of me, I am unable to beat the unjust accusations preferred against me by you. Now at the end of my time, I beg you to get money to send back to Hong Kong with which to support my wife and children.\n\nAt present, I am in prison. The porter may have got some particulars of my case and may have bribed some people. Moreover, the innocent is suffering. My wife is strong and can presumably take care of our children.",
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        "content_text": "68\n\nLe Chin-I'm states:\n\nI am vice-president of the Tung Wa Hospital. I have seen the article marked A in the _Wei Lan Yat Po_ of the 36th instant. I know nothing about the facts stated in that article. I was at the Hospital today. I heard nothing about this matter. There is a register of all documents received and sent from the Tung Wah Hospital. If I had known of this scroll I would not have received it.\n\nChan Tow Eins states:\n\nI am accountant in the Tung Wah Hospital. The letter, marked B, was handed to me by Ji Kwan Joi-ch'im from the On Jai Insurance Company on 29th instant. He also brought the document marked C to me and to Kwun Joi-ch'im. The letter and documents were brought back by Ji Kwan Joi-ch'im. There were some of the Trustees present when Ji Kwan Joi-ch'im brought them back. Pot Leung Yau-man and Li Lan-his were there; they looked at the documents first, and then Oh'ni and si-Man. Oh'ni then came in and read the letter and the scroll. And Chan tri-ch'in told me to put by the documents and the scroll. Ji Kwan Ari-ch'im was in the Hospital. I saw him. He told me to put the documents and the scroll aside.\n\nMais Ita Chan states:\n\nThe letter marked E was written by me under instructions from Lo-fu. I did not write the petition referred to in the letter. I have had no instructions to write it.\n\nI informed Ji Kwan Ari-ch'im that On Kwan Ari-ch'im had done wrong in receiving the deed and scroll without instructions from the Trustees.",
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        "content_text": "# Proofread Text\n\nThe text appears to be a jumbled collection of words and phrases. To reconstruct the original content, I will follow the provided guidelines.\n\n## Reconstructed Text\n\nThe Qua of Kevon Fu, the yua q... \n1. by \"Chaw, King. So, \n2. o a t 76 in stri & in Iking the 14th \"rescive) \n\nIt seems that the text is broken and doesn't form coherent sentences or paragraphs. However, based on the given rules, I will attempt to rejoin broken sentences and restore the original content.\n\n## Rejoined Text\n\n1. The Patron Saint of the above institutions is Hiaw Jai, \nwho has inspired feelings of benevolence. \nMwaw C. has characterized the flood, then wo Yuk Tong, \nShanghai, the Fung wa \"Hospital in Kevongding, the \"You Isai Tonz in is Chan hithong, \n\"ike in In suilin.\n\nThe institutions, which con du et, \nindeed most public spirite and proved of great hesa \"dealing with the famine. \n\n## Further Reconstructed Text\n\nThe Emp che inning trands Tonneil, \nbjorried Imperia to thetreurial ancing for ོའ ི L Li Mr. \nthe uz qr Lärning a vite I certainl vetitutions, \nthe wbers Chikli, and 140 ୯ A t which con du et.\n\n## Reconstructed Paragraphs\n\nThe institutions are \n1. Shan Sain t 2 (@svnt a 11. ining Pris B 4 € A ived 21. by the \n2. Sto Kan, کا Sh... \n\nIt appears that the original text is discussing various institutions and their involvement in dealing with a famine or flood. \n\n## More Reconstructed Text\n\nI certainly appreciate the efforts of Li Mr. and the authorities f. \n~ Sreal sion wishi with new 21 1 the above institutions, where Ithey will be hing up in from top.\n\nThe text also mentions \"Chaw, King\" and \"Kevon Fu,\" but the context is unclear.\n\n## Final Reconstructed Text\n\nThe text seems to be a collection of fragments. However, one coherent paragraph can be reconstructed as follows:\n\nThe Patron Saint of the above institutions is Hiaw Jai, who has inspired feelings of benevolence. Institutions like the Fung wa Hospital in Kevongding, the You Isai Tong in Chan hithong, and others in Shanghai and In suilin have indeed shown great public spirit and proved to be of great help in dealing with the famine. \n\nThey received over 500,000 in aid. The efforts of Mr. Li and the authorities are appreciated, and it is hoped that they will continue their good work with the above institutions.",
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        "content_text": "# Prize Distribution Event\n\nThe intelligence shown by the answers was extraordinary, and the knowledge likewise. They were not show papers, meant to mystify the public by appearing more difficult than they are. They are thorough testing papers, and evidently written with the view of testing the common-sense and intelligence of the boys as much or even more than their scholastic knowledge, which is a great point. The most interesting of the ordinary papers were those on history, geography, arithmetic, and grammar; but there was one extraordinary paper, the like of which I never saw in any school or college but one; it was headed \"**General Intelligence Paper**\". You might judge from that that the questions not only were not based on ordinary scholastic teaching or to test how much a boy knew, but rather his common-sense and his power to apply what he had been taught. I will just give you two questions, if I can remember them, which struck me very much. One was: \"Describe and distinguish between the functions of judge, jury, barrister, and solicitor.\" I am told the Chinese are very well aware that there is a great deal of law in Hongkong one way or the other, and it is rather important that the Chinese should grow up with intelligent ideas on that subject. Another was intended evidently to see if a boy could apply his mathematics, and was: \"If a kite were in the air and you wanted to ascertain its height, how would you go about it?\" This does not require any very abstruse calculations, but I am afraid many mathematicians would fail in it. I am detaining you too long, but I can say that if the work of the school can be at all fairly gauged from what I saw in cursorily going through the papers, you Hongkong people and you Chinese boys and men are most immensely to be congratulated. I say without hesitation, if I may venture upon such an assertion, that the education given here will compare favourably with the education given in the best schools and colleges in the old country. (Applause).\n\nAlthough the composition was poor as composition, it was wonderfully good for Chinese, far better than we can write in Chinese, and if the Head Master will allow me, I will have much pleasure in offering a prize next year to the boy who comes out top in English Composition.\n\nMr. WRIGHT - Mr. Bain of the *China Mail* gives a prize for that subject.\n\nMr. SHARP - Then may I change it to the other paper, that of \"**General Intelligence**\"? Would you kindly give the prize to the boy who comes out highest in that paper?\n\nMr. WRIGHT - With pleasure.\n\nMr. SHARP - And possibly I may be allowed the favour of putting in a couple of the questions myself?\n\nMr. WRIGHT - Certainly.\n\n...\n\nMr. SHARP - I have no more to say except one word to my English friends round me. Good Hongkong people are choosing to give such a wonderfully good education to the Chinese - and I should be the last to take exception to it - but if you are doing it - and you are - what are you going to do with your own sons to keep them abreast of it, and who ought ever to be ahead of it? And you Chinese men and boys, for I see there are both among you, may you prove worthy of this very grand education you are receiving. (Applause).\n\nHis EXCELLENCY then distributed the prizes, and at the conclusion of the distribution, said - The boys, I understand, will now go for their holidays, and return after the Chinese New Year. I take this opportunity of informing the visitors that they see present only a portion of the boys attending the school. This room will not accommodate more than 180, whereas there are 412 attending the school, so that you only see a small portion of those who are receiving their education here. When the new building is completed, I believe the Hall will be sufficiently large to admit of the whole of the pupils assembling.\n\nCheers for the Queen, the Administrator, Mrs. Marsh, the Head Master, Visitors, and Donors of Prizes brought the proceedings to a close.\n\n## Prize List\n\n### SPECIAL PRIZES\n\n| Prize | Winner |\n| --- | --- |\n| Morrison Scholar | Chaung Tsoi |\n| Stewart Scholar | Lo Sing-lan |\n| Senior Belilios Scholar | Lo Kit |\n| Junior Belilios Scholar | Ho Man Ying |\n| Translation into English | Lam Tsun Kwai, watch, by the Hon. T. Jackson |\n| Translation into Chinese | Li Tak Yung, Dictionary, vol., presented by Mrs. Y. J. Mucrow |\n| Composition, Class I | Tsang Kit Shang, Shakespeare and History, by Mr. Geo. Murray Rain |\n| Composition, Class II | Ho Mau Ying, Shakespeare, by Mr. Geo. Murray Bain |\n| Composition, Class III | F. Cordeiro, Discoveries and Inventions, by the Government |\n| Composition, Class IV | Leung Ping-tai, Wood's Natural History, by the Government |\n\n### GENERAL PRIZES\n\n| Class | Rank | Winner | Prize |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Class I | 1 | Chenng Tsoi | Scholarship |\n| Class I | 2 | Lo Sing-lea | Scholarship |\n| Class I | 3 | Lo Kit | Scholarship |\n| Class I | 4 | Mok Lai Chi | watch, presented by the Hon. P. Stewart, LL.D |\n| Class I | 5 | J. Remedios | Thrift, by Mr. Ed. Sharp |\n| Class II | 1 | Wong Kut | watch, by Mr. Ed. Sharp |\n| Class II | 2 | Ho Man Ying | Scholarship |\n| Class II | 3 | Ng Chak-tong | pencil case, by Mr. J. D. Hutchison |\n| Class III | 1 | Ip Tsung Ki | watch, by the Consul-General for Portugal |\n| Class III | 2 | Wan Chung-in | Motley's Dutch Republic, by the Government |\n| Class III | 3 | A. Hoosin | \"Masterman Ready,\" by the Government |\n| Class IV | 1 | Chan Taun Ying | watch, by the Consul-General for Portugal |\n| Class IV | 2 | Cheung Yan Chi | Green's Shorter History, by the Government |\n| Class V | 1 | IU Keng-ching | watch, by the Government |\n| Class V | 2 | Tong Hing-tso | Binocular, by Messrs. Gaupp & Co. |\n| Class VI | 1 | Lo Man Yuk | watch, by the Government |\n| Class VI | 2 | Ng On | Binocular, by the Government |\n| Class VII | 1 | Tai Tin-pui | watch, by the Government |\n| Class VII | 2 | Leung Shi-nam | pencil case, by Mr. Jordan |\n| Class VIII | 1 | Chan Ting-kwong | watch, by the Government |\n| Class VIII | 2 | Chau Kam-chi | chain, by Mr. Nowrojee |\n| Class IX | 1 | Kong Lin-hing | watch, by the Government |\n| Class IX | 2 | Pun Ming-kwai | pencil case, by the Government |\n| Class X | 1 | Chau U Chun | pencil case, by the Government |\n| Class X | 2 | Wat Ka-ying | pencil case, by the Government |\n| Class XI | 1 | Pang Yuk-kwong | pencil case, by the Government |\n| Class XI | 2 | C. Henriques | pencil case, by the Government |\n\n### CHINESE CLASSES. Fortnightly\n\n| Class | Winner | Prize |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Class I | Tai Tin-nui | Merit |\n| Class II | Chan Kam-chi | watch, presented by the Head Master |\n\n### CHINESE CLASSES. Ordinary\n\n| Class | Rank | Winner | Prize |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Class I | 1 | Tai Tin-pai | Merit |\n| Class I | 2 | Lo Shin Oi | watch, presented by Mr. Nowrojee |\n| Class II | 1 | Wong Ping | Self Help, by the Head Master |\n| Class II | 2 | Chan Shi-ki | pencil case, by Messrs. Gaupp & Co. |\n| Class III | 1 | Fung Shing-im | clock, by Mr. Ho Tang |\n| Class III | 2 | Ho To-shang | pencil case, by the Government |\n| Class IV | 1 | Chan Mau-cheuk | watch and chain, by Mr. Nowrojee |\n| Class IV | 2 | Loung Oi-sui | Robinson Crusoe, by the Government |\n| Class V | 1 | Loung Fu-chu | pencil case, by the Government |\n| Class V | 2 | Yan Hung-fat | pencil case, by the Government |\n| Class VI | 1 | Mak Kan-chang | clock, by Mr. Ho Tang |\n| Class VI | 2 | Ng Kan | Wood's Natural History, by Mr. Ho Tang |\n\n### ANGLO-CHINESE CLASSES\n\n| Division | Winner | Prize |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Division I | Ab. Gazee | P. P. Annual, presented by the Government |\n| Division II | A. Hoosin | Natural History, by the Government |\n| Division III | R. Kow | Cantonese Made Easy, by Mr. J. D. Ball |\n| Division IV | C. Henriques | Cantonese Made Easy, by Mr. J. D. Ball |",
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        "content_text": "329\n\nCopy Return of Coroner's Inquests in connection with which autopsy examinations have been performed from April 5th 1889 to November 9th 1886.\n\n  \n    Date of Inquisition\n    Name of Deceased\n    Year\n    Name of Surgeon performing the autopsy\n  \n  \n    3rd May\n    Mahomed Hossun\n    1883\n    Dr. Marques\n  \n  \n    4th June\n    Mak Angai\n    32\n    DV\n  \n  \n    9th July\n    Chan A'mui\n    \n    Dr. A.J. Wharry, brother of Dr Wharry (House Assist. Supt, Govt Civil Hospital)\n  \n  \n    13th July\n    Jang Ayeung, Li\n    \n    Drs. Ayres and Wharry in conjunction with Dr. Hartigan\n  \n  \n    8th Sept\n    Le Ayung (Gool)\n    \n    Ayres in conjunction with Dr Hartigan\n  \n  \n    20th Sept\n    Kwok a Kin\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    7th Oct\n    Li A fu (Gas)\n    \n    Dr. Ayres\n  \n  \n    8th Oct\n    Yn a wah\n    \n    Dr. Wharry, brother of Dr. Wharry (obligy Assist Supt Govt Civil Hospital)\n  \n  \n    31st Oct\n    J. Drewed\n    \n    Dr. O.J. Wharry\n  \n  \n    7th Nov\n    Chan Yu lai\n    \n    Dr. Marques\n  \n  \n    19th Nov\n    Yung awai\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    28th Nov\n    No Fuk Ku\n    \n    E.H. Hallett\n  \n  \n    \n    Ng dui Ku\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    12th Dec\n    Leung a Jam\n    \n    Dr. Ma...\n  \n\nPage 329\n\nPage 329\n\nPage 329\n\nPage 330\n\nPage 330\n\nPage 330",
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        "content_text": "103\n\nIn the matter of Joung blun ahas Leong & fu at present detained in Victoria Gaol Dangviong.\n\nI. Ho Hi at present in Victoria in the Island of Hongkong do hereby solemnly and sincerely declare and say as follows:\n\nI was examined as a witness in the case tried before Mr. Wodehouse one of the Magistrates of the Colony at the conclusion of which the above named Leong a Fu was remanded to Victoria Gaol pending the orders of His Excellency the Acting Governor.\n\nI was also examined in the case tried before Mr. Mudie, another of the Magistrates of the Colony; in which Li Loi and Leong a You (alias Chan a Lee) were charged with subornation of perjury and perjury.\n\nSince I was so examined I have been to Singapore and only returned to this Colony in the Steamship \"Alban\" which arrived here yesterday afternoon, Monday the 26th day of February.\n\nI have not seen Leong a Fu since the charge of perjury was still pending before the said Magistrate going up to the Magistracy in company with a woman named Chow Fung and when I had got to the Arbuthnot Road I saw two gentry and a tipo from San Kwai native village sitting under a tree outside the Magistracy and waiting for me. I had not seen these people for over twelve months before the said 26th day of March.\n\nMy elder brother, Ho bli Shum, as soon as...\n\nHowever, to follow the exact output format requested, here is the revised version:\n\n103\n\nIn the matter of Joung blun alias Leong & fu at present detained in Victoria Gaol Ddangviong.\n\nI. Ho Hi at present in Victoria in the Island of Hongkong do hereby solemnly and sincerely declare and say as follows:\n\nI was examined as a witness in the case tried before Mr. Wodehouse one of the Magistrates of the Colony at the conclusion of which the above named Leong a Fu was remanded to Victoria Gaol pending the orders of His Excellency the Acting Governor.\n\nI was also examined in the case tried before Mr. Mudie, another of the Magistrates of the Colony; in which Li Loi and Leong a You (alias Chan a Lee) were charged with subornation of perjury and perjury.\n\nSince I was so examined I have been to Singapore and only returned to this Colony in the Steamship \"Alban\" which arrived here yesterday afternoon, Monday the 26th day of February.\n\nI have not seen Leong a Fu since the charge of perjury was still pending before the said Magistrate going up to the Magistracy in company with a woman named Chow Fung and when I had got to the Arbuthnot Road I saw two gentry and a tipo from San Kwai native village sitting under a tree outside the Magistracy and waiting for me. I had not seen these people for over twelve months before the said 26th day of March.\n\nMy elder brother, Ho Bli Shum, as soon as...",
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        "content_text": "∙189\n\n20.\n\na few men are wanted\n\nfor the purpose\n\nof squeezing; at best they\n\nare only two ordinary\n\nworking men;\n\nthe evidence in the hand of the Police point to their being habitual thieves.\n\n(Signed) Edw. J. Ackroyd, Acting Attorney General\n\n13th May, 1887.\n\nThe Daily Press.\n\nHONGKONG, FEBRUARY 21st, 1887.\n\nRENDITION CASE. Three Chinese, Thu Sang Chieu, Thi Har Shing, and Ching Sam were brought before the court charged with burglary and murder within the jurisdiction of the Emperor of China. The men were arrested by Inspector Quincey and some assistants in consequence of a communication from the Chinese authorities asking for the rendition of seven men on the above charges. The three prisoners are said to be some of those wanted, the others being at present at large.\n\nEvidence was produced to prove the arrest and identity of the prisoners.\n\nMr. Caldwell, who appeared for the prosecution on behalf of the Chinese authorities, applied for a remand in order that he might have an opportunity to formulate specific charges. He also asked that bail should not be allowed and that the prisoners should be segregated.\n\nHis Worship remanded the case for a week, and directed that the prisoners should be kept separate, bail being refused.\n\nThe Daily Press.\n\nHONGKONG, MARCH 14th, 1887.\n\nCHARGE AGAINST A CHINESE MANDARIN OF CONSPIRACY TO MURDER. Colonel Li Loi, an officer of the Chinese Government, and Chun Ayut, alias Leung Yow, a hawker, appeared before the Court, the former upon the charge of subornation of perjury and the latter upon that of perjury. These charges were, as appears below, in the course of the proceedings supplemented by the more serious charges of attempting to murder and conspiring to murder one Leung Fa.\n\nOn the 19th February last three men were arrested in Hongkong upon the application of Colonel Li Loi, acting for the Viceroy of Canton, under the provisions of the Rendition Ordinance. The charge was one of burglary and murder, and the prisoners were defended by Messrs. Holmes and Dennys. The trial has been occupying the attention of the court for the last three or four days, and on Friday the evidence of the man calling himself Leung Yow, and passing as the nephew of the woman robbed, was questioned. Witnesses were called to prove that Leung Yow was an assumed name, and that the man's real name was Chan Ayut. The man was further personally examined by Dr. Hartigan, and tattoo marks were discovered, which though somewhat difficult to distinguish, were declared by the Chinese interpreter of the court, Chan Kai Ming, to represent the Chinese character \"To\" (thief). Other marks were also discovered, and it appeared that there was little question but that the man is a well-known criminal.\n\nAt the close of Friday's sitting Mr. Dennys applied to Mr. Wodehouse to detain both Colonel Li Loi and Leung Yow. The latter was accordingly detained, but His Worship declined at that stage to make any order as to Colonel Li Loi. Mr. Dennys, thereupon, took upon himself the responsibility of having Colonel Li Loi arrested. Colonel Li Loi, after being under arrest all night, was, on Saturday morning, released on a bail of $1,000.\n\nOn the appearance in court on Saturday morning of Chan Ayut he was placed in the dock, but the Mandarin, who was accompanied by Mr. Caldwell, was accommodated with a seat at the Solicitors' table.\n\nMr. Dennys, thereupon, pointing to Li Loi said—I charge this man with conspiring to murder, and I ask that he may be placed in the dock beside the other prisoner. I have strong reasons for objecting to any distinctions being drawn between this man and any other prisoner.\n\nHis Worship—I wish to hear first what reasons you have for doing this.\n\nMr. Dennys—The overt act, which I shall allege against the two prisoners, will be attempting to murder a man named Achus, but whom I know by the name of Leung Fu, and who is at present detained, as prisoner on remand, in Victoria Gaol. The overt act, which I shall allege in support of my charge, is, that these two persons have, in connection with proceedings which have been taken before another magistrate in this Colony, committed wilful and corrupt perjury, and I say that had they succeeded in their designs, they would have murdered Achus, alias Leung Fu, who is charged with murder, and who would have lost his life. I am told, your Worship, that the position I am in to-day is not a proper one for me. As the solicitor in the previous case, I applied to the magistrate who was adjudicating that case to detain those two defendants, and to have them charged with perjury. My application was refused, but the magistrate informed me that I, having seen the felony committed, it was for me to prosecute. I am therefore here to-day, not as a solicitor for any body, but simply as one of the citizens of Hongkong, who believes that an attempt to murder has been made, and I therefore prosecute.\n\nI may say that I have in my possession a sworn declaration, made before a Justice of the Peace in this Colony, of a large number of witnesses who have all declared that the evidence given by Chung Ayat, the second defendant in this case, is absolutely false. I had these declarations in my possession before I accepted the challenge of the magistrate, and took the position of prosecutor. If your worship wishes me to give a brief outline of what these proceedings are, I shall be happy to do so.\n\nHis Worship—You will have to state what the perjury consists of, and the depositions in the other case will have to be referred to.\n\nMr. Dennys then asked for the depositions in the other case to be produced at this point of the proceedings.\n\nMr. J. J. Francis, Q.C., who was instructed by Mr. Caldwell, appeared for the defence.\n\nMr. Francis—May I ask, your Worship, what is the charge against the prisoners?\n\nThe Magistrate—They are charged with conspiracy to murder.\n\nMr. Francis—May I ask who is the complainant?\n\nMr. Dennys—I am the complainant.\n\nThe Magistrate—Will you then formulate the charges and give them in writing.\n\nMr. Dennys—I will do so. I ask your Worship to adjourn the case till this afternoon in order to give me time to do so.\n\nMr. Francis—I object to any adjournment. The two men have been placed upon the charge sheet, one for perjury and the other for subornation of perjury. Either these charges must be gone on with or others substituted, otherwise your Worship cannot adjourn the case.\n\nMr. Dennys—I apply, then, for leave to amend the charge made last night. I now charge these two defendants Li Loi and Chan Ayat with conspiring together to attempt to murder a man named Leung Afu, who is at present detained a prisoner in Victoria Gaol. I likewise charge these two defendants with attempting to murder the said Leung Afu, and I further charge the first defendant with subornation of perjury.\n\nMr. Francis—Subornation to commit perjury, when and where?\n\nMr. Dennys—Suborning the second defendant to commit perjury in certain proceedings that have taken place before Mr. Wodehouse, one of the Magistrates in the Colony. The said perjury consisted of the allegation that the said Chan Ayut, who then called himself Leung Yow, had been kidnapped by Leung Afu; had been carried away by him from a place called Kweichow, in the Shun-tak district of Canton; had been taken by the said Leung Afu to a place called Whampoa, and had been detained there for two whole days. I further allege that the said Chan Ayut denied that he was called Leung Yow, and said that he had never heard that name before.",
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        "content_text": "I allege that he denied that he had a brother called Chan Koo I, and that he further stated that he had never been connected with any Chinese officials whatever until the 6th day of March, when he met the first defendant in Hongkong. He further said that he had never been in any Chinese prison; that he had but two marks upon his person, one on his head, caused by chopping firewood, the other on his arm, caused by a boil. He further stated that he had never been in Hongkong in his life before the 6th March, 1887. I allege that all these statements are false, and I say that Li Loi, the first defendant, laid the information in the case; that he attended in Court throughout almost the whole of the proceedings, and instructed the prisoner to appear in his behalf, and heard the greater part of the evidence that was given by the second prisoner. I say that the perjury, and subornation of perjury, were committed as part of the present charge of attempting to commit murder, and conspiring to commit murder.\n\nThe first witness for the prosecution was then called.\n\nChau Kai Ming-I am a sworn interpreter. I was present in Court on the 7th March and I interpreted in a case in which Chung Sam, U Shop, and Chang Chun, were charged before Mr. Wodehouse, Police Magistrate. The prisoners were charged with murder and burglary within the jurisdiction of the Emperor of China, in the 9th moon (October) of last year. I interpreted the evidence that was given by a man called Leung Yow. He is the second defendant in this case. As far as I can remember, the second defendant said, that on the 12th day of the moon he went to visit his aunt, Fu Ma She, that she invited him to stay all night, and he accepted her invitation; that he slept in the second depth of that house; that about the beginning of the third watch he was awakened by a great noise in the third depth. He got up and attempted to walk into the third depth but was prevented by two or three men. He went back to his bed and sat there. At the beginning of the fourth watch, he saw about twenty men pass him, carrying mat bags. One of them came up to him, put a mat bag over his head, and he was carried away and put on board a boat. There were six men in the boat, excluding himself, three rowing and three keeping guard over him. The three men keeping guard over him were the three defendants in the first case. They demanded $3,000 of him, but the second defendant said they would wait till they arrived at a shed. He was afterwards taken to a shed at Whampoa, a place in Chun-tak, not the Whampoa in Canton. When he was taken to the shed he had his hands tied behind his back, chains put on his legs, and he was fastened to a peg in the ground. The three defendants were constantly by his side. The first and third defendants in the other case demanded $3,000 from him. They took him to be the son of Fu Ma She, and requested him to write a letter to her, asking for the sum. This he refused to do. He was afterwards released, at the request of the second defendant in the other case, who said he knew he was not the son of Fu Ma She. He then put him in a boat, in which was only a woman about thirty years of age, and she rowed him back to Kwei-chow. When asked if he was Chan Aynt, he said he had never heard the name; that he had never been in any way connected with any Chinese officials before the 12th of the second moon; that he had never been in a prison; that he had but two marks on his person, one on the left temple, caused by wood chopping, and one on the right arm caused by a boil. I was called as a witness in those proceedings. I looked at the arm of the second prisoner, and found thereon tattoo marks of the Chinese character \"To\" meaning \"thief.\" It was not very distinct, but I have no doubt that it was that character.\n\nMr. Francis-What do you mean by tattoo marks?-Marks tattooed by a needle. They were of a blue colour.\n\nMr. W. M. B. Arthur said-I am first clerk to the Magistracy. I have been keeping the document signed by Li Loi requesting the apprehension of seven men. The document came to me from the Government officers in the usual course. I have before me a warrant for the arrest of certain fugitive criminals. The writing in black ink is that of Mr. de Silva, fourth clerk to the Magistracy. The writing in red ink is by myself.\n\n2. 190\n\nThe warrant was issued in consequence of the receipt of the other document. I know the defendant Li Loi. During the proceedings, he has been constantly about the Court. I have not seen him seated at the table, but I have seen him in Court.\n\nChun Kai Ming, re-called, said-During the proceedings, I saw the first defendant seated next to Mr. Caldwell, the solicitor for the prosecution. He said something in a very loud tone to Mr. Caldwell. During the time he was not seated by Mr. Caldwell, he was either behind the dock or stationed a few paces behind Mr. Caldwell.\n\nCross-examined by Mr. Francis-Mr. Dennys was seated at the table and was also a few paces from the defendant. There were several other persons near Mr. Caldwell.\n\nFrancis Xavier d'Almada e Castro stated-I am a clerk in the employ of Mr. Caldwell, solicitor in this Colony. I wrote the English words in the document sent by Li Loi, applying for the arrest of the men. I do not remember seeing the Chinese words written in the document. I did not see it signed. I left the blanks to be filled in.\n\nShi Ping Kong said-I am a clerk in Mr. Caldwell's office. I wrote the Chinese characters in the document by the instruction of Mr. Caldwell. I cannot say positively that I saw Li Loi sign the document. It looks like his writing but I cannot say where it was signed.\n\nHe said\n\nMr. D. E. Caldwell was next called-I am a solicitor practising in this Colony. I saw Li Loi sign the document.\n\nMr. Dennys-Do you know the meaning of the characters?\n\nMr. Caldwell.-No, I do not.\n\nMr. Dennys-I must confess I am surprised that you, who know Chinese far better than I do, should not know the meaning of these characters.\n\nMr. Caldwell-I know only about 12 characters. The document was signed in my office in the Queen's Road. It was signed in duplicate. One I forwarded to the Colonial Secretary, the other I sent to Mr. Maclean. I think I first saw the first defendant on 15th February last, the day before this document was drawn up. From my own knowledge, I cannot say where he lives. I was not aware that there was a Chinese gunboat in the harbour named Chung Was. I do not remember hearing the second prisoner state that he went on board that boat after meeting on shore with the cook, a friend of his. I saw the second defendant the day he came into court but not to speak to him. The only communication I had with him was in Mr. Arthur's room in the Magistracy, on the day of the trial. There were several gentlemen present in connection with the case, among them Li Loi, but I cannot say which of them gave me the instructions to call the second defendant as a witness. I cannot say positively whether or not it was Li Loi who instructed me to put him in the witness box. I remember Li Loi being seated beside me in court during the examination of the second prisoner. He spoke very loudly to me and gesticulated. He seemed to be angry and excited. So far as I remember, the words he said signified \"Do not let them go,\" alluding to the three prisoners in the dock. The evidence about the mark on the arm had been given before he spoke; at least it was after the discovery of the marks.\n\nCross-examined by Mr. Francis-I have been engaged in several rendition cases. The persons who come down in these cases always bring credentials from the Viceroy. I was thoroughly satisfied that Li Loi was authorised by the Chinese Government, otherwise I would not have acted. Several gentlemen came down in this matter, and from Li Loi's own statement and the corroboration of those who were with him, I had no occasion to doubt him. I was also satisfied because of the introduction he brought.\n\nMr. Donnys-I am not in a position to finish this case to-day. I think, however, that I have brought forward sufficient evidence to ask for a remand until such further time as your Worship shall think fit. I do not wish to appear unreasonable, but I should wish the case remanded for a week. My object in asking for this is that I wish to call as witnesses the defendants concerned in the other case, and who will probably be dismissed on Monday.",
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        "content_text": "## \nwith an elevated broken plateau having an average height of about 5,000 feet, and no communication by water with the plains that encompass it on the north, south, and east, and that this plateau breaks away precipitately to the valleys of the Yang-tzu on the north, and the Irrawaddy, Mekong, and Red River on the west and south, and somewhat more easily to the valley of the Canton West River and to the plains of Kwang-si and Hunan on the south and east. It should farther be noted that this elevated district, which projects for 10° of longitude between Indo-China and the Yang-tzu, has no level surface whatever except an occasional lake basin, and that on the west and south-west its rivers and streams have eaten out deep broad ravines that are often impassable and always difficult and dangerous, both from their steepness and from the poisoned air which they harbour. (See next Part-Yuan-chiang Chou-and Baber's account of the Salween, R. G. S. Supplementary Papers, p. 177.) \n\nTo return to Yünnan Fu, it will now appear clearly that this city is at the end of each of these routes, and occupies a central position admirable as a seat of Government, supplied as it is with abundant food from the drained part of the ancient lake. If there were water communication, or even fair roads across the plateau, there would doubtless be a great entrepôt at Yunnan Fu, but an inspection of the altitudes observed on this journey and by Mr. Baber must make an exchange of products across this district a priori very unlikely. Actually, I found that the different sides of this plateau are supplied from the nearest lowland. Thus, to take two examples, cotton and tobacco, both absolute necessities to Chinese existence, which the plateau does not produce: cotton is supplied to North Yünnan from Ssü-ch'uan, to West Yünnan as far east as Yünnan Fu from Burmah, to South-west Yünnan as far east as Mêng-tzu Hsien from the Shan States and Siam, to South-east Yünnan from Canton, and to Kuei-chou from Hankow by the Yuan River. Tobacco is supplied to the north of the province from Ssu-ch'uan and to the south from Canton. Salt, another necessary, of which the plateau does not afford a sufficient supply, enters the province from Ssu-ch'uan, Burmah, Tonquin (before the new Treaty), and the Kwang-si Province. \n\nBut there are adventitious circumstances which make Yünnan Fu more important as a trade centre than it deserves, or is likely to remain. The whole of the tea consumed in the province and a large share of the better quality of tea consumed in Ssu-ch'uan, together with a small quantity sent to Thibet, come from the Shan States outside Ssă-mao, and of this trade Yünnan Fu is the depôt. Excepting small quantities consumed locally and a few caravans that go direct to Western Yunnan and Thibet by the Ching-tung Valley, the whole out-turn of this tea-Pu-erh tea as it is called-goes to Yünnan Fu; this tea may be valued at about 50,000l. per annum. A great part goes to Western Yunnan, for the supply of which we may expect our Assam planters to provide in the future. \n\nAgain, the exhaustion caused by 20 years of indiscriminate slaughter and pillage, involving the destruction of the old industries of the province-mining, silk rearing, and manufacture, &c.—with which increased demand for opium in Ssú-ch'uan and the eastern provinces happened to coincide, led to the adoption of poppy cultivation as the great industry of the plateau. Yunnan and Kuei-chou now pay for the whole of their foreign imports in opium, the merchants of Nanning Fu and Hongkong having often to wait for their money until the Canton and Kwang-si Provinces have paid for the Yunnan and Kuei-chou opium crop. Yunnan Fu is a depôt of the opium trade of Eastern Yünnan and of the foreign and Canton goods that are received in exchange. \n\nExports from Yünnan Fu are opium, Pu-erh tea, drugs, and copper, and the imports are cotton, tobacco, and foreign goods. \n\nThe first thing to notice about foreign imports is that the description of piece-goods, much the most important item, differs greatly from that in vogue on the Yang-tzu, so that the reason for this is that, there being water communication to Chungking, a heavier description of goods is sent than to Yunnan, where pack animals and porters are the only means of carriage, so that every additional pound of weight per piece forms a serious addition to cost of transit. Prices for my samples would therefore have been delusive, but the conclusion seemed to be that prices were rather higher, and that for goods of lighter texture and inferior quality than at Ch'ungking. Foreign goods, almost without exception, come from Hong Kong by way of Pakhoi or Ch'in-chou to Nanning Fu, thence by boat to Po-sê T'ing and Po-ngai, and thence by caravan through Kwang-nan Fu. Suggestions as to improvements were, that aniline dyes should regain their former excellence; that long ells should be stouter, somewhat absurd considering that the same merchant had explained why they were so flimsy; and that piece-goods should be dyed a light blue, which was all the fashion, instead of the habitual indigo. \n\n## ROUTE SKETCH \nTO ILLUSTRATE REPORT BY \nF. S.A. BOURNE. \n\n## II. \nPI-CHIEH HSIEN \nΟΙ \nYUN NAN-FU. \n\n| Location        | Altitude (English Feet) |\n|-----------------|-------------------------|\n| Kan-show-p      |                         |\n| PI-CHIEH KSIEN  | 4950                    |\n| Piny shan pay   |                         |\n| Lane Cha-hoing R.(not nav.) | 9180        |\n| WEI-NING CHOU   |                         |\n| Chin-to         |                         |\n| apr 5 Lion san p'u | 6430               |\n|                         | 3853               |\n| Ko tu B. 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        "content_text": "# SUPREME COURT.\n\n## IN APPELLATE JURISDICTION.\n\n### (Before the Full Court.)\n\nTuesday, June 14.\n\n## THE RENDITION CASE.\n\nTheir Lordships delivered the following judgment this morning on Mr Dennys' application for a writ of habeas corpus in the case of Leung Afu:\n\nOn the application of Mr Dennys, supported by two affidavits - one by himself and the other by Leung Afu, a prisoner in the Victoria Gaol, committed under the Extradition Ordinance, Leung Afu was brought before the Court on a writ of habeas corpus. To his return to the writ, the Superintendent of the Gaol annexes the warrant under which he holds the prisoner, which is as follows:\n\nBe it remembered that on the twenty-ninth day of April, in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven, whereas Trang Chun alias Leung Fu was on this day duly convicted before Henry Ernest Wodehouse, Esq., C.M.G., a Police Magistrate and one of Her Majesty's Justices of the Peace in and for the said Colony, for that communication having been received requiring the rendition of the said defendant on behalf of the Chinese Government as a subject of China and as having committed certain crimes or offences against the laws of China by having committed murder and burglary within the jurisdiction of the Emperor of China, and it appearing to me upon investigation of the case, that there is cause to believe that the said defendant is a subject of China, and has committed the crimes or offences against the laws of China by having committed murder and burglary within the jurisdiction of the Emperor of China, and it was thereupon adjudged that the said defendant for the said crimes or offences should be committed to gaol for detention pending the receipt of an order from the Governor or Officer Administering the Government of Hongkong as to his further disposal.\n\nThese are therefore to command you, the said constable, to take the said defendant and him safely to convey to the said gaol and there to deliver him to the said superintendent or keeper thereof, together with this precept, and I do hereby command you, the said superintendent or keeper, to receive the said defendant into your custody in the said gaol and there to imprison him as aforesaid.\n\nGiven under my hand and seal at Victoria aforesaid this twenty-ninth day of April in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven.\n\n(Sd.) H. E. WODEHOUSE,\nPolice Magistrate.\n\nNotice of a writ of certiorari was served, and this writ was moved for, and the proceedings before the magistrate were brought into court by the magistrate himself and were referred to in the argument on the return of the writ of habeas corpus. Mr Francis, Q.C., appeared on behalf of the Chinese Government to support the warrant of commitment. The committing magistrate appeared in person and handed in the proceedings. The Acting Attorney General appeared to watch the case on behalf of the Government, but took no part in the proceedings. Mr Dennys, for the prisoner, by special leave, in the absence of Counsel, argued that the prisoner was detained on a warrant which was bad on the face of it, as there was no offence recited over which the magistrate had jurisdiction. He cited *Regina v. King*, 13 L.J.M.C., 43, and other cases, which we have examined. The warrants in these cases omitted to state the gist of the offences for which the magistrates committed. In the matter of *Peerless*, 1 A. and E., (N. S.), bears most on this matter.\n\nIt appears from the proceedings at the Police Court that the prisoner and two others were charged on the 19th February last, as subjects of China, with murder and burglary within the jurisdiction of the Emperor of China on the 9th October last. Several examinations took place, and in the course of the proceedings, Mr Dennys alleged that one of the principal witnesses for the Chinese authorities had committed perjury, and the man was charged with it, and the investigation of the case against Leung Afu and the others was postponed, pending the trial of this witness for perjury. It appears that although the witness was committed for trial for perjury, the Attorney General, for reasons no doubt satisfactory to the Crown, entered a nolle prosequi, and proceedings against the prisoner were thus abandoned. After this, the rendition case was resumed, and it appears from the affidavit and from the Magistrate's own notes that the Magistrate refused to hear any evidence on behalf of the prisoners, although Mr Dennys, on behalf of one prisoner, and Mr Holmes, on behalf of another, asked to be allowed to produce evidence.\n\nIn rendition cases, subjects of Chinese in this Colony, the procedure and powers of the magistrates are to be found in Ord. 2 of 1850 and Ord. 2 of 1871. Ord. 2 of 1850 was passed to carry out the treaty of the Bogue, which provided for rendition of Chinese subjects to the Chinese Government who had committed crimes and offences in China. Ord. 2 of 1871 was passed as a declaratory Ordinance - declaring that 2 of 1850 was to apply to the Treaty of Tientsin, the 21st Article of which provides for the rendition to China of Chinese criminals escaping here on 'proof of guilt.' Mr Dennys argued that 'proof of guilt' meant complete proof, and amplified the words in the Ordinance 2 of 1850 in favour of the accused.\n\nThe learned Counsel for the Chinese Government argued that the Court, Magistrate, and Government will only look to Ordinance 2 of 1850, as declared by 2 of 1871. Section I of Ordinance 2 of 1850 gives power to the magistrate to detain Chinese subjects having committed offences against the laws of China and being then in Hongkong: (1) if a complaint has been made by any officer of the Chinese Government; or (2) if it appear in the course of investigating any other matter, that a Chinese subject has committed an offence against the laws of China; or (3) if such person be already in custody, it shall be lawful to detain such person, and to investigate the alleged crime or offence in the same manner as if such person were charged with a crime or indictable offence committed within the colony. Section III says that if at the close of this investigation, it shall appear to the Magistrate or Court that such person as aforesaid is a subject of China, and that there is probable cause for believing that the said person has committed such crime or offence, it shall and may be lawful for such Magistrate or Court to commit such person for safe custody to prison, and to direct the Gaoler to detain such person in prison until the said Gaoler shall receive some order from the Governor of Hongkong, relative to the further detention, discharge, or transmission of such prisoner to the nearest Chinese authorities, as to the Governor shall seem fit: and the Magistrate or Court shall, upon making such committal as aforesaid, transmit to the Governor of Hongkong the minutes of such investigation &c.\n\nNow, under the warrant of the magistrate, the prisoner Leung Afu was committed to gaol on 29th April 1887, pending the orders of the Governor as to his further disposal, it appearing to the said magistrate, upon investigation of the case, that there is cause to believe that the prisoner was a subject of China, and had committed crimes and offences, viz., burglary and murder, within the Empire of China. It is not stated in the warrant when the murder and burglary were committed, nor is there any reference to the Act or Ordinance giving the Magistrate jurisdiction.\n\nIn the case of Young Achan and 12 others, brought before this Court in Nov. 1881, the late Mr Justice Snowden, in ordering the discharge of the prisoners, although the warrant stated on the face of it that it was under Ordinance 2 of 1859, Sec. III, said: 'I am unable to discover when the form now in use was adopted in this Colony. I find that the form of conviction appended to Ord. 10 of 1844 still in force requires the following particulars - setting out the information, and if the conviction is made for an offence against any Statute or Ordinance, to state... \n## Page 103",
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        "content_text": "possession of descendants of original squatters or their assignees, I think that it is worth considering whether those who have never,\n\nor cash as purchase mon\n\npaia,\n\nmoney to the Government, which has been the means of making their holding what they are, are to be placed\n\nidentical footing\n\narr\n\nALL\n\nwith\n\nthose who in the early days of the Colony, when the future was a\n\nblank, had the courage\n\nto come\n\nforward and purchase land from the Crown in open market, or whether the Government should not reserve to itself the right (to which I do not think the present\n\nholders would demur) to repurchase on payment of the present value, plus full compensation for any improvements etc.\n\n(signed) A. G. Mitchell Ings.\n\néré. Enclosure.\n\nSchedule above referred to.\n\n513\n\nHouse No. | Rental | Remarks\n\nNames\nAt of Aron Plan\n\n1\n50\nHongneichung old village.\n\nIp Ling Mui\nA\n8\n\nChan Shi & Ip Lam Shi\nдо\n\nCheung Hi-yan\n3\n79\n\nAg Fuk\n\n78\n30\n\nNg\nکم\n\nAg Fat\nDp Fat Ng Fat\n\nNg Fuck Cheung\n\nAgung Revai\n\nChan Linn.\n...\n\n2\np Yung thing\n*\n\nク\n\nMy Revai Shan & Ag Chorion\n12\n\nChan Lin\nOp Four Chan Linn Dp Fu\n\n77\n76\n75\n\n74\n9\n73\n\n#\n10\n71\n\n70\n}\n\n6o9\n1366, 607768\n1 50\n\n14\n72\n150\n\n#\n105\n50\n\n16\n83\n50\n\n#\n84\n50\n\n4\nکھ کر\n\nChan Lin\n18\n\n\"\nIp Lo Shan\n19\n\n86\n50\n#\n\n4\n\"\n\n\"\n#\n\n\"",
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        "content_text": "# DIOCESAN HOME AND ORPHANAGE BUILDING FUND\n\nHongkong:-\n\n## Brought forward, $2,250\n\n- Ho Wy-sun, Esq. | 25 \n- P. Jordan, Esq. | 25 \n- Kwong Yune, Esq. | 25 \n- J. S. Moses, Esq. | 25 \n- Ng Wei, Esq. | 25 \n- Poon Pong, Esq. | 25 \n- D. R. Sassoon, Esq. | 100 \n\n## Hongkong:-\n\n- H. E. Sir G. W. Des Voeux, K.C.M.G. | 500 \n- A Friend | 25 \n- Right Rev. Bishop Burdon, D.D. | 100 \n- F. R. Belilios, Esq. | 25 \n- Hon. C. P. Chater | 25 \n- J. D. Humphreys, Esq. | 25 \n- Hon. J. J. Keswick | 25 \n- J. D. Lapraik, Esq. | 25 \n- Hon. A. P. MacEwen | 25 \n- H. N. Mody, Esq. | 100 \n- E. Sharp, Esq. | 25 \n- Sir J. Russell, Kn6., 0.31.3. | ... \n- Sin Tak-fun, Esq. | 100 \n- Wei Ayuk, Esq. | 25 \n- Wei Fui, Esq. | 100 \n- Hon. T. H. Whitehead | 100 \n- Chan Kai-ming, Esq. | 20 \n- N. J. Ede, Esq. | 160 \n- Messrs. Achec & Co. | 10 \n- Messrs. Cheung Tak Kung Sz | 100 \n- Chew Kwan-cheung, Esq. | 30 \n- Mrs. Heathcote | 10 \n- Ho Fook, Esq. | 100 \n- G. Sharp, Esq. | 10 \n- Linng Tsin, Esq. | 100 \n- C. D. Bottomley, Esq. | 50 \n- Master T. Hunter | 10 \n- Lieut.-General W. G. Cameron, C.B. | 50 \n- A. B. Johnson, Esq. | 10 \n- W. H. Forbes, Esq. | 50 \n- G. Stafford Northcote, Esq. | 10 \n- D. Gillies, Esq. | 50 \n- Loung Ping-nam, Esq. | 10 \n- T. Jackson, Esq. | 30 \n- Lenng Shing-un, Esq. | 10 \n- A. McCouochie, Esq. | 10 \n- Loung Yan-fu, Esq. | 10 \n- E. Mackintosh, Esq. | 50 \n- G. Piercy, Esq. | 10 \n- L. Poesnecker, Esq. | 10 \n- Col. Storer, R.E. | 10 \n- Mrs. D. P. Caldwell | 5 \n- J. Wilson, Esq. | 20 \n- Masters S. & D. Elphinstone | 5 \n- J. Wong Chun, Esq. | 5 \n- H. A. Herbert, Esq. | 20 \n- Chan King-san, Esq. | 5 \n- Ho Auci, Esq. | 5 \n- Chan Ming, Esq. | 20 \n- Hon. Dr. Ho Kai | 20 \n- Dr. Chung Sing-kan | 23 \n- Ho Tang, Esq. | 5 \n- Hung Kam-Shing, Esq. | 5 \n\n## Carried forward, $3,745 \n\n602",
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        "title": "CO129-251 - Acting Governor Barker - 1891 [9-11]",
        "content_text": "## in the present case \n\nChan Chung Tai \n\nhas three entries against him in the last four months of his service: \n\n(1) Gambling (2) Absent from station (Misconduct undefined) (3) ...\n\nFor the first offence, it was decided that he should not be re-engaged for a further period of 5 years. \n\nBut then Governor mercifully allows him to complete his term & gives him a commuted pension of $131.65 (instead of the full amount $146.65). \n\nChan Chung Tai is 31 years old and is on the Police Pension List in Hong Kong.\n\n## In the second case \n\nChan Chung is apparently a better officer, having no entries against him from 1874 until this year when, for \"gross misconduct\", he was removed from the detection branch to regular police duties. We do not know what the gross misconduct was; and perhaps a fine (from $100 to $50 per annum) may have been enough for his offences.\n\n## These three cases of reduced pensions \n\nThe Secretary of State trusts that he will not lose sight of the importance not only from the point of view of economy but from that of good discipline in the force itself - of making sufficient & in some cases a substantial reduction in the rates of pension awarded where the applicant's conduct has not been uniformly good \"(in accordance with par.10 Revision of Pension Rules in `18316/91`).\n\n`fu99/14/91`  \n82 attempts  \n9.12.91  \n`Qu9/12`",
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        "document_key": "CO129-254 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [1-4]",
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        "title": "CO129-254 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [1-4]",
        "content_text": "## MINUTE PAPER.\n\n316\n\n! from that I \n\n20523 of 1890 and all the objections which I then urged \n\ncean theme was flawed & this scheme. \n\nThere is and are ways of leaking a tolerable prison outstate and therein, by removing at least half the existing buildings - Roseline which contemplates placing tunnel building on this particularly cramped site ought, in every opinion, to be Entertained for a moment \n\nM. Wingfield \n\nM. Fewfield \n\nI can add nothing to my \n\nTWHO Boys. China but make prison life as deterrent to the criminally disposed people as they keep \n\nsanitary \n\nsetting an Example of emending of 4th March (anner) minute on 574. \n\nThe utter inadequacy of this proposal is obvious \n\nMr Fairfield \n\nThis is now your \n\nC.P.L. Brauch \n\nCensus - - \n\nJ. I put it. with more \n\nMich the match; that I entirely agree as to the inadequacy of proposal and that the object of making an in large public esteem \n\nin the wie former seems to suffer before the population \n\nI have discussed the Occoquan question within Sir J. Russell, Sir Z. Huning and Sir M. Cm-Inanney I and Scharn to the Secretary of State. More is some ground for thinking that ion despatch `Z2122` of Now go went too far in proposing to demolish some of the Existing prison blocks, in absolutely rejecting by implication rebuilding \n\non wasteland hymd te Police compound, and in demanding accommodations in as many \n\nBui \n\nFor prisoners the average having fallen gradually to 507 in 1891. Possibly much \n\nB \n\nIn difficulty Might be got or if soul. pesh sites ared to Attained in the neighborhood of the prison for the magistracy and fu quarters",
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        "content_text": "## LIST OF OFFICERS,—Continued\n\n| Office | Name |\n| --- | --- |\n| **LEGAL DEPARTMENT** |  |\n| Chief Justice | Fielding Clarke, L.L.B. |\n| Puisne Judge | E. J. Ackroyd |\n| Interpreter | J. D. Ball |\n| Assistant Interpreter | Li Hong Mi |\n| Clerk to Registrar and Sheriff and Interpreter of Industani | Sheik Abdool Rahman |\n| Clerk and Usher | V. Sales, Jr. |\n| 1st Bailiff | F. Howell |\n| Chinese Clerk and Translator | Mok Man Cheung |\n| Chinese Clerk and Shroff | Loung Atsant |\n| Librarian | R. P. Carueiro |\n| Attorney General | W. M. Goodman |\n| Attorney General's Clerk | S. A. Ramjan |\n| **LAND REGISTRY OFFICE** |  |\n| Clerk | J. Wong Chun |\n| **EDUCATION DEPARTMENT** |  |\n| Chinese Clerk to Inspector of Schools | Lo Sik-ling |\n| **VICTORIA COLLEGE** |  |\n| 1st Chinese Assistant and 1st Clerk | Chin Chi-tsung |\n| 2nd Chinese Assistant | Luk King-po |\n| Chinese Assistant | Chu Tsun-ching, Cheung Tsol, Wan Tsung-in, Tsang Chung, Ng In, Chan Tsz-fai |\n| Chinese Master | Ho Mông, Ho Cheung |\n| **MEDICAL DEPARTMENT** |  |\n| Colonial Surgeon | P. B. C. Ayres |\n| Apothecary and Analyst | W. E. Crow |\n| Assistant Apothecary and Analyst | E. W. Lucas |\n| Matron, Lock Hospital | Mrs. Ackers |\n| Clerk | Lo Cheung Ip |\n| Assistant Clerk | Loung Fu Chu |\n| Senior Wardmaster, Civil Hospital | James Stevenson |\n| European Wardmaster Lunatic Asylums | D. G. Cumming |\n| Assistant do. do. | F. Meyers, W. M. B. Arthur, Geo. Horspool |\n| **MAGISTRACY** |  |\n| First Clerk | J. Jones |\n| **POLICE DEPARTMENT** |  |\n| Deputy Superintendent | H. J. Watson |\n| **VICTORIA GAOL** |  |\n| Warden | Margaret Nolan |\n| Clerk | L. M. Flores |\n| Matron | D. Ahmed |\n| Hospital Warder | James Hodge, Nicholas Nolan |\n| Head Turnkey | Thomas Powell, Eman Deen |\n| Do. | C. Neilsen, B. L. Rocha |\n| Junior Head Turnkey | C. Unge |\n| 1st Class Turnkey | C. Pederson, W. H. Foulkes, J. Crou, F. Conceição, J. Tweed |\n| Do. | C. L. Rocha, T. Snell, F. Esmer, S. F. de Souza, N. A. Johnsen, E. Russell |\n| 1st Class Guards | W. Thomas, W. Kirkness, C. F. Meady, Sergeant Nutta Singh, Jandoo, Fotta Deen, Gunda Mall, Gunda Singh |\n| **SANITARY DEPARTMENT** |  |\n| Superintendent | H. McCallum |\n| Veterinary Surgeon | C. V. Ladds |\n| Clerk | Pang Shan Chun |\n| Assistant Clerk | Lo Sing Lau |\n| Senior Inspector of Nuisances | J. R. Germain |\n| Inspector of Nuisances | J. J. Clerihew, J. R. Grimble, W. Fisher, John Ronnie, G. Rac |\n\nCopy of Notification\n\nThe following no. 150 referente... list of Officers entitled to draw leave salary & pension in England at the rate of 4/2 to the dollar is published for information.\n\nAll other officers in the public service will be paid their leave salaries and pensions in England at the rates of 4/- £30 \"respectively.\n\n... will be struck off the list at the end of 1898.",
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        "content_text": "THE WIDOWS' AND ORPHANS' PENSIONS FUND,-Continued.\n\nName, Office.\n\nTHE WIDOWS' AND ORPHANS' PENSIONS FUND,-Continued.\n\nName. OFFICE.\n\n429\n\nF. Machado, 1st Clerk.\n\nJ. L. de S. Alves, 2nd Clerk.\n\nA. P. Guterres, 3rd Clerk.\n\nA. C. Botelho, 4th Clerk.\n\nS. Madar, 6th Clerk.\n\nS. Sounderam, Indian Interpreter.\n\nLo U Shing, Chinese Interpreter.\n\nCheung Ip, Chinese Writer.\n\nFan Hok To, Chinese Writer.\n\nF. C. Collage, Signalman at the Peak.\n\nR. C. Dixon, Marine Surveyor.\n\nF. M. Franco, Jr., Gunner, Gunpowder Dépôt.\n\nJ. Sinclair, 2nd Lighthouse Keeper.\n\nJ. M. Franco, 3rd Lighthouse Keeper.\n\nL. H. Piry, 4th Clerk, Import and Export Office.\n\nJ. I. Plummer, Chief Assistant.\n\nJ. S. Rodrigues, 1st Clerk.\n\nE. H. D'Aquino, 2nd Clerk.\n\nW. J. Tutcher, Clerk.\n\nUi A WR., \n\nS. A. Rahman, Head Gardener.\n\nA. Brown, Clerk.\n\nR. A Costa, Clerk to Registrar.\n\nM. A. Raptista, Jr., 2nd Bailiff.\n\nW. Machell, Clerk to Attorney General.\n\nLuk King Fo, Clerk to Crown Solicitor.\n\nWong Kok U, Assistant Master.\n\nLeung Lan Fan, 2nd Chinese Assistant.\n\nWong Ming, 7th Chinese Assistant.\n\nPun Yung Fong, 8th Chinese Assistant.\n\nLo Po Tang, 9th Chinese Assistant.\n\nChan Tat Ming, 10th Chinese Assistant.\n\nDr. L. P. Marques, 3rd Teacher of Chinese.\n\nChan Kam Tsun, 4th Teacher of Chinese.\n\nLeung Fu Chu, Surgeon to Victoria Gaol.\n\nLeung Ping Fai, Apothecary Assistant.\n\nWong Hing, Clerk.\n\nNg Kwai Shang, Assistant Clerk.\n\nChan Kai Ming, Wardmaster, Lunatic Asylum.\n\nJ. M. P. da Silva, 2nd Clerk.\n\nA. R. Abbass, 3rd Clerk.\n\nHung Kam Ning, 4th Clerk.\n\nChow Kwai Un, 6th Clerk.\n\nCheung Tsoi, 1st Chinese Interpreter.\n\nA. B. Suffiad, 2nd Chinese Interpreter.\n\nChan Kwan, 3rd Chinese Interpreter.\n\nChan Shan, Hindustani Interpreter.\n\nAn Shie-mo, Chinese Clerk and Shroff.\n\nC. W. Duggan, Usher and Process Server.\n\nF. S. de Souza, Assistant Usher and Process Server.\n\nNg Fuk Shang, Paymaster.\n\nLeung Kwai Kai, 2nd Clerk.\n\nHARBOUR MASTER'S DEPARTMENT,——\n\nOBSERVATORY,—\n\nSTAMP OFFICE,\n\nBOTANICAL AND AFFORESTATION DEPARTMENT,-\n\nLEGAL DEPARTMENT,~\n\nEDUCATIONAL DEPARTMENT,---\n\nMEDICAL DEPARTMENT,—\n\nMAGISTRACY,---\n\nPOLICE DEPARTMENT,—\n\nVICTORIA GAOL,~-~-\n\nSuperintendent.\n\nClerk.\n\nJunior Head Turnkey.\n\n2nd Class Turnkey.\n\n2nd Class Turnkey.\n\n3rd Class Turnkey.\n\n3rd Class Turnkey.\n\n3rd Class Turnkey.\n\nSANITARY DEPARTMENT, —\n\nInspector of Nuisances.\n\nInspector of Nuisances.\n\nPENSIONERS.--\n\n2nd Examining Clerk, Treasury.\n\nSenior Clerk, Post Office.\n\nShroff, Harbour Department.\n\nN. G. MITCHELL-Innes, Treasurer.\n\nJ. Rennie,\n\nF. Freire,.\n\nJ. M. E. Machado,.\n\nLeong Chung,....\n\nTreasury, Hongkong, 13th March, 1894.",
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        "content_text": "## FIRST SCHEDULE.\n\nInland Lot Numbers and Descriptions.\n\n206, Section 4, Sub-section No. 1, Remaining Portion,\n\n206, Section 4, Remaining Portion\n\nOwners' Names.\n\nLe Kwong Sau,\n\n206, Remaining Portion..... William Neish Rain.\n\n206A, Section A,\n\n206A, Section A of Remaining Portion.\n\n206A, Remaining Portion,\n\nNanabhoy Rustomjee Billimoria,\n\nDadabhoy Dianjibhoy Billimoria, and Bhai Jivanjee.\n\nTang Pak Shan.\n\nCheong Kai.\n\nChan Kam I.\n\n239,\n\n239A,\n\n239B,\n\n239C,\n\n240,\n\nHo Tung.\n\nDitto.\n\nLam Hung Kwan,\n\nMary Ayow Caldwell, (Executrix of Daniel Richard Caldwell, deceased).\n\nNg Man Yin.\n\nNg Yuk.\n\nWong Mui.\n\nLee Tak, (Executor of Lee Choong, deceased).\n\nMa King Yip,\n\nDitto.\n\nCheung Kam Tin, Leung Yak Ming, Wong Sik Chaen, and Pu Yap Lam. (Executor of Chung Ying Choy, deceased).\n\nKwok Ying.\n\nDitto.\n\n240A,\n\n241,\n\n241A,\n\n241B,\n\n241C,\n\nIp Nam.\n\nDitto.\n\n242,\n\n242A,\n\n242B,\n\n243,\n\n243A,\n\nDitto.\n\n243B,\n\n243C,\n\n243D.\n\nDitto.\n\n243E,\n\nLee King,\n\n243F.\n\n244,\n\n244A,\n\nLee Tak, (Executor of Lee Choeng, deceased).\n\nLeung Tat Tin.\n\nChoong Aecu.\n\n244B,\n\n244C,\n\n244D,\n\n244E,\n\nYuen Yew Cheong and Yuen Yew Thu.\n\nDitto.\n\nThe Hongkong, Canton & Macao Steam-boat Company, Limited,\n\nLo Kum Chune.\n\nMary Ayow Caldwell, (Executrix of Daniel Richard Caldwell, deceased).\n\nChon 6 wai.\n\nClement Palmer,\n\nDitto.\n\n245,\n\n245A,\n\n245B,\n\n245C,\n\n245D,\n\nChao Kwei.\n\n245E,\n\n245F,\n\n245G,\n\n262,\n\n263, Section A,\n\n263, Section B,\n\n263, Remaining Portion,\n\nWilliam Neish Bain.\n\nChung Tsan.\n\nMa King Yip.\n\nIp Nam.\n\n264, Section A, Sub-section No. 1,\n\n264, Section A, Remaining Portion,\n\n264, Remaining Portion,\n\nWilliam Neish Bain.\n\n265, Section A,\n\n265, Section B,\n\n265, Section C\n\nMa King Yip.\n\nJohn Chalmers, Wong Yuk Cho, Ho Kun Pu, Fung Fu, Lai Pak Chi, Ko Cheuk Shing, and Tong Kam Chan\n\nWong Ka Pat.\n\nThe Hongkong, Canton & Macao Steam-boat Company, Limited.\n\n265, Remaining Portion....... The Hongkong Fire Insurance Company, Limited.\n\n271, Section A, Sub-section No. 1, Tam Hoi Chau.\n\n726",
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        "content_text": "# Foreward\n\n| Village Name | Due Period | Amount | Remarks |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Chan Kam-thing | 714 | 2096 | Judgment obtained |\n| Chan Your Fuck | 14 | 14 |  |\n| Chan Kam | 15 | 14 |  |\n| Chan Ting | 16 | 14 |  |\n| Ng Ting | 17 | 14 |  |\n|  | 3 | 24 |  |\n|  | 4 | 24 |  |\n|  | * | 418 |  |\n|  |  | 1014 |  |\n|  | 4 | 252 | #t |\n|  | 2 | 52 | # |\n|  |  | 154 | ✔ |\n|  |  | 24 |  |\n|  |  | 252 |  |\n| hi thi fuke | 19 | 14 |  |\n| Chan Mo.fuck | 27 | 14 |  |\n|  | 29 | 14 |  |\n| Laur Tür fuke | 43 | 14 | to Fuk-sing |\n|  | 45 | 14 | c cung chung |\n| Ching Yuck | 46 | 14 |  |\n| Keong Sung-ki | 67 | 144 |  |\n|  | * | 324 |  |\n|  | # | 196 | House pulled down |\n|  | 4 | 90 | Judgment obtained |\n|  |  | 126 |  |\n|  |  | 294 | \" |\n| G | 68 | 14 |  |\n| J | 69 | 14 | 2014 |\n| Hoke Jenn Law Fein | 28 | 14 |  |\n| Wer Kong | 40 | 8 |  |\n| Chan Yung Shan | 27 | 14 |  |\n| gHong Hai |  |  |  |\n| gkong Wai |  |  |  |\n| Fang |  |  |  |\n| Cheung Yung you | 28 | 14 |  |\n| chan Chin fuk | 6 |  |  |\n| Chan Suck on | 9 | 14 |  |\n|  | 2 | 52 |  |\n|  | 72 | 3 | 78 House |\n|  |  | 630 | 144 |\n|  | 4 | 306 |  |\n|  |  | 21061 | \" |\n| Than ting keng | 29 | 14 |  |\n| Chan. Yung fuck | 35 | 14 |  |\n| Ag Yan-boi | 45 | 144 |  |\n| Wong hui-hot | 68 | 14 |  |\n| Cheung Yanifu | 72 | 14 |  |\n| Fu Lam |  |  |  |\n| Sun Yung-shang | 22 | 9 |  |\n|  | Forward | * | 4 |\n|  | to | # |  |\n|  |  |  | pulled down Judgment obtained |\n|  | 4 | 3 06 | Stouse in ruins |\n|  |  | 206 |  |\n|  |  | 204 | Judgment obtained |\n|  | 2 | 62 | House pulled down |\n|  | 2 | 62 | Judgment obtained |\n|  | 44 |  | House pulled down |\n|  | 31/5 | 42257 |  |\n\n:Page 391",
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        "content_text": "8. The Peak, as it exists at present, is the outcome of many years of enterprise and hard work on the part of the civil population, who have developed it, alone and unaided, at immense trouble and expense for the purpose of enjoying quietly, after the toils of the day are over, private and family life.\n\n9. is the only place where such a condition is possible, and we submit with all due respect that no sufficient reason exists for the introduction of barracks into the very midst of what is the most popular residential quarter of the Colony.\n\n10. We would also beg leave to point out that, whereas the average stay of a Regiment here is something under three years, the ordinary members of the civil community are frequently obliged to remain from twenty-five to thirty years, and in many cases a lifetime.\n\n11. We specially draw notice to the fact that for some years past no new houses have been allowed to be constructed in the Pok-fu-lam watershed area, and we submit that it is most undesirable that the settlement of 400 men just above the reservoir should be contemplated.\n\n12. Whatever rules and regulations may be laid down, it seems highly probable that a considerable amount of insanitary matter will find its way into the reservoir, as for many months in the year the troops will naturally roam over the hills and valleys adjoining for both exercise and recreation.\n\n13. Such a danger does not, we submit, exist in the case of the present Hotel, the residents of which are much fewer than the number of troops which it is proposed to quarter there, and are most of them engaged daily below in the pursuit of their various avocations.\n\n14. If barracks, as is rumoured, are also to be constructed at High West, the danger we refer to will be further augmented.\n\n15. In this connection it should be borne in mind that for residents and many who live to the West in Hong Kong, the Pok-to-lum reservoir forms their only water supply.\n\n16. We would therefore respectfully urge that all possible risk of contamination to our water supply should be avoided.\n\n17. As regards the Mount Austin Hotel, as there is only one narrow road with the very steep gradient of about one in three leading to it, it will be arduous for soldiers to find their way up from the lower level of Victoria on foot, and in the event of bodies of men being transported by the tram cars (which can only legally carry 40 passengers at a time) the dislocation of the ordinary traffic will be a serious inconvenience to all ordinary passengers, who will thereby be deprived of the car service.\n\n18. We would also respectfully urge that the narrowness of the existing roads at the Peak does not lend itself to the free movement of even moderately large bodies of troops without causing much inconvenience to the ordinary passengers.\n\n19. Sites, if not quite at such an altitude but equally good apparently from a strategic point of view, and more conveniently situated for the purposes of exercise and recreation on the part of the soldiers can be found along the chain of hills to the eastward.\n\n20. Mount Cameron, Caroline Hill, and the slopes above Causeway Bay appear very suitable sites for Barracks.\n\n21. We would submit that the sites above suggested are more central, more easy of access, and that they are within easy reach of the Happy Valley and Causeway Bay, the only open spaces large enough for military exercises in the Colony.\n\n22. The time has surely now come for the Imperial Government to formulate such a comprehensive scheme as will give adequate accommodation to the troops on this station, and this can be easily obtained in the localities already referred to, which are sufficiently high up to be cool and salubrious.\n\n23. On the one hand it is a comparatively simple matter for the Military Authorities, who have large means at their disposal and an almost unlimited choice of sites, to open up a new district. On the other hand it is a very difficult, slow and expensive process for civilians, who move one by one, to develop a new locality, and if a section of the community is driven below by the Military occupation of a place of large public resort at the Peak, an undesirable check will be placed upon the development and progress of the high level life of the Colony.\n\n24. In conclusion we would point out that the loss of the Hotel entails a considerable loss of public income, as the taxes on the property, amounting to several thousands of dollars per annum, will be lost to the Colonial Revenue. We would also beg leave to most respectfully urge that inasmuch as the ratepayers of this Colony have been called upon to contribute one-third of the cost of the expenditure of the Military Authorities upon barracks, some consideration should fairly and reasonably be shown to the wishes and appeal of the civil portion of the community.\n\n25. We therefore pray Your Excellency to intervene in our behalf with the War Department and to lay before the Military Authorities the objections which we have sketched above against the conversion of the Mount Austin Hotel into Barracks, and to ask them whether they would be willing to sell the building to a Public Company which would continue to manage it as an Hotel; and if so to give a respite of one month to the Colonists wherein to endeavour to raise the capital necessary for such purchase.\n\nD. Gillies\n\nV.A. Caesar Drawkinu.\n\nR. M. Gray Skury\n\nE. Sollock\n\nJ. H. V. Vernon\n\nI. St. Whitehead. Jus. J. Francis\n\nG. Stewart\n\nW. H. Ray\n\nC. S. Sharp\n\nJ. Grange\n\nR. M. Moses\n\nAnthony Babbington\n\nN. G. Evans R. H. Leigh Saccun A lov\n\n223",
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        "content_text": "Enclosure 66\n\nV.D. 28450\n\nChan Su-i, Chung On-shai, Lam Man-yam, Leung Sz-sit, U U-yung, Ngai Yan, Ng Tso-sheung, Lan Fu-tsoi, Ko Hak-yan, Wong Wai-an, Lam Cheuk-hi, Wong Pong-hin, Sham Hung-ao, Tseung I-yung, Sz Chung-hang, Tai Ka-wing, Suitsai graduates (B.A.); Lam Wai-in, Pat Sung-ku, Wong Wing-pong, Iu Kwok-tsoi, Ching Tai-yau, Chau Tak-wo, Hung Kwong-yan, Lai Tai King, Lam Chi-tat, Leung Man-ying, Tsiu Tat-ming, Lo Pak-kai, Chiu Wai, Tam King-pong, O Sik-pong, Tong Yeuk-kuk, Kam Shang graduates (i.e. Graduates by grace or purchase); Ho Sui-ki, Fok Kai-leung, Cheung King-yan, Sham King-kwan, Kuyan graduates (M.A.); Ng Kai-ming, Chu Hon, Sung Lo-sham, Ku Ting-ku, Lau Yuk-wa, Lam Tat-chi, Kung Shang graduates (graduates successful at preliminary examination for 3rd degree), and gentry of Kwong Sai, present a petition, stating that their humble nation has unfortunately fallen into a state of imminent danger, and praying that their petition may be graciously submitted to His Excellency the Governor for his submission by telegram to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs so that means may be devised for the protection and restoration to office of the reform party and for the protection and restoration to the Throne of the Emperor and that a method may be devised for introducing the new administration, that the people may have their ills redressed and obtain their rights, and that sincere friendly relations with the neighbouring (States) may be amicably cultivated.\n\nSince the 4th moon of this year (May, 1898) the Emperor has selected and employed the virtuous",
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        "content_text": "# Progress of Red River\n\n## French activity\n\n32\n\nthan the route via Mengtsz furnishes. By going straight to Kaihua (which takes five days) instead of through Mengtsz, merchants will save several days, cost of transport will be diminished, and importation and exportation will be facilitated. The road from Laokai via Manhao to Mengtsz is very difficult, a succession of craggy ascents and stony ravines, which make the prospect of a railway remote. Between Manhao and Mengtsz (2 days' journey) the road rises from 510 to 6,150 feet. A new route is now being surveyed from Laokai to Mengtsz direct, which, it is anticipated, will effect a great saving of time. Consul Jamieson thinks that a light railway between Laokai and Mengtsz is practicable, and, considering the volume of trade, might pay.\n\nYet the commerce is by no means insignificant, despite the numerous hindrances to trade. This fact is largely explained by the activity of the French Government in securing concessions from the Chinese. They have obtained the opening of four towns within the Chinese frontier—Mengtsz, Lungehow, Ssumao, and Hokou. All commodities, native and foreign, entering China over the Tonkin frontier enjoy by treaty the right to claim exemption from inland taxes by payment of transit dues at the Customs; all imports not on the ad valorem list pay only ½ and exports of the same category only ⅓ of the regular tariff rates in force at coast and river ports (reductions not applicable to transit dues). All products of Chinese origin coming across the Tonkin frontier from Yunnan and Kwangsi have free importation and transit, except opium (unless it be sealed by the French Customs). Mr. Bourne says that the import trade in foreign goods has almost entirely shifted from the West River route via Pose to the Red River route, and he ascribes this to the vigorous enforcement of transit passes to cover goods to Yunnan-Fu. The result is that English goods in the capital are cheaper than formerly, though the French themselves impose heavy customs duties (substantially those of the metropolitan tariff) on British goods passing through Tonkin, together with miscellaneous charges somewhat arbitrarily levied. These duties amount to 10 or 11 per cent. on piece goods and 3 per cent. on yarn. A piece of grey shirting pays nearly twice as much to the French as to the Chinese Government. M. Leroy Beaulieu, the eminent authority on colonial questions, asserts that the French Customs system, \"which is for ever examining merchandise, opening packages and not closing them properly, and spoiling the goods under the pretence of guarding against smuggling,\" is enough to make all traders shun the Tonkin route. It should be noted that the Red River trade is almost wholly a transit trade from Hong Kong, with some similar trade from Saigon and Singapore. Indian yarn constituted more than two-thirds of the imports in 1896. The attempt to stimulate Chinese exports by the Red River has not met with much success, and the imports into China remain double the exports. M. Chailley Bert says that Tonkin should repudiate the régime of Customs duties which bars this route to European transactions in Western China.\n\n## Progress in 1897\n\nDuring 1897 the facilities for trade were greatly improved in the neighbourhood of Laokai, and Chinese merchants have been encouraged to attend the fairs recently re-opened there. Bonded warehouses have been established at Hanoi, Laokai, and Langson (in addition to one already opened at Haiphong) for foreign goods in transit through Tonkin. The Government is now undertaking works for the improvement of the navigation of the Red River, and the organisation of a towage service is spoken of. According to the Saigon Consular Report for 1897 tenders have been invited for the construction of a metre line from Hanoi to the Chinese frontier, presumably to Laokai, a railway which could, it is said, be constructed without difficulty, and would do much to promote trade. But Lieutenant Roux says that it would not pay to spend the necessary £4,000,000 on a railway if it saved only three or four days in the transport of merchandise. Rocher has pointed out that the Tonkin route, though shorter and cheaper than others, has to compete with well-established and long-frequented routes, that bring merchandise suitable to the people at rates relatively low, considering cost of transport, &c., and especially with the Yangtze, which must, he says, always be the greatest commercial artery of the Empire. It appears clear that China will increase her exports of tin through Tonkin. Tin formed four-fifths in value of the exports in 1896. In return, the French will probably supply south and south-east Yunnan and the region up to Yunnan-Fu with foreign goods. The heavy protective duties, which have made the French share of Tonkin trade larger than it was, have adversely affected British interests in Hong Kong. But the progress of Burma trade with West Yunnan may do something to redress the balance. The French talk of cultivating cotton in Tonkin, and exporting it to Yunnan. They claim that the cotton of Laos is superior to that of Burma. Prince Henry says that Tonkin could do a great trade in exporting cotton yarn and cloth, apparel, silk, salt, and tobacco, and in importing metals, opium, and musk.\n\n## Trade Routes\n\nThe more enthusiastic advocates of a forward French policy in Yunnan have dilated on the numerous regions that may be tapped from Tonkin—south Yunnan to Ssumao, and the tea regions S. of that town; west Yunnan to Tali and even Tibet; Kueichou and Kwangsi; Yunnan-Fu and N. to Ssuchuan and the Yangtze. It will be sufficient to touch on two routes, those through south Yunnan to Ssumao and through central Yunnan to the capital, for present indications do not point to the development of any great trade with Kueichou and Kwangsi, or with Ssuchuan.\n\n### Mengtsz to Ssumao\n\nThe trade route is a circuitous path which strikes the Mengtsz to \"great route,\" already described (page 29), at Yuanchiang. The country to the immediate N. of the Tonkin-Yunnan frontier is a wide and almost unknown region of mountains, inhabited by Shans and Lolos living in practical independence under native chiefs. Prince Henry and Lieutenant Roux explored this region, keeping to the right bank of the Red River. They traversed a very intricate country by means of mule tracks, and found no wide plain between Mengtsz and Ssumao. There was little cultivation, and the villages were few and miserable. Lieutenant Roux speaks of their passing five or six villages a day, and considers this not a small number for south Yunnan, which he describes as in the main a poor country—thus agreeing with Mr. Bourne and disagreeing with M. Rocher. They passed the town of Isa, a place fairly well peopled and having a brisk trade in salt, sugar, tobacco, &c. Another place of some importance was Muongle, situated on what the Chinese call the \"little route\" between Upper Laos and the Red River. This route, along which tea and cotton are carried, is only practicable in the dry season—the damp at other times causing fevers. Muongle is about 10 miles north from the Tonkin frontier, which is here constituted by the chain that divides the Namu from the Black River. The town has a native industry of black cotton stuff, and a trade in raw cotton and opium. There is said to be an easy route from Muongle north-west to the Mekong basin. After traversing savage and mountainous country the travellers reached Ssumao. Prince Henry says that the Ssumao district is richer than that of the Upper Red River, but the latter has copper and tin, and more varied cultivation.\n\n### Mengtsz to Yunnan-Fu\n\nThis road (nine stages) is one of the best roads in the province, and easier and more expeditious than that from Pose. After crossing a small pass and a high mountain chain with a good road and gradual ascent, and then another mountain pass with a well-paved road, the route to the capital is good and fairly level. This route passes several towns of some little importance, including Tunghai, Kiangchuan, and Tsinning. The Lyons Mission found many ruined villages as far as Kuangsi, after which the country changes, and there are rice, wheat, and other crops, irrigation canals, and populous plains. Linan or Lingan-Fu is a large place in a fertile plain, much ravaged by plague. It is here that the \"great route\" from Kenghung and Ssumao joins the Mengtsz-Yunnan-Fu route. Very diverse accounts of Linan are given by Rocher and Colquhoun. Mr. Bourne found that Tunghai, three days N.-W. of Linan in a fertile opium-yielding country, has a larger trade than Linan in foreign goods from Pakhoi. Hsinhsing-chow is in a valley rich with indigo and rice.\n\n## Railway Projects\n\nOn 11th April 1898 the Chinese granted the French the right to construct a line to Yunnan-Fu. Rocher says that a railway from Tonkin to Yunnan-Fu would be superior in advantages to one from Pose (on the West River) to Yunnan-Fu. It should not go via Mengtsz, but by the Red River, and... \n\nPage 561\nPage 572 \nPage 6531",
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        "content_text": "## Chungking and the Yangtze trade\n\n38\n\nSsuchuan produces silk, tobacco, tea, sugar, maize, oil seeds, millet, paper fibres, hemp, indigo, various medicines, ramie, white wax, &c. An increased area is being devoted in Ssuchuan to opium cultivation, which is more lucrative than that of rice and pulse, which it is displacing. But Ssuchuan opium is inferior to the produce of Yunnan. The poppy fields of Ssuchuan, Yunnan, and Kueichou together are said to be ample enough to meet the requirements of nearly the whole of China. Opium is retailed all over Ssuchuan at 140-200 cash (about 6d. or 7d.) per ounce. In Lower Burma, the retail price of opium is about 13 rupees per tola, or nearly 60d. per ounce.\n\nThe commerce of the province is capable of very great development. The trade in silk, the culture and weaving of which are encouraged, might especially be increased. Ssuchuan is almost cottonless, and as the people wear cotton cloths all the year round, there is a great demand for cotton piece goods, and still more for Indian cotton yarn, which they weave into cloth, some of the manufactures being sent to Yunnan and Kueichou. At present, there is stated to be great ignorance of foreign goods, and only the difficulty of getting them, it is said, prevents a largely increased consumption. Good stout sheetings, cotton scarves and tape, red blankets, quinine, soap, and candles would be favourable articles of import in exchange for silk (the only important article so far sent to Europe), opium, wax, drugs, salt, tobacco, and musk.\n\nThe opening of Chengtu to foreign trade would have important results, while a steamer service to Sui-Fu would do much to develop trade. There are ample supplies of coal for steamers near the Yangtze. The mineral wealth of Ssuchuan is thought to be enormous, coal, iron, lead, salt, copper, &c. Salt is one of the chief products of the province, the output of the Tzulinching wells being valued at £2,500,000 annually. But European methods must be applied for the effectual development of mining in Ssuchuan.\n\nChungking (with a population of 300,000) is the commercial key of Western China, the sole wholesale market for foreign goods in Ssuchuan. It has been described as a \"perpetual Nishni Novgorod.\" It is remarkable for the volume of its trade, and the number and wealth of its merchants. Chungking is reached from the sea by the Yangtze, steamers bringing goods 1,000 miles up the river to Ichang, whence junks (estimated to number 7,000 annually) ascend over a part of the river that is troubled with rapids to Chungking (400 miles from Ichang). The journey down stream from Chungking to Shanghai occupies from 12 to 14 days, the up-journey about two months.\n\nSince Chungking was opened as a Treaty Port in 1891, endeavours have been made to establish steam communication with Shanghai, but not until the Treaty of Shimonoseki with Japan (1895) was this privilege conceded, and not until last May did a steamer (that of Mr. A. J. Little) reach the city. Chungking is not only the distributing centre for foreign goods but also an emporium for inter-provincial trade. It is connected with every important town in Ssuchuan by such busy waterways as the Tokiang, Minkiang, and Sulinho.\n\nHitherto, commerce from the sea-board has been impeded by the necessity of transhipping goods into junks at Ichang, and the time, labour, and risk attending this operation have curtailed the traffic. Freight to Chungking has cost 10s. per ton and 1s per ton per mile beyond, so that foreign goods have been heavily handicapped, especially as customs and transit dues have had to be paid in addition. If commerce is already considerable at Chungking—and according to the Customs Report, the exports in 1897 were over £1,000,000 and the imports £3,250,000—safer, speedier, and cheaper communications with the coast must largely increase the demand for foreign goods in Ssuchuan and also stimulate exports.\n\nAt present, the import of foreign manufactures is small considering the population. Mr. Bourne considers that skilled control of the navigation is necessary for permanent steam communications. Other important trading towns in Ssuchuan are Chiating, with 150,000 people, a very active agricultural and commercial city, the centre of the silk and white wax industries and of a large salt and timber trade; Hochow, with great traffic in silk, cotton, &c.; Wan Hsien, which is said to have doubled its trade and population in the last 20 years; Fuchow, Fengtu Hsien, &c. Steamer service would probably be practicable up to Sui-Fu, and thence up the Min River to Chiating.\n\nSui-Fu, situated at the junction of the Min and Chin-sha Rivers, is 17 to 30 days up from Chungking. It is the mart of Central Ssuchuan, and is in the midst of a district producing coals, salt, &c. Its dense population of 180,000 are engaged in different branches of silk culture. The shops offer a great variety of European goods, cottons, cutlery, toys, &c., in a word (says a member of the Lyons Mission), every bad bauble that Leipzig or Nuremberg can export. It enjoys a large and profitable transit trade, being the entrepôt for products between Ssuchuan, north Yunnan, and Thibet.\n\n39\n\n## Routes from the Yangtze to Yunnan-Fu\n\nThere are five routes from the Yangtze to Yunnan-Fu.\n\n### (a) Hankow to Yunnan-Fu\n\nThis is the chief official route. It goes by Hankow to the Tung-ting Lake and up the Yuankiang to Chenyuan-Fu, just within the borders of Kueichou. Here, after 40 days' journey, the boat navigation ends. Then the route lies overland through a mountainous region to Kueiyang-Fu (reached in 8 days), and traverses the rest of Kueichou through more fertile country. Yunnan-Fu is reached in 18 days from Kueiyang. Thus the total journey is 66 days. This route, known as the Mandarins' route, is but little used for commerce, as the likin duties payable on entering Hunan, Kueichou, and Yunnan, combined with freight charges, render produce too costly for sale in Yunnan. But goods (e.g., opium) required for Hunan and Kwangsi come from Yunnan by this route, while cotton goods from Hankow for Kueiyang-Fu traverse it. Better conditions in respect of transport and taxation would increase the trade in foreign goods. At present, these charges involve an addition of 20 per cent. ad valorem to the cost of cotton yarn and shirtings.\n\n### (b) Chungking to Yunnan-Fu via Kueiyang-Fu\n\nThe first town of note on this route is Chichiang Hsien, an important trade depot for north-west Ssuchuan-Kueichou, especially for salt. It is in water communication with Chungking, but navigation ceases at Chichiang. Kanshui, near the Kueichou border, is in a well-cultivated district producing coal, iron, and copper, and is famed for the manufacture of iron pans. Towards Kueichou appears a sea of bare rocky mountains. The precipitous banks of the Sungkan River must be crossed and also a pass 3,000 feet high before Tungtzubsien is reached. Passing coal mines and poppy fields, the traveller comes to Tsuni, a prosperous place with manufactures of very hard and strong silk cloth. There is much poppy cultivation before reaching the capital, Kueiyang (15 days from Chungking). Kueiyang-Fu is a large city with an active commercial population.\n\nThe road from Kueiyang-Fu to Yunnan-Fu traverses the valley of Langtai Ting, prosperous and full of houses, and famous for superior opium. The country continues difficult, and carts are not seen till the frontier of Yunnan is crossed. Ping-i-hsien (in Yunnan) lies in a large well-watered plain and has abundance of coal, which is found all the way from Kueiyang-Fu to Yunnan-Fu. Chan-i-chou is in a vast plain well cultivated with rice, and famous as the breeding ground of Yunnan ponies. Thence the route is by Yanglin to the capital.\n\n(An alternative route is from Hokiang on the Yangtze to Kueiyang-Fu. It proceeds up the Chishin-ho to Jeahuai-ting, a town with important salt traffic. There are several large and busy towns along this route, such as Tushan, trade being mainly in salt and opium. Anshun, a prosperous place S. of Kueiyang, reached by fairly good roads, is the second city in Kueichou, and has a brisk trade in local products, especially cotton cloths and whitewax insects, and in foreign goods.)\n\n### (c) Chungking via Luchow to Yunnan-Fu\n\nFrom Luchow, a town with a great business in transhipment of salt and extensive opium cultivation, the route proceeds to Nachi (nine days) and thence by boat up the Yungning River to Yungning Fu (four days), whence it goes overland through a part of Kueichou, and reaches Yunnan-Fu (21 days). This route is shorter than the Sui-Fu route (d). Moreover, the country is easier and the path better. But almost all the trade goes by Sui-Fu, because the Yungning route crosses a corner of Kueichou, which involves an additional likin, while on the Sui-Fu route Yunnan and Ssuchuan are conterminous. Goods from Chungking through Kueichou are said to pay three likins and twelve prefectural taxes before reaching Tali, while by the Sui-Fu route they pay only two likins and seven prefectural taxes. Yungning-hsien, being on the frontier of Ssuchuan...\n\n564 \n575",
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        "content_text": "Enclosure 2.\n\nRECO\n\nC.O.\n\n4795\n\nREO is FEB 00\n\nGOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION. No. 387. Pursuant to section 4 of the Local Communities Ordinance, No. 11 of 1899, His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint the Committees for the various Sub-Districts on the mainland of the New Territories specified in the Schedule hereto annexed.\n\nBy Command,\n\nColonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 7th July, 1899.\n\n  \n    DISTRICT,\n    1 SUB-DISTRICT.\n  \n  \n    Villages,\n    Sha Tin Ts'ün\nTsik Ts'in Wai\n沙田村\n積存圍\nSam Tin Wai...\nKang Han\n  \n  \n    \n    心田圍\n巡口\n  \n  \n    隔 0:\n    沙田\n頭圍源頭壠寮山巖\n灣洋墩下\n逕 隔 沙山小黃石大觀茂禾火山四黃河落九 口田 田家瀝坭古藍音草輋灘尾貝竹上渡肚\n  \n  \n    \n    Kák Tin\nSha Tin Tant\nSbán Ha Wai\nSiu Lek Un\nWong Nai Tan\nShek Ku Lung\nTúi Linh Tin\nKun Yam Sháu\nMau Trở Ngắm\nWo Tsia\nFo T'án\nSbán Mi\nAu Pui Wan\nWong Chuk Yeung\nHo Sheung Tan\nLok Tó Ha\nKau To...\n  \n\n2 SUB-DISTRICT.\n\n  \n    Tsing Lán Shi\nTseung Kwan O\nMa Yau T'oug...\nSó Mau Ping\nMang Kung Uk\nSheung Yeung\n***\nHa Yeung Pan Long Wán\nYau Ù Wán\nSong Shi Wán\nFu Hop Wún\nTái Háng Hai\nNám Wai\nPak Wai\n    Villages.\n柯上\n蔡渡下\n九肚\n井樹\n井 將 馬蘇孟 上下檳鰌桑富大南北\n蘭 軍 遊茅公\n洋洋榔魚樹台坑圍圍\n「北圍\n灣灣灣灣口\n  \n\nJ. H. STEWART LOCKHART, Colonial Secretary.\n\nKAU-LUNG. 九龍\n\n  \n    Tse Chui-ghm...\nTse Hing-séung Wai Mi-ts'éung Yau Kin-lung...\n    Names of Committee.\n謝慶\n韋美\n游見\n楊德光\n謝謝韋游楊韋袁麥草會會林會蔡楊釗 鄭王陳 祝慶美見德奇創叶秀文福暢道過振 寬長成 三湘祥川光秀大廷 明星華榕妈泰光 有發玉\n  \n  \n    KAU YEUK. 九魡\nYeung Tak-kwong\nWai K'i-sau\nÜn Chfong-tai...\nMak\nHip-ting...\nWai Sau\nTsang\nMan-ming\nTsang Fuk-sing\nLam Ch'énng-wIL\nTsang To-yung\nTs'oi Tseuk-úo\nYeung K tải\nJat Chal-hwang\nCheng Fan-yau\nWong Cheung-fát\nCh'an Shing-yuk\n    楊德光\n韋奇秀\n袁昌大\n麥協廷\n韋秀\n曾\n文銘\n曾福成\n林昌榮\n曾道揚\n蔡爵宇\n楊其大\n易濟璜\n鄭勛耀\n王祥發\n陳成玉\n  \n  \n    Cheng Kwai-salk\nHung Kwok-tsing\nLau Tung-p\nLau-Man-kau ...\nLo Muk-kwai...\nYan King-fong\nYau In-fuk\n    將軍澳\n上\n下\n公民\n洋\n洋\n  \n  \n    LUK YEUK.大約\nAFT\nCh'an Tik-kwong Ng Wing-shan...\nLi To-yzot\nShing Un-tát\nÜ Mau-loung\nLan Kwan-man\nLau Kwan-tsenk\nLau Sui-shang\n    Names of Committee.\n陳迪光 吳永壽\n李道\n成煥達\n余懋\n林君民\n劉君慈 劉君爵 劉瑞生\n  \n  \n    Lam Tsün\nYau Tak.kwong\nShing Shing-tát\n    林全\n邱德光 成陞達\n  \n\n47",
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        "content_text": "# List of Chinese employees in the General Post Office who are to receive increases to their salaries in accordance with C.S.O. Circular No. 3 dated 5th March, 1900.\n\n| Office | Name | Present salary per month | Increased salary per month | Increase | Remarks |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Shroff, Branch Post Office. | Mang Sai | $15 | $17 | $2 |  |\n| do | Kan Hoi | 15 | 17 | 2 | Asst. Shroff Regon. Br. |\n| Head Messenger | Lit Hol | 12 | 15 | 3 |  |\n|  | Chew Yuen | 14 | 16 | 2 | Office Boy |\n|  | Fu Yun | 12 | 14 | 2 |  |\n| Marine Stamper | Chan Kan | 10 | 12 | 2 |  |\n| do | Kwan Chik | 10 | 12 | 2 |  |\n| Shanghai. Shroff | Chung Ham | 27 | 31 | 4 |  |\n| Pos[t]man | Chung Kweli | 11 | 13 | 2 |  |\n| do | Sze Wei Yung | 10 | 12 | 2 |  |\n| Ningpo. Postman | Shan Hsu Ting | 7 | 9 | 2 |  |\n\n## Y. Note. Vide Estimates for 1900.\n\nIncrease $300 per annum.\n\n**(sd.) E.C. Lewis.**\n**Ag. Postmaster General.**\n**27/3/1900.**\n\nREC `11 JUN 00` \nPage: 3 \n52 \n18800",
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        "content_text": "## Schedule of the Chinese Employees on Grade of Increase of Salaries Approved by the Governor\n\n### Office\n\n| Name | Present Salary per month | Increased per month |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Yau Tsok Kwan | 151 | 4 |\n| Tung Fu | 44 | 10 |\n| ... | ... | ... |\n| Au Cheong |  |  |\n| Laiyingpun |  |  |\n| Li Chak |  |  |\n| Wantsai | 13 (rising to 15) |  |\n| Chaw-U-ting | 10 |  |\n| Tung lung chow | 25 |  |\n| Ise Sik-leung |  |  |\n| Ng Fung-Chau |  |  |\n| Chau King- | 10 | 4 |\n| Aplichaw • Sung Yut-ching | 24 |  |\n| Yung Phong Ip |  |  |\n| Wong Leung-s | 6 | 3 |\n| Isang Lai-She | 101 |  |\n| Sung Ham-shi | 72 |  |\n| Tam Kau | 61 |  |\n| Ho Kau-pou | 25 |  |\n| Chan du | 241 |  |",
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        "content_text": "## Schedule of Chinese employés in the Police Department who will benefit under the new scheme of increase.\n\n| Name | Present salary per month | Increased salary per month | Increase | Remarks |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 4th Clerk Ng Yau Sang | $30 | $34 | $4 | Ali |\n| Telephone do Lok Ting | $30 | $34 | $4 |  |\n| do Cheng Yau | $30 | $34 | $4 |  |\n| Cheung Fuk | $30 | $34 | $4 |  |\n| Station coolie Chan Wai | $6 | $7 | $1 |  |\n| Office do Chan Shu | $6 | $7 | $1 |  |\n| do Lai Shing | $6 | $7 | $1 |  |\n| Station do Pang Sau | $6 | $7 | $1 |  |\n| Horse coolie Chau Po Sang | $6 | $7 | $1 |  |\n| Bcation coolie Nan Fu | $6 | $7 | $1 |  |\n| do Lau Hing | $6 | $7 | $1 |  |\n| do Leung Wing | $10 | $12 | $2 |  |\n| do Chan Chong | $10 | $12 | $2 |  |\n| do Lo Sun | $10 | $12 | $2 |  |\n| do Ng Muk | $10 | $12 | $2 |  |\n| do Kwong Kwai | $10 | $12 | $2 |  |\n| do Lo Yeung | $10 | $12 | $2 |  |\n| do Chan Kiu | $10 | $12 | $2 |  |\n| do Wong Tsun | $5 | $7 | $2 |  |\n| Leung Wing | $10 | $12 | $2 |  |\n| Chan Hung | $5 | $7 | $2 |  |\n| Li Mun | $5 | $7 | $2 |  |",
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        "content_text": "## 492\n\nSudden and violent freshets come down from Yunnan between May and October, but the open country is rarely flooded, and the river not only rises but also falls very fast. No town of even third-rate importance is passed en route, and though Ping Ma and other places the cultivation of paddy, indigo, rhea, &c., is dense and extensive, there are still large uncultivated areas even close to the river and in the valley bottoms.\n\nThe West River Valley would certainly bear a much larger population if the public peace could be guaranteed. It is to such a gradual increase of the population, to the development of mines, and to the encouragement of such special products as silk, indigo, rhea, &c., that we must look for an increase in the now not very great volume of Kwansi trade.\n\nThe banks of the West River right away into Yünnan are infested still with bands of pirates, or \"yin yung.\" The \"army\" of \"Maréchal Su,\" on the southern frontier, furnishes an inexhaustible supply of Bardolphs, Nyms, and Pistols. Just before I passed along (September 1899), three opium robberies, accompanied with violence and homicide, had occurred, and the river traffic was reduced to a minimum. The road north from Po-sê into Kueichou, which was impassable when the Blackburn Commission passed through Kueichow, is now open, the merchants having put up a large sum to secure an efficient policing; but the river itself, especially above Po-sê, is as bad as ever, and until this brigandage is suppressed, it is hopeless to expect a large trade.\n\nThe river between Nanning and Po-sê will not be navigable for steamers, except occasionally at high water. As a light 3-foot draught boat could do the journey in three days in good water, it may prove profitable to take advantage of a favourable river to run up to Po-sê with sycee and yarn and bring down opium and aniseed oil. The extra security and speed would probably admit of high freights, but there is always the risk of the river suddenly going down and leaving the steamer high and dry.\n\nShallows rather than rapids are the trouble all along the West River. Po-sê is a busy little town of some 12,000 inhabitants. When I was there quantities of Kueichou opium were coming down, but the Yunnan trade is trifling. Mules very rarely come to Po-sê, and the journey across the frontier to Pê Ngai has to be performed in small sampans worked by Shans. The rapids are violent and the scenery magnificent, but the robbers are stated to be numerous.\n\nPê Ngai is a wretched little town, the usual terminus of the mule route from Yunnan, but it is by no means easy to get beasts at a moment's notice. Pê Ngai, 700 feet, to Kwang-uan, 4,000 feet (the first town on the plateau of Yunnan), is eight stages over a serbonian bog which the Chinese are pleased to call a road. The country is all ups and downs, the rains are long and heavy, and no one ever spends a cent on repairs. The consequent delay, damage to goods, and wear and tear of beasts is a most serious item of expense. The country itself up to Kwangnan is very thinly populated by Shans and Chinese from Ssuchuan and Canton. The poverty and dirt in their dwellings is deplorable, and it is not surprising that fever and plague hold permanent session here.\n\nOn arriving at Kwangnan the exhausted and mud-caked traveller has a choice of routes; to Mengtze direct is seven days; the roads on the plateau are better, but the country up to the Valley of Mengtze is as poor as the Pê Ngai district. I took a short cut, avoiding the city of Kai Hua, and travelled for four days through lonely valleys filled with marshes, the home of wild-fowl and malaria; here and there were some mud and wattle huts, where the few inhabitants shiver away their ague-stricken existence. From the commercial point of view the country is the abomination of desolation. I found the natives new to quinine, and I was bombarded with requests for the \"white frost,\" which in many cases it would have been sheer cruelty to refuse.\n\nFrom Kuangnan to Yunnan is about fifteen days. Kwangnan itself is a sleepy hollow of no commercial importance.\n\nThus goods coming up from Nanning to Po-sê will still have a hard journey of at least twenty days before reaching the real markets of Yunnan. Unless something is done to clear the road of mud and robbers the prospect cannot be considered good.\n\nIn eight days' travel between Pê Ngai and Kwangnan I met two large opium caravans (about 200 beasts in each); besides that nothing but a few loads of hides, bones, and medicines. There are two li-kins en route.\n\nMengtze from every point of view, and especially the military, is a place of the utmost importance to the Chinese Government. It is therefore not surprising to find that the garrison consists of four officers, two men, and a boy, all of whom have conscientious objections to having anything to do with \"villanous salpetre.\" Mengtze is the key of the chief natural trade route from the low country on to the plateau. It is also the screen of the rich districts round Lin An and of the capital itself; any one in possession of Mengtze could overawe Yünnan-fu so effectually as to control all the officials in the province, and 100 French soldiers might walk in and take the place any day; indeed, I am convinced that this is the fate which is ultimately in store for Mengtze. If such a move was made combined with a demonstration near Lung-chou, I feel sure \"Maréchal\" Su and his officers would bolt. The fact probably is that the French Government at home is aware of the weak and uncertain position which they occupy in Tonquin itself. Their \"jumping-off ground\" is so unsteady that they are not prepared to make a leap. They are so feeble that the hands of guerillas into which Su's \"army\" would break up on the occurrence of hostilities would do them a great deal of harm. Otherwise it is inexplicable why Mengtze was not taken instead of Kuangchou Wan.\n\n1899 is likely to be a bumper year for Mengtze, and the trade is steadily developing; chiefly on account of transit passes being respected. Now, I have several times seen the statement that this circumstance was due to \"the energetic action of the French authorities which contrasts so favourably with the weakness displayed, &c.\" In fact the French authorities have had nothing whatever to do with transits; the goods are mostly ours, and the passes are taken out in the names of Chinese firms; it is not, therefore, clear how the French Consul would have any locus standi even if irregularities did occur. The present excellent system is due to the action of the Customs and the Taotai who opened the port, an official who objected to the li-kin, and who insisted on passes being respected; thus, from the commencement of the trade it became a matter of custom.\n\nThe Taotai at Nanning declared, but I know not on what authority, that there was no immediate prospect of the Lungchou Railway being really pushed forward; but at Mengtze the French evidently mean business and have gone about it in a very one French way. The country has been overrun with \"Missions de Chemin de Fer.\" One mission sent out from home by the Public Works (Guillemoto); a second by the Tonquin military authorities (Pennequin); a third by the banks who are financing the railway. All these expeditions have been separate and more or less hostile to each other, and have trouble with the people.\n\nAt the time of the Mengtze riot there were over thirty Frenchmen in the city, besides a number at various mines and in Yünnan-fu; some of these gentlemen owe their position to being friends of M. Doumer's political supporters, who have accordingly \"dumped\" them down in Tonquing. The Governor-General's hurried visit to the Yunnan Viceroy has had no good result, and did much to bring to a head the popular and official suspicion and dislike of Frenchmen.\n\nM. Doumer appears to have thought that a Chinese Viceroy is a kind of King Coffee, to whom it is only necessary to offer a sufficient quantity of gin in order to procure any Treaty you may want. He was soon undeceived; some of his presents were rejected and no definite Concession for a railway station at the capital could be obtained; the Viceroy also objected to commencing the railway at Yünnan. His position was:\n\n\"We have no money to embark in unprofitable enterprises; the province is poor and this is a losing affair; the people, too, are strongly opposed to it; you have got your permit from Peking; begin your honourable railway at your end with your own money and come along gradually. The people will then get accustomed to it and in a few years later there will be plenty of time to talk of Concessions at Yunnan-fu, which now I have no authority to make.\"\n\nAs regards the railway, I gather that the position is this: all surveys have been practically completed, and a route (not the present mule route) has been found up to the plateau from Manhao, where a road for railway services is being made, but there is likely to be a long delay in getting plant out, and possibly special boats will have to be constructed to bring it up to Laokay. The French Foreign Office is lukewarm, and the various parties interested in the line are not likely to work well together.\n\nThe Mengtze riot last summer was a much more serious affair than appeared, and it was extremely lucky that none of the foreigners on the Customs staff were killed. The riot was undoubtedly directed against the French Consulate, but the mob could not distinguish between that building and the Customs. There is no reason to suppose that the officials were directly concerned in the riot which was so well organized as to be a sort of local rebellion. Two of the Mengtze Yamên runners had been killed a day or two beforehand by one of the ringleaders whom they had tried to arrest.",
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        "content_text": "COPY.-\n\n232\n\nEnclosure No. 4 to Mr. Scott's Despatch of 31st December, 1900.\n\nCopy of Record of the evidence of the prisoner Yang Hsiang Pu sent up by the Nam Hoi Magistrate and examined by the Head Police Office. Yang Hsiang Pu said:\n\nI am a native of Tan Ton village in the district of Nam Hoi. My age is 45 years. My father is dead; my mother's maiden name was Chan. I have no brothers. I am married, my wife's family name being Feng, and we have sons and daughters. I was formerly a student of medicine in the establishment of one Chia, called the Po Chi Medical Hall. Afterwards, I opened a doctor's establishment in the Hua Wang Street outside the West Gate of Hsiang Shan District City, and am now practising as a Doctor in Canton outside the South Gate in the Ma Ton Chih Chieh. I have been acquainted with Yang Chu Yun, Sien Yu Cheng, Shih Ching Ju, Si Chi Tang, Chen Kuei Shih, Wing Tuo Fu, Teng Jui Nan.\n\nIn the 7th moon, date not remembered, but some time after the 10th day (4th August), I, having business, went to Hongkong and met Yang Chu Yun at the Office of the \"Chinese Daily Press\", in which paper Chen Kuei Chih had a share. Chen Kuei Shih and Shih Ching Ju were with us at table, and they put heads together and talked secrets. I asked Sien Yu Cheng about it, and Yang Chu Yun, hearing this, forthwith told Shih Ching Ju, and they all said that I too was a man who could join in with them, that there was no need of reticence, and that they could tell me all. They invited me to sit with them, and they said that this present time of disorder in the North furnished just the opportunity to effect the assassination of all the Officials of Kwang Tung Province and loot all the Treasuries, and the houses of the rich in Canton, thus at once acquiring wealth. I was smitten with fear and dared not consent with them. Then the party broke up.\n\nI at once returned to Canton, and it was not till the middle decade of the 8th moon (September 4–13), exact day not remembered, that Shih Ching Ju arrived back from Macao and came to my Medical Hall, and said that Yang Chu Yun had the day before come to his place at Macao and said that he was determined to carry out the aforesaid plot of assassination and that he had already a scheme in which he wanted me to take a hand. He specially told Shih Ching Ju to come and ask me to go along to Hongkong.\n\nThe following day, I reached Hongkong. While we were in the Office of the \"Chinese Daily Press\", Yang Chu Yun came back from No. 11 in the Chish Tze Street, a house rented for residence by a Japanese, to the Office where I saw him. There were a good many people about the place, and we signed to each other not to speak of the secret plot.\n\nSubsequently, Yang Chu Yun took the party to the third and highest story of the Newspaper premises and discussed secretly with me, Shih Ching Ju, and the others, saying that the killing of the Officials was really a difficult matter to find men to accomplish. Further, the Officials in Canton being numerous, it was impossible to take action against them all at one time; a very good plan would be to conceal dynamite and effect a number...\n\nPage 232\n\n...\n\n...",
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        "title": "CO129-306 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [8-9]",
        "content_text": "Canton, 27th August, 1901.\n\n1. I have the honour to inform you that I have received the following Report from Pai Ching Pn, Magistrate, Easting. In the Manhow District:\n\nKong Esin (Parsavarance) Piracy Case.\n\nYesterday (August 26th), the British Consul-General had the witnesses from Kangkong, Ho Chick, Kiang-Po, Fu-Tung, Chu You Chang, and Hi Bai Shan sent to my yamun, and I, jointly with Mr. Stewart, British Consular Assistant, had up the five prisoners, viz., Ta Kuo, Chong Yap Chow, Ya Han alias Lei Shang, Fong Chan Fa, and Ta Pu, to be confronted with the witnesses and examined.\n\nHiang-Pai stated in evidence that while the boat was being pirated, Chen Yu seized him by the queue; while Hiang Kusi held him round the chest; and a boy searched his person; he lost about 2 dollars. Afterwards, at the Court in Kangkong, he was confronted with them (and recognised the two culprits as the right men; Ka could still recognise them, but did not know their names or surnames).\n\nI had caused the prisoners in question to be singled out from a number of other prisoners; Ho Chick at first pointed out Sheng Ta Te, and Hiang, at one pointing out Tung Ta Yu and Hiang Ya Kuo as the criminals who had committed robbery on board the launch. Their statements were absolutely clear, and there seemed no reason for doubt on the subject.\n\nAlso Chu You Chang and Hi Bai Shan said that they were both Christian converts who had been partners, keeping a Sanchow and Isanghau goods shop in the Tu En Street at Sanning. Subsequently, Chu You Shang opened on the opposite side of the street a carpenter's shop under the name of Chan Olan. On the 9th day of the Intercalary 8th Moon, early in the morning, Chen To Nan alias Hi Ya Chang called together some scores of men who came with weapons in their hands, saying that they had come to look out for and kill (someone), and after making a disturbance, both the shopkeepers had made a witness statement and fled far away in terror; and afterwards made an accusation before the Sanning Magistrate asking for their arrest to be underscored. Then Ta Han and Hi Ya Chang absconded to Kangkong. Chu Yon Shang and Hi Bai Shan reported to the Hongkong authorities who arrested Chen Ya Han.\n\nThe witness further stated that Hi Ya Han was resident in the same street, called the Tu No. Street in Sanning, and that he was well acquainted with him; he sometimes sold pork and some things from a \"Pai Ka\" basket - evidence enough of his being a mauvais sujet. The antecedents of the prisoner were very unsatisfactory, and Chen...",
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        "title": "CO129-306 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [8-9]",
        "content_text": "471\n\nI would point out that Liang Yin Fan was recognised by Ho Chick and Liang Pei-am as one of the Perseverance piracy criminals, and that the case of Chon Yin Fan, denounced by Chu-Yon Chang and Liang Shan as having, under pretence of mission hatred, collected a party and robbed the Kuang Hua and Chun Chan Shops, was a separate one.\n\nAlthough in these cases the persons offended against had through their evidence brought the prisoners into Court and were confronted with them, still Liang Xuei, Chong Yin, and Chon Nan all refused to admit the truth of the indictment.\n\nNow, although the fixed law of China contains a provision that when many witnesses give clearly convicting evidence, the trial shall be considered as complete, still in cases of robbery and homicide, it is essential for the prisoner himself to admit his guilt before he can be punished. It is to be feared that although these prisoners have been clearly convicted, they assuredly will not admit the evidence against them without being tortured.\n\nAccording to regulation, it is not proper to apply torture in the interrogation of prisoners extradited from Hongkong, so it is not proper now to do so.\n\nI have the honour to send to Your Excellency copies of the evidence for Your Excellency's information and to ask for decisions.\n\nAs to whether the prisoners Chong Yu and Liang Kuei should or should not be punished according to law, after further satisfactory evidence has been obtained,\n\n(1) and whether Chen Han should or should not be sent to stand his trial at Sinning City on the accusation having been laid there by Chu Ton Chang.\n\nThere are besides Feng Chin Fu and another against whom there is no evidence convicting them of crime. I am sending a man to go speedily to Hanoy and writing to the Tung Kwan Magistrate asking him to make investigations at the shops and residence mentioned in Court by Fang Chin Fu and To Pui, find out their record, and if the investigations are satisfactory, release them separately, and take clemency measure.\n\nHaving no doubt about the case, I have endorsed it with orders for Liang Ya Kuo and Chong Ya Tup, as the witnesses have given convicting evidence showing that they are the criminals guilty of the piracy off the \"Perseverance\", to be treated in accordance with the clause which provides that \"where the body of evidence establishes proof of guilt, the trial is complete\". The Magistrate will then, on data on which punishment is not forbidden, punish the persons Liang Ya Kuo and Chong Ya Tup as regulations provide.\n\nChon Nan alias Liang Ya Chang having been testified against...",
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        "content_text": "475\n\n31.\n\nfre ng toa tajad!\n\nI then proceeded to point out to him that the present case was in a sense peculiar; it was not purely a Chinese case as the prisoners had been handed over to the Chinese Authorities by the Government of the Colony of Hongkong. It was of mutual interest to both the Hongkong Government and the Chinese Authorities that piracy should be put down. The Hongkong Government had always been ready to assist the Chinese Authorities in the past and would afford them every facility in the future in order to secure the ends of justice; but torture was contrary to English law and they could not countenance it. The views of the Hongkong Government, in that they were assisting the Chinese Authorities in procuring the suppression of piracy, were entitled to consideration, and a compromise which would satisfy the laws of both countries was from every point of view desirable. I strongly urged him to convict the prisoners on the evidence against them, which he had admitted satisfied him, and forego the obtaining of the prisoners' confession.\n\nHaving first asked me whether a sentence of imprisonment for life would satisfy me, and being given an emphatic refusal, it would be improper to place criminals extradited from Hongkong in a more favourable position than those taken in their own country. I consented to request the Viceroy's sanction to execute the accused without having wrung from them a confession of their guilt.\n\nTwo of the prisoners were thus disposed of.\n\nThe remaining two were Fong Chin Fu and Ko K. PR. Against the latter there was no evidence and he had not been recognised; the case against him was therefore dropped. Fong Chin Fu had also not been identified, but in view of the fact that he had given evidence, which corroborated the evidence, and had been arrested in the company of Chong Ya Yu and Chong Ya Kuen, who had now been found guilty, I requested that he should be brought forward and questioned.\n\nThis was done; he repeated his former evidence, protested that he was innocent, and said that his father, the owner of the Tungli fishing boat, could identify him, and that the Yan Tsung fishing firm of Lacao would guarantee him. He also had an aunt in ...\n\nThe Magistrate being in favour of an adjournment via this means, case in order to give time to obtain the presence of his father and procure corroborative evidence from Kaono, I consented (though I pointed out that his story tallied exactly with that of the evidence he had asserted he could procure to clear himself, with that of the prisoners now found guilty, which was in itself suggestive of complicity in their crimes). The fact too of him being the son of the owner of the Kuangli fishing boat was not a sufficient guarantee that he never engaged in piracy.\n\nThe case of Chai ▲ Chang was then taken. The Magistrate was entirely satisfied with the evidence of the witnesses.\n\nChu",
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        "document_key": "CO129-317 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [4-6]",
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        "title": "CO129-317 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [4-6]",
        "content_text": "8. Finally, Your Petitioners desire to point out that they are not now applying to have their salaries increased, but since the depreciation of the dollar has caused the actual value of what they receive to seriously diminish they think they are entitled, while such depreciation continues, to humbly call upon the Government for such measure of relief as may compensate them for the loss incurred.\n\nYour Petitioners therefore humbly pray that the system of Exchange compensation as enjoyed by other Officers in the Service may be extended to them, or in the alternative for such other measure of relief as the circumstances of the case require and to His Majesty's Government may seem meet.\n\nAnd Your Petitioners as in duty bound, will ever pray, etc.\n\nHongkong, 24 February, 1903.\n\nLui To Lui\nMong Kwok In Hok Wan Zi\nJenny Jean Zi Tak Yung Chi Po Ming\nNg Shee Ling Ho Fu Leung\nCheung Reuben\nNg In Luk Kei Kwong Thung Man Jar Fong Sing Thing\nWong Ming Cheung Fei Fook\nChan Tai Phin Hon Kam Shing\nChan Ping Wrong Thing Seung\nLuk Sik Kwong Leung Hing Ber Wong Hoi Mui\nLung Yuk Kow\nKo Fook Lam\nTai Wong Chung",
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        "document_key": "CO129-321 - Public Offices & Others - 1903",
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        "title": "CO129-321 - Public Offices & Others - 1903",
        "content_text": "97\n\n2\n\n\"Tu'an-lien,\" or local volunteers, rose against them, and, in one particular case, surrounded a band which took refuge in a \"chai-tzu\"—one of the walled refuges so common on the hilltops in Western China. Troops then appeared upon the scene, and, although the volunteers were anxious to attack and exterminate the band, the military officials counselled delay, with the result that next morning the troops, to the consternation of the volunteers, occupied the refuge—the band, through the connivance of the military officials, having escaped overnight. The volunteers were naturally very much incensed, and the result was that two of the military officers concerned were brought here and publicly executed, by command of the Viceroy. The theory of Boxer invulnerability was also rudely shaken by the death of one of the leaders, who was shot by the volunteers.\n\nAt an interview which I had with the Viceroy on the 7th instant, his Excellency assured me that there was no longer any disorder in the province, and that he had taken measures to prevent a recrudescence of the trouble. He had divided up each place into wards of ten families, with a superintending Headman, who is held responsible for the good behaviour of the other nine houses; and that it was his intention to remove all ineffective officials and replace them by men of energy and ability. He said that one of the great sources of disorder was the constant changing of officials, who, owing to their short tenure of office, were necessarily ignorant of what was taking place within their jurisdictions; and that it was his intention, as long as he remained in Szechuan, to keep his subordinates at their posts until they failed in their duty. His Excellency impressed me as being a man who is anxious to do his best for his province, and frankly told me that he is liked by the people but hated by the officials. He made the same remark in the presence of fifteen officials when I dined with him on the 14th instant.\n\nDuring the interview, I took the opportunity of referring to the statements in the foreign press regarding impending trouble in Kansu and Shensi, but his Excellency ridiculed the idea, saying that they were idle rumours, that he knew Tung Fu-hsiang well, and that he had no fear of any trouble in that quarter. He seemed sincere, and advised me, when I heard any rumours of the sort, to come to him, and he would soon tell me whether they were true or false.\n\nIt may be an exaggeration to say that his Excellency is hated by all his subordinates, but he has undoubtedly very bitter foes in the French, who find in him a man whom they are unable to coerce. I understand that the French Mission have lodged a demand for an indemnity of 2,200,000 taels, of which 2,000,000 taels are for the destruction of Mission property and 200,000 taels are for the lives of 2,000 converts alleged to have been massacred last year. The French Bishop demands payment by the Viceroy, whereas the latter insists that it is a matter for the local authorities to investigate and settle. The French, as I understand the situation, declare that no investigation is necessary, as they have already done so themselves. This is a striking contrast to the American claim of 6,525 taels, which was promptly paid locally.\n\nWith part of the proceeds of their last indemnity of 3,000,000 taels, the French missionaries are building hospitals at their chief centres in Szechuan, and the French Colonial Office is supplying these hospitals with military doctors. French Sisters (five for each hospital) are to act as nurses. A French school for imparting Western learning to Chinese was opened at Chungking on the 13th instant. Some have already arrived.\n\nWhen at Hsü-chou Fu, on my way up from Chungking, I made inquiries as to the alleged wholesale buying of land by the French missionaries at that place. It was stated some time ago in the press that this land which they had acquired was intended for the terminus of a railway from Yunnan into Szechuan; but the whole purchase amounts to only five plots of land (the most valuable costing merely 500 taels), situated at long intervals, for a distance of 22 li, to the west of the Nan-kuang River—a southern tributary of the Yang-tsze. The south bank of the Yang-tsze opposite Hsü-chou Fu (or \"Sui Fu,\" as it is called locally) is the only available land suitable for building purposes in the neighbourhood of the city, and the plots were bought in anticipation of Hsu-chou Fu being made an open port by the Commercial Treaty of last year, and as a purely commercial speculation.\n\nFour officers belonging to the French gun-boat \"Olry,\" now at Chungking, are at present engaged on a survey of the Yang-tsze from Ichang to Hsü-chou Fu. They commenced at Wan Hsien towards the end of December, and two are working down and two up-river.\n\nThe Japanese are exceedingly active in Western China, and even in Thibet. Chungking, Hat-chou Fu, and Chengtu.\n\nLast year, a Mr. N. Narita succeeded in reaching Lhassa from the Indian side. He went disguised as a Chinese merchant and had only one Chinese companion. His presence was known to the Chinese Imperial Resident, or Amban, who, I am informed, received the traveller as a guest and was good enough to show him all over the city during his twenty days' stay in the capital. He was so unfortunate as to lose his camera, but was able to make drawings of all he required. He returned by way of India, and is now in Japan planning a second journey into Thibet.\n\nCaptain Idogawa, a Japanese Military Intelligence Officer, resident at Chungking, started with three other Japanese on the 2nd instant, with the intention of making a journey through Yunnan to Bhamo. He travels up the Yang-tsze and proposes to do the land part of the journey on foot, passing south through northern Yünnan to Yunnan Fu, and thence west by way of Tali Fu. He will return by a different route through Yunnan, and cross Kueichou on his way back to Chungking.\n\nThe Chinese Military Academy here, which is capable of accommodating 200 students, is completed, and Captain Matsura and two Japanese instructors are ready to commence work. The register is now open in the Academy for the enrolment of students for examination, and the 28th February has been fixed as the date of opening. The Viceroy will himself examine the candidates, and the qualifications called for are respectability, a fair education, a robust constitution, and suitable age. It is distinctly laid down that no opium smoker need present himself.\n\nMr. Tokimaru, the Japanese Consul at Chungking, recently paid a visit of about a month's duration to Chengtu, leaving in the last days of January. The main object of his visit was to try and induce the Viceroy to place the Arsenal here under Japanese management; but his Excellency refused, stating that, although he would have no objection to a Japanese foreman at a wage of about 100 dollars to 120 dollars a-month, the management must remain in Chinese hands.\n\nA German Commercial Mission, although it repudiates that title, is at present here. It is composed of Dr. Betz, Acting German Consul at Ichang, who is also Acting Consul at Chungking; Dr. Delius, German Commercial Attaché, attached to the Shanghae Consulate; and Mr. Landgrav of the firm of Messrs. Carlowitz and Co. These gentlemen, with a train of seventy bearers and porters, and several Chinese assistants, left Ichang in the beginning of December last, and, travelling by the south bank of the Yang-tsze, arrived at Chungking on the last day of the year. They remained a week in Chungking, and left on the 7th January for Chengtu, travelling by way of Ho Chou and the prefectural cities of Shun-ching, Pao-ning, and Tung-ch'uan. They reached the provincial capital on the 30th ultimo, and are leaving for Kuan Hsien and Ya-chou Fu in a couple of days. From Ya-chou, they will descend the Ya and Tung Rivers and return to Ichang by the Min River and the Yang-tsze. They are making a careful study of the commerce and commercial conditions and possibilities of the country through which they pass, and are specially interested in the pushing of German aniline dyes, notably indigo, and in investigating the subject of Chinese medicines. They were present, like myself, at the dinner given by the Viceroy on the 14th instant, the only foreign guest being Dr. Legendre, who is attached to the French Mission Hospital. Dr. Betz has hinted to me that Germany will, in all probability, send a gun-boat to the Upper Yang-tsze during the present year.\n\nIt is reported here that things are not going smoothly with the Chinese in Thibet. There is said to be trouble on the frontier in the neighbourhood of Batang and Litang, and that the Chinese Assistant Resident is returning to China on account of the treatment he has been receiving at the hands of the Thibetans.\n\nAt the same time, missionaries report that, of late, there has been a tendency, hitherto unknown, on the part of Thibetans to become better acquainted with foreigners and their ways, and they hint that Russian intrigue may account for it; but, as yet, I have been unable to discover whether the rumoured Treaty with Russia in regard to Thibet has any foundation in fact.\n\nUp to January of the present year, the French had three mining Concessions in Szechuan:—\n\n1. For coal and iron in the districts and department of Kuan Hsien, Wei-yüan Hsien, Chien-wei Hsien, Chi-chiang Hsien, Pa Hsien, and Ho Chou.\n\n2. For the five metals in the department and independent sub-Prefecture of Tien-ch'üan Chou and Mou-kung Ting.\n\n3. The exclusive right to prospect for petroleum in the districts of Wan Hsien and Pa Hsien, or any other two districts throughout the whole of the Province of Szechuan, exclusive of Fu-shun Hsien, in which the great brine and petroleum wells of the province are situated.\n\n3",
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        "content_text": "4\n\nmountainous country. In easy country Lisaw transport is far inferior to mules. If the Lisaw smokes opium at all, he generally smokes it badly. He will sleep out anywhere, and will snore all night with nothing but a piece of goat skin between himself and deep snow, at a height of 9,000 feet.\n\nI had no sort of trouble with any of the Lisaw with whom I had to deal, and I should say that they are easier to get on with than Kachins.\n\nThe Lisaws are scattered and disunited, and are not I think capable of serious resistance to any one. The Lisaw \"rebellion\" which occurred two years ago in this part of the country was purposely much exaggerated by the Chinese mandarins in search of buttons and promotions.\n\nOn the 7th March, we marched east from Lan Ma, following up the stream and over a wild mountain range by a pass known as Kan Tsai Ling (8,700 feet). From one point in the ascent there is a fine view of the Kan Liang Pass and of the range which forms the British frontier. We then passed back into the Shweli Basin and descended through forest, with the monastery of Ying Feng Ssu, a well-known place of local pilgrimage, perched on a conspicuous wooded spur 3,000 feet above us on our right; descending further we struck the valley of Tien Tang, or the west branch of the Shweli River, near the small market of La Hsing. Like all the upper waters of the Shweli, the river is 30-40 yards broad, very clear and cold, and nearly everywhere fordable in dry weather, and only 1-3 feet deep, flowing swiftly over a bottom of slippery stones. The valley of the Tien Tang is about 14 miles broad, and is well peopled and cultivated.\n\nFollowing up this valley we passed into the territory of the Tien Tang Headman Tsai, about 14 miles before reaching Ying Pan Market, which consists of forty wattle bamboo huts. The Headman's house is near this, and he came out to see me.\n\nHe represents the eighth generation of Chiefs of Tien Tang, his ancestors, who were of Chinese origin, having established themselves at Tien Tang in the reign of Hung Wu of the Ming dynasty. Like all other Chinese Chiefs in this country, his ancestor was a military adventurer. The little territory of Tien Tang is divided into six \"pai's,\" or parishes, each containing four or five hamlets of five to twenty families. There are not more than 300 families in the whole of Tsai's jurisdiction. Tsai himself is a dirty, opium-smoking Chinese, of about 45 years of age, in no way to be distinguished from the ordinary villager. I gave him some whisky, which he appreciated, and he then supplied me with a number of details concerning the country round about. Finally, after having commissioned his nephew, a squat youth in straw sandals, to look after me, the Lord of the Valley shambled back to his opium couch with a bottle of his new Scotch acquaintance under his arm.\n\nWe continued up the valley by a good road, and camped at the hamlet (ten families) of Ta Ping Ti, on a terrace 300 feet above the Tien Tang stream. This is near the north end of the valley, and there is a good view of the hills forming the crest of the N'maikha watershed.\n\nThe next day, passing the village of Ma Li Pa (thirty families), 14 miles from and 250 feet below Ta Ping Ti, we ascended an upland valley in a northerly direction. On both sides of Ma Li Pa the tops of the hills were covered with snow. The track which we followed was good, even for mules, right up to the crest of the water-divide at the pass of Pan Wa, 8 miles from Ta Ping Ti. After Ma Li Pa we only passed one village about 6 miles from the pass, but there were extensive patches of cultivation, and the valley, until close to its head, was open, and covered with bracken and pine trees. This road is often followed by Lisaws and petty Chinese traders. The first village on the N'maikha side is said to be Chang Yin Kot, which is about as far from the Pan Wa divide as Pan Wa is from Ta Ping Ti; 7 miles farther on is Lu Pi. Both these are Lisaw villages.\n\nFrom Pan Wa Pass there is a view of the head of the valley of the Chipway tributary of the N'maikha, and of a range of snow-clad peaks known as the Chung Shan, which must be at least 12,000 feet, jutting out from the water-parting towards the N'maikha. The most conspicuous peak bears due north from the Pan Wa Pass, which on the Tien Tang or Chinese side is overshadowed by a high peak of about 10,000 feet, which hangs over Ma Li Pa. The Chipway is known to the Chinese as the Chih Fei River. The N'maikha seems to be generally unknown to them under that name, and they refer to it as the Ta or Chin Chiang (\"great or gold river\"). The Lisaws from the head-waters of the Chipway are said not to number more than 100 families. They come to Tien Tang to get supplies, as one would expect, seeing that the Pan Wa Pass is easy travelling in comparison with the Kachin country below them. Mules can get as far as Lu Pi by this route, but not beyond, into the Kachin country near the N'maikha, without previous road repairs. Walking could, it is said, get from Tien Tang to the banks of the N'maikha in four days, but few or none of the Tien Tang people seem ever to have been so far. Parties of Kachins, however, come to Ying Pan market two or three times a year to purchase iron, which is mined in small quantities in the valley near the Ta Ping Ti.\n\n5\n\nThe Tien Tang branch of the Shweli has three head-streams:\n\n1. The stream which comes from the Pan Wa Pass.\n\n2. The Mo Shih Ho, a brook a little to the west which springs from the same mountain from which flows the chief sources of the Chipway River.\n\n3. The main source flows from the hills north of Ta Ping Ti, at a point on the watershed just opposite the Chung Shan, and, passing the hamlet of Hei Tzu Wan, joins 1 and 2 at Ma Li Pa. There is said to be a difficult track, impassable for mules, over the watershed at the back of the Hei Tzu Wan to the Chung Shan.\n\nOn the 10th March we climbed up the steep hills east of Ta Ping Ti, through patches of cultivation, to 8,800 feet in 2-1/2 hours' march, and so descended by a broad, cultivated, lateral valley, with several villages, into the Ming Kwang Plain. Heavy rain caused us at 12:30 to take refuge in a temple at Shang Ho Si, the last village before debouching on the plain. This pass is easily practicable for laden mules. The next day we crossed the Ming Kwang branch of the Shweli, and ascended the Ming Kwang Plain for 6 miles, passing the dirty little market of Ying Pan Kai, to Tu Chai (\"main village\"), the residence of the Tso family. The plain is from 1 to 2 miles broad; the river was 45 yards wide where we forded, and 1 to 3 feet deep. It is fordable nearly everywhere in the Ming Kwang Plain. Along its banks, as along the banks of the Tien Tang stream, there is abundance of good camping ground, grass, fuel, and water, and of such ordinary supplies as rice, maize, fowls, ducks, mutton, cattle, in sufficient quantities for a small party.\n\nThe Ming Kwang Valley is now divided between two \"fu yi,\" or hereditary Chiefs. Lower Ming Kwang is the patrimony of the Yang family, who have their headquarters at I Ya Tang, a village on the opposite side of the valley to Shang Ho Si, and about 1 mile below it. Their portion of the valley is divided into three \"fan,\" or parishes—upper, middle, and lower—and consists of about seventy hamlets, with 6,000-7,000 inhabitants. There is much padi and other cultivation and a considerable head of cattle in the valley. Many of the people are engaged in the cutting and transport of wood from the surrounding hills to Teng Yueh. The ancestor of the Yangs is said to have been a military official who came from Teng Yueh in the Ming dynasty. The Yangs have now little more than an empty title, and the people of this part of the valley pay the ordinary land tax to the Teng Yueh Sub-Prefect.\n\nThe Upper Ming Kwang Valley belongs to the Tso family, but they have only about fifteen villages, with a population of 300 odd families. The present \"fu yi,\" or Chief, is a youth of 18, and is the son of Tso Erh Kuan (Tso the Second), who was killed at Hpare in Mr. Hertz's affair, in February 1899. The affairs of the family are now managed by the brother of the late (uncle of the present) head of the family. I was well received, and lodged in the Tso clan ancestral temple, where the various members of the family came to visit me. Their temple is at the back of their yamên, which is a filthy and rambling structure resembling a succession of pigsties; the village, of some seventy families, consists of hovels made of bamboo wattle, but there seems to be abundance of cultivation and supplies. It is, however, clear that the political and economical affairs of the family are in a very decadent condition. The \"regent\" is a man of some intelligence but of little energy, except in pulling at his opium-pipe; and I doubt if Burma will ever have any further trouble from the military aspirations of the Tso clan.\n\nMost of the Tso clan's peasantry are \"nu shou,\" or crossbowmen, who do not pay ordinary land tax. It would appear that they were originally a sort of limitrophe colonist, whose lands and status were recognized by the Chinese Government on condition that they defended the frontier. The Tso family is a branch of the Teng clan, originally seated near Chengtu, in Ssuchuan, but which early moved to Tsao Chiang, in the Mekong Valley, and in the Yun Lung Sub-prefecture of Yunnan. The name was then changed to Tso. At the end of the Ming dynasty Tso Wan Hsiang came from Tsao Chiang, and carved out as his patrimony the upper Ming Kwang Valley, from which he expelled Lisaws and others. It is also to be noted that there are vague traditions of Burmese (not Shans) having formerly inhabited parts of this country. Tso Wan Hsiang gained the honorary and hereditary title of \"Suan Fu Su,\" generally conferred only on Chiefs of the first class, and his descendants bear the title to this day. The present youth is twelfth in descent from the Wan Hsiang.\n\nPage 367",
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        "content_text": "who made the first settlement in Ming Kwang. It appears that from early times the Tso family have been in the habit of interfering in Kachin affairs over in the N'maikla watershed. A tributary of the N'maikha—which I identify with some doubt as the Klan Sheng River—is known to the Ming Kwang Chinese as Kun Ma,\" or Rolling Horse River; and the legend is that once when, in the reign of Kang Hsi, early in the present dynasty, the Tso were on the war-path over the watershed, their General, Hsu Erh Ye, rode a very valuable horse, which tumbled down the precipice, and, rolling into the river, was seen no more.\n\nTso Erh Kuan, who met his death from a Mauser bullet at Hparé, was a Jingo, and seems to have had a great local reputation as a fighting man, though he was not well informed as regards modern weapons of precision. He was constantly in the habit, in alliance with Yang's people from Lower Ming Kwang, of trading, raiding, and smuggling as far as the N'aikha, and beyond. Now, it is quite impossible that the late Tso can have put in the field anything like the numbers which opposed Mr. Hertz. His people, all told, must be under 2,000, and they are all of them timid and simple-minded peasants, who certainly have no liking for villainous saltpetre. The fact seems to have been that Tso's reputation was such that he was able to collect round him all the dacoits, smugglers, and bad characters of the country-side, and it is an open secret that he received moral and material support from Teng Yuel. There is, I think, not the least fear that the present Teng Yueh officials, or the present heads of the Tso family, will take any action likely to cause a recurrence of such an incident as the Aparé fight. The Tso family is obviously out at elbows, and their control, even over villages on their own side, is of a very shadowy description.\n\nOn the 12th March, in very wet weather, I commenced an inspection of the upper waters of the Ming Kwang River by a march to the crest of the watershed at the pass known as Ta Ya Kou, which leads to Hparé. We ascended the valley along the banks of the main Ming Kwang River, known as the Ta Ho, for 14 miles, and then turned up a side valley in a north-west direction and ascended by a small stream known as the Cha Shan Ho. The track was a good mule-path, leading up a broad valley with patches of copse and bracken, and surrounded by snow-powdered mountains. We passed four or five Lisaw huts, until, at 6 miles, we mounted through dense bamboo jungle by a steep and difficult path to the lesser pass (8,900 feet), where, in the dense virgin forest, there is a small fort, about 20 feet square and 12 feet above ground, with a cellar 5 feet below the ground. This fort is loopholed and commands the approach from Hparé. It can only be entered from behind by an underground passage some 20 yards long, with two sharp corners in it. This fort was built by the Lower Ming Kwang Chief, Yang, after the fight with the British at Hparé in 1899. It is said to have employed 100 men for a month, and I can well believe it. Descending from the small pass through a wild forest we crossed the brook of Hsiao Tang Ho, and then, ascending over snow by a tedious but not difficult slope, reached the watershed at 9,500 feet, about 12 miles from Ta Chai. The summit of the pass is covered with forest trees and huge rhododendrons, festooned with lichen. The trees and the mist prevented anything like a view towards the N'maikha, and the damp was such that we quite failed to light a fire. There are no inhabitants between the main valley of the Ming Kwang and the top of the pass, except the few Lisaws mentioned above; but camping-grounds and the remains of fires prove that the route is frequently used. The first village on the N'maikba side is Shang P'a Li (Upper Hpare), which is said to be about as far from the divide as the divide is from the Ming Kwang River.\n\nThe general name used by the Chinese for the country on the N'maikha side, east of the Chung Shan i.e., the valley of the Upper Khan Sheng—is \"Cha Shan\" (Tea or Camelia Hills). Ming Kwang men occasionally go over to barter salt and cotton clothes to the Kachins for hemp, sandals, beeswax, \"huang lien\" (the rhizomes of a jungle plant used as medicine), and other jungle produce.\n\nOn the 13th March I struck camp from Ta Chai and proceeded up the main Ming Kwang Valley, here about 1 mile wide, with forest-clad hills on both sides. Here I noticed an old proclamation by the Teng Yueh official, which threw some light on the politics of Ming Kwang after the Eparé affair. This document recites a petition received from the widow of Tso Erh Kuan, in which she states that her husband having died in defence of his country, she wishes to spend the rest of her life in mourning. Her son was an infant, and the soldiers sent from Teng Yuch to Ming Kwang (there are none there now) were so disorderly that a lone woman like herself could no longer keep the public peace. It seems to have been in consequence of this that the lady's brother-in-law was appointed \"regent.\"\n\nPage 7\n\nFor the first 2 miles we passed pádi fields and three villages of the Tso clan; then the country became wilder, with only very sparse cultivation, but with extensive pastures.\n\nAs we approached nearer to the watershed the scenery became very grand. The valley itself consists of wide bracken slopes, with patches of grass and marsh dotted with clumps of bamboo and oak scrub; pheasants abounded, and I shot several of the large wood-snipe. At 5 miles from Tar Chai we passed a wide lateral valley formed by the Hsiao Tang Ho River (see above), up which runs the track to Tzá Chu. The huts of Lisaw peasants and a few recent Chinese squatters were spread about, and we passed several shepherd's encampments. All around us were great forest-clad hills with snow-powdered summits. At 7 miles, still marching east, we passed another stream, the Lai Shih Tou Ho, which flows down from the divide. At 8 miles we passed the Lisaw hamlet of She Li Shu (ten houses) situated on the further side of the Ming Kwang stream, and shortly after through a gap in the hills to the north-east we caught a glimpse of the snow-clad Salwen divide with peaks rising to 12,000 feet. Here the Ming Kwang Valley contracts for about 4 miles, and bearing round to the north we entered on the narrow plain (1 mile broad) of Ta Chu Pa, which leads straight up to the head-waters of the Ta Ho, or Ming Kwang, River, undoubtedly the true source of the Shweli. Ta Chu Pa is sparsely inhabited by some twenty Lisaw families. We passed the house of the local headman subject to Ming Kwang, and after a march of 13 miles camped by a stockade at 7,300 feet. Inside the stockade we found the Chinese agent of a Teng Yueh coffin-wood firm, \"Fu Sheng Hsiang,\" who arranges for the transport of the timber from the banks of the Ngaw Chang, tributary of the N'maikha, to Teng Yueh, mostly on the backs of Ming Kwang coolies. He complained bitterly of having to live in such a place, like Ovid among the Getae, stockaded against bandits and wolves, and with no society but that of a few Lisaw. Personally I found the Chu Pa Valley a delightful spot. There was hardly any cultivation, the whole being covered with bamboo jungle, marshes and bracken, where there was excellent pheasant shooting. The mountain scenery all round the valley is especially grand and impressive. There is excellent camping ground, and abundance of water, fuel and grass, but no supplies. As regards the bandits, it is undoubtedly true that the whole of this country and the Upper Salwen Valley are unsafe and infested by small bands of Chinese outlaws and \"black\" Lisaws, who are impelled by famine to resort to pillage on passing coolies. I met two small parties of these gentry, but saw little of them save their heels; they would seem to be respecters of persons. I do not think that a prudent and well-armed foreigner runs much danger of being attacked. At Ta Chai I was solemnly assured that there were forty robbers on the pass above Chu Pa; I got to Chu Pâ, and then, according to the Chinaman there, these forty had dwindled down to four, and when, on the next day, I ascended the pass itself not one even of these four men in buckram put in an appearance.\n\nThe coffin-wood firm mentioned above has recently spent 600 rupees in making the pass of Ta Ho Toú (\"source of the main river\") and the track beyond it down to the Ngawchang River passable for mules; the agent valued the turnover of his firm at about 6,000 rupees annually.\n\nThe day after arriving at Ta Cha I resolved to follow up this track to the watershed. We marched up the right bank of the Ta Ho, here little more than a brook, and over some marshy land, and then through a very dense bamboo brake in a narrow gorge between cliffs—a fit place for treasons, stratagems and spoils. Leaving on our right a trail which leads east to the Salwen divide, we ascended in a northerly direction. The weather was very bad, sleet and snow falling continuously. The dense forest through which we passed was soaked and dripping with moisture, and the rough track was a foot deep in slush, snow, and mud. It would be hardly passable for mules except in dry weather. After three and a half hours we reached the watershed at the Ta Ho Toú pass, 9,100 feet, in a very bedraggled condition. The source of the Ming Kwang River, and therefore of the Shweli, is a few miles to the east-north-cast of this pass. By this route there is constant communication between Ming Kwang and the Upper Ngaw Chang. The first village reached on the maikho side is Pien Ma, which appears to be a Kachin village at a considerable elevation, as the Chinese say it is as cold as Ta Chu Pa. Pien Ma is two days' journey for a man from Ta Chu Pa, the night being spent in a cave; but laden mules require three days. Mules, I was told, can go beyond Pien Ma, descending to I Tung, a Kachin village on the banks of the Hsiao Chiang (small river) which I identify with the Ngaw Chang. I was told that it was possible to follow up the Hsiao Chiang for four or five days until the Ni Mo River is reached, after which the\n\nPage 368",
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        "content_text": "## \n398 \n\n2 \n\nand Swatow. In Tangkow, in 1902, there were 30 coasting-vessels and 6 river-steamers sailing under the German flag. How important the Chinese service is to the largest shipping concerns, the Hamburg-American and the North German Lloyd lines, is shown by the imposing fleet of vessels in the Chinese service of both these lines. In the trans-oceanic trade with Shanghae, these two Companies maintained, in 1902, 11 Imperial mail-steamers and 23 other steam-ships. In the coasting trade, they had 8 and in the river traffic 6 steam-ships, to which must be added 24 steam-ships of other German Companies in Hankow, all of which are employed in the foreign and coasting trade of Shanghae, the great centre of the Chinese interior trade. The German flag was not represented in carrying freight in 1892; 15 per cent. of the total importations of that city were brought in German ships in 1902. The East Asiatic steam-boat line, subsidized by the Empire, carried 9,812 persons to the East in 1902, and on the homeward trips 10,400. The outward freight carried amounted to 181,936 tons, valued at 55,444,000 dollars, of which 94,769 tons, worth 21,705,600 dollars, went to the Orient. Of these, 64,049 tons, worth 12,709,200 dollars, were German products. In other words, 67.6 per cent. of the total tonnage and 58.5 per cent. of the total value were German. The return freight amounted to 87,167 tons, worth 33,955,000 dollars. Of this, 49,689 tons, valued at 8,330,000 dollars, or 57 per cent. of the total freight and 24.6 per cent. of the total value, were destined for Germany.\n\nThe German Shantung Railroad, between Tsingtau and Tsinan-fu, is finished. Over its tracks are running German locomotives and German cars, both passenger and freight. An exceedingly fine saloon car, formerly on exhibition at Düsseldorf, is used on this line. Up to November 1st, 1902, 22 locomotives, 28 passenger cars, 10 express cars, 218 freight cars, and 245 coal cars were sent out to this road. At the present time, German engineers are busy with the building of a second German railroad in China. Its completion is practically secured through German capital. It is intended to unite Tien-tsin, the great commercial centre of the north, with the Yang-tsze by means of two very valuable branches penetrating still farther into the interior. For carrying out the preliminary work of this road, a combination, known as the German-Chinese Railroad Company, has been formed, with an original capital of 2,350,000 dollars.\n\nThe German Shantung Mining Company is working hand in hand with the Shantung Railroad. It is producing and selling coal which, according to the testimony of experts, is destined to play an important role in the East Asiatic market. It is said to be superior to Japanese coal in heating power and to make less smoke. The market for this coal, both in the interior of Shantung and along the coast, is secured through the arrangement of cheap prices for transportation over the Shantung Railroad. Thus both of these enterprises give promise of profits and look out upon a favourable future. Previous results in the matter of mining give promise to the railroad of the profitable transportation of coal.\n\nA second Mining Company in Tsingtau, the German Society for Mining Industrial Effort Abroad, has begun to mine in five zones in Shantung which have been conceded to it by the Chinese Government. They are working on various kinds of ores, among them gold.\n\nIf we look on the German spheres of interest outside of Shantung, we find in Shanghae, for example, two German Stock Companies, with a working capital of 238,000 dollars. These Companies are engaged in the weaving of silk and cotton goods. There are, in addition, 2,880,000 dollars of German capital engaged in cotton spinning in Shanghae, 1,500,000 dollars in selling silk, 1,500,000 dollars in flour mills, and large amounts in Agricultural Companies, banks, wharves, docks, gas-houses, &c. In numerous other places in China, large sums of German capital have been invested in all kinds of industrial enterprises, although it would be hard to obtain exact figures in regard to them.\n\nStill another picture—the German merchant in China. The old-time distinguished and well-known expert merchant, a man of industry and cleverness, supported by considerable financial means, is to be found in all important places along the coast, and in recent years in places in the interior. Shanghae alone has at least 68 large German firms, whose annual turnover amounts to 28,560,000 dollars, or 22 per cent. of the total turnover of the city of Shanghae. After Shanghae, Tien-tsin is the most germanized city in China. It has 29 large German firms working, with an active capital of 4,552,000 dollars. The Germans' part in the business of that city amounts to 50 per cent. of the total imports and 45 per cent. of the total exports. In Canton, 12 German commercial houses are stationed, doing 50 per cent. of the total import and 75 per cent. of the total export business. Chefoo has 4 German firms, with a capital of 357,000 dollars; Amoy has 3 German firms, with a capital of 71,400 dollars. Of the other Treaty ports, Swatow, Fuchow, and Hankow are domiciles of large German firms. Germany's share in the imports of Hankow is placed at 2,850,000 dollars, and her share in exports at 700,000 dollars to 900,000 dollars.\n\nThe trade with China has made it necessary to establish a German Asiatic Bank, with its principal quarters at Shanghae and branch houses in Tien-tsin, Peking, Hong Kong, Tsingtau, and Hankow. This bank declared dividends in 1902 of 9 per cent., and for this year, there is every prospect for a favourable dividend.\n\nIs China important for its imports of German wares? Germany's foreign trade statistics put China with Macao and Hong Kong and Kiao-chan by themselves. In the year 1902, goods worth 9,020,200 dollars were exported to China, including Macao, from Germany. Almost every important branch of German industry is represented in these exports.\n\n### PRINCIPAL Exports from Germany to China in 1902\n\n| Articles | Value (Dollars) | Articles | Value (Dollars) |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Aniline dyes | 1,547,000 | Wares made of precious metals | 119,000 |\n| Woollen wares | 1,287,600 | Iron bars | 95,200 |\n| Passementerie | 642,600 | Clocks | 95,200 |\n| Fine on wares | 571,200 | Machinery | 476,000 |\n| Beer | 95,200 | Mercury | 285,000 |\n| Sugar | 95,200 | Nickel | ... |\n|  |  | Cotton tissues | 261,800 |\n|  |  | Copper | 261,800 |\n|  |  | Woollen yarn | 142,800 |\n|  |  | Cotton goods (Hosiery) | 142,800 |\n|  |  | Indigo | 142,800 |\n|  |  | Brass wares | 142,800 |\n|  |  | Raw sugar | 119,000 |\n\nDuring the same year, German exports to Hong Kong amounted to 952,000 dollars; and to the Protectorate of Kiao-chau to 1,642,200 dollars. This is by no means an exact picture of our trade in China; it deals only with our direct exports thereto, to which should be added our indirect exports, but, unfortunately, these cannot be reduced to figures.\n\n## German Outlook in the Orient\n\nIn the foregoing, we have given some data worth consideration. Although they do not exhaust the question, they show that German interests in the East deserve attention. But it is not by the conditions of yesterday or to-day, measured by figures, that we are to indicate the vast prospects which await the Germans in China and in the Chinese market. The entire situation in the world's market, the signs of the times, the great competitions of the people, rapidly assuming other forms than they have hitherto had, must be placed in the equation.\n\n## Inclosure 3 in No. 1\n\n**Memorandum by Mr. Jamieson with regard to the Statements contained in the Publication of the Central Union for the Preparation of Trade Treaties, Berlin, on the Subject of Germany's Interests in China**\n\n**(Confidential)**\n\nThe publication under review is confessedly an attempt to persuade the Little-Germans, who are somewhat weary of costly non-productive over-sea possessions, of the rich harvest the German manufacturer may expect to reap in China, and of the great part German shipping plays in Far Eastern waters. It is, therefore, only to be expected that, in describing \"das, was Deutsche Männerkraft im Osten geschaffen und errungen hat,\" to borrow one of the grandiloquent phrases recently used by a speaker on the occasion of laying the foundation stone of some German building, there should be no lack of self-glorification, or that, in painting the picture of the future which awaits",
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        "content_text": "# 267\n\n**C.O.**\n\n## SOUTH-WEST CHINA\n\n**CONFIDENTIAL.**\n\n31967\n\n[August 28.]\n\n**REC**\n\nRect 6 SEP 05 SECTION 1.\n\nNo. 1.\n\n### Consul-General Wilkinson to the Marquess of Lansdowne.—(Received August 28.)\n\n**(No. 17.)**\nMy Lord,\n\nYunnan-fu, July 9, 1905.\n\nI HAVE the honour to inclose copy of a report which I have addressed to His Majesty's Minister submitting translation of a despatch from Ting, Governor-General of the Yun-Kuei, to the Wai-wu Pu, covering the report of Shih Taotai on the recent joint investigation of the Burmah-Yünnan borderland north of Tengyueh.\n\nI have, &c.\n(Signed)  \nW. H. WILKINSON.\n\n### (No. 27.)\nSir,\n\n#### Inclosure 1 in No. 1.\n\nConsul-General Wilkinson to Sir E. Satow,\n\nYunnan-fu, July 8, 1905.\n\nTWO days ago Ting Chiht'ai courteously sent me, informally, copy of his despatch to the Wai-wu Pu, covering the report of Shih Taotai on the results of the recent joint inquiry into the features and conditions of the borderland between Burmah and Yunnan north of Manung Pum. Of this despatch I have the honour to inclose copy and translation.\n\nThe Governor-General had earlier informed me that he did not propose to comment on the report, but to leave the conclusions to be drawn from it to be discussed between yourself and the Wai-wu Pu. This resolution, as you will see, his Excellency adheres to in his present despatch, and I cannot learn that he has sent any other communication, even privately or confidentially, to the Government at Peking.\n\nMr. Litton has supplied me with the Chinese text, and in some cases with the English version, of his correspondence with Shih Taotai; but as I understand that he has also forwarded copies to the Legation, I do not append these papers. From this correspondence you will have learnt that Shih Taotai claims as Chinese territory the whole country lying between the Nmaikha-Salwen watershed to the east and the Ngaw-chang (Siao-chiang) and Kansheng Rivers to the west, together with a few villages on the headwaters of the Chipway. The only portion of this country directly referred to in Ting Chiht'ai's covering despatch is the central district, which includes the chai (stockades or defensible villages) of Tzu-chu and Hparé. This district his Excellency claims for the two Fu-yi or native Chiefs of Mingkuang, a valley to the east of the watershed. The claim really rests on certain certificates of succession granted to the predecessors of these Chiefs by the Board of War in 1839 and 1841, and it will be noticed that the Governor-General is careful to attach copies of these documents to his despatch. Since in that despatch his Excellency speaks of a time when \"British troops crossed the frontier and created disturbance,\" it is permissible to believe that his object in laying stress on this part of the Chinese claim is due to a desire to vindicate his attitude in the matter of the \"Hparé incident,\" and even to reopen that question. He has, however, said nothing to me, so far, on this subject.\n\nYou will notice that Shih Taotai appears to have regarded the late inquiry as limited to the frontier of the Tengyueh Sub-Prefecture (or of the Yungch'ang Prefecture), for he speaks of the Mission as surveying successively northwards till the confines of the jurisdiction of the Li-chiang Prefect were reached, in latitude 26° 30′.\n\nOn the other hand, Mr. Litton regarded his own informal offer of 4,000 rupees for entertainment of Chinese Headmen, as conditional on the recognition of the N'maikha-Salwen divide as the frontier \"up to the confines of Thibet\"—some 2 degrees further north. In this region, however, as Mr. Litton pointed out in his Memorandum of last August, certain Chiu-t'zü Chiefs from the headwaters of the Irrawaddy pay annually at Yedru a tribute that is remitted to Li-chiang. It would seem likely, therefore, that the Chinese would insist on a further mission of inquiry for...",
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        "content_text": "## 268 \n\n2 \n\nthe borderland north of latitude 26° 30' before they would come to terms in the matter of the recognition of the watershed as the Burma-Yunnan frontier-line right up to Thibet.\n\nTing Chiht'ai, in his despatch, does not express himself as averse to a perpetual lease after the precedent of the Naniwan assigned tract (the \"Meng-mao Triangle\"); but neither does he write in favour of this course. What he suggests is that the respective limits of the two countries, Yünnan and Burma, must be defined before negotiations for a lease can be commenced.\n\nAs regards those limits, it would seem that the claim of Tengkeng to the district round about Kangfang and Pienma cannot well be contested. Tengkeng may exercise little or no authority in the district, but he is paid from it a yearly tribute-estimated by Mr. Litton at an average of some 350 rupees. For Tzu-chu and Hparé, again, although the statements in Ting Chiht'ai's despatch-that \"soothing and controlling\" (in other words, effective administration) has been continuously exercised by the Mingkuang Fu-yi-are contradicted by the evidence collected on the spot by Messrs. Litton and Leveson, yet, as I understand, the genuineness of the certificates of succession cannot be impugned. Mr. Litton's argument is, perhaps, the best we can offer: That, in the absence of proof of actual administration of Tzu-chu and Hparé by the present Fu-yi, the certificates relate to mere empty titles such as that of \"King of France\" borne by the successors on the British throne of Henry VI.\n\nWere it not for the Hparé incident we might admit, as a matter of theoretical right, the claims of the Fu-yi and buy them out; we can still do this if it is understood that our action is \"without prejudice,\" and will not justify Chinese reclamations for the collision at Hparé in February 1900.\n\nPerhaps the best solution of the whole problem would be for the Indian Government to agree to pay to the Yünnan Government a lump sum \"in full satisfaction of any and all claims, on the part of the Chinese Government or its subjects, to territorial or other rights on the west side of the N'maikha-Salwen divide, from Manung Pum to the confines of Thibet,\" or \"to latitude 28° 30′ north.\" If this could be arranged there would be no need to make new investigations or excuse to revive old controversies; while Burma could proceed at her leisure to develop and administer the country.\n\nI fear, however, that the Chinese Government would hold out for a perpetual lease, even without a yearly payment; since they would thus seem to avoid the reproach of alienating celestial territory. If they are unwilling even to grant a perpetual lease-but this I do not anticipate, once we formally admit the sovereignty of China-the only alternative to our forcible occupation of territory necessary to Burma, but useless to Yunnan, would seem to be to require the Chinese to at once establish effective control over the country claimed by them, and thereafter to hold them responsible for all raids from those regions into British territory. Ting Chiht'ai's Memorial on the Wa foray of last December-a translation of which I submitted to you in my despatch No. 13 of the 11th April last-shows how distasteful such measures for the coercion of hill savages would be to the present Yunnan Government.\n\nI have, &c.  \n(Signed)  \n**W. H. WILKINSON**\n\n## Inclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\n**Ting, Governor-General of the Yün-kuci, to the Wai-wu Pu, Peking.**\n\n(Translation.)\n\nYünnan-fu, July 1, 1905.\n\nIn October last the Governor-General had the honour to receive a telegram from the Wai-wu Pu (Board of Foreign Affairs), informing him that the British Minister had written officially to say, with reference to the northern section of the Burma-Yunnan frontier, that his Government proposed to send officers who should, in co-operation with officers dispatched by the Chinese Government, proceed through Chinese territory to the watershed, and indicate the actual features of the country. The Chinese Delegates might, it was suggested by the Minister, be appointed by the Taotai at Tengyueh, the official in that quarter.\n\nOn this the Board observed that the boundary in this section had been left confused for years, and the British Minister's assent to the Mission of Delegates to jointly examine its actual features was intended as a basis for future delimitation. The Board hoped that the Governor-General, as the nearest authority, would depute an upright trustworthy official experienced in frontier matters, and would telegraph in reply.\n\nThe Governor-General accordingly deputed Shih Hung-shao, Acting Intendant of the Western Circuit, to proceed to hold the inquiry in conjunction with the British officers, and so informed the Yamên (of Foreign Affairs).\n\nSubsequently, last January, he had the honour to receive a telegram from the Board stating that they were in receipt of a communication from the British Minister saying that, as regards the northern section of the Burma-Yunnan frontier, the officer deputed by his Government would be the present Consul at Tengyueh, Mr. Litton, who would take with him officials from Burma and a guard. Since both Shih Taotai and Consul Litton were now at Tengyueh, the date of their departure on this Mission, and all details of procedure, could be arranged between them. It was hoped that instructions would be given to Shih Taotai accordingly.\n\nA further telegram informed the Governor-General that the British Minister had stated in a note to the Board that Consul Litton reported by telegraph that Shih Taotai had received his instructions, but the Taotai's idea appeared to be that it was a delimitation of the frontier that was proposed. The object, however, of the Mission of Shih Taotai and Consul Litton was, the Minister remarked, merely to report to their respective Governments for consideration, and implied no delimitation there and then. He asked that instructions might be telegraphed in this sense to Shih Taotai. On this the Board observed that the Treaty lays down, as regards the northern section of the Yunnan-Burma frontier, that the settlement and delimitation of this portion shall be reserved until its features and conditions are more accurately known. The present mission of officers by the two countries is by no means a joint delimitation, and the Board trusted that Shih Taotai might accordingly be instructed by telegraph to arrive at a satisfactory understanding with Consul Litton.\n\nShih Taotai reported, in obedience to orders, that the departure for the frontier had been arranged for the 3rd March, and this date was communicated by telegraph to the Board on the 1st March.\n\nThe Taotai, Shih Hung-shao, now reports in detail how he started on the 3rd March with Consul Litton, but was obliged, owing to the snows not having yet disappeared, to alter the date of his first stage to the 5th March. On the 7th March they reached Ku-yung, but as the Deputy Commissioner of Bhamo had not arrived, they agreed to go together to Tan-cha, and stop for a time near the high conical peak. Subsequently they advanced further to Ma-li-pa, in Tien-t'an. On the 24th March they were joined by Mr. Leveson, Deputy Commissioner of Bhamo, with his guard and aides, and proceeded in a body to the frontier. Either party sent its surveyors to make surveys in all directions. The original demarcation of the frontier had stopped short north of the high conical peak, or, as the Kachins call it, Manung Pum. Hence it was now necessary to begin surveying from this peak. Accordingly, taking with him his assistants, and accompanied by his surveyors, in conjunction with the officials from Burma (the Taotai), started from the high conical peak and surveyed successively northwards, crossing the snowy range of the Kao-li-kung till the confines of the jurisdiction of the Li-chiang Prefect were reached, the whole country forming the borderland of Yunnan and Burma. By the beginning of May this section of the frontier had been carefully surveyed, but it included a survey of the domains of the \"Fu-yi\" (chieftains) of Ming-kuang and Ta-tang, involving considerable detour and perambulation. According to the boundary maps submitted by the \"Fu-yi\" of Ming-kuang and Ta-t'ang, their jurisdiction extends to beyond the Sino-chiang (\"Little River of the Ngaw-chang Kha\").\n\n| Location        | Description                                                                 |\n|-----------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------|\n| Ta-ya-k'ou      | The watershed of the Ngen-mei-k'ai, or Ngen-mai-k'a (N'maikha)               |\n| Siao-chiang     | \"Little River of the Ngaw-chang Kha\"; 160 or 170 li from Ta-ya-k'ou         |\n| Tzu-chu, Hparé  | Stockades between Ta-ya-k'ou and Siao-chiang; old domains of Yang and Tso   |\n\nThe view of the British Delegates was that it is desirable to regard Ta-ya-k'on as the boundary, being the watershed of the Ngen-mei-k'ai, or Ngen-mai-k'a (N'maikha). Now, Ta-ya-k'ou is this side of the Siao-chiang, and distant from it 160 or 170 li. Between them are Tzu-chu, Hparé, and other stockades,* the old domains of the Yang and Tso Chieftains (\"Fu-yi\") of Ming-kuang. Certificates of succession granted by the Board of War in the Taokuang (1821-1851) were still in existence, and, being submitted, were found to be genuine. These \"Fu-yi,\" owing to military disturbances, had removed to territory occupied by Chinese; but the various native stockades were still subject to their control, kept up relations with them, and were granted, uninterruptedly, gifts of oxen and wine. Beyond the Siao-chiang, however, the native stockades were too remote, and the disposition of the natives was perverse and stubborn. Relations were comparatively infrequent.\n\n* \"Chai,\" defensible villages.  \n↑ \"Hanti.\"  \nLit., \"still received from them, soothing and driving.\"",
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        "content_text": "## Inclosure 3 in No. 1\n\nYou will observe that the Return officially establishes the fact that at two points at least—Mong-kha (Hsi-ming) and Leng-k'an—the Chinese continue to maintain garrisons on the western side of \"Scott's Line.\" It is noted in the original Return that this disposition of the P'u-ting Right Battalion dates from before the foray of the Wild Wa last winter.\n\nTing Chih-tai, in sending me the Return, expressed a wish that I would supply him with a similar list of the military posts maintained by Burmah along the K'a-wa Pale, and, in view of his Excellency's courtesy in acceding to my request for a Return of the Chinese forces, I trust that your Government will see its way to providing me with such list for transmission to the Governor-General. As regards the position, at any rate, of the British posts there can, I imagine, be no secrecy, and our claim to \"Scott's Line\" is independent of the question of actual administration.\n\nTing Ta-jèn would, I gather, be prepared to consider suggestions for concerted action against the Wa, though his inclination is to regard the Wa Hills as a district independent both of Yunnan and of Burmah, much as the Lolo country on the left bank of the Yang-tze, opposite Chao-t'ung Prefecture, is, in effect, independent both of Szechuan and of Yunnan. It has not, apparently, occurred to him that the acceptance by his Government of \"Scott's Line\" would make Burmah liable for all damages caused by Wa forays into Yünnan territory.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed)  \nW. H. WILKINSON,\n\n## Return showing the Stations of the Regular and the Local Battalions of Chenpien\n\n(Translation.)\n\n1. The Pu-ting Front Battalion (\"ying\").—The Centre, Rear, and Left Companies (\"shao\"), are stationed at the main camp of Nan-ch'a; the Front Company at Chan-ma-p'o; the Right Company at Nan-tai.\n\n2. The Pu-ting Left Battalion.—The Centre and Left Companies are posted on the bank of the Na-cha-t River, in Mien-ning Sub-Prefecture; the Right Company at San-ch'a-lu (\"Three Cross Roads\"); the Front Company at Chenpien; the Rear Company at Ssü-mao.\n\n3. The Chingpien Local Battalion.—The Centre Company is stationed at the main camp of Nan-wa; the Left Company at Siao (\"Lesser\") An-kang; the Right Company at Shang (\"Upper\") Kai-hsin; the Front Company at Chenpien Town; while the Rear Company is partly at Tien-pa, partly at the Nan-pen Hill.\n\nNOTE.—These three battalions were stationed at the above posts (from Nan-ch'a to the Nan-pen Hill) after the foray of the Wa last winter.\n\n4. The Pu-ting Right Battalion.—One picket (\"p'eng\") of the Centre Company is stationed at Chenpien Town; the remaining four pickets of this company are at Leng-k'an. The Left Company is stationed at Man-law; the Right at Kung-hsin; the Front at Hsi-ming; the Rear at Lung-k'an.\n\n[NOTE.—This battalion was stationed at the above posts (from Chenpien Town to Lung-k'an) previous to the Wa foray of last winter.]\n\n### Notes by Translator\n\n1. P'u-ting is the name of the battalion, derived from the \"P'u\" of Pu-erh (the Prefecture in which Ssü-mao is situated) and \"ting\" (to settle); so Chingpien comes from \"ching\" (to tranquillize) and \"pien\" (the frontier).\n\n2. Battalions (\"ying\") in the Chinese Army are distinguished as (a) \"chung\" (the centre); (b) \"tso\" (the left); (c) \"yu\" (the right); (d) \"chien\" (the front); (e) \"hou\" (the rear).  \n   Each battalion contains five companies (\"shao\"), similarly distinguished. In the same way, each company is divided into five pickets (\"p'eng\").  \n   Properly speaking, a battalion should consist of 500 men; so that a company should number 100 and a picket 20. In Yunnan Province, 70 men are reckoned to the company, and often only 10 to the picket. The numbers actually employed, moreover, would vary with the venality of the Commanding Officer.\n\nPage 356\n\n3. Nan-ch'a will be found marked (as Nan-cha) in both Chinese and English on Inclosures Nos. 4 and 10 to the `Report on the Work of the Burmah-China Boundary Commission, Season 1899-1900` (Political Department, No. `B.C. 1900—7`).  \n   Chan-ma-p'o I can find on none of the maps in my archives, unless, as is most probable, it is to be identified with Cha-ma-p'o in `Survey of India, Yunnan Province`, Sheet No. 4 S.E. (Reg. No. `797-8./03`), at about latitude 22° 52′ north, longitude 99° 45′ east.  \n   Nan-tai I cannot discover.  \n   Mien-ning Sub-Prefecture is adjacent to Chenpien Sub-Prefecture, on the north. It should be shown on Sheet No. 12 N.W., which is not in my archives.  \n   San-ch'a-lu cannot be identified here.  \n   Nan-wa appears as in Inclosure No. 10 and as in Inclosure No. 4 (latitude 23°, longitude 99° 50′). An An-kang is marked just below it (as in Inclosure No. 10, and as in Inclosure No. 4. There is another An-kang north-east of Nan-ch'a (see tracing of the map of Chenpien Sub-Prefecture, inclosed with my despatch No. 11, Burmah, of 1905); but the \"Lesser An-kang\" of the Return is probably that of Inclosures Nos. 4 and 10.  \n   Shang Kai-hsin will be found on the same tracing of the Sub-Prefecture, due north of Chenpien Town, and in latitude 23° 14′.  \n   Tien-pa is almost certainly the Tien-pa of Captain Renny-Tailyour's `Rough Map to accompany the Commissioner's Report` (Political Department, `B.C. 1900—7`), in latitude 22° 41', longitude 99° 54′.  \n   The Nan-pen Hill I cannot identify.  \n   Leng-k'an is marked almost due north of Meng-ma on Inclosure No. 10. Man-law appears on the map of Chenpien immediately to the north of Shang Kai-hsin, of which it may be a Shan or Lolo equivalent.  \n   Kung-hsin is marked on the same map in the angle between the Nam-ma and Nam-kha Rivers. It is probably the Kawn-hin of Sheet No. 4 S.E.  \n   Hsi-ming is the well-known Mong-hka (see Report of the Boundary Commission, as above, and compare Inclosures Nos. 4 and 10).  \n   Lung-k'an I cannot discover.\n\nA reference to Inclosures Nos. 4 and 10 of the Boundary Commission Report for 1900 will show that, out of the places identified as above, two at least—namely, Hsi-ming (Mong-hka) and Leng-k'an (probably the Lon-kham of Sheet No. 4 S.E.)—lie to the west of \"Scott's Line.\" In other words, the Chinese are certainly maintaining military posts, though of no great strength, in part of the territory claimed for Burmah.\n\nIt is only right to add, however, that these posts are on the east of the frontier as claimed by the Chinese Commissioners in 1900, and that \"Scott's Line\" has never been admitted, even as a provisional boundary, by the Governments of China and Yunnan.\n\n(Signed)  \nW. H. WILKINSON,  \nConsul-General.\n\nYunnan-fu, July 28, 1905.\n\nPage 44",
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        "content_text": "# Upper Ming Kwang Valley\n\nMr. Leveson and myself, accompanied by a surveyor, and encumbered by two Chinese deputies, proceeded to Hparè to fix the spot where the N'Maikha-Shweli divide joins the main Salween-Irrawaddy divide. Marching up the valley of the Chan Shan Brook, we passed the last Lisu hamlet, some 3 miles from camp, and, ascending a double pass through dense forest, camped on the N'Maikha side, 4 miles from the divide, and near the scene of Mr. Hertz's encounter in February 1900 with the army of Ming Kwang. I found the remains of some of the log stockades from which the Chinese had been expelled. Soon after passing this spot, we were met by the Hparè people, who had come to clear the pass for us. At 9 miles from the pass, we reached the main or upper village of Hparè, delightfully situated above the Hparè Stream, and overshadowed behind and in front by lofty mountains. We camped below the upper and above the lower or smaller village, the two comprising some forty families, living in unusually clean and neat houses; to avoid the trouble which might have arisen from the insolence of the Chinese in the village, we persuaded them to camp close to us. The villagers soon crowded round our tents in a perfectly friendly manner, but they left the Chinese severely alone.\n\nIn the afternoon, the two Headmen came to camp to see Mr. Leveson. They were brothers, both very old men, and the elder was blind. As they approached the camp, the Chinese deputy commenced behaving in the usual bullying fashion of Mandarins dealing with what they consider to be inferior races. He bawled at the Headmen, ordering them not to go to our tents and to do this and not to do that in a style which, if we had not been present, would very soon have brought out the Kachins' swords, as the Headmen were attended by their sons and the villagers. Then, no doubt, if the worthy deputy had escaped with a whole skin, he would have run away back to China and reported that the barbarians had made a humble submission, offering tribute.\n\nHaving suppressed the insolence of the deputy, we made him sit down at Mr. Leveson's tent to hear the Hparè Headman's statements; it was to the same effect as that which his people had already made to Mr. Leveson. They denied in toto that they were, or ever had been, in any sense tributary to the Ming Kwang Chiefs, or that any Chinese officials ever exercised any sort of control over them. Their boundary, they stated, was the watershed over which we had come, and beyond that they never went to cultivate; down country, their villages extended along the Kan Sheng River (Kun Ma in Chinese) to its junction with the Ngaw Chang, but not farther. Their people went to Ming Kwang for the five-day bazaar, and Chinese pedlars passed through Hparè. They were as a rule on good terms with the Chinese, except that after Mr. Hertz's affair, some Chinese, whose names they gave, and who are believed to be Headman Tso's people from Ming Kwang, had come in the night and burnt twelve houses in Hparè and carried off thirty head of cattle, of which eight had never been returned. They dwelt on the fact that this case had not been settled, and it appears to constitute what the Kachins call a \"ka,\" or feud, with the Ming Kwang Fu Yi.\n\nThe Hparè Headmen further stated that formerly the Fu Yi of Lower Ming Kwang used to pay them 25 rupees a-year and some gunpowder, in return for which they guaranteed to traders the safety of the road along the Kun Ma River, but that these payments had ceased for the last thirty years. On festive occasions, such as the building of a new house or a marriage, the Hparè people had been wont to make presents to the Lower Ming Kwang Sawbwa, and he had made return presents to Hparè on similar occasions, but no such exchange of gifts had taken place for five years past. The Ming Kwang Fu Yi, some weeks before our arrival, had sent to \"order\" them to come out to meet the Taotai and mend the road; they had refused to leave their village, and as regards the road, had, in fact, told Ming Kwang to mind his own business.\n\nThese statements were confirmed by the bystanders, and made both in the Lashi and Chinese languages. The Chinese deputy refused to cross-examine or even to listen to them, and got up and went away; so much for joint examination. The Headman's son had already suggested to Mr. Leveson that if the Chinese frontier was to be defined, it should not include Hparè. It is perfectly clear that Chinese suzerainty, much more control, over Hparè and Kun Ma Valley is an entire myth. Nor, though I pressed him, could the Taotai induce his two Ming Kwang Headmen to point out any single fact which would go to prove that they were exercising, or ever, in the memory of man, had exercised, any sort of overlordship or control in the Kan Sheng Valley.\n\nSince the incursion of the Chinese who were expelled by Mr. Hertz, no Chinese officials or soldiers appear to have visited Hparè, except on the occasion of the above-mentioned raid.\n\nIf this is their country, why did neither of the Ming Kwang Chiefs come with us personally or send representatives to Hparè? To me, the reason is easy; it was a prudent regard for their own skins and a natural aversion to inconvenient conversations about the twelve houses and eight head of cattle. I believe that any attempt on the part of the Ming Kwang Chiefs to assert their imaginary authority would be forcibly resisted by the Hparè people.\n\n## Journey to Tzu Chu\n\nOn the 7th April, Mr. Leveson and the surveyor left Hparè to proceed to Tzu Chu, a small upland valley to the north-east of Hparè, and divided from it by a steep razor-like spur. The Tzu Chu River is known to the Lashis as the Mang Sheng Kha. It joins the Hparè River a few miles below Lower Hparè, and their junction forms the Kun Ma or Kan Sheng River, which flows straight into the Ngaw Chang, or, in Chinese, Hsiao Chiang (Little River), the junction being 16 miles from Upper Hparè.\n\nThe Ngaw Chang is an important tributary of the N'Maikha, which takes a peculiar semi-circular course through very mountainous country. Rising from the west of the great Salween-Irrawaddy divide in north latitude 26° 18', it flows swiftly over a rocky bed in a southerly direction for about 20 miles; then it turns west and flows at the south foot of a conspicuous range covered with snow in April, for about 20 miles to a point near the junction of the Kan Sheng, where is situated the considerable Lashi village of Taw Gaw (forty houses); then the Ngaw Chang turns north, and, after flowing roughly parallel to the N'Maikha for some distance, finally joins it in north latitude 26° 30′.\n\nMr. Leveson reached the Tzu Chu Valley from Hparè in one day after a stiff climb over a spur. He found only one village, Lagwi, and the remains of the deserted hamlet of Mang Sheng. The Lagwi people were found to be Lashi Kachins related to the Hparè people. Two of the Hparè Headmen's sons accompanied Mr. Leveson to Tzu Chu; thence, one of them returned home, but the other attached himself to Mr. Leveson and remained, making himself generally useful for all the rest of the time during which we were exploring the valley of the Ngaw Chang. Both these youths seemed to be peaceable, decent fellows enough, though they apparently fail to appreciate the benefits of Celestial government. I feel sure that neither of them would have any difficulty in answering the question, \"Under which King, Bezonian? Speak or die!\"\n\nMr. Leveson examined the Lagwi villagers. It appears that Tzu Chu is only the Chinese name of the place, derived, it is said, from the dwarf bamboos with which the sides of the valley are clad. The Tzu Chu people's statement, made in the presence of the Chinese deputy, was the same as that of the Hparè Headman, except that they had no case or feud with Ming Kwang. They are on good terms with the Chinese, and go over the watershed to do their marketing, but there is not, and never has been, in the memory of man, any payment of tribute or taxes to the Chinese, nor has any Chinese official ever visited Tzu Chu or sent orders to the Tzu Chu people, or attempted to exercise any authority or control over them, nor do they consider themselves at all subject to China.\n\nThere is no Chinese resident either in Hparè or Tzu Chu.\n\nWe are of opinion that nothing can be clearer than that there is no Chinese control either in Hparè or Tzu Chu.\n\n## Return to Ming Kwang and Conference with the Taotai\n\nWhile Mr. Leveson was at Tzu Chu, I had returned from Hparè to our former camp near Ming Kwang in order to confer with the Taotai, who had meanwhile delivered to me (1) a map setting forth the claims of Ming Kwang Headmen to various territories beyond the watershed, from which it will be seen that these claims are much as I reported last year; (2) two documents, dated in the 21st year of Tao Kwang (1842), purporting to be certificates issued by the Ping Pu or Board of War in Peking on the application of the Yunnan Government, recognizing the succession of the Chief or Fu Yi Yang of \"Hparè in Ming Kwang,\" and of the Chief or Fu Yi Tso of “Tzu Chu in Ming Kwang,\" though, in point of fact, neither Hparè nor Tzu Chu are situated in Ming Kwang, but are divided from it by a broad uninhabited mountain range. Both these Chiefs are referred to in the certificates as \"hereditary sergeants in the army.\" When I reported last year that the Hparè and Tzu Chu Headmen had hereditary Chinese titles, I was misled. These titles belong not to the real Lashi Headmen of those places, but to the Chinese Chiefs of Ming Kwang in virtue of an imaginary suzerainty...\n\n437\n\nD [2167 x-1]",
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        "content_text": "## 12\n\nThe Regent of the petty State of Teng Keng, situated on the right bank of the Salween, latitude 26° north, had come over to Pien Ma to meet the Taotai and come to see me.\n\nThe claims of Teng Keng were investigated.\n\nAt Tsui Ho the Lisu inhabitants told us that they had originally come over from the Salween side of the great Irrawaddy divide, and therefore considered themselves as Teng Keng's men. They paid a small tax in kind, of the value of about 12 annas per house, and if the Teng Keng Chief came to visit them they made a contribution to his travelling expenses. They stated that there were several Lisu hamlets scattered about the hill-sides who were in the same position towards the Teng Keng Chief. These hamlets are hardly to be considered permanent, as after taking a crop or two off the hill-side the Lisu will often remove their bamboo wattle huts to some other fold in the mountains. The Lashi Headman of the Pien Ma, an old man, who began by stating his desire to make submission to the British, the Regent of Teng Keng, and several other natives made statements on the subject of the payment of tribute, which, though they were not in precise agreement with each other, were enough to prove that no one really knows what amount is paid per annum, and also that it differs considerably from year to year. The financial arrangements of Teng Keng are, in short, not such as would meet the approval of the Revenue Secretary to the Government of India. The Regent's statement to me was the vaguest of all, and it is clear that he knows very little of the country which is supposed to belong to him.\n\nIt appears that Pien Ma, U Tung, Kang Fang, Ku Lan, P'a Ti, and some other hamlets, all of which are Lashi or Lisu villages near the headwaters of the Ngaw Chang, and comprise in all a little over 200 families, were supposed to have been assigned by the Chinese Government to Teng Keng after the famous campaign in Chia Ching's reign (see above). These villages had previously been, and continued for some time after to be, subject to Lung Pang, on the right bank, further down the Ngaw Chang; but some years after the Chinese campaign a feud broke out between the Pien Ma group of villages and Chi Kaw, near Lung Pang, on account of a cattle theft. Chi Kaw raided and burnt Pien Ma, and Pien Ma replied by engaging the assistance of the Chinese from Teng Keng. They then burnt and looted Chi Kaw, and in compensation for Teng Keng's help, and in satisfaction for the previous murder of two members of the Teng Keng Headman's family, they agreed to pay him tribute. Present this tribute is paid mostly in kind. The Pien Ma Headman stated that, including scattered households of Lisu immigrants from the Salween, there are now nearly 350 families in this tribute-paying tract, of whom one-half are Lashi and one-half Lisu, but I believe this number to be beyond the mark.\n\nThe forty households of Pien Ma pay to the annual value of about 10 taels. Besides this a toll on coffin wood brought up from the Ngaw Chang by the Chinese firm mentioned above is levied at Kang Fang, near the left bank of the Upper Ngaw Chang, by Teng Keng. The produce of this toll is never more, and often less, than 100 taels a-year. On the whole, I think we may say that the annual sum which Teng Keng derives from the Upper Ngaw Chang is probably 300 rupees a-year at the outside.\n\nIt is to be noted that, apart from the collection of this uncertain sum, there is no regular administration of Pien Ma or the adjacent villages by Teng Keng. He has no power or machinery to undertake anything of the kind. The country is very poor, and much disturbed by feuds, which, I expect, if the truth were known, often prevent Teng Keng from \"touching\" his revenue. The Lung Pang \"Duwa\" has a vendetta with the Chinese, and shortly before our arrival it appears that he distinctly intimated to Teng Keng that neither Teng Keng nor any other Chinese would be allowed to cross the Ngaw Chang, and it was probably this threat which induced the Taotai to withdraw the claims of Ming Kwang to the Lang Pang group.\n\nThen Pien Ma has a vendetta with Shang Lou, a village of fifty families of Lashi, situated to the west of Pien Ma. It is reported that disorders have recently taken place at U Tung, and it is clear that there is practically no such thing as government in the country.\n\nOn the other hand, it must be admitted that Teng Keng has more substantial claims to the consideration of the British Government than Ming Kwang; he has a scintilla juris, and the levy of uncertain sums at irregular intervals is as far as the Chinese have ever gone anywhere in Yunnan towards the administration of frontier tribes.\n\nBefore reaching Pien Ma the Taotai had delivered to me further documentary evidence regarding his claims in the shape of a Memorial to the Throne from the Viceroy of Yünnan in the eighteenth century, together with an Instruction issued by the Tengyueh officials, undated, but probably of the same date as the Memorial.\n\n## 13\n\nPage 439\n\nThese documents profess to assign a number of \"barbarian\" villages, of which the names are given, among the respective jurisdictions of Tengyueh, Pao Shan, Yün Lung, and Li Chiang, all in West Yünnan. Most of these villages are in the Salween Valley, and therefore not now in question; but Pien Ma, U Tung, Tzu Chu, Hparè, &c., are mentioned in the list as being subject to Tengyueh and Pao Shan. As I have already pointed out, there is no evidence that the arrangements set forth in these documents ever represented the real state of affairs. I fail to see that the Government of India is compelled to pay any more attention to these papers than the President of the United States would pay to the Papal Bulls of the sixteenth century, which assigned the whole of the New World to Spain and Portugal. If you accept the premises that the New World belonged to the Pope to assign, the Bulls are excellent titles; so if we follow the Taotai, and accept as true beyond contradiction any statement set down in a document sealed by the Chinese Government, then the Memorial would be a good title to the villages in question. But as in fact the premises are absurd, the conclusion cannot be supported.\n\nOn the 19th April we broke up our camp at Pien Ma, and, in view of the lateness of the season and the continued bad weather, divided our forces; while the Taotai and myself proceeded east to the Salween, Mr. Leveson and Surveyor Natha Singh proceeded down to the Ngaw Chang. A Chinese deputy was detailed to go with them, but he thought that discretion was the better part of valour, and returned to Ming Kwang.\n\nMr. Leveson gives the following particulars, which fully confirm our previous information respecting the condition of the Kachins on the Ngaw Chang, and his visit to them:---\n\n\"I spent three days on the Upper Ngaw Chang, and most of the Headmen came to see me, including Gaw Yawm (in Chinese, Shang Lon), and Shi Jang (in Chinese, Hsieh Chiang), Chi Kaw, and others. They were all friendly and accepted presents. The surveyors fixed all the villages, and went down the other side (right bank) of the Ngaw Chang as far as Pa Le, below Lung Pang. I then returned to Pien Ma.\n\n\"Teng Keng left a nasty reputation behind him at Pien Ma by beating a Lashi Headman for not providing supplies for the Chinese.\n\n\"The statement of the Headman from the Lower Kau Shang is to the same effect as that of Hparè----namely, that they are in no way subordinate to any Chinese, and have never paid tribute.\n\n\"The Shi Jang (Hsieh Chiang) Headman makes the same statement, but adds that he occasionally exchanges presents of 'huang lien' (a medicine) for salt with the Ming Kwang Fu Yi.\n\n\"The trans-Ngaw Chang, or Lung Pang, group of villages comprises some 120 families at Lang Pang, Pa Le, Kan Kawn (Kan K'un), Hpien Law (Kwan Chai), &c. Their Headmen have no dealings whatever with the Chinese Chiefs, and, in fact, threatened this year to do for them if they crossed the Ngaw Chang.\n\n(This is the group of villages to which the Taotai has withdrawn his claims.)\n\n\"The Gaw Yawm (Chinese, Shang Lon) group on the Shang Tawn River, which joins the Ngaw Chang between the Pien Ma and Kan Sheng Rivers, has some forty or fifty households of Lashi.\n\n\"They state that they are in subordinate alliance with Ta Tang; every third year he gives them a buffalo, and they give him 50 viss of 'huang lien' (165 lb.). He exercises no jurisdiction beyond this, but he did actually visit Gaw Yawm while we were at Pien Ma.\n\n\"The Upper Ngaw Chang, or Pien Ma, group includes five villages of over 25 households and some nine hamlets, in all probably 240 households, of which some 180 are Lisu, mostly immigrants from the Salween, and the rest Lashi.\n\n\"The Lashi are supposed to pay about one-tenth of a tael per house per year to Teng Keng. The total tribute thus collected is not over 25 taels a-year, and is paid in kind, usually very miscellaneous kind. These villages describe themselves as in subordinate alliance with Teng Keng.\n\n\"The hamlet of Kang Fang (house of toll) is primarily the head-quarters of the Chinese coffin-wood firm. It used to be further down the Ngaw Chang, near the junction of the Pien Ma affluent. It was moved further up when wood became scarce in that locality. Tang Tung, or U Tung, is the first stage of the wood coolies en route to Ming Kwang; hence the two Chinese houses there.\n\nPage 54\n\nKang Fang is, secondarily, Teng Keng's toll and tribute collecting centre. Lisu, who extract coffin-wood on their own account apart from the Chinese firm, pay one set of boards in twenty-five.\" \n\n`[2167 -1]`",
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        "content_text": "## 24\n\ncontains, and still more for the friendly relations which his knowledge and experience of these wild people enabled us to establish with them.\n\nMr. Leveson concurs with me in recommending to the favourable notice of His Majesty's Government the excellent work performed by the surveyors, often under circumstances of great difficulty, and the very good conduct of the military police escort.\n\nThe Lashi Headman of Lajawng, in the Myitkyina district, was with Mr. Leveson and rendered valuable services in all negotiations and interviews with the Lashis of Hpare and the Ngaw Chang.\n\nThe Lisu Headman of Bumrawng, in the Bhamo Hills, formerly a havildar in the Bhamo Military Police Battalion, accompanied me up the Salween as interpreter, as he speaks Chinese. I should like to mention his good conduct and special usefulness.\n\nOur thanks are due to the British Minister at Peking and to the Government of India for the representations made to the Chinese Government that the Acting Taotai, Shih Hung Chao, should be retained at his post for service on this expedition. In no case did we have to complain of any of the obstructions and difficulties which an official less strong-minded and new to the place would almost certainly have raised. Taotai Shih kept his followers in order, refrained from \"squeezing\" the country through which he passed, prevented his soldiers from indulging in the looting which is usually practised by Chinese \"braves\" on these occasions, and paid fair prices for his mules and his supplies. He was always amenable to reasonable arguments as to the proceedings which it was best for us to take, and decided all matters without reference to his subordinates, who, of course, were for sitting still or going back very early in the proceedings. It would be unfair not to admit that satisfactory results—so far as we obtained them—were in a measure due to the Taotai's common sense.\n\n## 25\n\n### Inclosure 8 in No. 1\n\n**Certificate granted to Tso Ta Hsiung, Hereditary Native Sergeant of Tzu Chu Village, in the Ming Kwang Narrows.** (Translation.)\n\nTHE Board of War in the matter of issuing a certificate:—\n\nWhereas the Minister for Military Appointments reports that he has received an official statement from Ngai, Grand Chancellor and Governor-General of Yunnan and Kwei Chon, to the effect that Tso Hua Tien, Hereditary Native Sergeant of Tzu Chu village in the Ming Kwang Narrows, subject to Tengyueh, has demised; that his son, Tso Ta Hsiung, who is now 22 years of age, is freely accepted by the various tribes as their Lord; and that a bond setting forth the registers of the genealogy of the Tso family has been delivered, together with the former certificate, and that the Governor-General has therefore addressed the Board for instructions to Tso Ta Hsiung to assume the succession;\n\nUpon this the Board, having inspected and recorded the bond concerning the genealogy of the family, has cancelled the previous certificate, and as it appears that the said Tso Hua Tien has demised, and the Governor-General reports that his son, Tso Ta Hsiung, is 22 years of age and accepted by the tribes, the Board will now, as requested, permit the said Tso Ta Hsiung to assume the succession to the title of Hereditary Sergeant of the village of Tzu Chu in the Ming Kwang Narrows in the Sub-Prefecture of Tengyueh. This present certificate, in exchange for the former, is hereby granted, and the said Tso is ordered to receive it. A necessary certificate addressed to Tso Ta Hsiung, Hereditary Sergeant, &c.\n\n(Signed)\n\nTAO KWANG.\n\n18th year (1889), 6th moon.\n\n(Translation.)\n\n### Inclosure 7 in No. 1\n\n**Taotai Shih to Acting Consul Litton.**\n\nPien Ma, April 17, 1905.\n\nI HAVE just had the honour to receive your letter and am in possession of its contents. The other day when we were at Ming Kwang I inquired from the two Fa Yi, Yang and Tso, as to the condition of the tribes on both sides of the Little River (Ngaw Chang). They stated that in former times a punitive expedition had gone against the rebellious barbarian, Tsao Ko, to Chih Ka and the country about it, beyond (i.e., right bank of) the Little River, and that the district had then been subjected to Chinese jurisdiction.* Subsequently they, the Fu Yi, had removed into Chinese territory to a great distance from the district in question. Besides, these barbarians are of a savage nature, and widely different from those who reside on this side (i.e., the left bank) of Little River; thus they had come to be beyond the pale of civilized government, and for a long time there had been no communication between them and the Chinese.\n\nHaving investigated this matter, I find that the above statements are correct. You have now been good enough to state verbally to me that the Deputy Commissioner of Bhamo proposes to proceed beyond the Ngaw Chang in order to inspect the country; but it is to be feared that the wild tribes of those parts, not being accustomed to seeing anything out of the common, may become alarmed and raise trouble. If the Deputy Commissioner is resolved to go, I would venture to request him to consider how important it will be to take proper precautions. You were good enough to ask me verbally about this matter, and on inquiry I found that the real state of the case is as I have mentioned above.\n\nI must therefore again request you to discuss with the Deputy Commissioner as to whether he should proceed or not.\n\nThe maps of Teng Keng and Mao Chao will be sent to you when they have been completed.\n\nCompliments.\n\n(Card of Taotai Shih.)\n\n* There is no evidence that the Headmen ever resided beyond the watershed.—G. L.\n\n### Inclosure 9 in No. 1\n\n**Certificate granted to Yang Tsar Wei, Hereditary Native Sergeant of Hpare Village, in the Ming Kwang Narrows.** (Translation.)\n\nTHE Board of War issues the following certificate:—\n\nWhereas the Minister for Military Appointments reports that the Department has submitted copy of an extract from the records of the Board to the effect that the Yün-Kwei Governor-General, Kwei, states that a report has been received from the Yung Chang Prefect that Yang Chan Ho, Hereditary Native Sergeant of Hpare in the Ming Kwang Narrows, has demised; that his son, Yang Tsai Wei, is now 22 years of age, and being the true and lawful eldest son of the deceased is freely accepted by the tribes as their Lord; and that the said Yang Tsai Wei should be permitted to assume the succession to his father's office and to administer the tribal villages; and that a bond has been delivered setting forth his family relations and genealogy, together with the former certificate, for transmission to the Board for instructions;\n\nAnd whereas (the Governor-General states that) when a vacancy occurs among the tribal officials, the rule is that the lawful eldest son succeeds, and that the said Yang Chan Ho, Native Sergeant, &c., has demised, leaving a vacancy; and his son, Yang Tsai Wei, being his true and lawful heir, is gladly accepted by the tribes, and should be permitted to succeed to the ancestral offices and administration of the tribal villages;\n\nThe Board, finding the above to be in accordance with the law, permits the said Yang Chan Ho to assume the said succession, and, in exchange for the former certificate, issues this present, which the said Yang should receive accordingly.\n\nThe above copy having been submitted in the 20th year of Tao Kwang on the 3rd day of the 11th moon, an Imperial Edict was received on the 4th: \"Let it be as proposed. Respect this!\"\n\nThe necessary certificate is accordingly issued to Yang, &c.\n\n[Note. Neither Tzu Chu nor Hpare is in the Ming Kwang or in the Ming Kwang \"Narrows (or passes), but a day's march beyond the passes. There is not the ...",
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        "content_text": "446 \n\nslightest evidence that either of Lashi villagers positively deny it. two Fu Yi as their Suzerain.] \n\n26 \n\nthe Fu Yi ever lived beyond the watershed, and the These villagers also deny that they ever accepted the \n\n27 \n\n[Note. There seems no reason to believe that the villages on the NMaikha side took any more cognizance of the above official arrangements than they did of the distribution of them among the Chinese Fu Yi, which seems to have been made after the disturbances in Chia Ching's reign.] \n\n## Inclosure 10 in No. 1. \n\n**Précis of a Memorial by Shè, Governor-General of Yunnan and Kwei-Chou, together with a Receipt by the Board of Civil Office at Peking, making arrangements for the redistribution and definition of various Frontier Jurisdictions in West Yunnan, dated probably in the 15th year of Chein Lung, because a local instruction to the Chinese \"Tu-ssu\" or Headmen, based on this Memorial, is dated the year after.** \n\nTHE Governor-General observes that the boundaries of the Sub-Prefecture of Tengyueh, the hsien district of Pao Shan (Yung Chang), and the hsien district of Li Chiang are ill-defined towards the west; in the case of many scattered villages there are doubts as to what jurisdiction they belong to a state of affairs which is contrary to the requirements of good administration. \n\nThe following redistribution of the various frontier villages is therefore approved: The notes as to locality are added by His Majesty's Consul, Tengyueh. In the case of Pien Ma and U Tung, which are transferred from the jurisdiction of Yün Lung to that of Pao Shan, it is stated that the tax which the Yun Lang official formerly received and accounted for will henceforth be handed over to Pao Shan. The amount is about 320 lb. of rice. \n\n1. To the jurisdiction of Tengyueh are assigned: \n| Village | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| Shang Lou | (in Lasbi, \"Gaw Yawn,\" on the left bank of the Ngaw Chang) |\n| Chi Ka | (Lashi village on the right bank of the Ngaw Chang, opposite Shang Lou) |\n| Pa Yang | (in Lashi, \"Pa Myaw,\" on the Lower Kansheng or Kun Ma River) |\n| Ta Tang |  |\n| Ming Kwang | (about the Upper Shweli or Lung Chiang) |\n| Hparè Tan Chu | (Lashi villages at the headwaters of the Kansheng or Kun Ma) |\n| Hsien Chiang | (in Lashi, \"Shi Jang,\" on a small tributary, left bank Ngaw Chang) |\n| Kun Yung | (in China, 24 miles north of Tengyueh) |\n| Lu Yung | (not identified) |\n| Tien Tán | (Upper Shweli, west branch) |\n\n2. To the jurisdiction of Pao Shan the following are assigned: \n| Village |\n| --- |\n| Sun Chu |\n| Su Chai Pa |\n| Meng Ku |\n| Lu Chang |\n| Pú Ka |\n| Lung Sai |\n| Teng Lang |\n| Ting Ming |\n| Teng Keng |\n| Pa Chu |\n| Man Pang |\n| Sung Po |\n| Pai Lou |\n| Mao Chao |\n| A La Wa Ti |\n| Pai Pa |\n| Pa Chu Ho |\n| Pa Chung Lo |\n| Pien Ma |\n| U Tung |\n\n(All the above are situated along the Salween or in the Ngaw Chang Valley.) \n\n3. To the jurisdiction of Yün Lung the following are assigned: \n| Village |\n| --- |\n| Ch'eng Ka |\n| La Pai |\n| U Pie |\n| Hsiang Hsieh |\n| Tè U Ti |\n| Hsi Wa Lo |\n| Ku Mi Teng |\n| Ta Chu Ti |\n| Ta Chu Lo |\n| Lu Ku ferry |\n| Kan Ma Sa |\n| Lu Wei |\n| Hu Mu Lang |\n| Lao Wo |\n| Chi Tsu |\n| Wo Mao Ting |\n| Lu Tsu |\n| Lu Tsang Wang Ti |\n| Shil Ti |\n| Kui Wu |\n| Tu Pan Chang |\n| Tsao Chien |\n| Shui Tsing |\n\n(Most of these are known, and all are believed to be situated along the Salween, or between that river and the Mekong.) \n\n4. To Li Chiang Prefecture are assigned the following: \n| Village |\n| --- |\n| Pie Pie Lo |\n| Mao Chu Chai |\n| Ta Mi Lai |\n| Ta Pien |\n| Hei Tao |\n| Teng Kwa |\n| Tsa Hui Jen |\n| Chi Wa Tsa |\n| La Tsa |\n\n(Not identified; believed to be all along the Upper Salween or Mekong.) \n\n(Translation.) \n\n## Inclosure 11 in No. 1. \n\n**Acting Consul Litton to Taotai Shih, Tengyueh, May 20, 1905.**\n\nTHE 4th Article of the Agreement relative to Burmah and China provided that the boundary north of latitude 25° 35′ should be settled when the conditions of the country had been more fully inquired into. This Agreement is dated in 1897, and since its signature, the Government of Burmah has on several occasions dispatched officers to proceed to the N'Maikha with a view to ascertaining the conditions of the country and of pacifying the tribes. \n\nLast year, your Government also dispatched two military officials to Ming Kwang to make inquiries, but though the Representatives of both Governments had thus inspected the country, there had hitherto been no joint examination, and consequently, it has not been possible to conclude a further Treaty. \n\nIn February of this year, the Deputy Commissioner of Bhamo, together with myself, received instructions from our Government to serve on a joint inquiry regarding the frontier, and your Honour received a similar Commission, and we fixed a date for proceeding on this service. \n\nOn this occasion, the instructions to your Honour and to myself were to the effect that we were only to make a joint examination of the country and present a map to our superiors, and then to await their settlement of the demarcation question; we had no authority to proceed to delimitation on our own account. \n\nI was directed by my Government to point out the watershed between the N'Maikha River on the one hand and the Shweli and Salween Rivers on the other, while your Honour was instructed to inquire precisely what are territories administered by your Sawbwas. \n\nWe have now to communicate to each other the results of our joint inquiry. Having met at Ku Yung on the 7th March, 1905, we together proceeded to Ta Chai, in Tan Tsa, where we commenced our work. The previous demarcation had not gone beyond the high conical peak known to the Kachins as Manung Pum; the two small valleys of Lun Ma and Tan Tsa are situated to the east of this peak, while to the north-east of Tan Tsa, there is a lofty mountain known as Lang Ya (\"Wolf's Tooth\") Hill; between these two peaks rise the streams known as the Hsiao Cha, Ta Cha, and Chan Hsi Rivers; and the Chan Hsi River is the headwater of the Ta Ping. \n\nBeyond the range to the north of Chansi River are the Shi Ngaw and Tum Maw Rivers, both of which flow into the N'Maikha, and so to the Irrawaddy. These two rivers are under the jurisdiction of Myitkyina. \n\nUnder these conditions, all Lun Ma and Tan Tsa, which are within (i.e., on the Chinese side) of their watershed, should belong to Yunnan, while all the valleys of the Shi Ngaw and Tum Maw Rivers, which are beyond this watershed, should belong to Burmah. \n\nTo the east of the Lang Ya Shan is the village of Ma Li Pa. This village is situated in the north of the Tien Tan Valley, which belongs to Tengyueh Sub-Prefecture and is under Tsai Fu Yi (Headman). In this valley flows the Tien Tan River in a southerly direction to Ku Tung bazaar, where it joins the Ming Kwang River, being, in fact, one of the headwaters of the Shweli. \n\nSome 30 li to the north of Ma Li Pa, the watershed is crossed to the Chi Pwi River, which flows into the N'Maikha, and so to the Irrawaddy. \n\nThe Tien Tan River has three sources: the Mo Shih Stream, the Pan Wa Stream, and the true source, which issues from the Sisters Hill to the north of the village of Hei Tafo Yuan. Here, the boundary should assign the valley of the Tien Tan to Yunnan and the valley of the Chi Pwi to Burmah. \n\nBut your Honour told me that several villages about the headwaters of the Chi Pwi were included in the territory of Tsai Fu Yi of Tien Tan. Officers were accordingly sent over to Chang Yin Kou, Chung Shan, Lu Pi, and Shih Pao to inquire.",
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        "content_text": "## Page 29\n\nThe route was a mere track over unusually mountainous and difficult country with a very sparse population: only ten families of Lisu, in a very poor condition, were found (in the villages mentioned). For many years past they have neither paid tribute nor made presents.\n\nOn leaving Ma Li Pa we proceeded on the 31st March to Ta Chai, in the Ming Kwang Valley, to the east of Tien Tan. This valley is in the Tengyueh Sub-Prefecture and under the jurisdiction of the two Fu Yi, Tso and Yang. For a distance of nearly 100 li from Ku Tung bazaar northwards to the head of the Ming Kwang River the valley is inhabited by a mixed population of Chinese and Lisu, but most of the latter can speak Chinese and in every way resemble Chinamen. The Ming Kwang River rises to the north of Ta Chu Pa and flows down to Ku Tung bazaar, being the true source of the Shweli; along the north-west of the Upper Ming Kwang Valley there is a lofty range of mountains connecting with the Sisters Hill and the Pan Wa Pass, and forming the divide between the N'Maikha and Shweli Rivers. All the streams on the east side of this ridge belong to the Ming Kwang-Shweli system; all the streams to the west of it flow into the N'Maikha and Irrawaddy.\n\nTo take this range as the frontier would be to adopt the true natural line. But your Government stated that Hparè, Tzu Chu, Pien Ma, and other places situated to the west of the watershed belonged by rights to the Fu Yi Yang and Tso of Ming Kwang; these Fu Yi also presented two certificates and a copy of a Memorial bearing on this question to your Honour for my inspection.\n\nUnder these circumstances the Deputy Commissioner of Bhamo, together with your Deputy, Mr. Tai, proceeded from Ming Kwang to Hparè in order to make a careful investigation on the spot.\n\nThe distance proved to be nearly 80 li, and the track was through mountainous and uninhabited country for the whole way. In the two villages of Upper and Lower Hparè there are only some thirty odd households, all of them Lashi Kachius; just below the village the Hparè and Tzu Chu Streams join to form the Kun Ma (Khansheng) River, which flows into the Ngaw Chang, and so into the Irrawaddy.\n\nThe village of Tzu Chu also contains some thirty families of Lashi and is only separated from Hparè by a minor ridge of hills.\n\nMr. Leveson, in concert with Mr. Tai, examined the Headmen of these villages. Their statement was in effect as follows:\n\n\"We are not subject to the Fu Yi, nor do we pay taxes to him; but formerly when festivities took place at the Fu Yi's we offered presents, and when we had any festivities the Fu Yi made return presents to us. Since the Fu Yi raided our village and robbed us of our ploughing oven we have had a feud with the Fu Yi and hold no communication with him. Formerly the Fu Yi engaged us to protect the road (along the Kun Ma) and gave us 25 rupees and some gunpowder for doing so, but of recent years this payment has not been made.\n\n\"We are in the habit of going backwards and forwards over the frontier for the purpose of trading with the Chinese, and they do the like, but we never go over the frontier to cultivate. We know nothing about the certificate investing Yang Fu Yi with the title of Hereditary Sergeant of Hparè or how he came by it, but we do know that we have never been subject to him.”\n\nThese statements agree with my own observations. Not only does not the Fu Yi control this district, but he does not even dare to go there; so it is perfectly clear that he cannot control it; nor can I understand how the certificates come to speak of the \"Fu Yi Yang of Hparè in Ming Kwang\" and the \"Fu Yi Tso of Tzu Chu in Ming Kwang,\" seeing that Ming Kwang is distant from Hparè and Tzu Chu nearly 100 li. To insist that they are in the same district is as though we were to talk of Mandalay in the district of Yung Chang, or Yung Chang in the district of Mandalay.\n\nUnder these circumstances, I would invite your Honour to point out in what possible sense these Fu Yi can be said to govern these villages.\n\nMr. Leveson and myself further inquired into the conditions and history of Pien Ma, the Kun Ma River, and the Hsiao Chiang or Ngaw Chang. The Headmen stated that some generations ago the Chinese and the Kachins had fallen out, the Chinese Chiefs of Ming Kwang, Ta Tang, and Teng Keng had united their forces and made an incursion beyond the watershed and beyond the Ngaw Chang, raiding the village of Lan Pang and killing many persons, whereby the Kachins suffered heavy damage. The Lashi Headmen then collected their people and made a counter-raid over the divide.\n\n## Page 447\n\nThey burnt Teng Keng and killed two of the Chinese Fu Yi's family; they then looted the Ming Kwang Valley as far as Ku Tung bazaar.\n\nAfter this the various parties negotiated a peace, and it was agreed that they should mutually exchange presents of local produce, as a pledge of amity, Ming Kwang every three years exchanged presents with the villages of Hparè, Lung Pung, and those along the Kun Ma and Ngaw Chang Rivers; Teng Keng exchanged them with Pien Ma and U Tung; Ta Tang with Shang Lon and Chih Ka.\n\nSubsequently the Pien Ma people looted some cattle belonging to Lung Pang and Chih Ka, whereupon these villages looted and burnt Pien Ma. The Pien Ma people, being few and weak, then voluntarily invited the Chinese of Teng Keng to come to their assistance in order to have their revenge. The Teng Keng people consented and burnt the two villages of Lung Pang and Chih Ka. This is the reason why to this day Pien Ma makes a small annual payment of tribute to Teng Keng. In the case of Ta Tang, the villages of Shang Lou and Chih Ka commonly present \"huang lien\" and receive in exchange a plough ox.\n\nBut these various Headmen are not under any administrative control by the Chinese officials.\n\nNow these statements agree in the main with what your Honour told me, namely, that in the reign of Chia Ching (early nineteenth century) the Chinese Fu Yi had made a warlike expedition to the Ngaw Chang. No doubt we must not believe all that we are told by the Kachin Headmen, but neither can I believe the statement of the Chinese Fu Yi to the effect that they subjected this country to regular control.\n\nThe questions concerning Pien Ma and the Hsiao Chiang (Ngaw Chang) being of much importance in regard to the frontier, we determined personally to proceed from Ming Kwang to Pien Ma to make inquiries. The way leads over the Fen Shui Ling Pass, and so to the head of the Pien Ma River, a distance of over 80 li, all of which is uninhabited, while progress is exceedingly difficult on account of the mountainous character of the country. This pass, the Fen Shui Ling, is close to the head of the Ming Kwang River, which is the true source of the Shweli. The hills at the back of this river-source form the water-divide between the Hsiao Chiang or Little River and the Ming Kwang, and this water-divide is connected with the main water-divide between the Salween and the Irrawaddy; this main divide stretches northwards as far as the confines of Thibet, and is a snow-blocked range almost impossible to cross, and is locally known by the Teng Keng and Ming Kwang people as the Kao Li Kung snow mountains.\n\nOn account of the difficulty of travelling, Mr. Leveson and myself only reached Pien Ma and met your Honour on the 16th April, when we proceeded to our investigations. It appears that there are only some 200 odd families of Kachins and Lisu at Pien Ma, who pay a house tax amounting to about 50 taels a-year to Teng Keng, who also levies a toll on coffin wood to the amount of some 100 taels a-year, or, in all, 150 taels (about) per year; but Pien Ma has a feud with Shang Lon, and Lung Pang has a feud with Teng Keng, and there is no communication between these villages. Chinese traders proceeding to these places suffer loss, but the Chinese Fu Yi do nothing whatever to administer the country beyond levying their revenue.\n\nAs to the villages beyond the Ngaw Chang, their condition has been truly described in your Honour's letter to me: they are beyond the pale of government.\n\nIt may be said of the whole of this country that it is clear that neither the Chinese officials nor the Fu Yi can control it. It is to be feared that the Kachins in Barmah territory may subsequently suffer from the raids of these people.\n\nAfter your Honour and myself had crossed the mountains to Lu Chang by the Salween, Mr. Leveson proceeded to both banks of the Ngaw Chang to make inquiries, and the local Headmen all came to see him; the surveyor also proceeded some distance beyond Lung Pang. Nowhere did the Kachins cause any trouble, and it appears from this that they are not naturally savage, but have simply never been subject to Chinese jurisdiction.\n\nOn the banks of the Salween we found that the three Chiefs of Teng Keng, Lu Chang, and Mao Chao are all subject to Yung Chang's jurisdiction. North of Mao Chao the country is entirely populated by Lisu, nominally subject to La Wo. North of the Lisu country are the Nu Tzu, and north of the Nu Tzu (or Lu Tzu) is Thibetan territory. This is a general survey of the condition of the banks of the Salween.\n\nThe west bank of the Salween is entirely populated by Lisu; the country west, again, of the great Salween-Irrawaddy divide is entirely populated by Marus (Lang Su), who are under no Government, and have little or no communication with the Lisu.\n\n[2167-1]",
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        "content_text": "[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\nCHINA TRADE,\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n[6692]\n\n[B]\n\nNo. 1.\n\nFebruary 24\n\n8499\n\n&\n\nSECTION 1E2 10 MAR 06.\n\n198\n\nSir E. Satow to Sir Edward Grey,- (Received February 24.)\n\n(No. 451.) Sir,\n\nPeking, December 26, 1905.\n\nWITH reference to the last two paragraphs of my despatch to the Marquess of Lansdowne No. 418 of the 8th instant, I have the honour to transmit to you the accompanying copies of two despatches from His Majesty's Consul at Ichang, and of my reply respecting the proposed new levy for the maintenance of tracking paths and other improvements on the Yang-tsze.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed)\n\nERNEST SATOW\n\n(No. 16.) Sir,\n\nInclosure 1 in No. 1.\n\nConsul Fox to Sir E. Satow.\n\nIchung, November 19, 1905.\n\nMR. OTTEWILL, in his Intelligence Report for the March quarter, 1905, referred to the construction of a tracking path through the Yang-tsze gorges between Ichang and Kueifu. He mentioned that a sum of 30,000 taels had been subscribed by various officials, and that the work had been put in the charge of Fu Ting Chen, Brigadier-General of Lehang.\n\nWith this money a considerable stretch of new road has been constructed and existing paths have been repaired. With the object of raising a permanent fund for the upkeep of these paths and other improvements, the original subscribers, headed by Li Min Chen, Provincial Treasurer of Hupei and Yu Shao K'ang, the late Ching Chou Taotai, both natives of Szechuan, have obtained the Viceroy's permission to establish a Pao Lu Chu, or Road Maintenance Office, at Ichang, which will be authorized to levy a small fee on all vessels proceeding up-river; proceeds to be devoted to the upkeep and extension of existing pathways and the erection of certain aids to navigation, such as hand-capstans with wire hawsers, at the most dangerous rapids. The expectant Prefect, Chan Te Ping, until lately Department Magistrate at Kuei Chou, has been appointed Deputy in charge.\n\nThe Ching Chou Taotai, in a despatch to my predecessor dated the 29th October, copy and translation of which I have the honour to inclose, outlines the scheme and asks me to approve of the proposed fees being levied on vessels chartered by British firms. The ten Regulations he refers to, wherein the scheme is discussed in detail, have since undergone considerable alteration, and as I am promised a copy of the amended rules in a few days' time, I do not inclose the original draft, but will forward copy and translation of the new Regulations as soon as I receive them.\n\nThe proposed levy of 4 cash per tiao (1,000 cash) of freight, to be divided between shipper and junk-master, was soon found to be quite impracticable. I understand that the foreign Customs have now been asked to undertake the collection of these \"subscriptions,\" undoubtedly the only practical method of raising the money. The levy will in effect take the form of a small increase in the port dues at present collected by the Maritime Customs on behalf of the Chao Kuan, or Native Customs. The present dues amount, roughly speaking, to 150 cash per ton measurement on junks under 10 tons, and 200 cash per ton on junks exceeding that tonnage. It is proposed to collect an additional four-tenths, making the total dues payable 210 cash and 280 cash per ton respectively. Separate receipts will be issued, and the money thus collected will, as at present arranged, be handed over to the Pao Lu Chi. As chartered junks will naturally be included in the levy, it becomes, as a matter of fact, a small additional tax on foreign goods.\n\nThe question naturally arises, have the Chinese authorities the right to impose such extra tax, however small and however worthy its object, without the consent of\n\n[1878 ua-1]\n\nB",
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        "content_text": "640\n\n4\n\nLiu Kuo-liang, Captain of the City Guard; Yen Shang-Chung, sergeant in the Guard of the Hsin-chien Magistrate; Wu Ting-k'uei, sergeant in the right battalion, are to be cashiered. Li Hung-yüan, sergeant in the left battalion; Liu Ching-t'ai, Commandant of the 3rd Battalion of the 1st Brigade of the Territorial Army; and Wei Ting, Captain in the same battalion, are to be deprived of their buttons; Cheng Yün-hsien and Hsiang Kuan-pang, who both possess hereditary ranks, are to be fined one year's emoluments, and the expectant Magistrate, Huang Chung, of the South Police-station in Nanchang city, has three entries of default recorded against him.\n\nIn addition to the punishments of the ringleaders and officials above mentioned, their Excellencies stated that a Proclamation would be issued by the Governor of Kiangsi, acknowledging that the late Magistrate of Nanchang, Chiang Chao-t'ang, had committed suicide, and that an undertaking had been given by the Chinese Government not to permit the local officials, gentry, or people to do honour to his memory.\n\nYour Highness is aware that in the month of March last, as the result of an inquiry conducted while Mr. Werner, His Majesty's Consul at Kiukiang, was at Nanchang, it was arranged that the following punishments should be inflicted on the persons concerned in the murders of Mr. and Mrs. Kingham, and in the destruction of their property :--\n\nNamePunishment\n\nHsü Tê-fên, Deputy in the Industrial School, Wa Chên-jo, Deputy in the Foreign Bureau. Kêng Ch'ao-t'ai, Superintendent of the Mint. Hsiung Lan-sên, Ch'ang Pei-Chün (Regular Army). Hsiung Yi-Shêng, Ch'ang Pei-Chin (Regular Army). Pao Chiêng-huang, Chiêng Shou Ying (City Guard). Pao Pu-k'uei, Chêng Shou Ying (City Guard). Chang Yu-ch'uan, Ching Ch'a Chü (Police). Lu Chin-piao, Ching Cha Cha (Police). Shen-Fu-hàng, Ching Cha Chủ (Police). Chi-Ping-k'an, Ching Ch'a Chu (Police). P'an Têng-hsien, Lieutenant of Cavalry. Ho Han-wên, Lieutenant of Cavalry. Wang Hsi-lin, Lieutenant of Cavalry.Decapitation.\nHsü Tso-chün, sergeant of the Provincial Guard.Eight years' imprisonment.\nSix years' imprisonment.\nHsieh Yu-lung Tan Chin-kang Wei Tê-sheng Chou Lao-érh ÏIsiao Fa Li La-tzü Hu Tang-poo Li Hslich-pêng Wang Mu-shui Li Kuang-hua Chih Hsin-p'u Wang Wei-lin Hsing Tsai-kn. Heiung Ping-nao.. Chên Hsi-feng Yang Lia-chin Ch'en Sheng-luTwo years' hard labour.\nOne year's hard labour.\n\nI have great pleasure in submitting these names to your Highness, and to request, on behalf of His Majesty's Government, that a substantial reward may be given to each for his courageous and highly meritorious conduct.\n\nIf your Highness will be so good as to inform me that the punishments above mentioned will be faithfully carried out, that the sum of 4,700l. will be paid to His Majesty's Consul at Kiukiang (either in Kiukiang or Shanghae, as he will select), and that the officers and men whose names I have indicated will be rewarded, I shall at once inform His Majesty's Government and recommend that the case be closed.\n\nI avail, &c.\n\n(Signed) LANCELOT D. CARNEGIE.\n\nInclosure 3 in No. 1.\n\n(Translation.)\n\nSir,\n\nIt was also arranged verbally by Sir Ernest Satow with the Wai-wu Pu that the Kiangsi authorities should pay a sum for the maintenance of the surviving infant child of Mr. and Mrs. Kingham, in addition to compensation for the house and property destroyed by the mob, and the total amount required for these purposes has now been fixed by His Majesty's Government at 4,700l. This sum is exclusive of certain small claims for the destruction of property belonging to British missionaries, which have already been satisfied by the Provincial Government of Kiangsi.\n\nI should add that Mr. Werner has brought to the notice of His Majesty's Government the names of the following officers and men in the service of the Chinese Government who exerted themselves to protect the lives and property of foreigners during this lamentable occurrence :--\n\nHung Wei-lin, Commodore of the River Fleet.\nWu Mei-t'ing, Captain of a gun-boat.\nLin Kuo-tung, Squadron Commander.\nChiến Chin-tang, Commandant in the Chang Pei-Chúa.\nHung Chan-k'uei, Major in the Right Battalion.\nLiu Chu-shu, Lieutenant-Colonel in the City Guard.\nWang Tê-sheng, Captain of the City Guard.\nLiu Hsin-ch'uan, Captain of Cavalry.\nTs'ao Tê-fu, Inspector of the 1st Battalion of the Territorial Army.\nSun Lang, Police Deputy.\nHsu Hui-ch'uan, Police Deputy.\n\nPrince Ching to Mr. Carnegie.\n\nKuang Hsü, 32nd year, 5th month, 9th day (June 30, 1906).\n\nI HAVE the honour to acknowledge receipt of your note of the 27th June on the subject of the Nanchang missionary case [note of the 27th June quoted at length].\n\nI have the honour to state, in reply, that this Board will not fail to communicate to the provincial authorities of Kiangsi the punishments to be inflicted on the persons found guilty of participation in this outbreak, in accordance with the list in your note, and with instructions to give due effect thereto.\n\nAs regards the sum of 4,700l. to be paid as compensation and for the maintenance of the infant survivor, payment will be made to His Britannic Majesty's Consul at Kinkiang within three months; while we are also communicating to the Governor of Kiangsi the list of officers who exerted themselves in this case in affording protection, with instructions that they should be granted suitable rewards.\n\nThe harmonious settlement of this case affords an eloquent testimony of your country's friendship, for which my colleagues and myself desire to express our profound appreciation.\n\nWhile trusting that you will communicate this reply to His Majesty's Government and recommend that the case be closed, I avail, &c.\n\nInclosure 4 in No. 1.\n\nAgreement between Wai-wu Pu and French Minister at Peking.\n\nDES troubles ayant récemment éclaté à Nantchang, au cours desquels des Français ont trouvé la mort et l'école et la mission ont été incendiées, les Gouvernements Français et Chinois, désireux d'arranger cette affaire conformément à la justice et à l'équité, afin de confirmer les relations d'amitié qui existent entre les deux pays, sont tombés d'accord pour nommer des Délégués chargés de faire une enquête.\n\nOnt été désignés :\n\nDu côté Français, le Vicomte du Halgouet, Secrétaire d'Ambassade, &c.;\n\n[2102 dd-4]",
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        "content_text": "373\n\n2\n\ncommitted what in English law would be perjury of a very serious nature, I have the honour to request your sanction to my asking the Governor at Nan Chiang to award to the latter some suitable, but not vindictive, punishment. As far as the evidence at the trial went, Hsiao Fa should either have been liberated or condemned to death.\n\nRewards.-I cannot but regard the manner in which this part of the stipulations made by His Majesty's Government has been carried out by the Chinese authorities as most unsatisfactory. The revised list of Chinese who exerted themselves to protect the lives and property of foreigners whose names I brought to Sir Ernest Satow's notice, and to each of whom a substantial reward was to be given, is contained in Mr. Carnegie's despatch. I have the honour to report as follows upon the rewards so far allotted to the various officers and men named therein :-\n\nHung Wei-lin, Commodore of the River Fleet, and Wu Chén-jo, Deputy in the Foreign Bureau, have been placed next on the list for promotion. This is too uncertain; they should at once be promoted to the rank of Chih Chou.\n\nWu Melting, captain of a gunboat, to be promoted to the next Ying vacancy. Should he at once be made a Ying Kuan, preferably at Kiukiang, that being his wish.\n\nHsu Tê-fên, Deputy in the Industrial School; Chiên K'uei (not in original list); Sun Lang, Police Deputy; Hsu Hui-Chuan, ditto; Liu Hung-lin (not in the original list); Shên Fu-hêng, of the Ching Ch'a Chu. When vacancies occur, their cases will be considered. This is too indefinite; they should be given the rank of Chih Chou, and sent immediately to fill acting posts.\n\nLiu Kuo-tung, Squadron Commander; Chên Chin-tang, Commandant of the Ch'ang Fei Chun; Hung Chan-k'uei, Major in the Right Battalion, Kêng Ch'ao-t'ai, Superintendent of the Mint; Liu Chu-shu, Lieutenant-Colonel of the City Guard; Wang Te-sheng, Captain of the City Guard, Liu Hsin-ch'uan, Captain of Cavalry: Tsao Tê-fu, an Inspector of the 1st Battalion of the Territorial Army; Ho Huan-wên, Lieutenant of Cavalry, Wang Hsi-lin, ditto; Pan Têng-hsien, ditto; Hsu Tzo-chün, Sergeant of the Provincial Garrison. These cases have not yet been considered, owing to a change of the Taotai in charge of military matters. Each case should be carefully considered, and definite promotion given immediately; otherwise nothing may be done for three to five years, or the matter may be overlooked altogether.\n\nPao Chiêng haang, of the Chồng Shou Ying; Pao Pu-kuei, ditto; Heung 1-shéng (Hsiung Lan-sen), of the Chang Pei Chün. These have received 7 taels each. They exerted themselves strenuously throughout the day of the massacre, and the reward must be considered inadequate. It cannot be construed as a \"substantial\" reward, as stipulated, and should be trebled at least.\n\nChang Ya-chan and Lü Chin-piao, of the Ching Cha Chü, have received 55 dollars and 45 dollars respectively. This may be considered sufficient.\n\nChu Ping-kun, of the Ching Cha Chi, is to be sent to Japan to study (probably for a military career). This, being at his own request, will, if carried out, be sufficient compensation for his voluntary aid to the missionaries in distress.\n\nI submit that the above list hardly indicates that this portion of the conditions imposed by His Majesty's Government has been carried out in the right spirit, and Had it not been that its immediate and adequate fulfilment should be insisted upon, for the courage and exertions of those named, it is probable that most of the missionaries in Nan Ch'ang at the time would have been murdered and all the Mission buildings destroyed. The sympathy, bravery, and hard work of what may be regarded as a small, but just-minded, pro-foreign party, ready to do right, even on behalf of aliens, in face of the risk of official disapproval, are characters and acts calling for commendation and encouragement, and it is to be feared that if the Governor at Nan Chang is not compelled to fulfil the stipulation as to granting a substantial reward to each of those named in Mr. Carnegie's note to Prince Ching of the 27th June last, since it cannot but be known that the stipulation has been made, the failure to insist upon its proper fulfilment will be regarded as a sign of weakness or indifference, and the name of foreigners and the cause of foreign Missions in Nan Chiang be in so far prejudiced. In those cases where it is impossible to immediately find a substantive post of higher grade, promotion in rank accompanied by an adequate pecuniary reward should at once be given.\n\nOf the names omitted from the revised list, Pao Fang, Miss Warr's writer, exerted himself throughout the day and part of the night, and was probably the means of Miss Warr's life being saved. This man and Chen p'o p'o, the amah who saved the infant Vera Kingham, should not be allowed to go unrewarded.\n\nThat a feeling of disappointment exists amongst those who, instead of deserting the missionaries in the hour of danger, worked hard on their behalf, and in many cases saved their lives and protected their property, is shown by the following extract from a letter, dated the 11th September, received by me from the Rev. A. E. Thor, of the China Inland Mission at Nan Ch'ang:-\n\n\"I have asked a good many, direct and indirect, if So-and-so has been rewarded, but always the same answer 'No,' and no one seems to think there will be any. To-day Liu Kuch-tung, of the cavalry camp, came in to have a chat; I asked him about the reward. He laughed and said: 'Reward there will be none, but a few days ago a note was sent to us from the General, which he had received from Peking, in which we were thanked for good service rendered the country, and that five names (mine being one) were put in the book of honour amongst those who have rendered good service to the country, and that is all we will get. If this country is too poor (as they always say) to give these men higher rank and as such more pay, it seems to me that the Chinese Government could afford to give their officers higher kong-ming' (degree). That would cost the Government nothing, but would work wonders amongst those who get it. Now, they all seem disappointed, as they had expected something, as the Governor cried out during the riot: 'A thousand taels to any one who saves a foreigner.'\n\nI submit that the Governor at Nan Chang should be instructed by telegraph to see that the stipulations of the two Governments are carried out immediately and in a proper spirit.\n\nCompensation. The sum of 4,700l.—the amount agreed upon as compensation for the destroyed property of the late Rev. H. C. Kingham and for the support of the infant, Margaret Vera Kingham-was received by me to-day (the 18th September) from the Governor of Nan Ch'ang, through the Prefect (the Taotai being in attendance upon his dying mother), to whom I gave a receipt. By the instructions of His Majesty's Chief Judge at Shanghae I have deposited the 700l. in the Hong Kong and Shanghae Banking Corporation, Shanghae, in an account named \"His Britannic Majesty's Consul, Kiukiang, a/c K.,\" and the 4,000, in the same bank in London to the account of \"His Britannic Majesty's Chief Judge, Supreme Court, Shanghae.\"\n\nAll the other claims for personal property destroyed having, as already reported, been settled satisfactorily by the former Governor, Hu Ting-kan, there remains only the question of the new piece of land which it was agreed should be granted to the missionaries for the purpose of erecting buildings in which to carry on the work begun by the late Rev. H. C. Kingham and his wife. The 700l. paid as compensation for the late Mr. Kingham's property having included the land on which the house and chapel had been erected, I have stated to the Rev. H. E. Pownall, representing the Stewards' Company (of which Mr. Kingham was a member), that this new piece of land, which obviously cannot form part of Mr. Kingham's estate, may be considered as the property of the Stewards' Company, given to them for the carrying on of the work interrupted by the death of Mr. Kingham, feeling that this course would meet with your sanction and approval. Further negotiations as to whether the same site shall be granted, or whether it will be advisable to rebuild the Mission premises at a greater distance from the Roman Catholic Mission (their proximity having led to their destruction during the late massacre), are under correspondence between the missionaries, the Nan Chang officials, and myself, and will probably shortly reach a satisfactory conclusion.\n\nSettlement and Guardianship.-After correspondence with the Supreme Court at Shanghae, I have suggested the appointment of the Rev. H. E. Pownali and Rev. R. J. Hopkins as trustees for the minor, Margaret Vera Kingham. Owing to the absence of the parties, I have not yet taken the hearing for the appointment of a guardian, and if, as seems probable from what Mr. Pownall has stated, Mr. Hopkins or he would prefer to be guardian rather than trustee, another reliable person nearly connected will be appointed joint trustee with one or the other. The matter will be proceeded with as soon as possible, and the Crown Advocate at Shanghae will then be instructed to draw up a deed of settlement, a draft of which will be forwarded for your approval.\n\nA claim for the guardianship of the infant, Margaret Vera Kingham, has been made, though as yet only in an informal manner, in private letters to Mrs. Pownall and Mrs. Hopkins by a Mr. Percy Kingham, a hotel-keeper of Drummond, South Africa, brother of the late Rev. H. C. Kingham, but being satisfied from information gathered from various sources that his guardianship would not be to the interests of the ward, and the Chief Judge concurring in my view, the appointment of a guardian will be proceeded with irrespective of any claim which he may see fit to set up.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed) E. T. C. WERNER.\n\n3\n\n373",
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        "content_text": "Lai Sui called.\n\nExamined by Mr Sercombe Smith\n\nQ. What is your name?\n\nA. Lai Sui.\n\nQ. Are you Chinese detective No. 375?\n\nA. I am.\n\nQ. This morning did you go to the Hop On boarding house?\n\nA. Yes.\n\nQ. At No 1 Wai Sun Lane third floor?\n\nA. Yes.\n\nQ. To fetch Ng Sz Ko?\n\nA. Yes.\n\nQ. When you got there did you see Chan Yu Tin?\n\nA. Yes.\n\nQ. You recognise him as being here to-day?\n\nA. Yes.\n\nQ. Did you hear anything he said?\n\nA. No, he left when I went in.\n\nQ. Did Ng Sz ko tell you what this man said when he went in?\n\nA. Yes. He said the chief clerk had told him to come.\n\nBy Mr Gompertz\n\nQ. Did he say that to you?\n\nA. Yes.\n\nQ. Did the other man hear that?\n\nA. No.\n\nPage 74\n\nMr Sercombe Smith: This evidence only came to me five minutes before I entered the Council Chamber.\n\nHis Excellency: Do you wish to ask the witnesses any questions?\n\nMr Guterres: No, sir.\n\nChok Fu called.\n\nExamined by Mr Sercombe Smith\n\nQ. Is your name Chok Fu?\n\nA. Yes.\n\nQ. Are you 27 years of age?\n\nA. I am.\n\nPage 1",
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        "content_text": ".....................\n\n30.\n\n.\n\nHe was showing signs of grey in his hair was he not?\n\nA. Tor.\n\n94\n\n1\n\nMr. Sercombe Smith: Lau Pak is on the Cranley, and unable to be present.\n\nThe Harbour Master took a signed statement of his on the 4th of this month, and the Crown Solicitor advises that a copy of this statement, having been signed, it can be used by this Council. I propose to read that statement. It is as follows—\"I am second boatswain of the S.S. Cranley, and was at the Shipping Office about 11 a.m. on the 10th November to receive my wages and sign on again. I know the boy Chok Fu. He was captain's boy on the S.S. Cranley. He (Chok Fu) owed me $20 which I lent him at various times. I know the man called Sai Yau. He is a friend of mine and keeps a boarding house. I asked Sai Yau to deduct $20 from Chok Fu's wages and give it to me, but as yet I have not received it. Signed this 4-12-1903, Lau Pak, his mark, Chan Pui, interpreter and witness\",\n\n\"\", Reckwith, Lieut., Harbour Master,\n\nMr. Sercombe Smith: I also wish, Sir, to put in the record of Mr. Guterres' service, and details. It appears he entered the service in 1869, and that since 1881 he has worked in the Mercantile Marine Office. That during this nearly 40 years of service he has not had any vacation leave, nor had any day off save. He had 22 days sick pay leave.\n\nMr. Sercombe Smith: I also wish, Sir, to put in the statement of entries at the Mercantile Marine Office supplied by the Harbour Master, which Mr. Guterres probably won't dispute. (To Mr. Guterres, handing him the document)—Is that correct?\n\nMr. Guterres: Yes.\n\nMr. Sercombe Smith: This is a copy of my letter asking if you had any bank book, and your reply is:— Mercantile Marine Office, 19th December, 1900. My Dear Sir, In reply to your note of even date, I beg to state that I have no bank book of any description. Your obedient servant,\n\nA.P. Guterres,\n\nLieut. C.F. Beckwith, R.N., Harbour Master,\n\nMr. Sercombe Smith: That is my case, Sir.",
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        "content_text": "**SECRET**\n\nHong Kong,  \n17th April 1907\n\nGovernment House.\n\nMy Lord,\n\nIn continuation of my dispatch of the 28th December 1906 on the subject of negotiations for a joint working arrangement in connection with the proposed Canton - Kowloon Railway, I have the honour to inform your Lordship that in a letter dated the 8th instant the Consul General at Canton informed me that the Viceroy had received the Imperial Sanction to entrust the care of the Canton-Kowloon Railway matters to H.E. Lou I'ing Fang.\n\n1. I have been informed that this gentleman, who is a Cantonese and was formerly Vice-President of the Board of Punishments at Peking, is a personal friend of Viceroy Chan Fu. He is brother-in-law to D'Rokesiu, senior unofficial member of our Legislative Council of Hong Kong.\n\n2 & 3. I enclose the translation of an extract from the issues of the _Shang Pao_ of the 9th April 1907, which purports to be and probably is a copy of a telegram from the Viceroy Chan to Wong, a member of the Grand Council, recommending that Lou I'ing Fang should be appointed to manage affairs connected with the Kowloon-Canton Railway.\n\n4. I called on Lou I'ing Fang on the 15th instant, for the purpose of having a preliminary conversation with him regarding the railway. I enclose a copy of a memorandum embodying the substance of the conversation and suggestions for the preparation of a new draft for the joint agreement, the one formerly proposed in 1896 not being applicable to the conditions under which an exclusive section of the railway is now to be constructed.\n\n5. Before this new draft is communicated to Lou I'ing Fang, it will be necessary to ascertain that he is fully possessed of full powers to conclude an agreement with this Government, subject only to the approval of the Viceroy, and I am now making enquiries as to this from the Consul General.\n\n6. I take this opportunity of acknowledging your Lordship's confidential despatches of the 15th January, the 15th February, and the 17th and 30th March on the subject of this railway.\n\nThe Right Honourable  \nThe Earl of Derby\n\nI have the honour to be,  \nMy Lord,  \nYour Lordship's most obedient humble servant,  \nW. Chatham",
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        "content_text": "# RETURN of OFFICERS who have given Security for the due Discharge of their Duties\n## Prepared at the Annual Inspection of Securities, held on 7th February, 1907\n\n| Name of Officer giving Security | Exact Titles of all Appointments (either permanent or temporary) now held by him | Nature of the Security given | Names, Addresses, and Occupations of the Sureties in each Bond | Title of Office in respect of which the Bond is given, as stated therein | Date of Bond | Amount of Bond |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Fang Yok Kan | Sixth Clerk, REGISTRAR GENERAL'S DEPT.; Shroff | Deposit Note of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank for $100 |  |  |  | 100 |\n| Wong Bak Shin | ... | Do. | Man To Toung, Master of Tang Wing shop; Yau Shui, Master of Hung Cheong, Constructor's shop, No. 81 High Street |  | 13th January, 1904 | 5,000 |\n| ... | ... | IF BY GUARANTEE BOND | Wong Lai-fú; Compradore of Simsson & Co.; Kwok Shut Teng, of Heung Shonng Kerosine Oil Company |  | 27th February, 1902 | 2,000 |\n| ... | ... | ... | Wan King Ceung of No. 20 Queen's Road East; Ko Sik Chi of No. 39 Queen's Road Central |  | 2nd June, 1905 | 250 |\n| ... | ... | ... | ... |  | 6th July, 1906 | 300 |\n| Lan Tin Tsung | Aurilary Shroff, (office dispensed with.) | Deposit Note of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank for $300 |  |  |  |  |\n| Cheng Ki Heung | Writer, COLONIAL SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT | Personal Bond with two Sureties, jointly and severally | Tsiu Yin-cho of the Yin Hing shop No. 44 Jervois Street; Wong Yui Sung of the Wing Sing shop No. 82 Queen's Road Central |  | 22nd February, 1904 | 200 |\n| Chat Shing Ip | Writer | Do. | Yung Chiu Po, Compradore J. D. Jutebison & Co. |  | 1st February, 1904 | 250 |\n| Lau Tsz Ping | Writer | Do. | Chow Yat Shing, Master of the Ki Lan No. 21 East Street; Cheng Yuen, Master of the Kwong Tsâu, No. 4 Tung Tak Lane |  | 12th January, 1906 | ... |\n| Chan Fung Thug | Writer | Do. | Tam Hoi, Master of the Tsung Hoi Kee shop, No. 40 Circular Pathway; Lan Kam Shing, Master of the In Lee shop, No. 514 Queen's Road West |  | 8th December, 1906 | ... |\n| ... | Office Attendant | Do. | Wong Shan Kan, Master of the Wai Hang, No. 196 Wellington Street; L. F. Cooke, Master of the Po Kee, No. 58 Connaught Road |  | 11th December, 1906 | 550 |\n| ... | ... | ... | Kwong Hang, Master of the Yu Lung, No. 65 Wellington Street; So Mau Hing, Master of the Fu Keo, No. 57 Queen's Road West |  | 14th December, 1906 | ... |\n| ... | ... | ... | Ho Hoi, Master of the Sze Hop, No. 321 Queen's Road West; Fung Fong, late District Watchman |  | 11th December, 1906 | 100 |",
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        "content_text": "Page 612\n\nFinancial Instruction No. 80, having reference to the making use or advancing of public money was waived by a former Treasurer and the system of payment of shroffs' salaries out of the Crown rent collected was in force when I came to Taipo: the corresponding amount of pay was drawn in the Treasury and when the shroff came in Hongkong it was paid by him with other Crown rent into the Bank.\n\nThis was done throughout the last financial year, until the 28th of March, when Chan Fat Ha, one of the shroffs, drew out the shroff's pay for that month $282.90, and on April 8th, or Ath. Ng Yung Fu drew out $432.80 more, as the shroffs' and sergeants' pay for February, both of which sums had been drawn in the usual way from the Crown Rent, and should in fact have been held as public money unless some authority was brought from me for payment to the shroff instead of into the Bank, while in addition the February paysheets had already been signed and returned to the Treasury. The first shroff at the Treasury stated afterwards that the latter payment was made by the Second shroff in his absence, but I submit that both for the system and for this particular act the Treasurer alone is responsible.\n\nThe shroffs' collection books have always been regularly kept and carefully checked by me since their inception.\n\nThe Assistant Auditor complained on the occasion of his visit that the totals were not carried forward and added up each month, but this was only a matter of convenience and did not involve any irregularity in the sums of totals entered.\n\nThe sent rolls also were continually checked by...\n\nPage 613",
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        "content_text": "# Inclosure 11 in No. 1\n## Consul-General Fraser to Sir J. Jordan\n\nHankow, October 30, 1906.\n\nIN continuation of my despatch No. 64 of yesterday, I have the honour to report my conversation with Mr. Chan, specially sent to explain the terms on which Viceroy Chang wishes to engage through Mr. Kinder an engineer for the Hupei and Hunan section of the Canton-Hankow Railway.\n\nMr. Chan explained that sufficient funds were now in hand to justify proceeding with the short Hupei section, that the Viceroy felt bound to employ a Japanese as well as a British engineer, and that therefore he spoke in his note (inclosed in my preceding despatch) of an assistant engineer. There would be no chief engineer, his Excellency himself deciding any points on which the two engineers might be unable to agree.\n\nI interposed that we never proposed that a British chief engineer would be independent of his Excellency, whose technical adviser he would be, and with whom the decision would always lie between alternative methods of carrying out his Excellency's wishes. Two assistants without a head engineer seemed an anomalous arrangement; why not call them both consulting engineers or superintending engineers or some such style?\n\nMr. Chan explained that the obstacle was that the Viceroy already had a Railway Adviser, a Japanese, at a monthly salary of 1,000 dollars—a fact which, together with the need for economy, precluded his offering a salary of more than 700 dollars or 800 dollars a-month to the British engineer. Mr. Kinder would, his Excellency supposed, hardly care to accept such a post, but might arrange for one of his assistants formerly suggested—Mr. Cox or Mr. Tackey—to come to the Viceroy. The salary would be inclusive of everything except actual working expenses.\n\nI reminded Mr. Chan of Mr. Kinder's strong feeling that construction must follow closely on survey, and that the engineer engaged for the one should be intrusted with the other work, not only in Hupei but in Hunan.\n\nThe Secretary said he understood that the assurance might be given as to Hupei, and that the survey would include Hunan, for construction in which province the engineer would probably be engaged also.\n\nAfter repeating that the assurances mentioned would undoubtedly have great weight in determining Mr. Kinder's action, I said I would write to him and report to you.\n\nI wrote the same evening to Mr. Kinder and, as the next day the Secretary sent me a note stating that according to Mr. Wang, whom I have always found inclined to cut down the Viceroy's terms, the engineer's present engagement would be limited to the survey, and the engagement for the construction could not be decided till after the survey was completed, I reported this modification and the authority given for it to you by telegraph yesterday.\n\nBeing in hope of seeing his Excellency Chang very shortly, I have not written again to Mr. Kinder, whose making the engagement for construction likewise a condition of detailing an engineer, might have a good effect.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n**(No. 67.) Sir,**\n**(Signed)**\nE. H. FRASER.\n\n## Inclosure 12 in No. 1\n### Consul-General Fraser to Sir J. Jordan\n\nHankow, November 8, 1906.\n\nIN continuation of my despatch No. 65 of the 30th October, I have the honour to forward a copy of Mr. Kinder's reply to my letter conveying the Viceroy Chang's wishes, and of my letter to the Viceroy's Secretary, who, on the day the reply reached me, had written asking for news of Mr. Kinder's reception of his Excellency's proposal.\n\nHis Excellency Chang may take Mr. Kinder's inability to meet his wishes as freeing him from any need for employing other than Japanese; but, as he has intrusted the Hupei section of the main line to Szechuan to engineers of that nationality, it would, I submit, be more equitable were his Excellency to apportion the short section of the southern line to British engineers only. His having a Japanese railway adviser, however, probably prevents his doing this.\n\nM. Casenave called on me yesterday, and stated that, as his settlement of the Shih-nan Fu case two years ago had put him on good terms with the Viceroy, he had been reluctant to postpone visiting his Excellency and proposing an Anglo-French loan for this section, which requires 4,000,000 dollars of Government capital in addition to the 2,000,000 dollars which the public are asked to subscribe for, and of which one-third has been taken up.\n\nWithout touching on the Nan-ch'ang case, I told M. Casenave that, in my opinion, his Excellency Chang would require to be assured of the acquiescence of the Peking Boards before he would enter into loan negotiations with any one.\n\nI have, &c.\n**(Signed)**\nE. H. FRASER.\n\n## Inclosure 13 in No. 1\n### Mr. C. Kinder to Consul-General Fraser\n\nImperial Chinese Railways, Engineer-in-Chief's Office, Tongshan, November 1, 1906.\n\nTHANKS for yours of 26th ultimo. I fear I cannot induce any really suitable man on my staff to accept the terms offered. Mr. Cox has gone on leave for one year, and Mr. Tuckey already gets 1,200l. per annum, and will require more to go south, even if he is offered a fixed appointment of Engineer-in-chief.\n\nNobody cares to leave a good berth here for a doubtful position directly under Chinese officials; it is only men who have nothing to lose who will accept such, and, as a rule, they are not the kind you want. The fact is that the whole idea is most unbusinesslike, and too thoroughly Chinese to be a success or bring any satisfaction to anybody. Two engineers of different nationalities, and of equal rank, on the same job would lead to no end of difficulties, especially with no technical chief to apply to when opinions diverge, as they constantly must do. It is the old story, the Chinese wish to pretend they are doing the work, and that the engineers are mere foremen under them; nowadays this is quite understood, and no professional men worthy of the name are obtainable under such conditions, quite apart from the pay offered, which is good enough for assistant engineer of some eight years' experience in China.\n\nI very much regret being unable to help you, as I also realize the advantages of procuring an able and honest Englishman for the work in question.\n\nAs all our skilled Chinese assistants have been removed to new lines, I am now getting young men from home to take their places, so we really have nobody to spare at the present moment. Applications for English engineers has also been made from the Canton end, as they are unable to secure suitable men. I have advised them to apply to T. J. Bourne, M.I.C.E., 10, Victoria Street, London, who was one of my best men.\n\nPage 390\nPage 391",
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        "content_text": "## Inclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\n### Consul-General Wilkinson to Sir J. Jordan.\n\nYunnan-fu, January 16, 1907.\n\nI HAVE the honour to inclose a brief Memorandum—too brief to be styled an Intelligence Report—on Kueichow affairs.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed)  \n**W. H. WILKINSON.**\n\n### Memorandum\n\nof Foreign Affairs. He was told that things had somewhat quieted down, and that unless more serious news came to hand, of which the Department would inform him, Mrs. Windsor could proceed. A fortnight or so later the Department wrote to him, saying that missionaries and converts in Tu-yun, Tu-shan, and Li-po districts should keep at home as much as possible just now, and that the Department cannot accept responsibility if their advice is disregarded. Mr. Cecil-Smith, in reporting this to me, suggests that the observation was probably provoked by the refusal of the French priest in Tu-shan to return to the town from a country station where trouble is threatened. He adds that the latest reports state that things are quieter, and that Mr. Pike believes the back of the rising is broken.\n\n(Signed) **W. H. WILKINSON.**\n\n## Inclosure 3 in No. 1.\n\n### Memorandum respecting Kueichow Affairs for December Quarter, 1906.\n\n#### Chinese Officials.\n\nTHE Governor-Designate, Pang Hung-shu, is expected daily at Kueiyang. The Financial Commissioner, Yuan K'ai-ti, left some time ago for audience, and it was reported that he had died on the journey to Peking. As a matter of fact, he has retired, being upwards of 80 years of age, and his post in Kueichow has been filled by the promotion of the Judicial Commissioner, Hsing-lin. The latter, who spent more than twenty years in Yünnan, has been acting as Governor of Kueichow for the past several months. The post he has vacated of Judicial Commissioner is filled by Sung-o, late Intendant of the Eastern Circuit (\"Kuei-tung Tao\"). It is expected that the Home Prefect, Yen Chin-hsi, now Acting Grain Taotai (Senior Intendant), will succeed him. The substantive Grain Taotai, Ling Ch'ing-yun, will, it is thought, retire; in which case the Prefect of Anshun, Ch'u Hung-hsi, now Acting Intendant of the Eastern Circuit, will probably be promoted to that post.\n\nA Taotai named Hsiang arrived at Kueiyang some time ago in connection with the new opium levy; but as he ignored the provincial authorities, these last are deferring action until Pang fut'ai arrives.\n\n#### Vernacular Journals.\n\nThe \"Kueichow Gazette,\" which formed the subject of my report of the 26th August, 1906, was discontinued after its third issue. The Educational Department at Kueiyang (the \"Hsüeh-wu Kung-so\") is now publishing a monthly magazine entitled the \"Kueichow Pedagogues Gazette\" (\"Kueichow chiao-yu kuan-pao\"), the first two numbers of which have reached Yunnan-fu. It is reported that another magazine, or perhaps a newspaper, is to appear in the next Chinese year (the 14th February, 1907).\n\n#### Rising of Aborigines in Tu-yun Prefecture.\n\nIn the early part of 1906, the Miao in Tu-yun Prefecture rose, as a protest against the \"foreign learning\" (\"yang-hsüeh,\" the new Government schools) and the \"foreign propaganda\" (\"yang-chiao,\" in this instance, Catholic proselytism). The irritants were squeezing and oppression on the part both of underlings of the Tu-yun Prefect and of native Roman Catholic catechists. As too often happens in China, the trouble was not properly dealt with, though the Prefect, Pan Chai-yi, was recalled to the provincial capital, where he committed suicide. His successor was also recalled, but the unrest spread to Tu-shan Chou, Li-po Hsien, and northward to Kueiting Hsien, in the Kueiyang Prefecture. Mr. and Mrs. Pike, British subjects in the China Inland Mission, are at Tu-shan; and Mrs. Windsor, of Tsunyi, arrived on the 9th December, 1906, at Kueiyang, on her way to nurse Mrs. Pike. Mr. Cecil-Smith, feeling that their safety was a matter that could not well await an application through me, made inquiries at the Department",
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        "content_text": "## Inclosure 6 in No. 1\n### Viceroy Chang to Consul-General Fraser\n\nWuchang, March 5, 1907.\n\nI HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 28th February, in which you state that in the Agreement for the Yueh Han Railway Redemption Loan there was an undertaking that, if foreign engineers were to be employed, preference would be given to British engineers in the first place, and that notwithstanding that the Canton section had become a commercial undertaking, that fact could under no circumstances be taken advantage of to evade the undertaking.\n\nI would observe that the Redemption Loan Agreement does not expressly state that preference was to be given to British engineers in the first place, but in the covering despatch to you there was a statement that if a loan was obtained from Great Britain for construction purposes then one-half of the engineers employed would be of the nationality of the lending nation and the other half Japanese, and the line would be constructed in sections. This statement referred to a loan for construction purposes, and so did not appear in the Agreement for the Redemption Loan, as was thoroughly understood at the time.\n\nNow, since we have not obtained a loan for construction work, we are free to employ the services of engineers irrespective of nationality. However, in view of our especially friendly relations with Great Britain, and of the fact that Great Britain has many engineers of note, I am very willing to obtain their services, therefore during last year I discussed with you on many occasions my desire to obtain the services of Mr. Kinder, but in the first place he long delayed his coming, and then suddenly I heard of his illness and death. For this reason, at our interview last December I asked you verbally to engage a good engineer for me, and I also wrote to you to the same effect, but I have not yet learned whether your search has been successful or not.\n\nIn brief, I am willing to employ British engineers, but it is not necessary to drag in the matter of a construction loan. As for the nationality of the engineers employed by Canton, I leave it to them to choose the best they can, and I cannot interfere in the matter. With regard to Hunan, I can assist them with my advice.\n\nCompliments.\n\n(Card of Chang Chih-tung.)\n\n## 5\n\nThe Viceroy then repeated his desire to provide the Hunan section with a British engineer, and asked me to apply home for one, and excused himself from seeing me on the ground of ill-health.\n\nI had prepared a letter to Mr. Bourne asking his aid when, on the 11th March, Mr. T. A. Ross, who last year laid out the trace of the line between Kiukiang and Nanchang and made detailed plans for bridges, &c., wrote from Shanghae applying for the post of Chief Engineer to the Viceroy, which one of his Excellency Sheng's Secretaries told him was open.\n\nI sent his letter, which stated generally his experience and qualifications, to the Secretary Chan, who replied on the 12th instant that his Excellency would engage Mr. Ross, subject to the answers to his Excellency's telegrams to Mr. Ross' former Chinese employers proving satisfactory, at a total salary of 1,090 dollars a-month.\n\nOf this I informed Mr. Ross by telegram, and, as several days passed without further word from the Viceroy, I suggested his approaching his Excellency Sheng. This he did, and was assured that his Excellency, who had vainly offered him the post of Manager of the railway from the Ping-Hsiang mines at 700 dollars a-month with the chief control of construction of its intended extension at an increased salary, had recommended him to his Excellency Chang in the most laudatory terms.\n\nTo my surprise, on the morning of the 20th March Mr. Chan sent me a note reporting that, as Sheng and Ch'en, one of the Kiangsi Railway Managers' replies were unsatisfactory, Mr. Ross could be employed only as Assistant Engineer at 790 dollars a-month.\n\nIn spite of my telegraphing the purport of this note, Mr. Ross, whose testimonials I had forwarded on the 17th to Mr. Chan, came here on the 24th and obtained from Li Yu-fen, the Head of the Kiangsi Railways, a most laudatory telegram, which also I sent to the Viceroy, together with his offer to serve as Executive Engineer under an English Chief and to resurvey the Hunan section at 600 taels a-month.\n\nMr. Ross left for home on the 28th March, and I sent on my letter to Mr. Bourne. His Excellency, however, declined to improve his offer.\n\nThe thirteenth extract in my despatch No. 83 of the 22nd December, 1906, may partially explain his Excellency Chang's action, or it may be, as Mr. Ross suggested, due to Japanese influence, which has been strengthened by the recent engagement of ten Japanese engineers for the railway from Kiukiang to Nanchang.\n\nMr. Chan's talk at a recent visit I fear that the Viceroy has not the least idea of the foreign staff necessary for the building of the trunk line nor of the time and trouble required for a detailed working survey. His Excellency seems to imagine that with the original survey by the engineers of the China Development Company the new engineers can get to work at once, whereas there is every likelihood that not one of the requisite pegs set down by those engineers can now be found.\n\nThe only encouraging points in the incident are to be found in Mr. Chan's assurances that the Viceroy professed to have seven-tenths of the say in deciding on a Chief Engineer for Hunan, and that if a salary even of 2,000 dollars a-month were really indispensable to obtain a first-class man, it would be paid.\n\nI am sending copies of this despatch to the Hong Kong Government and to His Britannic Majesty's Consul-General at Canton.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nE. H. FRASER.\n\n## (No. 28.) Sir,\n### Inclosure 7 in No. 1\n#### Consul-General Fraser to Sir J. Jordan\n\nHankow, April 2, 1907.\n\nIN continuation of my despatch No. 17 of the 5th March, I have the honour to report further action by the Viceroy towards obtaining a British Engineer-in-chief for the Hunan section of the Hankow-Canton Railway.\n\nOn the 6th March I sent his Excellency Chang a note in answer to his letter brought by Mr. Chan, in which I laid stress on the 1905 Loan being granted out of consideration for his Excellency's position and on the Kuangtung Company owing its existence to British aid in making possible the resumption of the American Concession, as well as on the fact that at the time his Excellency claimed to be fully empowered to deal with that railway, and asked his Excellency to telegraph strongly to the Company through the Canton Viceroy.\n\nTwo days later he replied asserting that the Throne had recently left Hukuang out in dealing with the Canton Railway's troubles, but that in deference to my repeated requests he would telegraph for news to his Excellency Chou-Fu and let me know the result. This I still await.\n\nYour Excellency,\n\n(Signed)\n\n## Inclosure 8 in No. 1\n### Consul-General Fraser to Viceroy Chang\n\nHankow, March 6, 1907.\n\nI HAD the honour to receive your note, brought me by Mr. Chan, yesterday, in reply to mine on the subject of engaging engineers for the Yueh-Han Railway, in which you state that there was no definite undertaking in the Agreement that Canton is at liberty to choose engineers of any nationality it thinks fit without interference from your Excellency, but that you are in a position to assist Hunan with your advice.\n\nI requested Mr. Chan to be good enough to apprise you of my views, and, though doubtless he has done so, I beg to put them also in writing. When the Redemption Loan was raised, His Britannic Majesty's Government and the Governor of Hong Kong, actuated by friendship towards China, and in view of the fact that your Excellency was... \n\nPage 303",
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        "content_text": "## The Present Trade Route and Proposed Railway Line\n\nThe present trade route has been evolved in the process of time. Distance and the nature of the ground have been more important factors in determining its course than the lowest gaps in the mountains or the easiest grade. To gain some li, or avoid bad ground, it is frequently carried some hundreds of feet higher than necessary. A spur is always used in preference to a valley. One result is that there is invariably a short cut or an alternative route between important places. From Tengyueh to the Shweli Bridge, there is at least one commonly used road besides the main road. From the Shweli Bridge, there are two roads to the Salween Bridge, the stone road passing Ta-li-shu and Ho-mu-shu, and the \"new\" unpaved road to Hsiao Ping-ho, and thence down the ravine by Lao-chai. From Tengyueh, there is another distinct road to the Salween Bridge, which I much regret not having explored. The first stage along the road to Lungling is as far as Menglien and thence to Ta-ho-lao. The Shweli is crossed by the Lo-an chain bridge, 40 li (about 8 miles) below the main road bridge. Other villages on the road are: Kung-hao, Hsiao-ti-fang, Ch'eng-men-tung, P'u-mang-shao, Shih-t'i-chai, about 35 li (7 miles) from the Salween Bridge, Mo-p'an-shih, Pa-wan, Hsiang-shu, and Mo-cha.\n\nFrom Ta-pan-ching, east of the Salween, there is a mountain track to P'u-piao. The range west of Yung-ch'ang Fu is crossed by caravans in three places, namely, above Hun-shui-tang, at 7,500 feet; by the main road above Leng-shui-ching, at 7,200 feet; and at Ta-kuan-shih, at 6,600 feet. Foreign travellers are always taken along the main roads, unless they happen to know that there is another one and compel their mulemen to follow it.\n\nThe selection of a trace for a railway is naturally governed by other considerations than those which have made the trade route, and it has been found possible to avoid one of the ranges—that between the Shun-pi and the Yang-pi Rivers—to discover gaps lower than the main road passes in the other ranges, with the exception of the Yang-chang-Mekong Divide, which is turned, by adopting a course north of the Yung-chang Plain.\n\nThe line proposed by Mr. Lilley runs direct from Tali to Hsia-kuan, 10 miles. The country is practically level, and there is no difficulty. The plain is rich and prosperous enough to support a railway on its own merits. The outlet from the lake would be bridged east of the town of Hsia-kuan. From this place, altitude 6,600 feet, to Ping-po, the junction of the Hsia-kuan and Yang-pi Rivers, there is a drop of 1,700 feet in 12 miles. The line would follow the left bank downstream, cross the river below its junction with the Shun-pi River (9 miles, altitude 4,550 feet), and come up the right bank of the latter for 26 miles, to the neighbourhood of Huang-lien-p'u. It would take 24 miles to cross the range into the Yung-ping Plain, going through a newly-discovered gap at 7,700 feet, south of the road. From Chu-tung, in the plain, there would be up-hill work for 16 miles, to another gap, 7,400 feet, in the Mekong-Yungping watershed, over which the road goes at an altitude of 8,200 feet. From the gap to the Mekong would require 18 miles of line, which would cross the main road near Shayang, and go down a lateral valley to the river, about 8 miles north of the bridge. From the river 4,100 feet, to the watershed, 6,500 feet, near Lan-tien-pa, north of Yung-ch'ang Fu, would be a difficult piece of work, but from there to the town would be easy going. To the south-west, the line would cross the watershed near Ta-kuan-shih, 6,600 feet, about a dozen miles from the town, and passing along the P'u-p'iao Plain, cross the watershed between Fang-ma-chang and Ta-pan-ching, 4,900 feet, and go along the left bank of the stream until the Salween was reached. The river would be bridged to the south of the main road bridge, and the line would go south-west through the Salween Plain (Lu-chiang-pa) and cross the divide 20 miles from the river at a newly-discovered gap (6,900 feet) south of Hsiao-ti-fang. The descent would take 13 miles, and the Shweli be crossed north of the Lo-an Bridge, above mentioned. The line would then require 11 miles to ascend the mountains west of the Shweli, to a gap, 6,500 feet. It would run practically level for 2 miles, to another gap at the same altitude, and reach the Tengyueh Plain near the village of Kuan-p'o, in the branch valley out of which the road to Lungling climbs. From the plain, the line would run almost due north, to the town of Tengyueh, which is some 11 miles from the nearer gap.\n\nThe total length of line from here to Tali is put down at 240 miles as against 170 by the road. It is proposed that the line, as well as the proposed line from Bhamo, should be worked by electricity, to be generated by using one of the rivers (Salween or Mekong). It may be recommended that a separate power-house should be built in British territory for the section from Bhamo to Tengyueh. The maximum grade proposed is 1 in 20.\n\n## Map Details\n\nMain Road Bhamo to Talifu in purple.\nScale 1: 1,000,000 or 1 inch to 15.8 miles.\nTracing showing roughly:--\n- Possible railway route in Red.\n- Provisional heights in feet.\n- Frontier.\n\n(80-9/07, 1290) `F.O. 2525 N-2-2` \n## Map \n| Location        | \n| --------------- | \n| Kan-ai          | \n| Mauwyne         | \n| Nungchangkai    | \n| BHAMO           | \n| TENG YUEN       | \n| Nantion         | \n| ERH HAI         | \n| Yangpr          | \n| TALI            | \n| Shumpi R.       | \n| YUNG PING?      | \n| HSIA KUAN       | \n| MENG-HUAY       | \n| LUNG LING       | \n| SHUN NING       | \n| PYÜN CHOU       | \n| 6500′′          | \n| YS              | \n| odfinch         | \n| 5700            | \n| tha tang        | \n| 3200            | \n| bug             | \n| best            | \n| pychachang      | \n| Han tien pu     | \n| Shari. 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        "content_text": "## CHINA RAILWAYS\n**CONFIDENTIAL**\n[30234]\n\nNo. 1.  \n237  \n[September 9.]  \n## SECTION 3.\n\n(No. 8.) Sir,\n\nConsul-General Wilkinson to Sir Edward Grey.--(Received September 9.)\n\nYunnan-fu, July 19, 1907.\n\nI HAVE the honour to inclose copy of a despatch which I have addressed to the Government of Burmah, sending copies of the Agreements made between the Commissioner of Customs at Mengtzu and the Director-General of the Exploitation Company of the French railroad, for customs control of railway-borne cargo at the frontier and Mengtzu stations.\n\nI have, &c.  \n(Signed)  \nW. H. WILKINSON,\n\n### Inclosure 1 in No. 1.\n\ni  \n$  \n(No. 11.) Sir,\n\nConsul-General Wilkinson to Government of Burmah.\n\nYunnan-fu, July 9, 1907.\n\nTHE railway (and foot) bridge across the mouth of the Namti River, from Laokai, the frontier town of Tonquin, to Hok'ou in Yünnan, was, as you may remember, completed in February 1906, in time to allow the first train that traversed it to convey M. Beau, Governor-General of Indo-China, and his suite into Chinese territory on the occasion of his inspection of the southern half of the French line. M. Beau was accompanied by, among other Notables, M. Gotten, Director-General of the Company which is to manage the line as its successive sections become ready for traffic. The opportunity was taken by Mr. Brewitt-Taylor, then and still Acting Commissioner of Customs at Mengtzu, to arrange with M. Gotten provisional Regulations for control by the Chinese Maritime Customs of the railway-borne traffic at Hok'ou. The result was the Agreement, dated Mengtzu, the 30th March, 1906, of which I have the honour to inclose copy.\n\nThe French text is the official version, but, historically, the English draft is the original, from which the other was translated. I inclose therefore a copy of it also.\n\nBy March of the present year construction trains were running for some 25 kilom. into Yunnan. In May, railhead was at kilom. 45; on the 19th June it had reached kilom. 54. It is expected to be at kilom. 88 in October, and, on the hill slope that bounds Mengtzu Plain to the east (kilom. 167) early next year. At the nearest point to Mengtzu town, 6 kilom. away, the track is 700 feet or so above the plain. From that height it gradually descends until it meets the plain near a small village named Pi-se Chai. Although this point is some 8 kilom., as the crow flies, north-north-east of the town walls, it has been decided between the Railway Exploitation Company and the Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs to make Pi-se Chai the railway station for Mengtzu mart.\n\nIn anticipation of the arrival there of the locomotive, Regulations, very similar to those of the 30th March, 1906, for Hok'ou, have been agreed upon between Mr. Brewitt-Taylor and M. Gotten. A copy of these in both French text and English draft I have now the honour to forward to you.\n\nThe earlier Agreement for the frontier station alludes to \"the question of the establishment of a joint customs station at Phomoi.\" Phomoi is the next station south of Laokai, from which it is distant 10 kilom., and as there is very little level ground at Laokai, Phomoi is used as the present terminal depôt for rolling-stock. The proposal that a joint customs station should also be established there came from the Exploitation Company, but, as Mr. Brewitt-Taylor's letter at the time to me shows (copy was inclosed in my despatch to the Chief Secretary of the 20th June, 1906), both the French and the Chinese Customs Service were opposed to this scheme. A neat and fairly capacious shed has now been erected, at the expense of the\n\nPage 270  \nPage 271",
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        "content_text": "## Inclosure 2 in No. 1, July 11-21, 1907\n\n### LIST of Chinese Troops on or near the Peking-Shanhaikuan Railway Line\n\n| Date of Arrival | Place | Number of Men | Detail |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n|  | Pei-tai-ho | 5 | Of the 2nd cavalry regiment of the 2nd Division of the Lu Chun, detached from Fu-ning Hsien. Armed with Mauser carbines |\n| November 1906 | Tang-ho | 100 | Of the 2nd cavalry ying of the Hua Chun, under Captain Ting, at Hai-yang, 2 miles north of Tang-ho. Armed with Mauser carbines |\n| November 1906 | Shanhaikuan | 20 | Of the 3rd ying of the Huni Chun, under Colonel Wang. Armed with Mausers |\n| 30 June 1907 | Lu-t'ai | 30 | Of the 5th infantry ying of the Huai Chun, under Second Lieutenant Tuan. Armed with Mausers |\n|  | Total | 100 |  |\n|  |  | 1,035 |  |\n\nThe above Huai Chun troops are all of the Le-tzu brigade of the Huai Chun, except those at Ta-ku, who are of the I-tzu brigade. The Le-tzu brigade is commanded by Brigadier-General Lei, who lives at Chang-li, the I-tzu brigade by Brigadier-General Fan, who lives at Hsin-ch'eng, 12 miles east of Tien-tsin.\n\nThe Huai Chun are badly trained and badly disciplined, but they are soldiers, not policemen. A police force, quite separate from the Huai Chun, also armed with rifles, which they carry at night, exists at all the railway stations and at all the principal towns along the line.\n\nIt will be noticed that, of the total of 1,035 men on or near the line, 350 were new arrivals in June 1907. These 350 men have been taken from the 5th infantry ying at Han-liu-shu, near Tien-tsin, and from the 6th infantry ying at Kou-pang-tzu, in Manchuria.\n\nThe only troops of the Lu-chun are the five men at Pei-tai-ho.\n\n(Signed) H. K. DAVIES, Major, General Staff, North China Command\n\n### Inclosure 3 in No. 1\n\n| Date of Arrival | Place | Number of Men | Detail |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| June 1907 | Yang-ts'un | 100 | Of the 6th infantry ying of the Huai Chun, under Captain Wu. Armed with Mannlichers |\n| 1904 | Ta-ku | 200 | Of the 3rd infantry ying of the I-tzu Huai Chun, under Captain Tsao, in Hai Ta-ku (Western Ta-ku) |\n| 1904 | Ta-ku | 200 | Of the 4th infantry ying of the I-tzu Huai Chun, under Captain Hsia, in Tung Ta-ku (Eastern Ta-ku) |\n| June 1907 | Tang-fang | 45 | Of the 5th infantry ying of the Huai Chun, under Lieutenant Chang. Armed with Mannlichers |\n| June 1907 | Wang-lien-chuang | 77 | Of the 6th infantry ying of the Huai Chun, under Lieutenant Fan. Armed with Mannlichers |\n|  | Tang-fang | 30 | Of the 6th infantry ying of the Huai Chun, ander Lieutenant Fan, at Wang-lien-chuang, 2 miles south-east of Tang-fang. Armed with Mannlichers |\n|  | T'ang-shan | 25 |  |\n|  | K'ai-ping | 10 | Of the 3rd infantry ying of the Huai Chun. Armed with Mausers |\n|  | Ku-yeh | 40 | Of the 5th infantry ying of the Huai Chun, under Lieutenant Yang. Armed with Mannlichers |\n|  | Lan-chou | 40 | Of the 5th infantry ying of the Huai Chun, under Lieutenant Wang. Armed with Mannlichers |\n|  | Chang-li | 80 | Of the 1st infantry ying of the Huai Chun, under Brigadier-General Lei, who lives here, and commands the whole of the Le-tzu Huai Chun. Armed with Mausers |\n| 1906 | Chang-li | 40 | Of the 2nd infantry ying of the Huai Chun. Armed with Mausers |\n|  | Liu-shou-ying | 10 | Of the 5th infantry ying of the Huai Chun, under Lieutenant Tang, in Chang-chuang, 1 mile north-west of Liu-shou-ying. Armed with Mausers |\n|  | An-shan.. | 30 |  |\n\n### Clause 6 of Report by the Commanders of the Allied Forces, dated April 12, 1902\n\n**LES GARNISONS CHINOISES** qui sont actuellement à moins de 30 kilomètres de la voie ferrée de Pékin-Tong-kou-Chan-hai-kouan ne devront être augmentées en aucune circonstance. Le Gouvernement Chinois en fera connaître les emplacements et les effectifs à la date du 1o Avril.\n\nCertified true copy:  \nH. K. DAVIES, Major, General Staff, North China Command\n\n## Sir J. Jordan to General Waters\n\nPeking, August 17, 1907.\n\nI HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch of the 13th instant, in which you quote a clause from the terms laid down in 1902 by the Allied Commanders in connection with the handing over of the native city of Tien-tsin, to the effect that the Chinese garrisons within less than 18 miles of the Peking-Shanhaikuan Railway were under no circumstances to be increased, and state that it has recently come to your knowledge that small bodies of Chinese troops have been stationed since 1904 at thirteen different points close to the railway, the total number now being 1,035, 350 of whom had arrived since June last.\n\nYou add that there is no record in your office to show that the terms formulated by the Commanders were communicated to or accepted by the Chinese Government.\n\nIn reply, I have the honour to inform you that, so far as I can ascertain, the",
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        "content_text": "## C,-Continued. \n### COMPENSATION AWARDED FOR LOSS, DAMAGE, &c., OF BOATS REPORTED AT THE HARBOUR OFFICE,—Continued.\n\n| Date | By whom reported | Name of junk | No. | Business | Course of damage | Date | 1. Where anchored | 2. Where occurred | Life Missing | Cargo and Quantity left on board during typhoon | Value of damage in | Cargo | Junk | Furni-ture | Total Cost | Compen-sation awarded |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 29/7 | Lo Tso (Boatwoman) | Tam Sai | 1,396 | Cargo Boat | Total loss | 27/7 | 1. Wing Lok W. | 2. Do. |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n|  | Kwok Luk |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n|  | Fung Yan |  | 1,163 |  | Sunk (can be raised) | 28/7 | 1. Tang Lung Chow | 2. Do. |  |  |  |  | 1,370 |  |  |  |\n|  | Leung Kam Shai |  |  |  | Total loss |  |  |  | 12 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n|  | Pon Fu Lea |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n|  | Chan Kau |  | 1,257 |  | Do. |  | 1. Wing Lok W. | 2. Do. | 11 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n|  | Lo Wa Yan (brother of owner) |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 2 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n|  | Po Kee |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 2 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n|  | Chan Chu |  | 307 | Lo Fu |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n|  | Kwok Kan |  | 1,347 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n|  | Chan Chu |  | 1,092 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n|  |  |  | 1,421 | n. Canton T. J. | Cargo Boat | \" | 1. Stonecutters' Island | 2. Off Kam U Hong |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n|  | Young Tai Hing W. |  |  |  | Do. |  |  |  |  | Cargo and Quantity left on board during typhoon |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | $200 | 860 | $260 |  |  |  |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 8 men |  | 1,000 | 400 | 160 | 2,140 |  |  |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 2 women (10 |  | 200 | 1,200 | 550 |  |  |  |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | Sundries | 400 | 100 | 500 |  |  |  |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 8,000 | 1,000 | 4,000 | 800 | 200 | 1,000 |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 600 | 100 | 700 |  |  |  |\n|  | Chan Lok |  | 690 |  |  |  | 1. Do. | 2. Do. |  | Un-known | 500 | 150 |  |  |  |  |\n|  | Chan Lok |  |  |  | Licence lost |  |  |  |  |  | 100 | 100 | 200 |  |  |  |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 160 |  | 650 |  |  |  |\n|  | Li Chee |  | 988 |  |  |  | 1. Do. | 2. Do. |  |  | 150 |  |  |  |  |  |\n|  | Li Chee |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 73 |  | 37 |  |  |  |\n|  | Ng Kan |  | 480 |  | \" |  | 1. Do. | 2. Do. |  |  | 77 |  |  |  |  |  |\n|  | Ng Kan |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n|  | Ip Sam |  | 1,184 |  |  |  | 1. Kwong Tung Steamer | 2. Do. |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n|  | Ip Sam |  |  |  | Fire crackers | 23/7 | 1. Kin Uling Wharf | 2. Jardine's Wharf |  |  | 277 |  | 1,392 |  |  |  |\n|  | Leung Kau |  | 1,392 |  |  |  | 1. Yeung Tai Hing W. | 2. Do. |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n|  | Leung Fak |  | 1,119 |  |  |  | 1. Do. | 2. Do. |  | Co-unknown | 100 |  | 750 | 100 | 850 | 130 |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 700 | 100 | 800 |  |  |  |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 500 | 100 | 600 |  | 180 |  |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 400 | 50 | 450 |  | 120 |  |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 800 | 100 | 900 |  |  |  |\n|  | Young Loi Shing |  | 350 | H. Coal Boat | Sank (can be raised) | 28/7 | 1. Tai Chau | 2. Do. |  |  | 300 | 60 |  |  |  |  |\n|  | San Shing Yik |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 2 | 2 | 2 | 383 | 38 |  |\n|  | Cheung Loi |  | 1,535 | 3rd Cl. P. B. | Total loss | 27/7 | 1. Salt-fish Lane | 2. No. 2 Police Station | 3 girls | Rice (3,200 ps.) | Un-known | 3,000 | 300 | 3,300 |  |  |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 1 boy |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 2 women |  | 100 | 35 | 5 | 40 |  |  |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 20 | 20 |  |  |  |  |\n| Brought forward |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 4,140 |  |  |\n|  | Leung Chi |  |  | Ut (son of owner) |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 30/7 | Kwok Lio |  | 504 | u. Coal Boat |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n|  | Leung Chi |  | 1,085 | Cargo Boat | Total loss | 28/7 | 1. Tai Chan | 2. Do. |  |  | 800 | 200 | 1,000 |  |  |  |\n|  | San Man Fat |  | 1,508 | H. Macao T. J. | Sunk (cannot be raised) | 27/7 | 1. Wing Lok W. | 2. Do. | 1 boy | Coal (115 tons) | 200 | 60 |  |  |  |  |\n|  | Li Kan |  | 1,218 | Cargo Boat | Sunk (cannot be seen) | 28/7 | 1. Tun Mun | 2. Do. | 2 men |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n|  |  |  |  |  | Sunk (can be raised) |  |  |  | 2 women | 200 bags of sugar | 70 | 270 | 500 |  |  |  |\n|  | Ip Mui (Boatman) |  | 1,196 |  |  |  | 1. Wing Lok W. | 2. Off Aberdeen | 4 |  | 2,500 | 80 | 2,000 |  |  |  |\n|  | Po Kan |  |  |  | Licence lost |  |  |  |  |  | 50 |  |  |  |  |  |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | Sundries | 800 | 150 | 950 | 200 |  |  |\n|  | Lo Iu |  | 1,472 |  | Total loss |  | 1. Wauchai | 2. Do. |  |  | 1,800 | 200 | 2,000 |  |  |  |\n|  | Chow Choi |  | 1,483 |  |  | 27/7 | 1. Wing Lok W. | 2. Wauchai |  |  | 200 |  |  |  |  |  |\n|  | Wong Kan |  | 894 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 28/7 | Ho Sze |  |  |  | Smashed | 28/7 | 1. Near Wing Lok W. | 2. Do. |  |  | 550 | 450 |  |  |  |  |\n|  | Ip Wai |  | 1,394 |  |  |  |  |  |  | Officer in charge |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 29/7 | Des Ho Sam |  | 1,359 | Cargo Boat | Wrecked |  | 1. Cheung Chau Police Station | 2. Do. |  |  | 250 | 100 |  |  |  |  |\n|  | Chit Wo Shop (Vaux Road West) |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n|  | Wong Tseung |  | 865 | H. Passenger B. |  | 29/7 | 1. Ah King's | 2. Do. |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n|  | Ma Kim Hoi |  |  |  |  |  | 1. Wat Chau | 2. Tang Lung Chow |  |  | 20 |  |  |  |  |  |\n|  | Lo King Choi |  | 820 | u. Unlicensed Fishing Junk | Total loss | 27/7 | 1. Yat Mun-ian Kun I | 2. Do. | 2 meu | Sundries | 1,300 | 350 | 1,555 |  |  |  |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 35 | 5 | 150 | 1,400 |  |  |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 76 |  |  |  |  |  |\n|  | Ho Kan (friend of the owner) |  | 1,118 | Coal Boat | Sunk (can be raised) | 28/7 | 1. Tai Chau | 2. 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        "content_text": "## (This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.)\n\n309\n\n2\n\nbridges, and rolling-stock, it is probable that the total cost of the line will not fall far short of 6,000,000l.\n\nThis is a great deal more than such a railway ought to have cost; indeed, it is an open secret that there has been not a little gaspillage, to use no stronger term. Some affirm that the French have been the less careful to keep down expenses, because they desired to put it beyond the power of China to repurchase the line, or, if, per impossibile, the latter did raise the money for repurchase, because they looked to China to pay the piper. Since the Peking Government would expect Yunnan to provide the greater part, if not the whole, of the purchase price; since France is not likely to ask less than 6,000,000l.; and since Yünnan, unaided, could hardly raise a tithe of that sum, it would seem as if the negotiations now said to be on foot between the Chinese Minister at Paris and the French Government are not to be taken very seriously.\n\nTo return to the Reports. You will notice how even so very unimportant a question as the transference of an iron bridge from one position to another has to be submitted to the Governor-General of Indo-China for sanction. You will observe, also, the distrust felt by the Construction Company of the action of the Chinese authorities; in particular, the conviction that nothing will be done to protect the line from theft. Attention, too, is drawn to the constant landslides from which the permanent way suffers during the rains, notably in the Namhti Valley.\n\nThese landslides have, indeed, so delayed progress that for the three weeks ended the 15th September last, no rails could be laid down. Railhead is at the present time (the 24th October) at about kilometre 64 above Laokai. By the 1st January next it is expected that the line will, nevertheless, be in full working order up to Lahati (kilometre 71), and will be to this extent handed over to the concessionary Company. It will, however, be noticed that a change is proposed in the site for this station (Report No. 42, section 5).\n\nThe rest of the Report needs little comment. Pi-che-tehai (Pi-se Chai) is the point where the railway descends to the Mengtzu plain, and where the customs station for Mengtzu is to be situated (see my despatch No. 11 of the 9th June last). Tche-ts'ouan (Chih-ch'uang) is the station for Mi-la-ti (kilometre 156), a plateau, 5,578 feet above sea-level, that has been suggested as a possible health resort for Tongking. Amitchéou (A-mi Chou), whose insanitary condition is deplored, is designed to be the first railway stage from Yunnan-fu—the stage where travellers by rail will have to spend the night. As regards the question of the reservation of a towing-path between the Yunnan-sen (Yunnan-fu) station and the river, I have not heard the result of M. Arnould's conference; but the land remains unoccupied. The river empties into the K'un-yang Lake (the largest of the Yunnan lakes), and if properly canalized could bring cargo-boats right up to the station—hence the importance to the Railway Company of keeping its approaches open.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed)  \n**W. H. WILKINSON**\n\n## **CHINA RAILWAYS**\n## **CONFIDENTIAL**\n\n`(40886)`\n\n**(No. 514.)** Sir,\n\n920\n\n[December 14.]\n\n**SECTION 59 JAN 08**\n\nSir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.—(Received December 14.)\n\nPeking, October 30, 1907.\n\nThe accompanying letter from Mr. Bland, the agent of the British and Chinese Corporation, deals with a question which is in serious need of adjustment in view of the extension of railway construction in China. The report which Mr. Bland incloses from the Traffic Manager of the Shanghae-Nanking Railway shows how that line is affected by the discrimination in favour of water-borne traffic in the matter of li-kin charges and similar difficulties are certain to occur wherever the two means of communication come into competition with each other. What is really wanted is a uniform tariff and system of collection adapted to the altered conditions consequent upon the development of railway construction, but the Board of Communications has, by the composition of its personnel, been singularly unfitted from the outset to deal with this and other pressing problems.\n\nIt will help us to furnish an answer to the continual complaints which the Chinese make about the Shanghae-Nanking Railway being an undertaking which can never hope to prove remunerative owing to the extravagant outlay in its construction. This is one of the arguments which they have repeatedly used against being obliged to embark in the Soochow-Ningpo extension.\n\nThe Shanghae-Nanking line will be the first railway in China, with the trifling exception of the Canton-Samshui line, to form a link of communication between Treaty ports, and some arrangement will have to be made for assimilating the duties charged upon goods carried by it to those levied under the Maritime Customs Tariff on steamer-borne produce.\n\nMr. Bland has submitted the whole question to the Board of Communications and asked for the appointment of a Director-General with whom the matter may be discussed and arranged, but as long as his Excellency Ch'ên-pi remains at the head of that Board there is little hope of a satisfactory solution.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed)  \nJ. N. JORDAN\n\n### Inclosure 1 in No. 1.\nMy dear Sir John,\n\nMr. Bland to Sir J. Jordan.\n\nPeking, October 24, 1907.\n\nHerein I send you the Shanghae-Nanking Railway Traffic Manager's Report on the question of li-kin, wherein he describes a state of affairs that seriously prejudices the railway's chances of success, and which constitutes, as he points out, a breach of the Loan Agreement. The Chinese have frequently complained that the expenditure involved in the construction and equipment of this line as a first-class railway in accordance with the British standard prevents it from being a remunerative undertaking. There is some justification for this point of view (although in the Loan Agreement this system of construction was stipulated), and they have used their grievance in this matter as leverage to obtain the abolition of the Board of Commissioners and substitution therefor of a system of control similar to that which exists on the Northern Railways. The Corporation, recognizing that control by Board of Commissioners against the will of the Chinese could only prolong a state of friction prejudicial to the interests of the railway, has agreed, experimentally, to this change, provided that it involves no infringement of the rights of the bondholders, &c. But before it actually comes into effect, I think (and I hope you will concur) that the Chinese Government should give some satisfactory proof, by remedying these li-kin abuses, that their object in desiring the change is not simply to secure Chinese control of the line, but to improve its administration. So long as they permit the... \n\n`[2768 o-5]`",
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        "content_text": "2\n\nMiscellaneous.\n\nNovember 22. Students.----“In consequence of the activity of students in connection with the opposition to railway loans, an Edict has been issued to the effect that students should give their whole attention to their studies and leave politics alone, and commanding the Board of Education to issue the necessary instructions.\"\n\nNovember 27. Footbinding.\"The Empress Dowager is said to intend issuing a prohibitory Edict against footbinding, making it not only an offence punishable as disregard of an Imperial Edict, but also excluding girls, whose feet begin to be bound after the publication of the Edict, from the respectable classes who are eligible for honours.\"\n\nWest River: Suppression of Piracy.\n\nNovember 19.-\"Much indignation is felt in Kuangtung against the Wai-wu Pu for allowing the British to arrest pirates on the West River. Meetings are to be held to consider the matter.\"\n\nNovember 24.-\"An Association for the recovery of national rights which has been formed among the students of Canton has telegraphed to the Wai-wu Pu strongly urging the necessity of recalling the permission to capture pirates on the West River.\"\n\nNovember 26.—“The Cantonese residents in Shanghae have telegraphed to the Wai-wu Pu asking them to oppose permission being granted to foreigners to arrest pirates on the West River. The merchants at Canton are much irritated over the West River question, and are getting up a violent agitation against it.\"\n\nNovember 27.-\"The people of Canton, regarding the policing of the West River by foreigners as detrimental to sovereign rights, telegraphed to the Army Board asking for ships of war to be sent. The Board, being of opinion that there were not sufficient vessels at disposal, took no notice. The provincials are very indignant, and have sent a further telegram offering to pay the expenses of the ships. Ten representatives of the gentry have also telegraphed in very strong terms to the Grand Council.\"\n\nNovember 28.-The Wai-wu Pu have telegraphed to the Viceroy at Canton, on the subject of West River piracy, that the intention of the Government was that the Commissioner of Customs should provide additional steamers to co-operate with the police in arresting pirates, and that there was no other intention. The Board adds that inquiry should be made into the agitation which has been caused by the misrepresentation of their former telegram. The gentry of Canton, however, are resolved to continue their opposition, since they regard it as bad policy to grant the Commissioner of Customs a share of military power.'\n\nSoochow-Ningpo Railway.\n\nDecember 4.-\"The Chekiang Railway Delegate has had an audience lasting three hours. The Empress Dowager explained the railway situation to him in detail. She said that the irresponsible talkers did not know the difficulties encountered by the officials, deprecated the excitement got up among the people of the south-east, and pointed out the terrible consequences of a breach in amicable foreign relations. Lu replied that, while the people of the south-east were loyal and patriotic, yet it was due to the influence of the high authorities there, and to the growing enlightenment of the people, that there had been no serious outbreak during the long course of the present controversy. If the British brought too much pressure to bear in this difficult situation, a serious outbreak might result. \"He did not know what solution the Wai-wu Pu might have to offer, but he thought the best plan would be to command them to make every effort to negotiate a satisfactory settlement with the British Minister. The Empress Dowager said that the British Minister was immovable, and that, while popular feeling must not be offended, international relations were not to be lightly regarded; and she directed him to go into the question fully with Wang Ta-hsieh, bearing in mind both the popular and international aspects of the question.\n\nNanking.\n\nHis Majesty's Consul reported on the 31st October that the closing of the opium dens throughout the city and suburbs was effected without disturbance on the 8th August. It is generally believed that the order was on the whole enforced strictly,\n\nOrder seems to have been restored at Anking, the scene of the assassination of the\n\n3\n\nGovernor in July, and the 700 troops sent there to assist in preserving order returned to Nanking on the 25th September. Two battalions (about 1,000 men) were dispatched on the 1st October to Kanchow-fu, in the south of Kiangsi, in consequence of the Boxer disturbances there.\n\nEducational. The latest proposed addition to the Government educational institutions in Nanking is a \"school of languages,\" in which German and French are to be taught. The services of Dr. Kratsch, Interpreter of the German Consulate, have been engaged for a few hours a day to supervise the school and teach German. It is proposed to look for a teacher of French, but English is omitted from the curriculum on the ground that there are already many opportunities here for studying English.\n\nRailways. At the beginning of October 20 miles of permanent way out of the 44 miles between Chinkiang and Nanking had been completed, and the opening of railway communication between Shanghae and Nanking is confidently expected in February next.\n\nThe route for the light railway to connect the main line with the city has now been selected, and is being staked out. The railway will enter the city at an old gate which has long been closed, but will be reopened for this purpose in defiance of superstition. The gauge is the same as that of the main railway, and the motive power will be steam. One of the British engineers on the Shanghae-Nanking Railway has been engaged by the Viceroy for the construction, and the plant will come from England.\n\nHankow.\n\nSome of the articles in the Hankow press are of interest :-----\n\nOctober 15. River Gun-boats for the Yang-tsze from Japan.--A newspaper states that \"the late Viceroy Chang placed orders through the Mitsui Bushen Kaisha with the Kawasaki Dockyard Company for ten shallow-draught river gun-boats, the contract price being fixed at 5,000,000 taels. The limit of time for completion of the contract and for payment was fixed at six years, and the transaction got Imperial sanction. Of these ten ships, four have already been handed over last winter and this spring, and the Viceroy has managed to pay the instalments, 3,000,000 taels through the Yokohama Specie Bank to the Nagisaki Bank. The dockyard have twice written for a deputy to be sent to accept ships Nos. 5 and 6, which are now ready, but the Acting Viceroy Li, thinking the matter very serious, and acceptance involving payment, intends to await his Excellency Chao's arrival to make permanent provision.\n\n44\n\nThe Hupei fleet now consists of a dozen ships, which are very burdensome to keep up, even though the Japanese sailors and engineers employed on the four already received have been sent home. The present position is an earnest of what will happen in future, and we think his Excellency Chao on arriving will surely devise steps to meet it.\"\n\nBridge over Yellow River at Lanchou, in Kansu.\" At Ho Chou, in Lanchou-fu, Kansu, a floating bridge of boats bound together with chain cables is at present used for crossing the Yellow River, but the officials have condemned this bridge as not permanent and when the river is full liable to collapse. They have therefore ordered materials for a proper iron bridge from the Hupei ironworks, and have also summoned several skilled workmen to Lanchou to supervise the construction of the new bridge. The materials have already got to Changchan, Honan, and all the officials on the route have been asked to assist in forwarding them.\"\n\nJapanese Employés.\" At the Wuchang hemp factory Japanese experts were employed to assist and instruct. The term of their agreement having now expired, and the Chinese women working in the factory having taken so readily and intelligently to the work, twenty-seven men and forty-five women of the Japanese originally employed have been dismissed and have returned to Japan.\n\n\"The factory have only retained the services of six Japanese men.\"\n\nSzechuan-Hankow Railway.\n\nText of representation by Tu, a Secretary of the Board of Finance, regarding the Szechuan-Hankow Railway, which has been laid by the Censorate before the Throne:-\n\n\"This line was the first to attain native control, but after three years not an inch of the track is fixed and nothing definitely arranged. Of nearly 8,000,000 taels collected the pay and work office expenses have run away with 1,600,000 taels and the Copper-piece Bureau has embezzled over 2,000,000 taels. Such horrifying extravagance and peculations have happily been shown up by the Board of Commerce, and the Court's acumen has\n\n54",
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        "content_text": "485 C.O. 33035\n\nThis Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government:\n\n2\n\nThere is a round-house for six engines and coaling-station at Ta-shih-ch'iao. There is another brick bridge, 250 yards long, under construction, half-a-mile south of Hai-ch'êng, which will replace the old bridge.\n\nA bridge, 100 feet long, 1 mile to the south of An-shan-chan is a quarter completed. Half-a-mile north of Li-shan-chan there is a double brick pier bridge, about 200 yards long, under construction. There is a double brick pier bridge, about half-a-mile long, with 14 spans, over the Tai-tzu Ho, just north of Liao-yang. The big bridge over the Hun Ho (south of Mukden) will not have a double track for the present.\n\nIt is expected that the line will be completed by November 1908, when the double track will be finished, and first-class carriages, with dining-cars attached, will be put on the line.\n\nThe new engines for the broad gauge line are partly Baldwin and partly from the Pittsburg works, whilst the new passenger corridor carriages are also from America. The latter have no mark on the outside to denote the class. At present carriages with small wooden benches are used for the second class, whilst the third class have to be content with the floor. The cheapest types of carriages have been bought, and the general impression is that they will soon be shaken to pieces; the wood is not seasoned, and the fittings generally are very cheap and bad. As an American engineer remarked: \"The Japanese wanted to get nothing for nothing,\" and they have certainly got it.\n\nThe new time-tables came into force on the 1st June, 1908. As a result of numerous complaints, the Japanese railway employés have now become civil. A passenger between Dalny and Mukden told me that that part of the line was now very well managed, but this was not my experience on the part between Mukden and K'uan-ch'êng-tzu; and interminable delays occur over the registration of baggage or in securing it on arrival. Each station has a superfluous crowd of Japanese inspectors, who loaf about and do nothing. Insufficient accommodation is provided for the Chinese third-class passengers, nearly every one of whom travels with a large bundle of bedding from which he always refuses to be parted.\n\nThe Japanese, following the precedent of the Russians (who only take roubles on their section north of Kuan-ch'eng-tzu), will only accept Japanese gold yen, so that on arrival at a station it is necessary to have recourse to some local harpy in the shape of a money-changer.\n\nA second-class ticket from Ch'ang-t'u Fu to K'uan-ch'êng-tzu, a distance of 104 miles, costs 590 yen, or at the local rate of exchange, 842 dollars. Putting the dollar at 1s. 10d., this would be 148. 74d., or at a rate of over 3 d. a-mile.\n\nPassengers going by the Siberian mail go through to Erh-tao-kou (called by the Japanese K'uan-ch'êng-tsu Station, where they change into the Russian train. This station is about 24 miles north-north-west of K'uan-ch'êng-tzu.\n\nPassengers for that city used to get out at Hsi-k'uan-ch'êng-tzu Station, about half-a-mile south of Erh-tao-kou. The new branch line has now been opened, and passengers now change carriages at Meng-chia-t'un, about 7 miles south of Hsi-k'uan-ch'êng-tzu, and, leaving the old line about 6 miles further on, make a bend round to the new station at Ch'ang-ch'un Fu, three-quarters of a mile north-north-west of that city and alongside of the Japanese Settlement. No work has yet been begun on the line which is to run from this station to Kirin.\n\nThe Japanese have thrown up an embankment to connect Erh-tao-kou with this new station, and one of the subjects of discussion, I believe, at the recent Conference in St. Petersburgh was with reference to the Russians using this new embankment and the Japanese taking up the old piece of line south of Erh-tao-kou.\n\nThe country west of K'uan-ch'eng-tzu is slightly undulating with deep nullahs, and abominable roads lead across it from the city to the Russian and old Japanese stations.\n\nThere is a Decauville line for push cars from Chang-t'u Fu (further south) to Ch'ang-t'u Fu Station, a distance of 7 miles over the downs; fare, 40 cents. It was put down by the Japanese during the war, and is said to be still owned by them.\n\nAt Mukden there is a horse tram-line from the station to the city. It is jointly owned by the Japanese and Chinese, but I was informed that it was running at a loss.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed) G. PEREIRA, Lieutenant-Colonel, Grenadier Guards, Military Attaché.\n\nTien-tsin, June 26, 1908.\n\nAFFAIRS OF CHINA.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n[29328]\n\nREC? [August 24\n\nSECTION 1,\n\n9 REF 08\n\nNo. 1.\n\nSir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received August 24.)\n\n(No. 297.) Sir,\n\nPeking, July 6, 1908. I HAVE the honour to transmit to you herewith copies of despatches from His Majesty's Consuls-General at Tien-tsin and Mukden on the subject of recent judicial reforms inaugurated by the Chinese Provincial authorities.\n\nThe measures which have been taken towards the introduction of a better judicial system, both at Tien-tsin and in Manchuria, are no doubt due to the influence of enlightened officials, such as Yuan Shih-k'ai and Tong Shoa-yi, who wish by these means to raise the standard of Chinese justice and thus prepare the way for the eventual abolition of extra-territoriality. But it is to be observed that at Shanghae, which would be the most fitting place to provide an object lesson in reforms of this description, little or nothing has been attempted.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed) J. N. JORDAN.\n\n(No. 32.) Sir,\n\nInclosure 1 in No. 1.\n\nActing Consul-General Ker to Sir J. Jordan.\n\nTien-tsin, June 25, 1908. I HAVE the honour to submit, for your consideration, copies of the following correspondence that has passed between the Customs Taotai and the Consular Body at Tien-tsin on the subject of the Shen Pan Ting, the Chinese District Court for the decision of civil cases in which foreigners are plaintiffs :-\n\n1. Copy and translation of despatch from Customs Taotai to Mr. Hopkins, as senior Consul, dated the 16th January, 1908, announcing the establishment of the Court and transmitting the Regulations;\n\n2. Copy and translation of the Regulations inclosed in above;\n\n3. Copy (in English and Chinese) of despatch from Mr. Hopkins to Customs Taotai, dated the 27th March, 1908, communicating certain suggestions made by the Consular Body on the proposed Regulations;\n\n4. Copy and précis of despatch from Customs Taotai to Mr. Hopkins dated the 16th May, 1908, communicating the reply and explanations offered by the Shen P'an Ting in regard to the above suggestions.\n\nThe Consular Body has now drafted (Inclosure 5) a reply which it is proposed that Mr. E. T. Williams, as Senior Consul, shall send to the Customs Taotai, agreeing to accept the regulations in question, subject to the approval of the foreign Representatives in Peking, on condition that certain further slight amendments are made.\n\nAt a meeting of the Consular Body held on the 19th instant it was decided that before sending in this conditional assent to the regulations, the whole matter should be submitted by the Consuls to their respective Ministers, and the approval of the Diplomatic Body obtained.\n\nI have the honour accordingly to request your instructions as to joining in the proposed action of the Consular Body.\n\nI may say that although I have not been long enough in Tien-tsin to watch the working of this Court, Mr. Hopkins before he left expressed to me the opinion that on the whole it was working satisfactorily, and that there was nothing particular in the regulations to which objection should be taken.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed) W. P. KER.\n\n[1905 aa-1]",
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        "content_text": "Sir, \n\nWith reference to my interview yesterday with Mr. Liang, the Director-General of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, on the subject of the proposed Chinese Government Railway Loan, I have the honour to report as follows: -\n\nI asked Mr. Liang whether he had any reconsideration to offer on the two points on which we had been unable to come to an agreement. He said that the Government were still averse from giving any additional security by the Customs in case of default, the Government was anxious not to commit itself to fresh obligations in this direction. I must take that as a final answer.\n\nI asked whether he had been able to reconsider the question of authorizing us to state the objects of the loan, particularly its application, in the first instance, to completing the sum required for the redemption of the Peking-Hankow Railway. He said that was also a point on which I must take his previous answer as final; it was impossible to comply with this condition. I again asked if he could explain to me the objection to so simple and reasonable a request. He replied that the Government wished to make this a \"kuo chai,\" a Government loan pure and simple; they wished to borrow, in fact, on the same terms as any other country, and could not submit to be tied down by restrictions such as those proposed. I said that while China enjoyed high credit, other countries had a budget of revenue and expenditure, and published an estimated budget for the coming year. China, with an existing foreign liability of £120,000,000, had none of these; no one knew anything of her actual resources and expenditure, nor was there any assurance that she had an accurate knowledge of them herself, and it was unreasonable for China to expect that she could go on the market and borrow on the same terms as countries which gave full information on these points. Mr. Liang entirely admitted the truth of this. They all realized that China must have a budget, but at present they had not the experts to take the task in hand; it would require at least three or four years of labour and investigation by officials who were already overworked before a budget could be given to the world. I replied that every one would welcome the realization of this reform, but it was hardly reasonable to expect the markets to accept it by anticipation. In the meantime China would do well to maintain her credit by adhering to the old forms of security, which we had done our best to free from every condition calculated to impair the national dignity.\n\nWith regard to the loan service, Mr. Liang said the Government were willing to state that for the first five years it would be paid from the surplus revenues of the Peking-Hankow and Peking-Mukden Railways; after that from the profits of the various enterprises which formed the object of the loan. I observed that it might be well not to fix a definite time like five years for the realization of these profits; but, apart from that, as they declined to tell us what these enterprises were, the arrangements for repayment did not seem to lend themselves to presentation in a form suitable for a prospectus. I asked if the completion of the Hankow-Canton line was one of the enterprises they had in view, and Mr. Liang said it was not.\n\nIn reviewing the stage arrived at, I observed to Mr. Liang that two important questions appeared to stand in the way of further progress of negotiations. Customs control of the security in case of default, and the declaration of the specific objects of the loan, foremost of which we had from the first been led to believe was the redemption of the Peking-Hankow Railway. Until the views of the banks on these fundamental points had been ascertained, it seemed waste of time to discuss minor ones, with which Mr. Liang concurred. He was friendly and courteous throughout, but gave the impression that he was speaking under strict instructions. Judging from their effect, there is no prospect of coming to an agreement so long as they are in force.\n\nAt the same time the Chinese must borrow before long. They are in urgent need of funds to complete important trunk and branch lines, the construction of which the Government has decided to take into its own hands; and when they have become convinced, by the most practical of all tests, that their estimate of the national credit has been placed too high, there may be some hope of wiser and more moderate counsels prevailing.\n\n(Signed) E. G. HILLIER,\n\n[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\nPage 31\n\nCHINA RAILWAYS.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n[32672]\n\nNo. 1.\n\nC. O.\n\n[September 21, \n\nSECTION 2.\n\n37616 \nRece 12. 15 001 08 \n\nSir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received September 21.)\n\n(No. 359. Very Confidential.)\n\nSir,\n\nPeking, August 6, 1908. I HAVE the honour to transmit to you herewith copy of a letter which Lord ffrench, agent of Messrs. Pauling and Co., has addressed to the high authorities of Manchuria, respecting the survey of a line of railway from Chin Chow Fu, on the Gulf of Liaotung (latitude 41° 30′ north, longitude 122° east), to Tao Nan Fu (latitude 45° 30′ north, longitude 120° east). The distance is about 300 miles, and the line would lie so far away from the South Manchurian Railway as to preclude any question of competition being raised by the Japanese. The proposal is not, however, I understand, to be regarded as a substitute for the Fakumen project, although it may conceivably facilitate an eventual compromise of that question.\n\nThis railway would open up an entirely new and undeveloped region, and its prolongation to Tsitsihar would secure connection with the Chinese Eastern Railway. The success of the scheme would depend largely upon the capabilities of Chin Chow as a winter port, and Mr. Hughes, a British engineer, whose engagement by the Manchurian Government I reported in my despatch No. 317 of the 14th July, is to devote special attention to this subject during the next few months.\n\nLord ffrench informs me that his proposal for the survey of the line has been accepted, and that he hopes to have the engineers at work as soon as the cool weather sets in.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed) J. N. JORDAN.\n\nInclosure in No. 1.\n\nLord ffrench to Governor and Viceroy of Manchuria.\n\n(Private and Confidential.)\n\nPeking, August 1, 1908. Your Excellencies,\n\nWITH reference to our interviews, and your Excellencies' expressed intention of having a line of railway built between Chin Chow Fu and Tao Nan Fu, and your wish that it should be built and equipped by Messrs. Pauling and Co. (Limited), in conjunction with the British and Chinese Corporation, we have the honour to confirm to your Excellencies, on behalf of Pauling and Co., that, with the view to obtaining the construction and equipment of the line, we are prepared in the first instance to make an inspection of the route, for which the Government of Manchuria will pay us our out-of-pocket expenses, not to exceed the sum of £1,000.\n\nWe would then submit to your Excellencies an estimate of the amount for which we would undertake to make a detailed survey, together with plans, sections, and specifications; and, based upon these, would submit a statement of the amount for which we would undertake to build and equip the line, and the period within which we would hand over the railway fit for traffic.\n\nOn your Excellencies' acceptance of this proposal we shall at once commence the preliminary inspection.\n\nWe have, &c.\n\nPage 32",
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        "content_text": "290\n\n2\n\nin\n\nThe following account of an interview which I had yesterday afternoon with Sir C. Liang Cheng, President of the Company, will, I venture to think, place you in possession of the latest and most authentic information regarding the affairs of the Canton-Hankow Railway :-\n\nThe President began by informing me that the annual general meeting of shareholders, held on the 27th instant at the Company's Head Office in Canton, had this year passed off in the most satisfactory manner. The attendance at the meeting had been unusually large, and the election of the three new Directors (one-third of the Directorate retire annually in rotation) had proceeded without a hitch. The meeting had been attended by the Provincial Treasurer, Provincial Judge, and two other officials as Representatives of the Viceroy and the Central Government. The rumour that these gentlemen had been appointed a Committee of Investigation was, said the President, without foundation in fact.\n\nSir C. Liang Cheng admitted that the appointment of Chang Chih Tung as the \"Tu Pan,\" or Director-General, of the railway had at first been received with some misgivings on his own part, and considerable opposition on the part of the shareholders. But, he went on to say, as a result of telegrams exchanged between himself on behalf of the Company, the Railway Board, and Chiang Chih Tung, the latter's status had been explained and defined, and he believed that a majority of the shareholders now welcomed the appointment. The Director-General would not interfere in any way with the construction of the line or the management of the Company, but would exercise a general supervision over the three sections of the line. His great influence in all the provinces through which the line would pass would enable him to smooth over any difficulties that might occur when the time came to link up the three sections, and he would in the meantime make it his business to see that the work of construction was pushed forward as expeditiously as possible all along the line.\n\nThe above statement, which I have quoted, to the best of my recollection, almost textually, represents, I imagine, the President's official view of the appointment. From certain expressions which he let fall at a later stage of the interview, I gather that he is not altogether pleased with the new arrangement, and that he will probably make it an excuse for relinquishing his post as soon as he conveniently can.\n\nSir C. Liang Cheng said that it was quite untrue that the Company were in financial difficulties. They had a sum of 2,500,000 taels odd deposited in various banks; they had 700,000 taels' worth of railway materials in their godowns at Wang Sha (the Canton terminus), rails, sleepers, and cars to the value of 800,000 taels on their way out to China, and the passenger traffic on the 25 miles open to Kuantien was bringing in about 14,000 dollars per mensem. He considered the Company still possessed, in cash and material, some 65 per cent, of their original capital of 8,000,000 dollars.\n\nThey expected to obtain at least 8,000,000 dollars from their second call on the shares, but he had been assured that 5,000,000 dollars would be sufficient to carry the line (not completed, but open to light traffic) to the Hunan border.\n\nAsked how the collection of the second call of 1 dol. 50 c. per share was progressing, Sir C. Liang Cheng said the money was coming in slowly but satisfactorily. There had been some murmuring because the two years' interest on the first instalment of the shares was not paid out, but deducted from the second; but he said the majority of the smaller shareholders were content with the arrangement, which saved time and money.\n\nThe 1 dollar shares now stand at 75 cents, ex dividend, and there was some demand for them.\n\nThe President informed me that in about ten days' time the line would be open to passenger traffic as far as Yin Chan Ao, 35 miles from Canton, The embankment will shortly be completed as far as Ying Tak, and the surveyors are expected to reach Shao Kuan (Shao Chou Fu) early in October.\n\nThe line was not seriously damaged by the great floods, but in several places in the Ying Tak district new alignments have had to be made and the levels raised.\n\nThe Company were experiencing considerable difficulty in the purchase of land, and, as in the case of the Canton-Kowloon line, the expenditure under this head far exceeded the original estimate. The Viceroy's assistance had now been invoked, and he had recently issued a Proclamation warning contumacious land-owners that their land would be expropriated if they refused to accept reasonable terms. I understand the prices offered by the Company range from 60 to 100 taels per mou. The gentry are to assist in assessing values. One month will be given for the owner to make up his mind, and if at the expiry of that period he refuses to sell, the land required will be taken over and the purchase-money deposited with the local officials.\n\n3\n\nThe scheme for a branch line to Sanui had not been abandoned, said the President. An influential party amongst the shareholders were strongly in favour of it, and they hoped, in view of the good progress the trunk line was making, to obtain the Railway Board's sanction to the undertaking.\n\nWith regard to the engagement of a European accountant, Sir Chen-tung Liang said that, while he himself was in favour of appointing Mr. Chard to the post, the engineer-in-chief, Kwang, and some of the other Directors were opposed to the appointment on the ground that Mr. Chard had no experience of railway accounts. I said I thought the Company would have to pay pretty heavily if they required the services of a first-class railway accountant, and it seemed to me that Mr. Chard's experience of China and his knowledge of banking methods gave him exceptional qualifications for the work he would have to do.\n\nThe President agreed, and again said that he himself would like to secure Mr. Chard's services. I suggested that Mr. Chard might be willing to accept a short engagement—say, for three or six months, as it were—on probation, when his fitness for the post might be tested.\n\nThe President promised to consider this suggestion, and said that in any case he would let me know if the Directors decided to engage a railway accountant.\n\nAt the conclusion of our interview, Sir Chen-tang Liang, who had throughout volunteered information and replied to my questions in the most courteous, open manner, handed me an advance copy of a Circular which is to be distributed among the shareholders, containing copies of the correspondence with regard to the appointment of Chang Chih Tung above referred to. A translation of this Circular is being made, and will be forwarded by first opportunity.\n\nI am forwarding a copy of this despatch to the Governor of Hong Kong, and duplicate copies for the Legation under flying seal to His Majesty's Consul-General at Hankow.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed)\n\nH. H. 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        "content_text": "## 2\n\nThe north and west of the province, extending to Southern Chih-li. A missionary at **Lin-ch'ing Chou** told me that the first crop of wheat in those parts was very poor, as also the pea-nuts and fruit, on which the people largely depend for cash, and the cotton, which employs so many people for spinning in the winter.\n\nAn agent of the Anglo-American Tobacco Company told me that the people were so poor that they were knocking off all superfluous luxuries, and could not afford to buy cigarettes. This Company deserves to succeed owing to the energetic way in which it is boomed. There is hardly a town of any importance that I pass through in any part of China which is not profusely placarded with posters proclaiming the perfections of the \"Peacock\" or \"Pirate\" brand of cigarettes.\n\nAt Lai-chou Fu, thousands of coolies were engaged in digging a gigantic hole in search for some talisman which would cause rain.\n\n### 5. Railways\n\nThe route for the proposed railway from Chefoo to Wei Hsien has been surveyed. The capital is to be all Chinese. It has been found that the cost will be 10,000,000 dollars, instead of 4,000,000 dollars, as at first calculated.\n\nAs only 2,000,000 dollars can be raised, it has been decided only to make the line at present from Chefoo to Huang Hsien.\n\nOn the Shan-tung Railway, I was struck by the excellence of the arrangements; German officials were very little in evidence, and nearly all the local arrangements were made by Chinese, who struck me as being exceedingly civil and a great contrast to the Chinese employés on the Ching-han and Shan-hsi Railways.\n\n### 6. Missionaries\n\nThe Franciscans divide the northern part of Shan-tung, the French portion taking the eastern section and the Dutch portion the western section. The English Baptists and American Presbyterians are also chiefly in evidence in these parts, and have combined to form a university for Chinese, with the Arts and Science College at Wei Hsien for 240 pupils, and a theological college at Ch'ing-chou Fu, in which 140 Chinese students are going through a seven years' course, preparatory to working in the Mission. The Medical College in Chi-nan Fu has not yet been started.\n\n### 7. Anti-dynastic Societies\n\nA missionary said that they were increasing in the cities, whilst among the soldiers of the 5th Division at Chi-nan Fu, there is reported to be a strong following.\n\n### 8. The Grand Canal from the South to the Yellow River\n\nThe watershed crosses the Grand Canal at Lung-wang-miao, 54 miles (180 li) south of Tung-a Hsien and the Yellow River, whilst at An-shan, 21 miles (70 li) to the south, the canal, which used to flow northerly, is now blocked, and boats instead descend the Ching Ho, till the Yellow River is reached 14 miles south-west of Chiang-chia-kou, the ferry across the Yellow River, 2 miles to the west of Tung-a Hsien. From Chiang-chia-kou, an embankment runs westwards near or alongside the north bank of the Yellow River to T'ao-ch'eng-p'u, a distance of 12 miles. It is about 12 feet above the level of the plain and 16 feet to 25 feet wide. The hills end on the south bank of the Yellow River, and, except for two solitary hillocks just north of the river, I did not see any approach to a hill again till I sighted the western hills near Peking. This great plain, as far as I could see, was everywhere one gigantic field covered with crops (kao-liang, millet, maize, beans, and cotton), and thickly studded with villages, which get more scattered going north.\n\n### 9. The Grand Canal from the Yellow River to Lin-ch'ing Chou\n\nFormerly the tribute grain boats used to come up it, but they have not used it since the Boxer trouble in 1900. This section of the Grand Canal is closed by earth dams, the one on the Yellow River being a mile to the east of Tao-ch'eng-p'u. Formerly this used to be cut and the water from the Yellow River used to fill the canal bed. At the present time, the canal bed is quite dry from the dam to Tung-ch'ang Fu, a distance of about 28 miles, and the thrifty population have hastened to cultivate both the banks and bed. In this part of the country, there are countless side roads, evidently used by farm carts. Tung-ch'ang Fu is a fairly large city, and the most symmetrical I have seen in China; in fact, it is nearly a perfect square. There is a good deal of waste inside the walls, and the chief business is in the east suburb. The prefecture shares with that of Ts'ao-chou further south the reputation of being one of the worst brigand centres in China. Fortunately, however, the two principal brigands, who had a provincial reputation, were captured in the last two years, and since then the country has been more peaceful. The priest at Tung-ch'ang Fu told me that there had been a slight revival of Boxerism at Kao-tang Chou to the north-east, but it quieted down when the rains came. The canal was repaired in 1906 between Tung-chang Fu and Lin-ching Chou, a distance of about 40 miles, and is now used by small boats. It was 3 or more feet deep, with muddy water.\n\n## 3\n\nThe canal makes a bend to the south just below Lin-ch'ing Chou, and there is another earth dam across about 2 miles to the south of the city. On my arrival, I found this dam had been cut to let in some water from the Wei River, but it was closed again before I left on the following day. The resident missionaries stated they had never before heard of the dam being cut. The chief object of the dam in the old days, apparently, was that it afforded a chance of \"squeeze,\" as when the tribute boats, &c., arrived, they had to be unloaded on one side and reloaded on the other, whilst the boat was dragged over. The reason the officials gave for not opening the dam was that the Wei River was infested by a dragon, who would tear up the banks of the Grand Canal if he once got into it. About half a mile below the dam, the canal passes through a lock bridge and joins the Wei River.\n\nThe missionaries stated that formerly the inhabitants of Lin-ch'ing Chou were very anti-foreign, but that the feeling has now quite died out. The post from Chi-nan Fu to Peking takes three and a-half days, going by courier viâ Lin-ch'ing Chou to Shun-te Fu, where the railway is reached.\n\nFrom Chi-nan Fu to Lin-ch'ing Chou, I was treated with an excess of kindness by all the officials, and escorts accompanied me all the way. One cavalry soldier, overcome by the liberality of my gratuities, announced his intention of joining my service as groom, till I reminded him that the Chinese punishment for desertion was the cutting off of one or more ears.\n\n### 10. The Grand Canal from Lin-ch'ing Chou to Tien-tsin\n\nThis section is, of course, really the Wei (or Yä) River. At the time of my visit in August, it was exceptionally high, water very muddy, very strong current and 50 to 60 yards wide. The banks are in places eaten away, and a missionary said that nothing is being done to keep them in repair, and there is great danger of the river one day bursting its banks and carrying destruction over a great low-lying region.\n\nI made the distance between Lin-ching Chou and Tien-tsin (259 miles), and I took 70 hours of actual travelling by boat, averaging 3.7 miles an hour. Up to Te Chou, it is exceedingly winding, and the land route is much quicker.\n\n| Location        | Distance from Lin-ch'ing Chou | Description                                                                 |\n|-----------------|-------------------------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------|\n| Ssu-nü-ssů      | 72 miles                      | Can drain the river                                                        |\n| Chu-tien        | 1672 miles                    | Can drain the river                                                        |\n| Ising-chi-chên  | 1883 miles                    | Can drain the river                                                        |\n| Ma-ch'ang       | 2062 miles                    | Can drain the river via Hsiao-chan Canal                                   |\n\nThe river can be drained by four canals. The river may be divided into two sections, namely, from Lin-ching Chou to the Hsiao-chan Canal. In this section, it is usually 50 to 60 yards wide, and I rarely found it less than 10 feet deep, often over 15 feet. There are only reported to be two shallow places in this section, both above Tê Chou. At the second one, I found it was 9 feet deep.\n\nThe second section is from the Hsiao-chan Canal to Tien-tsin, the canal being from 30 to 40 yards wide, sometimes less. This part is shallower, and I usually found it from 9 to 11 feet deep. The country is low-lying, and villages and towns are usually actually on the river banks or else at a distance away.\n\nThere is a vast amount of traffic on the river; the boats are mostly pulled up by gangs of from four to thirteen men, who for a miserable pittance work like slaves, and appear always to be contented. With the exception of one or two Government boats, there are no steam launches on the river. Ferries are numerous, but there is not a single bridge till Tien-tsin is reached.\n\nAll along the banks, countless numbers of villagers were employed in throwing up water from the river into a hollowed-out basin, from which it was again thrown up on to the level of the fields. Comparatively few, who were in more affluent circumstances, were able to do the work with a donkey and a wheel.\n\n(Signed) G. PEREIRA, Lieutenant-Colonel,  \nGrenadier Guards, Military Attaché.  \nPeking, September 17, 1908.\n\n## 34",
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        "content_text": "# 586\n\n**[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]**\n\n**RECO**\n\n**NEGE 24 JUN 09**\n\n**AFFAIRS OF CHINA.**\n\n**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\n[21250]\n\n**(No. 179.) Sir,**\n\n## No. 1.\n\n**[June 7.]**\n\n## SECTION 2.\n\n**Sir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received June 7.)**\n\nPeking, May 19, 1909.\n\nI HAVE the honour to enclose, in translation, copy of an Imperial decree issued in the \"Gazette\" of the 9th instant, whereby posthumous titles of honour are conferred on five high officials who were executed during the siege of the Legations in 1900 for their denunciation of the Boxer outbreak of that year.\n\nReference to the courageous parts played by these officials is to be found in Sir Claude MacDonald's despatch No. 125 of the 25th September, 1900, and in Sir Ernest Satow's despatch No. 38 of the 29th January, 1901. Of all the influential personages in Peking at that time they alone ventured to oppose the pretensions of the Boxers and to represent in strongly worded memorials the inevitable consequences to the Empire of such a movement.\n\nWhile the court was in exile at Hsi-An-fu in Shensi the late Empress-Dowager recognised that their execution had proved unjustifiable, and issued decrees restoring their memories to honour.\n\nIt is significant at this late period that the Prince Regent should revert to the subject of their unmerited punishment, and assure for them a place amongst the \"immortals\" of Chinese history by the bestowal of posthumous titles. Though the decree was doubtless evoked by a memorial presented by the friends of the deceased Ministers, it is issued in the \"Gazette\" as a spontaneous act of grace, and is generally understood to indicate that the Prince Regent thereby disassociates himself and his régime from the policy which brought about the disasters of 1900.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n**J. N. JORDAN.**\n\n## Inclosure in No. 1.\n\n**Extract from the \"Official Gazette\" of May 9, 1909.**\n\n**IMPERIAL Decree issued on the 9th May directing that Posthumous Titles of Honour be conferred upon certain High Officials executed in 1900.**\n\n**(Translation.)**\n\nWE have reverently read decrees issued in 1900 and 1901 directing that Li-shan, a former President of the Board of Revenue; Hsu Yung-yi, President of the Board of War; Hsü Ching-ch'eng, Senior Vice-President of the Board of Civil Office; Lien-yuan, Sub-Chancellor of the Grand Secretariate; and Yuan-ch'ang, Director of the Court of Sacrificial Worship, who had all incurred unmerited punishment, should be restored to their former ranks, and that their posterity should be chosen for official employment. We dutifully recognise the justice of the action of His late Majesty, taken under the instructions of Her Majesty the august Empress-Dowager, but feel that the patriotism of the deceased statesmen and the sad fate which befell them call for some further mark of favour, and we therefore decree that posthumous titles of honour shall be conferred upon Li-chan, Hsü Yung-yi, Hsü Ching-ch'eng, Lien-yuan, and Yuan-ch'ang.\n\nLet the proper department take note.\n\n[2303 g-2]",
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        "content_text": "# Chiao-t'ou \n## Merr Chia Pu \n### Pên Hsi Hu \n2 \n\n| Stations | Miles | Remarks |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Chiao-t'ou | 131 |  |\n| Merr Chia Pu | 138 |  |\n| Pên Hsi Hu | 143 | Important collieries. |\n| Huo Lien Chai | 148 |  |\n| Shih Chiao-tzu | 156 |  |\n| Yao Chien Hu Tun | 165 |  |\n| Chên Hsiang Tun | 172 |  |\n| Пun Ho Pao | 133 |  |\n| Fêng Tien (Mukden) | 189 |  |\n\nThe Fashun branch of the South Manchurian Railway crosses just south of this station. \nThe Mukden terminus is now at the South Manchurian Railway Mukden railway station. (It used to be some distance south-east of it.) \n\nFrom Mukden the line runs on the level, or nearly so, for some 25 miles to Yao Chien Hu-tun, in the Liao plain, and a side valley eastward out of it. Thence it winds among the mountains, following small valleys and crossing a succession of ridges through very picturesque country. The only places of any size or importance along the whole line are Pên Hsi Hu and Fêng Huang Ch'êng. From the latter place again it is fairly level, going along valleys to Antung.\n\nBetween Mêng Chia Pu and Chiao-t'ou, and again between Chi Kuan Shan and Chiu Mu Chuang, the ranges are so steep and the gradients so heavy that the trains have to cross in two separate halves. On the northern slope of the latter range there are two reversing stations.\n\nAs a consequence the journey between Mukden and Antung takes two long days' travelling, viz., from Mukden to Tsao-ho Kou 11 hours 55 minutes, and from Tsao-ho Kou to Antung 11 hours 25 minutes.\n\n## The New Alignment (4 ft. 8 in. gauge)\nTo avoid building a new bridge over the Hun Ho, the new alignment takes off from the Fushun line just south-west of Hun Ho Pao, and, with a curve, joins into the present track, which it then follows for upwards of 20 miles. When I passed over it the embankment had been widened and the big sleepers and broad-gauge track laid down as far as Yao Chien Hu Tun (the light rails being relaid between the broad-gauge ones). The new bridges, alongside the present ones, were, on this section, almost completed, and in a very short time it should be possible to run trains on the broad-gauge as far as Shih Chiao-tzu.\n\nIn the mountains the new alignment naturally diverges from the present track considerably, but is never very far away, usually in sight. When completed the curtailment of distance will be over 20 miles, and the run from Mukden to Antung will only take some seven or eight hours.\n\nThe work of reconstruction was proceeding actively throughout.\n\n### Sections\nThe work is divided into four sections, viz.:-\n1. Mukden to Hung Chia Pu.\n2. Mêng Chia Pu to Hsia Ma Tang.\n3. Hsia Ma Tang to Chi Kuan Shan.\n4. Chi Kuan Shan to Antung.\n\nThe second of these is the hardest section.\n\nThe work is being done by contract. I travelled with the contractor of the northern section on the 27th September, and he told me that he was having no difficulty about labour.\n\nIn the 20 miles between Chiao-t'ou and Hsia Ma Tang there are no less than thirty-two bridges from 400 to 600 feet long. I noticed that new bridges along the line are being built of timber trestle work, of the same type as those now carrying the light line. (The bridges on the standard 4 ft. 8 in. gauge Corcan line, Seoul-Shin-Gishu section, are of this type, but are being replaced by masonry and iron girder-work bridges.)\n\n### Tunnels\nThe principal tunnels are :--\n1. The Hei Kan-ling tunnel (north of Fêng Huang Ch'êng), 2,500 feet.\n2. The Chi Kuan Shan tunnel, 3,168 feet. (This tunnel alone will shorten the distance, as compared with the present track, by some 7 miles.)\n3. The Fu Chin Ling tunnel (between Fên Hsi Hu and Chiao-t'ou), 5,000 feet.\n\nThey will be bored with steam shafting machinery.\n\n3 \n## Labour\nThe labour is almost entirely Chinese, supervised by Japanese overseers, the gangs living in mat shelters at intervals alongside the line. A little difficulty was experienced at first in getting Chinese coolies, but they are now working satisfactorily. I only saw one gang of Coreans (working on the 4th section, near Kao-li Men).\n\n## Purchase of Land\nThe head office for land purchasing has been established at Mukden, under Chinese and Japanese officials deputed by the Manchurian Government and the South Manchurian Railway respectively, viz., two superintendents, two assistant superintendents, and a number of executive delegates to work at various points along the line, assisted by the local officials. Two branch (mobile) bureaux have been formed for this purpose, and they have established local sub-offices in sixteen places, and the work is proceeding smoothly. Difficulty was expected in the neighbourhood of Pên Hsi Hu.\n\n## Policing\nThe question of the policing of the new line is, I understand, still a matter of contention between the Chinese and Japanese Governments. However that may be, the present line is guarded by detachments of the Japanese South Manchurian Railway Guard Battalions, some of whom travel on each train. The detachments are stationed at various points along the line, and are supposed not to exceed fifteen men per kilom., i.e., a total of 2,366 men throughout the length of the line. At certain points, e.g., Mukden, Pên Hsi Hu, Sha-ho Chên, &c., I noticed Chinese police also on the platforms, and asked them whether they ever get into difficulties with the Japanese railway guards, and they replied in the negative. I daresay, however, that this was a matter of \"saving face.\"\n\nThere is a considerable element of low-class Japanese \"undesirables\" in South Manchuria, who are given to bullying and ill-treating the Chinese, and whose high-handedness must give rise to much ill-feeling. I myself saw one or two instances of such ill-treatment of coolies and petty pedlars. I understand that the Japanese Government is aware of and deplores this state of things, and is taking steps to eliminate this undesirable element.\n\n## Connections with other Lines\n(1) The linking on to the Corean system, a matter of great strategic importance, will be effected by the construction of the Yalu bridge.\n\nWhen I was at Antung on the 13th August there was no sign of any commencement of this work. On the 28th September, however, I noticed that work was proceeding actively on six of the piers, the scaffolding round which was up and joined by a temporary timber trestle bridge. The foundations were being built in steel caissons. The labour was entirely Chinese, supervised by Japanese; no Coreans. One span of the bridge will be made to open to admit of the passage of shipping.\n\nThe bridge will be of the same type (masonry piers and iron girder-work superstructure) as the bridges being built along the Seoul-Shin-Gishu section of the Corean Railway. They say the construction of the bridge will take three years, but I think it probable that construction will be hastened to coincide with the completion of the new Antung-Mukden line.\n\n(2) The line joins into the main line of the South Manchurian Railway at Su-Chia-Tün (junction for Fushun).\n\nConsidering the short time that has elapsed since the work began (8th August), the progress made has been very remarkable. It is expected that the new line will be completed in two years from the start, i.e., in August 1911.\n\nI append a few photographs of the line.\n\n**M. E. 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        "content_text": "## (c.) Army and Navy\n\nGuns.--The new Krupp mountain guns were tried at the end of September in presence of the acting governor-general, who has invited me to attend the next trials.\n\nMilitary Hospital--The site for the new military hospital has been chosen outside the south gate, and building has commenced. Mr. Feng, the staff-surgeon of the Lu-chun, tells me that he will be placed in charge of this hospital as soon as it is ready.\n\nSatisfactory.\n\n## (d.) Relations with Chinese Officials\n\n## (e.) Movements of Chinese Officials\n\nCommissioner of Customs.--M. Grevedon, commissioner of customs at Mengtse, visited Yunnan-fu in September to arrange for the purchase of land for the use of the Imperial Maritime Customs. He secured two pieces, one in close proximity to the French railway station (outside the south gate), and the other adjoining our consular site outside the north gate. The deeds have been drawn up and the purchase-money handed over, but they have not yet been signed, as a difference of opinion arose at the last moment whether the land should be held in the name of the Inspector-General of Imperial Maritime Customs or the Shui-wu Ch'u. The matter has been referred to Peking.\n\nAdministrator of Foreign Affairs.--Shih Tseng, the provincial judge, has been appointed Administrator of Foreign Affairs for Yünnan. It is believed that he has also been recommended for the post of Chinese Minister at Paris by Hsi Liang, and he may yet get that post, which he desires greatly. His appointment as administrator is unfortunate for Yunnan, I think. In spite of his many amiable personal qualities, he is too nervous for the post and too ignorant of his work. He is withal a man of no strong character or unusual ability, and has on more than one occasion endeavoured to cover his mistakes by playing on his colleagues' ignorance of things European.\n\nPrefect Liu.--Liu-chun, formerly prefect at Yünnan-fu and afterwards acting taotai at Tengyueh, has returned from his investigation of the murder of Dr. Brunhueber and M. Schumitz. He is now confirmed in his appointment of Prefect of Yünnan-fu. The acting governor-general told me privately that he is not satisfied with the present taotai at Tengyueh, and was thinking of recommending Liu-chun for the post.\n\nTseng Taotai has been replaced by Kung-hsin-chan, who speaks English. I have not yet met Mr. Kung.\n\nThe French consul tells me that there is an understanding between the French Legation and the Chinese Government that the Administrator of Foreign Affairs shall always be a French-speaking official.\n\n## (f.) Movements of Foreign Officials\n\nFrench Minister.--M. de Margerie, the French Minister designate at Peking, arrived at Mengtse on the 27th September, and left after a stay of twenty-four hours. He did not come to Yunnan-fu.\n\n## (g.) Reforms\n\nMint.--I have revisited the mint, arsenal, and new prison. At the mint rupees bearing the inscriptions \"Yünnan province\" - \"silver coin,\" and nothing else, either in Chinese or English, are being struck. The coin is intended to deceive the Burman, and it is hoped that it will pass current as a rupee in Burmah.\n\nArsenal--Some new machinery has arrived for the arsenal, but the working superintendent, Mr. Wei, seems discouraged by the lack of official interest.\n\nNew Prison.--The industrial department of the new prison has now been organised. Chairs, tables, metal cups, common tools, and writing paper are being made under skilled supervision.\n\nGeneral--At the close of fifteen months' stay at Yunnan-fu, I venture to submit the opinion that the reform programme has little practical result to show at the present time. There is, however, a great deal to display on paper, and I do not doubt that Yunnan reforms bulk largely in the pigeon-holes at Peking. The high officials at Yunnan-fu, with whom I have had the opportunity of mixing freely, are a capable lot, taken as a whole. Their weakness appears to be in proposing too many and too ambitious schemes for which the province is not yet ready--but that way promotion lies. It is not so much the apathy of the Yunnanese or the poverty of the province which drags Yünnan down from the path of reform. The misfortune of Yunnan is the gentry of Yunnan-fu. Their anti-foreign attitude might be pardonably mistaken for patriotism, but the ignorance, conceit, and corruption of their leaders--Ch'en-yung-ch'ang, ex-Literary Chancellor of Kueichou, and Wang-hung-t'u, the millionaire parvenu, are perhaps unsurpassed throughout the rest of China.\n\nI regret to have to report that during my stay at Yunnan-fu I have not been able to see any certain signs of an enlightened public opinion or a genuine desire for reform on Western lines.\n\nE. C. WILTON.\n\nPage 337",
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        "content_text": "2\n\nan effective control across the watershed from the direction of the Salween, as the first step in which they authorised the Tengkeng Sawbwa to advance into the country and take vigorous measures to exact obedience, at the same time laying plans for a After some definite administrative effort before the close of the winter season. opposition the Sawbwa, with from 400 to 500 men, succeeded in reaching the group of Lashi villages lying nearest the frontier, Upper Pienma (Hpimaw) was burned, the submission of the four other villages was ensured, and representatives were left to enforce the payment of all outstanding tolls. In order to ascertain the facts of this raid and the actual conditions prevailing in this inaccessible territory I was instructed by His Majesty's Minister to proceed to Tengkeng on a tour of enquiry, and with this object I left my post at Tengyueh on the 7th April, 1910, accompanied by an escort of ten soldiers from the regular Chinese army which was considered necessary for my safety by the Taotai, as the route ran through the ill-reputed country of the Lisu tribesmen. It may be presumed that the Taotai had reported to the Viceroy at Yünnan-fu the representations which had been made through me regarding the raid, and his refusal to consider the request of the Government of Burmah for the punishment of Tengkeng and the payment of compensation to the villages; in notifying my departure he ventured the suggestion that, although my journey might have been planned merely for purposes of mahseer fishing, he had shrewd suspicions of ulterior motives, as the Salween Valley could scarcely be regarded as a pleasure resort at this season of the year.\n\nJourney through Mingkuang.-On leaving Tengyueh a series of long and narrow valleys, divided by steep and well-defined ranges, and watered by branches of the Taping and Shweli Rivers, run in a due northerly direction till they are blocked at their ends by the range, which strikes east from Manung Pum till it joins the main Irrawady-Salween Divide, and which itself forms the watershed between the N'Maikha and Shweli systems. After reaching Kutung Kai I advanced along the route through the Mingkuang Valley, which rises in a chain of cultivated and well-watered \"patzu\" or plains of gradually increasing altitude till it meets the cross range at its northern extremity. The consulate writer, who accompanied Mr. Litton in 1905, did not cease to exclaim at the progress made by the Chinese settlers since his previous journey; flourishing markets have sprung up along the route, every available acre is under cultivation, and there remain but a few miles to the extreme north where the original Lisu population retain possession of the land, and where grazing grounds are still available for the wandering herds of cattle, sheep, and ponies. The remaining four valleys to the north of Tengyueh are thickly populated and cultivated to the limit of the frontier line, but, although Mingkuang is advancing more slowly in agricultural development, it is undoubtedly the richest of the five belts, and the recent journeys of Mr. Coggin Brown of the Geological Survey of India prove that it is an intensely mineralised area, rich deposits of gold, silver, iron, and copper lying in close proximity to the frontier range, and in many places these are now being worked with Chinese labour and native methods. At the head of this valley one passes from the zone of bare, treeless hills and intense cultivation to a country in which the masses of limestone cliff rise from the pines and evergreens of forest-clad slopes, the foaming torrent of the Mingkuang stream winds a white course through the bracken, the calls of pheasant, sambur, and barking deer break the silence of the morning, and rhododendrons of rich red and white, briar roses, and pyrus japonica, gleam out with a wonderful brilliancy of colour from the grey mists that herald the coming rains, whilst in the forest clearings the ground is carpeted with a purple glow of dainty primulas and ground orchids, raising their heads above the tawny masses of last year's bracken. Even the Chinese were moved to wonder at the beauty of the land, and they twined garlands of flowers in the bridles and packs of the mules, or round the muzzles of their Mauser rifles, which have fallen sadly from their high estate since they were issued new and bright in the year of our Lord 1871.\n\nTa Chu Pa. The fifth day's march brought us to the end of the valley at Ta Chu Pa, where a scattered population of eighty Lisu families eke out a scanty subsistence, and five strongly stockaded Chinese houses form the head-quarters of a thriving trade in coffin planks, which are brought from the forests beyond the range. Here we halted for a day in the hope of getting some information regarding the recent raid, and Hsü Linhsiang, one of the Chinese timber merchants, informed me that he was in part responsible for the petition for assistance, reported in my despatch of the 24th February, but that he could add nothing to his original information as the Tengkeng Sawbwa had threatened to behead him, and that he was therefore banished from his home in the N'Maikha Valley. On the following day the son of the Pienma headman arrived at Ta Chu Pa, and sent a message that spies of Tongkeng and the Pao-shan magistrate were in the village, and had threatened his life if he had any dealings with me; during the night the Chinaman Hsü was kidnapped by these men, and hurried away to Yungchang-fu, and I realised that, as the Chinese had taken such precautions to block my enquiries in Ta Chu Pa, it would be of little use to proceed to Tengkeng. I decided therefore that my only hope of ascertaining the true facts of the case would be to make a forced march across the passes to Pienma, and see for myself what had actually happened. It appeared unwise to proceed into the unadministered territory with a Chinese escort, and in view of the fact that the expedition of 1905 had lost thirty mules on the first day's march, the road was proved impossible for a heavily equipped party. The escort was therefore dispatched in charge of all heavy baggage by the road running through Chinese territory to Tengkeng, and I managed to engage a number of Lisu porters to carry sufficient kit for a week for myself and my personal servants; there was little enthusiasm for the journey, and it was difficult to decide who felt the more aggrieved, the escort who were \"being deserted,\" and left to face the terrors of the road alone, or the men who were to penetrate the \"inner land,\" relying on the protection of a shot-gun, and an assortment of various medicines, the latter of which I have found an unfailing passport to the affections of the frontier tribesmen, the application of salts and embrocations ensuring perennial mental gratification even if their virtues were somewhat misapplied for purposes of physical relief.\n\n3\n\nJourney to Pienma.-On the seventh day we commenced the ascent of the range, the track lying through miles of tangled bamboo brake and dense forest jungle, through which an advance guard of Lashi Kachins hewed a way with their dhas, whilst the ponies struggled and slipped on the steep mountain paths, scrambling over the trunks of great fallen trees, and wading through the rocky torrents. This track is regularly used for a few months of the year by Lisu and Lashi porters, carrying coffin planks from Kangfang down to Mingkuang, but their path was scarcely discernible in the jungle, and the heavy rains which had fallen for several weeks had made of the low-lying portions a hopeless morass. After a long climb we reached the Pass of Ten Shui-ling, and here I was somewhat surprised to find that the tribesmen had a very clear and definite idea of the principle of the frontier. Pointing to the two streams which trickled in opposite directions down the mountain sides they explained that the parting formed the border line between Great Britain and China, and gave me such an insight into the practical meaning of a Divide, as would have proved a liberal education to those distinguished officers of the Chinese Government who in 1904 committed themselves to the statement that in this district the watershed lay at the foot of the mountains. Then with a certain courtesy that went to the heart of the situation, the Lisus handed me over to the Lashis as their guest, and we continued our journey down into the valley of the Ngawchang Kha (known by the Chinese as the Hsiao Chiang). On arrival at the first camp the weather broke, and for five days and nights the rain poured down in ceaseless torrents. The little single-fly tents could not resist the storm, clothes and bedding were sodden, the weight of the porters' loads was greatly increased, and the poor fellows spent their nights in the open, with no protection from the wet ground, or from the beating rain, save a layer of palm fibre. After seeing the hard lives that these tribesmen lead, and the triumph of the elements in their mountain homes, one wonders little at the animism forming the basis of all their faith, or at the fact that the rain and thunder, the lightning, the wind, the forest, and the mountains are all held by demons of malice, whose wrath can only be appeased by offerings and sacrifice. On one day we were obliged to march from dawn till dark without a halt for rest or food, as we found no clearing in the jungle, and the country was reported by the natives to be full of poisonous herbs which the ponies would eat if they halted, with fatal results, and it was therefore with intense relief that we at last saw the Pienma villages on a distant hillside, and felt that the worst of the journey was past. For one brief moment a glimpse of a magnificent snowy range to the north-west marked the division of the Lashi country from that of the Wild Marus, and shortly afterwards we were met by a number of headmen and villagers from Pienma (Hpimaw), who had come out in spite of the storm to offer a welcome.\n\nThe headmen had heard of my approach and evidently believed that Litton had come back, for they said they had waited five years for my return, and there was evident disappointment when they found that there was no army of occupation at my back. They poured forth their grievances at once, however, stating that there were twenty Chinese soldiers in Pienma, that two deputies of the Yungchang prefect were ...\n\n324",
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        "content_text": "10\n\nIn addition to above claims, village is absolutely stripped, all live-stock and movable property having been looted by raiders—\n\nGeneral village claim\n\nUpper Pienma\n\nLower Pienma--\n\nTaels.\n\n[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\n300\n\n680\n\nAFFAIRS OF CHINA.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n20853\n\nRECA [June 8 JUL 10,\n\nSECTION 1.\n\n328\n\nThirty houses, about 2 miles from Upper Village. Headmen, Tung Mo-pa and Tung Chung-yueh. People kotowed to Tengkeng after defeat of upper village. No houses burned, Tengkeng and all his levies stayed for four days. Claim for provisions lumped with that of village of Wang Kai-ho.\n\nWang Kai-ho-\n\nTwenty-four houses. Headmen, Tung Sao-chiang and Tung Chung-ti. Tung Sao-chiang has a feud. His father was murdered by Tengkeng after expedition of 1905. Told him I could not enquire,\n\nU-tung-\n\nThirty houses, Headmen, Yang Chung-yueh and Yang Chung-kuan. Whole village has been out for a month collecting huang-lien, and therefore did not appear. Tengkeng stayed one day, and headmen of other five villages estimate claim at.. This village important, as silver and salt lie within 3 or 4 miles on either side.\n\nPa Ti-ho-\n\n100 houses in group. Headmen, Tsao Pai-shou (a Lisu) and Fu Chung-yi. Tengkeng stayed four days. Claim 147\n\nKu Lan-chai-\n\nThirty houses. Headmen, Miao Chang-an and Pi Chung-li. Tengkeng stayed six days. Claim 35\n\nClaims for provisions and looting\n\n292\n\nHouse-tax-\n\nActually collected for 241 houses\n\n271\n\nChinese headman and policemen left to collect balance demanded, but villages depleted by raid and unable to raise more.\n\nList of Claims.\n\nUpper Pienma, destruction of property, &c.\n\nTaels. 680\n\nLower Pienma and Wang Kai-ho, supplies\n\nPa Ti-ho\n\nKu Lan-chai\n\nU-tung\n\nHouse-tax already collected\n\nDeduct customary house-tax, as in 1905\n\nClaim against Tengkeng..\n\nSay, 2,500 rupees.\n\nEnclosure 3 in No. 1.\n\nNo. 1.\n\nIndia Office to Foreign Office.~(Received June 17.)\n\nIndia Office, June 16, 1910.\n\nWITH reference to your letter dated the 10th June, 1910, forwarding a report by His Majesty's acting consul at Tengyueh on his recent visit to Pienma in connection with Chinese aggression in the Ngawchang Valley, I am directed to inform you that Viscount Morley concurs in the proposal of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to consult His Majesty's Minister at Peking as to the advisability of making immediate representations to the Chinese Government, urging the withdrawal of all Chinese officials and troops to the east side of the watershed. Lord Morley also concurs in Sir E. Grey's proposal to authorise Mr. Max Müller to warn the Chinese Government that it may be found necessary to dispatch an expedition to the frontier on the lines recommended by the Burmah Government, should he consider such an intimation likely to be effectual.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nR. RITCHIE.\n\n  \n    147\n    40\n    35\n    70\n  \n  \n    [2788 r-1]\n    972\n    271\n    1,243\n  \n  \n    25\n    1.218\n    \n    \n  \n\nTwenty-six Villages of the Hsiao-Chiang Group.\n\n1. Kuan-chai, the largest of the villages, west bank of river.\n\n2. Shang-lou.\n\n3. Hsi-chiang.\n\n4. Mao-chia.\n\n5. Tu-mo. The principal headmen live in these first five villages.\n\n6. Chi-kaw.\n\n7. Chih-chueh.\n\n8. Tang-laug.\n\n9. To-yueh.\n\n10. Pa-niang.\n\n11. Lao-mao.\n\n12. Tang-la.\n\n13. Mang-pai\n\n14. La-chun.\n\n15. Tzu-chu Ti (Lagwe).\n\n16. Pai-lai Ho (Hpare).\n\n17. Ta-ka.\n\n18. Chih-pen.\n\n19. O-chang.\n\n20. Chiu Ko-tang (Lisu).\n\n21. Tun-tuang.\n\n22. Lang-yang. With the exception of 1 and 5 the above are all on the east bank of river.\n\n23. Kau-kun.\n\n24. Lung-pang.\n\n25. Mao-wu.\n\n26. Yin-lang.",
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        "content_text": "10\n\n17\n\nreplied, declaring that such falsehoods were regarded by him \"with the deepest detestation,\" and that he had issued the most stringent orders for their suppression. I would refer in this connection to my despatch No. 33 of the 3rd instant, adding that on the 18th instant the \"Chiengtu Jih-pao\" publishes a proclamation by his Excellency, threatening penalties against all who disseminate them, and ordering the local authorities to depute \"intelligent gentlemen,\" who, in conjunction with the heads of the trainbands, shall go from village to village and deliver lectures exposing the baselessness of these stories.\n\nAs regards the purchase of land, his Excellency has frankly recognised, in writing, the permission accorded to missionary societies to lease or buy land in the interior, only stipulating that the deeds should be marked \"tso-wei chiao-hui kung-ch'an\" (\"as the common property of the mission\"). There has only been one instance, since my arrival here, where anything that could be twisted into animus has been shown by a local official, and the magistrate concerned in this case (which I trust is now in process of settlement) suffered from dementia, and has been superseded.\n\nVoluntary Subscriptions.-A meeting was held to discuss the repayment of the National Debt (\"ch'ou-huan kuo-chai\"). Regulations were drawn up, and then the thing died out. No money has been subscribed. Contributions for a Chinese navy have not, as far as I can learn, been even suggested by any one in Szechuan.\n\nThe Comet. The skies of Central Szechuan are so frequently covered with clouds that few opportunities have offered in the Chengtu plain of seeing Halley's comet. On the 8th instant a diagram showing the relative positions of the sun, the earth, and the comet on various nights from the 20th April to the 30th May was published as a supplement to the \"Tung-su Jih-pao,\" together with an explanatory note in the colloquial. The diagram was provided by my French colleague, as also, I should imagine, the facts on which the note is based. There is, at all events, not the least hint that the appearance of the comet is a portent of disaster, though it is admitted that on the 18th May there is a bare possibility of danger from contact of the earth's atmosphere with the cyanogen (the word is given in foreign script) of the comet's tail.\n\nChinese Finances.-The balance-sheet of this province for 1908 was given in my No. 14 of the 18th February. It shows a surplus, but in other State documents that have from time to time been published, the difficulty of making both ends meet is dwelt on by the Governor-General. His Excellency's too precipitate suppression of opium will necessarily disorganise the provincial finances, and meanwhile is necessitating the levy of additional taxes.\n\nNo bank notes are current in Szechuan, with the negligible exception of a very limited issue at Lu Chou (see my No. 1 of the 3rd January).\n\nDisaffection of the People.--A number of new taxes are being levied, and these are, it is perhaps hardly necessary to remark, decidedly unpopular. Mention was made of some of them in my opium report (No. 20 of the 8th March), and in the Intelligence Report for March quarter (separate of the 21st April), and I now append a note, compiled by Mr. Toller, of further exactions, which, though apparently localised, are probably of general application, or, at any rate, are likely to furnish precedents for similar levies in other districts. It is a matter of common talk that in one hsien, Tzu Tzu-yang, taxation is so heavy that even respectable people are prostituting their daughters.\n\nMr. Little himself observed (Enclosure in No. 22 of the 10th March) that \"the coin, as far as one can judge, is of a high standard compared with most of the coins turned out in China in other provinces.\" So far, the copper coinage struck here has not been debased.\n\nThe formation of a provincial mining company was reported by Mr. Langford Smith in his Intelligence Report for September quarter, 1909, and reference to it is made in Enclosure 2 of my despatch No. 32 of the 23rd April. There is little reason to doubt that its inception was due less to a desire to encourage mining than to the intention of forestalling foreign demands for mineral concessions. The present Intendant of Commerce professes to be eager to encourage exports, but too often leaves his motives open to misconstruction by insisting on official control of each new undertaking.\n\nProvincial Assemblies.-No pronounced anti-foreign sentiment appeared during the sittings of the assembly. Foreigners were allowed to sit in the \"strangers' gallery,\" and on the first occasion when a European availed himself of this privilege the President directed the attention of members to the fact, and asked them to refrain from expectoration and other practices likely to lower the dignity of the assembly in the eyes of the world. The Szechuan Assembly, however, contains a large proportion of the class now foremost in all anti-foreign movements-young men who have studied in Japan, and have returned thence with some knowledge of modern institutions, and a far greater idea of their own importance.\n\nThe attitude of the assembly towards officialdom was dealt with in Mr. Toller's report (Enclosure in No. 37 of the 17th November last). It may be briefly described as \"captious neutrality.\"\n\nLoyalty of the Troops.-There is no doubt that a considerable section of the officers and men are anti-dynastic, and that the army is honeycombed by secret societies, such as that of the Hung-teng Chiao, or Brotherhood of the Red Lamp. The Japanese boycott movement was fostered in the Military Academy (my No. 40 of the 23rd December, 1909).\n\nDesertions are not infrequent, at any rate from the Hsin-fang Chün. This no doubt is largely due to the fact that from this force are chiefly drawn the troops which, alone in China at the present time, are employed on what is practically service abroad, the expeditions against the Tibetans and Lolos.\n\nTo sum up: I think that Mr. Little's prognostications are by no means baseless, but that as far as Szechuan is concerned the danger is not altogether as imminent as he fears. There is growing dissatisfaction among the people, who are feeling acutely the burden of increased taxation, and there is too much probability that in the event of a rising against the officials foreign residents will also be attacked, while the army cannot be relied upon to protect either the officials or the residents.\n\nMy colleagues, whom I have consulted, are of the same opinion, that trouble is brewing, but that there is no immediate cause for anxiety.\n\nI append some notes on Mr. Little's report that have been drawn up at my request by Mr. Davey, Mr. Hamilton, and the Rev. J. Vale, all residents of long standing in Szechuan, and well acquainted with its language and people.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nEnclosure 7 in No. 1.\n\nList of New Taxes Levied in Szechuan.\n\nW. H. WILKINSON.\n\nA tax on chair hongs was levied at Feng-chieh Hsien (the home magistracy of K'uei-chou Fu) last winter, to the extent of 1,500 cash per mensem. As this is now found to be insufficient, a slight increase has been made. Two shops resisted the imposition and have been officially closed.\n\nAt the same magistracy there is a tax of 1 dollar on every beast killed. At the time of the Confucian festival, several people killed cattle without paying the tax: they have been arrested and heavily fined.\n\nThe Governor-General has given his sanction to a tax on grain sales in Shih-fang Hsien. Vendor and purchaser each pay 1 cash on a peck; fractions of a peck are exempt.\n\nTo cover police expenses, taxes on tea-shops and feasts are being levied at Peng-ch'i Hsien. The daily tax on tea-shops is 5 cash per square table, 3 cash per long table. For feasts, the tax per table is: Feast with sharks' fins, 200 cash; feast with ginseng, 100 cash; plain (water) feast, 40 cash; the amount being doubled in each case if the cook comes to the host's private house. Funeral feasts are exempted. Similar taxes have also been instituted in Shih-fang Hsien, to cover the expenses of the school of Sericulture and of the officer of commerce. The rates are as follows:-\n\n  \n    Upper class\n    160 cash per table (per meal)\n  \n  \n    Middle class\n    120\n  \n  \n    Lower class\n    80\n  \n\nThe estimated annual yield is 1,000 tiao,\n\n11\n\n[2827 9-2]\n\nE\n\n404",
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        "content_text": "Page 6\n\napprobation pour qu'on agisse d'après l'exemple des villes du Chantong et du Hounan. Les règlements de Yao-tehéou et de Tsi-nan visent les locations de terrains; le Gouverneur du Chan-tong a délibéré à ce sujet avec les fonctionnaires étrangers et a fait des proclamations. Cela est dans les archives. Si des commerçants étrangers ont acheté secrètement auparavant des terrains les autorités chinoises ne reconnat-tront pas ces achats; il faudra se soumettre absolument aux règlements fixés pour les cités commerciales.\n\nSi pour faciliter l'application locale des règlements ci-dessus il y a lieu d'y apporter des modifications, on les fixera par la suite.\n\nEnclosure 3 in No. 1.\n\nMr. Max Müller to Consul-General O'Brien-Butler.\n\n(No. 9.)\n\nPeking, August 20, 1910.\n\nSir,\n\nWITH reference to my telegram No. 7 of to-day, instructing you to protest against the trade-mart regulations enclosed in your despatch No. 27 of the 23rd ultimo, I transmit to you herewith, for your information and guidance, the copy of a despatch which I have addressed to His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs on the subject.\n\nWithout criticising the regulations in great detail in that despatch I have drawn attention to some of the principal clauses which, in my opinion, render the regulations unacceptable as they stand. The French Minister informs me that M. Wilden has already protested against them and that he will be instructed to discuss this question with you.\n\nYou should formally protest against the regulations and if, after conversation with French colleague, such a course seems advisable, you should urge on the Chinese authorities the desirability of amending the regulations in a manner acceptable to British subjects. In their present form they are likely to defeat their own object and repel foreign residents and foreign trade from Yunnan-fu rather than attract them.\n\nI am, &c.\n\n(In the absence of His Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires),\n\nERNEST SCOTT.\n\n[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\n[B]\n\nAFFAIRS OF CHINA.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n[33918]\n\nNo. 1.\n\n30791 September 19.] REG\n\n117 10 1 SECTION 1.\n\nMr. Max Müller to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received September 19.)\n\n(No. 251. Confidential.)\n\nSir,\n\nI HAVE the honour to transmit to you herewith the accompanying memorandum.\n\nPeking, July 29, 1910.\n\ncontaining my observations on the heads of missions in Peking.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nEnclosure in No. 1.\n\nW. G. MAX MÜLLER.\n\nMemorandum on the Heads of Missions at Peking.\n\nAustria-Hungary.-M. de Kuczynski, the Austrian Minister, became deyen of the diplomatic body on the recall of M. de Carcer last summer.\n\nM. de Kuczynski has been described by Sir John Jordan, in his despatch No. 267 of the 1st June, 1907. He is a man of agreeable manners, good intentions, and limited capacity. It is thus pleasant to dine with him, but very wearisome to have any work to transact with him. As Austrian Minister his work was practically nil, but the assumption of the \"décanat\" has opened up fresh fields to his activity. Unlike his predecessor, who looked upon his position of doyen as purely honorary, M. de Kuczynski takes his duties most seriously, and as all his little fishes are big whales, the most trivial question--such as the completion of a new list of the diplomatic body, or a proposal that a path shall be laid out on the international glacis-is of sufficient importance in his mind to induce him to call upon some foreign colleague and discuss the matter in all its bearings, with a consequent waste of time not at all welcome to the overworked heads of some of the other missions, meetings of the diplomatic body M. de Kuczynski often acts as the spokesman of the views of the German Legation which the German Minister is unwilling to advocate openly himself. I do not think, however, that this is due to any duplicity on the part of M. de Kuczynski, who is a man without guile, means thoroughly well by everyone, and has shown himself particularly friendly to me since I have been in charge.\n\nAt\n\nMme. de Kuczynska is a pleasant-looking lady of the German bourgeoisie, who makes up in amiability and vivacity of manner what she lacks in tact and discretion. She has literary tastes, and is at present engaged on the composition of a drama which, according to her husband, will make a sensation in the Germanic world. She spends as much of her time as possible in Europe.\n\nGermany.Count Rex, the German Minister, conceals under a cloak of bluff heartiness and apparent indifference to anything except a good dinner, a considerable amount of ability and astuteness. He is of imposing proportions, and his physique is a great help to him in the role which he plays as a representative of the Bismarckian policy of \"action not words.\" His national fondness for food and the good things of this life have not really made him slothful or neglectful of his country's interests. He has, I am assured, a good position with the Chinese. He never worries them over trifles, but speaks out when necessary, and certainly is fairly successful with them. He is distinctly anti-British, but I am all the same on excellent terms with him. He is a little apt to overreach himself when he attempts too much diplomatic finesse, and after comparing notes on one or two occasions the French Minister and I have discovered that he is not trustworthy.\n\n[2893 t-1]\n\nPage 156",
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        "content_text": "## Enclosure 6\n\n217\n\nTelegram dated 20th November, 1911, received by the Tung Wa Hospital.\n\n| 41103 |\n| --- |\n| From San Francisco. |\n\n26 DEC 11 We received from Yeung Pan alias Young Sai Ngam, and Tang Chung Chak a telegram to the effect that they are stationed in Hongkong to canvass for subscriptions, and they propose to borrow from Chinese in America $2,000,000 to be repaid within two years at the rate of $1.50 for every $1. Please hasten to reply if this is a fact.\n\nFrom Chinese Commercial Union, San Francisco: sent by Liu Sik Ving, Hui Ping Fan, Li Po Cham, Wong Sheun U, Fu Chuk Heung, Tong Shiu Nin, Mak Chiu and others.\n\nTelegram dated 21st November, 1911, forwarded by the Tung Wa Hospital.\n\nTelegram noted. Place for raising subscriptions is Canton. Please enquire there.",
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        "content_text": "## Unrest in Tengyueh\n\ntaken under direct administrative control as soon as the provincial authorities feel strong enough to intervene. The Sawbwa of Kangai is in serious financial difficulties owing to the rapacity of his Japanese advisers. In Changta there are two claimants to the sawbwaship, and the internal unrest has been so marked that troops have been stationed both in Changia and Kangai. I urged the late taotai to endeavour to effect a settlement of the sawbwaship dispute early in the year, and I think that he would have taken some steps in the matter had he lived. It would not be difficult to appease both the young sawbwa Hung-sheng and his people by definitely installing him in office, whilst allowing the present ruler, Pi-fa, to act as regent until the rightful Prince comes of age. The present taotai has determined to enforce his own ideas on the people, and the old financial process of \"eating the sawbwas\" is going on with much vigour.\n\nIn consequence of Chinese oppression and the misrule and extortions of the sawbwas, unrest becomes more marked as time goes on, and numbers of Shans are constantly moving from all of the Chinese States to British territory, much to the indignation of the authorities, who unjustly accuse our frontier officers of enticing them from their allegiance.\n\n### Trans-frontier Cultivations\n\nAs a result of the steady migration of Shans to British territory, a question of some difficulty has arisen in regard to the rights of cultivation which these emigrants retain over their old fields. Settlers in Burmah who retain such rights in the Chinese Shan States (and vice versa) have in the past paid no land taxes or other dues to the sawbwas, and, with the extensive migrations of the past two or three years, the more incompetent sawbwas find that a large proportion of their income has lapsed. The Chinese officials, in their turn, are unable to collect as much as formerly from the impoverished sawbwas, and in consequence, they have started a vigorous campaign against this emigration. They base their crusade on patriotic grounds, and say that they cannot endure to see Burmah subjects holding lands in China whilst not recognising the suzerainty of Chinese sawbwas. They propose, therefore, to insist that future emigrants shall not be permitted to retain cultivation rights over Chinese lands when they have moved their homes to British territory; they desire at the same time to enforce the payment of all arrears of cultivation taxes since the date of the demarcation of the frontier, which would have the practical effect of cancelling the rights of all cultivators who have since removed to Burmah. The Government of Burmah suggests as a compromise that trans-frontier cultivators should pay taxes for the land which they cultivate in future, provided that the Chinese undertake that they shall not forfeit their lands by the mere fact of moving their homes to Burmah. I have drawn up a draft agreement for the settlement of these cases, which has been approved by the lieutenant-governor, but I do not feel that it will be wise to discuss the matter for the moment, as the taotai shows an attitude of persistent obstruction to all matters affecting our interests.\n\n### Cultivation Maps\n\nAt the request of the Chinese, the Government of Burmah sent a survey party along the frontier after the last Namkham meeting, and all trans-frontier cultivations were mapped and listed in English and in Chinese. The late taotai appointed deputies to accompany the party, and agreed that they should sign the maps, which would then serve as permanent records of cultivation rights. The Lung-ling sub-prefect, the taotai's deputy for one section, signed the maps, and was consequently dismissed from office. The assistant frontier deputy Wang, who was appointed for another section, not only refused to sign his maps but obstructed the party in every possible way. I have now asked the taotai whether he will accept the maps. He has had them for some time, comparing them with the reports received from his frontier officers, but he has not yet given me his decision. The cost of the survey to the Government of Burmah was 4,428 rupees; the Chinese were not asked to pay any share of this sum, and they bid fair to seriously diminish the value of the work by their obstructive attitude.\n\n### Unrest in the City and District\n\nThe substantial merchants and gentry of Tengyueh inform me that the unrest in the city is the most serious which they have ever known. The present taotai has inaugurated a series of new taxes, which bear heavily upon the people, and he uses the constitutional movement as a pretext for weekly harangues, in the course of which he impresses on the people the duties of holding back foreign aggression, of providing substantial backing for the new era, of unbinding the feet of their women, and of making radical reforms in feminine dress. Personal summonses to attend these lectures are issued to men of means and influence throughout the district, and intense feeling has been caused by the fines inflicted on defaulters. As a single instance, a well-known and respectable headman had been mulcted of 2,000 taels within the past few days for failure to attend, and he was requested to sign a paper stating that he desired to present this sum to the taotai as a contribution towards the constitutional propaganda; he refused to sign for some time, and became a popular hero, but a sojourn in the ting's yamên with a chain holding his neck in such a position that he was unable to sleep has brought him to reason, and his name now figures in the list of generous donors towards the new régime.\n\n### Anti-Official Placards\n\nIn these circumstances, it is not surprising that feeling runs high. No night passes now without the posting of anonymous placards on the walls and gates of the city, denouncing the taotai and his underlings in the most violent terms. The main charges are extortion and undue interference in private affairs. Feeling runs high, and it is not improbable that trouble will ensue.\n\n### Attitude of People towards Foreigners\n\nWarnings of riots are circulated, and the merchants constantly threaten to suspend business; at the same time, the people of Western Yünnan are law-abiding and peaceable by nature, and it is difficult to judge how long their patience will last. Tengyueh showed a steady resistance to the early appearance of foreigners. The first British consul was unable to appear in the streets without insult, and there was much excitement when the first missionary arrived two years ago. There can be no doubt, however, that there is no longer the least trace of anti-foreign feeling amongst the merchants or people. The late Mr. Litton interested himself on their behalf so constantly that his name will be a talisman for the protection of British lives and British property for many years to come. He fought the battles of the merchants and the people against official extortion and oppression, and, though the attitude which he adopted towards native affairs is impossible in these more advanced days, many of the fruits of his activity remain, and, now that their rights are known and have once been recognised officially, the people show their appreciation of the presence of a British consulate in many little ways. For this reason, I am convinced that any trouble which may ensue will be entirely anti-official and in no way anti-foreign, though, should riots actually break out, it is difficult to predict the course of an excited mob.\n\n### Missionaries\n\nMembers of the China Inland Mission are stationed both in Tali-fu and in Tengyueh. The members of the mission are now received on friendly terms by the people, but there are no converts in Tengyueh, and I believe that the many years of work in Tali-fu show little result. Nearer to Yunnan-fu, the aboriginal tribes, especially the Miaos, have proved enthusiastic supporters of the mission, and large numbers have been received into the Church. Nearer to the frontier, however, the work has been confined to the purely Chinese zone, where the people courteously but firmly reject the message of the preacher. It is difficult to find a reason for this lack of success. The missionaries are untiring in their labours, but the Yunnanese are intensely phlegmatic by nature, and I think that perhaps the Buddhism and animism which are real factors in the lives of their Burmese, Shau, and Siamese neighbours may have a more living influence here than in the more easterly provinces of China. They make lavish subscriptions to the gay processions and festivals which are organised by the priests, but their sluggish hearts are unmoved by the unostentatious greyness of the mission chapel.\n\n### Salt and Opium Cases\n\nThe only cases of broad interest which have been under discussion recently have been those in connection with the smuggling of salt across the frontier from Burmah into Yünnan, and of opium from Yunnan into Burmah. The traffic in these articles has been winked at for many years by the authorities, and has become a recognised feature of the trans-frontier trade, the united annual values of the two products reaching about 20,000*. The Chinese have suddenly decided to shut out foreign salt from the Shan States and to enforce the sale of the native article. I understand that His Majesty's Government is now willing to recognise the Chinese contention that they may enforce their local laws and penalties on salt smugglers, in addition to the confiscation of the illicit salt provided for in article 11 of the Burmah-China Convention of 1894. The outstanding cases will now be able to be dealt with at the next frontier meeting.\n\n### Imprisonment of Li San-pao\n\nLi San-pao, a man who accompanied me as guide and interpreter during my frontier tour into the unadministered territory during last spring, has been imprisoned for rendering these services. I have made constant efforts to secure his release, but up to the present without success.\n\n### Frontier Meetings\n\nA frontier meeting has been arranged for the Myitkyina district, and we shall assemble at Sima on the 15th December. It is hoped that a meeting will also be held for the southern districts; the Burmah officers are prepared.\n\n3  \n131",
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        "content_text": "[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\n# OPIUM.\n\n## March 23, 1911\n\n**CONFIDENTIAL.**\n\n[10640]\n\nNo. 1.\n\n64\n\nSECTION 13345\n\nRef 25 APR 11\n\nSir,\n\nChina Association to Foreign Office.-(Received March 23.)\n\n159, Cannon Street, London, March 20, 1911.\n\nIN reference to my letter of the 17th ultimo, the committee of this association has received from its Hong Kong branch a copy of the proclamation issued by the Canton authorities in the matter of opium regulations, of which I have the honour to enclose a transcript.\n\nThe purport of the new regulation appears to be to perpetuate the already existing monopoly or opium farm while transferring it to other hands. No one is to be allowed to purchase raw opium unless he holds a licence from the monopolists, for which he pays licence fee, which is in effect the additional tax now raised to 50 cents per tael of prepared opium, being equivalent to a tax of 500 dollars per chest over and above the duty and li-kin. Further, provision is made that in proportion as consumption decreases the additional tax is to be raised, with the object apparently to secure that the yield of the tax shall be the same whatever the amount passing into consumption.\n\nIt may be remarked incidentally that this is a provision which must speedily defeat its own end: but whatever the object in view may be, the illegality of the tax and of the methods by which it is sought to enforce it is now more apparent than ever.\n\nI am, &c.\n\nH. C. WILCOX,\nSecretary,\n\n## Enclosure in No. 1.\n\n## Proclamation issued by Canton Authorities.\n\nCHAN, provisional treasurer of Kwong Tung, &c., appointed by Imperial command, issue a notice for general information.\n\nThe matter in connection with the levy of taxes was submitted to his Excellency Teang, late Acting Viceroy of the Two Kwongs, who issued instructions to the effect that as complaints were repeatedly laid against merchant Leing Chiu Tong in his undertaking the management of the licence fees, and as the management was unsatisfactory it was proper he should be suspended. Thereupon I, the treasurer, in conjunction with the taotai of industry, went more than once to the General Chamber of Commerce to call together the raw opium guild to discuss the course of action. Subsequently, Chui Hung Yau, Jung Pin Tun and others, merchants of the guild, proposed and prepared amended regulations and applied to undertake the management. After thorough investigation had been made, a joint report was made to his Excellency Cheung, the Viceroy, who verbally directed that Chui Hung Yau and others, merchants of the said guild, be allowed to undertake the management. An order was thereupon issued authorising them to establish the Fuk Yuet Company (Limited), and directing them to commence (the payment of) the taxes and the collection (of fees) from the first day of the first moon of the present year (the 29th January, 1911); a report was also submitted (to the authorities) stating that circulars had been sent to the local officials of various districts for compliance.\n\nAll the above is on record.\n\nNow the said merchants, Chui Hung Yeu, Jung Pui Tuu and others have fully prepared the sum of 80,000 dollars to be weighed at 7 (tael to the dollar), being advance deposit of the taxes, and submitted two orders for that sum for collection; they have also prepared concise and clear rules regulating the mode of procedure and regulations for the prevention of smuggling, requesting that they be placed on record, and that notices be issued to inform the people, and to direct all officials to afford the necessary protection.\n\nThe concise rules, eight in number, having been scrutinised and found practicable, ...",
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        "content_text": "# \ncrossed, and news has recently been received that an outpost has been established as far west as Rima, the actual limit of that shadowy border-land which has been dimly outlined as the possible boundary which shall eventually divide Thibet and China from the British outposts of Assam and Upper Burmah. In the course of this advance the sovereignty of China was so definitely asserted in Thibet, that the Dalai Lama abandoned his capital early in the year, and an immediate attempt was made to pursue a similar policy along the whole frontier to the very southern limit of Keng-Hung. Two active and capable young lieutenants of the brothers Chao were then ordered to Yunnan, one Keng Pao-kuei as tuotai of the western marchies at Tengyueli and one to the little town of A-tun-tze, in that corner of the province of Kam, now generally known as Thibetan Yunnan, whilst a third was sent from Yunnan-fu to the Sipsong Panna or Southern Shan States of China, thus completing the chain of officers who could be trusted to pursue a forward and consecutive policy in all matters which affected China's western frontier.\n\nIt will be remembered that, as Szechuan was divided from Thibet by a series of semi-independent States under their own kings, princes, or \"tussu,\" so Yunnan is flanked by a band of tribal States inhabited by Lisus, Kachins, Was and Shans, the last of whom are numerically most important, and, although in a degenerate condition, are the relics of the old and powerful Nanchao Kingdom still holding a chain of fertile and prosperous valleys adjoining the Shan States of Burmah now under British rule. It will be remembered also that, of the 600 miles of actual frontier between Burmah and Yunnan, little more than half has actually been accepted by the Chinese Government, about 150 miles of still undelimited boundary lying to the north of Manung Pum along the clearly-marked though partially unexplored range of mountains known as the Irrawady-Salween divide, whilst the southern unrecognised tract lies to the east of the Wa country from Nalawt-Pangsang to the Namting River. After a joint examination of the northern undelimited stretch by the late Consul Litton and the Taotai Shih Hung-shao, in which it was found that the Chinese had not at any time carried their administration to the west of the great range, Sir Ernest Satow informed the Wai-wu Pu that His Majesty's Government would consider the Irrawady-Salween divide as our actual and natural frontier, though they were willing to compensate two Chinese families which claimed certain small tolls on the coffin-wood brought from the country to the west of the divide. The wisdom of this decision has been proved by the events of subsequent years, for it is now clear that the Chinese idea of peaceful penetration and purely money-making administrative efforts are a real menace to our Burmah subjects on the northern stretch, whilst their endless quibbles in regard to the arbitrary frontier in the Shan States have caused much unnecessary expense and an infinity of trouble to the Government of Burmah.\n\nOn the southern section Sir George Scott, finding his Chinese colleagues on the boundary commission of 1899-1900 unwilling to reach any finality in the delimitation of the border, proceeded to demarcate the frontier alone in accordance with the terms of the convention of 1897, the result of his work being known and generally accepted as \"Scott's Line,\" though to this day the Chinese Government has withheld its acceptance of the line laid down.\n\nFor some years the frontier as thus delimited has proved satisfactory in its practical working, but at the commencement of the present year the new activity of the Chinese precipitated events which threatened the tranquillity of the whole border-land. Under instructions from Tengyueh, the Chief of Tengkeng, on the Upper Salween, raided and burned the village of Hpimaw (\"Pien-ma\") to the west of the divide; information was received shortly afterwards that the officer on special duty at A-tun-tze had penetrated to and received tribute from the Khamti Long, a Shan State well within the Burmah frontier, whilst the Chinese deputy from Yünnan-fu entered the southern Shan States known as the Sip Song Panna, and, after killing the Shan chief or \"Sawbwa\" of Mong Se and a considerable number of people in this and the neighbouring States, firmly established the nucleus of direct Chinese administration in that district, which was, undoubtedly, one of the most lawless and dangerous in Yünnan. Nearer to Tengyueh the taotai has pursued with energy a similar policy in the northern group of Shan States. Chenkaug, the most unruly centre, has been definitely placed under the rule of a Chinese sub-prefect. Frontier deputies have been installed and have made considerable progress in the direction of Lisu and Shan affairs in the districts immediately adjoining the frontier, regular troops (under the old banner and known as Tsun Fang Tui) have recently arrived to garrison the Shan States of Nantien, Changta, and Kangai, further reinforcements have left within the last few days for the border States of Lungchuan and Mengmao, five forts have recently been constructed along that section of the frontier adjoining the Burmah district of Myitkyina, and 1,000 men of the modern-drilled army, which had previously advanced no further west than Talifu, have just arrived to strengthen the garrisons at Tengyueh and Yung-chang Fu.\n\nOn general principles there would appear to be every advantage to us in this westward advance of Chinese administration, for the direct responsibility of Chinese officers and of the Yunnanese provincial Government is certainly preferable to that of a horde of dissipated and degenerate Shan Sawbwas, who have little realisation of their neighbourly duties and no power to enforce their orders, even though their intentions may be of the best, and there can be little doubt that Chinese administrative aspirations would meet with the most sympathetic response from the Government and the frontier officers of Burmah as long as they were conducted on friendly lines. It is to be regretted, however, that there has been an apparent lack of any desire for friendly understandings and an inclination to disregard the most obvious duties of neighbourly intercourse with their British colleagues on the part of some of the officers who have been chosen as instruments in the Chinese scheme of administrative expansion, nor have they confined their efforts to that territory and to those affairs which fall legitimately within their sphere of influence. Reference to the Tengkeng raid and the Khamti incident have already been made, and the Taotai Kong has adopted throughout the year a most unfriendly and unconciliatory attitude at Tengyueh. The year commenced with the destruction of a British supplementary boundary pillar; a regular frontier pillar (No. 38), on the section already definitely accepted by the Chinese, was at a later date defaced by his orders, and would have been destroyed but for the action of his delegates; the position of a number of British pillars on the middle and accepted section has been called in question; the interpreter who accompanied me into the unadministered territory in the spring has been thrown into prison by him; the attempts of the Burmah Government to define the rights of transfrontier cultivators—a task undertaken at the direct request of the Yunnan Government and carried out at considerable expense—were hedged throughout the year by persistent difficulties, and the efforts of the British frontier officers and of this consulate to settle cases of murder and robbery between the frontier subjects of Burmah and Yunnan were constantly met by him in a discourteous and obstructive spirit.\n\nAs the year drew to a close there still remained the hope of effecting settlements of outstanding cases and disputes at the annual frontier meetings, and I shall submit a report of these functions in a subsequent paragraph. In the meanwhile, various expeditions set out from the British side of the frontier to extend the administrative sphere of the Burmah Government, and to gather further information in regard to the little known tracts lying to the extreme north and east of Upper Burmah. A column under Mr. W. A. Hertz, deputy commissioner of Myitkyina, has visited the unadministered territory, and advanced as far east as the Irrawady-Salween divide in the neighbourhood of Hpinaw (\"Pien-ma\"); a small party has also visited the Khamti Long, whilst an expedition from Assam has advanced eastward from the Naga hills and entered some of the unexplored tracts lying to the extreme north of Burmah. These parties have not yet returned, but the results of their journeys will be of the deepest interest, as they will throw fresh light on that mysterious corner of our great north-eastern frontier which has been but dimly outlined by the travels of the late Consul Litton, of Mr. Errol Grey, and Mr. Noel Williamson. Mr. Litton believed that he saw the main range of the Irrawady-Salween divide sweep round to the west in a line of snow-clad peaks at about latitude 28°, near Chamutong on the Salween River, and his observations would appear to substantiate the theory of those Indian geologists and explorers who believe that the central axis of the Himalaya extends towards this point. If these facts could once be definitely established, we should have the satisfaction of knowing that the whole of the north-east frontier is circled by a mountain belt at once clearly defined and difficult of passage, for our experiences along the middle section of the Burmah-Yunnan frontier, where the boundary follows an imaginary line through irrigation channels and changing paddy-fields, and recent events in the unadministered territory indicate that on every ground, political, administrative, and commercial, it is in the highest degree inadvisable that we should be dependent on a zigzag and indefinite line marked only by shifting river beds and artificial boundary pillars. I hope to deal with the question of the existing frontier under a separate heading, but, in view of the recent Chinese objections to our standing pillars and of their general activity along this border line, it ...\n\nPage 434",
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        "content_text": "# Mr. H. A. Thornton, I.C.S., superintendent, Northern Shan States; Mr. W. H. L. Cabell, I.C.S., deputy commissioner, Bhamo; Mr. D. W. Rae, assistant superintendent, Sinlumkaba; Mr. D. W. Kiernander, assistant superintendent, Kutkai; Captain B. E. A. Pritchard, I.A., battalion commandant, Lashio; Mr. Smart, R.A., Bhamo Battalion; and \n\nThe consul. \n\nColonel G. Pereira, C.M.G., D.S.O.; Captain Blackwell, R.A.M.C.; and Mr. Morris, \nof the East Surrey Regiment, also visited the camp. \n\nThe Chinese representatives were: \n| Name | Position |\n| --- | --- |\n| Keng Pao-kuei | Tuotai of Tenguch |\n| Chao Kai-bsuan | Frontier deputy |\n| Hsu Chai-yu | Sub-prefect of Lungling |\n| Kuang kuei-yuan | Newly-appointed assistant frontier deputy |\n| Colonel Wang Kuei-ching |  |\n\nColonel Chung was also under orders to attend, but was retained at his post owing to the northern unrest. \n\nThe meeting commenced very satisfactorily, the Chinese party calling upon us first with a large escort and considerable state. The Burmah officers, who have been responsible for the British camp during the last two years, have carried out the plans in a way which certainly did credit to their Government, and it was evident that the Chinese had been impressed, for the taotai had spared no pains this year in arranging that his staff, his retinue, and his banquet should be worthy of his post, and that he should not be eclipsed on this occasion of international meeting. \n\nAfter the unsatisfactory relations which had existed at Tengyuch during the past year, the first meeting was anticipated with some interest, and the taotai lost no time in endeavouring to establish a better understanding, for he at once offered a full and frank apology for his previous behaviour. He was unfailingly courteous throughout our stay at Namkham, meeting us practically every day either at public or private discussions or at those social functions which form part of the usual programme, and he interested himself in all that was passing, showing the greatest keenness to behave in a manner which was correct. \n\nThe different courts were constituted as usual, and the junior Chinese officers met their British colleagues on satisfactory terms, a heavy roll of cases being settled during the three weeks' conference, which involved long and unbroken sittings, and must have proved very trying for Mr. Rae and Mr. Kiernander, who were constantly in court. When it is remembered that the British and Chinese officers on the bench have not only to convince themselves and one another of the desirability of certain settlements through the medium of interpreters, but that the British officers must marshal their witnesses and sift their evidence in the dozen different languages of the frontier tribes, it will be realised that the settlement of a long case-roll in the mixed courts of the frontier is no easy matter, and calls for an endless patience and unflagging persistency of purpose. Our officers are sometimes discouraged at the fact that their Chinese colleagues have so little perception of abstract justice, and that they find difficulty in resisting a temptation to bargain over the settlements when monetary compensations are awarded by the court. Such bargaining is, I think, inevitable to the mind of the Chinese magistrate, and when it is remembered that the awards come first of all from his own pocket, and that he is dependent on the recovery of his outlay from numerous other officials and loosely-held tribal villages—a process requiring another long and enduring struggle—these shortcomings may perhaps be charitably forgotten. Judging by their results, it is evident that relations were entirely satisfactory, for their settlements were excellent, and they parted the best of friends. \n\nIn the appellate court, the taotai sat with Mr. Thornton or Mr. Cabell and myself, and we realised at an early date that he was not prepared to do business. I am inclined to think that he had tied his own hands; that he had boasted to the Viceroy that he would show a bold face to the British at the frontier; and that he found himself bound to justify his promises, but placed in consequence in a foolish and undignified position from which he would gladly have retired had it been possible for him to do so without loss of prestige with the authorities at Yunnan-fu. The fact remains that he refused to settle any case which came before him, and by so doing, he cut at the root of the joint court and compensation system which had been accepted formally by China as our basis of procedure at last year's meeting. \n\nIn the settlement of frontier cases, old-established custom, reduced to writing in the frontier agreement of 1910 (attached to my last frontier report), has decided that trans-frontier thefts, bodily injuries, and murders shall be paid for on a fixed scale of compensation by the offending country, in addition to the arrest and punishment of the offender, and that the compensation account shall be balanced and settled before the representatives of Burmah and Yunnan leave the meeting. It not infrequently happens that we have to pay more than China, but we never quibble over a case which has been proved. \n\nThis year, however, the taotai set custom and agreement at defiance. There were five murder cases before him—murders of British subjects by people whom we claimed to be Chinese. I had brought the cases to his attention again and again during the year, asking him to make some attempt to arrest the culprits; but his only replies had been either that the murdered men were Chinese subjects or that the murderers were British, and as he offered no reasons for his statements and frequently worded them in unfriendly and discourteous terms, there remained no alternative but to await the results of the frontier meeting. The cases came up in due course to the appellate court, and the British evidence was produced—in each case full, satisfactory, and to us entirely convincing. The natural course would have been for the taotai to produce any counter-evidence, but he made no attempt to do this, nor did he produce the offenders or witnesses who could rebut the evidence in any way. We therefore claimed compensation on the fixed scale, which he flatly refused. The cases had been through all the stages of the frontier courts, and there seemed no hope of settlement. The object of the frontier meetings is to replace those old blood feuds, in which the Kachins settle such matters amongst themselves, by properly organised courts and by settlements which would be enforced if necessary. The result of the meetings and of this procedure has been a steady decrease of lawlessness along the frontier, to the benefit of both nations concerned; but, earnestly as we tried to persuade him to better counsels, the taotai appeared determined to set all precedent at defiance, and thus to undo the effect of many years of steady work and mutual co-operation. This was the situation in regard to case work on the last day of the meeting. \n\n## Trans-frontier Cultivations \n\nThere remained another matter of importance—the question of trans-frontier cultivations. This subject has been discussed and dealt with perfunctorily for several years past, but it was surrounded with difficulties, and it was not until the last twelve months that our information was sufficiently full to render a settlement possible. I have had the honour to address you on several occasions in regard to this question, but it may be well to recapitulate the position briefly in view of the settlement which has now been effected. \n\nIn delimiting the middle section of the Burmah-China frontier, it was found by the commissioners that the acceptance of their line, which frequently followed a zigzag course between paddy fields and irrigation dykes, would occasionally have the result of placing a village on one side of the border whilst the whole or part of the lands worked by the villagers would belong to the other side. They therefore made specific arrangements in the joint \"Description of the Boundary\" safeguarding the rights of the villagers in such cases to their original cultivation rights over the land in question. This was the commencement of the trans-frontier cultivation. As time went on, however, the original claims became considerably extended, for the farmers on the China side—mainly inhabitants of the Shan States—found that they could escape from the exactions and oppression of their own sawbwas by removing their homes to Burmah while continuing to cultivate their original fields in China. On the strength of the fact that they became subjects of Burmah by frontier custom of domicile, they now refused to pay taxes for their land to the Chinese suwbwas, and from this fact has arisen the matter in dispute. \n\nFor the past three or four years, the Yunnanese authorities have shown an active interest in the question. They have found that in the worst administered of the States—notably in Lungchuan and Mengmao—a great number of Chinese cultivators have moved their domicile to Burmah, and thus avoided payment of all taxes to China, with the result that the revenues of the Shan sawbwas in question have been considerably affected; the sawbwas themselves reported that their subjects are crossing to Burmah and \"taking their fields with them,\" thus touching the Chinese on their most sensitive spot, the possible alienation of Chinese territory. \n\nPage 436",
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        "content_text": "# \"show\" was entirely unlike anything which he had been led to anticipate after the unostentatious little mud-house which serves as the British consulate in Tengyueh. He is a man of considerable courage, of boundless ambition, and of a direct and definite mind, and all of these qualities are of sterling worth at this remote frontier post. I am informed on good authority that his attitude towards internal affairs has shown a marked change since his return from the frontier, and that his actions have been marked by a thoughtfulness and moderation which were previously unknown.\n\nThe sub-prefect (\"ting\") of Tengyueh, Wen Liang-yi, speaks English and has never been actively objectionable, though he is hopelessly weak, and has been used to do all the unpleasant internal work of the post in a great money-raising campaign which was organised by the taotai to serve his own ends at Yunnan-fu. The ting has now become the scapegoat of the occasion, and is likely to be removed from office in the near future. The circumstances are so curious and throw so interesting a light upon the internal working of Chinese affairs that they are worthy of passing mention. Throughout last year, irregular \"squeezes\" were rampant in the city; respectable citizens were imprisoned and tortured until their generosity was moved to the required point; family affairs were made the subject of official action, with an inevitable financial ending; and public feeling eventually ran so high that scurrilous placards proclaimed the shortcomings of the ting on the walls and gates of the city. It was felt that the taotai should have enquired into the abuses thus so publicly denounced, and his failure to do so caused a volley of placards and pamphlets associating his name with that of his subordinate as a dog and an enemy of the common people. It was then hoped and believed that the Viceroy could not fail to take action and to order some enquiry, but when Yunnan-fu made no sign and no redress was forthcoming, they proceeded to take the law into their own hands. Some five days ago, eight criminals, two of whom had been condemned to death, quietly and effectually vanished from the prison of the ting's yamên, leaving behind them their handcuffs and shackles, and in one case even the prison-grown hair from a quickly shaven tonsure. The circumstances of their escape all indicated an organised and widespread assistance from influential sources, whilst the gentry and merchants ostentatiously withheld both sympathy and offers of help. Such an incident appears to be among the most serious offences of Chinese officialdom, and no one doubts that the ting will now be removed from office, and may even lose his rank—a disaster of the most cruel kind to a man of little substance. It is impossible to feel no sympathy for the unhappy man, who has grown shrivelled and old in the course of a few desperate days and sleepless nights; but his removal will be a blessing to the city and a lesson to his successors, whilst there remains a realisation that the Chinese are surely avenged when their officials stray beyond the recognised limits in finance or administration.\n\nThe frontier deputy, Chan Kai-hsuan, is an official of the best type. I attribute the present favourable turn of events largely to his sensible and capable management, whilst I believe that his confidence was won and his friendship ensured by the British officers at the Sima frontier meetings, at which he has twice presided as the Viceroy's representative. My only regret is that he will probably leave his poorly paid post at the earliest opportunity, for it is evident that he has gained the Viceroy's ear and that the taotai decides nothing without his concurrence. It is likely, therefore, that we shall lose him from the frontier in the 3rd moon, when the expiration of family mourning will make it possible for him to accept a territorial post.\n\nKuang Kuei-yuan, a Cantonese, has just been appointed to the post of assistant frontier deputy. He has served in several posts as magistrate and holds rank as an expectant taotai, so that his status is entirely satisfactory and his appointment very gratifying after the trouble which was caused by his predecessor. He took little part in the actual work of the frontier meeting, confining himself chiefly to watching Mr. Chao—a very admirable training. He seemed a pleasant man, however, and he succeeded in establishing very cordial relations with his British colleagues, though his knowledge of English was confined to one word.\n\n## Consulate Writer\n\nIn dealing with the Chinese personalities of the frontier, I feel that a tribute is due to the consulate writer, Han Wei-tsu, a man of official rank and good standing in Tengyueh, who has stood by the consulate in difficult times. He was engaged by the late Mr. Litton and has seen much interesting service, including the conclusion of the Thibetan negotiations, during which he acted as writer to Mr. Wilton in India. In the work of the past year, he has been of the greatest assistance, and has never failed to keep me in touch with every move of the Chinese; his information has always been prompt and I have never found it to be at fault. His activity during these contentious times has naturally brought him under the suspicion of the Chinese, who have done their best to embarrass him; but I hope that he will be supported by the consulate and that his services will eventually meet with some suitable reward. During the recent improvement in relations, both the taotai and the frontier deputy have expressed their gratitude for his assistance, and there can be no doubt of the value of an intelligent and experienced Chinese as a member of the staff in a situation such as that through which we have recently passed.\n\n## Value of Frontier Meetings\n\nBefore leaving the question of the frontier meetings, I would emphasise the value of these functions, not only in their bearing on the relations between our frontier officers and those of China, but also in their effect on the British officers who find in them an opportunity for an exchange of ideas on common questions and common difficulties, and a conception of the broad issues which affect alike each section of the border in its relations with its Chinese neighbours. Meetings have now been held for some fifteen years, but, until the past three years, no responsible representative has attended on behalf of the Yunnan Government. The presence of the Tengyueh Taotai, who controls the Western Marches, has been a decided step in advance and has resulted in the formulation of definite principles for the settlement of frontier disputes, whilst the formal gathering of the Burmah and Yunnan officials at an international function, supported on each side by a strong escort, has been an object-lesson to the frontier tribesmen that the two Governments are determined to work together in the suppression of frontier lawlessness and to supersede the old blood-feuds by proper punishments which can be and will be enforced in case of need. The proof of their value has been found in the striking decrease of serious charges, and the practical absence of those armed raids which, until recent years, formed so grave a factor in our frontier politics. In the course of the three years under the new system, it has been our misfortune to undertake the conversion of three separate taotais, each of whom has seen and realised the practical reality of British force on the frontier and has returned to his post a more reasonable frontier official, only to be replaced by a new representative with whom the process must be commenced all over again, and for this reason, I am anxious that the Taotai Keng should, if possible, receive the substantive post at Tengyueh and remain for several years. The courtesy, the patience, and the real desire for just and conciliatory settlements shown by our officers has, undoubtedly, had its effect, and I am convinced that the Chinese have genuine regard for the Burmah officers now on the frontier whom they have learned to know and respect. This year, I fear that there must be changes in the British representatives, Mr. Cabell having already left his frontier post, but, inevitable as such changes must be, they are a very real loss, for border conditions are so unusual and so strange, and frontier affairs are, for the moment, inclined to move so quickly that a ripe experience is of inestimable value. Mr. Thornton and Mr. Hertz especially are now real authorities on all affairs connected with the border, and their experience and the certainty of the view which they will take up in regard to international cases and questions has a very definite bearing on and a very real value in every question which concerns the Chinese. The efforts of our military officers, too, in arranging the spectacle and the solid military backing of the frontier meetings has constantly impressed the Chinese, and has certainly had its effect in reversing the unsatisfactory relations of the past year, whilst creating among the Chinese military officers not only a solid respect, but a feeling in some cases of real comradeship and genuine regard, which has helped me very much in arranging matters at Tengyueh.\n\nFor the British officers themselves, I hope, and believe, that the meetings are of real value. The consul is the only British officer stationed on the China side of the frontier, as he is the only one who has an opportunity of seeing the attitude and activity of the Chinese along all sections of the frontier and of meeting all the Burmah officers and endeavouring to realise the trend of Chinese affairs in its bearing on the interests of the frontier as a whole. After the entire isolation of Tengyueh, the annual meetings and the opportunity of hearing the views of his Burmah colleagues are an immense stimulus to his work, enabling him to gather what is needed in the interests of Burmah and in what direction his activity can most usefully be directed in the work of the coming year. After an experience of the frontier meetings of three years...\n\nPage 439",
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        "content_text": "## journey \nI passed through districts, personally known to me to be great opium centres in 1882 and unlikely to be less productive in 1911, in which, although the crop was harvested as usual in 1910, other crops, such as rape, barley, wheat, beans, or peas, had almost, if not entirely, superseded the poppy, or the latter appeared, cultivated it is true and not the growth of stray seeds, among one or other of those crops which it was hoped would screen it from detection.\n\nIt was not, indeed, till after the receipt of an Imperial decree, dated the 29th January, 1911, and telegraphed to all the Viceroys and governors of provinces, commanding the most stringent measures to be taken for the removal of the evil and threatening delinquent officials with punishment and dismissal, that really active steps were taken in Kueichow. In February and March officials were sent to scour the province accompanied by troops, with instructions to persuade growers to destroy their crops, and, in the event of refusal, to carry out the destruction themselves. In those parts of the province through which I passed I saw ample evidence of the visits of these officials; but the destruction or partial destruction was not in every case effected without resistance, and at a place called Yao-hsi, within the department of Chên-ning Chou, the prefecture of An-shun-fu, in the west of the province, a skirmish took place on the 1st March between a body of troops that had to be requisitioned and the opium growers, resulting, it is said, in the death of about a hundred of the latter, who were said to belong to one of the Miao-tzu tribes, and therefore of little account in the eyes of the Chinese.\n\nI left Yunnan-fu on the 18th and crossed the Yunnan-Kueichow frontier on the 23rd April, travelling through the districts and departments of K'un-ming Hsien, Sung-ming Chou, Hsin-tien Chou, Ma-lung Chou, Nan-ning Hsien, Chan-i Chou, and Ping-i Hsien, and during these seven days I observed only four more poppy fields to be added to those I had already seen in the province of Yunnan. They were within the district of Nan-ning Hsien.\n\nFrom the city of P'ing-i Hsien, which is about 5 miles to the west of the Kueichow frontier, I entered that province and travelled for another seven days along the high road as far as the sub-prefectural city of Lang-tai Ting, a route which I had followed in the reverse direction a month earlier in 1882, and I was thus able to compare the present conditions with those existing in that year. My daily stages were, as then, I-tzu-k'ung, Liang-t'ou-ho, Yang-sung, Kuan-tzu-yao, Hua-kung, Mao-k'ou-ho, and Lang-tai Ting, passing through the sub-prefectures of Pan-chou Ting (formerly called Pu-an Ting), An-nan Hsien, and Lang-tai Ting. During the first two of these stages—P'ing-i Hsien to Liang-t'ou-ho—I saw no poppy, whereas, writing of them in 1882, I said:—\n\n\"From I-tzu-k'ung our road lies west through a continuation of yesterday's valley, full of the poppy, there are no sudden ascents and descents between Liang-tou-ho and I-tzu-k'ung. The high plateau is not well cultivated; a few patches of the poppy may be seen on the sandy soil, but the valleys are full of it, with here and there a plot of barley and wheat and a sprinkling of buckwheat. Liu-shu-wan is situated at the entrance of a long, well-cultivated valley running north-east and south-west. I am within the mark when I say that nine-tenths of it (the valley) is covered with the poppy as far as we skirted it.\n\nFrom Ta-ho-pu we proceed in a south-south-east direction, and crossing a valley entirely of poppy, the production of which my followers estimated at 8,000 to 10,000 ounces, followed the high road over barren hills with occasional valleys of poppy, relieved here and there by patches of barley. The village of O-lang-p'u lies at the north-west end of a valley also poppy-covered, the length and breadth of which I estimated at a mile and half-a-mile respectively. We approach I-tzu-k'ung through a narrow poppy valley which gradually widens. The crop appears exceptionally good, the capsules being large and well formed.\"\n\nDuring the third stage from Liang-t'ou-ho to Yang-sung I noticed only two small patches of poppy. In 1882 I said of it:—\n\n\"From Yang-sung we march westwards through a well-cultivated valley. The light green paddy shoots, the yellow wheat and barley, and the dark green poppy-heads, with occasional white flowers, blend well in the morning light. Passing southwards we enter another valley containing a good crop of the poppy and a few patches of wheat and barley. As we descend to Liang-tou-ho, the hills are mostly grass covered, but the cultivated patches, which look bare from a distance, are found on closer examination to be thickly covered with shoots of buckwheat. The valleys, on the other hand, contain the poppy only.\"\n\nDuring the fourth stage from Yang-sung to Kuan-tzu-yao I saw none, and in 1882 I wrote:—\n\n\"The bottoms of the valleys consist of paddy land, a little barley, and the poppy, the latter an inferior crop. Miserable patches of poppy and a little barley were growing on the heights, but near Yang-sung the poppy increased in quantity and improved in appearance.\"\n\nDuring the fifth stage from Kuan-tzu-yao to Hua-kung I observed twenty patches of poppy, thirteen of which occupied a terraced hill-side behind one of the ranges of hills bounding the valley along which lay our road, in every case well within sight of the road, and one or two alongside it. The remaining seven were...\n\n\"Beyond Pai-sha-tang there are many small valleys full of poppy. There was a splendid crop of poppy above Kuan-tzu-yao.”\n\nThe sixth stage from Hua-kung to Mao-k'ou-ho revealed no poppy, and in 1882 my remark was:—\n\n\"There is little cultivation on the road from Mao-k'ou to Hua-kung, and we saw hardly anything of the poppy.\"\n\nBetween Mao-k'ou-ho and Lang-tai Ting, the seventh stage, only one plot of poppy revealed itself, and that was well concealed behind a hedge and mixed with barley. To 1882 I wrote:—\n\n\"Lang-tai Ting is famous for its opium, but although the poppy occupied no mean share of the valley, the crop seemed to me to be rather inferior. The other side of Lang-tai Ting may, however, be the special place of production. Among these [hills] we wandered wearily for a couple of hours, past a large valley, consisting almost entirely of paddy-land, and skirted numerous smaller valleys, full of the poppy.\"\n\nI have dealt with these seven stages in some detail (1) because they lie along one of China's great highways—the road connecting the capitals of Kueichow and Yunnan; and (2) because my former journeyings in Western China have enabled me to compare the state of opium cultivation in 1911 and 1882, since which latter year there has more likely been an increase than a decrease.\n\nIn all I saw thirty-two plots of poppy between the Yunnan-Kueichow frontier and the city of Lang-tai Ting (twenty-six within the sub-prefecture of P'an-chou Ting, five within the district of An-nan Hsien, and one within the sub-prefecture of Lang-tai Ting), and the above comparison shows the great reduction that has been effected during the present season, while information has reached me from other sources that like conditions prevail along other highways, notably the high road from Chungking in Szechuan to Kuei-yang, which passes through the north of Kueichow, where, to my personal knowledge, opium was largely produced in past years. One gentleman, a British subject, who travelled over the latter road in the spring of the present year, has informed me that he did not see a single poppy en route, and, although I am loath to accept hearsay evidence in my investigation, the impossibility of traversing every corner of this most inaccessible province compels me to give some credence to his report, especially when the result of my own personal investigation is considered.\n\nAt the city of Lang-tai Ting I left the main road to investigate the condition of cultivation along the by-roads, and for this purpose I travelled north by east to the prefectural city of Ta-ting-fu, an eight days' journey. Along this by-road I found that the poppy had been extensively sown during the present season, that the crop had been largely destroyed in March, and that what I observed was, with few exceptions, the remnant that had escaped the hands of the destroyer or had sprung up after his departure. Here and there a few plots appeared to have been untouched, but in many places large blanks in fields of barley, peas, and other crops testified to the work of destruction. In all, during these eight days I noticed ninety-eight plots of poppy from which a crop could still be gathered, and these are exclusive of many more plots of other crops in which the poppy was so thinly scattered as to lead to the conclusion that the plants had sprung from stray seeds. In no case could these plots bear comparison...",
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        "content_text": "List of Ex-officials from China who have taken refuge in Hongkong.\n\nC.0.11256: Enclosure 3.\n\n127\n\n1,255\n\nPage 127\n\nLi King Hi (Chung Sun), Viceroy of Yun Nam & Kwai Chow, at No. 39, Des Voeux Road West. (The Yun Nam Tin Mine Company.)\n\nChan Mong Tsang (Sing Sam) The Commissioner of Industry, Kwong Tung at No. 68, Caine Road.\n\nWong Ping Pit (Seung Sham) Police Taotai, Kwang Si, at No. 35, Robinson Road.\n\nChu Ham Yik (Chung Fu) Director of the Kwang Tung Embankments, at No. 1, Bonham Road.\n\nCheng Wing (Pok Shang) a Taotai of Kwang Tung at No. 12, Mosque Junction.\n\nNg Chung U, a Taotai of Kwang Tung, at No. 11, Seymour Terrace.\n\nSung Shau Ching (Mong Wan) Director of Kwang Tung Financial Board, at No. 47, Bonham Street.\n\nLau Hing Sheung (Ping Sun) subordinary officer of the Board of Law, at No. 62, Peel Street.\n\nLau Hing Tong (Tsi Pak) a Kwong Tung Tao Tai, at No. 7, Seymour Road.\n\nLau Hing Lau (Tso Chai) a Kwang Tung Magistrate, at No. 7, Seymour Road.\n\nNg Sik Wing (Chung Yin) adviser of the Kwang Tung Tuk Lin Kung So, at No. 1, Mosque Junction.\n\nSham Ping Kuk (Kwai Kan) a Kwang Tung Prefect, at No. 6, Mosque Junction.\n\nMa Tak San (Ming Sam) Major-General of Kwang Tung, at No. 27, Peel Street.\n\nNg Ping Shing (San Si) a Kwang Tung Sub-prefect, at No. 2 Mosque Junction.\n\nWong Siu Tsun (Sing Pak) a Kwong Tung Kui Yan, at No. 79, Wan Chai.\n\nWong Siu Yung, at No. 80, Wan Chai.\n\nLai Ching Kin a Shiu Hing Prefect, at 52, Shaukiwan.\n\nKong Shiu Tsun Superintendent for suppressing village robbers, at 30, Caine Road.\n\nPage 128",
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        "title": "CO129-391 - Acting Governor Claud Severn Governor Sir May - 1912 [7-8]",
        "content_text": "Yuk-tong of Hongkong made an issue of $5,000,000 for his own benefit. Colour is lent to this belief from the fact that he left Hongkong a poor man but has, since his return, invested very largely in the Colony and is now reported to be a rich man. His successor has not been able to make a note issue to himself, but his methods as Master of the Mint and of the Currency and Note Redemption Departments are, I am informed, open to the gravest suspicion. Notes can be bought in Canton City at a discount varying from 30 to 40 per centum. A few favoured individuals can, it is said, get them readily exchanged at par for subsidiary coin, while the public can only get a few hundred notes exchanged after an infinity of trouble and a delay of 2 or 3 days. There is thus the gravest dissatisfaction in the City and out of it:\n\nthe majority of the Hongkong Merchants, who are of course deeply interested, do not conceal their disgust. Only perhaps the Sz Yap party, who are responsible for most of the present appointments in Canton, appear to be satisfied. As a natural consequence, the air is full of plots and counterplots. The Fu Ching Tung Meng Ui was the first of these plots to come into prominence: it was supported by Sun Li (Sun Man's brother, now still at work in the same cause in Macao), Wong Wo Shun, who had already been in open revolt in Canton, and had been driven by the Government troops from Whampoa after something approaching a battle, Young Man Fu, Kwan Yan Po, and it is also said by Wong Sz Lung. Wong Sz Lung is a military man of some ability who was appointed joint Lieutenant-Governor with Chan Kwing Ming under Wu Hon Man; this arrangement only lasted a short time, but long enough for Wong Sz Lung to have become popular with quite a large following. The object of this Fu Ching Tung Meng Ui is to overturn the present Government by much the same methods that were used by the Kak Meng T'ong against the Manchus, but these methods do not suit the times or the object, and the main organization has split up into a number of subsidiary plots, all more or less independent\n\nof",
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        "content_text": "## Page 2\n\nThe months of October and November last. Suppressive measures had been vigorously conducted within the last two months and much of the crop had been destroyed. He is of opinion that there are still some patches of poppy cultivation here and there in outlying parts of the prefecture.\n\nHis Majesty's consul-general at Shanghai forwarded on the 15th March the copy of a report compiled by Mr. Ezra, who had sent two Chinese for the special purpose of investigating the conditions of opium cultivation in the province. These men left Shanghai on the 19th February and returned on the 11th March. According to their report, poppy was being grown in no great abundance in the Chinkiang prefecture. The neighbourhood of Haimen (50 miles north of Shanghai) and Tungchow (60 miles north-west of Shanghai) was full of poppy, and large fields were under cultivation. The villagers at the latter place had stated that the senior of their local headmen owned two fields, and had twice uprooted a few plants in order to show his zeal in the anti-opium campaign. In the unfrequented districts around Nanking miles upon miles of poppy-fields had been seen, and there was an area of 30 miles under cultivation in the Kiang-ning prefecture. This does not appear, however, to be borne out by the statements of His Majesty's consul at Nanking, given above. According to the two Chinese, poppy was also being grown to some extent in hundreds of places along the Kiangsu-Honan and Kiangsu-Shantung borders, and the neighbourhood of Haichow was covered with the fields for a distance of 50 miles. The report states that \"the foreign missionaries resident in the city [Haichow] confirm the fact that no attempt has yet been made by the local officials to restrict the growth.\" This is to some extent confirmed by the information furnished by His Majesty's consul at Chinkiang. In the northern district of Su-chien the poppy is reported by Mr. Ezra's two investigators to be cultivated extensively, and the supply in this district alone is declared to be adequate for the needs of thousands of smokers.\n\nHonan.\n\nThe \"Central China Post\" of the 21st March published a report on the authority of a missionary that the poppy was being grown on fields belonging to the President, Yuan Shih-kai, as well as on those belonging to his relations. The Peking \"Daily News\" of the 17th March stated that strict orders had been telegraphed to the Governor to investigate the district concerned, and to carry out prompt measures of suppression at all costs.\n\nHupeh.\n\nHis Majesty's consul at Ichang reported on the 27th February that the prefect had gone on a special tour, and had found large areas under opium cultivation in the north-west. According to information received from the Belgian missionaries, the cultivation had increased greatly in the south-west district of Li-chuan. His Majesty's consul reported that apparently poppy was not being grown elsewhere in his consular district.\n\nSzechuan.\n\nThe acting consul-general at Chengtu reported on the 2nd March that he had received information from missionaries that greatly increased cultivation had taken place in the Chien-chang Valley, in the south of the province, during the past year—more especially in the tribal territories beyond Chinese control. The poppy area in this region embraced the prefecture of Ning-yuan, and the districts of Hui-li and Yen-yuan, together with the intervening territory of the independent Lolos. Three good crops had been harvested in quick rotation. Feeble and ill-directed official efforts had been made to destroy these crops but without success. In Western Szechuan a general recrudescence had taken place in the prefecture of Ya-chou since the revolution, but the area under cultivation was less than in former years. The crop had been grown for the greater part in out-of-the-way places, and in the country under the jurisdiction of the native chieftain of Mupin and the tribal lands in the district of Fu-lin. Renewed instructions to suppress cultivation had been issued recently, but the area is difficult of control, a great part being mountainous. In Northern Szechuan there was an inconsiderable amount of cultivation in the prefecture of Pao-ning and the district of Chien-chou. A large amount was being grown in the districts of Kuang-yuan and Chao-hua. Little or no attempt at concealment was made, and the plants flourished in close proximity to the high roads. In the prefecture of Lung-an the enforcement of suppressive measures against the large crops had given rise to local disturbances. In Eastern Szechuan no effort had been made to check the cultivation around Kai-hsien. The acting consul-general also reported that, in addition to the localities mentioned above, small crops were being undoubtedly raised in the more remote places throughout the province. He added that reports from many districts showed an apparently complete suppression of cultivation, and that the cultivation did not appear to have reached really serious dimensions anywhere but in the Chien-chang Valley, where a condition resembling anarchy prevails.\n\n## Page 3\n\nThe acting consul at Chungking reported on the 3rd March that, with the exception of some districts close to the Kueichow border, opium cultivation had been effectively suppressed through Eastern Szechuan. The authorities, he stated, had been actively enforcing the removal of all poppies from these districts. The information from Chungking is not confirmed by the acting consul-general so far as Kai-hsien is concerned. A consular officer has also received information from a trustworthy source, based on observations made during a tour in the neighbourhood of Wan-hsien (25 miles south of Kai-hsien) to the effect that the poppy is growing there freely in all directions.\n\nYünnan.\n\nHis Majesty's consul-general at Yunnan-fu has forwarded information, dated the end of January, from missionaries in Northern and Eastern Yunnan, which shows a large amount of cultivation in those parts. In the Prefecture of Chao-tung the quantity under cultivation was larger than last year, and in the adjoining Prefecture of Tung-Ch'uan the poppy had been freely planted. In the Prefecture of Wu-ting the poppy, especially in remote districts, flourished probably in larger quantities than last year. Prohibitory proclamations had been issued, but little or nothing had been done to check the cultivation among the non-Chinese tribes. In the eastern Prefecture of Ch'ü-ching, the missionary had been on a recent tour, and had noticed a considerable quantity of poppy in fields along the high road. He was informed on good authority that it had also been planted in greater abundance in the hill country away from the main roads. The planting was more extensive than last year, but a large amount had been lately destroyed by soldiers, so that he estimated the local crop this spring at one-half of that of last year. Speaking generally, he considered that the officials in that prefecture were doing very little to prevent cultivation. In a later despatch His Majesty's consul-general reported, from a Chinese source, that the poppy had been sown this year in the districts of Tengyueh, Lung-ling, Yung-ping, Wei-hsi, and Chung-tien, in the west; in Szemao, Chen-pien, and Yung-kang, in the south; in Lo-ping, Chan-yi, Yung-shan, Ta-kuan, and Lu-tien in the east; in Yuan-mow and Lu-chuan in the north. He estimated, on the authority of a Chinese in touch with the local opium dealers, that the yield this season is expected to be three-quarters of the amount last year. The consul-general has received information from a native source that the tutu is doing his best to stop opium cultivation, and is constantly issuing orders to that effect. In the neighbourhood of large towns, the local officials, aided by the military, are able to prevent the planting of the poppy, but in more remote districts—especially in those inhabited by the tribes—they are quite helpless. Several have offered to resign sooner than attempt to interfere with the people's poppy fields, and the soldiers told off for the destruction are beginning to complain that they are laying up trouble for themselves when they leave the army. The tribesmen in the districts bordering on Tonkin and Burma have threatened to emigrate if they are prevented from growing opium.\n\nKueichow.\n\nHis Majesty's consul-general at Yunnan-fu has forwarded information, dated the 27th January, from a missionary at An-shun, 50 miles south-west of the provincial capital, to the effect that the poppy had been planted in greater quantities than in any season during the last six years. The local officials, however, had begun to take energetic measures for suppression, and, as a consequence, the farmers had begun to plough up the poppy and sow beans. A missionary informant writing from Kuei-yang, the provincial capital, on the 1st February, stated that the poppy was widely planted, certainly in larger quantities than before the revolution. He continued that it was reported that in some districts the officials were taking strong measures to suppress cultivation, but that they seemed helpless in the district of the provincial capital itself. In a later despatch the consul-general reported, on trustworthy information based on a recent tour, that the poppy had been seen \"growing everywhere in several districts in the Prefecture of An-shun, and also in the southern Prefecture of Hsing-yi.\n\n## Page 536",
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        "content_text": "257\n\n2\n\ncompletely succeeded, it is only reasonable to suppose that he would have adopted the same course as his colleagues of Hunan and Anhui, and pressed for investigation by British officials.\n\nThe local Chinese newspapers are not in all respects reliable, but even in their most extravagant statements there is usually to be found some basis of fact. Now, during the period from the 1st January to the 30th June last frequent paragraphs have appeared in these journals noting cases where the poppy was being grown, either with the connivance of the local authorities or in defiance of the bureaux and deputies.\" I have compiled a list of some of these paragraphs, copy of which, in English and Chinese, I have now the honour to enclose. I add a few others, dealing with the matter of illicit traffic in native opium.\n\n54\n\nThe conclusion that cannot well be avoided, if any credence at all is to be given to reports so circumstantial, is that the cultivation of the poppy, in at any rate the more remote and mountainous portions of Hupei, was by no means so complete last season as to justify His Majesty's Government in declaring this province to be one into which Indian opium is now no longer admissible.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nEnclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\nW. H. WILKINSON.\n\nTranslations of Extracts from Hankow Native Press on the Subject of Opium Suppression,\n\nJanuary 4-Hsing Kuo Hsien, Hsin T'ou P'u, and Wang Sha-pen: Poppies in abundance. Magistrate takes no notice.\n\nJanuary 11-Mien Yang Hsien: Poppy still grown in great quantities: opium dens ignored by magistrate and gentry.\n\nJanuary 24.-Li Chuan Hsien, Ch'ang Tan-pa: Poppy still grown.\n\nFebruary 28.-Ma Ch'eng Hsien: Poppy, now ripe; magistrate does nothing.\n\nMarch 3-Chu'n Hsien, Heng Shen Wan, and Shen pan T'au: Popular resistance to anti-opium measures.\n\nMarch 25.-An-lu Hsien Pai Chan-shan: Abundance of poppies, many opium dens. Magistrates and police indifferent.\n\nMarch 30-Kienshih Hsien (Shihnan Prefecture): Tai Wang-pa farmers resist and destroy local Government building; troops sent.\n\nMay 6-Cheki Hsien poppy grows all over the hills; soldiers sent to eradicate are bribed by the wealthy; poor farmers are arrested and their poppy destroyed; this leads to a case of arson and murder of the headborough.\n\nMay 11-Sung Tzu-Hsien: Poppy sown as usual. Magistrate pays no attention.\n\nMay 25. Pating Hsien, Lien Ch'uan Gorge: Armed resistance of farmers, aided by brigands, to work of eradication; military from Ichang summoned.\n\nMay 30-Li Ch'uan Hsien: Several farmers, opium growers, shot down. District Council indicts magistrate for murder.\n\nJune 20.-Lai Feng Hsien, Lin Kang: Poppy growers tie up local inspector, who is rescued by military.\n\nJune 21.-Lai Feng Hsien, Hui-pei: Armed resistance to eradication.\n\n,979039)\n\nTranslations of further Extracts from Native Press of Hankow on the Subject of Opium.\n\nJanuary 6.-Shensi opium dealer brings by rail five trunks full of native opium covered by Japanese flag.\n\nFebruary 14-Opium dealers of Hanyang use opium dens as markets, to which many Wuchang opium smokers resort.\n\nMarch 21-Huang Hai Hsien opium dealers, owing to severity of restrictions, carry out their trade at Teh-ngan, in Kiangsi, and at Susung Hsien, in Anhui\n\nApril 1-Seizure by Hankow Customs in one of Butterfield and Swire's boats of three large packages of native opium.\n\nApril 11-Seizure on railway of 800 taels weight of native opium going north.\n\n3\n\nMay 5-Laifeng Hsien, adjoining Lang Shun Hsien, Hunan: Over 300 smugglers forcibly endeavour to cross frontier; being resisted, destroy preventive office, beat officers, then disperse.\n\nMay 7.-P'u Che Hsien, Hsin-tien, under protection of certain rascally gentry, native opium is openly sold; inhabitants protest, and enquiry is held.\n\nJune 6.-Ichang, Ping Shun Fu: Now that the system of rewards has been abolished and co-operation with the Maritime Customs, smugglers from Szechuan are bringing in native opium in large and small quantities.\n\nJune 16-Tien-men Hsien, Peng Chih-ho: One P'eng retails native opium, bullying and bribing.\n\n(No. 15.) Sir,\n\nEnclosure 3 in No. 1.\n\nActing Consul Handley-Derry to Mr. Alston.\n\nWITH reference to your despatch, No. 2, of the 24th ultimo, enclosing copies of correspondence with the Wai-chiao Pu, relative to the placing of Kiangsi and Hupeh on the list of provinces into which Indian opium shall not be conveyed, I have the honour to inform you that there is little to add to what I reported in my No. 9, of the 10th ultimo.\n\nThere is no doubt that a determined and sustained effort has been made to stamp out the growth of poppy in all easily accessible places, and so far as I can gather from missionaries, railway men and others they have seen nothing of the poppy during the spring. The missionary has, of course, kept fairly well to the beaten track, the railway man has been off the beaten track but in a region of very scant cultivation, Chinese say that on the road to Shih-nan Fu none could be seen, but that they heard that it was growing in the country road.\n\nIt is useless to suggest any search at this time of the year, but I would very much like to make a journey round through the prefecture of Shih-nan in the early spring of next year. It is a journey which would take nearly a month, but from what Chinese say there must be a good deal of growing going on in the more secluded spots. Of the import of native opium it is difficult to speak. None comes through the customs, but I have questioned the writer of this consulate very closely and he says he could buy smuggled opium at any time at about 5-6 tiao an ounce. The price stated in my above-mentioned despatch has gone up, owing to the greater stringency caused by the closing of the official opium offices.\n\nWhen I was at Shasi I questioned several of the merchants there as to how many smokers there were still, they said that there were now no more than 3 or 4 per cent. (Shasi population, 95,000).\n\nI have, &c.\n\nEnclosure 4 in No. 1.\n\nH. F. HANDLEY-DERRY.\n\nMemorandum communicated to Wai-chiao Pu.\n\nIN continuation of his memorandum of the 16th July, His Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires has the honour to inform the Wai-chiao Pu that he has now received consular reports from Hankow and Ichang.\n\nMr. Alston is not disposed to accept the statement in the Wai-chiao Pu's memorandum of the 3rd July, that poppy cultivation had been prohibited and extinguished and that import of the native drug from other provinces had also been forbidden.\n\nHe regrets therefore that he is unable to consent to place Hupeh forthwith on the list of provinces into which Indian opium shall not be conveyed but is ready in accordance with article 4, of the 1911, Agreement to arrange for investigations next spring on the lines of the joint inspections carried out in Shantung, Anhui, and Hunan this year.\n\nPeking, August 20, 1913.",
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        "content_text": "231\n\n... as to whori ani „ji juoda odatsik lanoitastri na neúsz on and tu maini yỏ begge IIv sina Mindet Bud Bam zsoy Jasi rodmevo. To Ju 880) Ni Jend setti 100 Một slist ad day tanodal Jim yď Froqri\n\neds to muER, AL\n\nat boys Jor: DİL QU\n\n-\n\nTodas: 1571\n\neoiron on dou mua soido»ty and to \"enal ybeeïla sá saumond um di\n\n•TÁL BOJA CLA od nežoga von \"kuum ad ti 303 3 Indian 1 ...ji to ♫a in ki soralea mur beben zond aved blaʊw sa Progor #*andodeft I JINODU TEIwi I na moinasamog 2 Ni Fuð um nolikt vano a'uadƐ\n\noitom\n\nB munitnoo Ilija od ma ynisah on need sva zou bimuo Junusta, all out I breit molt pol ynimuar se♬ to stiqa JOTŤ 10, 1-4 bɔlesonoo a mi najavom ni seel and sind zor bih i\n\nelius vinego Jud mżanoll‹ginn DATE ME MİJJİS BOU_malico y, to [anquodni od 1: BOIBJ8.088 nace daâm bom pirmignil sat MÅ\n\nJed dual and yď varuky gainitanandum noco and Sjusdam I wiffT\n\nÀ neno ni S♫ Jubwa na cnbow Member Peanàl\n\nto dosyaq mul taa, nane you. Tu ni pinsan anh,mnamoƐ on to sen\n\n6:2 10 GIWscu ade so ti Jens Jimmun I Jonas jada 12 noot Swet Jijoj saj bejiaoqab ayu, con viuor ad esitonsą sind To monataire -Íver:o)) na með and mun) nuni?10 sud zu eonavbe ni min oử bằng seol\n\nen niv Ttor..\n\n1049,; OVR hlavo an encrð læreusû mað driv sombrosos nË MUN\n\nev ni montɔq regorg and am I dać goŻWORK Jul\n\n·\n\n10 dwaerb\n\nOPPOLAṬES*\n\nmy I 12 nun yutma jná was ni amlo ywưd Jmon But now I BIB:ų atndoTI to soʻng a anum yilniosque han mehena Ila Yo konį Adana Tala soiroul de inu 2013 ya perun Juan esem\n\nJug edraga dianb ♬ toniriq4, 20G TRIŠNİZef yuqadi od: le ytub edu TO VE'S VS J001 BÍ ĐÃ i do a dam sen I hơn set Nina Jon to spolmoni me noisesta boa eta Jast, setimper jus arow ¡leme\n\n1% ärom Midtaná od bruta dan cium nost. I .*«i asadorų\n\nor a fortnight after the grants were made by the Chief Justice on account of other office work.\n\nThe drafting work would not be given any special attention unless it is urgently required to be done by the person entitled to the grant. The drafts are sent to the Deputy Registrar and Appraiser formally to be passed as an officer in authority. After they are passed by him they go to the Registrar. The Deputy Registrar would keep them for a few days until he has time to go through them as a matter of course and after he has finished with them they go to the Registrar formally who may keep them for an-other few days. Then they come back to me to be engrossed and after they are engrossed they are sent to the Deputy Registrar and Appraiser to be examined. The engrossing takes much longer time than the drafting work. Some of the grants have lengthy Wille akkur attached to them and take time to be examined. I was most highly pressed with work just about this time with interpreting in Criminal Sessions. I used to be for days engaged in Court from 10 a.m. till 4 p.m. and after that had to attend to general office work forgetting all about work that was not urgent and required no special attention to be given to. Mr. Noronha told me, I remember it perfectly well, that there was no urgency about the matter. In June he rang me up on the telephone and told me that the Bank would like to see the Letters of Administration and asked me if I could let him have it at my convenience. I promised and whilst I was attending to it he rang me up again. I then gave it my special attention and got it through for him by the 17th of June last and not the end as is stated by him. I regret that the Court fees were not paid on due date, namely, the 17th of June lest, when the Letters of Administration were signed. It was through an oversight and the file was in the drawer where all these current pauper cases put through by me were usually kept.\n\nC\n\nChan How Tin deceased.\n\nThe facts as to the non-payment of the Court Fees in this case are exactly the same as in Cordeiro, deceased, and it was an oversight on my part and they would have been paid over to the",
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        "content_text": "63\n\n2. Although I now have a wireless chain from Hankow to Shanghai, the wireless work is found to be very difficult; the Chinese shore stations still accept telegrams, but it is quite problematical whether they send them through, and in any case a delay of some days is to be expected. Consequently everything has to be done by wireless, and the consular authorities at all the ports look to the ships to transmit their messages, besides the large amount of naval work going on.\n\nWith the ships of five nations (British, American, German, Japanese, and French) thus competing against each other, the result was confusion, and I have arranged with the other nations that the twelve hours of day and night shall be allotted, two to each nation exclusively and the remaining two for general use.\n\n3. The situations at the three centres of the fighting are at present as follows:-\n\nNanking.\n\nThe opposing forces are at Peng-pu, on the Tien-tsin-Pukow Railway line, about 100 miles north of Pukow. It seems probable that the northern army will drive back the southern army on Pukow, and, as the latter hold the railway line, they should be able to effect their retreat without any difficulty, perhaps destroying the line behind them.\n\nThe danger here lies in the possibility of a routed and demoralised southern force arriving in Nanking unpaid and unfed, and ready to start looting. Apart from this, there is no reason to anticipate disturbances in Nanking itself.\n\nThe southern wounded are being sent down in considerable numbers, and there is only very indifferent medical aid for them.\n\nI have offered the services of our medical officers, and they have been accepted but not made use of yet. The Chinese said they would send word when they desired them.\n\nShanghai.\n\nSouthern attacks on the arsenal close to Shanghai take place nightly, and so far have failed completely. The Chinese ships there have been taking part with the northerners in the defence of the arsenal.\n\nThe Shanghai international corps of volunteers has been called out for the defence of the settlement, if required, and the British and foreign ships there are prepared to land armed parties.\n\nI have ordered \"Monmouth\" and \"Hampshire\" to Wusung—as near to Shanghai as they can go—and \"Welland\" and \"Usk\" to Shanghai itself.\n\n\"Newcastle,\" \"Ribble,\" and \"Woodlark\" are already at Shanghai, so the British naval force there will be a strong one.\n\nKiukiang.\n\nThe northern troops are meeting with general success, and appear to be driving the southern troops before them with slight opposition. No change has been reported during the last forty-eight hours.\n\n31\n\n4. I have heard from Hong Kong that trouble is feared at Canton. The \"Otter\" and \"Fame\" have been sent there, the latter being completed to full crew from \"Rosario,\" and also taking twenty marines.\n\n264\n\n[38906]\n\nNo. 126.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nT. H. M. JERRAM,\n\nMr. Alston to Sir Edward Grey—(Received August 23.) (No. 199.) (Telegraphic.) R.\n\nPeking, August 23, 1913.\n\nCRITICAL situation has arisen at Chengtu owing to 1st division having thrown in their lot with Chungking rebels, against whom they were sent. They are said to be marching on Chengtu. General Yin, at Yachow, has been threatened with death unless he declares against the Government, which he is expected to do at any moment. Other towns have also revolted.\n\nOne division of troops from Yünnan-fu, intended for pacification of Hunan, have been diverted to Szechuan. Foreigners so far all safe.",
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        "content_text": "C\n\nJ\n\nCOPY.\n\nEnclosure 1.\n\nC\n\n56781\n\n21\n\nREC\n\nRes 9 DEC 5\n\nHon. Colonial Secretary,\n\nAccording to my records the following Extradition cases have passed through my hands during the period in question;\n\nRex v. Chan Yat Chun.\n\nCheung Tai Young.\n\nTaong Sheng.\n\nNg Tao.\n\nMo Chi Ping.\n\nW. A. Bear.\n\nKoh Tek Nam.\n\nC. E. Arcuras.\n\nYung Cheung Wan.\n\nLiso A Mei.\n\nChao Jik Tsin.\n\nChan Shing.\n\nLi Chi Ping.\n\nLeung Ah Yau.\n\nTaeng Yau Tsu.\n\nLiang Chiu Chang.\n\nShi Ki, Lau, A Wai.\n\nAu Fu.\n\nHuang Teo alias Wong Tsok.\n\nAh Mui.\n\nHung Sui Lun.\n\nI put up a copy of a minute showing Court work for June, July, and August, 1915,\n\n(Sd.) Paul H. Hodgson,\n\nag. Crown Solicitor.\n\n13.10.16.",
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        "content_text": "## Inclosure \n\n32770 \n\n**REC REG? I JULIE 382**\n\nTo the Ambassadors and Consuls General of all nations and the Governors of Annan, Hongkong, and Macao,\n\nAs is on record, we have wired you that our Military Government has elected Mr. Lai Yuen Hung President of the Chinese Republic in compliance with the Constitution. We have now established a \"Kwan Mo Yuen\", which is placed directly under the President. The Tutuhs of all Provinces and the Commanders-in-chief of all Armies will be appointed \"Fa Kwans\" on the Kwan Mo Yuen to discuss and execute all important affairs of the Military Government. When the President is unable to take up his post, all matters—diplomatic will be executed by the Fu-kwans on the Kwan Mo Yuen. In accordance with the regulations for the establishment of the Kwan Mo Yuen, Tong Kai Iu, Lau Hin Shai, Luk Ting Ting, Lung Tai Kwong, Sham Chun Run, Leung Kai Chiu, Toi Ngok, Li Lit Kwan, and Chan Ping Kwan have been appointed Ju Kwans, and from among themselves Tong Kai Iu was elected Director, Sham Chan Hun Assistant Director and Acting Director, and Leung Kai Chiu Chairman of its Executive Committee. It is decided that the Kwan Mo Yuen shall be located in Kwang Tung, and since it has been properly formed on the 8th May, we hereby notify you Ambassadors, Consuls General, Consuls, and Governors that apart from all diplomatic matters concerning any individual merchant, which shall be dealt with as usual by the local officials or by the Chief Authorities of the Province concerned, all those belonging to the Central Government shall be executed by the Kwan Mo Yuen. We are sending you an official despatch enclosing a copy of the regulations of the Kwan Mo Yuen and of a notification showing the reason of its establishment, and in addition, we wire you this message for your information.\n\n**Director**",
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        "content_text": "## COFI. Translation.\n\n-----------\n\n37698 753 \nREC REG 9 \n6 \nt \n\nThe Military Council (Kwan Mo Yun) of the Chinese Republic \n\nin the matter of a despatch.\n\nAs is on record, we have sent you a despatch to notify Your Excellency the Governor of the establishment of the Military Council. Shiu I has been appointed Foreign Minister in accordance with section 8 of the regulations of the Military Council, and Wong Chung Tai and Wan Toung Yiu Assistant Foreign Ministers. All matters diplomatic will be settled by them after amicable discussion with Your Excellency the Governor. In addition to despatches sent to others, we find it our duty to send you this despatch for your information.\n\nThis despatch is sent to His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong.\n\nTong Kai Lu, Fu Kwan on the Military Council of the Chinese Republic. \nShan Chun Hun, Assistant Chief Fu Kwan and Acting Chief Fu Kwan. \nLoung Kai Chiu, Lu Kwan and Chairman on the Executive Committee. \nLau Bin Sai, Fu Kwan. \nLuk Fing Ting, Fu Kwan. \nLung Tai Kwong, Fu Kwan. \nTuoi Ngok, Fu Kwan. \nLi Lit Kwan, Ju Kwan. \nChan Ping Kwan, Fu Kwan. \nLu Kung Mong, Fu Kwan.\n\nSeal of the Military Council of the Chinese Republic \nDated 29th May of the Chinese Republic \n- Lu Mung Yun \nWitness of the seal \nChecked by Cheung Fung Chau.",
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        "content_text": "## Translation of CODE Telegram\nFrom **GOVERNOR, HONGKONG**  \nTo **SECRETARY OF STATE**  \nDate **24th October, 1916**  \n\nMay I permit export of 240 picul Singapore pepper  \n- Lee Yuen Cheong to Shun Shing, Newchwang  \n- 120 Man Yick Shing, Tsingtau  \n- 120 Wing Hing Shing, Dairen  \n- 700 Kin Yuen Hong to Fu Cheong Wo, Chefoo  \n- 200 Wing To Hau  \n- 200 Fu Cheong Wo, Newchwang  \n- 400 Hang Shing Chan, Tsingtau  \n- 600 Hui Tung Tai to Chan Tai, Hankow.",
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        "content_text": "destination, Shanyao, for scarcely was my camp pitched when a terrific thunderstorm burst over our heads, and its intermittent fury lasted till 10 A.M. the next morning,\n\nWe were now back again in the Têngch'ung district, and three more days, the first two of which descended the undulating paddy-plains flanking the Shweli, brought our tour to a close on the 11th June.\n\nThe sixteen days' continuous travel from Tali via Yunlung to Tengyueh constituted by far the most strenuous section of the whole tour; it included the crossing of five mountain ranges, three of them well over 10,000 feet high, and the other two only a few hundred feet below that level, and the season of its accomplishment was that of the rains. By extraordinary good fortune, on all but two days these refrained from descending until after we had arrived at our halting places for the night, and consequently at all but the highest altitudes, when we were actually in the clouds, we enjoyed the most extensive and glorious views over the surrounding mountains and valleys. Whether owing to the lateness of the season or to the thoroughness of the opium-suppression campaigns, this section of our tour likewise disclosed no trace whatever of poppy cultivation.\n\nThe total period occupied by my tour was seventy-six days, all but seven of which were travelling days; my estimate of the total distance covered is 888 miles, of which I accomplished fully ninety per cent. on foot. The route followed traversed some portion at least of eighteen separate districts, and while it cannot, of course, claim to be in any way exhaustive—the start was far too late to admit of such a possibility—it served, in my opinion, to establish the fact that along considerable stretches of country in both the western and southern circuits of Yunnan the Chinese have undoubtedly made genuine efforts to stamp out, for the time being at any rate, the cultivation of opium. This effort must have cost the province a very large sum of money, estimated by the Tengyueh Taoyin at not less than half a million dollars. As an instance of the heavy expenditure incurred, he assured me that between the months of November and March last his bill for official telegrams on the subject of opium alone, at 6 cents per word, came to over 2,000 dollars.\n\nIt is, of course, too much to hope that the past season's strenuous efforts in the matter of opium suppression, made as they are for a special purpose, will be maintained, and time alone will show whether the Yunnan authorities are relapsing into their normal venal laxity in this matter. If in the course of the next few years it should be thought necessary to despatch similar missions to investigate into the actual state of affairs, I would venture most strongly to recommend that the system of joint enquiry should be definitely abandoned, if possible. The principle of joint enquiry necessarily implies, to my mind, mutual distrust of the officers deputed by both sides to carry out the inspection, and while it is notorious that it would be almost impossible to find throughout the country a Chinese official who could be trusted implicitly to travel unaccompanied and give a true account of conditions along his route, it seems to me unfortunate that British officers should be subjected to the indignity of the company of a Chinese detective to check the accuracy of their observations and report. If, however, it should be found impracticable to depart from the policy crystallised in the Opium Agreement, it should at least, in my opinion, be insisted that the Chinese delegate deputed to accompany the British official should be neither a native of, nor an office-holder in, the region to be traversed.\n\nI have the honour to append herewith an itinerary of the journey, together with a rough sketch map showing the various places passed en route.\n\nI cannot close this report without adding a few words to express my high appreciation of the very great assistance willingly and cheerfully rendered throughout the tour by the consulate writer, Mr. Chang-Po-tuan, in obtaining accurate information from day to day regarding both the route I desired to follow and the facts in relation to opium cultivation in the adjoining territory.\n\nHis Britannic Majesty's Consulate, Tengyueh June, 1917.\n\nA. E. EASTES.\n\n(No. 23.) Sir,\n\nPage 11\n\nEnclosure 3 in No. 1.\n\nConsul Tours to Mr. Alston.\n\n301\n\nIchang, July 20, 1917. IN accordance with the instructions contained in your despatch of the 10th March last, addressed to me at Chungking, I have inspected the eastern portion of the province of Yunnan, for opium-poppy cultivation; and I now have the honour to enclose herewith my report thereon.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nB. G. TOURS,\n\nReport of an Inspection of the Eastern Part of the Province of Yunnan, to learn the Amount of Cultivation of Opium Poppy. May, 1917\n\nUNDER instructions from His Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires at Peking, I had left Ichang on the 10th March, 1917, in order to proceed to the province of Kueichow to inspect that province for opium cultivation. I reached Chungking on 27th March, and there I found awaiting me further instructions from His Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires, ordering me to continue my journey when I had traversed the province of Kueichow, and to make a similar journey of inspection through the eastern part of Yunnan province. I completed my journey through Kueichow province on the 1st May, on which day I arrived at Chiang-ti, a small village on the Ching Ho or Ching-fei Ho, a river which forms the boundary-line between the two provinces of Kueichow and Yunnan at that point. The Chinese official delegates from the provincial capital of Yünnan were awaiting me in a village on the Yunnan side of the river; and having crossed the river into Yünnan at 7:30 on the morning of the 2nd May, I was received by them, and after a brief conference and farewells to the Kueichow delegates who had accompanied me across the river, we proceeded on our journey in Yünnan.\n\nThe Yunnan delegates were two: the senior was Mr. Chan Ping-chung, the head of the Bureau des Renseignements, at Yünnan-fu, a secret service department, and the assistant delegate was a Mr. Yang, a clerk from one of the Yünnan-fu yamêns. I was most unfavourably impressed with the Yünnan delegates. Mr. Chan's manner to me was off-hand and brusque to the point of rudeness; he addressed me as \"ni,\" and in many similar little ways was at some pains to show his disapproval of the expedition. Mr. Yang was a nonentity of an inferior type; I gathered that he owed his appointment as delegate to his knowledge of English, but my efforts to plumb the depths of his knowledge of the English language succeeded in only extracting one English sentence from him, and that he used as answer to every question. It was \"I do not know.\"\n\nPage 13\n\nMr. Sheu Chi, the senior Kueichow delegate, who had accompanied me across the Ching-fei Ho, was evidently of my opinion regarding the Yunnan delegates, for he took me aside and said that if I wished he would make arrangements for Mr. Chien Chih-wan, the assistant Kueichow delegate, to accompany me through Yünnan. I thanked him for the kind suggestion, but told him that I could not think of withdrawing Mr. Chien from his own duties which were awaiting his return to Kueiyang. I resolved, however, to take steps to report Mr. Chan to his superiors if he continued his objectionable attitude. He very soon afforded me the opportunity, for on our departure from Chiang-ti he got into his chair and started off with the escort and the assistant delegate, leaving me to follow by myself. I took the first opportunity of reporting to His Majesty's Consul-General at Yunnan-fu on Mr. Chan's behaviour, and the result was that the Taoyin of Kengtzu received instructions to meet me—and to accompany the expedition for the remainder of the journey as senior Chinese delegate, Mr. Chan being relegated to assistant delegate.\n\nMany changes were noticeable on passing from Kueichow to Yunnan, besides the alteration from courtesy to discourtesy of the Chinese official attitude. The aspect of the country took on a change for the worse, characterised by comparative barrenness and bleakness; and the Yunnan native was of a poorer class and of an inferior type than his Kueichow brother. The general deterioration was visible also in the crops,",
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        "content_text": "13\n\n302\n\n: \n\n! \n\n12\n\nwhich were everywhere poor and scanty. The principal crop in Eastern Yünnan was peas, but it was not comparable with the Ssuchuan crop, or even with that of Kuischow.\n\nTwo days from Chiang-ti brought us to Loping (39 miles), over bare rough country of red and very stony earth. At Loping Mr. Chan requested me to travel direct to Yunnan-fu, suggesting that from Yunnan-fu we could take the train and do the journey to Hokow comfortably in two days. He stated that he did not like the hardships and inconvenience of travel in the interior of China. I told him that I did not propose to go to Yünnan-fu, where a British consular officer was permanently stationed; and that on no account would I travel by train on such a journey of inspection. Mr. Chan, however, never ceased for several days harping on the comforts of train-travel as compared with our rough paths and tracks.\n\nFor the next five days, from Loping to Mi-le (82 miles), the country was rough and mountainous, being at the altitude of 5,000-6,000 feet above sea-level. Yunnan is notorious for its strong winds, and it well preserved its reputation during my visit. Even in the middle of the day, wearing thick clothes and a heavy winter overcoat, I was barely comfortably warm. The \"road\" led through undulating plateaux, sometimes as much as 5 miles wide, and over mountain passes; the hill country is rocky and uncultivated. The high winds bring much dust. General conditions are thus antagonistic to agriculture in that part of Eastern Yunnan, and the attenuated crops peas and barley testified to the farmers' difficulties. Population is very sparse; in the hill districts there are a considerable number of people of the Lolo tribe.\n\nof\n\nIn leaving me at the border of his jurisdiction the Lo-ping magistrate enquired with much anxiety if I had observed any opium poppy within his jurisdiction; and he vowed that to the best of his knowledge and belief there was not a single opium plant in his territory. I replied that I was aware that local officials had shown such zeal this spring in destroying all vestiges of the opium crop.\n\nThe general poverty of the highland districts was reflected in even the official buildings. The Shih-tsung magistrate offered me quarters for the night in his own yamên; the room he offered me was as good as any in the building, but even so it was in a tumbledown condition, with large holes in the roof, which also did duty as ceiling to the room.\n\nIn the environs of Kuang-hsi, a town of some 5,750 feet of height above sea-level, and of about 2,500 inhabitants, it was a pleasing change to see extensive patches of vegetable gardens. They were quite the healthiest-looking crops I had seen in Yünnan. The soil bereabouts looked less poor, being more brown than red, the reddish soil being chiefly of a sandy consistency.\n\nFrom Mile there was difficulty about route, the only recognised road going westwards to Po-hsi on the Yunnan-Tonquin railway, and the direction in which I desired to proceed being to the south-east. Local enquiry elicited information that there were rough tracks to the south-east, but they were very rarely used, and only a very few of the natives knew their way to them. I maintained that the local officials must know, or must be able to ascertain without difficulty, the routes in any direction in their own jurisdiction, and I suggested that the local officials should provide us with responsible guides. My immediate objective was Ch'iu-pei, a fairly large town, which appeared from the map to be about five or six days' march from Mi-le. Mr. Chan offered to obtain a sketch-map of the route, and he handed me a route plan, showing five stages to Ch'iu-pei. This I agreed to follow. On the second day we reached a village, Kai-tien, when Mr. Chan coolly informed me that his plan was incorrect, and that we were now only 10 miles from Ami-chow, a town on the railway; furthermore, that the only road from Kai-tien went to Ami-chow. I was highly incensed at this impudent deception, and insisted that I would attempt to find a direct route eastwards to Ch'iu-pei. With some difficulty an inferior military officer was discovered who said he knew a track to the eastward. Next morning, however, all the bearers and coolies went on strike, saying that I was taking them into wild parts of the country, where they could get no food and where they would contract fever and die. With persuasion and argument, however, the majority of them yielded, the places of the few who refused to yield being filled by local men.\n\nAfter travelling for half a day over rough hills, inhabited here and there by Lolo charcoal-burners, we came to an impasse - a long steep descent, impossible for baggage, chairs, or animals, with a river in the valley below and a difficult, if not impossible, ascent on the far side. I clambered ahead to satisfy myself that there was no way through, and after careful examination I decided to order a retreat. Mr. Chan was obviously pleased, and said that no doubt now I would overcome my prejudice to the railway, as the road to Ami-chow was the only route left for us. But I again disappointed him by telling him that I proposed to go back one day's march and try eastwards again. So we returned the following day to Chu-yuan, and thence I was more successful and reached Chiu-pei in four days' stages, in spite of much opposition.\n\nThe road to Ch'in-psi was the highest part of my journey in Yünnan.\n\nAt Huang-Ji-baiso, a small village, in which we put up for the night, two stages before reaching Ch'iu-pei, the altitude above sea-level was 6,810 feet. Villages were not frequent along this route, and the majority of the villages were inhabited by Lolo \"savages,\" who cultivated the land in the immediate vicinity of the villages, but left the steep hill-sides and the rest of the country in a state of original wildness.\n\nAt Ch'iu-pei Taoyin Ho, of Mengtzu, met me and travelled with me for the remaining eleven days to Hokow (198 miles). His health was far from good, and he travelled huddled up in his chair, complaining of the hardships of travel and of the weather, which was far from propitious, the heavy rains being just at the commencement of their season. He also pressed me to go to Mengtzu, there to take the train for the rest of the journey. He expressed himself anxious on my behalf because of the bands of brigands which infested the south-east corner of the province, and pointed out that if I did not tell him my route in detail, he could not clear the brigands away before our arrival; but I suggested that it would be far better to take the brigands quite unawares and to capture the whole band with the aid of our brave escort.\n\nFrom Chiu-pei to Kaihua (65 miles) the country was rough and mountainous. The principal cultivation in this district is an astringent root, the local name of which is \"three-seven,\" from the fact that the root is only useful for commercial purposes between its third and its seventh years. It is cultivated in large covered enclosures, and much care is given to its cultivation, dogs and cats being kept within the enclosures to keep down rats and other vermin which find the \"san-chi\" root good to eat.\n\nAt Chiang-na, one stage before Kaihua, I was unfortunate in missing by half a day only Mr. F. Brown, of the Carnegie Terrestrial Magnetism Mission. Mr. Brown had travelled much in Yünnan this spring, and was then on his way from Bhamo to Canton, via Ssumao, Mengtzu, Kaihua, Pose. Mr. Brown's route lay from west to east. I later received a letter from Mr. Brown, informing me that he had seen no opium poppy cultivation anywhere on his various routes in Yünnan. The missionaries resident at Kaihua, Messrs. Boyd and Lewer, also informed me that they frequently visited the villages on the Kaihua plain, but had seen no opium-poppy cultivation there this spring.\n\nVillagers on this part of my journey complained of lack of rain: the very skimpy crops testified to the state of drought which I found along a considerable tract of country in Eastern Yunnan. But the country itself is so stony and full of rocks that even with favourable weather conditions crops could never be anything but poor. Among the rough hills I occasionally saw Lolo women planting out paddy. Goitre is very prevalent in this district, especially among women. Beyond Kaihua, to Ma-kuan (40 miles), the country was still very hilly and villages were few and far between, and cultivation thin and poor. A great deal of pine scrub thinly covers the country in this district. Crops now included sugar-cane.\n\nThe rainy season was now setting in in earnest, and we were on the point of descending from the Yunnan plateau to the valleys near the Tonkin border, notorious for its fever and malaria. Coolies were daily falling out sick; and the Taoyin again endeavoured to induce me to change the route in the direction of the railway. I was obdurate, however, and by pressing on managed to reach Hokow, 93 miles from Makuan, in four days.\n\nfort close to the Tonkin\n\nOn the second day we reached Hsin-tien, a Chinese frontier. The height here above sea-level was 4,420 feet. Next day we commenced to descend, rapidly reaching tropical heat and vegetation. Putting up for the night in a small Lolo village, we were able to arrive on the following evening at Hokow, which town adjoins the French town of Laokai. The inhabitants of the country between Hsin-tien and Hokow are chiefly frontier tribes; the country is wild and uncultivated, except in the immediate vicinity of the villages. Some maize was being grown in the lower country.\n\nIn my direct route through Eastern Yünnan I traversed 484 miles. This does not include the excursions I made each evening from our day's destination. I saw no opium-poppy cultivation, nor did I see many signs of fields from which poppy may have been uprooted prior to my arrival. I am of opinion that in any case Eastern Yunnan is a particularly poor and arid country; that it is sparsely inhabited by a very poor type of\n\n[2729 k-1]\n\nE",
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        "content_text": "306\n\n(No. 14.) Sir,\n\n20\n\nEnclosure 7 in No. 1.\n\nActing Consul Brown to Mr. Alston.\n\nKiukiang, May 8, 1917\n\nI HAVE the honour to forward herewith a report on a journey of investigation into the cultivation of the opium poppy in the province of Kiangsi jointly with officials appointed by the Chinese Government in accordance with article 4 of the Opium Agreement of 1911.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nW. RUSSELL BROWN.\n\nEnclosure 7 in No. 1.\n\nReport on a Journey of Investigation into the Cultivation of the Opium Poppy in the Province of Kiangsi.\n\nI HAVE the honour to report that Messrs. Chien Kuang-hsi and Huang Tao-hsiung, the Chinese delegates appointed by the Wai-chiao Pu and the Ministry of the Interior, reached Kiukiang on the 16th March, and left with me by rail on the 19th March for Southern Kiangsi via Nanchang and the River Kan. This route was selected as the most practicable in view of the information in the possession of the consulate, which showed that the cultivation of opium poppy had been completely eradicated in the plains and low-lying parts of the province, and that any opium which might exist would be found in remote places in the mountains. On this point Protestant and Catholic missionaries, native informants, and the local Chinese press were unanimous. The mountainous regions of Kanchou, Yü Tu, Hsing Kuo, Ningtu, and Ihuang in the south and south-east and the range of hills lying on the borders of Chien Chang, An, and Chingan in the north-west were generally regarded as suspicious localities, and I therefore determined to visit these districts in succession. Owing to the difference in climate between the north and south of the province, the poppy flowering three weeks earlier in the Kanchou region than in the An district, we directed our course first to the south.\n\nOur party, augmented by deputies despatched by the provincial administration and escorts of soldiers and police, left Nanchang early on the morning of the 21st March in seven junks, and were towed by steam launches up the Kan River to Wanan. Here on the 28th March we left the river and proceeded by chair to Kan Hsien (formerly Kan Chou), where we arrived on the 30th March.\n\nEnquiries were made by me at the Protestant and Catholic mission stations touched at en route from Nanchang, and I was everywhere informed that the rigorous measures of the magistrate and anti-opium officials had effectually suppressed opium-poppy cultivation in those districts.\n\nThe Protestant and Catholic missionaries at Kan Hsien were equally emphatic on this point, and assured me that it would be waste of time to visit the hills in that region. I accordingly pressed on to Yü Tu, which was reached on the 2nd April, after an exceedingly difficult two days' march.\n\nAs Yü Tu was one of the few districts in which opium poppy was known to have been grown in 1916, I determined to pay particular attention to this region, and after passing the district city, I left the road, climbed the most difficult part of the mountain range, and proceeded inland for a couple of hours' journey, looking with a pair of powerful field-glasses at the pockets of land lying between the hills. In this way I was able to satisfy myself beyond doubt that no opium poppy was under cultivation in an area of many square miles. I eventually regained the main road by a different route, and in the afternoon scaled the mountains to the south-west by a woodcutter's path. Here I spent some four hours in a careful inspection of the surrounding country, and returned convinced that no opium poppy was grown there, as I had been able to see the crops over an area of more than 12 square miles. The climbing in this part of the country was so difficult that only two officers and a few of the soldiers were able to accompany me. We reached the borders of Hsing Kuo district before turning back. I did not enter that district as I had received information at Kan Hsien that opium poppy had been eradicated in that region in 1916 after a severe fight between the troops and the people, in the course of which several persons had been killed and wounded and many houses burned.\n\n21\n\nOn the 5th April we arrived at Ningtu, where we were forced to rest for one day owing to the exhaustion of our party. Many of the soldiers were brought in in chairs, as they were quite unable to walk.\n\nAt Ningtu, Mr. and Mrs. Seipel, German missionaries in charge of the China Inland Mission station in that city, gave me a most cordial welcome, and assured us that the poppy was believed to be extinct in that region. The resident Chinese Catholic priest, however, supplied me with the name of one possible opium-poppy-growing locality, the Mi Shih Chai mountain, 70 li from Ningtu, on the road to Ihuang.\n\nOn the 8th April we left in a northerly direction for Ihuang, and stopped the night at Lo K'ou. Here eight people were shot in 1915 in an affray between the opium growers and the troops despatched to carry out suppression work.\n\nThe Mi Shih Chai mountain was situated some 10 li from Lo K'ou, and early on the morning of the 9th April we mounted it by a difficult path, and spent five hours in a careful exploration of the countryside. This region is said to be infested with tigers, so extra precautions were taken for the safety of our party. No poppy could be discovered anywhere, and the remains of the previous year's crops seen in the fields showed that none had been grown last year.\n\nWe arrived at Ihuang on the 11th April, and from there proceeded to Lin Ch'uan (formerly Fu Chou), where we embarked on board junks and were towed by steam launch to Tu Chia Pu, in the Chien Ch'ang district. As the country was flooded we were able to make use of certain shallow channels and short cuts, whereby we saved between one and two days' time.\n\nIn the range of mountains lying on the borders of the three districts of Yung Hsiu (formerly Chien Ch'ang), An, and Ching An, the names of Hsia Ping, Mei Ling, and Ch'üan Shui Ch'iu had been given as possible opium-poppy-growing localities, and we therefore proceeded from Tu Chia Pu, via Yung Hsiu district city to Pai Ch'a, which appeared to be the most convenient centre for visiting the places in question. Hsia Ping, Mei Ling, and Ch'üan Shui Ch'iu were found to be in close proximity, and on the 17th April I made a careful inspection and traversed the district without finding any trace of poppy, although the paths we took led us well into the heart of the hills away from the main roads. From here we crossed the mountains to An and entered the more level country leading to Feng Hsin and Kao An (formerly Jui-chou Fu). We arrived at Kao An on the 20th April. My intention had been to proceed to Shangkao and the Wan Tsai district, but in view of the advanced date and the favourable information received from the missionaries at Kao An it appeared waste of time to investigate further in this direction, and I accordingly returned to Kiukiang via Nanchang. I spent a day and a half in the provincial capital as the guest of the civil Governor, and returned to my post at Kiukiang on the 24th April.\n\nMethod of Inspection.\n\nIn those districts where the names of possible opium-poppy-growing localities had been furnished, the Chinese delegates and I visited and inspected each of the places in question. In those regions where it was commonly believed that poppy might possibly be found somewhere in the hills, I picked out the highest and most accessible part of the mountain range, ascended it by any track that could be found, and proceeded inland or along the crest for some miles until I had satisfied myself by the aid of powerful field-glasses that no poppy was under cultivation. In order to obtain fuller information as to the crops, official anti-opium proclamations, people, and general conditions, I walked for the greater part of the overland journey, and was thereby enabled to see much that might otherwise have escaped my notice.\n\nRelations with Chinese Officials.\n\nFrom first to last I have met with the utmost courtesy and consideration at the hands of the military and civil governors and their subordinates. The district magistrates and the gentry of every district visited have extended the heartiest hospitality to me as the representative of His Majesty's legation. Every facility was given me for visiting and inspecting any part of the country, and my wishes were met in every respect.\n\nThe successful organisation of our party reflects the greatest credit on Mr. Wang Nien-tsu, the Kiukiang magistrate, and the officers under his control. It is entirely due to ...\n\n[2729 k-1]\n\nG",
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        "content_text": "# Enclosure 1\n\nHon. Colonial Secretary, \nC.O 386 34255 \n**REC REG 12 JUL 18**\n\nI have discussed the position with Mr. Weymouth, Mr. Fritz (who represents Mr. Richardson of Canton), Mr. Kew, Mr. Yamasaki (M.B.K.) and Mr. Wong Sui Hing (Swee Kee). The facts as regards the producing areas seem to be that in the S.E. area, of which Wai Chau is the centre, General Chan Kwing Ming is de facto ruler and he will allow no wolfram to move from his district until it has contributed $10 per picul to his war-chest. This is done in defiance of the Civil Government at Canton, which is itself levying a tax of $5 per picul on all wolfram passing out of the East River, besides the 2% transit tax mentioned in H.M. Consul-General's letter of the 29th April, 1918. The result of this is that no wolfram is moving by this route except clandestinely.\n\nThe supplies from the North River areas (Lok Cheung &c) are paying the Treasury's levy of $5 per picul only. These charges are quite distinct from the recognised Likin and Customs Export duty of 5% ad valorem.\n\nIt is not clear whether the \"Fu Min Co.\" (Fuk Man Kung Sz) is actually operating yet, nor whether it is a genuine commercial enterprise or merely a convenient disguise for a greedy officialdom. I am inclined to think that the latter is the case and that the $5 tax is the monopoly's.\n\nGeneral Chan Kwing Ming's action accounts for the fact that the Hongkong restrictions did not, as was anticipated, divert the whole of the wolfram trade to the Swatow-Shanghai route. He has seized wolfram belonging to foreigners in lighters and godowns at Wai Chau and there seems no particular reason why he should not do the same with...",
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        "content_text": "# Date | Event\n| --- | --- |\n| 12/11/17 | Owing to these robberies, the Chinese Railway Administration have instituted a service of patrolling cars. All Europeans have been ordered to leave their stations and to proceed to Shum Chun. |\n| 15/11/17 |  |\n| 15/11/17 |  |\n| 18/11/17 | Fighting leaves Hunan. |\n| 20/11/17 |  |\n| 21/11/17 | Agsha apiad. |\n| 21/11/17 | Jes ring ting. |\n| 29/11/17 |  |\n| 2/12/17 | Canton jon troops Swaton. |\n| 8/12/17 | Commander Lau Chi Luk at the head of the Cantonese forces is driving the Swaton forces away from Wai Chow. The Southern troops have captured Wing Fung from the Northern Forces. The latter are concentrating at Siang Tan and are said to number 25,000 men. |\n|  | The Southerners have taken several towns on the way to Changsha. Fu Liang Tao of Changsha has fled and the Northern Commanders are proposing peace. Liang Tau was occupied before the 20th. |\n|  | General Luk ordered the Tuchun Chan to leave Canton at once. He left last night in the gunboat `Kwangtung`. |\n|  | Changsha is now in the hands of the Southerners, and the Northerners are returning to Yochow. They lost 20 guns. |\n|  | Canton troops have recaptured Hungrah beyond Walchow and have captured a large quantity of ammunition. |\n|  | General Luk Wing Ting (Southern Forces) telegraphed to Peking asking them to issue a mandate to stop the fighting. |\n|  | General Luk wired Peking stating he had ordered Tam Ho Ming to stop fighting in Hunan. |\n|  | The Cantonese troops have reached Ching Hoi, 15 miles from Swatow. The Swatow troops have taken up a defensive position 7 miles from Swaton. |",
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        "content_text": "Th. Bechett.\n\nMus.\n\nGrant\n\nhaving twice postponed called. RR. Winchester\n\nhas passage at his now « berths\n\nkaz gran child) for 32nd Jan,\n\nrequest, have now (for herself) here informed her that this will fu her\n\nHong Kong 2783A\n\ncommunications to be addressed The Crown Agents for the Colonies, 4, Millbank, London, S.W. 1, and the above reference quoted.\n\nHAMBURows London,\" SE2: VICTORJA 7730.\n\nCROWN\n\nAGENTS\n\nFOR THE\n\nCOLONIES\n\nHong Kong\n\nSir,\n\nEast-chana.\n\nShe has heard from her husband in H.K. that C.A. why qouis, to receive instructions pay hu somme from H.K. but C.A. disclaimed all knowledge Löday have disclaimed such instructions.\n\nAddress ? Tel. 18. Quels for St. Russell us in d.h. Square W.C.z.\n\nof ety го 7/1/+370\n\nAGENTS FOR THE COLONIES\n\n4, MILLBANK LONDON, S.W. 1.\n\n4257dy.1919. 22. 19\n\nI have the honour to transmit herewith a copy of a letter which we have received from Mr. A. Grant, late Revenue Officer, Hong Kong, regarding a pension or gratuity to which he states he is entitled and to enquire what reply should be given.\n\n27.7.19.\n\nI have the honour to be, Sir, Your obedient Servant, Bacchus for Crown Agents.\n\nThe Under Secretary of State, Colonial Office, S.W.1.",
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        "content_text": "## Name of Petitioner\n27. Tse Sing Kee.\n\n### SANDAKAN\n1. The Chinese Chamber of Commerce.\n2. Yong Soon & Co.\n3. Teo Keo Association\n4. Yee Yee Timber Co\n5. Kwong Chiu Hing.\n6. Man Woo Loong & Co.\n7. Kwan Sheung Weng Co.\n8. Shing Kee Company.\n9. Wan Loy firm.\n10. Man Shun firm,\n11. Hop Shun firm.\n12. Kwong Tai Yuen.\n13. Kim Anu Heng.\n14. Tai Yuen firm.\n15. Tak Hing & Co.\n16. Kam Wing Fat.\n17. Sham Tak Chuen.\n18. Tong Fat firm.\n19. Hip Lee firm.\n20. Hip Lee Chan.\n\n21. Chang Fat firm.\n22. Pun Chia Hing.\n23. Sham Shing Fat.\n24. Cheung Shun Mi.\n25. Tan Siak Peng.\n26. Mok Sang firm.\n\n28. \n29. Sam Loong firm.\n30. Wan Hop firm\n31. Kwong Yick Loong.\n32. Fu Kee firm.\n33. Wing Sang firm.\n34. Yuen Sang firm.\n35. Kwen Yick & Co.\n36. Han Lam Chuen.\n37. Man Hing Lau.\n38. Nam Sing Loung.\n39. Wing Kee Shun.\n40. Kam Hin Hing.\n41. Yau Shun firm.\n42. Ping Fung firm.\n43. Tan Siak Peng Chan.\n44. Aw Ah & Co.\n45. Man Shua Woo.\n\n46. Wo Sang firm\n47. Hop Hing firm.\n48. Kan Yick firm.\n49. Sin Tao Tong.\n50. Man Sang Loong.\n51. Wai Wo Loong.\n\nPage 368",
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        "content_text": "# Name of Petitioner \n## SANDAKAN \n\n1. Mok Sang firm. \n2. Yong Soon & Co. \n3. Teo Keo Association. \n4. Yee Yee Timber Co \n5. Kwong Chiu Hing. \n6. Man Woo Loong & Co. \n7. Kwan Sheung Weng Co. \n8. Shing Kee Company. \n9. Wan Loy firm. \n10. Man Shun firm. \n11. Hop Shun firm. \n12. Kwong Tai Yuen, \n13. Kim Ann Heng. \n14. Tai Yuen firm. \n15. Tak Hing & Co. \n16. Kam Wing Fat. \n17. Sham Tak Chuen. \n18. Tong Fat firm. \n19. Hip Le firm, \n20. Hip Lee Chan. \n21. Chang Fat firm. \n22. Pun Chia Hing. \n23. Sham Shing Fat. \n24. Cheung Shun Ming \n25. Tau Siak Peng. \n26. The Chinese Chamber of Commerce. \n27. Tse Sing Kee. \n28. Kan Kee firm. \n29. Sam Loong firm. \n30. Wan Hop firm \n31. Kwong Yick Loong. \n32. Fu Kee Firm. \n33. Ving Sang firm. \n34. Yuen Sang firm. \n35. Kwong Yick & Co. \n36. Han Lum Chuen. \n37. Man Hing Lau. \n38. Nam Sing Loong. \n39. Wing Kee Shun. \n40. Kam Hin Hing. \n41. Yan Shun firm. \n42. Ping Fang firm. \n43. Tan Siak Peng Chan. \n44. Aw Al & Co. \n45. Man Shun Woo. \n46. Wo Sang firm \n47. Hop Hing firm. \n48. Kun Yick firm. \n49. Sin Teo Tong. \n50. Man Sang Loong. \n51. Wai Wo Loong. \n\n## 23 \n― \n## 385",
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        "content_text": "## \nWe cannot accept \"Leave I win myjection.\" clear. What porn 3(0)4 Fails Jom line' made quite this in the desp of 11/1/21 (on `12225/19`), $? Should be repented.\n\nI understand from Q.! Harding that, in fact, had contemplated separate investigations for orlara para 3. The fu whether the Ass. Service by enough to pemide a reliable bani für investigation into mortality expereince. The actu anial investigations +tk.) three places (58, Mr. & all bee Marggated Lave because members of That Ther ce have the Schemes. not getting the full benefits be justifis experience of $ itu. FBust to hun ✓ Kar have Damhed there arr the in duration.\n\nTogether I win the ench. the impression inventing a tini S.S.,2.0. J. ĥ * Mu through aut Instructure ILL Comes. A contemplated. mentimid with in You wh. form and `26001/203.8`. g10/3/20 paras 77/5760 by the actual their Schome mortality To rectify para to It is Chand gin it Lo a stuitly actuarial the the ct arie of such baui Experince investigate 18 Huis The 3 purpose to be Otherrée ... be neceway for where separately. kumped together) for week. it might contributer will he \n\nSpen a complani might that the benefits wh.he Ank conditions bestimately expect denimivi keð C the L The VS the health parit of wins) prevailing Contributors unough to 346 the als Co letter and (`13658719`) (`15229/16`).) howenn a tr (as widwinte the no. to the Ha. Schwe : laye 6 `26457`) enabli whether A be carried out.\n\nThe Handing investigation of Euggested that чере thi then Eume. to para 2. Cord for the actrant's pauit the * Jan What profore 15 Jay Sand to th (as `26433/s`) Young ? ; Jay that a the hope that a 1 ad tu investigatii an dau'able reply deceser nached / a copy of `26454/20` was deferred As to outar A the A. J. i but that apply further;",
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        "content_text": "## XIII Industrial Concerns\n\nAppendix gives a list of British industrial concerns in Hong Kong and China, of which twenty-eight are in Hong Kong, forty-four in Shanghai, twenty-four in Tien-tsin, ten in Hankow and twenty-three in other cities. The dockyards, sugar refineries, cement works, rope works and works of public utility (gas, electricity, light, tramways, waterworks, &c.) at Hong Kong are a valuable asset to the British position in China, and a model for the Chinese to emulate. So are the cotton mills in Shanghai, of which British interests control seven and Japanese three. As is only right and natural, our principal competitors in the development of China's industries will be the Chinese themselves. They already own thirty-five cotton mills in China, and have seventeen new mills in course of erection. Rice mills, bean mills, flour mills and silk factories are almost all in Chinese hands. The principal iron foundries are either Japanese-owned (as Penhsifu and Anshantien in Manchuria) or Japanese-controlled (as the Hanyangping Works at Hankow). British companies own two important shipbuilding works in Shanghai; and British industrial enterprise in China should be capable of expansion especially in the direction of joint Sino-British enterprises.\n\n## XIV. Wireless\n\nThe British Marconi Company last year signed a series of three agreements with the Chinese Government: (1) to supply the Chinese War Office with wireless telephones for ten years; (2) to erect a chain of wireless stations between Peking and Kashgar, with a loan of £600,000; (3) to form a Sino-British \"National Wireless Telegraph Company\" for a factory for wireless apparatus, with exclusive rights for twenty years.\n\n## XV. Aviation\n\nSix large passenger-carrying machines and two avros have been purchased by the Chinese Government from the Handley Page Company, and a contract has been signed with Messrs. Vickers for the supply of one hundred Vickers-Vimy aeroplanes (with a loan of £1,800,000). A British Royal Air Force officer has been engaged as aviation adviser to the Chinese Government.\n\n## XVI. Cables\n\nThe Eastern Extension, Australasia and China Telegraph Company (British) is one of the principal cable companies operating in China. Its rival and associate is the Great Northern Telegraph Company (Danish), with which it shares a special concession from the Chinese Government; and the line of the Commercial Pacific Company (American) touches China at Shanghai. There are German cables (Deutsch-Nederlandisch-Telegraphen Gesellschaft), whose future has not yet been disposed of. The chief line to Japan (Shanghai-Nagasaki) is controlled by the Danish Company, but the Japanese Government have the right to lay another line of their own. The Japanese own a cable between Sasebo (Japan) and Dairen, and between Dairen and Chefoo.\n\n## XVII.—Mining\n\n| Mines | Tons |\n| --- | --- |\n| Kailan Mining Administration (Chihli) | 4,000,000 |\n| Fu-chung Corporation (Honan) | 1,250,000 |\n| Mentoukou mines | Nil |\n| Total | 5,250,000 |\n\nThe other principal modern coal mines are the Japanese-owned, or Japanese-controlled mines in Manchuria, Shantung and Kiangsi, which produce 5,310,000 tons. Chinese mines worked by natural methods are estimated to produce 10,000,000 tons. The Kailan Administration has concluded an agreement for exploitation of the Tatung coalfields in North Shansi; and is negotiating for an iron concession in the Yang-tsze Valley. The principal iron mines (Manchuria and the Hanyeping deposits) are controlled by the Japanese. British and American companies are negotiating for gold concessions (co-operative), and an American company has concluded a preliminary agreement for the exploitation of mineral resources in Yunnan.\n\n## XVIII. Co-operative Enterprises\n\nThe China Annual Report, 1919, says:—\n\nThere has been a strong movement in favour of co-operative enterprise between Chinese and foreign business men during recent years. From the point of view of the foreigner in China co-operation has practical advantages. Under treaty their residence and activities are confined to the treaty ports. They cannot hold land or any other security in the great interior so long as they are operating as foreign firms. Co-operative enterprise was first tried in connection with mining, and after it had been realised that the day of the 'concession' had passed in China.\n\nNotable Anglo-Chinese enterprises are:\n- The Kailan Mining Administration, 1912.\n- The Fuchung Corporation, 1915.\n- The Chinese National Wireless Company (Limited), 1919.\n- The Chinese Mining Corporation (Limited), 1919.\n- The Chinese-British Trade Corporation, 1919.\n\nThere are also Sino-Japanese, Sino-American, and Sino-French concerns.\n\nPage 136",
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        "content_text": "#contrai galene vai mata sitë në hissi med svaď \"artofdoain vza is not a coherent text and will be ignored.\n\n278 \n\nNot far to seek. The person responsible for this is General Ch'ên Yün-p'êng, Prime Minister of a government created and maintained by a clique of Northern Military Governors or Tuchuns consisting of Chang Tso-lin, Inspector General of Manchuria, and Ts'ao K'un, Inspector General of Chihli, Shantung, and Honan; and with them must be reckoned, since the recent Tientsin Conference, Wang Chan-yuan, Inspector General of Hupeh and Hunan. Chang Tso-lin has loyally stood by the Premier and the \"elections\" in his three provinces have been completed. Ts'ao K'un would personally like to carry out the same policy, but is unable to do so owing to the fact that power in two of his provinces, Chihli and Honan, is largely in the hands of his Assistant Inspector, General Wu P'ei-fu, who has let him know that no elections will be permitted in localities which he or his subordinates control; while the province of Shantung remains in the hands of the Military Governor T'ien Chung-yu who was suspected of \"Anfu\" sympathies at the time of last summer's Civil War, and who has hitherto steadfastly refused to do anything to facilitate elections.\n\nMilitary leaders opposed at the present time to the summoning of Parliament are able to support their refusal by the argument of popular opposition. Radical China does not wish to see another puppet Parliament which would give a show of legality to the \"illegal\" acts of the country's present rulers; the merchant classes do not desire the large expenditure of funds which elections always entail, funds to obtain which they would be milked; the old-fashioned gentry are, as always, opposed to a Parliament, particularly when they see so little chance of their securing control of it.\n\nThe idea of Ch'ên Yün-p'êng and Chang Tso-lin is that the new Parliament should be one which would back them through thick and thin. As it appears that powers hostile to this combination are so largely in control of the country as to...",
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        "content_text": "# Report of an Inspection of the Eastern Part of the Province of Yunnan, to learn the Amount of Cultivation of Opium Poppy. May, 1917.\n\nUNDER instructions from His Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires at Peking, I had left Ichang on the 10th March, 1917, in order to proceed to the province of Kueichow to inspect that province for opium cultivation. I reached Chungking on the 27th March, and there I found awaiting me further instructions from His Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires, ordering me to continue my journey when I had traversed the province of Kueichow, and to make a similar journey of inspection through the eastern part of Yunnan province. I completed my journey through Kueichow province on the 1st May, on which day I arrived at Chiang-ti, a small village on the Ching Ho or Ching-fei Ho, a river which forms the boundary-line between the two provinces of Kueichow and Yunnan at that point. The Chinese official delegates from the provincial capital of Yunnan were awaiting me in a village, on the Yunnan side of the river; and having crossed the river into Yunnan at 7:30 on the morning of the 2nd May, I was received by them, and after a brief conference and farewells to the Kueichow delegates, who had accompanied me across the river, we proceeded on our journey in Yunnan.\n\nThe Yunnan delegates were two: the senior was Mr. Chan Ping-chung, the head of the Bureau des Renseignements, at Yunnan-fu; a secret service department, and the assistant delegate was a Mr. Yang, a clerk from one of the Yunnan-fu yamêns.\n\nMany changes were noticeable on passing from Kueichow to Yunnan. The aspect of the country took on a change for the worse, characterised by comparative barrenness and bleakness; and the Yunnan native was of a poorer class and of an inferior type than his Kueichow brother. The general deterioration was visible also in the crops, which were everywhere poor and scanty. The principal crop in Eastern Yunnan was peas, but it was not comparable with the Ssuchuan crop, or even with that of Kueichow.\n\nTwo days from Chiang-ti brought us to Loping (39 miles), over bare rough country of red and very stony earth. At Loping Mr. Chan requested me to travel direct to Yunnan-fu, suggesting that from Yunnan-fu we could take the train and do the journey to Hokow comfortably in two days. He stated that he did not like the hardships and inconvenience of travel in the interior of China. I told him that I did not propose to go to Yunnan-fu, where a British consular officer was permanently stationed; and that on no account would I travel by train on such a journey of inspection. Mr. Chan, however, never ceased for several days harping on the comforts of train-travel as compared with our rough paths and tracks.\n\nFor the next five days, from Loping to Mi-le (82 miles), the country was rough and mountainous, being at the altitude of 5,000-6,000 feet above sea-level. Yunnan is notorious for its strong winds, and it well preserved its reputation during my visit. Even in the middle of the day, wearing thick clothes and a heavy winter overcoat, I was barely comfortably warm. The \"road\" led through undulating plateaux, sometimes as much as 5 miles wide, and over mountain passes; the hill country is rocky and uncultivated. The high winds bring much dust. General conditions are thus antagonistic to agriculture in that part of Eastern Yunnan, and the attenuated crops of peas and barley testified to the farmers' difficulties. Population is very sparse; in the hill districts there are a considerable number of people of the Lolo tribe.\n\nOn leaving me at the border of his jurisdiction the Lo-ping magistrate enquired with much anxiety if I had observed any opium poppy within his jurisdiction; and he vowed that to the best of his knowledge and belief there was not a single opium plant in his territory. I replied that I was aware that local officials had shown much zeal this spring in destroying all vestiges of the opium crop.\n\nThe general poverty of the highland districts was reflected in even the official buildings. The Shih-tsung magistrate offered me quarters for the night in his own yamên; the room he offered me was as good as any in the building, but even so it was in a tumbledown condition, with large holes in the roof, which also did duty as ceiling to the room.\n\nIn the environs of Kuang-hsi, a town of some 5,750 feet of height above sea-level, and of about 2,500 inhabitants, it was a pleasing change to see extensive patches of vegetable gardens. They were quite the healthiest-looking crops I had seen in Yunnan. The soil hereabouts looked less poor, being more brown than red, the reddish soil being chiefly of a sandy consistency.\n\nFrom Mi-le there was difficulty about route, the only recognised road going westwards to Po-hsi on the Yunnan-Tonquin railway, and the direction in which I desired to proceed being to the south-east. Local enquiry elicited information that there were rough tracks to the south-east, but they were very rarely used, and only a very few of the natives knew their way to them. I maintained that the local officials must know, or must be able to ascertain without difficulty, the routes in any direction in their own jurisdiction, and I suggested that the local officials should provide us with responsible guides. My immediate objective was Ch'iu-pei, a fairly large town, which appeared from the map to be about five or six days' march from Mi-le. Mr. Chan offered to obtain a sketch-map of the route, and he handed me a route plan, showing five stages to Ch'iu-pei. This I agreed to follow. On the second day we reached a village, Kai-tien, when Mr. Chan coolly informed me that his plan was incorrect, and that we were now only 10 miles from Ami-chow, a town on the railway; furthermore, that the only road from Kai-tien went to Ami-chow. I was highly incensed at this impudent deception, and insisted that I would attempt to find a direct route eastwards to Chiu-pei. With some difficulty an inferior military officer was discovered who said he knew a track to the eastward. Next morning, however, all the bearers and coolies went on strike, saying that I was taking them into wild parts of the country, where they could get no food and where they would contract fever and die. With persuasion and argument, however, the majority of them yielded, the places of the few who refused to yield being filled by local men.\n\nAfter travelling for half a day over rough hills, inhabited here and there by Lolo charcoal-burners, we came to an impasse - a long steep descent, impossible for baggage, chairs, or animals, with a river in the valley below and a difficult, if not impossible, ascent on the far side. I clambered ahead to satisfy myself that there was no way through, and after careful examination I decided to order a retreat. Mr. Chan was obviously pleased, and said that no doubt now I would overcome my prejudice to the railway, as the road to Ami-chow was the only route left for us. But I again disappointed him by telling him that I proposed to go back one day's march and try eastwards again. So we returned the following day to Chu-yuan, and thence I was more successful and reached Chiu-pei in four days' stages, in spite of much opposition.\n\nThe road to Ch'iu-pei was the highest part of my journey in Yunnan. At Huang-li-hai-so, a small village, in which we put up for the night, two stages before reaching Chiu-pei, the altitude above sea-level was 6,810 feet. Villages were not frequent along this route, and the majority were inhabited by Lolo savages, who cultivated the land in the immediate vicinity of the villages, but left the steep hill-sides and the rest of the country in a state of original wildness.\n\nAt Ch'iu-pei, Taoyin Ho, of Mengtzu, met me and travelled with me for the remaining eleven days to Hokow (198 miles). His health was far from good, and he travelled huddled up in his chair, complaining of the hardships of travel and of the weather, which was far from propitious, the heavy rains being just at the commencement of their season. He also pressed me to go to Mengtzu, there to take the train for the rest of the journey. He expressed himself anxious on my behalf because of the bands of brigands which infested the south-east corner of the province, and pointed out that if I did not tell him my route in detail, he could not clear the brigands away before our arrival; but I suggested that it would be far better to take the brigands quite unawares and to capture the whole band with the aid of our brave escort.\n\nFrom Chiu-pei to Kaihua (63 miles) the country was rough and mountainous. The principal cultivation in this district is an astringent root, the local name of which is \"Three-Seven,\" from the fact that the root is only useful for commercial purposes between its third and its seventh years. It is cultivated in large covered enclosures, and much care is given to its cultivation, dogs and cats being kept within the enclosures to keep down rats and other vermin which find the san-ch'i good to eat.\n\nAt Chiang-na, one stage before Kaihua, I was unfortunate in missing by half a day only, Mr. F. Brown, of the Carnegie Terrestrial Magnetism Mission. Mr. Brown had travelled much in Yunnan this spring, and was then on his way from Bhamo to Canton, viâ Ssumo, Mengtzu, Kaihua, Pose. Mr. Brown's route lay from west to east. I later received a letter from Mr. Brown, informing me that ...",
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        "content_text": "68 \n\nEnclosure 7 in No. 29. \n\nActing Consul Brown to Mr. Alston. \n\n**Sir.** \n\nKiukiang, May 8, 1917. I have the honour to forward herewith a report on a journey of investigation into the cultivation of the opium poppy in the province of Kiangsi jointly with officials appointed by the Chinese Government in accordance with article 4 of the Opium Agreement of 1911. \n\nI have, &c. \n\nEnclosure 8 in No. 29. \n\nW. RUSSELL BROWN. \n\n## Report on a Journey of Investigation into the Cultivation of the Opium Poppy in the Province of Kiangsi. \n\nI have the honour to report that Messrs. Chien Kuang-hsi and Huang Tao-hsiung, the Chinese delegates appointed by the Wai-chiao Pu and the Ministry of the Interior, reached Kiukiang on the 16th March, and left with me by rail on the 19th March for Southern Kiangsi via Nanchang and the River Kan. This route was selected as the most practicable in view of the information in the possession of the consulate, which showed that the cultivation of opium poppy had been completely eradicated in the plains and low-lying parts of the province, and that any opium which might exist would be found in remote places in the mountains. On this point Protestant and Catholic missionaries, and the local Chinese press were unanimous. The mountainous regions of Kanchou, Yu Tu, Hsing Kuo, Ningtu, and Ihuang in the south and south-east and the range of hills lying on the borders of Chien Chang, Ani, and Chingan in the north-west were generally regarded as suspicious localities, and I therefore determined to visit these districts in succession. Owing to the difference in the climate between the north and south of the province, the poppy flowering three weeks earlier in the Kanchou region than in the Ani district, we directed our course first to the south. \n\nOur party, augmented by deputies despatched by the provincial administration and escorts of soldiers and police, left Nanchang early on the morning of the 21st March in seven junks, and were towed by steam launches up the Kan River to Wanan. Here on the 28th March we left the river and proceeded by chair to Kan Hsien (formerly Kan Chou), where we arrived on the 30th March. \n\nEnquiries were made by me at the Protestant and Catholic mission stations touched at en route from Nanchang, and I was everywhere informed that the rigorous measures of the magistrates and anti-opium officials had effectually suppressed opium-poppy cultivation in those districts. \n\nThe Protestant and Catholic missionaries at Kan Hsien were equally emphatic on this point, and assured me that it would be waste of time to visit the hills in that region. I accordingly pressed on to Yü Tu, which was reached on the 2nd April, after an exceedingly difficult two days' march. \n\nAs Yu Tu was one of the few districts in which opium poppy was known to have been grown in 1916, I determined to pay particular attention to this region, and after passing the district city, I left the road, climbed the most difficult part of the mountain range, and proceeded inland for a couple of hours' journey, looking with a pair of powerful field-glasses at the pockets of land lying between the hills. In this way I was able to satisfy myself beyond doubt that no opium poppy was under cultivation in an area of many square miles. I eventually regained the main road by a different route, and in the afternoon scaled the mountains to the south-west by a woodcutter's path. Here I spent some four hours in a careful inspection of the surrounding country, and returned convinced that no opium poppy was grown there, as I had been able to see the crops over an area of more than 12 square miles. The climbing in this part of the country was so difficult that only two officers and a few of the soldiers were able to accompany me. We reached the borders of Hsing Kuo district before turning back. I did not enter that district as I had received information at Kan Hsien that opium poppy had been eradicated in that region in 1916 after a severe fight between the troops and the people, in the course of which several persons had been killed and wounded and many houses burned. \n\n87 \n\nOn the 5th April we arrived at Ningtu, where we were forced to rest for one day owing to the exhaustion of our party. Many of the soldiers were brought in in chairs, as they were quite unable to walk. \n\nAt Ningtu, Mr. and Mrs. Seipel, missionaries in charge of the China Inland Mission station in that city, gave me a most cordial welcome, and assured us that the poppy was believed to be extinct in that region. But from another source I learnt the name of one possible opium-poppy growing locality, the Mi Shih Chai mountain, 70 li from Ningtu, on the road to Ihuang. \n\nOn the 8th April we left in a northerly direction for Ihuang, and stopped the night at Lo K'ou. Here eight people were shot in 1915 in an affray between the opium growers and the troops despatched to carry out suppression work. \n\nThe Mi Shih Chai mountain was situated some 10 li from Lo K'ou, and early on the morning of the 9th April we mounted it by a difficult path, and spent five hours in a careful exploration of the countryside. This region is said to be infested with tigers, so extra precautions were taken for the safety of our party. No poppy could be discovered anywhere, and the remains of the previous year's crops seen in the fields showed that none had been grown last year. We arrived at Ihuang on the 11th April, and from there proceeded to Lin Ch'uan (formerly Fu Chou), where we embarked on board junks and were towed by steam launch to Tu Chia Pu, in the Chien Ch'ang district. As the country was flooded we were able to make use of certain shallow channels and short cuts, whereby we saved between one and two days' time. \n\nIn the range of mountains lying on the borders of the three districts of Yung Hsiu (formerly Chien Ch'ang), Ani, and Ching An, the names of Hsia Ping, Mei Ling, and Ch'üan Shui Ch'in had been given as possible opium-poppy growing localities, and we therefore proceeded from Tu Chia Pu, via Yung Hsiu district city to Pai Ch'a, which appeared to be the most convenient centre for visiting the places in question. Hsia Ping, Mei Ling, and Ch'üan Shui Ch'in were found to be in close proximity, and on the 17th April I made a careful inspection and traversed the district without finding any trace of poppy, although the paths we took led us well into the heart of the hills away from the main roads. From here we crossed the mountains to Ani and entered the more level country leading to Feng Hsin and Kao An (formerly Jui-chou Fu). We arrived at Kao An on the 20th April. My intention had been to proceed to Shang-kao and the Wan Tsai district, but in view of the advanced date and the favourable information received from the missionaries at Kao An it appeared waste of time to investigate further in this direction, and I accordingly returned to Kiukiang via Nanchang. I spent a day and a half in the provincial capital as the guest of the civil Governor, and returned to my post at Kiukiang on the 24th April. \n\n## Method of Inspection. \n\nIn those districts where the names of possible opium-poppy growing localities had been furnished, the Chinese delegates and I visited and inspected each of the places in question. In those regions where it was commonly believed that poppy might possibly be found \"somewhere in the hills,\" I picked out the highest and most inaccessible part of the mountain range, ascended it by any track that could be found, and proceeded inland or along the crest for some miles until I had satisfied myself by the aid of powerful field-glasses that no poppy was under cultivation. In order to obtain fuller information as to the crops, official anti-opium proclamations, people, and general conditions, I walked for the greater part of the overland journey, and was thereby enabled to see much that might otherwise have escaped my notice. \n\n## Relations with Chinese Officials. \n\nFrom first to last I have met with the utmost courtesy and consideration at the hands of the Military and Civil Governors and their subordinates. The district magistrates and the gentry of every district visited have extended the heartiest hospitality to me as the representative of His Majesty's Legation. 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        "content_text": "# [This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government, \n## CHINA. \n### CONFIDENTIAL. \n`[F 3235/81/10]` \n\nNo. 1. \n## [August 20.] \n### SECTION 2. \n\n**Sir B. Alston to the Marquess Curzon of Kedleston**—(Received August 29.) (No. 389.)\n\nMy Lord,\n\nPeking, July 11, 1921.\n\nIN continuation of my despatch No. 180 of the 1st April, I have the honour to report on the political situation in this country since that date.\n\nIn Szechuan and Yunnan there has been no change. In the former province Liu Hsiang has had his position as Commander-in-chief of troops (which is temporarily combined with that of Civil Governor) confirmed by a so-called \"election;\" fighting which took place between the troops of Liu Ts'un-hou and their opponents has now ceased, but the province is still much disturbed, as described in my despatch No. 316 of the 18th June. In Yunnan, likewise, the conditions remain unsettled.\n\nIn Canton the dispute between Ch'en Chiung-ming and Sun Yat-sen terminated, temporarily at any rate, in the victory of the latter, who, on the 7th April, was elected by the \"Rump\" Parliament at Canton as President of the Republic. Hostilities between Kuangtung and the adjoining province of Kuangsi broke out about the 20th June. While the forces attacking the latter province by the West River route have succeeded in capturing the important city and port of Wuchow, they have not been successful in other directions, principally in the neighbourhood of Yamchow and Limchow, cities not far from the treaty port of Pakhoi; the Kuangsi forces have evidently concentrated their efforts in this direction in order to obtain independent access to the sea, which they do not normally possess.\n\nTurning to the province of Hupei, a mutiny of troops occurred at Ichang on the 4th June, resulting in the destruction by fire or looting of nearly all Chinese merchandise and property of value left after the mutiny of the 30th November last, and also causing much loss to British and other foreign merchants; full accounts of this event were given in my despatches Nos. 361 and 377 of the 28th June and 4th July respectively. Four days later the Military Governor's own troops mutinied and looted at Wuchang, the provincial capital, as reported in my despatch No. 363 of the 29th June. As a result General Wang Chan-yuan's position, bolstered up though it may be by his colleagues of Chihli and Mukden, has been much weakened, and it is doubtful how much longer he will be able to maintain his position in the face of threatened revolt by political parties opposed to him as well as by his own subordinates, among whom his butchery of 1,700 unarmed mutineers after the Wuchang mutiny has done nothing to enhance his reputation.\n\nOn the 25th May the President issued a mandate removing from his position the Military Governor of Shansi, Ch'en Shu-fan, who has for some years maintained and enriched himself by the proceeds of opium grown in his province, and appointing Yen Hsiang-wen, a subordinate of Wu Pei-fu, to succeed him. His successor has entered Shensi province with the assistance of numerous troops, who have on occasion had to fight troops owing allegiance to Chen Shu-fan. The intentions of the latter are not as yet clear; while he has made military dispositions, as if preparing to resist his successor, he continues to declare his readiness to hand over charge to Yen as soon as the latter reaches Taiyuan. There are grounds for the opinion that his desire is to delay his departure until he has received funds naturally coming to him from the opium harvest, which is now being gathered in.\n\nThe conference which took place at Tien-tsin at the end of April and beginning of May between the Military Governors of Mukden, Chihli and Hupeh, was succeeded by a visit of the three satraps to Peking, where they called upon the President and indulged night after night in gambling for huge sums of money. They finally returned to their homes at the end of May, taking with them sums which are believed to vary between 600,000 dollars and 3,000,000 dollars, which they had wrung from the so-called Central Government. The last-named sum is stated to have been obtained by Chang Tso-lin, who has accepted the position of Military High Commissioner for Mongolia and the duty of recovering that region for China, though it is stated that he still refuses to ...\n\nPage 566 \n`[6735 -2]`",
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        "content_text": "## TOILA \n\nIn the evening General Chan gave a dinner at his Yam in my honour, at which were present practically all the high officials of Canton, including Doctor Bun and Doctor Fu. The conversation at this dinner was just the kind of talks usual at functions of the kind. Doctor Fu discoursed on spiritualism; while the redoubtable Doctor Sun gave a dissertation, for our benefit, on what appeared to be a form of communism.\n\nOn the morning of Monday the eighth March, before I left the Hotel for the Railway station for my return journey to Hong Kong, the Governor's secretaries and a number of other interested people again called, all urging me not to leave things as they were, and offering to support whole-heartedly any scheme of government that I might propose. I told them consistent with my duty towards Hong Kong, I would do everything in my power to promote the interest of Kwang-tung, which, after all, were bound up with the interests of our Colony.\n\nDuring my stay in Canton, I was able to plan the following information from various sources, especially from my lengthy talk with General Chan.\n\n### NEGOTIATION OF EXTRA-TERRITORIALITY \n\nTwo special agents have been sent down by the Premier, and they are now staying in Canton. The Peking Government has offered to confirm the appointment of Chan - presumably in his dual capacity as the Military and Civil Governor of the Province, and to pay off his arrears of pay due to the troops, on condition that Chan will sever his connections with the Sun Party. Chan is not in a position to accept the offer without the support of the merchants and the people. On Sun's side, every effort is being made to have himself selected President, Chan replaced with Tong Shao-yi as the Minister of War to the Military or Southern Government.",
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        "content_text": "## \nIn the large towns, in addition to the magistrate, and the officers in charge of judicial and police matters, a municipal council will be established to help the magistrate.\n\nA University to train judicial officers is to be established, with Chan Tak-lai as the Chancellor (Chan Fu Shau is the man whom the Cantonese merchants now agitate to exile from the Province for persuading Toishan girls amongst the boy and girl students).\n\nAll the big lines of trade are to be controlled by the Government itself, capitalist being allowed to join as shareholders without the right of participation in the management. In order to help the Governor to carry out this plan, a Financial Executive Council, to consist of the Governor, the Commissioner, the Adviser of Internal Affairs and six members to be selected from the merchants and gentry, will be instituted.\n\n## \nIn the opinion of those in power, this Province should be conquered and handed over to the members of the Southern Party to govern.\n\nInstead of looking to Kwangtung as it was, Fukien, Kwangsi, Yunnan and Yunan Provinces being in league with Kwangtung, help cannot be obtained, with Kwangsi blocking the way.\n\nAs soon as funds are available (say 4 million dollars), an army at Yunnan will be dispatched to the frontier; while Yunnan will send 40,000 men to co-operate. When Kwangtung has been conquered, it would be easy for the four provinces to assemble their forces and march straight up to the Yangtse Valley, where \"Wu Pei Fu\" and \"Chuan C. i-aud\" in the north will join forces with the Southern Party in overthrowing the present Government.\n\nThe real Government should be such as to permit of each province choosing and appointing its own Governor, whose duty would be merely to represent the interests and wishes of the people.",
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        "content_text": "# CHINA.\n## CONFIDENTIAL.\n[F3869/81/10]\n\n### No. 1.\n#### [October 24.]\n##### SECTION 2.\n\nSir B. Alston to the Marquess Curzon of Kedleston.—(Received October 24.) (No. 507.)\n\nMy Lord,\n\nPeking, September 1, 1921,\n\nIN continuation of my despatch No. 389 of the 11th July I have the honour to report on the political situation in this country since that date.\n\nThe war between Kuangtung and Kuangsi has terminated entirely in favour of the former, largely owing to Kuangsi's inability to obtain ammunition. Jungting having resigned his post of inspector-general of the Two Kuang, the war was at an end, as far as serious operations under a united command went, at the end of July, though considerable bodies of troops, one of them holding the treaty port of Lungchow on the Tonkin border, remain to be wiped out. Chen Ch'ung-ming still controls internal conditions in Kuangtung, Sun Yat-sen and ... supporting divergent policies.\n\nIn Hupeh the feeling against Wang Chan-yuan, evoked by his responsibility for the several mutinies and lootings which had taken place at Ichang and Wuchang in that province, led to a widespread demand for his replacement. The Government, led by the remaining two super-Tuchuns, refused to give ear to this demand, and, soon after the middle of July, it became evident that Hunanese troops, accompanied by a so-called **Hupeh Self-Government Army**, were about to attack Wang. Hostilities began about the 24th of that month, the invading forces, who were subsequently reinforced by provincial troops from Kueichow, announcing that their object was but to obtain the removal of Wang and self-government for Hupeh. Wang's troops fought poorly, even for Chinese troops, and many of them surrendered. Under the circumstances, it became necessary for him to ask for assistance. On the 27th, troops under the command of Hsiao Yueh-nan, one of Wu Pei-fu's generals, began to arrive at Hankow. They gave him no military assistance, however, and his opponents continued to advance. On the 6th August Wang tendered his resignation, which was accepted three days later. Hsiao Yueh-nan being appointed by Presidential mandate Military Governor of Hupeh, and Wu Pei-fu inspector-general of that province and Hunan. Wu declined the appointment.\n\nUnfortunately, these mandates were not sufficient to satisfy the attacking forces, one of whose leaders styled himself \"elected Governor of Hupeh.\" These advanced to within 25 miles of Wuchang (the provincial capital opposite Hankow), but refused to accept the terms offered by Wu P'ei-fu. They have now been driven back over the Hunan frontier, the border city of Yochow having been occupied by Wu. In the meantime, the troops of Szechuen have crossed the Hupeh frontier and are now only a short distance from Ichang; while Canton troops are also stated to have entered Hunan for the purpose of assisting the latter - a step which, as in the case of the attack on Kwangsi, is believed to meet with the disapproval of Ch'en Ch'ung-ming.\n\nIt should be added that the usual concomitant of civil fighting on the Yang-tsze has ensued, foreign merchant ships and, occasionally, gunboats being fired upon by both the opposing forces. A number of passengers and Chinese members of ships' crews have been killed and wounded, but so far no foreigner has been touched.\n\nIn the meantime, Wu P'ei-fu has put himself in the bad books of the merchants at Hankow through the \"loan\" of 800,000 dollars which he has forced them to give him, while strong local objection has also been raised against Hsiao Yueh-nan, who is said to have been appointed Military Governor merely because he was the only native of Hupeh among Wu Pei-fu's generals. He is reported, according to His Majesty's consul-general at Hankow, to be a confirmed opium smoker. Taking it altogether, Wu Pei-fu has so far disappointed some of the hopes based on his democratic utterances and manner of life in the past; but it is too early as yet to condemn him.\n\nAccording to the press, he has just sent a circular telegram to all provinces condemning alike the Peking and Canton Governments and inviting a national ...\n\n[7052 aa-2]\n632",
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        "content_text": "## 2\n\nconsequently exempted from customs examination. Since the departure from Hupeh of the former Tuchun, Wang Chan-yuan, in consequence of the recent revolt in that province, it has come to light, according to the statements of the correspondent of the North China Daily News, who derives his information from Wu-pei-fu himself, that these shiploads of opium were imported by the late Tuchun in return for consignments of arms and equipment supplied by him to the Szechuan leaders, who have since attempted to invade the province. While the truth of this allegation, though probably correct, cannot be absolutely affirmed, the fact that such a story can be published nowadays without evoking surprise is sufficient to indicate the gulf which exists between the actual state of affairs and the picture drawn by the Chinese Minister. I would add that the attempt of Dr. Koo and the delegate on the advisory committee to ride off on the smuggling issue is thoroughly disingenuous, as the evil of cultivation and internal traffic is at the present time out of all proportion to the illicit importation of the foreign product, though it is true that the smuggling of narcotic drugs, such as morphia, rivals opium in its evil effects.\n\nI have thought it my duty to draw your Lordship's attention to the obvious effort which is being made to divert the attention of the League of Nations from the opium accord with the view expressed some time ago by Sir John Jordan, that the prestige of the League furnishes at the present time the most effective lever available for inducing this country to check the retrograde movement which is proceeding at present with such dire results, and that an opportunity will be lost if that body allows itself to be lulled into inactivity over this question by the spacious phrases of Chinese apologists.\n\nI have, &c.\n**B. ALSTON**\n\n## 3\n\n783 reports would show that these allegations must be due either to faulty transmission of information or to rumours being spread by other troops.\n\nThe opium evil has fallen heavily upon this country, but it is a matter for gratification that the minds of the people are awake to the situation. We also enjoy the benefit of your country's whole-hearted support in the work of freeing ourselves from this evil. In spite of the many national difficulties which in recent years have rendered it impossible for preventive vigilance to take complete effect, all from the President down to the officials and the people generally detest the drug, and are daily fighting bitterly for its eradication, that the country may be swept clean of the reproach. Although there are differences between the reports sent in by the high military and civil officials of the various provinces and territories in the conditions which are described, these high officials all agree in taking upon themselves the responsibility for opium suppression. To say that the surface of things conceals some circumstances which have prevented the successful carrying out of this policy may be not altogether false, but it would hardly be true to the facts to accuse the officials of looking with favour on the poisonous article or of aiming at frustrating the work of opium suppression as a whole.\n\nMy duty as Minister for Foreign Affairs obliges me to do all I can in protection of treaty obligations, and it is with feelings alive to the onus of such a position that I offer to your Excellency the assurance of my purpose so to act.\n\nI have the honour to enclose for your Excellency's information and for communication to His Majesty's Government an abstract of the replies on the opium question which have been received from the Military Governors and Civil Governors and Lieutenants-General, and avail, &c.\n\n(Seal of the Wai-chiao Pu)\n\n## Enclosure in No. 1\n\n(Translation)\n\nSir,\n\nWai-chiao Pu to Sir B. Alston.\n\nSeptember 7, 1921.\n\nI HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Excellency's note of the 28th June last, in which you state that you had the honour to address me under instructions from your Government on the subject of the cultivation of, and traffic in, opium in this country.\n\nBefore the above note was received, his Excellency the President had promulgated a special mandate with warning in strong terms on the subject, and had specially appointed commissioners to carry out investigations in different provinces. After the receipt of your note a report setting forth the facts was submitted to his Excellency, who instructed the Cabinet to communicate with the high authorities, military and civil, in all the provinces and administrative territories enjoining upon them the strict enforcement of the prohibition. At the same time separate communications were addressed to the various provinces and territories by this Ministry and the Ministry of the Interior in accordance with the points raised in your note, and calling for reports as to the facts. With the single exception of the province of Sukiang, which is particularly remote, and from which no reply has yet been received (but regarding which telegrams have been received from military governor Yang, and their sense communicated to your Excellency in this Ministry's letters of the 17th February, the 3rd May, and the 2nd July of this year), the various replies have now successively come to hand and been subjected to consideration by this Ministry.\n\nThe general tenor of these replies is to the effect that opium suppression is an important part of the administration of government, and is being prosecuted with the exertion of every effort. In the various more out-of-the-way regions throughout the country, however, surreptitious cultivation of opium does occasionally occur. It may be that stress of calamity may be made a pretext for relaxing the prohibition, the people knowing no better may falsely employ the names of military persons to cover their actions; or military persons may use shortness of funds for the payment of troops as a pretext; or complete prevention and suppression of opium dealings may be impossible owing to the part of the country concerned having been previously under the sway of other troops. In all cases, however, poppy is uprooted on discovery, officials are even dismissed and soldiers and people fined or otherwise punished. As regards the allegations of poppy cultivation in Shensi with the levy of a tax and of the cultivation being permitted in Jehol on the payment of 6 dollars per mou, the ...",
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        "content_text": "MINUTES.\n\nbellish\n\nSit.\n\nhoney\n\nacust\n\na very\n\nThey will no doubt hear from Maton, & show for, has sent copy of hill.\n\nte 27/5/22\n\nCopy to F.O. ask what.\n\nGh.27.8.22 27.1.22\n\n?\n\nrefly\n\nYu. 28.5.\n\nbin wood (Later offer action)\n\n(S.F. will have worm the mutely professed A20.0)\n\nSe 30.3.\n\nMINUTES NOT TO BE WRITTEN ON THIS SIDE.\n\nPARAPHRASE TELEGRAM from the Governor of Hong Kong to the Secretary of State for the Colonies, (Received Colonial Office 11.50 a.m, 26th March, 1922). Dated 26th March,\n\n290 A# 8\n\nA copy of this telegram has been sent to Peking. Result of agreement between Wu Pei Fu and Chang Tso Lin it now appears to be practically certain that Sun Yatsen's proposed expedition to the north will fall through. Sun will in that case try to return to Canton. He has already sent emissaries who have assassinated Chan Kwing Ming's Chief of Staff and attempted to assassinate Chan himself, thus preparing the way for his return.\n\nIf Sun gets rid of Chan who is the moderate factor in the situation and so establishes himself in complete control of Canton there will be continual trouble for us as he will foment fresh strikes,\n\nThe best way of serving the interests of this colony and of Great Britain in China would be by assisting Chan against Sun.\n\nWould there be any objection on the part of His Majesty's Government to loans being made to Chan privately to enable him to consolidate his position? Sufficient security can be obtained to justify Bank in providing the money. They would however wish to be assured through me that His Majesty's Government would approve the proposal.\n\nSTUBBS,",
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        "content_text": "PARAPHRASE TELEGRAM from the Governor of Hong Kong to the Secretary of State for the Colonies, (Received Colonial Office 11.50 a.m. 26th March, 1922). Dated 26th March,\n\nAs a copy of this telegram has been sent to Peking.\n\nAs a result of agreement between Wu Pei Fu and Chang Tso Lin it now appears to be practically certain that Sun Yat Sen's proposed expedition to the north will fall through. Sun will in that case try to return to Canton. He has already sent emissaries who have assassinated Chan Chi Ming's Chief of Staff and attempted to assassinate Chan himself, thus preparing the way for his return.\n\nIf Sun gets rid of Chan who is the moderate factor in the situation and so establishes himself in complete control of Canton there will be continual trouble for us as he will foment fresh strikes.\n\nThe best way of serving the interests of this colony and of Great Britain in China would be by assisting Chan against Sun.\n\nWould there be any objection on the part of His Majesty's Government to loans being made to Chan privately to enable him to consolidate his position?\n\nSufficient security can be obtained to justify Bank in providing the money. They would however wish to be assured through me that His Majesty's Government would approve the proposal.\n\nSTUBBS.",
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        "content_text": "Page 292\n\nPARAPHRASE TELEGRAM from the Governor of Hong Kong to the Secretary of State for the Colonies, (Received Colonial Office 11.50 a.m. 26th March, 1922). Dated 25th March, 1922.\n\nAs a result of agreement between Yu Fei Fu and Chang Tao Lin it now appears to be practically certain that Sun Yatsen's proposed expedition to the north will fall through. Sun will in that case try to return to Canton. He has already sent emissaries who have suborned Chan Kwing Ming's Chief of Staff and attempted to assassinate Chan himself, thus preparing the way for his return.\n\nIf Sun gets rid of Chan, who is the moderate factor in the situation and so establishes himself in complete control of Canton, there will be continual trouble for us as he will foment fresh strikes.\n\nThe best way of serving the interests of this Colony and of Great Britain in China would be by assisting Chan against Sun.\n\nWould there be any objection on the part of His Majesty's Government to loans being made to Chan privately to enable him to consolidate his position? Sufficient security can be obtained to justify the Bank in providing the money. They would, however, wish to be assured through me that His Majesty's Government would approve the proposal.",
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        "content_text": "216\n\njust as she will not recede Shantung without negotiations; and there being no one in Siberia strong enough to negotiate with, the evacuation is postponed again and again. If the other Powers object to the Japanese occupation of Siberia, they have only themselves to blame, since it was on their invitation Japanese troops were sent there, a fact which Japan is not backward in pleading.\n\nAs to what line Japan will take at the Conference, it seems very probable that she will seek to utilise it in the same way as she utilised the Peace Conference, that is to get her “rights” confirmed. Whether the racial equality motion will again be introduced as a camouflage to cover what she really wants remains to be seen. There were reports that it would not be used again. But in this case Japan has plenty of other questions of a like general nature to fall back upon. Thus, there is the question of Japanese immigration. She does not believe that the United States and the British Dominions will agree to unrestricted Japanese immigration, but by pleading for it very earnestly and making it the chief plank in her programme, she may very well assuage her inconsolability at having her immigration demand refused by a confirmation of her \"rights\" in Shantung, or a general mandate to do what she likes in Manchuria and Siberia. It is, therefore, almost certain that, whether directly or indirectly, Japan will seek to get the Conference to confirm all her \"rights\" in China, Manchuria, Mongolia and Siberia. Whether she will be so successful with Yap is doubtful. All the present indications show that America is determined to secure Yap, and this is not altogether to Japan's disadvantage, since it gives her something to bargain with. Only what she obtains in return must be the price, and this price can only be obtained at the expense of some other country. The Conference, therefore, as far as Japan is concerned, is considered as an opportunity for bargaining, and for hard bargaining too. Whether the peace of the Pacific can be established by this method is not a matter which is deemed worth studying. At any rate, a redistribution of \"rights\" will keep all parties satisfied for a year or two, and this is all that can be hoped for.\n\nTHE CENTRAL YANGTSZE\n\nThe Hongkong Weekly Press says that General WU PEI-FU, one of the Northern troops which have been sent to Hupeh by the Inspector-General for Chihli, Shantung and Honan (TSAO KUN), has been negotiating with the commanders of what may be conveniently called the Constitutional forces of Hupeh and Hunan which are co-operating in the insurrection, but negotiations appear to have been broken off by General Wu because the Constitutionalists refuse to pledge themselves to acknowledge the authority of the Government at Peking and also because their demands are preposterous.\n\nTSAO KUN has ordered the immediate dispatch of reinforcements to the Chihli forces in Hupeh, and General WU PEI-FU has personally taken over the command of the Chihli army in the Central Yangtsze, leaving a new Tuchun to preserve the peace in the Wu-Han cities (Wuchang, Hanyang and Hankow). This is interpreted as a signal for the resumption of the civil war between North and South, and important developments are expected. TSAO KUN is represented as prepared to allow General Wu a free hand in the prosecution of his \"grand programme for the reunification of the whole country either by peaceful methods or force.\" It is reported to be the intention of the Government and TSAO KUN to place 40,000 Northern troops at the disposition of General WU PEI-FU to enable him to organise a big military expedition into Hunan, with Canton as its final objective if the situation requires it.\n\nThe Peking-Hankow railway has been commandeered for the dispatch of these troops from the North to the capital of Hupeh. A very serious difficulty which General Wu PEI-FU has yet to overcome is the reluctance of the people of Hupeh to provide the necessary funds for this expedition. \"It is feared,\" says a Chinese news agency, \"that in order to get funds for meeting his urgent military expenses, that is to say, to feed and pay the armed Chinese coolies who are fighting battles for the sake of the Super-Tuchuns and Tuchuns, WU PEI-FU, who has been well-known as the champion of the Chinese people, will be forced to adopt harsh and extreme measures for squeezing money from the Wuchang and Hankow commercial guilds.\"\n\nFurther reports from Wuchang say that nearly all the wealthy and prominent merchants and bankers, including the Chairmen and Vice-Chairmen of the Chambers of Commerce, have taken refuge in the foreign concessions, chiefly because they say they dare not advance money to the Northern commanders to fight against their own fellow-provincials, adding that the crushing of the KIANG TSO-PIN movement means the destruction of the ideals of the Hupeh people for self-government or political autonomy for their native land and the victory of disorganised militarism or Tuchunism.\n\nThere have been no striking developments in the situation in the Yangtsze Valley since WONG CHAN-YUAN resigned the Super-Tuchunship and quitted the Wu-Han cities for the more peaceful region of Tientsin. A couple of weeks ago it seemed not unlikely that the trouble in the Yangtsze region would result in the setting up of a third Government, and in political circles in Canton it was felt that such a development would not be inimical to the existence of the Government at Canton, but, on the contrary, the identity of aims would lead to co-operation in overthrowing the Government at Peking. The latest reports, however, by no means support this prediction.\n\nIt is very doubtful if the local forces in Hupeh, supported as they are by an army from Honan, are powerful enough to stand against the large Northern army which is now being concentrated in the province, and General Wu's success would not bring any comfort or satisfaction to Canton if it is true that the main object of this \"champion of the people\" is to hold the province for Peking. At all events, it looks as if a decisive struggle is now impending. The present informal truce bears a resemblance to the lull before the storm. Hupeh residents in Shanghai, in a circular telegram to the provinces, fit to the situation a Chinese proverb about a wolf entering by the back door as the tiger departs by the front door—the tiger in this case being WONG CHAN-YUAN and the wolf HSIAO YAO-NAN, who has been appointed to succeed him as Tuchun. There will be no peace in the Central Yangtsze region, they say, until Hupeh is allowed complete self-government and both the Hunan and the Chihli armies are unconditionally withdrawn from the territory of Hupeh.\n\nTHE BRITISH IN SOUTH CHINA.\n\n(Daily Press, September 2nd, 1921). A \"mild sensation,\" we learn from our London correspondent, has been caused by an article recently contributed to the New Republic by Mr. JOHN DEWEY, a distinguished American professor of philosophy, who was on a lecturing tour in China earlier in the year. A double purpose was apparently intended to be served by the article, viz., to extol the Government in Canton as altogether the most promising one in China, and, secondly, to proclaim that in this part of China the British occupy much the same position of suspicion and dread which is held by the Japanese in the North.\n\nHe tells his readers that the cause of this alleged popular attitude of bitterness, suspicion and dread towards the British is \"the history of the CASSEL collieries.\" Professor DEWEY happened to be in Canton at the moment that a little discussion was going on regarding this contract, and at the same time there was a feeling of bitterness in government circles in Canton produced by certain public notices issued by the Secretary for Chinese Affairs in this Colony. These two circumstances gave the distinguished American philosopher the impression that the British in South China were regarded with the same suspicion and dread as the Japanese in the North.\n\nFrom a philosopher with an international reputation to protect, a more critical examination of the position might have been expected than the article discloses. The information purveyed by such an authority that there is a British menace in Kwangtung is so new and startling that it has received an amount of attention altogether disproportionate to its value. It was but a passing phase. The people of South China are well assured that they have nothing to fear from the policy of the British Government in China, which is not one of aggression.\n\nThe CASSEL agreement does not merit all the condemnation which Professor DEWEY's analysis suggests, but there is no justification for fastening upon a nation responsibility for whatever sins a small group of its nationals may be said to have committed. Professor DEWEY apparently was told that an official of the Hong-kong Government had told an official of the Canton Government that the Hong-kong Government stands behind the enforcement of the contract, and that Kwangtung province is a British hinterland. That is the sort of tale that one marine may retail to another; no sensible person will believe it, nor that a Hongkong official made any such statement to a Kwangtung official.\n\nThe simple truth about the CASSEL concession is that it is a private enterprise, which is receiving the backing such that private enterprises of this character usually receive from any Government whose nationals are concerned.\n\n188 [September 3rd, 1921.\n\nThe answer given by the Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs showed entire innocence of anything in the nature of a British menace. He does not read the enforcement as being monopolistic; he sees that the concession is being sought by a Sino-British Company \"formed on lines which have proved mutually beneficial elsewhere in China,\" and in saying that the British firms interested include those of the highest standing in the Far East, he says in effect that the ...",
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        "content_text": "4\n\nunder the beneficent rule of a republic, and even—which seems incredible to any foreigner who has any extensive experience of the interior of China—advocate the abolition of extra-territoriality. As far as I know, these foreigners are all foreigners who have spent their lives in security in China in the midst of foreign communities, such as Peking, Tien-tsin and the coast, and who have no first-hand experience of the interior. One can only regret that these advocates of putting the foreigner under the jurisdiction of so-called Chinese justice cannot be forced to live for six months in some remote village or city in the interior, far away even from the restraining influence of a consulate, and made liable to be publicly and ignominiously dragged to a yamên, forced to kneel on chains to extort a confession, liable to the ignominious and cruel punishment of the bamboo, or, even putting aside the risk of torture, which still goes on in some places, liable to die from cold in the winter in the wretched dens which do duty as prison quarters—only last winter I heard of such a case. Such degradation of the foreigner would mean his loss of prestige, and when this comes to pass the interior of China will only become attractive to those wearied of the vanities of this life and aspirants for the martyr's crown—a noble band whom I admire, but among whom I have no wish to be enrolled as a member.\n\nThe state of chaos in China will not be improved until—\n\n1. The strong men get control, and, combining together, gradually put each province in order.\n\n2. The students are kept in check.\n\n3. The soldiers are reduced to legitimate requirements and kept under a proper state of discipline, whilst brigands are relentlessly hunted down.\n\nIt is impossible to forecast what combinations of strong men will eventually bring back peace and prosperity to the country. I should like to see a combination of such men as Wu Pei-fu in the centre of China, Ch'en Shu-fan in Shensi, Ch'en Chiung-ming at Canton, and possibly Hsiung K'o-wu in Szechuan. Other provinces, of which I have no recent experience, might be able to add to the number. These combined should be able to put an end to the effete puppets of the Peking Government, that visionary impossibility, Sun Yat-sen, and the wind-bag, Wu Ting-fang of the Canton Government. As regards Chang Tso-lin, who rules supreme in Manchuria, I do not know whether he has improved and is a reformed character from what he was twelve or thirteen years ago when I visited him. He had then recently retired from the leadership of the Hunghutzu of the district and had a reputation for cruelty. He disgusted me by bragging about a recent triumph over an enemy, another robber chief, the fact being that he had invited him to a feast of reconciliation, and after the feast had seized the opportunity to have him crushed to death between two of the big stones used for crushing grain.\n\nChengtu, Szechuan.\n\nEnclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\nG. PEREIRA.\n\nReport by Brigadier-General G. Pereira of December 14, 1921.\n\nIN 1900 the Chinese people were in a state of unrest, partly caused by a failure of the crops, and partly by the recent introduction of European education and a feeling of the necessity of reform. The movement was primarily anti-dynastic, but the Court, realising its danger, managed to divert the Boxer movement to an anti-foreign outbreak. At that time the country was united under one rule, and enjoyed the benefits of individual security and prosperity under a mild form of autocracy, the only form of government suitable for Asiatic nations in their present undeveloped state. Therefore, whilst the anti-foreign movement was more dangerous owing to the better organisation under a united Government, still it was greatly lessened and localised thanks to the provinces being swayed by an exceptional number of eminent and capable viceroys and governors, such as Liu K'un-yi at Nanking, Chang Chih-tung at Wu-ch'ang, Li Hung-Chang at Canton, Yuan Shih-k'ai in Shantung and Tuan Fang in Shensi.\n\nIn 1900 those who prophesied trouble before the Boxer outbreak were stigmatised as alarmists, whilst those who pooh-poohed the chances of trouble were afterwards abused for their want of foresight. The same will happen again at the present time, the fact being the prophets fail to realise that there are such thousands of unforeseen circumstances that none can foresee, which will divert popular feeling and action into unexpected courses. This makes it wrong to make definite prophecies, as their fulfilment is a pure gamble, and it is only the irresponsible man, with a limited local knowledge, who ventures to do so. If he turns out to be right he can say, “I told you so,” whilst if he is wrong his prophecies are too unimportant to be remembered. At the present time it is universally admitted by all who know China that the country has never been in such a rotten state, and that the experiment of a republic has proved a most dismal failure. The people, especially in the upper classes, are not educated up to the requirements of a liberal form of government, and it will be many years before they attain to it.\n\nNot only do all the evils under the imperial régime still exist, but they are multiplied, owing to there being many heads instead of one. In the old days the millions poured into the Court at Peking, and a good deal of the money was spent in the service of the State, whilst smaller sums, more or less regulated by precedents, and in a measure recognised as legitimate perquisites of underpaid officials, were received by officials. At the present time the millions go into the pockets of the bigger officials, such as Chang Tso-lin in Manchuria, Wang Chan-yuan, late Governor of Hupei, and Hsiung K'o-wu, the late ruling spirit in Szechuan, and a little or nothing of this comes back to the State. In the same way the minor officials, with no restraining influence from Peking or fear of public opinion, are out to make what they can, and as quickly as possible, whilst their day of power lasts. In the old days public opinion had much influence over the officials, and if one tried to overstep the limits of squeeze the people rose and there was trouble. Now the soldiers have increased so enormously in numbers and power that they keep the people in a state of subjection and terrorism. The merchants and people long for a state of peace and security in vain.\n\nThe break-up of the central power has been the chance for adventurers, and now the provinces are divided against each other, and often a province is split up into factions.\n\nIn the old days the army was despised as an inferior profession and a restraining influence kept on it, but the rise of innumerable factions has given the soldiers their chance. Each petty leader is dependent on them, and the men themselves now thoroughly understand their power. Very few military officers trouble about discipline or take any pains about securing a regular payment for their men. As a result the soldier is generally owed a large amount of back pay, which is sometimes made up for by encouraging looting. If this is not sufficiently profitable the soldiers desert and join a brigand band.\n\nThe students are, to my mind, an even greater source of danger, but as I have dealt with them in a recent report, I will not dwell on them now. It must be remembered that, whatever his failings and lack of education, the student of to-day represents the future ruling class of China, and that the ideas he now imbibes will later be developed.\n\nThe spirit of unrest is increased by secret societies, which have always existed in China, and have now increased in numbers and power. Though primarily they may be organised against the Chinese Government of the day, still there is often the watchword of \"China for the Chinese!\" which tends for an anti-foreign feeling. This, at times, may only require a few foolish actions by one or two irresponsible foreigners to fan the spark, and produce a local and totally unforeseen combustion, which once started may easily spread.\n\nIn Szechuan, probably the most factious and split-up province in China, with apparently no commanding figure to restore order out of chaos, there is of course a certain amount of safety for the foreigner, whilst the factious are fighting amongst themselves, and the leaders may feel that one day their only chance of escaping may be through the assistance of the foreigners. On the other hand, owing to the lack of any stable form of government or dependence on any central authority, a sudden anti-foreign rising by a mob or engineered by secret societies would be more dangerous than in any other province owing to its inaccessibility.\n\nThrough the collapse of Russia, and in a lesser degree of Germany, the power of the foreigner to command respect in China is much less than it used to be, the more so as the remaining Powers are more engrossed in restoring order in their own countries. Luckily they can still demonstrate against Peking, Canton, Wuchang and Nanking, the most important centres of influence in China, whilst with its long coast line other important points can be threatened. Yunnan, too, with the railway to Hanoi and its neighbourhood to Burma, can feel the power of the foreigner, but the western provinces are generally isolated and beyond the reach of a foreign expedition. In the case of Kansu this does not much matter as long as the Mahomedans and the Chinese...\n\nPage 180\n\nPage 181",
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        "content_text": "## List of Chinese employees transfered from Hongkong to Imperial Government\n\n| Agency | Office | Name of Officer | Length of service |  |  | Amount of gratuity recommended by | Proportionate share of the gratuity |  |  |\n| :---: | :---: | :---: | :---: | --- | --- |  | Hongkong | Imperial Government |  |\n|  |  |  | Colonial | Imperial | Topl | Postmaster General Hongkong | Months | Months |  |\n|  |  |  | Yr m | Yr m | Yr m |  |  |  |  |\n| Shanghai | 2/Grade Clerk | Lam Ho Chi | 9 6 | 2 1 | 11 7 | 425.01 | 114/159 | 348.57 | 76.44 |\n|  | Compradore | Li King Sung | 9 0 | 11 11 | 20 11 | 540.00 | 108/251 | 232.35 | 307.65 |\n|  | Compradore | Li Pac-lin | 5 0 | 11 11 | 16 11 | 384.00 | 60/203 | 113.50 | 270.50 |\n|  | Clerk | Chang Ken Son | 2 4 | 11 11 | 14 3 | 270.00 | 28/171 | 44.21 | 225.70 |\n|  |  | Wong Dzau-tsong | 7 3 | 11 11 | 19 2 | 264.00 | 87/230 | 99.86 | 164.14 |\n|  |  | Nui Ang Sung | 6 6 | 11 11 | 18 5 | 144.00 | 78/221 | 50.02 | 93.16 |\n|  | Shroff | Uzung Tsing-fook | 6 8 | 11 11 | 18 7 | 168.00 | 80/223 | 60.27 | 107.73 |\n|  | Mail Man | Kong An Ngah | 5 5 | 11 11 | 17 4 | 76.80 | 65/208 | 24.00 | 52.80 |\n|  | Postran | Ng Si Yung | 5 0 | 6 4 | 12 4 | 46.80 | 5/140 | 1.58 | 45.22 |\n| Amoy | Postman | Chan Sing | 24 9 | 11 11 | 36 8 | 408.00 | 297/440 | 275.40 | 132.60 |\n|  | Boatraal | Haui Hang Yuan Ong Kau | 4 0 | 11 11 | 15 11 | 52.00 | 43/191 | 13.27 | 39.53 |\n|  |  |  | 4 0 | 11 11 | 15 11 | 52.80 | 45/191 | 13.27 | 39.53 |\n| Canton | 4/Grade Clerk | Chang Ving Shu | 5 5 | 11 11 | 17 4 | 288.00 | 65/208 | 90.00 | 198.00 |\n|  | Postman | Kam Cheong-fu | 8 5 | 11 11 | 20 4 | 78.00 | 101/244 | 32.29 | 45.71 |\n|  |  | Tam Yat Tung | 5 9 | 11 11 | 17 8 | 187.20 | 69/212 | 60.98 | 126.27 |\n|  |  | Kwan Cheong | 4 1 | 11 11 | 16 0 | 62.40 | 49/192 | 15.92 | 46.48 |\n| Chefoo | Clerk | Wong Lin-tsao | 7 1 | 11 11 | 19 0 | 240.00 | 85/228 | 89.47 | 150.53 |\n|  | Postman | Chew Ku Yuon | ... 1 | 11 11 | 12 0 | 45.00 | 1/144 | ... .31 | 44.69 |\n| Foochow | 5/Grade Clerk | Chi Po Che | 16 0 | 11 11 | 27 11 | 396.00 | 192/335 | 226.96 | 169.04 |\n|  |  | Chang Chun Ching | 9 10 | 11 11 | 21 9 | 210.00 | 118/261 | 94.34 | 115.66 |\n|  | Postman | Ling Tang-lung | 13 6 | 11 11 | 25 5 | 246.00 | 162/305 | 130.66 | 115.34 |\n|  |  | Carried Forward |  |  |  | $4584.80 |  | $2018.58 | $2566.23",
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        "content_text": "# HONG KONG SECTION\n## PAGE 1\n\n| Full Names | Nos. | In English | Sex | Marr-ied | Age | Nation-ality | Birth Place | Profes'n. | Last Pass Port | Any Gov't Service | Add: Names of Shops. |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Wong Tik Kwong | 2. |  | Male | Yes | 19 | China | Anfai | Merchant | H.K. | N11 | No | Yee Hau Loong |\n| Wong Chor Woon | 3 |  |  | No |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| Tong Suk Woo | \" |  |  | Yes | 19 | P | 21 | Canton |  | 14 | 1 | 11 | 34 | S'hai | The China Tea Company |\n| Hg Siu Fung | 11 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| Chiu Shiu Sang |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| Chow Nim Tong | 35 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 7 |  |\n| Lau Sing Sam | # | W | 體 |  | 11 | 11 | \" | 體 | 25 | 11 | 11 | # | 11 | 11 | 8 |  |\n| Chan Tsze Man | 26 | Foo-Chow | # | 11 | 1 | # | M | \" | 體 | 9 |  |\n| Lan Tak Hing | 277 | Swatow | ต | 11 | 19 | Wah Lam Company | Hammer Company | 請 | 10 |  |\n| Fu Seung Lam | 11 | \" | 24 | 11 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| Choy Kai Ming | 1 | 帽 | # | \" | 11 | 11 | 11 | 26 | H.K. | Hipson Company | 18 | #1 | 11 | 14 | # | 髒 | 19 | 12 |\n| Chan Him Hai | 22 | Foo-Chow | 體 | H | 11 | 11 | 17 | \" | 17 | 19 | 13 |  |\n| Chan Tin Fat | 18 | M | 11 | 11 | ស | 14 |  |  |  |  |  |\n| Chan Chi Pak | 25 | Canton |  |  |  |  |  | Wah King Trading | 1 | TE | 15 |\n| Lou San Sam | 22 | 1 | Swator | 11 | # | 19 | Company | \" | 曾 | 19 | 11 | f | 怜 | M | \" | 16 |\n| Chan Tong Lau | 19 | Canton | : | 14 | 11 | \" | 11 | 1 | 11 | #t | 11 | 17 | Yadging Cher | 21 | Swatow | 11 | 17 | \" | : | # | 11 | 11 | 18 |\n| Tam Kit Sang | 49 | Canton |  |  |  |  | Koon Yick | 11 | 11 | 11 | 19 |  |\n| Woo Ting Cheong | 34 | Kiu-kiang |  |  | Late Gov't | 340 | \" | Service |  |  |  |",
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        "document_key": "CO129-489 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Sir Clementi - 1925 [8-12]",
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        "content_text": "213 \n\nOverseas to the strikers in Canton. There is evidence also that the leading men throughout China are realising how grave the danger is that the Canton Reds, unless speedily dealt with, may become sufficiently powerful to overrun the whole of China. General Chan Kwing-ming arrived in the Colony from Shanghai two days ago, and at an interview yesterday morning he informed me that he had collected or had promises of a large number of troops and that he was about to start a campaign in person for the purpose of evicting the Bolshevists from Canton and of bringing the province under the control of the Central Government. He asserted that he was acting under the authority of the Central Government and that he had definite promises of support from Marshal Wu Pei-fu. There was, of course, the invariable difficulty of lack of money and munitions but he hoped to find means of surmounting this. Past experience of General Chan Kwing-ming's military operations does not inspire one with confidence in his ability to cope with the present situation, and I must confess to grave doubts of his chances of success. It is however the case that he has a strong following amongst the Cantonese, and with the backing of Peking, if he really has such backing, and aided by dissensions which are beginning to appear amongst his opponents, he may manage to reach his goal. \n\nA liberal supply of arms and money would almost certainly turn the scale, but such assistance would be more effectively employed if given to some outstanding leader, such as Marshal Wu Pei-fu, having the direct and open mandate of the Central Government. General Chan Kwing-ming's campaign has already been",
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        "content_text": "## Enclosure No. 1.\n\n215\n\nCopy.\n\n**Captain Superintendent of Police,**\n\nSir,\n\n**FRONTIER INCIDENTS**\n\n1. The Chinese Soldiers and Strikers around the Mirs Bay coastline have discovered a fresh source of revenue. They are now collecting licence fees from and painting numbers on boats plying in British waters, particularly the smaller craft, the owners of which live in Chinese Territory.\n\nReceipts are issued for licence fees thus collected, one of which receipts I attach, together with translation of same.\n\nThis procedure is having an adverse effect on our Harbour Revenue collected by the Police Launch, as the boat people naturally object to paying double.\n\n2. A Railway Guard employed on the British Section, Kowloon Canton Railway, named Tan Choi Kwai, who went to visit his family living in Lo Wu Village, Chinese Territory, was arrested on the 9th September, 1925, by strikers and taken to Sham Chun where he is at present detained.\n\nI am informed that he had associated himself with the 9th Labour Corps of Strikers (formerly on piquet duty at Lo Wu), in smuggling persons over the border into British Territory, in which association he made considerable sums of money. A petition against him was sent to the Chan Tim Fu, the head of the 9th Labour Corps, who, for obvious reasons, took no notice. Recently, the 11th Labour Corps relieved the 9th, and the former arrested Tan Choi Kwai, it is said, because of his improper association with their predecessors who probably refused to share the spoil.\n\n3",
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        "content_text": "# THE CANTON GAZETTE, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 7.\n\n## The Sincere Co., Ltd.\n\n**Universal Providers.**\n\n## BRITISH LABOUR AND CHINA.\n\n**Congratulations On Revolt.**\n\n1994.\n\nRussian Oil Export To Persia\n\nThe Sincere Co., Ltd. advertisements continue with details about their goods and services.\n\nOur Own Manufacturer!— AERATED WATERS, PERFUME, SOAPS, WARE, METAL WORK, RATTAN WARE, FURNITURE & SOAP.\n\nOUR ROOT-GARDEN: Chinese & Foreign Plays are shown DAY & NIGHT. Admission Adult 35 Cents, Child 15 Cents.\n\n## THE ORIENTAL HOTEL AND RESTAURANT\n\nTHE BUND FACING THE PEARL RIVER With the Whole View of Canton City From the Roof Garden. Modern Accommodation and Comfortable Equipments. Hot and Cold Baths. Serve best Foreign and Chinese Meals. We prepare party dinners.\n\nThe Sun Roof Garden. Various Photographs. Interesting Banks of Calcutta & Foreign plays and a marvelous show run Day and Night. Admittance 35 Cents. Extra charge to see Stereoscopic Pictures and Special Exhibits.\n\n## THE SUN CINEMA.\n\n**PROGRAMME FOR September 5th to 8th, 1915**\n\nARIDOW PRESENTS NEVA GERDEN IN \"The Santa Fe Trail\" The 3rd and 4th Episodes in 4 parts.\n\n...deleg might cent of the year the Boys' Brigade was a remarkable demonstration of their kindred spirit, in support of the \"Peace-Aims\" exported from international solidarity, urged ordered troops to shoot 60 or 70 persons, were 28-67. (use at all prices). The Tooden Daily Herald wondered how would you feel about having twenty firms pointing the sponsors... Large cort of demand of oil in Puol. siune land an opportunity. The Foreign exploiters, he ran, from pamphlets, the true addict, user in China because Company Ltd., mainly exports from story of the grants in Shanghai. Labour was cheap and profits were very great. 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Mr. Za Bing kai of the Lutherist kapa Familie and have deadded in dealer, “f the Ship and Englies Waipo.\n\nAfter the nation, the priftinal ja holiday on that day They will 44.000 kka forma a propeptada unapaiya Prpent and pruendure of Kwang- So give dentures in the elty exposing org, was zxplained by Mr. Li Fu- 271 phase of a Nathum. Dular of the Pollioul De...\n\nthe puckansk of the Bonnese Army-...\n\n20 000...\n\nFrom Chance day in...\n\nCanada...\n\n3.000...\n\nf the present allundum m The...\n\nFrom Chinese goboy ja...\n\nUnited StateN From Chiarn shay la...\n\nM>...\n\n400...\n\n4.244...\n\n| \n\nCha xe\" com-Šla sam Railway Bormal work of whlek K 14 plant for Ake fare priple.\n\nThe...\n\nFrom Chiosa sulony In...\n\nVIU Tur...\n\n1.186...\n\nrt...\n\nthe...\n\nTerm (blame in char...\n\nAmerican order...\n\nFrom the Shanghai Ph...\n\n## Unification Of Kwangsi Finance.\n\nBlame the 1+ Devlalón o hate Army me *pps the rebellion at Kongo. 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        "content_text": "## 252\n\nHe and the Russians have now complete control of the city. From a military point of view, they are undoubtedly in a very strong position, and it is unfortunate that the Anti-Red leaders are preoccupied with the personal disputes and dissensions which are the invariable accompaniment of military operations in China. The Anti-Red forces remain in occupation of Swatow, the re-capture of which port I reported in paragraph 7 of my despatch of the 19th September, 1925 (`47446`).\n\nAnd the normal trade with **Hongkong** is being gradually re-established. I have been informed by H.M. Chargé d'Affaires that General Chan Kwing-ming's activities have the sanction of the Central Government, and it is possible that the fact of this backing from Peking may reconcile certain Generals, notably Lam Fu, who have been inclined to dispute his authority. I may mention that two river gun-boats have recently deserted from Canton and are now in **Hongkong** harbour, awaiting General Chan Kwing-ming's orders. There is the usual lack of money and munitions, and as regards money, the Reds seem to be at least as badly off as their opponents. Forced loans and compulsory payment of taxes in advance are proving very unpopular measures in Canton.\n\nWhile it is quite clear that the Russians, under the able leadership of Borodin, will continue to do their utmost to compass the ruin of **Hongkong**, it is possible that it may suit their book to call off the strike and boycott, at least for the time being, in order to rid themselves of the expense and embarrassment of a mass of idle and discontented labour.",
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        "content_text": "2\n\nI work in comfort during the day and rest in comfort during the night.\n\nSKETOCIDE\n\nand quickly rid the Office and Home\n\nof\n\nMOSQUITOES, FLIES, SANDFLIES,\n\nLICE, ETC.\n\nSKETOCIDE, with nil hazards, is administered.\n\nSKETOCIDE is pleasant as water.\n\nSKETOCIDE is compressed.\n\nTHE PHARMACY\n\n1, Queen's Arcade\n\nD. J.\n\nSHAMPOOING RUGS AND CARPETS\n\nMakes them\n\nBright\n\nand Clean\n\nOnly 50 cts.\n\nper yard.\n\nCollection and Delivery Free.\n\nRolls of Dirt carried away.\n\nRolls of Cleanliness brought back.\n\nSTEAM LAUNDRY CO.\n\nHEAD OFFICE & WORKS: YAKATI.\n\nDEPOS: 26, Stanley Street, Vol.\n\nKOWLOON HOTEL\n\nKOWLOON DEPOT: 3, Cau'chi Ham\n\nFLAK HOTEL DEPOT:\n\nHONGKONG HOTEL: (Visit only;\n\nJ. T.\n\nSHAW\n\nLADIES & GENTLEMEN'S TAILOR\n\nFIRST QUALITY ONLY\n\nSOUTH CHINA MORNING POST.\n\nWEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1925.\n\nINVEST YOUR CAPITAL\n\nSAFELY\n\nIN DIAMONDS.\n\nCHAIN BLOCKS\n\nELECTRIC BLOCKS & TRANSPORTING GEAR\n\nHERBERT MORRIS, LTD.\n\nAGENTS\n\nBRADLEY & CO., LTD.\n\nChute food.\n\nMachinery Dept.\n\nTel. 2020.\n\nMessrs. J. ULLMANN & Co, of Chater Road\n\nEstablished 1860,\n\nhave always pleased their Customers with the quality and the price of their diamonds.\n\nLOCAL\n\nAND\n\nGENERAL.\n\nLighting-up the to-day is at present cases of warfare cholesal 6.46 PATTY\n\nThe closing rate of the dollar on demand yesterday was 28. 9/16d.\n\n...\n\nhave declared amongst Japanese residents in Huanghai between August 15 and 18\n\na new treaty of friendship, commerce and navigation between Spain and Siam, together with a tariff.\n\nAbout Chinese, who landed in Lockor on July rate Cake, whence they had been expelled, more taken in charge by the new municipal police, and started to Spain forthwith\n\nThe Yang di Pertuan Besar, etor Negri ehk and lady He Tag were mess of Mrs Balavin,\n\nPassengers departing fav Hong Kong. Saturday included r, Paus the proteoc? along the lacs of the Hodgene, Mr. G. H. Hew, Major? Siamess American trendy of 1999, Weelings, and Mr., 34, and ise e sigurd in Merid on Anavat on Fady 25, 94, 16, Domaingreet, at Iemington.\n\nA petition has Theon sout to the\n\nracuptă a fur Gvarveen visiter M\n\nHigh teries evidently comment sobars of the Gevorazi mitted by a well organized, clever\n\nThe Paanhou Lataa Gempiains of\n\nGovernmanni by the pork solleve, gang ut Paeves within the a tre the melameree of Wataishae and gui asking that casures a week within the district berlinese is autors to rear to Laken preten, hop-oil bow by Ceiles, Mabini, Herren. Taj Pukius its no s paзig y hel kore front selling\n\nstreets.\n\npark in the\n\n41 The Co, AF have lecie tight anda.\n\nsing the Manila poliem aud secret water, or festive is na mumer Murvico division.\n\n1\n\nPalm Beaches, Gabardines, Alpsets, Tropical aiting, Dress Harondt, who will rive in the wedding- ever believed to be rephor during the tide the\n\nMaterials, Sc. B\n\nJUST RECEIVED English made Officers Sam Browne Belts, Haversacks, Fox Pattles, Khaki Tles, Metropolitan Whistles, War\n\nribbons and nature medals.\n\n11, Reaconsfield Arcade.\n\nINSPECTION CORDIALLY INVITED\n\n(Opposite City Hall.\n\nGrand Opening Sale\n\nStep in and compare our Goods and Prices\n\nINSPECTION INVITED\n\nPOPULAR SILK STORE\n\n(Opposite Kangkang Hotel;\n\nChina Building, No. B, Pedder Street.\n\nPrices\n\nAL\n\nVERMIN\n\nLOTOL\n\nKILLS ALL VERMIN\n\nSold by\n\nA. S. WATSON & CO., LTD. Sole Agents:-\n\nAnd all Chemists & Stores.\n\n#4\n\nThe forthcoming wedding is announced of Mr. Weer varick! Mr. and Mex James Fold v The captain on the genderzeɛ Who Knoke, Tung Shan Canton, to Westenzoyland, Somerset, have rele. I was ersicted of murdufeg the com. and his wife and Mies Jobs Auguste Paula bunted die 71 iversong of their wint Onyi\n\nalore guique The busbaudienthoate as Token, wali ho relent and Eje wife a your younger. Mojot from prison shoes the unddie of lower the 92, relatives war Log Sepeansion songlazenie Nieto, konta\n\none from Australi\n\nColony by the ss. Oldestory.\n\nThe Chinese Brunumie Slonthig for August has detailed cla cussion of Shane agricultural practice, wita interesting 3.1\n\nLoving\n\nA Chinese 2d Japanese nurs are among tbury who have promised to monk at the International Co Surse of Sick-Norses, which opened dengtors, aly 20, aut is laing sitended by Jelegnies from\n\nentiona of the appliances weed, Maveled Chang Teo-in bas Jeans Sericulture cotton-growing timed Mex 000 rough General ber markerg.\n\nчто? ecuneuit so in the Stedent Anda bots my in diferent regions of the Bumiy Univexity Jay Chinu are also very interativolyj and Erogel Tieptene) far- Realt with.\n\nof ge pour white Kanziar. Studenata,\n\n*\"\n\nalvd, is differort suuntaies\n\nTwo hurr-one, with ts, ad\n\nTeal vien, two if who were the other ten would lus beau un- portion of shell, obtaled Frogs * mnied with daggers, com with a hur to corrpite their contres esingi tas estruese deposit in Heuer,\n\nCaina, have been presented to thei! Crevolver. and the other with at lesk, of Curta,\n\ntieological Department of the Bri-3\n\n| pair of scissors, heid up a Chinese j\n\nin Jubilee Sheet, yasierday even\n\n*.*\n\nA Shanghai ziceaz soole who di ti ser by Me Fulhas pior,\n\ning at twerty minutes to seven woneret that & malo passenger till we repris par des of\n\nand rubbed him or $66. The led a paringe of jewelley worth, victim showed a little restaurace 2.000 16 bir terba, took the package, and was slightly stabbed on the\n\n**\n\nThe ees of assault agaturi Tam\n\nballeha\n\nMr J. L. North, estrator of thin\n\nto Sins Police Station, where the toys Potande Boruty, who for on owner of it appearad Isten gave the coulis8568TOWY PRO expstimating with for his honesty. The englie left leave, is growing worch this year\n\nthe statica in bewildoriams, count\n\n**\n\nuL Chiswick. where they serni\n\nto or doing well in North is alre\n\nhaving nya Ibalit grown >1\n\nRonding and Talesbury, in see The Thienene of faunilton is alen\n\nPat, who is de cercandong the aver so he went for intiraidson against a Chineas!\n\nreporter, wan dismissed by bir. W Hamilton a the Kowloot: The Italian Cotobato wtrises tuv\n\nMagiswans yesterday,\n\nThe de the election which took place re-swing it in Willshire. fendant was alleged to have a crucis at Felermo, a large alias] aulted twe men of the Hup Lee city of over 200,000 inhabitants, in night-nd contractors, folfering a vordim of Fall, liberty of meeting\n\nspute. The intimidation case is fart beard.\n\n*u?\n\nSeven Chiuole wrament, pisacing\n\nsilty to charge of unlandaily rat\n\nand votea, tesuited in the ting wi damaging trees at a Govern- |\n\nwende ictor of the Fascist's\n\nmort plantation at Nagan Bye War, list showing that be Fascis Karison, were anak fied Bio by Mu Bozerament is enjoying not only W. Hamilton, at the Kowloon The return of notifiuble dlecases povar, but also the full conádenca) Magistracy this neunbug. The de- for the 24 hours ending August of the Italian people.\n\nfendant were stati fu kavu deng e number or rase weighing Organised by the Koristang, aflens cha 90 unties derenstation be GONOMETRUJANJ\n\n124, showa tự, uszeg ni enteria | fever, que Bnglish (mynted) and joze Chinese. The return for the)\n\n**\n\nun\n\nweek ended August shows tour the fatha e Chinese who lost Me J. Tokugawe, autơi pensily Uses of enteric fever with two this list in the cover of Vi rekirst Secretary and Auting deaths, Chinese, Drs Japan, dishares heat. Hanko lloc to the imprese Bibery in Jo Indika su one Philippine (in and where he held at the Ties London, has been appointed facia porter) and cae care of parki An Men Pakun August 12 new Consul General et. Sydres, phoid fever, Chiacan, te death W92 114 Target, aticoded, Australia; and Mr. K Hogi, vulli\n\nfrom intussen is also reported. Spence wore and by various roses Japaneen Commanerai wanch in Londen, has been appointed Kuomintang Isagera\n\nAs the embur. of the late Panchal Fannin perialine\n\nCho\n\nequal\n\nVilla were lowered over the aid of renties\n\ninbor of the Japaness Legution Ah Beking. Both diplomats wetu\n\nths President Harvizos at Yuda,\n\n**\n\nmost popaliw ti Landen esrides.\n\nnot and was heard thosaglomm\n\nAccording to a story appearing w\n\nfier T\n\nArhus Guy Carless. 35, patiseer,\n\nAll operations were ele\n\npender. Thoes of heads were the Shaters Time, a Chinese mer\n\nBared. The lus table of the des chant, F. T. Canag of Narking, was\n\nbe best post in Shanghai in 1915,\n\na bed enteroed at Birmingham\n\nA detective.\n\nTEST YOUR SENSE OF HUMOUR BY READING THESE\n\nCHILDREN'S FUNNY SA UNGS gelikatel, ke D--B: Kora $2.75 The nices Eubiour a chuit is perkara the west amusing This book contrine headrede of\n\nof all forras of Auu.\n\nchildren a whimsical sayings.\n\nSPORTING AND DRAMATIC VADNS, 65 R. 1. B. Seliar 32.45 Theas ven stories to note-sad quote at one's non-in the drawing seca, in the club sowking-room, and in pinces where charming peuple assemble in hosz hores make after- Sinter speechan.\n\nrick engines, as the body, in a coffin hirisapped by invite cu demanded to gnicon rasuthy' impris shrouded by the American Bag, nt is wito raumNot for coupting to obtail money by Embed the dude, luc broke the paid within two weeks, otherwise false referatations. silsues Wrenting of lowers, given they rentended to kill the bushand inspector said that Carinus, who, by the Filipine communities of hole; The wife, who did not a vleie inther was Town Cleak of victor\n\nthirty years, failed ia hist Yokoburn, Shanghai and longkong, og i pay the consent, arferred for\n\nher rabant's predicaron examinations for the Bar and and Atually evanized ice by came a farmer. u 109 his father banking self\n\nGloc audi he then travelled on a Coloidea in America be opened an\n\nwere laid is the eart\n\nDuring the interval betzen the\n\ndeparture of Sir Edward Stubbs,\n\nthe\n\nAtontreal, but va\n\nQUOTABLE ANECDOTER nollected by D. B. Koox ...\n\nThe special feature di Usungen mandje oghter providing book is its quctableness. Most of the anecdotes are Lovel And extremely envenug but the peculiarity that distin. guisbes them as than they cku be rubly quoted in spoe thes, articles and etzversublock.\n\nRAVAM Chinesa doajors ut Manila; rates with another inu, had atter K. C. M. G., and the arrival of car\n\nGovernor (Mr. Cecil Cle-have been senght selling the mixed they bad obtained $5,000 eme nienti) Sir Claud Severn, E. P. E, vi arushed its of glass A warr-appiicans for the position of mave will uet an Officer Administering to the public to beware of buyer the couple disappeared. Thay\n\nEdwardice in Chinese \"sari-sa\" moves were eresied Government. Bir\n\nwe tested by the health services. Tabel the morey. Paperý sledi Stubbs.\n\ntc according\n\nhas also been disovered that a few they find engaged in similar dealings Arrangements and provided the Chinese reice dealers we also selling in various part of Canada, and the local situation pomte, will leave lard aflated with pontos al Toronto authorities bustested Hongkong during the early part) Sume Chiese store keepers and am pretensional “rooks\" and of October, his successor beloties merahnuts see now facing it-nordenen tiskaters. From Adelaido due to arrive atout Puree weeks watigation by officials of the head was reperied in 1969 that Cur Jater. Sir Clad Severn expects to series. Proceention fer violation of loss rat another man sarried proceed Home on leave in Deeen the pore food and drug law will be operations (is donhiul shararterį\n\nlie that were. isted against sum of timin.\n\nber,\n\n$8.15\n\nKELLY & WALSH, LIMITED. Carb Koed.\n\nEx 9. FRENCH MAIL AMBOISE,\"\n\nA NICE ASSORTMENT-OF BEST KIND OF FRENCH PRESERVES\n\nIncluding\n\nBeans, Peas, Celery, Spinach, Mushrooms, Whole Artichokes, elc,\n\nMacquerel, Sardines, Tunay, Herrings, Auchovies, etc., in White Wine, Oil, Tomato or Various Sauces.\n\nFoie Gras Naturel Forced, Pigs Feet, Truffed Boudins, Hare Pate, Veul Head Sauce Tortue Turkey Galantine.\n\nPort-Salut Cheese, Face Maggi, etc, etc.\n\nMAG - SIN GENERAL The Corner Shop\n\nPhone C5312\n\nTAMANTER\n\nThe latest designs\n\nLADIES' PLATINUM WRIST WATCHES SET WITH DIAMONDS\n\nfrowe\n\n$200\n\nSwiss Made\n\nAT\n\nSENNET FRERES\n\nTHE ALEXANDRA CAFE\n\nCAN SUPPLY\n\nBREAD AND CAKES.\n\nBirthday Cakes, Christenning Cakes, Wedding Cakes,\n\nand all kinds of fancy Cakes.\n\nAGENTS\n\nHUNG CHEONG, Kowloon. FOOK CHEONG TAI, Quarry Bay.\n\nSIMPLEX PLASTER PARTITIONS\n\nAND\n\nGEILINGS\n\n5 Beaconsfield Arcade\n\nThe SIMPLEX SYSTE\n\nHARPER'S\n\nSUMMERTIME SPECIALITY.\n\nMOSKA-CIDE\n\nA little of this wonderfu) commate apickled on subirea ce pillows wül kap rayosquito from thu vio.usty of your bedside or couch\n\nBartles $1.00 and $2.00. MOSQUITOES WON'T COME NEAR IT. Obtainable only ai\n\nQueen's Dispensary\n\nTel. No. 492.\n\nC. W. HANDLEY & CO. 29, Dog Vonx Rund, Centesi,\n\nGrand Prize of Honour\n\nPanama-Pacific International\n\nExposition\n\nSAN FRANCISCO, 1913\n\nAsahi-Beer\n\nSold Everywhere.\n\nSOLE AGENTS :\n\nMITSUI BUSSAN KAISHA, LTD.\n\n\"BARGAINS\"\n\nIN\n\nREFLEX CAMERAS & FOLDING CAMERAS\n\nWind with the failu-wing user\n\nCooke F2-5, F3-λ, F4-5 & F5-3,\n\nDallmeyer F2 3, F36, F4-5, & F6-3.\n\nZrise F36, FI-S & P6.3.\n\nKOER 4-5, 56 & 76-2.\n\ncall at\n\nA. TACK & Co.\n\n26 De Road Central.\n\nTHE\n\nFIRE PROOF\n\nSOUTH\n\nCHINA MORNING POST\n\nWEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26,\n\n1925.\n\nSPORTS fall SORTS\n\nHONGKONG BASEBALL\n\nGAMES FOR TO-DAY AND TO-MORROW.\n\nIn accordanLE with the re-41- ranged schedule wijet makes pro- valon for rener insiche, betw9) altores the Coague, there wit\n\nTHE WEET DAUGHTER\" GOLF CLUB,\n\nMORE STRIKE FIGURES.\n\n(By. \"Missolputts\" for the\n\nS. C. M. Post.)\n\nLAWN TENNIS.\n\nJOHNSTON WINS TROPHY.\n\nNewport R ), Aug 24. In the final of the Newport Ja vitation singles bowl, Johnson heat Norrou 63, 63, 8.3, thus) winning the trophy entright. And the Durables, fobistan and fin boat Serien and Casey 6, S1, 5,7, 26, 6.3. Treater Ancorican, Service.\n\nTHE OLD FAVOURITE\n\nBOORD'S\n\nOLD TOM GIN.\n\nCAT on BARREL BRAND\n\nOBTAINABLE AT ALL FIRST CLASE STORES.\n\nBred 111, Arg 24. Miss talen Wills roteinod the Women's National Lawa Tennis Championship, defeating Miss\n\nSale Agente\n\n3\n\nIn convection with the lies Meus 3:6, 6/9, 4,3 Reder's CALDBECK, MACGREGOR & Co., Ltd.\n\nbe two mid-week games played off moule corved daring the month at American Snowce juu the Houpy Valley dirmeist this \"ono Daughter Weep Golf\n\nin the opening matches of the\n\nBrookline, August 25,\n\nThe Grai u thoso i tired to Chuh,, za patience is \"Backpi's\" comurance at 5 pm, today, when festes on the 2nd instat, I wanted National Dumbles Championships the Filipino Club wil meet the Iu the courtcess Setreing of the Kinsey brothers, holders, boat dian R. P., who are at present at Clah with\n\nbtaining Hot and Halia Smuth, 7-6,6-4, 8-4; the boils of the Lable. To can- Purcher statintizm\n\nDemagis and Reignon beat Levazil noo but be anticipated that the\n\n02 mors\" mit hallused Vansien, 6-3,7-5, 6-3, Mili ant Filipino side will win, although Geoval, po fiering a co vite, jone Casey bost Shuster and Jonkines. the Indian team is alowing better those that one that isly, 7-5,6-4, 4; Westcased Emen Dora and pat up a stering came which we leerely devined. Pirids and Wasaki. 6-2,66, agalust the Japannes na Saturday Rogel tot To Golf Cirs le proad 6-2; Vildog and Wience boat Jopen last. The Arst guns between for its sacreen reden for Angvei, bal and logeshest, 6-4,56, 618-N--;\n\nthem treated in win for the do not for a moment eaypow that ¦ Bruter's American Service. Filipines by 15 to three.\n\nxo am entering into ang serious The Volunteer Defence Corps jrivalry with the Hant You: anl are scheduled to meet the base werk High Rocks or any other straling Japanese at 5, p.no, tommur- jorganization; and also you wil cow and a goat game la expected, please remember that we are far too wing the Volunteers falling to hard bung to provide full statistics of our the lesboinly percet Nipponesa, attivities weile stila\" Full who will have the velcer of the prof this was indeed patent in Playing x Chesterboid, La recevabtable ishimatsu as pitcher. teribe what of typewriter, calbire defence Derbyshire by Their earlier woering ended in au calculating machine pencil shara intings and 132 rans. Bears: Joverwhelming victory for the rengly want other Inclinary by Laucalice, 278.\n\nDerbyshire, S7 and 78. Japanse by 18 to four, which jbich we were surtunJed considering all things, was a good\n\nThe highest contributora Fressed however, harp. Ex tuore Lancashire wore Watson 62, Hal- for showing by the Volunteers. It gres, the aubice of tus peindust and Pewires 15, whikt. hoped that they will ranke an eventer wired papur and pen Towsond, Derby's Bowler, took better nue tomorrow.\n\nNo icons have bean received.\n\nJani alter serve nderful work y\n\nthe\n\nYACHTING.\n\nMR. BLAKE ON 6 METRE COMPETITION,\n\nQualities of Monsoon.\n\nHOME CRICKET.\n\nLANCASHIRE'S EASY WIN.\n\nLondon, Aux. 24.\n\nIr.\n\ntied staff of the sarees, four wickets for 57 rina. Your Peri Sage, Spoke and Darby's first innings, Tyldesley Chr was able to give us the jojowok eight wiekota for 40 runt, Seg infertuskinn.\n\nard in Derby's second krock Years ago, before the great Get Sibbles took fire wickets for 30\n\n| xuan---Herten hendi, Mr. Pineb valeukased that the jaar generated by jutits missed on iche gli con of Great Brita in jose past wuulih, it properly tiliaest, jelove and feed a men for six\n\nTHE ST. LEGER.\n\nMANNA IS FAVOURITE.\n\nLondon, Aug. 24.\n\nA reported in these columns jaga; working on the sette foarala, from me to rina, Bir. Blake's 1 may say than the host genercial Mouser from Singapore has met in me year by balta bene lost t\n\nTo be rst esiinrer of the Sz. Find a rery successful sencon at Weep lygter wee tothe and Legs at tex Victoria Cob to-day,\n\nhorse, but has been consistently red suitably ten Canton Bolshevicts Manza\n\nwas installed favourite, read at all the South Coast re- or the terms of their wanatabil Res 4 in 1 otuz taken and offered\n\nsttas. Writing From England may say that in their counter.\n\nto Singapore, 3. Blake says he original formula bo beru varieg\n\nabout racing away et rout of lightly and wilde fond be be avecis viven for the Eolant Dussafak, of rice per die red for Classes round about Sonthampton, labing t\n\nbut so far without getting a win- niux Beg.\n\nTheatre Class ic\n\nja very bor any, including as it\n\nA Few Move Piprez,\n\nits la empaled that the number\n\nLEAGUE'S OPIUM\n\nCOMMITTEE.\n\nBRITISH APPOINTED CHATEMAN,\n\nGeneva, Aug 24. The campout snriggling of\n\nduce the rack helicamen and ni rada not dancer in the Cleb frzewa of the South Coast of Eug-House after dinact by ki wh\n\nlead, and Mr. Blake feels quite have dine there is equal to the ex- SOUND PROOFd that his yacht can five plant of the ads in this Colony, drugs was one of the principal\n\nSending Now Thavidurios This, I take subjects of discussion of the) among them at all.\n\nManwood is best in light breezes, it, is a striking testimony the League's Advisory Committen on Togain, which niet te-lay, and but when it blow up she anot excelience of this fre 15wvinna.\n\nHONGKONG EXCAVATION, PILE DRIVING & CONSTRUCTION Co., Ltd.\n\nTel. 01. 8718.\n\nZad Floor, Powell's Building.\n\nCalfore pure de Ferments lactiques bulgares sur mitinu végétaj\n\nGLEED-INTÉZ\n\nBARRELS, CONTALIONS\n\nTELL Sza\n\nSAPAN Am\n\nAMERICA AND NEW ZEALAND.\n\nCONDIAL FAREWELL\n\nEXPRESSIONS.\n\nign to windward with the other - munder of Brinks prottered looted Sir Makrola Delovingue bosts, not being an ait This fee and refused by rubenbers wond Cosieman, and he dermian, due to her hul beine constructed unt, if poured into the ses at Wey. Professor Terr Acainuno, as Vice-Chainman. The absence of of teakwood, which takes a lot Daughter Bag, effent the love of the the Chien delegate, Mr. Chr ECONOMICAL extra weight, which is evidert wules of Weiss Buy is in 2-sue of instructions, in the keels of the other Boula mass of an inch at ordinary Spisens no sarprise in view of the better advantage.\n\nWides\n\nChinese wishdrawal from the on- Still, Mr. Make sud his com Enter of tadies invading ference on February 7th- Raster. : jpanions pog swag, learning of ine lide menie zgacha romte and bee in a\n\nine, and the international Rules (week would, if it were possible (and į row have no terrors for the Jusirable) to stand them end on end, when designing another bout.\n\nterm a dle appwainuately venel ini\n\nMr. Blake says that if he was height to Mount Kellet; moly thei in England for good he would take two lower was, however, jassustic cat that tenkwood darks of Mon- that the pile were rigid and not zour and replace them with pine- foent) would be able to see into tha wood, as lighten up further mens dressing room, iters and put the weight a\n\nes proves in the greons at Week! gained down amongst the read. Daughter theory approximately age to the reale vs New The rigat and mash pane in the tran-font of their own Zealand says: A view our Cine sama very light compared weight in aarti Jaily. It is there parting with feelings of sadness. with what they are eastern- torn, eniculated that this were at the ehost space of two weeks ed to oul East, mud would ut feultured over a year it would'ng the varicas detachments of the lagi long with natives as crews. Jquire 20 even the size of the Priest have grown to love your pouple Mr. Blake adds that he personal- jdenk of the, Club to carry the earth and your counky, Oar twenty- ty, and lab the Royal Siegapuce iya yarde in three days\n\ntwo thend men will go home nich Yach Club, are deeply indehind The notices posed to use various\n\nspeak intelligently of Ney Hackelahi-Smith, the Chul Buses in car year comes Zolnud. iry M.\n\nYou may be sure thes Editor of The Fachling Monthly Įpaar fomitbag the rapina filed in sili ev as twenty-two thousan for the great trouble he has taken the office) uneagh to acce eft the well-wishers and boosters of your on behalf of Monsoon.\n\nFairways of de Chan verine Wonderful country.\"-- Restor\n\nPROCITIES, AZŠNES QRAPIN, ARTISTE PALZEMENTS DIE challe DERSGITUNES, TORKULASES SEGET STUMATHYRA PYCRPUDES Frog Taktiken i 19ŠEČE VYVENIŠE OSATIZIRA\n\nBULGARINE\n\nTHEPENIER\n\n14 COMPRIMIR grustten Swaggia - » POUDRY\n\nAdalton Suver dans compolnas;\n\nBukemeina 206 25mideure\n\nJapan 16 a 2 par jour).\n\nEntente: te doua.\n\nPricer, if\n\nFocuirer\n\n3 par jom,\n\nLARGRAT JIRE 4 PERMYNYS A. FAEPENISA. f. 1. Or,\n\nCompagnie Optorg\n\nAptu\n\nAMERICAN EXPRESS\n\nRAILWAY AND STEAMSHIP\n\nTICKETS\n\nTRAVELLERS' CHEQUES Express and Freight Forwarding.\n\nHONGKONG\n\n44 Des Voeux Ecad,\n\nTel. C. 4825.\n\nBOXING.\n\nPROSPECTS OF AN INTERESTING SEASON.\n\nIn at Interview with Afr. J. Bronk of the Hougkong Boxing Asesora-\n\nsica yesterday, our representative\n\ncanreek In this connection it is in- teresting to note, drag experiments face huing carried and with a new ane resobling real turf in gastify Frero which it is byped that pertines Butter beter juraced turd igzurady mag re nitized for revuling the greDAT\n\nthe various Courasi,“\n\nWellington, Aug, 21. Admiral Shortz in a tazewell\n\nwwwwwww.xxx.com.com GERMAN PULĪTICS.\n\nHERR WIRTH RESIONS.\n\nBerin Aug 24.\n\nPelion des are exload by ex-Chancellor Wield's resigna\n\nAt this point several telepboursion from berlap of the\n\nbelle mang, for routies appeared Centrists owing principally, to\n\nwas informed that there is every with chit hooks and with the depot disapproval to the Party's action prospect of a brilians winter se regret I was torcel is te ry son in the fisticuff sphere of Rong parure.\n\n[korg.\n\nYoungsters are coming along in\n\ngood style, he suic, and there will\n\nbo no dearth of entries in the possibility of arme of these being various classes. Hittorio.\n\nthe induced to come forward and put\n\npozices have given the best shows jep a show.\n\nhere, but new arrivals cu the stas\n\nPerhaps the most prominent of tion, both Navs! and Military, are the new arrivals is at present\n\nof\n\nBewegtners\n\na sapporting the Tarif Bill.\n\nHarr Wirth will remsin head of\n\na small party, of Independenti Centrists. Reutt\n\nSYRIAN OUTLOOK.\"\n\nTHE CALM CONTINUES.\n\nPark4, Aug. 21.\n\nThe Ministry of War annon\n\ncalibre to enthase the most on board . . . Farmes. | Cardened of fight tans.\n\nfa welter weight he has participated Among the\n\nare in the Army and Navy Champion-txt\n\nમ ea continea in the some dark horses win, although shops at Home, where bas Jebeltrase regim. they are men of merit, elden ven a good second at bheselt Suela is set earrounded but fe The town al 14, Klukiong Road appear outside their e intership and aceding to report is Ingres regulady applied by aeroplanes.\n\nBEANOHAL\n\nor regiontal bouts and there in King'a the ame\n\nReter.\n\nQuien's Bood Central.\n\nTelephone C. 75.\n\nBIG BARGAIN!\n\nTo make room for new stock, we will sell the entir\n\nstock of.\n\n“VOCALION” & “BANNER”\n\nDance Records\n\nFrom TO-DAY to 31st inst.\n\nAt the following prices ---\n\nBANNER DANCE RECORDS\n\nVOCALION DANCE RECORDS.....$ 1.20 each cash\n\n0.70 Babae hours:10 .. to 7 p.m. Sablay:-10 e.. to 4 p..\n\n+3\n\nCOSTA MUSIC CO., LTD.\n\n48. Nothes Road. Kowleon.\n\nPICCADILLY CLUB\n\nBREVAS PINAS\n\nAN EXCER}}}NGLY\n\nFINE SHOKE\n\nBaler\n\nMANGFACTURERS\n\nBox of\n\n23\n\nB. Yander TAX & CO.\n\nHOLLAND\n\nGET INABLE Ar\n\nTABAQUEIRA FILIPINA\n\n58 Quesu's Road, Central,\n\nYEE SANG FAT CO.\n\nTHE HONGKONG\n\nBARGAIN\n\nHOUSE.\n\nQUEEN'S ROAD & D'AGUILAK ST.\n\nB.V.D. BARGAINS\n\nUnion suit\n\n$2.75\n\nSingle Garment $1.40\n\nSUN HELMETS\n\nA big shipment\n\njust arrived\n\nAt\n\nBARGAIN PRICES\n\n$4.50, $6.75, $13.50\n\nSTRAW HATS\n\n$2,50, $3.00\n\n53 50, $4.00\n\nEvery Day Bargains.",
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        "content_text": "Entertainments.\n\nThere are.\n\nTHRILLS,\n\nTHE\n\nTHRILLS,\n\nTHRILLS,\n\nUNKNOWN\n\nPURPLE\n\nin\n\nA Tale of love mystery\n\nAnd\n\nvengeance\n\nSOUTH CHINA MORNING POST, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1925.\n\nThe absorbing story of a greatly wronged inventor who discovered a purple ray by which he could make himself invisible\n\nHENRY B. WALTHALL ALICE LAKE\n\nand\n\nSTUART HOLMES\n\nhead a big cast\n\nSUPER 7\n\nCINEMA\n\nDaily At\n\nSundays\n\n2.30.\n\nat\n\n5.15,\n\nA..\n\n7.15.\n\n7.30.\n\n9.16.\n\nTuesday Thursday Sunday\n\n9 13.\n\nChange of Programme\n\nTHE STAR\n\nTO-DAY\n\nat 5.50 and 9.15\n\nFLORENCE VIDOR\n\nand\n\nMONTE BLUE\n\nin\n\nSinclair Lewis' famous story\n\nMAIN STREET\n\nANCHOR BRAND\n\nPURE\n\nINTERNATIONAL GENERAL, AUGUST SETTLEMENT DAY.\n\nELECTRIC.\n\nNEW PRESIDENT.\n\nAnnouncement has been made of\n\nA FAIR AMOUNT OF BUSINESS.\n\nAlthough the exchanges have\n\nbeen closed for business ever\n\nsince the strike commenced,\n\na fair amount of business was\n\nput through yesterday, August\n\nSettlement day.\n\nA FALSE CLAIM\n\n¿ QUESTION OF WHICH TO BELIEVE.\n\nDispute About Rainbow.\n\nKotore Mr. Jnative Wood at the\n\nCivilized possession of 1871 bangles\n\nBinary Court yesterday, Lo On\n\nhas relinguished the presidency\n\nof the contract made for August\n\nbefore Board.\n\nMr. Minor is well known\n\nin the Far East.\n\nHe joined the\n\nWestern Electric Company in 1902\n\nand occupied various clerical posi-\n\ntions, each better than the preced-\n\ning, until he was made assistant\n\nmanager of the Katens: City office\n\nin 1906.\n\nA year later he was\n\ntransferred to Omaha,\n\nand two years later be returned\n\nto Kansas City in the capacity of\n\nmanager of the office.\n\nIn 1914 he returned to America\n\nand became active Foreign Sales\n\nchanges with open again San-\n\nManager in New York City.\n\nthough In tember 13\n\nno definite 1218 he was assigned to special\n\ndecision hua vet bren auired a\n\nwork in Ching and fapas, paderj\n\nthe supervision of Mr. Swope,\n\nand in Bul year organised the China\n\nElectric Company, Ltd., for the\n\npurpose of manufacturing tele-\n\nphone apparatus in that court.\n\nTHE FRENCH DEBT.\n\nCONVERSATIONS CONTINUE.\n\nLondon, Aug. 21.\n\nIt was toward the end of 1921,\n\nafter completing his work in the\n\nOrient, then he became uropran\n\nManager of the Western Chillaws.\n\nThe latter interviewed!\n\nby Reuter.\n\nsaid there would prob-\n\nably be farther outings to-morrow.\n\nthough nothing definite land bean\n\nJa the spring of 1921 he joined\n\nise International Generet Elvetzie\n\nCompany as Vice-President.\n\nLi Su ail that he met 34 Ouj\n\nsoon after his amivel.\n\nIo Os told im that the barabocs\n\nwere his property and said that he\n\nhad pod Jaşṭ orer 8900 for ruen\n\nend still wedtic mere than $700.\n\nWitness told the Court that he\n\npeld the rest of the plot of landį\n\nfor the first moon,\n\nCross-examined: He went with\n\ndefendent to pay the rent.\n\nMr. MacCallum: Why is the receipt\n\nin the made vi o Chues Kee?--In\n\nChuen Hen said that the\n\nan receipt had been torn up by\n\nTo taid the resh for the recová\n\nfixed reapreting the coved of his\n\nlittle guy.\n\nA will be gathered from this\n\nconversations.\n\nsamrosey of successes in f\n\nM. Callaus was uncommunics-en---I\n\ndid not pay.\n\nmany pralviong, Mr. Minor na\n\ntheive and merely stated that the\n\nquelitive that make him Heed, at\n\njconversations\n\nnapinistrative)\n\nTHE COFFIN\n\nwell es respected.\n\nA dearmind cordist-Reeter.\n\nJed. kena Pinker, with sogatang-|\n\ntiva wei! as abuty, he is alive to\n\nthe men side of business relations\n\n» Tast which has always been angreekat-\n\nen oy those within as well as out-\n\nside his own organization.\n\nLLERINA MAANTE, STORLESTON, OSBORNE WOOD CONVICTED.\n\nGIVEN PRISON SENTENC\n\nOne Year laguisopment for Sea of Gen. Weed.\n\nParis, Angui\n\n15--Liens\n\nburae Wond son of the Qorginos\n\nSenest of the Philippines, was to\n\nAnother\n\nvituesa\n\nwho\n\nwa\n\nextremely vienaly in defendant's\n\nemploy densed what he had\n\nknowledge that\n\nCROP.\n\nEGYPT AN ESTIMATE.\n\nCairo, Aug. 94, The area under\n\ncontra le oled ally estimated at\n\n1.924.000 Ted-\n\ndans, as cetopared with 1,787,000\n\nthe plainuff was furing to swindlej\n\nIs knen-kec out of the batchona.\n\nHe said that the reason be left!\n\nthe defendant's employ was, be-\n\ncause Ho Give ongated two wien\n\nbit of lots of bamboos in vas)\n\nmonth,\n\nForry Years in Hong Kong,\n\nDefendant.\n\nIn the hex, sulü he feddens last\n\nseason, of whichį nad spent forty\n\nyears in Heug-\n\nSavollarides accounts for 1,198,-\n\nkong and for torky-one years be\n\n1000 feddags se compared with\n\nhad been a desier in buibus)\n\n879.3 feddone last year-Router\n\nand bamoso by-products.\n\nday Antenced to war's imṣiri..!\n\nsurmeni nude foe of 14. 1930\n\nFollow-j\n\nFing conviction or a change of\n\npars-\n\nNEWS IN BRIEF.\n\nLOCAL AND CSEKAL GOMBEA.\n\nKalpinging, Touréssion.\n\nAneering to Northern Chinese\n\ning a montidens chaque for GR1,730\n\nmanors, General Lí C) Lasin isced\n\nsif entered his engtoy towards\n\nthe wel of Aprii and on May 2nd be\n\nhim 000 ANTO Vo ない\n\ntiengphau Fax iny iLanding Da bi hekali.\n\nHe (turned some days later and said\n\nNd fost The accounts and receipts,\n\nbut added that witness red hit $70\n\nwhich he spent in excess of the $600.\n\nHe said he\n\nat Line Casino Biarritz.\n\nYoung Rindas, acder to the ludustal\n\nChan had to pay $30 to 10ɛ Yip!\n\nis now in the United State\n\nratsalouer of Chit with Instrue\n\nYee Tong, a robber pang.\n\nLatar\n\nThe\n\nThe touging Cuited Pren die tipe to\n\nthe Enamelow Mining Ad-\n\npleistift sunt a man to take aweF\n\npatel from Pans apparently ontninistration to negotiate with one of\n\nthe bamboo but witness\n\ntimes the fan diapos in the Kalping\n\nMining Admlustratoba bit that not\n\neven the must! adventures of the\n\nJonas son of tion regarding the\n\nterms for euential man in the Colony\n\nGoverar General Wood into tatoration\n\nof the latter to the could touch its\n\nhandido.\n\nreales of high francs.\n\nYoung Wood\n\nChinese.\n\nAccording to the prometter\n\nwas reported to the police who\n\nwas a lienserant in the U. 8.\n\nprovisions stipulated in thu sgreement\n\nand gomeone wagested that he\n\nArts stationed in the folppinesigned\n\nbebeteen the Chinage and give the\n\nplaint about a hundred sau etéo\n\nMamagh forentade sperni.\n\n- tion he cable a the New York\n\nStorks regarding the Kaiping\n\nhandles ur beinbrs in order tr\n\nExelago, ve anasis fortune of\n\nmines, they could be henght bek\n\nmake up for the $70 which Lo On\n\nhad paid out of his own pocket.\n\nMANILA ROPE la calle duista\n\nThem by the Chinese in ten years by\n\n\"THE CORDAGE YOU CAN TRUST \"\n\nESTABLISHED 1854\n\nMARINE ROPE\n\nROPE\n\nTRANSMISSION\n\nGF TOWER ROPE\n\nH\n\nYNCHAUSTI\n\nCABLE LAID\n\nHAWKERS\n\nWELL DRILLING\n\nCABLES\n\nFACTORY\n\nCanned with bin cheque book\n\nhajamming ae adegun'e sum to the\n\nBri.\n\nTuk\n\n*\n\n29130 named\n\nQuestioned by his Lordship ag\n\netarted out en rip mound the bish.\n\nThe ten-gear terin haz alto\n\nthe security he had to giving\n\nwood, painting the ace in mota ar\n\n194dy expired, in 1938.\n\nNegotia\n\nthe plaintiff $600 when he had\n\nless lurid colure, the preced GN\n\nwere then ronducted between\n\nknow him caly few days Upor\n\nhit arrives in Fraser be mame\n\nthe Lanchow and Kalping Min\n\nwitness said that\n\nately got into the newspapering\n\nAdministrations, but no resuit\n\nChan\n\nThe matter was plainuiff and\n\nexpressed his will\n\nROPES OF ALL\n\nheadlines through his gambling at\n\nhis out.\n\nthe meh usertą.\n\n| dropped until now.\n\ningness to stand as surety.\n\nTe SIZES FOR ALI\n\nFinally something happened and at\n\ninstructed plaints not to pay\n\nmore than 30 canta & iudie for!\n\nthe bamboo,\n\nMADE FROM\n\nPORE MANILA\n\nHEMP\n\nMANUFACTURED\n\nBY THE MOST\n\nMODELN\n\nMANILA\n\nMACHINERY.\n\nSTOCKS ON HAND OF ALL SIZES\n\nENQUIRIES SOLICITED.\n\nFACTORIES:-MANILA P.I.\n\nHONGKONG OFFICE:\n\nKING'S Telephons Central 2185,\n\nBUILDING.\n\nImprove the TONE of Your GRAMOPHONE with a\n\nhad rentsanded\n\nMr. Justlee Wood said that hol\n\nde reported that his father deceived\n\nMr. Band. D. Corbett has roupa,\n\neiled rourente Tren his son fored to\n\nthe AMS in connection Fans Govenor-General Wood is\n\nwith the ingration of what is\n\nreported to lova zent a casadevalla\n\nsikely in prove a new and interesting.\n\nsura, but apparently not wfficiens\n\nto PMS industry This is the rae\n\ncer all of the bunn\n\ntion of a deal works in Pahang,\n\nthe parties was telling\n\natisfied that\n\nhe being asked to decide which i\n\nListunut Wood is now reported\n\nnear Karls Lipe, to produes\n\nfront. be working for a real estate\n\nconjungle\n\nand Der woudy\n\ncern in fios, but apparently wil-\n\nmaterials verlic not be retamning to\n\nParis or 1-170dné, holidays.\n\nGERMAN TRADE WITH\n\nCMNA.\n\nA REMARKABLE INCREASE.\n\nHe felt\n\nthe\n\nraw defendunt id pay money to the\n\nmothy plaintiff and was of opinion\n\nthat ગ\n\nwond & dispute arose owing to the\n\nfact For paints, preservatives, forces)\n\nand various that the plaietiff spent\n\nmore than\n\nut neetates M. Frank he Karmin\n\ngiven.\n\nJudgment for Corben has obtained a\n\nsuitabl; defensant with costs would be\n\nJanncession oveż a in forest arms!\n\nziren.\n\njin Pabong, thù- soncession haing\n\nvery cius proximity\n\nto Frambit\n\nItalas 8hric whirl is fifreen\n\nThe Koch Zeiteng. Count Wes-\n\nniles from Kuala Lipia\n\ntazu's newspaper, pubisher a\n\nlong article froze te China cer-\n\nf Ken\n\nWhere are Solar\n\nrespondent, in which he gives\n\nantureins completeir Japsuined.\n\nAr visit to Tsingtan. Konluma,\n\nthree are to useins, al: account of a\n\nback in fure work\n\nAbout 300 Germans\n\nce\n\nFrabies\n\nbore, most of whom resided in\n\nthese, there is ous shoe-maker and\n\nMost of ibasa have been tha pice\n\nbefore the war.\n\nBineneaker\n\n19 the imports of German mersing\n\nin this part of Raphalian kine\n\nchandise have increased in the\n\ndva of the Romarov adruimte\n\nThere is electric light\n\n[Tưkteur.\n\nreally extraordinary manner\n\nyatable, be the Russians wil bs\n\nyear, and German influence is\n\nlar pit tor\n\n-ey begin\n\ngrowing at a corresponding rate.\n\n| work at about for in the morning,\n\nthe corraspondent, and my du ber\n\nsoon after sunset, It is, saya\n\nespecially from England and he\n\nUnited States thst strany is!\n\nGENNETT RECORD in and as the centre\n\nLATEST HITS IN TO-DAY For Sale At\n\nKOWLOON MUSIC STORE Kowloon Hotet Building\n\nKowloon,\n\nP\n\nWas\n\nPIMPLES CAUSED GREAT PAIN\n\nOn Hands. Sufered Years.\n\nIlealed by Caticara.\n\n\"My daughter's bands saved tand that saw piTNILA feente.\n\nThey led with water bar bedeft then kinak and fester and fier for great jam.\n\nShe was\n\ndie\n\ngel up at night and bold her hand.\n\nJin very hot water fu chse the pot...\n\nShe suffered like that for úve or zivi\n\nTORE are for acrae Son\n\nExtas 4 tane of the Yokohama socks Bank was ned i Karachi gravity of world policy is moving nutty.\n\nIs is reported that Kara rapidly towards the Pacific, the ante brak with Japan bre intrinsed German Goverment should take hy tess and hounds during the every portunity to profeet and that five yearE\n\nthe Fer avour Germaniam in\n\nEt.\n\n\"The recovery of aume con. The Waokang Mint is at presne cessions in our former Kias-Chau | produery $150,00) Saily, hur en the\n\nhelp enor-market is in want of silver! Protectorate word\n\nmonsly the atfainment this delises it is pregused to rise the\n\ndaily work to $180,0 Lim.\"\n\nsent for a fer sample I found hi sas jaing ber gond to prese Itens and the is completely falodged] Te. Briggs. 120, Mic seter Rd., Derby. Eng.\n\nUse Cullera Sarp and Olatrert\n\nRegularly to maintain permand Jakir, and her health.\n\nSong vid Oistrant said thoughætt tår\n\nTry the Cuticure Shaving Sticks,\n\nDo This-Today\n\nTiis\n\nLearn how millions get whiter teeth\n\nwill digitiul test which\n\na new conception of what clear teeth moon,\n\nIt tacnus whiter, clatter, sufor teeth, such se millions now enjoy.\n\nSee wirst brings to you.\n\nThe war on film Dental suico is new fighting the cause of move topt]: Itoucles.\n\nFams that viseras coat you fesi.\n\nIt clings to south.\n\nUnder old methods of tooth brushing, ratch of it remains,\n\nTr.bentice decolored, then futz diy sogra Thng is why mà 1500y cerk cloudy.\n\nFilm also raises 10 troth trooi leg.\n\nIt loins food wykonanie\n\nadrich ferments and fenos sell, it holds de asià in content with the seath to asuse decay.\n\nGoms krevd by millions in it.\n\nThey, vit SAG- Sar, are the chiti cerme of your d\n\nThese troubles became almost umiyevast when that film wa left of teeth.\n\nModem rerganch das tiae werad two effective m coxbatants.\n\nOne digimtegrate the balm ut ski aresyna uf Pronation.\n\nOve rumoras à vikk... out bermind acouring.\n\nTese have proved dut dev rastheds mean à ngy era in leady\n\nTRADE\n\ncleaning.\n\nnew-type tootla paria has been created en apply ther\n\naily.\n\nThe name is Pepsodent\n\nNow the use of Peysadent ha spread the work over, largely by dental advice.\n\nLook at what Pepsodent does\n\nThe use of Pepsodent will britu\n\nat once a new conception of ela veet\n\nProtect the Enamel\n\nPepsodent disintegrates d fi khen reinowes fi with var gpent fir softer than gumel, ever desa de comment watch contains laurah gri\n\nIn dela ugga tisa tulu źni salthaling the gnty of th andira, which is then to nesesti: a montesis.\n\nJt trediciise féin par sila in salive, strah in devaẹ to do pant sich, deposits on ti\n\nThess combined effects will be a vežalise ke\n\nSend the rouson for a 70-320/ Tebe, éve how clean in teena Jeet after being.\n\nMark the\n\nof the series Blan.\n\nSee im ters Lacive whier as the i-ca dilsapy car.\n\nCompare the new way with the eid, then docide for yourself what\n\nis best ut et cospan tem.\n\nBAHK\n\nAGAINST\n\nThe New-Day Dentifrice\n\nBassa on quodern research.\n\nAd wse by Tading dotians in world over.\n\nYou will tea and food fame- diate cault,\n\nTwo zizta on ralc everywhere.\n\nAZZATA POR HONDMOND & BOLEH GIA;# KELAAR KERM A GO- 1.15. 5, W NONGKONG\n\n10-Day Tube.\n\nThe Pausodeot Dompany, Dept. C15-16.\n\nBus 1418, Shanahal.\n\nBackend find al cos Sramps.\n\nMail 10-day labs of Pzasadent to\n\nMail 10-Day Tube of Pepsodent to\n\nNave.. Address...\n\nGive full address.\n\nWrite plainly, Only ont vube 10 a kunits.\n\nCARBOLINE\n\nKILLS GERMS\n\nKeope every zvrnet\n\nSWEETENS DRAINS\n\npour hopes swest and elaan.\n\nThe beat IKI VISH Veudorant Gallins $2.75, Half Gallons $1.75.\n\nS'a 4. THE COLONIAL DISPENSARY\n\nDID you ever serve\n\nWelch Punch? Try -your guests will be Javish in praising it.\n\nHere is how you make it---\n\n1 pint Waith'a\n\nI quatt water\n\n1 cup sugar\n\nJake of 2 lunnans sud 1 orange\n\nThis manke the most licious and refreshing beverage you can serve or het days or evenlegs,\n\nTUL WELCH BRATE NICZOO, Wtfibi, N., 4.5. A.\n\nWelch's\n\nGrapeJuice\n\nWhelssola Regreactiam ius.\n\nMULLER & PHIPPS (China) Ltd.\n\nZebrand. P. D, Bos afin, Kingstei\n\nAssist\n\nNature\n\nHowever robust\n\nand strong the con- stirution there are fines when Nature requires assistance in relieving congested parts and re- storing normal function.\n\nNature has no subre efficient aid to health than Beechma's Pills\n\nWheat the digestive organs refuse to assimi- lace foed; when the liver Tuers sluggishty; when the kidneys do not properly\n\nperfona their allotted duties, then is the time to wesist nature to restime sound and vigorous health.\n\nby taking\n\nBeecham Pillo\n\nBANKS.\n\nHONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.\n\nREAD DIVICE, BONCHONG.\n\nkukintoad Capimi,AUR Sentra Futa PAID 2004 NA TUN\n\n£ 4.800.000 STA $2,699AGE Baetzen Dishitty of protons 294,092, INDE\n\nCourier.\n\nWhile,\n\nquer Meas\n\nA. IL Paview, Ena\n\nBANKS.\n\nSOUTH CHINA\n\nCORRESPONDENCE.\n\nTo the Editor, A. C. M. Post.)\n\nTHE CHARTEKKU BANK OF INDIA, AUSTHALIA & CRINA.\n\nJadwiston 50\n\nReserve ad\n\nKRUTAMİ,\n\n£3,000,0\n\n2-lets Chairm\n\n5. An șa tum.\n\nLi W, Barnard, Yu W. 2. Patarajan, bez\n\nWell. Koz\n\nA. K. FRAUFOs,\n\nM Hugkung, 15th April, 1925.\n\nNEDERLANDSCHE HANDEL\n\nMAATSCHAPPL.\n\n|NETHELANDS TRADING SOCISTIJ\n\nBANG.\n\nTetal Hard Ba\n\nLa magar: Eburchak.-G. 8. AL X-\n\nJAMIN DANKERJ;\n\nWestminster back, Imitá.\n\nCarpet county aveone in Lock Guzenar and Planḍ Dayalle spevived for day parë në sherlar evinin in ima) Guzzyner and Racing, Wes which will lie utwerk\n\nBand 19th Mat. 1955.\n\np\n\nHONGKONG SAVINGS BANK\n\nThe\n\nWe obtakt\n\nof the above deple s HiViNGNG AN HANG REMAIN, BANE DOES\n\nINTE SPE dep is culonlated w Bekalana during ja ezoqaletai Qalendar Merin at B34 per cent per si\n\nMeu to orbites on way day in a Moth sweet will in Kined fur that\n\nrepteiten Immander ; their epikoa Rai.üd or dance to the HONGKONG AND MUANGHAI BANK to be lowes\n\nKAKE DEPORT - CURRENT RATES\n\nFor the maing vad skurzovi Kanking Corporatina,\n\nA. BAXLOW\n\nColt Vansa, Fonehengerry, A INTERNATIONAL BANKING\n\nCORPORATION.\n\n(wind 6 the National City Bank st\n\nNew Tor\n\nCapital and Surplva v 52. JALAN, DA\n\nRetryis\n\nAVAD OFFICE\n\n60, Wan Straut. Fo\n\nLONDUS OFFICE\n\nMy Bishnule, Bi 0.\n\nBRANCHES\n\nProvince of Kwangtang, who are! however, Wally tacerning more!\n\npowerless the grip a \"BeF forcas: that this Balthe\n\nMOROCCAN WAR.\n\nENEMY FIRE SILENCED.\n\nMadrid, Aug 24.\n\nร\n\nMORNING POST. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1925.\n\nBANKS.\n\nRUSSO-ASIATIC BANK.\n\nbest 5,603.30\n\nHOT\n\nBANKS.\n\nTHE MERCANTILE BANK OF INDIA, LIMITED,\n\nCrarecare\n\nKod: BA Stan\n\nAuthored Capim 5,360, m Solestia Cav1.500.co Pript? LED Cut Reserve ... 1,9440,001-\n\nKANCÉES.\n\nShe Bank of Fingland &\n\n& Midland Bach, Lat\n\nBRANCHES\n\nEnta Shuro\n\nAc obieral communique claims.\n\nCapital City yeld]\n\natl\n\nChaikal Pe\n\nKe Chaps Gazerne\n\nRES CFFICE.\n\nParis, Kee Brateur.\n\nLONDON OFFICE\n\nYou\n\nFort Youth (art) BONGKONG BRANCH.\n\ntd, Gid Bread Blease, $9.\n\nKAKIMAS\n\nShamok theini\n\n$ck!\n\nBatavia Gall\n\nBoer\n\ncross me\n\nJoalats.\n\nYut. Gau, Müs, de\n\nGarrin Pan Sauerale egung in recent bombardments.-EU de Gizarte E Fac\n\nFranca\n\nI've Lost Goonw Mede, Angrył 25.--General 'n de Rivers by kina\n\nArcikrod\n\nbeyn\n\nHora'sy Hentyne Bala Tamar navba ¡Calepitas Ilewrah Sciculo Kozár\n\nLindra\n\nFema BUTALOGS\n\nSlagspry Sout\n\n(ft in the coar Ausories\n\nEndrin\n\ntu de Pazia st das Pa\n\nLyn Bern CNTICIALA JOz Zaveck that\n\n1.\n\nSir your bardağ's Leadervist Gorunmeet of Canton, whose inscrporated by Regul Chartuť, 1851. [you any: “We are making and farm is vader the sperme com\n\nLand On: Londo Past op Capland $0.590' must pake a bid for the spopathyjmoud of a Karine Bolshevist that the enomy's fire\n\nof the British public.\" J this Coneret, and on whose military Albucemas was silangad by he Ferien xehera ad General Hancurent Can we hope to arouse and evil staffs there are already tane arrival of the warship! Garment Accennik wegeō and Floed Dawonria ¦ The syimpathy of the Bridiel: uray bug Russians, as declarede It emits that owing Sed ne & rent or shorter rods at pubife by rendre a telegram to ja orkude of this British Colors, the soul means of com- wales wil be quoted on Applic\n\nmunication with the painland No. 30 Dawning Stret? Wil thene ships from or 10 Yongkons Betish public ever hear of it being allowed to ply within any\n\nbeing interrupted through the cest re-haps Shnung a brief of fe wnsers of the Kwant to dairage sustained by the avack,\" it is impossible to ganga paragraph in the London Prest | Province, traton moi haloy permit.\n\nThe telegram is excellent as farted to cryas Ale\n\nAnglo-Chine Renter- AH it goes. Toy it should be barked transler, and not even a up by a direct virosal to the peasant being allowed to British people-a the enthusiasm from Chinese to British territory: tha of the cornug in this alter will that British subjecta are mat per-preparations Reve enable the organisers of\n\nThe mitted to enter the city of Cantonpleted and offensive operations US C Meeting to rese! the cont! Pets that by die viel order of the mould probably be lanched within, Venic #OAGKONG SKUNDE EMASLACAS 19. hapa Exuler's agones mere wouta Goverment ட்: Centon, British ten diss. While isolating tribes Authurted Cavitstallers 1000 dyward it, on the Colay'z boskins are folder to enter tas who said help him, we will operate\n\n212,601 | to the British Press. Con Caeton river that Red\" Trucke 30,000.\n\nthe very borrilary of Ate ei. 66ing through that chased te weglajare roused or the Angka Krin--tavas. GEA acured wide publicity. Frontier and nee, talks firing wiLL\n\ninpurity on B. a police patrels The following anggested tensed on parctos Chinne fathers ram is long, but could be and workmen the British side on thejof the border; that as a reer, of\n\nMeasures că-\n\nPaziti...\n\nTest\n\n..der.com 161,258,335.J\n\nBand On: JESTERDAM. Bester and Ocom-BATAVIA.\n\nBükmat Bardown,bresisted if necessary\n\nhay, flabour, Überikan Ujven-\n\nhar, Diakiskaria, The Haware of experie. W anyone theas and other Rink Mob Davik.\n\nHow who has been hame 10 Meika. P\n\nPenang\n\nBanzo Hoterias, Kanan.\n\nSoerakar (in) Treni, Tijne Joader Bachana Provincial\n\nCadets all was the wazid, PARKING FUSSRAT DE BYREY\n\n..\n\nRECKLESS CYCLIST.\n\nCHINESE WAITER FINED.\n\nA restaurant waiter was lugged i\n\n|_ New York Ta Ying Bauk, Colorati\n\nSexFirenz\n\nBarlin:\n\nOnk\n\nNatom\n\nShangha EVDEN Ing Pektor Mapato 1\n\nJornad\n\nKanchang Yukinama\n\nKatarrat allow on Dress Amanida de Hive Deneth Til\n\norien sebanga no the prizcismi silán\n\nL.. BAINES.\n\nthe world bws/kland an\n\nBalapur\n\n司公理管業實法中\n\nSOCIETE FRANCAISS DE\n\nGERANCE\n\nDE LA BANQUE INDUSTRIELLE DE CHIND\n\nPRONINENT PRUERY, oubt that the Inferomtion as to been brought to a complete stand-i Hhanghai, Singspiere emitthe calony's estabifalme and til and uve 70 Ateamers, of before Mr. E. W. Mumilten. at the present importance is nevessary? wloce 65 are Pritisk, are now ly-Kuwien Mugistry Perlerder\n\nJours, etc.\n\ning e in the liatbear of Bong with riding a bicgete in a reckle I. M. T.\n\nReng; that through the uretismorzar. The defendat picaded Hongkong, 24th August 1925. of the imperial Governeur, salt and was fired 53. Appeal To The People Of Great\n\nwatch to the Chinees mind! Sergeant D. Murphys who effected\n\nBritain\n\nguitles ouly impotence, the hot the rest of the defendant, waredi This mass morting of British our and dignity of Britain have that when ordered to stop at the! residents of the tree Cology alemdy entered a severe selbeck jacion of Nathan and Jordan Red 9. Butler Bar Hongtong appeals to the people throughout And, the extent and Roads, the defendant diselayed the of the Mother County for their scriose of which only the desigual, but after a chase inte Wou- support in the grievous positionjhare will reveal; that this low ng Scient, the defendant wAS which de Colony ha heen to car prestige in Asia is the prevented from proceeding other. placed through the violently and object deiterately aimed as by by a large cerad of people, and was THE DANGLE MUISTURES IN CHIN\n\nKANQUE DE L'INDO-CHINE.\n\nSubscribed lasila. 78,000,000.00 Packets Capital Fra, SCRAIGN Hacer Fend,FM. 81,587,39321\n\nBANGKOK\n\nDBANCE 1\n\nPAPIRŠTE YAOM.PNG PONMOD MARY\n\nMATGON\n\nKAPTAMBANG CANTONG\n\nDJIBOUT\n\nJIHONG\n\nTANDI HUNGSONG VYNONG\n\nJOUMICA\n\nSTANGDAL\n\nSINGAPORE TUNIN\n\nBasket\n\nHersalina\n\nEasons\n\nPek\n\nBoyabay\n\nPluta\n\nGAL\n\nC\n\nItem\n\nFrancia, Cal\n\nC\n\nPrenses du Mamcie\n\nCOU\n\nSt J\n\nIt\n\nSeron la llar\n\nNarbib\n\nSarty Pinga\n\nHUMANEK\n\nShanghet\n\nAnim\n\nSZTUK MENITH\n\nSe Playca best Nasa\n\nBIKIN\n\nin Vega\n\nTari\n\nworld\n\n7000\n\nKeale\n\nfait, lei. Taghangt som\n\nble Tra Tacx hought and sold. Corrent event!\n\nsasti kauk, Kesante spared And Fla Deprale, float and fires musprim saken of zatez, tårt may be verymtaxi se\n\napplies too to the HABEBAS ONE CAS\n\nWest Also ablet the istiyon! City sic lov Brusela\n\nHack of New_York_1\n\nFot palunit treatin Bush Sales and is the War Indes\n\nTOURING\n\nHNANYO\n\nPritish activities of the preseat thin bundreds of Russing Hulthe-janested. Bolshevis Government of Genica, įvlats who are the real mastera of Great Britafa was the first Puwes Canton; that one anges) For anais- to move for the ebulition of ex-ince from the people of Hone. tratoriicial rights la lapan as on the Synperial Governurni soen av at efficient and upright bar mei with so responk, probit\n\nicing had been sethieked is by far the reason that the dete in evenerate attempt to run this Colony with vor compatriots in China, wej which is being made by the Gor\n\nis Paz: Chal Luasie; die doetry, spd. Paris Perkant\n\nLenan\n\nFrost at Yew York\n\nDagŭ Despetta arcondes My\n\nbrain tr\n\nJEBEL. DRUSE.\n\nFRENCH LOSSES EXAGGERATED\n\nParia, Agust 25.\n\nKTARESA.FNP FRANCO.camol\n\nGod is weki. Chataro, Victoria, Bongka\n\nMEAL OFFICE\n\n---\n\nParde, Yo The He Insan\n\nJapHa....... 15,000, 20 B. 10,\n\nPIE. MINDACOS\n\nBANYTIC\n\nFrans: tiste Garcia Bapur Natten\n\nBy Grade Baza de Park vi des Pac Mendon Midland think, Las\n\ndier des Ha\n\nCo\n\nfind trebain\n\nghost be World.\n\nHughing, 224 (ON. YO\n\nA ROLAN\n\nManag\n\nTHE YOKOHAMA SPECIE\n\nut pamercinta ladustain Wema and TrasOwn\" 2,42 kere of 10 Fun The Nation Pretzelal and teci assured that the Gavel eglent crument of Lasten being cur-\n\nUnikan Erd. Conymit\n\nComeening certain formation : Vectron accrapla Path: edit of Great Britain, whose interestsfused with the studion Chira starting that her French insesa uti 1 New Yob F. I. Morrazo. Franch Chine are greater than those of which te best dealt with by the Forfeit Drase totalled 2,000 men, the Antal Berckling Coppo Castany any other Power, wil net sveign Dive, and a handling which papers as that the Winters of! Inset whips Care is and to lock for the lend of any other Britain, for the Grit te in her War has stated that 800 way the. Ewer chettition of mankin am veren, in takits similar hists in Asia. appears to be runter reported by General Sarri: ...... You 180.55.9 steps in China when the Glütere waiter for a led from Pewore and bat in notist been altered bet people having followed the exam with only a treeties of her inter pla of Jepun, pat the house este in Chia and is Aria eder, ander unt make residence therein. uraliy: thug e Gayorwent wil urder Chege laws and adminiz hatun bas lured self inde- traziou, xa este for foreigners a pondeck of the Governmen! la radence in Great Britain! Ching and refuses to recognize and ue Colonies for citizens of the Governmeul at Paking to which\n\nG. RUGC.\n\nHonigst\n\nen's Rool, Central. Homes. Esmary, 1950.\n\nTHE BANK OF EAST ASIA,\n\nLIMITED\n\nBIAD OPTICE\n\nÀ. LINTOT,\n\nYavage\n\nTHE BANK OF TAIWAN, LTD.\n\n(WAYWANGIKKOJ\n\n[ TÙ SPESAL DIPENAL\n\nBAYI İses\n\nvital Emeriled Yes 89.600,000 Duprat (pastato 0.000\n\nNo in De Vong Band. Central Rongeuren enonthe Chinese Republic. Having is Majesty Minelar to Chira\n\nsaid the when the situations accroifted: what this\n\nAuthorized Copirai 19,590, Patil Chap Kew Brad\n\n6,00,000 si\n\nBWAD OFFJEK.\n\n1,040,9sa 94\n\nVRECIDER.\n\nTAMPED, FORMOSA,\n\nBANCU\n\nIto Mr Chow Chow a\n\nFan It Blaire Ceing la\n\ntard\n\nZATORI SPIŅA Tohobar, Kəb Fans Gergely\n\nUnalen,\n\nC: King Ulivu Polos Tur Pr\n\nChan Ching her Wet Yast P\n\nvery dogrtatlan or banking\n\nSAF TITS\n\n*\n\nmasied\n\n04 FUNKE\n\nmonics, Trewall, Token, Aka\n\nColony,\n\nA\n\nExos denuntion Pankica\n\nse pued\n\n(nere bent en Durant Kurapně\n\nwat yer kom on Veils du\n\nmore en than may be\n\n- is\n\nits on wat\n\nQuare'n Boat (m\n\nROSS,\n\nAng nagES. kong. th c r.\n\nTHE RANK OF CANTON, EMITESA\n\nRead Office: Katy Loss.\n\nEstabaired 1912. Authorized Capéta) 51,20ki, Ga Pall, lip Depital 1,078,5Ð\n\nsilver Reserve Fand...$ 700, Forsigo Exchange and Genara Banking business transacted Interest allowed on\n\nSCUBRENT ACCOUNT\n\n2 po a un daily cred helences of over 106.\n\nCOUNTE\n\n4% ADRUM\n\nfor 12 monthe 5 per annu\n\nfur 8\n\non ANTAGE\n\n|GA KOSTER\n\n1.1\n\nX\n\n29\n\nConten, Shanghai, Hankey; Bangkok and New York.\n\nCOR BANZISES\n\nThe Lloyd'a Bank, Limited.\n\nLOOK POONG BHAI Chief ManaTER.\n\nBANK LIMITIE.\n\nBRID OFFICE MO\n\nJOKURANA\n\nwas confirmed by a nominative list.\n\nBatavia wad Ag\n\nEa\n\nBunbury\n\nZonva ¡Battat dzzas kauna\n\nHua Pranshia\n\nCalext\n\nIns Averi\n\nHemang Euba\n\nROBERTSON\n\n1\n\nMila\n\nSECURITY PACT.\n\nNe\n\nDet\n\nASKESTOS PROTECTED\n\nTHE FRENCH REYLY.\n\nip China we would impress where urgent appeal to uskist-\n\nNewhaven, Aug 21, aur people et houne that the pre-jane has aiready been once ignored i The France Ambassador ha sent gericus stare of affairs in by the Iraperal Government.\n\nsas handed to Herr Stresemans the Mature, Menu Pizzo, Skiardino, Thiabu. the British Colony must be un-Tur the past 25 years contributed French reply to the German Chinh anhm. Arg. Penchow, tirely disassociaran om eendi- propavilon of ita anewal re- Security Pact Noto. Tho date of\n\nState, Chaton\n\nBanen, place in China: that this Clotany veree towares crtal military publicstion ne nos yer Farabee Chart, Scubayer Hongkong was ceded to Endod. Xe Turk, alter\n\nLASDAN BANKERS.\n\nthe expenditus, the utiration for fixed-Reut!Y. British\n\nTE CHART London Cornstar Westate and Dart'ssion being confirmed in\n\n1841, the rear 4 amounting to sour that a quarte million dollar;\n\n30\n\nChief MeDoge\n\nBaik\n\nDebrents. 1029\n\nHonda 16 prebrant, tum\n\nTHỂ HỒ HÙNG Hạ lão tin t\n\nALICIT).\n\nCAPITAL:\n\nAuthorised $50,000,050\n\nTil ...\n\nPaid-up... 4,000,000.\n\nReserve Labilities of\n\nShareholders...... 4+0.\n\nSurplus.........\n\n823,000,\n\nBEAD OFFICE--SINGAPORE Branchen, Agencies and Carrespond- ente in the principal cities of\n\nthe world.\n\nKvery description of Racking And, Fxchange business' transacted.\n\n... BANG, Manager.\n\nORIENTAL COMMERCIAL\n\nBANK. LTD.\n\nVELD DEVICE.\n\n18. TWY FREIT ROON CHANCHAL\n\nBILNEGES (--WANGRUR.\n\nUntzenie Wuntraine Hack Sale & New York: Scan City\n\nAharied Capital Man 25. OUR AND Pabi-up Capital 2,090,008\n\nSose haki ini b Current sermouth, Attindi Dasu mirati ka mpy\n\nDRAUM BEAUTI\n\nOvera, barkings opgelatır.\n\nINTEREST. C'event occ 2 AT ive 15%.\n\nElard Devotion, 3 months, k 6 month 4454, wie gest 5%.\n\nKAKE DEPOSIT BOXES FOR PENT.\n\nQUR VAUTTA JAFEGUARDS) BY IDEA CLOCKS AND DOUBLE CAMMINATION ÁRNOUM PIATÉ NIEZŁ NO«YP.\n\nJ. T. LAIM.\n\nKUMBA.\n\nmetres in the Entepony Continent:\n\nDoet\n\nThe Beat bas Credents to rear following year by the Treaty of that during the Great War that beside these to whom they are Busca, M. a. Nanking, under which Rongkong Colver contributed Con, an India, Philippine Trianon, Juga,\n\nFinetry\n\nBeakow\n\nHalo\n\nHer\n\nMentula\n\nKai Zoen\n\nKorechi\n\nOu\n\nPising\n\nRACKVI\n\nlod\n\nSihampcov\n\nKostel\n\nVATE\n\nVindicat\n\nJanka\n\nit and on Correak Attiest Caprasin pacetvel for zxat perce Latatred on sites.\n\nC. AKIMA,\n\nTHE INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL BANK LTD.\n\nSend Mom Vinyl Prodine, Thetar BiME\n\nDRANCWEB:--\n\nLju\n\nthe\n\nat variorum appending in elliees, abups, ard siber Dutch Crulim Forts, lies to be pujsassed to pepetaly\" times over six and a ar million factories and shipyarda iz Ameries, Atring, the\n\nInteress Kaceed on Comment donuts and Great Bring that at that dotars to the importal Govern-Dot Country.\n\nThey are now cali-\n\nTeposts at rates which will be great time Hongkong was but share mans for wat parposes.\n\nIn add-in for support from this Afs-! apple,\n\nBONGKONG BRANCH: L. Dar Views Wal.\n\nZ. YAKAMOTO,\n\nsophuma, Jan. May dogs.\n\nBanger\n\nTHE BANK OF CHINA\n\n行銀國中\n\nGYECIALLY AUTHORIZED BY PRESIDEN\n\nShanghai, Kangat kone. Tergen-Russian Gropeens.ca.\n\nCORRESTENDENTE. IN |--\n\nLiodon, New York, Chence, Bra pretens..\n\nLucia chores of Chien un abroad\n\nAttraction Tale fer\n\n10 years, ... fats, stupore, Fanana,\n\nrocky island, like hundreds to befrian to a special chination of overtunt Crown Colony to their fal- send of the one of Chine, In-blatt tion pendz: that a low-workroen at he hadited by thit a few hundred arge nyentier of the youth of this Brian who can still bear, MO CRzuzet and fishermen thas to-day, after 8 Color male the supena stories with pride the story of our fax rearhouest and impartialis the war, fortified in the hog feng Respire, and to wing the faste Wash British administration, tuls Colony that they wore helping to skew of that Empire is an Sacred is ene of the brightest gear in werin secure against such a charge as is that of the Realmi\n\nthe British Crown; that even in sprang as is now oppressing the of England twk. To all such\n\n2. M.\n\nMETAL ROOFING\n\nBolo Agents :\n\n¡DAVIE, BOAG & CO., LTD\n\nBank of Canton Building.\n\nSamples and fill particular on application.\n\nMASSAGE\n\nMr. SHIMIDZU Mrs. HONDA\n\nA. 34. Wyndham Street.\n\nTelephone Central 4048,\n\nthe year 1880 the Cipverner of the pancenia Chiasse imputation of this urgent appeal in argize THOS. COOK & SON (BANKERS) LTD\n\nColias, contrasting De Sara Cautan and is sriving to sun goes forth from the ueople of rock with a cherinan's but here this Cotry of Hongkong; that, the small but uporisat matpost TRAL MANDATE OF THE REPUBLI. Od tier of 1841 with the cartons of the revisnose of Empire.\n\nColony as it was 8t roars later, the present situation, the people.\n\nCHIKA UN THR JIND DE\n\nNOVEMBER, FEAT.\n\nauthorised Cepita was able to state, in a despatch of this raportat outpost of our\n\nRattan Canika ..... 75,970 200,00\n\nREAD OFFICE: PEKING-\n\nMUSOKONG PRANOR\n\n4. Quera's Road Central,\n\nTranchen and dab-bones all\n\nAt to the Secretary of State for the Empire in Avin are again appeal- Colonive, that may be doubted in to-day to the forperial Gov whethere the evidence of material ferment, through the Prime Min- and woral achierement, presented ister, do take imosciate\n\nand KANAPundar in Faros, Amartas and sthay peste of the wall.\n\nsinstel wind Under Bet E. L\n\nThe Coming Trung Company of New York,\n\nDANKERN: · The Nepal E\n\nchins as it were in a focus, wake up-to put an end to the presout inte.\n\nwhere more Jokeile appeal\n\nlerable and hotelling position, LONDON BAKKERS--The National Pare and inagication and whether und feiting the immediate and\n\nany other apot on the earth complete cessation of the lock-i more likely to excite us more ful-ade, of Hongkong at\n\ninterfs- ly justifies pride in the name case with British trade and with few the all of British abjects to 1541 the population has increased without sulasful interference.\n\nhundred teren in the year carry on their businese freely and\n\nThe Egitle The Company of New York Internet slowed no liberest Acecants and Englismar from a Fixed Langit pa tention.\n\nevery desire of Banking\n\ntransxçied\n\nFirmanied va aproved sequentia.\n\nEpilan for Brookware\n\nTUYER PEL\n\nNEDERLANDSCH INDISCHE HANDELSBANK\n\nExtablished 1869.\n\nPaid-up Capital au Reserve Fund Glds, 78,200,000-£5,517,329.\n\nHEAD OFFICE: AMSTERDAM, CASTERN HEAD OFFICE: BATAVIA, BRANCHES:\n\nSay, Arapenan. Bandoeng. Borbay, Calcutta, Cheribos, Gorostalo. Hongkong, Kobs, Weknear, Medan, Menado, Palembang, PekalongAN, Rotterdam, Semprong, Shanghai, Singepara, Hourabaya,\n\nThe Eagua, Telok Beteng. Tjslatian, Wites rolet.\n\nLONDON REPRESENTATIVE: 8. S. Wright, 37, Old Broad Streek,\n\nLooden, B.. 2\n\nCORRESPONDENTS: LONDON: MIDLAND BANK, LID, ÖVERSEA\" Branox, WESTMINSTER BANK LTA FOIS BRAKCE, N. L. GOTHSCHELS & BAR and SI BANK CORPORATION\n\nNEW YORK: CHASE NATIONAL BANK, YAPMIY Loan & Tuner Co. TRYING BANK-COLOMBIA TRUST CO, GOLMAN, SACHS & Co, New Yoke Taper Co. and all the principal towns of the world,\n\nEVERY DESCRIPTION OF BANKING & EXCHANGE PUSI- NESS TRANSACTED CURRENT ACCOUNTS, DEPOSITS, etc\n\nP. MARKS,\n\nManager.\n\nEXCHANGE.\n\nOPENING QUOTATIONS.\n\nASTON ---\n\nHong, August\n\nBA\n\nTARGETAT-2.16\n\nBasi Baya Bile, at 30 days sight BakDill, at wounthe' sight 2,42 Credita, at 4 monthe night.. 2:5 Frey Hills, at 4\n\nvetoka\" sigh 275;\n\nBank Bille, on depend DE GAY\n\nCredila, ut death right... 1225\n\nI PANELLE\n\nto one milion; that the value of state of way with the Government; the Colony's trade in 1924 was for Casion he destared in exist, 136 mens sterling: that the; and .lbak Procediate stone beY DISTOPET Lorean-going shipping entered the them takes to enforce our Treats N\n\ncleared during the same year rights and to instal as Canton ready Chinese Goverment o tous, of which 12 milion tens\n\n$226\n\nnom\n\nBack Bille, en mend Credits, ut 60 dngu' sight... NA\n\nTraunfos... 1871\n\nOx CalcUTES —\n\nTalegraphis Freester... 1874 Dank, de\n\nBank, at right t Private, at 30 days' sig... .........3403\n\n115\n\nweru Brit, at that the inises fran Rolsbevist flomnication. tonnage of all classes during the makter fe appeal to the your wea nearly $7 millions, Imperial Government Me are) making Dongkong perkaps the taking the opponunda to forward A world's largest slipping partijat the sume tirar this appeal to that el his varé tezde and shit-the people of Great Britain foros ForIAMA 20 pak, sad even the very exisleure their sympathy\n\nOrdonan........ aid suppori. of the talony, hos suddenly been In doing se we wish to protest in Greed.......\n\nON HASA placut in mirene prilby the the rougest possible TERNET STRATOL- present de facte Doisnevist Gov-against the rupaix. of falan lepi...... 19!! ernment of Cantos, which, with hood which the Balcharist GN. ON 6114A -On demand ... 742) the nel of \"Red\" Rasein mili-evamart of Cutton, under the decane.................... tay commanders and Ruselfedtrention of experienced puna. NAIGN-De dewund..... m arins and money, came into power gandista trained in Russia has CasaME :-\n\nCA douazú..\n\n794 by an armed up only three conducted through certain\n\nSUS SOTERSHYA, Bath's boying DOTA H sad to-day abtine of the world's preas. This Bate.................. 3.50 hered by Im vaer unspority of mass meeting to for the most part Cars Usar, 100 fine, per tami........ the people of Canton and the composed of me, who have wosk Bas formas, per otro Fes\n\n- נא אני\n\nBANKING AND EXCHANGE.\n\nCOOK'S TRAVELLERS CHEQUES combine MAXIMUM SAFETY with CONVENIENCE.\n\nA special feature is the precautions taken to ensure the maximum safety possible.\n\nAsk for descriptive booklet at any of our offices.\n\nHead Office:-\n\nLol Address\n\nLUDOATE CIRCES, LONDON. B.C HONGKONG WOTEL BUILDINÓ.\n\nTelegraphin Address:-COUPON.\n\nTelephous: Central 524-525.\n\nTHE HONGKONG DIRECTORY & BLOTTER 1925\n\nThis very useful combination of Directory, Vlary and Desk Blotter, contains a large variety of local fa Jormation: List of Goveranient and Department. Officiats: Firms and Employees; Foreign Residents: Time tables: etc.. etc. A handsome and durable requirement. strongis bound in cloth and excellently printed, it is a weeźul adjunct in the desk In Home arOffice, and will be found of great use in business and social affairs.\n\nNow on Sale, Price $5 at\n\nSouth China Morning Post, Limited.\n\n1. Wyndham Street.\n\nPage 363\n\nPage 363\n\nPage 364\n\nPage 364\n\nPage 365\n\nPage 365",
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        "content_text": "Li Fu-lin to Consul General, October 3rd, 1924.\n\n316\n\nSir,\n\nI have the honour to inform you that on information being received from informers that at Haien village, and Pingshan and Kupao bandits were collecting, on the 25th and 29th September I despatched Colonel Li Chan-peng and Captain Li Lin to go to those places and surround and capture them. Colonel Li caught Li Jung and 13 others at Sieh village, while Captain Li caught the notorious bandits Kuo Ming, Huang Kuei-ye, and Huang Kei-sheng at Pingshan and Kupao. The local militia leader and the natives stated that Kuo Ming is a well-known local robber, and his capture is a good thing for the district. These three places adjoin Shekpik where there are frequently piracies of the passenger boats passing. Now these men have been captured the pirates will keep in the background for a time.\n\nTroops will be sent at intervals, and in the mean time I have the honour to report as above.\n\nI have etc.\n\nLi Fu-lin\n\nOfficer Commanding 3rd Cantonary Army.",
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        "content_text": "The head of the Mixed Commission was Mons. Tripier, Counsellor of the French Legation at Peking, Britain was represented by Mr. Vereker, First Secretary of H.M. Legation at Peking, and America, Japan, Belgium and Italy were represented respectively by Messrs. G. Greene, Shigemitsu, Ullens de Schooten and Mendola.\n\nThe Report blamed:—\n\n(1) The British Police Officer who ordered the Police to fire on the strikers.\n\n(2) The British Chief of Police, Colonel MacEwan, who did not take command on account of absence.\n\n(3) The American Chairman of the Shanghai Municipal Council, Mr. Fessenden, held to be legally responsible.\n\nThe leakage of the contents of the Report caused great indignation among the British and Americans at Shanghai, and, correspondingly, encouraged the Chinese nationalists in their demands for redress.\n\nThe Shanghai authorities, however, were able to persuade Chamberlain to suppress this report. Fortunately, accounts appeared in the French Press and the evidence which was published in the Chinese Press has also reached this country.\n\nIt is extremely improbable that America will ever allow the indiscriminate bombing of Canton or Shanghai, as the local British merchants and some missionaries urge, and as the Admiralty, with the \"Hermes,\" is prepared to do.\n\nMore and more it is being realised throughout the world that Britain, isolated and alone, is arraigned before the bar of humanity on the charge of manslaughter in the Chinese Amritsars of Shanghai, Hankow and Canton.\n\nThe hopes of the imperialists are now turning to new channels; to diplomatic methods, International Conferences, carefully stage-managed, magnificent resolutions and promises, which are never kept.\n\nIntervention on a grand scale such as the Allies undertook after the Boxer uprising is hardly thinkable. They cannot again march on Peking and sack the palaces. Not only would America never tolerate it, but there is a fundamental difference in the situation. In those days Russia was on the side of England and France; now Russia is the best friend of China and the Russian Ambassador is doyen of the Diplomatic Corps at Peking.\n\nPage 6\n\nRather do the Great Powers pray that Chang Tso Lin, the War Lord of Mukden, will once more play the game of the foreign imperialists. Half a century ago the foreign Powers helped the effete and reactionary Manchus to crush the Taiping Rebellion; and now for a dozen years they have backed and supported the forces of reaction in China. The Re-organisation Loan of 1913 provided Yuan Shih-Kai with millions, which turned him into a military despot, and enabled him to build up a huge army in the North and crush the growing germ of democracy in the South. Later, in the struggle between Wu Pei Fu and Sun Yat Sen, the Powers supported and recognised Wu Pei Fu, while the powerful clique controlling the news from Peking did propaganda against Dr. Sun Yat Sen; and the Chinese subject to British rule in Hongkong were prevented by the Consortium Pact from giving financial aid to Dr. Sun Yat Sen.\n\nAnd when Peking was at its wits' end seeking funds, Chang Tso Lin still had his group of Manchurian banks which could provide him with 50,000,000 dollars when necessary. The Manchurian banks are the Japanese Bank of Chosen, the French Banque Industrielle de Chine at Mukden, and the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank at Harbin. In the last month British agents have had frequent discussions with Chang Tso Lin.\n\nIn the South, Great Britain armed and organised the Anti-Sun Party in Canton, Chan Lim-pak, the compradore of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank at Canton, established a Merchant Volunteer Force, which aimed at overthrowing Sun Yat Sen.\n\nSun Yat Sen protested to the League of Nations and to MacDonald, then Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, but without avail, without even acknowledgment.\n\nRecently documents found on the premises of the general staff of the Yunnanese troops in Canton revealed the existence of a wide-spread plot for the overthrow of the Kuomintang Government and the establishment of a reactionary dictatorship dependent on British and Japanese support. The Commander-in-Chief of the Yunnanese troops in Canton, Yang Shih Ming, escaped on an English boat after the defeat of his army by the Kuomintang troops, and was taken to Hongkong—the centre of counter-revolutionary intrigue.\n\nPage 7\n\n526",
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        "content_text": "23\n\n7\n\nHong Kong Government?* \"It cannot affect the Canton and Hong Kong Strike to any extent\", replied So. \"We are at present pursuing a blockade policy, so as to stop the goods traffic of the Colony.\" Malone then said, \"The Hong Kong Press says that the Strike Committee have never sincerely wanted a settlement: since by seizure of enemy goods, they get a large revenue. Is this a fact?\" \"No!.\" answered So. \"It is only a groundless libel by the Imperialists against the Strike Committee.\" To prove this, he referred him to the existence of the Workmen and Merchants' Examination Office and the just and reasonable manner in which enemy goods were seized.\n\nMalone then proceeded to ask, \"Should we say that the Hong Kong Government in showing no sincere wish for a settlement, hopes that the reactionaries such as Chan Wing Ming, Wu Pei-fu, &c. will overcome Kong Tung and defeat the revolutionaries, so that the Canton and Hong Kong Strike can be brought to an end unconditionally?\" So replied, \"As regards this, some time ago, the Hong Kong Government did send four delegates to Canton. But the delegation was not official, and could give no definite reply to our economic demands. As for intrigues aimed at breaking the Strike, I can quote a number of authentic instances: Hong Kong's complicity in the revolt of the bandits of Southern Kwongtung, their encouragement to Chan Kwing Hing to break the Strike at Swatow, their spreading of rumours that 100,000 soldiers would be sent to attack China, closing of the Customs by Bell without reason, and the murder of Minister Liu by a bought assassin. All these and many other facts go to prove the anxiety of the Hong Kong Government",
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        "content_text": "CANTON NEWS.\n\nBoycott Parley.\n\nJuly 15.\n\nIn the brief space of time, it is only to be expected that no communiqué has come down from Canton when this edition went to press regarding the opening of the conference to settle the boycott of Hongkong.\n\nOVERLAND CHINA MAIL\n\nJuly 17.\n\nUntil what are best described as Canton's \"terms\" are revealed, a prediction as to the prospects of the peace conference can be no more than guesswork, but several important features have become evident.\n\nThe so-called Labour representatives, and the Strike Executive are asking, if not pressing, for the terms to be broadcasted in Canton prior to submission to the conference.\n\nAnother straw in the wind, which may mean much or nothing, is the change in the delegation.\n\nWriting on Tuesday evening (before the Hon. Mr. J. H. Kemp and the Hon. Mr. E. R. Hallifax arrived there yesterday as reported in the \"China Mail\"), Mr. Koo Mang-yu substituted Mr. Chan Kung-pok.\n\nAt the last minute, the \"China Mail\" correspondent indicated that today's proceedings may be restricted to the formal exchange of courtesies and credentials, after which an adjournment was expected.\n\nIt was anticipated that before discussing any terms, the delegates of both sides will endeavour to arrive at a basis of understanding as to what will come up and when, for discussion.\n\nMr. Koo is believed to have been fully instructed by General Chang Kai-shek.\n\nIn some sources, continues the correspondent, some importance is attached to Mr. Koo's joining the official delegation of Canton.\n\nBy virtue of Mr. Koo's position in the Canton Government, his close association with General Chang Kai-shek (commander-in-chief), and a report that Mr. Koo is said to be General Chang's special choice, native malcontents place considerable significance on his joining the delegation.\n\nCurrent opinion is that General Chang Kai-shek will ask Mr. Eugene Chen to effect a settlement, but that there may be a delay owing to the necessity of \"demobilising\" the strikers and pickets.\n\nCanton, June 14. Mr. Chan Kung-pok, by reason of his being engaged on General Chang Kai-shek's staff at the Northern Front, will not be one of the Canton official delegates in the boycott negotiations. His place will be taken by Mr. Koo Mang-yue, who will act with Mr. Eugene Chen and Mr. T. V. Soong.--\"Wah Tze Yat Po.\"\n\nReports from Canton are that formal proceedings began yesterday at noon when credentials were exchanged.\n\nIt is expected that full talk will be gone into today, so that detailed schemes may be presented tomorrow.\n\nFirst of all, the Strike Executive is stated to have asked Mr. Eugene Chen to announce what terms the Government will tabulate.\n\nThen when the report was current that Mr. Koo was framing the terms, they made another request for information to be given before the terms were finally approved and handed over to the Hongkong official delegation for consideration.\n\n\"The Next Step.\"\n\nA telegram to the \"Wah Tze Yat Po\" states that the agenda has been decided upon, and that both military and police are guarding the conference chamber (in the Foreign Office).\n\nIt is known that the conference sat again at 10:30 a.m. yesterday. But it is not known definitely if the terms will be presented this week or next.\n\nMr. Eugene Chen's opening address is given elsewhere in this issue.\n\nOpinion now is that the nature of the terms will be disclosed in a day or two, and the respective delegates will ascertain if such can be made to form a basis of discussion.\n\nThis preliminary over, the next step will be the actual negotiation of the \"terms.\"\n\nCANTON PROTEST.\n\n[No. 2998. July 22, 1926.\n\nJuly 17.\n\nNone is blind to see that the present phantom government in Peking is a creation of a brace of medieval militarists and a bunch of Mandarin states-boys and states-coolies whose obvious purpose is to grab the proceeds of whatever tariff doles and loans that America and the other Powers may be willing to grant in order to maintain a status quo that conflicts with every vital interest of Nationalist China.\n\nCanton, July 14.\n\nSir, I have the honour to request you to communicate to the American Minister at Peking the protest of my Government against the resumption of the Special Tariff Conference which was lately suspended owing to the dispersal of the Chinese delegation.\n\nWe are definitely and reliably informed that agents of Wu Pei-fu and Chang Tso-lin are now negotiating with the American and the other foreign delegates for the immediate reopening of the Conference.\n\nMy Government opposes and has opposed the Conference because it involves the consideration of issues which only a Central Government, representative and competent to speak and act in the name of the Chinese Nation, can negotiate in conference with the official representatives of the American and other interested Governments.\n\nAny payment of tariff moneys to Wu Pei-fu and Chang Tso-lin must necessarily mean that America and the other interested Powers--through the machinery of the unified, British-controlled Chinese Maritime Customs--will be (a) paying national revenues collected throughout the whole of China to two transient usurpers of detached pieces of Chinese territory, and (b) subsidising these two militarists to continue the prosecution of civil war against the Kuominchun and Canton who are the two modern arms of Nationalist China, and thus assist militarism to dominate and flourish in China.\n\nI have to add that any loan or loans to be contracted by the agents of Wu and Chang on the security of the promised surtaxes shall not be recognised by the Nationalist Government.\n\nAnd I have the honour deliberately to warn America and the other interested governments that Chinese repudiation of any such loan or loans may conceivably create a situation rendering it imperative for the principle of repudiation to be extended to other loans contracted in the interests of reaction and militarists and mandarin exploitation and plunder.\n\nJuly 19.\n\nTo Senator Borah at Washington, Mr. Eugene Chen (acting Foreign Minister at Canton) has addressed a message on the question of the projected resumption of the Tariff Conference.\n\nMr. Chen informs Senator Borah that he has protested to the U.S. Minister to China through Mr. Douglas Jenkins (Consul at Canton), as published in the \"China Mail\" on Saturday.\n\nThe subject matter is similar to that in the despatch to Mr. Jenkins.\n\nBut to Senator Borah, Mr. Chen says: \"I bring this to your attention because you are known among us as an American leader who is entirely opposed to the subordination of real American interest to the competitive interests of other Powers in China.\"\n\nReticence is being kept by official sources.\n\nThere is a feeling of confidence and it is said that General Chang is of the view that he can leave for the Front in a week.\n\nOwing to the difficulty in communications with Canton, news will necessarily be slow in getting through to Hongkong.\n\nThe best sign so far is the absence of any pessimistic rumours.\n\nHOME INTEREST.\n\nBOYCOTT NEGOTIATIONS IN CANTON.\n\nCOMMONS INFORMED.\n\nRugby, July 14.\n\nSir Austen Chamberlain stated in the House of Commons that the opening of the negotiations for ending the trade boycott of Hongkong had been fixed for July 15.--British Wireless Service.\n\n[Whilst this information has appeared long ago in the local Press, the cable is given as evidence of the interest being taken at Home in the negotiations opening today in Canton.]\n\nTHE BOYCOTT.\n\nCHANGE IN CANTON'S DELEGATES.\n\nGOVERNMENT'S OFFICIAL COMMUNIQUE.\n\nJuly 16.\n\nHis Excellency has authorised a communiqué to the effect that Mr. Koo Mang-yu has been appointed as one of the Canton Delegates in place of Mr. Chan Kung-pok; also that the conference opened at noon yesterday when only formal business was transacted.\n\nThe conference will resume today.\n\nIt is understood that Mr. Koo Mang-yu, who was formerly Dean of the Peking University, is a Member of the Central Executive Committee of the Kwok Min Tong.\n\nTHE BOYCOTT.\n\nIt is manifest that striking and real changes are taking place in this country, socially, economically, and politically.\n\nThese changes, generally, are a necessary consequence of the structural readjustment or new equilibrium which is in process of establishment, consequent upon the definite inclusion of China in the larger system of the modern world.\n\nWhether these changes are good or bad for the Chinese people is mainly a question for them to decide if they are truly to be regarded and treated as an independent nation and not as a people suited for the exercise of international tutelage.\n\nAt any rate, it is a fundamental thesis of the Chinese Nationalist Movement--which is the greatest of the forces underlying and sustaining the boycott--that the Chinese people must be free to work out their own salvation.\n\nCanton, July 16, 1926.\n\nThe following communiqué has been jointly issued by the British and Chinese Delegations negotiating a settlement of the Chinese-British disputes in Liang Kuang:\n\n\"The Conference resumed its sittings today at 10:30 a.m. when the Chinese Delegation stated their views on the origin of the British boycott.\n\nThey refrained from formulating any conditions of settlement pending a reply to their statement.\n\nThe Conference has adjourned till Monday, July 19.\"\n\nWe believe that this statement of what is called the Chinese Question is not in fundamental opposition to the real interests of any genuinely trading Power in China.\n\nCanton, July 19.\n\nThis morning, the full Canton and Hongkong delegations resumed the conference at the Foreign Office.\n\nThe Hongkong delegates replied to Canton's official view as to the cause of the anti-British boycott.\n\nThe nature of such reply (or, in other words, Hongkong's statement of the position) was divulged.\n\nNote: An official communiqué issued on Saturday stated that Canton refrained from formulating any conditions of settlement pending a reply to their statement on the origin.\n\nBOY THIEVES.\n\nJuly 21.\n\nIn the possession of three boys were found more than twenty-five pawn tickets relating to stolen clothes.\n\nOn investigation, the police found that the boys had not been induced to commit the thefts by an elder man, who acted as receiver and pawned the articles.\n\nMr. Eugene Chen has instructed the Bureau of Information, Foreign Ministry, to publish details of the negotiations, so that rumours may be spread.\n\nIf this view of the matter be sound, then more considerations of prestige and what is known as the conference \"face\" ought not to be allowed to bar the road to a practical settlement of what is in truth one of the practical questions oft-times puzzled by the ironic spirit in history to search out man's patience, his goodwill, and his good sense.\n\nCanton, July 18.\n\nThe Strike Executive Committee has petitioned for the despatch of their delegates to attend, as spectators, the Boycott Conference, but it is not known how Mr. Eugene Chen has replied.\n\nThe Negotiations for the settlement of the anti-British boycott opened at noon today at the Canton Foreign Office.\n\nAll the members of the Chinese and the British Delegations were present.\n\nMr. Eugene Chen, Acting Minister for Foreign Affairs, who is head of the Chinese delegation, opened the proceedings with a speech.\n\nOnly three owners of the stolen articles had so far been traced.\n\nThe result was that four were charged with theft this morning before Mr. R. E. Lindsell at the Central Magistracy.\n\nThe boys pleaded guilty, but the elder man denied the allegation that he had used the boys for committing thefts, saying that he found the articles lying on the floor of his house and pawned them.\n\nThis story was not believed by the Magistrate, who sentenced him to four months' hard labour.\n\nOne of the three boys had a previous conviction for theft and he was ordered twelve strokes with a cane.\n\nThe others received eight strokes each.",
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        "content_text": "from the front is to the effect:-\n\n451\n\n(1) that Marshal Wu P'ei-fu is prepared to attack Chang-sha from three directions and will appoint General Chao Heng-ti (1915), a former tupan of Hunan, to be commander-in-chief of the allied forces to repel the attack on Hunan;\n\n(2) that Marshal Fu intends to remove the Hupeh Military Governor for his hesitating attitude towards the situation in Hunan; and\n\n(3) that the Honanese bandit general, Fan Chung-siu, who is a partisan of the Canton Government, is concentrating his troops between the Honan and Hupeh provinces for an attack on K'ai-feng-fu.\n\nOther information, obtained by Colonel Hayley Bell from different sources, indicates that Chang-sha has been recaptured by the northern troops with the assistance of naval craft in the Tung-ting lake. It is said that the combined forces of General T'ang Sheng-chih and of the expeditionary army from Canton have been put to rout with heavy loss. It is even said that the casualties totalled more than 20,000 and that the Cantonese 4th Army under General Li Chai-sum suffered most.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour most obedient humble servant,\n\nGovernor, &c.,",
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        "content_text": "8\n\nNote 3.\n\nThe following is a list roughly in chronological order, of various outrages perpetrated in 1926 by Strike pickets at Swatow to the detriment of British subjects and of their domestic and business staffs :-\n\n1. On 26th January, 1926 the British Consul, Mr. Kirke, complained officially that robberies and depredations on British owned property continued with monotonous regularity.\n\n2. During February an attempt was made to levy an entirely illegal House Tax on British and other Nationals. Threats were made that non-payment would entail the cutting off of water and electric-light services.\n\n3. On or about 20th March a boatman, who was the son of an ex-employee and pensioner of the British Consulate, was seized in the street by 12 pickets under the eyes of the police. His offence was that he was alleged earlier in the \"Strike\" to have been of use to the British community. He had in fact previously been sent to Hong Kong to escape the pickets' resentment, and, on returning on this date to Swatow to buy for his father, he was at once seized.\n\n4. On or about 25th March, Dr. Lyall of the English Presbyterian Mission, one of the oldest and best known foreign residents in Swatow, was about to leave for home. In spite of the fact that he had obtained a special pass from General Ho to enable him to load his baggage on to sampans and to have it conveyed to the steamer, the strike pickets interfered and forced the sampans to return to the jetty. Only intervention by H.M.S. Magnolia enabled the pass to be honoured.\n\n5. During March, on one occasion the local press actually published a paragraph which, translated, runs as follows:\n\n\"Arrest by the strike pickets yesterday were as follows :—\n\n(i) Chou Yung Ho, arrested for carrying provisions to Butterfield and Swire's residence. As this is not his first offence he will be detained until the end of the strike.\n\n(ii) Teo Yee Swee arrested for sending various items of information to the British Consulate. He will be detained for examination.\"\n\n6. At this period serious robberies of goods belonging to the Asiatic Petroleum Company and the British American Tobacco Company took place. The values of the stolen goods were $2,500 and $2,700 respectively. The British Consul complained that the Chinese police afforded the Companies no protection at all, and that in the case of the Company first named above, the police did not even visit the scene of the robbery until fourteen days after its occurrence. In either case, practically none of the stolen property was recovered.\n\n7. On 11th May, the pickets opened fire on a sampan conveying certain Chinese passengers who were endeavouring to board a British ship, regardless of the fact that the British S.S. Haining was in the line of fire. They then wished to board the S.S. Haining but were prevented by the chief officer.\n\n8. On 16th May the S.S. Fook On and the S.S. Fanon, both flying the Cantonese naval ensign, proceeded without permission alongside one of the pontoons which are the private property of Messrs. Butterfield and Swire. Similar misuse of these pontoons by Chinese vessels took place on 30th April, 15th-17th May, and 19th-20th May. Repeated representations by the British Consul led to a reply from the Commissioner for Foreign Affairs that he had requested the Chinese Military Authorities to cease to use these pontoons save with the British Consul's consent. However, further cases of unauthorised use are reported to have taken place on 29th June and 1st September.\n\n9\n\n9. On 21st May while Mr. Kirke, the British Consul, was tearing down some Communist posters which had been affixed to the front wall of H.B.M.'s Consulate, he was assaulted and struck by six or eight pickets who had just affixed them there. Urgent representations made to the Canton Government by H.B.M. Consul-General in Canton led to the despatch of telegraphic orders to the Swatow Authorities to apologise and to give an assurance that such incidents would not be repeated.\n\n10. During May, the British Consul complained of further robberies at Messrs. Butterfield & Swire, Messrs. Bradley & Co., the Asiatic Petroleum Co. and at the Masonic Hall. No satisfaction however could be obtained from the Chinese authorities.\n\n11. Early in June a Shantung servant of the British Consul was seized and imprisoned by the Strike pickets. After a false statement, forwarded by the Strike Committee with an impudent forgery, that the man in question wished to go on strike, he was eventually released upon providing $500.00 security that he would leave the port. This he did.\n\n12. During the early part of June an Indian watchman in the employment of Messrs. Jardine Matheson and Co. was arrested by Strike pickets when returning from a steamer with a case of tinned milk for his own use. He was speedily released but it was only after six or seven days that the protests of the British Consul obtained the return of the milk to its rightful owner.\n\n13. On 6th June as a Russian employee was riding a bicycle back to the Asiatic Petroleum Co.'s premises, carrying stores and clothing, he was attacked by four or five pickets who knocked him down and stole his bicycle and parcels. These articles were the property of the Company. The British Consul could obtain no redress for this outrage and reported that the Chinese police were far more afraid of the pickets than of the Commissioner for Foreign Affairs and their own officers.\n\n14. During June occurred another theft of flooring from the Tai Koo Club. It was perpetrated in daylight regardless of the fact that the thieves were in full view of a party of police, who were drilling on some private tennis-courts. It was officially explained that the police were not on duty at the time.\n\n15. On 16th August, Mr. Sim Kye Lim, a British subject of Chinese race, was entering the office of his employers, Messrs. Bradley and Company, when he was seized by a number of armed pickets in plain clothes, bound, and dragged to the general headquarters of the Strike Committee. In spite of the production of a pass from the Executive Delegate, Mr. Hsu Fu, and his protest that he was a British subject, born at Singapore, the son and grandson of British subjects, he was flung into a filthy cell with a heavy and rusty chain so tightly padlocked about his neck that he could hardly breathe or swallow. This chain was removed four days later after the payment of a bribe from Mr. Sim's friends. He was then interrogated by five self-styled judges, but was subsequently imprisoned in a small ill-ventilated room some eighteen feet by twelve with well-nigh a score of other prisoners. Thence, on 2nd September he was taken again before the five 'judges', the chain being again padlocked round his neck. He was given a choice between immediate release on payment of $2000, or a transfer to Canton for trial. He offered $500, only to be threatened with a rifle and half-strangled by the twisting of the chain. Finally, he was released on signing a promissory note for $800, a sum which has been paid. A strong protest lodged by the British Consul has so far elicited no reply.\n\n16. On 25th August armed pickets removed from the hold of the Chinese S.S. Yuetwah thirty-eight cases of Cigarettes which were being re-exported to Amoy by the British American Tobacco Company, under permit from the Chinese Customs. Thirty-four cases were also seized from a lighter alongside. The local Commissioner of Customs made an urgent demand for their return, and the question of closing the port was under consideration, when, on 30th August all the cases were returned and re-export took place without further trouble.\n\n415",
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        "content_text": "出國\n\n►\n\nC\n\n2\n\n577\n\nmost of Kiang-si province, which he has placed in charge of General Lo Hsiung-t'eng. Marshal Tu Fu-fu is endeavouring to rally his forces in Honan province with a view to advancing southward upon Hankow. One of his generals, Tin Wai-k'an, is said to have reached Kwong-shui, and another of his generals, Tun Kwok-chun, is said to have occupied Lo-Sheng-kwan. General Yang Sen, of Wan-hsien notoriety, is reported to be co-operating with Marshal Yu and was on the 25th October advancing eastward upon Sin-t'o-chan and San-t'ai.\n\nAs regards the disposition of the southerners, it is stated that General Chiang Kai-shek is at San-yu and that General T'ong Shang-chi is protecting Hankow. Near the Fukien frontier, General Chang Tsai is holding the town of Chang-chau against the southern attack under General Ho Ying-chin, and there has been fighting at Siu-k'ai, while the tupan of Fukien province, General Chau Chi-yuan (or Chau Yam-yan), is reported himself to be at Weng-on, not far from the point where the boundaries of Fukien, Kuang-tung, and Kiang-si meet.\n\n4.\n\nOn the whole, things do not seem to have gone well with the southerners of late, and the approach of winter on the Yangtze, to which the Cantonese are not acclimatized, will tell against their troops. It looks as if at the moment both sides had fought to a standstill: but, should General T'ong Shang-chi desert the southerners, as it is suggested in the attached memorandum he is likely to do, the position of General Chiang Kai-shek, assuming him still to be alive, would become very precarious.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour most obedient humble servant,\n\n[Name], &c.\n\nPage 600\n\nPage 601",
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        "title": "CO129-495 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [11-12]",
        "content_text": "# ENCLOSURE NO. 5.\n\n77\n\nExtract from the South China Morning Post, 12th Nov. 1926.\n\n## NEW KWANGTUNG GOVERNMENT.\n\n### The Appointment Of Commissioners.\n\n### TO-DAY'S INAUGURATION.\n\nCanton, Nov. 11. As was reported, the Kuomintang Joint Conference recently decided to create Ministries of Communications and Justice, and Messrs. Sun Fo and Hsu Chien were mentioned as heading the new departments. Last evening a mandate was issued by the Government appointing Mr. Sun Fo as Minister of Communications and Mr. Hsu Chien as Minister of Justice. The same mandate orders the abolishing of the Judicial Administrative Committee (hitherto the highest judicial administrative organ in Canton) as soon as the Ministry of Justice be established.\n\nThe Nationalist Government issued another mandate last evening promulgating the constitution for the provincial government of Kwangtung, which is reorganized. Messrs. Chan Shiu-yan, T. V. Soong, Sun Fo, Hsu Sung-ching, Hau Pak-cheun, Li Chai-sum, Chan Fu-mok, Li Lok-chao, Chau Pei-chen, Mrs. Liao Chung-kai and Kam Nai-kwong are appointed members of the Provincial Government Committee of Kwangtung.\n\nAnother mandate orders the abolishing of the posts of commissioners for different administrative areas of Kwangtung.\n\nThe new Provincial Government of Kwangtung will be inaugurated to-morrow morning at the Treasury Building, when the new commissioners will take their oaths of office.—F. A. C.\n\n### Seat to be Moved to Wuchang.\n\nA bulletin has been issued by the Kuomintang Headquarters to the effect that at the meeting of the Central Committee of Political Affairs on the 8th inst., the decision to transfer the Nationalist Government and the Central Party Organisation of the Kuomintang to Wuchang was reached and that these two important steps are to be taken with the least possible delay. The provincial government of Kwangtung has been reorganised and will be duly inaugurated to-day. Two new departments have been created, viz., Judicial and Communications.\n\nThe personnel of the new provincial government will be as follows:\n\nCommissioner of Civil Department, Mr. Chan Shiu-yan.\n\nFinance, Mr. T. V. Soong.\n\nCommunications, Mr. Sun Fo.\n\nEducation, Mr. Hsu Sung-ching.\n\nAgriculture, Mr. Chan Fu-mok.\n\nIndustry, Mr. Lee Lok-chu.\n\nLand, Mr. Chow Pei-kau (previously Hau Pak-cheun).\n\nMilitary, General Li Chai-sum.\n\nJustice, Mr. George Hsu Chien.\n\nThese will form the provincial executive committee in which all powers will be centralised, the old sectional system being abolished.\n\nMr. Kam Nai-kwong and Mrs. Liao Chung-kai are to be added to the list.",
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        "title": "CO129-499-2 Canton situation- governor's despatches 15-1-1927 - 4-2-1927",
        "content_text": "# Enclosure No. 1\n\n## 35\n## 21\n\n**Translation**\n\n(Extract from Kwok Man San Man, Canton, 19th January 1927)\n\nResolution made at the Provisional Joint Conference of the Propaganda Sections of various Political Departments at the rear.\n\n### 1. General rules re Anti-British Propaganda\n\n**Policy of the British Imperialists against China**\n\nIn the past the British Imperialists acquired many special privileges from China to an extent surpassing all others, through threats and cunning diplomacy. They have also suppressed Chinese revolutionary movements by much more severe and drastic measures than any other Imperialists. The incidents of May the 30th, June the 23rd and at Wansien in the year past are no accidental tragedies. Such a policy against China differs not from that they adopted against the On Chat Lai tribe (?) in India. (In 1919 more than 10,000 of the On Chat Lai (?) tribe held a meeting in a public garden, and the British soldiers swept them with machine guns from the entrance, leaving none of them unkilled.)\n\nThis massacre brought the subject races in their colonies and semi-colonies to entire submission, and they attempted to apply to China the same \"heroic measures\" as proved effective in India. The policy of the British Imperialists has not even been so simple. They have also had in China their tame dogs, such as Wu Pei-fu and Sun Ch'uan-fang whom they set to work to enable them to carry out their intrigue for grasping the control of the economic administration of China. And as a result China cannot do anything as a free people. Chan Kwing Ming, Ngai Pong Ping and Chan Lim Pak have all failed in their attempts to cause disturbance in the South, and Wu Pei-fu and Sun Ch'uan-fang are...",
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        "content_text": "disturbance and unreasonable actions prejudicial to their \nprospects and to the general peace. Now that the Northern \nExpedition has won repeated successes, all classes of people \nin Kwong Tung should work in harmonious co-operation so as \nto maintain good order at the base. All trouble between \nlabour and capital should be submitted to peaceable \narbitration, and no outrage, violence or fighting should take place. Besides notifying other departments, this notification is issued, hoping that all labour organisations will carefully guide their members and advise them to give it due observance without negligence, so as to avoid \npunishment.\n\nThis earnest notice.\n\nSun Fo, \nEugene Chen, \nSung Tsz Lan, \nLi Tsai Sham, \nKom Nai Kwong, \nHui Shung Tsing, \nTsui Kun Pak, \nLi Luk Chiu, \nChan Pui Cham, \nChan Fu Muk and \nHo Heung Ying.\n\nMembers of the Council of the Provincial \nGovernment of Kwong Tung.",
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        "content_text": "# ENCLOSURE NO. 3\n\n## Translation\n\n61\n\nExtract from Kwok Man San Iun, Canton, 15th December 1926.\n\n**Important notice of Canton Government, enforcing 4 resolutions made by the Political Council.**\n\nThe Council of the Provincial Government issued a notification on the 15th which reads as follows:-\n\nTake notice that we have received instructions from the Political Council under the Central Executive Committee that at a provisional meeting on the 6th December it was resolved that in order to maintain the interests of the Revolution and to protect the general welfare, any decision that may be made by the Arbitration Board as to any labour trouble which directly affects (1) the manufacture of military stores (2) banking business (3) communications and (4) public utilities, shall have absolute effect, and shall be compulsorily enforced by Government.\n\nOn receipt of this, it is our duty to act accordingly. Besides notifying other departments and instructing our staffs, this notification is issued for the information of all workmen, merchants and the general community of the whole province to observe in accordance.\n\nSun Fo, Sung Tsz Ian, Li Tsai Sham, Chan Shu Yan, Kom Nai Kwong, Hui Shung Tsing, Tsui Kun Pak, Li Luk Chiu, Chau Pui Cham, Chan Fu Luk and Ho Heung Ying, members of the Council of the Provincial Government of Kwong Tung.\n\nThis earnest notice",
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        "document_key": "CO129-499-3 Canton situation- governor's despatches 12-2-1927 - 10-3-1927",
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        "title": "CO129-499-3 Canton situation- governor's despatches 12-2-1927 - 10-3-1927",
        "content_text": "## \n83 \n\nMukden. Such is their chaotic condition. Chang Chung Chang's troops are all untrained and undisciplined. Chan Tiu Yuen of Kiangsu, nominally an ally of Sun Chuen Fong, has made definite arrangements with us for co-operation. Im Sik Shan and Chang Tso-lin originally were not allies. Im is very cunning. Ostensibly he has allied himself with Chang of Mukden, but in reality he has paid homage to our army. If we take this into account, though our enemies have 500,000 troops, yet in view of the great dissension and lack of unity among them, factors which are quite incompatible with any desire to co-operate in military operations, they will not be able to do anything, and we have no need to be afraid of them. As to the distribution of our enemies' troops, Chang of Mukden has a force of 30,000 along the Peking-Mukden Railway (from Kanchow to Paoting) and 50,000 or 60,000 at Paotai in the North-west. The rest of his troops are stationed at Peking and Fengtien. Chang of Mukden has about 20,000 troops in Tsuchow, 30,000 in Pukow and 30,000 along the Shensi-Hoichow Railway and has also a reserve of 30,000; but only 60,000 of these can fight.\n\n[112]\n\nThen we came to Honan. On the 28th of last month, Wan Pang was dismissed by Wu Pei-fu. Ostensibly Wan quitted his post, but in reality he has joined the Revolutionary Army in Honan, and his troops have also united with our Revolutionary Army. Kou Ying Kit and Wong Yu Kwan have asked us to introduce them to join with Im Sik Shan, and the Revolutionary Army in the North-west, and to fight against Fengtien.\n\nI will now give you an account of the strength of our National Revolutionary Army. Besides Im Sik Shan's troops, we have 150,000 in the North-western Army, and also 150,000 in Szechuen and Kweichow, and 200,000 in Kwangtung.",
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        "content_text": "Paolo No. \n035974/22 \n-2- \n\n3. Swatow, Ningpo, Hangchow, and Soochow may have been prompted by the revelation of the Soviet programme for China discovered in the raid by Marshal Chang Tso-lin on Soviet premises in the Legation Quarter at Peking. I enclose a copy of the Bulletin for the 20th April containing the official report on these discoveries. Even though the communiqué emanates from the enemies of the Kuomintang, the vile and unscrupulous methods laid down in these instructions tally so exactly with the course of events where communist influence prevails that non-bolshevised \"nationalists\" must believe even against their will. The Bulletin is issued daily in Hong Kong by the Publicity Bureau for South China. (See Sir R.E. Stubbs' confidential despatch of the 8th June, 1922)\n\n3. It must not, of course, be assumed that the suppression of communists involves any change of the Kuomintang programme in the matter of the so-called \"unequal Treaties\", extraterritoriality and tariff autonomy. On the contrary, it is not even certain that Labour, once it has recovered from the first shock of disarmament, will not again be militant against the foreign \"Imperialist\". Mr. Ch'an Fu-muk is among the new Commissioners of Government for Kwangtung, and Mr. Wong Kam-yuen is stated to have been permitted to carry on the re-organized \"Hong Kong-Canton Strike Committee\". Mr. Chan Fu-buk was at one time a noted extremist. He was the author of a violent article in the Canton press calling for the execution of the Chinese delegates from the Colony to Canton in December, 1925, and his brother lost his life at the time of the assassination of his close political friend Liu Chung-hoi. Concerning Mr. Wong Kam-yuen...",
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        "content_text": "## \nPersons of importance detained included TING CHING 陳劍覺, SHI and CHAN KI YU officials of the Police, TANG KÖK KWAN 陳國權, Journalist, and member of the Press Union, SUN PING AN 徐炳安, Head of the Political Council and LEI SHA 李紹文 of the All China Labour Union.\n\nChui Kun Pak the Chief Justice absconded and the Treasurer LI SING YI 李誠義 has been arrested and will be examined by a Commission of three on the charge of having embezzled public money. A number of prominent Communists escaped.\n\nFollowing these events the various bodies belonging to the Kuomintang issued manifestoes. That of the Kuangtung Central Executive Committee was signed by LI CHI THÂM 李濟深, KỮ YING FÀN 許應鑾, LEI FUK LAI 李福來, CHAM FU LUK 譚富祿, and TANG YİN WA 鄧彥華. It announced the Government's object in suppressing the Communist movement and gave the following reasons: (1) Communism is unsuited to conditions in China; (2) It is contrary to the Three Principles of Sun Yat Sen; (3) It has perverted the Labour and Peasant movements; and (4) It has oppressed the workmen and peasants.\n\nApparently the Government did not feel itself strong enough to suppress altogether any of the communistic organisations. It contented itself with ordering that they should be reorganised under officials who were not Communists. The necessity for such reorganisation was shown in the record of such societies as the Post Office Employee's Union. It will be remembered that as a result of several threats to strike on the part of this Union, the Government undertook to subsidise its members to the extent of some $16,000 a month. In all about $88,000 was paid out; of this sum $8,000 was found to have been spent on arms and ammunition, while the balance found its way into the pockets of the officials.\n\nAs...",
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        "content_text": "24\n\nAs a result the Communist Unions were required to issue recantations in which they reaffirmed their enmity to Militarism, Capitalism and Imperialism and added a new anathema \"Strike down the Labour Robbers\" who have led the workmen astray, bullied them and embezzled their funds\". \n\nSpecial Committees were appointed to manage the affairs of some organisations whose officials had absconded or been arrested. The \"Strikers Association\" was put in charge of TSANG TSZ NGA, WONG KAM YUEN, FUNG YUK MÀM, YUNG TSOI and CHUI TIN SHAM who at once requested a subsidy of $10,000 a day, the withdrawal of troops from their headquarters and protection against the General Labour Union.\n\nThe Peasants Cooperative Association was put in charge of a Committee of 8 headed by CHIN KÜK TSZ and CHAN FU LUK.\n\nThe following persons chiefly men of moderate views have been appointed to serve on various committees.\n\n(1) Central Executive Committee of the Kuomintang in Kuangtung.\n\n| Name |\n| --- |\n| LEI TSAI SHAM |\n| KU TING FAN |\n| LEI FUK LAK |\n| CHAN FU UK |\n| TANG YIN WA |\n\n(2) The Mass Movement Committee (which dealt with Public meetings, processions etc.) \n\n| Name |\n| --- |\n| CHAN FU MUK |\n| TSANG YOUNG P'O |\n| CHIU TIN SHAM |\n| LEI PO SANG |\n| KUO SHING YUN |\n| TSANG SAI SHING |\n| HO KOK P'O |\n| WONG CHI YUN |\n\n(Known in Hong Kong formerly as head of the Oil Presser's Union).\n\n(Secretary).",
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        "content_text": "## (3) Military Affairs Committee.\n錢大鈞  \nTSIN TAI KIVAN  \n徐景  \nCHIU KING TONG  \nTANG YIN WA  \n働  \n世增  \nTANG SHAI TSANG  \nSE  \n祝萬  \nFUNG CHUK MAN  \nWONG CHI YUN  \n\n## (4) Propaganda.\nCHAN FU LUK  \n朱家驊  \nCHU KA WA  \n李家  \nLI KA YING  \n湯  \nit  \nin  \nTONG CHING PO  \nTSANG YEUNG P'O  \n\nIt is understood that the Peasants' Organisations are still making trouble in the country and were probably responsible for an attack by alleged brigands on villages near Shek Tseng on April 17th.\n\nIntd. R.A.C.N.  \nA.C.M  \n22nd April, 1927.",
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        "title": "CO129-499-5 Canton situation- governor's despatches 11-3-1927 - 11-3-1927",
        "content_text": "# Enclosure No. 2.\n\n## Translation\n\n(Extract from Man Kwok Yat Po, Canton, 22nd April, 1927)\n\n### Reasons why the Chinese Communists should be exterminated. Speech by Tsang Young Po at a banquet in honour of the Representatives of all classes at the headquarters of the Mass Movement Commission.\n\nComrades: Comrades of all classes! A detailed report has already been given you by our Comrade Chan Fu Muk of what has been done to wipe out the Communists. What I am now going to tell you is the reasons why the Chinese Communists should be exterminated.\n\nWe know that a great many people are opposed to Communism. The Imperialists, the Militarists, the local rascals, the degenerate gentry, and the corrupt and avaricious officials are all opposed to it. Now the Kuomintang is also opposing the Chinese Communists. They are not only opposing them, but they want to exterminate them entirely.\n\nBut we must examine clearly whether our Kuomintang in opposing and exterminating the Communists is motivated by the same reason as the Imperialists, Militarists, local rascals, degenerate gentry and corrupt and avaricious officials.\n\nThe reasons we have for opposing and exterminating the Chinese Communists are in fact entirely different from those of the Imperialists, Militarists and reactionaries. Our Kuomintang is a revolutionary party. For opposing and exterminating the Communists we have some important and irrefutable arguments. Now let me outline for you some of the chief of these.\n\n(1) We must wipe out the Chinese Communists in order to safeguard the Kuomintang's continued existence.",
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        "content_text": "## Enclosure No. 1\n\nTranslation.\n\n(Extract from Man Kwok Yat Po, Canton, 25th April, 1927)\n\n### Intrigues of the Chinese Communist Party against the Kuomintang.\n\nSpeech by Chan Fu Muk at an entertainment given by the Special Committee.\n\nAt the same time we must beware of those who stand by rejoicing. They are supposing that our expulsion of the Communists is just like their so-called \"punishment of Reds\". The local rascals, degenerate gentry, and corrupt and avaricious officials believe that this is their opportunity to rise and renew their oppression of the peasants and workmen. The Imperialists and their tame dogs, the Militarists, have been made particularly glad, clapping their hands and congratulating one another, thinking that we will very likely make friendly terms with them. But let all of us comrades warn them in loud tones, \"You local rascals, degenerate gentry, greedy merchants, corrupt officials, militarists and Imperialists have no occasion to rejoice. As long as we live, we will allow no reactionaries to regain power. We will not have done with you until the peasants and workmen have been emancipated from the fetters that distress them.\" We have again to warn the Imperialists, especially you British, that you should not be in such a hurry to remove your barricades at Shameen or withdraw your troops. Our strikers from Hong Kong, 100,000 in number, have not yet secured a settlement. The corpses of...",
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        "content_text": "## Enclosure No.2\n\n**Translation**\n\n(Extract from Man Kwok Yat Po, Canton. 20th April, 1927.)\n\n**Proceedings at the Banquet given by the Mass Movement Committee to Representatives of the various classes.**\n\nReport by Chan Fu Muk and Tsang Young Po on the events of the 15th April.\n\nSpeeches by the various representatives.\n\nA tense revolutionary atmosphere.\n\n(From the Kok Ng She News Agency)\n\n88\n\nAt 5 p.m. on the 19th April, the Mass Movement Sub-Committee of the Kwongtung Special Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang gave a banquet in the Provincial Kuomintang Hall of Ceremony in honour of the representatives of the various classes and made a report of what had been done on the 15th April. There were present Tsang Yeung Po, Chan Fuk Luk, Tsui Tin Sham, Ko Shing Yuen, Ho Kok Po, Li Pok Shang, and Tsang Shai Shing, members of the Mass Movement Committee, and Tang Yin Wah, member of the Provincial Kuomintang Special Committee, and over 1,000 representatives of the various classes. Comrade Chai Fu Muk presided. The testament of our late President was read, and after the ceremonies had been done as arranged, the Chairman announced the occasion for calling the Conference and reported what had been done in suppressing the Communists. His speech briefly reads as follows:-\n\nPrior to the 12th year of the Republic, there was great diversity of opinions among the members of the Kuomintang, and the majority of them joined the revolution only in order to acquire place and wealth. Seeing such a diversity of opinions in the membership of the Kuomintang and feeling desperate for the progress of the National Revolution, our late President resolved to admit the Communist...",
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        "content_text": "# ENCLOSURE NO. 41\n\n(Extract from the Wa Kiu Yat Po, Hong Kong, 21st May, 1927)\n\nOfficers sent by the Municipal Kuomintang Department to assist the management of the Man Kwok Yat Po.\n\n(From our own correspondent Pui)\n\nThe Man Kwok Yat Po and Kwok Man San Man in Canton were both propaganda organisations of the Kuomintang. Before the former was under the supervision of the Central Kuomintang Department and the latter under the control of the Provincial Kuomintang, and both of them were managed by Kam Nai Kwong. On the purification of the Kuomintang most of the leading editors of the Kwok Man San Man fled away, and no responsible men were left to continue its publication. Therefore Tsang Yeung Po, acting Director of the General Political Department, sent some men to take on the management. The staff of the Man Kwok Yat Po was wholly loyal to the Kuomintang, but at that time the Central Kuomintang had become defunct and therefore Chan Fu Muk went personally on the same day to take charge of it.\n\nOf late we learn that the Municipal Kuomintang has a desire to establish a propaganda organisation of their own in the City, but for lack of funds, this cannot be easily promoted. Some days ago they made the suggestion that the two papers both belonged to the Kuomintang for purposes of propaganda, and thereupon they had a discussion with a certain important man with a view to the transference of the Man Kwok Yat Po to the control of the Municipal Kuomintang Department. The important man considered it expedient to transfer to them the Kwok Man San Man (Man Kwok Yat Po?) which is under the management of the...",
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        "content_text": "## \n- the Provincial Kuomintang. But recently Chan Fu Muk appears to have some misunderstanding with the Municipal Kuomintang, and the immediate sanction of the request might be very harsh to him. Therefore he referred it yesterday to the opinions of the Special Council which unanimously approved of it and instructed the Municipal Kuomintang to send one or two men to the office of the paper and work in co-operation with Chan Fu Muk. On receipt of the instructions, the Municipal Kuomintang sent Ko Hon and Au Yeung Chung yesterday to be editors of the paper responsible for leading articles and news items, and they have started work there from that day. We are told that in so doing the Government desires to remedy the misunderstanding between the Municipal Kuomintang and Chan and bring them to terms again.\n\n42",
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        "content_text": "## Hang Meas \n- 10 \n114 \nEnclo No. 4 \n\n20th May; and you replied next day that you presumed no action of any kind would be taken without Sir R. Tyrwhitt's approval.\n\n17. On the 20th May, the Canton Ministry for Foreign Affairs answered Mr. Brenan's ultimatum in the letter of which I attach a copy. This letter states: -\n\n(a) that the Company Commander and the Platoon Commander of the men responsible for the outrage would each have a severe reprimand recorded against them and be fined half a month's pay, and that the troops who fired would be dismissed;\n\n(b) that the acting Martial Law Commander, Cheung Wa-fu, had been instructed on the 21st May, together with a deputy from the Wai Chiao Pu, to go on board a British warship anchored at Whampoa and render an explanation;\n\n(c) that as regards the demand for indemnity, the damage was very small and perhaps it might be as well for the amount that should be paid to be determined after investigation by two (or more) officers, one deputed from each party.\n\nMr. Brenan replied to the Canton Ministry for Foreign Affairs in the attached memorandum,† dated 21st May, that his three extremely moderate demands must be complied with in full by the time stated.\n\n18. On the 21st May, Sir R. Tyrwhitt telegraphed to Rear-Admiral Boyle: \"If General Li Chai-sum has not apologized by 11 a.m. on Monday, 23rd May, and he has been warned that action is going to be taken, I authorize your destruction of the matshed barracks with incendiary bombs at the spot where the `Lungshan` was fired at\". On the same day, acting Martial Law Commander... \n\n10",
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        "content_text": "- 2 \n23 \n\nOur soldiers fought hard and defeated the Northern Squadron, and therefore the British Imperialists had no opportunity to interfere with us. Therefore we must overthrow the Imperialists, otherwise we can never overthrow the militarists.\n\nThe masses at Shanghai have been deceived and oppressed by the Communists. Our Kuomintang has released them from their yoke and is leading them. We will support the peasants and workmen and promote their welfare.\n\nWe did not overthrow the Communists for the sake of the Capitalists or Imperialists. We overthrew them because they have been our enemies. After we have overthrown the Communists, we must overthrow the Imperialists also. Should the Capitalists avail themselves of the opportunity of our Party Purification to oppress our workmen, we should overthrow them too.\n\nIf we maintain unity, we can overthrow everything. We must give due observance to the principles and orders of our Party, and purify it of all Communists.\n\nNext Chan Kwo Fu spoke and said that the failure of the 2nd Revolution was due to lack of proper organisation in the Kuomintang, and that therefore proper organisation must first be effected if the accomplishment of the revolution be desired.\n\nCheung Ping Fai then expressed that the welcome extended to Generalissimo Tseung was associated with a desire for the success of China.\n\nLang Chun warned the meeting to shoulder the responsibility of working hard for the Kuomintang, otherwise the Imperialists, Militarists and reactionists can never be overthrown.\n\nChan Tak Ching finally stated that he welcomed Tseung with the same sincerity as that with which he commemorated the death of Chan Ying Shi.",
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        "content_text": "## GOVERNMENT HOUSE, HONGKONG.\n\n10th August, 1927.\n\n**(Secret.)**\n\nSir,\n\nThe tension at Canton appears to be increasing, though the threatened storm has not yet broken. It is stated that a second attempt was made on the life of General Li Chai-sum on the 30th July, this time by means of a mine laid in the usual course of his motor-launch; but there is some doubt whether this outrage may not be one of a series designed to intimidate passenger junks into compliance with the demands of pirate gangs. Piracy by means of electrically-controlled mines laid in the channels of the West River delta is the latest innovation of Chinese desperadoes. One enterprising gang actually stated, in a letter of intimidation received by a local Chinese steam-ship company, that it employed a graduate of the School of Submarine Mining. Anyhow, there seems no doubt that an attempt was made on the 2nd August, to shoot Mr. Feng Tso-wan, who succeeded the extremist Ch'an Fu-muk as Commissioner for Labour, and there has been a bomb outrage in a tea-house at Canton connected in some way with the reorganization...\n\nThe Right Honourable  \nLieutenant Colonel L.C.M.S. Amery, M.P.,  \n&c.,  \n&c.\n\nPage 55  \nNO SECRET.\n\nCopies to:  \nCanton No. 299  \nPeking No. 8.",
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        "content_text": "- 5 \n66 \n\n(f) **Causing dissension among our Kuomintang Leaders**\n\nThe leaders of our Kuomintang, such as Comrade Tseung Kai Shek and Wong Ching Wai, have all been very active and ready to make sacrifices. For instance, Comrade Tseung has eliminated all the bad characters of Chan Kwing Ming in Kwangtung and has overthrown Wu (Pei Fu), Sun (Chun-fong), and other cruel militarists in our recent attack on the North in the interests of the Community. He has fought under heavy fire, and on many occasions has been nearly killed. He has been so ready to make sacrifices for us, yet the Communists have made such a foul suggestion as that of an alliance with Wong (Ching Wai) to overthrow Tseung (Kai Shek). In reality, they want to set up dissension among our leaders and benefactors, and then to remove them one by one. How evil-disposed they are!\n\n(g) **Expulsion of the loyal members of our Kuomintang**\n\nMany members of our Kuomintang have really worked to promote your welfare. But the Communists have insisted on their expulsion. When they have overthrown all the loyal members who have worked in your interests, they will be able to monopolize you and make you their tools to oppose the Kuomintang. Are you willing to be monopolized and made use of as tools to oppose your Kuomintang?\n\n(h) **Utilization of local bandits and labour rowdies to oppose the peasants and workmen**\n\nYou perhaps realize this better than we do. The Communists have allied with the local bandits, saying that they are the only propertyless class, and have incited them to attack and oppose you. In so doing, they will secretly reap the benefit and make their fortunes. Is it not so? At the same time, they have played the same trick with the workmen, uniting with the labour rowdies to confuse the true...",
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        "content_text": "ENCLOSURE NO. 7\n\nChinese characters for names in the despatch of \n10th August, 1927.\n\nGeneral Li Chai-sum \n(李濟琛)\n\nMr. Feng Tso-wan \n(馮祝萬)\n\nCh'an Fu-muk \n(陳孚木)\n\nGeneral Li Lit-kwan \n(李烈鈞)\n\nGeneral Ch'an Kwing-ming \n(陳炯明)\n\nGeneral Feng Yü-hsiang \n(馮玉祥)\n\nMarshal Chang Tso-lin \n(張作霖)",
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        "content_text": "Enclosure No. 4.\n\n33\n\n**Translation**\n\n(Extract from Tsun Wan Yat Po, Hong Kong. 31st May, 1927)\n\n**Conversation with Yeung Yu Ting on his return to Peking**\n\n(Report from Peking dated 18th May)\n\nAt 9.05 a.m. yesterday (the 17th May) Yeung Yu Ting arrived at Peking. Information as to his return had been previously received in Peking, and among those who were present at the station to welcome him were Chan Hing Ah, Ying Shi Lim, Wong Ki, and other important officials in the Shun Shing Wong Fu (Residence of Prince Shun Shing). Yeung was accompanied by his two Secretaries and two advisers, and was escorted by about 100 body-guards. After alighting from the train, he went back to the Shun Shing Wong Fu, and at 3 p.m. yesterday he granted an interview to our reporter there and conversed with him for about an hour. We now publish his views below:\n\n**The Russian Problem**\n\nSince the Russian Revolution all countries in the world have severed relations with Russia, with the exception of Germany, which has given her official recognition. Some time ago, in view of the close proximity of the provinces of Kirin and Heilungkiang to Soviet Russia, Mukden was the first to have international intercourse with her. At first Soviet Russia sent Lai Kam Fook to Harbin to negotiate a Russo-Mukdenese Agreement with us. Secondly Karakan was sent to China, and thirdly Borodin. They carried on negotiations in Harbin and Canton, which were, however, fruitless on account of various difficulties. But this shows that Mukden had been friendly with Soviet Russia. Fourthly",
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        "content_text": "## \n\nbe kept confidential and cannot be related to you. After all Mukden has had its way. Fung Yuk Cheung has had much flirtation with Wuhan, and has made every endeavour to secure an alliance with Tang Shang Chi. His recent mobilization is for this purpose. The presence of Ng Tsz Yuk (i.e. Wu Pei-fu) in Shung Shan, and of Yu Hok Chung at Nam Yeung has been a great obstacle to the alliance between Fung and Tong and has constituted a very favourable situation for us.\n\nWe can assert that Fung will never dare to show any great activity chiefly for the reason that he lacks arms and funds. Therefore while it is necessary for us to be careful about our defence in the North West, we have never been moved, by any rumours that have been persistent outside, to attach much importance to the troops of Fung. I can form no idea of the troops of Lau Chan Wa and Cheung Chi Kung, who are changeable in their attitude, watching which side turns out victorious. This would not affect Mukden much as we are confident that we are strong enough and require no assistance.\n\nCheung of Mukden on a circuit of inspection. This was proposed among the Ankuochun before my last return to Mukden and Marshal Cheung approved of it very much. Yim (Shek Shan) of Shensi is one of the few most influential personages in the present situation, and much has to be discussed with him.\n\nThe soldiers at the front have been engaged in war for over a year and Marshal Cheung is anxious to give them his compliments. Thus the proposal can be taken as having been adopted. But I have not yet gone into this with Marshal Cheung since my return, and I do not know when the circuit will be begun. In the circuit Cheung will proceed to",
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        "content_text": "- 6 - \n## 38 \n\nsupport of the Constitutions; if not by Koo, we cannot suggest anybody else, and it will take some time to get the man wanted. Perhaps we can hold the Cabinet question in abeyance until that of the Supreme Authority has been solved; for the present no definite arrangements can be suggested for it.\n\nThe suggestions persistent among outsiders as to who are or are not qualified for the Cabinet, are all premature.\n\n## The North and the South\n\nTaking the past history between Mukden and Sun Chung Shan, an agreement between the North and the South is not impracticable. In the 11th year of the Republic (1922) C. C. Wu came to Mukden under the directions of Sun Chung Shan, and negotiated with us a joint mobilization against Wuhan. Thereupon the Mukdenese troops were mobilized and entered the Shan Hoi Kwan. Sun also marched from Kwangsi to join us at Wuhan. But he was hindered by Chan Kwing Ming and so he did not succeed in his enterprise. Later Sun attempted to force his way out through Kiangsi, but also failed. Although Sun was defeated twice, yet the alliance between Mukden and Sun was a fact. Next Wong Ching Wai, Ching Chim, and Cheung Kai came to Mukden, proposing the Russo-Mukdenese Agreement. Mukden accepted it and treated them with due courtesy. Later Sun Chung Shan went to Shanghai, and Mukden often supported him with supplies of materials. At last a triple alliance was again made, and all these will prove that no bad feeling has ever existed between Mukden and the Kuomintang. What we aim at is to punish the Communists. At present only Tseung Kai Shek can really oppose the Communists, and an agreement with him is not questionable. Wu Tsz Yuk (Wu Pei-fu) was our enemy and Sun Hing Yuen (Sun Chuen-fang) had once driven us out: ultimately we still could have co-operated with them for ...",
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        "content_text": "8 \n\n- \n\n61 \n\n**Government**. Thus in the course of a single night the problem was completely solved. When Borodin saw me later, it was clear that the outcome had surprised him, but I spoke soft words to him, \"You are a disciple of Marx and will appreciate that your criticism of the position was made from an imperfect apprehension of its various elements. It is not that we are cleverer than you are, but that you, being a foreigner, do not understand the situation.\" \n\nThere was another incident which will show you what sort of man Borodin is. We disposed of Yeung (Hui Man) and Lau (Chan Wan) after our Expedition to the East River. When the East River Expedition was being planned, Borodin was in Peking, and did not take part. This once resolved upon, we gave the task to our Kuomintang army, with the Cantonese troops in reserve. We owed our success in a great degree to the energy of Comrade Chan Ming Shu who sits among us to-day. The true strength of our troops was only one-tenth of that of our enemies, but in practice we were able to defeat the armies of Chan Kwing Ming one after another in the same manner as we have now defeated Wu Pei-fu and Sun Chuen-fong. We overcame Ip Kui, Hung Shiu Lun, and Lam Fu in detail. Yeung Hui Man was attached to Lam Fu, and Lau Chan Wan had allied himself with the North and sympathised with Tong Kai Iu. On the defeat of Lam Fu, Yeung and Lau rose in conjunction with the intention of seizing Canton, causing disturbance at our base, changing the flags at our Headquarters, and destroying the East River Expeditionary Force. I knew that we were on the edge of a crisis, and that they must be dealt with without a moment's delay. I had a discussion with Comrade Liu Chung Hoi, and we made up our minds. Comrade Liu then proceeded to Chiu Chau and came to a complete understanding with Comrade Tseung (Kai Shek) and Hui (Shung Chi). When all arrangements had been made",
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        "content_text": "## Enolo No. \n- 6 - \n\n39 \n70 \n\nof General Yen Hsi-shan, who is similarly dallying with Peking and Nanking. I enclose a copy of an interesting forecast of the situation furnished to the Hong Kong Police on the 13th June. The first item has already been fulfilled, Chan Fu-muk having fled to Nanking, and the second (appointment of a Tsui-chun) is stated to be a fact.\n\n8. The through trains on the Kowloon-Canton Railway, mentioned in paragraph 6 of my secret despatch of the 9th June have proved entirely successful and the managements of the British and Chinese sections have now arranged for a service of two express trains each way daily. I enclose a press report of the first through trip made with our locomotives and I venture to believe that we can look, not only for genuine amity, but for some degree of real efficiency from the administration of the Chinese section, if it is permitted to function without forced loans and other political interferences.\n\nEnclo. No. 3.\nEnclos Nos. 4 & 5.\n\n9. I enclose translation from the Canton vernacular press of two articles by Mr. Ng Tsz-fai. Mr. Ng is a very old member of the Kuomintang besides holding the degree of Kui Yan (M.A.) under the old examination system. He has travelled in Europe and is now Political Director on the General Staff of Marshal Tseung Kai-shek. The purport of these effusions is clearly the wickedness of Russia and Communism and the folly of Wong Ching-wai in espousing the cause of the enemies of the Nanking clique: But the argument is obscure to a degree.",
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        "content_text": "## inclosure No. 8.\n\nLi Chai-sun (李济琛)\nKu Ying-fan (古應芬)\nFeng Tso-wan (Fung Chuk-man) (馮祝萬)\nChan Fu-muk (陳孚木)\nHsu Shung-chi (許崇智)\nTseung Kai-shek (蔣介石)\n\n| Location/Name | Chinese Characters |\n| --- | --- |\n| Shantung | (山東) |\n| Kuang-tung | (廣東) |\n| Kiung Chow | (瓊州) |\n| Fukien | (福建) |\n| Ip Ting | (葉挺) |\n| Ho Lung | (賀龍) |\n| Hoi Fung | (海豐) |\n| Luk Fung | (陸豐) |\n| Chan Kwing-ming | (陳炯明) |\n| Cheung Fat-fui | (張發奎) |\n| Liang Kuang | (兩廣) |\n| Kuang-hsi | (廣西) |\n| Feng Yu-hsiang | (馮玉祥) |\n| Sai Nam | (西南) |\n| Tai Ping Chau | (太平洲) |\n| Tai Ping Hu | (太平墟) |\n| Sam Chau | (三洲) |\n| Jai Chau | (惠州) |\n| Tai Pang | (大鵬) |\n| Wong Fuk Chi | (黄福芝) |\n| Wong Hoi Tsai | (黄海仔) |\n| Li Hon Tong | (李漢棠) |\n| Yeung Kai Ling |  |\n| Wong Mo | (黄蕪) |\n| Kung Sheung Yat Po | (工商日報) |",
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        "content_text": "## \n- 2 -\n\n76\n\nAs far as we are concerned, the departure of an official whom Mr. Brenan has recently described as \"a determined nationalist and none too friendly to foreigners\" can only be a cause for satisfaction; and if an excuse was required by General Li for discarding the tool employed to obtain much-needed cash-in-hand, it was conveniently provided by a vehement protest from the native bankers and merchants in Shanghai against the imposition of the communist principle of a capital levy in the very home of the revolution.\n\n## 2.\n\nIn place of Mr. Ku Ying-fan, General Li Chai-sum has appointed Mr. Fêng Tso-wan (Fung Chuk-man) to the office of Treasurer. Mr. Fêng, who is a military officer and was a school-mate of General Li, succeeded the notorious Chan Fu-muk as Commissioner for Labour after the anti-communist coup. Prior to that, he was chief of staff to General Hsu Shung-chi, who was Marshal Chiang Kai-shek's predecessor as Commander-in-Chief of the Kuomintang forces. An attempt on Mr. Fêng's life is recorded in my secret despatch of 10th August. I am told by the Chinese members of the Legislative Council that General Li has it in mind to send Mr. Fêng to pay me a visit in Hong Kong; but so far, no date has been fixed for such a visit.\n\n## 3.\n\nConcurrently with the appointment of Mr. Fêng Tso-wan to take charge of Cantonese finances, General Li appears to have abolished the Commission system in the Finance Department of his Government, thus placing full power in the hands of a single official. Mr. Fêng appears to be losing no time in exerting his powers, and fresh reports are constantly appearing that stern measures are being taken with this or that subordinate of the fallen...",
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        "content_text": "## \n118 \n\nThe new Chief of Police on October 19th effectively prevented any outbreak and the 24th October passed without incident.\n\n## 2.\n\nMeanwhile, the happy isolation which Canton had enjoyed for some months past was broken by an influx of politicians generally of an extremist type following in the wake of Cheung Fat-fui. Chan Kung-pok, Chan Fu-muk, Kom Nai-kwong, Ho Heung-ying (the widow of Liu Chung-hoi) and Tsui Tin-sham made their way to Canton and were given seats on the Reorganization Committee of the Provincial Kuomintang. Finally, on October 27th, Wong Tsing-wai, who had failed in his attempts to reconcile the conflicting elements at Nanking and Hankow, made his appearance in Hong Kong. Before his departure for Canton on the 28th October, Wong had an interview with the acting Colonial Secretary, a report of which is attached as Enclo. No. 1. A few days later, T.V. Soong, the former Minister of Finance, accompanied by H.H. Kung and Tong Hoi-on, formerly Chairman of the Hankow British Concession, passed through Hong Kong on their way to Canton.\n\n## 3.\nThe arrival of Wong Tsing-wai again raised the hopes of the extremists. On November 1st, a large body of men surrounded his house, calling on him to demand on their behalf the release of the prisoners of April 15th. When he declined to interfere and referred them to the Government, they refused to disperse until scattered by the police, who arrested some twenty persons. On November 3rd, a public reception was held, at which Wong spoke on his proposal to call a joint conference of the Kuomintang at Canton.\n\nPage 120  \nPage 121",
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        "content_text": "# Enclosure No. 128\n\n## Translation\n\n(Extract from Kwok Ban San Man, Canton. 20th October 1927)\n\nAdditional members for the Committee for the reorganisation of the Provincial Kuomintang Department in Kwongting: Chan Kung Pok, Kom Ngai Kwong, Ho Heung Ying, Chan Fu Luk, and Tsui Tin Sham - 5 in all.\n\nThe Reorganisation Committee of the Kwong Tung Provincial Kuomintang Department consists of Tsang Yeung Po, Lan Wan Koi, Ma Chiu Chun, Li Man Fen, Wong Ping Kwan, Wu Wan Chan, Tsin Tai Kwan, Tsim Kuk Chi, Fung Chuk Han, Fung Tin Yu, Lo Wai Keung, Chu Ke Wa, Li Tsei Shem, Fan Ki Mo, and Me Hng Woon - 15 in number, all appointed by the Central Kuomintang Department at Nanking. Of late, of these 15 members, Tsang Yeung Po, Lan Wen Koi, Ma Chiu Chun, Li Man Fan, Wong Ping Kwan, Wu Wan Chan, Tsin Tai Kwan, and Tsim Kuk Chi are absent from Canton on business and have not been present at the meetings of the Committee for a long time. Therefore, some time ago the Branch Political Council in Canton appointed to the Committee five additional members: Cheung Fat Fui, Wong Ki Cheung, Chu Fai Yat, Cheung Ngan Shin, and Tsui King Tong.\n\nNow we learn that the Branch Political Council in Canton, at its 66th meeting on the 18th instant, was of the opinion that as the Provincial Kuomintang Department in Canton was the supreme authority of the Kuomintang, its reorganisation could admit of no delay, and found that despite the addition of the five members, the Committee still had not been provided with its full number of members, and that therefore a further addition was necessary. Thereupon, the following addition was proposed: Chan Kung Pok, Chan Fu Luk, Tsui Tin Shem, Chen Shu Yan, Kom Ngai Kwong, Ho Heung Ying, and Wong Hing Yat.",
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        "content_text": "## 1 \n\n- 2 \n\n129 \n\nseven in all. Upon further discussion, it was found \nthat seven would be too many, and it was finally resolved \nthat only five should be added and the men appointed \nwere Chan Kung Pok, Chen Fu Huk, Kom Ngai Kwong, Ho Heung Ying, and Tsui Tin Shem. At the same time a resolution \nwas passed that the former members of the Ke-organisation \nCommittees Ma Hung Woon, and Tsui King Tong should be \nappointed to the Provincial Inspectorate of the Kuomintang, and that as they have not time enough to look after \nthe affairs of the Ke-organisation Commission, they \nshould retire from it. \n\n(From our own correspondent) \n\nThe following is a circular from the Branch \nPolitical Council, Canton. \n\nAt our extra-ordinary meeting, it has been found \nthat the members of the Provincial Kuomintang Ke-organisation Committee Tsang Yeung Po, Ma Chiu Chun, Li Man Fen, \nWong Ping Kwan, Wu Lien Chen, Tsin Tai Kwen, Chi Kuk Chi, \nand Lam Wan Koi, have been absent from the meetings of \nthe Committee for a long time, and that despite the \naddition thereto of Cheung Fat Fui and others, the Committee has not yet had its full number of members. \nTherefore the proposal that Chan Fu Muk, Chen Kung Pok, \nTsui Tin Sham, Kom Ngai Kwong and Ho Heung Ying should \nbe added to the Committee has been considered and \napproved. Besides informing others by letter, it is \nnecessary to furnish you a copy of the resolution for \nyour inspection.",
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        "content_text": "## ENCLOSURE NO. 4.\n\n130\n\nChinese Characters for Names given in the Secret Despatch of the 10th November, 1927, and its enclosures.\n\n| Name | Chinese Characters |\n| --- | --- |\n| Cheung Fat-fui | (張發奎) |\n| Chan Kung-pok | (陳公博) |\n| Chan Fu-muk | (陳孚木) |\n| Kom Nai-kwong | (甘乃光) |\n| Ho Heung-ying | (何香凝) |\n| Liu Chung-hoi | (廖仲凱) |\n| Tsui Tin-sham | (徐天深) |\n| Wong Tsing-wai | (汪精衛) |\n| T. V. Soong | (宋子文) |\n| H. H. Kung | (孔祥熙) |\n| Tong Hoi-on | (唐海安) |\n| Li Chai-sum | (李濟深) |\n| Shiu-kwan | (韶關) |\n| Tong Sang-chi | (唐生智) |\n| Tsang Yeung-po | (曾養甫) |\n| Larn Wen-koi | (林雲陔) |\n| Na Chiu-chun | (馬超俊) |\n| Li Lian-fan | (李文範) |\n| Wong Ping-kwan | (黃炳均) |\n| Tu Wen-chan | (胡文燦) |\n| Tsin Tai-kwan | (錢大鈞) |\n| Tsim Kuk-chi | (詹菊池) |\n| Fung Chuk-man | (馮祝萬) |\n| Fung Tin-Yu | (馮天愉) |\n| Lo Wai-keung | (羅偉疆) |\n| Chu Ka-wa | (朱家驊) |\n| Fan-Ki-mo | (範其務) |\n| Ia Hung-woon | (馬洪煥)",
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        "content_text": "## ENCLOSURE NO. 4.\n\nChinese Characters for Names given in the despatch.\n\n| Name | Chinese Characters |\n| --- | --- |\n| General Li Chai-sum | 李濟琛 |\n| General Fan Shek-shang | (范石生) |\n| Marshal Tang Chi-yao | 唐繼堯 |\n| General Lung Yün | 龍雲 |\n| General Hu Jo-yi | 胡祖貽 |\n| General Chang Ju-yi | 張弧爾 |\n| General Li Hsuan-t'ing | 李炳榮? or 李選廷? (OCR unclear, possibly \"李炟榮\") - assuming \"李選廷\" or similar  |\n| General T'ang San | 唐莘 |\n| General Yang Sen | 楊森 |\n| Marshal Feng Yü-hsiang | 馮玉祥 |\n| General Yen Hsi-shan | 閻錫山 |\n| General Tang Shang-chi | 唐生智 |\n| General Chang Fa-kuei | 張發奎 |\n| Admiral Sah Chen-ping | 薩鎮冰 |\n| General Chang Chen | 商震 |\n| General T'ang Shu-ching, likely \"Chiang Kai-shek\" related name | ... (possibly 蔣介石, but given as \"T'ang\") |\n| Admiral Yang Shu-chuang | 楊樹莊 |\n| Marshal Tseung Kai-shek, likely \"Chiang Kai-shek\" | 蔣介石 |\n| General Chang Tsung-chang | 張宗昌 |\n| Marshal Chang Tso-lin | 張作霖 |\n| Generalissimo | 大元帥 |\n| Marshal Wu P'ei-fu | 吳佩孚 |\n| Marshal Sun Chuan-fang | 孫傳芳 |\n\nEND",
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        "title": "CO129-501-8 General policy in China 30-11-1926 - 30-11-1926",
        "content_text": "# Inquiry into the measures to be taken towards the resumption of the Canton Maritime Customs.\n\n101\n\nSince New Year's day this year by the Lunar Calendar, our Red National Flag has been hoisted at the Commissioner's head office of the Canton Customs on the west Bund, the Office of the Commissioner of Customs at Chau Tau Tsui, Honam, and the Native Customs at Ng Sin Hoon. The Commissioner of Customs, Berlin (?), has been urged by Sir F. Aglen, the Inspector-General of Customs in Peking, to recognise the Canton Government and to obey its instructions as to the allotment of the Customs revenues. Before the resumption of the Customs by the Government, all receipts and expenses will be temporarily managed by the Commissioner, and no unreasonable payment shall be made, nor shall any sum be expended in excess of the estimates provided last year, nor shall any expenses be added therein retrospectively.\n\nAccording to a telegram from Canton, the three ministers, Kuang (or Jun) Fu, the Minister of Communications, Eugene Chen the Foreign Minister, and T.V. Soong the Minister of Finance, have organised a Commission of inquiry into the measures to be taken towards the resumption of the Customs. Chan T'i-woon, Ng Cheung Ying, and Sze Chung Ok, who are all conversant with the work of the Customs, have been appointed to the Commission to report on what course of action should be followed in the resumption and how it is to be carried out. The terms of reference are:\n\n| Term | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| (1) | To ascertain the total annual revenue from the Customs and verify the accounts by audit. |\n| (2) | To draw up a schedule of increases and decreases in the salaries of the officials in the Customs. |",
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        "content_text": "# Official Title\n## Date of Office\n\n1. 黃強 \n2. 秀南 \n3. 林虎 \n4. 劉元 \n5. 楊西 \n6. 楊巖 \n7. 伍朝樞 \n8. 陸耀 \n9. 楊陸 \n10. Lam Fu \n11. Chung Sáu Năm \n12. Wong Keung \n13. Ng Chiu S \n14. Lai Chi Luk \n15. Yeung Kwan U \n16. Tang Pun Yan \n17. Yeung Sai Ngam \n18. Yeung Hei Man \n19. 劉震寰 \n20. Lau Chan Wan \n\n| Official Title | Date of Office | Remarks |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| River Defence Commissioner | 1920 - 1922 | Now residing at 18 Caine Road. |\n| Foreign Minister | 1925 - 1926 | Now residing at Sai lung Road. |\n| Com: of Finance | A few days, 1926 | Now at Shanhai. |\n| Commander of Army | 1922 - 1924 | do. |\n| do. | A few days, 1924 | do. |\n| Com: of Finance | 1920 - 1922 | Now residing at No.4 Sai Kin Terrace. |\n| do. | A few days, 1922 | Died at Shanghai 1926. |\n| do. | 1920 - 1923 | Believed to be now living in Kowloon. |\n| Commissioner of Finance | 1923 | Now at Shan nai |\n| Commander of Yunnanese Army | 1923 - 1925, A few months, 1925 | Now at Yunnan Province. |\n| Commander of Kwong Sai Army | 1920 - 1925 | All time since 1923. |\n\n(Sd). T.H. King.  \n17th March, 1927.  \nPage 110",
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        "title": "CO129-504-13 Chinese situation- request from General Li Chai-sum for assistance in obtaining arms and ammunition 27-4-1927 - 6-10-1927",
        "content_text": "## 29\n\n\n2 \n\nfrom Chinese civil warfare, and that all the best Chinese public opinion was solidly against the import of arms from foreign sources.\n\nIn the autumn of 1925, the Foreign Office, as the result of their study of the question, forwarded to His Majesty's Minister for his observations and recommendations two papers—the one a letter from Mr. Teichman, then on leave in England, and the other a memorandum by Mr. Ashton-Gwatkin, on the subject of the arms embargo (see Foreign Office despatch No. 831 of the 23rd September, 1925). In the former, Mr. Teichman recommended that some of the objections to the arms embargo could be met by the removal, so far as British subjects were concerned, of aeroplanes from its scope, and the consequent abolition of all restrictions on the export of aeroplanes from the United Kingdom to China, and by the further step of repealing our China King's Regulations and carrying out our arms embargo policy in future by means of prohibition of export from Great Britain (instead of prohibition of import into China); and he further suggested, with reference to the general question of policy involved in the embargo, that Germany, Russia, and any other Power concerned, not party to the arms embargo understanding, should be invited to adhere to its principles, and also that, failing their acceptance, or perhaps in any case, we might even reverse our policy to the extent of attempting to apply the embargo in future in co-operation with the Chinese Government; and that the time had come to accord to the Kuo Min-tang administration in Kuangtung in this and other matters the same measure of de facto recognition as was given to the Peking Government; this suggestion, postulating the existence of two Governments in China, amounted, in effect, to a reversion to pre-embargo conditions to the extent that export of arms would be permitted on production of a licence issued by either Northern or Southern Governments. Mr. Ashton-Gwatkin, in his memorandum, emphasised the point that by their existing policy, His Majesty's Government were permitting our enemies in China to arm themselves freely from Russian sources while keeping our friends unarmed; and he recommended that His Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires at Peking should be instructed to inform the Diplomatic Body that, in view of the complete change in conditions since the embargo was initiated, His Majesty's Government proposed to withdraw from it altogether, and to allow British subjects to deal freely in arms in China, subject always to such restrictions as might be imposed by the Chinese Government.\n\n5. His Majesty's Minister submitted his views in reply in his despatch No. 47 of the 19th January, 1926. In this despatch, Sir R. Macleay pointed out that the situation had changed once more during the past few months, that there had been a further general political disintegration, and that the Kuo Min-chun group in the North, which had the previous year identified itself with the anti-British movement, and which had in the meanwhile come to control the Peking Government, was professing to hold out the hand of friendship; the considerations existing the previous summer in favour of a departure from a policy of strict neutrality on the part of His Majesty's Government had lost some of their force; Chinese public opinion continued to be strongly against the import of arms from foreign sources, and the Chinese Government themselves had issued a mandate announcing their intention of ceasing the importation of arms from abroad. This mandate was, of course, a mere paper gesture in existing political conditions, but Sir R. Macleay considered that in all the circumstances, the moment was inopportune for anything like a public withdrawal from the embargo, and he recommended that the situation would best be met by amending our King's Regulations and definitely excluding aeroplanes from their scope.\n\n6. In the meantime, appeals for assistance in the form of munitions of war continued to be made to His Majesty's Government by the anti-Kuo Min-tang leaders, more particularly by Wu Pei-fu. As a result of the above examination of the question, the Foreign Office (in despatch No. 267 of the 13th April, 1926) declared in favour of a relaxation of the embargo in a manner calculated to enable British firms to compete with foreigners in supplying arms to a future stable and friendly Chinese Government for legitimate requirements of defence; and they proposed, when a fairly stable Government had been established in power, to replace our arms embargo restrictions by a policy of applying to British subjects the Chinese law prohibiting the import of arms. They further proposed that, in the meanwhile, the hardships from which British merchants were suffering should be mitigated by a less rigid application of the King's Regulations, and the definite exclusion of aeroplanes from the scope of our interpretation of the embargo understanding.\n\nThis was done.\n\n3 \n\n7. Since that time, the main issue has become somewhat obscured by a discussion between the Foreign Office and the Legation about the application to British subjects of the Chinese law prohibiting the import of arms (see Legation despatch No. 522 of the 12th July, 1926; Foreign Office letter of the 28th January, 1927; and Legation reply of the 7th April last). It seems to me unnecessary to complicate this already difficult question by considering the question of the applicability of the Chinese code at all, seeing that the import of arms, except to the order of the Chinese Government, is, and always has been, prohibited by Customs regulations based on a treaty provision, and, therefore, operative against British subjects; while with regard to the technical point as to the meaning of article 74(3) of the Order in Council, making punishable in a British court anyone importing into China goods the importation of which is forbidden \"by law,\" and the ruling of His Majesty's Supreme Court that the word \"law\" means the law of China concurred in by His Majesty's Government in some public document, I should have thought that such concurrence was, in fact, adequately expressed in rule 3 of the Rules of Trade, and that a British subject smuggling arms through the Customs could be punished under the Order in Council by a British court, as he would presumably be for any other form of smuggling in violation of treaty tariff provisions.\n\n8. The last paper from this Legation on the question is represented by my despatch above referred to (No. 318 of the 4th April), which again raises the point that the hostile South is being supplied without let or hindrance with arms from Russian sources, while, in pursuance of our arms embargo policy, we not only prevent British interests from supplying arms to the friendly North, but use the machinery of our Eastern ports of call to prevent the latter securing arms from any source. In the meanwhile, the situation in regard to the embargo has momentarily taken yet another turn, in that the Extremist Nationalist clique established since last autumn at Hankow, which has hitherto been so freely supplied with arms from Russian sources, now finds itself for the time being cut off from the coast by a rival Nationalist faction, which professes to have turned against the Russian domination of the Kuo Min-tang, and which has even appealed to us for assistance in the supply of arms (see Canton telegram to Foreign Office No. 32 of the 6th May, 1927).\n\n9. As I understand the position, the present policy of His Majesty's Government is that we should withdraw from the arms embargo as soon as a friendly Chinese Government has been established, and replace it by the enforcement on British subjects of the Chinese law prohibiting the import of arms (or, rather, in my view, by the ordinary Customs prohibition based on the treaty prohibition). There is, however, obviously little prospect at the present time of the establishment of such a Government; and the question arises as to whether we should continue our present policy while we wait for its emergence. His Excellency the Governor of Hong Kong has long been pressing for our withdrawal from the embargo, and he has recently again raised the matter in connection with the supply of arms to General Li Chai-sum at Canton, and it will be noted from the enclosed copy of a minute by the commercial counsellor to His Majesty's Legation that Mr. Fox supports the view that the time has come for us to withdraw from the embargo. From the point of view of immediate political expediency, there can be no question but that the embargo is, from our point of view, objectionable and prejudicial to our interests. Taking, however, a broader and longer view, it may very well be questioned whether, if we freed ourselves from it, we should not in fact land ourselves in even greater difficulties. In the first place, we should have to give formal notification to the other Powers concerned of our withdrawal, which would be broadcast by our enemies as an indication that we intended to afford material support to one military faction against another. Any public withdrawal from the embargo at the present time is bound to be misrepresented to, and to invite severe criticism in many quarters. There is little doubt that we might find a certain class of British subjects mixed up in all kinds of shady transactions in arms, involving complications and conflict with the various Chinese military factions. Apart from its moral aspect and from a political point of view, the question of the arms embargo turned largely on the point as to whether or not we are going to continue our policy of strict neutrality in Chinese civil wars and whether we wish to intervene on one side or the other. In this connection, the views attributed to Sir J. Jamieson in Foreign Office letter to the Colonial Office of the 5th January last (see Foreign Office despatch No. 16 of the 10th January) are undoubtedly very much to the point, namely, that disadvantageous the agreement may be to British interests at present, it does definitely prevent Great Britain from becoming identified in Chinese eyes with any one of the \n\n## 30",
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        "content_text": "INCLOSURE NO.5...\n\nTranslation.\n\n31\n\n(Extract from the Wa Kiu Yat Po, Hong Kong, 21st May, 1927)\n\nOfficers sent by the Municipal Kuomintang Department to assist the management of the Man Kwok Yat Po.\n\n(From our own correspondent)\n\nBefore the Man Kwok Yat Po and Kwok Man San Man in Canton are both propaganda organisations of the Kuomintang. The former was under the supervision of the Central Kuomintang Department and the latter under the control of the Provincial Kuomintang, and both of them were managed by Kam Nai Kwong. On the purification of the Kuomintang, most of the leading editors of the Kwok Man San Man fled away, and no responsible men were left to continue its publication. Therefore, Tsang Yeung Po, acting Director of the General Political Department, sent some men to take on the management. The staff of the Man Kwok Yat Po was wholly loyal to the Kuomintang, but at that time the Central Kuomintang had become defunct, and therefore Chan Fu Muk went personally on the same day to take charge of it.\n\nOf late, we learn that the Municipal Kuomintang has a desire to establish a propaganda organisation of their own in the City, but for lack of funds, this cannot be easily promoted. Some days ago, they made the suggestion that the two papers both belonged to the Kuomintang for purposes of propaganda, and thereupon they had a discussion with a certain important man with a view to the transference of the Man Kwok Yat Po to the control of the Municipal Kuomintang Department. The important man considered it expedient to transfer to them the Kwok Man San Man (Man Kwok Yat Po?) which is under the management of the",
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        "content_text": "32\n\nthe Provincial Kuomintang. But recently Chan Fu Muk appears to have some misunderstanding with the Municipal Kuomintang, and the immediate sanction of the request might be very harsh to him. Therefore he referred it yesterday to the opinions of the Special Council which unanimously approved of it and instructed the Municipal Kuomintang to send one or two men to the office of the paper and work in co-operation with Chan Fu Muk. On receipt of the instructions, the Municipal Kuomintang sent Ko Hon and Au Yeung Chung yesterday to be editors of the paper responsible for leading articles and news items, and they have started work there from that day. We are told that in so doing the Government desires to remedy the misunderstanding between the Municipal Kuomintang and Chan and bring them to terms again.",
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        "content_text": "Page 136\n\nHeta from the fount view of swing effect inte talaga, not to mention the probable trans the Convention. And an weve growth cannot morally bound t.\n\nThe new merim Effect fothing with Anounce the Convention Love her othe the Phleffs t th in what shefer Gri forrtle ford wame.\n\nThe Colony world Then town undertaking under It for bad to an immediati confortance than This brace would bring the refertation a tunggling Grade ongenating and America? than of preatin revenne.\n\nThe other Laud In posetion on 7 Lura the on and very depimit be quite of fires bruschiants, und un the Coveruption \"fine is certainty wit.\n\nTo way the mund it would demonstrations menenses for suffression ( ithat open, and Ofim revenue further devmidle Costume than as a bitterte; to put cheap opin the price of soverment Chand.\n\nLetting Goverancent will not there in danger of sumnjghing from Hong Kong.\n\nRejestration of sushon Hong Kong would itteit very difficult and feelingen not forcible at de creant all.\n\nBefore ending it out Gy A frant arinstances be bitter to relan Kt ww the prevent deffimilit situation.\n\nThen might it not be worth white t send let in Even than t to the Dutch East Indie t fu much better Jucces The market is wittending the registration.\n\nThis my wel which were being fan of of my report visit a Bangkok. Copies of which were forwarded from Hong Kong.\n\n20.10.27.\n\nPage 137",
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        "content_text": "122\n\n8\n\nmunitions from Chiang. Yen is apparently reluctant to renew the attack after the way he was let down by Feng last autumn. Chiang is not too sure of his control over Hankow, where the various Generals appear to be more concerned with personal intrigues than with the pursuit of the proposed northern campaign. In order to maintain central control from Nanking over the various Nationalist factions in the Wuhan district, Chiang Kai-Shek ordered Tan Yen-kai, the Chairman of the Nationalist Political Council, to proceed to Hankow, owing to the anti-Nanking attitude of Pei Chung-hsi and Cheng-chien. Tan Yen-kai being doubtful of his reception at Hankow has requested to be relieved of this duty.\n\nIn his search for support Chiang Kai-Shek has informed Chang Fa-kuei (the notorious Red extremist) that he is prepared to overlook the latter's Communist activities if he will in return join him in the northern campaign. Chang Fa-kuei, who was driven out of Canton last December, is at present with the Communist forces of Ho Lung and Yeh Ting in eastern Kwantung, where a reign of terror and frightfulness has been in existence for the last three months. The fact that Chiang is anxious for the support of such a character indicates how insecure he feels his own position to be.\n\nHuang Fu, who became Minister for Foreign Affairs in the Nanking Government during February, recently issued a manifesto containing the aims of the Nanking regime. According to the manifesto it is hoped to open negotiations at an early date for the revision of foreign treaties, but in the meanwhile it is desired to cultivate friendly relations with the Powers, to remove all sources of misunderstanding and difficulty, and to protect the lives and property of all foreigners. It only remains to be seen whether the present regime will be any less anti-foreign in its policy than its predecessors.\n\nCommunist agitators having lately found it impossible to make any progress in Hupeh transferred their activities to Shanghai, but owing to recent raids on their premises in the International Settlement, French Concession, and Chinese territory they have now decided to leave for Moscow,\n\nOwing to the extensive damage done in Canton city during the Communist rising of December last, the local Government is in desperate need of funds for relief and reconstruction work. To obtain this it is intended to levy a special surtax of 20 per cent., additional to the existing customs dues and Washington surtaxes.\n\nH.M. Consul-General states that the need is both legitimate and pressing, and considers that the Canton authorities should be informed that although a formal protest would have to be lodged in order to maintain our treaty position, no further opposition to its collection would be offered by Great Britain.\n\nH.M. Minister has recently visited various ports during his tour to South China, and was much impressed with the cordiality\n\n9\n\nof his reception at Foochow, which was a striking contrast to his previous experience of Nationalist Governments.\n\nAt Canton, Sir Miles Lampson was entertained with marked courtesy and hospitality by Li Chai-sum, who abandoned his usual reserve and appeared to go out of his way to be friendly. Sir Miles had two long interviews with Li, when the whole political field was traversed in a frank and friendly atmosphere. H.M. Minister considers this visit and exchange of views can be regarded as a distinct success if Li Chai-sum can only maintain his present position as virtual ruler of Kwantung.\n\nSir Miles Lampson hopes to be able to visit Nanking at the invitation of the Nanking Government on his way back to Peking, provided that a settlement of the outrage of 1927 has been satisfactorily arrived at. To this end unofficial discussions are in progress. Chen-chien, the author of the outrages, continues to be one of the chief obstacles to a settlement: owing to his present influential position at Hankow the Nanking regime state that they are quite unable to take any disciplinary action against him, though he is the chief of the culprits whose punishment the British Government demand.\n\nEGYPT.\n\nKing Fuad's reception in England in August 1927, was greatly appreciated by a large number of Egyptians, and the British Government took advantage of the favourable conditions so created to commence discussions with Egypt with the object of negotiating a Treaty of Alliance which would form the basis of relations between the two countries.\n\nThe draft of the proposed Treaty was under discussion in London during November, and Sarwat Pasha, the Egyptian Prime Minister, subsequently returned to Cairo with an agreed draft which was to be considered by the Egyptian Government.\n\nFrom December 1927, until March 1928, the precise interpretation of various clauses in the Treaty and certain amendments suggested, were under discussion between Sarwat Pasha and His Majesty's Government. On 25th February, Sarwat Pasha at length made known the terms of the Treaty to his colleagues in the Egyptian Government, and endeavoured to obtain their agreement. The Treaty was also shown to Mustapha Nahas Pasha, the President of the Wafd (or Nationalist party), which is in a majority in the Egyptian parliament. On 2nd March, Sarwat Pasha informed Lord Lloyd, H.M. High Commissioner in Egypt, that his Government had decided to reject the Treaty, principally on the ground that it constituted legal recognition of the presence of the British Army in Egypt. The formal refusal of the Egyptian Government was handed in on 4th March, and Sarwat Pasha at the same time tendered his resignation of office to King Fuad.\n\n123",
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        "content_text": "Enclose No. 5 in Canton despatch No. 369 of October 31st, 1928.\n\n54\n\nNo. 363/28\n\nFrom Commissioner for Foreign Affairs,\n\nCanton.\n\nOctober 13th, 1928.\n\nSir,\n\nI have received a despatch from General Headquarters on the subject of the piracy of the S.S. \"Anking\" to the effect that it had been reported that Messrs. Butterfield & Swire's steamer \"Anking\" had been pirated early on September 26th near the Taichow inlet and the Naval Commander-in-Chief, Chan Chak, now stated that he had at once ordered the gunboat \"Hai Fu\" to proceed to the spot and carefully search the neighbourhood. The two gunboats \"Kwang Kong\" and \"P'ing Nan\" had also been ordered to proceed thither from Bias Bay and cooperate in the search. Further particulars would be reported in due course.\n\n(Sd) Chu Chao-hsin.",
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        "content_text": "## Enclosure No.7\n\n39\n\nList of Chinese Characters for Names mentioned in the Governor's Political Despatch of 9th May, 1929, and its enclosures.\n\n| Name | Chinese Characters |\n| --- | --- |\n| Chu Chao-hsin | (朱兆莘) |\n| Chan Ming-shu | (陳銘樞) |\n| C. T. WANG | (王正廷) |\n| Ch'an Ch'eung-lok | (陳長樂) |\n| Fa Yün | (花縣) (172) |\n| Chiang Kai-shek |  |\n| Feng Yu-hsiang | (馮玉祥) |\n| Hu Tsung-to | (胡宗鐸) |\n| Tao Tsun | (陶鈞) |\n| Hsia Wei | (夏威) |\n| Chak Sang | (澤生) |\n| Ch'an Chak | (陳策) |\n| Ch'an Chai-t'ong |  |\n| Tsui King-t'ong | (徐景) |\n| Ch'an Kwing-ming | (陳炯明) |\n| Shou-son Chow | (周壽臣) |\n| Ho Chien | (何健) |\n| Leung Wing-son | (梁永燊) |\n| Li Chai-sum | (李濟深) |\n| Ma Chiu-shun | (馬超俊) |\n| Szu-ch'uan | (四川) |\n| Chen Chiung-ming |  |\n| Sun Liang-cheng | (孫良誠) |\n| Kuomintang | (國民黨) |\n| Chow Shai-shing |  |\n| Tang Chi-yu | (唐繼虐) -> (唐繼堯) |\n| Tang Chi-yao | (唐繼堯) |\n| Wu Pei-fu | (吳佩孚)",
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        "content_text": "- 2 \n- 42 \n\nhowever, only a body of six thousand troops under his personal command, half stationed in Canton and the other half in Hainan island and the southern region of Kwangtung province known as the Ha-sz-fu.\n\nThe only other Cantonese leader of note, who is willing to take orders from Marshal Chiang is General Ch'an Chai-t'ong, who was previously a subordinate of Marshal Li Chai-sum, and who was paid a bribe of $700,000 by Marshal Chiang, in order to abandon his allegiance to the Kwangsi party. General Ch'an Chai-t'ong, who in the absence of General Ch'an Ming-sha is acting as head of the Kwangtung administration, and whose headquarters at present are in Canton, has under his command a body of about twelve thousand troops; and his forces are under three Commanders, Heung Hon-ping, Yu Hon-mau and Ch'an Cheung-po, each of whom has from 4,000 to 5,000 men. The troops of Heung Hon-ping are stationed on the West River near Canton. The troops of Yu Hon-mau are stationed on the North River, also in the vicinity of Canton. The troops of Ch'an Cheung-po are stationed in the zone of the Kowloon-Canton railway.\n\nThe third prominent Cantonese General, Tsui King-t'ong, is stationed at Swatow, and has under his command a body of fifteen thousand men, some at Swatow, some in the Ch'iu-chau district, and some on the frontier between Kwangtung and the Kiangsi and Fukien provinces. General Tsui has definitely refused to obey Marshal Chiang's order to attack Kwangsi. He has, in fact, intimated to...",
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        "content_text": "# List of Chinese Characters for Names mentioned in the Governor Political Despatch of the 26th of April, 1929.\n\nChiang Kai-shek (蔣介石)  \nCheung Fat-fui (張發奎)  \nHo Chien (何健)  \nFeng Yu-hsiang (馮玉祥)  \n\n## \nCh'an Ming-shu (陳銘樞)  \nHa-sz-fu (下四府)  \nCh'an Chai-t'ong (陳濟棠)  \nLi Chai-sum (李濟深)  \nHeung Hon-ping (香翰屏)  \nYu Hon-mau (余漢謀)  \nCh'an Cheung-po (陳章甫)  \nTsui-king-t'ong (徐景唐)  \nCh'iu-chau (潮州)  \nTang Ying-wa (鄧彥華)  \nMau Pui-nam (繆培南)  \nWong Shiu-hung (黃紹雄)  \nWong Ying-yu (王應榆)  \nLi Tsung-jon (李宗仁)  \nPai Cheung-hsi (白崇禧)  \nWu-han (武漢)  \nSsu-ch'uan (四川)  \nKueichou (貴州)  \nLiang Kwong (兩廣)  \nT. V. Sung (宋子文)",
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        "content_text": "- 3 - \nPage 62\n\n4. On the morning of the 3rd April, Mr. Samuel Wong called to see me in order to present the compliments and a photograph of General Ch'an Ming-shu, who is still in the Hong Kong Government Civil Hospital, and to assure me, on the General's behalf, that the Kwangtung province would not participate in the renewed civil war, and that the friendly co-operation between Canton and Hong Kong would continue, in spite of the elimination of Marshal Li Chai-sum. General Ch'an Ming-shu, as soon as he can leave hospital, intends to resume duty as Chairman of the Kwangtung Provincial Council, that is to say, he will be to all intents and purposes the Governor of the Kwangtung province. Meanwhile, General Ch'an Chai-t'ong, who, like General Ch'an Ming-shu, is a native of Pakhoi, in the so-called Ha-sz-fu portion of Kwangtung province, will act as Chairman of the Provincial Council, in addition to retaining command of his army. Admiral Chan Chak will remain in Command of such naval forces as the Cantonese possess. The post of Commissioner for Foreign Affairs in Kwangtung is at present vacant, for, according to Mr. Samuel Wong, Mr. Chu Chao-hsin is not likely to return, and no decision has yet been taken concerning his successor. For the moment Mr. Leung Chek-wan is officiating in this post.\n\n5. The Kwangsi leaders have withdrawn from Kwangtung province, and Generals Wong Shiu-hung, Li Tsung-jen and Pai Chung-hsi are all now gathered",
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        "content_text": "## Inclosure No. 2\n\n69\n\nList of Chinese Characters for Names mentioned in the Governor's Political Despatch of 4th April, 1929, and its enclosure.\n\n| Name | Chinese Characters |\n| --- | --- |\n| Li Chai-sum | (李濟深) |\n| Shiu Kwan | (韶關) |\n| Chan Chai-tong | (陳濟棠) |\n| Tsui King-tong | (徐景唐) |\n| Tang Yin-wa | (鄧彥華) |\n| Chan Chak | (陳策) |\n| Fung Chuk-man | (馮祝萬) |\n| Ch'an Ming-shü | (陳銘樞) |\n| Cheung Kwong-nai | (蔣光鼐) |\n| Tsoi Ting-kai | (蔡廷鍇) |\n| Tang Sai-tsang | (鄧世昌) |\n| Samuel Wong |  |\n| Ha-sz-fu | (下司府) |\n| Chu Chao-hsin | (朱兆莘) |\n| Leung Chek-wan | (梁植槐) |\n| Li Tsung-jen | (李宗仁) |\n| Wong Shiu-hung | (黃紹雄) |\n| Pai Chung-hsi | (白崇禧) |\n| Ho Chien | (何健) |\n| Lung Wan | (龍雲) |\n| Feng Yü-hsiang | (馮玉祥) |\n| Chiang Kai-shek | (蔣介石) |\n| Heung shan | (香山) |\n| Cheung Fat-fui | (張發奎) |\n| Mau Pui-nam | (繆培南) |\n| Nam-Ch'ang |  |\n| Kuomintang | (國民黨) |\n| Li Tsai-hsin | (李濟新) |",
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        "content_text": "Enclosure No. 2\n\n**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\nHonourable Colonial Secretary,\n\nYesterday at 2 p.m. General Chan Kwing-ming (Chen Chiung-ming) rang me up on the telephone and said that he would like to call on me at my house at 3 p.m. He arrived punctually at the appointed hour, and gave me the following information which is reproduced as near as he gave it to me.\n\n1. I have been to Japan on a holiday and afterwards to Dairen and other parts of North China, and have just returned to the Colony. I remember informing you at the beginning of last year that it was my belief that the Nationalists would defeat Chang Tso-lin, not by feat of arms but with money and propaganda; and that thereafter there would be some semblance of unification of the country. I also said that such unification would be more in name than in reality, and that before long there would be a split in Chiang Kai-shek's own camp. My prognostications have come true.\n\n2. With such fears agitating my mind, I resolved to do whatever I could to bring about an understanding among the real makers of the Republic, such as Tuan Chi-jui and Wu Pei-fu, as well as among the moderates now in authority. I believe that I casually mentioned this idea to you when I saw you for a short time at the beginning of 1928, and I also told you that I was compiling a memorandum setting forth my views. That memorandum has been completed,",
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        "content_text": "-10- \n## 84 \n\nAt his recent dishonourable way of treating Li Chai-sum. Li Chai-sum went to Nanking on his invitation, as a representative of Kwongtung to the big Conference, and as a mediator between Nanking and Hunan. If such a man could stand for long as the head of a nation, then there is no such a thing as political honesty or such a thing as loyalty between superior and subordinate. With the removal of Chiang Kai-shek, a worse influence will take his place Feng Yu-hsiang, as I have stated. What else can take place? The scheme that I have just expounded. Let the country be governed by honest men and experienced statesmen like Tuan Chi-jui, and honourable men and clean fighters like Wu Pei-fu. As for myself, I have no ambition whatever. \n\nI do not want any office. I only hope that the moderates in power, such as Li Chai-sum and Li Chung-jen, Tang Seng-chi and Sun Chuan-fang, will throw in their lot with such a government when it is formed, not for their individual good, but for the good of the country as a whole. \n\n**(Signed) R. H. Kotewall** \n26th March, 1929.",
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        "content_text": "## List of Chinese Characters for Names mentioned in the Governor's Political Despatch of 27th March, 1929, and its enclosures.\n\n- Li Chai-sum (李濟深)\n- Chiang Kai-shek (蔣介石)\n- Chan Ming-shu (陳銘樞)\n- Ch'an Kwing-ming (陳炯明)\n- Sun Yat-sen (孫逸仙)\n- Feng Yu-hsiang (馮玉祥)\n- Yeung Shu-chong (楊樹莊)\n- Chu P'ei-teh (朱培德)\n- P'ang P'ai (彭湃)\n- Hoi-Luk-Fung (海陸豐)\n- Cheung Fat-fui (張發奎)\n- Chang Tso-lin (張作霖)\n- Tuan Chi-jui (段祺瑞)\n- Wu Pei-fu (吳佩孚)\n- Shou-son Chow (周壽臣)\n- Chang Hsueh-liang (張學良)\n- Yang Yu-ting (楊宇霙)\n- Sun Chuan-fang (孫傳芳)\n- Chang Chung-chang (張宗昌)",
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        "content_text": "## 3 \n\n117 \n\nKai-shek come into the open as enemies, the former may champion the cause of the extremists on the Left Side, whose political doctrines are dangerously near the boundary of Communism.\n\n## 6 \n\nThis morning's telegraphic news in the Chinese Press that Tang Seng-chi with Wu Pei-fu, Chan Kwing-ming and others will be appointed to command one of five armies against the Nationalist Government is not true in so far as Tang himself is concerned. It is true that something was afoot a few months ago in Manchuria to form a combination of the \"older generals\" but Tang Seng-chi never participated in any conference either personally or by deputy.\n\n## 7 \nTang Seng-chi has no wish to be mixed up in politics. If, however, a large section of the people want him for the preservation of the present status quo, he may re-emerge from retirement, but he will never be a party to disturbing the prevailing state of affairs. Tang's family are also in the Colony, and he is building a house costing about $150,000 on Stubbs Road. Chan Yau-ka does not know whether he has bought other property in the Colony: at any rate, none has been acquired in Tang's own name. It is well known that Tang Seng-chi, although not a poor man, is by no means wealthy; he has just sufficient to live comfortably in retirement.\n\n## 8 \nChan Yau-ka himself does not believe that Wang Ching-wei has arrived at the Straits Settlements as was reported in the Press the other day; he thinks that Wang is still in France. This belief is strengthened by the fact that his most able Lieutenant, Chan Kung-pok, is soon leaving Shanghai for France.\n\n## 9 \nChan Kung-pok is a very able politician. He is...",
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        "content_text": "## 13.\n\nTang has never ceased regretting the fact that he had to fight Wu Pei-fu. He was driven to that course by Wu. Wu is a good man, but unfortunately he had at the time advisers near him who were either stupid or self-seeking. His chief secretary Cheung Ki-wang was for war against Tang with the object, probably, of securing the tuchunship of Hunan for himself. Wu's deputy chief secretary was a mere scholar Tang Tin-yu who, while in favour of peace with Tang Seng-chi, had not the strength of character to make his advice followed. Chan Yau-ka was sent by Tang Seng-chi to Wu Pei-fu to beg for peace when the opposing forces were facing each other at Yochow. Wu Pei-fu received Chan courteously, and signified his willingness to forgive and forget on four conditions. They were (1) that the two forces should immediately withdraw so many li from the fighting line at Yochow; (2) that the Russian Consul at Changsha should be expelled from Hunan; (3) that Pei Chung-hsi and Chan Ming-shu, who were then emissaries from the Kwongtung Government for the purpose of enlisting the support of Tang Seng-chi, were to be executed; and (4) that the military officers detained by Tang on suspicion of being in sympathy with Wu Pei-fu were to be released. Chan Yau-ka, on his own responsibility, accepted conditions (1), (2), and (4), but declined to accede to (3) on the ground that in civilised countries the person of an official emissary from an enemy state is inviolate. Wu Pei-fu, being an honourable man, did not press this point, and said that he would order...\n\nPage 120\nPage 121",
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        "content_text": "- 6 - \n\nPage 120 \n\nthe withdrawal of his own forces from the fighting line at Yochow as soon as he received from Tang confirmation of the arrangements arrived at. That very evening, during a conversation with Chan Ka-mo, the then **tuchun** of Hupeh, where Wu Pei-fu was, Chan Yau-ka heard a remark from him, which he regarded as a warning that his own, Chan Yau-ka's, safety was in danger, owing to Wu's advisers disagreeing with what they called \"Wu's too ready acquiescence to what was adroitly forced on him by a clever talker\". Chan Yau-ka, taking the hint, immediately returned to Hupeh, travelling by a British steamer instead of by the gunboat by which he came from Hunan.\n\n14. Ten days after his return, hostilities recommenced from Wu Pei-fu's side with redoubled vigour; and consequently Tang had no option but to agree to ally himself with Kwongtung. Pei Chung-hsi and Chan Ming-shu immediately informed Canton of the alliance. The gate of Hunan facing Kwongtung was opened, as it were, and Kwongtung reinforcements poured in, with the result now known to the world. Tang was really unwilling to fight Wu Pei-fu because at the time he had under him only a little over 30,000 men as against 120,000 under Wu.\n\n15. Chan Ka-mo was captured when Tan Seng-chi's forces went into Hupeh, but through the intervention of Chan Yau-ka he was not executed but kept in comfortable captivity till Tang Seng-chi himself was forced out of Hunan and Hupeh by Pei Chung-hsi. Although this is now \"ancient history\", Chan Yau-ka gave it as being an interesting and important episode which had helped to make history.\n\n16.",
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        "content_text": "## \nLi Pen-hsien (李品仙)  \nPei Chung-hsi (白崇禧)  \nWong Ching-wei (汪精衛)  \nWu Pei-fu (吴佩孚)  \nChan Kwing-ming (陳炯明)  \nChan Kung-pok (陳公博)  \nSoong Mei-ling (宋美齡)  \nCheung Ki-wang (張其鍠)  \nTang Tin-yu (唐天姐)  \nChan Ka-mo (陳嘉謨)  \nChan On (陳安)  \n\n## \n131",
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        "content_text": "155\n\ninto the forces of the Kwangsi group. You will remember that it was the defection of General T'ang Shang-chih from Marshal Wu Pei-fu and his alliance with the Nationalist armies in their advance from Canton, which effected the overthrow of Marshal Wu and gave Hankow to the Nationalists.\n\n6.\n\nMarshal Chiang evidently hopes to retain Marshal Li Chai-sum in some relatively unimportant post at Nanking and thereby to prevent his exercising a real influence on the situation in South China. Some high-sounding title such as Chief of Staff of the Nationalist Armies would be found for him; but in effect, he would be removed from the Command of such troops as are loyal to him.\n\n7.\n\nOnly time can show whether these manoeuvres of Marshal Chiang against the Kwangsi group will succeed; but I may mention that, when I paid a visit of ceremony to Marshal Li at Canton in March, 1928, he and General Ch'an Ming-shu at one of our meetings took me aside and the three of us conversed in Cantonese out of earshot of anyone else. General Ch'an then said to me that I had no doubt noticed in the Chinese press many statements to the effect that he was not really loyal to Marshal Li. He went on to observe that I must realize from the mere fact that he was discussing this matter with me in the presence of Marshal Li that there was no foundation for the statements in the newspapers. I believe the truth to be that General Ch'an is a personal friend of Marshal Li, but that politically his views are more in line with those of Marshal Chiang than with those of the Kwangsi group.\n\n8/",
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        "content_text": "## Enclosure No.3\n\n161\n\nList of Chinese characters for the names given \nin the Secret Despatch of 18th January, 1929, and its \nenclosures.\n\n| Name | Chinese Characters |\n| --- | --- |\n| Chiang Kai-shek | 蔣介石 |\n| Sun Yat-sen | 孫中山/孫逸仙 |\n| T.V. Sung | 宋子文 |\n| Ch'an Kung-pok | 陳公博 |\n| Feng Yu-hsiung | 馮玉祥 |\n| Li Chai-sum | 李濟深 |\n| Liang Awang | ... |\n| Ch'an Ming-shu | 陳銘樞 |\n| Wong Shiu-hung | 黃紹竑 |\n| Li Tsung-jen | 李宗仁 |\n| Pai Chung-hsi | 白崇禧 |\n| Huang Shang-chih | ... |\n| Wu Pei-fu | 吳佩孚 |\n| T'ung Shao-yi | 唐紹儀 |\n| Ku Tau | 古兜 |\n| Kwong Chow-wan | 廣州灣/廣州 |\n| Tong Ka-ts'un | 唐家村 |\n| Sun Fo | 孫科 |\n| K'ung (Yung-chih) | 孔(庸之) |\n| Chang Tso-lin | 張作霖 |\n| Kuo Sung-lin | 郭松齡 |\n| Pei Sung-hsi | 白崇禧 |\n| Chu Chao-hsin | 朱兆華/朱兆辛 |\n| C.C.Wu | 伍朝樞 |",
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        "content_text": "## 3.\n\n170\n\nIt was the Kuomintang Guidance Committee in Shanghai that they actually tied up, and then took to Peiping to see Generalissimo Chiang. They claimed to be members of the Kuomintang but aimed at attacking the leaders of the Party. At that time, our senior comrades Ng Chi Fei, Tsoi Yuen Pui, and Cheung Ching Kong, in an interview with Chiang (Kai Shek), told him about the trouble they had created, making the position intolerable beyond words. Therefore, prior to the 5th Conference, the Kuomintang was in fact in exceptionally great danger. But all this was only the result of corruption and selfishness. If immediate steps were not taken to keep them under control, it was to be feared that dissension similar to that at Wuhan would take place again; it would be like a boil which would be beyond remedy when it burst.\n\nThen it happened that Wu Chin Tong (Wu Hon Man) had returned from Europe, and after discussion, we came to the conclusion that the purification of the Kuomintang and its radical improvement were very necessary. Therefore, we went to Shanghai to see what arrangements should be made, resolving that some measures must be taken to do away with corruption and selfishness.\n\nSuch was the chaos in the Kuomintang before the 5th Conference. I now come to the period after the 5th Conference. Tai Kwai To was then one of the Routine Work Officers in the Central. When he was in Canton, he was very anxious that Wu Chin Tong (Wu Hon Man) should return to radically improve the Kuomintang in the Central and in the various districts, for before the reform, the management of the Kuomintang was bad.\n\nNow we have entered the period of political training, and we should devote ourselves to reconstructive work. Therefore, after a discussion, the following four resolutions were made: (1) Activity, (2) Regulation, (3) Election, (4) Other business. Chan Kwo Fu and Mou Pan were appointed Heads of the Organization. The Training Department also needed radical reform.",
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        "content_text": "# Enclosure No. 3\n\n177\n\n## List of Chinese Characters for Names mentioned in the Secret Despatch of 27th December, 1928, and its enclosures.\n\n| Name | Chinese Characters |\n| --- | --- |\n| Li Chai-sum | (李濟深) |\n| Chan Ming-shu | (陳銘樞) |\n| Tseung Kwong nai | 蒋 |\n| Cheung Fat-fui | (張發) |\n| Hoi-luk Fung | (海陸豐) |\n| Ku Tau | (古兜) |\n| Chiu Chik-chi | (趙植芝) |\n| San Chung Kwok Po | (新中國報) |\n| Sinkiang | (新疆) |\n| Li Tsai Sham | (李濟深) |\n| Vuens | (院) |\n| Peiping | (北平) |\n| Tseung | 蒋 |\n| Anwei | (安徽) |\n| Chekiang | (浙江) |\n| Kong Yun | (江隤) |\n| Wu Shieh | (無錫) |\n| Ng Chi Tei | (吳稚輝) |\n| Tsoi Yuen Pui | (蔡元培) |\n| Cheung Ching Kong | (張靜江) |\n| Wuhan | (武漢) |\n| Wu Chin Tong | (胡展堂) |\n| Wu Hon Man | (胡漢民) |\n| Tai Kwai To | (戴季陶) |\n| Chan Kwo Fu | (陳果夫) |\n| Lou Pan | (繆) |\n| Shek Ka Chong | (石) |\n| Pak (Shung Hi) | (白崇禧) |\n\nPage 180  \nPage 181",
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        "content_text": "## List of Chinese Characters for Names mentioned in the Officer Administering the Government's Political Despatch of the 11th of October, 1929.\n\n27\n\nChiang Kai-shek (**蒋介石**)\n\nCheung Fat-fui (**張奎**)\n\nShasi (**沙市**)\n\nYangtze (**揚子江**)\n\nHankow (**漢口**)\n\nNanking (**南京**)\n\nIchang (**宜昌**)\n\nHunan (**湖南**)\n\nShen Chow Fu (**辰州府**)\n\nFeng Yu-hsiang (**馮玉祥**)\n\nYen Hsi-shan (**閻錫山**)\n\nTang Shang-chi (**唐生智**)\n\nSzechuan (**四川**)\n\nYu Tsok-pak (**俞作柏**)\n\nLei Ming-sui (**李明瑞**)\n\nYeung Tang-fai (**楊騰輝**)\n\nLui Wun-yim (**呂煥炎**)\n\nWong Tsing-wai (**汪精衛**)\n\nHo Lung (**賀龍**)\n\nChu Tak (**朱德**)\n\nMo Chak-tung (**毛澤東**)\n\nCh'an Tsai-tong (**陳濟棠**)\n\nWuchow (**梧州**)\n\nKueilin (**桂林**)\n\nLi Tsung-jen (**李宗仁**)\n\nTsui King-tong (**崔景龍** is not present, possibly a mis-OCR of another name, no correction made)\n\nChan Kung-pok (**陳公博**)\n\nNanning (**南寧**)",
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        "document_key": "CO129-518-9 The Mui-Tsai question- printed papers relating to the system 20-9-1929 - 1-11-1929",
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        "title": "CO129-518-9 The Mui-Tsai question- printed papers relating to the system 20-9-1929 - 1-11-1929",
        "content_text": "# S. 5363--38\n\nThe fact that the offender was sent to prison was but small satisfaction to the Society, as in any case the stigma still attached to Chinese nationals. If by a measure of enlightening propaganda they could achieve their purpose without resorting to more drastic steps, then it would seem that the local Ordinance in its present form was sufficient. Otherwise, the attention of the local authorities would have to be again called more closely into the problem.\n\n## Slogans\n\nDisplayed in a prominent position on the stage of the auditorium was a Chinese scroll, bearing the inscription that \"the mantle of Abraham Lincoln has fallen on Mr. H. A. Cartwright, Editor of the Hong Kong Daily Press.\" This was the tribute of the Anti-Mui-tsai Society to the late Hong Kong Editor, for his services in drawing home and local attention to the movement. It was stated by the Hon. Chinese Secretary that the scroll would now be forwarded to Mr. Cartwright's widow in England.\n\nThe meeting stood in silence for a minute as a mark of respect for the memory of the late Mr. Cartwright.\n\nMr. Peter Wong made a statement of the financial affairs of the Society. He stated that there had been a dearth of funds owing to the lapse of subscriptions, and had it not been for the expenses saved for them through being rent-free and through the secretarial work being hitherto gratuitously discharged, the Society would have been financially in a bad way indeed. As it was, there was just the wherewithal to pay for the cost of stationery.\n\nThe election of the 37 members of the General Committee was then proceeded with, including members of the local gentry and representatives of the European and Chinese press.\n\n## 144\n\n# Enclosure 2 in No.\n\n## TRANSLATION\n\nExtract from the Wa Tsz Yat Po, Hong Kong, 23rd October, 1928.\n\n### The New Committee of the Anti-Mui-tsai Association\n\nOn Saturday last, the Anti-Mui-tsai Association held a general meeting on the premises of the Young Men's Christian Association, and a new Committee of 40 members was appointed by election. Indeed, we have to rely on them to secure happiness for mui-tsai and to restore to them their freedom. We now publish their names below:\n\n| Name | Occupation/Position |\n| --- | --- |\n| Yeung Shiu Tsin |  |\n| Wong Mau Lam |  |\n| Ma Luk Shan |  |\n| Wong Lang Kan |  |\n| Wong Kam Ying | Lam Wog |\n| Wong Hin Chiu |  |\n| Cheung Po Shu |  |\n| Li Kau Yan | Dentist |\n| Miss Yeung Yuk Shin |  |\n| Wong Kam On | Comprador to Watson Co. |\n| Mrs. Yung Ting Shang |  |\n| Mrs. Ma Ying Piu |  |\n| Kwong Ming Kok | Editor, Tai Kwong Fo |\n| J. G. Anderson |  |\n| Tsui Mo Fat | Shoes and boots dealer |\n| Li Ka Fan | Correspondent to Reuter |\n| Chiu Fu Shang |  |\n| Fan Sui Kong | J. D. Bush |\n| Ngan Kwan Yu | Priest |\n| Hung To Fi | Young Women's Christian Association |\n| Tso im San | Yung Ting Shan is a priest |\n| Wong Ngoi Tong | Sincere Co. |\n| Miss Shin Tak Hing |  |\n| Cheuk Yan Ko | Merchant |\n| Mrs. Tso Yan Fong | (Carlo?) brother-in-law of Ho Wing |\n| Mrs. Tsui Kwu Wan Chiu | Young Men's Christian Association |\n| Tam Wai Chi | \"Chinese doctor\" |\n| Wu Yi Tung | Priest |\n| Mak Mui Shang | Teacher |\n| Wong Sham Kan | Manager of a branch of the National and Commercial Savings Bank |\n| Tseng Yun Po | Secretary to Young Men's Christian Association |\n| Cheung Kat Shing | Priest |\n| Cheung Man Chiu | Young Women's Christian Association |\n| Leung | Clerk in a solicitor's office |\n| Chan Wai Cheung | Teacher |\n| Cheung Chuk Ling | Clerk |\n| Mak Shat Fan | Teacher |\n| Tam Wai On | Godown-keeper, Asiatic Petroleum Co. |\n| Lau Man Shang | Merchant |\n|  | Manager, On Lok Restaurant |\n|  | Priest |\n|  | Doctor |\n|  | Priest |\n|  | Language teacher |\n|  | Teacher |",
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        "document_key": "CO129-520-1 Chinese situations 20-12-1929 - 27-1-1931",
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        "title": "CO129-520-1 Chinese situations 20-12-1929 - 27-1-1931",
        "content_text": "List of Chinese Characters for Names mentioned in the \n\nOfficer Administering the Government's Political Despatch of the 8th of May, 1930.\n\n34\n\nChiang Kai Shek - 蒋介石\n\nYen Hsi Shan - 閻錫山\n\nWu Pei Fu - 吴佩孚\n\nSsu Chuan - 四川\n\nWong Ching Wei - 汪精衛\n\nKuomintang - 国民党\n\nPei Ping - 北平\n\nKam Hon Ting - 金漢鼎\n\nChan Chai Tong - 陳濟棠\n\nChan Ming Shu - 陳銘樞\n\nNam Hung - 南雄\n\nChi Hing - 始興\n\nTsang Yau Yan - 曾友仁\n\nLam Pang Shang - 林彭生\n\nWong Kong - 黄岡\n\nShan Ko - 神苛\n\nMui Ling - 梅嶺\n\nF'an Ki Mo - 范其務\n\nMan Kwok Yat Po - 民国日報\n\nWei-hei-wei - 威海衛\n\nShek Ki - 石岐\n\nPak Fa - 白花",
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        "title": "CO129-520-1 Chinese situations 20-12-1929 - 27-1-1931",
        "content_text": "- 2 -\n\n36\n\ncivil war, he can rely upon the support of Feng Yu-hsiang and his Kuominchun generals, the majority of the Shansi generals, Li Tsung-jen and the Kwangsi faction, Cheung Fat-fui, Lau Chun-hau, Yeung Sam of Szechuan, and Lau Chan-nin of Chefoo, but it is doubtful whether Yen Hsi-shan has the character or ability to control his allies. Mukden continues to sit on the fence.\n\n4. In the South, the unexpected invasion of Southern Kwangtung early in March, culminating in the capture of Pakhoi and Limchow, which were evacuated a few days later, is supposed to have given the anti-Government forces the opportunity of obtaining much-needed stores via the sea coast. How far they succeeded is not known. Up to the present, there have been few troop movements on the part of the Cantonese forces, but at the time of writing, an offensive is said to be in progress. Their objective is the capture of Nanning and the rich opium revenue it controls. The Canton forces are better armed and provisioned than their opponents. They have the advantage of naval assistance, aeroplanes, and money.\n\nThe uncertain factor is the loyalty of their Generals.\n\n5. Early in March, Lau Pui-chuen, alias Lau Ngai-fu, Director of the 10th Squadron of the Aviation Bureau, Yunnan, passed through Hong Kong on his way from Nanking to Canton, where he is supposed to be re-organizing the Air Force of the National Government. During the middle of the month, aeroplanes bombed both Lauchow and Nanning, where it is rumoured damage was done to Li Tsung-jen's headquarters and the Provincial Government House.",
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        "content_text": "39\n\nList of Chinese Characters for Names mentioned in the Officer Administering the Government's Political Despatch of the 11th of April, 1930.\n\nYen Hsi Shan 閻錫山\n\nFeng Yu Hsiang 馮玉祥\n\nShansi (山西)\n\nLi Tsung-jen 李宗仁\n\nKwangsi (廣西)\n\nCheung Fat-fui 張發奎\n\nLau Chun Hau 劉俊豪\n\nYeung Sam 楊森\n\nSzechuan (四川)\n\nLau Chan Nin 劉珍年\n\nChefoo (煙台)\n\nMukden (瀋陽)\n\nKwangtung (廣東)\n\nPakhoi (北海)\n\nLimchow (廉州)\n\nNanning (南寧)\n\nCanton (廣州)\n\nLau Pui Chuen alias Lau Ngai Fu 劉沛泉又名劉毅夫\n\nYunnan (雲南)\n\nNanking (南京)\n\nLauchow (柳州)\n\nSikiang (西江)\n\nKon How (江口)\n\nTai-ping-fu (太平府)\n\nLungchow (龍州)\n\nBias Bay 大鵬灣\n\nPing Hoi 平海",
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        "document_key": "CO129-521-13 Chinese Customs- proposed agreement with Hong Kong 27-8-1930 - 16-10-1930",
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        "title": "CO129-521-13 Chinese Customs- proposed agreement with Hong Kong 27-8-1930 - 16-10-1930",
        "content_text": "60\n\ndetached to assist them. The experiment proved so successful\n\nthat the Ministry of Finance definitely transferred the direct\n\ncontrol of these two establishments to the Maritime Customs on\n\nthe 15th February 1880 (vide copy of communication from the\n\nMinister of Finance, appended hereto, expressing his\n\nappreciation of our usefulness and efficiency in this\n\nconnection (Circular No.3846).\n\nAnd the Minister has further\n\nextended the responsibilities of the Inspectorate by placing the\n\nextra 50-li Native Customs in the Wuhu and Wenchow districts\n\nunder my direct control (vide Enclosure).\n\nThe following Native\n\nCustoms stations and sub-stations have thus been taken over by\n\nthe Inspector-General:-\n\nSTATIONS.\n\nSUB-STATIONS.\n\n  \n    FENGYANG KUAN.\n    1. Cheng-yang\n    1. Mon-t'ai-tzu\n  \n  \n    \n    2. Pengpu\n    2. Ku-chan\n  \n  \n    \n    3. Lin-huai\n    3. Fu-li-chi\n  \n  \n    \n    4. Huai-yuan\n    4. Chiang-pa\n  \n  \n    \n    5. Sa-hsien\n    5. Shou-ho\n  \n  \n    \n    6. Hai-lu\n    6. Hsin-ch'eng\n  \n  \n    \n    7. King-kuang\n    7. Kuan-tien\n  \n  \n    \n    8. Po-hai\n    8. Cheng-pa-ling\n  \n  \n    PAOHUI KUAN.\n    1. Yang-kuan\n    9. San-chieh\n  \n  \n    \n    2. Yu-kuan\n    10. Pong-hsiang\n  \n  \n    \n    3. Timber Tax Sub-office.\n    11. Sui-ho\n  \n  \n    YANGYU KUAN.\n    1. South Gate.\n    I-ho\n  \n  \n    \n    2. West Gate.\n    1. Tu-t'ien-miao.\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    2. Ch'ien-chia-wan.",
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        "content_text": "## Chapter IV. REPORT ON VERNACULAR SCHOOLS, 1929.\n\n### 1. GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS.\n\n#### (i) Vernacular Middle School\nHead Teacher, Mr. Li King Hong, B.A.\n\nThe maximum enrolment was 191 (208 in 1928).\n\nThe average attendance was 176 (186 in 1928).\n\nThere were only 2 students in the highest class, who were, as in previous years, entered for the Special Final Examination conducted by the Hong Kong University, and one passed. In the Normal Division, 12 \"Final\" students were examined by external examiners, and 7 passed, each receiving a Vernacular Teacher's Certificate. Such Certificate holders have little difficulty in finding employment in schools in the Colony, and practically all those who have passed out from this school are now engaged in teaching in either Government or Private Schools.\n\nA considerable number of applicants for admission had again to be turned away at the beginning of the year, only 49 out of 269 applicants being admitted.\n\nBy the generosity of Messrs. Fung Ping Shan, Kwok Fu Ting and Kwok Yau Ting, the school library has been increased by some 400 volumes of Chinese books.\n\nMr. Fung Ping Shan has generously made a further donation of $3,000 to the school for the purpose of establishing 6 scholarships for the Middle School Division.\n\nChinese Painting has been taught with some success.\n\nVolley Ball, Football and Ping Pong were the most popular games played. In Volley Ball, the school did well in the Hong Kong School League: both the Senior and the Junior Teams were runners-up.\n\nThe health of the school was satisfactory on the whole.\n\n#### (ii) Vernacular Normal School for Women\nHead Mistress, Miss Chan Yat Hing.\n\nThe maximum enrolment was 152 (143 in 1928).\n\nThe average attendance was 141 (128 in 1928).\n\n20 \n\nEight of the existing schools were girls' schools, two of which attempt to teach Chinese ladies a practical knowledge of the English language, and one teaches type-writing only. Amongst the boys' schools, eight sent students to sit for the Hong Kong Matriculation, and the Senior and Junior Locals.\n\nNight Schools. During the year, 42 new schools were registered, and 45 closed—the number existing at the end of December was 81 as against 84 in the previous year. The number of students enrolled was 2,242 (2,080 in 1928) and the average attendance was 1,768 (1,577 in 1928).\n\nAll schools have been visited at least once during the year.\n\n**G. P. DE MARTIN,  \nA. R. SUTHERLAND,  \nInspectors of English Schools.**  \n**I. S. WAN,  \nInspector of Private English Schools.**  \n\nPage 20\nPage 3 \nPage 21 \nPage 37",
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        "content_text": "## Allowances\n\n| Name | Annual Salary | Monthly Payment | Board and Attendances per month | Total per month |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Brought Forward: | 18,360 | 1,530 | 155 | 1,685 |\n| 11. Law Lok Tin | 1,320 | 110 |  | 110 |\n| 12. Pun Shiu Fung | 780 | 65 |  | 65 |\n| 13. Soo Ming Yuen | 780 | 65 |  | 65 |\n| 14. Sum Ngai Fu | 720 | 60 |  | 60 |\n| 15. Fung Chi Kwai († day) | 300 | 25 |  | 25 |\n| 16. Chan Chung Wan († day) | 300 | 25 |  | 25 |\n| 17. A. Crawford (Student Teacher and Clerk) | 480 | 40 |  | 40 |\n| 18. C. Fisher (Clerk) | 420 | 35 |  | 35 |\n|  | $23,460 | 1,955 | 155 | 2,110 |\n\n$2,110 per month = $25,320 per annum.",
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        "content_text": "## The Diocesan Girls' School, Kowloon \n### Balance Sheet as at 31st December, 1930.\n\n**The Diocesan Boys' and Girls' Schools and Orphanages.**\n\nSubscriptions and Donations to the Joint School Funds for 1930, towards the support of English and Eurasian Orphans and deserving cases at reduced fees.\n\n| Liabilities | $ | cts. | Assets | $ | cts. |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n|  |  |  | **GENERAL SURPLUS OF THE SCHOOL:-** |  |  |\n|  |  |  | Per last Account | 132,985.86 |  |\n| SUNDRY CREDITORS | 199.31 |  |  |  |  |\n| Chartered Bank of India, Australia & China-Overdraft in Current Account | 1,144.07 |  | **SCHOOL BUILDINGS (On K. I. No. 1281)** |  |  |\n| Less Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation (Credit Balance in Current A/c) | 844.71 | 299.36 | Insured Value, per last A/c | 120,000.00 |  |\n|  |  |  | Add Furniture written off @ 31/12/29, now written back | 475.00 |  |\n|  |  |  | Additions during the year- East Wing Extensions | 9,466.74 | 129,466.74 |\n|  |  |  | Less Fixed Deposit (Bowdler Legacy) transferred to Special A/c in Chartered Bank- Provident Fund | 3,000.00 |  |\n|  |  |  | Loss for the year, per Income and Expenditure A/c | 529.31 | 3,529.31 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 129,931.55 |\n|  |  |  | **FURNITURE, LINEN & FURNISHING:-** |  |  |\n|  |  |  | Insured Value per last A/c | 5,000.00 |  |\n|  |  |  | Additions in 1929, previously written off, now re-transferred to this Account | 475.00 |  |\n|  |  |  | Additions in 1930 | 1,911.48 | 7,386.48 |\n|  |  |  | **RESERVE FOR PASSAGES:-** |  |  |\n|  |  |  | Per last Account @ Exch. 1/73 | 5,000.00 |  |\n|  |  |  | Less Payments during 1930 | 3,263.80 | 1,736.20 |\n|  |  |  | **SUNDRY DEBTORS (Outstanding Fees, etc.)** | 1,877.00 |  |\n|  |  |  | **INVESTMENT:-** |  |  |\n|  |  |  | Hongkong Government 6% Public Works Loan 1927 | 1,000.00 |  |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |\n|  |  |  | (Note.—Furniture and Fittings as well as Employees personal effects, etc., are now insured for $15,000.00). |  |  |\n|  |  |  | (Note. The Trustees hold K.I. L. No. 1281 in trust from the Hongkong Government to whom, in the event of the School vacating this Site, the original Building Grant of $10,000.00 must be refunded). |  |  |\n|  |  |  |  | 139,730.22 |  |\n| Total | 498.67 |  | Total | 139,730.22 |  |\n\nBrought forward ... $1,770.00\nE. Abraham, Esq. | 10.00\nAhmed Din | 10.00\nAnonymous | 50.00\nA. Kyum, Esq. | 2.00\nThe Asiatic Petroleum Co. (S.C.), Ltd. | 50.00\nP. Larken, Esq. | 10.00\nThe Bank Line | 20.00\nK. F. Lay, Esq. | 10.00\nW. Barnes, Esq. | 5.00\nLee Shui Kai, Esq. | 10.00\nDrs. Black, Balean, Koch and Morrison | 25.00\nMessrs. Lee Yu keo & Co. | 5.00\nJ. A. Bloomfield, Esq. | 5.00\nA. Leong, Esq. | 5.00\nA. Bough, Esq. | 10.00\nLi Chor Chi, Esq. | 5.00\nMessrs. Linstead and Davies | 20.00\nMessrs. Bradley & Co., Ltd. | 25.00\nThe British-American Tobacco Co., Ltd. | 25.00\nLi Ping, Esq. | 25.00\nF. A. Broadbridge, Esq. | 5.00\nMessrs. Little, Adams and Wood | 25.00\nW. Broadbridge, Esq. | 5.00\nJ. L. Litton, Esq. | 25.00\nMessrs. Butterfield & Swire | 150.00\nLi Yau Tsun, Esq., C.B.E. | 10.00\nThe Bank of Canton | 25.00\nM. K. Lo, Esq. | 10.00\nP. S. Cassidy, Esq. | 10.00\nA. A. Lopes, Esq. | 10.00\nThe Estate of the late Mr. Chan Kai Ming | 25.00\nJ. L. Lindblom, Esq. | 5.00\nChau You Teng, Esq. | 25.00\nN. A. E. Mackay, Esq. | 5.00\nChoa Po Sien, Esq. | 20.00\nA. S. MacKichan, Esq. | 25.00\nDrs. Chaun and (haun | 5.00\nE. Manning, Esq. | 5.00\nSir Shou-Son Chow, Kt. | 15.00\nM. S. Churn, Esq. | 5.00\nThe Colonial Dispensary | 10.00\nThe Commercial Press, Ltd. | 20.00\nN. V. A. Croucher, Esq. | 5.00\nMessrs. Ming Yuen | 5.00\nE. J. R. Mitchell, Esq. | 20.00\nG. B. Mooney, Esq. | 5.00\nI. Mooney, Esq. | 5.00\nA. W. Mooney, Esq. | 5.00\nMessrs. Davie, Boag & Co., Ltd. | 50.00\nF. H. Mody, Esq. | 50.00\nMessrs. Deacons | 50.00\nThe National City Bank of New York | 25.00\nMessrs. Dodwell & Co., Ltd. | 50.00\nThe Nestles Anglo-Swiss Condensed Milk Co. | 25.00\nMessrs. Douglas, Lapraik & Co., Ltd. | 50.00\nH. B. L. Dowbiggin, Esq. | 50.00\nThe Netherlands India Commercial Bank | 25.00\nMessrs. L. Dunbar & Co. | 5.00\nThe Netherlands Trading Society | 25.00\nE. C. Fincher, Esq. | 5.00\nThomas Ng, Esq. | 5.00\nMessrs. Noronha & Co. | 10.00\nE. F. Fincher, Esq. | 5.00\nJohn Fleming, Esq. | 25.00\nMessrs. Palmer and Turner | 50.00\nH. L. Fox, Esq. | 5.00\nThe Peak Church | 72.05\nMessrs. Pentreath & Co. | 10.00\nJ. Fox, Esq. | 5.00\nFung Ping Shan, Esq. | 10.00\nA. Perry, Esq. | 5.00\nMessrs. Gibb, Livingston & Co., Ltd. | 20.00\nEldon Potter, Esq. | 50.00\nMessrs. Gilman & Co., Ltd. | 25.00\nS. S. Perry, Esq. | 25.00\nH. Gittins, Esq. | 10.00\nJ. L. Quie, Esq. | 20.00\nW. Gittins, Esq. | 5.00\nC. S. Rosselet, Esq. | 10.00\nS. V. Gittins, Esq. | 5.00\nMessrs. Rutonjee and Son | 10.00\nDr. A. Gourdin | 5.00\nMessrs. E. D. Sassoon & Co., Ltd. | 150.00\nG. Grimble, Ess. | 6.00\nI. Schnepel, Esq. | 5.00\nJ. F. Grose. Esq. | 10.00\nThe Hon. Mr. W. E. L. Shenton | 25.00\nF. C. Hall, Esq. | 50.00\nShi Yu Man, Esq. | 50.00\nA. E. Hall, Esq. | 10.00\nThe Sincere Co., Ltd. | 20.00\nJ. M. Hall, Esq. | 10.00\nThe Standard Oil Co. of New York | 50.00\nG. K. Hall-Brutton, Esq. | 10.00\nE. Stone, Esq. | 5.00\nG. A. Harriman, Esq. | 5.00\nDr. S. S. Strahan | 25.00\nWallace Harper, Esq. | 5.00\nTong Fu San, Esq. | 1.00\nMessrs. Hastings, Dennys and Bowley | 25.00\nDr. Coxion To | 10.00\nE. M. Hazeland, Esq. | 50.00\nThe Tsang Fook Piane Co. | 25.00\nIlo Kam Tong, Esq. | 25.00\nThe Vacuum Oil Co. | 25.00\nHo Leung, Esq. | 10.00\nM. St. J. Walsh, Esq. | 5.00\nThe Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation |  | \nMessrs. C. E. Warren & Co., Ltd. | 10.00\nM. Weill, Esq. | 5.00\nSir Robert Ho Tung | 100.00\nP. White, Esq. | 5.00\nE. S. Howard, Esq. | 10.00\nMessrs. Wilkinson and Grist | 50.00\nW. J. Howard, Esq. | 10.00\nMessrs. Wing On & Co., Ltd. | 10.00\nHo Wing, Esq. | 10.00\nDr. B. C. Wong | 10.00\nThe Hon. Mr. J. Owen Hughes | 10.00\nJ. M. Wong, Esq. | 20.00\nMessrs. John D. Humphreys and Son | 25.00\nWong Kam Fook, Esq. | 25.00\nMessrs. Hung Cheong | 10.00\nMrs. Wong Lau Shi | 100.00\nDr. Ip Kam Wah | 5.00\nWong Tak Kwong, Esq. | 20.00\nF. W. James, Esq. | 5.00\nPeter Wong, Esq. | 25.00\nMessrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd. | 150.00\nMessrs. Woo and Nash | 20.00\nMessrs. Johnson, Stokes and Masters | 25.00\nDr. Arthur Woo | 15.00\nJ. E. Joseph, Esq. | 100.00\nDr. Yamasaki | 15.00\nMessrs. Kayamally & Co. | 5.00\nYe Olde Printerie, Ltd. | 50.00\nKo Leong Hoe, Esq. | 5.00\nA. V. Youngsaye, Esq. | 5.00\nDr. C. H. Kwan | 5.00\nTOTAL | $3,230.05\n\nWe have audited the above Balance Sheet and accompanying Income and Expenditure Account with the Books, Account and Vouchers of the School and have satisfied ourselves that they show the position of the School at 31st December, 1930, and the transactions of the Trustees for the year ended on that date.\n\nWe have verified the existence of the Investment and Funds in hand and have ascertained that the Buildings are insured for the amount stated.\n\n**LOWE, BINGHAM & MATTHEWS, Chartered Accountants, Auditors.**\n\nHong Kong, 12th January, 1931.",
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        "content_text": "The following is a tabulated list of the twenty-one convictions referred to in paragraph 4 of Governor's despatch No.293 of 23.6.31.\n\n| Name of Mui tsai | Age | Offence | Result | Disposal of Mui tsai |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 1. Tsing Kiu | 18 | Keeping an unregistered Mui tsai. | Did not answer summons. Warrant issued. | Restored to relatives. |\n| 2. Lok Kam | 12 | - do. - | Fined $50 or 1 mth | Remaining in Po Leung Kuk. |\n| 3. Tsung Kiu | 19 | - do. - | Fined $50 | Sent to Salvation Army Home. |\n| 4. Chan Wong Hi | 19 | - do. - | -do- |  |\n| 5. Chow Mei alias Ah Wun | 16 | - do. - | -do- |  |\n| 6. Chan Sau Lan | 10 | - do. - | -do- |  |\n| 7. So Shiu Yau | 17 | - do. - | Fined $40 | Restored to relatives. Allowed to remain with employer, but not muit sai. |\n| 8. Wan Tai Mui | 10 | - do. - | $150 | Sent to Victoria Home. |\n| 9. Ho Kwai | 19 | - do. - | #1 $150 |  |\n| 10. Wong Shun Yee | 17 | - do. - | #1 |  |\n| 11. Fu Tung Hei | 17 | - do. - |  |  |\n| 12. Tseng Yut Ho | 16 | - do. - | $100 | Sent to Salvation Army Home. |\n|  |  |  | $40 (Bail $50 estreated) | Remaining in Po Leung Kuk. |\n| 13. Tsui Ping alias Lung Sam Mui | 15 | - do. - | Fined $50 | Restored to relatives. |\n| 14. Tam Fung Wan | 15 | Bringing into the Colony an unregistered muit sai | Fined $5 | Returned to country. |\n| 15. Chiu Chau Hi | 13 | - do. - | Fined $25 | Returned to country. |\n| 16. Fung Tsui Ping | 14 | - do. - | Fined $10 | - do. - |\n| 17. Luk Hang Kun | 9 | - do. - | Fined $20 | - do. - |\n| 18. |  |  |  |  |",
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        "content_text": "## \nThe following is a tabulated list of the twenty-one convictions referred to in paragraph 4 of Governor's despatch No. 293 of 23.3.31.\n\n| Name of Muitsai | Age | Offence | Result | Disposal of Muitsai |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 1. Tsing Kiu | 18 | Keeping an unregistered Muitsai | Did not appear | Restored to relatives |\n| 2. Lok Kam | 13 | do. | Fined $15 or 1 mth. | do. |\n| 3. Tsung Kiu | 19 | do. | Fined $50 | Chan Wong Hå |\n| 4. Chan Wong Hå | 19 | do. | Warrant issued. Fined $50 | Retaining in Leung Kuk. Sent to Salvation Army Home |\n| 5. Chow Mei alias Ah Wun | 16 | do. | do. | Restored to relatives |\n| 6. Chan Sau Kh | 10 | do. | do. | Allowed to remain with employer, but not muitsai |\n| 7. So Shiu Yau | 17 | do. | Fined $40 | Restored to relatives |\n| 8. Wan Tai Hui | 10 | do. | Fined $15 | Sent to Victoria Home |\n| 9. He Kwai | 19 | do. | Fined $100 ($25 + $75 estreated) | Sent to Salvation Army Home |\n| 10. Wong Shun Yee | 17 | do. | Fined $40 | Restored to relatives |\n| 11. Fu Tung Hei | 17 | do. | Fined $25 ($11 + $14 estreated) | Remaining in Po Leung Kuk. Restored to relatives |\n| 12. Tseng Yut Ho | 16 | do. | Fined $150 or 2 mths. | do. |\n| 13. Tsui Ping alias Lung Sam Kui | 18 | do. | Fined $50 | do. |\n| 14. Tam Jung Wan | 15 | Bringing into the Colony an unregistered muitsai | Fined $5 | Returned to country |\n| 15. Chit Chau Ti | 13 | do. | Fined $25 | Returned to country |\n| ... |  |  |  |  |\n\n16.",
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        "content_text": "# \nThe following is a tabulated list of the twenty-one convictions referred to in paragraph 4 of Governor's despatch No. 293 of 23.6.31.\n\n| Name of Muitsai | Age | Offence | Result | Disposal of Muitsai |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 1. Teing Kiu | 18 | Keeping an unregistered Muitsai. | Did not appear. Warrant issued. | - |\n| 2. Lok Kan | 12 | do. | Fined $60 or 1 mth. | Restored to relatives |\n| 3. Teung Kiu | 19 | do. | Fined $50 | Remaining in Po Leung Kuk. |\n| 4. Chan Wong Hå | 19 | do. | (Bail $50 estreated) | Sent to Salvation Army Home. |\n| 5. Chow Mei alias Ah Wun | 16 | do. | Fined $150 or 2 mths. | Allowed to remain with employer, but not muitsai. |\n| 6. Chon sai Lan | 10 | do. | Fined $5 | Restored to relatives. |\n| 7. So Shiu Tau | 17 | do. | Fined $40 | Sent to Victoria Home. |\n| 8. Van Tai už | 10 | do. | Fined $180 | Sent to Salvation Army Home. |\n| 9. Ho Kwai | 19 | do. | Fined $100 | Restored to relatives. |\n| 10. Wong Chun Yee | 17 | do. | Fined $40 | Remaining in Po Leung Kuk. |\n| 11. Fu Tung Hei | 17 | do. | - | Restored to relatives. |\n| 12. Tseng Yut Ho | 16 | do. | Fined $50 | - |\n| 13. Teui Ping alias Lung San | 15 | do. | Fined $5 | - |\n| 14. Tam Yung ban | 15 | Bringing into the Colony an unregistered Muitsai. | Fined $25 | Returned to country. |\n| 15. Chiu Hau Hi | 13 | do. | Fined $25 | Returned to country. |",
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        "content_text": "SHANGHAI SITUATION SINGAPORE PLANES\n\nMOST GRAVE. (Continued from page 11) considering strong action separately or jointly with Britain.\n\nThe New York Herald-Tribune says: \"There is every sign that a strong protest would be raised if the Japanese move within the Settlement.\"\n\nThe administration spokesmen have given an inferential warning that Japanese military action within the Settlement would be unwarranted and inexcusable.\n\nRumours of a British Note.\n\nNew York, Jan. 26.\n\nIt is learned from Tokio that the British Government has sent a Note to the Japanese Government presumably on the subject of extraterritoriality in China.\n\nA Flat Denial.\n\nLondon, Jan. 27. The Daily Telegraph's diplomatic correspondent states that British official circles yesterday flatly denied the reports from America alleging that the British Government had dispatched a Note to Japan anent Shanghai.\n\nFOR AUSTRALIA.\n\nTHE STRAITS TIMES, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27, 1932.\n\nAir Base Machines to Fly To Port Darwin,\n\nThree flying boats from the Seletar Air Base are to make a flight in mid-March to Port Darwin, Australia.\n\nThe Straits Times was informed that nothing is yet fixed definitely. The crews will be selected later. The route will probably be via Banka, Tandjong Priok, Sourabaya, Bima, Timor Island, and on to Port Darwin. The return flight will be made in the first or second week of April.\n\nMAN AND WOMAN STABBED.\n\nAttempted Robbery At Pasir Panjang.\n\nShortly after one o'clock this morning, information of a robbery at the 84th milestone, Pasir Panjang Road, was received by the Orchard Road division police. Inspector Ratton and Inspector Goh went to the scene to find a Chinese and his wife suffering from stab wounds. The woman had a wound in her hand, while the husband had several stabs in the neck.\n\nTwo Chinese, it is said, armed with knives, attacked the inmates. On alarm being raised, the robbers got away. The proprietor is said to be in a critical condition.\n\nPOOR MR. HU HAN-MIN!\n\nStudents Pester His Life Out.\n\nHong Kong, Jan. 27. The Nanking University students who went to Canton from Hong Kong a day or two ago have decided to return to Hong Kong today in order to continue their efforts to persuade Mr. Hu Han-min to go north.-Sin Kuo Min. Reuter.\n\nGeneva, Jan. 26 (8.53 p.m.)\n\n\"Please Go Away!\"\n\nHong Kong, Jan. 27. Reuter learns authoritatively that there is no truth in the report that the League Council has decided to warn Japan regarding Shanghai.\n\nThe Council commissioned M. Paul Boncour to give moderating advice to both parties, and this was done when the Chinese and Japanese delegates were received separately.-Reuter.\n\nA number of students from the Chungshan University at Canton, who are appealing for funds on behalf of their military corps, arrived in Hong Kong yesterday on their way to Nanking. They proceeded to the residence of Mr. Hu Han-min in Hong Kong yesterday in order to endeavour to persuade him to go north, but Mr. Hu Han-min refused to receive a deputation from them.-Sin Kuo Min.\n\n'QUIET BUT TENSE.\" Chinese Entrenched On City Outskirts.\n\nShanghai, Jan. 26.\n\nThe situation is quiet but tense, and there is general apprehension lest the Japanese naval authorities should take the law into their own hands.\n\nSZECHWAN-KANSU. Situation Rapidly Developing.\n\nShanghai, Jan. 27. Reports to hand state that the situation as regards the Szechwan-Kansu hostilities is rapidly developing, but reliable details are not available. Meanwhile, Chinese troops are entrenching on the outskirts of Shanghai, notably in the neighbourhood of Hungjao Road, in the western district, which is a favourite foreign residential area. Reuter.\n\nShanghai, Jan. 27.\n\nThe 19th army, which is in the Shanghai area, is determined to fight the Japanese should the Japanese decide to take drastic measures in Shanghai.\n\nMartial law is being enforced every night around Shanghai.-Sin Kuo Min.\n\nA Significant Appointment.\n\nNanking, Jan. 26.\n\nVice-General Chan Ming-shu (the President of the Executive Yuan and Minister of Communications) has been appointed Foreign Minister in succession to Mr. Eugene Chen, who has resigned.-Reuter.\n\nThis is a most significant appointment since General Chan Ming-shu is a staunch supporter of Marshal Chiang Kai-shek, who is favouring a policy of conciliation towards Japan.\n\nPEKING AND SWATOW.\n\nJapanese Demands Closing Down of Newspapers.\n\nPeking, Jan. 26.\n\nThe Japanese Chargé d'Affaires has called on Marshal Chang Hsueh-lang and expressed strong indignation at an editorial regarding Korea printed on Jan. 23 by the Chinese-owned Peking Leader, the only English language daily in Peking.\n\nDeclaring that he was acting under the instructions of the Foreign Office, the Japanese Chargé d'Affaires demanded the permanent closing down of the Peking Leader, the arrest of the editor, and an apology.-Reuter.\n\nMayor of Swatow Defiant.\n\nHong Kong, Jan. 26.\n\nThe Japanese Consul at Swatow again interviewed the Mayor of Swatow on January 23 and peremptorily demanded the suppression of all newspapers in Swatow publishing news against Japan and the Japanese.\n\nHowever, the Mayor of Swatow declined to give any such promise.-Sin Kuo Min.\n\nJEHOL INVASION. Japanese Advance As Villages Burn.\n\nShanghai, Jan. 27.\n\nWest of the Liao-ho River, the main Japanese forces are continuing their drive northward up the Tatung Railway from Tahushan towards Tunglao.\n\nThey are still meeting with considerable resistance from Chinese volunteers, and severe fighting is stated to be in progress.\n\nThe Chinese volunteers have withdrawn to Hungloshan.\n\nThe Japanese advance northwards and into Jehol is being handicapped by reason of the fact that villages in the mountains are being set on fire. It is stated that the Chinese people who have their homes in these mountains are suffering miserably in consequence.\n\nGeneral Yu Hsueh-tsung has dispatched representatives to Tatung to welcome Marshal Wu Pei-fu. General Yu Hsueh-tsung was, at all events until recently, the garrison commander of the Peking and Tientsin area and commander of the first army of the North-Eastern Frontier Defence Force. Sin Kuo Min.\n\nVolunteers Attacking Tahushan.\n\nNanking, Jan. 27. Chinese volunteers are again counter-attacking Tahushan (between Sinmin and Kowpangtse on the Mukden-Peking Railway, where the Tatung branch line from Tungliao joins the main line).\n\nThe extent of the casualties is unknown. Sin Kuo Min.\n\nAeroplane Shot Down.\n\nNanking, Jan. 26. Fighting continues spasmodically on the Jehol frontier.\n\nThe Chinese volunteers have retreated to Hingcheng. It is reported that one Japanese plane was shot down by the volunteers. Sin Kuo Min.\n\nMarshal Wu and Yen.\n\nShanghai, Jan. 26. Marshal Wu Pei-fu is continuing his conference with Marshal Yen Shi-shan at Pati. It is understood that he is ready to proceed to the front at any time to fight against the Japanese.\n\nGeneral Choi Ting-kai is taking every precaution in the Shanghai and Nanking area.\n\nThe following have been elected office-bearers of the Siew Sin Sia Association, Singapore: President, Messrs. Ghee Song (re-elected); Vice-President, Messrs. Lam To (re-elected) and Lim Tan; hon. secretary, Mr. Teo Soo Poh; asst. hon. secretary, Mr. Sng Seng Heng; hon. treasurer, Mr. Teo Geok Lin (re-elected); asst. hon. treasurer, Mr. Pek Kim Feng (re-elected); hon. Auditor, Mr. See Tho Soo; hon. superintendent, Mr. Lim Tiang Kiat (re-elected); asst. hon. superintendents, Messrs. Koh Yeng Keng (re-elected) and Wong Shih Shu (re-elected); hon. sports captain, Mr. Ong Cheong Tin; asst. hon. sports captain, Mr. Tan Tiang Seer.\n\nIN THE SETTLEMENT.\n\nRepublican Daily News Shut Down.\n\nShanghai, Jan. 26. Following on the visit of the five Japanese naval officers to the Editor, mentioned in an earlier cable, the Kuomintang organ, the Republican Daily News, which is published in the heart of the International Settlement, has been closed down in compliance with the demands of Japanese Admiral Shiosawa.\n\nMAYOR WU.\n\nExpected to Comply With Japanese Demands.\n\nShanghai, Jan. 27.\n\nAs a result of a long discussion which he had with the principal Chinese bankers, the Mayor of Greater Shanghai (Mr. Wu Tieh-cheng) is expected to order the dissolution of all anti-Japanese Associations in Greater Shanghai tomorrow.\n\nDERAILED MAIL TRAIN.\n\nFalling on Line.\n\nCause Thought to be Brake Box.\n\nIpoh, Jan. 26. It is believed that the mail train accident between Kumunting and Krian Road, in which three coaches were derailed, was caused by a brake box falling on the line.\n\nPassengers in the derailed coaches were transferred to other coaches and continued the journey to Prai.\n\nOur Penang correspondent telegraphs that the train was 90 minutes late in reaching Prai.\n\nThe work of cleaning the line is proceeding quickly.\n\n\"BIG MASTER\" Editor to Pay Costs Of Prosecution.\n\nIpoh, Jan. 26.\n\nIn addition to the fine of $300, the editor of The Thunderer has been ordered to pay the costs of prosecution in a case in which a headmaster complained he had been defamed in a story \"Big Masters' Five Whiskers.\"\n\nLOCAL INDUSTRY.\n\nU.S. Manila Fleet on Way.\n\nNanking, Jan. 27. It is reported here that the United States Fleet at Manila is moving to Shanghai. Sin Kuo Min.\n\nWELSH PIT DISASTER.\n\nRescuers Display Great Gallantry.\n\nRugby, Jan. 27. Eleven bodies have been recovered from the pit at Llwynypia, South Wales, where an explosion occurred while 100 men were working in the pit.\n\nMany of the men are suffering from gas, shock, and minor injuries. Great gallantry was displayed by the rescuers.\n\nTHE STRAITS TIMES, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27, 1932.\n\nPage 66\n\nGOOD YEAR\n\nTHE ELECTRICAL GEE OF ENGLAND\n\nWORLD WIDE GUARANTEE OF QUALITY & SATISFACTION\n\nMASTENS\n\nSINGAPORE\n\nKUALA LUMPUR\n\nIPOH\n\nNEW ALL-WEATHER TREAD TYRE HAS GREAT TRACTION\n\nGOOD YEAR\n\n3-$1-14\n\n15\n\n41",
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        "content_text": "18. 8. 32 \n\nJ \n\n170 \n\nIt included board and lodging. I paid A To Hui $250. The balance has (or had) all been spent. I had had to advance money.\n\nSince the 26th March, I have never seen A Wong.\n\nI saw A Wong last when he told me he was going back to Shanghai, I do not remember the date, sometime before the Dragon Boat Festival (8th June, 1932).\n\nIt is mine, I recognise it by the mending at the tips of the fingers, done by my wife. (Exh.39) I kept it at Lok Fu Lam, at my master's place.\n\nI was arrested by the Police on the 20th June. On 22nd June, I was present at my master's house when a police officer found Exh.33 in my quarters there.\n\nGro 88+ examination deferred.\n\nTea Ving \n\nd. \n\nX Sheldon.. Boom boy, Kam Toi Hotel, Nathan Road, Kowloon, 1st floor. Exh.32 is a record of a booking of one of my rooms, dated the 24th (8th March) Room 903, the person booking being Cheung Tin Toi; I do not remember the man. He stayed there 2 days. He came alone and booked the room. People came to visit him.\n\nHo XX Lak Ful Cheung \n\nX Sheldons. Proprietor of the Ching Chan Money Changers, China Building. I see this man (describing Chuai Ying Shan). I recognise this man.\n\nI changed a $500 note of the Chartered Bank. I gave him four $100 notes and ten $10 notes on or about the 26th March.\n\nXo XX. (87)\n\n11.30 to 19th.\n\nPage 170\n\nPage 171",
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        "content_text": "Enclosure in Canter\n\nSTATEM\n\n48\n\nJane 1985.\n\nTO H.M. CONSUL-GEN ELAL\n\nun of 874735\n\nTRANSLATION:\n\nWith reference to the piracy of the \"Tungchow\", since the capture of Fan Ah Sui, from his statements information has been obtained in regard to the names and native places of the various pirates. Since then secret detectives have been despatched in different directions to effect their arrest. The facts relating to action taken are as follows:-\n\n1. On the 27th of February, upon secret information received stating that the chief of the gang was in hiding in the villages in the neighbourhood of Sam Boon Kwan, troops were immediately despatched on board the gunboat \"Fu Feng\" to proceed to the place to effect his capture. The said pirate chief had escaped one day previously.\n\n2. On the 7th of March upon secret information received stating that the remnant members of the gang had fled to and were hiding at the villages along the places known as Kiu Ling, Kiu Har on the border of the Hoifung and Wai Young districts, troops were immediately sent to surround the area and institute very thorough searches. Nothing was found.\n\n3. On the 9th of March, upon secret information being again received stating that the remnant members of the gang were in hiding in the Sai Cham Vi Village in the 3rd section of Wai Yeung District, troops were immediately despatched the very night to surround the place and effect arrest. The bandits had got word a few hours ahead and escaped without being caught.\n\n4. As the gang were mostly natives of Num Shan Village, on the 15th March, jointly with the Magistrate of Wai Yeung, Num Shan was visited and a meeting of the village elders called.\n\nThey",
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        "content_text": "63\n\nPage 4 of China No.494/1034 of\n\n28th March, 1935.\n\nand, through the Senior Naval Officer and the Consul-General, had called on the Chinese to co-operate against the pirates by taking active steps to apprehend them. The Chinese authorities gave orders for the following to be carried out :-\n\nWarning telegrams were at once sent to Colonel Chen, the director of the anti-piracy bureau at Swatow, and to the Magistrate of the Haifang district, instructing them to intercept the pirates. Strict orders were given to local magistrates and military commanders to move troops at once to search all villages and intercept pirates. General Li Yang Ching, the Officer Commanding in East Kwantung, ordered one regiment of his best troops to proceed from Wai Chow to Tai San-I. Special instructions were sent to Hoy Fang and Tuk Fang magistrates to detain village elders in those villages under suspicion in the neighbourhood of the place where the pirates had landed, and to bring heavy pressure to force elders to hand over the pirates or to give accurate information as to their whereabouts.\n\nThe British Minister in the meanwhile had caused representations to be made to the Wai Chiao Fu, whose Vice Minister had promised to send urgent instructions to the authorities concerned to take most energetic action against piracy.\n\n8.\n\nOn 5th February, the Commodore, Hong Kong, who had been continually in communication with our Consul-General at Canton, informed me as follows :\n\n\"The Canton Government have offered a reward of $5000 for the arrest of the leader and number two pirate of the gang who pirated Tung Chow\". The firm of Taikoo also offer a further reward of $2500 Hong Kong, which will be paid through the Inspector General of Police Hong Kong, to the person or persons giving information which leads to the arrest (either in British or Chinese territory) and conviction of the principal leaders of the gang. The identity of the principal pirate for whom this reward is offered must be clearly established through identification by the ship's officers to the satisfaction of the police authorities\".\n\nThe Commodore arranged with the Chinese authorities for H.M.S. DECOY to take a Chinese Major and 20 soldiers to Taietch Point, to land them while the gunboat WOO FUNG proceeded to Hong Hai Bay.\n\n10.\n\nOur China Fleet has a very good liaison with the Chinese Northern and Southern navies as well as with the Chinese army in the south, in regard to anti-piracy measures.\n\nIt was in April, 1934, when I visited Marshal Chan Chi Tong at Canton, that he said, in the course of a conversation, that the Chinese navy and army would like to co-operate with us in anti-piracy measures. I immediately arranged for his representative and the Commodore, Hong Kong, and the Senior Naval Officer, West River, to meet to discuss how this could be done, and, with the help of the Consul-General at Canton, a complete organisation was then worked out, by which the Chinese army and navy in the south were put in close touch by wireless and telephone with our naval anti-piracy patrols. Chinese Military Posts and Coast Watching Stations were set up in the Bias and Hong Hai Bay area, which has been notorious as containing pirate lairs for many years.\n\nIt is true, of course, that the Chinese are not",
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        "title": "CO129-554-5 Commission of Enquiry into the Hong Kong trade depression- correspondence and report 27-3-1935 - 11-8-1935",
        "content_text": "180\n\n2\n\n—\n\n3\n\nus to offer the best way to reach the people we have in view. A direct advertisement appearing in the leading newspapers of Japan, Korea, Peking, Tientsin, Shanghai, Canton, Hanoi, Haiphong, Saigon, Manila, Sarawak, Sandakan, Bangkok, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Penang, Batavia, Soerabaja, and possibly Rangoon and Colombo together with descriptive articles and photographs of Hong Kong would, we believe, stimulate enquiries and eventually bring additional visitors to the Colony.\n\nThe other side is to interest the globetrotter, the tourist, and those who embark on a pleasure cruise, and persuade them to spend a greater part of their time in Hong Kong For this purpose a brochure and posters, setting out the beauties and attractions of Hong Kong should be prepared and distributed in Great Britain and Europe generally, throughout America, South Africa and Australia. Shipping companies, organisers of pleasure cruises and various Travel Agencies should be approached to bring Hong Kong to the notice of their clientele.\n\nIn time to come the brochure might become an annual booklet and a monthly pamphlet could be added showing current and pending events of interest, additions and revisions. Advertising should also be undertaken at some of the leading Tourist Centres abroad.\n\n6. The next object of the Association should be to provide better facilities for recreation and amusement available for a visitor to the Colony. The various private clubs in the Colony, especially for golf and tennis should be approached and asked to give facilities for the introduction of temporary visitors. Dressing accommodation should be made available at various beaches to enable visitors to have a swim. Maps should be prepared showing particularly the paths available for walking, and signposts should be erected for guidance and to enable visitors to locate places of interest. The question of the provision of competent guides for visitors should be thoroughly investigated by the Association. We consider further that the provision of an Aquarium would add greatly to the attractions of Hong Kong\n\n7. The Association should enter into correspondence and make close contact with Travel Associations in other parts of the world.\n\n8. While action can be taken on the lines we have proposed without the direct employment of whole time staff, other than possibly a competent stenographer, we consider that it is very desirable if funds are forthcoming that a whole time officer be engaged as a publicity agent. The right type of man capable of writing interesting articles which newspapers, magazines, &c. would accept, and capable of organising effective publicity will not be easy to find. An adequate salary must be offered to attract a suitable man.\n\n9. An Information Bureau where visitors can receive first hand and up-to-date information regarding the Colony, impending events and facilities for recreation would be useful adjuncts to the Association. It would obviously follow on the appointment of a whole time officer and may be possible even before that appointment can be made.\n\n10. The Urban Council, when formed, will, no doubt, be of great assistance to the Association.\n\n11. We have not attempted to prepare a full estimate of all the expenditure likely to be incurred by the Association. We foresee the necessity for adequate funds to cover the rent of suitable premises, which should be located centrally and easily accessible to the travelling public, and the salaries of full time employees, in addition to the actual cost of advertising and the production of a brochure, &c. Some expenditure on broadcasting from Far Eastern Stations may be desirable and in this respect we note with pleasure that experimental transmissions are being made from Z.B.W. on short wave. Nothing could be more effective in bringing Hong Kong to the notice of peoples in other lands than a powerful short wave broadcasting station. The manufacture and exhibition of cinema films of Hong Kong and of Chinese life in Hong Kong would also be effective propaganda. We have had this expenditure in mind, however, in recommending the grant from Government mentioned in paragraph 4 as we consider an income of at least $50,000 to $60,000 per annum is essential if the Association is to make a proper start. Additional funds will be necessary to continue the work adequately.\n\nWe have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour obedient servants.\n\nW. J. CARRIE (Chairman).\n\nG. C. PELHAM.\n\nR. D. WALKER.\n\nC. G. S. MACKIE.\n\nM. K. Lo.\n\nJ. H. TAGGART.\n\nCHAN FU CHEUNG.\n\nB. WYLIE.\n\nN. J. PERRIN.\n\nO. EAGER.\n\nG. COSTELLO.\n\nMARK CHAN HARR.\n\nT. B. WILSON.\n\n181",
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        "content_text": "# LOV\n## 37\n\nThe government made a reality. The only way to save China from poverty is economic reconstruction. As regards economic elements, there is nothing beyond capital and labour. The essential requirement is co-operation between the Government and the people. Co-operation progresses by steps. First, it is necessary to have economic concatenations. By concatenation is meant the concentration of resources and useful men and the linking up of economy connections. The vital point lies with the reputable leaders of the Community and their efforts to start and work, and with the Government in its duty to afford protection. I can say for certain that with mutual assistance and co-operation, there is nothing which cannot be done.\n\nWe know very well that the prosperity of Hongkong and Canton is really interdependent. You, Gentlemen, and Dr. Kotewall are distinguished men of Hongkong. You have taken keen interest and led others in economic enterprises, thereby eliciting the admiration of the community and the respect of the Government. It gives me great pleasure to be with all of you here today. It is my earnest hope that you will, with the same spirit as you have done in the past, take a lead in the economic developments of Kwangtung. It is my hope too that other gentlemen in China will, on hearing of such news, rise and help to carry out the national economic scheme for saving the country from poverty.\n\n## Mayor's Reply\n\nDuring my present visit to Hongkong with Chairman Huang, I have been given the warmest welcome and finest entertainment by Hongkong Government and fellow-countrymen. I and our cannot express how much I am indebted to them. You have again today entertained me at a lunch party and I fully enjoy your princely hospitality. You have also spoken kindly of me. I am so touched that I can find no words to express my thanks. I hope the people of Hongkong and Canton will remain in the friendliest terms and spare no efforts in working for the prosperity of the two cities and reviving the trade of both places, so that commerce and industry may flourish and the people be enriched. When this is achieved, we should have a grand fete to celebrate our success, and I shall take the opportunity to be your host and invite you all to honour me with your presence.\n\nI believe that my hope will be realized in the very near future. I now ask you all to drink together with me and I wish you health.\n\n## The Hosts\n\nThe hosts were: Mr. R. H. Kotewall, Dr. S. W. Tso, Messrs. T. N. Chau, M. K. Lo, Sir Shouson Chow, Sir Robert Ho Tung, Dr. S. N. Chau, Messrs. Shou J. Chen, Ho Kom-tong, Kan Tong-po, Dr. Li Shu-fan, Messrs. Li Sing-kui, Li To-nam, Li Yau-tsun, Lo Wing-kit, W. N. T. Tam, B. Wong Tape, J. M. Wong.\n\n## CHINESE CHAMBER Give Tea Party in Honour Of Canton Officials\n\n### CORDIALITY PREVAILS\n\nIn honour of the visit here of His Excellency the Kwangtung Provincial Chairman, General Huang Mu-sung, and H. H. the Mayor of Canton, Mr. Tseng Yang-fu, the members of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce gave a tea party reception in the Chamber's hall yesterday afternoon. The Canton Governor and Mayor arrived together with His Majesty's Consul-General at Canton, Mr. H. Phillips, and Chinese Unofficial members of the Legislative Council.\n\nAt the entrance of the Chamber, the eminent visitors were welcomed by Mr. Li Sing-kui and other members.\n\nThree bows to the Chinese national flag and the portrait of the late Dr. Sun Yat-sen marked the commencement of the proceedings. The will of the late Dr. Sun Yat-sen was read by the Chamber's Secretary, Mr. H. Y. Tso. All the hosts then bowed ceremoniously to the Canton Governor and Mayor, who bowed in acknowledgment.\n\nThe Chinese national anthem was played by the band of the Chung Sing Benevolent Society.\n\nThroughout the reception, the most cordial and happy spirit prevailed. The Canton Governor and Mayor, who of course made their speeches in Cantonese, stressed the importance of promoting better relations between Hongkong and Canton, which sentiments were loudly applauded.\n\nWhen General Huang remarked that relations between Great Britain and China were improving every day, and the relations between Hongkong and Canton had been brought much closer through the able services of His Majesty's Consul-General, Mr. Phillips, he received applause from the gathering.\n\nAfter the speeches, the Canton Governor stayed for some time exchanging views with the merchants, and conversed freely with Mr. Li Sing-kui, Mr. Wong Tape, and others.\n\nThe visit attracted great Chinese interest as the national flag was flown everywhere in town. A crowd of many hundreds lined the Praya outside the Chamber to see the arrival of the Canton officials.\n\nThose present were: His Excellency General Huang Mu-sung (Chairman of the Kwangtung Provincial Government), H. H. Mr. Tseng Yang-fu (Mayor of Canton), Mr. Herbert Phillips, C.M.G., O.B.E., (British Consul-General, Canton), Colonel Li Fong (Secretary of the Municipal Government of Canton), Mr. Chang Yuen-nan, the Hon. Mr. R. H. Kotewall, Hon. Mr. S. W. Tso, Hon. Mr. T. N. Chau, Mr. Li Sing-kui, Mr. J. M. Wong, Mr. Tai Tak-fu (Chinese Invoice Officer of Hongkong), Mr. Li Yau-tsun, C.B.E., Mr. Ho Kom-tong, Mr. Fung Heung-chuen, Mr. Chan Pak-shuen, Mr. Li Chi-chung, Mr. Chan Kam-po, Dr. Li Shu-fan, Mr. Kong Chi-ying, Mr. Ho Chap-ping, Mr. Chow Din-pong, Mr. Chan Yuk-chim, Mr. Li Lu-chao, Mr. Chin Shu-fan, Mr. Lau Kok-ho, Mr. Chung Ping-fung, Mr. Wan Man-hing, Mr. Yao Pek-lung (Director of the Canton Navigation Bureau), Mr. Tong Ying-hua (Director of the China Merchants Steam Navigation Company), Mr. W. J. Wen, Mr. Lo Ying-yu, Mr. Shen Hsiao-chin, Mr. Lam Fong-pak, Mr. Tsam Shiu-sum, Mr. Tang Chung-put, General Chen Kee-yau, Mr. Choi Cheong, Mr. Chan Chung-pik, Mr. Au Yeung-kee, Mr. Chan Kwong-chung, Mr. Lam Po-tin, Mr. Wong Cheuk-nam, Mr. Tse Tsun-on, Mr. Tai An-kay, Mr. Tang Shiu-kin, Mr. Philip Gockchin, Mr. Jackman To, Mr. Kwok Chan, Mr. Ip Lan-cauen, Mr. W. N. Thomas Tam, Mr. Lo Wing-kit, Mr. Peter Sin, Mr. Ho Leung, Dr. F. I. Tseung, Mr. Ngan Shing-kwan, Mr. Wong Tape, Mr. Yung Chi-ming, Mr. Yung Koon-man, Mr. Kwan Shu-chung, Mr. Li Po-kwai, Mr. Li Jor-shan, Mr. Lau Yak-wan, Mr. Lau King-tsing, Mr. Fung Kee-cheuk, Mr. Lam Chi-fung, Mr. Fung Ping-fan, and many others.\n\n## Trade Relations\n\nSpeaking in Chinese, the Chairman of the Chamber, Mr. Li Sing-kui, said: \"In extending our most sincere welcome to His Excellency General Huang Mu-sung and Mr. H. Phillips and all the distinguished guests here today, we feel that we have been greatly honoured by the presence of such an eminent assembly. We, as the overseas Chinese merchants in Hongkong, have paid the keenest attention to the welfare of China. Therefore, we have been looking forward a long time for an opportunity to meet and hear the views of leaders of the Chinese Government. Such an opportunity is rare.\n\n\"It is a gratifying factor that relations between Canton and Hongkong have been very close. Many of our guests today are leaders in various businesses in Canton. In the past, the Canton merchants have given the Chinese merchants in Hongkong the most helpful co-operation in the international trade promoting. Such mutual co-operation we have always greatly appreciated. It is, indeed, unnecessary to say that all the time the Canton merchants have tried their very best, striving for new developments and wider fields for promotion of foreign trade. Therefore, we hope that the happy function today will leave a good impression on their mind of our desire for friendship.\n\n\"On the other hand, we are equally assured that in his political readjustment programme for Kwangtung, General Huang Mu-sung will pay full attention to the livelihood and welfare of the overseas Chinese, to whom it is hoped that he will continue to render his most valuable advice and help from time to time.\n\n\"In conclusion, on behalf of all members of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce, I reiterate our hearty welcome and wish His Excellency General Huang Mu-sung good health and prosperity.\"\n\nThe Vice-Chairman of the Chamber, Mr. J. M. Wong, also made a brief speech of welcome.\n\n## Address by Canton Governor\n\nSpeaking from his own experience as a traveller who has visited all parts of the world with the exception of South America and Australia, General Huang Mu-sung said that he was delighted to see that wherever he went, there was a Chinese Chamber of Commerce. To enter a Chinese Chamber of Commerce abroad was like returning to one's home in China. For the past few years, he had travelled a good deal and visited many Chinese Chambers of Commerce abroad. He hoped that the Hongkong Chinese Chamber of Commerce and the Canton Chamber of Commerce would co-operate to bring about the much-desired trade prosperity for both cities.\n\nAs an official of the Government, he also believed that there should be permanent co-operation between the Government and the people in all matters. The Canton Government was not only willing to co-operate with its people but would endeavour its very best to afford protection and help to overseas Chinese.\n\nIn his conversations with the Hon. Mr. Kotewall, he had been told that Kwangtung was like the body of a man and Hongkong its throat. The two organs were so closely connected commercially and economically that they could not be separated.\n\n\"Relations between Great Britain and China are improving day by day, while Hongkong and Canton have been brought much closer by His Majesty's Consul-General, Mr. Phillips, and others.\" (Applause)",
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        "content_text": "## In conclusion the General apologised for not being able to visit personally more Chinese merchants to get their views. He took the opportunity of saying good-bye to the merchants, hoping that one day they could visit him in Canton, where they could have more time to exchange views. He thanked the Chamber and all its members for the excellent entertainment.\n\n## Aeroplane Donors Thanked\n\nIn a speech the Mayor, Mr. Tseng Yang-fu, said that for many years he had been away from Canton serving the Central Government in Nanking. For this reason he had little chance of visiting Hongkong, and to meet such a distinguished gathering of the Chinese business leaders was a great pleasure to him.\n\n\"As explained by General Huang just now,\" said the Mayor, “to pay an official call on His Excellency the Governor, Sir Andrew Caldecott, is the first reason of the visit of the Canton officials, while secondly the officials also want to meet the overseas Chinese here.\n\n\"On behalf of the National Government I wish to thank all Chinese in Hongkong for their generous donation and unselfishness in contributing half a million dollars for the aeroplane fund in connection with Marshal Chiang Kai-shek's birthday. Such a good spirit is comparable to that of even the most patriotic peoples of the European and American countries to-day.\n\n\"Although Hongkong and Canton are on a different footing, actually the closest of relations exist between the two cities. If we can bring prosperity to both, the people in the two places will be directly benefited. For this reason there is every necessity for commercial and economic co-operation between Canton and Hongkong.\n\n\"As most of the Chinese residents in Hongkong are Cantonese, Canton serves as a backbone to them. Consequently a bad Government in Canton will not only disappoint the Cantonese in Hongkong but will have other detrimental effects on this Colony as a whole. The present Government in Canton is determined to carry out its readjustment programme to the fullest extent, so that prosperity will be brought not only to Canton but to both cities. If any future opportunity should arise, the Canton Municipal Government will be most willing to receive any constructive advice which may be given by the Hongkong Chinese.\"\n\n## Other Chinese Receptions\n\nAt the Hotel Cecil at nine o'clock yesterday morning representatives of 280 local Chinese organisations, including trade and labour associations and schools, gave a reception in honour of the visiting Canton officials. The meeting was presided over by Mr. Tang Chi-ching, who delivered the speech of welcome on behalf of the 280 organisations of Hongkong and Kowloon. The Chairman stressed the point that in cementing better relations between Hongkong and Canton they would increase the prosperity of the two leading cities of South China.\n\nAnother speech was made by Mr. Li Sing-kui (Chairman of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce).\n\nThe happy function came to a conclusion after General Huang Mu-sung had replied thanking the hosts for their excellent entertainment.\n\n## A Cordial Welcome\n\nLater in the morning, at 11 o'clock, another Chinese reception, given by a number of local commercial, educational, medical, religious and sports associations, was held in the Kam Ling Restaurant, at West Point. The reception was presided over by Mr. Ip Hau-chuen.\n\nAt this reception General Huang Mu-sung said that the Chinese Government was determined to push on with the new life movement in Kwangtung, as shown by the rigid suppression of gambling, opium smoking and the miscellaneous and unpopular taxes. This would relieve the financial burden of the people and would permit them to proceed with the rehabilitation work. In short, it was the hope of the Canton Government to push ahead the reorganisation of Kwangtung, making the province a model province of China. He said that there was great hope for a speedy recovery if the overseas Chinese continued to give support to the Government whenever they could.\n\nThe Mayor of Canton, Mr. Tseng Yang-fu, said that he was greatly impressed by the enthusiasm shown in the many entertainments which had been given in their honour.\n\n## TRADE DELEGATION\n\n### Big Party of Businessmen Arrive from Canton\n\nBusiness men of Hongkong and Canton were enabled to fraternise at length when, in connection with the goodwill visit of His Excellency the Provincial Chairman of the Kwangtung Provincial Government, and the Mayor of Canton, a party of Chinese business and financial representatives arrived from Canton yesterday morning.\n\nThe visitors were headed by Mr. Ho Tsap-ping, (Chairman, Kwangtung Provincial Chamber of Commerce), and included: Mr. Chow Dien-pong, (Chairman, Canton Chamber of Commerce), Mr. Chen Yu-chien, (Chairman, Canton Bankers Association), Mr. Li Lu-chao, (Director, Canton-Kowloon Railway), Dr. Chien Shu-fan (Lawyer), Mr. Kiang Ying-chi, (Manager, Canton Municipal Bank), Mr. Loo Im-min, (Manager, China State Bank, Canton), Mr. Chan Lim-chung, (Chinese Manager, Hongkong & Shanghai Bank, Canton), Mr. Tsai Chang, Manager, (Sun Company), Mr. Chung Ping-fung, (Manager, General Bank), Mr. W. J. Wen, (Manager, Bank of Communications), Mr. Yiu Pak-loong, (Director, Department of Navigation), Mr. Tang Ying-wa, (Manager, China Merchants Steam Navigation Co.), Mr. Lo Ting-yu, (Director, Weaving Factory), Mr. Shen Tsiao-chiu, (Secretary General, K.T. Provincial Kwokmantang Headquarters), Mr. Wilfred Ling, (Municipal Government Planning Committee).\n\nThe party was received in the Jacobean Room of the Hongkong Hotel by members of the Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce, and light refreshments were served while introductions were exchanged.\n\n| Name | Affiliation |\n| --- | --- |\n| The Hon. Mr. Stanley H. Dodwell | Messrs. Dodwell & Co., Ltd. |\n| The Hon. Mr. J. J. Paterson | Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd. |\n| The Hon. Mr. M. T. Johnson | Messrs. Mackinnon, Mackenzie & Co. |\n| Mr. G. Miskin | Messrs. Gilman & Co., Ltd. |\n| Mr. P. S. Cassidy | Messrs. J. D. Hutchison & Co. |\n| Mr. J. R. Masson | Messrs. Butterfield & Swire |\n| Mr. T. A. Mitchell | Messrs. W. R. 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        "content_text": "# Enclosure in Canton despatch to Peking No 118 of 21st Sept. 1936.\n\n43\n\n## THE HONG KONG SUNDAY HERALD, SEPTEMBER 20, 1936\n\n## GOVERNOR'S VISIT TO CANTON\n\n### \"WONDERFULLY HAPPY\"\n\n### TWO-DAYS' VISIT\n\n### SIGHT-SEEING, ENTERTAINMENT AND CONVERSATIONS\n\n\"Two of the most wonderfully happy days of our lives\" was the description given by His Excellency the Governor to Press representatives at Kowloon Railway Station on his return from his visit to Canton with Lady Caldecott yesterday morning.\n\nSir Andrew and Lady Caldecott had been in Canton since Thursday on an informal visit with the object of calling upon Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and making the acquaintance of the local authorities.\n\nThe two days were spent in most interesting sight-seeing, entertainment and conversations, in the course of which the most friendly relationships were established and the foundations laid for many such pleasant interchanges in the future.\n\n### EVERY-GREEN OASIS\n\nWhat impressed not only the visitors but the whole city was the wonderful organisation of all the arrangements. Sir Andrew and Lady Caldecott (who were accompanied by the A.D.C., Captain W. J. R. Cragg) were the guests of H. M. Consul-General at Shameen, where they then proceeded. They were much charmed by this pleasant green oasis in the busy city. In the late afternoon of Thursday, Sir Andrew and Lady Caldecott motored to Whampoa to visit the Generalissimo and Madame Chiang Kai-shek, and stayed to dinner. This was served on the lawn by the river in a most delightful setting, for there happened to be a beautiful sunset against which junks and other river craft were silhouetted. As night fell, Chinese lanterns in the trees illuminated the scene.\n\n### ARRIVAL AT CANTON\n\nThe train on Thursday morning ran into a specially decorated railway station; a band was discoursing music at the point at which the Governor's coach drew up, and another band and Guard of Honour were outside the station. Everywhere they went there were Guards of Honour and their cars were preceded by an escort of the motorised section of the City Police, which ensured them clear passage through the busy thoroughfares. Extra police were on duty on all lines of the route.\n\n### EXCHANGE OF VIEWS\n\nConversation continued until late, made freely possible by Madame Chiang Kai-shek's familiarity with the English language. Although indisposed and ordered to leave for Kuling immediately for the sake of cooler conditions, Madame Chiang Kai-shek kindly helped Sir Andrew and the Generalissimo to exchange views freely on a great number of topics. The return journey to Shameen, which was made by launch, afforded the visitors another and different view of Canton.\n\nDuring the morning of Friday, a tour of interesting places in the city and suburbs was made. At Chungshan University, the Acting Dean and many professors extended hospitality. The site and buildings were greatly admired by the Governor.\n\nThe visitors were welcomed by H. M. Consul-General, Mr. Herbert Phillips, and his staff, and General Chien Ta-chun represented Marshal Chiang Kai-shek, Colonel Chiang represented the Chairman of the Provincial Government, Captain Leung represented General Yu Han-mow, and Colonel Li Fong represented the Mayor of Canton (Mr. Tseng Yang-fu). Other Chinese officials present included Dr. Philip Tyau, Special Delegate for Foreign Affairs, and Mr. Li Luk-chai, managing director of the Chinese Section of the Canton-Kowloon Railway.\n\nOutside the station, national anthems were played and not until the distinguished visitors had left was the train cleared of its passengers.",
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        "content_text": "# GOVERNOR'S VISIT TO CANTON\n\n## \"WONDERFULLY HAPPY” TWO-DAYS' VISIT\n\n### SIGHT-SEEING, ENTERTAINMENT AND CONVERSATIONS\n\n\"Two of the most wonderfully happy days of our lives\" was the description given by His Excellency the Governor to Press representatives at Kowloon Railway Station on his return from his visit to Canton with Lady Caldecott yesterday morning.\n\nSir Andrew and Lady Caldecott had been in Canton since Thursday on an informal visit with the object of calling upon Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and making the acquaintance of the local authorities.\n\nThe two days were spent in most interesting sight-seeing, entertainment and conversations, in the course of which the most friendly relationships were established and the foundations laid for many such pleasant interchanges in the future.\n\nWhat impressed not only the visitors but the whole city was the wonderful organisation of all the arrangements, everything being done to make Sir Andrew and Lady Caldecott feel that they were the very special guests of Canton.\n\nEverywhere they went there were Guards of Honour and their cars were preceded by an escort of the motorised section of the City Police, which ensured them clear passage through the busy thoroughfares. Extra police were on duty on all lines of the route.\n\n## ARRIVAL AT CANTON\n\nThe train on Thursday morning ran into a specially decorated railway station; a band was discoursing music at the point at which the Governor's coach drew up, and another band and Guard of Honour were outside the station.\n\nThe visitors were welcomed by H. M. Consul-General, Mr. Herbert Phillips, and his staff, and General Chien Ta-chun represented Marshal Chiang Kai-shek, Colonel Chiang represented the Chairman of the Provincial Government, Captain Leung represented General Yu Han-mow, and Colonel Li Fong represented the Mayor of Canton (Mr. Tseng Yang-fu). Other Chinese officials present included Dr. Philip Tyau, Special Delegate for Foreign Affairs, and Mr. Li Luk-chai, managing director of the Chinese Section of the Canton-Kowloon Railway.\n\nOutside the station national anthems were played and not until the distinguished visitors had left was the train cleared of its passengers.\n\n## GREEN OASIS\n\nSir Andrew and Lady Caldecott (who were accompanied by the A.D.C., Captain W. J. R. Cragg) were the guests of H. M. Consul-General at Shameen, where they then proceeded. They were much charmed by this pleasant green oasis in the busy city.\n\nIn the late afternoon of Thursday Sir Andrew and Lady Caldecott motored to Whampoa to visit the Generalissimo and Madame Chiang Kai-shek, and stayed to dinner. This was served on the lawn by the river in a most delightful setting, for there happened to be a beautiful sunset against which junks and other river craft were silhouetted. As night fell, Chinese lanterns in the trees illuminated the scene.\n\n## EXCHANGE OF VIEWS\n\nConversation continued until late, made freely possible by Madame Chiang Kai-shek's familiarity with the English language. Although indisposed and ordered to leave for Kuling immediately for the sake of cooler conditions, Madame Chiang Kai-shek kindly helped Sir Andrew and the Generalissimo to exchange views freely on a great number of topics.\n\nThe return journey to Shameen, which was made by launch, afforded the visitors another and a different view of Canton.\n\nDuring the morning of Friday a tour of interesting places in the city and suburbs was made. At Chungshan University the Acting Dean and many professors extended hospitality. The site and buildings were greatly admired by the Governor.\n\nA visit was also made to Yellow Flower Hill to view the Memorial in honour of the \"72 famous Heroes,\" and here Sir Andrew Caldecott laid a beautiful wreath to their memory.\n\nComing back to the city, an inspection was made in turn of the Museum at the Five-Storeyed Pagoda, and the stone Memorial to Dr. Sun Yat-sen on the hill overlooking Canton and of the beautiful Memorial Hall, which was greatly admired.\n\nAt 12.30 p.m. Sir Andrew, Mr. Herbert Phillips, H. M. Consul-General, Mr. W. F. S. Gibbs, H. M. Consul, Captain A. R. Halfhide, R.S., and Captain W. J. R. Cragg, A.D.C., proceeded to the Municipal Administration Building to lunch with General Huang Mu-sung, Chairman of the Provincial Government, General Yu Han-mow, Pacification Commissioner, and Mr. Tseng Yang-fu, the Mayor of Canton. The latter, being unfortunately ill, was presented by Colonel Li Fong. 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        "content_text": "# Enclosure No.7\n\n## Ping Shan Police Station\n\n### 12th December, 1937\n\n64\n\nChan Sing, 26 years, partner of the Sam Hing, sugar and salt dealers, unnumbered matshed, Yung Long Wan, of Lung Ku Tan village, British Territory\n\nStates:-\n\nI have lived at the above address 22 years with my mother Chan Choi Yau.\n\nI have seen Japanese warships anchored off Ma Chau island at intervals, during the last 2 months. I have never seen Japanese small craft approach British Territory. I seldom leave the above address, usually twice a month I go to Hong Kong for 1 day. I went to Hong Kong on the morning of the 10th December, 1937, and returned the same afternoon at 15.30 hours. A Japanese warship had anchored off Ma Chau during my absence.\n\nOn the 11th December, 1937, at about 14.30 hours I saw a Chinese Maritime Customs cruiser flying the Chinese national flag at the stern steam round Black Point and set a course for Van Ha on Chinese Territory side of Deep Bay. When I saw her first she was about 1/4 mile away. I could not see her name, but her flag and superstructure were quite clear. When she arrived at about 1/4 mile off Ngau Wan Fu, the point across Yung Long Bay from Black Point, I heard a loud report coming from the direction of Ma Chau, and saw a splash in the water in front of the Custom cruiser's bow. I surmised that the Japanese warship had fired on it. I was then standing at the door of my matshed. The Japanese ship fired about 6 shots before the customs cruiser put about. These shots all dropped into the sea. She then ran for the beach in front of the Wing Yeung store. Shots were fired at her while she was approaching the beach - one exploded in front of the Wing Yeung Company. I ran from my matshed to a disused quarry at the South end of the beach and climbed about 50 feet to 75 feet up the hillside.",
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        "content_text": "# THE HONG KONG WEEKLY PRESS & CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT\n## October 29, 1937\n\n### COOLIES REFUSE TO WORK LOCAL SHIP\n\nBelieved Cargo Was For Japan\n\nUnder the impression that the cargo they were loading was intended to be shipped to Japan, over 60 coolies refused to work the ss. Hai Tan. The cargo comprised tanks of kerosene and petrol which were to be shipped to Swatow, Foochow, and Amoy.\n\nIt was learned that the Texas Oil Co. installation had engaged 120 coolies to load onto the Hai Tan. A commotion was caused among the 60 coolies who turned up when it was alleged that someone had informed them that the cargoes were meant for Japan. On hearing the rumor, the coolies immediately stopped work.\n\nAnother incident of a similar nature took place on Oct. 22 at Connaught Road West on a junk where a number of coolies were unloading wolfram ore to be stored in a godown. It was alleged that the ore was to be sent to Japan.\n\n### GOVERNOR'S OFFICIAL VISIT TO MACAO\n\nHis Excellency the officer Administering the Government, Mr. N. L. Smith, C.M.G., accompanied by his A.D.C., Capt. G. P. Rickcord, and private secretary, Mr. H. J. Cruttwell, paid an official visit to Macao on October 22.\n\nThey left shortly before 8 a.m. yesterday by the H.M.S. Falmouth, the Admiral's Yacht, and were seen off by the Portuguese Consul-General, Signor Alvaro Brilhante Laborinho, at Queen's Pier.\n\nIn Macao, they had luncheon at Government House with the Governor of Macao. After taking a motor drive around the Portuguese Colony, they left for Hong Kong by the Falmouth, arriving here at 7 p.m. in the evening.\n\nThe visit had no political significance and was suggested several months ago and approved by the Secretary of State for the Colonies. Its postponement had been due to the situation in China but, as no such visit had been paid since 1933, the Secretary of State was anxious that this courtesy should, if possible, not await the arrival of Sir Geoffry Northcote, the Governor-Designate of Hong Kong.\n\n### Trade Barriers\n\nTrade barriers were touched upon at the half-yearly meeting of the Penang Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Jules Martin, who invariably takes an active share in the discussions at the meetings of the Chamber, followed his usual course on this occasion and made a sound contribution to the proceedings, comments the \"Malaya Tribune.\" With his plea for freer trade and the abolition of all tariff barriers, he is assured of ample sympathy, for there can be no doubt whatever that most of the ills to which the world is heir today can be laid at the door of economic self-sufficiency. It has acted as a garrote on world trade and gained in strength so much that Great Britain, the apostle of free trade, was herself forced to resort to tariffs for her own protection. That did not make matters in the wider aspect any better. But it cannot be concluded that Great Britain, in taking the action she did, was actuated by any motive other than self-preservation. As regards Mr. Martin's remarks, he was thinking of world trade and the stranglehold which economic nationalism has succeeded in locking upon it. There are already signs that the economic nationalists have discovered the vital flaw in their theory, and there is a growing disposition to look upon free trade with a less prejudiced eye. But why consider world conditions when there are equally absurd conditions prevailing nearer home? There are the customs barriers in the Federated Malay States. Why not establish free trade on the mainland? It would be an excellent example to set the rest of the world.\n\n### A White Elephant\n\nOne of Malaya's white elephants, Prai, had its periodical outing last week at the half-yearly meeting of the Penang Chamber of Commerce. The pachyderm was trotted out for inspection by the chairman, Mr. T. C. Martine, and, after a not too favorable eye had been cast over its points, it was trotted back again. It will be recalled that the General Manager of the Federated Malay States Railways, in his annual report for 1936, contradicted the assertion that the port of Prai was a white elephant. In one respect, he was right. The port will never be entirely useless but it will never be the port that its creators dreamed it would be. It will never be a deep-water port for ocean-going steamers. Mr. Martine subscribed to that view.\n\nHe did not propose to re-open a rather weather-beaten controversy as to the advantages of port development on the mainland, but he did consider that the bulk of cargo at Prai or Penang must always be handled by lighters, and any new improvement scheme should be designed with that idea to the fore. So there we have it. Prai is an excellent lighterage port and nothing more. In effect, it is still a white elephant but not so white as some of its traducers try to make out. When the amount of money that has been sunk in that estuary in an endeavor to justify the opinions of those who believed in Prai as a deep-water port is recalled, it is something to be thankful for that the future of the port is assured, not on the grandiose lines originally visualized for it, but on a real utility basis. The only thing that rankles is that all this was seen and appreciated by not a few before the Prai wharves had got no further than plans on paper. As an offset to the irksome reminder of the many millions spent on its construction, there is always the consolation that Prai will eventually pay for its keep.\n\n### Welcome, Malaya\n\nThe decision of the Malayan Governments to book 5,000 square feet in the Colonial Pavilion of the Empire Exhibition, to be held in Glasgow next year, has afforded much satisfaction in Scottish business circles, and the hope is freely expressed that the display of Malayan exhibits will result in mutual trade benefits.\n\nWelcoming Malaya to the Exhibition, the Glasgow \"News\" in a short editorial says:-\n\n\"Your decision to book 5,000 square feet in the Colonial Pavilion is heartening to us in Glasgow, and will prove a wise departure for yourselves.\n\n### CHINA REVIEW\n\n#### Pitiable Sights\n\n\"Unparalleled scenes of misery and destitution are being witnessed in the streets of Shanghai as a result of the hostilities, for hundreds of refugees are roaming the streets in the International Settlement and French Concession, sleeping in the open, begging for food, battered by the elements.\"\n\nThis is the description which an eyewitness gives of the immense suffering of the civilian population in Shanghai from a war which is due to no fault of theirs.\n\nBeing driven from their homes by the unwelcome visitation of bullets and shells, these refugees have now to live in concentration camps. Although eighty such camps have been established in the foreign areas, there is accommodation for a mere handful of the total figure. Meanwhile, the food problem grows more acute daily.\n\nAt present, unfortunate victims of war are only given rations, which do no more than keep them from abject starvation, and the police and volunteers are kept busy coping with food riots.\n\nFurther, the unsanitary conditions in the city are causing the health authorities much anxiety. Cases of cholera have been reported, and if the disease develops into an epidemic, against which all possible precautions are now being taken, the situation will be rendered most difficult.\n\n#### Women Soldiers\n\nThe womenfolk in China are taking their full share of responsibility in the present Sino-Japanese conflict. Discarding lipsticks and eyebrow pencils, they have now taken active parts in the front lines, and have been engaged in militia duties in the rear. It is even said that some of them have actually seen service in some of the grimmest and bloodiest battles in Shanghai.\n\nThroughout the country, girls are petitioning the Government for enrolment into the women's fighting forces, but so far, only those with previous military training have been drafted. But those who have been rejected are trying to make themselves useful in other ways, such as bringing comforts and entertainment to the troops and doing Red Cross work in base hospitals behind the fighting lines.\n\nAt the same time, the Government is exercising the greatest of caution because numerous traitors and spies are seeking to make army contacts. Consequently, many volunteers are rejected unless they possess incontrovertible proofs of their patriotic motives.\n\nThe former Red Army, subsequently renamed the 8th Route Army, possesses a contingent of veteran women troops. They are mostly wives of regulars, and are reliably said to be remaining with the 8th Route Army. It will be recalled that two years ago, they captured an entire regiment of Szechuen provincial troops!\n\n### MALAYAN REVIEW (Continued)\n\n\"Over here, we know too little of what you mean to the Empire with your vast production of rubber and tin, and your strategic importance in times of peace as in times of international strife.\n\n\"We are vague in our knowledge of the Federated and Unfederated States and the Straits Settlements, and their relation to Britain, so that anything you can do to educate us will be of mutual benefit.\n\n\"The Sino-Japanese war reminds us forcibly of the part that Singapore plays in protecting the arteries of Empire, and safeguarding the life-blood of our peoples.\n\n\"You will enlighten us more fully and by happier methods.\"\n\n### CHUNG SHAN SURGICAL UNIT\n\n#### Personnel In North China\n\nThe following corrected list of the personnel composing the Chung Shan Surgical Unit was received from Nanking recently, reading as follows:-\n\nThe Chung Shan Medical Unit, Nanking:- Patron and President: Dr. Sun Fo, President of the Legislative Yuan;\n\nBoard of Directors:- Dr. Wang Ching Wei (President of the Kuomintang); Dr. Wang Chung Hui (Minister of Foreign Affairs); Dr. J. Heng Liu (Minister of Health); Dr. Fu Ping Sheung (Member of the Legislative Yuan); Dr. Wu Sheung Ying (Member of the Legislative Yuan); Mr. Ma Chiu Shun (Mayor of Nanking); Madame Sun Fo; Madame Wang Ching Wei; Madame Ma Chiu Shun; Mr. Aw Boon Haw; Mr. A. Morris; Prof. W. I. Gerrard;\n\nMedical Head: Dr. Yik Wan. Doctors: Dr. S. C. Ho, Dr. Ying Wan, Dr. Li Ho Tin, Dr. Tze Ming Tsan, Dr. Lau Man Fong, Dr. Lam Lin.\n\nNurses:- Misses Pun Yuen Ching, Ng Yee Kun, Fung Man Fung, Hung Ching Chu, Wong Kei Tong, Kwok Yin Wa, Cheung Siu Ping, Yu Kim Man, Liu Po Ching, Ip Poo Ying, Kwok Shun Tak, Rosetta Ling, Yu Wai Sheung, Chan Wai Fong, Ng Kam Ho, Chan Wai Han, Leung Fung Ha, Tang Fong Ling, Kwok Miu Chun, Leung Wai Fun, Lo So Wan, Lee Yuk Chun, Chan Sau Ying, and Leung Kim Wan.\n\nMale-nurses:- Messrs. So Yat Sang, Leung Hang, Au Po Ming, Fan Chan Chung, Ng Pui Fun, Bank K. Yip, Li Fai Sing, Mo Kam Man, Wai Fu Kuen, Wong Kok Shui, Kwok Yuk Wing, and B. A. Hyder.\n\n### DONATIONS\n\nThe Chairman of the Hong Kong Travel Association acknowledges with thanks the receipt of the following subscriptions to the Association for the period 1937-1938:-\n\n| Donor | Amount |\n| --- | --- |\n| The Hon. Dr. R. H. Kotewall | $15.00 |\n| China Light & Power Co., Ltd. | $100.00 |",
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        "content_text": "626 \n\n## THE HONG KONG WEEKLY PRESS & \n\n### MEDICAL RELIEF WORK IN CHINA WAR \n\n#### Illuminating Talk By Dr. W.S. Fu \n\nThe Hong Kong Chinese Medical Association were hosts at a reception given at the Chinese Merchants' Club on Oct. 22 in honour of Drs. W. S. Fu and C. Y. Wu, of Shanghai. Dr. Li Shu-pui, president of the Association, welcomed the guests on behalf of his colleagues, and there were also present Dr. Wu Lien-teh, the famous plague prevention expert and Director of the Chinese National Quarantine Service, the Hon. Dr. Li Shu-fan, and Drs. Ma Luk, W. K. Fok, Arthur W. Woo, Chau Wai-cheung, F. I. Tseung, Edward Sun, Eva Ho Tung, S. N. Chau, T. C. Wong, T. Y. Li, S. F. Cheung, Y. K. Wong, L. S. Shin, K. C. Cheng, C. W. Lam, P. I. Chan, K. D. Ling, N. P. Karanjia, K. T. Loke, H. C. Tan, K. F. Ko, Y. Y. Tang, K. C. Cheam, and K. L. Cheung.\n\nThe Chairman said: On behalf of the members of the Association, I take great pleasure in welcoming two well-known doctors here this afternoon.\n\nDr. W. S. Fu, as you know, is the Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Chinese Medical Association of Shanghai, but you may also be interested to know that he is also Chairman of the Medical Relief Committee of the Association, of the Medical Supply Committee, Medical Supply Department, of the Shanghai Emergency Medical Relief Committee, and Chairman of the Medical Supply Department of the International Red Cross Committee in Shanghai.\n\nHis experiences in Shanghai will be needed in Hong Kong for guidance in our future work of medical relief amongst soldiers and the civilian population.\n\nDr. C. Y. Wu is no stranger amongst us. A distinguished graduate of the University of Hong Kong, his work on preventive medicine has benefited China a good deal. Now he is staying in Hong Kong to represent Dr. J. Heng Liu of the Ministry of Health and also head of the Chinese Red Cross. While he is here, I am sure we shall do our best to assist him in whatever way he desires. (Applause).\n\n### PRESENT CRISIS \n\nDr. Fu, called upon to address the meeting, gave an illuminating and informative account of medical relief conditions since the beginning of the crisis. He said that the war was thrown upon China all so suddenly that the Shanghai profession found itself quite unprepared to cope with the large number of casualties both amongst soldiers and the civilian population.\n\nThe first few days after the outbreak at Shanghai were days of hard work and feverish activity in the organising of emergency hospitals in the Settlement. They had more or less overcome the initial difficulties when at 4 p.m. on August 14, now generally known as 'Bloody Saturday,' bombs landed near the Palace Hotel and also on Avenue Edward VII. There were over 1,500 civilians wounded, apart from the dead, which number completely filled up the emergency hospitals as well as the regular centres. They certainly had a lot on their hands, and the situation was made worse by the closing of the shops, which made the procuring of medical supplies practically impossible.\n\n#### PLANS FOR RELIEF WORK \n\nSubsequently, members of the profession had got together and made certain plans for the work of relief. The general character of how medical relief was being undertaken in Shanghai since then had been: (1) caring for the wounded soldiers; (2) caring for the wounded civilians; (3) caring for the war refugees; (4) the combating of epidemics; and (5) the collection and distribution of medical supplies.\n\nIn the beginning, it was rather difficult to get the wounded soldiers into the Settlement. They found that only those soldiers wounded in the upper body, that is to say those that could walk, came for treatment; there were wounded soldiers lying in the areas of fighting who could not help themselves, and the Red Cross stretcher teams got them in only after much delay and difficulty.\n\nRelief work was more centralized now, and the task had been made easier.\n\n#### SUFFICIENT DOCTORS \n\nDr. Fu said that there were at present sufficient doctors and surgeons in Shanghai. There was a scheme, however, to send the wounded soldiers to base hospitals away from Shanghai, in which case more Chinese doctors would be required as those in Shanghai would be needed at the base hospitals. In this matter, the foreign doctors in Shanghai had agreed to conduct the relief work in the Settlement to the utmost extent possible.\n\n#### NO SHELL-SHOCK CASE \n\nThe speaker said that it might interest people to know that though the Chinese soldiers suffered sometimes from many things, not one case of shell-shock had yet been reported. The Chinese soldiers, he said, were not afraid of bomb or shell, but they did not like dirty water, mosquitoes, and the food.\n\nThe food problem had been a serious one, and had engaged the attention of the Government as well as those undertaking medical relief. Chinese nutrition experts had now perfected a biscuit, which had been approved by Nanking, 15 of which as constituting the diet for one day would be sufficient to produce over 2000 calories in food value.\n\nGauze and bandages are now being produced by Chinese cotton mills in Shanghai, and in this respect, they were self-sufficient. They were short of ether, alcohol, morphia, and anti-tetanus vaccine, said Dr. Fu.\n\n#### COST OF WORK \n\nGiving an idea of the cost of the relief work, the speaker said that the initial cost of a bed was about $20 and the maintenance was 67 cents per day.\n\nThe problem of medical relief for the refugees was largely being undertaken by the Shanghai Municipal Council Health Department, whose doctors were giving every possible attention to the various refugee camps. A hospital for the care of refugee children had just been opened.\n\nThe Chinese Medical Association was empowered to receive actual medical supplies and donations, said Dr. Fu. A plan had been evolved and approved by the National Government, whereby donors of medical supplies and of money handed in to the Association would be given in return the equivalent of their valuable help in National Salvation Bonds. Hong Kong, he suggested, might start a drive in this way to assist the suffering soldiers and others.\n\n#### ACUTE PROBLEM \n\nDr. Fu emphasized in conclusion that the problem was an acute one, and would become even more so as the war went on, and he appealed to all Chinese in Hong Kong and friends of China to help in the humane work that was being carried on. He also appealed to all Chinese doctors to volunteer their aid. It was, he said, very encouraging to see how much Hong Kong had done in the way of medical relief, but he hoped that greater assistance would be forthcoming.\n\nDr. C. Y. Wu, who is a nephew of Dr. Wu Lien-teh, then recounted his experiences during a train journey to Nanking while Japanese were bombing the country along the railway line.\n\nIt struck him as most impressive that the Chinese soldier today was different from his brother in the past. He met some wounded Cantonese soldiers on the train, and the change in their spirit and discipline was wonderful.\n\n#### FOOD PROBLEM \n\nDr. Wu laid great emphasis on the food problem amongst the refugees. He said that the food now consisted of two bowls of plain rice each day, with perhaps a little salted turnip. This diet prolonged over a long period would produce beri-beri and other diseases, and would be most harmful. He hoped that the biscuit mentioned by Dr. Fu might solve the problem, for they might later, if the war continued indefinitely, have to draw on the refugees to serve as soldiers, and it was therefore essential that they should be fit. He reminded the gathering that amongst other things, clothes for refugees were urgently needed now that winter was approaching. He appealed to all for gifts of clothing, which could be distributed where they were most needed.\n\nNews of three Hong Kong doctors who had volunteered their service was supplied by the Chairman, who said that Drs. S. C. Ho and Li Ho-tien were now with the 4th Route Army (Cantonese) at the front, whilst Dr. L. Sung was with the 23rd Emergency Hospital in Shanghai.\n\nOctober 29, 1937 \n\n## CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT \n\n627 \n\n### MEDICAL RELIEF WORK IN CHINA WAR \n\n...\n\n### If Gossip We Must \n\n#### (BY ELSPETH)\n\nDear Kate,\n\n... having mixed up my voice for several months in querulous plaint against one Hong Kong climate, I now must eat my words and agree with the residents that October, and I believe November and December weather, can compensate one for typhoons, steam, and any other Act of God. The sudden tang in the air last week sent us all flying prematurely, as it proved, to fur-lined coats and furs. How lovely to push one's tired and limp summer wardrobe into the background and blossom forth in something fresh.\n\nThe cocktail party given by the Deep Water Bay residents was one of the first occasions for the airing of cool weather clothes. The setting for this lovely party was a veritable dream. The sea comes right up to the garden wall, and the moon and fairy lights did all they could to convince nostalgic Shanghai-ites that what Hong Kong loses on the night clubs she makes up on the view. Every lovely person in Hong Kong seemed to have been bidden and to have come.\n\nI saw pretty Mrs. Whitham looking exquisitely soignee in a long tunic of dull metallic brocade. Mrs. Reis Evans clung to white—a colour which suits her admirably. Mrs. Neale, another attractive person, came in something slim and dark. As I arrived late and had to dash on to a dinner party on the Peak, I had no time to do much other than to gasp at the view, swallow an excellent cocktail, and make my regretful adieu.\n\nAgain, I had to drag myself away before I had nearly enough time to enjoy the gay and cosmopolitan crowd with which this popular young couple have already surrounded themselves.\n\nOn Saturday night, after a delightful dinner on the Peak, we betook ourselves to the Grips to dance. The place was packed to capacity, and if our thoughtful hostess had not booked a table well in advance, we should have had either to sit on the stairs or to invade the sacred mysteries of Bessie's Bar. I saw the lovely Mrs. Hobkirk dancing with her tall, good-looking husband. Miss Judith Smith, in a printed dress, was in a coterie which included the Countess de Courseulles and her sister, Miss Chieri. At the same party, we also saw Mrs. McAvoy and her husband and Miss Gerrard. Miss Pestonji was wearing petunia effectively. I saw Mrs. Crokham looking lovely in a graceful printed dress dancing with Mr. Jack Macgregor, who has just come back from Shanghai.\n\nThe amusing entertainers Mahon and Rucker were doing an energetic turn vaguely reminiscent of the circus as we arrived, and I could not but applaud the fortitude of Miss Rucker on the repeated occasions when she was hurled through the air, and then the floor skidded about in a highly painful manner. The panther trainer cracked his whip in a realistic manner rather trying to shell-shocked ears. I saw Mr. Lawrence Kadoorie dancing with Miss Gubbay, who looked charming in white.\n\nThe southern side of the Island drew us all again on Thursday to the Lido for the cocktail party given by the newly married Delaneys. What an asset they are to the community, and how welcoming was the atmosphere of American hospitality which engulfed one on arrival. Mrs. Delaney welcomed her guests in a lovely cocktail tunic of taffeta worn over a slender black skirt. Mrs. Donovan looked delightful in a dark dress and black hat. Mrs. Abbott was wearing something gay and rather South American in colouring.\n\nThe crush was enormous, and not half enough people took advantage of the Terrace to allow me to view the lovely clothes. One lovely person was in pink with masses of white fox fur.\n\nMy dear Kate, my pen has run away with me. I must gird up my loins and flee to Shek-O to bang a golf-ball about.\n\nLove,\nELSPETH,\n\n122",
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        "content_text": "## 7. According to the rescued men who gave evidence, there was no one on board the \"Scharnhorst\" who could understand their dialect of Chinese. When the vessel reached Hong Kong the same morning, the survivors were handed over to the Hong Kong Water Police. The survivors were all from fishing junk No. 3407 HW.\n\n## 8. On the evening of 27th September, the British ship \"Kaying\", Captain Histed, master, while on a voyage from Shanghai to Canton, picked up two men on a raft. The log entry is as follows:\n| Time | Latitude | Longitude | Event |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 18.10 | 22° 27' N | 115° 11' East | Observed two men on wreckage; ship stopped, accident boat lowered in charge of Chief Officer and two men picked up. |\n| 18.30 |  |  | Ship proceeded. |\n\nThe men were in a condition of extreme exhaustion. The vessel proceeded on her voyage to Canton, and on her return to Hong Kong on 30th September, the two men were sent to the Tung Wah Hospital. They were Ho Pak-kung and Ho Pak-shing from junk No. 3407 HW.\n\n## 9. Of these twelve survivors, four have given evidence before us. The absence of the others is accounted for by the fact that they have either returned to Macao or to China, or that they have obtained employment on other fishing junks and cannot now be found. The evidence of those whose testimony has been available is supported, however, by survivors from other junks which at all material times formed part of the same fishing fleet, and from that body of evidence, it has been possible to obtain a connected story.\n\n## 10. On the early morning of 22nd September, twelve junks were fishing off Chelong Point, which is in latitude 22° 39' N, longitude 115° 34' E. They were apparently at least twenty miles from the Chinese coast, and they estimate the bearing of the Chelong lighthouse as approximately N.E. of them. They were fishing junks of a capacity of between 1275 and 1828 piculs.(1) All of them were licensed in Hong Kong, and particulars of their licence numbers, capacity, armaments, and crew, taken from the books of the Hong Kong Harbour Office, are shown in `Appendix I` hereto. None of them had any machinery, main or auxiliary, and the Assistant Chief Junk Inspector has told us that no vessel fitted with engines would be licensed as a junk.\n\nA photograph of one of these junks, No. 28 HW, owner and master Lam Yung-shing, is given as `Appendix II` to this report.\n\nThey were, in accordance with their usual custom, fishing in pairs, their nets extending from the stern of one junk to the stern of the partner vessel. Their bows were pointing S. or S.W. Between each pair of junks was a distance varying from rather less than a mile to a mile and a quarter. The relative positions of the various junks, in relation to Chelong light and to one another, are shown in the diagram which forms `Appendix III` hereto.\n\n## 11. It was a fine, bright, sunny morning, and the sea was calm. All the junks had their nets in the water and their sterns facing the direction of their nets. At an hour estimated at between 8 and 9 a.m., the men on board the junks sighted a vessel approaching from the northward under steam. The vessel rapidly approached, and all the witnesses are emphatic in describing her as a submarine. With this aspect of our terms of reference, we shall deal in a later part of this report.\n\n## 12. The vessel, when within a very short distance of the junks, opened fire with one gun on the first pair of junks. The range at which the vessel fired is estimated at as little as seventy-two feet, the length of the Court in which we held our meetings. Shek Kai-cheung's junk was hit first and sank, then Lam Fuk-tai's junk was shelled and sunk. The second pair of junks, the masters of which are Lam Yung-hei and Lam Yung-shing, observing the fate of their neighbours, cut loose their fishing net and managed to escape to Hong Kong, which they reached on 23rd September. The vessel then turned its attention to the third pair, owned by Lam Chu and Lam Shu-po, and shelled and sank each of them. Thereafter, they sank by gunfire the six remaining junks, first the fifth pair, then the fourth, and lastly the sixth pair. The vessel made no attempt to render assistance to any of the survivors. On the contrary, those on board turned a machine gun on the survivors from Ng Ying-kit's junk and then made off.\n\n## 13. Fishing junks of this type carry one or more small sampans, mainly as a means of easy communication with the shore or with other vessels. The mainsail of the junk is made of buoyant sea grass, backed by pitch pine poles, and it is the immemorial custom of the fisher folk, in case of emergency, to lower the mainsail and bind the poles together, either at both ends, in which case they form a long raft some 18 or 20 feet long by 4 feet across, as described by Captain Histed of the S.S. \"Kaying\", or by binding them at one end, thus producing a raft shaped like a fan, or, as the fishermen themselves call it, a \"hand\". As the unknown vessel approached, each of the junks, with the exception of the two which escaped, lowered their mainsails. One witness stated that he did so as a form of salutation to the approaching craft, an interesting parallel to the sailing ships' custom of lowering topsails in salute, but we have no doubt that the actual reason for that manoeuvre was to have a raft readily available in case of need.\n\n## 14. We propose now to consider separately the case of each of the junks about which we have heard direct evidence, dealing with each pair according to the number which it is given in `Appendix III` hereto, which is based on the evidence of the first witness, Lam Chu.\n\n## 15. Lam Fuk-tai, owner and master of junk No. 1069 HK, licensed at Sai Kung, capacity 1515 piculs, and Shek Kai-cheung, owner and master of junk No. 2955 HW, capacity 1370 piculs, were fishing partners. They were the first junks to be attacked, and both of them were sunk. There have been no witnesses from either of the junks, nor have enquiries enabled any of them to be traced, except that Ng Ying-kit has deposed that ten survivors from that pair of junks are at present in San Mei. There is no direct evidence of the number of persons on either of these junks on the day on which they were attacked, but the crew of each, according to the junk master's records, is No. 1069, crew 20, and No. 2955, crew 26. In addition to these numbers, there would almost certainly be women and children on board each of these junks. Ng Ying-kit estimates the number on the two junks, including old and young, at sixty, and has deposed that the remaining fifty are said in San Mei to have perished.\n\n## 16. Lam Yung-shing, owner and master of junk No. 28 HW, licensed at Shaukiwan, capacity 1468 piculs, and his brother Lam Yung-hei, owner and master of junk No. 4470 HA, licensed at Aberdeen, capacity 1347 piculs, fished together. When the vessel opened fire on the junks, they sacrificed their nets and managed to escape without injury to life or damage to property. It is one of these junks, No. 28 HW, which is shown in the photograph in `Appendix II`.\n\n## 17. Lam Chu, owner and master of junk No. 36 HW, licensed at Shaukiwan, capacity 1828 piculs, sailed from Hong Kong on 17th September, accompanied by his brother Lam Shu-po, owner and master of junk No. 2925 HC, licensed at Cheung Chau, capacity 1762 piculs. They sailed to San Mei and thence on 21st September to Chelong Point. His junk was struck once. One man, Kwok Tai-fu, was killed, and another, Lam Yau-tai, was wounded. The junk sank, and the twenty-eight survivors, including 13 or 14 women and children, took to the sampans and the mainsail. They were picked up by another junk on 23rd September and taken to Hong Kong.\n\n## 18. Lam Shu-po's junk was hit twice and sank. He had 26 or 27 persons aboard, including four women and six or seven children. No trace of any survivors from his junk has been found.\n\n## 19. Yeung Yat-hei, owner and master of junk No. 615 HW, licensed at Shaukiwan, capacity 1468 piculs, worked on the fishing grounds with Chan Kau, owner and master of junk No. 4123 HA, licensed at Aberdeen, capacity 1468 piculs. He vainly attempted to escape when he saw the shelling of other fishing junks. He was overtaken and his junk was hit three times. Three members of the crew were killed. The other twenty...\n\nPage 170\nPage 171\n\n(1) A picul is 133 1/3 lbs.",
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        "content_text": "# \n[1st witness Lam Chu.]\n\n## \n89. Mr. Whyatt to Witness: You told us about the sailors that you saw on the submarine. How much of the hull of the vessel could you see? \nAt the time we were fired at the whole of the submarine was fully afloat.\n\n90. That was when it was about three times the length of this court away? \nYes, fully afloat when this submarine was about twice the length of this court away from us.\n\n91. When you first saw the submarine was it as fully afloat as when she was about to fire at your junk? \nYes, she was fully afloat when I first saw her.\n\n92. I just want to ask you if you can tell me what was the colour of this submarine? \nSilvery grey in colour.\n\n93. Was the sun shining that morning? \nYes.\n\n94. What did these sailors do when they came up close to your junk? \nThey were fairly tall sort of men with things hanging down from the shoulders.\n\n95. What I asked was what did these sailors do when the submarine came close up and began firing on the junks? \nThey were working at these guns.\n\n96. Was it one gun or two guns? \nThey used one gun to fire at us.\n\n97. What happened? \nMy junk was hit on the side once.\n\n98. And what happened to your brother's junk-Lam Shu-po's junk? \nHe was hit twice and then the junk went down.\n\n99. Was Lam Shu-po's junk hit before yours or after? \nLam Shu-po's junk was hit first and then she sank.\n\n100. When you were hit was anyone injured aboard your junk? \nYes, one person was injured.\n\n101. What was his name? \nKwok Tai-fu.\n\n102. Was he badly injured? \nYes, he was killed and another person was injured.\n\n103. Whereabouts was Kwok Tai-fu when he was killed? \nHe was inside No. 1 hold which is the very first hold counting from the bow.\n\n104. You told us that someone else was injured? \nYes, Lam Yau-tai. He was not directly hit by the bullet but a bullet hit something on board and sent those broken parts of that something on to him and hurt him.\n\n105. Is Lam Yau-tai a relation of yours? \nMy younger brother.\n\n106. After the submarine had fired at your junk, did you see what it did next: where did it go after it fired at you? \nAfter that it went a little further and shot at the next pair.\n\n107. That would be Chan Kau and Yeung Yat-hei? \nYes.\n\n108. Did you see what happened to that pair? \nThe next pair the submarine fired at was not Chan Kau's pair but the other pair-the fifth pair-Fung Kam-shing's pair.\n\n109. Did you see what happened to Fung Kam-shing's junks after the submarine fired at them? \nAs a result of the firing the pair went down.\n\n110. Did you see where the submarine went after firing at Fung Kam-shing's junks? \nThen she fired at that other pair the 4th pair-Chan Kau's.\n\n111. And what happened to this junk? \nWhen Chan Kau's pair was hit that pair was not then in that position as shown here; she had gone a little distance because there was an interval. The submarine did not go for her but Fung Kam-shing's junks first.\n\n112. What happened to them after that? \nThe junks were hit and the submarine then fired at Chan Kau's and Yeung Yat-hei's.\n\n113. What happened to the pair of junks after they were hit? \nOne sank completely and the other went down a little.\n\n114. Then you were going on to tell us what the submarine did after firing at the pair of junks-you say it approached Li Mun's junks and fired at that? \nYes.\n\n## \n115. What happened to Li Mun's junk? \nThey both went down completely.\n\n116. Li Mun and Ng Ying-kit? \nYes, they both sank.\n\n117. What did you do after your junk had been hit by shells from this submarine? \nI lowered a sampan and then I lowered the mainsail.\n\n118. What was your object in lowering the mainsail? \nAfter we were hit we knew that our boat would be sunk and then we lowered the mainsail for the reason that we wanted to hold on to the mainsail, for we knew that it would float.\n\n119. Can you tell me what is the general custom among fisher folk in case of an emergency? \nIn case of an emergency we depend entirely on the mainsail to save us-we depend on that only.\n\n120. Just tell me what is the mainsail made of? \nMade of matting, which is made of seagrass.\n\n121. Is the matting fastened on to poles? \nYes, fastened on to poles.\n\n122. What sort of poles? \nPine wood poles.\n\n123. About how many poles would there be to your mainsail? \nSix pine poles.\n\n124. After you had lowered the mainsail did you do anything to it before your junk finally sank? \nI and the other people on the junk sat down on the mainsail after it had been lowered.\n\n125. Chairman: How many people were there? \nAt that time there were about 20 persons on this mainsail.\n\n126. From your junk? \nThat mainsail would not accommodate all the 20 persons--we had a sampan besides the mainsail.\n\n127. Mr. Whyatt: Some in the sampan and some on the mainsail? \nYes.\n\n128. Tell me about the other sails, there were three sails altogether? \nWe paid no attention to the other two sails because one of them is made of cotton.\n\n129. Between the sampan and the mainsail there were 20 of you altogether? \nAbout 28 in all.\n\n130. How many of these were children? \n13 or 14 women and children.\n\n131. How many were children? \nabout 10 children.\n\n132. Did you yourself get on to the mainsail? \nYes.\n\n133. Will you tell us what happened after you and the other members of your crew got on to the mainsail and into the sampan? \nAfter the junk had sunk we were adrift we were floating.\n\n134. How long did you continue to float? \nWe were floating until the 23rd of September when we were picked up.\n\n135. That is the following day? \nYes.\n\n136. Who picked you up? \nA fishing junk.\n\n137. Do you know the name of the master of the fishing junk who picked you up? \nI don't know his name.\n\n138. Do you know where he comes from? \nHe comes from San Mei.\n\n139. After he picked you up where did he take you to? \nWe arrived at Shaukiwan on the following day, the 24th September.\n\n140. You say everyone who was aboard your junk was picked up by this junk which took you to Shaukiwan? \nYes.\n\n141. When you got to Shaukiwan what did you do? \nI made a report to the Police Inspector.\n\n142. How long was it after you had arrived at Shaukiwan that you went along to the Police Inspector to make a report? \nOn the same day, as soon as we arrived at Shaukiwan I made a report.\n\n143. With regard to the sinking of your junk? \nYes.\n\n## \n204 \n## \n205",
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        "content_text": "29.8\n\n110\n\nHead 31.-PUBLIC WORKS EXTRAORDINARY\n\nApproved Revised Estimated Expendi-ture up to 31st December, 1937.\nEstimated Expendi-ture, 1938.\nEstimated Expendi-ture, 1938.\nEstimated Expendi-ture, 1939.\nEstimate.\n\n$\n$\n$\n$\n$\n\nPUBLIC WORKS EXTRAORDINARY,—Continued,\n\n20,000\n5,000\n\n5,000\n\n1,400\n\n4,500\n\n1,000\n\n1,000\n5,000\n5,000\n\n13,000\n2,800\n\n3,500\n\n5,500\n3,700\n\n2,500\n\n5 Ellis Kadoorie Buildings.\n\n1 Central Government Store\n\n300,000\n35,000\n\n2 New Sub-station, Wanchai Gap\n\n33,015\n\n8 New Government House\n\n205,000\n15,000\n\n4 New Police Station-Stanley\n\n80,000\n15,000\n\nSchool Conversion Annexe into Gymnasium\n\n2,000,000\n100,000\n\nof\n186,985\n20,000\n100,000\n50,000\n\nCommunications.-Continued\n\n81 Saigon Street at K.M.L. No. 49-Forma-tion and surfacing\n9,000\n4,000\n\n6 Vernacular Normal and Middle School— New Latrines\n4,000\n\n32 Sai Kung Road Extension, East of N.K.I.L. 68\n4,000\n8,000\n8,000\n2,500\n\n7 Queen Mary Hospital-Additions and Improvements\n2,500\n\n33 Tsun Wan Market Road\n15,000\n8,000\n\n34 Bridges strengthening\n7,000\n8,000\n\n281,000\n50,000\n30,000\n\n8 G.C.H. Alterations to \"C\" Block for Infant Welfare Centre\n2,850\n\n9 Western Market Reprovision South Block\n95,000\n\n10 New Garage, Quarters, etc., Kennedy Town\n100,000\n\n11 New Dog Kennels, Kennedy Town\n20,000\n\n12 Latrine, Electric Road\n5,000\n\n18 D.R.Ö.'s House-Enclose verandah\n1,400\n\n10,000\n\n35 Castle Peak Rond, North of T.W.M.L, &- Realigning, regrading and surfacing...\n19,000\n2,500\n19,000\n2,850\n\n36 Improvement to area N.E. of bridge at Tai Po Market\n40,000\n30,000\n\n37 Kowloon-Canton Road; Improvements to Kowloon-Muk Fu Ferry Section\n\nMiscellaneous.\n10,000\n\n5,000\n\n1,900,000\n\n500,000\n\n14 Mong Kok Market-\n\n(a) Flush Urinal\n4,500\n\n(b) Store Room and Kitchen\n1,000\n\n15 Ma Tau Kok Slaughter House- Incinerator\n5,000\n\n16 Latrine, Nam Kok Road, Kowloon City.\n18,000\n\n17 Tai Po Kau Forest Reserve-New Plant House\n\n18 Au Tau Police Station-Garage\n2,300\n3,500\n\n19 Un Long-Public Latrine\n5,500\n\n44 Chai Wan Cemetery Extension-Develop-ment\n\n20 Herbarium and Library, Botanical and Forestry Office, Extension\n\n8,700\n\n21 Botanical and Forestry Office, Lai Chi Kok\n2,500\n\nBrought forward............\n1,083,035\n\n38 Colonial Cemetery-Laying out new areas\n2,000\n\n1,000\n1,000\n\n912\n\n2,000\n\n89 Reinstatement of retaining walls\n2,000\n2,000\n2,000\n2,000\n\n40 Traffic signs, etc.\n8,000\n2,485\n3,000\n3,000\n\n3,000\n\n41 Street Name Plates\n2,901\n5,000\n5,000\n5,000\n\n42 Wongneichong Development\n65,000\n20,000\n20,000\n35,000\n\n43 North Point Reclamation-Sewer exten-sion\n20,000\n2,120\n5,000\n5,000\n\n5,000\n\n6,000\n6,000\n\n6,000\n\n45 Rewiring of Government Buildings\n22,000\n\n22,000\n\n46 Chinese Cemeteries-Laying out new areas\n7,989\n7,000\n7,000\n6,000\n\n;\n\n47 Bathing shed at Kennedy Town for Government Schools\n1,200\n\nT\n\n1,200\n\nGeneral Works.\n\n48 Tsan Yuk Hospital-Additions and Alterations\n20,000\n\n1\n\n22 Roads\n97,806\n110,000\n110,000\n140,000\n\n49 Botanical Gardens-Lay out of Albany Site\n5,000\n\n23 Drainage :-\n\n(a) Training Nullahs\n\n(b) Miscellaneous\n\n24 Miscellaneous\n\n25 Port Works\n\nCommunications.\n\n50 Air Raid Precautions\n1,000,000\n\n6,395\n\n29,000\n\n19,000\n\n43,000\n\n63,683\n\n88,000\n88,000\n\n88,000\n\n25,265\n\n30,000\n30,000\n\n34,800\n\n1,852\n\n3,500\n3,500\n\n9,500\n\n51 No. 2 Police Station-Switchboard\n\n52 Victoria Peak, Improvements to Layout.\n\n58 Kowloon Hospital, Nurses Quarters- Grilles\n3,200\n\n20,000\n\n5,000\n\n200,000\n\n1,500\n\n8,200\n\n2,000\n\n1\n\n2,000\n\n54 New Kowloon Cemetery No. 7 (Custom Pass)\n14,396.64\n\n20,000\n40,000\n\n55 Hammer Hill Urning Ground\n5,000\n\n26 Island Road Strengthening Bridges\n\n27 Bowen Road-Widening and forming footway between Garden Road and Bowen Road Tram Station\n45,000\n10,000\n10,000\n10,000\n\n30,000\n\n10,000\n10,000\n20,000\n\n28 K.I.L. 3394- Forming access roads from Ma Tau Wai Road and Argyle Street.\n30,000\n\n20,000\n\n29 Argyle Street, eastern end of\n120,000\n10,000\n\n50,000\n\n30 Layout of a Government Quarry-Hok Un\n286,000\n\n150,000\n\n56 Recreation Grounds\n\n57 Repairs to Seawall and Road at Lai. chikok\n\n58 Cheung Chau-Compensation for realign-ment of Houses\n5,500\n\n32,300\n\n20,000\n\n29,800\n\n3,000\n\n62,500\n14,444.00\n\n45,000\n44,000\n\n4,000\n\nI\n\nT\n\n4,800\n\nI\n\n2,500\n\nCarried forward\n1,093,095\n\nCarried forward......\n2,085,235\n\n299\n\nPage 250\n\nPage 251",
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        "content_text": "# NAME \nShe Fu Sing \nPang Kai Cheung \nMak Hoi Ting \nYip Hang Lam \nHan Kam Leung \nLeung Ting Yim \nYe Bin \nChan Siu Kei \nCheng Kam Shing \nCheung Tong Mo Hoi \nYing Cheung Ah Yan \nYeung Ying Wai Kwong \nChan Hung Tat \nTrang An Bing \nChan Kam Chuen \nChai Siu Lo \nLee Than Chin \nMak Ham Jamung \nWong Tim Cheong \nToni Po Wing \n\n## Class & No. of 1938 Civil Service List \n| Class | No. |\n| --- | --- |\n| II | 24 |\n| III | 39 |\n| IV | 54 |\n| V | 27, 28 |\n| VIA | 13, 16, 64, 66, 72 |\n| VIB | 41, 43, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 55, 57, 58, 65, 66, 74, 96, 123, 131, 155, 164, 168 |",
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        "content_text": "## List of crew and families on board.\n\n54\n\nFishing Junk No.2246 A.D.\n\n決勝囷\n\n1. LEUNG SING CHAU, 41 years, Master.\n2. CHAN LAI, 32 years, wife of No.1.\n3. FUNG TAI TSE, 24 years, Concubine of No.1.\n4. LAI LUK, 62 years, mother of No.1.\n5. LEUNG YAN CHOI, 12 years, adopted son of No.1.\n6. LEUNG NGAN, 14 years, daughter of No.1.\n7. LEUNG KOT, 11 years, son of No.1.\n8. LEUNG TAI, 8 years, son of No.1.\n9. LEUNG CHU, 5 years, son of No.1.\n10. LEUNG YUE NUI, 5 months, daughter of No.1.\n\n| Name | Age | Relation |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| LEUNG SING CHAU | 41 | Master |\n| CHAN LAI | 32 | wife of No.1 |\n| FUNG TAI TSE | 24 | Concubine of No.1 |\n| LAI LUK | 62 | mother of No.1 |\n| LEUNG YAN CHOI | 12 | adopted son of No.1 |\n| LEUNG NGAN | 14 | daughter of No.1 |\n| LEUNG KOT | 11 | son of No.1 |\n| LEUNG TAI | 8 | son of No.1 |\n| LEUNG CHU | 5 | son of No.1 |\n| LEUNG YUE NUI | 5 months | daughter of No.1 |\n| TSE SZE | 34 | sister-in-law of No.1 |\n| LEUNG HING | 14 | daughter of No.11 |\n| LEUNG FU PING | 10 | son of No.11 |\n| LEUNG CHUN | 20 | sister of No.1 |\n| LEUNG KAM CHUNG | 63 | clansman of No.1 |\n| CHAU KAI | 42 | fokie |\n| PANG CHO | 25 |  |\n| PANG SHU | 45 |  |\n| ... (Nicknamed MO LO TSAI) | 33 | foki |\n| CHAU YEE | 26 |  |\n| LEUNG KAM | 28 |  |\n| PANG CHU | 22 | refugee |\n\n## Origin and Destination\n\n* TAI PING, TUNG KUN, HONG KONG (multiple entries)\n\n## Inspector's Note\n\n(Sd.) F. D. B. Tuckett,\nDivisional Inspector, North.\n29th October, 1939.",
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        "content_text": "## TAI O Police Station\nDivisional Inspector, South,\n\nSir,\n\n58\n\nAttached please find statements taken by me from CHAN FU LEE, 27 years, owner of Fishing Junk No.3870 H.O. and CHAN CHAU FAT, 25 years, foki, whose fishing junk No.3870 H.O. was destroyed by fire by a Japanese trawler on the 12th October, 1939, also report by Officer in Charge No.3 Police Launch.\n\nOn the 14th October, 1939, I went to the scene of the outrage with the above 2 men on board No.3 launch and they pointed out to the Officer in Charge No.3 Launch a position about midway between FAN LAU Point and CHI CHAU Island inside territorial waters, as the place where the burning occurred. There were no lives lost but property to the value of $600.00 was destroyed and the junk was damaged by fire beyond repair and is now lying in TAI O harbour.\n\n**(od.)** F. Mawer,  \nLance Sergeant A.214,  \nOfficer in Charge, Tai O.  \n14th October, 1939.",
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        "content_text": "# \n## Copy\n\nCHAN FU LEE, 27 years, of TAI O, owner of Fishing Junk No.3870 H.O. (914 piculs in capacity) residing on board states:\n\n1939 On the afternoon of the 12th October, the above junk was fishing at a point between FAN LAU and A CHAU Island. The following persons were on board:-\n\n(1) CHAN CHAU FAT, 25 years, of TAI O, foki.\n(2) CHAN LIN SAU, 32 years of TAT O, foki.\n(3) CHAN KWUN SHING, 23 years of TAI O, foki,\nall three being my relations.\n\nAt about 16.00 hours I was some distance away in the dinghy fishing for ONG FA when I saw a Japanese trawler approaching from the direction of LAP SAP MEI and saw it go alongside my junk and soon afterwards one of the dinghys from the junk was lowered into the sea and saw my three fokis get on board the dinghy. I then saw the Japanese sailors throwing over-board various articles from the junk and afterwards saw the trawler leave the junk and in a few minutes the junk burst into flames. After the Japanese left the vicinity I went on board my junk and put out the fire and towed the junk back to TAI O and on the morning of the 13th October, 1939, I made a report to TAI O Police Station.\n\nThe junk was valued at $1,000.00. Value of property destroyed by fire:-\n| Item | Value |\n| --- | --- |\n| Nets | $500.00 |\n| Clothing of crew | $100.00 |\n\nThe junk was totally destroyed. No person injured.\n\n(Sa.) F. Lee\n\n**Statement witnessed by:**\nF. Mawer,\nLance Sergeant A.214,\nOfficer in Charge, Tai O.\n13th October, 1939.",
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        "content_text": "## No.3 Police Launch\n\nL. K. GEORGE, Acting Sub-Inspector, states:-\n\nAt 09.15 hours on the 14th October, 1939, the Officer in Charge TAI O, boarded No.3 Launch at TAI O with CHAN FU LEE master of Fishing Junk No.3870 H.O. also CHAN LIN SAU seaman on board the same fishing junk with instructions for me to take them to a position between AH CHAU and FAN LAU Points for the purpose of pointing out the position where his junk was first boarded and set on fire. No.3 Launch proceeded to a position between AH CHAU and FAN LAU Point arriving there at 10.15 hours where CHAN FU LEE and CHAN LIN SAU pointed out the position where the junk was first boarded. Bearings was then taken by me which reads as follows:-\n| Landmark | Bearing |\n| --- | --- |\n| South of ROCKEY Island, LAP SAMI | S 20 E |\n| West of SI CHI CHAU, CHI CHAU | S 65 E |\n| South of AH CHAU, SO KO Island | ... |\n\nreading on chart No.1180.\n\n| Coordinate | Value |\n| --- | --- |\n| Lat. | 22 Deg. 10 min. 45 Sec. |\n| Long. | 113 Deg. 51 min. 30 Sec. |\n\nThe position of junk reads about half a mile outside Colonial waters, and about one mile inside territorial waters.\n\nL. K. George,  \nActing Sub-Inspector  \nOfficer in Charge, No.3 Launch.  \n14th October, 1939.",
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        "content_text": "# \nDate | Type of Junk and Number | Cargo | Owner or Master | Nature of Incident\n---|---|---|---|---\n20.11.38 | Fishing. 2352 KC |  | Ku Hi. Master | Unstopped and towed by Japanese warship towards a point near San Customs Station. Junk overturned and later righted. No one injured. Nothing taken.\n20.11.38 | Cargo. 2513 # |  | Ng Sai Hung. Owner | Boarded by Japanese sailors off Lema Island. Arms only taken.\n2.12.38 |  |  | Lan in Tak. Master | Stopped by Japanese transport off Man Chan and taken in tow. Crew escaped in dinghies while being towed. Junk taken by Japanese.\n10.12.38 | Fishing. 4560 HC |  | Kwok Ting Kan. Master | Stopped by Japanese warship near Lema Island and ordered to take licence on board. Junk sailed away leaving man who took licence on board warship. This man's fate is unknown.\n15.12.38 | Fishing. 4909 HA |  | Leung Kan. Owner | Stopped and taken in tow by Japanese schooner near Sam Fok Island. Junk taken by Japanese.\n17.12.38 | Fishing. 557 HC |  | Kwok Yau ah. Owner | Boarded by Japanese sailors south of San lun Customs Station. Arms and ammunition thrown into sea.\n19.12.38 | Fishing. 2588 HW |  | #ong ze. Master | Boarded by Japanese sailors near Ping Hoi. Cannon and ammunition thrown into sea. Muskets, licence and ammunition taken by Japanese.\n21.12.38 | Fishing. 5842 HC |  | Chow H1 Fu. Owner | Boarded by Japanese sailors near an un Customs station. Arms and ammunition thrown overboard. $500.00 alleged to have been taken from the person of Ho Ng (owner's wife).\n22.12.38 | Fishing. 2844 H |  | Chan Fook. Unlicensed Master | Fired on by Japanese motor-boat near Tai Shan Customs Station. Crew jumped into sea. 4 men rescued, fate of 2 men unknown. Junk set on fire by Japanese.\n24.12.38 | Cargo |  | Chan Fai Jing. Master | \n27.12.38 | Fishing. 1065 H |  |  | Boarded by Japanese sailors one mile east of an un Customs Station. Licence taken.",
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        "content_text": "4\n\n60\n\n13. Cheung Lung Man alias Kember\n\n(91)\n\nCheung Kwan Choi & Assistant Chief of Intelligence Section at 172 Mathan Road,\n\n3 (2)\n\n(4)\n\n5\n\n19. Chak Hak Kung (91) Secretary 3 (2) 5\n\n20. Long Co Hin (91) Head of Correspondence Section 3 (2) 5\n\n21. Lau Lung Cheung (91) Head of General Affairs Section 3 (2) 5\n\n22. Tae Siu Fan (91) Member of General Affairs Section 3 (2) 5\n\n23. Lau Chung Fat (91) Member of Enquiry Section 3 (2) 5\n\n24. Kiu Fu Sam (91) Head of Social Intercourse Section 3 (2) 5\n\n25. Li Cho Ping (91) Member of Social Intercourse Section 3 (2) 5\n\n26. Ling Hin Yeung (91) Member of Social Intercourse Section 3 (2) 5\n\n27. Lau Yui Pong (91) Head of Cultural Section 3 (2) 5\n\n28. Lo Yan Po (91) Member of Cultural Section 3 (2) Cypher alias 3354 5\n\n29. Cheung Chi Kwan (91) Member of Cultural Section 3 (2) 5\n\n30. Li Yiu Wong (91) Member of Cultural Section 3 (2) 5\n\n31. Kiu Chi Chin (91) Member of Cultural Section 3 (2)\n\n32. Kun Chung Chum Cypher alias 3337 Worked at 172 Nathan Road 3 (2) 60\n\nPage 60\nPage 61\n\n33. Ng Fong Chi Cypher alias 3320\n\n34. To Ching Tin\n\nNOTE:",
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        "content_text": "LIST D\n\nPersons in Shanghai known to be connected with the Organization of assassinations.\n\n65\n\n  \n    Name\n    Cypher alias\n  \n  \n    1. Wan Ling Yung alias Chiu Yu Hing\n    1123\n  \n  \n    2. Yue (Director)\n    2214\n  \n  \n    3. Yue Man Hoi (? same as No.2)\n    2209, 2281\n  \n  \n    4. Wong Hak Kwong\n    2271\n  \n  \n    5. Ying Dok\n    2263\n  \n  \n    6. Chow Kay Fu\n    2254\n  \n  \n    7. Chong Tze Leung\n    2245\n  \n  \n    8. Wong Hok Ko\n    2236\n  \n  \n    9. Sun Kai Fong\n    2227\n  \n  \n    10. Cheung Man Chung\n    2218\n  \n  \n    11. Law Ming Cham\n    \n  \n  \n    12. Wu Ngok Kung alias Nam Wu alias Ching Yu Leung\n    201\n  \n  \n    13. Fan Kwong alias Sun Yu Chng\n    202\n  \n  \n    14. Ka Sun Yan alias Li Yu Sau\n    203\n  \n  \n    15. Cheung Man To\n    204\n  \n  \n    16. Kuk Sui Ping alias Cheng Yu Sing\n    205, 300\n  \n  \n    17. Ma Ki Leung\n    301\n  \n  \n    18. Ho Rang Cho\n    \n  \n\nNOTE:- Nos. 1 to 11 in the above list appear on a document containing details of an organization in Shanghai complementary to that at 172 Nathan Road.\n\nNos. 12 to 18 on the above list are referred to in Acting Sub-Inspector Ellis' report at 4.",
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        "content_text": "91\n\n33\n\n(file of the Hong Kong Branch, established on 6-8-38.)\n\nList of members of the Hong Kong Branch of\n\nthe Nam Chim Sh'e.\n\nMALE.\n\nCORRESPONDENCE ADDRESS.\n\nDUTY\n\n1.\n\nSecretary\n\n2.\n\nHead of the\n\n翟克恭\n\nCHAK HAK KUNG\n\nCentral Trust of China.\n\n黄溯軒\n\nWÒNG SO HI\n\nCorrespondence Section\n\n楊立章\n\nYEUNG LAP CHEUNG\n\n3.\n\nMember\n\n4.\n\n?1\n\n丁毓初\n\nTING YUK CHO\n\n3\n\n5.\n\nHead of the General\n\nAffairs Section\n\n6.\n\nMember\n\n8.\n\nHead of the Enquiry Section\n\n劉龍鏘\n\n3, Knutsford Terrace,\n\nKimberley Road.\n\nLAU LUNG CHUNG\n\nCentral Bank of China.\n\n谢兆\n\nm\n\nnhư\n\nSIU HU\n\n徐北漠\n\nTSUI PAR MING\n\n劉宗法\n\nLAU CHUT FAT\n\nCentral Trust of China.\n\nCentral Trust of China.\n\n\"1\n\n9.\n\nMember\n\n凌憲揚\n\n10.\n\nLing Hin Yeung\n\n11.\n\nHead of the Social\n\nIntercourse Section\n\n12.\n\nMember\n\nLI CHO FING\n\n凌憲揚\n\n喬輔\n\n輔三\n\nKIU FU SAM\n\n李祖水\n\n(cancelled)\n\n\"\n\n2, Garden Terrace.\n\nSouth-West Transportation\n\nCo., Marina House.\n\n13.\n\nLING MIN YEUNG\n\nCentral Trust of China.\n\n14.\n\nHead of the Cultural\n\n劉耀邦\n\nInternational Printing\n\nSection\n\n15.\n\nMember\n\n16.\n\nYEUN SHUN PAK\n\n3, Knutsford\n\n鈞\n\n17.\n\n18.\n\n19.\n\n20.\n\n21.\n\nMember of Society\n\n申\n\n劍秋\n\n22.\n\n11\n\nSU:KIN CHAU\n\n3, Knutsford Terrace,\n\n生\n\n23.\n\n24.\n\n25.\n\nNG KAM, SANG\n\n胡\n\n陳\n\nCHING\n\nCIA: PO IN\n\n节\n\n禎\n\nLA YIU' PING\n\n羅吟圃\n\nLO YAM RO\n\n原順伯\n\n張志\n\nCHENG CHI KWAN\n\n李耀煌\n\nLI YIU WONG\n\n智手\n\nKIO CHL CHIN\n\n鄭兆良\n\nCo., Tsak Tsz Mui.\n\n13, Lock Rd.\n\nKimberley Rd.\n\nSouth-West Transportation\n\nCo., Marina House.\n\nCentral Trust of China.\n\nCentral Bank of China.\n\nCHUG STU LUNG\n\nSouth-West Transportation\n\nCo., Marina House.\n\nKimberley Rd.\n\nTerrace,\n\n#t",
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        "content_text": "LIST OF CHINESE-OWNED SCHOOLS IN HONG KONG.\n\nNUMBER...OF STUDENTS:\n\nPOLITICAL CONNECTIONS\n\nNAME\n\nHEADMASTER OR HEADMISTRESS\n\n  \n    WAH KIU MIDDLE SCHOOL\n    WONG SHUK TO\n    About 700\n  \n  \n    MUI FONG (BOYS & GIRLS) MIDDLE SCHOOL\n    梅芳\n    \n  \n  \n    CHI YUNG MIDDLE SCHOOL\n    知用\n    About 400\n  \n  \n    HEUNG KONG MIDDLE SCHOOL\n    CHAN TIT YAT 陳鐵一\n    About 800\n  \n  \n    \n    NG MAN CHI 吳敏墀\n    \n  \n\nThe headmaster was once in charge of the Party's affairs in Hong Kong. He has connections with CHU KA WAH, CHAN LAP FU, 朱家驊,陳立夫, 春雨,周啟剛, TSANG YEUNG PO and CHAU KAI KONG.\n\n  \n    SO YUNG SHUI\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    CHAN SHU LAM\n    \n    About 400\n  \n  \n    LING TUNG (BOYS & GIRLS) MIDDLE SCHOOL\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    FONG LAM (BOYS & GIRLS) MIDDLE SCHOOL\n    全淑淘\n    About 500\n  \n  \n    TAK MING MIDDLE SCHOOL\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    KONG MAU SHUM\n    \n    About 600\n  \n  \n    CHAN LAM FONG\n    \n    About 400\n  \n  \n    FOK TIT YU\n    \n    About 500\n  \n  \n    NG TSZ HING 伍梓馨\n    \n    \n  \n\n7-8 Castle Road.\n\nNo political complexion. The headmaster has recently joined the Party.\n\nThis school was opened by the CHI YUNG Institute. It has no political complexion. The headmaster is the son of CHAN WAI CHOW who financed the school.\n\nNo political background.\n\nOpened by LAM YIK CHUNG and WONG LUN SHU who were headmaster and assistant-headmaster previously.\n\nNo political complexion in the past. FU PING SHEUNG is a member of the School Board. The headmaster has also recently joined the party.\n\nNo political connections,\n\n  \n    \n    85 Caine Road.\n  \n  \n    (Boys School) No. 94 Robinson Rd.\n    (Girls School) 86-88 Robinson Rd.\n  \n  \n    (Boys & Girls School) Portland Str. S.S.Po.\n    \n  \n  \n    70 Tai Po Rd. S.S.Po.\n    \n  \n  \n    Mong Kok Road, Branches at Marsh Rd. Wanchai ? and Kai Yan Rd. Kowloon.\n    \n  \n  \n    (Boys School) Po Hing Fong.\n    (Girls school) Causeway Bay.\n  \n  \n    229 Nathan Road.\n    \n  \n  \n    45\n    87",
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        "content_text": "Back Room. Found in Cabin Trunk.\n\nTRANSLATION OF EXTRACT FROM UNNUMBERED FILE.\n\n(78)\n\n60\n\nTo the Generalissimo.\n\n(RED COVER)\n\nI beg to submit that we\n\n楊嘯天\n\n楊虎\n\nhave received through Gen. YEUNG SIU TIN (YEUNG FU)\n\n逐一\n\na report made by LI SHUI SIN, Chief Secretary of the\n\nChinese Seamen's Special Party (K.M.T.) Headquarters,\n\nsuggesting the using of Fukienese traitors for\n\nespionage works. The report stated in brief as\n\nfollows :\n\n\"Many FUKIENese have now turned over to the\n\n\"side of CHAN KWAN, the rebel. I (LI) can secretly\n\n\"secure the service and assistance of some of these\n\n\"people for spying on the movements of the enemy and\n\n\"the puppets.\n\nI therefore submit for your instructions as\n\nto whether this is practicable, so that I can act\n\naccordingly.\n\n今侃\n\nLING HON. 30. 5.\n\nIf this is alright, a fair copy will be made out\n\nand be forwarded by you personally.\n\nYes.\n\n祚(Intld) CHU.\n\n30. 5.\n\nPage 60\nPage 61",
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        "content_text": "(67)\n\n73\n\nBrown Envelope.\n\nIntelligence report Vol.1 (February)\n\ncompiled by the 4th Section, Shanghai.\n\nReport by 753 dated 27.2. To Yuet Sang will be coming to Shanghai.\n\nIt is reported that he is connected with the Japanese and also with Wang's clique. The object of his visit is not known — some say it is to protect Wang's activities in Shanghai.\n\nUnno File.\n\nReport dated 31.5.\n\nEnemy Cabinet met for the past few days and decided to join the German-Italian Military Alliance. In case of the outbreak of the European war, the enemy would undertake the invasion of Singapore, Annam, and Hong Kong.\n\nSiam has signed an Arms Pact with Germany and has ordered a certain quantity of arms from Austria.\n\nFile No.11a Name 202B.\n\nReport No.1884 by 751 dated 10.5.39. It is reported that Wang's principal organisation still remains in Hong Kong.\n\nPo etc. will be coming to Shanghai.\n\n陳公博 Chan Kung Po\n\nReport No.1937 by 751 dated 25.5.39. Wang's important propagandist Fan Chung-ling (樊仲零) has returned to Hong Kong. People think that Wang still has activities in Hong Kong.\n\nReport No.1985 by 751 dated 5.6.39 Foreign source. The Japanese signed a secret pact with the Siamese last month, which is detrimental to our country.\n\nReport No.2236 by 751 dated 28.7.39. Wang's clique has bought over the Seamen's Union at $250,000 per month, and the crews in the various steamers are at its (Wang's clique's) disposal.\n\nIt is very risky to travel or ship goods in these vessels.\n\nFile No.56 Name 204.\n\nReport No.1123 by 204 dated 4.1.39. Chan Chung Fu left Shanghai for Hong Kong. His mission is to influence the new K.M.T. members to support Wang.\n\n唐騮萬 Tong Lau-man, son of 唐紹儀 Tong Siu-yee\n\nReport No.1115 by 204 dated 6.1.39.",
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        "content_text": "儀 Yee is very active in Hong Kong in trying to get the post of 玉 Puppet Governor of Kwangtung and is at loggerheads with Wong Wei who also wished to get the post.\n\nReport No.1265 dated 30.1.39.\n\n傅式 Fu Sik of the All Peoples Party proceeded to Hong Kong from Shanghai to strengthen the Party's co-operation between Hong Kong and Shanghai. He will return to Shanghai in three weeks' time.\n\nTai Lap spent over $20,000.00 to call a meeting of the various squad representatives to advise on the affairs of the 軍 Loyal and Righteous National Salvation Army without result.\n\n程 陳蔭祖 Two of his squads under Ching Mah Kwan and Chan Yam Cho surrendered to the Japanese Puppet. Tai is planning for further adjustment of the army and is personally proceeding to conduct a meeting in Hong Kong which will be attended by 14 persons, one man representing each squad, and four men from the Commander-in-Chief's headquarters. They proceeded to Hong Kong on the 26th and will return to Shanghai in ten days' time.\n\nReport No.2057 by 753 dated 23.6.39. The British Consul-General Phillips was previously a merchant in Shanghai and has been closely connected with the Japanese. Since his appointment as Consul-General, his pro-Japanese attitude remains the same. The Japanese requested to suppress the anti-Japanese newspapers. This was rejected by the American Consul (Kosze) but was accepted by Phillips, who enforced certain restrictions on the British Commercial Newspapers. It is heard that such action is not known to the British Ambassador, Sir Archibald Clark Kerr. The staff of the Consulate are also not satisfied with Phillips' pro-Japanese attitude.\n\nReport No.2227 by 753 dated 26.7.39. Five Germans, Woun Von, Schaskglantz, Kunge, and two others, have been sent to Shanghai recently to assist the Japanese in directing the military operations in Central China.",
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        "content_text": "65\n\nSummary of Secret Intelligence Report No.40 issued on\n\nthe 9.4.39.\n\n77\n\nEnemy's South China Special Affairs Organisation.\n\nPersonnel.\n\nO.i/c OSHINO, Military Attache.\n\nTONEGI.\n\nO.i/c Intelligence work.\n\n朵夫 林\n\n李梍\n\n陳梧\n\nIntelligence Work: LAM SHEK FU, GENKICHI KATO CHAN NG\n\n生\n\nAE 鄭 天\n\nClerk:\n\nPER SANG, LI PIU NANG, CHENG TIN SH'E, CHAN\n\n及杜石\n\n謝\n\nKAP, TO SHEK SHAN, RITARO ITADA, TSE 腩德 31\n\n尚\n\nCHUN TAK and CHEUNG SHEUNG.\n\nMINORU YATAGAI.\n\nCommunication Officers:\n\n林\n\n滚\n\nLAM KWAN and YU SIU LAM.\n\nO.i/c Military Affairs,: TAKASAKI,\n\n朝虎菜勿先\n\n周天啟\n\nSpecial Affairs:\n\n王\n\nWONG CHIU FU, MOK KAI SIN, CHAU TIN KAI,\n\n能奇\n\n林拖蘇\n\nYUNG KI, WONG CHEONG SHING, LAM TOR, SO\n\n志雄\n\n林正 息 施\n\nCHI HUNG, MASUDA, LAM CHI TING, SZE KIN\n\n葉錦燦\n\nand\n\nKAM TSAN.\n\nRIICHIRO CHIHARA.\n\nClerk:\n\nTelegraphist:\n\nISHIDA.\n\n2.\n\nHeadquarters.\n\nMilitary Department..\n\nOrganisations.\n\n.Military Attache Oshino's Residence, The Peak.\n\n...Matsubara Hotel, Ice House Street,\n\n1st floor.\n\nIntelligence Department..Japanese Consulate, Ice House St.\n\nSub Departments.\n\nPerson in Charge.\n\n1. LAM TOR.\n\n2. LAM CHI TING.\n\n3. MASUDA.\n\n4. WONG CHEONG SHING.\n\n5. CHENG TIN SHE and LAM TOR\n\n6. CHAN.\n\n7. MOK KAI SIN\n\n8. A certain Japanese.\n\nLocality.\n\n45 Peking Road, 3rd floor.\n\n19 Wing Lok Street.\n\n48 Hollywood Road, 1st floor.\n\n42 Connaught Road Central.\n\n9 Queens Street, 2nd floor.\n\n163 Queen's Rd.C., 1st floor.\n\n26 Village Road.\n\nMajima Hospital, Wanchai Rd.",
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        "content_text": "Back Room. Right hand Steel Cabinet. No.1 Drawer.\n\nFile No.83.\n\nName......Japanese Espionage.\n\nTRANSLATION OF EXTRACT.\n\n(60)\n\n90\n\nThe Japanese Secret Service organisation was started in Hong Kong in 1933. At present Hong Kong is the base of activities of the Japanese spies in South China.\n\n(1) Military. The military secret service is in charge of the Japanese Military Attache stationed in Hong Kong. The first term Military Attache was Ken UTSUNOMIYA, the 2nd term was OHIRA and the 3rd term was Shigesaburo MIYAZAKI, the 4th term was Takuji SUZUKI and the 5th term, i.e. the present term is Yoshio ISHINO.\n\n(a) LI LOKI Clique. LI is a notorious Formosan ronin. He accompanied SUZUKI to Hong Kong when the latter was transferred here last year. His work is to buy the Chinese traitors, and send spies to the interior to carry out activities.\n\n(b) LI CHO TING Clique. Former Japanese interpreter of the Central Military Academy. His role is the same as LI LOKI. His men include CHEUNG NGAN CHUNG, LAU MAN PAN, CHEUNG LAI KAM and LIU KIN CHAK.\n\n(c) SUGAHARA Clique. Uses the Chitose Hotel as the organisation place. He directs the Fukien and Kwangtung Chinese traitors. His men include LAM SUN PUN, LAI PAK CHUEN and WONG CHIU FU.\n\n(d) WONG WING FUK Clique. His men include TANG MING and TONG CHUN KWOK.\n\n(2) Navy. Is in charge of the Japanese Naval Attache in Hong Kong. The organisation is in Macao.\n\n(a) NG AH SHEUNG Clique (Female). Her followers include CHAN HOT NGO, LAM WING LOONG, CHEUNG KWONG PONG, NG YEUK HON (John NG), TSANG CHIU CHUEN, CHIU KONG and YI KAM HANG.",
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        "content_text": "2 - \n\n謝道恒\n\n91\n\n(b) TSE TO HANG Clique. TSE is a compradore of the Japanese fleet. He purchases food supplies for the enemy. He also buys Chinese traitors.\n\nHis organisation is at No.52 Morrison Hill Road, 1st floor, Happy Valley.\n\n李炳文\n\nHis man is TSÁNG HOK LỒ,\n\nLI PING MAN Clique. His men in Hong Kong include\n\n譚國華\n\nYIP KING WUN and TAM KWOK WAH.\n\n(3) FOREIGN AFFAIRS. Is in charge of the Japanese Consul in Hong Kong.\n\n林抵耳\n\n(a) Those connected with TONEGI (vice-consul) are LAM\n\n柯保羅\n\n許金\n\nTAI TING, LIU KIN CHAK, O PO LO (Paul O ?), HUI KAM\n\n蔡鏡塘\n\nSHUI, and TSOI KENG TONG.\n\n(b) Those connected with FUJISHIMA (Secretary of the\n\n王祖修\n\nJapanese Consulate) are WONG CHO SAU and WONG CHIU FU.\n\n(c) Those connected with FUJITA (Head of the Secret\n\n有年量\n\nService) are TUNG YAUNIN and (Waitress of the\n\nCentral Hotel).\n\nPO\n\n富露中南\n\nThe Hong Kong agents of the Swatow Chung Nam Company\n\n輝南方\n\n祭孝順\n\nare CHAN KI FAI (Nam Fong Automobile Company) and TSÓI\n\nHAU SHUN (Chung Nam Company).\n\nHong Kong Agents of the Japanese Newspaper Presses.\n\n(a) \"OSAKA MAINICHI SHINBUN SHA\" Atsumu ASHIKAGA,\n\n(Matsubara, Ice House Street), LIU KIN CHAK and TAM KWOK WAH\n\n(b) \"TOKIO ASAHI SHINBUN SHA\" Shigekiyo KUMAMOTO (1A\n\n李自修\n\n張老邦\n\nChater Road, 2nd floor. LI CHI SAU (Formosan) and CHEUNG\n\nKWONG PONG, concurrently intelligence members.\n\n(c) \"DOMEI\" Maşa NAKAMURA, TAYOSHI (605 Holland House,\n\n(c) \"DOMETE 13\n\n陳順\n\n許金水\n\n吳渭川\n\n6th floor). CHAN SHUN YEE, HUI KẨM SHUI and NG WAI CHUEN\n\n(153 Queen's Road C.) HUI and NG are intelligence members.\n\n(d) \"HONG KONG NIPPO\" Is in charge of Motoichi IDE.\n\n葉錦燦\n\n康然\n\nYIP KAM CHAAN is a Chinese editor His men include HỒNG IN\n\n三棧\n\n鍾國珍\n\n(master of the SAM CHUN CHAN), CHUNG KWOK CHUN (Manager of\n\n糖\n\n鄭耀庭\n\nLO Company) & CHENG YIU TING (residing at 51 Hennessy Rd.",
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        "content_text": "95\n\n林芷亭\n\nLAM CHI TING\n\n李\n\n鍾佑\n\nLI CHUNG YAU\n\n2\n\n張\n\n玉書\n\nCHEUNG YUK SHU\n\n潘問庭\n\nPUN MAN TING\n\n李國\n\nLI KWOK\n\nChiu-Chow. Principal of the TIN YIN YAT PO.\n\nMajor-General in the regime of CHAN KWING MING.\n\n161 Wanchai Rd. 1st floor. Will go to Swatow.\n\n32 ? 36 ? Nam Tung, 3rd floor, Kowloon. Will go to Swatow.\n\nFormer District Magistrate of TUNG KUN.\n\n167 Queen's Rd. 2nd fl. Connected with TAM KWOK WAH.\n\nChief of the assassination corps of the enemy in Hong Kong.\n\nChungking.\n\nF.E., FIUMINGS Britain\n\n孔夫\n\n李凡夫\n\nLI FAN FU\n\nKUNG MAN FAT\n\nAgnes PAN. Female agent for the Japanese.\n\nSecret agent of the Japanese Consulate in Canton. Resides at 151 Des Voeux Road, 1st floor.\n\n17 Van Chung Fong, H.V. 19.1.39.",
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        "content_text": "- 3 \n\no! \n\n周文山\n\nCHAU MAN SHAN\n\n周品\n\nW13\n\nCHAU NGAM\n\n146\n\n(Native of Shantung A member of the\n\nAssassin of FU.)\n\n周隆庠\n\nCHAU LUNG CHEUNG.\n\n(WANG's Japanese\n\nsecretary and Interpreter).\n\nstaff of the Shanghai\n\nPuppet Municipal Govt\n\nIn charge of the\n\nShanghai Special\n\nAffairs Organ of the\n\nMilitary Affairs Commission.\n\nRunner for KO CHUNG MO.\n\nNG (8 Strokes)\n\n鹿\n\nNG MEI LAI\n\n(Female)\n\nLAM(8 Strokes)\n\n林柏生\n\nLAM PAK SANG.\n\n胡茵成\n\nWU LAN SHING\n\n胡震昌\n\nWU CHUN CHEUNG.\n\nSpy in Swatow.\n\nMember of WANG's Clique. General Manager of the\n\nNAM WAH YAT PO.\n\n(南華日报).\n\nProminent member\n\nof WANG's Clique.\n\n徐瑩\n\nTSUI YING.\n\n(Wife of LAM PAK\n\nSANG) A Russian\n\nReturned Student.\n\n高語罕\n\nKO YU HON.\n\nMember of the Trot-\n\nsky Clique.\n\n宗武\n\nKO CHUNG MO.\n\nWANG's Clique.\n\n馬育航\n\nMA YUK HONG .\n\nTONG LAU.\n\nCHAN CHUNG FU\n\n陳麗伯\n\nCHAN LIM PAK\n\nNow engaged in activities in Shanghai.\n\nTo organise an Overseas Chinese Propaganda Committee.\n\nHead of the Shanghai\n\nOrganisation Dept. of the Communist Party.\n\nRunning for LAM PAK SANG in Shanghai.\n\nProminent member of Ex-Director of the\n\nAsiatic Affairs Dept.\n\nof the Ministry of\n\nForeign Affairs.\n\nNow traitor.\n\nEx-Secretary of the Nanking Puppet\n\nMunicipal Government. Assassinated.\n\n紹儀\n\n儀\n\nSon of SIU YER.\n\nTraitor.\n\n\"Premier\" of the Peiping Puppet Regime.\n\nTraitor.\n\n唐驪\n\n陳\n\n中孚\n\n唐伯\n\n張\n\n湯良礼\n\nTONG LEUNG LAI.\n\nTool of WANG.\n\n彭束園\n\nCHEUNG HAK CHEONG.\n\nCommittee man of the Shanghai Labour\n\nUnion. Now a runner for WANG.\n\nPreaches propaganda\n\nfor WANG.\n\nPANG TUNG YUEN.\n\nChairman of the Canton Puppet Peace\n\nMaintenance Asso. and director of the\n\nCivil Affairs Department.",
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        "content_text": "Back Room. Left hand Steel Cabinet. 3rd Drawer.\n\nCard Index.\n\nTRANSLATION.\n\n子黙村\n\n148\n\nNAME\n\nPAST HISTORY.\n\nMOVEMENTS\n\nTING MAK CHUEN.\n\n(202 157) Chief of the Special Affairs Section of the Military Affairs Commission, leading member of the C.C. Party. (750 - 1979) At present responsible for the Assassination Squads of WANG's Clique. Member of the Chinese Kuomintang. (750 1882). TING of WANG's Clique formed the Assassination Squads in Shanghai. He also intends to buy the Shanghai working members of the Assassination Squads on the Central Government, because TING has had a long history in the Shanghai Municipal Kuomintang Office.\n\noffice i ve\n\n10.5.39.\n\n(756 1885) He has fraternized CHAU FAT HOI lately and organised the assassination groups, in order to suppress our Assassination Squads. It is learned that he afforded protection to LO X (10th).\n\n(750 1979) The headquarters of the Assassination Squads organized by TING is located at YU YUEN Road, \n路\nYUET KAI CHUK Road, the front entrance facing the Road, with branch offices in French and British Concessions.\n\n(753 1986). Last Spring TING and LI SHI KWAN were sent by CHAN CHUNG FU to Shanghai to have connections with the Japanese. EX TING and LI then fraternized with the Japanese. They gave information concerning the C.C. and K.M.T. They were highly commended by the Japanese. They each received a sum of $1,000 monthly as activity expenses, and were instructed to pay special attention in collecting information concerning the C.P., their leaders, and the Blue Shirts. The Japanese have perfect confidence in TING and it is true that",
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        "content_text": "Back Room. Left hand Steel Cabinet. 3rd Drawer.\n\nCard Index.\n\nNAME..\n\nPAST HISTORY.\n\n•\n\nTRANSLATION.\n\n17\n\n157\n\n楨\n\n何世\n\nTry to #\n\nHO SAI CHING.\n\n..At one time the Chief Judge of the\n\nShanghai Court, and Chancellor of the\n\n之江\n\nTSZ KONG University.\n\nMOVEMENTS...\n\n(205 716) He is making preparations\n\n-\n\nwith the important personages of Germany and Italy\n\nto organize the Peace Conference.\n\n(202 - 1232)\n\n1232) He is much in favour of WANG's\n\naffair. (24th)\n\n陳\n\n中孚\n\n(751 - 1534) He interviewed CHAN CHUNG FU this\n\nmonth, and talked about the re-organisation of\n\nthe Kuomintang. (March 13).\n\n(7561637)\n\n1637) During the past successive days he\n\n周佛海褚民誼 何世枚\n\nsaw CHAU FAT HOI? CHU MAN YEE and HO SAI MUI, and\n\ndecided to establish an information office in\n\nShanghai for WANG's clique. (28th).",
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        "content_text": "162\n\nthe Japanese General Otozo YAMADA. WANG advocated that the Puppet Reformed Government should negotiate the rendition of the Shanghai International Settlement.\n\n(Extract from the TA KUNG PAO) On the 8th the National Government issued a warrant for WANG's arrest.\n\n(753-2090) The present organisation of WANG's clique is as follows:-\n\nThe Highest Committee: with the following members:- CHU MAN YEE, 陳璧君 (CHAN PIK KWAN, wife of WANG CHING WEI), MA KEUK TIT (a German), and the younger brother of CHAN PIK KWAN.\n\nUnder the \"High Committee\" there are five other committees, viz:-\n\n(A) Foreign Affairs' Committee, with NG HOI SING as President.\n\n(B) Publication Committee, with LI SHING NG as head.\n\n(C) Political Committee, with CHAU FAT HOI as head.\n\n(D) Military Committee, head not yet appointed.\n\n(E) Special Affairs' Committee, with TING MAK CHUEN as head.\n\n(753-2137) WU PEI FU has decided not to co-operate with WANG's Puppet Regime.",
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        "title": "CO129-579-12 Sino-Japanese War- bombing of railway line within leased territories (Shamchun Incident) 21-2-1939 - 17-3-1939",
        "content_text": "SECRET CIPHER\n\nFrom:- O.O.C. Hong Kong,\n\nTELEGRAM.\n\nRAMRAE\n\nDesp. 2330 21.2.39. Recd.1000 22.2.39.\n\nTo\n\nThe War Office.\n\n4871 Cipher 11/8.\n\n109\n\nThe (other) machine of this flight detached itself when over crest of hill and diving over Lo Fu camp attacked a train standing on railway at about Lo Vu (brick) works (1479) a mile inside British territory. Two attacks were made one bomb being dropped each time. The bomb fell on embankment and caused considerable damage to train; this train was running on normal schedule. All attacks made in British territory were from a height of not more than 500 feet and were observed by officers 2nd Bn. Royal Scots in Lo Fu camp which is one mile from British railway station and 500 yards from railway embankment on which train was standing.\n\nHave just returned from frontier and consider attacks were inexcusable as nowhere is frontier more clearly defined than in this sector. Frontier itself is Sham Chan river, railway crosses it by a bridge and there is clear line of hills on British side, while Chinese side is flat. Lo Fu tented camp occupied by battalions at training is most conspicuous and visibility at time was excellent. Flying at height they were there should have been no possibility of mistaking their whereabouts.\n\nHave ordered (?Royal Scots) and 6th Rajputana Rifles in Lo Fu and Jun Lai camps to take action against any aircraft attacking British territory.\n\nGovernor has instructed Consul General Canton to communicate this to Japanese Commander.\n\nColonel Ishino resident in Hong Kong as a language officer has asked through Japanese Acting Consul General for an interview.",
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        "content_text": "Enclosure No.1.\n\n27\n\n(1)\n\nTo bring pressure, in order to eradicate the causes of recurrences of terrorism, upon the members of Blue Shirts, C.C. Corps (Green and White Gang; secret political society headed by the two \"Chans\" Chan Kuo-fu and Chan Lap-fu), Communist Party and other secret Chinese societies who are responsible for anti-Japanese and anti-peace movements, and to make stop their activities. To deport them when sufficient circumstantial facts be established.\n\n(2)\n\nTo suppress anti-Japanese activities of the agents of the Chinese Government and Kuomintang party at Chungking.\n\n(3)\n\nTo treat amicably and friendly those Chinese people who advocate pro-Japanese and peace movements.\n\n(4)\n\nTo enforce fair, impartial control on Chinese newspapers issued in Hong Kong. (To give full publicity to those articles on the subject of peace movement, and to exclude pressure and hindrances brought about by Chinese upon such newspapers as publish news, editorials and correspondences in respect of peace movement, etc.)\n\n(5)\n\nTo prohibit importation of arms and ammunitions to the interior, say, by South-West Transport Company, Central Trust Bureau and other organs of the Chungking Government.\n\n(6)\n\nTo take appropriate and effective steps for the prohibition of anti-Japanese agitation among inhabitants. (Prohibition of anti-Japanese fund campaign, anti-Japanese cinema pictures and theatrical performance and anti-Japanese publications, etc.)",
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        "content_text": "Office of Agent\n\nClosure No. 1.\n\n(1)\n\nLoss or Damage\n\n  \n    Type & No.\n    Owner or Master\n    Crew\n    Junk & Gear\n    Cargo\n    Nature of Incident\n  \n  \n    Trading Junk T2239H\n    LI YUK of CHUNG SHAN\n    5 males\n    \n    Kerosene & flour $1,055.00\n    Seized by Japanese in two motor boats off LIN TIN, Chinese Territory. No one injured.\n  \n  \n    Fishing Junk 3023 H.A.\n    SHEX CHO TAI of Hong Kong\n    11 males\n1 female\n4 children\n    $1,000.00\n    \n    Junk was burnt out by Japanese from a motor boat off Lama Islands in Chinese Waters. Crew were sent off. No one injured.\n  \n  \n    Trading Junk T2135H\n    WONG ON of PUN U\n    7 males\n    \n    Fruit $400.00\n    Junk was boarded by Japanese from a trawler and cargo removed near LING TING in Chinese Waters. No one injured.\n  \n  \n    Fishing Junk 3870 E.O.\n    CHAN FU LEE of Hong Kong\n    3 males\n    $1,600.00\n    \n    Junk was burnt out by Japanese from a trawler inside territorial waters near PAN LAU Point (Lantau). No one injured.\n  \n  \n    Trading Junk T1159H\n    HUI KNONG YUNG of CHIU YEUNG\n    7 males\n    \n    Fruit & vegetables $957.00\n    Junk was boarded by Japanese from a warship near SAM MUN in Chinese waters, the cargo was dumped and junk damaged. No one injured.\n  \n  \n    Trading Junk T2956H\n    CHAN HING of Hong Kong\n    11 males\n    $20.00\n    Kerosene & matches $655.00\nChinese money $5,155.00\n    Junk was boarded by Japanese from a gun boat near SAM MUN, Chinese waters. No one injured.\n  \n\n$75.00\n\n3.8.39 (reported on 9.10.39)\n\n28.9.39 (reported on 6.10.39)\n\n12.10.39\n\n6.39\n\n5.10.39\n\nPage 90\n\nPage 91\n\n(2)",
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        "content_text": "(6) \n\nLoss or Damage \n\nDate of Incident \n\n13.11.39 \n\nFishing Junk 270 H.A. \n\nType & No. of Junk \n\nKWOK FU BEING of Hong Kong \n\nOwner or Master \n\n8 males \n\nCrew \n\n$1100.00 Arms \n\nJunk & Gear \n\n11 \n\nCargo \n\n5 females \n\nchildren \n\n20.7.39 (reported on 15.11.39) \n\nFishing Junk 539 HL, V. \n\nTO HOI FU of TUNG KUM \n\n13 males \n\n$1200.00 \n\n7 females \n\nChinese Territory |†2 children. \n\n17.11.39 \n\nFishing Junk \n\nNo. unknown \n\nWONG KA CHI birth place unknown \n\napprox. 20 persons \n\nNot given \n\nNature of Incident \n\n141 \n\nNot known. \n\nBoarded by Japanese from a trawler near LING TING in Chinese Waters, APTS N moved. No one injured, \n\nBoarded off SAN MEI, Chinese Territory, Crew by Japanese from a motor boat. were sent away and junk burnt, later crew returned and salvaged junk. No one injured, \n\nCHUNG YAU, master of 2328 E.D. reported that he had seen his brother's (WONG MA CHI) Junk seized by Japanese trawler near LIN TIN in Chinese Waters, no further details. \n\nBoarded by a Japanese motor boat near LIN TIN, Chinese Waters, arms removed, No one injured, \n\nBoarded by Japanese from a motor boat in Chinese Waters near LIN TIN, one canon dumped. No one injured. \n\nBoarded by Japanese from a trawler near LIN TIN in Chinese Waters, Cargo was dumped, No one injured. \n\n29. 8. 39 \n\nTrading Junk \n\nreported on \n\nT4410H \n\nLEUNG CHI \n\n5 males \n\n$160.00 \n\nA \n\n#11 \n\nof TUNG KUN \n\n21.11.39) \n\nChinese Territory \n\n15.11.39 \n\nTrading Junk \n\nCHAN KAN \n\n7 males \n\n$15.00 \n\nArms \n\nWil \n\nT2262H \n\nof TUNG KUN \n\nChinese Territory \n\n18.9.39 \n\nTrading Junk \n\n(reported on 22.11.39) \n\nT2497I \n\nLENG YING SHUN of Canton \n\n7 males \n\n$120.00 Junk $10.00 Anchor \n\nLicense \n\nCargo of paper \n\n$2000.00 \n\n30",
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        "content_text": "- 2 -\n\n180\n\nEast of Conic Island.\n\nI was never nearer than approximately 2 miles and I had no glasses on board and therefore can give no further details or description.\n\nAt about 16.15 hours my launch entered SAU SI MUN and I was then out of sight of the trawler and KWONG HING.\n\nAt about 17.00 hours I met Steam Launch WAN FAT near CHENG CHAU. I boarded her because she was late through engine trouble.\n\nAt about 17.15 hours I met No. 1 Police Launch near FU TAU MUN (Steam Launch SAI KUNG was steaming with us). We reported the incident to the Inspector in Charge.\n\nI would not be able to recognize the trawler again.\n\nOn board Steam Launch SAI KUNG at the time were:\n\n1/ Coxswain LAI FUK, 2/ Seamen CHENG PAK TAI, 3/ CHENG YAU, 4/ LAI YEE KAN, 5/ Engineer nicknamed FA LI KAU, 6/ Engineer CHENG CHIU, 7/ Stoker CHEUNG FUK, 8/ one stoker name unknown, 9/ one cook nicknamed SAP NG CHAI, all reside on board.\n\n(sgd.) S. Shepheard\n\nDivisional Inspector South\n\n21.1.40.\n\nPage 180\n\nPage 181",
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        "content_text": "COLX\n\n257\n\nNo. Police Launch\n\n1. K. GEGRON, Acting Sub-Inspector, states;- K. OBUROP,\n\nAt 09.15 hours on the 14th October, 1939, the officer in Charge TAI O, boarded No.8 launch at TAI O, with CHAN FU LEE, master of Fishing Junk No.387 H.K. also CHAN LIN SAI, sernan on board the same fishing junk with instructions for me to take them to a position between AH CHAU and PAN AU points for the purpose of pointing out the position where his junk was first boarded and set on fire.\n\nNo.8 launch proceeded to a position between AH CHAU and PAN LAU Point arriving there at 10.15 hours where CHAN FU LEE and CHAN LIN SAI pointed out the position where the junk was first boarded. Bearings was then taken by me which reads as follows:-\n\nSouth of ROCKEY Island, LAI SAI BO #\n\nBest of EI CHI CHAU, CHI CHAU\n\nSouth of AH CHAU, KO Island # 68 K.\n\nrending on chart 80.1180.\n\nLat, ge 10 min. 44 sec.\n\nLong.113 Deg.81 min. XI sec.\n\nThe position of junk reads about half a mile outside Colonial waters, and about one mile inside territorial tore.\n\n1 K. George, Acting Sub-Inspector.\n\nOfficer in Charge, No.8 Launch.\n\n14th October, 1939.",
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        "content_text": "## Crew \n| Date of Incident | Type & No. of Junk | Owner or Master & Passenger | Loss or Damage | C. | P. | Nature of Incident & Lat. Long. |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 25.12.40 (Reported 15.1.41) | Fishing. 2928HW | Fung Tim Tai of Hong Kong, 58 Yrs. master, 16 crew | 1 licence book. Junk returned 2.1.41 | Nil | Nil | From Shaukiwan. Junk was fishing off Sam Ilun Kwan (C.T.) when approached by Japanese warship. The junk was searched and only took away licence book. No one injured. Lat. 22° 26' N. Long. 114° 39' E. |\n|  (Reported 15.1.41) | Fishing. 981HW | Leung Sap, 50 Yrs. master, of Tai Ping (C.T.), 22 crew | 1 licence book. Junk returned | Nil | Nil | From Kit Shok (C.T.). Junk was fishing off Kit Shek, (C.T.) when she was boarded by a Japanese trawler painted grey. No one injured. Lat. 22° 48' 30\". Long. 115° 49' E. |\n| 10.1.41 (Reported 15.1.41) | Trading. T3871H | Li Yip Chan, 28 Yrs. master, of Kwong Hoi, 11 crew | Armament v. $100. Junk returned | General. Bamboo V. $4000 Orange peel V. $100. Sausage V. $400 White stone v. $100. T. V. $4600 | Nil | From Kwong Hoi. When sailing 6 miles W. of Si Chi Chau (C.T.) a Japanese 1/B came alongside and searched the junk. The junk was towed to Lin Tin & the cargo transferred to another junk. Value of cargo $4600.00. No one injured. Lat. 22° 7' N. Long. 113° 52' E. |\n| 2.1.41 (Reported 15.1.41) | Fishing. 633HA | Fok Fu Chun, 44 Yrs. master of Chung Shan, 24 crew | 1 licence book. Junk returned. Armament v. $400. cannons 2 rifles 200 Rds. ammunition, 1 licence book, $1200 C.K.C. $250 T. V. $650 | Nil | 62 png. | This junk was fishing about 1 mile E. of Chi Lang Pt. when stopped by Japanese trawler No. 26. The arms were transferred to the trawler. No one injured. Lat. 22° 39' N. Long. 115° 34' E. |",
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        "content_text": "## Crow \n(6) \n\n| Date of Incident | Type & No. of Junk | Owner or Master & Passenger | Loss or Damage | C. | P. | Long. | Lat. |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 13.1.40 (Reported 21.1.41) | Fishing. 936HC | Li Fu, 25 Yrs. owner, of Choung Shan | 1 wrist watch $10. 2 tins kerosene $7.00. 1 anchor & chain $50. Junk returned | Nil |  |  |  |\n| 6.1.41 (Reported 22.1.41) | Trading. T3150H | O Kung, 32 Yrs, master, of Wai Loi (C.T.) | 8 Oranges, fish, & chickens $50.00. 1 licence book. Junk returned |  |  |  |  |\n| 19.1.41 (Reported 23.1.41) | Fishing. 349HW | Li Wah Fuk, 28 Yrs. master, of Hong Kong. | Armament $200.00. 1 licence Bk. Nil. Junk returned |  |  |  |  |\n\n## Nature of Incident\n\nFrom Shaukiwan. Junk was fishing off Sam Mun Kwan when Japanese trawler came alongside & searched the junk taking away articles to the value of $67.00. No one injured.\n\nFrom Hoi Mun. Junk was sailing toward H. K. & when off San Moi (C.T.) a Japanese destroyer ordered the junk alongside & removed the fish & chickens, $50.00. No one injured.\n\nFrom Shaukiwan. Junk was sailing E. of Sum Mun Kwan when she was stopped by a Japanese trawler painted grey, & was boarded & searched. Armament & licence book taken away. No one injured.\n\n| Date of Incident | Type & No. of Junk | Owner or Master & Passenger | Loss or Damage | C. | P. | Long. | Lat. |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n|  | Trading. T2218H | Tsoi Chong Sheung, 22 Yrs.master, of Young Kong | Junk & gear V.$2000. Wood oil v. $60,000. Armament v.$1700. |  |  | 114° 39' E | 22° 26' N |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  | 115° 25' E | 22° 46' N |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  | 114° 39' E | 22° 26' N |\n|  |  |  | From Yeung Kong. Junk was stopped by a Japanese warship 4 miles N. of Man Shan. Crew were put in their own sampan, & junk set on fire. Crew landed on Gap Rock & later were brought to H. K. by Fenry Keswick. No one injured |  |  | 113° 44' E | 21° 57' N |\n\n## S/T",
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        "content_text": "## Nature of Incident \n| Date of Incident | Type & No. | Crew | Owner or Master & Passenger | Loss or Damage | C. | P. | Junk & gear | Cargo |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 25.2.41 (Reported 14.3.41) | Cargo 3877V | 5 | Wong Yoo Mui, mistress, of Hong Kong. 32 Yrs. | 1 licence book. | Nil | Nil |  |  |\n| 20.2.41 (Reported 22.3.41) | Trading. Unlicensed | 20 | Chan Mun Yuen, master, of Man King Sha. 41 Yrs. | Nil | Nil |  |  |  |\n| 7.3.41 (Reported 25.3.41) | Trading T5476H | 8 | Lai Yin Fu, master, of Kyong Hoi. 37 Yrs. | 1 licence book, 4 cannons v.$175. |  |  |  |  |\n\nThis junk had a cargo of taro root and sweet potatoes value $208.00 when stopped by a sampan containing 4 Japanese sailors off Tai Shan. No cargo stolen. No one injured.\n\nThis junk was sailing off Lin Tin when stopped by a Japanese M/B. The master of the junk hid in the hold when the Japanese boarded. When he came on deck, eight of his fokies had been taken away by the Japanese. The cargo was not touched.\n\nThis junk was sailing off Sam Mun Kwan when stopped by a Japanese trawler. 3 rifles, 5 muskets, 4 cannons, 150 Rds. ammunition & powder & shot were removed to Japanese trawler. No one injured.\n\nJunk was sailing near Kwong Hoi when stopped by Japanese trawler. Cargo was transshipped & 4 cannons & 1 licence book was thrown overboard. No one injured.\n\n| Long. | Lat. | \n| --- | --- | \n| 113° 31' E. | 22° 31' N. | \n| 113° 48' E. | 22° 25' N. | \n| 114° 39' E. | 22° 26' N. | \n| 112° 45' E. | 21° 45' N. |\n\n| Type & No. | Crew | Owner or Master & Passenger | Loss or Damage | \n| --- | --- | --- | --- | \n| Fishing 2273HW | 16 | Cheung Tak Fat, master & owner of Macau. 71 Yrs. | Armament v.$630. Nil |",
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        "content_text": "# \n\n\n\nDate of \nIncident | \n20.6.10 (Reported \non 8.7.40) | \n17.0.40 (Reported \non 11.7.40) \n---|---|---\n(2) | Typo & To. \nof Junk | Ormor or Master \nLoss or Damage \nCrov \nJunk & Gour \nArrument \n| $200.00 \nCargo \n| $2050.00 (General) \nTrading Junk T40131 | Kwok Fut of Pun U (C.1.) \n9 males | \nTrading Jurk T4170H | Chan ling \ning of \nMacau \n13 males 1 child | Armament $220.00 \n| \nCargo boat 2190 | Li Shu of Hong Kong \n29 males | Junk \n16.7.40 | Fishing Junk 999HV \n20.7.40 | Trading Junk \nT3870 H | $4,000.00 \nmament \n| Chan King Fu \n14 male o \nof Kwong Hoi (C..) \n5 for les | $100.00 \n| Long Shing Kee of Choung Chau (B. T.) \n7 males | Liconco \nRico \n| $15,660 \nBicycles & fertilizer $43,475.00 \nPigs and medicine $5,250.00 \nSalt $2,500 \n| \nllatro of Incident \n| \n89 \nFirst boarded by Japanese from a warship off Hoi in (C.1.) & part of the cargo was taken. Next day Japanese boarded from a destroyer off Sum ihn (C.1.) & removed the remaining cargo. No one injured. \n| \nBoarded by Japanese from transport off Ping Hoi (C..). The cargo was taken (name of transport Shan Chuon aru). No one injured. \n| \nBoarded by Japanese near Ping Hoi from warship 10.7. The two bicycles were taken, later the junk was damaged & sank. 7 males missing. \n| \nBoarded by Japanese near Sem Hun (C..) from schooner. The cargo was removed & the junk allowed to go. No one injured. \n| \nBoarded by Japanese near Kong Hoi (C..) from a warship. Part of the cargo was removed and the junk was allowed to go. No one injured.",
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        "content_text": "# TABLE SHOWING THE ADMINISTRATIVE STRUCTURE OF THE JAPANESE ORGANISED HONGKONG GOVERNMENT\n(as published in the \"Yu Ch'ow Feng\" Magazine issue No.130 dated 1st April, 1943)\n\n## Office of the Japanese Governor General of the Occupied Territory of Hongkong:\nGovernor General **Rensuke Isogai**(磯谷廉介) the General who was defeated in the battle of Taiechuang.\n\n### 1) Civil Court\nHeadquarters at the Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation Building, Hongkong.\n\nThis office controls the following departments:  \n(Criminal cases are dealt with in accordance with Martial Law)\n\n### 2) Puppet Board of Chinese Peoples' Representatives\n**Chairman:** Lo Shu-huo(羅樹濩)  \n**Members:**  \n- Li Tsu-fang (李祖芳)\n- Liu T'ieh-cheng (廖鐵成)\n- Chen Lien-peh (陳連璧)\n\nUnder this Board is the -  \n**Peoples' Council (Puppet)**  \n**Chairman:** Chou Shou-cheng  \n**Vice-Chairman:** Li Kuan-chuen  \n**Members:**  \n| Name          | \n|---------------|\n| Li Chin-kang  | \n| Wang Tung-ming| \n| Lu Ai-yun     | \n| Tung Chung-wai| \n| Kuo Chan      | \n| Ye Lan-chuan  | \n| Chang Shu-shuen| \n| Teng Chao-chien| \n| Yen Cheng-kuen| \n| Chou Yuo-nien | \n| Wu Hua (伍華) | \n| Leng Kang-Fa  | \n| Li Chou(李就) | \n| Lin Kien-yin(林建寅)| \n| Kuang Tsi-tung| \n| Feng Tseh-ying| \n| Lo Wen-ching  | \n| Tan Ya-szeh(譚雅士)| \n| Li Chung-fu   | \n| Wang Teh-kuang|\n\n### 3) Department of Civil Administration\n**Head of Department:** Chikuru(千田貞幹)\n\nUnder this Department are the following Bureaus, etc.,  \n- **a) Hongkong Municipal Bureau**  \n  **Head of Bureau:** Matsuba(松葉)\n\n- **b) Kowloon Municipal Bureau**  \n  **Head of Bureau:** Fujita(藤田)\n\n- **c) Cultural Branch**  \n  **Administrator:** Nagao(長尾)",
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        "content_text": "Dated the 26th day of November, 1942.\n\nLau Wing Shum Kuok Sze fun Lauying P. Wong Kwan Fan\n\nTso Ko Shen\n\nFung Te Tong U. Mang\n\nPan Fu Chion\n\nAu Man Pu\n\nYam Hin Tsuk\n\nChan Chung Ping W. Cheung Wei\n\nLi Man Shin\n\nPun Sai Kan\n\nLi Wai Hon Fung Yam Tong Tai Kam Cheung Chan Chi Shing Leung Kam Sung Wong Chi Peng Wong Cham Ah Lo Thiu Hok Ho Ka Chun Choung Man Siu Ho Sin Ting Cheung King Lai Hou Kum Young Shin Hung Chak Shing Tsik So Sing Woon Lau Ep Yuon So\n\nChiu Hin Chung Wong Tsun Ping Chan King U Chan Ming Chan Ming Sum Ho Ming Hin Hong Hok Koi Lai Ping Yin Lam Tsung\n\nChan Hing Man Fing Kan Yu Lai\n\nShiu Tso\n\nHo Kam Fuk\n\nCheung Man Wai Wong Tin Chong Tung So\n\nYung Wing Cheuk\n\nVogel\n\n(Signed)\n\nWong Tsoi Fan Wong Hon Lo Tak Chung Wan Man-chuon Li Shiu Lang Fong Yeh Luk Ku Mo Kyan\n\nChan Sih Kong Lo Wong To Chip Wing On Ip Yuk Lun Sung Shiu Kui Li Yut Chun Leung Kwok Pun Fung Shuk Kong Yui King Tong Lai Pin Kon Wong Hei Man Tse Yuk Lam Tam Yuk Tsun Chan Kwan Shut Sung On Wing\n\nHua Yeh Len Lai Yow Shum Hung Yuk Sang Shaunenhun\n\nChan Chun Shlowan Li\n\nTong Yun Cho Koi Kam Yuen Wan Ying Chuen H.R. Raisen Ng Sik Wah\n\nChun Sin Shing Leung Keung Ho Kuk Chow Wong King Wai Tam Kung Tion LSC96 Loung Lam\n\nTam Ho\n\nU Kan Ping Nan Nai On Ho Kwa Fong Yau Lins Ling Sa Sih Pun Shiu Lun\n\nLai Hon Choi\n\nLau Kan Yung Ip Har To Leung Cheuk A\n\nChung Man Wing Kong Man Kin To King Shun Leung Hin Chung Pan Kwong Lok Chan Ping Kong Lai Yan Kin\n\nCheng Hing Wing Li U Chung Pak Chik Po Tsang Shin Cheung Loung Wai Sang Yung Kwok Cheung Tang\n\nLi Kam Chuen J. Camerpton Wong Kwok Hung Leung Yuk Tong To Yun Wing Wong King Sang Y. Chung Ham Or Tam Sai Ho Sung Him Ing Tam Yam Kin Ho Shau Him\n\nTo Yu Hang Li Ching Eng An\n\nYoung\n\nHo Shue Nuen\n\nJackson U\n\nLei Ping Cheung\n\nChum Chai Young\n\nChin Sit Kee\n\nYuen Tat Law\n\nChan Sik Ki Wing Wong How Tam Tak Chuen U. L. Kung Tang Shui Li Chung Chien Yuch Ho Shu Fang Loung Tak Kwong Fung Yiu Shiu\n\nNg Hip\n\nLai Hin Shan\n\nPage 80\n\nPage 81",
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        "title": "CO129-591-10 Military Administration 16-1-1945 - 28-3-1946",
        "content_text": "20\n\n45\n\nTransferr to 54144\n\n35. 4.0. Tel. from b. in b. Hong Kong, in No. 8 Cipher\n\n36. W.O. Tel. from b. in b. India 44/46/45- 16.14838/555 22.9.45. 23.9.45. Remi dis Im to fu (Shen .9.0.27/9 abam ja) wow? sve pops fu\n\n37. Expirant from teleg Hong Kong received 13.9.48 6.9.45\n\n38. W.G. to H.Q. London Rist. mo. 083/6311(AGIA) 083/6311(AG(A) 18.9.45\n\n39. W.G. to H.Q. London pist us Kong of stuff 1304522 $9.45 9.45\n\n40. W.O. Tel. from b. in b. Hong Kong (văn nemiralty) for Chaf 21.9.45.\n\n41. W.G. Tel. to b. in b. Hong Kong -22.9.45 C.A.4/27\n\n42. W.O. Tel. to b. in b. Hong Kong 22.9.45. No. 45440 (C.A.4/28)\n\n43. W.O Tel to b. in b. Hong Kong no. 75491 (C.A.4/29) — 22.9.45. no.75491 (C.A.4/29)\n\nPage 20\n\nPage 21",
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        "content_text": "(iv) There are still about 40 Chinese gendarmes left in KOWLOON and it appears that they intend to stay for the move of the 8th Army. A certain amount of trouble has been caused by their interference with the affairs of KOWLOON and strong representations have been made to have them removed from the Colony, as they have been openly telling the Chinese that they are there to enforce law and order.\n\n3. LOCAL AFFAIRS\n\n(i) Describing himself as a delegate of the KUOMINTANG to the Seamen's Union, HONG KONG branch, a Chinese called ONG CHUN CHUNG called recently on the Civil Police Special Branch. He stated that he arrived in HONG KONG on September 30th with instructions from Mr. YEUNG FU, delegate of the Central Government Inspectorate and concurrently in charge of the Executive Committee of the special section of the Chinese KUOMINTANG for Chinese seamen's affairs. He produced a letter of appointment from YEUNG FU dated August 30th last. His intention is to register and reopen the Seamen's Union in KWANG province, including HONG KONG, but so far as he knows, his appointment (insofar as his activities affect the Colony) has not been communicated to the British Embassy for approval.\n\nThe question of the Seamen's Union is under examination by the Labour Office of Civil Affairs.\n\n(ii) Lt. Gen. CHAN YK MAN, a survivor from the Chinese H.V. \"CHING CHEUNG\", which sank while en route from SAMT0W to CANTON, arrived in the Colony on October 28th accompanied by another officer and two military attendants. On his card, the General is described as \"Commer 7th War Zone, Inspection Commissioner of the 5th Political District, KWANGTUNG\". He is en route to CANTON. During his stay in HONG KONG, he intends to call on Mr. LAM CHIT SON of the KUOMINTANG.\n\n(iii) During the week, the Summary Military Court convicted two Chinese, named LI YAU and TONG HOI-CHUNG, of being in unlawful possession of certain arms and ammunition. These two men had been arrested on October 6th in the course of the raids carried out by the police in connection with the activities in the Colony of the KUOMINTANG, referred to in Weekly Intelligence Summary No. 5 under the heading \"Local Affairs\". It is known that on the authority of a letter written in the name of Mr. LAM CHIT SON, LI YAU had been exercising extortion on civilians in KOWLOON. This was confirmed by Maj. Gen. B.K. YEE, Special Military Representative in HONG KONG of the Central Chinese Government. LAM CHIT SON, for his part, denied permitting LI YAU to exercise the authority that the latter claimed from him. The other culprit, TONG HOI-CHUNG, was associated with LI YAU in his nefarious activities.\n\n(iv) KISUO KAMOKASU is a Japanese character now safely lodged in WINFIELD Barracks. For harbouring his person in their room in KOWLOON, two Chinese females were sentenced during the week at the Summary Military Court. It is known that one of the two females was a kept woman of the Japanese in question, while the other was the wife of another Japanese. Their motive in harbouring KISUO KAMOKASU, who was found locked up in their room when the police raided the place, may be described as personal.",
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        "content_text": "## CONTRIBUTIONS TO HONG KONG WAR MEMORIAL FUND\n\n67\n\n| Name | Amount | Name | Amount |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Blake, Mr. R. H. | 100.00 | Chanel Trading Co. | 100.00 |\n| Blake, Mr. & Mrs. R. N. | 100.00 | Anonymous |  |\n| Bomber Fund Balance | 33,823.07 | Chartered Bank of India, Australia & China | 5,000.00 |\n| Archbutt, G. S. | 1,500.00 |  | 25,000.00 |\n| Botelho & Co., A. G. | 200.00 | Chase Bank | 1,000.00 |\n| Archee, Katie | 25.00 |  | 2,000.00 |\n| Argyle Street Settlement of Br. Mr. A. W. de | 100.00 | Chau, Hon. Dr. S. N. | 1,000.00 |\n|  | 100.00 | Chau, Hon. Mr. & Mrs. T. N. | 1,000.00 |\n| Bremmer, Mr. & Mrs. A. A. | 100.00 | Chaun, Dr. K. 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