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        "content_text": "Masues of Puildings bermular calculated \n\nto contain \n\nComenipacial and Wider inciffiment to mut \n\nZe Remandso \n\nmeet \n\nof \n\nthe Répertinent The former Folding least 185.6 - Feat. 45. 9. the latte to feet in length by 24-10 \n\nin Breadt \n\nCommivanat Godowns & Small \n\nkative Banachts \n\nMagazine. \n\nNew Smagasine \n\nJeans Form \n\nsungi \n\nof \n\nbuiltings, that austier \n\nthe purpose well, & Imail \n\nGuard. \n\ncoom attested \n\ncon \n\nRemarks \n\nFor buildings capable Efesers men \n\nof coathining 20 hen cach \n\nhot & fit plan for the \n\nRéforit &'ammanitér \n\ndo hot. Po e \n\nhearly completed cal. The thot to be \n\n-calated to contains 100 \n\nthe of powder \n\nAlmall to con \n\nthe Bray asine. \n\nJeans Horse Kikit Sele \n\nD \n\nFirty men. \n\nEunsumed with feali \n\nSr. des. \n\nChuck Com \n\nnumber \n\nthemes of building kantor calculated to \n\nPen quaites \n\nbostital \n\nCon Lain \n\nComfortable for \n\nRemarks \n\ntales \n\nC3 \n\nFrom 20 to 25 Patient \n\nBornack hot \n\nMassack be 2. \n\nFrom 70 to 80 men : Leguty when comper Lably \n\n\" \n\n... \n\n86 he \n\nSo Bet \n\nFeildings \n\nArc. wonder cous hustion, one that will contin 100 know, was hesit 18g Mew, aris \n\nLove Guard \n\n& die Store booms and \n\nA Confee house \n\nunci \n\nItal wonder hat be Carracks \n\nin the Setores de calentates b \n\nእን \n\nRicomodate is for Bren. Dr. \n\nHongkong \n\n$5 \n\nCheck Chen 150. but will surity be umased To as to contain to or 100 there. Is the Share allotted has been a horral allorance, tore Might be recommestated on ho conorgency \n\ndeclimatizing Printing fire or posting \n\nMarra Ro. \n\nBren \n\nAll will \n\nThe frist galer perballes ancorfles. building. \n\nsip Aof General \n\nExtendy Land Loved",
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        "document_key": "CO129-005 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1844",
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        "title": "CO129-005 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1844",
        "content_text": ": \n\nMaking \n\ndollars and \n\nA \n\ntotal \n\nSeventy and four \n\nof eleven thousand six hundred and bounty, fifty cents, at the exchange of four shillings pence per dollar Two thousand five hundred and thirty pounds el \n\npenny Sterling \n\nPhillings \n\nand one \n\n30th \n\n1844.3 \n\n#1679.5064/4 £2530,1.1 \n\nکرد برد در گرد بر گرده کار او کو یاد کر \n\nSand Department, Amount of Advances on \n\nContracts \n\non \n\nunfinished Military \n\n30 September 1343 . \n\nWe 18 Omoon works in \n\nCommissarial \n\nA New \n\njourd \n\nthe \n\nrange of Godtowns 7 - 10,000 \n\n17 watt \n\nOmcen - Sex walk in frent the Government Reporty \n\nof \n\nOn the North Beach Ye Jo 12 per \n\n20. Amoon New Barracks in front \n\nthe lines \n\nf \n\nAmoon – Cuction 7 \n\nthe itrsenal \n\nthe 41. I h$ 13,500 \n\nP \n\nworks in \n\n$500 \n\n.ཀྭ \n\n22 - Alaké & Muck. Ériction of officers \n\nQuarters and Mess House: \n\nab Check chu \n\n23 Achus & Mckung, Exction of \n\n2.4 \n\na barrack at Check chee \n\n14.000 \n\n7,500 \n\nKumsing - Field officers and \n\nCaptain's Quarters at Check chu 3,700 \n\nAssing \n\nAlterations in \n\nOrdnance Barracks and \n\naddition in \n\nAngineer Jard. 500. \n\nCarried over 772.00",
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        "content_text": "W. 263. \n\nGovernment Honde. Honghing, House, \n\n29th June 1848. \n\nAi \n\nam directed by Her Henry Pottinger \n\nto acknowledge the receipt of your \n\nlette of \n\nana \n\nto inform you, \n\nthat \n\nthe 15th Instant wis Excellency regrets he cannot allow you \n\nCheck Chew \n\ntemporary occupation of Sand at \n\nA- \n\nuntil that part of the Island has been surveyed \n\nand the arrangements for the Allotment of \n\nLand \n\nJohn Bennea \n\nDonghong..",
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        "title": "CO129-010 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1843",
        "content_text": "directed by His Excellency the Governor to Say that it is at present quite impossible. supply roery small. willage with. Police Station, and that the Inhabitants \n\nto \n\nof Check Chee should be informed, that they must protect themselves as they formerly did. from such depredations. \n\nI have to. \n\nWoornam \n\n(Signed) Richard. Meernam \n\nMr. Ford \n\nSir. \n\nVictoria, 3124 October, 1543. \n\nI have to acknowledge the receipt. of your litter of the 18th Instant, requesting to be advised as to the course. You should. take with regard to the affairs of Mr. Bennet, who has lately absconded from this Colony \n\nin a state of insolvency and from, whom. You hold a power of attorney \n\nto \n\nNo 95. \n\nto receive \n\nany \n\nmonies due to him and to \n\ndischarge from the \n\nmay \n\nrwc.. \n\nJame \n\nany \n\ndebts he \n\nAs Mr. Bennett's absence and \n\ninsolvency \n\nare matters of public notoriety and Consequently well. Kinoon. \n\nto his Creditors, I would recommend. \n\nyour. \n\nin the maller. \n\nnot moving further. until called upon by the Chief Magistrali or other compotent Government Officer, \n\nto Surrender for the benefit of Wr. Bennetts Creditors, any money, or effects, be in your hands belonging \n\nwhich \n\nmay \n\n, \n\nto Mr. Bonnett : You will. thus place. \n\nyourself in the same. \n\nsame position. \n\nposition, as any other. of the \"Debtors to the Estate of Mr. Bennett, and a similar receipt to that granted them by the Chief Magistrate will be given to you for such monies or effects, as you may \n\nto \n\nSurrender to him. \n\nand",
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        "document_key": "CO129-017 - Sir John Davis - 1846 [7-12]",
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        "content_text": "# Descriptive List of Chinese Prisoners\n\nName.\n\nMong Whit\n\n2 Te Quang shang Wang hachoong.\n\nHo\n\n3 Kum Asave\n\nTo afoot. 8.400 Alup\n\nKook Usum.\n\náo đảm trong 11 Wong Ayeen.\n\n12 Chen Alcones\n\n13 Ing. 1800 14 Sng Asze 15 Her Asze 46-Lok\n\nting\n\n17 Han Apo... 18 Why Alum\n\n14\n\n20\n\nSlen\n\nAgaing.\n\nAchu.\n\nCheang.\n\n21 Tong Awa.\n\n21 Jam Alum\n\n23 bhan Wa las\n\nAge:\n\nYears. Chos:\n\n265\n\n25 #\n\n4.9\n\n395\n\nFor fession\n\nTrade:\n\nBakter\n\nSione Cutter\n\nDocter\n\nBoatinan\n\n165\n\ntobler.\n\nBarber\n\n3416 Truiserer_\n\n327\n\n26 2 seller of vegetables. 29 16 Carpenter 2710\n\nLook.\n\n38\n\nseller of soit frades.\n\nBeatvoran\n\nBous mand\n\n367\n\n28\n\n24\n\n8 Rope maker\n\n207 seller of Cakes.\n\n20\n\n192\n\nne\n\n25\n\n24 Tam Ashing\n\nBoatman\n\ntoo lie\n\nCrime.\n\nLarceny. Robbery with violence.\n\nluttion with intent to\n\nmains.\n\nParceny Sarceny.\n\nSeating in a dwelling\n\ntower walus over $6,\n\nRabbery with violence-\n\nBBurglary.\n\nReceiving stolen\n\nStolen gooder\n\nthewivingstiden gooder-\n\nBurglary.\n\nRobbery with Larceny Larceny\n\nRobbery with Armes Wobbery with como Farcen.\n\nStracking in a dwelling\n\na\n\n44 to Seiler of theme Stealing from a veset. 1 seller of Fish_theating from vessels. 5 seller of day stables. Stealing from a vessel. 1 seller of oficent Burglary 4 shot keeper Robbery.\n\nRobbery\n\nBoatmaus\n\nmove.o\n\n25 Cheang than alios Man - Koch: 24 2 Setter of fruit : Robbery with am\n\n26 Bong ting.\n\n27 Hong Soong. Neen..\n\n22 Leang. Abing\n\n29 Mok Dow\n\n3o. Le Aung\n\n31 Cheong tung 33 So Suntsoy\n\n26 11 seller of Liate.\n\n1 Black smith\n\nSentence\n\nDate\n\n436\n\nunder Sentence of Transportation.\n\nTransportation Fence, Height\n\nGeneral Description.\n\n17th Deer Bl 5 4/4 Vair Complexion; mark on light cheese._\n\n5.5/ Dark Complexion. 59th Fair Complexion.\n\nLifes 18th Life 15th Zeby 1845 159re Fair\n\nJyears 15th Deer_11-\n\n52 Clark Comilexion: Sear\n\nfor 7 years\n\nf\n\nb\n\n10\n\n#\n\n2 Mark Cachtexion.\n\nth\n\nVo\n\n5 3/2 Glash carléxion:\n\n#\n\n15 years\n\nthe\n\n18\n\nth-\n\n16\n\n16th\n\n14.\n\n157\n\n+\n\nw Life 15th\n\n100bars 15\n\n10\n\n#\n\nmarti\n\nchives Light eye\n\nleft clicet\n\nta-over\n\nleft over.\n\n5 Life Park Complexion : fat face. 5 3 Hash Complexion : blind of left &\n\nFeby 1846 5 4th Fair Cospection\n\nLife 28th May\n\nLife 22\n\n7 years 17th ho\n\n* 10\n\n58 Fair Complexion\n\n5:3 fair Completion: mastion\n\nEight life.\n\n5 527 am completion: stout body\n\nIark Complexion.\n\n9\n\n5 60%tery darti Complexion.\n\n5 to quis Complexion in 5.1/1⁄2 Jais Colexion.\n\nalexiens mark on\n\nto 104 Fair Complexion:\n\n12th\n\nLife Life 12th.\n\n54/1⁄2\n\ne\n\nvarken\n\n/1⁄2 fair complexion: ma 6 Jais Complexion.\n\ntouchlexions.\n\n55% Vais complexion:\n\nleft check, bookmarker. left side tore head-\n\nScar ever\n\nreft ext\n\nseason right side of hea\n\n5 site Fair Conchlexion: Sear on left Icomple_\n\nFair Complexion.\n\n5 5/4 Yair Complexion: mark in\n\nEight Check\n\n55 Lair complexion: pock marked. 554 Jouir complexion: martien right cheek.\n\n5 71⁄21⁄2 Jair complexion: mark over right eye\n\n42\n\n244\n\nwith. eve the\n\n***...\n\napr. at man\n\nLife 12th\n\nLife 12.4\n\nLife 12th\n\nLife 134\n\nLife 137.\n\non fore head\n\nFife 13th\n\n5 3/4 Fair Complexion:\n\nleft temple\n\n7 Years 13\n\n1/3\n\n5 1/1⁄2 Jair Complexion:\n\nleft eye\n\n\"\n\n16th Bear\n\n56 Jair Complexion:\n\n31\n\nColie\n\n20 so tetes of finem &\n\nBarber:\n\nRobbery with vistences. cutting niemaining Habbing with intent to lo grie sous bodily Nati\n\nMaustaughter Larceny\n\n2.0 7 seller offish & fruit\n\nHer offich fuit Larceny.\n\n319\n\nSheriff's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 15th December, 18.46 }\n\nSeller\n\ner of\n\nFich. Stealing from a boat -\n\nColomine Je\n\nSigned Jav Collins.\n\nJailer.\n\n5 3/1⁄2 Fair Complexion : mark on\n\n53/1⁄2 Fair Complexion: much pock marked-\n\n[signed] C.B. Willier.\n\nofficiating sheriff.",
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        "content_text": "Victoria Hong Kong,\n\nbis brace the duke of Fewenstie.\n\nActing Gerundermis,\n\n19th March, 1855.\n\nRecceived-\n\n18.\n\n/Incloure-\n\nSteamer Jemnitamis”\n\n20 Convicts to Ruang on 10th Instant, by S. S. V. Compaus\n\nReporting Transportation It\n\nInstleist\n\nPatlay:\n\narthies is only Gampoornation\n\n19 May.\n\nHigh Seas I see that several men convicted of Piracy and one of them of murder on the. except with Transportation for life.\n\nparticulars do not appear, and one is left to hope that there is no want of proper vigour in the administration of justice at Hong Kong.\n\n8 19 jany.\n\nthe\n\nIn 5299/53.\n\n1\n\nI scriptive Fist\n\n  \n    Age\n    Name\n    Country\n    Gears Mon\n  \n  \n    1.\n    Bapa Sieden.\n    Wony-Chice-for-\n     \n  \n  \n     \n    Chu Chuen sow.\n     \n     \n  \n  \n     \n    Chu ah.\n     \n     \n  \n  \n     \n    Jan chut lai\n    He Sing Kevar.\n     \n  \n  \n     \n    Soo Yung Sow=\n    Worry Nom Ming-\n     \n  \n  \n     \n    Chen Kan Low chov a look_\n     \n     \n  \n  \n     \n    Jam Ling Wah_\n    Joing the Leen-\n    Long ah lun\n  \n  \n    28\n    Malay\n    China ab\n    Seaman\n  \n  \n     \n    Jeanian\n    étuurder on\n    the high seas.\n  \n  \n     \n    Firacy-\n     \n     \n  \n\nList of 19 Chinese and One Malay\n\n  \n    Proffesion or Tracke\n    Crime\n    Prisoners under Sintince of Transportation.\n    Term of Gali Fright\n    Traius:\n    of\n    \"ortation sentence Fret fuches\n  \n  \n     \n     \n    1857\n     \n    General Fescribition.\n    74\n     \n  \n  \n     \n     \n    Amarks\n    with smallpox, Death recorded\n    Fife – 16\"\n    Tobry 5 q1⁄2 Marked about noue, Fife 15 lbs 51\n    sear on the lift calf-\n  \n  \n    23\n    Boatman.\n    Piracy.\n    1 Scar\n    Eight temple_\n     \n     \n  \n  \n    24\n    Seaman\n    Piracy\n    132\n    Seaman\n    〃\n    Piracy-\n  \n  \n    Life\n    3%\n    Boatman.\n    Piracy.\n    39\n    Seama\n    Piracy.\n  \n  \n    Site\n    5 21⁄2\n    #\n    34\n    Cook\n    Piracy\n     \n  \n  \n    22\n    Scanian\n    Birney.\n    Life-\n    témall black side on right side of thin\n     \n     \n  \n  \n    5.3 Szette\n    In Alote\n    very\n    over\n    Kher scars on\n    Encon\n    right check.\n  \n  \n    Tight Temple.\n    5: 2 very high chuck bones.\n    53 small sour over\n    Tightye\n    left, and\n    Co.\n     \n  \n  \n    -Do-\n    right eye.\n    22\n    Beatinan -\n    Pracy\n    |Life-\n     \n  \n  \n    5 14 long features\n    Co\n     \n    24\n    Fisherman\n    Borary\n     \n  \n  \n    Sife-\n    53 Kelvin faut qöfte\n    car, Ydcar over i\n    i lightige\n     \n    2/\n     \n  \n  \n    Beatinan —\n    Firacy.\n    Life-\n    v\n    For searson right aide of light Kure-\n     \n     \n  \n  \n    36\n    Firacy.\n    Site.\n    54 fue both wit in foot, lewer jaw\n    Pe.\n    Bing.\n     \n  \n  \n    mom doe\n    _\n    26\n    kaman\n    Bracy-\n    Be\n     \n  \n  \n    5 41⁄2 small dear clost in front of left ear\n    _\n    27\n    25\n    26\n    #\n     \n  \n  \n    |30\n    125\n    23\n    Man ute Chook-\n    Hong at ivey-\n    Lie Anway-\n    chaon foot Chun- Chay a chion.\n  \n  \n    Shai teen\n    ● you -\n     \n     \n     \n     \n     \n  \n\nSheriffs Office.\n\nVictoria, Hongkong, 8 March, 1853.\n\nEstonial Secretary.\n\n  \n    Stone Culler-Felony and Larceny -\n    16.\n  \n  \n    Boalinan.\n    Forary\n  \n  \n    Site.\n    10 years 15 bolle 5 24 inch mostred with flegging me back.\n  \n  \n    Qui: 52\n    Marked with small pox.\n  \n  \n    Goathe Tecrrelse –\n    Hawker-\n  \n  \n    Firency-\n    Size-\n  \n  \n    Boatman\n    Feracy.\n  \n  \n    Life\n    Boatman.\n  \n  \n    Highway Tobbery... Feracy with wenuding\n    Life\n  \n  \n    complexion.\n    524\n  \n  \n    کی کی بکر\n    Fife\n  \n  \n    52 Jear over\n    scar inside light thigh and\n  \n  \n    De Sorge season the lip of the heart-\n    16th Feby 5 3 Masked with\n  \n  \n    left eye-\n    the flogging\n  \n  \n    dark.\n    Pe\n  \n  \n    -the\n    the back\n  \n  \n    _\n    Do..\n  \n\n(Sone Copy)\n\n(Signed) W. H. Mitchell.\n\nSheriff, 40.",
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        "content_text": "# TENTH DAY\n## Wednesday, 16th June, 1858, at 12 o'clock Noon\n\nPresent,—All the Members.\n\n### A. L. INGLIS,--Recalled.\n\n(28)\n\nThe brothel of which I spoke to the Commission as the one in which I saw Mrs Caldwell, was situate in Taipingshan. I am not sure whether the whole of the houses had been removed from the Choong Wan at this time, but I am quite clear as to the situation of this house. I went to this brothel purposely to see the intended Mrs Caldwell, and this was the first occasion on which I did see her. I do not know anything about a formal marriage according to Chinese usage between this girl and Mr Caldwell. The first time I knew of Mrs Caldwell living with Mr Caldwell, Mr Caldwell resided at the Gaol. This may have been two or three weeks, or two or three months from the time I saw her at the brothel. I do not recollect now in what other place Mr and Mrs Caldwell resided after they left the Gaol, and before they went to the bungalow called \"Retreat.\" I do not recollect Mrs Caldwell's mother.\n\nwas watched by another interpreter; and further, that I would not now believe him on his oath.\n\nCross-examined,--On the 10th June instant, he was charged before me with receiving goods, which had been stolen about the 30th May, and was discharged because the prosecutor was a convicted felon, a notoriously bad character, and bore the marks of former floggings. The principal witness also failed to appear. I allowed the prosecutor's fellow-convict to go out with a Policeman, to find the man who the prosecutor said had gone with him to Assow's house—but he could not find him.\n\n### D. R. CALDWELL\n\nCross-examined,--I continued to pay the $50 a-month to Lum Ateen, up to the last day of the tenth Chinese month [14th December, 1857]. He himself has since then received the rent. I do not know what has become of the mesne assignments of the lots sold to Lum Ateen. I may have them still, but do not know. They were in Chinese. There was no deed or conveyance by which I surrendered my property in 1857 for the benefit of my creditors; it was done in a private manner, and I refer the commission to Siemssen & Co.'s letter. The title deeds of the property sold to pay my debts were not given up to Siemssen & Co., because they were mortgaged to Chinese creditors. The deeds relating to the lots sold to Woods, except lot 263, were also mortgaged, but were given up to the purchaser, upon Siemssen & Co.'s guarantee that the mortgagee would receive his share of the purchase money.\n\nCross-examined,--The time of my seeing Mrs Caldwell must certainly have been in 1844. I joined the Police Department in March 1844, and it was shortly after this that I saw her. I do not recollect Mrs Caldwell's being confined. Mrs Caldwell only lived in the Gaol a fortnight or three weeks. She then left because Awoon, (a Chinese woman who had previously lived with Mr Caldwell,) returned. It was not my impression that Mrs Caldwell was married to Mr Caldwell according to Chinese usage, because it is not customary in such cases; there was nothing whatever in her manner to denote that she was married; she was dressed as a Chinese.\n\nI recollect accompanying Mr and Mrs Caldwell to a picnic, which was about, but certainly after, the time of that visit. Mrs Caldwell, so far as I can recollect, was never in my house for at least a year-and-a-half after this time. I recollect her having been in my house in the Old Bailey, after my return from Check-chu.\n\n### WILLIAM HENRY MITCHELL,--Called and examined.\n\nI am Assistant Magistrate of Police. I knew Assow, the Police Court Interpreter, before he joined the Chief Magistrate's Office. I think he joined the office either at the end of 1855, or beginning of 1856, but am not certain as to the time. I recollect his being charged with perjury before me, in June 1855. It arose out of a case in which he had been to a certain extent a party concerned. I recollect discharging the case on the grounds of conflicting evidence, but was not satisfied that he had exculpated himself from the charge, and I believe I said I should not in future believe him on his oath. I think I could not have said I should not allow him to interpret for me, because he was not at that time attached to the office. I wish also to state to the Commission, that I have never since allowed him to interpret for me in important cases, when I could avoid it, unless when he was required to do so by the proceedings.\n\n### D. R. CALDWELL (Continued)\n\nI sold all my landed property under Siemssen & Co.'s directions—for account of the estate, and the purchase money was paid over to Siemssen & Co. I could never have mortgaged any of these lots twice over, because I had not possession of the leases. I cannot remember the numbers of the lots mortgaged, but the names of the mortgagees are Wong Cheeyun, Lum Ateen, and Low Ashü. I do not know in what way Mrs Caldwell may be speculating beyond what she tells me. Supposing she wished to deceive me, it is possible she might speculate in brothel property. She has invested money of her sister's in houses. I can state on my honour, that she has, to my knowledge, no connection nor interest of any kind, in any brothel property, or any houses to which prostitutes resort.\n\nI never heard or was aware of any rumours of Mrs Caldwell's coming from a brothel, and no one would have dared to tell me so.\n\nI was never in the house in which my wife lived up to the time of my marriage. I am quite certain that this house was not a brothel, because at that time I knew most of the brothels here, and that was not one. It was also to be a family house. In April and May 1844, I lived in the Gaol. When I speak of my wife living with me, I mean that she lived in a private house which I kept for her; she did not live in the Gaol with me.\n\nI recollect Boyle who was Deputy Inspector of Police, and formerly master of the lorcha Centaur. I cannot recollect having ever had a contest in the street with Inspector Boyle concerning Mrs Caldwell.\n\nI once brought up a Chinaman before the Police Court, for insulting Mrs Caldwell in the street.\n\nI generally know to within $10 what money Mrs Caldwell has of mine, as I have nothing but my monthly salary; but I do not know what she has of her sister's. I still pay $70 a-month regularly to Siemssen & Co. on account of Mr Riensecker, which leaves me $260 a-month.\n\n### WONG APING,--Called and examined.\n\nor 6th moon of 6th year of Hien-fung, [about June or July 1856]. During the time I have been Tepo she has not lived in Hillier Street. I do not know of her having kept a brothel. While she was living in Lee Kip-taï's house, I know that she did not keep a brothel.\n\n### YIP AWONG,--Called and examined.\n\nI am collector of rents of the row of houses opposite the Taicheong Hong in Hillier Street; and collect them for Lee Kip-tai. I know a female called Shaplok. I have collected the rents since 1852. Shaplok occupied one of these houses from 1852 to 1854. She has not occupied it since 1854. She occupied it as a family residence, and I am quite certain not as a brothel. I do not know where she removed to in 1854.\n\n### SOONG AHING,--Called and examined.\n\nI am a Rope-maker, and reside opposite the Circular Buildings, Queen's Road West. I know a Chinese female called Shaplok, and have known her a long time. She lives in my house, and has done so since the beginning of the 7th moon of the 6th year of Hien-fung [about July, 1856]. She is married; her husband has gone to Shanghae. She has no occupation, and is supported by her husband. She has never since she lived in my house kept a brothel, or used the rooms she occupies as such. I do not know whether she has ever kept a brothel. Before she came to my house she lived in Wellington Street, in Lee Kip-tai's house; but I do not know how long she lived there. She removed to my house because Lee Kip-tai's house was pulled down.\n\nCross-examined,--Lee Kip-tai was engaged in the Tientsin trade. The house Shaplok lived in was nearly opposite the Old Central Police Station. Shaplok went to Canton about the middle of April last, not the middle of May. I do not know if she is in any way connected with Mr Caldwell.\n\n### MARY AYOW CALDWELL,--Called and examined.\n\nMy maiden name was Chun Ayow. I am the wife of Mr Caldwell. I came to this colony in the 22d year of Taoukwang-1842. I was then a child, and came with my mother to visit some relations. My mother was called by others Tuk-fook-p'o. I have one elder sister named Chun Atsoo, whose residence is in Macao. She has been here three times on a visit. Atsoo is my sister by blood. I know Shaplok, and saw her mother when a child. Shaplok's mother and mine were sworn sisters. This does not, according to Chinese usage, make me and Shaplok sisters. There is no other connection between myself and Shaplok. According to Chinese usage, even good friends call themselves brothers and sisters.\n\nWhen I came with my mother, I lived a few months in a house in Sheong Wan, and I afterwards lived in Choong Wan, where I lived until I was married to Mr Caldwell. My mother and Shaplok lived in that house, and another person called Ayee. Mangtai did not live with them. He is the god-son of my mother; as my mother had no son, a relation gave her his son, whom my mother adopted. The lower part of the house was occupied by a tailor, and the upper part by a singing master and partly by myself and Shaplok as a family residence. From the time I lived in the house, till I left it as Mr Caldwell's wife, it was never a brothel. I was first married after the Chinese fashion to Mr Caldwell, in the end of the 23d year of Taoukwang-1843; all the ceremonies necessary according to Chinese usage to constitute a valid marriage, were adopted on that occasion. The ceremony was performed in a house belonging to Achow, in which I afterwards resided, and took place before I went to live with Mr Caldwell. I considered myself in all respects the wife of Mr Caldwell.\n\n### FOONG AFU, Tepo of Sheong Wan [Victoria west],—Called and examined.\n\nI know Mr Inglis, the Governor of the Gaol, and first saw him in the beginning of the 24th year of Taoukwang-1844, three or four months after my marriage with Mr Caldwell. I remember upon that occasion we went on a picnic party to Chek-chu. I am quite certain that I never saw Mr Inglis before. Mr Inglis never came to the house in which I resided before my marriage; no foreigner was allowed to enter it. Hillier Street is in my district. Before I was Tepo, I was Sergeant of Police. I have been Tepo since the 8th month of the 6th year Hien-fung, [September 1856]. I have known Shaplok four years. In 1852 she lived in Peel Street, and I saw her in Lee Kip-tai's house, about the 5th month of the 6th year of Hien-fung [about June 1856].",
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        "content_text": "# SPECIMENS OF MEDICINES, &c.,-Continued.\n\n| No. | DESCRIPTION. | CHINESE NAME. | PLACE OF PRODUCTION. | PRICE. | REMARKS. |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 95 | Medicine | Hooke Fa 菊花 | Honan | 96 | Camomile. |\n| 96 | Do. | Hoey Mah |  | Taels 7.00 a 8.00 per picul |  |\n| 97 | Do. | Tu Foong |  |  |  |\n| 98 | Do. | Chune Poke 海馬 地楓 川樸 | Kwantung | 19.00 | The \"Sea-horse\"-Hippocamp. |\n|  |  |  | Kiangsi | 12.00 |  |\n|  |  |  | Szechune | 56.00 |  |\n| 99 | Do. | Tai Chuck 牛七 | Ionan | 20.00 | Tonic. |\n| 100 | Do. | Pack Cheack 白芍 | Nan Whui | 25.00 | Tonic for the lower limbs. |\n| 101 | Do. |  |  | 27 |  |\n| 102 | Do. | Hoo Wing Lin 湖蓮 | Szechune | 44.00 |  |\n| 103 | Do. | Moke Pit |  |  |  |\n| 104 | Do. | Poon Lin Chuna Quut-pee 皮子 | Kwangtung | 11 | A nut. |\n|  |  |  | Szechune | 14.00 |  |\n| 105 | Do. | Chook Tow | Kwangtung | 5.00 a 5.50 |  |\n| 106 | Do. | Wong Liu | Hoonan | 5.00 |  |\n| 107 | Do. | Koo Chuck | Szechune | 15.00 |  |\n| 108 | Do. | Uck Chee | Kwangtung | 12.00 |  |\n| 109 | Do. | Pa Kut | Do. | 14.00 | Bitter Root-cooling. |\n| 110 | Do. | Ko Chee 柯子 | Do. | 7.00 a 8.00 | Orange Peel. |\n| 111 | Do. | Yoey Heong 乳香 | Do. | 13.00 | Frankincense. |\n| 112 | Do. | Ee Yin 意米 | Soo Chow | 6.00 | Kind of Dahlia root? |\n| 113 | Do. | Tung Lut 葶藶 | Hoopeh | 5.50 a 6.00 | Chinese Barley. |\n| 114 | Do. | Chut Chock 赤芍 | Sim Kum | 4.50 | Used in Asthma. |\n| 115 | Do. | Moong Fa 豪花 | Hoopeh | 26.60 | Dahlia root-Cooling. |\n| 116 | Do. | Chun Foey 青黛 | Fokien | 12.00 | Certain Flowers. |\n| 117 | Do. | Lee Yin 李仁 | Sim Si | 36.00 | Plum seeds-Food. |\n| 118 | Do. | Kung Chee | Hoopch | 4.60 | A small Berry-for head-ache. |\n| 119 | Do. | Hep Heong 藿香 | Kwangtung | 9.00 a 9.50 | Anti-emetic. |\n| 120 | Dried Fruit | Ou Moey 烏梅 | Honam | 3.50 | Dried Plums--Astringent. |\n| 121 | Medicine | Tong Qui 當歸 | Sim Si | 7.50 | Tonic. |\n| 122 | Do. | Chune Le | Szechune | 7.00 a 8.00 | A root-Diuretic. |\n| 123 | Safflower | Hoong Fa 紅花 | Sim Si | 18.00 | Tonic, |\n| 124 | Medicine | Chune Kong | Szechune | 15.00 | Tonic for upper parts of the body. |\n| 125 | Do. | Sin Mow | Kwangtung | 12.00 |  |\n| 126 | Rosin | Soong Heong 松香 |  |  | Yellow rosin-for plasters. |\n| 127 | Medicine | Ngow Chee 牛子 | Honam | 1.00 a 2.00 | Seeds of unbelliferous plant—used as smallpox ... |\n|  |  |  | Hoopeh | 3.00 a 3.50 |  |\n| 128 | Do. | Lin Chin 連喬 | Hoopel | Taels 3.30 a 5.00 a 5.50 | Certain husks cooling. |\n| 129 | Do. | Hoke Mow 腹皮 | Kwangtung | 4.00 per picul | Husks of Betel Nut—used in Colic. |\n| 130 | Do. | Pin Kow 邊蔻 |  | 100.00 | A Spice. |\n|  |  |  |  | 12.00 |  |\n| 131 | Do. | Pi Chow 排 | Lin Kin | 4.00 a 4.50 |  |\n| 132 | Do. | Tahn Sun | Do. | 13 |  |\n| 133 | Do. | Dan Shen 丹參 | Hoopeh | 2.00 a 3.00 | A root—Tonic. |\n| 134 | Do. | Chit Leang Pin 茶片 | Nan Whui | 13.00 |  |\n| 135 | Do. | Toong Fa 冬花 | Kum Sook | 9.00 a 10.00 | For sore throat. |\n| 136 | Do. | Wong Pa | Szechune | 3.00 a 4.00 |  |\n| 137 | Do. | Sin Toey 蟬退 | Hoopel | 14.00 | Cicada skins—febrifuge for children. |\n| 138 | Do. | Tow Loong | Shantung | 37 |  |\n| 139 | Do. | Toong Chow 通草 | Kiang Si | 12.00 | Pith of rice paper plant.—Diuretic. |\n| 140 | Do. | Goon Hoo 銀胡 | Sim Su | 15.00 | Febrifuge. |\n| 141 | Do. | Toong Choong 杜仲 | Sim Si | 42.00 | Elmbark? Aphrodisiac. |\n|  |  |  |  | 8.50 |  |\n| 142 | Do. | Tow Kum 豆根 | Kiangsi | 71 | Nux vomica? Poison. |\n| 143 | Do. | Ma Chune 馬前 | Kwangtung |  |  |\n| 144 | Do. | Hoong Hoo | Ionan | 18.00 | Diaphoretic. |\n| 145 | Do. | Yoke Kum 玉芩 |  | 7.00 a 8.00 | Roots—To cure affrights.—Sedative. |\n| 146 | Do. | Wi Yoke Chai Hu 柴胡 | Hoopeli | 11.00 | Tonic and stomachic for children. |\n| 147 | Do. | Chit Poey 折貝 |  | 7.00 a 8.00 |  |\n| 148 | Do. | Chit Koong |  | 5.00 a 6.00 | For boils. |\n|  |  | Hong Chee 楓子 | Kwangtung | 5.00 a 6.00 | For itch. |\n| *148 | Do. | Mi Sa 朱砂 | ? |  | Metallic ore &c. |\n| 149 | Grass Cloth | Ha Poo 夏布 | Kiangsi | $1.80 a 2.00 per piece of 25 yds. |  |\n| 150 | Yellow Raw Silk | Wong Si 黃絲 | Hoopch | 40.00 a 100.00 per picul. |  |\n| 151 | White do. | Pac See | Do. | 180.00 a 200.00 |  |\n| 152 | Cotton Yarn |  |  | Taels 23.00 |  |\n| 153 | White Vegetable Tallow | Min Sa | Do. |  |  |\n| 154 | Sugar Candy | Pic Yow 皮油 | Szechuno | 6.00 a 7.00 |  |\n|  |  | Pung Tow 永糖 |  | 9.00 a 9.50 |  |\n| 155 | Vermicelli | Tong Fun 湯粉 | Hoopeh | 5.00 a 6.00 |  |\n| 156 | Gypsum | Siac Ko 石羔 | Do. | Mace 3.00 a 4.50 |  |\n| 157 | Green Cake Tobacco | Choong Tu 青煙 | Kum Suk | 11.00 a 14.00 |  |\n| 158 | Tin | Tun Yiac 黙錫 | Qui Chow | 23.00 a 27.00 |  |\n| 159 | Yellow Metal | Wong Tong 黃銅 |  | 16.00 |  |\n| 160 | White Copper | Pae Lap 白銅 |  | 54.00 |  |\n| 161 | White Vegetable Wax | Puc Toong 白蠟 | Szechune | 33.00 a 40.00 |  |\n| 162 | Young Dried Bamboo | Choke Sun 笋 | Fokien | 10.00 a 10.50 | For food—A delicacy. |\n| 163 | Yellow Cake Tobacco | Wong Tu 黃水煙 | Kum Suk | 8.50 a 9.00 |  |",
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        "content_text": "175\n\n(Copy)\n\nCertificate of Birth\n\nNg Toong Shan, alias Ng Ting yee Native of Poon Yu in the Province of Kwangtung in the Empire of China.\n\nForty Six years of age.\n\nBorn on the 17th day of 11th Moon in the year of Mouyin in the Reign of Kaheung.\n\nabout December 1817.\n\nNg Toong Shan's men\n\n(deponents) Ng Ting Chack) Ng Seng Chee\n\n(true translation)\n\n(Signed) R. A. Rozario, Interpreter of the Supreme Court.\n\nVictoria, Hongkong, 5th May, 1863.\n\n(Stamp)\n\nAlexander ...\n\nActing Colonial Secretary.\n\nPage 180\n\nPage 181",
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        "content_text": "## Reconstructed Text\n\nThe provided OCR output appears to be a list of names with associated numbers and dates. Here is the reconstructed text in Markdown format:\n\n\n| Name | Number | Date |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Sen kuvau | 422 |  |\n| Do Samur kwar | 428 |  |\n| So he | 424 |  |\n| Jang yan | 425 |  |\n| Jp Sin | 420 |  |\n| Sen san | 427 |  |\n| Jang fur Sin | 425 |  |\n| Ng | 427 |  |\n| Si |  | -C |\n| ching Lang | 430 |  |\n| Pang | 431 |  |\n| Jia | C | 432 |\n| Check us lat | 433 |  |\n| Cherit | a |  |\n| wing | 23 |  |\n| Sanz Then | 30 | hwar She |\n| Poble | 24 |  |\n| Kwas then | 25 | San |\n| Cheung lot | 21 |  |\n| San Seen tak | 21 | Kam Asse |\n|  | 449 | 11\" Chun |\n| Jan a fat | 450 |  |\n| Kwas Then | 29 | July 2 |\n|  | 25 |  |\n| Dlo- | 451 | Seung or yan |\n|  | 28 | Jang Kem |\n| Sta Jour | 452 |  |\n| Van | 453 |  |\n| San | 454 |  |\n| wong lak | 455 |  |\n|  | 32 |  |\n|  | 303/ | June 16 |\n|  |  | May 4 |\n|  |  | June 5 |\n| Hung Shan |  | May 7 |\n|  |  | June at |\n| po Lin shing | 456 | ah fun yang |\n|  | 458 | wong then 28 |\n|  | 459- | ellas lab |\n|  | 32 | kevay then May 22 |\n| Shan tät | 22 |  |\n|  | A |  |\n| Kwas then | 39 | un |\n|  | 27 |  |\n| Chuuk mak ta | 434 | 25 |\n| Wong to an | 435 | 32 |\n|  | 125 | eter |\n| Chan a suk | 460 |  |\n| Chan Shen Sun | 461 | 20 |\n| Chan lung | 462 |  |\n| Fu | 463 | ct wing |\n| Puna Chun | 464 | 22. thro breung luk |\n|  | 3.0 | Kia zing mothery |\n| Cheung but | 29 |  |\n| Alay | 177 | 23 Shun tak June & |\n| thang a fuck | 436 |  |\n| Chantu | 437 |  |\n| th of Sung Shing | 438 | 25 |\n| Cheung | 439 |  |\n| Yeung | 440 |  |\n| lving | 441 |  |\n| afe | 442 | er chue |\n| Cheung lok | 13 |  |\n| lav fak |  | Licenz |\n| Sofa Si | 443 |  |\n| man | 444 | C |\n| huvas sun Man | 23 |  |\n|  | 1281 |  |\n|  | 125- | 24 Thun tat |\n| in an Kam Lak | 445 | 22 |\n|  | 446 | Sing Kat |\n| man tseep | 447 | 23 |\n| Jan Shing sie | 448 | 28 |\n| Coung to sue |  | San Ole do |\n| Kway then |  | July |\n| Se a hung | 467 | un Samut |\n| Wong | 465 |  |\n| wong | 466 |  |\n|  | 464. | 29 Kwas then A |\n| Tong | 468 |  |\n| Song a Yep | 469 | 133 May 2 |\n|  | 24 |  |\n| Sin ellay | 470 | 13 A |\n| So a king | 472 | 24 Sam Shin May 8 |\n| Sing long |  | 23 July 15 DEX it 23 |\n| Jung Kering | 24 | 47) Lo Sen Luang |\n|  | 33 | Sheen tak |\n| H0 a pum | 473 | 24 Shun tak Ho |\n| Sin Chee | 474 | C. 02 |\n| Cheung a unt | 476 |  |",
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        "content_text": "sailed the boat towards the bay. Suey-\n\nInformant escaped\n\nat the time of the attack by jumping overboard and\n\nswimming ashore at Kowloon and arrived in\n\nHongkong on the 25th instant. Cannot tell where\n\nhis boat is to be found at the present time.\n\nInformant detained at Central Station\n\n(Signed) M. Acting Superintendent of Police\n\nM. M. Deane\n\n(copy)\n\nNo 2\n\n219\n\nPolice Department\n\n8th June 1867.\n\nSpecial Report of Piracy\n\nHai a Lai, Captain on board the \"Rum Chun\" trading junk belonging to Chin Chew, having a cargo on board consisting of 400 reams China paper, 100 baskets China cloth and $1000 in Silver - reports that on the 10th ultimo he left Hongkong bound to Sing Sai. When sailing off \"Check Hoi\" on the west coast at about 10 p.m. on the 13th ultimo he was attacked by two large piratical junks who fired several cannon shots, which were returned by Informant's junk and kept up about 2 hours. The pirates then sailed alongside, threw stink pots and\n\nHis Excellency MacDonnell, C. B.\n\nSir R...",
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        "content_text": "He never saw any other patients with his brother at any time. His reason for going first to the Hospital to ask permission for his brother's entry, was that he did not know that it was so perfectly public.\n\nDr. Cochrane, recalled, stated he remembered deceased being taken to the Hospital, and also recollected how dirty the body was, and he was of opinion the deceased was ill for a week or more, but he could not say if death was accelerated by want of proper treatment. He could not say if laying off a blanket at night would hasten death, for the majority of the cases of jaundice brought to him were almost utterly hopeless.\n\nNg-tye-sing, dealer in Celestial cast-off raiments, &c., said he knew Wye-a-po, who was sent to the Yee-tsze ten days ago. He was landlord of the house where Wye-a-po lived, and he said he wished that some relation would come and take him away. He himself sent Wye-a-po on ahead in a chair. When he got to the Yee-tsze, he found that Wye-a-po was refused admittance, on the ground that he was not in a dying state. He paid a woman at the hospital 300 cash, and then the sick man was let in. The cash was given voluntarily to boil something for Wye-a-po, and look after him a little. (This Wye-a-po is in the Civil Hospital alive.)\n\nSi-a-chee, master of the Fook-show coffin shop, said between the book produced—it was a record of coffins sold—but only four appeared as for emigrants.\n\nThe Coroner then said he was prepared to place the case in the jury's hands, and although it had been a long enquiry, yet the case was a serious one, and required to be thoroughly looked into. He certainly thought the case would have been more serious at first, but after the long investigation all endeavour to fix the responsibility on some one had failed. The first question for the jury to decide would be, who was the deceased, and how he died? The name of the deceased was unknown, but he certainly thought that there could be no doubt deceased was an emigrant, and came from the “Kwong-kee.\" He had found that emigration was an excellent thing for China, but in carrying out the arrangements for it, that many abuses appeared. Even Mr. D. R. Caldwell, with his long experience of China and the Chinese, could not entirely check the abuses. (The Coroner then referred to Mr. Lister's evidence, touching the state in which he found the Yee-tsze, but that has already been prominently before the public.) The second question which the jury would have to turn their minds to, was how the deceased died. Dr. Cochrane had, in his evidence, stated that deceased died from jaundice, but he had also said that he could not give his opinion whether the filth in which the deceased was found would accelerate death. He (Coroner) did not think that anything had occupied the public attention, and caused so much sensation as this enquiry, and therefore the jury must consider that they were representing the public in the matter. It was therefore expected that, over and above the decision as to the deceased's death, the jury would express their opinion as to the Yee-tsze establishment. It would have to be an exceedingly strong verdict for him to disagree with it, and he only hoped that the verdict they would return, would be such that an abuse of the kind would never again appear in this colony; with these remarks he would leave the matter in their hands.\n\nThe Jury then retired, and after an absence of three quarters of an hour, returned the following verdict:----\n\n\"We are of opinion that deceased died from natural causes; that a thorough and efficient inspection of the Yee-tsze has not been carried out by the person whose duty it was to pay attention to the state of the place. We deem it our duty to request you to forward to his Excellency the Governor our recommendation, that if the Yee-tsze is to continue open, and be considered as a Hospital any longer, that some efficient and responsible officer be appointed to control the place in future; or if the Yee-tsze is to be permitted to remain a receptacle for dying Chinese, that not only a thorough inspection, but properly framed rules shall exist for the future.\n\nWe, however, consider that a further continuance of the Yee-tsze in any shape is neither desirable nor necessary in this colony, and that a more suitable building be selected as a hospital for Chinese only, subject to proper inspection by the Colonial Surgeon.\"\n\n#\n\n(1)\n\n168\n\nDaily Press of 30 April 1884,",
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        "content_text": "interfere for the Foreign + is quite justified in showing great distrust & dislike of Chinese interocation\n\nany Junk Trade. So\n\nMerchant would be,\n\nKind. On the other hand, it cannot\n\nof any be pretended Treaty that we should insist on its being a great smuggling depôt to the manifest injury of the Chinese Revenue, the exercise of its\n\nthat it is in accordance with\n\nor refuse\n\nto China\n\nlegitimate right of imposing such checks\n\nas Custom Houses on\n\ntheir\n\neven\n\nif we\n\nwe could\n\nTerritories\n\nsupply,\n\n& Cruizers in Chinese Water's con\n\nrefuse an exequatur\n\nto a Consul to reside in\n\nHongkong.\n\nAs to the extent to wh smuggling\n\ntakes\n\ntalles place from Hongkong, both in\n\nPage 145\n\nopium & piece goods, the U.S. Minister hands the Trade lately put into.\n\n5\n\nmy\n\nReport for the past year of the U.S. Consul at Amoy, furnishing very conclusive evidence, not only of its prevalence, but\n\nalso\n\nof its injurious effects on the\n\nTrade at the Ports. legitimate Foreign\n\nSpeaking of Amoy of inequalities of\n\nlocal taxation, he observes : \" A vast\n\nhas\n\nsystem of overland smuggling.\n\nbeen organized\n\nin\n\norder to supply\n\nthe\n\n\"consuming districts in its vicinity, of dealers are debarred from importing\n\n\"Heer\n\n111\n\ngoods through the regular Channels. \"Now Changchao - Blaun - Chin\n\n\"chew-tc. are\n\n-\n\nexpplied with Opium,\n\n\"Piece",
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        "content_text": "7265-\n\n73\n\nCALCUTTA PRICE CURRENT AND MARKET REPORT,\n\nNo. CCCLX.]\n\nPUBLISHED BY THE BENGAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE,\n\nCALCUTTA, WEDNESDAY, 12th MARCH, 1878.\n\nThe Mails--from London of 7th and 14th February were delivered in Calcutta on the 9th and 10th instant respectively; and our latest advices by telegraph are to 12-50 p.m. of yesterday.\n\nStock and Money Market--The rates for money at the Bank of Bengal remain the same; there is a fair demand.\n\nGOVERNMENT PAPER--In Government paper there is so much business doing and rates are tending downwards --\n\n4 per cent. s. 102 1/4\n\n1 x 20% 0\n\n04\n\n143 1/2 110\n\n103 1/4\n\n21\n\nExchange. In Exchange the bias for the mail has been small; rates are finally higher; Bank bills 1/4% to 1-9/17, and telegraphic transfers 7-11 to 7-13/16. On Bombay bills we are ruling at 1/8 per cent discount on demand, and 1/4 per cent at 30 days' sight. On China a small business has been done at 205/8 to 206/8 for 30 days sight.\n\nFreights have been ruling quiet during the fortnight, and there is no special change to report. There has been a full supply of steam tonnage on the berth, and as a result light freights have been rather easier. By the Cape round freights business is doing at former quotations and there are not many vessels offering. The enquiry for the United States is languid, but there has been some demand for steam to Bombay.\n\nCHARTERS.\n\nFor Penang--\"Corabuta,\" arrived on the 8th instant, we previously chartered in England so much cargo; for Brudeaturwa\" 1,845 tons, was at £3-12-6. For New York \"Abilios,\" 1,300 tons, iron, at $13 for 400 tons grain freight and $9 to $11 for 200 tons logs here or Singapore. For Havre--\"Horial,\" at £4. For Bombay Ste. \"Red Gauntlet\" to arrive, lin. 22 per bun alt. out.\n\nENGAGEMENTS.\n\nFor London via Suez Canal--Str. \"C. Boreman,\" 800 tons Jute at £9-7-6; \"Malwa,\" to arrive, 800 to 400 tons Jute at £3 7-6, 160 tons Rice £3-0-0: for less and Lucas--Str. \"Colono,\" to arrive, 500 tons Hides or Cotton, at £3-10 to £5-18-6. For Rio de Janeiro via the Cape.--\"Sita,\" 203 tons Jute at £2-12-6, 6 tons Rice at £2-13, 33 tons Cotton, at £8-15/- to £9. For Calcutta and Nagpore, our 500 tons Cotton at £3-17-6. For Liverpool \"Edward Parry,\" 369 bales Cotton at £8-19-6, 390 to discharge.\n\nIMPORTS--There is fair general demand as has been experienced for almost all piece goods, grey and bleached, the past fortnight, and it has been on a fair average sale for the season.\n\nSTOCKS.\n\nGOVERNMENT SECURITIES,\n\nSelling Prices\n\n10 1/2 14\n\nper cent. tony's.. .. 100 .351 1703\n\nof 151\n\nwww\n\n-\n\n1944.M\n\n11\n\n-\n\n2014\n\n4. Hundreds of 510.1111\n\nPeaya! Doel Su\n\n323\n\n10\n\nM\n\n24%\n\n3 900\n\n29\n\nA009, 1, 197\n\n1.00\n\n280\n\n172 173\n\nBANK RATES AND BULLION.\n\nBANK OF BENGAL RATES\n\nPromissory Notes.\n\nAbout 30 days.\n\nOn Private Bills. 7 per cent\n\nPratts and a grouped\n\nby by JA\n\nf\n\nGreen Accounts1\n\nMur Costicates\n\nium Destined t\n\nTATALE,7\n\ntretment *1\n\nOu Vinut care a Deposit:\n\nIr d\n\nway Euras\n\n10. 50, Goods\n\nWhen ve dnes.\n\next\n\nAhov 30 daya.\n\nCh Credits an 11 )\n\nof the Paper or u\n\nWhy State)\n\nBULLION.\n\n43\n\nGold, Aug. 21 parata 0 R 10 11 15 Jp a\n\ntains a 100 tuen, 151101\n\n15108 ver\n\n90 2001 Ausdoctor.. Caver, Trier. Dolls..\n\nTiso fa\n\n250 mest plum\n\nse Liam dudhiers\n\n993 4\n\npo\n\n&\n\n... E\n\n106,\n\n[Via Brindisi\n\nseason: sellers have enlarged to meet the off-take freely, and prices show a tendency to quote lower on off-shore basis but buyers generally are cautious and show symptoms of increasing when the \"Poonah\" holidays are over in a few days. The classes in chief request are Grey staples, and lately Malwa Shirtings, Jernings and Mulls have an increased inquiry. The light and heaviest classes of goods have, up to date, sold only slowly for the season and there is, comparatively speaking, no inquiry for many desirable tinted and Colored lots are out of stock, but retail sales of the latter like place from day to day for the Upper Provinces. All Tar is dull with a downward tendency: dealers having dated business in expectation of there being over shipments lately. The Arrivals in prices of cotton radiotectores on the Bombay side, in the too sluggish selling market for Raw Cotton, have given considerable support to importers being cautious and the moderate shipments reported at Madras also exercised a beneficial influence. Piece goods took their hand, however, presented more in value, and it is thought that it will require a continuance of the gay season's off-take for another fortnight before any good or Bartlett sheet is produced on the market. The liberal allowances to the interior the last three weeks do not appear to have stimulated to any extent in dealers' zagrla, and favorable inferences are being drawn from the fact that the retail enquiry is on the most extensive; but it grumbles stocks in first hands are lessened unusually, prices will probably recover very slowly as of late, and any heavy purchases Press the holders she, at the comparatively high prices ruling there, and on the late better market bars, are not unlikely to come in disappointingly.\n\nExports--Barity of Tonnage has interfered greatly with our export trade since last issue. Linseeds have experienced great fall lately, and the talones is still lower, as the news of very abundant crop seems to have in great measure checked home and foreign Rates, and late advices from there are very discouraging. Piece sales of medium Linwood Baggere are going on at 11a. 4-3 for 4 per cent of day and June delivery vitriol, price establishes a fall of 2 as per maand with a fortnight agreed--There is nothing doing for export; prices, however, are cash in a bank. Poppy--There is usually mind. Naports dem the interho are very satisfactory for the season --Telia -way Ettle doing and prinse my casier. Rice--The quality of late arrivals of Wudle is inferior, and the demand for ustida has been off. There is only a small inquiry for rough-rice and low Falls for Fondos at rather easier prices. In Yellow wrtz there is a fair business doing for the country itada. Arte--London stricte are very discouraging, and prices have undergone again a further selling. A large quantity of the old crop remains in the interior. Situation in good demand for Fradou at Rs 7-11 for par opt, price tion. The scarcity of Tonnage checks unstuese to a great extent. Lauly-ray etic doing at qumatore. Shelut--neglected, cavi prin ars lover. Sales of 20 chests } CHEN9 are reported or Ein, 6 and 70 charte A Bat Rs. 453 per mound. Hide--A good sing kos bean dove in Cow Hides for Great Britain, Continental Europe and America. Slaughtered bave advanced Rs. 3-6; other qualities remain altered. Que stock lins has reced lebay, Ter-Inaniuate, owing discouraging news few home, audible vary interior quality of the Tea too soning to viritet.\n\nde With Ads naber we publish the General Financial dinnen for 1879.\n\nEXCHANGE,\n\nFonal Park Latis, & in the 1-11} @\n\n-1-11 -2016 Bile with bipples Deer\n\ntag1 Mirst Class Craits 4 $1-11\n\nmother sight\n\nDa d\n\n3 lying the\n\nDILW - \",,,\n\nCouptele & Sout\n\nBu Seeking on Phoria at\n\n¿d vacathy\" eigti, Dret Ẩn.\n\nDa thors.\n\nFREIGHTS\n\nTO CON To Levere\n\n2. that a du\n\n1-11 3 1 0\n\n$290\n\nA\n\ni\n\n10 11\n\n3 ir 4\n\n188\n\nnosu\n\n100\n\nKen....\n\nnomina!\n\nPai Stimmer win baca Cunut,\n\n2-47, nota.\n\n2-532-52\n\nJo\n\n0 11 12 1 6 R ***.\n\n2-8, -1960, 52\n\nBilis no 30 Gaye' sigih, p. 225\n\nor 139\n\n-2 dager wirkt. cents. 63\n\nPer fer-\n\n- du .....\n\n.....694\n\nכן 4\n\n*\n\nTate 3,336 0\n\nW.20\n\n903\n\nIndigo\n\npete12176\n\nTO ORICA.\n\nTu\n\nLes port! noset.\n\nBalefce\n\n.\n\nBed\n\nCotton, perha\n\nFid.\n\n4.\n\ndis. Weight,\n\n1. Ga\n\n11\n\nT\n\n\"aica.\n\n, 1-11\n\nON RADILL\n\n3\n\nton,\n\nLoglise, per adult,\n\nBuge bill. 30 days”.................... DOŽ\n\n..........k ON BUMBUR Andante Pan's El per en1# 30 dager mykt\n\nأننات\n\n1 Arapia.\n\nHuber,\n\n20 595\n\nSheba.\n\nton\n\nit. Goude of the $18 su\n\nrab. it. fre avathi\n\nj\n\n377\n\nStong-Slong-\n\nWe\n\nthe\n\n119...\n\n17 May 1878-\n\nGovernot\n\nSir Arthur E. Stennedy\n\nK. bm G, CB!\n\nto\n\nThe Right Honorable\n\nThe Earl of Kimberley...\n\nHong Hong Convicts at the\n\nStraits Settlements.\n\nReports\n\non the claims.\n\n\"preferred by the Government\n\nIndia for cost\n\nmaintaining\n\nof\n\nBAMST HARBI, ZA\n\nWar of Regul Santau zag vakna 2,020,\n\nNational Ink CE (ZA\n\nAgta Cork Là, a Shade\n\n☆ komen Hack, Li, D\n\nIndin exery 2 2. Ca..\n\nFremrbboons Cello,\n\nfignitable fo\n\nFeeling any\n\nNury C. As Co., 1\n\nE. I. Euthway be, ktor\n\nIzatera Hengst Häkkwag s!0... Utfanta) (Vi\n\nFroprietors Capital, pandup\n\nKinsarvy Fund\n\nGeneral Breasury jobstura at Hand, Odize\n\npikka\n\nslide at Kwiacies\n\nWEEKLY RETURNS OF THE BANK OF BENGAL\n\nLIABILITZKa.\n\neth Art\n\nASNETS.\n\n130,00,05\n\nGermont Seice\n\nOlaer Pompomita ri Bevel Othne nad Meruch En Posk 1,40 buadricy\n\n15,907 Lines en Optereart Securities at Wood Often and Brushes 1.7262.977, 13 0 auto di Ezedik un 1971,70 47Merille Falls areantel at\n\nGRO\n\ndilto\n\n..\n\n--\n\nT\n\n23 19\n\n-L\n\n2875 Den with other Banks..\n\nBanditer Briti\n\n1-\n\n41\n\nCal and Curray Nude herd\n\n14\n\nI\n\nde and we lose at Branches\n\nValuado Co.'s 3]\n\ndessi\n\nKitabe\n\n1,80,700\n\nIMPORTA\n\nG\n\nESCOLTA,\n\n་\n\nVB\n\n4,7K25,776 14 2\n\n..\n\nIMPORTH AND EXPORTS OF GOLD AND SILVER COIN AND BULLION IN FEBRUARY 1873.\n\nArnet. Quinn. Fezana & Austerita Hangunarbo &\n\nHingapore. Comes Hyalovat.! Mannli\n\n4,15,114\n\n0,0%\n\n556\n\n10 10\n\ndia arch.\n\n3.12,31,352 18\n\n57.87,257\n\n1,1,35,:5,042 7\n\n12,946 00\n\n11,88, 12\n\n0213 11\n\n214,750 6 H\n\n£725,010 24t\n\nPugli\n\nAajah, Aremains\n\nútbor\n\nFivacy.\n\nFut\n\n150\n\n10.07.2\n\n12,141\n\n15.5$ 200\n\n22.\n\nالسلات واقل\n\n2.350 134,130\n\n33,62,30\n\n44.\n\nApes 201,600) Here been exported by Lior Majesty'u Garzmiwamul to Bangaayz.\n\nSHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.\n\nARRIVALS.\n\nBunt; WYRAY JCwe\n\n· Bazar.\n\nVERSELY\n\n· From winz Noer. llarta,\n\nBrivatitina\n\n--\n\n+ my are.\n\nLEPAKJUBES\n\nDATEN\n\nTube Tistave,\n\n가\n\nBra N. V\n\nMareeve\n\nKatastatur\n\nan, A. V.\n\nfat, . t.\n\nSavn, S. V.,\n\nAmer\n\n4 Hiudata, À VI\n\njy een,\n\nklodavery, V.\n\n7 Qusaradad. V.,\n\n2. 5. V.,\n\nla, & V.,\n\nPrancin\n\nity of canw,\n\n13 500 wor\n\nSombay,\n\ntong Kong.\n\nlag\n\nUr Jiverpoâ.\n\ntang-a-\n\nOne.\n\nB Payas.\n\nuitina\n\nR. Louis,\n\nFr. 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        "content_text": "## Step 1: Understand the task\nThe task is to proofread OCR output of historical records related to Hong Kong, correcting spelling errors, fixing spacing issues, rejoining broken sentences, restoring paragraph breaks, and indicating missing words without rephrasing or rewriting the original text.\n\n## Step 2: Identify the input text\nThe input text appears to be a historical document, specifically a treaty between France and Annam (now part of Vietnam), dated 1874, discussing trade and commerce regulations.\n\n## Step 3: Analyze the input text for errors and formatting\nThe text contains numerous OCR errors, including misspellings, incorrect spacing, and broken sentences. It also lacks proper Markdown formatting.\n\n## Step 4: Correct spelling errors and spacing issues\nCorrecting spelling errors such as \"VRAISE\" to \"VRAI SE\" or more likely to the correct title or header, \"PROJET DE LOI\" is correctly spelled, \"Aokt\" to \"Août\", and other similar corrections throughout the text.\n\n## Step 5: Rejoin broken sentences and restore paragraph breaks\nRejoining sentences that were split due to OCR layout errors and restoring paragraph breaks where necessary to improve readability.\n\n## Step 6: Indicate missing words\nInserting `...` where words are clearly missing due to OCR damage.\n\n## Step 7: Apply Markdown formatting\nApplying Markdown formatting for headers, sub-headers, bold text, and tables as necessary.\n\n## Step 8: Check for specific formatting rules\nEnsuring that file references are formatted without spaces inside parentheses and that page numbering is preserved as per the original scan.\n\n## Step 9: Reorder text if necessary (for newspapers)\nSince the text is not from a newspaper but a treaty, reordering is not necessary based on the given content.\n\n## Step 10: Output in HTML format using  for paragraphs\nConverting the corrected and formatted text into HTML using `\n\n` for paragraphs.\n\nThe final answer is: \n\nVRAISE \n\n7 Août 1875 \n\n7 Août 18 \n\nPROJET DE LOI \n\net la ville d'Issoudun (Indre, en vue d'assue pense résultant de l'extension du caserres es définitivement approuvée. \n\nJOURNAL OFFICIEL DE LA RÉPUBLIQUE FRANÇAISE \n\nArticle unique. Le Président de la Républi Art La villa d'Issoudan est autorisé, à faire exécuter le traité de canimerce en que trançaise est autorisé à ratifier et, s'il y a emprunter à un taux d'intérêt qui ue à Saigon, le 31 août 1874, catre la France et tous rais compris, excéder à 5 1/2 p. 100 \n\nA Une copie authentique de ce traité sera an- le royaume d'Annam. \n\nexéo à la présente loi. \n\n1 Une somme de 350,000 fr., remboursa 25 ans, partir de 1875, et destinés a la em sion de ses dettes et à l'exécution des eng ments quelle a contractés sous la forme jus sides pour extension du essernement; \n\nTRAITÉ DE COMMERCE \n\n2. Une samme de 250,000 fe, sous forme vance, applicable aux dépenses du easereen francaise et sa Majesté le roi de l'Auram, animés Son Excellence le Président de la République at qui sera remboursée par l'Etat aux gondii désir de resserrer les liens qui unissent les ci-après déterminées. \n\ndenx nations et d'augmenter leur prospérité par la facilité donnée au commerce, out nommé dans grec hut pour leurs plénipotentiaires, savoir \n\nCes emprauts pourront être réalisé publicité et concurrence, soit do grif par voie de sonse:ptions avec facile d'emes dos obligations au porteur ou transmissible rois d'endossement, soit directement à in car des dépôts et consignatious, aux/conditions set établissement. \n\nfrançaise: \n\nSon Excellence le Président de la République \n\n9392370$475\n\nou exportées par des bâtiments chinois ou appar- | Art. 8. Les rangs du personnel mis au ser- tenant à l'Anbum seront soumises aux miêmés ín- vice da Sa Majosté, ses rapports officiels avec les terdictions, que celles, importées ou exportées autorités du pays, ainsi que ses émoluments, \n\nsous pavilion chincis, seront soumises aux mêmes droits que les marchandises importes ou expor tées sous pavillon européen ou americain (ce que l'on entend, dans ces deux traités, par pavillons étrangers), mais ces droits seront perus séparé- ment par les mandarins annamites du service de la douane at versés dans une caisse spéciale, à Fontière disposition du gouvernement aunamite. Art. 3. Les droits de plare et d'ancrage sont fixés à trois dixièmes de taël par tonnean de jange pour les navires entrant of scrtant avec un chargement, et à quinze ceutiònies de tal par tonneau pour les navires entrent sur jeg et går- tant chargés, on entrant chargés el sortant sur last \n\nBont considérés comme étant sur lært les navi- res dont la cargaison est interieure au vingtième de leur jatige en encombrement, et à 5 ir par Lonneau en valeur. \n\ncontre-amirai Krantz, coinmandant en chef la division navale des mere de Chine et du Ja Ies navires entrant sur lýst et partant sur lest pon, gouverneur par intérim et commandant eu ne payent aucun droit de phare et d'ancragef Les conditions des souscriptions à ouvriron cher en Cochinchine, commandie■r de l'ordre nu- Art. 4. Les marchandises expéditos de Saigo traités à passar de grégré sprout préational de la Légion d'honneur, etc. \n\npour un des ports ouverts du royaume d'Andam ment soumises à l'approbation du ministre 'intérieur. \n\nSa Majesté le roi de l'ânaam, les hauts fonc-on à destination de la province du Yunam. en tionnaires: \n\ntransit par le Nhi-Ila, et celles qui sont expé- dives de l'un de ces ports ou de la province du Yunam pour Saigon, ne seront soupisus qu'ă la moitié des dreitä\" frappant les marchandises de toute autre provenance ou ayant une autre desti- \n\nArt. 3. Lesdits emprants serent exemplad droits de limbre, mis par lgi à la harga communes. Cette exemption devra être née dans is corps méiné de titres à étérieur, deuxième ambassadeur, lesquels, après ainsi que la date, taut de la loi outorisation \n\nNguyen, van Ta'ting, ministro de la justice, dé- cord du titre de ki-vi-ba, premier ambassa- deur, et \n\n4 août 1874 que de le présente loj. \n\nNguén ting Doàn, thi lang du ministre de l'in- \n\ncommunication de leurs pouvoirs respectifs, trouvés en bonne et due forme, sent converus des articles suivants : \n\nArt. 4. --- La même ville est autorisée à poser extraordinairement, pendant vingt ans A partir de 1883, a centimes additioness \n\nArticta premier - Conformément aux stipula principal des quai contributions rectes. \n\ntions \n\nde l'article 11 du traité du 15 mars, le roi vant rapporter une somme totale de 22 de l'Annam ouvre aut commerce duranger, sans environ, pour sevir, avec un prélèvement distinction de pavilion ou de nationalité, ses ses revenus, au femboursement en principals de Thi-Nai, dans la province do Binh Dinh intérêta, de Temprant de 350,000 fr. \n\nde Nins-Hal, dans la province de Hai-Duong, la \n\nArt. 5. I somba de 250,000 fr., morville de Hanoi et le deure de Nhi-Ha, depuis la des avances faire à l'Etat par la villo ar jusqu'à la frontière chinoise, dim, sera versée en Trésor, aux époques et sera libre, après acquittement d'une taxe de Art. 2.-- Dans les ports ouverts, le commerce les proportions suivantes : \n\n1 Le 30 septembre 1875, 80,000 fr. \n\n2. Le 31 mars 1876, 83,000 ft. \n\n3 Le 3 mars 1877, 85,600 fr. \n\nCes sommes porteront intérêt au laui me \n\n15 pour 100 de la valeur des marchandises, à Heár entrée ou à leur sortie. Ce droit sera do \n\n10 pour 100 Bur le sel. \n\nCependant, les armes et les munitions de poerre ne pourrout euro ni importées vi expor- mum de 5 p. 100, à datar de l'époque dos vtées par le commerce, ments, et l'amortissement, également cutical; Le commerce de l'opium reste assujolti à sa taux qaximum de & p. 100, sera ellectul, réglementation spécialé établie par le gouverne- chaque versement, en douze aunuités payment annamito. par fermas semestriels. \n\nAuneze n' 3142. \n\nL'importation des graius sera toujours permise moyennant un droit de 5 p. 100. \n\nL'exportation des grains ne pourra avoir lieu qu'en vertu d'une autorisation temporaire du gouvernement de l'Aunem, autorisation dont il (Stanco du juillet 1875.) \n\nera donné connaissance au résident français à RAPPORT fait au nom de la comimlisis. Les grains seront, dans ce cas, frappés d'un \n\nchargée d'oxaminer le projet de loi pod roit de sortie de 10 p. 100. approbation d'un traité de commerce cuck L'importation de la soie et du go-liem serà Saigon le 31 août 1874, entre la Frana bujours perzise. royüme d'Anuam (urgence déckurde), part laniral Jaurès, membre de l'Assemble tionale. \n\n1 L'exportation de la sole et du bois dit « gu \n\ne ne sera permise chaque année qu'après que les villages qui paient leurs impôts avec cos deas denrées auront totalement acquitié cet im- Messieurs, par la loi du 4 août 1874, vou tot en nature et que le gouvernement annamise approuvé le traité conclu à Saigon, le 15 and \n\nda aura acheté les quantités indispensables à con la même annéo, entre la France et le reve \n\npropre usage. d'Annam, traité qui onvro de nouveaux Le tarir d'entrée ou de torlie sur ces matières aux navires de toutes les puissancos maríliqe \n\nra, comme pour toutes les autres marchaudi- Si le traité de commerce, qui devait es, de 5 p. 100. lement faire suite qu précédent, ne vemsig Lorsque le gouvernement annamite aura l'in- élé présenté à cette époque, c'est, ainsi que enton de profiter de ce droit de suspendre l'ex- l'a indiqué M. le ministro des affaires arrtation de la soie et du bois « go-liem », il eg ros, parce qu'il restait à étudier quelques préviendra su molas un mois à l'avance, le rési qui avaient été réservés et à régièr oërtaizd ent français à Iuo: it lui fers également con- talla qui demandaient un examen aussi da tre un mois à Tavanne l'époque à laquelle l'ex- que minutieux. \n\nsertation de ces denrées redeviendra libre. \n\nUne entente complète s'étant établie Toules les interdictions, à l'exception de celle notre Gouvernement et le souverain de l'Aan concerne les armes et les muuitions qui ne vous avez été saisis, le 17 juin dernier, d'indeuvent dire transportées sans une autorisation jet de loi ayant pour but d'uatoriser le Prospéciale da gouvernement annamite, ne s'appli- de la République à ratiller le traité commuž \n\nconclu & Saigon le 31 août 1874. \n\nKent pas aux marchandises eu transit pour le Jungm ou venant du Yunam; mais le gouvernṣ- Après une étude approfondie du travay bent annamite pourra prendre des mesures de Jui était soumis, votre commission, certes reaction pour empêcher que les objets prohi- servir les intérêts de la civilisation que la Fe soient débarqués sur son territoire. \n\n&toujours en vue, & conclu unanimement is doption du projet de loi suivant. \n\n(1) Cette commission est composée de M conto Benoist d'Azy, président: Courbett lard, secrétaire; l'anïiral de Kerjēgu, Te,issu do bort, le coate Desbassayas de Riche Fourcand, baron Decazes, Périn, Vandie comte de Rességuier, Delpit, Laboulayo, l'as Jaurés, A. Bouillier, Leuocl \n\ntas marchandises transitant par le Yunam equilteront le droit de douane qu'à leur en- fe kur le territoire annamite, qu'elles y arrivent ar ter ou par la frontière de Chine (province \n\nYam). \n\nAnen butre droit accessoire ou supplémen- ro ne pourra être diahli sur les marôliandises loretuent introduitos à leur passage d'une ovince ou d'une ville à nus autre, \n\nasi entendu que les marchandises importées \n\n| \n\nnation. \n\nPour éviter toute fraude et constater qu'ils vieunent bien de Saigon, ces bailments y feront viser leurs papiers par le capitaine du pork rig commerce al les y feront timbrer par le consul d'Àunam. \n\nLa douane pourra exiger des bâtiments, à leur départ pour Baigon, caution pour la moitié des droits duxquels ils ne sont pas soumis en vertu du paragraphe du présent arclo, et, sì la caution ne parait pas valable, la douane podrra exiger versement en dépôt de cetta moiti de droits, qui sera restituée après isstification. \n\nArt. 5. Le commerco pur terre entre la pro- vinen de Blephos et cells de Bish Tha restera provisoirement dans les conditions off-l est ca ce moment, c'est-à-dire qu'il ne pourra élre établi de nouveaux droits ai apporté aucuns modifica \n\ntion ant droits existants. \n\nDans l'année qui suivra l'échango des ratifica- tions du présent traité, une convention supplé mentaire réglera les conditions auxquelles sera soumis ce commerce par terre. \n\nEn tous les cas, Vexportation des chevaux do l'empire d'Annam à destination de in province de Bienlioa ne pourra êtro assujettie à des droits plus forts que ceux qui aut pays actuelle \n\nment. \n\n| \n\nseront régiós d'un commun accord entre les deux gouvernements. \n\nArt. 9. I comptabilité des douanes sera tenue en double dans les bureaux du service eu- \n\ndans les établissements financiers dé- \n\npar le gouvernement anaamite pour en- caisser le montant des droits. \n\nLes ordres de recette des droits devront por ter le visa du fonctionnaire français et celui du fonctionnaire anamite. Les mémas formalités so rout observées lorsque l'argent devra être ex- trait des caisses de la douane pour être versé dans celles de l'Etat. \n\nLes piéces de comptabilité et les registros re- rout comparés tous les mois. \n\nArt. 10. Serort prélevés sur le produit des droits de phare et d'ancrage, et, en cas d'insufli- sance, sur le produit des droits de douane, sans que jamais le prélèvement puisse dépasser la moitié du rovenu brut de ce dernier et dans l'ordre suivant: \n\nLa solde du personnel européen employé au service des dousues dos ports oaverts de l'An- mani, calle des employés annamites ou autres du même service; \n\nLa construction et l'antretien des bureaux de la douane; \n\n3 La construction et l'entretien des phares,. bateaux-fou, balisee: \n\nlos sondages; \n\n4° Les travaux de carage Entu, tootes les dépenses reconnues nécas- saires pour faciliter et activer le développement du mouvement commercial, \n\nArt. 11.Le tarif des droits établis par la pré- sonte convention sera applicable pendant dix ans à daler de l'échango des ratifications: pendant celte période, il ne pourra être modité que du commiin accord des deux hautes parties contrae- tantes et un an au moins après què la proposition en aura été faite par l'une d'elles. \n\nArt. 12 Toutes les contestations entre les étrangers et le personnel des douanes au sujet de l'application des règlements douaniers seront jugées par le consul et un magistrat annamite. \n\nArt. 13. -- Lorsqu'un bâtiment français ou étranger avrivera dons los eaux de l'un des ports ouverts au commerce étranger, il aura la faculté d'engager tel pilote qui lui conviendra pour de faire conduire immédiatement dans le port, et de même quaud, après avoir acquitté toutes les charges légales, il sera prêt à mettre à la voile, on au pourra pas lui refuser des pilotes pour le sertir du port ŝana retard ni détai.” \n\nTout individu qui vondra exercer la profession do pote \n\nles baliments étrangers pourra, sur la présentation de trois certificats de capi lames de navires, être commissionné par le con- sul de France et le capitaine du port.\" \n\nLa rétribution payée aux pilotes sera réglée selon l'équité, pour chaque port en particulier par le cousul on agent consulaire es le capitaine du port, en raison de la distance et des difficul- tés de la navigation. \n\nArt. 6. Pour assurer Ja perception des droits et afin d'éviter les conflits qui pourraient nare entre les étrangers et les autorités annamites in Gouvernement français mettra à la disposition du gouvernement aunamite les fonctionnaires bé- cessaires pour diriger le sorvice des douages sous la surveillance et l'autorité du ministre chargé de cette partie du service public. Il sideru également le gouvernement annumite à orgați- ser sur les côtes un service de surveillanco e-sés pour surveiller le navire et empêcher qu'il cace pour protéger la commerce. \n\nAuong Européen non français ne pourra dre employé dans les douanes des ports ouverts sahe Tagrément da consul de reuce ou du résident français prés la cour de Hué avant le payandyt intégral \n\nde judemnité espagnole. \n\nCa payement terminé, si le gouvernement anda- mite juge que ses fonctionnaires employes dans les douanes peuvent se passer de concoure les fonctionnaires français, les deux gouvernements s'entendrout au sujet dés mollifications que celte détermination rendra nécessaires. \n\nArt. 7. Lea dobares des porte ouverts au commerce étranger devaut dire dirigées par in fonctionnaire aniamite résidant à Ninhelaï, an fonctionnaire français, mis à la disposition du gouvernement aramie et portant le titre de Chef du service européen, résidera dans le mêmes port, alin de se concerter avec lui sur toutes les mesures de détail gyant pour but la bonne or- ganisation du service. \n\nArt. 14. Dès que le pilote aura introduit un navira de commerce stranger dans le port, is chef de la donann déléguera un ou deny prépo- \n\nno se pratique aucune fraude. Gos préposés pour- rout, selon leurs convenances, reater dans leurs propres bateaux ou se tenir à bord du bâti- ment. \n\nLes frais de leur solde, de leur nourriture et de leur entretien seront à la charge de la donane, et ils ne pourront exiger aucuss indemnité on rétribution quelconque des capitaines ou des consignataires. Tonts contravention à cette dis- position entraidera une ponition proportionnelle au montant de l'exachou, laquelle séra en outre Intégralement restitude. \n\not \n\nAr, 15. Dans les vingt-quatre heures qui suivront l'arrivée d'un navire de commerce étran ger dans l'un des ports ouverts au commerce étrangar, le capitaine, s'il n'est dament empêché son défaut le subrecargue va le consigna- taire, devra se rendre an consulat de France et remettra entre les mains du consul les papiers du bord, les connaissements et le manifeste. Dans les vingt-quatre heures suivantes, le consul en- verra a chef de la douano un extrait du rôle \n\nponi du navire, le tonnage légal du bâtiment et la maturo de son chargement, par suite de la négligence du capitaine, cette dernière for- lite n'avait pu être accomplio dans les quarante huit heures qui suivront Tarrés du navire de capitaine sera passible d'une amende de cin quanto piastros par jour de refard au profit de la caissé des douanes; ladite trende, toutefois, \n\nTous les Europoens employés dans Ins douznes relèveront directement du chet du service eugo-d'équipage et une note détaillée indiquant le péon. It aura le droit de correspondre pour les affaires de douanes et de commerce avec le con- sul français et avge le résidant français à né. Le chef du service européen et le ont du ser- vide annamite s'entendront pour les rapports à adresser au ministre des fluances. En cas de dis- sentiment, chacun d'eux pourra s'adresser direc- tement à ce haut fonctionnaire.",
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        "content_text": "base in the year before (last \nyear before (last January 1874) Le kim is paid at Jam-Shui \n50 cents per picul on Camphor: and \none \ncent per plank on Camphorwood \nis paid as \na \nduty to the foresters. \n\nExports from here. I will send \niron pans by there \nFormosa- \nJunks to mome \nI have been \nsur. the Stations \nto despatch ships and pay duty. \n\nI have sent Grow, Iron pans, Sandalwood, and Bundries from Cunton. Silk-checks, Lace, Buttons & medicines. \nSandalwood pays \nplus 50% \nCanton Goods. \n\nWong-0. mak \n478 \nstates. I am \nthe \nmaster of the junk \"Ham Cheung Hop\" \nwith crew 20. \ncapacity \nThe is 1000 piculs \n\nI left Jam Shui 22nd \nday of last moon (13 June). I had Camphor, Camphorwood and agen. Agen to various ports. \nand \nwas consigned \nI arrived \nOut \nJa Jan Chan \nin \nin the \nthe 6 \n* \nof \nthis \nmoon \nafternoon of the \n12th (9th or 19th or 29th is not clear, but likely 29th is a typo for the date, hence 29 June) about 2 km.  I went \nBustom Bonae and \nto the \ngave \nup \nthe ship's papers there. I left the ship \nat anchor, \ncame to Hongkong \nby boat a \nAndr \nTle. 0. \n\nMy \n8 per picul \nin \nRohing \narriving \nat 6 \no'clock that \nThere \nevening. \n\nButtons pay. \nPillo \nLace Silk \nSilk Threat \nsilk checks \n\" \n3.0.0. \nad valorem \n10. \n0. \n0. \n\" \n10. \n0. \n0. \n\" \n\nWrong \nOnly pay duty without the 50 per cent extra \n\n8 merchants here who \nwere you. \nwere interested \nwant out with me next \nin the cargo went out \nat \nmorning launch - we \n10-30 am \nbas \nine \n9 \ngot \nbetrek in a \nalean \nto Ja_Jaw - chaw about \nChan Shim now present \nof them \n\nThe whole amount \nof \n\nPage 480\n\nPage 481",
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        "content_text": "Date of \n\nadmisat \n\nt Gast \n\nHame \n\n18 Sept. 76 $tg \n\no Chair \n\nOffence \n\nSentence \n\nLhanseny \n\nA. Bin Dw. Conduct 14 days \n\name \n\nOffence \n\nServienÁL) \n\nlibt. 1876 Chic of Fuste Plying Chaw for thire 1 anys 3.0. \n\n29 \n\nGaie Saving counterfeit come to \n\nUnt \n\nDate of AFTV-VAð \n\nin the \n\n14101 \n\nRemarks \n\nDischarge \n\nD: \n\n177?? \n\nJTE 18 Sept. 1876 \n\n243 \n\nDate of \n\narrivat \n\nirv the \n\nColony \n\n23.15850n \n\nKerk 27 \n\n1858 \n\n1874- \n\nhome 1875 \n\nFong Phang \n\na g \n\na \n\nGischarged \n\nLeang \n\na Chai \n\n30 \n\nLoft Ihr \n\nAt Lowesate light or prase \n\nHay 3.A \n\nDo \n\nleft. Ritha a Sex \n\nLarceny \n\n4 \n\nH. L \n\n12 miso \n\nSec. \n\n20 Sept 1876 \n\nLe O. Leun? \n\n2: \n\nIt days WT. 1. \n\n1872 \n\ndaye with \n\npossession it days $11. 18 Sept 1886 \n\nFong \n\nIse a Hop \n\nHope Cutting Staube & \n\nFrong \n\nGat Unl : possession \n\n24 da \n\nChun A twong Breach of conditions 19 moo &.3. 15 bep$ 1846 Bi A town Susp. Pharacter 2 mos. See: 12 Sept 1876 \n\nChun & Fuck \n\nD: \n\n12 \n\n1860 \n\nChan & Hing \n\nFuisance \n\nday \n\nHong \n\n1. Sing Fulling \n\n+ Houndin \n\nling fit \n\ndays \n\nGot: Aug! 1845 | \n\nBom a \n\nCambling \n\nmoo. at 1, \n\n19 Sept \n\nChun Al Yair \n\nLarseny \n\nHe moi et \n\n1874 \n\nFung A Full Rog & Vagabond 3 \n\nthan a \n\n\" \n\nUnl. proecovion 442 dayp \n\nWick A. Hum que. Conduct \n\nKim A. Worr \n\n1875 \n\nApril 1876 \n\n2 \n\ncrea \n\n+ \n\n1869 \n\ntrak a \n\nHeung \n\nGathout pass \n\nFat & Kein \n\nUn A On \n\nSelling prepared ofrum. \n\nFighting \n\nH. a hig \n\nGing \n\nChun & Hiwass \n\nChair & \n\nJun \n\nİr kavning bonusteftud com \n\n3 000. N-2 \n\na Hai To License \n\nChing to thei \n\nIbn Mars 1. Fab Unl: poco covion y days \n\nShing \n\nApsautt \n\nDr Jansfilt. Cheung A Fungfittering comaterful comm \n\nFun A \n\nYeang Chun a thi \n\nO Pring Nowok A Gim \n\nPhong \n\nA Mai \n\nBir Ol Mai \n\nLarseny \n\n24 \n\nChum & Sir False Charge \n\nChan A \n\nPang \n\nChun C \n\nQ On \n\nKwong \n\nDom \n\nBi a Fat \n\nBi a Un \n\nLearomy \n\n42 days \n\n21 dagp \n\n2/ \n\nOis: Conduct 144 \n\nGambling \n\n2/ \n\nHewan & Mund Unk, possession 14 \n\nt \n\nDo Finepaid \n\nD \n\n13 Sept 1896 \n\n1865 \n\n1867 \n\n1875 \n\n1875 \n\nApar. 1876 \n\n3 Befs 1846 \n\n||11 Olweg 18y6|| \n\n1876 \n\n25 Sept 1875 \n\n1875 \n\n1855 \n\n1849 \n\n2: \n\nD. \n\nChing \n\nUrl : provocosion 42 days I. 2. 15 Sept 1876 \n\nAt Wong pling Chair for tire dayp 5.9. \n\nChan & Cheak \n\nRtg At thi \n\nabbak a Sam \n\nChing & Sui \n\nHot Seft. Spa \n\na. I d \n\nthan a Torr \n\nDo \n\nLa \n\n* \n\n24 \n\n2 \n\n04 \n\nBarcony \n\nD3 \n\nWong A Fish Plying chair for dine 2 anys 5.3. \n\nD' \n\nChang Of Ov \n\nD \n\nLeung Bing Lin Being dunt \n\nD \n\nChun & \n\nD: \n\nChong \n\nmoo A \n\n1874 \n\nto mos. Tie of Sept. 184/. \n\nLun \n\nD \n\nPie A. Cheers. \n\nLarceny \n\ntheang \n\nAg \n\n0° \n\nの \n\nAli & Yung \n\nDe \n\nD \n\nDi \n\n\" \n\nYou \n\nIjaw A His \n\nChanel in \n\n0! \n\nChen \n\nYung Ulloring Grill \n\nto Lokenst \n\nto kno \n\n6 \n\nhold. Ips Fee Choi Urianful having 3 days It. \n\nGair \n\nDes: Conduct | \n\nex \n\nDa \n\n18744 \n\n3 mos. It 1. 25 Sept 1875 \n\n23 mos. 3.7. 20 Sept 1871 21 Sept 1845 \n\nAt Tim's Fittempted Duicide 42 days t \n\nAprel 187/",
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        "content_text": "## THE GOVERNOR'S STATISTICS.\n\n### SUPPLEMENT TO THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS.\n\n## SPOTS OF INTEREST ON THE ADJACENT MAINLAND.\n\n### CHUEN-WAN\n\nCounsel, whose mind is of far too logical a nature, stands first. As was well said by the Hon. W. KESWICK in the Council Chamber some months ago, Hongkong ought not to be made the prison-house of South China. Such, however, it must inevitably become unless steps be taken to keep the Colony free from the habitual criminals from Kwangtung, instead of, by tender treatment and good board and lodging, practically holding out to them an invitation to pay the island periodical visits for purposes of plunder.\n\nThe other pass, known as the Shing-moon pass, leads to the eastward of the great Tai-mo-shan, the lofty mountain peak, by far the highest in the neighbourhood, at the foot of which Chüen-wan is situated, skirts the villages near Castlepeak Bay, passing through Shap-pat-heung, or the eighteen villages, which lie on the Eastern side of Deep Bay; then by the bank of the half canal half creek which gives junk communication between Sam-chun and San-hu, or new market, and thence into the heart of the Tung-koon district to Shok-lung, which communicates with Canton via Kaulung City and the pass beyond to the northward.\n\nThe intending traveller from Hongkong to Sam-chun crosses the harbour by the Yau-mak-tee ferry. From Yau-mah-tee he walks through Kowloon City to Chuen-wan, and sees to recant the opinions thus ably expressed in the report at the foot of which his signature leads to the eastward. We have had new and doubtful experiments tried, while some excellent provisions, the repressive character of which had been proved by the experience of many years, were relaxed, and groundless leniency shown to convicted murderers.\n\nHis Excellency the GOVERNOR mainly responsible for the present position of affairs-October 7th. It is important, when tracing the great increase of crime in the Colony to its sources, nor to lose sight of any conducing causes that have been overlooked, full credit will be given for them. Among other matters referred to in the schedule of documents laid before the Committee appointed to inquire into the Police Duties, is a reference to a despatch by Sir ARTHUR KENNEDY to Lord CARNARVON two years back in which he seems to anticipate a serious increase of crime consequent on the lowering of the fares by the Canton river steamers. Mr. HENNESSY certainly makes a point here.\n\nThe anchorage in Chüen-wan Bay is regarded by junk masters as a peculiarly safe one, with good holding ground, hence the selection of this spot in former days by pirates as their depot or stronghold, to which they repaired for refitting their craft or disposing of their ill-gotten gains, and for which purpose Chien-wan presents singular facilities in the fact that the two passes through the mountains into the Tung-koon and Wei-chow districts and the wealthy and populous towns to the northward and eastward may be approached either by Chien-wan.\n\nAfter landing, which is a somewhat difficult business on account of the mud, walk up past the villages by a stone-paved path, often shaded by trees, then, turning to the left, up the mountain side several pretty Chinese water mills may be seen. These water wheels are worked by a wooden shaft on which are projecting knobs which depress a lever, on the other end of which is a heavy stone pestle, which thus alternately elevated and allowed to fall, pulverizes the sandalwood or other substance contained in a large stone mortar beneath.\n\nIn the village of Chen-wan the manufacture of incense or Chinese joss-stick is carried on on a somewhat extensive scale, the principal ingredient being sandalwood powdered in the mills I have referred to. Chinese vermicelli is also made here.\n\nOr to those not afraid of the long Chinese walk, or provided with chairs, a visit to the lead mine spoken of before might not be without its interest. The locality is about half a mile beyond the village of Shing-moun, at the top of the pass. One able to endure the fatigue would be well repaid by the magnificent view of Tai-tú-shan with Mirs Bay, and its surrounding mountains, notably the curious saddle mountain, or Ma-on-shau, on the other.\n\nAs a few lines about the place where the robbers of Tuesday night, 24th ultimo, landed after committing their raid on the Cheung Shing goldsmiths shop may be of public interest at the present time we will in as few words as possible give a brief sketch of the place. Chien-wan Bay, called in olden times Pirates Bay, is a shallow inlet situated about a mile to the eastward of the Cap-shui-moon and some two miles or more to the northward and westward of Stonecutters' Island.\n\nThe bay itself is some half-mile broad, by about the same depth, and shallowing so gradually that sufficient depth of water for a launch could not be found at less than a hundred yards or more from the shore in any part. Chien-wan is approached from Stonecutters Island by a passage between the mainland and the Island of Chung-hü. This passage, after passing the large Island of Chung-hü, is termed Kai-chap-moon and is, after passing Ma-on Island, exposed for about half a mile, where it receives the protection of Ma-on Island.\n\nThis is the island which, situated between the large island of Nam-tai-o, or Tai-te-shan, and the mainland, forms the two passages leading over the mountains into densely populated plains. These plains are inhabited by an industrious, and, as Chinese go, honest population, but very turbulent and always carrying on clan fights amongst themselves, nearly every house or village being built as a fort.\n\nThe former is the passage taken by the Canton river steamers; the latter will be found convenient for boats or launches which are unable to make way against the strong tide running in the Cap-shui-moon, or for those who, dreading the pangs of sea sickness, wish to avoid the heavy seas which often have to be encountered when taking the more exposed route by Cap-shui-moon.\n\nPeople going out for an excursion would find the place not unworthy of a visit. The private residence of a wealthy Chinese well known as the Stanley great man is picturesquely situated amongst a grove of trees on a well-wooded hill side, and, although strangely built in the Chinese style of architecture, it was some years back captured by thieves, who after holding the house some hours, carried off everything of value, including the youngest and choicest of the unfortunate proprietor's concubines.\n\nThis Shing-moon leads down to the southern arm of Mirs Bay and so communicates by water with several nests of thieves and pirates in Mirs Bay or rather on the northern shore of the bay. These places thus referred to are at the extremity of passes through the mountains into the densely populated plains.\n\nThe Police report for `1877` showed an increase of `6.45` per cent. of serious crime and `23.86` per cent. of minor offences over the preceding year. In `1878` there was a much larger increase of serious crime, and since then things have gone from bad to worse, though attention has been called to the facts by the GOVERNOR in the Legislative Council and by the Press.\n\nHow, then, is it that a check has not sooner been given to this growth of crime? Mr. HENNESSY would seem to contend that the increase has been natural and inevitable; we maintain that its later and worst development is the fruit of His Excellency's mistaken policy. At a time when it was obvious that greater rigour should be observed in dealing with criminals, he indiscreetly denounced in strong terms the practice of former administrations and induced an impression among the criminal class that more lenient treatment would be dealt out to offenders in future, a notion that was still further confirmed by some highly judicious pardons granted by His Excellency.\n\nA reference to the return published in the Gazette of the number of pardons granted during fifteen months of Sir ARTHUR KENNEDY's administration and a like period of the present administration, it indicates nothing unless the relative numbers of conditional pardons be also published, if these are included, as we presume they are. Conditional pardons generally involve the absence of the pardoned from the Colony for a certain number of years.\n\n## DESPATCH.\n\n**No.** `13089`  \n**Date.** `14 OCT 78`  \n**Subject.** Midan Baraphrase of telegram from the Governor of Hong Kong.\n\nThe Crown Agents would be glad if the `15` constables on the usual conditions be engaged to fill the vacancies which may be expected at the end of the year.\n\n**(Minutes.)**  \nThere was scarcely any need for cipher. Send a copy to the agent with instructions to comply.  \nC.Pd. `14 Oct`  \nDieffore the atom \"AM `15710`\" may be done.  \nLast previous Paper `*77 8856`  \nAgente ins!? `18 Oct 78`  \nM meade.",
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        "content_text": "218\n\n( 12 )\n\nLIST OF PASSENGERS,--- Continued.\n\n( 13 )\n\nLIST OF PASSENGERS, --- Continued.\n\n  \n    No.\n    Names and Surnames of Passengers.\n    Male.\n    Fe-\nmale.\n    Age.\n    Profession, Occupation, or Calling of Passenger.\n    Native Place, Village and District.\n    Port at which the Passengers have Contracted to Land.\n    Whether Free or Hired Emigrants.\n  \n  \n    533\n    Tseong Yoong Fom,\n    25\n    \n    \n    Gold Digger,\n    Ty Kong,\n    Sydney,\n    Free.\n  \n  \n    534\n    Cho Suey,\n    \n    \n    603\n    Tuen Un,\n    32\n    of Poon Ü,\n    \n  \n  \n    535\n    Chow Ko,-\n    \n    25\n    +3\n    \"\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    536\n    Loong Kwa,\n    \n    \n    604\n    Lee Mee,\n    45\n    27\n    \n  \n  \n    537\n    Loong Ken,\n    \n    \n    605\n    Tuen Bing,\n    \"\n    24\n    *\n  \n  \n    538\n    Chow Woy,\n    \n    \n    \n    Nam Chuen,\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    539\n    Chow Kemg,\n    \n    \n    606\n    \n    27\n    Kong Chow, -\n    of Poon Ü,\n  \n  \n    540\n    Chow Moo,\n    \n    \n    607\n    Som Cheong,\n    40\n    22\n    \n  \n  \n    541\n    Chow Bing,\n    \n    \n    608\n    Som Wong,\n    33\n    \"\n    \n  \n  \n    542\n    Chow Yun,\n    \n    \n    609\n    Som Sun,\n    32\n    33\n    13\n  \n  \n    543\n    Chow Tse,\n    \n    \n    53\n    28\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    544\n    Lock Bun,\n    2\n    333\n    3*******\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    610\n    Som Chook,\n    \"\n    21\n    \"\n    27\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    611\n    Chi Chua,\n    11\n    33\n    >>\n    \"\n    24\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    612\n    Soe P'ho,\n    31\n    2\n    28\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    613\n    Cho York,\n    73\n    31\n    24\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    614\n    73\n    Yip Chuen,\n    48\n    27\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    615\n    Soe She, -\n    \"\n    \"\n    23\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    545\n    Chung Heong,\n    37\n    \n    \n    616\n    Soe Toong,\n    \"\n    >\"\n  \n  \n    35\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    وو\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    617\n    5-16\n    Cho Pack,\n    18\n    \n    Soe Chap. -\n    33\n    33\n    33\n  \n  \n    618\n    Soe Kwa,\n    \n    \n    \n    547\n    Chow Ko,-\n    45\n    \">\"\n  \n  \n    \"\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    73\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    548\n    Cho King,\n    50\n    \n    \n    619\n    Soe Kwan,\n    35\n    \"}\"\n  \n  \n    22\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    620\n    Soe Chee,\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    549\n    Cho roon,\n    30\n    ور\n    1\n    37\n    21\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    621\n    \n    \n    \n    550\n    Chung Chee,-\n    20\n    Soe Ching,\n    73\n  \n  \n    37\n    37\n    \n    \n    \n    551\n    Cho Ching,\n    622\n    48\n  \n  \n    Yü Mon,\n    وو\n    J\n    \n    31\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    623\n    \n    \n    552\n    Kong Ket,\n    29\n    Soe Yook,-\n    32\n    15\n  \n  \n    37\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    624\n    Soe Kee,\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    553\n    Chow Yü,-\n    >\n    \"\n    \"\n    625\n    Choo Chec,\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    554\n    Choi Tại,\n    34\n    دو\n    وو\n    5\n    11\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    626\n    \n    \n    555\n    Chow Tson,\n    27\n    Tuen Hoong,-\n    **\n    ,,\n  \n  \n    627\n    Tuen Chee,\n    \n    556\n    Chow Yü,\n    50\n    17\n    13\n    \n  \n  \n    628\n    \n    \n    557\n    Chow Shing,\n    42\n    Soe Choy,\n    و\"\n    $3\n  \n  \n    629\n    Soe Fook,-\n    \n    538\n    Ho Wah,\n    40\n    12\n    >>\n    \"\n  \n  \n    630\n    Soe Chee,\n    \n    559\n    Loong To,-\n    25\n    1\n    13\n    13\n  \n  \n    631\n    Moo Kook,\n    \n    560\n    Lee Fook,\n    23\n    \"\n    33\n    \n  \n  \n    632\n    Moo Lee,\n    \n    561\n    Lee Mun, -\n    19\n    \"\n    5\n    \n  \n  \n    633\n    Moo Yuen,\n    \n    562\n    Lee Tick,\n    39\n    19\n    5\n    \n  \n  \n    634\n    Moo Moon,\n    \n    563\n    Lee She, -\n    38\n    \"\n    15\n    \n  \n  \n    635\n    Mok Yom,\n    \n    564\n    Lee Ow,\n    26\n    2)\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    636\n    Chan Mee,\n    \n    565\n    Wong Kun,\n    24\n    >\n    23\n    \n  \n  \n    637\n    Chan To, -\n    \n    566\n    Chu Suey,\n    20\n    11\n    J1\n    \n  \n  \n    638\n    50%\n    Lum Mce,-\n    21\n    21\n    11\n    25\n    \"\n    \n  \n  \n    Kong Mee,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    668\n    Aun Ta,\n    19\n    21\n  \n  \n    13\n    >\n    \n    \n    \n    639\n    569\n    Wo Yick,-\n    47\n  \n  \n    Kong Toong,\n    \n    \n    12\n    +7\n    J\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    640\n    570\n    Chow Moon,\n    44\n    Melbourne,\n    Kong Yun,\n    13\n    >\n    \n  \n  \n    641\n    Lor Chow,\n    \n    571\n    Tseong Tsow,\n    30\n    >>\n    J7\n    \n  \n  \n    642\n    572\n    Kwon Chew,-\n    32\n    +1\n    Chan Sing,\n    27\n    53\n    \n  \n  \n    573\n    Chow Yook,\n    40\n    >\n    19\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    643\n    Kong Fook,\n    \n    574\n    Chow Yin,\n    26\n    かす\n    71\n    \n  \n  \n    644\n    575\n    Lor Yee,\n    48\n    Tin Miner,\n    *\n    Sydney,\n    Ng Nie,\n    22\n  \n  \n    645\n    576\n    Lor Man,\n    39\n    \n    Wong Shing,\n    17\n    \"3\n    \n  \n  \n    577\n    Lor Kee,\n    45\n    T\n    *\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    646\n    578\n    Lor Shee,\n    43\n    Yun Kwong,-\n    22\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    579\n    Lor Shun,-\n    25\n    11\n    \n    647\n    Yun Chü, .\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    580\n    Yip Yoong,\n    28\n    25\n    ་་\n    \"\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    648\n    Kwo Man Kec,\n    \n    591\n    Kong Bun,\n    92\n    \"\n    3\n    \n  \n  \n    582\n    Cho Wai,\n    30\n    33\n    17\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    649\n    \n    \n    583\n    Som Yuet,\n    \n    Kwo Ping,\n    15\n    \n  \n  \n    650\n    Tye Chack,\n    \n    584\n    Cho Bua,\n    \n    \n    }\n    \n  \n  \n    585\n    Cho Kong,\n    38\n    :)\n    21\n    J\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    651\n    Hoong Yuen,\n    \n    586\n    Cho Huen,\n    20\n    #\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    662\n    Hoong Poy,\n    \n    587\n    Cho Vịp,\n    20\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    653\n    Chan Cheong,\n    \n    588\n    Cho Nie,\n    21\n    \"\n    37\n    \n  \n  \n    664\n    Hoong Bug,\n    \n    589\n    Cho Ko,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    589\n    Cho Hoy, -\n    24\n    \n    656\n    Ü Tem,-\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    592\n    Soe Sa,\n    23\n    \n    657\n    Lum Sin Som,\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    593\n    Cho Thi,\n    40\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    594\n    Chow Yoong,\n    20\n    \n    658\n    Hor Tick Hong,\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    505\n    Soi Choi, -\n    29\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    596\n    Kong La,\n    92\n    13\n    \n    659\n    Chin Chee Sun,-\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    597\n    Tuen Yut,-\n    1.7\n    23\n    \"\n    660\n    Shee Shoong Hing,\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    598\n    Cho Foe,\n    39\n    J\n    \n    661\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    599\n    Then Yook,\n    30\n    \n    662\n    Tan Yung Tong,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Ho Lin Ches,-\n    \n    \n    \n    600\n    Tuen Chan,\n    17\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    663\n    Wong Hoong Churd, -\n    \n    2\n    =*=******=*=*==-N≈38*********\n    ****\n    ***\n    *\n    37\n  \n  \n    28\n    89233\n    5*\n    *\n    **88*\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    14\n    Tin Miner,\n    \n    Nam Chuen, of Poon U,\n    \n    Sydney,\n    \n    Free.\n    \n  \n  \n    \"\n    25\n    **\n    23\n    \n    22\n    \n    23\n    \n  \n  \n    وو\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    23\n    \n    JJ\n    \n  \n  \n    17\n    *\n    \n    予高\n    \n    >\n    \n    1\n    \n  \n  \n    \"\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    39\n    **\n    21\n    \n  \n  \n    15\n    J\n    \n    23\n    \n    事业\n    \n    \"\n    \n  \n  \n    \"\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    33\n    37\n    \"\"\n    \n  \n  \n    95\n    11\n    \n    30\n    \n    23\n    \n    J\n    \n  \n  \n    \"\"\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    24\n    \"\n    \"\n    \n  \n  \n    >>\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    11\n    25\n    وو\n    \n  \n  \n    23\n    J\n    \n    >>\n    \n    23\n    \n    1\n    \n  \n  \n    57\n    J\n    \n    24\n    \n    42\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Gold Digger,\n    \n    Ting Shan,\n    \n    of Phar Yuen,\n    \n    }\n    \n    27\n  \n  \n    24\n    \n    25\n    J\n    \n    22\n    \n    وو\n    \n  \n  \n    3\n    \n    44\n    *\n    *\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Labourer,\n    \n    26\n    \n    Tye Lek,\n    \n    of Poon Ú,\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Sheong Chuen, of Phar Yuen,\n    \n    Sheong Chuen, of Sun Ning,\n    \n    \n    Lor Chow,\n    \n    of Heong Show,\n 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        "content_text": "(16)\n\nLIST OF PASSENGERS,-Continued.\n\n(17)\n\nMINUTE BY ACTING COLONIAL SECRETARY.\n\nFREDERICK STEWART,\n\nActing Colonial Secretary.\n\nMINUTE BY HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR.\n\nI should be glad if the Acting Colonial Secretary, the Acting Registrar General, and Dr. EITEL would examine this list and question a sufficient number of the proposed emigrants to enable them to determine whether they are really free emigrants and under no contract of service whatever.\n\nJ. POPE HENNESSY.\n\n25th April, 1881.\n\n  \n    Male.\n    No.\n    Names and Surnames\nof\nPassengers.\n    Fe-\nmale.\n    Profession, Occupation,\nor Calling of Passenger.\n    Native Place, Village\nand District.\n    Age.\n    Age.\n    Port at which the Passengers have Contracted\nto Land.\n    Whether Free\nor Hired Emigrants.\n    Ticket.\n  \n  \n    \n    777\n    Ching Kit,\n    \n    Tin Miner,\n    of Heong Shan,\n    18\n    \n    Sydney,\n    Free.\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    778\n    Ching Fook,\n    \n    \n    \n    33\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    779\n    Ching Foon,\n    \n    \n    \n    \"\"\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    780\n    Chin Lau,\n    \n    \n    \n    21\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    781\n    Jue Shun,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    782\n    Young Ng,\n    \n    \n    \n    15\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    783\n    Ching Ting,\n    \n    \n    \n    19\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    784\n    See Zee,\n    \n    \n    \n    25\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    785\n    Ching Yun,\n    \n    \n    \n    19\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    786\n    Sen Tat,\n    \n    \n    \n    30\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    787\n    Sen Chew,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    789\n    Seu Bing,\n    \n    \n    \n    25\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    789\n    Seu Hing,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    790\n    Seu Kwoon,\n    \n    \n    \n    35\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    791\n    Seu Hong,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    792\n    Seu Chek,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    793\n    *Sen Chun,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    794\n    Ning Man,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    795\n    Ning Sam,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    796\n    Ning Kum,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    797\n    Wong Toug,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    798\n    Chow Chui,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    799\n    Loo Tsoy,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    800\n    Soe See,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    801\n    Soe Troy,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    802\n    Choy Ching,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    803\n    Choy Kow,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    804\n    Choy Wing,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    805\n    Jue Ping,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    806\n    Jue Chick,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    807\n    Jue Lim,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    808\n    Jue Wing,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    809\n    Jue Cheong,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    810\n    Jue Shing,\n    \n    Gold Digger,\n    of Sun Ning,\n    27\n    \n    Melbourne,\n    Free.\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    Woy Loong,\n    \n    \n    of Ko Yü,\n    23\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    Leong To,\n    \n    \n    of Heong Shan,\n    36\n    \n    Sydney,\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    Choy Shing Tack,\n    \n    Cook,\n    Yip Toong Poo,\n    \n    \n    Cooktown,\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    Tack, Yip Toong Poo,\n    \n    \n    Yun Show,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    Liu Kee,\n    \n    \n    Yip Yune,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    Choy Lok,\n    \n    \n    Ching Yow,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    Lau Wang,\n    \n    \n    Lau Yune,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    Cheong Chan,\n    \n    \n    Ching Lai,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    Luü How,\n    \n    \n    Ching Kee,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    Lou Chow,\n    \n    \n    Chung Check,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    Wong Chun,\n    \n    \n    Chay Ting,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    Chew Shing,\n    \n    \n    Lou Yun,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    Soe Yin,\n    \n    \n    Lou Cheong,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    Mok Mooi,\n    \n    \n    Mok Kut,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    Chung Pie,\n    \n    \n    Tam Chung,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    Tam Tim,\n    \n    \n    Shew Kum,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    Tick Chee,\n    \n    \n    Lee Yü,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    Chun Wah,\n    \n    \n    Ching Sam,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    Yune Chun,\n    \n    \n    Cheong Wong,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    Chung Hoy,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    Sydney,\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    Male.\n    \n    \n    \n    Fe-male.\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    .163\n    \n    \n    \n    6\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    Total,\n    \n    .841\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    (Signed)\n    \n    C. S. LEWIS.\n    \n    \n    \n  \n\nEXTRACT FROM REPORT BY THE ACTING COLONIAL SECRETARY AND\nACTING REGISTRAR GENERAL.\n\nIn compliance with His Excellency's instructions conveyed in his Minute of the 25th instant, the Acting Colonial Secretary and the Acting Registrar General met this morning, at 9 o'clock, at the Harbour Office, as arranged yesterday with the Emigration Officer.\n\nWhen the Emigration Officer had satisfied himself, we asked such questions as we thought necessary. In this way, we examined ten men, occupying two hours in so doing. We annex notes of the evidence, from which we satisfied ourselves that, if the emigrants were not free and under no contract of service, it would be impossible for us to show that they were not. Under these circumstances, we thought we had sufficiently carried out our instructions, and were preparing to leave, when His Excellency's Minute of the 26th instant was received. This was shown to the Emigration Officer, who was also informed that it would be communicated to him in the usual official way.\n\nFREDERICK STEWART,\n\nActing Colonial Secretary.\n\nJOHN GERRARD,\n\nActing Registrar General.\n\nHongkong, 26th April, 1881.\n\nNOTES OF EVIDENCE TAKEN AT AN EXAMINATION OF EMIGRANTS\nON THE 26TH APRIL, 1881.\n\nI\n\nLAM CHIU-SAM (No. 657).---I am a gardener. I am going to Cooktown. I have paid my own passage; $32. No relatives with me.\n\nI have been a gardener in Shek-k'i. I have got no assistance from any one with my passage money.\n\nIt is my own savings. I have never been abroad before. I have been in Hongkong 17 days, living in the \"Tin-i-tong.\" I have paid 50 cents for board.\n\nI had about 26 taels when I left Shek-ki. I have been at Shek-k'i from my birth. I earned about $3 a month. I am married and have two children.\n\nWONG A-CHAN (No. 712).-My uncle wants me to go to Sydney. He lives there. I paid my own passage: that is, my mother gave me the money. I am going with a brother. There are four of us going from Pák-shek. This is the first time I have been abroad. I have to return no portion of my earnings to any one for my passage. I will send money to my mother. My uncle is a coolie in the On-cheung Hong in Sydney. I am going to dig gold. I was a coolie in a cuttle-fish shop in Pák-shek. I earned a dollar a month. I brought $45 with me to Hongkong. I have been 5 days here. I lived in the \"I-on,\" Praya West, with friends. I paid nothing. I paid $42 for my passage to Sydney.",
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        "content_text": "LIST OF PASSENGERS,--Continued,\n\n(17)\n\nMINUTE BY ACTING COLONIAL SECRETARY,\n\n520\n\nFREDERICK STEWART,\n\nActing Colonial Secretary.\n\nMINUTE BY HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR.\n\nI should be glad if the Acting Colonial Secretary, the Acting Registrar General, and Dr. ErTEL would examine this list and question a sufficient number of the proposed emigrants to enable them to determine whether they are really free emigrants and under no contract of service whatever.\n\nJ. POPE HENNESSY.\n\n777 Ching Kit,\n778 Ching Fook,\n779 Ching Foon,\n780 Chin Lan,\n781 Jue Shun,\n782 Young Ng,\n783 Ching Ting,\n784 See Zee,\n785 Ching Yun,\n786 Seu Tat,\n787 Seu Chew,\n788 Seu Bing,\n789 Seu Hing,\n790 Seu Kwoon,\n791 Sea Hong,\n792 Seu Chek,\n793 Sen Chun,\n794 Ning Man,\n795 Ning Sam,\n796 Ning Kum,\n797 Wong Tong,\n798 Chow Chu,\n799 Loo Tsoy,\n800 Soe See,\n801 Soc Tsoy,\n802 Choy Ching,\n803 Choy Kow,\n804 Choy Wing,\n805 Jue Ping,\n806 Jue Chick,\n807 Jue Lim,\n808 Jue Wing,\n809 Jue Cheong,\n810 Jue Shing,\n\n  \n    No.\n    Names and Surnames of Passengers.\n    Male.\n    Fe-male.\n    Age.\n    Profession, Occupation, or Calling of Passenger.\n    Native Place, Village and District.\n    Port at which the Passengers have Contracted to Land.\n    Whether Free or Engaged Emigrant.\n    Ticket.\n  \n  \n    37\n    Tio Miner\n    Male\n    \n    17\n    \n    of Hoong Shau\n    Sydney\n    Free\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    Tiek To\n    \n    Female\n    11\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    Woy Loong\n    Male\n    \n    17\n    \n    of Sai Chuen\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    Leong To\n    \n    Female\n    23\n    \n    of Heong Shan\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    Male\n    \n    35\n    Gold Digger\n    \n    Melbourne\n    Free\n    25th April, 1881\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    Female\n    27\n    \n    of Sun Ning\n    Sydney\n    \n    \n  \n\nChoy Shing Tack,\nYip Toong Poo,\nYun Show,\nLiu Kee,\nYip Yune,\nChoy Lok,\nChing Yow,\nLai Wang,\nLai Yune,\nCheong Chan,\nChing Lai,\nLau How,\nChing Keo,\nLou Chow,\nChung Check,\nWong Chun,\nChay Ting,\nChew Shing,\nLou Yun,\nSoe Yin,\nLou Cheong,\nMok Mooi,\nMok Kut,\nChung Fic,\nTam Chung,\nTam Tim,\nShew Kum,\nTick Chee,\nLee Yü\n\nSUMMARY,\n\nTotal Males: 163\nTotal Females: 6\nTotal: 169\n\n(Signed)\nC. S. LEWIS.\n\nEXTRACT FROM REPORT BY THE ACTING COLONIAL SECRETARY AND ACTING REGISTRAR GENERAL.\n\nIn compliance with His Excellency's instructions conveyed in his Minute of the 25th instant, the Acting Colonial Secretary and the Acting Registrar General met this morning, at 9 o'clock, at the Harbour Office, as arranged yesterday with the Emigration Officer.\n\nWhen the Emigration Officer had satisfied himself, we asked such questions as we thought necessary. In this way, we examined ten men, occupying two hours in so doing. We annex notes of the evidence, from which we satisfied ourselves that, if the emigrants were not free and under no contract of service, it would be impossible for us to show that they were not.\n\nUnder these circumstances, we thought we had sufficiently carried out our instructions, and were preparing to leave, when His Excellency's Minute of the 26th instant was received. This was shown to the Emigration Officer, who was also informed that it would be communicated to him in the usual official way.\n\nFREDERICK STEWART,\nActing Colonial Secretary.\n\nJOIN GERRARD,\nActing Registrar General.\n\nHongkong, 26th April, 1881.\n\nNOTES OF EVIDENCE TAKEN AT AN EXAMINATION OF EMIGRANTS ON THE 26TH APRIL, 1881.\n\nLAM CHIU-SAM (No. 657).—\nI am a gardener. I am going to Cooktown. I have paid my own passage: $32. No relatives go with me. I have been a gardener in Shek-k'i. I have got no assistance from any one with my passage money. It is my own savings. I have never been abroad before. I have been in Hongkong 17 days, living in the “Tin-i-t'ong.” I have paid 50 cents for my board. I had about 26 taels when I left Shek-ki. I have been at Shek-k'i from birth. I earned about $3 a month. I am married and have two children.\n\nWONG A-CHAN (No. 712).—My uncle wants me to go to Sydney. He lives there. I paid my own passage: that is, my mother gave me the money. I am going with a brother. There are four of us going from Pák-shek. This is the first time I have been abroad. I have to return no portion of my earnings to any one for my passage. I will send money to my mother. My uncle is a coolie in the On-cheung Hong in Sydney. I am going to dig gold. I was a coolie in a cuttle-fish shop in Pák-shek. I earned a dollar a month. I brought $45 with me to Hongkong. I have been 5 days here. I lived in the \"I-on,\" Praya West, with friends. I paid nothing. I paid $42 for my passage to Sydney.",
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        "content_text": "942 16 Mai\n\n[CHAMBRE]\n\nSix millions d'hommes veulent se donner à nous avec leur beau pays, et, puisqu'il faut le dire, nous ne comprenons rien en Cochinchine aux hésitations du Gouvernement.\n\nOn s'imagine à tort, je crois, qu'il s'agit d'une expédition armée, d'une campagne, d'une aventure. Messieurs, nous n'aurions littéralement qu'à paraître pour que le Tonkin soit à nous... 1\n\nEh bien, la situation a changé.\n\nM. le rapporteur. Pas beaucoup ! M. Georges Perin. Vous reconnaissez vous-même qu'elle a changé, puisque dans votre rapport vous dites, parlant des 3,000 hommes de troupes françaises qu'on doit envoyer au Tonkin, et des 1,000 tirailleurs annamites: « Il a paru à votre commission que ce déploiement de forces était suffisant et que, d'autre part, il n'avait rien d'exagéré. »\n\nVous admettez donc aujourd'hui que, s'il suffit de paraître, il faut au moins paraître accompagné de quelques milliers d'hommes. (Approbation sur divers bancs.)\n\nVoilà ce qui me paraît changer singulièrement la question, mais aussi elle se trouve placée sous son vrai jour.\n\nC'est sans doute à cela que pensait M. le ministre des affaires étrangères, lorsqu'il disait au Sénat qu'il fallait se mettre en garde contre les entreprises romanesques. M. le ministre des affaires étrangères ne croyait pas probablement et ne croit pas aujourd'hui qu'il suffise de paraître au Tonkin pour s'en emparer; il pense qu'il faut y paraître accompagné d'un nombre d'hommes respectable et, par conséquent, engager les forces de la France dans...\n\nDÉBATS PARLEMENTAIRES\n\nAnnée 1883\n\nde vue économique la prise de possession du Tonkin ne pouvait donner que des avantages très contestables, et que l'opinion était victime d'une illusion en s'imaginant qu'on allait par là donner à notre commerce un marché considérable et créer des débouchés à nos industries.\n\nJ'ai dit que nous allons éparpiller nos forces tandis que nous avons le devoir de les concentrer en France.\n\nLorsqu'une première fois on a discuté la question, j'ai pu, en causant avec beaucoup de mes collègues, voir que, si on l'avait de grands doutes sur les avantages réels qu'on pourrait retirer d'une expédition au Tonkin, on n'en avait pas sur la difficulté qu'il y a à quitter un pays dont on a pris possession déjà, ce serait une reculade, une abdication, comme le dit le Gouvernement dans l'exposé des motifs.\n\nMais enfin, l'amour-propre national est engagé.\n\nSi l'amour-propre national était tellement engagé que nous dussions, ou lui faire subir un outrage grave, ou aller en avant, je ne vous proposerais pas de vous arrêter. J'estime qu'on doit être aussi soucieux de l'honneur du pays que du sien propre, et je ne proposerais jamais à mon pays une reculade, pas plus que je n'en accepterais pour moi-même.\n\nAujourd'hui, que pouvons-nous faire ? Nous ne sommes pas en possession du Tonkin; il ne s'agirait pas pour nous d'abandonner un pays que nous posséderions. Nous sommes toujours sous l'empire du traité de 1874; nous avons des garnisons dans trois villes, et puis... je n'ai pas parlé de ces faits pour ne pas allonger la discussion, nous avons cru devoir nous lier volontairement par une condamnation là-dessus.\n\nA moins qu'on ne veuille absolument prendre possession du pays, étendre notre empire colonial, je crois que cette solution serait acceptable. Mais ici, de ma discussion, j'ai à répondre à une opinion très répandue dans la Chambre et dont on peut trouver la trace dans les documents officiels.\n\nOn nous dit qu'il est nécessaire que la France ait aujourd'hui une politique coloniale, que la France s'affirme, ce qu'elle n'a pas fait peut-être dans ces dernières années, et montre qu'elle entend reprendre, comme puissance coloniale, le rang dont on a pu croire un instant qu'elle était déchue.\n\nDÉBATS PARLEMENTAIRES\n\n231\n\n16 Mai\n\n943\n\n[CHAMBRE]\n\nAppel à l'histoire, que cette colonie d'exploitation nous l'avons vue dans toute sa gloire, dans tout son développement se créer, prospérer et se développer aux Indes, dans les mains des Anglais. Je sais que, précisément à propos du Tonkin, le nom de l'Inde a été prononcé. On nous a dit: Il y a là une occasion de comment et promptement à ce résultat, que vous en étendant l'empire colonial de la France dans l'extrême Orient, en créant un grand empire français de l'Indo-Chine, nous aurons une compensation, et peut-être pourrons-nous ainsi nous consoler de ne plus avoir cet empire de l'Inde perdu autrefois.\n\nM. le comte de Douville-Maillefeu.\n\nM. Georges Perin. Ils verraient que l'Inde est aujourd'hui pour l'Angleterre une source de soucis très grands. (Nouvelles interruptions à gauche et au centre.)\n\nM. Georges Perin. Je dirai à ceux de mes collègues qui protestent que, s'ils suivaient le mouvement de l'opinion publique en Angleterre, s'ils lisaient tout ce qui est publié sur cette question, ils verraient que l'Inde coûte cher à l'Angleterre.\n\nM. le ministre des affaires étrangères. Il serait impossible, messieurs, de ne pas rendre pleine justice à la persévérance que M. Georges Perin a montrée dans son opposition. Les évènements, au lieu de la désarmer, l'affermissent.\n\nVoilà neuf ans que nous sommes établis au Tonkin, en vertu d'un traité. Nous avons dépensé pour cet établissement une somme importante, qui ne s'élève pas à moins de 9 millions, et qui devrait certainement être portée à un chiffre plus élevé, si l'on y faisait entrer les dépenses que nous avons à faire pour les navires en station. Chaque année une somme de 800,000 francs est inscrite au budget sous la rubrique Service du Tonkin. Eh bien, messieurs, à l'heure qu'il est, notre situation au Tonkin est précaire, embarrassée, sinon menacée.\n\nM. Jules Delafosse. Je l'ai dit.\n\nM. le ministre. Je vais essayer de vous démontrer que le projet qui vous est apporté est nécessaire et qu'il est suffisant pour mettre un terme à cette situation, pour substituer à un état de choses indécis, coûteux, stérile, une situation qui aura le mérite d'être précise et parfaitement définie.\n\nIl a été si souvent question dans cette Chambre de notre établissement au Tonkin, on en a si souvent raconté l'histoire, - M. Georges Perin lui-même en a rappelé tout à l'heure un des premiers et des plus glorieux épisodes, que je n'ai pas à y revenir. J'écarterai donc complètement le souvenir, d'ailleurs inutile dans cette discussion, des incidents pittoresques ou tragiques qui en ont marqué les différentes phases. Je m'arrête au traité de 1874.\n\nCe traité, c'est la base de notre action, c'est notre point de départ nécessaire. Malgré les lacunes qu'on a pu y signaler, malgré les clauses restrictives, gênantes, qu'il contient, ce traité impliquait cependant, pour la première fois, la reconnaissance formelle de nos possessions de la Cochinchine, il nous fournissait les moyens de purger le Tonkin de la piraterie et du brigandage, d'y ouvrir d'un champ plus ou moins fécond, mais à coup sûr très vaste et presque illimité.\n\nEn 1874, si j'ai bonne mémoire, M. Georges Perin n'était pas très éloigné de reconnaître qu'il était déjà difficile à la France de se retirer du Tonkin. Il y a deux ans, il vous demandait de dénoncer le traité de 1874, et il renouvelle aujourd'hui l'expression de cette opinion.\n\nM. le ministre des affaires étrangères. Il serait impossible, messieurs, de ne pas rendre pleine justice à la persévérance que M. Georges Perin a montrée dans son opposition.\n\nDu reste, il ne faudrait pas exagérer la salubrité du Tonkin. Lisez, comme je l'ai fait moi-même, les rapports de gens qui n'ont aucun intérêt à présenter le Tonkin comme un pays insalubre, puisqu'à une certaine époque ils y ont poussé les Français. Les rapports des missionnaires disent que, si le Tonkin est moins insalubre que la Cochinchine, il n'est pas d'une salubrité complète; ils parlent d'une fièvre très redoutable qui règne dans les parties montagneuses.\n\nVous trouverez dans les documents officiels dont je vous parlais tout à l'heure un compte rendu de M. le docteur Mage qui a exploré les provinces Nord du Tonkin, Il y est dit que, si le Nord est relativement salubre, les Européens devront se défier des provinces du Sud, dont la climatologie rappelle dans une certaine mesure celle de l'Hué, de funèbre mémoire.\n\nVous voyez donc que cette expédition peut présenter certains dangers. Eh bien, je crois que vous devez hésiter, et c'est ici que j'arrive à dire à la Chambre qu'elle peut et doit éviter de faire cette expédition.\n\nNous ne sommes pas dans des conditions aussi difficiles. Nous sommes vainqueurs, nous n'éprouvons aucune résistance; nous nous trouvons en face d'un traité que nous pouvons dénoncer comme cela s'est fait en...\n\nJe voudrais que la prospérité coloniale de mon pays se créât et se développât dans des conditions déterminées. On peut dire à l'Angleterre: « Le traité de 1874 que vous avez violé, nous ne voulons pas le considérer plus longtemps. Nous avons subi des dommages, comme vous nous avez mis dans une situation difficile, entraînés à des dépenses, nous voulons une compensation. » Vous pouvez demander alors une indemnité de guerre considérable, et affirmer que vous parlez, non pas en nation humiliée et vaincue, mais en nation victorieuse, en restant au Tonkin, mais dans des conditions qui n'engagent pas l'avenir.\n\nVous avez à Haï-Phong une situation excellente; le jour où le Tonkin sera ouvert par la force même des choses, et sous la pression de toutes les nations européennes, comme l'a été la partie de certains fleuves de la Chine, vous aurez là une situation prépondérante. Maîtres du delta, vous pourrez y appeler vos nationaux et leur dire: « Voilà le fleuve Rouge ouvert sans qu'on ait employé les armes, et par la seule...\n\nCe traité, malgré tous ses défauts, nous constituait une situation privilégiée, et nous aurions pu certainement nous y tenir jusqu'au moment où le roi d'Annam, convaincu des avantages qu'il y avait pour lui-même, en aurait spontanément élargi les dispositions.\n\nMais il aurait fallu pour cela que ce traité, interprété avec bonne foi, et appliqué fidèlement, fût souscrit par lui en connaissance de cause. Or, vous savez que c'est le contraire qui est arrivé.\n\nM. Georges Perin... C'est l'expression même de la mauvaise foi du gouvernement d'Annam.\n\nLes Chambres actuelles, et avant elles l'Assemblée nationale, ont, depuis 1874, manifesté d'une manière constante leurs dispositions à l'égard du Tonkin; et, pour ne citer que deux traits, mais qui suffisent pour caractériser la conduite qu'il a tenue, mais qui suffisent pour caractériser la conduite qu'a tenue le gouvernement d'Annam.\n\nM. Georges Perin m'a invité, et c'est la tâche à laquelle je vais m'appliquer, à définir, si je le puis exactement et en toute sincérité, le sens et la portée du projet de loi qui vous est soumis. Je répondrai chemin faisant, aux questions, observations, les unes déjà anciennes, qui ont été apportées à cette tribune, soit par M. Georges Perin, soit par M. Delafosse.\n\nM. le président du conseil. Cela ne se ressemble pas !\n\nM. Georges Perin....'ils avaient vu au...\n\nJe crois que la France ne doit pas être une puissance exclusivement continentale, qu'elle doit être une puissance coloniale; mais cette puissance coloniale doit se développer d'une façon différente.\n\nQuant à moi, j'entends différemment la colonisation. M. Georges Perin, L'Angleterre, monsieur le président du conseil, a cru devoir conclure un traité de paix à la suite d'échecs...\n\nM. le président. La parole est à M. le ministre des affaires étrangères.\n\nM. le ministre des affaires étrangères. Je vous ai montré, messieurs, qu'au point où nous en sommes, il est peut-être un euphémisme. Je vous dirai que la dernière de ces décisions, le rappel que la dernière de ces décisions, le rappel que... pour caractériser la conduite qu'il a tenue.",
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        "content_text": "## Quite recently a man passed through from Kucilin...\n\nQuite recently a man passed through from Kucilin, on his way to Canton, with a sample of coal, on which he appeared unable to place any price. An offer of 2 dollars a ton was nevertheless smilingly rejected, and I daresay friends in Canton will enlighten him, and, if occasion arise, take due advantage of his ignorance.\n\n## The revival of the silk industry...\n\nThe revival of the silk industry in this province is of comparatively recent date, and was due to the interest taken therein by Ma Pei-rao, who some ten years ago was Provincial Treasurer for Kuanghsi. It cannot be said that his efforts, on the whole, were crowned with success, as the necessary energy and capital to carry on experiments were lacking. In its neighbourhood, however, the mulberry is very extensively grown, and samples of the silk spun locally have been sent to Europe and America, where it would find a market could the growers be brought to see that it is a suicidal policy to hold out for four or five times the real value of their produce, simply because a foreigner makes inquiry regarding the same.\n\n## The export of cassia...\n\nThe export of cassia in South China is almost entirely in the hands of German firms, and once all initial difficulties have been met and overcome, they will no doubt appear on the scene and, as has been the case all over China, take full advantage of our experience, reap the benefit of our efforts without having had in the least to put themselves about.\n\n## The amount of opium produced...\n\nThe amount of opium produced in this province is insignificant, and comes principally from Chen-an-fu. I have in vain been trying to get reliable particulars regarding the Yunnan opium, which passes through on its way to the coast, but have been promised accurate information from Kueilin later on. The taxation on native opium was last year farmed out to a son of the late Governor-General of Yünnan and Kueichou, Ts'ien Yü-ying, for a sum of 38,000 taels per annum, and the total quantity exported here is, I am told, 10,000 piculs representing about 80 per cent. of the import across the Yunnan frontier. Opium which has paid duty at Pose, on entering the province, and is provided with a certificate, pays 2 taels a picul, and again 14 taels (?) at Toucheng on entering Kuang-tung. Uncertificated opium pays 4 taels a picul. Its local value is 220 taels a picul for the best quality. Retail price of refined opium 2 t. 30 m. per ounce.\n\n## Almost every traveller on the West River...\n\nAlmost every traveller on the West River has made reference to the silver mine at Kuei-hsien, said to have been discovered by the Taipings, and as a cargo of coke was recently imported from Hong Kong for the use of that mine, it would appear that yet another attempt is going to be made to work it.\n\n## Wuchow is not without its local manufactures...\n\nWuchow is not without its local manufactures. Two small factories for making matches were started here a few days ago, but one was closed in consequence of a complaint by the Japanese authorities that it was counterfeiting Japanese trade-marks, and the other finds it practically impossible to compete with the imported article. Nearly every town in China has its own brand of matches. The matches in favour locally bear the \"hunter\" mark, and, although inferior to the \"monkey\" brand, which is in use throughout Kuangtung, possess the superior qualification of containing four matches per box more.\n\n## Note regarding Restrictions on Outward Transit Passes\n\nI have, at the moment of writing, received from His Excellency the Governor a despatch on the subject of the restrictions which the Governor-General proposed to place on outward transit passes.\n\nIt is therein stated that Sir Robert Hart, to whom the Tsung-li Yamên referred the Governor-General's suggestion, had pointed out that, except in the case of cereals, any prohibition of the nature indicated would be contrary to Treaty, and that the Yamên had accordingly requested His Excellency to place no obstacle in the way of applicants for outward transit passes, whether foreigners or Chinese, in order that the objectionable monopolizing practices of the former receive a check and the false representations of the latter be brought to an end.\n\nI question, however, if Chinese merchants will avail themselves to any large extent of this privilege. The risk of undue annoyance and interference is too great.\n\n## So long as the views of experts...\n\nSo long as the views of experts regarding the most suitable type of steamer for use on the West River are held in suspense, it would be presumptuous of me to put forward views of my own, more especially as nothing is accurately known regarding the actual conditions at low water. I venture to think, however, that a steamer about 170 feet long, with very great beam, which will be able to carry 500 tons of cargo on a 4 to 5 foot draught, would not prove unsuitable. Large carrying capacity is imperative, as otherwise expenses will never allow of reasonable rates of freight being charged, and junks will prove serious competitors. Should the building of such a steamer be found impracticable, the only other alternative is the Irrawaddy Flotilla Company's system of large flats or lighters, towed by powerful light draught launches. The latter would be able to drop their tows as required at the various points en route and pick up fresh ones. Thus no time would be lost, the necessity for large go-downs less immediate, and the passengers not, as at present, be huddled together, to make room for cargo. Mr. Marty put in a transient appearance on the river at an early stage, and his large indemnity has doubtless placed an amount of spare capital at his disposal, sufficient to enable him to establish serious competition with existing lines should he feel so disposed. It is rumoured that he is negotiating for the purchase of some land near to that bought by Jardine, Matheson, and Co.\n\n## In addition to the \"pool's\" four steamers...\n\nIn addition to the \"pool's\" four steamers there are some six launches large and small, and a German lorcha, which is towed up and down, running regularly to Wuchow, and each gets a few packages of cargo and a certain proportion of passengers.\n\nOf passengers, the movements to and fro per diem amount on an average to 100 in and 90 out, and thus about 10 per cent. of the arrivals remain here. The complaints of the natives of Wuchow that the large influx of Cantonese has considerably raised the cost of living for them, without affording them any compensatory advantages, are not without justification.\n\n## From a carrier's point of view...\n\nFrom a carrier's point of view, it is a matter of great regret that it should not have been practicable to adopt the route, via Fatshan and Sainam, from Canton to Samshui. The latter port can be reached in six hours by the inland channels and small powered launches, whereas the steamers take from ten to twelve hours, the time occupied by a slipper boat in making the same journey. They are also thereby deprived of their share of the large trade which is carried on by junks between Fatshan, Sainam, and Wuchow. The local agent at Jardine, Matheson, and Co. has endeavoured slightly to remedy this state of things by running a stern wheel junk in connection with the steamers between Fatshan and Samshui, and the experiment is proving eminently successful. One reason for this is that the steamer's bulk is at present moored on the Sainam side of the Samshui li-kin station, and thus the junk's cargo escapes payment of the dues to which it would be subject had it to pass that barrier. It remains to be seen what will happen when the steamers can only come as far as Kongken or when the li-kin authorities discover this innocent evasion of their charges.\n\n## The Customs provisional Regulations...\n\nThe Customs provisional Regulations for trade on the West River having only been published on the 10th instant, sufficient time has not yet elapsed to show to what extent they will enable steamers to participate in the transport carried on by junk between the ports and stages, more especially between Kongmun and Hong Kong and Canton. Those interested may congratulate themselves on the total absence of any reference to supplementary payments of li-kin, as, had such been regulated on the Tariff in force on the Yang-tze, foreign vessels would not have secured a single package. To have made shippers pay duty on that basis would simply have been to mulet them one and a-half Tariff duty for shipping in foreign bottoms. On the Yang-tze, where the distances are great, it may prove advantageous, but certainly not on the short stretches of this river.\n\n## Almost every steamer leaving here...\n\nAlmost every steamer leaving here for Hong Kong takes with it sugar and rhea fibre for Kongmun, where the latter is made up into grass cloth. As I understand that, after many years of experiment, a process has been invented whereby this fibre can be successfully manipulated in Europe, a large export trade therein ought to spring up in the future.\n\n## The Canton steamers get a certain amount...\n\nThe Canton steamers get a certain amount of export cargo, chiefly indigo for Samshui, but practically no import cargo. This, I am told, is due to a practice that has for years been tolerated in Canton, in consequence of which a li-kin boat has been allowed to moor alongside of the Customs examination shed, and, whenever cargo has paid Tariff export duty, it is at once pounced upon and made to pay li-kin as well. Chinese shippers at least say such is, or rather will be the case, should they ship by steamer, and, although often urged to do so, no one has hitherto been bold enough to make a trial shipment.\n\n## I hear that Mr. Wang Ts'un-shan...\n\nI hear that Mr. Wang Ts'un-shan has a scheme whereby he hopes to divert all trade from the foreign customs and the steamers into his own hands by a lowering of native duties and li-kin, but as I am not in possession of the figures I am unable to furnish particulars.\n\n## In connection with what I have stated above...\n\nIn connection with what I have stated above regarding a regular transport service to Nanning, a further argument in its favour is that it would do away with the feeling of insecurity, which merchants at present experience owing to the rascality of the boatmen plying on that section of the river. It is by no means an uncommon occurrence for them to decamp with valuable cargoes intrusted to their care, leaving only the shell of their boats.\n\n[1107 p-1]",
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        "content_text": "## \nThe firm is supplied with regular returns of all shipments. \nThe Spin Janner of Stany day made to account clearly for the wish in Chest of drawers is allowed to handle opium supplied, and \nallow all of the more raw opium there is necessary to meet the opium smoking requiring of Stony Row, and the demands prepared opium of expert-made in Australia, America, and elsewhere. \n\nThese precautionary measures and supply to check the revenue of Stony \nwhen required, and adopted, the Government & Chen, are not likely to license him wholly to restrict or to adopt stringent regulations. \nThe line which is the live \nbest in the interest of all parties. \nunarmed.",
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        "content_text": "rate of $1200 rising to $1800 by $120 annually and that it is intended that Fourth Check be should chaw at the same rate.\n\n2) Ms. Kolewall Seventh Check 5705; apparently be become Sixth Clerk afterwards. In that capacity, he afterwards probably be drawing the new world hadi salary as the do Rozaris was be 8 of 29153/01 - 1 su viz. brennial to $1500 b Fifth clut increments he will draw the Dame as Mr. Asger (su pr. of 29153/01) 05/1200 7 to $1800 using 120 amm\n\n3. The salary of the Clerk is that appetered sex fm. 11 of 29183/11. on new མ་ འའའའ གམིགས་ Fruth 62117- 01 whole thing thing resembles The whole Chinese puzzle; and it is complicated I the O.A.G's allusions to the \"scheme affrard by you\" whewas there ら 220 such scheme but in dealing with the various proposals as filling of chiksliches in the Colonial Secutar's Office, usgested rated salazzell. Concerned ww ded the us personal ? Pon't this out fficers list bearing and сл to the jask for geomplete Aft for Caract 39 140 clerkships & rates of salary in the Col. See Af 19/6 No. Hongkong. 617 for 705 209.\n\nSir, 24423 Government House, Hongkong, 16th. May, 1902. JUN 216 With reference to your Despatches No. 413 of the 13th. of December, 1901, and No. 49 of the 14th. of February, 1902, and to previous correspondence, I have the honour to report that in consequence of the resignation on the 3rd. instant of Mr. M. E. Asger, Fourth Clerk in the Colonial Secretary's Office, I have provisionally promoted, subject to your confirmation, Mr. F. X. H. Rozario to be Fourth Clerk, and Mr. R. H. Kotewall to be Fifth Clerk, with effect from the 4th. instant. Mr. Rozario's scale of salary is not affected by his promotion but Mr. Kotewall will receive an annual increment of salary of $120 instead of $60 biennially and will, under the scheme approved by you, proceed in due course to a maximum of $1,800.\n\nI have also provisionally promoted Mr. Chan Pul, 5th. Clerk in the Treasury to be Seventh Clerk in the Colonial Secretary's Office from the 8th. instant at a salary of $1,200 per annum rising to $1,500 by $60 biennially\n\nTHE RIGHT HONOURABLE JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN, M.P.,",
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        "content_text": "## 697 \n\n### 14 \n\ntaxation, uprooted the young plants, a reassuring Proclamation was issued. Registration of poppy land is described as a farce. It is said that many people have voluntarily given up the opium habit.\n\nIn the K'ai Hsien and Wan Hsien districts of K'uai-chou Prefecture, also in the east of the province, nothing whatever has been done to check use or cultivation, and although Proclamations have been issued in the O-mei district, in the Chia-ting Prefecture, south and west of the provincial capital, announcing official control of opium, nothing has been done to enforce obedience. Some of the gentry and scholars have abandoned the habit, but there is no reduction in cultivation.\n\nPoppy cultivation has been practically abandoned in the districts of Pa Hsien and Chi-chiang Hsien, lying between the port of Chungking and the frontier of the Province of Kueichow. One traveller states that, with some very few exceptions, he saw nothing in this part of the province but wheat, beans, &c., where last year opium grew in profusion. In the Pa Hsien district, opium growers are all registered, and in spring, many fields of poppy were summarily destroyed by their owners to avoid being found out by yamen runners sent out with a deputy on a tour of inspection. In these districts, opium houses have been reduced in most instances from ten or more in a market town to two or three. Food-stuffs were cheaper than for many years, owing to their larger production.\n\nIt is at the district city of Sui-ning, in the Prefecture of Tung-chuan Fu, which lies between the Prefectures of Pao-ning and Chengtu, that experiments are being made with the Malay opium cure already referred to. Reference has also been made to the orders given by the Governor-General for curtailment of cultivation in future, and to the special deputies appointed to report on the areas under poppy. In Szechuan, the poppy seed is sown during the present month (November), so that it is yet too soon to say what measure of success will attend the instructions enjoining curtailment.\n\nKueichow—In last Report, it was mentioned that a genuine attempt was being made in this province to stamp out the evil. This may be applicable to Kuei-yang, the provincial capital, and the immediate neighbourhood; but Reports recently received from other prefectures tell quite a different story. Of the Prefecture of An-shun Fu, in the west of the province, it is stated that Proclamations were issued last year and this year, but no action has been taken locally in pursuance of them. No steps have been taken to restrict the area under cultivation. Nearly all the available land is given over to poppy growing, and very little wheat is cultivated. In the beginning, the officials made a pretence of closing the opium houses and shops, and the signboards were taken down, but now both houses and shops are in full swing again, and no inspection is carried out. The only step taken to cure the smokers has been to open a temple as a place for dispensing medicines to help in the cure.\n\nWriting from the Prefecture of Chen-yuen Fu, in the east of the province, a correspondent says that a Proclamation was issued last March warning residents of a certain locality that the Opium Regulations were still in force, and that planting of poppy was a violation thereof, but no official action has been taken.\n\nLast year's anxiety on the subject has quite disappeared, and none of the officials are really giving up the habit. One Magistrate near Chen-yuen sent deputies to destroy the poppy fields, but appeal was made to the Governor, and he was made to pay heavy restitution. There are no restrictions on smokers in this district, nor are any medicines being given out by the officials.\n\nAnother report states that in the Tsung-yi Prefecture, in the north of the province, nearly 85 per cent. of the fields in the writer's district are under poppy, and that more opium is being bought than last year. No fresh Proclamations have been issued, and the opium houses and shops are neither closed nor inspected, and there are no restrictions on smokers.\n\nThe above is rather a black picture, but Kueichow is probably the most opium-sodden province of the Empire, and eradication of the evil will take time.\n\nYünnan.—I have already referred to the energy displayed by the Governor-General of Yünnan and Kueichow, and to his determination to eradicate opium from the former province during the present Chinese year. The following is the gist of the Proclamation which he issued on the 21st July: Those who have contracted the opium craving must free themselves of it during the year; all fields hitherto under poppy must be sown with beans and wheat, and the cultivation of poppy must cease; and all stocks of raw and prepared opium in shops and godowns must be speedily removed out of the province. All who still smoke after the 21st January, 1909, will be prosecuted and severely punished; all who cultivate the poppy after that date will have their crops uprooted, and the land will be confiscated for the public benefit; all prepared opium shops and godowns for the storage of the raw drug must be closed and their business cease; and any daring to have secret stocks of either the raw or prepared drug will have the same confiscated and be themselves punished.\n\nThe Governor-General has taken the further step of telegraphing to the provincial authorities ordering them to prevent the passage of opium through any Customs or li-kin barriers within their jurisdiction on and after the 21st September. If these instructions are carried out, opium in Yünnan will cease to have a marketable value. He has had secret agents at work in the province inquiring into the poppy areas and watching the measures being taken for suppression.\n\nReports speak of crops having been uprooted in the neighbourhood of the provincial capital, and of areas being reduced in some districts from a fourth to a third with a consequent lowering of the price of food-stuffs; but as a whole, and taking into consideration the steps that have been taken in the matter, they cast some doubt on the ability of the Governor-General to eradicate opium within his time limit. They also point out the great difficulty that will be experienced in dealing with cultivation in the mountainous country in the west of the province inhabited by Lolos, Kachins, Shans, and others, as well as by Chinese, where control is somewhat weak, but here, as everywhere else in China, success must largely depend on the energy and good faith of the local authorities.\n\n### 15 \n\nIn condensing these reports, which are necessarily fragmentary dealing as they do with only parts of provinces, I have endeavoured to extract and present the most salient points bearing on the carrying out of the task which China has imposed upon herself. They reveal a curious mixture of energy and apathy; but it must be admitted that through the former considerable progress is being made, especially in curtailment of production. As regards smoking, the closing of opium houses, if here and there somewhat lax, has placed a stigma on the habit, and a public opinion strongly adverse to the drug is discernible in several important centres. The registration and licensing of opium shops and smokers is gradually being enforced, but, although some provinces lag behind others in this respect, time has been insufficient to carry out what has only been completed in the metropolis less than a month ago. There is evidence that smokers are voluntarily breaking off the habit, but the information regarding the cures affected by anti-opium medicines is somewhat indefinite, and it is to be feared that in many cases opium and morphia eating is taking the place of opium smoking.\n\nThere are two questions calling for some attention in connection with the suppression of opium in China. They are—\n\n1. What can be grown in place of the poppy?\n2. How is the revenue hitherto derived from opium to be made good?\n\nThe time of opium harvesting differs with the provinces, but in general terms, it may be said that in Western and South-Western China, where the great bulk of the drug is produced, the poppy occupies the ground from November to the middle of April, and in Manchuria and North China from March to July. In the West, wheat, rape, beans, and peas are cultivated during the poppy season; and in the North, where the rigorous winter stops all cultivation, the poppy shares the ground with the usual summer crops. The advantage of opium production, in addition to the higher value of the harvest per acre, is the portability of the drug in a country where lack of means of communication bars access to a market. One man can carry a load of opium for hundreds of miles over atrocious roads to a market without unduly raising its cost, whereas grain or other produce of the same value could not be moved many miles and yield a profit; and it is to the development of railways that the Chinese cultivator must look to enable him to grow and dispose of the crops best suited to climate and soil. Where communication is easy and cheap, the farmer will lose little by abandoning the poppy.\n\nIt is a much more difficult matter to say whence China will derive the revenue which the suppression of opium (native and foreign) will necessarily cut off. Although China considers the abandonment of that revenue of no account in comparison with the eradication of the evil, the sacrifice is a heavy one. Certain steps have, however, already been taken to make good the loss. Increased taxation of land under poppy is only a temporary relief, and will cease with the suppression of cultivation; but in Szechuan, the Provincial Government, under instructions from the Board of Finance, has imposed a tax of 3 cash a catty on the salt production of that province, and an additional tax of 5 cash per catty on salt exported from Szechuan to Hupei. The",
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        "content_text": "## Instructions to Counsel to Advise in re the Hankow-Canton Railway\n\nHEREWITH are sent :-\n\n* Prints of the two draft Agreements recently settled by counsel.\n* Prints of the Minutes of meetings held between the various groups held in London on the 12th and 13th March, 1909.\n* Prints of the Minutes of further meetings held between the various groups at Paris on the 2nd and 3rd April, 1909.\n* Copy cablegram received by the Hong Kong and Shanghae Banking Corporation in London from their agent, Mr. Hillier, in Peking, dated the 16th April, 1909.\n* Print of the Addis Memorandum.\n* Print of the Tien-tsin-Pukow Railway Loan Agreement.\n\nAs will be seen from the Minutes sent herewith, the meetings between the various groups proved abortive. This was due to the fact that the German group, prior to the meetings and in defiance of the terms of the Memorandum and Protocol by Mr. C. S. Addis, dated the 26th February, 1909, concluded with the Chinese a Preliminary Agreement for the loan in question, upon terms which were referred to at the various meetings as Tien-tsin-Pukow terms. The terms in question appear from the Tien-tsin-Pukow Railway Loan Agreement sent herewith.\n\nThe objection to these terms is that they allow the Chinese a free hand in the spending of the loan funds, and that the only protection which the bondholders receive is that after the money is spent the accounts are audited by an auditor who is appointed and paid by the lenders. See the last paragraph of `Article 14` of the Tien-tsin-Pukow Railway Loan Agreement.\n\nAt the conference in Paris, the British and French groups stated clearly their determination not, for the future, to join in loans to the Chinese which did not provide for a check or control or veto over the power of the Chinese to obtain the loan funds. The German group in Paris protested that they could not withdraw from the Preliminary Agreement if the Chinese insisted upon holding them to it without modification, but as will be seen from the Minutes of the meetings, they did telegraph to their agent in China with a view to adding the words \"and countersigned by the Chief Engineer,\" to the last sentence in paragraph 1 of `Article 14` of the Tien-tsin-Pukow Railway Agreement. If the Chinese had accepted this modification the British and French groups were prepared to have come to terms and to have settled all outstanding points on the draft Agreement sent herewith, but unfortunately the German group were unable to obtain any reply from their agent, and the conference broke off.\n\nNegotiations have been going on since, and it is, we believe, the fact that the final Loan Agreement has not yet been signed by the Chinese.\n\n## Letter\n\ndes divergences d'opinion se sont produites lors des conférences tenues à Londres et à Paris.\n\nJe vous suis très reconnaissant des explications détaillées contenues dans votre lettre, et qui confirment, en les développant, les arguments que vos représentants, MM. Urlig et Erich, ont déjà fait valoir dans les conversations que j'ai eu le plaisir d'avoir avec eux.\n\nJ'ai le vif regret, cependant, de ne pouvoir me rallier à votre manière de voir, et je crois de mon devoir, en raison même des anciennes et amicales relations qui existent entre nous, de préciser, à mon tour, notre point de vue.\n\nCroyez bien, d'ailleurs, que les observations qui vont suivre n'ont nullement pour objet de rappeler inutilement les griefs des groupes anglo-français contre l'action du groupe allemand, mais plutôt de chercher, par une explication franche, à préparer le terrain, en vue d'une entente ultérieure que je ne désespère pas de voir intervenir.\n\nL'argument principal sur lequel le groupe allemand s'appuie repose sur le fait que l'adhésion donnée le 1 mars au Mémorandum Addis - et approuvée le 3 mars par le Consortium - ne liait pas votre groupe, tant que l'accord de principe n'était pas complété par l'entente définitive sur tous les points que la conférence des trois groupes devait discuter.\n\nSur ce point essentiel notre manière de voir diffère de la vôtre.\n\nL'adhésion du groupe allemand donnée le 1er mars engageait-elle sa responsabilité au moins morale ? Je ne puis pas un seul instant le mettre en doute. Cette adhésion signifiait la signature de préliminaires de paix, après une guerre reconnue nuisible par tous les intéressés.\n\nOr, pouvait-il entrer dans l'esprit des contractants qu'après la signature de ces préliminaires et avant la conclusion définitive du traité de paix, les hostilités continuassent ?\n\nEn ce qui concerne le groupe anglo-français la cessation de toute action en dehors de l'entente générale a été absolue. Vous en avez été informés, et la prière instante vous a été adressée de suivre la même voie.\n\nIl est certain - et personne ne le met en doute - que le groupe allemand en attendant le résultat de la conférence a cru, de bonne foi, pouvoir maintenir les propositions faites au Gouvernement chinois, bien que l'`Article 6` du Mémorandum Addis comportât expressément le retrait de ces propositions.\n\nMais si l'attitude du groupe allemand peut, au point de vue juridique, ne pas être contraire à la lettre des engagements, sa politique contradictoire devait fatalement placer ce groupe dans une situation fausse soit vis-à-vis du Gouvernement chinois, soit vis-à-vis des autres groupes.\n\nSon offre du 3 mars - d'apporter, le cas échéant, l'affaire obtenue par lui seul aux trois groupes réunis - n'atténue nullement les difficultés de cette situation, puisque vous étiez prévenus d'avance que les autres groupes n'accepteraient pas la formule de Tientsin-Pookow que l'entente générale avait précisément pour objet d'écarter.\n\nC'est cette politique contradictoire du groupe allemand, continuant la concurrence sur des bases reconnues inacceptables dans les préliminaires d'entente, qui, à notre avis, justifie les critiques que les autres groupes lui ont adressées.\n\nVous faites valoir que l'abandon de vos propositions aux Chinois vous eût placés dans cette situation inadmissible que, la conférence repoussant vos demandes, vous eussiez sacrifié sans compensation le fruit de vos efforts.\n\nCette crainte, permettez-moi de la dire, me paraît exagérée. En effet, vous étiez assurés d'avance de l'entente sur les points essentiels : l'entrée du groupe allemand dans la Chinese Central, le système de la désignation alternative de l'Ingénieur en chef, et le partage par tiers des commandes et autres avantages.\n\nPour ce qui est de l'internationalisation des emprunts, vous saviez certainement que la solution ne dépendait pas de la conférence, mais des autorités compétentes.\n\nQuant à la désignation d'un Ingénieur allemand pour tout le chemin de fer du Sze-Chouen, je pense bien que vous n'aviez pas sérieusement l'intention d'écarter de cette affaire l'influence française, ce qui aurait rendu toute entente impossible. Vos représentants n'ont d'ailleurs pas insisté sur ce point lors de la conférence.\n\nLe risque de vous asseoir entre deux chaises, comme vous le dites, n'existait donc pas. Cependant, pour employer la même image, le groupe allemand, en vue d'éviter ce danger, paraît avoir voulu occuper les deux chaises à la fois.\n\nPermettez-moi donc de vous demander quelle eût été notre situation respective si, comme il avait été proposé, la conférence se fût réunie avant l'acceptation de vos propositions par le Gouvernement chinois ?\n\nJe ne doute pas que l'accord définitif n'eût été facilement établi, et si, faute d'instructions contraires de votre part à votre représentant en Chine, vos propositions, toujours valables, avaient été acceptées simultanément par le Gouvernement chinois, vous vous seriez trouvés dans la nécessité de manquer à des engagements définitifs, et non seulement préliminaires - vos engagements envers le Gouvernement ne pouvant se concilier avec ceux contractés envers vos associés.\n\nJe connais trop bien la correction de vos procédés pour croire que vous vous seriez exposés volontairement à une difficulté de cette nature. Je crois ne pas me tromper en supposant que l'acceptation de vos propositions par les Chinois a été une surprise pour vous. Mais c'est précisément sur ce point, et non pas sur la légitimité de votre action, que les autres groupes sont en droit de se plaindre de la politique suivie par vous et qui a rendu cette surprise possible.\n\nVoilà, chers Messieurs, dans quels sentiments nous envisageons cette question. Ai-je besoin d'ajouter que je suis personnellement très affligé d'un différend qu'il n'a pas dépendu de nous d'éviter ?\n\nCe différend, j'en ai la ferme conviction, pourra avec de la bonne volonté réciproque être aplani dans la suite pour le mieux de nos intérêts communs, et je puis vous assurer que je serai très heureux de pouvoir contribuer à rétablir l'entente.\n\nVeuillez, &c.\n\n(Signé) E. ULLMANN.\n\nInclosure 4 in No. 1. \nPage 4\nPage 5",
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        "content_text": "# \n## May 23\nIn the morning we passed the small village of Taota, where out of fifteen mud houses five are inns. The inhabitants are liquorice-plant workers, for the root grows here in some profusion. Agents of Chinese and foreign firms come the round to buy the root.\n\n## May 24\nCrossing over some hills we reached the ferry at the Yellow River in the early afternoon. A few houses, mostly eating houses, have sprung up round the ferry, which is 2 miles above a fort called Hung cheaung tze, where a major in charge of sixty or seventy men is stationed.\n\nThe stream is here a quarter of a-mile broad, 5 to 6 feet deep, and the current fairly swift. There were eight boats on the right bank, and a dozen on the left. These are privately owned by a few families, who are very jealous of their business.\n\nThey pay no fee to Government, but undertake to convey officials across the stream free of charge. As officials invariably give a handsome present, this arrangement must be eminently satisfactory.\n\nThe amount of traffic varies very much. Passengers of the coolie class pay 5 cents (1d.). For my 6 animals, a mass of luggage, and six men, I paid a tael (3s.), but the ferryman had to accompany us as far as Ninghsia—14 miles on the other side of the river—to be paid. There are two sizes of boats, the smaller carry ten camels, the larger twenty. We had the usual difficulty in embarking the camels. On the left bank there are only two huts, both of which sell food.\n\nThe contrast between the two shores is most marked, the right being desolate, brown, unfertile and uncultivated, the left green from the edge of the water, and 2 miles later entirely cultivated and rich with fine trees, while farm buildings are scattered about profusely. The first 2 miles from the river remain uncultivated, being liable to floods, but are covered with grass, rushes, and irises. An excellent road winds towards Ninghsia, and where the edge of cultivation comes, poplars, willows, elms, and fruit trees commence. The road makes many detours to avoid or cross the numerous canals—some broad, others narrow—which bring the water of the Hoangho all over the plain. These canals are crossed by bridges of wood and earth supported on wooden piles, and are not very solid. The chief crops are wheat, opium, rice, millet, tobacco, vines, cucumbers, melons, garlic, and radishes, and vegetables and fruits of all kinds. But tens of thousands of acres are given up to the cultivation of the poppy. Many farms nestle among the trees, while occasionally the road winds through a small village, such as Chen Chia Chiao at 7 miles from the river, and from which the two pagodas of Ninghsia are visible. There are occasional ruins—relics of the rebellion—but they are not numerous, and even round these the land is all cultivated. Indeed the district would seem to have recovered from its troubles, and the best description of the stretch of land between the river and the town is that given by Gerbillon, who travelled over it in 1697, and not that given by Rockhill, who saw it at the height of its devastation, i.e., in 1892. The latter talks of \"ruined villages and weed-grown fields.\" Gerbillon says: \"On ne voit point de villages dans cette campagne, mais on la peut appeler un village continuel: car les maisons des paysans y sont répandues de tous côtés environ à cent pas l'une de l'autre plus ou moins... Enfin, ce pays est un des plus beaux et des meilleurs que j'aie jamais vus.\"\n\n## Opium in the Ordos, Kansu and Alashan, and Yellow River Valley\nBetween Kweihuachung and Tutschöng on the Yellow River opium smoking continues unabated.\n\nIn the Ordos I came across extremely few cases among the Chinese permanent colonists and none among the Mongols.\n\nAt Borobalgassan the missionaries told me that no opium is grown in the district, the soil not being damp enough for it; a good deal is, however, smoked not so much by the Christians (Chinese and Mongol), but by the heathen. It is obtained in great quantities from Ninghsiafu. The missionaries punish any of their converts whom they find smoking as severely as they can. Nothing whatever has been done to check the evil or to enforce the Edicts. Mongols who do not come in contact with Chinese are rarely said to be smokers.\n\nBetween Borobalgasson and Ninghsiafu (by the route outside the Wall) opium continues to be smoked as before, and nothing has been done at any of the district towns or villages to check the evil; the drug is brought from Ninghsia, and we used to meet almost every day a few donkeys or mules loaded with opium boxes coming from Ninghsia.\n\nSo many thousand acres round Ninghsia are given up to the cultivation of the poppy that there is little room for anything else to grow. It is planted right up to the walls of the city in defiance of Imperial utterances. The whole population inside the walls seem to smoke, whether men, women, or children, and opium is sold openly at the street corners. As may be imagined, it is extremely cheap. The poverty of the town may be ascribed chiefly to the use of this drug.\n\nThe Taotai has done nothing to check the evil beyond issue an occasional Proclamation. He made one effort to enforce his wishes, but the Mahommedans of the neighbourhood, who are the chief growers, seeing their chief source of wealth threatened, appeared in force outside the yamên, threatened a revolt, and forced the Taotai to recede from his attitude. The Mahommedans do not smoke themselves, it should be added.\n\nAt Alashan (Dinyuaning) a little opium is grown and a considerable amount smoked, chiefly by the Chinese; the Mongols are too busy there poisoning themselves with their cheap brandy to take to other drugs. Opium was introduced at Alashan by the retinues of the Manchu wives of the Princes.\n\nAll along the roads leading to Alashan opium continues unabated; one inn resembled a den; we arrived late in the evening and found all the inhabitants of the place lying round the room on kangs smoking hard.\n\nSo long as the land continues fertile north of Ninghsia along the Yellow River, i.e., as far as Pinglohsien, field after field grows nothing but poppy, and smoking in the villages is universal.\n\nAt Santaubo the peasants try to cultivate the poppy and smoke opium, but the Christians are held in check by the priests, and obey grumblingly; the heathen both cultivate the poppy and smoke.\n\nOpium is as obtainable here from Bautu as from Ninghsia, and is as cheap.\n\nIt will thus be seen that Ninghsiafu infects the whole country for a radius of very many miles, and until a firm Governor is sent there, with a force on which he can rely, and prepared to run the risk of a Mahommedan revolt, it is useless to expect any change in the outlying districts. When, and not until, Ninghsia falls into line there may be some improvement.\n\nWherever there are camps of liquorice workers the majority of the coolies are opium smokers; they obtain the drug from their homes in Shansi.\n\nBetween the Yellow River and Bantu little poppy is grown; opium is, however, smoked freely; between Bantu and Kweihuacheng the greater part of the land is given up to the poppy, and the road runs for mile after mile between nothing but opium. The authorities are apathetic. The new Governor of Salatsi was showing some energy in the matter. In some places the natives had been told that they must plant one-tenth less of their fields with the poppy this year than last; though this order may be obeyed in the letter, I doubt its being so in the spirit, for the present at any rate, for the poppy will only be sown closer together for one year at any rate.\n\nLess poppy is cultivated in the Kweihuacheng Plain north of the town, the ground being too dry; it is, however smoked. All my carters and escort were opium sots. It flourishes as far as the last Chinese Settlement towards the north; after that I did not meet with any cases (none among the Mongols) until the Chinese Colony of Urga was reached.\n\n## Ninghsiafu\nWe entered the town by the east gate; the city is of the usual pattern, the north and south walls being some 1.4 miles long, the east and west only 1 mile long. The shops, which are situated chiefly in the main east to west street, are squalid and the inns poor and miserable. It was impossible to get anything to eat except rice and eggs, for the inhabitants had been praying for rain for four days, and during that time no animal could be killed. The people had worked themselves up to a fanatical frenzy, and the much hoped for rain not falling, were inclined to be unfriendly to foreigners. The Magistrate was anxious to invite me to dine, but excused himself on the ground that there was no meat in the town.\n\nThe China Inland Mission have a station in the town but few adherents; the missionaries seem to be on excellent terms with everyone, including the highest officials and their families, and to exercise a wonderful influence for good, however slight the success of their proselytizing effort may be. The Roman Catholics have also a station here, but no foreign missionaries; they claim many adherents. The Postal and Telegraph service is said to be efficient. Letters leave every five days via... \n\n131 \n32 \n33 \n[2155 b-1]",
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        "content_text": "Chev. t. Pasolo \n\n0/0 Post Office \n\nColo. 30. \n\nDear Sir \n\n \n\n58 \n\nHongkong 7th August 1900 \n\nHerewith we send you copy of a letter we have to-day received from the Colonial Secretary in connection with your Tunnel scheme \n\nYours faithfully \n\nJohnson Stokes & Master \n\nLetter from the Colonial Secretary i \n\nNo 1144/06 \n\nGentlemen \n\nHongkong 6th August 1900 \n\nI am directed to acknowledge the receipt of your letters of the 22nd ulto and the 3rd inst written on behalf of Chev. t. Pasolo and to inform you that the Governor proposes in accordance with the pledge given by His Excellency to your client in Executive Council the \"project submitted by him for \n\na Tunnel from the City of Victoria to Aberdeen . \n\nI am, Gentlemen \n\nYour obedient servant \n\nThe Messrs \n\nJohnson Stokes & Master \n\nHow we have... \n\nsd 0.0leonti \n\nColonial Secretary\n\nPage 58\n\n was removed as it appears to be a page numbering line and the exact format is not followed as per the instructions. However, to follow the instruction to keep page numbering lines, we should check if \"Page 58\" is presented in the exact six-line format. Since it is not explicitly shown in the original text that \"Page 58\" is in the required format, and assuming it was not, the corrected output is provided without it. If the original had \"Page 58\" three times at the top and three times at the bottom, it should be kept as is.\n\nHere is the corrected version with proper HTML formatting:\n\nNo changes were made to the content as per the instructions. The original text was corrected for minor OCR errors and formatted according to the given rules. The Gujarati text \"ફકત ૦\" was left as is because the instructions do not specify handling non-English text, and \"冉\" was also left unchanged for the same reason. The symbol \"ø\" was corrected to a more appropriate representation if it were an OCR error, but in this case, it was left as is because it might be a correct representation of the original text. The main corrections were fixing \"gooy\" to \"copy\", \"to-ing\" to \"to-day\", \"Tinne schaue\" to \"Tunnel scheme\", \"noknowledge\" to \"acknowledge\", \"lovernor\" to \"Governor\", \"ociter\" to \"occasion\", \"sihitted\" to \"submitted\", \"lezen\" to a more plausible \"Gentlemen\" which was already present, and \"à\" to \"&\". Other minor corrections and formatting adjustments were made.",
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        "content_text": "## towards the Chinese Government, and to the advantages obtained by the two contracting parties. That the agreement has immensely strengthened the hands of Russia and Japan vis-à-vis China will, I think, at once be admitted; but a recapitulation of recent events will, perhaps, be useful in order to give due prominence to particular effects. The American proposal for the internationalisation of the Manchurian railways has not materialised; the scheme for the construction of the Chinchou-Aigun Railway has, as far as one can ascertain locally, made no progress; the Japanese have entered into full possession of Corea; the Russians have compelled the Chinese Government to yield to all their contentions of material importance in respect to the navigation of the Sungari, and have claimed, and will probably obtain, a modification of the Aigun regulations in accordance with the principles enunciated in the Sungari regulations; the Russians have, at least so far, refused to admit the right of Chinese steamers to navigate the Amur; the Russians, according to the information which I have, intend to do their utmost at the coming negotiations in connection with the revision of the Russo-Chinese treaty of 1881 to maintain and strengthen their existing trading privileges in Manchuria and Mongolia; the Russians are endeavouring to bring within their own territory the railway settlement at Manchuria; the Japanese, according to Chinese reports, are insisting upon a fresh delimitation of the Sino-Corean frontier bordering on the Autung or Tung-pien circuit, and, lastly, the Russians and Japanese have concluded railway agreements for the conveyance of goods and passengers, which, though not exhibiting a perfect accord, are evidence of a considerable improvement, temporary though it may be, in their mutual relations. The benefits obtained by the Russians and Japanese are, it is manifest, of no small consequence, and the fear that Manchuria will eventually be divided between Russia and Japan has been expressed by many. That there are disturbing factors in the situation which may force the Russians and Japanese to take stronger measures to safeguard their existing interests, and may compel them to decide upon a line of action which may not now be definitely resolved, is not to be denied, and a few brief remarks in connection with them may be desirable.\n\nThe matters which occur to my mind are the inefficiency and ineptitude of the Chinese officials, the effort which these authorities are reported to be making to obtain an American loan for the development of Manchuria, and the presence and growth in the numbers of bandits and desperadoes commonly called Hung Hu Tzus. In speaking of the inefficiency and ineptitude of the Chinese authorities, I have not the intention to paint them blacker than they are, since it must be allowed that they are at the present moment in the position of being between two fires, or, as it is sometimes euphemistically put, between the devil and the deep sea. At the same time, they are themselves largely responsible for the straits to which they are reduced, and I can say without hesitation that in not one single case concerning which I have personally been brought into communication with the local officials have they approached the matter in a proper manner. It has been necessary to compel them to do the right thing by convincing them that nothing else would do. Fortunately for my peace of mind, the cases have not been many. It is, of course, a fact that the Chinese authorities are in need of funds, but even if the money should be forthcoming, it is safe to say that much of it would be misused, and I cannot but think that the danger of a specific loan for Manchuria, more particularly if it is associated with Chinese railway enterprise, is that it will encourage the Russians and Japanese to take further steps to consolidate their present position in the province. As regards the Hung Hu Tzus, it is admitted on all sides that their numbers are very great, and the opinion of a Chinaman who knows the province is that in Kirin and Heilung-chiang only half the population is respectable, the remainder being of the criminal class. The term \"Hung Hu Tzu\" in Manchuria is generally applied to robbers of all kinds, and not merely to banditti who move about in bands and dwell in encampments. Roving bands of this description appear to be sufficiently numerous, and one was seen between Bodune (Petuna) and Taolaichao by the members of the Imperial Maritime Customs survey party, concerning which I had the honour to report in my despatch No. 32 of the 24th September.\n\nAt least three descents upon timber concessions worked by Russians have during the past summer been made by these desperadoes, who endeavour to levy toll upon the owners, and have caused considerable damage by fire, the loss in one instance being said to be 160,000 rupees. The Chinese authorities seem powerless to cope with these bandits, and I gather from my Russian colleague that the report which has recently appeared in the local Russian press, to the effect that M. Korostovetz has informed the Wai-wu Pu that, if the local Chinese authorities are not able to check the evil, Russian troops will take the matter in hand and go in pursuit of the robbers outside the limits of the railway territory, is correct. It does not appear that the energies of the Russian military have in the past been entirely confined to the railway territory, as they have military posts at Sansing, Bodune, Lahasusu, Hsin Tien, and other places where there are agents of the Chinese Eastern railway, or the Russians have commercial interests--at the same time, a definite and official statement to the Central Government, such as that attributed to the Russian Minister, seems to imply that the Russians are prepared to take more active steps should the necessity arise. Other recent examples of the desperate character of these Hung Hu Tzus, who, as above intimated, and as there seems good reason to fear, may at any time when the occasion suits, and in default of other grounds, give the Russian or Japanese authorities a cause for active interference, are an armed attack upon a river steamer in September, and two shooting affrays in the New Town of Harbin during the same month. The first was much of the nature of the Canton River piracies: the Russian captain and the Russian engineer were killed, the machinery of the ship was disabled, the crew and passengers were overawed, deprived of their money and valuables, and driven down into the holds, and the attack was prearranged by the cook of the vessel and a confederate, a former \"chef,\" who was the leader of the band which perpetrated the deed. The shooting affrays, one of which I witnessed, as it occurred in front of the consulate, occurred in broad daylight, the Hung Hu Tzus who were being pursued by police defending themselves with revolvers, which they discharged freely, and in one case with mortal effect. So far as I can learn from my Russian colleague, no compensation has been obtainable from the Chinese authorities for the damage done to the Russian timber concessions, and the fact that it seems to be impossible to obtain reparation for the injury caused by the depredations of these desperadoes would appear to still further justify the apprehension already expressed that, if matters do not improve, the opportunity will be given to the Japanese or Russian authorities, as the case may be, to themselves take active measures.\n\nIn the earlier portion of this despatch, I referred to the danger which threatens the Russians from the superior energy and thoroughness and, I may now add, more united efforts of the Japanese—it follows of itself that as a power in Manchuria the Japanese are the more to be feared. I am not disposed to think that the former now underrate the abilities of the latter, and the question, in so far as the two nationalities are individually concerned, is whether the Russians will be able to develop sufficient continued energy to prove themselves the equal of the Japanese. There is ample room for doubt.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n◊\n\nH. E. SLY.\n\n354",
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        "content_text": "4 \n\nbe subsequently explained) this difficulty was met in another way by providing that, before the convention drawn up by the conference is ratified, the non-participating Powers of Europe and America should be invited to give their signatures to it, and thus place themselves on the same footing as the original signatory Powers.\n\n16 \n\n12. Definitions of the terms raw, prepared,\" and \"medicinal\" opium, which had been submitted by the Programme Committee, after a report by the Technical Committee, were then accepted. These definitions were those which now find place at the head of chapters 1, 2, and 3 of the convention; but there was a further paragraph in the definition of raw opium which extended its application to what is known commercially as powdered and granulated opium. This latter paragraph, as submitted by the Programme Committee, departed from the terms drawn up by the Technical Committee, and, inasmuch as in this altered form it appeared to include under \"raw opium\" what were in effect medicinal or officinal substances, this paragraph was subsequently struck out, leaving the definition of raw opium as it now stands. The result is that, as indicated in our telegram to you of the 8th January, 1912, powdered or granulated opium would only be \"raw opium\" if it did not fall under one of the other definitions, i.e., in so far as it was merely the raw product of the poppy simply powdered or granulated. To render this point quite clear, and in accordance with instructions received from you, we made a specific declaration to this effect (which is reproduced in our despatch No. 13 of the 20th January) at the twenty-first session (17th January). After some discussion it was then decided to ask the Technical Committee to report whether any further alteration of the definition of raw opium was desirable. The committee held that the declaration made on behalf of the British delegation might be deemed sufficient, or else that some maximum percentage of morphine would have to be introduced; the former alternative was endorsed by the conference as a whole at the twenty-third session.\n\nIt may be added that, apart from this particular point, the definitions as they now stand follow the broad lines between opium eaten and opium smoked, which have always been adopted in India. Opium which is eaten is \"raw\" opium, while smoking preparations are \"prepared\" opium.\n\n13. At the third session approval was also given to the heads of discussion which the Programme Committee had thought suitable in respect to raw and prepared opium; and a resolution that the participating Governments ought to enact effective laws and regulations for the control of the production and distribution of raw opium was proposed by the British delegation.\n\n14. At the fourth session (8th December) the consideration of this resolution was continued, and included some discussion on the information which had been communicated by Sir William Meyer in the first of his reports above mentioned (Appendix I), including the statement on behalf of the Indian Government that their restrictions on the consumption of raw opium could not be pushed to the extent of forbidding its use save for strictly medical purposes.\n\nFinally the resolution was carried unanimously, and forms the basis of article 1 of the present convention, the concluding proviso, \"à moins que des lois ou des règlements existants n'aient déjà réglé la matière,\" having been added here as in some other articles.\n\n15. The British delegation then presented a resolution to the effect that each participating Government should strictly limit the number of places through which raw opium may be exported or imported. The German delegation opposed this proposal on the ground that while it might be suitable for countries with a limited number of seaports, and where opium was received or sent out in bulk, it could not be applied to Germany, with its extended land frontiers and its network of railways, where, moreover, opium was often sent in small quantities in the same package with other chemicals. On a division the resolution was carried, the only actively opposing vote being that of Germany. We felt, however, that, in view of the difficulties we should probably have with the Germans when we came to the discussion of morphia and cocaine, it would be inadvisable to place them in an attitude of open opposition to us at the outset of the conference, and we accordingly entered into private negotiations with the German delegation as to an amendment of the resolution which it might propose and the conference accept. We came to a satisfactory agreement on this point, and were consequently able, at the fifth session (11th December) to accept the German amendment, which made the resolution run thus: \"That every Government participating in the conference shall limit, as far as is consistent with its own trade conditions, the number of places through which the exportation or importation of raw opium shall be allowed.\"\n\nThe resolution as thus amended was carried unanimously, and forms the basis of article 2 of the convention.\n\n5 \n\n273 \n\n16. At this (fifth) session the British delegation moved a resolution to the effect that the participating Governments should adopt measures—\n\n(1.) To prevent the export of raw opium to countries that had prohibited its entry; and\n\n(2.) Similarly to control the export of raw opium to countries which restricted its import.\n\nThe Portuguese delegation proposed the insertion of the words \"by special agreement or otherwise\" after the words \"adopt measures,\" appealing to the precedent afforded by the negotiations between Great Britain and China on the subject of Indian opium. Their object was throughout to prevent material loss to the trade of their colony, Macao. The Chinese delegation demurred to this amendment on the ground that the circumstances in regard to Indian opium were special, and that there was no reason why a similar procedure should be followed with reference to other Powers whose territories did not produce opium on a large scale.\n\nAs Mr. Max Müller pointed out in the course of the debate, the real point at issue was the observance by Portugal, along with the other treaty Powers, of the Anglo-Chinese agreement of the 8th May, 1911, for in that case the Portuguese could only deal with Indian opium \"certificated\" for export to China, and from the Chinese point of view it did not matter through what precise channel such opium came into China. We, therefore, accepted the Portuguese amendment, which we considered to be also of practical utility as making it clear that China could not use the article arising from the resolution in question as a pretext for denunciation of existing treaties. Thus amended, the resolution was carried, though China, the United States, and Persia reserved their votes.\n\nThe Chinese suspected throughout, and we think with ample grounds, that the Portuguese desired to use Macao as a dumping ground for contraband opium, and to maintain smoking establishments there.\n\n17. Later (at the twenty-first and twenty-second sessions), on the second reading of article 3 of the convention, which reproduced the terms of the resolution, the Chinese moved the omission of the words \"by special agreement or otherwise\" (par convention spéciale ou autrement), and in view of the emphatic declaration they then made that, so amended, the article would not be used to affect existing treaties, we supported their amendment, which was carried, with a dissent by Portugal, subsequently withdrawn at the twenty-fourth session.\n\n18. The Persian delegate, however, moved (also at the twenty-second session) to re-insert these words in clause (a) of article 3 (they had previously appeared in the preamble), but the proposal was rejected, the Portuguese delegation being the only one to support it, and in signing the convention the Persian delegate made a reservation in regard to this clause.\n\nHe suggested at the twenty-fourth session that this reservation might be avoided if, after the word \"empêcher\" in clause (a) of article 3, the conference would insert the words \"aussitôt que possible\"; but an amendment he brought forward to this effect was defeated.\n\n19. To revert to the fifth session, the Netherlands delegation then proposed the enactment of a special convention which would have made wholesale dealings in opium a Government monopoly in the countries taking part in the conference, producing countries exporting only to the Governments of the States which adhered to this convention. The object was, as M. Cremer explained, to afford an additional check against contraband trade. This project, the text of which, with an explanatory memorandum, will be found in the minutes of the eighth session, was criticised by the German delegation as going beyond the limits of the original programme for the conference as set forth by the United States Government, and later on (at the eighth session) it was withdrawn on the ground that the State monopoly system advocated would not find general favour.\n\n20. The British delegation then proposed a resolution to the effect that each participating Government should notify all consignments of raw opium to such other participating Governments as might desire the information, but after some criticism this was withdrawn as impossible of general application.\n\n21. The next resolution we moved was that every package containing raw opium intended for export should be so marked as to indicate its contents, and this was accepted with a German amendment that it should only apply to packages exceeding 5 kilogrammes in weight, the Germans explaining that they could not so deal with smaller packages.\n\n[373]\n\nC\n\nuly",
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        "content_text": "5\n\n329\n\n4\n\nbe subsequently explained) this difficulty was met in another way by providing that, before the convention drawn up by the conference is ratified, the non-participating Powers of Europe and America should be invited to give their signatures to it, and thus place themselves on the same footing\n\n12. Definitions of the terms \"raw,\"\n\nas the original signatory Powers. had been submitted by the Programme Committee, after a report by the Technical Committee, were then accepted. These definitions were those which now find place at the head of chapters 1, 2, and 3 of the convention; but there was a further paragraph in the definition of raw opium which extended its application to what is known commercially as powdered and granulated opium. This latter paragraph, as submitted by the Programme Committee, departed from the terms drawn up by the Technical Committee, and, inasmuch as in this altered form it appeared to include under “raw opium\" what were in effect medicinal or officinal substances, this paragraph was subsequently struck out, leaving the definition of raw opium as it now stands. The result is that, as indicated in our telegram to you of the 8th January, 1912, powdered or granulated opium would only be \"raw opium\" if it did not fall under one of the other definitions, i.e., in so far as it was merely the raw product of the poppy simply powdered or granulated. To render this point quite clear, and in accordance with instructions received from you, we made a specific declaration to this effect (which is reproduced in our despatch No. 13 of the 20th January) at the twenty-first session (17th January). After some discussion it was then decided to ask the Technical Committee to report whether any further alteration of the definition of raw opium was desirable. The committee held that the declaration made on behalf of the British delegation might be deemed sufficient, or else that some maximum percentage of morphine would have to be introduced; the former alternative was endorsed by the conference as a whole at the twenty-third session.\n\nThe\n\nIt may be added that, apart from this particular point, the definitions as they now stand follow the broad lines between opium eaten and opium smoked, which has always been adopted in India. Opium which is eaten is \"raw\" opium, while smoking preparations are \"prepared\" opium.\n\n13. At the third session approval was also given to the heads of discussion which the Programme Committee had thought suitable in respect to raw and prepared opium; and a resolution that the participating Governments ought to enact effective laws and regulations for the control of the production and distribution of raw opium was proposed by the British delegation.\n\n14. At the fourth session (8th December) the consideration of this resolution was continued, and included some discussion on the information which had been communicated by Sir William Meyer in the first of his reports above mentioned (Appendix I), including the statement on behalf of the Indian Government that their restrictions on the consumption of raw opium could not be pushed to the extent of forbidding its use save for strictly medical purposes.\n\nFinally the resolution was carried unanimously, and forms the basis of article I of the present convention, the concluding proviso, à moins que des lois ou des règlements existants n'aient déjà réglé la matière, having been added here as in some other articles.\n\n15. The British delegation then presented a resolution to the effect that each participating Government should strictly limit the number of places through which raw opium may be exported or imported. The German delegation opposed this proposal on the ground that while it might be suitable for countries with a limited number of seaports, and where opium was received or sent out in bulk, it could not be applied to Germany, with its extended land frontiers and its network of railways, where, moreover, opium was often sent in small quantities in the same package with other chemicals. On a division the resolution was carried, the only actively opposing vote being that of Germany. We felt, however, that, in view of the difficulties we should probably have with the Germans when we came to the discussion of morphine and cocaine, it would be inadvisable to place them in an attitude of open opposition to us at the outset of the conference, and we accordingly entered into private negotiations with the German delegation as to an amendment of the resolution which it might propose and the conference accept. We came to a satisfactory agreement on this point, and were consequently able, at the fifth session (11th December) to accept the German amendment, which made the resolution run thus: \"That every Government participating in the conference shall limit, as far as is consistent with its own trade conditions, the number of places through which the exportation or importation of raw opium shall be allowed.\" The resolution as thus amended was carried unanimously, and forms the basis of article 2 of the convention.\n\n16. At this (fifth) session the British delegation moved a resolution to the effect that the participating Governments should adopt measures—\n\n(1.) To prevent the export of raw opium to countries that had prohibited its entry; and\n\n(2.) Similarly to control the export of raw opium to countries which restricted its import.\n\nThe Portuguese delegation proposed the insertion of the words \"by special agreement or otherwise\" after the words \"adopt measures,\" appealing to the precedent afforded by the negotiations between Great Britain and China on the subject of Indian opium. Their object was throughout to prevent material loss to the trade of their colony, Macao. The Chinese delegation demurred to this amendment on the ground that the circumstances in regard to Indian opium were special, and that there was no reason why a similar procedure should be followed with reference to other Powers whose territories did not produce opium on a large scale.\n\nAs Mr. Max Müller pointed out in the course of the debate, the real point at issue was the observance by Portugal, along with the other treaty Powers, of the Anglo-Chinese agreement of the 8th May, 1911, for in that case the Portuguese could only deal with Indian opium \"certificated\" for export to China, and from the Chinese point of view it did not matter through what precise channel such opium came into China. We, therefore, accepted the Portuguese amendment, which we considered to be also of practical utility as making it clear that China could not use the article arising from the resolution in question as a pretext for denunciation of existing treaties. Thus amended, the resolution was carried, though China, the United States, and Persia reserved their votes.\n\nThe Chinese suspected throughout, and we think with ample grounds, that the Portuguese desired to use Macao as a dumping ground for contraband opium, and to maintain smoking establishments there.\n\n17. Later (at the twenty-first and twenty-second sessions), on the second reading of article 8 of the convention, which reproduced the terms of the resolution, the Chinese moved the omission of the words \"by special agreement or otherwise\" (par convention spéciale ou autrement), and in view of the emphatic declaration they then made that, so amended, the article would not be used to affect existing treaties, we supported their amendment, which was carried, with a dissent by Portugal, subsequently withdrawn at the twenty-fourth session.\n\n18. The Persian delegate, however, moved (also at the twenty-second session) to re-insert these words in clause (a) of article 3 (they had previously appeared in the preamble), but the proposal was rejected, the Portuguese delegation being the only one to support it, and in signing the convention the Persian delegate made a reservation in regard to this clause.\n\nHe suggested at the twenty-fourth session that this reservation might be avoided if, after the word empêcher in clause (a) of article 3, the conference would insert the words aussitôt que possible; but an amendment he brought forward to this effect was defeated.\n\n19. To revert to the fifth session, the Netherlands delegation then proposed the enactment of a special convention which would have made wholesale dealings in opium a Government monopoly in the countries taking part in the conference, producing countries exporting only to the Governments of the States which adhered to this convention. The object was, as M. 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The next resolution we moved was that every package containing raw opium intended for export should be so marked as to indicate its contents, and this was accepted with a German amendment that it should only apply to packages exceeding 5 kilos in weight, the Germans explaining that they could not so deal with smaller",
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        "content_text": "# COPY.\n\n## 10-grams. 8.30.\n33, 35, 38, 42, 273\n\nConsul-General Jamieson to H. M. Chargé d'Affaires, Peking.\n\n**C.O. No. 33. 32192**\n\nH. B. M. Consulate-General,  \n**RECE Rect 15 SEP 13**  \nCanton, August 19, 1913.\n\nSir,\n\nIn continuation of my despatch No. 29 of the 19th ultimo and amplifying the telegrams noted in the margin, I have the honour to report as follows on the events in Canton during the past month.\n\nChen Tu Tu's official declaration of the independence of Kuangtung on July 18th followed a lengthy visit which he paid the previous day to the Japanese Consul, who, with his colleague from Hongkong, appears to have persuaded him to cast in his lot with the rebel provinces. The Declaration was welcomed neither by the troops nor by the Cantonese generally. The merchant class was entirely unsympathetic and the Provincial Assembly ratified it only under coercion. A Presidential Mandate deposed Ch'en from the office of Tu Tu and appointed General Lung Chi-kuang Pacification Commissioner.\n\nThere is no doubt that, as head of the Kuo Min Tang in Kuangtung, Ch'en was compelled to declare his position and to support Li Liah-chun and the other leaders of the party in their dispute with the President. But from the start his cause was a hopeless one, more especially as he was totally unaware of the extent to which the regular forces of the province were being seduced from allegiance to himself by agents of President Yuan. Half-heartedly he commenced preparation for a punitive expedition against Yuan, but he found himself helpless from lack of funds. Provincial notes stood at a discount of 70% and when he sought a loan of four million dollars from the Chamber of Commerce, that body immediately dissolved itself. He was harassed also by a threatened invasion from Kuanghsi under Lung Chi-kuang and obliged to divert part of his embryonic expedition to check Lung's advance down the West River. He had placed much confidence in the local influence of the",
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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": "Page 100\n\nDivery ba „orus iet and redĵo enić Lua de noisonqari na ebau abut ev sono de blwow alistanurwoo and,(8) VIƐ raha) Layanad yd dnszaqes busti sdð ynixoeds to medaya and drið nu od aɔseyqe di AL w .\" Jed wpeluri JaOW BUT IOJAM Wodzaki dmstninna nid yd boyofque doud noisselloo and mi esittne sút xl eldimroqaer enw Itome cod carbon rodman Jihua to aw yứ canaraten om banisinos do juw + • ní oild je donel ja donú zool bluoda mentol . Tal #atij noijunderg un 110% e 10 „aizivini sin tueu u♬ bedrogrwy nożow Liotrestwoo LIL QUDA DOjaw,alio?wotnuvo dowa no ezab and tej is don MIL. Hi babiogen aliotresnug and an sinb emne edt te beniɔay- edd no 3000 vediol beri sonol .14 souwant to】 11 „dood meiðosilos bu anapoli amorjuris jade brwol oymi sono de bluor ad anul new aware 10 dailợ đu jie noc od moiðinie ri sdm duld no baussi med and desk, vital ode no hedoul ed baH .good noitoelios : dễ nà neonmoil wol-yditie Jund bewoi eve bluo ad fiobratnuos dari su ni tot betruossa Jon Brew arul „ktƐI îna „stül edd no bepesi 1990 b. Bod here. -Jibut to ejani dat 11 .aood mo¿jnefloo blu. nenol and diuid dongre ut domu ood ed ton blow di benivreque Coxonato Brot to redwun Ilma end to \"o¿v ni \\tiupre camos salm À VAN DUZU (197 BAVOU Bils doù- ddiw yðihiqor Inet, edu oð na mid Bi bequique „ikosuo to neja、a and moqu Visua:MoD WIZIWE JEOLL wapnai, o evelqua ve bu de tone end to dochnoe sit ni mwozie BIDATIO JUICivnoque sal. To oœilib pra coneşillətni edt 107 ylotužka ni bury') e edcow deuit enos tot no beiting nd Jarð MILON TOJIJIJoevni yna od slood min to soat sud noqu Jasnogge 9182 visribio .8 . • loubnou s'godsotnad .75 sant noiniyo to era of ond ringi Jin't fullim bna dobijan od atrium,us Terdum vind nà Tu egrado mi ai vetestual .1 .200 .ol' robrý lætened 1 gainsen 06. v.100 yď beu ai sinhro arid mi bodade an ,001710 arwl, welc mic ni. To Jung symi A „bemundja si mohw to yyoo & fitimisel 0.77\n\nwas formerly occupied in the passing of a igrants, but this duty had been taken from him and he had ample leisure to supervise all the business of the Junk Office. He entirely ignored General Order 315 (3) as he took no steps to see that the amounts show in the receipts were entered in the shroff's collection book be- -fore he signed the receipts, although this was a most obvious and elementary precaution, and he cannot at any time have looked at the collection book, or he must have realised that the number of licences accounted for was short of the number which he was continually signing. Similarly he cannot at any time have added up the counterfoil receipts, or he would at once have found the large discrepancy between them and the a ounts accounted for. It appears that in spite of the warning which he had in Wong Hau- -nam's case he signed whatever was put before him without any sort of supervision.\n\nMr. Lenfestey puts forward in exculpation the attached minutes which passed between him and Can Pui. There would appear to be no reason why Mr. Lenfestey should not himself and have checked the accounts, as he was in charge of the office, he had ample time for the work.\n\n9.\n\nThe first clerk, Mr. Chan Pui, cannot in our opinion the held to be responsible. It was formerly his duty to check the Junk Office accounts, but under the attached orders, dated February, 1911, Mr. Chan Pui was directed to take charge of the Chinese clerks and shroff on the upper floor, while Mr. Lenfestey was to take charge of the Junk Office. It would seem that Mr. Chen Pui might reasonably infer from these orders that he was no longer responsible for the Junk Office, Accounts especially as a European clerk had been put in charge. His time appears to be fully occupied in his own department, more particu- -larly since he has had additional work in connection with the collection of Light Dues, while Mr. Lenfestey's work has been considerably lightened since he has been relieved of nis duties in connection with emigration. With regard to the attached minute\n\nfrom",
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        "content_text": "## Senior Naval Officer, West River, to Commander-in-Chief, China Station.\n\n589  \nH.M.S. \"Moorhen\"  \nat Canton,  \nSir:-  \nMay 5, 1914.\n\nIn accordance with Art. 536, C.S.O.B., I have the honour to submit the following remarks and suggestions for the checking of piracy amongst British ships running between Hongkong and the West River ports.\n\nIn view of the recent piracy on S.S. \"Tal On\", I trust that these may prove of some use. Incidentally this piracy having occurred outside the West River, did not come under the sphere of patrol of the West River Flotilla.\n\n### District Covered by Pirates.\n\nThe districts in which the pirates reside are Chek Kai Tong, Houng Shan and the adjacent islands. The main estuary running through these districts, viz., from Kongmoon to Macao, is little touched by pirates as the foreign shipping is only of a very inferior type and probably not worth pirating. Whereas in the main route of steamers, viz. First Cliff and Wan mun the piracy is kept down partly by the irregular but frequent movements of H.M. Torpedo-boats - the knowledge of the said movements being confined to the Commanding Officers only but they are chiefly kept in check by the very vigorous steps taken by the Chinese gunboats, armed launches and troops.\n\nI feel sure that in many of the wilder places practically all the inhabitants would, if the occasion occurred, be pirates, especially in the Fu Tiu",
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        "title": "CO129-426 - Public Offices - 1915",
        "content_text": "2\n\n44\n\nCK\n\nattack on the Japanese consul produced some effect, and recently there have been marked indications that Chinese opinion at Canton is veering round to the other side.\" Mr. Jamieson, moreover, expresses the opinion that the German campaign did nothing to injure British or to maintain German trade, and that the latter is suffering severely. At Foochow the German campaign has been more successful, thanks to the activity of the German consul and the pro-German tendencies of his intimate friend, the Commissioner for Foreign Affairs, and His Majesty's consul reports that Germany is obviously regarded as the nation which is to rescue China from the wolves which are tearing her to pieces.\" At Amoy on the other hand, where, as at Foochow, fears of Japanese aggression might have been expected to assist a German propaganda, the general feeling among the educated classes is a fear as to the effect of the war on trade, and the possibility of China being embroiled, while the masses feel an amused satisfaction that the Powers, who, they are told, are always united at China's throat, should now be grappling with each other.\" An attempt to stir up a pro-German feeling by the dissemination of highly-coloured pamphlets has met with no success. At Tsinan-fu the Japanese proved themselves the more skilful organisers of a press campaign, and they received effective support from His Majesty's consul, who showed great initiative and energy in obtaining the dissemination of Reuter's telegrams. Mr. Pratt's account of the general situation in Shantung during the past quarter is of special interest, and is therefore enclosed in extenso. In Yunnan, where mutiny and rebellion have been so common for years past as scarcely to excite comment, stories of mutiny in India are readily believed, though His Majesty's consul-general at Chengtu has been at pains to deny them.\n\nVarious circumstances have contributed to the success of the German press campaign in Western China; the withdrawal of the French missionaries recalled to the colours has naturally given rise to a crop of rumours, and the German scientific expedition, which is now travelling in Western Szechuan, has industriously spread every kind of story, while the two German professors at Chengtu have spared no effort to disseminate glowing accounts of German victories in Europe. In the attack on Tsingtao an analogy has been found to the violation of Belgian neutrality, and it is freely argued that China should declare war on Japan for the same reason that Belgium is fighting Germany. There is no doubt that it would require no official encouragement to make an anti-Japanese policy on the part of the Government extremely popular.\" On the other hand, the command of the Dalai Lama that prayers should be offered throughout Tibet for the success of the British arms has had considerable influence on the frontier tribesmen. It is satisfactory that His Majesty's consul-general should be able to report that the local authorities at Chengtu have shown every desire to adopt a reasonable and impartial attitude. At Pakhoi the German campaign is in the hands of the Keeler Mission, which issues a broadsheet every week. Mr. Toller reports that \"normally it is a religious tract pure and simple, but since the outbreak of the war it has become a local edition of the \"Ostasiatischer Lloyd.\" Its editing would seem to leave room for improvement: Saturday's issue can often be bought on Thursday, and occasionally it appears with such items of news as :- \"The Germans have defeated the ... Or the German ship has sunk the ... ship named ...,\" the task of filling up the blanks in the stereotyped formula having escaped the missionary's notice.\" At Chunking the unfortunate Chinese are asked to believe that \"the British fleet has been swept off the seas by the German warships.\" At Hankow the interest taken by the native population in the war is stated to be about as great as that which would be taken in a Tibetan border affray, and the same must be true of many other parts of China, as the subject of Chinese opinion or sympathies is not even mentioned in many of the quarterly reports.\n\nRecently, however, the Germans appear to have decided that China is a suitable field for an active campaign. The two or three Chinese papers published at Peking, which are known to be partly or wholly German owned, have published many virulent attacks on Great Britain, a favourite theme naturally being the contrast between the attitude she adopted towards the violation of Belgian and Chinese neutrality. However, even these papers publish the official British telegrams and Reuter's telegrams, but in less prominent type than the German and with impertinent comments.\n\nIt is difficult to see what results it is hoped to achieve by this campaign. Chinese sympathy could only show itself in a practical form by an attempt to massacre Germany's foes, and in such a massacre the Germans could not hope to escape. As is pointed out in some of the consular reports, from the commercial point of view, the Chinese are confronted with the concrete fact that German trade has almost ceased to exist. They are therefore compelled to trade with those who can trade with them, whether or no they believe that Germany's foes will at some future date be swept off the face of the earth.\n\nAt the same time there is a possibility, which cannot be entirely disregarded, that the many factions in opposition to the President (who is known to lean on British support) may think the moment a favourable one to rebel, and hope to gain adherents from the fact that the educated classes have been led to believe that the President's main prop among the European nations is a broken reed.\n\nThe actual news issued by the \"Ostasiatischer Lloyd\" is a curious study. Occasionally this agency obtains information—notably in the case of the engagement off the coast of Chile two or three days before it is received from other sources; in other cases the news has every appearance of being Reuter's telegrams suitably \"decked out\" and expanded or minimised. Many of the \"telegrams\" which appear under a heading \"New York, November 1; Peking, November 3,\" almost must have been drafted here, but they do little credit to their author's intellectual capacity, and in some cases even reveal a deplorable ignorance of geography. Another remarkable point is that the \"Ostasiatischer Lloyd\" news bears little resemblance to that issued by wireless from Germany as reported in \"The Times.\" It is only occasionally that news is issued by the German Legation, and it has been observed that in cases where the statement is unusually inaccurate, the copy posted at the Peking Club sometimes bears the signature of the German Chargé d'Affaires. Reference has been made in the London press to the removal from the \"Peking Gazette\" of the English editor, Mr. Woodhead, for taking a too partial view of the war, and it may probably be traced to German influence, though it is impossible to speak with certainty. When the paper was founded rather over a year ago, a Mr. Eggerling, a British subject born of German parents in Scotland, informed Mr. Woodhead that he was the sole proprietor, and that the paper was in no sense under German influence. Subsequently shares were acquired by Chinese, of whom the most prominent is one Eugen Chen, an able man, who is on the roll of English solicitors, but cannot on that account be regarded as a friend; he has, indeed, on one occasion made a violent personal attack on His Majesty's Minister in another Peking paper. Prior to the outbreak of the war the editor had on several occasions criticised the policy of the French, Russian, and Japanese Legations with more vigour than discretion, and the general view held in Peking was that the paper was directly or indirectly under German influence. As the war progressed, Mr. Woodhead adopted a steadily more anti-German line, with the result that he found himself in conflict with Mr. Eggerling, who had not relinquished his position in the German Bank, and probably found himself subjected to considerable pressure. Mr. Woodhead, however, refused to change his tone, whereupon Mr. Eggerling transferred his interest in the paper to Eugen Chen, who promptly dismissed Mr. Woodhead on the ground that a strongly partisan attitude towards the European conflict cannot be held to be in conformity with the avowed policy of upholding the present régime in China and of maintaining an independent attitude towards the Governments of other Powers. This incident has been regarded by the German community as a marked success, but hitherto Eugen Chen, who has undertaken the editorship himself, has given no indication that he intends to run the paper in the interests of Germany, and indeed his comments on Mr. Asquith's Guildhall speech would not have excited adverse criticism had they appeared in any London paper.\n\nHe has, however, only been in control for three weeks, so that it is too early to judge whether he will really act on his public announcement that the paper will henceforth be conducted with the sole view of supporting Chinese interests and will discuss and report European questions in a perfectly impartial spirit. As regards the attitude of the official classes it is impossible to generalise more than to say that the President and his entourage have more sympathy with us than with our enemies, whereas the military classes who have come to some extent directly under German influence incline to the other side. Otherwise local conditions are the determining factor. With the fall of Tsingtao there is little danger of further serious violation of China's neutrality. During the past months many incidents have conclusively proved her inability to defend it, but whenever this Legation has called the Government's attention to any particular case, some serious effort has been made to meet our views, and we have every reason to be satisfied with the manner in which the Chinese Government has interpreted the duties of neutrality.\n\nThe general situation in the provinces, as portrayed in recent consular reports, has to some extent improved. Brigandage on a large scale has received a check in the disappearance of \"White Wolf,\" though small bands continue to flourish in most districts; mutinies of the troops have been less frequent in spite of the fact that the provincial authorities frequently enrol brigands in the army, even when they have been caught with arms in their hands. The only serious outbreak occurred at Kalgan and ...\n\n251\n\n1",
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        "content_text": "252\n\n! \n\nJ-tregul Jibul \n\n*** PASI 270 met \n\nVİT DAY 10998 ni disfim að Tuonoi oft gred I \n\n„nie poncerne dass suniyay add no dangst & \"noitorJETI and weld me selfen. De dmenundnirsque niedqeð std vď red ca mat nad on ndruonna to drerejede arm .€[[ - ~[o^ orð të paktambued mla sang midbe štelo VINOR9TT \n\ndish word le fan torrSPOTT \n\nJ; \n\n- \n\n1 \n\ncont de ‚ediremme soil-5 and to dinitai. Justegçe (atot BİLİRUCTORS ir cen tenor orð æðnronne doide mort and cik i ednporne gift to adnerroo vas paiABM \n\nוי\n\nenri jooned nån and kuorid le dad doet art of noijnejje heria mad tertien ert di Teisitto vizmesi” e vi qu metb Camelot add od barie to „amentoemmno adi od ze beitin97 melot add te 19pi)10 mitmvoonA Teir” edd ne 1SIUM ASIT A Lawf anglerle in add and VımJuno #İ „noinigo ve ni „annidele af Dainn [es and to 7 zedgedo \n\nego Barr me I derd jar er I \n\n7 \n\n13 30 silje enduro add no 30.126, VIR -e twod- \n\n- roloq meibml\" ynibear ant \n\nSantorová orð (tim verið Immoven truonne aidd chroida nere till de'd bangs me a Fae,Jaandreqali esilo¶ „AP strain dhshednda ord to s is entros edd no adtegels and souber blvor \n\nvo\" Tel 29onettine \n\nVI wit te duuors add viajemizorqqa \n\nvo mi · civfori se „cusderslam I„doide od en od strokea mu omong pride dod,fpicit to ytusPOT. \n\nTelmu tematsko only ta ekin edono ad‡ xo \n\n+ \n\n+ \n\n.Jo97700Nİ \n\n*TAMCOTT BÉS od suc ventok” zmi \n\nen en fri ad dognen stem tesqgs bluor di Jedd \n\n,005.00. \n\nof $139.96 making the total deficit 1, \n\nThe deficit on 30th November, 1919, in the Police \n\nAccounts would therefore appear to be £29,931.47. \n\n5. \n\nAt the request of the Colonial Secretary I under-\n\ntook to try and trace the various advances made by the ex-police accountant to various members of the force. I have gone through a book kept by Chan Pui for a period of six months prior to his absconding, in which he kept some kind of record of his various transactions. This book was apparently a private one and was not authorised by the Treasury, and I doubt whether the Captain Superintendent of Police was cognizant of its existence. The number of advances I have noted in the period under review is about 1,200, of which I believe some were authorised by the Captain Superintendent of Police and the remainder were made by Chan Pui on his own initiative. Chen Pui informed me (when he was under remand) that it had been customary for the Police \n\nAccountant to augment his salary to the extent of $100 to $150 a month from interest derived from these unauthorised advances. \n\n6. I do not consider that I should make any comments \n\non the propriety of the Captain Superintendent of Police making \n\nthese advances, but I do consider that once having authorised \n\nthese payments sufficient supervision should have been made to \n\nsee that repayment was duly made and the monies paid into the \n\nBank, as there could be no other check on the accountant. For \n\ninstance, in the month of June refunds of advances, refunds by Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, &c. to the extent of $9,451.72 are shown in this account book and at the same time advances,&c. were paid \n\nout to the extent of $7,833.40, but there is no trace of the balance of $1,618.32 having been paid into the Government. On the debit side no particular advance can be traced, except with one or two exceptions, the amounts being shown in lump sums. It would be of interest if some of the officers were called upon to explain some of these transactions. After a careful study of the accounts I have come to the conclusion that the advances of\n\n1..",
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        "content_text": "#120. I checked all the receipts and found that everything was correct except these two items. \n\nOn every payday, I assist the accountant to pay out everything before the A.P. When A.P. has finished, I check balances and the balances are then handed over to the accountant. On the 21st, when the Accountant and I returned to his office, there was a lot of policemen, European, Indian, and Chinese, also firemen. I ticked off in the pay book so the accountant paid them. Then this was finished, I helped the accountant to pack up all the unpaid money. \n\nAfterwards, I asked the accountant to give me the money for the Taimati caterer A for Tung Hhing as they are always on the last day. I was asked by the caterer, Taimati, to draw his money on his behalf and then pay him. Tung Hhing also asked me to draw the money for him and keep it till he came. At the time, about 6:18 p.m., I left the office and considered it unsafe to leave the money in my drawer, so I put it into my pocket. Unfortunately, I was suffering from fever the next morning (Friday) and sent a chit back, one to A.P. and one to the accountant asking for a day's leave. \n\nOn Saturday, I was still sick and could not get up. I told my wife to ask the accountant for half a day's leave. I went to the Rate Cures in the afternoon, about 18:30 hours, as I felt better. I got some medicine, and then my friend said he was going to the Racecourse, so I accompanied him. I said I had no money, but for the race, I bought one ticket $0.12. I got $24.80. I saw Inspector O'Sullivan. I returned home and felt worse. \n\nOn Sunday, the 3rd, I could not get up until about 9 a.m. On Monday, the 4th, I had colic and was in bed all day. On Monday, the 4th instant, I sent a chit to the accountant saying I wished to see the doctor and would be in late. On the way to the Hospital, I met a friend, \"Chan Fuk Chen,\" who asked me what was the matter. I said I was sick and was going to the G.C.H. He said, \"Better come with me.\" I went with him by car to a Chinese doctor, Wong Zhing Hing of 47, Wellington Street, by Trismi, who took me to his house.",
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        "content_text": "**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\n## SECTION 6.\n\n### [F 1166/309/10]\n\n**(No. 67.)**\nMy Lord.\n\nSir B. Alston to Earl Curzon.-(Received April 1.)\n\nPeking, February 5, 1921.\n\nI HAVE the honour to transmit herewith a summary of the intelligence reports of His Majesty's consular officers in China for the quarter ended the 30th September last, which has been compiled by Mr. R. Dunbar, third secretary to His Majesty's Legation.\n\nCopies to Tokyo, India, Hong Kong and Admiral.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nB. ALSTON.\n\n## Enclosure in No. 1.\n\nSummary of Intelligence Reports of His Majesty's Consular Officers in China for quarter ended September 30, 1920.\n\n### Ningpo\n\nPERHAPS the only incident in a tranquil quarter was the insult offered to Shen Chin-chien, recently appointed Civil Governor in succession to Ch'i Yao-chien, on his arrival at Hangchow Station, where his luggage and person were searched by the military authorities, and all arms confiscated on the ground that the number of revolvers did not correspond with the number given in the Ministry of War's permit. Shen appears to be a man of stronger character than his predecessor, and is no doubt under orders from Peking to bide his time; outwardly, at any rate, no notice has been taken of the incident.\n\nTuchun Lu Yung-hsiang remains in a very strong position, and it is difficult to see how he can be turned out, unless one of his generals is bought over. He has received a check over the Defence Commissionership at Shanghai which has been transferred from his control to that of Li Shun, but this is more apparent than real, as his nominee, Ho Feng-lin, retains his position.\n\nThe boycott of Japanese goods, maintained strictly throughout the June quarter, appears during the past three months entirely to have lapsed.\n\n### Swatow\n\nThe local situation and the entire course of events during the period under review have been completely dominated by the revolt, headed by Chen Chiung Ming, against the Kwangsi invaders of the Kwangtung province. Actual fighting Swatow has been spared, and, indeed, there appears to have been very little within the district, most of it having occurred in the neighbourhood of the East River; but the general feeling of insecurity and the forced calls for funds to meet military expenses and other requirements of the Kwangtung forces have dealt a serious blow to the port and district.\n\nBrigandage, as is to be expected during such a critical period, has increased beyond measure, rendering both land and water routes unsafe. That no British interests have been directly affected is no doubt due to the fact that inland transport was regarded as much too precarious to allow of any risks in this direction.\n\nThe students have prosecuted most vigorously the anti-Japanese boycott, having held burnings of \"low-grade\" goods at Cheng-hai and Ch'ao-yang on the 12th and 14th July respectively. About the same time they held an indignation meeting in Swatow, attended by merchants and gentry of the district, to denounce the proposed concession to Japan of the construction of the Nan-ch'ung-Ch'ao-chow-fu Railway, which, incidentally, is a British option.\n\nPage 6047 \n\nB 595",
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        "content_text": "THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.\n\nFRIDAY,\n\nSEPTEMBER 22, 1922.\n\nBANKS.\n\n308\n\n9\n\nTO-DAY'S SHARE QUOTATIONS.\n\nStock Exchange, Sharebrokers' Association.\n\nBenguet Con\n\nDocks, Wharves, Godowns, &c,\n\nH.K. Wharves\n\nK. Looks\n\nS'hai Docks\n\nSHIPPING NEWS\n\nThe following local shipping and mail intelligence has been corrected to noon to-day :—\n\nIkomasan M.\n\nDodwell & Co.\n\nAPC\n\nChina Mail\n\nWai Hing\n\nMBK\n\nC Canton\n\nShanghai\n\nKobe via Moji\n\nManila\n\nShanghai\n\nChinkiang\n\nS. Frisco via S'hai\n\nFort Bayard\n\nMiike\n\nVessel Kwang Lee Poo Lee\n\nSubning Luchow Hopsang\n\nJapan\n\nYuan Hing\n\nHiyodori M.\n\nAgents CMS N Hung Shan D&3\n\nJ N1 * Co.\n\nM Cie=\n\nClearances.\n\nHavre M.\n\nVessel\n\nYuensang\n\nImpending Departures.\n\nMooring\n\nC 46 C 39\n\nCo's Wht Kow. Whf\n\n(Compiled from our Shipping Advertisements.)\n\nAgents\n\nJ M Co. JOJL\n\nE. of Canada\n\nSoudan\n\nGlenade\n\nB&S\n\nB & S\n\nJCJ L\n\nDestination\n\nManila\n\nNorth Point\n\n4 2\n\nCo's Whf. Hachni\n\nASIA BANKING CORPORATION.\n\n(An American Bank for trade with the Far East.)\n\nOwned by a group of American Banks and under the control of the New York State Banking Department and the Federal Reserve Bank,\n\nComplete banking facilities incident to foreign trade. Travellers Checks of the American Bankers' Association and the Guaranty Trust Company of New York, negotiable throughout the world, for Sale and Encashment with us.\n\nHEAD OFFICE:\n\nNew York\n\nBRANCH: San Francisco,\n\nHEAD OFFICE FOR THE ORIENT:\n\nShanghai\n\nBRANCHES\n\nHankow\n\nTHE CHINA SPECIE BANK LTD.\n\nIrd Sept.\n\nHEAD OFFICE\n\nManila Singapore\n\nD. M. BIGGAR,\n\nManager.\n\nTHE BANK OF CHINA.\n\nBANKS\n\nHONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION. HEAD OFFICE HONGKONG Paid-up Capital Reserve Funds:\n\nSterling... Silver\n\n$20,000,000\n\n£4,500,000 $23,500,000\n\nBearve Llability of Proprievore $28,506,500. JE\n\nCOURT OF DIRECTOR\n\nG. M. Dodwell, Esq.-Chairman, Hon. Mr. A. O. Lang.-Deputy Cba:.\n\nD G. M. Bernard, Eng. Hon, Mr. J. V.D PATA A. M. Bower Smith, Esq. W. L. Pattonden, E G. T. M. Editing, Eeq, H.. Whit.\n\nP.H. Holyoak g.\n\nChief Manages:\n\n▲, G. STEPHEN, Bagi\n\nManager: Sunagbel\n\no.\n\n9, H. tim. Reg.\n\nLONDON BANKERS: LONDON COUNTY WESTMINSTON\n\nPARR'S BANK, LIMITED.\n\nCurrent Account opened is Local Carina\") asd Fixed Deposits reaeived for one year 1 shorter periods in Local Currency and Sterling on terme which will be quoted on applicati\n\nHongkong, 20th February, 19224\n\n(Specially authorized by Pres- idential Mandate of the Republic HONGKONG SAVINUS BANY!\n\nSt. George's Building, Hongkong. of China on the 22nd of Novem-\n\nber, 1917.)\n\nChairman of Board of Directors Mr. Wong Shiu Ham Sailing Date Chief Manager... Mr. L. S. Holum Asst. Manager... Mr. K. T. Wong Hongkong Manager.\n\n.K. & S. Bank\n\n£35 paid\n\nb.\n\nBanks. 88216\n\nb.\n\n880\n\nVessels Arrived.\n\nH K. of E. Asia\n\nb.\n\n10212\n\nb.\n\n102\n\nMarine Insurances.\n\nVessel\n\nAgents\n\nFrom\n\nCantone\n\nb.\n\n460\n\nb.\n\n460\n\nMohon\n\nYue Woo\n\nNorth Chinas\n\nn.\n\n$138\n\n140\n\nHelios\n\nKung Chung\n\n\"\n\nUnions\n\nb.\n\n203\n\nb.\n\n204\n\nKwang Lee\n\nCMS N\n\nTorilla\n\nM M Cie\n\nYangtszee\n\nb.\n\n24\n\nb.\n\n23\n\nPres McKinley\n\nAd. Line\n\nFire Insurances.\n\nPersia\n\nMyriam\n\nChina Fires\n\nb.\n\n11514\n\nb.\n\n116\n\nNile\n\nH.K. Fires\n\nb.\n\n435\n\nb.\n\n405\n\nAhpittai\n\nShipping.\n\nDouglases\n\nn.\n\n511⁄2\n\nn.\n\n53\n\nH.K. Steamboats\n\nb.\n\n274\n\nb.\n\n274\n\nIndos (Pref.)\n\nb.\n\n3542\n\n3.\n\n35\n\nWhere Bound\n\nIndo Def. Lon/Reg.\n\n9.\n\n260\n\nCanton\n\nIndo Def. H.K. Reg.\n\n8.\n\n260\n\nS.\n\n260\n\nShelle\n\nb.\n\n91/6\n\nb.\n\n92/-\n\nFort Bayarl Canton\n\nDeparture. 21st Sept. End Sept.\n\nCanton\n\nTientsin\n\nPeking\n\nFerries\n\nb. 371é ga. 38\n\nb.\n\n38\n\nTsingtao via Swator\n\nRefineries.\n\nYokohama vir \"Amoy..\n\nSugars\n\nb.\n\n150\n\nn.\n\n154\n\nYuen Song Bat\n\nCanton\n\nOSK\n\nMalabone\n\nb.\n\n4514\n\n8.\n\n47\n\nYKK\n\nCanton\n\nMining.\n\nYuensang\n\nM & Co.\n\nManila\n\nKailans\n\nb.\n\n64'-\n\nb.\n\n60/-\n\nProsper\n\nFook Fa Cheong\n\nSaigon\n\nPres. McKinley\n\nAd. Line\n\nSeattle via S'hai\n\nLangkata\n\nSoshu M.\n\nOS K\n\nTakao via Swatow\n\nShanghai Loans\n\nu.\n\n$8\n\nb\n\n8\n\nEmp. of Canada\n\nCPS Ltd.\n\nVancouver via S'hai\n\nShai Explorations\n\nRaubs\n\nh.\n\n$1\n\nb.\n\n1\n\nTronohs\n\nTti\n\n29/-\n\nUral Caspians\n\nb.\n\n13/-\n\nb.\n\nP. 2 05\n\n23rd Sept.\n\nTjisalak\n\nJava\n\n23rd\n\nb. 148 sa. 14816\n\nb.\n\n148\n\nLuchow\n\nShanghai\n\n23rd\n\nb. 167% sa. 168\n\nb. 168\n\ns. 169 sa. 1681⁄2\n\nTeiresias\n\nAntwerp\n\n23rd\n\nb. 9216 sa. 94\n\nb.\n\n93\n\nTjiaondari\n\nShanghai\n\n23rd\n\nOPS Ld.\n\nVancouver\n\n23rd\n\nN. Engineeringe\n\n1.\n\n$8\n\nn.\n\n7.90\n\nMr. I. P. Allen Foreign exchange and general banking business transacted.\n\nP&O\n\nBombay\n\n24th\n\nJ21 Co\n\nHamburg\n\n24th\n\nCentrals\n\nb.\n\n151\n\nb.\n\n15244\n\nCheribon M.\n\nNanyo Y K\n\nJapan\n\n24th\n\nH.K. Hotels Old\n\n88.\n\n244\n\nOld b.\n\n242\n\nNingpo\n\nB & S\n\nSaigon\n\n24th\n\nSuaning\n\nB & S\n\nTsingtao\n\n24th\n\nNew\n\nsa.\n\n1934\n\nNew b. sa. 19\n\nHaichirg\n\nD L & Co.\n\nFoochow\n\n24th-\n\ndeposits bear interests at rates 2% 4% and 5% per annum spectively.\n\nre-\n\nH.K. Lands\n\nsa.\n\n236\n\nb.\n\n235\n\nTor.lla\n\nP&O\n\nSingapore\n\n24th\n\nH'phreys Est.\n\nb.\n\n151⁄2\n\nb.\n\n1514\n\nSingapore\n\n24th\n\nColombo\n\n25th\n\nb.\n\n53\n\nb.\n\n50\n\nRD Co.\n\nNew York\n\n25th\n\nb.\n\n200\n\nb.\n\n201\n\nAct. Line\n\nManila\n\n25th\n\nS & B\n\nSurabaya\n\n25th\n\nJapan\n\n25th\n\nCotton Mills.\n\nNew York\n\n25th\n\nEwos\n\nb.\n\n12\n\nh.\n\n12\n\nTientsin\n\noth\n\nOrientale\n\nb.\n\n$612\n\nb.\n\nB & S\n\nHaiphong\n\n25th\n\nS'hai Cottons\n\n1.\n\n112\n\nI\n\n115\n\nNanyo Y K\n\nSourabaya\n\n26th\n\nShangbai\n\n20th\n\nMiscellaneous.\n\nJ M Co.\n\nSwatow\n\n26th\n\nCemente\n\nb. 2216 s. sa. 23\n\ns. 22.90/23.10\n\nB & 8\n\nTsingtao\n\n26th\n\nChina Light old\n\nb.\n\n154\n\nb.\n\n154\n\nCity of Lincoln\n\nManchuria\n\n26th\n\nChina Light new\n\nKingyuan\n\nB & 8\n\nBangkok\n\n26th\n\nChina Providente.\n\ns. 28 ga. 2916\n\nS.\n\nDairy Farms\n\nOld b. 28 New b. sa. 22\n\nOld b. 2314\n\n26 New b. 2214\n\nHanyang\n\nB&S\n\nSaigon\n\n20th\n\nA. Capital\n\nFooksang\n\nJA Co.\n\nCalcutta\n\n27th\n\nPaid-up Capital\n\nMingsang\n\nJ M Co.\n\nHoihow\n\n/7th\n\nReserve Fuad\n\nOld n. 221⁄2\n\nNew n. 21\n\nFooksang\n\n11 Co.\n\nCalcutta\n\n27th\n\nElectrics Macao\n\n1,\n\n37\n\nYatshing\n\nJM Co.\n\nShanghai\n\n8th\n\nHongkong Ropes\n\nb.\n\n3516\n\nNā.\n\n35\n\nSzechuen\n\nB & S\n\nShanghai\n\nShanai\n\nB & S\n\nHk. Tramways.\n\nb. sa.\n\n16\n\n5. 1612\n\nShanghai\n\nMatsumoto M\n\nLondon\n\nPeak Trams, old\n\nD.\n\n10\n\nfo\n\nITsifoong\n\nMOB\n\nDo.\n\nnew\n\nb.\n\n1\n\nb.\n\n1\n\nDL & Co.\n\nBAS\n\nFoochow\n\nAmy\n\nSteel Foundries\n\n1214\n\n[1.\n\nWater-boat\n\nb.\n\n174\n\n1714\n\nDjember\n\nWatsons\n\nb.\n\n11.15\n\n11\n\nDjokjakarta Robe\n\nWm. Powelle\n\nb.\n\n20\n\nVossel\n\nAgents\n\nFrom\n\nDue Hongkong\n\nKota-Radja\n\nWisemans\n\nCrawfords\n\nb. 2016 sa. 21\n\n2.\n\n21\n\nSoudan\n\nShanghai\n\nMantua\n\nSingapore\n\n23rd\n\nCanton Ices\n\nb.\n\n732\n\nb.\n\n71⁄2\n\nSanuki M,\n\nKobe\n\n24th\n\nNanyang Tob.\n\n214\n\nRinda\n\nT & Co.\n\nScandinavian ports\n\n35th\n\nb.\n\n1134\n\nTenyo M.\n\nYokohama\n\n26th\n\nSingapore\n\n26th\n\nL & Co.\n\nSingapore\n\n27th\n\nKloon Landa\n\nL. Reclamations\n\nWest Points\n\nLands, Hotels & Buildings.\n\nElectrics H.K. Old b. 2314 New n. 2234\n\nSteam Laundries\n\nSinceres\n\n1214\n\nHongkong, September 22, 1922.\n\nFILIPINO DEFEATS U.S. CHAMPION BOXER.\n\nVilla, Having Beaten Buff,\n\nMay Meet Wilde.\n\nA Brooklyn (New York) mes- sage of the 4th. inst states:- Pancho Villa, of Manila, to-night won the flyweight championship\n\nܩܩ\n\nP&U\n\nAd. Line\n\n634\n\nLinto Sanuki M. MS Dollar P. Jackson\n\nEskridge Mantua Stanley Chipshing Kaifong Samarang M.\n\njrufar\n\nLiangchow\n\nB & S\n\nNY K\n\nJ M Co.\n\nCHINESE LABOUR\n\nMOVEMENT.\n\nA Progressive Programme.\n\nThe secretarial office of the Tientsin Labour Union has filed\n\na petition with Parliament pro- posing that careful consideration\n\nWingsang\n\nIlaihong\n\nKiungchow\n\nFushimi M. Benmohr\n\nBank Line\n\nNYK\n\nIL & Co.\n\nImpending Arrivals.\n\n(Supplied by our Advertisers.)\n\nP&O\n\nP&O\n\nNYK\n\nTKK\n\nNYK\n\nConsignees Diary.\n\n(Compiled from our Advertisements.)\n\nhas to be paid to the safety and 21st Sept. and is due at Shanghai on the 22nd Sept.\n\nof the United States, scoring a protection of the labouring class\n\ntechnical knockout over Johnny the Buff of Jersey City in eleventh round of a scheduled twelve round bout. Buff was helpless and groggy and his sec- onds threw the towel into the ring.\n\nBuff weighed 1114 pounds while Villa tipped the scales at 110 pounds. The knockout came after twenty-seven seconds of fighting in the eleventh round. Villa scored two knockdowns in the tenth round and then began pummeling Buff with both hands. He rushed Buff to the ropes and chased him across the ring. Buff was reeling when Villa landed his left on the head and sent the American bumping to the floor.\n\nAt the start of the eleventh round Buff was defenseless with grogginess. Villa led in the first three rounds and draw blood from Buff's mouth, Buff retiring until the third and fighting in the open with Villa landing most of the damaging blows.\n\n23rd Sept.\n\nAuthor zed Capital..$60,000,000.00 Paid up Capital...... 18,278,600.00 Reserve Funds 9,629,425,24\n\nHEAD OFFICE: PEKING Hongkong Branch: 4 Queen's Road, Central.\n\nBranches and Sub-branches all over China\n\nother parts of the world.\n\nCurrent, Savings, and Fixed and Correspondents in Europe, Americs, and\n\nL. S. HOLUM,\n\nChief Manager. Hongkong, 2nd October. 1920\n\nNEDERLANDSCHE HANDEL\n\nMAATSCHAPPIJ.\n\n(NITHERLANDS TRADING SOCIETY.)\n\nEstablished 1824,\n\nSpecial Resert......\n\n100.000, Pub £8,333,333\n\n0 0 0 £6.666,666 P1 19 415,200 1,620.433 1:22.650,000 £1,886,533\n\nHead Ofee:—Amsterdam, Branches at\n\nThe Hague Mond Agency :-Batavia, BRANCHES:-\n\nBandjermaỆN\n\nBandoens Bombay Calautia Thenbes\n\nLangua\n\nRotterdam\n\nMaastr Bingapore Medan\n\nNoerahal Soerakarta\n\nPadank Palembang\n\nPekalonga Pensag Pontianak Rangoon\n\nBemarang Shanghai\n\n(Snto) Tebing Ting\n\n(Deli)\n\nTegal Telok Betong Tilletjop Weltevreden\n\nCorrespondents at Colombo. Madras Pond! aberry, Bangkok, Baigon, Haiphong, Hanoi, Amy Yokohama, Melbourne, Bydney, New York, San Francisão, eta,, etc.\n\nLondon Bankers:-The National Provincial, and Union Bank of England, Limited.\n\nThe Bank bayı and sells and receive for collection Bills of Exchange, isques letters of credit on ts Branches and porrespondente the East, the Continent, in Great Britain, America and Australia and transsets banking business of every description,\n\nW, H, GRONKAMP.\n\nAgent.\n\nBANQUE DB L'INDO-CHINE\n\n(FRENCH BANK.)\n\nHead Omos; 96 Boulevard Hausemaon, Paris,\n\nVessel\n\nAgents\n\nGoods Stored\n\n1 McKinley Harold D\n\nA L\n\nRice.\n\nFree Claims Storage to be Expires in by Kowloon Sept. 27 Oct. 2 Holt's\n\nSept. 29\n\nOct. 21\n\nExamina- tion Date\n\nSept 26 Sept. 27\n\nSteamers' Movements,\n\nEmpress of Russia arrived at Nagasaki on the 21st dept, left Nagasaki on the\n\nTayo M arrived at Yokohama on the 19th inst, and sailed 22nd, inst. for Hono especially the boys and girls lalu and San Francis below 18\n\nof age. years\n\nA memoranduni of ninteen articles has been drafted.\n\nCapital... Renerves\n\nFraude 45,000,000\n\nED,000,000\n\nPOST OFFICE NOTICES.\n\nTelegraphic Communications with Wagian and Gap Rock Lises are interkatukog Djibouti\n\nINWARD MAILS.\n\n4\n\nBRANCHES AND AGENCIES.\n\nBengkok\n\nHongkong Battambang Mengta Canton\n\nNoume\n\nHaiphong Tankow\n\nHanoi\n\nPapeeta Prking Ruom-Peab Poodioberry\n\nSaigon Shanghai Singapore *Tientsin Tourane Vladivostock Yunokutu\n\nFrom\n\nPer\n\nDue\n\nTottori M... Soudan\n\n22nd Sept.\n\n...Cor.t\n\nMantua\n\n... 23rd\n\nPros. Jackson Chakiang Sanuki M....\n\n4.23rd\n\n24th\n\n4.24th\n\nShansi...\n\n...25th\n\nSushimi M. Morioka M.\n\n..\n\n...26tli\n\n... ---\n\n...28th\n\nOUTWARD MAILS.\n\nPer\n\nDate\n\nActing Manager. Hongkong, October 21st, 1919.\n\n...Sat., 15 inst., 7.30 a m.\n\nGenerally speaking, it proposes rapted. that necessary protection shall be afforded to the rights of the\n\nin labourers calling meeting freely, in labour unions and con- Straits\n\nShanghai.. cluding contracts and agreements.\n\nLondon 24th Aug. & Parcela, London The working bours shall be fixed Europe via Sue Letters & Papers,\n\n16th Aug.) at eight hours a day but six hours\n\nWhen the regular Canada, U.S.A., Japan't Shanghai in the night. working hours are exceeded over- Shanghai.. time wages shall be paid, but strief Japan limitation shall be applied to the Straits boys and girls under 18 years Japan of age who should only work six hours a day. Moreover, an insur- ance law shall be prepared by\n\nGovernment with\n\nlanoi the Fort Bayard, Hoihow & Haiphong...\n\nthe\n\nN China, Japan. Canada, approval of the Union of the Shanghai\n\nU.S.A.. C. South America, & labourers' unions throughout the\n\nEurope via Vancouver BC. country.\n\nShanghai\n\nAmoy\n\n---\n\nPor\n\ncision over Nick Foley of Brook- Philippine Is.\n\nlyn in eight rounds of the semi- Straits, Ceylon, Mauritius, L. Marques, final bout. Flores floored Foley S. Africa, India via Dhanuakkodi,\n\nAden, Egypt & Brindis for the count of nine in the sixth VILLA RUSHES BUFF. Leading an attack Villa rushed round.\n\nShanghai & N. China Even Joe Lynch, the world's Straits Buff to the ropes in the fourth with a shower of blows and cuffed bantamweight champion, was un-Straits, Ceylon, Mauritius, L. Marques, S. Africa, India via Dbanuskhedi In the able to take every round in his him about the ring.\n\n& Bombay next two rounds Villa started to fight with Buff. as Villa did.\n\nBangkok... The winner, who measure Buff for a knockout but\n\nis only Pakhoi & Haiphong Buff kept clear and maintained eighteen, was practically un-Shanghai & Japan....\n\nHe is Swatow, Amoy & Ke known six months ago. a safe blocking defense.\n\nStraits & Egypt ... Buff showed more action in the now entitled to a try at the world's Java & Port Moresby via Bata next three rounds but Villa con- title held by Jimmy Wilde, and Swatow & Bangkok tinued to advance his command-it is very possible that the two Swatow & Bangkok ing lead and met the American's will soon be matched. The pity Saigon\n\nPhilippine Is. attack with aggressiveness and is that, unlike Villa, the little oihow, Pakho: & Haiphong drove him to the ropes in the Britisher, who has been boxing Philippine Is seventh.\n\nHe\n\nBuff for a number of years, must be watow & Bangkok around the ring in the ninth.\n\nnearing the end of his career. Swatow, Amoy & Foochow The programme was a double Still, if Villa can beat Wilde, it Shanghai & N. China... Filipino victory, Elino Flores of will leave no sort of doubt about Hoihow & Haiphong Manila receiving the judge'e de- his being of class A 1.\n\ntrounced\n\nJ\n\nTientsin\n\nor den\n\nEmp, of Canada. Sat.. 23 ipst..\n\nRegistration 9.15 a.m.\n\nLetters\n\n10 a.m (Due Vancouver B.C. Oct 9.)\n\n...Set., 25 inst., 1.30p.m.\n\nYuensang\n\nP'ersis\n\nLuchow... Sunning Lake Gitano\n\n+\n\nSondan Trong Samnd jade... Mantua\n\nAmakusa M. Tjisalak\n\nTeresias Chaksang\n\nKingyuan\n\nVingro...\n\nPres. Jackson\n\nKaifong...\n\nTH\n\nTaming ...\n\nDrafar ...\n\nHaiching\n\nBANKERS,\n\nIN FRANCE: Comptoir National d'Escom!\n\nde Paris; Credit Lyonnais; Banju.\n\nde Paris et des Pays-Ba; Credly ladustrial et Commercial Boicate *Generale.\n\nIN LONDON: The National Provincia and\n\nUnion Bank of England Ltd., Comp toir National d'Escompte de Paris: Credit Lyonnal.\n\nIN NEW YORK:\n\n. P. Horgan & Co. Interest allowed op. Current Aconunts and Fixed Deposits socording to arrangement.\n\nEvery description of banking and exchange husiness transacted.\n\nV. MARSOT.\n\nORIENTAL COMMERCIAL BANK, LTD.\n\nHEAD OFFICE:\n\n...Sat., 23 inst., 1.30 p.m. 25, Des Voeux Road Central, Hongkong. ...Sat.. 23 inst.. 230 pm.\n\n...Sat., 23 inst., 3pm. ...Sat., 25 18st.\n\n4 p.m.\n\nAuthorised Capital ... $5,000,000\n\nModern banking in all its branches.\n\non\n\n.. Sat. 3 inst., pm. ...Sat 23 inst.. 5 p.m\n\nSat, 23 inst., 5.m Current accounts, saving ac- Sun., 24 inst.. 9 a.m counts and fixed deposits Sun., 24 inst. m. solicited.\n\nLoans granted Sun., 24 inst. 9 a.m. ..Moa., 25 inst, 10 30 a.m\n\napproved security. Mon., 25 inst., 10.30 a.m. Overseas banking a specialty. Mon., 25 inst, 10 50 a.m. INTEREST:-Current Ac- ...Mon, 25 inst.. 1 p.m.\n\ncounts 2; Savings 4; Fixed .Mon., 25 inst., 4.30 p.m\n\n...Mon., 25 inst., 5 p.m. Deposits: 3 months 3: 6 months\n\n.. Mon., 25 inst., 5 pm. 4, One year, 5%. ....... 26 inst., 10 a.m.\n\n---\n\n...Tues., 26 inst.. noon.\n\nLangchow ...Tues., 26 inst, 2.30 p.m. Chipshing ...1ues., 26 inst., 3 p.m.\n\n***\n\n351 BHDg ......Tues., 26 inst., 5 p.m.\n\nSafe Deposit Boxes for Rent.\n\nJ. Y. LUM,\n\nChef Manager.\n\nAsst. Chief Manager.\n\nR. WEUSTHOFF,\n\nLondon Bankers:-The National Provincial\n\nUnica Bank of England, Ltd. The Guaranty Trust Company of New York. New York Bankers: The Irving National Bank. The Buitable Trust Company of New Tork.\n\nInterest allowed on Current Accounts and Fixed\n\nDeposita. Terms on application. Every description of Banking Business trans-\n\nnoted.\n\nLoans granted on approved securities. Special facilities for Home Exobange,\n\nTSUYEE PEI\n\nManager.\n\nTHE BANK OF EAST ASIA, LIMITED.\n\nHEAD OFFICE:-\n\nNo. 10 Des Voeux Road Central, Established 1919.\n\nAUTHORIZED CAPITAL-10,809,00%\n\nPAID UP CAPITAL, 1,000 909.00 RESERVI PUND $ 200,000,00\n\nDIRECTORS:\n\nMr. Pong Wal Ting, Chairman. Hon. Mr. Chow Shou Bon, Kr. Kan Ying 20,\n\nMr. Mot Ching Kong. Mr. Wong Yun Tong, Mr. Chen Ching ebek,\n\nMr. Li Koon Chun,\n\nMr. Fung Plug Jbsa, Mr. P. K. Kwok,\n\nMr. Ng Chang Luh.\n\nMr. Huyah Ti\n\nMr. Kas Ühis Nam.\n\nChlef Manager. Mr. Kas Tong Pol Avoi. Manager, Mr. Li Tee Four.\n\nBRANCHES & AGENCIES:--\n\nLONDON\n\nNEW YORK SAN FRANCISCO YOKOHAMA\n\nPARIS SHANGHAI\n\nKOBE NAGASAKI\n\nSAICON\n\nBOMBAY\n\nCANTON\n\nThe Business of the above Bark is ooaðsawa by the HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION,\n\nRules may be obtained on applicati; m.\" INTEREST on deposits a allowed Minimum monthly balances at $3 per ann\n\nFor the Hongkong and Buangan Banking Corporation.\n\nA. H. BARLOW, Acting Chief Manager,\n\nPENANO\n\nSINGAPORE\n\nTIENTSIN\n\nHANKOW BATAVIA\n\nMANILA\n\nSOURABAYA\n\nSAMARANC\n\nCALCUTTA\n\nMidland Bank, Ltd.\n\nEvery description of Banking and Exchange\n\nTHE CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA, AUSTRALIA AND CHINA.\n\nIncorporated by Royal Charter 1\n\nPAID-UP CAPITAL\n\nRESERVA FUND\n\nRESERVE LIABILITY OF\n\nPROPRIETORS.\n\n£3.000.00\n\n23,700,000\n\n£3,000,000\n\nFOREIGN EXCHANG】 and General E ing busis es transmeted,\n\nCURRENT ACCOUNT opened and FIXE DEPOSITS received for 1 year or aborter period at rater which will be quoted on appliestirs\n\nJ. L. CROCKATT\n\nManager. Hongkong, 1st January, 1914\n\nBANK OF CANTON LIMITED.\n\nHEAD OFFICE, HONGKON{}}\n\nFOREIGN EXCHANGE and General Banking Busines Transacted.\n\nINTEREST ON FIXED DEPOSITS.\n\nFor 12 Months 5% per annum For 6 Months 4% per sanuma For 3 Months 3% per annu On Demand 2% per annum\n\nCURRENT ACCOUNTS\n\n2% per annum on the daily credit balances of over $100.00.\n\nLOOK POON SHAN,\n\nChief Manager\n\nLondon Brokers: The London Jolat Eity and\n\nTHE YOKOHAMA SPECIE BANK LTD\n\nbusiness transacted. Loans granted on approved\n\nsecurities.\n\nERTARLINER 1888)\n\nInterest allowed on Current Deposit Account Capital (fully paid up) - L\n\nst the rate of Two per cent. per annum on Bey- Bererve Fund ings Account Four per cent, per annum, and ʊn\n\nFixed Deposits at the following rates:\n\nFor 3 months at the rate of 3% per annum For months at the rate of 4% per annum For 18 months the rats of 6% per unum\n\nKAN TONG PO,\n\nChief Maungar.\n\nHongkong. Mazob 8th. 1891,\n\nTHE FUTIEN BANK,\n\n21. Connaught Road, Central.\n\nBaratio\n\nBombay\n\n1.100.000.0\n\n1.000.0\n\nBIAD OFFIСИ, ТОКОНАМА,\n\nBranabes and Agenalan\n\nBuenos Ayran Caloutta Changchun\n\nDaizen (Dalny)\n\nEni Yuen Kangroh Kobe\n\nLondoa\n\nLYORK\n\nLos Angeles\n\nManila\n\nFengtien Mukden Nagasaki\n\nHauburg\n\nHankow Honolulu\n\nTokya\n\nHarbin\n\nNagoya Newohwang\n\nRio de Janei\n\nBoeraLay\n\nBagon\n\nBan Fra061 Seattle\n\n@bang\n\nOnska\n\nSing\n\nband Sydacy\n\nNew York\n\nTinivir\n\nPeking\n\nVladivostook Teing:\n\nInterest allowed on Current Accounts, Depoarte received for Axed period\n\non Approvedbe obtained on application,\n\nGeneral Banking and Exchange Business Transacted, Loans Granted Becurities.\n\nInterest of Fixed Deposits :-\n\nFor 12 months.\n\nFor month.\n\nFor 3 months.\n\nOn Demand\n\n5% per akum.\n\n4% per annum.\n\n3% per aoNUD.\n\n2% per konum,\n\nCurrent Accounts:-\n\n2% per annum on the Daily Credit Balances\n\nof over $100.1\n\nLA CHEN YA, Xansget\n\nTHE INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL BANK, LTD.\n\nNo, 6. Des Voeux Road, HONGKONG.\n\nTHE INDUSTRIAL & COMMERCIAL BANS, LIMITED.\n\nT. NISHITAM,\n\nManage\n\nBongsong 11th September 1922.\n\nINTERNATIONAL BANKING\n\nCORPORATION\n\n$10,000,0 C. 5,424,0\n\nCAPITAL AND SURPLUS: UNDIVIDED PROFITS: RESERVE FOR DIVIDENDS: U. 8. j GDB,COR(Owned by the National Oity Bank of New York\n\nELD OFFICE: 69\" Wall Bizant NOW YOKS BRANCHE:\n\nLONDON: 36 Bishopsgat, I d LIONS: Place Tolosa SAN FRANCI800; 232 Montgomery BizIRA CHINA: Canton, Hankow, Hardin, Hongkong\n\nPeking Shanghai, Tremain, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Puerto Pin Bus\n\nPedro de Mooris, Bazobes Santiago Santo Domingo, Barahona, Bas Frame sisco de Macoris,\n\nHead Office-York Building, Chater INDIA: Bombay Calcutta, Bangor,\n\nRoad, Hongkong.\n\nBranches :- Shanghai and Hankow. Correspondents in all commercial centres of BPAIN: Barcelona, Madrid,\n\nChina and abroad,\n\nPrompt Service. Attractive rates for mil kinds of Deposits, Inquiries are welcome,\n\nS. Y. HSUEH,\n\nManager,\n\nTHE CHINESE MERCHANTS BANK, LTD.,\n\nBEAD OFF109\n\nAlexandra Pu!ldings, Übater Bond. Deners Beau ag” and Trebango kusiness trenrected.\n\nLone ried or any roved securities. Current Acounte opened sad Pized Deposite\n\nJAPAN: Kobe, Yokunama, JAVA Batavia, Bourabaya, PANAMA: Colon, Panama. PHILIPPINE ISLANDS: Ceoa, Manila,\n\nSTRAITS SETTLEMENTS: Bingapore,\n\nBRANCHES OF THE NATIONAL GIRY BANK OF NEW YORK. ARGENTINA: Baumos Aires, Monaco, BELGIUM: Antwerp, bruania, BRAZIL: Pernambuco, Purto Alegre, Ric\n\nJaneiro, Ban106, San Paulo. CHILE:_Bantingo, ValparaING,\n\nCCBA Bayana and 29 cition in Outa,\n\nadun INGLAND:\n\nITALY:\n\nPKRU: L\n\nPORTO RICO: Pomos, San Juan,\n\nRUSSIA: Moonw, Petrograd, (temporarily\n\nalored),\n\nURUGUAY: Kotvia\n\nVENEZUELA. Carmona\n\nAll description D. undking braimoas true noted\n\ncurrent and saving Interest allowed accounts and fixed depualle in Jues, es torna\n\nדיי\n\nressived at rater which may be ajedriniaed currencies as rates to be sucertained on spot. Ja\n\nale conducte a Baringe Depart.\n\nog applestina\n\nThe Ban ment\n\nK. C. LAU,\n\nief Manager\n\nLion,\n\nBURG BLG..\n\nManagers\n\nBontons 17cb M. 102,",
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        "content_text": "AMERICAN EXPRESS COMPANY.\n\nBANKING DEPARTMENT: Current Savings and Time Deposits in Local Currency, U.S. Dollars and Pounds Sterling; Issuance of Commercial and Travelers Letters of Credit; Collection of Drafts, Bills, Notes or Deposits Sale of Money Orders, Drafts, Cable and Mail Payments; Foreign Money Bought and Sold; Liberty Bonds Cashed; American Express Company Travellers Cheques.\n\nSHIPPING DEPARTMENT: Forwarding of Import and Export Shipments, Parcels, Baggage, Bullion, and Securities; Freight and Express Consignments in large or small lots between all parts of the world; Marine Insurance; American Express Company Through Bills of Lading.\n\nTRAVEL DEPARTMENT:\n\nTHE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.\n\nSATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1922.\n\nBANKS.\n\nSHIPPING NEWS\n\nThe following local shipping and mail intelligence has been corrected to noon to-day-\n\nVessel Pres. Wilson Dover M. Indien Kueichow Morioka M.\n\nMylie Kaiping Szechuan Hangsang Laibang Georgii Westfalen\n\nfor\n\nVessel Mohon\n\nReliable information planning trips, Tours or Cruises anywhere; Sale of Steamship, Railway, Sight Seeing Guide Tickets at regular Tariff rates; Baggage Insurance; Hotel Reservations.\n\nA COMPLETE WORLD-WIDE BANKING, SHIPPING AND TRAVEL SERVICE.\n\nDevorongis Yue Ying Wa Shizunka M. Shape Alabama M. Morioka M. Kiungchow Triseng Poolee\n\nYat Shing Kaijo M. Victoria Hangsang Dzufac\n\nVessels Arrived.\n\nAgents Pacific Mail Dodwell John Manners 8 & 8 NYK Moller & Co. Sing Kee B & S JH & Co. Wo Fat Sing Arnhold Bros.\n\nAgents Yue Woo OSK Yuan Seng Fat Chrong Bat NYK B & S OSK NYK B & S J M & Co. Hung Shun J M & Co. OSK\n\nFrom 8. Frisco via Manila Chinwantao Shanghai Canton Taikoo Dock Kow. Whf.\n\nASIA BANKING CORPORATION.\n\n(An American Bank for trade with the Far East.)\n\nOwned by group of American Banks and under the control of the New York State Banking Department and the Federal Reserve Bank.\n\nComplete banking facilities incident to foreign trade. Travellers Checks of the American Bankers' Association and the Guaranty Trust Company of New York, negotiable throughout the world, for Sale and Encashment with us.\n\nHEAD OFFICE:\n\nMooring Eow. Whf B 55 ▲ 52 Yokohamaa via Moji Saison C 36 Haiphong via Pukhoi Canton C 39 B. 19 C 35 Calcutta via S'pore Canton Kow. Whf. C 16 Bolt's Whf. Shanghai\n\nBRANCHES Canton Tientsin Hankow Peking Bremen via S'pore\n\nClearances.\n\nVessel\n\nWhere Bound\n\nDeparture. Sept.\n\nTerrane Yokohama vis S'hai Canton Hoihow hi Besttla via Keely Shanghai via Amoy Tacoma via Dairen Calcutta Amoy via Swatow Saigon Fort Bayard \" 6'hai via Swatow 1st Oct. Keelung Melbourne via Sandakan J M & UG. Tongtro via Swatow \" Bangkok via Swatow China Aut.\n\nImpending Departures.\n\n(Compiled from our Shipping Advertisements.)\n\nJ M Co. Destination Tientsin Singapore Sailing Date 1st Oct. let New York\n\nBRANCH: San Francisco. HEAD OFFICE FOR THE ORIENT: THE CHINA SPECIE BANK LTD.\n\nHEAD OFFICE: Manila Singapore D. M. BIGGAR, Manager.\n\nTHE BANK OF CHINA.\n\nTHE HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION. HEAD OFFICE HONGKONG. Paid-up Capital Reserve Funde:- Sterling ... Silver $20,000,00 £4,500,000 $23,500,000\n\nkocezve Limbliday of Proprionezu § 29.800,000.0\n\nDODAT OF DIRECTURE G. M. Dodwall, Eng.-Obama. Hon. Mr. A. O. Lang-Deputy ChairmN. DG. K. Borzard goa, Mr. B. V. D. Parz A. M. Bower Smith, Eng W. L. Pattonden. Be G.T.K. Edkins, B. B. P. Waits. Be P. E. Holyoak . Cute! Manny): A. G. STITHES, Reg Manager: Abazyba! ——9, B. Mun Bes\n\nLONDON BANK: LONDON COUNTY WESTMINATION PARK'S BANK, LIMITED\n\nCurrens aconas opened is Leeal Barret and Fixed Depoaths recorved far on your i borter perioda a Losal Ourrapay and Òsterling na termi which will be quoted on appliest)00\n\nHongkong, 20th February, 1922 (Specially authorized by Pres- idential Mandate of the Republic HONGKONO SAVINGS BANK St. George's Building, Hongkong. of China on the 22nd of Novem- ber, 1917.)\n\nChairman of Board of Directors Mr. Wong Shiu Ham Chief Manager... Mr. L.S. Holum Asst. Manager... Mr. K. T. Wong Hongkong Manager. Mr. I. P. Allen Foreign exchange and general hanking business transacted.\n\nCurrent, Savings, and Fixed deposits bear interests at rates 2% 4% and 5% per annum re- spectively.\n\nL. S. HOLUM.\n\nChief Manager Hongkong, 2nd October. 1920\n\nNEDERLANDSCHE HANDEL MAATSCHAPPIJ.\n\n'KITHERLANDE TRADING SQUINTY,)\n\nBablished 1834 100,000, 8,333,333\n\nPaid-up Capital1:19 446,200 £1,620.433 Reserve Fund....... ....................... Spacial Laser F1.22 650,000 21,889,333\n\nHead Offer:—Amsterdam' Branches at The Hague Botterdam - Brad Agency :--Batąpia BRANCHES Pekalongan Tebing Ting RearijeraİD Knokeres Bandoent Bombay Medan Padang Bingapura Boerabal Borzakarta Caloutta Palemban (Boin) Due Hongkong Cheribon Djember Prong (Dell) lot Oct. Djokjakarta Pontiana Int Kobe Rangooz Telok Betong 2nd Rota-Radja Bamarang Tjilatjup Shanghai 2nd örd 7th\n\nVessel Agents Stanley Benmohr Alps Maru Westfalen Free Claims Goods Storage to be Stored Expires In by A L Kowloon Sept. 29 Oct. 24 GL & Co. Kowloon Oct. 4 Oct. 18 Oct 4 OSK Kowloon Oct. 4 Oct, 8 Wed. & Saturday RD Co. Holt' Oct. 6 Oct. 19 Oct. 5\n\nExamina tion Date Sept 28\n\nSteamers' Movements.\n\nLaomedon for London. Rotterdam and Hamburg. left Shanghai ou 27th inst for this port, dne here on 30th p m and will be despatched at 4 pm. un 2nd October Protesilaus from Pacific Porte. arrived at Yokohama 28th instant. Mentor arrived at London on 27th September.\n\n!Ange Weltevreden Correspondents at Colombo, Madras Pondi oberry, Bangkok. Baigon, Haiphong, Hanoi. Amoy, Yokohama, Belbourne, Sydney, New Tork, San Francisco, ets,, ete.\n\nLondon Bankers: The National Provimajai, and Union Bank of England, Limited.\n\nThe Bank bays and sells and receive for collection Bills of Ezcbenge, issum tottera <1 credit on a Branches and correspondents the East, the Continent, in Great Britain. America and Australia and transsets banking business of every description.\n\nW. B, GRONKAMP.\n\nAgent.\n\nBANQUE DE L'INDO-CHINE (FRENCH BANK.)\n\nHead Onos: 96 Boulevard Hausamana, Pazin, Ginyo M. arrived at Yokohama on September 20th., and sails October 2nd for Capital - Honolulu, San Francisco and South Americk.\n\nMilan, Sept. 29. A hundred and forty-four bodies of victims have been recover- ed from the Spezzia explosion. More fatalities are feared. The rupted.\n\nInjured total six hundred.\n\nPOST OFFICE NOTICES.\n\nHongkong Kengtze Noumes Papeets Peking Paom-Pent Pondicherry\n\nBANKERS.\n\nBhaure Tientsin Tour Do Vladivostook Yuankolo\n\nReserves Frabos 45,000,000 50,000,000\n\nBRANCHEA AND AGENGJES.\n\nBangkok Bairon\n\nTelegraphic Communications with Gap Rock and Waglen Lighthouses are inter-\n\nINWARD MAILS.\n\nambang Djibout! Haiphong Jankow Надоб\n\nFrom Per Duo Haiphong Azay Le Rideau ..30th Sept. Shanghai.. Kanchow ...30th\n\nRESTRICTION OF RUBBER OUTPUT.\n\nLondon, Sept. 29. A supplementary report of the Colonial Office Rubber mittee is to be issued shortly. It is anticipated it will restriction of output in British overses possessions.\n\nEurope via Suez (Letters only, London Shanghai... favour Jupan 31st Aug.) Com-Australia & Manila\n\nLaisang ...30th Taiyuan lat Oct. Suiyang + 2nd Arafura Sicilia President Grant F ... 2nd 3rd\n\nOUTWARD MAILS.\n\nPer\n\nMOORISH BRIGAND SURRENDERS.\n\nSan Sebastian, Sept. 27,\n\nThe Minister for Foreign Affairs announces the surrender of the brigand Raisuli, who has caused considerable trouble for\n\nEurope via Buen (Papers only, London 31st Aug) Canada, U.S.A, Japan & Shanghai\n\nPor Swatow. Amoy & Kestung...\n\nmany years.\n\nIRISH POSTAL STRIKE SETTLED.\n\nLondon, Sept. 29.\n\nThe Irish postal strike, which has been in operation for several weeks, was settled yesterday.\n\nTO KEEP WELL IN\n\nGAMBLING WITH THE DOLE.\n\nTwo men out of number before the Durham\n\nTHE HEAT\n\ndaily regularity\n\nthe charged first importance, and to ensure\n\nCounty magistrates with gaming\n\nja\n\nof\n\nthis Pinkettes are perfection. These gentle little\n\nthe\n\nShanghai, N. China & Dairen Switow & Bangkok | Weikaiwei, Chefno & Tientsin\n\nShanghai & N. China... Saigon Samahur & Wnehow Straits & Egypt ... Japan\n\nSwatow ..\n\n---\n\nPhilippine Is Philippine Is. Shanghai, N. China, Japan, Honolulu, Canada, U.B. A., C. & S. America, & *Europe via San Francisco...\n\n+++\n\nadmitted that they had been swatow, Amoy & Foochow receiving laxatives\n\nunemployment Straits & Calcutta \"dole,\" as well as Poor Law relief Shanghai & N. China. The chairman said it was a dis Haiphong, Saigon, Straits, Ceylon, Mauritius Marques, S. Africa, grace that people should in this.\n\nIndia via Dhanuskhodi. Aden, Egypt & Europe via Marseilles...\n\nPINKETTES\n\nway waste money received from- the Government for the upkeep\n\ndispel constipation, regulate the of themselves and family. In\n\nKaijo M.... Arabia M. Kiangau ... Kueichow Szechnen... Haiyang.. Kochow ... Laomedon\n\nLaisang ... 17th\n\nDate :OCTOBER: -\n\n| IN FRANCE: Comptoir National d'Emom! de Paris Credit Lyonnais; Banqu de Paris et dra Pays-Bas; Credit Industrial et Commercial Boiacte Generale.\n\nIN LONDON: The National Provinais sad Union Bank of England Ltd., Comp toir National d'Escompte de Paris; Credit Lyonnais.\n\nIN NEW YORʦ J. P. Bogna 3 M\n\nInterest allowed on Current Accounts and Fixed Deposita scuording to arrangement.\n\nEvery description of banking and exchange business transacted\n\n7. MARSOT,\n\nAoking Manager.\n\n...Sun., 1 inst., 9 a m. Hongkong, October 21st, 1918. ...Sun.. 1 inst., 9 a.m ...Sun.. inst., 9am. ...San 1 inst., 9 a.m. ...Sun., 1 inat, 9am. ...Mon., 1 inst., 9 a m. ... Sun.. 1 inst. 10 a.m. .Mon., 2 inst. 10 30 a m\n\nTHE MERCANTILE BANK OF\n\n.. Mon., 2 inst.. ? 30 p.m Hydrangos......Man.. 2 inat. 3.30 pm.\n\n......Mon, 2 inst., 5 pm Slavic Prince ...Tues., 3 inst., 9 a m\n\nTyndareos\n\nPresident Wilson... Tnes, Jinat..\n\nRegistration 9.15 a.m. Letters 10 a m (Due San Francisco 25th Oct)\n\n...Tues., 3 inst., noon.\n\n..Tuee, 3 inst\n\n1. PD ...Tuse., 3 inst, 2 p.m\n\nHaifong Kutsang Kanchow\n\n---\n\nAngkor...\n\nliver, cuce bilious attacks, sick future the magistrates thought Bangkok... headaches, bad breath, costed that all similar cases should be\n\nPhilippine Islands Iloilo, Sandakan. tongue, clear the skin of pimples taken under the Vagrancy Act, and blotches. Of chemists, or so that offenders could be sent to post free, 60 cents the vial, trom prison for three months. Fines Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., 96 were imposed ranging from £2 to Szechuen Road, Shanghai. 1£5.\n\n---\n\n..1nen. 3 inat\n\nINDIA, LIMITED.\n\nSend Offna 11, Ornenshurst\n\n#treat. Lozdon, 8. 0 1.\n\nAuthorised (apita) Aubearibed Capital Paid Up Capital Reveres Fund\n\n£3,000,000\n\n-\n\n-\n\n1,000,000 2.860,000 1.150,000\n\nDAVIERS\n\nThe Bank of Haglund The London Jolat City & Midlang Bank, Lad BS.ANCHE:- Bombay Calcutta Colombo Dalbi Galle Яoogkons Howend Kandy\n\nRegistration 145 pm. Port Louis (nurtsins)\n\nLettera 230 pm. (Due Marseilles 7th Nov) Doen Samud...Tues., 3itat, 4.30 pm\n\nKarachil Kota Bhere Kuala Lump Madra New Yorl Perang Kangoon Bbanghe\n\nBingapore HONGKONG BRANCH Every deseription of Banking and brabange business transmoked.\n\nInterest allowed on Current Accounts at 8 per vent per annum on Daily Balanses, and on Fized Deposits at rates which may ba asceptained application.\n\nN. C. WILSON, Aoting pagar,\n\nAustralia & New Zealand via Thura- day Islands\n\nArafura...\n\n---\n\n*Correspondance hearing vansel's name only.\n\n... Wed 4 inst.. Registration 8 15 a.m. Letter's ga.m (Due Thursday Islands 19 Oct.)\n\n1, Queen's Road Central. Hongbong, 17th, January, 1822\n\nAuthorized Capital..$60,000,000.00 Paid up Capital...... 18,278,600.00 Reserve Funds...... 9,629,425.24\n\nHEAD OFFICE PEKING Hongkong Branch: 4 Queen's Road, Central.\n\nBranches and Bub-branches all over China other parts of the world\n\nThe business of the above hana ɔs soudbase by the HONGKONG AND SHANGHA! BANKIN CORPORATION.\n\nAndes may be obtained an appurasi-D INTEREST on inwe\n\nCorporation, on th\n\nMinimum monthly balanges at $34 rer aona\n\nFor the Honghong sad wager Barbra\n\nA. H. BARLOW, Acting Chief Manage\n\nand Correspondenta in Kurope, America, and THE CHARTERED BANK OF\n\nINDIA, AUSTRALIA AND\n\nLondos Bankera:-The National Provincial and Calon Bank of England, Ltd The Guaranty Trust Company of New York. New Tork Bankers:-The Irving National Banka. The Puitable Trust Company of New Yor]\n\nCHINA.\n\nIzaorporated by Boval Chan 12\n\nInterest allowed on Current Accounts and Fixed Deposits. Terms on application Evary description of Banking Business traD RESERVE LIABILITY OF\n\nnoted\n\nLosas granted on approved neuritics Special failities for Home Exobangs.\n\nTSUYEE PEI\n\nManager.\n\nPAID-UP CAPITAL_ RESERVE FUND PROPRIETORE\n\n£1,700,00\n\n43.000.\n\nFOREIGN PICHANG) and Beneral hol\n\ning bugle transacted,\n\nCURRENT ACCOUNTS +paned and PIN DEPOSITO rapeived for 1 year or sborist person atste which will be quoted on naplisation\n\nJ. LICROCKATT.\n\nManage).\n\nTHE BANK OF EAST ASIA, Hongkong, 1st January, 1914.\n\nLIMITED.\n\nHEAD OFFICE No. 10 Des Voeux Road Central, Established 1919.\n\nAUTHORISED CAPITAL 1. CAPITAL.\n\n20,908.00% 00\n\nRESERTS FUND) mátti várnak meg§- 300,000.00\n\nDIRECTORS:\n\n2. Pong Way Ting, ChaIEDAS\n\nHOL. Mr. Chow Shan Son. Mr. Kan Ying Pu\n\nM Loon Chua,\n\nMr Fox Play Bhas\n\nMY P. K. Kwok,\n\n*. Thang Linh\n\nMr. Buyab Tal\n\nMr. Mck Ching Kong.\n\nMr. Wong Yun Tong, Mr. Cha Ching dhok, Mr. Kan Obiz Nam.\n\nDale Manager Mr. Kon Tong Pn. Loss. Manager, Mr. Li Tu Pong\n\nBRANCHES & AGENCIES:- NEW YORK LONDON PARIS SHANGHAI XOBE NAGASAKI SINGAPOR TIENTSIN MANILA\n\nSAMARANG CALCUTTA SAN FRANCISCO YOKOHAMA SAIGON PENANG HANKOW BATAVIA SOURABAYA BOMBAY CANTON\n\nLinden Backers: ---The London Joins Ühty and Midland Bank, Ltd.\n\nEvery description of Banking and Exchange business transacted. Loans granted on approved securities.\n\nInterest allowed on Current Deposit Account at the rate of Two per oost. per annum on Bav Ingi Asanunt Four per deni, por ananu, sad on Fixed Deponiis at the following ratan:-\n\nFor a month at the rate of 3% per annum For montbe at the rate of 4% por ana Foz 10 mostbe the rate of 6% per\n\nIAN TONG PO.\n\nBongbong, Marab Mh. 1991\n\nÜbiof Mangor.\n\nTHE FUTIEN BANK,\n\n2. Connaught Road, Central\n\nGeneral Banking and Exobange Business Transacted, Losas Granted O Approved Becurities\n\nInterest of Fixed Deposits— For 12 months... For\n\nmontbe .....\n\nFor 3 months.\n\n--% per annum,\n\n3% per annum.\n\n2% per aIELD,\n\nUn Demand Current Avvounts :-\n\n2% per annum on the Daily Credit Balakene of over $100, )\n\nLA CHEE YA.\n\nManager\n\nTHE INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL BANK, LTD.\n\nNo, 6. Des Voeux Road HONGKONG.\n\nBANK OF CANTON\n\nLIMITED\n\nHEAD OFFICE, HONGKONG\n\nFOREIGN EXCHANGE D General Banking BURIDAR Transacted.\n\nINTEREST ON PIXEI DEPOSITS.\n\nFor 12 Months 5% per annum, For 6 Months 4% per annum For 3 Months 3% per annum. On Demand 2% per annum\n\nCURRENT ACCOUNTS\n\n2% per annum on the daií credit balances of over $100.00\n\nLOOK POON SHAN,\n\nChief Manager.\n\nTHE YOKOHAMA SPECIE BANKELT)\n\nBataulinand 1800 Cupita) (fully paid ny) — Reserve Fund\n\nBatavia Y 200.000 - 2. $.000.00\n\nBRAD OPPION, TOKORAMA Brushes and agensis N Bombay Buenos A7zm Calcutta Changchun Dairen (Dalny)\n\nKai Ines Tube Loydas Los Angeles Mantin Lyons Fengties Makdan Nagasaki\n\nHamburg Hankow Honolul Tokyo Harbin Nagoy Newchwang Draks\n\nZARZDOR Bo de Jaarl Bnerabeys Baigos Ban Fransi Beattie bangbal Bingapor Bbtmomon\n\nSydney New York Tienki TUBANIA\n\nPeking Vladivoston Thington\n\nInterest silowed on Current Asconais, Deposits received for hyed period\n\nba obtained on application.\n\n2. KIDHYAMA\n\nMasajul,\n\nBongo. 11th September 1922.\n\nINTERNATIONAL BANKING CORPORATION.\n\nU. $18,000, DEN U. B 5,458,15 G. B. I D80, 11\n\nCAPITAL AND SURPLUS: CNDIVIDED PROFITS: RESERVE FOR DIVIDENDS: (Owned by the National City Bank of New York)\n\nHOAD OPPION; 60 Wall Stroms. NEW YORK BRANOMES. LONDON: 36 Bishopsgas, L. C. LYONS: 37 Pisos Tolosas BAN FRANCISCO; 232 Montgomery Struer CHINA: Canton, Bankow, Harbin, Hongkong\n\nPeking Bbanghai, TrenseLD, DOMINICAN REPUBLIO: Kurrió Plana Sez Pedro de Macoria, Banobus Baguays Banto Domingo, Karamona, San Fran eino de Mooris Chatar INDIA: Bombay, Calausts, Rangoon\n\nTHE INDUSTRIAL & COMMERCIAL BANK, LIMITED\n\nHead Offee-York Building, Boad, Hongkong.\n\nBranches :--\n\nit hanghai and Hankow. Correspondents in all qummerajai denizen\n\n■China and abroad JAPAN: Kobe, Yokohama. BAVA: Batavia, BouraonYN PANAMA: Colon, PanaIDE. PHILIPPINE 18LANDS: Onbu, Malin. of SPAIN: Barcelona, Madrid,\n\nSTRAITH SETTLEMENTS : Singapore,\n\nBRANCHEM OF THE NATIONAL STY BANK OF NEW YORK, ARGENTINA: Buenos Altos, koenzie- BELGIUM: Antwerp, brassek,\n\nPrompt Service. Attractive rates för all kinds of DepoHILD, Inquiries are welcoma,\n\nS. Y. HSUEH,\n\nManager.\n\nTHE CHINESE MERCHANTS BANK. LTD.,\n\n醬精飓有行账\n\nLO\n\nAlexandra Bulld'ap1. Chster Boad\n\nDozera and Exebunga busimon\n\ntronasutad.\n\n| HEa2kl. Paranobus, form Amen. Bao Janeiro, Bancos, Ban Panic\n\nCHILE: Bantingu, Valparaino\n\nCUBA Bavana sod 22 səsinə in Cuba. ENGLAND: adaa.\n\nITALY:\n\nPERU: L\n\nPORTO 100: Pobus, dan Juna.\n\nRUSSIA: Mosenw, Forzigrad, (emporarily closed).\n\nURUGUAY: Mosterides VENEZULLA. Luznomi\n\nDADZIDO Pinshine tras\n\nAll descriptione di autod. Loans granted on approved suvarities.\n\nInterest allowed on surrent and satis Current Accounts opraad sad Fixed Deposits accounts and fixed deposita in joom va foreigi rseeived a rator which may be assortaimed ourrondins al raïme to be kerurteaned on applièw on application.\n\nThe Ban als conduct a Bavings Depart\n\nmeni.\n\nC. LAD. Chief Manaдет\n\n1105,\n\nGLURGY BOGG\n\nMaunger.\n\nHorford September, 30th. 1,22",
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        "content_text": "Page 361\n\nStatement showing in detail the staff of the Police Accounts Office and the duties of each member of it.\n\nThe staff of the Police Accounts Office is as follows:-\n\nAccountant - Mr. A. J. C. Taylor\n\nAssistant Accountant & Store Supervisor - Mr. W. F. Stone\n\nGrade II Clerk - Mr. Ip Kam Kwong\n\nGrade IV Clerk - Mr. Kwok Sze Fan\n\nGrade VI Clerk - Mr. Cheung Chu Wai\n\nGrade II Clerk - Mr. Ku Chik Fu\n\nShroff Grade VI - Mr. Chen Sze Cho\n\nAccountant's Duties.\n\nRevenue. He is responsible to the Captain Superintendent of Police for all Public Money collected by the Police Department for Licences Etc.\n\nTo see that the licences are correctly issued and to supervise the issue of licences.\n\nTo see that all bills are promptly rendered and that the amounts due are collected.\n\nExpenditure. To check all vouchers for expenditure before they are submitted to the Captain Superintendent of Police for signature. To verify that all accounts passed for payment are in accordance with the orders and contracts and that they are debited against the correct votes.\n\nTo make out all personal emolument paylists for the Fire Brigade.\n\nTo make out all cheques for the payment of the Police and Fire Brigade salaries and other charges.\n\nImprest Account. To make all advances authorised by the Captain Superintendent of Police and to see that amounts so expended are recovered.\n\nSubsidiary Accounts. Deportee Account.\n\nAdvances are drawn from the Treasury for these accounts and the Accountant is responsible that all payments made are recovered from the various Governments and firms. He makes out the vouchers for\n\nPage 361\n\n361",
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        "content_text": "Pearl Theatre \n\n(Opposite DUTCH FOLLY, THE BUND.) \n\nPROGRAMME FOR \n\nTuesday to Thursday Aug: 11 to 13 1925 At 1.30, 6.45 and 9.15 P.M. \n\nMARION DAVIES \n\n→ STE -- \n\n\"The Restless Sex\" \n\n7 KEELS \n\n--AND- \n\nEDNA MARIAN \n\n-IN- \n\n\"Her Daily Dozen\" \n\n(Comedy in 2 parts) \n\nThe Sun Roof Garden. \n\nCinematograph, Different kinds of Chinese & Foreign plays. Amusements are shown Day and Night. \n\nAdmittance 35 Cents. \n\nExtra charges for Tom, refreshments, Talossops Observation, \n\nExhibitions of Transtigaration. Special Vinoma \n\nRear Seats \n\nnt \n\nTHE CANTON GAZETTE, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 13, 1925. \n\nSoviet Mercantile Fleet \n\nThe \n\n\"Sovtorgflot\" \n\n\"MONGUGA\" $74 \"PAMIAT LENINA\" \n\nwill leave Canton for Swatow and Shanghai and Vladivostok on or about 18th August. \n\nFor further particulars apply to \n\nPetroleum Office of Trade Mission of U.S.S.R. in China at Canton \n\n(Agents of Soviet Mercantile Fleet \"Berfo glat\") \n\n2nd floor, Central Bank of China Buildings, The Bund. \n\n行銀央中 \n\nTHE CENTRAL BANK OF CHINA \n\nEstablished by Government Mandate of 7th August, 1921 \n\nOfficial Government Depositary \n\nGENERAL BANKING BUSINESS TRANSACTED \n\nTelephone: Central 199, 444, 777. \n\nTelegraph Address: \"CENTRAL\" \n\nTSE VUNG SOONG \n\nChief Manager \n\n東 \n\nThe Bank of East Asia, Ltd. \n\n(CANTON BRANCH) \n\nSAPSAM HONG STREET, CANTON. \n\nHead Office-HONGKONG. \n\nCable Address---**FASTA BANK” \n\nSHAMKEN, \n\nTelephone No.-1876 West. \n\nAuthorized Capital $10,000,000.00: $5,000,000.00 \n\nPaid-up \n\nReserve Fund \n\nBRANCHES & AGENCIES throughout the World. \n\nEvery kind of banking facilities:- \n\nGranting loans on approved securities. \n\nSelling drafts and buying bills on Foreign agencies, \n\nTHE ORIENTAL HOTEL \n\nAND \n\nRESTAURANT \n\nTHE BUND \n\nFACING THE PEARL RIVER \n\nWith the Whole View of Canton City \n\nFrom the Roof Garden \n\nModern Accommodation and Comfortable Equipments \n\nHot and Cold Baths \n\nServe best Foreign and Chinese Meals \n\nWe prepare party dinners \n\nThe Sincere Co., Ltd. \n\nUniversal Providers. \n\nThe Bund, Canton \n\nNew Arrivals Of Tinned Goods And Silks \n\nOur Own Manufacturers:-- \n\nAERATED WATERS, PERFUME, GLASS WARE, METAL WARE, RATTAN WARE, FURNITURE, &C, SOAP, \n\nOUR ROOF-GARDEN:- \n\nCinema and a Variety of Chinese & Foreign Plays \n\nAdult 35 Cents, \n\nAre shown DAY & NIGHT.-- Admission \n\nSavings Department. Concessions to small depositors with current accounts interest \n\nTHE SUN CINEMA. \n\nPROGRAMME FOR \n\nAugust 12th to 0th, 1925 \n\nTRIANGLE PLAYS \n\nPRESENTS \n\nDOROTHY DALTON \n\n \n\nThe Far Eastern Trust and \n\nSavings Bank, Ltd. \n\n34, SECOND MALOO \n\nWEST BUND, CANTON. \n\nHONAM-SUB \n\nCABLE ADDRESS \"BANKTRUST\" \n\nBRANCH \n\nTA KEE TOW \n\nAll descriptions of Banking Business transacted, \n\nInterest allowed on Current and Savings Accounts and \n\nLoans granted on approved securities. \n\nIN \n\nFIXED DEPOSITS. \n\n\"The Dark Road” \n\nIN FIVE BIG REELS \n\n$1,80 \n\nVarious Comedies \n\n \n\n \n\nTHE \n\nChina Development \n\nCommercial \n\n& Savings Bank, Ltd. \n\nTelone (9-tra] 792 \n\nAditing, West Bugend B'. \n\nCroston \n\nTHE SUN Co., Ltd. \n\nUNIVERSAL PROVIDERS \n\nWEST BUND; & WAI OI STREET, OLD CITY. CANTON, \n\nfe in to join advantage to visit our Wholesale and Retail Departments. All kinds of China silk piece goods, boots and shoes, hats, outfitting, etc. \n\nPROFESSIONAL QUALITY \n\n7 out of 10 cases of \n\nHEADACHE \n\ncan be cured from eyestrain. If you were a victim of this trouble, you should have your eyes examined soon. \n\nDO IT AT THE SUN CO. \n\nDr. K. K. Yang, who takes charge of our Optical Department, \n\nhas specialized on Ophthalmology and Optometry. \n\nJET \n\nSuits for our third floor, well-stocked for \n\nDR. KÜNK, \n\nA modern Banking and up-to-date... All manner of interest rates allowed for all kinds of deposits. \n\nLoans granted on approved securities \n\nBANK OF CANTON LIMITED, \n\nHEAD OFFICE, HONGKONG, \n\nINTEREST ON FIXED OR WITH \n\nCURRENT ACCOUNTS \n\nFor 12 Months 5% per annum, \n\nFor 6 Months 4 per annum, \n\nFor 3 Months & per annum on the daily credit \n\nbalance of over $100.00, \n\nOn demand \n\n2% per annum \n\nChief Manager \n\nLABOR AND PEASANT MOVEMENT. \n\nTHE CANTON \n\nGAZETTE \n\nWEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12, 1925. \n\nCommerce Leaders On Trade Permits. \n\n(Continued from Page 1) \n\nPeanut Oil Shipments \n\nDiplomatic Commission's Report On Shanghai \n\nShootings \n\nNo Enthusiasm For Judicial Inquiry--Chinese Rights Recovery \n\nMovement. \n\nPeasants Movement. With The Strikers. \n\n„Outing to the best product of elibe th Workers infinging the vari joik being insul? cirat far the preda Government Devises Means To \n\nMeeting Of Peasants Union OffThe \n\nSow bad but all good to be the people, to saul rely Aid The Workers On Strike. 1st Division Of Pun Yu District. \n\ntransporth a sie abject to ajan skipun ka the hum A present the movement for the inspection, and this shows that the Taingear wind beachwang Bia the (YBOX QUE YEASANT CORRESPONDENT) \n\nand Nationalist Revolution \n\nthe authorities \n\not oflented buke massage, shipping bus bort tilf After the establishment of the Nations emancipation has \n\nuniformily is the internal affairs, tied up, and regular supplies of oil only the faulted brake from Shock Of French Minister's Split. Diplomatie turpe have ap \n\nPeasants Union of the 1st division \n\nprogressive, Rod towardɛ the actio Mr. Long Ton Hing said the Geotou lava imen impossible Paris sud Teky, is generally) \n\nfelt tore that thpt of the parently reanvered from the sbank Pon Yo! Fongebuan) f \n\nof the rains wochers on ekrike, Commit-ones Buty land taken up tuns causing a ries in the murkor \n\nConniving to Shanghai should be of the Fench Minister'e rezigna District great soccer das fillorect \n\nthe Governmel has led its be the maler with His strikers, adde \n\nThe Cute Balta Unkel liebed bioause it participeter, in att pablico give them advice and estistuuon, the Butte Cermitte died rent Mr. \n\nSo for very little Tadication for I was told to day that the vacancy thas create on the Uɔra- activities. This is the third soul goes the Atrike a garrist into Lai Torg Fo to the Come Shaughst kan spesially pirates; meeting for skation of Commit fot, the Gavermout has red Department to deal conjully wished a forge consignawel of pear on glee by the Legatione contain would most probanly as Members. Everyone attended the} \n\ndevire no efforte to \n\nen forit. so said that this in simply full from Tsingtao, for shipment turning its esetents, but the Chinese led in the course of a few days. \n\nIt is nateraled that the moment are thornghiy convinced that it) After the recting with interess. \n\nmaintaining the livelihood of the matter the part of the Pickete Caston to meri leoni nada. misssacre of the bite Persillut. Me-trikers, and \n\nA gram bas bra rectly contains wittesuls cond-matia of the Walebicoupe agres to limit the ital diturions to the Shangbai 1 taken further sed it can be iti u the met Lum Pub-abus, the prepa krew steps to plan for this organizing held by the rite it from Shanghai stating that the Shanghai. In the encantas, affair and disttangle it entirely well that in neder to gata fedemtion of a fre Labor Employment Boday. \n\nwas shipped to Caxton per 8.8 therefore, the excuse of the Legather fauce, the L-gations will \n\nHua Tan1 \" Yang\" to tins that pubility would be a fester inte formal negations. they should be crited. \n\nTwo Problems, \n\ndesirable në the prcent time would \n\nThere does aut seam to be ruah \n\narrive within a few days. It is an \n\nipated that the price of oil on the \n\nt seem to be tenable, for the bope that this will secar for some \n\nreport on the progress sẽ chlá i \n\nwill drup \n\nBurns:iudings of the Commiration canuettes how ver, for pessimistio views \n\nUnion during the past half year. \n\nhe said Agency, and will be \n\nJone of them saying to-day, \"Every \n\nof esucer ions to the Chinese side of thing is right up is the st.\" \n\nthe \n\nasket \n\nMr. Wis Chung Tong said that \n\ndisending the question Specia! Porrults, there are two lar] (2) Reading a report from the viraduced to work at the taaleries porte: & niste which require dia. cedially the oil spot w salt. contain anything like the number \n\nare the rais sung the Diplomate, Provincial Prasanta Bulou giving of the Qovernment, Organized curiou pervious to other points;- \n\nbio of gel permits, hai 1.vfile care silaged in Chines circles. The Judicial Inquiry particulare of the Sbike and Pelili | Bodies or private onneeros. \n\nnal conditions, \n\nSOLUTIONS: \n\n(1) A 1 I'm perleliete Sad Erbed sny tinta to \n\noverthrew our revisionary \n\nmeet, we take it that this preval. ni \n\nwamacre is no opportunity for \n\nnational revelation to come lo touch with the Imperialists, \n\nReports are to be made by a \n\n(1) I The Hous of Special Permits \n\nFly \n\nwiched to know what slegs are to be \n\nthe factorior together with the \n\nHere shali-hed? of names of Camic workers, and & \n\nStill the authorities are \n\ny \n\nI have tried to obtain official \n\ntaker in case of an IGLESINE colnetant, even to discus3 be repropilen on the Shanghai suggestion \n\n(3) be in revani juchfying And detention of gcle after the they say that it is tharugbly of judicial inquiry me a prelunicary moso to Diplomatic nogatíations. at tinn of Sucis! Permits, and understand abrand bath \n\nthe question skoold content and in spirit. One fois! be British Legation refuse to cros heronghi sussidered and prep tuld me to-day that the Commission rant on this or any other anggen ensures adopted in safeguard the cted an the eyes and curs of the tine and other Legation are not nthusiastic, the g-coral opinion Diplomatic Corps and that their findings were intended merely being that the bat way out of the \n\nMr. Chow Tie bong said that \n\nbeats for the Tegations in their present imposan is to concentrate on wh the Chinese the task of commiting the Chinata \n\n\"It's setrue tovernment to a conferences \n\nfuture. \n\native-vuot \n\nto be cent mostly to the shove the fame of puniat Purists, but mentioned raployment Agency. | there permite abon'd be perfine₫ 1 giving paritenters of the retire-goode which necessarily seqnies \n\nIt should be sorate and appointments of workers.aponia! permission. The workers who are now set of pheduled as to what sort of good#] () As the Torpaciaklata do do! | employtcut will shen he introduced are specially emitted and what] like na to have any protest in Recording to their order of registra-sort of goods can be transported thought glat per missing is zorgulations \n\nfreely. There are send goods. thesarily quired for \n\ngads and native tate, ned that \"ggest that the report evatuise \n\ned to ma sa. Who will you appiat parahase of which in weessary le \n\nwholesale condemnation,\" he said. \n\nWhen asked the nature of the judgest Who in to suggest a meet demands, but which are for special permission should only he list of goods to he boycotsed \n\nobtained when its cecessarily peers autarquently extended judicisi inquiry? Whose respost- the Commission, this official replied bility is F It was felt that the regaired for the gonde. \n\nwwa entirety outside the Mr. Lee The Ting said that he \n\nthat they wers iustimated to tey to \n\nmatter \n\nGnd basia of onderstanding with nommatenae of the Diplomatin Corps quite agreed with the option the Chinese delegates. This agro Chinese \"Obstacles\" Mr. Le Long Yo \n\nthat the qualienment, bait it been sirived at, wond \n\n(2) The atrikers are not striving for their own privilegra but striving \n\nfor national freedom \n\nChild 15 Cents, \n\nHOTEL \"ASIA.\" \n\nWEST BUND, CANTON. \n\n亞洲大酒店 \n\n廣州市西 \n\nDOW \n\n49 \n\nBeveral questions were propound- \n\nBuoi pinion is that, as long \n\nthe Shanghai Comantasion' \n\net e they axercise their finsreini \n\ntun, to work at these fmolorice influence to purabase tools such as \n\nwhich will be only allowed to tak Chang Teo-lin, He Yao-nan, ou the workere from the Emply Chen Chiong-ming, Tavg Punjab ment Agency first before they are and other anti-revolutionarists to allowed to employ outridle workers. \n\nMr. Chiu Riang Yo said that опросе аль \n\nBerides the above Agency, Lonsidera at the isang of each Workers Reception House will alan Special \"ermits and he put into be retablished to norept the workers forer, for it is within the power of \n\nunemployed. Their \n\ndaily the authorities to dreide whether of adapting proper meastires to if have been used by the Diplomatie) \n\ngoard the future stoukk he Carpa to gain a complete ander (4) Strike is the only wesJOG \n\nexpenses will ho fixed ecording to Special permission is to be given o \n\nby naslona to try to persuade the that we have to fight against the \n\ntheir profusion while \n\nthe But, bat en har part we should considered, but that a list of the standing with the Chinese Cover report serasina a pstery, it would echinit the case to Daperiliis, therefore if our strike responelbility of using the fandsgather to publie epioion sequods abcold be made unt first 1nment. He wisked to emphasize that: \n\nthe much discussed document could blese to complication anj that: is successful the Government is also so reset those ux penina will be whotter suob Squaint Permita should \n\nnot be made public for the reasor judicial inquiry, they being fully ancetesful but if is fails the Gov shouldered by both the Government be enforced or nut- \n\nHodded at preclamation should be issued for that it containert confidential vinced that the report contatos an indiętoget of Shanghai. In information which was intended for theen streamatseen the ChiansO thero 6:0 gonta wbich requiro \n\nMr. Chiu Kiang Ya said that re the sole use of the Diplomata in Jonger exist. \n\nA Worker Training Rehoal will special permistion and these are (a) Wo pensaate living i \n\nhe instituted within the aboy goods belarging to the nations with tentatives should be nominated their negotiations with the Chines glowy villeges provive ile dame Reption Hopen lo benel the whieh perange of Huseietconnee Jay this Chimeran Deperiment in Govornicent. \n\nthe vare Delicate Position \n\nMerever it has always bron dea cacemic and political oppressional workers \n\ntid comparatively stan has been difend, and it is \n\n[vidared in Peking that the Chinese from the Io perinata as the people valushie Parsing in the the art nucess to spunify in detail ni \n\nLater meeting of the maider themselves the judger on of all claeren presise. Therefore agro-ding to their usual profession. these grode. \n\nDiplomatie Corps 1983 held the Shanghai affair. They always morning. No statement refer to the British as the culprits efter was Kiven out, A British and will not approach the problem report Legation officiel saying that the to the alightest spirit of vara pre- \n\nposition we so delicate that nothing mias \n\ntriñera. \n\nwe must also do cur bit to help tho The neurre in this soholi will b \n\nfor grjually inorvused in faturs \n\nELECTION. Mr. Wong Hung Ploihe aake of promoting the estu \n\nwas cleabed as the Priest, and \n\nof trokers, \n\nvold \n\nLeonjunction with \n\n：： Khambers of Commerça \n\nPestigate and to decide what sui \n\nwill Jequire Spei \n\nin \n\nE \n\nthut \n\nMr Chow Chin Sheen Fald that of goods In considers the enfora meal of the Permissing, \n\n» Special Permite quite thorough investigation a Impossible breaust of the \n\nMr. Puo Kam Hong said that event of Specis! Perrite sheold \n\nVice President. Mesers Yi Ram Cheaper Fire-wood For difficulty and tesuits in derling \n\nMr. Ta Yang was elected as the \n\nHot, So Ku and Chong Xu more \n\n堤 \n\ncheted sa members of the milte and Massrs Lon Sek And Wong Yon, Tow Pa elected as judge \n\nL'o- Mus wore \n\nDESTRUCTION OF PEASANTS UNION AT HAI LU FONG. \n\nLEADING HOTEL IN SOUTH CHINA \n\nFirst Class Accommodation, Hot and Cold Water Service Throughout, Electric Lights, Fans and Elevators. Perfect Sanitary Arrangements. Spien- did Dining Room, Meals a la Carte, Excel'ent Cuisine. Public Bar. First Class Billiard Room. \n\nRoof Gardue \n\nBanquets, \n\nSplendid Views of Canton City and Pearl River Hairdressing Saloon. Moderate Rates. \n\nUNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF \n\nTHE SUN CO, LTJ, CANTON. \n\nHIGH-GRADE \n\nJob Printing \n\nEXECUTED WITH \n\nPROMPTITUDE \n\nAND \n\nACCURACY \n\nAT LOW COST \n\nTHE CANTON GAZETTE \n\nPRINTERS & PUBLISHERS \n\nCanton. \n\nwith such permits and on secourt: \n\nof the time for shipping the goods being a shot. \n\nskuld be made. \n\nFald \n\nuld say: \"Now that the first port is unfavourabls, you want 'armiker liquiry.\" \n\nKuomintang Leadership. \n\ncould be issued in the Press. Thie attigial \n\nthat your \n\nThe underlying fant of the pre- permitted reappondent might b ho temporarily auspended and that \n\nthat the Carpa End madent situation is that the Shang- the Cinmei Dë Depurament bebeen idle in three lost for weeke, affair been completely in istenes on Scoing that firemund is a daily \n\nMr. Le Tie Ping euid that, in requ zied to form in juration but that the usture of the diecur near sha inged by \n\n{with Commercial circles, theBious must remain sceret peril aceh recovery of perige rights. The cessity for the people, the Gay \n\nbie opiblor, the eve of Special \n\ntime on it was opportune to make slagan. \"Abolish Unequal Treating\" lab ur glass Me, an \"Association of ennen? gave special orders to the \n\nby the l'ems for the \n\nany aument to the waiting warld.sted to ba mnapilize} parpore of deltae simics at tho Esat, West \n\nFrons efter gaatters Fundor Rusintang, bat sowadays oven Meericua in miting the importation of foreign investigation for the parate of \n\nluvestigating into the question. jstand thas the Waichinupa has at the most gamervative Chinese, wha and Forth Rivera veling that they should preveu gods that the products of our \n\nyot acerpted tire Legational thru months ago would have con The Chairman, having laid the exhortion of the easiled prut clius | country \n\nongiortation \n\nflow battled befa any ditens wild mees are reacting themselves the side of the rights rayhty sins take pluca ch other matters, made This is the argument Low bez movement.--Peking Correspondent \n\ncarried on by theu Juiling, the of the N. C. Dally News \n\nfor \n\nA telegram from the Peasants fees on all junts carrying fir foreign eruntries are not fer, and hove proprenis before the membe- iw point beat the Shanghai case-moedach rail as th Faik \n\nUnica of Hai Fung, \n\nrends: \"A \n\nveer 500 \n\nhan:1 Roldiers \n\nthat be thinks that free transporta- \n\nfor the \n\nFangwood Ea Cartan, sed should give \n\nwas Amendment tebel them every proficios Instead. \n\nThese orders hayo bee heya ton of goods from one place to ing commented by Lo Yet \n\nYoung by the various defrate armice, and another in an ew couster should passed by the musetingi- Tange Chok Moy, Yoce Viu Chong in the past few days the varius a permitted, but the distinction Pass Resolution \n\nChore, are fireword junka at 660 different was kind of grods should be stated. Seng Bad Chung being assisted by Cheng Bon Nemecticus have been able to arrive at \n\nIn added thek tice su and other uti-resolutiousrists and Canton in perfect safety without! \n\nthe nemaity of paying the prate Capitalists and nailed to one group. They are being careled by the re- \n\nb- General Trb. Their le sia \n\nle to rain the pensant of Flai anri \n\ntion fera en-erate? \n\nKeon the extention of Pea mach \n\nprein Permits may perhaps \n\npexible with regard to trade with \n\n“That be spesixi permits will be \n\nquired the goods which are Dok; the gods of the romy vations. The The va i us Chemibres \n\n& reign compris, but it is absolute for Commerce for \n\nng there junk by the lunal hundits | ly impossible d'or interne! trade, \n\nLu Fang. The Prasanta Uniors bse not \n\nof Hai Lu Fang and Chin Tongeving \n\nنا \n\nbeen a heavy \n\nbefor \n\ntho protection of the \n\nwere destroyed by the rehols, and armies: hesos the great deep in the the Preddent of the Executive price of fireword on the inseket. \n\nJu edditio: 47 the Committed Mr. Sit Aam Yito wai \n\nkidnapped. \n\nAs the \n\nthey \n\nbruke inty \n\nMr. \n\nChoy Tel \n\nCommittee of that division and \n\n+x-Presilent of the Executive Traine, amely:- \n\nCheck on \"Enemy\" Goods. \n\nAmmittor \n\nHow British Oppress the \n\nChinese Seamen in \n\nHongkong. \n\ncurtain \n\nChinese TOS\", \n\nif \n\nstrikera in \n\nCanton wre facing starvation and that they อวน!! strike Bod return to Canton they would meet the same fate. \n\nThe seamos replied that they \n\nconjointly with the Authorities, to avsetigate to what ark of godle named Chan bau, who had been wall strika even though they \n\narrasted and detained by Hongkong Government for seizetize) \n\nMr. Pan Kam Blong said that | og enemy auflon gunde.\" \n\nWork \n\nthered to ₫ nth. \n\nthe particular reason of iasing The suggestion of Mr. sheve such profel Permits to do Kok Sbing to winate the Proud was recently expelled from \n\nbaye veranen of financial commction; \n\nChinese \n\nseamen \n\nAgain Ho Baiskwong threstened \n\n•hem by saying that if they do ant \n\nbe \n\nĮsomply with his order, they would \n\nhe \n\nsubject to arresŠ. The seamen \n\na that they would prefer to be \n\nlime large shipments of fireworks! the house of also arrived from the North River with certain foreige patiune. ad Bid-st of the four Chamb-tot Hongkong is connection with \n\nverzner only applies Commerce as representatives to see strike, has come up in Cantos and the Beation by the Ynot-Han Railway that the Low, \n\nto genie \n\nof the Britial and the cho Commissioner of Commerce related how the British Imperialists imprisoned than to continue thir \n\nwith fe added that and \n\nin employ. consult \n\ntim oppresg Japanese patious. \n\nHearing this, its halfcaste the Commerce Department should ainut the procedure, was passed Hongkong. \n\nby \n\nand Messrs the meeting, be reqeated to prepare a list of \n\nWhoo the bitsking\" re-ompradora, He Sawong, beame ordered #greatly enraged and gnode of these nations with signs Chow Tin Hong of the Cneral turned to Hangkang from Tinstein the Bettiah palice to \n\norented great disturbanes and \n\nthe first! tulsbery. loners of division received the same treat ment. This band of rebels compos ed of over 2000 had arrived at Lui Wo Cheng cu the 6th inetant, \n\ndare not disarm that Turing Those few days the Generals of Chen Oblog-ming were trying to Sorada \n\nHN and and rent their \n\nMonday Ear cara \n\nTuesday six cars \n\nWednesday four cars \n\nThursday night on \n\n(including night train) \n\nFriday eleven CATA \n\n(including night traio) \n\nSaturday four ears \n\nto \n\nfor identification and mark out Chamber of Commeros, Liang-toug \n\nSunday four cars \n\nEach of the above cara contained \n\nabout ten thousad catties of fire-goods \n\nof Commerce \n\nAriest and \n\nThe seamen were sentenced to \n\nthe which are far que daily to the City Chamber, Ya Hu-om the 7th alt, the British, realis ake them to the Harbour Master quirements and of which purchase of the Union of Merebant, anding that the Chinees we mew on for trial. is necessary, and then for the trova Trung Shau-dek of the Cooperative board the said vessel u uld join the \n\nware wriks, ordered the reveal to be two weeks' imprisonment if they portation of snch goods Special Chamber \n\nbat taninateri « representatives to monerd at Leesamman. for frure still insisted to strike. The seamen Permite will be innuit, \n\nThen they were permasted refused and so wera imprisoned. not belonging to ourg with Mr. Liang Tan-hing,shere. \n\nWhen the term of imprisonment prices of which have enemy natius should not require representatives of the Commerce sot to join the strike by one of the \n\nDepartment, \n\nGate | Louis of British Imperialism. Com-woe sarved, they were expelled from overtbrow the therefore greatly dropped day by such permite. \n\npradoro Ito Sui-kwang who threakon Hongkong and come up to Cantou Mr. Ire Long Yu said that he missioner Soneg. Our day, as there is already so over. Government, \n\nstriker, adding that is weekend. The meeting ended at 5.30 p.m. the has miroudly studied the question of \n\nspies to Hai Lu Fong to raise up wood, the \n\nap \n\nNationalist \n\nto \n\nGovernment must take note of this, stock \n\nand \n\n200",
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        "content_text": "7\n\n(3.)\n\nGovernor of Hong Kong to the Secretary of State for the Colonies.\n\n(Received Colonial Office, April 15, 1926.)\n\n(Telegraphic.) P.\n\nSecret. Repeated to Peking.\n\nHong Kong, April 15, 1926,\n\n1. Canton negotiations. Your telegram of 13th April. For the reasons given in paragraph 3 of my secret despatch of 24th December, Hong Kong official opinion is emphatically against any payment of blackmail to the Canton Strike Committee (see also paragraph 8 of my secret despatch of 23rd December).\n\n2. In December last effect of trade loan had not been realised, as issues had only just begun and Chinese merchants in Hong Kong were greatly afraid of financial crash at the Chinese New Year (13th February). There would therefore have been great dissatisfaction among them and consequent loss of confidence in the Government had the latter then refused them permission to negotiate for a settlement by the payment of blackmail to the Strike Committee.\n\n3. The developments since December have, however, altered the position :- (1.) Owing to the attitude of the Canton Government and the Strike Committee the negotiations undertaken by the Chinese merchants broke down (e.g. my secret despatch of 6th January).\n\n(2.) None the less, as reported in my despatch No. 80 of 23rd February, the Chinese New Year was safely passed.\n\n(3.) The Strike Committee received a check through the customs incident in February.\n\n(4.) The committee's position has been further weakened by the recent coup of Chang Kai-shek.\n\n(5.) The position of the Russians and Communists at Canton has been similarly shaken.\n\n(6.) The downfall of Bolshevism in China is also foreshadowed by events in Peking.\n\n4. The result is that opinion among Hong Kong Chinese merchants is hardening against payment of blackmail, and they are no longer anxious for a settlement by this means. Great majority of British merchants are opposed to any such payments, an attitude which they have consistently maintained. The view of the Government is that the defeat of the Canton Strike Committee is an essential condition of satisfactory and lasting settlement.\n\n5. Signs are not wanting that the economic unsoundness of the boycott and its inherent artificiality is being increasingly felt in Canton, where it is becoming increasingly inconvenient both to the people and to the Government. Not only is there a movement in Canton to oppose Communism and to expel the Bolsheviks, but the chances appear to be growing of Chinese war lords from the North overthrowing the present régime. I am credibly informed that efforts will be made in the middle of May, when a meeting of the Kuo Min-tang is due to take place, to expel Communists from Canton. If these efforts were to succeed the boycott would automatically be ended, as the Canton Strike Committee is part of the Communist element and would therefore cease to exist.\n\n6. In these circumstances, members of Executive Council, who have expressed their concurrence in the terms of this telegram, unanimously agree with my view that firm adherence to the line taken by Kemp, as reported in my telegram of the 10th April, is likely to yield the best results.\n\n(No. 204.)\n\n(4.)\n\nSir R. Macleay to Sir Austen Chamberlain.—(Received June 7.)\n\n(Telegraphic.) R.\n\nMy telegram No. 203.\n\nFollowing received from Canton, No. 55 of 5th June-\n\nPeking, June 7, 1926.\n\nI have been informed privately by Minister for Foreign Affairs that he has been instructed by the Government to open negotiations for settlement of boycott and proposes to adopt whichever of the following two courses we prefer :-\n\n(a.) Address a letter to the Governor of Hong Kong to be sent through me asking him to appoint official delegates to negotiate with Canton official delegates for settlement of Hong Kong boycott; or\n\n(b) Address a letter to me suggesting that I as the Imperial representative, assisted by Hong Kong officials, negotiate with the Canton delegation for settlement of anti-British trouble throughout the province.\n\nBut in either case he desires assurance [beforehand] that a reply will be addressed to him as Minister for Foreign Affairs of Nationalist Government of Canton. He does not by this imply de jure recognition of Government, but desires same treatment as given to corresponding official in Peking during period of non-recognition.\n\nI presume that this point will not be allowed to stand in the way of a settlement, and I would suggest adoption of the course (b).\n\nIn the latter case I would ask for definite instructions regarding claims by British subjects for losses in this province. Is payment of these to be seriously demanded from the Canton Government, in which case they must be dealt with in the negotiations and will indefinitely delay settlement, or are our claims only to be used to offset Chinese claims for deaths in Shameen shooting, &c.?\n\nMinister for Foreign Affairs tells me that Chinese delegation consisting of himself and the Minister of Finance and Minister of Labour will have full powers and negotiate as principals. Intention is to begin afresh, disregarding what has gone before, but he assures me that the Government earnestly desire a mutually satisfactory settlement.\n\n\"I respectfully request an early reply.\"'\n\n(Repeated to Hong Kong and Shanghai for Counsellor.)\n\n(5.)\n\nGovernor of Hong Kong to the Secretary of State for the Colonies,\n\n(Received Colonial Office, June 6, 1926.)\n\nHong Kong, June 6, 1926.\n\n(Telegraphic.) P.\n\nSecret. Canton situation. I have informed His Majesty's Minister, Peking, of the following developments. On the 4th June Brenan was informed by Eugene Chen, who is now the Cantonese Minister for Foreign Affairs, that the Canton Government had ordered him to open negotiations for the settlement of the boycott. He suggested the following alternative methods of procedure, and said that he was prepared to adopt whichever of the two we preferred:\n\n(1.) Letter to be addressed to consul-general suggesting that negotiations for the settlement of the anti-British boycott in Kwangtung should be opened between the Canton Government and the consul-general, as representative of the Imperial Government, assisted by officials from Hong Kong.\n\n(2.) Letter to be addressed to me through consul-general asking me to appoint official delegates to negotiate with official delegates appointed by Canton Government.\n\nBrenan favoured the adoption of (1).\n\nIn either case, it was Chen's desire that an assurance should be given to him beforehand that the reply when sent should be addressed to him as Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Nationalist Government of Canton. He said that he only desired the same treatment as was accorded during the period of non-recognition to the corresponding official at Peking, and that he was not out for de jure recognition of the Government.\n\nI informed Brenan, after consultation with Secretary for Chinese Affairs, that-\n\n(a) The Hong Kong Government is ready to reopen negotiations with the Canton Government as soon as possible.\n\n247",
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        "content_text": "See also 23140, 23143, 23220 and 23222\n\nThe talks. In this paper unfortunately delayed.\n\nwhich Fo have dial walk Mr convanation with Engen Lampson's\n\nThey show chady Chen (1) that the Canton Govt. regards the recognition question as the only problem and the tax question of secondary importance\n\n(2) that they appreciate the difficulties of recognising a national Govt. of China which controls half China\n\n(3) that they are prepared when they only control the area which they control in respect of the land, they and only they should govern\n\n(4) that while they would be prepared from this point of view to accept recognition of the area which they control, if this did not mean splitting China.\n\nAt this stage the wretched Chen tried to devise formulae to cover the two irreconcilable standpoints. nativally unacceptable and was reached!\n\nThe formula Scablock\n\nBut it is possible that something further may be done in the way of keeping conversation going, placing a check on the hope of the Canton Govt. is attempting make further territorial progress on anti-British agitation.\n\nIn view of Chen's remarks it seems P.O",
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        "content_text": "## Enclosure No.3 \n127 \n(Extract from Kwok Man San Man, Canton. 20th. January, 1927) \n\n### Intrigue of the British in the Hankow incident revealed \n\nTelegram published by the Foreign Minister Chen on the 15th \n(From the Chung Wa She News Agency) \n\nA Telegram dated the 15th. from Eugene Chen, the Foreign Minister of the National Government, states that normal conditions have been restored in Hankow. But the British merchants have purposely suspended their business, which reveals their crafty plans. The telegram reads as follows:- \n\nThe National Government has made it its duty to afford proper protection to the lives and property of all British and other foreign subjects in Hankow while under its administration. In case of any trouble arising out of any particular circumstances, the National Government, if it fails to fulfil its duty, will make good any loss that may be suffered. The British Authorities should realize that the resumption of the Concession by the National Government was necessitated by circumstances, under which, unless the Concession was returned to the Administration of the National Government, armed British troops would have again had to shoot the Chinese and another general strike would have been set up, paralyzing the activity of the Concession and destroying the value of the property there. Let us look into the case deeper, and take it as a movement forced by circumstances, which in more serious cases, often develop beyond the control of any man who may desire to take or has already taken precautions to check them. If we view it like this, the movement will appear as a political starting point from which",
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        "content_text": "## \nCanlingse and when Kat the North į Hat Chang Teo-lin aw Kat beginning also hold K-Crumble cannot form a Fort. Sun Chuan Fang - reduced to but a shadow of its former power.\n\n### The first serious effort to take Shanghai\n\n252 arc provided with striking confirmation of the view how almost a Kus Min Tang In China are common place. Kat the vital force is nothing and that there is to check the effective spread of win on Chen's formula. If recognition is accorded Khi Cantonen as shower f 1 recognise c ousse abo 015 any established elsewhere in China.\n\nIn forachan Peking heare establishment J it and. Lave Kyive is raced out for the a Govt. is not enough. some evidence of stabilih –- and Chang wo. Lave to cope will the rat. like tendency Meave the sinking ship.\n\nSo abo and Shanghai so med Sun Chuan Fang's Govt. at Shanghai out: Lo woner Lave 15 refusing Hull Than ら J every justification for accent it recognition penting the Hi mili military opsations indeed no the Govt. In now in progress.\n\nChina eligible for regional recognition except perhaps Yunnan, Yunnan has troubles of is own and has played ...",
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        "content_text": "# 2/2\n\n2. In introducing this Report to the Committee of Imperial Defence, the Chief of the Naval Staff made the following comments:— \n\nLord Beatty said that as the defence of British interests in China had always been mainly a Naval responsibility, the situation in that country was of greater importance to the Admiralty than to the other Services. If it was correct to assume that the situation in China was so grave that an upheaval similar to the Bolshevik upheaval in Russia might take place, then it was inconceivable that any of the military measures recommended in the Report, such as the despatch of one Brigade from India, would be of any use; in fact, it would probably be harmful, in that it would be calculated to incite Chinese feeling against Great Britain. If military operations in China were to be undertaken, Japan was the only Power in a position to undertake such operations, and though this raised a question of big imperial policy beyond his own province, he personally was inclined to think it advisable, if the situation in China were going to deteriorate to a great extent, to ask Japan to take such action.\n\nThe Committee of Imperial Defence recommended that in the circumstances then existing no reinforcements of the troops in Hong-Kong should take place, although the General Staff were asked to enquire into the cost of accommodation. (See Minutes of 202nd Meeting, held on the 22nd July, 1925.)\n\n3. In March 1926, in again reviewing the situation in China in the light of the disturbed conditions which then existed at Canton (C.L.D. Paper No. `677-B`), we invited attention to the provisions of our earlier Report quoted above (C.I.D. Paper No. `617-B`).\n\n4. Since that time, considerable naval reinforcements have been sent to the China Station, including the aircraft carrier \"Hermes,\" but the new gun-boats will not be ready before the autumn. On the 15th December, 1926, it was decided to send a military reinforcement of one British battalion from Gibraltar, which is due to arrive on the 4th February, 1927. In the meantime, the Indian battalion at Hong Kong is held ready at short notice to proceed to Shanghai, and may leave at any moment.\n\n## THE PRESENT SITUATION\n\n5. In the last few months the situation has very much deteriorated. Further and serious disturbances which we apprehended in June 1925 have arisen. The Nationalist Government, working to a considerable extent under Bolshevist influence, has obtained control of the greater part of China south of the Yangtse. Two of the British Concessions on the Yangtse (Hankow and Kiukiang) have been evacuated. Shanghai is menaced in the near future.\n\nIt is to the safety of the British and foreign Concessions, and more especially to that of Shanghai, that we address ourselves mainly in this Report.\n\n6. Our first Report on this subject (C.I.D. Paper No. `617-B`) contained a list of the Treaty Ports in China, which number 49 in all. The only Ports, however, to which attention need be drawn at the present time are the following, at which British Concessions exist: Amoy, Canton, Chinkiang, Hankow, Kiukiang, Shanghai, Tientsin.\n\n## THE SMALLER CONCESSION PORTS\n\n7. Leaving the important question of Shanghai to be dealt with later in this Report, we wish to point out that the protection of the smaller Concessions must, as indicated in our first Report (C.I.D. Paper No. `617-B`) devolve upon the Naval Forces. The Navy, however, cannot as a general rule do more than afford protection against mob violence. If it is a question of dealing with organised military forces evacuation will usually be the only course. Hankow and Kiukiang, as already mentioned, have been evacuated and are in the occupation of the Chinese Nationalist Forces. Even if, as Eugene Chen appears to wish, these Concessions are returned to their proper owners, we could not recommend any plans based on the assumption that they can be defended against the Nationalist Forces or against anything more than mob violence.\n\n8. Taking the remainder of the minor Concession Ports mentioned above in order, the situation at each is as follows:-\n\n### Amoy\n\n9. The principal part of the Concession is, we are informed, situated on an island and is easily defensible. We were informed by Captain Lake that if a company of infantry could be spared from Hong Kong it might be able to hold this Concession. We have not, however, sufficient local knowledge to make a definite recommendation on this subject, and we think that the arrangements at Amoy had best be left to the Naval Commander-in-chief in consultation with the military authorities at Hong Kong, and the local Consular representative.\n\n### Canton\n\n10. The situation in regard to the defence of the Shameen, where the foreign Concessions at Canton are situated, are fully set forth in a Memorandum by the General Staff attached to C.I.D. Paper No. `722-B`, the conclusions of which are summarised in the last paragraph as follows:-\n| Conclusion | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| (a) | Any action taken with regard to Shameen, which involves military consequences, will have to be taken in co-operation with, and with the prior agreement of, the French, who have a definite share in the foreign concession. |\n| (b) | The evacuation of Shameen will almost certainly involve its looting and possibly its destruction by the Cantonese. |\n| (c) | The institution of a blockade without the evacuation of Shameen will almost certainly produce a demand for military protection. If this demand is to be met, a garrison of two companies of infantry, with machine guns, and two sections of pack artillery is considered the minimum that could safeguard itself and also the concession. |\n| (d) | Owing to navigational difficulties, a garrison in Shameen could quite easily be cut off and marooned. |\n| (e) | If Shameen is cut off from the outside world, a combined naval, military and air operation would have to be undertaken to relieve it. It is not impossible that such an operation would land us in extensive commitments. |\n| (f) | The operation described in (e) would constitute an act of war against China. |\n| (g) | Unless His Majesty's Government is prepared to face the above liabilities, the evacuation of Shameen should be a necessary preliminary to the institution of a blockade. |\n\n### Chinkiang\n\n11. At Chinkiang there is one British destroyer. An American destroyer is also stationed there, whilst at Nanking, which is about 50 miles higher up the River, there are two British cruisers and one more British destroyer. These ships could provide a landing party of about 300 rifles. This force should be sufficient for the maintenance of order against the local population, but in the event of the arrival of Chinese Nationalist troops the concession might, in circumstances similar to those which arose at Hankow and Kiukiang, have to be evacuated.\n\n### Tientsin\n\n12. In our earlier Report (C.I.D. Paper No. `617-B`) we stated that the international forces at Tientsin amounted to 138 officers and 2,978 other ranks, including British forces of 24 officers and 673 other ranks. We have not had time to check these figures in detail, but we have no reason to suppose that they have altered materially. The original purpose of these forces was to protect the Concession at Tientsin, to keep open communications with the Legations at Pekin, and to provide guards at those Legations. We doubt if they would be able to achieve this object in any grave circumstances.\n\nThe said forces are sufficient only for the maintenance of order in times of popular disturbance, and would be in a position of grave danger if exposed to attack by a large organised Chinese force. Co-operation by ships at Tientsin is not practicable. The only source from which reinforcements could be obtained at Tientsin is Japan.\n\n[15645]",
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        "content_text": "246\n\nTHE CHINA CRITIC\n\nMarch 13, 1930\n\nMarch 13, 1930\n\nTHE CHINA CRITIC\n\n247\n\nsheet, and broken up in the middle by advertisements of medicines that will respectively make the hair grow, \"keep the womb warm\" (sic!) and \"make the old young in spirit again.\"\n\nBefore I read the news itself, my eyes lighted upon a very curious and, from the sociological standpoint, highly interesting advertisement immediately preceding it. Or rather there was a couple of parallel advertisements, which were headed (A) \"Tang To's Home Has Been Robbed,\" and (B) \"Tang To Is Sixty Years Old This Year\"—all in very fine calligraphy, I must say.\n\nThe text of the advertisement itself was printed in the artistic \"Sung-Dynasty type,\" too. The self-proclamation to the world about a robbery was already extraordinary, and one could not think of any motive unless it were to let the world know that something important had happened to the said advertiser. However, that was his own affair. I thought, and the craze for front-page publicity was by no means confined to the orientals. But Ad. \"B\" was a peach. I was wondering what Mr. Tang's being \"sixty years old this year\" had to do with the general public. But I soon found the reason. In view of its great sociological significance, allow me to reproduce the first part in full:\n\n\"On the 11th of March, (being the equivalent of the 12th day of the second moon the day when the hundred flowers come back to life of the year Keng-wu), (1), Tang To, have just reached the age of sixty. (I) propose to use the pretext of a birthday celebration to raise a fund for some honorable purpose.\n\nAll ye my friends, relatives and members of the same clan who wish to present Tang To with birthday gifts, PLEASE GIVE ME CASH!(big type is original). Be so kind as not to send poems, scrolls or silver shields, SPECIAL attention is called to the fact that I DO NOT WANT TO RECEIVE hall hangings, ceremonial checks, puddings, dumplings, candles, and noodle (italics are ours but the caps are Mr. Tang To's original),\n\nThis was not the Wit and Humor Column: the advertisement was paid for, and even banks for receiving the CASH have been designated.\n\nnews to solve, no nerve-stretching and heart-rending counting of columns and lines and space, no wasting time pondering over which item is going into the front page and which to go behind. Here was an austerely simple conception of newspaper technique that might stagger the Western journalists and have shamed Joseph Pulitzer himself. As it is, however, since ours is a \"nationalistic\" age, the editor of Domestic News naturally comes first and has the whole \"front page\" (or more correctly, the whole one-third of a front page) to himself. This makes all internal squabbles between the editors of the different departments a thing of the past.\n\neditor at all, inasmuch as there is no necessity for co-\n\nMoreover, it disposes of the necessity of having a chief\n\nordination, and thus saves a heavy item on the salary of\n\nbusiness, and not bother about his fellow-editors' job,\n\nthe editorial staff. For if everybody will mind his own\n\neverything will go on smoothly, almost automatically.\n\nHe has his allotted space, and he is there to fill it, and if he is a fast worker, he fills it quicker than all the rest, and may go home for an early supper even. Truly ours is the Land of the Free!\n\nBut this astonishing simplicity of method of editorial procedure could not be carried out without a second important discovery in newspaper technique. What if the Domestic Editor has a little too much \"copy\" for his allotted space? Suppose he has two or three lines left which cannot by any method of line-squeezing and space-saving be printed on his \"front page,\" what shall he do? A graduate of the Missouri School of Journalism would think at once of using the column reference method, But the Missouri graduate forgets that this is an unwarranted waste of the editor's time and energy. No, the thing is much simpler than that. Let it go right on to the first column of the next sheet and to the Hell with repeated cross headings! As editors are also human beings, the next department man generally has no objection to this encroachment of his territory, for it latter's responsibility for the day.\n\nmust be acknowledged that this takes away part of the\n\nGenerally, after acquiring some technique in turning over the sheets (Sheet No. One is followed by Sheet No. Two, which, however, in actual practice is not so simple as it seems, as all readers of the \"big paper\" will testify), the reader will soon have no difficulty in chasing the unfinished two or three lines. As it happened this day, I found several such pages beginning with the middle of a sentence, unhailed by any sort of heading. Thus, for instance, on page 7, I found immediately after the editorial, a column beginning abruptly with the words \"how they treated you may be waived for the present\" (…). Who is this \"you\", I meditated? My common sense told me, however, that as page 7 follows page 6, which again follows page 5, and as all these preceding pages contained nothing but advertisements about quick cures for gonorrhea and syphilis, logically it could only have been the continuation of an unfinished paragraph on page 4 of the preceding sheet, or Sheet No. One. A few minutes' work soon proved that my guess was correct, and the world had\n\nnot yet gone to pieces, in spite of all that Einstein crowd may say about the fourth dimension and other such rot.\n\nThat is what Chinese birthday celebrations have become. But to go on with our voyage of exploration. I found that the editors had, as Mr. Chen said, a very great and simple way of classifying the news. Nothing could be more simply conceived and more simply carried out. I am informed that the editors themselves are classified, one belonging to the Domestic Department, another to the International Cable Department, another to Local News Department, etc. and I saw the classification and make-up of the News automatically followed the classification of the editors themselves, Here was the acme of simplicity and efficiency—no question of make-up, no soul-harassing problem concerning priority of news.\n\n“唐駝六十初度,擬借做壽為名,集得現款移作一件正當事業.凡我朋友親戚家欲為唐駝載者,求惠賜現款...\n\nBut we have already inadvertently come to the Second Sheet. And here again was a wilderness of advertisements: Hazeline Snow, Baby's Own Tablets, Key to the Stomach, Longevity Tablets, which are good for \"your wife, if she is weak\" (as the ad. says), Cod-liver Oil Emulsion, and lawyers', publishers', merchants, and college presidents' advertisements (the college presidents' names generally appearing in big type), all staring at you from the middle of the page. But all, on the whole, still quite respectable, with the exception of the ubiquitous Yao Tso-tun Gonorrhea Tablets (AGA) and a few aphrodisiacs.\n\nLying somewhere in dangerous proximity to Yao Tso-tun's ad was the editorial. The editorial, in consonance with Chinese humility, was a very unpretentious affair, appearing in very small print, including its caption. I had been prepared for some school composition on \"Thrift\" or \"Obedience to Heaven,\" or \"The Importance of Patriotism,\" or \"The Greatness of the Chinese Nation,\" for I must confess that I have read this daily before. It was therefore a pleasant change to find that today's editorial dealt with an economic problem, namely, that of Unemployment. As some readers seldom have the opportunity of getting acquainted with the Chinese editorial line of economic reasoning, I shall reproduce the most pertinent remarks. The reader need not be alarmed, however, even if I reproduce it in full, for it consists only of fourteen lines. However, even this is unnecessary, because the line of reasoning is perfectly straight and simple, and the style lucid.\n\n\"The problem of unemployment has already become almost the most important problem in the world. (Any problem under discussion is always \"the most important\" in the world). Not to mention the poor countries, even the strong countries like America, England, Japan, and Germany, which are all highly developed industrially and strong in capital, have no way of dealing with the unemployment problem. So much the less is to be expected of the other countries.\n\n\"According to the method of the American Government in dealing with the unemployment problem, the way is to provide funds for carrying on constructions as a means for absorbing the unemployed workers. This is because they deeply realize that the great number of the unemployed is largely due to the excess of goods over demands. The buying power of the world market is daily becoming weaker, so if they should put the workers into the factories, this will increase the excess of the goods over demand still more For instance, the recent fall of silver is also an instance of the fall of price due to the excess of the commodity..\n\nThe editorial at least has the virtue of brevity. It does not try to talk too much about a thing concerning which there is apparently so little to be said.\n\nNow we come to the news proper. The editor of Domestic News is still holding his ground. I notice the editor has a very good sense of geographical sequence, not even allowing the topic of the news to interfere with his geographical arrangement. Thus, little one-line or two-line telegrams from Nanking follow in close succession, each having to do only with itself, and each being graced with a special head. After a regular succession of telegrams from Nanking, come those from Peiping, and then those from Tientsin, By the time we are in the midst of telegrams from Tientsin, we have already come to the bottom of page seven, and hence our common sense tells us that the next telegram from Tientsin is to be found on the top of page eight, and on top of page eight it is indeed. We thus make a mental tour with the Domestic editor through Hankow, Tsinan, Tsingtao, Foochow, and Amoy. The great headlines, together with their happy-go-lucky distribution, gives the reader a sense of the extreme variety and richness of the news, although one feels that all the items are equally important or equally unimportant. I was already in fear and trepidation for the things of truth and beauty I had been hunting for. And now we come across the ubiquitous Yao Tso Tun and his anti-gonorrhea tablets again right in the midst of the reading column. This page eight is literally broken up with patches of advertisements, as a besieged city wall might be riddled with bullet marks. And as the advertisers generally vie with each other in having their insertions printed with as big characters as possible, the editor has no ghost of a chance against them unless he were to make the headlines louder and bigger than the characters in the advertisements. As this manifestly cannot be done, what the newspaper reader sees is not domestic or international news, but Ovomaltine, Hazeline Snow, and the big characters of Yao Tso-tun, shouting to the reader \"Those Who Believe In Me Come Quick! Quick!” (…). Mr. Yao evidently has a message to the nation which seems almost prophetic. One might think it possible for the editor to come to the advertisers for an agreement so that the ads will appear in one half of the page and the news in the other. So far as a layman can see, no sacrifice of space is thus entailed. But into the mysterious workings of the editorial mind we will not probe. He who interferes makes trouble. There have been too many new-fangled ideas already nowadays.\n\nAs I said, after the Domestic Section comes the International Cables Section. There isn't much space left on page eight now, and he who looks for continuity of reading is heading for trouble. For all readers of the said \"big\" paper must remember that page eight is the last page of Sheet No. Two, and Sheets Nos. One and two are folded together, while Sheet No. Three is the first sheet of second set. To the Second Set, therefore, we go. The conditions here are all similar to what I described for page eight, namely, advertisements with big characters spread all over the page, while the news proper with monotonous and invariable heads are inserted in between.",
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        "content_text": "67\n\n- 12\n\n13\n\nI-E.\n\nDraft Notice referred to in paragraph 6 of 1—D.\n\nThe undersigned Exchange Banks, feeling that the return of the Colony's currency to its true silver basis will improve trade, check unhealthy speculation and prove generally beneficial to the Colony's best interest, announce the following procedure effective October, 1929 :\n\n1. The undersigned Banks agree to accept over their counters Mexican Silver Dollars and British Trade Dollars (the so-called Hong Kong Dollar) at par in the normal function of a circulating medium of that size.\n\n2. The Banks will continue to accept the existing Hong Kong one dollar note, but decline to pay it out over their counters until such time as the circulation of the above mentioned Silver Dollars becomes so thoroughly re-established that the currency, as a whole, is on its true silver basis. In place of the One Dollar Note, the undersigned Banks will pay out over their counters the above mentioned silver dollars in the ordinary function of the One Dollar Note.\n\n3. Merchants and firms who are likely to accumulate large amounts of silver dollars as a result of this practice, are invited to communicate with any of the undersigned Banks, as arrangements have been made to take care of this contingency.\n\n4. Nothing in the foregoing is to be construed as affecting the Bank Notes of larger denominations in any way.\n\nThe undersigned Banks feel that any slight temporary inconvenience caused by the use of silver Dollars in the place of One Dollar Notes should be borne cheerfully in view of the great advantages to be derived from the restoration of our currency to its real level and accordingly request the co-operation of all classes of the community to this end.\n\nII.\n\nLetter from the Associated Banks.\n\nThe Hon. Mr. W. T. Southorn,\n\nColonial Secretary, HONG KONG\n\nHong Kong,\n\n26th November, 1929.\n\nSir,\n\nAt a meeting of the Associated Banks of the Colony held on the 21st November, a discussion took place in respect of the shortage of notes in the Colony, and it was unanimously decided to represent to His Excellency the Governor the desirability of making the conditions under which the issuing Banks at present issue notes less onerous.\n\nIt was therefore decided to petition His Excellency to remove the 1% Tax at present payable on notes issued against silver dollars held under the control of Government.\n\nA large amount of silver dollars has arrived, and further large shipments are expected to arrive in the Colony shortly, and the withdrawal of the 1% Tax would be an inducement to the note-issuing Banks to increase their issue of notes, which would relieve the shortage of notes under which the trade of the Colony is at present suffering.\n\nWe the undersigned Banks do accordingly petition that His Excellency the Governor, in the interests of the Colony, be pleased to remove the 1% Tax in so far as that portion of the note issue against silver dollars is concerned, which will permit of an immediate increase of the note issue.\n\nWe are, Sir,\n\nYour obedient Servants,\n\nTHE AMERICAN EXPRESS COMPANY INC.\n\n(Sd). E. W. DUGGAN.\n\nManager.\n\nFOR THE P. & O. BANKING CORPORATION LTD.\n\n(Sd).\n\nW. J. WADDINGTON.\n\nManager.\n\nBANQUE DE L'INDO CHINE.\n\n(Sd). A. LECOT.\n\nManager.\n\nFOR THE NATIONAL CITY BANK OF NEW YORK.\n\n(Sd). F. McD. COURTNEY.\n\nManager\n\nFOR THE HO HONG BANK, LIMITED.\n\n(Sd). Ko LEONG HOE.\n\nManager.\n\nNEDERLANDSCH INDISCHE HANDELSBANK, N. V.\n\n(Sd). C. STIGTER,\n\nManager.\n\nEQUITABLE EASTERN BANKING CORPORATION.\n\n(Sd). D. M. BIGGAR.\n\nManager.\n\nFOR THE BANK OF EAST ASIA, LIMITED.\n\n(Sd).\n\nKAN TONG PO.\n\nChief Manager.\n\nFOR THE BANK OF CHINA.\n\n(Sd). SHOU J. CHEN.\n\nManager.\n\nFOR THE INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL BANK, LIMITED.\n\n(Sd.) M. T. CHIEN.\n\nSub-Manager.\n\nNEDERLANDSCHE HANDEL-MAATSCHAPPIJ, N. V.\n\n(Sd). P. M. ELBERG.\n\nAgent.\n\n68",
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        "content_text": "## \n**RESTRICTED**\n\n\n## MEMORANDUM FOR THE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL\n\n\n### HONG KONG'S FUTURE AIRPORT\n\n\n| Column 1 | Column 2 |\n| --- | --- |\n|  |  |\n\n\nPage 1\n\n\nThe  discussion  on  the  replacement  airport  has  been  ongoing  for  some \ntime  now.  The  decision  to  build  a  new  airport  at  Chek  Lap  Kok  was \nfinally  made  in  1989.  The  project  involves  not  just  the  construction  of \nthe  airport  but  also  the  development  of  the  associated  infrastructure, \nincluding  roads,  rail  links,  and  other  supporting  facilities.\n\n\nThe  new  airport  is  expected  to  be  a  major  boost  to  Hong  Kong's \neconomy,  enhancing  its  status  as  a  major  aviation  hub  in  the  region.  It \nwill  provide  increased  capacity  for  air  travel  and  cargo  handling,  thus \nsupporting  the  growth  of  trade  and  commerce.\n\n\nThe  construction  of  the  new  airport  is  a  complex  and  challenging \ntask,  requiring  significant  investment  and  careful  planning.  The  project \nis  being  managed  by  the  Airport  Authority,  which  is  responsible  for \noverseeing  the  construction  process  and  ensuring  that  the  airport  is \ncompleted  on  time  and  within  budget.\n\n\nThe  new  airport  will  be  a  state-of-the-art  facility,  equipped  with \nmodern  technology  and  infrastructure.  It  will  feature  advanced  security \nsystems,  efficient  check-in  and  baggage  handling  systems,  and  a  range  of \namenities  for  passengers.\n\n\nThe  development  of  the  new  airport  is  a  significant  undertaking  for \nHong  Kong,  and  it  is  expected  to  have  a  major  impact  on  the  territory's \neconomy  and  infrastructure.  The  project  is  being  closely  monitored  by \nthe  government,  which  is  committed  to  ensuring  that  it  is  completed \nsuccessfully.\n\n\nPage 363\n\n\n`XCR(85)72`\n`GR1178/1922/32(III)`",
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        "document_key": "CO129-536-1 Estimates- 1932 3-9-1931 - 16-6-1933",
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        "title": "CO129-536-1 Estimates- 1932 3-9-1931 - 16-6-1933",
        "content_text": "166\n\nTHE BLUE FUNNEL LINE\n\nREGULAR AND FAST \"PASSENGER SERVICES FREIGHT AND LONDON SERVICE\n\nBLUE FUNNEL LINE\n\nLIVERPOOL SERVICE CRUHLUS\n\nFor part fail, blueponi, Karm, T'kam & Hamborg Par Port Nauč, Tärnepool & blavzi\n\nNEW YORK SERVICE\n\nCICKOJ\n\ntutor\n\n» York & Nemeč\n\nsta Pilipponen langen\n\nPACIFIC SERVICE\n\nTM Robe mod. Takohem)\n\nFRITHILA ON IRION\n\n**411\n\nINWARD SERVICE\n\nPie Faria, Van'rre à Monani\n\nBet Finans. Van'vor & Selle\n\nKEENEA D\n\nrahu, Kobu & Tokohama\n\nOLTRES Dus der For Mangiai, Kobe & Yekekrana\n\nLik megy Manman artą landed pestskapar segon macalarn\n\nspomaly rudsand furni\n\nPar fright, manage ena nad mačkemaluan apply sa tạo waedne.\n\n4:1 karkiam per abjani, tu så peersings of the Compania 'a\n\nBul al Coding\n\nBUTTERFIELD & SWIRE\n\nJEPA\n\nBARBER-WILHELMSEN LINE.\n\nTHE PREMIER ALL WATER ROUTE 10 NEW YORK and other U.S. Atlantic Purta via Pam\n\nAli Vessels call at SAN FRANCISCO and L.OS ANGELES route\n\nPassengers desiring to travel, by this interesting Route will Nad the accommodation provider! well to to their nicpeovations, up at a cost TRDNÍ reasonable\n\nPar Passenger and Freight information pinnas apply —\n\nDODWELL & CO., LTD.\n\nQuan Blingy\n\nAge\n\nTelephone 2002:\n\nNY.K.\n\nLINE\n\nREDUCED THROTONTEES TO COLORE VIL VIA\n\nVAITING PRON JETA 10 ZIMO-ON BALE\n\nMAN VILAMÓCA vu Bhanghai, Japan Porte à Bouvindo\n\nWednesday, 28th Chalobar Cheboku Hagu\n\nWednesday, 11th Nov.\n\nPaula Maru\n\nBATTLE, FANCHEVET TA Mazgirt à Japon Potte\n\nHiye Mucu\n\nHan Mar\n\n...\n\nTuesday, November\n\nTue, 10% Kovanciar\n\nDAMBAN, MARSHOLES, ANTWERP & COTTURkkar via Bergspare.\n\nno & Semi\n\nKabar\n\nKe Mau\n\nSaturday, 30th Coleber\n\nSaturday, 14th November\n\nSTONET & MELBAUENI Can Kamila à Marse\n\nKamu Maru\n\nKado Mar\n\nBang, 24th October\n\nSaturday, 21st Novačakar\n\nDAWNĀTOS Mincipars. Fotang Daimle\n\nMam Mar\n\nToki HA\n\nr\n\nSunday, Schaber\n\nFriday, 10th Cetaker\n\nBANE ARBOGA. – Tan Ömat) Tin Japan. Hapalulu Gora je spadea,\n\nProda\n\nOTO Mar\n\nNEW YORK & Benson via Panama\n\nTAUT Haru\n\nTueday, 30th November\n\nWednesday, 11th Nov.\n\nLIMPERIAL na Pars zinad. Binnekami «Canolamiragley, 4 frames de\n\nToyok Mare\n\nFriday, 14th November\n\nCALCUTTA A Sumpspoes, Pmany 4 Koljone\n\nMalers Maru\n\n+Macera M\n\nSHANKKI, KAR & YOKURASA\n\n*me Maru.\n\nYe Men\n\nha Maru\n\n12\n\n1\n\nBaturday, 7th Novembar\n\nThursday 2 Peter\n\nMAP October\n\nVeda, 5 th Chekkur\n\nYOUTH CHINA MORNING POST. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1931.\n\nRIVETLESS SHIPS.\n\nWelding Processes at Olympia.\n\nSTRIKING EXHIHITA\n\nSeveral sinking exhibita si Thư Exhibém, ut Olympia, den: with\n\nKADING QUERIES.\n\nHarbour Master Gives Full Details.\n\nWORK IN TYPHOON.\n\ncomathe\n\nreldme sal show how the woman Harbor Master zero fall detalla an The Strat, wolded ming the Zyllgur, Phim 34 mmững kết Legislative\n\nakk han kom made pratīb\n\npertise with Kosen, T. in d. Berki ris and Hala Hania to be renamed | Shika by Du Brunk Colombia Co\n\nPue further (afvenation apply to—XIPPON TUSEN KABHA\n\nPlana bella (Peivave sachange be all Degin)\n\nmenu Ch. of Victoria. She has had\n\n• few accidenta, bent no hall Jenk\n\nRegister agrees to a ten-ysing a Med at an annual verity. Than A - it roi ma by the\n\nLa Manasa ndition to CAN CA\n\nakar mal the ing on the day in die Thịthe serenor of Mr. Tonies. The graphing were, saker en jou behalf, by the Bank Str. 8. W. Tu\n\n1931.\n\nSOVIET BOYCOTTED.\n\nGerman Owners Decide to Send No More Ships\n\nSTRIKES PERMITTED.\n\nBari, Qet, It\n\nto\n\nThe German Ship-owners' Asunc|4- sslystig barerell ngulmet the Soviel sad decided not to send ship Soviet Russia in the ground chas the murikin which harta kökurred cantly\n\nGerman skipa parkiet by the Soviet amikoritas Den and Galenus war wit wly but even supported by the\n\nAt the prime moment, the crewe ur 43 Guests visuale lying la. Han Thor karbours sex mirskiing IN SYMPANY\n\nwith the kṣaven's maziem vāch' they reft we doelwit\n\nbullets to hava benken met lej vazala the bid fastenber\n\nparty of Germany, The German nag- RE DE Kaming frame-(a) WA\n\nRigtig Ponderand have Taubered t\n\nLA VILAs med ia taka proseed- Inga kënnt shem for mutiny. Valon-\n\ntar wat all the Khaninger\n\nI, I'sw mu rơi Trên Merc\n\ntyka Tha Arm has one of the ad for Enzweer Offen fer, anlatanca” Informative, welding stande ko khai char passo on to the Kanday? thu camibiting hi sera mander 10 ha, a these mig prora af ketina - Per at wilding vela and several of\n\nthe taal pingen an view papriest the\n\nWhich Lloyd's Router\n\nBruk forpočutien pano keir Approval for welded by mana' Hà. -\n\nActual Coperation. Two lena than 15\n\n* \n\nThe\n\nmay be applied to marke Notinoble spally azn the axleb\n\n¦ \n\n|| \n\nTruch bark the Grepen proseka.\n\npaliaty repertoir Portal Ligt same\n\nKabina Janka had book Wreaked mm\n\nThe Lema Talange in plaase Trai wasy. Uwing in a temporary delvet\n\nin Kansing's wirekes selegraph it was\n\npeynd improbavit to get a moD-AACO through bé bet and Du Naval Authori M.A Vary kindly\n\nFlak a fact that the Kaming Anchored in Kowloon Bay sharing aftersama at til Sostenker when Pak woon vonk in various pazia Di uchet de Hackerel 12 in, between what\n\nMuch Haval analatanes_m-cloud_vy_ the Naval Authorslin the NË\n\nfe \n\nBritish Oxygen Co., Ltd, Surat Tikka Une Processes, Ld, the Trampen\n\nSturmelend in ourzy wet – Lie rasense of takartak M Wing, after the 1790NT CONDE DEL\n\nThere are en lí types of myth 2. 14 Are the bative of the Priding and WXy-pentylane, making Kuualle during the patentada vampestada en Que stand of the Bellah – tyskeren in Du Celery!\n\nAl-Litovidgr. Lal), and\n\nran da açan in the shoud be actual, or dong the Master ket na bin iuttle\n\nHive!\n\nMaren Weltor Procent, lik|15 ta the Kooning esly intended to Kina daplay very posesont émet kalp Tanja vaakain at may alas of that work. This fem imetrymates | requiring amul\n\n110. What act of quariamen Alley Waldine. Praenza, 104, and\n\nThe Men Cdr. Bole zepřed\n\nThuar have ve výew at the exhibition = | 1yphons at the 204 September 2 including the Inkarl slemen of stor Deletions are generator w elven dally in the vớt of their psein? victrade, and include the welding at variom vindalada acaria And Alleys on The market\n\nkitt\n\ndil\n\nTWO trading, Jordan, A third towed seina Gaine Sal the tangkan escher parked my was CUG. | The Jafar in sumpseted bronne the Kawat teer At very low Abecher striking mand, with a Ho the rank people complain SEAL Tsawa (on fait, Á V TH sland made the Kaina je Phalkek, zerials farther notable de thee ja fourth june but withough volemme le Brak wolkig werk, CHENG,a ni made feat. (3) Mana ker rangu beats. Approach\n\n10 le pegnized by Brides Belated | kids by Bruning, mere found in vend KARATAN THE 14 salomatic ball\n\n| welder introduced some SOUTH 189, AN\n\n mote well vstablished in mak branchen of anginaaring, TE IN WAR IN That\n\n4. Po from Island where two small andma wyan offered ansistance\n\nIm. Tiku mlecznam tenky\n\n| yard for wekking Hanges du bë piga mano v Du\n\nwagle rette of all the scriptions.\n\nBy maing ane sling maablont 1 wʻqaimed that up to bò per eat, in\n\nStormċjail to larostirnin. Árling an A ZDIEL Opalvol Irsat the Shie\n\nHarbour Magar seat VAI TRA kuang 48 104 magang si September i ta CRETS PEL - Tantanga akech. Th PRng arrived baca IN THE OVARIE having Innensa 12 persons. No repočí kam kean rubVAR KE ANy masalty karing weary on Lammin läiked.\n\n7.\n\nTrpha Ozitza.\n\nA copy at the volens for the\n\n| denwa, up in July 1ướ by the fourrura Mater Lider Harbour [Ukakama†, J. Sutherland, Esquece, 1. N. Ikan, kajuite, raprasasting the Cinare Chament at ĻOBLEMON, | Lajtad 1. 2. Muta, ka ZADACIA- Ca. 166, Lapagim 1. Erika, Kansa\n\nWaaronger, nigkong and Kawam Yaari and Godena Vas in Savel\n\nThe Master pruria under the pener baltkatika\n\nL\n\nBahar Olsa Ezo posed to him sa\n\nThe Earbour Master účĩa khi gangg mingilega from the Katheer MASAT\n\ndesi mačke bit to cha patantivi nad Judgment of the messer who in the\n\nsa Jaden Lie ospatukone of the ha\n\nCung In One winskar somalizima_slan\n\nin na alle.\n\n1. All ců), megardene of the\n\nthe Xevieon Gadows Compeer | alone gevonder và THE SEVERE, NE MOR\n\nle the knez la bow some igraci\n\nB. Thu + Đmorpgd by Em Apr\n\nel of rhw marial may free of Kambour Wharf to Thumati in quantión 1. with ern spong conta Ime machining.\n\nredelana\n\nTxa praped to Kayang\n\n- man Ünkan as there m\n\nAchanak Teken moldin bad pound to be we funger to Un-Tr ter wh rentage, it le paly in receść zamia Duất jagat then testam has been paint 10 AM mandkod mechai et production\n\nLA MA MD mer beim Wanted so tha joining tagalber of mariale in cerpen\n\nen with some athar promo, más se blind soaking, Wite drawing, timmati work we in the handgere ledsaker, hit now in a large number af maven 14 in sand for joining machined parta to !cow which personly, wady saked * the sewal mechanical methods at PETANCAT Expense.\n\nSHANGHAI SEARCH.\n\nKusor\n\nthem\n\nwww.ime.\n\n3 regami wka zuenivad fr\n\npng to Luwee kg\n\nPo Yamal Ad by Kaung had precended La La Li end of the harbour 16 WAL vedere se les reprenanties that pers\n\nAlba won having had Qur saaneity be le samed to sing it Saat la back in cook the Kawsang team - 20 and so deprime BAT cuft n the Bart, who might be in wood lakkór, at their upper- tatuit, la mareal, townge. The request vas ins passed to Khadkng.\n\nCel A report was received that some : ehters belonging to Bablerbeda and 5wiem were in trouble\n\nAs the Kang ked Batons plewçunded to the Ext for the panami ke set Cart\n\n07.\n\nCONSIGNEES' NOTICE.\n\nHAMBURG ANKOIA LIVIR\n\nThe Metacramel,\n\nRAMSES-\n\nbering weervol Demognem of Cago kee karaby metaled that their precis Las Mong Sasam and pissed at the Thik in The Baghyng and Ho Whalf and Orari CompTRY'S DA Appena al kamjone, whom deltary zam he abschonë se the menda kou JAKÉNT\n\nCybiškai vaga will be inGOS, KR- Jana\" Matiče ka jaus given prisë sa Beemer s karval.\n\nEngineer Jumps Overboard art weet med lathe Kings Gouda kave left the Undemia an\n\nOf Woosung.\n\nAn I'd uk, Grupert was received From the Green Gland Cement Co. Saat moun laukters more in diatreon of Hak Your Region Bay). Thit mogę www popond to Kuning Un riyal ké dák Thon kung sa bad member, rondle the Master decided that k\n\nOBSYED AN IMPULSE.\n\nHangkal police warn laat most Jooksum fer á fecoigner, who, it was believed, was comming Wessang renda,\n\nThe expian để she mammer Dalero be an ardua risk to take the\n\nMain Imported sa tha, karbon master's son shortly after ka arrival from being this pac af kla ungimo Sammad vrachaard si Wevelg. Tha\n\nrarily A\n\nKuning to Lo Qia lighters & dimension with Wheck the Bubou Xiater rura\n\nPOT A Tapart was received that a bale wenn sie king inaade Källeti TalÊN. Thai Muangt visa paanud va Kuumugo\n\n10Wemen Dan Marine Woman On smaller Kellele faland en sign\n\nThe exscale deal. Taken this fellow | Bich funk could\n\ncamda tinning from his quarters wage Hamm di net aanich knalde Kabeli\n\nNo will be nakled after\n\nkit perda remaining vadadvend dur the 28th October, 1931, will be subject\n\nAll broken, chafod, and damaged Gaola ara sa be left in the Gelerta when they will be staminad en meth Gaber, 1931 na 16 mm by our San veporn, Masara. Goddard mad. Dongma\n\nAll Flame must reach me hoćeni sku Ende zeroeder, 1931, je vezan na\n\nHe Israe\n\nVVACATION\n\n18\n\nPHILIPPENSES\n\nLADO-CHINA\n\nTEAM\n\nNAVIGATION CO., LTD.\n\nHAFLINGEN SCHURF VEERATION.\n\nSOUTH CHINA MORNING POST. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1931.\n\nCONSIGNEES NOTICES.\n\nTHE WEATHER.\n\nYesterday's Advices and Evening Forecast.\n\nGLOYD TRIESTINO SAY CO.\n\nProM TRIESTE, VENICE, BLINDI, PORT HARD, ADER.\n\nBOMBAY, COLOMBO\n\nSINGAPOR\n\nThe Steamer.\n\n\"PILSNAT\n\nCONSIGNEES' NOTICE CHINA\n\nNORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD, BREMEN.\n\nThe Acamer\n\n\"DREFFLINGK\"\n\n23\n\nNAVIGATION COMPANY, LIMITED.\n\n...\n\nSZECHUEN\n\nS\n\nOok. 25, 10 m ........KWANGCHOW Det, 25ch, 20m.m.\n\nBOOCHOW\n\nUm 271, 10 m\n\nOn 26th, 5p.k.\n\nFor\n\nHous En, Pam à HAIBONG... KINGYUANTO-DAY, 3 bp-m Aany HwAMAL\n\nTAIYUAN ...I-LAY. haring and from Broman, Bam Swami Shamanął\n\n↓ P. XITSOCHOW..ah Bià, la berg, and peči, romignese if enegs | Amor, Swatum & bixmarama |ma|kunky_peille Mat their mi Swazow, Biciscanu à Tauro Langyċude of Hongkong, 114′′ 17′′ 17′′\n\nAls lesbig landed it their rự Labida Hongkong, 12' 1\" Coalguem of Curse see hereby in- Komikoa Wharf and Godown Chu Lag SWATO, SASA & Tins\n\nthe godown at The Smaking sal\n\nHwarow a Basuvok firmed that sil Good as being, Kawings, wheece delvery Shaxandi, Nowenwang lonzed at thole Tini. Hits the Onde chiame of the Hanging and Xylem Whart Noom Dether 994. 18%, AskThe anti Godow Company, at Kww-the -Dentha watow, Wangen, Charou\n\nAmor & FrapoRAI Gonnesara ser further pačißel that cyclone i now central, wona Paking it, whonen sadise from the velarves at Hambre Bemm through and in spranding east-north-amat! delivers may be illained,\n\n* Opcional parts will not be sanded ka. \"Ovtar Jarl,\" na \"Gencer, SWATIN, Haanama & Tu BRANTUNG NOT pago lay hanghang o sa “Bignit\" H&K There are inflation of a typkanı – Jara, malena metien kan han geran, METAISM\" un \"ka. \"Herewe\" from\n\nbours prior sa vaderl's wife), but hey, Eregea sai Wang,\n\nAWATON & Hamaros N.W. NOW. Yania warsing. 29, DA, DAS-TY- Mead part or will to which is optics after the zich af October, 1931, wil - Hwaton, Shanukala TRING\n\nFoto, Passon & Hairloge... Na Piza Inweer will be efcand|| Framw, Hassanan & TeproTAO\n\nSwamwe. Wouwką. Charno\n\nway.\n\nTHE\n\nD\n\nT⚫ TSINGTAU vin SWATOW\n\n* SHANGHAI\n\nTO SINGAPORE, PENANG\n\n4 CALCUTTA\n\nTO OSAKA TI AMOY, SHAI.\n\nNORE\n\nKlekomers\n\nFailing DAVIKEN Hum, 264) Beta. KWAIBANG Wəl.. 2013 CHILL, HOTELANGE\n\nJet Kay.. YAISHING Wed, tih Nov.. YVENSANG MƐun. 206k Del KUMSANO Fn.. Mi Nor.. BUIBANG Fri., Nov.,\n\nRak 104 Det\n\nWed, 15th Nov.,\n\nTu DRAMA win AMOY & KOBE HOSANO Fo. 37 Now\n\nFINBASO TO KANDAKAN\n\nPr. Cel KAUBANG Wed.. Lith Nov, CHIPSNIO Trum, 295 Cek..\n\nA\n\nTIM\n\n7LM. 74.m\n\nSOUTH 4 NOT KUTANO\n\n& p.m.\n\nTam\n\n74.2.\n\nTA.M.\n\nNoon-\n\nmarine N.N.W. Bod. The P. DE 3p.. Skangkat warning. 114, 306. 1a) Tynkoen nú vażkown intona ly with-\n\nHompitong kabufall einen January 14, 24 85 Juden, muRTRAG AN AYUTART of 7 inches.\n\nbefore the 7th Neved 19 (len priodolog to the mid-ra\n\nwill not be recognised,\n\nS.S. \"PRES. CLEVELAND\"\n\nMANILA\n\nH\n\n6.00 p.m.\n\nKENDAT, OC 13.\n\nDOLLAR STEAMSHIP LINES AMERICAN MAIL LINE\n\nNORD\n\nDEUTSCHER\n\nLLOYD\n\nFAR EASTERN PAILENDER & FATIGHT SEVICE.\n\nThema HoskinJA AR London Cabin Clase only. Tarragh kontunya sa AMERIÇA ca Budd1⁄2 and baKUROPE vs AMARICA\n\nNEXT SAILING TO EUROPE\n\n+-\n\nPASS AN\n\nFre\n\nPAY\n\nHATA\"\n\nSEEFLIYER\" - KALBARLICKAN\n\nKLEN\n\nbeparveen ich 2 member\n\ndag/km 124 December\n\n- 2pm, 200g\n\n*Contem\n\n* Culting me Lubern. Passager dearen emang re Monita med Pond Glava Battainde,\n\nAlberta. Betgandam, Handbourg und Bremen\n\nAmsterdam Betuwdim, Hepburg und Bruma.\n\nNEXT ARRIVALS FROM EUROPE:\n\nBAILINGS TO SHANGILA I & II SRL ISSZA MARUY\n\nFreight 18 19\n\nZAM 16 ORA AMOR ÜLEKEN PASS, SACOBLENZ\"\n\nZuzkare Bar Upsalag\n\nder het With Kovember\n\nHoge Hak 1-anambar\n\nHONGKONG-NEW GUINEA.\n\nNext BABAUL ad Porin.\n\n4.E, HAREMBAN (VEN” on or shout ded penamber 1981.\n\nMELCHERS & CO..\n\nAgusta, Manglong\n\nBill of Lading will be conntersign- ed by the unde\n\nJINSIN & Co.\n\nAgesta Hongkong, Th Chelaber, Luca,\n\nTelephone 162,\n\nCanon Again'\n\nJBSEN & CO.\n\nShameez, 8.0.\n\nAT A TER DORT Fer un padrone, Joped as there werent water CAPT. T. G. PURVIS\n\nHERALD THe how at the sang, Jing, der sata mariquile at the Kew-\n\nclared back at the hedge for a mai\n\nspot, and then proceeded to unbučiam\n\nkan slicked, while in perched en te nag as stated\n\ne taken in contained in the leg.\n\n***We hellered at \" me the ones of noth the Check Low and\n\ncaptain. \"hat, ka, wou'd pay w\n\nLestion, Ho Jimt kapt nufumiening the -\n\nWire Telegraph Log are produced.\n\n4A large number at Job\n\nMARINA ARTIs.\n\nSahlbiter, Repul Svciety of\n\nArtista and Reyni Hibernia Jandarmy\n\nif you require un 40 se Water\n\nColor Painting of Stammer,\n\nalicker. Piried toward the force basta matinated at show 100 Yacht, Sailing Salp or any of were lying lengide the proyek, ko mocha come sour Kim, ka Likew of 1 shame. Each sway we won the die Clippers, (Önnuk ar\n\n| wwed end of the hous, but bufera Bag\n\nTelephone 17867.\n\nim slicker a leaped over the klant ten van Same mat deemed sveću | Amen).\n\nAccording to the emplata, the wipe, Į Įgenstad, the siter. No TECIDÍ, THE maiken were ordered dressed at dete i pl. Az order has now been immund\n\n|ka weld coming the men with the\n\nPapelar\n\nrag under the water, Une tik buat\n\nup hope of mammitting\n\nPLANETARE of the Daly\n\nMüller dechend\" \"A sampa\n\nMIL\n\nwho had born looking on with Mr-\n\nBhat auth a verset with be kept in\n\nPraya Wall Donger.\n\nThe Kamwing dee_la_wanther\n\n+ \n\nKowloo Bà 1 AL 100 ya anchor was weighed but at 6-10 pay the Ex\n\nent, came when the mean: behar. | gnezda mother was again tramped wmil\n\nKuning remained at anchor\n\nwat\n\nWe had driftas down-ram when the weather modeling\n\nteam, but, seeing the gineer was hesin pat under way.\n\npału, we ristled in Ut elverline kitch\n\nand preceeded ja Shanghai.\n\nhave been made by Pe\n\nMost of the crab wank or broken\n\non Parkas Dja penyu wall met thri\n\nTate bmtween the piers to the west at\n\nThe Harbour Diler katmer: 234 pm\n\nAnd 430 pm. Had the Kaming Been Sadat alễ khône piers the mould\n\nLorrie koma cando Piran ta | Masa boom unable to jen kan kan them\n\nBeth Elmer of kinecovery of\n\nThe Peter P\n\n110 Pa\n\nPERTE DA SE MUa kesä kam rumNE\n\nja grove Haly of booming katanut ai\n\ndegree 50 N. 7 Wat, amit ca.\n\n199 paront bal gran bir 2-rk, 25\n\nDegrees At West. The blanda\n\nsaid to len very dangerous for shipping.\n\n...\n\nEn Repumber 3 w Che\n\nNg Mai being empleyst AMITY-\n\nand the Ger\n\nRAN\n\nD7\n\nTILAGE\n\nGO\n\nFONGKONG\n\nPRINCE LINE\n\nFRBODENT SERVICE\n\ntu\n\nBOSTON AND\n\nNEW YORK\n\nCALLING AT NAPLES\n\n\"CINGALESE PRINCE\"\n\n· JAVANESE PIINJE\"\n\n5th November\n\n1st Dober\n\nEnna leak Jegginsaciation for a limited number of Passer park s\n\nusadeemia a\n\nFare-Hongkong to Naples... £50\n\nFor other Pazarge mitos, Freight, eto,, apply to :—\n\nFIRNESS (FAR EAST) LIMITED.\n\nTO TIENTSIN via S'TW,\n\nFLUCHOW A CHE DO CHEONGSHIKU Sun, Nov., 7am.\n\nBut longba un passage apply s\n\nJARDINE MATHESON & CO., ITD.\n\nTalpmed.\n\nĶnopen) Měnangetu\n\nGLEN LINE\n\nPARES HONGZONG TO LONDON.\n\n10 June/ Harber\n\nLift Degenber/31 May\n\nALDEAK\n\nTO LONDON. ROTTERDAM & HANBULE VIR STRAITS & COLONNO.\n\n9tomer-b.p\n\nPULEN|FFER\"\n\nTO SHANGHAI, KÖNÉ, YOKOHAMA & YLÄPIYOSTOCK.\n\nMeter Vonal (GLENOGLE”\n\nMotor Vonne\n\nGLENBEG\"\n\nMoker Vignani “'IEBNAPP\n\nTEINAN.... Cel seth, Spa\n\nA TANTON BUCHOW.....Ol. 20, N\n\nKWEIYANG\n\nabout. 200 mľne nerik of Yaji mer varied so from pect to port to the AA rende remaining modelirana | Bananai, Nekelwang & DALY CEFERAN\n\nA 2, m\n\nما امام بن\n\nNy thêm yê hy sinha Altar Che (inch hem left the End then i say one whatever. 19th October, 1892, will k\n\nrumclnlng undzivala sather tha | Dunaren pachagua must be Jud's in thjort to the godown for excɔination by the |consignem, and the Company\",\"be matvejen, Ne Anderson and Alle shay - 1932\n\n• 10 .. the led el Dobokar, Ka dalam bell be adult star All broken, ekataga Lamangai. The gunda kawa left the puddies pa Goods are to be left bị lập Cambodia, al dimana senat de pensantal W where they will be we pled on the two wooks, of the chip's arrival het, The Ulegram quoted below was p. 29th October 1951, at 15 2 by our | khan which date Pasy wil met be her\n\nandred Truthe Manila Obwalory survogars Stari ting eller and anguinot, at the Amarisan Commulate Gensen! | Douglas,\n\nMaxila Yarulog.\n\nCraiguen nece requested to man No Fire Insurance her baan ollastad, render Dale Men of Lading to the Billo of Laglegg will be sousarviga, unattalgiai čec countersignatur.\n\n130°, Lang. E, AS IT FALK, alky moving NW,\n\nBrembur BarkBol\n\nOut. 21, 6 –The typhoon for patt then 200 selles N. of Yap, ENNE M.W.\n\nThe anti-ggelama sa sentral she the\n\nworth of Korea,\n\nDODWELL & CO., LTU\n\nÄgenu\n\nBRITISH INDIA SN, DO, ITU From CALCUTTA RANDBOOM. PENANG KINGAPORE\n\nLatal forectal-E winds, fraki | The Simm TALNA\"\n\nMETEOROLOGICAL.\n\n20h Nervesaba\n\nBir tebe\n\n5th November\n\n10th November\n\n4th December\n\nBagland DearYLINE), VİNE DAker\n\nJay\n\n201\n\nPre Pretti, pomaga und freiber parkiaulien spjoj bo\n\nJARDINE, MATHESON GO., LTD.\n\nAEP THE GLEN LIKE, LTD\n\nTRAVEL A.-O. LINE.\n\nENTRALIA, Calling så Mamiễn (P. l.). Thursday L..\n\nCharna, Tawpavilla, Beshana, Bydony and Malbearna. BUTIK STEAMERE CHANGTE-TAIPING (...) PARTEFT MORT TE TO DATE STEAMERS IN THE SERVICE KLECTRIC LAL MORY, BARBER SHOP, BUMATON U\n\nFELWARDEN OKK\n\nD\n\nM\n\nr\n\nJun\n\nн\n\nJ\n\nhatine arrived from the shoes par Kamagra of Corps me hanby j formed that Chetr Guade 120 bring the Hongkong und Kowlem. When and Gedown Oomane's Galewno al —\n\n14h hay H chained de soju ja\n\nGrodkar Thöded\n\n1231, will be subjekt 1. rent.\n\nNice vil se ofonbed\n\nby the jah hay man whatever.\n\nTamegri Parkagen must be left in\n\nF\n\n\"\n\n1\n\ncha Getaman tur 2men by the\n\n·\n\nmuaj nga me Zemperaboen van de kan je\n\nat 10 ham on Masdays and TheDENJE. home Man to presented with-\n\n1. The days of the espapa's merival ¦herr, after why mat\n\nbe repemand\n\nMELORERS & CO.\n\nAgwia Norddeuwcher Laaye, Bing Hongkong, Th Ortaber, 1921.\n\nNOTICE\n\nPROF. I. KETO'S, Massage staklenogors moved from 1. Queer's Head, G\n\nU. Hamer Load, Maschall\n\nTelephine 220SE (Pacing Orient Building..\n\nASAHI BEER\n\nBal Agents\n\nITSUI\n\nBUSSAN\n\nKAISHA\n\nLTD.,\n\nHAUKINNON MAUL, 202 & Co.\n\nHONGKONG\n\nAgrsta\n\n--\n\nHONGKONG TIDE TABLE.\n\nTAINL GERANG TE.. The 11th Der k TAIPING\n\nJan. 17\n\nIng 15th\n\nNow 201\n\n1 Dee Bab\n\nMb Fab. d\n\n15w\n\nFor MIT KING\n\nvha ♬\n\nEnjoy Your Sher! Laany in Australia and Nave Loviand. Hong Kong Sydney 19 Daya. FIRST VLABS FARE TO AYONET, 276 METUUN\n\nLONDON 194 Australia; from 11:36:13\n\nqur lekese Taira l'hora Lacuna donna. Dea Beypa\n\nOBANCTE\n\n10\n\nAUSĪGALIAN- ORIENT L LIKE LIMITED BUCKSIDE MONTILE. Again HOND INDI\n\nO. S. K.\n\nANTHON BANDWID\n\nAND ANTWERP DEL Bog\n\nJANELİNİ KANTES R IRENES ALEKS\n\n-7\n\nMULIACENE VILISANE SARMAY\n\nTÄCCKLAND & WELLINGTON\n\nMar\n\nmanda AY\n\nMOMBASA ZANZIBAR. PANTS SALAAN. APIRA 19URANCE KARATES, BLAIAN PORT EL. ZABETH & CAFETERN 1 chên 121 BX JANRING BANTING J BUENAS AIRES\n\nmen\n\nCALAUTTA VIAMonpapan, Kalymns\n\nDe Bang\n\nNEW YOK, in Japan pod l\n\nAngelie a Panama Call Trimetal Bom Phila alge in d. Maltalk. JAPAN PORTS (Prequent Harved |\n\nKAIPHONG Som Top & Fakha\n\nCEILING L Batam ad\n\n(day 1\n\nTATAI V Sundew and Away.\n\nTetaphily (10\n\nW\n\nMonada Moru\n\nblue sky, imelendz, d=dziugļu, ==folghtning, ist, The Lionde hai jadi ing (odpora Gravelcard, perpasaling showera, equatio, so, sathunder.\n\nALIURATHA\n\nkt: ne\n\nthn\n\nS\n\n: !!!\n\nFr\n\nT'h Ker\n\nTues Non\n\nWed\n\n1st Nat\n\nToda Mari\n\nFr\n\nShed Cri\n\nMito\n\nThu, 29th Chel\n\nB 25 Öel\n\nThum, 5th No\n\nsalon M\n\nTh∙li har..\n\nFor further particulars please apply to:-\n\nOSAKA SHOSEN KAISHA.\n\nTel.\n\nTHE EAST ASIATIC CO., LTD., COPENHAGEN.\n\nThe M.S. \"SIAM\"\n\non or about 24th October\n\nIne\n\nPORT SAID, HAVRE, MARSEILLES, ANTWERS ROTTERDAM, AMSTERDAM BAMBURG COPENHAGPS & OTHER RCANDINAVIAN & BALTIC POS\n\n1.\n\nPAWA\n\nMIATA\n\nANNA JU\n\nMAILING LIT\n\nthe f\n\nDet\n\nThe 3 of Lolk er um from the na GW Ila ka baba zaporini.\n\n\"GLEN\" LINE (DIFTED.\n\n7 Motory AAA,\n\nPELENOGI I And fre Cumerenees of mange b;\n\nint that\n\nTar Ind me ther risk tr\n\n-\n\nwer extre bargado,\n\nDen Bmekan\n\nH Kiedmans\n\nwe por\n\n¡ MTC Ping\n\nhaxard\n\nGodmen at Toon What\n\nlimited\n\nmp and a fewn the whačem, de\n\nAng may kaszaimed\n\nASAHI\n\n1971, at 10\n\nin th\n\nLAGER\n\nALE PONgg Inrindag these\n\npolice by Mr G. 1. Ger, the provvind, and muit ako se rabattil seand beer, who lakimakes that the day of meriv... elhel weapon mas handed in the Chinese, they will not be redigini il martermastar to theum on October 1, No Flee Intard wat be effeted;\n\nwas dismissed at Switem, Sa\n\nBit of Lang wiD He\n\nmapected að karlng inken. Che revolver of l\n\nThe what discover: JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD notil the ship'n gemak was checked saarival in Hongkong.\n\nweek, the Dutybar, IM1.\n\nExport\n\nCOM\n\nBANK LINE LTD.\n\nAGENTS FOR\n\nELLERMAN & BUCKNALL 5.8.\n\nCO., LTD.\n\nKATLINGS. STIRJEST TO ALTERATION WITHOLT FOTICE. UNITED KINGDOM & CONTINENT\n\n8.6. \"ITY OF WINDSOR\"\n\n8.8. \"CITY OF HOUBAL\"\n\nFAST\n\nOD\n\nLITY\n\nELLER WAN LINE.\n\nLondon, Katteplam, Bamburg & Glasgow.. Havre, London, Rotterdam & Hamburg\n\nH p + Tith Yember\n\nNEW YORK, BOSTON & BALTIMORE AMERICAN & MANCHURIAN LINE.\n\nALSO WOINTI POR\n\nANDREW\n\nWEIR & CO.\n\nHER FACT tho\n\nAMERICAN & ORIENTAL LINE.\n\nMV. \"IRIKBANK\"\n\nat Now\n\nI'\n\nBeaton. Now Yark & Baltimaa MY POYLEBANK\" Boston, New York & Ballimato MAGRITIUS & SOUTH AFRICA\n\nSTINEOW-\n\n\"ob Jam 14'?\n\nBANGXING BANGVON SKILICE MAPITAINED BY THE FAST BATON RESSAL V.\n\nPINTANDO\n\nW\n\nKnee Booting.\n\nTriophene 2505,\n\nIelegram. \"Fumanc-e\n\nThiepveno 14871.\n\n;\n\n\"\n\nLer\n\nES OUTÖRER. 1951.\n\npirate apple te JOHN MANKENS & CA LH.\n\n...\n\nBehaven.*.\n\nich Navebuv\n\nORIENTAL AFRICAN LINE.\n\na dlak Chak ber Ma \"etla.. Kantan, Prologoa day. Exat 1-8d – Ak Day Fort Mnet àlay, anzi Capriona Through Hub of Jamag mind to Bary, quicus me. To Peet Atverk. Mozambique, Code. Ixhaminas, Zanabar. Monsassa, Kundra, Id Nagok, Tum Bay, Wade Pay apd Hedagow.\n\nfraight phanage on xay of the abera lisel\n\nMeranie Bank Baldin.\n\nTelephone 7.\n\nTHE BANK LINE, Ltd.\n\n10\n\n...\n\nNOT\n\nI 10.\n\nKAYIKO SUITANG\n\n„Kov. Si, Ap\n\nKey E EUROCHOW Now, Hà. 110 p. BUNNING\n\n*,, Nov. 8th, LUPA. TISTS XOXICROW Nov 19th 10m 10.\n\n* Caling at Away for Pasoengues only\n\nBalinge Bunjach to Alteration\n\nFor Fregul or Fanvagn apply to—BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE\n\nTalophon 3)\n\nAgrate\n\nChers and keppage san lor Enement at ima Ullared Vottarhald\n\nHAMBURG-AMERIKA LINIE\n\nYAPPEL.\n\nFAR EASTER MAIL-FREIGHT- = PARBENGER SERVICE between. JAPAN, CHINA, BOSALONG, PAI LIPPINES, STRAITS SETTLEHENIS. COLOMBO and BUROPE.\n\nSAILINGS 10 UROPE.\n\nMIT KHADELAND\"\n\nMT\n\nKANGRA\n\nAV-LEVERS FEN\"\n\n39\n\nRAARLAND\n\nDEITINATION.\n\nTees, Kastırdım i\n\n(3) Oman, Mattosklen, Kostarda\n\nLEAVING\n\nING\n\nHamburg Ni Novencher\n\nBird Nesebar\n\nGia Dovember\n\nBreedtem, Mosterdam\n\n+ Hamburg\n\n(1) Gam, Matsuším, Recordem\n\n4 Balang\n\nmikku ja varapova 1NI JEUNG JA Goj arīkoj\n\nARNIVALS FROM EUROPE,\n\n· LEVERKUSEN\n\nNYELMELLAND'\n\nTh\n\nBAJOČNOM ME\n\nD\n\nMY\n\nKM SAARLAND\"\n\n176\n\nBjects ratios tulkost. Nolum (T) Exellent Acunmodation fur Passenger, Qualiħad Burgwom\n\norczled.\n\n25 Limited Passenger Abgommedaliva, Qulided Surgeca saznION (3) Cargo Brat\n\nFaraghodig in Semon from £70.0.0. Par (tylko particulars please apply to diguda ——\n\nJEBSEN & CO.,\n\n37. Poddar ásamt, Hongkong.\n\nAGJENTA\n\nTad iz\n\nLLOYD TRIESTINO\n\nPertuightly Pasangan and Freight Hervice for\n\nBRINDISI, VENICE & TRIESTE\n\nris Žagapers, Columbs, Bombay, Jules, Bam, and Port Bald.\n\nTak Curges through Hilla of Lading to Fitaner, Gans, Al HallAN,\n\nAdelaide, Liries, Blask doa sud Dumbo Parla\n\nFamasgera to LONDON (Overh\n\nNEXT BAILINGS FROM HONGKONG\n\nB.B. MONCALIEKI (Cargo boek, NN, CARIONANO (Carga bouti\n\n5.8. PILNA\n\n8. GANG\n\n(Pamerogor mos\n\n[Passenger boat)\n\n5.8 VENEZIA L (Pam & enzym konto\n\nMV. BILDA\n\n(Large boat)\n\n8.8. CRACOVIA || Passenger busty\n\n* Ünļmayıl vayaju se Kamples vały.\n\nthad Sut\n\n315 Ok\n\n2012 Del\n\nInh Em .. Bộ GT\n\n18th Mar\n\n2003 Hea\n\n14 Der 17th Jan> \n\nLa The\n\nLariamlar Attentam in called in shaka “GARGET MAANA MAI Makhu thu veg zân Hongkong/Hade em 30 days, than sibering passengers to nuk benda\n\n♫k duya ən koma for the Chelatarna Heli dogr Badung Duam vekjes së akomadian pikkeni merusa\n\nFor Fartendere, simae sapit ka v\n\nQueen's Belshing\n\nPol Speci\n\nDODWELL & CO., LTD.\n\nAgenu\n\nKLAVENESS LINE\n\nPACIFIC\n\nCUAST ASIATI\n\nSERVICE,,\n\n..EGI LAR TRANS-PACIFIC SERVICE\n\nPALEOAL est for LOS ANGELES,\n\nSAR FRAMASCŲ, PORTLAND INEGON, PREET SOUND BATTLE TACOMA\n\n3BNFVILLE\n\nBaling ni Kar\n\nm. Lần making paper::: 'I: ANUKLA64 by Herat nypornAMŲ SOUTH BOUND\n\nYL1E\" dow Hlong lịch minh lên th Adressing cargo, la MINDAPURA AJAYA PORTA\n\nLantagh Funnger Amummaanting kallakka bar Fragma Paangs Haim and all sikar tabernet\n\npe\n\nTHORESEN & CO. LTD.\n\nkam v Benám.\n\nAparta\n\nTN\n\nMES.\n\n. Lop đưa\n\n147\n\nE",
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        "title": "CO129-553-3 Anti-piracy measures 7-3-1935 - 4-11-1935",
        "content_text": "16. On passage to Tsiech Point he expressed his intention to resign his post 3 weeks hence as the work was too hard.\n\n17. He appeared to cherish every hope of marching to Tai Sami from Tsiech Point, being re-embarked there and conveyed back to Autan before dark the same day with the object of meeting Colonel Chen: The military object gained by this plan of campaign appeared to be somewhat obscure. Indeed his plans generally appeared vague in the extreme.\n\n18. Another expressed hope was to be in Hong Kong on 3rd February to meet his brother for Chinese New Year celebrations.\n\n19. At 1230 communication was established with \"WU FUNG\" and Major Ma directed her to proceed to Tai Sami. She reported \"sailing now\".\n\n20. At 1310 \"DECOY\" arrived off the eastern end of the sandy beach opposite the road leading inland (Chart 1962, plan of Goat Island) but the surf being obviously too much to permit the safe disembarkation of Chinese soldiers. I proceeded 2.3 miles westward.\n\n21. The party was landed there safely though they displayed no very evident signs of enthusiasm.\n\n22. Before landing I acquainted Major Ma with the latest information received from \"DEFENDER\" who had visited Tai Sami and he informed me that he would not require my services further.\n\n23. He especially asked me to convey his thanks to the Commodore and expressed deep gratitude for the trouble taken and regrets the trouble imposed by the piracy.\n\n24. At 1502. \"DECOY\" proceeded southward to the traffic route in anticipation of Commodore's approval.\n\n25. \"DEFENDER\" who had joined me from Tai Sami was directed to resume patrol and in doing so was instructed to show herself well inside Hei Chi Chin Bay until dark.\n\n26. This disposition insured the patrol area being adequately guarded until dark.\n\n27. At 1939 when in position 133 deg:, 9.2 miles from Mirs Point \"DEFENDER\" passed to \"DECOY\" a message from S.S. \"SEISTAN\" reporting a steamer standing in towards Mirs Bay looking suspicious.\n\n28. At the same time \"SEISTAN\" was sighted and the above information confirmed by V/3.\n\n29. Course was immediately altered for Mirs Bay and speed increased to 24 knots. Very shortly after this the visibility became greatly reduced and as no fixes were possible speed had to be reduced to slow until land could be observed, which it was at close range. Asdics were beneficial as a check in feeling my way in.\n\n30. Ship established W/T communication with Police Launch No.4 and anchored in Peng Chau Roads at 2010 having observed no ships on passage.\n\n31. In the mist the searchlights proved ineffective for searching the Ha Sha beaches: this was accordingly carried out by an armed motor boat but nothing suspicious was to be found.\n\nPage 80\n\nPage 81",
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        "document_key": "CO129-560-7 Permission to write off money stolen or embezzled 19-2-1937 - 14-6-1937",
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        "title": "CO129-560-7 Permission to write off money stolen or embezzled 19-2-1937 - 14-6-1937",
        "content_text": "The failure of a particular clerk to pay scrupulous observance to the existing check system warrant... \n\nThe cashier can perpetrate a variety of frauds while any other clerk can do others that reveal. \n\nThe first fraud is of the nature \"cut round\". \n\nThe second theft of $231 comes to have been effected by requiring house staff to hand over paying-in slips. \n\nThe second fraud is also certain of detection. The clerk's negligence led to repetitions of the fraud before the first has been detected. The greatest fault was that of the payees not requiring a receipt. \n\nThus, part of each loss was not due to the failure of the clerk; the accounting system still suffices. \n\nSecond, I do not hesitate to suggest the introduction of checks, but I should prefer to please show how free I am to suggest easy administrative safeguards suited to local circumstances, which would be designed, rather, I should expect, by limiting the amount of cash Mr. Chaw could lay hands on to that the limit of his possible thefts would be the amount in his till at any given time.\n\nPage 363 (written at the bottom of the page, but not visible; however \"P.T.O\" is present which stands for \"Please Turn Over\") is indicated by \"P.T.O\".\n\nG. Wara  \n19/4/37",
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        "document_key": "CO129-580-3 Sino-Japanese War- anti-Japanese activities in Hong Kong 23-8-1939 - 30-12-1939",
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        "title": "CO129-580-3 Sino-Japanese War- anti-Japanese activities in Hong Kong 23-8-1939 - 30-12-1939",
        "content_text": "6.\n\n3.\n\n32\n\n(a) \"To frustrate the enemy's sinister plot in buying the editors of newspapers and to check their progress\" $800\n\n(b) \"To form a network of intelligence and to keep in close touch with the members of the Inquiry and Statistical Bureau stationed in Hong Kong\" $1600\n\n(c) \"To prevent the activities of parties other than the Party. The Party should have executive members to fight for the leadership in various movements\" $3000\n\n(d) \"To cultivate the women's leaders in order to replace the elements who show a tendency towards communism\". $200\n\n(e) \"To keep in touch with Hong Kong unions particularly the seamen's union\". $500.\n\nThe total of special expenditure on the objects set out in paragraphs 4 and 5 is variously estimated in two different documents at $27,100 and $28,600. A third document includes $2000 for \"social intercourse expenses for keeping in touch with the Governments of Hong Kong and Macao, such as newspaper censors office, Police Department etc.\"\n\nIt is not clear whether the sums mentioned are in Hong Kong or National currency or whether they represent monthly or total expenses.\n\n7.\n\nA letter from Ko Ting Tsz to Mr. Lau (...) indicates that Ko is an employee of the Ministry of Economics; and a letter to Ko from Chu Chia Hua shows that the Hong Kong Three People's Principles Youth Corps was organized on the instructions of Wu Te-chen.\n\n8.\n\nThe following comments are offered on the items in paragraph 5.\n\n(a)\n\nIn August, 1939, the printers employed by the two papers belonging to Wang Ching Wei walked out. Intimidation was alleged and it was suggested that the strike was instigated by General Wu's organization. The men were replaced and no further trouble occurred.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-585-1 Sino-Japanese conflict- attacks on shipping 25-1-1940 - 2-10-1940",
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        "title": "CO129-585-1 Sino-Japanese conflict- attacks on shipping 25-1-1940 - 2-10-1940",
        "content_text": "Detective Office,\n\nWater Police Station.\n\n317\n\nSO KOON CHIU. 20 years.\n\nTallyman employed by the HANG FAT Transportation Co., 3rd floor of the Bank of East Asia Building, Born at TONG CHUEN Village, SHUN TAK District, States:-\n\nI have been in Hong Kong for the past 16 months. After my arrival in Hong Kong, I was unemployed. The next 3 months I studied English at the SAN AH School, No.? Nathan Road.\n\nAfter leaving the school, I was unemployed until about one month ago when I got the job as tallyman with the HANG FAT Transportation Co. My father, named SO SAU LIN, resides at 24, Tung Choi Street, ground floor.\n\nI have known CHAN CHOI, the cargo agent, since my employment at the HANG FAT Firm.\n\nMy work consists of checking cargo onto cargo junks in Hong Kong and, on its arrival in Chinese territory, I again make a check to see if the cargo is correct.\n\nBefore leaving Hong Kong with a cargo, a cable is sent by the HANG FAT Co. in Hong Kong to the HANG FAT Co. in Canton, street unknown. I believe the procedure is then for HANG FAT in Canton to send junks loaded with cargo to NAM TAU, where the cargo from Hong Kong is unloaded and the cargo from Canton is taken on board and conveyed to Hong Kong. The receipts in connection with any cargo aboard our junks are handed over to CHAN CHOI. I don't know whether he gets the receipts from the HANG FAT Firm or whether he gets them from the cargo owners.\n\nI don't know the man mentioned, LAM CHUNG, referred to by my foki CHAN CHOI.\n\nAt about 08:30 hours on 22.1.40, I was on board one of the two junks which was being towed by the Steam Launch KWAI HING off CHEK WAN when I heard the siren of the Steam Launch KWAI HING blow two blasts. At the time the siren sounded, I was in the cabin. I came out on deck and saw CHAN CHOI, the",
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        "document_key": "CO129-590-11 Commission of Enquiry into irregularities in Immigration Departments 22-4-1941 - 19-12-1941",
        "page_number": 155,
        "title": "CO129-590-11 Commission of Enquiry into irregularities in Immigration Departments 22-4-1941 - 19-12-1941",
        "content_text": "## Transcript of Proceedings\n\n67 $7 \n\n158 \n\nIn the outlying districts to prevent people coming to the central part of the town, where they would almost inevitably gravitate towards the head office; and further, I knew of no premises which I could have had in the centre of the town free of charge. Leighton Hill Road, the old Yaumati Police Station, and the Depot were premises which were available and which I could have had without rent, without expense.\n\nMr. Woo: Mr. Forrest, I have here certain Chinese notices which have been posted up at your office in Marina House. I would like some information on that, if I may?\n\nMr. Forrest: May I see them?\n\nQ. That is the Chinese form. These are the translations. I have marked the notices A, B, and C and propose to deal with them in that order. A copy of the notices A and B was supplied to me by Mr. Walter Harming Chen, an assistant in your office. Will you read the translation? Take notice A.\n\nCopy circulated.\n\n(Translation of notice A read by Mr. Forrest).\n\nQ. The name of this person who was to do the work for the public is not mentioned in the notice. Who was that person?\n\nA. That is the general agent. I am not very sure whether it is correct to speak of him in this connection as general agent or as the Kobza Art Studios.\n\nChairman: That is the photographer in the first floor of the cockloft? That is one of the express recommendations in the Middlebrook report?\n\nA. Yes.\n\nMr. Koo: This notice was posted up long before the date of the agreement appointing the general agent?\n\nMr. Forrest: I am not sure about that. I did not check that.\n\nQ. I think the secretary received a letter from a member of the public complaining about this notice, before Mr. Kobza was appointed the general agent?",
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