[ { "id": 395211, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-326 - Foreign Office - 1904", "page_number": 548, "title": "CO129-326 - Foreign Office - 1904", "content_text": "DOMESTIC,\n\nBesides these, further reinforcements are on their way. They are in the river off Liuchow.\n\nFour small gun-boats are there.\n\nTelegraphic communication with Liuchow has not yet, according to the Chinese authorities, been re-established.\n\nMr. Campbell has informed me by telegraph that Viceroy Ts'en left Canton for Kuanghsi to-day. He will pass through Wuchow about the 19th, and proceed to Liuchow by way of Chaoping and Kueilin.\n\n(No. 13.) Sir,\n\nI have, &c. (Signed)\n\nInclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\nActing Consul For to Sir E. Satow.\n\nGEORGE COMBE Office or Individual.\n\nWuchow, July 20, 1904\n\nIN continuation of Mr. Combe's despatch No. 12 of the 16th instant, regarding the recent rebellion at Liuchow, I have the honour to report that the Viceroy arrived here yesterday evening en route for the seat of the disturbance. His Excellency came up in the gun-boat \"Chentun,\" escorted by three small sea-going cruisers and two torpedo-boats. At intervals during the day arrived 500 troops, commanded by Colonel Chang Ming-chi, forming two \"banners\" or battalions of the Wu Kang Chun. The men, drawn from the Provinces of Hunan, Hupei, and Anhui, are foreign-drilled, uniformed in khaki, and armed with magazine Mauser rifles. The Viceroy, when attended by a personal guard of 200 men, has taken up his residence in the yamen of the Literary Chancellor.\n\nThe Wukang troops are to-day being transhipped into light draft-boats which will convey them up the Kuei River to Chaoping-four days' journey from here-whence they will march overland via Pinglo to Kueilin. From there the present intention is for them to approach the disturbed districts from the rear via Yung and Hsiang. The Viceroy remains for the present at Wuchow, but I understand he will shortly proceed to Kueilin.\n\nTelegraphic communication with Liuchow is still interrupted.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed)\n\nH. H. FOL\n\nInclosure 3 in No. 1.\n\nActing Consul-General Campbell to Sir E. Satow.\n\n(No. 59.) Sir,\n\nCanton, July 16, 1904.\n\nAS I had the honour to inform you in my telegram No. 14 of to-day, the Viceroy started for Kuanghsi this morning by steamer to conduct military operations against the so-called rebels. For the past few months his Excellency has been anxious to undertake this duty in person, and he appears to have been restrained chiefly by reassuring reports from his subordinates, though want of money and health had also contributed to keep him in Canton. Apart from the stereotyped reproof from Peking, which the affair at Liuchow has brought, and which must be answered by at least a display of extra diligence, his Excellency has been deeply mortified by the open mutiny of his troops, and in his present mood may be trusted to infuse considerable energy into the operations against the brigands.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed) C. W. CAMPBELL\n\nPage 70\n\n$6555\n\nOh Straits\n\nHONG KONG\n\nNo 35217\n\n(Subject.)\n\nChina Trade\n\nprints of corres:\n\nhar: Fiddo\n\n(Minutes.)\n\nC.O.\n\n35217\n\nDIRECT\n\n21 OCT 04\n\nCopic to SS. A Cuff. Lott\n\nAll\n\nalonce\n\nPP. 15/10\n\nL (78)—12635 - YANKA-1 +· S\n\n24413-09-94\n\naubsequent Paper\n\nThey b\n\n545", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-326 - Foreign Office - 1904.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 395256, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-326 - Foreign Office - 1904", "page_number": 593, "title": "CO129-326 - Foreign Office - 1904", "content_text": "AFFAIRS OF CHINA.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL\n\nC. O.\n\n36530\n\n[October 10.]\n\nkou.\n\n- 21 OCT 04\n\nSECTION 2,\n\n590\n\nNo. 1.\n\nSir E. Satou to the Marquess of Lansdowne.--(Received October 10.)\n\nPeking, August 13, 1904.\n\n(No. 293.) My Lord,\n\nIN continuation of my despatch No. 278 of the 2nd August I have the honour to transmit to your Lordship herewith a copy of a further despatch which I have received from the British Acting Consul at Wuchow on the subject of the disturbances in the province of Kuangsi.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed) ERNEST SATOW.\n\n(No. 14.) Sir,\n\nInclosure in No. 1.\n\nActing Consul Fox to Sir E. Satow.\n\nWuchow, July 20, 1904.\n\nREFERRING to my despatch No. 13 of the 20th instant, I have the honour to report that, in addition to the 500 men of the Wu Kang brigade who are now on their way to Kueilin, the following reinforcements have arrived from Canton and are being rapidly sent to the capital:\n\nFive hundred men of the Hsi Tzu Ying (foreign drilled), commanded by Mo Shan Chi, Brigadier-General at Pakhoi.\n\nEight hundred men (two yings) of the Chang Pei Chun (partially foreign drilled), Hsiu Hsiang-kuei.\n\nThese troops will take about a fortnight to reach the capital, travelling from Chaoping overland.\n\nAlthough the Viceroy, whom I interviewed on the 22nd instant, made light of the Liuchow affair, which he said would not have happened but for the criminal incompetence of the late Taotai Tsu, signs are not wanting that the case with which the capture of Liuchow was effected has encouraged the brigands in other parts to fresh efforts. Yung Ning-chow, which was sacked some ten days ago, is only 50 miles from Kueilin, and it is reported that the capital itself is threatened. The Governor, although on paper he is well provided with troops, is ill, and either incapable or unwilling to take the field. I was therefore not surprised to learn that the Viceroy had suddenly altered his intention of remaining here for the present and had left for Kueilin this morning. The reinforcements which will arrive there within the next few days and the news of the Viceroy's coming will insure the safety of the capital, and I have not, at the Viceroy's request, recalled three members of the Church Missionary Society residing there. The brigands will doubtless be driven back to their mountain fastnesses in Central Kuangsi, and comparative order will be restored for the time being. Recent events have, however, clearly shown that, in spite of the unusual efforts which the provincial Government, backed up by an energetic Viceroy, have made during the last twelve months to clear the province of its rebellious elements, its complete pacification is still far off; the rebels have been checked, but by no means destroyed. And as long as the bulk of the people in this country remain sunk in abject poverty and no attempt is made to relieve them by developing the province's natural resources, as long as an undisciplined rabble of underpaid soldiery are allowed to batten on the people--and it pays better to be a robber than an honest man--so long will the present deplorable state of affairs inevitably continue.\n\nI have reported to you by telegraph the Viceroy's arrival and departure and the movements of the troops to date.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed) H. H. FOX\n\n[2213 k-2]", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-326 - Foreign Office - 1904.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 397826, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-330 - Public Offices - 1905", "page_number": 316, "title": "CO129-330 - Public Offices - 1905", "content_text": "# MAP OF THE WEST RIVER BASIN\n\nTo accompany Mr. Fox's Report on a Journey to Nanning, June, 1904.\n\n## EXPLANATIONS\n\n| Symbol | Meaning |\n| --- | --- |\n| Fu | Prefectural City |\n| Ting | Sub-prefectural City |\n| Chow | Departmental City |\n| ✪ | Hsien or District City |\n\n* Railways completed: ***********\n* do. surveyed: -----------\n* Boundaries of Province: *******\n* Trade routes: .............\n\n| Location | |\n| --- | --- |\n| Beilung | |\n| KUANGNAN | |\n| SINEY! | |\n| KAIHUA YUNNAN | |\n| eigos.1279) 48, 21122-2 | |\n| R. ROUGE | |\n| R.CLAIRE | |\n| KUEICHOW | |\n| SZUCHENG | |\n| TONKIN | |\n| CHENAN | |\n| Pose Feng | |\n| KUANG SI | |\n| SZUEN | |\n| Lungar | |\n| Szüen | |\n| San Azdný kou | |\n| OR RIGHT RIVER | |\n| Usin ning | |\n| AIPING | |\n| BUNGCHOW | |\n| ITSO OR | |\n| Shanyên | |\n| Ningning | |\n| Langson | |\n| Thanoi | |\n| HANOI | |\n| Bacle | |\n| Kep Porlang thang | |\n| Sept Pugodes | |\n| CHINGYUEN | |\n| KUEILIN | |\n| \"Jungan | |\n| PINGLO | |\n| Hisingen | |\n| 309 | |\n| HUNAN | |\n| Chienching | |\n| Laipin | |\n| NUNG SHUI R. | |\n| Pinchow | |\n| Kasiheten | |\n| HSÜNCHOW | |\n| TO A SOUTH R. | |\n| Pinguam | |\n| Hama | |\n| Chaoping | |\n| Menykamg | |\n| WUCKOW | |\n| Tenghsien | |\n| Fengchiun | |\n| To Canton and | |\n| Bangkong | |\n| NANNING | |\n| Kinchow | |\n| Bengohaw | |\n| asiang | |\n| GREAT RAPID | |\n| Priliu | |\n| TUN | |\n| Pakhor | |\n| KLIENCHOW | |\n| GULF OF TONKIN | |\n\n1 Degree = 60 nautical, 69 statute miles.\n\n109 \nK U \n\n## Scale and Measurements\n\nThe scale is indicated on the map with various measurements marked, including 105, 700, 707, 108, 110, and 111.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-330 - Public Offices - 1905.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 435460, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-384 - Public Offices - 1911", "page_number": 240, "title": "CO129-384 - Public Offices - 1911", "content_text": "## CONFIDENTIAL\n### No. 1.\n\n**OPIUM**\n\nSir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received April 13.)\n\n**(No. 98.) (Telegraphic.)**\n\nPeking, April 13, 1911.\n\nI have received the following telegram from Sir A. Hosie, at Yünnan-fu, dated yesterday:\n\nHaving travelled from Szechuan through Eastern Yünnan, I arrived at the provincial capital yesterday. On the great plain of Chaoting-fu, formerly devoted to the cultivation of opium, and the plain of Tengchuan-fu, which also used to produce opium on a large but less extensive scale, I found that none had been grown for three seasons. On proceeding inland west and south-west from Tengchuan-fu, I found that opium was being cultivated in the Huitse district of that prefecture, but the amount was not large, and also in the department of Hsuntienchao, where it was planted by the roadside, within 40 miles of Yunnan-fu, and in the sub-prefecture of Chiao-chia Ting. I found altogether seventy-two plots during seven out of my ten days detour. The largest of them measured 300 by 100 yards. Away from the main roads, this may be taken as fairly representing the general condition of opium cultivation.\n\nWith regard to the west of the province, His Majesty's consul at Tengyueh estimates that there has been an increase in the area under opium in the purely Chinese zone among the hills in the whole of the frontier districts from 27,000 English acres in 1910 to 43,000 in 1911, and in the quantity of piculs of opium produced from 5,000 to 8,000, although the plant has disappeared from the plains, where it was recently cultivated on a large scale.\n\nFor the whole of the province of Yunnan I am inclined to estimate the reduction since the enforcement of preventive measures at about 75 per cent.\n\nYesterday a proclamation was issued by the Viceroy by which the export of stocks of opium is permitted for four months from the 30th March to the 25th July through Mengtze alone, on condition that double the native customs duty and li-kin is paid. This is equivalent to a tael a catty, or 63 taels per 1,000 Chinese ounces. At Mengtze the opium must all be sold to an official opium department, by which 20 Haikuan taels customs export duty is to be paid.\n\nPage 240\nPage 241", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-384 - Public Offices - 1911.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 556209, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-564-6 Typhoon- reports of damage- etc 9-9-1937 - 6-11-1937", "page_number": 30, "title": "CO129-564-6 Typhoon- reports of damage- etc 9-9-1937 - 6-11-1937", "content_text": "SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1937.\n\n31\n\n12\n\nYeast-Vite\n\nBATTLE FRONT AT LIUHO\n\nATTACK BY CHINESE\n\nmeans Vigour\n\nBY TAKING YEAST-VITE you can benefit TO-DAY! You can gain and enjoy the exhilarating, energetic sensation of healthful zest. You will feel in good spirits instead of being depressed.\n\nTiredness is banished, cold and chills speedily relieved, the blood enriched and the nerves made strong and steady by the powerful vitamin nutrition of this SAFE and CERTAIN cure for Depression and common ills.\n\nYEAST-VITE IS LIFE.\n\nThe speedy benefit you experience is simply the natural outcome of the pure medicinal Yeast, Vitamins, especially Vitamin \"B\", and other valuable tonic ingredients which are in every YEAST-VITE TABLET.\n\nYeast-Vite TONIC TABLETS\n\nA pure Medicinal Yeast which contains no drugs.\n\nObtainable everywhere.\n\nSale Agents: Gilman & Co., Ltd. Hong Kong.\n\nYEAST VITE TONIC TABLETS\n\ne Lightrung Pick-me-up\n\nNow & Wonderful PURE YEAST, The atmord of VITAMINS\n\nuntain Natnag Hampt\n\nYEAST-VITE To Aid War Wounded\n\nLABORATORNST WATFORD, EMBLAND\n\n3APBI\n\nThe Hongkong Chinese Women's Soldiers' Relief Association Invites Contributions of Money and Material\n\nHeadquarters: Office of Chinese Estate Co., Ltd., First Floor, China Building.\n\nTHE SHUI HING HING CO. GENERAL PROVIDERS 187-195 DES VOEUX ROAD CENTRAL\n\nSale STILL PROCEEDING REAL BARGAINS IN EVERY DEPARTMENT\n\nGUERLAIN PERFUMERY IN FULL ASSORTMENT JUST RECEIVED ALL PRICES REDUCED SPECIALLY\n\nLIU SHALIMAR\n\nSETTLEMENT WAR ZONE REMAINS UNCHANGED\n\nCITY HOSTILITIES\n\nSerious Fighting Near Jukong Wharf\n\nALL LINES UNALTERED\n\nTIENTSIN FRONT\n\nJapanese Now Think Their Forces Sufficient\n\nTENSION RELIEVED\n\nPaoting, Sept. 1.\n\nJAPAN'S POLICY\n\nGovernment Asked To Clarify Its Attitude\n\nAPPEAL BY POLITICIANS\n\nLondon, Sept. 2. According to military intelligence received here to-day, 1,000 Japanese attached to artillery units left Tientsin to-day for Yangliuching, about 20 miles west of Tientsin.\n\nShanghai, Sept. 1. A message from Tokyo states that a full inquiry into the objectives of Japan's action in China, and clarification of the Government's purpose was recommended at a meeting of the Seiyukai (Conservative) Party by three of its leaders.\n\nEight leaders urged that the party make its aims in China more precisely known and establish a firmly-defined objective.\n\nAnother detachment of the Kwangtung Army arrived in Tientsin to-day and are being billeted in the Palitan barracks. Central News.\n\nNERVOUSNESS IN SOUTH AT FEAR OF AIR RAIDS\n\nMORE REINFORCEMENTS\n\nMain interest in the Shanghai war is centred on the fighting on the Woosung-Liuho front, where the Japanese officially claim the occupation of Lion Forest Forts on the coast about 10 miles beyond Woosung.\n\nThere was heavy fighting at Liuho and Woosung yesterday, when the Chinese launched a counter-attack against the Japanese at Lotien. Chinese reports say that a Japanese attempt to take Paoshan, north of the Woosung fort, was repulsed after a severe engagement in which hundreds of the invaders were killed.\n\nFive Japanese transports and a supply ship arrived at the Japanese wharves in the eastern district of the International Settlement on Wednesday night and landed men and material in darkness. The Japanese deny the landing of Manchukuoan troops.\n\nChinese leaders are confident of winning the war after a long and bitter struggle. Mr. T. V. Soong says that Japan is destined to find China a morass in which the Japanese armies will sink the further they drive inland. He predicts that all the $500,000,000 Liberty Bonds will be taken up within three months.\n\nBaulked by the Tientsin Consular Body in their attempt to take over the Chinese telegraph service in Tientsin, the Japanese military authorities have established their own cable service connecting Peiping and Manchukuo.\n\nThere is still much nervousness in Canton, Fukien and Kiangsi regarding possible Japanese air raids. The Canton Government has ordered all passage-towboats, launches and motor boats to avoid the bund and to anchor in the inner harbour near the foreign gunboats.\n\nThe Japanese and Chinese lines within the Settlement war zone remained unchanged yesterday despite occasional and severe exchange of fire in various sectors.\n\nTWO FOREIGNERS SHOT\n\nShanghai, Sept. 1 (9 p.m.). Crack Chinese troops are now pouring into Yuehpu, a small town about a mile and half north-west of Liuying Bridge, Road in Chapei.-Central News.\n\nDesperate Battle\n\nShanghai, Sept. 2 (4 p.m.). Fighting Spreads\n\nShanghai, Sept. 2. Japanese troops were landed at the Jukong Wharf early yesterday morning, deploying out in a wide area. Fighting broke out immediately in the vicinity.\n\nAt 6 o'clock in the morning, a detachment of Japanese attacked Chinese entrenched at the Far Eastern Race Course, a mile west of the Jukong Wharf. The attack was intended to cover operations by a Japanese engineering corps to bridge the creeks at Kuanyinchai and Wang-chiachai nearby, but when the Chinese discovered their ruse, promptly shifted their positions and commenced a brisk fire in the new region, foiling all attempts to build the bridges.\n\nA party of Japanese advanced on Luchiachai, about half a mile north of the International Settlement boundary near the riverfront late in the morning. The Chinese troops stationed there withheld fire until the Japanese had moved unsuspectingly into a semicircle of Chinese troops, at which time the Chinese opened fire from all sides, killing a large number and forcing the remnants of the Japanese party to disperse.\n\nAt about the same time, another party of Japanese attacked the Chinese lines at Kuanyintang, about 1,000 yards south-west of the Jukong Wharf, but the Chinese held firm and forced the attackers to retire after a short skirmish.\n\nFollowing the landing of Japanese regulars who have taken over the Yangtsepoo area yesterday, the marines who have been holding Japanese positions in the area have been shifted to the Hongkew sector.-Central News.\n\nChinese Concentration\n\nShanghai, Sept. 2 (11.20 a.m.). A Japanese spokesman said the Japanese had silenced the Chinese shelling of Hongkew from Chapei.\n\nThe Japanese dropped nine shells within half an hour on Paoshan Road in Chapei district, where it is reported there is a Chinese concentration following the arrival of heavy reinforcements. United Press.\n\nPositions Unchanged\n\nShanghai, Sept. 2 (4.07 p.m.). There was a severe exchange of fire in sectors around Shanghai, where the Chinese and Japanese lines are still unaltered.-Reuter.\n\nREINFORCEMENTS\n\nPaoshan and a mile south of Lion Forest Fort.\n\nFresh Japanese Landing In\n\nTientsin, Sept. 2. Japanese troop movements to North China have been virtually completed, the leaders believing them strong enough for any exigency.\n\nThe number of Japanese forces in North China is estimated at 120,000, and is possibly more.\n\nThe suspension of reinforcements has eased the tension in the concessions where Japanese conduct has caused frequent protests.\n\nThe British concession is strengthening the outer barricades despite Japanese assurances that troops will avoid the British concession.\n\nFIGHT TO THE END\n\nTIENTSIN\n\nJapanese Establish Their Own Cable Line\n\nShanghai, Sept. 2. \"Christian General\" Visits the Front\n\nLEADERS CONFIDENT\n\nShanghai, Sept. 2 (4.11 a.m.). A visitor to the Chinese front line yesterday was Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang, the \"Christian General\" and vice-Chairman of the National Military Affairs Commission in Nanking.\n\nHe told interviewers that the Chinese would fight to the bitter end for the sake of world peace and China's own existence. He paid a tribute to the Chinese commanders, who he said were mindful only of their \"divine duties.\"\n\nA Bitter Struggle\n\nShanghai, Sept. 2 (3.37 p.m.). In an interview, Mr. T. V. Soong said that China is doomed to a long and bitter struggle, but he predicted that she will eventually be victorious.\n\nHe said peace will come when Japan realises that she is in a lane that has no turning. \"Even before the war, Japan's finances were tottering from the burdens of militarism. Her huge expenditures now merely accelerate the inevitable. She is destined to find China a morass in which the Japanese armies will sink the further they drive inland.\"-Reuter.\n\nPEIPING POSITION\n\nJapanese Putting Up New Gun Emplacements\n\nShanghai, Sept. 2. Reports from North China say that Peiping is daily becoming more impregnable with gun emplacements on permanent foundations replacing the earlier hasty defences.-United Press.\n\nKALGAN OCCUPIED\n\nJapanese Line Extends To Sea Front\n\nCANTON AIR RAID\n\nJapanese Plane Blown Up By Own Bomb\n\nCHINESE COMMENDED\n\nShanghai, Sept. 2.\n\nCanton, Sept. 1. A bitter land, sea and air battle is being waged at Paoshan, known as the world's smallest walled city, where the gallant Chinese garrison, although cut off from other Chinese lines in and around Shanghai, has withstood for 10 hours the troops where needed.-United Press.\n\nBig Push Imminent\n\nShanghai, Sept. 2 (4.11 a.m.). The setting for Japan's prospective big push on all fronts in the Shanghai and Woosung and Woosung areas is being completed.\n\nYesterday's fighting, though severe, was regarded only as a curtain raiser.-Reuter.\n\nPaoshan Not Captured\n\nShanghai, Sept. 2 (10.29 a.m.). The Chinese admit the loss of Woosung village, but deny that the Japanese have captured Paoshan\n\nReuter.\n\nHeavy Japanese Casualties\n\nShanghai, Sept. 2. The 2,000 Japanese troops who landed in the vicinity of Woosung Fort yesterday made a frantic attempt to take Paoshan, but were repulsed after a severe engagement. Several hundred Japanese are reported to have been killed and injured.\n\nHARI-KARI HEROES\n\nIt is also disclosed to-night that 2,000 Japanese landed last night around Woosung Village and the Woosung Fort area. Central News.\n\nPROPERTY DAMAGED\n\nOn Mills Suffer\n\nSettlement Landing\n\nShanghai, Sept. (4.11 a.m.).\n\nShanghai, Sept. 2 (7.30 p.m.)\n\nChinese quarters regard the disembarkation of Japanese troops in the eastern district of the Settlement as a confession of poor success at attending the landing operations on the Liuho-Woosung coastline and assert that the presence of the Japanese troops is final confirmation that the Japanese are using the Settlement as a base of operations.\n\nBesides munitions and other war material the Japanese also landed in this section of the Settlement four and six-inch guns mounted on caterpillars.-Reuter.\n\nThree Japanese Divisions\n\nShanghai, Sept. 2. Three Japanese divisions, representing the crack troops of the Japanese Army, have arrived in Shanghai during the last few days, it was revealed to-day.-Central News.\n\nPush Towards Lotien\n\nShanghai, Sept. 2 (11.20 am.). A Japanese military spokesman said that the Chinese were attempting retaliation. However, the Japanese repulsed them.\n\nManchukuo Troops\n\nShanghai, Sept. 2 (11.20 a.m.). A Japanese spokesman said that Japanese troops were landing daily in Shanghai and its vicinity. He denied the presence of Manchukuans.\n\nBOMBERS IN ACTION\n\nSpectacular Japanese navy and air forces were fiercely attacking Paoshan, which the advance guard reached yesterday.-United Press.\n\nSevere Engagement\n\nShanghai, Sept. 2 (4.07 p.m.). Heavy fighting is reported at Liuho and Woosung to-day when the Chinese launched a counter-attack against the Japanese at Lotien. They met with resistance from the air, land and sea.\n\nAt Nightfall\n\nUnloading in Darkness\n\nShanghai, Sept. 2 (4.07 p.m.). During the night five Japanese transports and one supply ship arrived at the Japanese wharves in the eastern district of the International Settlement and unloaded men and material in darkness.-Reuter.\n\nPOOTUNG SHELLED\n\nChinese Artillery Duel With Warships\n\nShnghai, Sept. 2 (4.11 a.m.). Warfare has laid Woosung in ruins. Among the buildings demolished are the Tung Chi University, run by Germans for Chinese students, and the American mortgaged Wing On Cotton mills, owned by British and Australian-born Chinese.\n\nThe bombing of the Tung Chi University was so intensive that even bomb proof dug-outs had to be evacuated.\n\nReuter.\n\nUNIVERSITY DAMAGE\n\nShanghai, Sept. 2 (7.10 p.m.). Chinese official sources state that the Japanese bombing of Tungchi University at Woosung has caused damage to the extent of $10,000,000 Shanghai currency.\n\nPeiping despatches reported that American marines have been assigned to protect the Yenching University, 10 miles from Peiping, which is closely linked with Harvard.--United Press.\n\nTALES OF HEROISM\n\nJapanese Slaughtered By Big Sword Corps\n\nShanghai, Sept. 2 (10.29 a.m.) Both sides recount stirring tales of heroism in yesterday's fighting in the Shanghai area. The Chinese say many Japanese were slaughtered by parties of troops who make sorties in the night with their famous big swords-Reuter.\n\nSESSION POSTPONED\n\nShanghai, Sept. 2 (7 p.m.). Amidst gorgeous, yet most ominous sunset skies, red splashed behind black clouds washing back from the Hongkong typhoon, four Japanese bombers gave Shanghai spectacular good-night when they carried out a reconnaissance on the Shanghai front, after which in rapid succession they power dived over the Markham Road railway yards, dropping 11 bombs, each of which flashed red amidst the smoke and debris, setting a long string of conflagrations which lit up the black night already aflame by a line of fires half a mile at Yangtszepoo.\n\nThe Shanghai fires eclipsed in brilliance, the flames illuminating Lotien, Liusong, Woosung, Paoshan and Lion Forest Forts.-United Press.\n\nShipping Precaution\n\nYesterday government ordered all the passage-boats, launches and large motor vessels to leave the Bund. They are now in the inner harbour. Thus they are all in close proximity to the foreign gunboats, and the Bund is not so likely to be bombed, which would be sure to cause great loss of life. Our Own Correspondent.\n\nRAID OVER KIANGSI\n\nJapanese Bomb Misses Telegraph Office\n\nCanton, Sept. 1. After finishing their work in Canton the Japanese planes made for Pingyuan in Kiangsi. They were after the telegraph office and one bomb was directed at it, but it missed entirely, striking a road and killing one peasant. Our Own Correspondent.\n\nATTACK ON FUKIEN\n\nOne Japanese Aeroplane Downed at Changchow\n\nFoochow, Sept. 1. One of the Japanese planes which took part in the air raid on Changchow on August 31 was shot down south of Lungyen, it was disclosed to-day. Central News.\n\nAircraft Carrier\n\nCanton, Sept. 1. At noon yesterday six Japanese bombers come from the big carrier that is lying off Nanao near the Fukien border of Kwangtung. When two bombs were dropped into the Magistracy office at Chaoling the back part of the Magistracy was blown in. Six guards were injured-Our Own Correspondent.\n\nPage 30\n\nPage 31", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-564-6 Typhoon- reports of damage- etc 9-9-1937 - 6-11-1937.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 560231, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-570-11 Sino-Japanese War- Japanese attack on Chinese Maritime Customs cruiser- CHAHSING 19-1-1938 - 23-3-1938", "page_number": 1, "title": "CO129-570-11 Sino-Japanese War- Japanese attack on Chinese Maritime Customs cruiser- CHAHSING 19-1-1938 - 23-3-1938", "content_text": "53838\n\nHOD\n\nCLOSED UNTIL\n\nPrevious\n\n1938\n\nSINO JAPANESE\n\n1\n\nSee\n\n53838/10/34.\n\nSubsequent\n\nFILE A.\n\nPUT BY\n\nCONFLICT -\n\nATTACKS ON SHIPPING.\n\n\"CHANSING INCIDENT.\n\n025/22102\n\n0129\n\n53838/\n\n1/2+5/1\n\n(21937) 25870/60 8,000 10/37 M. & S., Ltd\n\nGp.641", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-570-11 Sino-Japanese War- Japanese attack on Chinese Maritime Customs cruiser- CHAHSING 19-1-1938 - 23-3-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 560232, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-570-11 Sino-Japanese War- Japanese attack on Chinese Maritime Customs cruiser- CHAHSING 19-1-1938 - 23-3-1938", "page_number": 2, "title": "CO129-570-11 Sino-Japanese War- Japanese attack on Chinese Maritime Customs cruiser- CHAHSING 19-1-1938 - 23-3-1938", "content_text": "C.I.D.\n\nS\n\n1.\n\n19.1.38\n\nF.O. no F 622/19/10\n\nRej (102)\n\nO\n\n53858/10/37 trans\n\ntrans craft\n\ncraft ld. 66\n\n2\n\nTokyo\n\n1\n\nconson.\n\n(See 96 on 53838/10/37).\n\n(92 on above file).\n\nThis the Japanese do not deny.\n\nThe facts of the attack on the Chinese customs vessel have been fully reported to us in a despatch from Hong Kong. We have also received a copy of the telegram to Tokyo instructing the Ambassador to protest to the Japanese Government.\n\nThe Japanese reply to our note seems to me clearly unsatisfactory.\n\nWhether or not the Chinese vessel was taken in tow by the Japanese warship seems to me to be immaterial. The essential fact is that an attack was made on it while in British territorial waters and that a capture was subsequently made in those waters (i.e. the boat either moved off under her own steam, or was towed off under the Japanese flag).\n\nThe fact that sailors from the Japanese vessel landed in Hong Kong territory is denied by the Japanese Govt. There is also an unpleasant ring about the statement that \"investigation of the enemy vessel brooked no delay\".\n\nThe Japanese apologise for the incident, however, and state that those responsible have been dealt with appropriately in accordance with the law.\n\nThe F.O. draft telegram takes note of this and refers to two points not covered in the Japanese reply, namely, that the Chinese vessel moved off flying the Japanese flag and that H.M.G. remain in no doubt that Japanese sailors did in fact land in Hong Kong territory.\n\nThey also refer to the failure of the Japanese Govt. to inform their naval authorities of their declared policy in regard to the customs administration.\n\nI see no objection to the terms of the draft, though I venture to suggest that it might have made more of...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-570-11 Sino-Japanese War- Japanese attack on Chinese Maritime Customs cruiser- CHAHSING 19-1-1938 - 23-3-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 560233, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-570-11 Sino-Japanese War- Japanese attack on Chinese Maritime Customs cruiser- CHAHSING 19-1-1938 - 23-3-1938", "page_number": 3, "title": "CO129-570-11 Sino-Japanese War- Japanese attack on Chinese Maritime Customs cruiser- CHAHSING 19-1-1938 - 23-3-1938", "content_text": "Page 3\n\nof the freed reply is perhaps sufficient.\n\nThe fact that capture of a Chinese vessel in\n\nBritish territorial waters is an entirely\n\nunwarrantable proceeding and that the need\n\nfor investigation of an enemy vessel is no\n\nexcuse, but the terms of the telegram in this\n\nmatter appear to me to be a matter for the F.O.\n\nI do not see that we have any special comments from the point of\n\nview of Hong Kong. Reply that we have no objections to\n\nthe terms of the draft and ask that it may be\n\nrepeated to the Gov. of Hong Kong, if they have\n\nno objection.\n\nSay that a copy has been sent to\n\nthe Admiralty, and copy accordingly.\n\nP. Rogers\n\n21/1\n\nI agree with the action proposed.\n\n22/1/38\n\nLt. Duncan\n\nI concur.\n\nI have told Mr. Heffern (F.O.) by phone that we\n\nconcur.\n\nConfirm by letter as above.\n\nP. Roger 22/1\n\nPage 3", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-570-11 Sino-Japanese War- Japanese attack on Chinese Maritime Customs cruiser- CHAHSING 19-1-1938 - 23-3-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 560234, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-570-11 Sino-Japanese War- Japanese attack on Chinese Maritime Customs cruiser- CHAHSING 19-1-1938 - 23-3-1938", "page_number": 4, "title": "CO129-570-11 Sino-Japanese War- Japanese attack on Chinese Maritime Customs cruiser- CHAHSING 19-1-1938 - 23-3-1938", "content_text": "To F.O.\n\nUN\n\n(1 anon.)\n\n2441/38 Ј\n\n4\n\n25/1/38\n\nDESTROYED UTATUTE 6/12) 13/126\n\n4. Admy. 101183/20\n\n29.1.38\n\nTro. of letter to F.O.\n\nHey Mr\n\n?\n\nPut by\n\n? Le Hows and to rec.\n\n?he\n\nP. Roger\n\n311\n\nMhant\n\n1/2 when\n\n5\n\n6.F.O.F2330\n\n14-1-38\n\n8.3.30.\n\nF.O. F\n\n12092/190/10\n\nTokyo deaf. 13 of 17.1\n\ndesp\n\n1.38 se attack on\n\nbhahsing\n\n9.3.38.\n\n11\n\nток\n\n6-F0-F2020/15/10) Shanghai deep. of 13-1-30 se seizure of\n\nbustimo vessels.\n\nThe telegram from Tokyo summarised my\n\nnow was\n\nThe comms with\n\nshows them this Bor. of Hongling\n\nLoven wis to see the Chinese\n\nMaritime Customs\n\ntheir archiving in\n\nhower live vessels continuing\n\nbuy that\n\nthe Wolong the fixed holding of the Customs\n\nCuscoms\n\nadmin sértion is\n\nto abandon", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-570-11 Sino-Japanese War- Japanese attack on Chinese Maritime Customs cruiser- CHAHSING 19-1-1938 - 23-3-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 560235, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-570-11 Sino-Japanese War- Japanese attack on Chinese Maritime Customs cruiser- CHAHSING 19-1-1938 - 23-3-1938", "page_number": 5, "title": "CO129-570-11 Sino-Japanese War- Japanese attack on Chinese Maritime Customs cruiser- CHAHSING 19-1-1938 - 23-3-1938", "content_text": "5\n\npreventive work alose entirely for the time\n\n1.4\n\n?\n\nLaBaza\n\n15/3133\n\n6.\n\n26 is\n\nan adhesion\n\nn Sink it Sme leans\n\nThe story\n\n5. The Japanese deny violation of our waters and\n\n\"fixed policy\"\n\nsomehow-heavily Konq en Zestimate\n\nA Chinese doing reflecting beeflect bcollect the funds necessary\n\nto maintain China's credit as a Conower.\n\nto attempt a\n\n1613 Atowards\n\n7716/3 G.L.M. Clause on\n\n176 Howell 15 distes. From this correspondence it appears\n\nlikely that the Struggling traveller anthoritis wise be favourable to the 'pation proposals\n\nthat are thing passed on the papers.\n\nIm 15.3.36 at mce.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-570-11 Sino-Japanese War- Japanese attack on Chinese Maritime Customs cruiser- CHAHSING 19-1-1938 - 23-3-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 560236, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-570-11 Sino-Japanese War- Japanese attack on Chinese Maritime Customs cruiser- CHAHSING 19-1-1938 - 23-3-1938", "page_number": 6, "title": "CO129-570-11 Sino-Japanese War- Japanese attack on Chinese Maritime Customs cruiser- CHAHSING 19-1-1938 - 23-3-1938", "content_text": "4 70 2841/19/10\n\nTokyo 68. 10/2/38.\n\nViolation\n\nAction please Mied Inse\n\n23/3/38\n\ng waters by a Japanese\n\nA.K. territorial\n\ndestroyer.\n\n6\n\nI min daypeny\n\nPutty.\n\nArrent.\n\n31.3 ah", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-570-11 Sino-Japanese War- Japanese attack on Chinese Maritime Customs cruiser- CHAHSING 19-1-1938 - 23-3-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 560237, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-570-11 Sino-Japanese War- Japanese attack on Chinese Maritime Customs cruiser- CHAHSING 19-1-1938 - 23-3-1938", "page_number": 7, "title": "CO129-570-11 Sino-Japanese War- Japanese attack on Chinese Maritime Customs cruiser- CHAHSING 19-1-1938 - 23-3-1938", "content_text": "3838/21\n\n7\n\nIn any further communication on this subject, please quote\n\nNo. F2841/19/2\n\nand address not to any person by name, but to\n\n\"The Under-Secretary of State,\" Foreign Office, London, S.W.1.\n\nTHE Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs presents his compliments to The\n\nSecretary of State for The Colonies\n\nand, by direction of the Secretary of State,\n\nForeign Office,\n\n2 March 1938.\n\ntransmits herewith copy of the under-mentioned paper.\n\nReference to previous correspondence:\n\nF2292/19/10 of 8 March 1938\n\nDescription of Enclosure.\n\n \n Name and Date\n Subject\n \n \n Ambassador, Tokyo Despatch No. 68 of 10 Feby 1938\n Violation of Hong Kong Territorial waters by a Japanese destroyer\n \n\nSimilar letter sent to ...\n\n14\n\n6130 15844 (4)", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-570-11 Sino-Japanese War- Japanese attack on Chinese Maritime Customs cruiser- CHAHSING 19-1-1938 - 23-3-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 560238, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-570-11 Sino-Japanese War- Japanese attack on Chinese Maritime Customs cruiser- CHAHSING 19-1-1938 - 23-3-1938", "page_number": 8, "title": "CO129-570-11 Sino-Japanese War- Japanese attack on Chinese Maritime Customs cruiser- CHAHSING 19-1-1938 - 23-3-1938", "content_text": "No. 68 (35/70D/38)\n\nHis Majesty's Representative at Tokyo presents his compliments\n\nto the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and has the honour to transmit herewith copy\n\nof the under mentioned paper.\n\nTOKYO,\n\n10th February, 1938.\n\nReference to previous communication:\n\nTokyo P.L. despatch No. 13 of 17th January,\n\nDescription of Enclosure.\n\nName, Date, etc.\n\nSubject.\n\nTo: Minister for Foreign Affairs No. 19 of 10th February, 1938.\n\nViolation of Hongkong territorial waters by a Japanese destroyer.\n\nCopy also sent to.\n\nCopy to:\n\nHis Majesty's Representative, Shanghai\n\nHis Excellency, The Governor, Hongkong.\n\nCommander-in-Chief, China Station.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-570-11 Sino-Japanese War- Japanese attack on Chinese Maritime Customs cruiser- CHAHSING 19-1-1938 - 23-3-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 560239, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-570-11 Sino-Japanese War- Japanese attack on Chinese Maritime Customs cruiser- CHAHSING 19-1-1938 - 23-3-1938", "page_number": 9, "title": "CO129-570-11 Sino-Japanese War- Japanese attack on Chinese Maritime Customs cruiser- CHAHSING 19-1-1938 - 23-3-1938", "content_text": "No. 18 (35/70/38)\n\nBritish Embassy,\n\nTokyo.\n\n10th February, 1938.\n\n9\n\nYour Excellency,\n\nI have the honour to inform you that I did not fail to inform His Majesty's Government of the contents of Your Excellency's Note No.5 of the 12th January concerning the violation of the territorial waters of Hongkong on the 11th December by a Japanese destroyer.\n\n2.\n\nUnder instructions from His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs I have the honour to inform Your Excellency that His Majesty's Government have taken note that the Imperial Japanese Government have dealt appropriately with those responsible for the unwarrantable proceedings of the Japanese destroyer in question and have sent instructions providing against a recurrence of such incidents.\n\n5.\n\nThere are certain points, however, in Your Excellency's note under reference which are not clear to His Majesty's Government. Detailed reports, supported by photographs, have now been received from His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong, and I have the honour to transmit to Your Excellency the substance of them.\n\n[...]\n\nMr. Koki Hirota,\n\nH.I.J.M. Minister for Foreign Affairs.\n\nPage", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-570-11 Sino-Japanese War- Japanese attack on Chinese Maritime Customs cruiser- CHAHSING 19-1-1938 - 23-3-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 560240, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-570-11 Sino-Japanese War- Japanese attack on Chinese Maritime Customs cruiser- CHAHSING 19-1-1938 - 23-3-1938", "page_number": 10, "title": "CO129-570-11 Sino-Japanese War- Japanese attack on Chinese Maritime Customs cruiser- CHAHSING 19-1-1938 - 23-3-1938", "content_text": "10\n\n2\n\n1\n\na précis of the evidence drawn up by the Detective Inspector charged with the investigation.\n\nFrom the full report it would appear that, as stated by Your Excellency, the Customs cruiser left the shore under her own steam, though it seems possible that the two motor boats which visited her from the Japanese destroyer may have towed her off the beach where she had been abandoned by the crew. The evidence of various eyewitnesses of the incident, however, shows that the Customs ensign was lowered and the Japanese flag raised before the Customs cruiser, manned by Japanese sailors, followed in the wake of the destroyer with whom she remained in visual signal communication.\n\n4. The Captain of the Customs cruiser, with the greater part of the crew, retired over the hills to the south of Black Point, leaving the First Officer, Boatswain and two ratings in the vicinity. The police launch which collected this latter group on the evening of the incident verified that the Customs cruiser had in fact been taken away from the spot at which she had been beached. The Customs cruiser was eventually found two days after the incident (i.e. the morning of the 15th December) ashore in Hai Mun Bay on Hong Kong Island. It is believed on further available evidence that the Customs vessel was abandoned by the Japanese boarding party on the day of the incident (11th December) and allowed to drift.\n\n5. His/\n\nPage 10\n\nPage 11", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-570-11 Sino-Japanese War- Japanese attack on Chinese Maritime Customs cruiser- CHAHSING 19-1-1938 - 23-3-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 560241, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-570-11 Sino-Japanese War- Japanese attack on Chinese Maritime Customs cruiser- CHAHSING 19-1-1938 - 23-3-1938", "page_number": 11, "title": "CO129-570-11 Sino-Japanese War- Japanese attack on Chinese Maritime Customs cruiser- CHAHSING 19-1-1938 - 23-3-1938", "content_text": "His Majesty's Government are further in no doubt that Japanese naval ratings did in fact land on Hongkong territory. This is borne out by the evidence of a number of witnesses examined by the police on the morning following the incident, including the First Officer of the Customs cruiser who, as mentioned above, was left behind by the Captain at the time when the cruiser was beached. (There are moreover good grounds for believing that the naval ratings made off with some poultry).\n\nI have the honour to request that Your Excellency will be good enough to cause this matter to be reexamined by the competent authorities in the light of the considerations set forth in the preceding paragraphs.\n\nI avail myself of this opportunity to renew to Your Excellency the assurance of my highest consideration.\n\n(sgd) R.L. CRAIGIE.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-570-11 Sino-Japanese War- Japanese attack on Chinese Maritime Customs cruiser- CHAHSING 19-1-1938 - 23-3-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 560242, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-570-11 Sino-Japanese War- Japanese attack on Chinese Maritime Customs cruiser- CHAHSING 19-1-1938 - 23-3-1938", "page_number": 12, "title": "CO129-570-11 Sino-Japanese War- Japanese attack on Chinese Maritime Customs cruiser- CHAHSING 19-1-1938 - 23-3-1938", "content_text": "1.\n\nThe \"CHAHISING\" is 250 tons, her armament being one 3 pounder gun, 5 Lewis guns and side arms.\n\n2.\n\nHer crew consists of one European Captain, one European Engineer, 3 artificers, 20 ratings and 5 cabin hands.\n\n3.\n\nSince the hostilities commenced the \"CHAHSING\" has been anchored at Kowloon Bay.\n\n4.\n\nOn the 11th December, 1941, Captain COOK received instructions to proceed into DEEP BAY and to wait for further instructions with a view to landing a party of men at SHUM CHUN Customs Station.\n\n5.\n\nAt 12 noon on the same date, the cruiser sailed from Kowloon Bay via CAP SHUI MUN with the mentioned men on board.\n\n6.\n\nAt 14.20 hours when the ship was roughly about half a mile to the north of YUNG LUNG WAN (British Territory) at the entrance to DEEP BAY, she sighted a Japanese destroyer belonging to the 23rd or 25th flotilla, at a distance 1.3 miles from CHAK WAN (in Chinese Waters), when fire was opened by the destroyer on the cruiser.\n\n7.\n\nAt 14.22 hours the engines of the cruiser were stopped and the cruiser swung stern into the direction of the destroyer.\n\n8.\n\nAt 14.24 hours the cruiser proceeded at full speed towards BLACK POINT, where she was struck on the starboard side below the bridge by a ricochet shell.\n\n9.\n\nThe cruiser then swung onto the beach at YUNG LUNG WAN (British Territory), where the 2 anchors were dropped and the crew abandoned the ship at 14.55 hours, the Captain taking with him the log book.\n\n10.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-570-11 Sino-Japanese War- Japanese attack on Chinese Maritime Customs cruiser- CHAHSING 19-1-1938 - 23-3-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 560243, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-570-11 Sino-Japanese War- Japanese attack on Chinese Maritime Customs cruiser- CHAHSING 19-1-1938 - 23-3-1938", "page_number": 13, "title": "CO129-570-11 Sino-Japanese War- Japanese attack on Chinese Maritime Customs cruiser- CHAHSING 19-1-1938 - 23-3-1938", "content_text": "13.\n\n10. The firing continued the whole time the cruiser was manoeuvring, 4 or 5 shots being fired after the cruiser had beached.\n\n11. After the beaching of the cruiser the destroyer proceeded to close in and lay to about 1 mile from the beach.\n\n12. On shore the crew took to the hills, where Captain COOK gave instructions to the 1st officer, boatswain, and two ratings to remain in the vicinity, while he and the remaining party proceeded to the south of BLACK POINT, and finally at 17.30 hours the Captain arrived at Castle Peak Police Station and phoned to the Commissioner of Customs.\n\n15. In all 15 or 20 shells were fired at the cruiser from either a 4 or 4.7 gun, two unexploded shells being found on the beach outside the NING YEUNG shop and later taken away by Naval Authorities after the vicinity had been photographed by Police.\n\n14. From the hillside the 1st Officer, boatswain and villagers saw the destroyer lower two motor boats with armed sailors who boarded the cruiser and also landed at YUNG LUNG WAN.\n\n15. The sailors were then observed to enter the shop and houses and the vicinity, and took away with them a number of chickens belonging to an old woman named CHUNG WAN.\n\n16. At about 20.00 hours the Chief Officer saw the Japanese destroyer steaming in a southerly direction towards Ladrones and about 20 minutes later he also observed the Customs Cruiser proceeding under her own steam in the same direction.\n\nThe destroyer and the cruiser were in \"flashing\" communication to one another.\n\n17. About...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-570-11 Sino-Japanese War- Japanese attack on Chinese Maritime Customs cruiser- CHAHSING 19-1-1938 - 23-3-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 560244, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-570-11 Sino-Japanese War- Japanese attack on Chinese Maritime Customs cruiser- CHAHSING 19-1-1938 - 23-3-1938", "page_number": 14, "title": "CO129-570-11 Sino-Japanese War- Japanese attack on Chinese Maritime Customs cruiser- CHAHSING 19-1-1938 - 23-3-1938", "content_text": "- 3\n\n14\n\n17.\n\nAbout 50 minutes later No. 5 Police Launch which had received instructions by wireless arrived on the scene and the Chief Officer signalled to the launch with the result that a boat was lowered and the crew taken on board.\n\n18.\n\n19.\n\nNo one had been wounded or injured. The spot at which the crew was picked up was a little distance from YUNG LUNG WAN and at the request of the Chief Officer the Police Launch proceeded to YUNG LUNG WAN to make certain that the cruiser had been seized and found that it was so. The Police Launch saw no signs of either the Japanese destroyer or the cruiser and then returned to Hong Kong.\n\n20.\n\nThe Captain has the ship's movements recorded in his log book during the whole of the incident.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-570-11 Sino-Japanese War- Japanese attack on Chinese Maritime Customs cruiser- CHAHSING 19-1-1938 - 23-3-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 560245, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-570-11 Sino-Japanese War- Japanese attack on Chinese Maritime Customs cruiser- CHAHSING 19-1-1938 - 23-3-1938", "page_number": 15, "title": "CO129-570-11 Sino-Japanese War- Japanese attack on Chinese Maritime Customs cruiser- CHAHSING 19-1-1938 - 23-3-1938", "content_text": "Seen by ch\n\n17/3\n\n53838/26\n\n6.\n\n15\n\nIn any further communication on this subject, please quote\n\nNo. F. 2330/15/10\n\nand address—not to any person by name, but to—\n\n\"The Under-Secretary of State,\" Foreign Office, London, S.W. 1.\n\nTHE Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs presents his\n\ncompliments to The\n\nfor ch\n\nthe\n\nColonies\n\nunder\n\nsericiary\n\nand, by direction of the Secretary of State,\n\ntransmits herewith copy of the under-mentioned paper.\n\nForeign Office,\n\n9 March 1938.\n\nReference to previous correspondence:\n\nTo\n\n103/53838/10/34\n\nDescription of Enclosure.\n\nF.11482/220/10\n\nof 30 Dec 1937\n\nName and Date.\n\nSubject.\n\nDespatch No. 11 of 13 Jan. 1938\n\nfrom Howe, Shangani regarding Japanese activities in Hong Kong waters preventive measures\n\nSimilar letter sent to ...\n\n14\n\n6130 16473 (4)\n\nPage ...\n\nHowever, to follow the exact format required and to improve the response based on the given instructions, here is the revised output in HTML format with proper corrections and adjustments:\n\nND\n\nSeen by ch\n\n17/3\n\n53838/26\n\n6.\n\n15\n\nIn any further communication on this subject, please quote\n\nNo. F.2330/15/10\n\nand address—not to any person by name, but to—\n\n\"The Under-Secretary of State,\" Foreign Office, London, S.W.1.\n\nThe Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs presents his\n\ncompliments to The Officer for ch\n\nthe Colonies\n\nunder Secretary\n\nand, by direction of the Secretary of State,\n\ntransmits herewith copy of the under-mentioned paper.\n\nForeign Office,\n\n9 March 1938.\n\nReference to previous correspondence:\n\n103/53838/10/34\n\nDescription of Enclosure.\n\nF.11482/220/10 of 30 Dec 1937\n\nName and Date. 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Despatch No.11 of 13 Jan. 1938 from Howe, Shangani regarding Japanese activities in Hong Kong waters & preventive measures\n\nSimilar letter sent to ...\n\n14\n\n6130 16473(4)", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-570-11 Sino-Japanese War- Japanese attack on Chinese Maritime Customs cruiser- CHAHSING 19-1-1938 - 23-3-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 560246, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-570-11 Sino-Japanese War- Japanese attack on Chinese Maritime Customs cruiser- CHAHSING 19-1-1938 - 23-3-1938", "page_number": 16, "title": "CO129-570-11 Sino-Japanese War- Japanese attack on Chinese Maritime Customs cruiser- CHAHSING 19-1-1938 - 23-3-1938", "content_text": "JAPEHAND.\n\nBRITISH EMBASSY,\n\n16\n\nXXXXXX\n\nNo. 1 (26/47.7/1938), Copied to:\n\nTokyo No. 3 Hongkong 2\n\nSHANGHAI, 13th January, 1938\n\nvo\n\n103\n\n300 30\n\nSir,\n\nFrom Mr. Forbes to I-G. of Customs dated 6/1/1938.\n\nDraft reply to Mr. Forbes\n\nWith reference to my telegram No. 775 of the 24th December last, on the subject of the operation of Chinese preventive cruisers in Hongkong waters, I have the honour to report that the Preventive Secretary of the Chinese Maritime Customs showed me today a letter from the Customs Commissioner, Kowloon, to the Inspector-General of Customs, copies of which are enclosed.\n\nMr. Pritchard communicated to me at the same time the draft of a letter, copies of which are also enclosed, which Sir Frederick Maze proposed to address to Mr. Forbes in reply, and enquired whether I saw any objection to its terms. He pointed out that the Customs Administration feared that if their cruisers continued to operate in Hongkong waters, they might lay themselves open to reprisals from the Japanese elsewhere apart from the risk of embroiling the Colony with the Japanese authorities.\n\nI informed Mr. Pritchard that I saw no objection to the sending of Sir Frederick Maze's letter as drafted; as it was obvious that there were other considerations of importance to the Customs which did\n\nThe Right Honourable\n\nAnthony Eden, M.C., M.P.,\n\netc.,\n\netc.,\n\netc.,\n\nFOREIGN OFFICE.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-570-11 Sino-Japanese War- Japanese attack on Chinese Maritime Customs cruiser- CHAHSING 19-1-1938 - 23-3-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 560247, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-570-11 Sino-Japanese War- Japanese attack on Chinese Maritime Customs cruiser- CHAHSING 19-1-1938 - 23-3-1938", "page_number": 17, "title": "CO129-570-11 Sino-Japanese War- Japanese attack on Chinese Maritime Customs cruiser- CHAHSING 19-1-1938 - 23-3-1938", "content_text": "17\n\n2.\n\nnot concern the Hong Kong authorities.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nWith the highest respect,\n\nSir,\n\nYour most obedient,\n\nhumble servant,\n\n(Signed)\n\nR.G. HOWE", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-570-11 Sino-Japanese War- Japanese attack on Chinese Maritime Customs cruiser- CHAHSING 19-1-1938 - 23-3-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 560248, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-570-11 Sino-Japanese War- Japanese attack on Chinese Maritime Customs cruiser- CHAHSING 19-1-1938 - 23-3-1938", "page_number": 18, "title": "CO129-570-11 Sino-Japanese War- Japanese attack on Chinese Maritime Customs cruiser- CHAHSING 19-1-1938 - 23-3-1938", "content_text": "STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL\n\n18\n\nOffice of C.M. Customs for Kowloon & Dist.\n\nHONGKONG, 6th January, 1938.\n\nDear Sir Frederick,\n\nIn an interview with the Governor of Hongkong this morning he enquired what our preventive vessels were doing, to which I replied that they were laid up for the time-being and had ceased to function. He then remarked that it seemed to him a pity that such action had been taken and enquired who was responsible for issuing such orders.\n\nI told him that it was possible that one of the main reasons was to avoid the possibility of further incidents such as had occurred in the case of the \"Chahsing\", which we considered might have proved embarrassing to the Colonial Government. To this he replied that it might be more embarrassing for his Government that we had ceased to carry on our normal activities as such action on our part might give the impression that the Hongkong Government had used its influence in this direction in deference to the wishes of the Japanese.\n\nSome might hold the opinion that the use of Hongkong's waters by our vessels was a course of action of a provocative nature in view of the present hostilities in neighbouring waters, this was not his opinion and he considered that it would be an unfriendly act to deprive our vessels at this juncture of a privilege which they had always enjoyed. He thought that the voluntary abandonment of a right to use Hongkong waters might possibly prove a source of embarrassment to us at some later period.\n\nIt was evident that the Governor of Hongkong would be glad to see our vessels moving about in Hongkong waters as in former times.\n\nIn regard to the \"Chahsing\" incident he said that there had been...\n\nSir Frederick Maze, K.B.E.,\n\netc., etc.,\n\nSHANGHAI.\n\netc., etc.,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-570-11 Sino-Japanese War- Japanese attack on Chinese Maritime Customs cruiser- CHAHSING 19-1-1938 - 23-3-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 560249, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-570-11 Sino-Japanese War- Japanese attack on Chinese Maritime Customs cruiser- CHAHSING 19-1-1938 - 23-3-1938", "page_number": 19, "title": "CO129-570-11 Sino-Japanese War- Japanese attack on Chinese Maritime Customs cruiser- CHAHSING 19-1-1938 - 23-3-1938", "content_text": "19\n\n2.\n\nhad been different opinions and while some held the view\n\nthat the action of the Customs might have been considered provocative (this is a reference to Admiral Little, this was not his view, and he was glad to find that his opinion\n\ncoincided with that of the home government.\n\nThe Governor\n\nasked the Colonial Secretary to show me the Note sent by the Secretary for Foreign Affairs to Japan over the \"Chahsing\"\n\nIt was extremely sharply worded.\n\nincident.\n\nI thanked the Governor for his remarks and said that I\n\nwould convey the tenor of them to you.\n\nMr. N. L. Smith was\n\npresent at this interview.\n\nYours truly,\n\n(signed) A. H. FORBES", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-570-11 Sino-Japanese War- Japanese attack on Chinese Maritime Customs cruiser- CHAHSING 19-1-1938 - 23-3-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 560250, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-570-11 Sino-Japanese War- Japanese attack on Chinese Maritime Customs cruiser- CHAHSING 19-1-1938 - 23-3-1938", "page_number": 20, "title": "CO129-570-11 Sino-Japanese War- Japanese attack on Chinese Maritime Customs cruiser- CHAHSING 19-1-1938 - 23-3-1938", "content_text": "COLY.\n\nDRAFT CONFIDENTIAL.\n\n11th January, 1938.\n\n20\n\nC\n\nDear Mr. Forbes,\n\nI have received your confidential letter of 6th instant relating to your recent interview with the Governor in connexion with the movement of Chinese Customs vessels in Hongkong waters, and the Governor's friendly attitude towards the Customs is much appreciated. I am unable, however, to share the view that our preventive vessels should continue to exercise normal activities during the present abnormal political conditions and, as Admiral Little correctly surmises, thus provoke possibly unnecessary incidents which might embarrass the Colonial Authorities and would unquestionably embarrass the Customs Administration. Moreover there are other considerations at stake, and our fixed policy is that Customs preventive work afloat shall be entirely abandoned for the time being in order to avoid complications with hostile forces apart altogether from third party risks.\n\nIn brief from our point of view the issue embraces more than the local question of Hongkong since it is connected with the major one of the maintenance of the integrity of the Customs Service, with which all countries having trade with China are deeply concerned. I may add that I do not consider that the temporary abandonment of our established right to use Hongkong waters is implied by our provisional action in laying up our ships in the harbour when the same policy is adopted elsewhere on the coast.\n\nFinally the utility of the sea preventive measures which could be taken by us in the Kowloon district at present is comparatively negligible and, as I have already intimated, not commensurate with the risks involved.\n\nYours truly,\n\nPage 20\n\nPage 21", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-570-11 Sino-Japanese War- Japanese attack on Chinese Maritime Customs cruiser- CHAHSING 19-1-1938 - 23-3-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 560251, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-570-11 Sino-Japanese War- Japanese attack on Chinese Maritime Customs cruiser- CHAHSING 19-1-1938 - 23-3-1938", "page_number": 21, "title": "CO129-570-11 Sino-Japanese War- Japanese attack on Chinese Maritime Customs cruiser- CHAHSING 19-1-1938 - 23-3-1938", "content_text": "No. F2292/19\n\n6388\n\n710\n\n0/21. J.\n\n21\n\n\"The Under-Secretary of State,\" Foreign Office, London, S.W. 1.\n\nTHE Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs presents his compliments to\n\nThe ... of ... for the colonies and, by direction of the Secretary of State, transmits herewith copy of the under-mentioned paper.\n\nForeign Office,\n\n8 March, 1938.\n\nReference to previous correspondence:\n\nColony/...33838/10/37 of 10 January 1938\n\nDescription of Enclosure.\n\n \n Name and Date\n Subject\n \n \n HM Ambassador Tokyo Despatch 147 of 13 January 1938\n Attack by Japanese destroyer on Chinese Maritime Customs cruiser \"Chahsing\"\n \n\nSimilar letter sent to ...\n\n6130 16473 (4)\n\nPage ...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-570-11 Sino-Japanese War- Japanese attack on Chinese Maritime Customs cruiser- CHAHSING 19-1-1938 - 23-3-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 560252, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-570-11 Sino-Japanese War- Japanese attack on Chinese Maritime Customs cruiser- CHAHSING 19-1-1938 - 23-3-1938", "page_number": 22, "title": "CO129-570-11 Sino-Japanese War- Japanese attack on Chinese Maritime Customs cruiser- CHAHSING 19-1-1938 - 23-3-1938", "content_text": "No. 13 (10/100/38)\n\nHIS Majesty's Representative at Tokyo\n\n22.\n\npresents his compliments to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and has the honour to transmit to him the under-mentioned documents.\n\nBritish Embassy, Tokyo, Japan\n\n17th January, 1938\n\nReference to previous correspondence: Tokyo telegram to Foreign Office, No. 56 of 16th January, 1938.\n\nDescription of Enclosure. Name and Date.\n\nFrom Minister for Foreign Affairs. No. 5 of 12th January, 1938.\n\nSubject. Violation of Hongkong territorial waters by Japanese destroyer.\n\n3479 13451 (2)\n\nCopy sent to: His Majesty's Representative, Shanghai. His Excellency the Governor, Hongkong. His Excellency Commander-in-Chief.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-570-11 Sino-Japanese War- Japanese attack on Chinese Maritime Customs cruiser- CHAHSING 19-1-1938 - 23-3-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 560253, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-570-11 Sino-Japanese War- Japanese attack on Chinese Maritime Customs cruiser- CHAHSING 19-1-1938 - 23-3-1938", "page_number": 23, "title": "CO129-570-11 Sino-Japanese War- Japanese attack on Chinese Maritime Customs cruiser- CHAHSING 19-1-1938 - 23-3-1938", "content_text": "Minister for Foreign Affairs,\n\nNo:\n\nHis Excellency,\n\nCOPY\n\n23\n\n12th January, 1938\n\n(Received 15th January)\n\nYour Excellency,\n\nI have the honour to acknowledge receipt of Your Excellency's Note No. 200 of the 22nd December regarding the firing by a Japanese destroyer on a Chinese Customs patrol boat off Black Point Hongkong, in the afternoon of the 11th December and other matters.\n\nI immediately took steps to investigate and confirm the facts of this case and, these having now been established, I have the honour to reply in the following sense.\n\n2.\n\nI\n\nOn the 11th December, a Japanese destroyer was riding at anchor at a point about one and a half nautical miles to the west of South West Point. At about 3.15 p.m. she sighted what was thought to be a Chinese gunboat at about three nautical miles in a southerly direction and she ordered her to stop. But the latter vessel put on speed and the destroyer gave chase firing on her for a short while.\n\n3.\n\nThough this firing took place outside British territorial waters, some of the shells fell within those waters.\n\n4.\n\nMoreover, since the crew of the Chinese gunboat abandoned her and made off, the Japanese destroyer drew up alongside to make sure of the facts and it was\n\nSir Robert Craigie, K.C.M.G., C.B.,\n\nHis Britannic Majesty's Ambassador\n\netc., etc., etc.,\n\nTokyo.\n\netc.,\n\nthen/", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-570-11 Sino-Japanese War- Japanese attack on Chinese Maritime Customs cruiser- CHAHSING 19-1-1938 - 23-3-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 560254, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-570-11 Sino-Japanese War- Japanese attack on Chinese Maritime Customs cruiser- CHAHSING 19-1-1938 - 23-3-1938", "page_number": 24, "title": "CO129-570-11 Sino-Japanese War- Japanese attack on Chinese Maritime Customs cruiser- CHAHSING 19-1-1938 - 23-3-1938", "content_text": "24\n\nthen for the first time that the vessel which had been taken for a gunboat was found to be the Customs patrol s.s. \"Chahsin\". The destroyer moved off and left her there.\n\n5.\n\nAs is clear from the foregoing, the Japanese destroyer did not take the Chinese Customs patrol in tow as is stated in Your Excellency's Note. It is moreover scarcely credible to the Imperial Japanese Government that men of the Japanese Navy should have landed without permission and made off with a number of chickens from nearby houses and no sailor landed in that neighbourhood at the time in question.\n\n6.\n\nBut the facts that Japanese shells fell within British territorial waters in the line of fire and that since the investigation of the abandoned enemy vessel was carried out in circumstances which did not permit of delay, British territorial waters were entered without the consent of a British Authority are nevertheless regretted by the Imperial Japanese Government and those responsible have been dealt with appropriately in accordance with the law.\n\n7.\n\nI have the honour to add that the Imperial Navy have, in view of the occurrence of this incident, sent strict instructions to their detachments in China to take adequate precautions against the recurrence of such incidents in future.\n\nI avail, etc., etc.,\n\n(sgd) Koki Hirota (L.S.)\n\nH.I.J.M's. Minister for Foreign Affairs.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-570-11 Sino-Japanese War- Japanese attack on Chinese Maritime Customs cruiser- CHAHSING 19-1-1938 - 23-3-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 560255, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-570-11 Sino-Japanese War- Japanese attack on Chinese Maritime Customs cruiser- CHAHSING 19-1-1938 - 23-3-1938", "page_number": 25, "title": "CO129-570-11 Sino-Japanese War- Japanese attack on Chinese Maritime Customs cruiser- CHAHSING 19-1-1938 - 23-3-1938", "content_text": "63838/10\n\nWith the compliments of the\n\nSecretary of the Admiralty.\n\nAdmiralty.\n\n28th January, 1938\n\nAdmiralty Ref.No. M.01183/38.\n\nYour Ref. No.\n\nThe Under Secretary of State,\n\nColonial Office,\n\nS.W.1.\n\n52.\n\n4.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-570-11 Sino-Japanese War- Japanese attack on Chinese Maritime Customs cruiser- CHAHSING 19-1-1938 - 23-3-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 560256, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-570-11 Sino-Japanese War- Japanese attack on Chinese Maritime Customs cruiser- CHAHSING 19-1-1938 - 23-3-1938", "page_number": 26, "title": "CO129-570-11 Sino-Japanese War- Japanese attack on Chinese Maritime Customs cruiser- CHAHSING 19-1-1938 - 23-3-1938", "content_text": "M.01183/38.\n\nSir,\n\nImmediate\n\n4\n\n26\n\n83rd January,\n\n8\n\nWith reference to your letter No. F622/19/10, dated 19th January, 1938, I am commanded by My Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to inform you that They have no comments to offer on the draft of the telegram which Mr. Secretary Eden proposes to address to His Majesty's Ambassador at Tokyo in connection with the \"Chahsing\" incident.\n\n2. With regard to paragraph 2 of your letter, I am to state that while it may not have been necessary to tow the customs vessel, it is considered unlikely that she could have been refloated without some outside agency.\n\n\"Chahsing\" was beached about 1½ hours before high water, and as the tide rose only about three feet between 0900 and 1600 on the day in question (the ship was beached at 1431), there is very little likelihood of the vessel having floated off by reason of tidal action. Moreover, as the position where the \"Chahsing\" was beached is well sheltered from the prevailing wind, it is unlikely that she was blown off shore.\n\n3. The original enclosures to the despatch dated 17th December, 1937, from the Governor of Hong Kong, which were forwarded for Admiralty perusal, are being returned under separate cover.\n\n4.\n\nA copy of this letter has been sent to the Colonial Office.\n\nI am, Sir,\n\nYour obedient Servant,\n\nLawson\n\nThe Under Secretary of State,\n\nForeign Office,\n\nS.W.1.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-570-11 Sino-Japanese War- Japanese attack on Chinese Maritime Customs cruiser- CHAHSING 19-1-1938 - 23-3-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 560257, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-570-11 Sino-Japanese War- Japanese attack on Chinese Maritime Customs cruiser- CHAHSING 19-1-1938 - 23-3-1938", "page_number": 27, "title": "CO129-570-11 Sino-Japanese War- Japanese attack on Chinese Maritime Customs cruiser- CHAHSING 19-1-1938 - 23-3-1938", "content_text": "In any further communication on this subject, please quote\n\nNo. F622/19/10\n\nand address-\n\nnot to any person by name\n\nbut to\n\nThe Under-Secretary of State,\n\nForeign Office,\n\nLondon, S.W.1.\n\nFOREIGN OFFICE.\n\nS.W.1.\n\nRECEIVED\n\n19th January, 1938.\n\nC.C.DECY\n\nSir,\n\n100/3\n\nWith reference to Colonial Office letter\n\nNo. 53838/10/37, of the 10th January, regarding the\n\nviolation of Hong Kong territorial waters by a Japanese\n\ndestroyer, I am directed by Mr. Secretary Eden to transmit\n\nto you herewith a copy of a telegram on this subject which\n\nhas been received from His Majesty's Ambassador at Tokyo.\n\n2. Subject to any observations which Mr. Secretary\n\nOrmsby-Gore desires to make, Mr. Eden proposes to address\n\na telegram to Sir Robert Craigie in the terms of the\n\nenclosed draft. The question whether the customs cruiser\n\nis likely to have been refloated without being towed will\n\nno doubt receive the particular attention of the Admiralty.\n\nA similar letter is being addressed to the\n\n3.\n\nAdmiralty.\n\nThe Under-Secretary of State,\n\nColonial Office.\n\nI am,\n\nSir,\n\nYour obedient Servant,\n\nC.W. Dada", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-570-11 Sino-Japanese War- Japanese attack on Chinese Maritime Customs cruiser- CHAHSING 19-1-1938 - 23-3-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 560258, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-570-11 Sino-Japanese War- Japanese attack on Chinese Maritime Customs cruiser- CHAHSING 19-1-1938 - 23-3-1938", "page_number": 28, "title": "CO129-570-11 Sino-Japanese War- Japanese attack on Chinese Maritime Customs cruiser- CHAHSING 19-1-1938 - 23-3-1938", "content_text": "[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government, and should be returned to the Foreign Office if not required for official use.]\n\n28\n\nFrom JAPAN.\n\nDecode.\n\nSir R. Craigie, (Tokyo).\n\n15 January, 1938.\n\nD. 1.20 p.m. 10th January, 1938.\n\nR. 10.00 a.m. 16th January, 1938.\n\nNo. 56.\n\n(R).\n\n0:0:0:0\n\nYour telegram No. 581.\n\nI have received reply of which the following is summary. On December 11th at about 3.15 p.m. Japanese destroyer riding at anchor one and a half nautical miles to the west south west point sighted what she took to be Chinese gunboat about three nautical miles to the south and ordered her to stop. The latter put on speed and the destroyer gave chase firing for a short while. Though firing took place outside British territorial waters some of the shells fell within those waters.\n\nSince crew had abandoned the Chinese boat the destroyer drew alongside to ascertain the facts and only then discovered it was customs vessel. The destroyer moved off and left her there. She did not take customs vessel in tow. It is scarcely credible to the Japanese Government that men of Japanese navy should have landed without permission and made off with chickens. No sailor landed in that neighbourhood at that time.\n\nThe fact that Japanese shells fell within British territorial waters \"in line of fire\" and that, since investigation of enemy vessel brooked no delay, British territorial waters were entered without consent of a British authority are nevertheless regretted by the Japanese Government and those responsible have been dealt with appropriately in accordance with the law.\n\nThe Imperial navy have also sent strict instructions to their detachments in China to take adequate precautions against the recurrence of such incidents.\n\nAddressed to Foreign Office telegram No. 56; repeated to Mr. Howe and Hongkong (please pass to Commander-in-Chief as my telegram No. 21).", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-570-11 Sino-Japanese War- Japanese attack on Chinese Maritime Customs cruiser- CHAHSING 19-1-1938 - 23-3-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 560259, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-570-11 Sino-Japanese War- Japanese attack on Chinese Maritime Customs cruiser- CHAHSING 19-1-1938 - 23-3-1938", "page_number": 29, "title": "CO129-570-11 Sino-Japanese War- Japanese attack on Chinese Maritime Customs cruiser- CHAHSING 19-1-1938 - 23-3-1938", "content_text": "P 622/19/10\n\nFOREIGN OFFICE, S.W.1.\n\nJanuary\n\n29\n\n1938\n\nTelegram.\n\nSir Robert Craigie,\n\nTokyo.\n\nNo.... (96) 127\n\nYour telegram No. 56 (of the 15th January: violation of Hong Kong territorial waters by Japanese destroyer).\n\nI presume that you have by now received the copy sent to you direct of the secret despatch from the Governor of Hong Kong to the Colonial Office dated the 17th December, containing reports and statements.\n\nYou should inform the Japanese Government that His Majesty's Government have taken note that the Japanese Government have dealt appropriately with those responsible for the unwarrantable proceedings of the Japanese destroyer in Hong Kong territorial waters and have sent instructions providing against the recurrence of such an incident. It appears from the reports enclosed in the Hong Kong despatch referred to above that the customs cruiser sailed out of Hong Kong territorial waters", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-570-11 Sino-Japanese War- Japanese attack on Chinese Maritime Customs cruiser- CHAHSING 19-1-1938 - 23-3-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 560260, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-570-11 Sino-Japanese War- Japanese attack on Chinese Maritime Customs cruiser- CHAHSING 19-1-1938 - 23-3-1938", "page_number": 30, "title": "CO129-570-11 Sino-Japanese War- Japanese attack on Chinese Maritime Customs cruiser- CHAHSING 19-1-1938 - 23-3-1938", "content_text": "waters under her own steam and flying the Japanese flag: although she may not have been in tow, she must presumably have been towed off the beach to get under way at all. From the evidence at our disposal, selected passages from which you might, at your discretion, communicate to the Japanese Government, His Majesty's Government remain in no doubt that Japanese sailors did in fact land on Hong Kong territory and there is good ground for thinking that they made off with a number of chickens. Finally it is a matter for serious regret that the Japanese appear from their failure to refer to the point to be unwilling to inform their naval authorities of their declared policy in regard to the integrity of the customs administration. The sincerity of their previous assurances in that respect therefore remains in doubt.\n\nPage 30\n\nPage 31", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-570-11 Sino-Japanese War- Japanese attack on Chinese Maritime Customs cruiser- CHAHSING 19-1-1938 - 23-3-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 560261, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-570-11 Sino-Japanese War- Japanese attack on Chinese Maritime Customs cruiser- CHAHSING 19-1-1938 - 23-3-1938", "page_number": 31, "title": "CO129-570-11 Sino-Japanese War- Japanese attack on Chinese Maritime Customs cruiser- CHAHSING 19-1-1938 - 23-3-1938", "content_text": "622/19/10\n\nSir,\n\nFOREIGN OFFICE.\n\nS.V.1.\n\n19th January, 1938.\n\n31\n\nWith reference to Colonial Office letter No. 53838/10/37, of the 10th January, regarding the violation of Hong Kong territorial waters by a Japanese destroyer, I am directed by Mr. Secretary Eden to transmit to you herewith a copy of a telegram on this subject which has been received from His Majesty's Ambassador at Tokyo.\n\n2. Subject to any observations which Mr. Secretary Ormsby-Gore desires to make, Mr. Eden proposes to address a telegram to Sir Robert Craigie in the terms of the enclosed draft. The question whether the customs cruiser is likely to have been refloated without being towed will no doubt receive the particular attention of the Admiralty.\n\n3. A similar letter is being addressed to the Admiralty.\n\nThe Under-Secretary of State, Colonial Office.\n\nI am,\n\nSir,\n\nYour obedient Servant,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-570-11 Sino-Japanese War- Japanese attack on Chinese Maritime Customs cruiser- CHAHSING 19-1-1938 - 23-3-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 560262, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-570-11 Sino-Japanese War- Japanese attack on Chinese Maritime Customs cruiser- CHAHSING 19-1-1938 - 23-3-1938", "page_number": 32, "title": "CO129-570-11 Sino-Japanese War- Japanese attack on Chinese Maritime Customs cruiser- CHAHSING 19-1-1938 - 23-3-1938", "content_text": "[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government, and should be returned to the Foreign Office if not required for official use.]\n\n32\n\nFrom JAPAN.\n\nDecode.\n\nSir R. Craigie, (Tokyo).\n\n15th January, 1938.\n\nD.\n\n1.20 p.m.\n\n10411 January, 1938.\n\nR.\n\n10.00 a.m.\n\n16th January, 1938.\n\nNo. 56.\n\n(R).\n\n0:0:0:0\n\nYour telegram No. 581.\n\nI have received reply of which the following is summary. On December 11th at about 3.15 p.m. Japanese destroyer riding at anchor one and a half nautical miles to the west south west point sighted what she took to be Chinese gunboat about three nautical miles to the south and ordered her to stop. The latter put on speed and the destroyer gave chase firing for a short while. Though firing took place outside British territorial waters some of the shells fell within those waters.\n\nSince crew had abandoned the Chinese boat the destroyer drew alongside to ascertain the facts and only then discovered it was customs vessel. The destroyer moved off and left her there. She did not take customs vessel in tow. It is scarcely credible to the Japanese Government that men of Japanese navy should have landed without permission and made off with chickens. No sailor landed in that neighbourhood at that time.\n\nThe fact that Japanese shells fell within British territorial waters \"in line of fire\" and that, since investigation of enemy vessel brooked no delay, British territorial waters were entered without consent of a British authority are nevertheless regretted by the Japanese Government and those responsible have been dealt with appropriately in accordance with the law.\n\nThe Imperial navy have also sent strict instructions to their detachments in China to take adequate precautions against the recurrence of such incidents.\n\nrepeated\n\nAddressed to Foreign Office telegram No. 56; to Mr. Howe and Hongkong (please pass to Commander-in-Chief as my telegram No. 21).", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-570-11 Sino-Japanese War- Japanese attack on Chinese Maritime Customs cruiser- CHAHSING 19-1-1938 - 23-3-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 560263, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-570-11 Sino-Japanese War- Japanese attack on Chinese Maritime Customs cruiser- CHAHSING 19-1-1938 - 23-3-1938", "page_number": 33, "title": "CO129-570-11 Sino-Japanese War- Japanese attack on Chinese Maritime Customs cruiser- CHAHSING 19-1-1938 - 23-3-1938", "content_text": "CROWN OFFICE, S.F.1.\n\nJanuary 1938\n\nTelegram.\n\nSir Robert Craigie,\n\nNo....\n\nTokyo.\n\nYour telegram No. 56 (of the 15th January: violation of Hong Kong territorial waters by Japanese destroyer).\n\nI presume that you have by now received the copy sent to you direct of the secret despatch from the Governor of Hong Kong to the Colonial Office dated the 17th December, containing reports and statements.\n\nYou should inform the Japanese Government that His Majesty's Government have taken note that the Japanese Government have dealt appropriately with those responsible for the unwarrantable proceedings of the Japanese destroyer in Hong Kong territorial waters and have sent instructions providing against the recurrence of such an incident. It appears from the reports enclosed in the Hong Kong despatch referred to above that the customs cruiser sailed out of Hong Kong territorial waters.\n\nPage 33\n\n▼ 628/19/10\n\n33", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-570-11 Sino-Japanese War- Japanese attack on Chinese Maritime Customs cruiser- CHAHSING 19-1-1938 - 23-3-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 560264, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-570-11 Sino-Japanese War- Japanese attack on Chinese Maritime Customs cruiser- CHAHSING 19-1-1938 - 23-3-1938", "page_number": 34, "title": "CO129-570-11 Sino-Japanese War- Japanese attack on Chinese Maritime Customs cruiser- CHAHSING 19-1-1938 - 23-3-1938", "content_text": "waters under her own steam and flying the Japanese flag: although she may not have been in tow, she must presumably have been towed off the beach to get under way at all. From the evidence at our disposal, selected passages from which you might, at your discretion, communicate to the Japanese Government, His Majesty's Government remain in no doubt that Japanese sailors did in fact land on Hong Kong territory and there is good ground for thinking that they made off with a number of chickens. Finally, it is a matter for serious regret that the Japanese appear, from their failure to refer to the point, to be unwilling to inform their naval authorities of their declared policy in regard to the integrity of the customs administration. The sincerity of their previous assurances in that respect therefore remains in doubt.\n\n34 END", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-570-11 Sino-Japanese War- Japanese attack on Chinese Maritime Customs cruiser- CHAHSING 19-1-1938 - 23-3-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 560265, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-570-11 Sino-Japanese War- Japanese attack on Chinese Maritime Customs cruiser- CHAHSING 19-1-1938 - 23-3-1938", "page_number": 35, "title": "CO129-570-11 Sino-Japanese War- Japanese attack on Chinese Maritime Customs cruiser- CHAHSING 19-1-1938 - 23-3-1938", "content_text": "53838", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-570-11 Sino-Japanese War- Japanese attack on Chinese Maritime Customs cruiser- CHAHSING 19-1-1938 - 23-3-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 582844, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-596-3 Hong Kong University- recognition of wartime training of medical students 24-1-1946 - 10-3-1949", "page_number": 73, "title": "CO129-596-3 Hong Kong University- recognition of wartime training of medical students 24-1-1946 - 10-3-1949", "content_text": "## Page 71\n\nfrom the time your letter took. \n\nMaybe this is due to the troubles with ground crews at aerodromes en route. Maybe it is largely attributable to the fact that at this time of year flying is well nigh impossible here owing to the dense clouds and mist. I hope to goodness weather conditions will not upset the arrangements for the Governor's arrival.\n\nRobin is still champing at the bit at home and corroding the cables with her commentary on the delay in getting out here; but this week she gets a bit of compensation as my daughter Diana is being married in London to young Hope-Faulkner in the Malayan Service. Robin loves a party and will be in her element.\n\nIt has all been tremendously interesting out here and I would not have missed it for worlds. But am I tired, or am I? I shall NOT, repeat NOT, be a bit sorry to get back to Ryton in due course and go to sleep for most of the winter of 1946-47.\n\nI pressed the Brigadier very, very hard to come home. I am absolutely convinced that there should be much closer personal liaison between here and the Colonial Office and I think it is high time that you came out and saw how the machine works (or does not work) at this end. You ought to do the trip by sea with a rest off at Colombo and Singapore and two-three autumn months here. I believe you would like it and you need the rest and have more than earned it. Think it over and tell Lloyd from me that it would pay dividends.\n\nWith kindest regards,\n\nYours very sincerely,\n**(Signed)** Hazlerigg.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-596-3 Hong Kong University- recognition of wartime training of medical students 24-1-1946 - 10-3-1949.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 } ]